Asserting India's fast economic growth is not without generation of jobs, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg has stated the country actually faces shortage of capital more than the scarcity of jobs. He pointed out that creating jobs is a keystone of an economic activity, which is producing goods and services, and the surest ways to generate job is to make the economy grow and ensure the government takes up every possible programs of investment in the country.
Garg has stated that the government has carried out innumerable programmes of investment in the rural areas whether it is the 'Prime Minister's Awas Yojana' where crores of houses are being constructed or large programmes of roads in rural areas and National Highway. He said every house results into employment generation and there is a large programme for expanding the LPG connections and fuel delivery. He added that all of them have the potential of generating jobs.
According to the Secretary, India is at a developing stage and there is lot of developmental work to do such as construction of roads, houses and infratsructural facilities.
He also said that the construction labourer or the mistry, too, has got skills to get employed in any kind of construction work and get a job. He said “If the economic activity continues, these jobs will remain. We are scratching just the surface. We need to create thousands of cities. The city infrastructure is nowhere.' He added that India has had the highest economic growth in the last four-five years and the growth was accompanied with job generation.