Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor -- D Subbarao has said there was not 'sufficient emphasis' on jobs in the Budget for 2023-24 and it failed to grapple with the unemployment problem head on, except to believe that growth itself will generate jobs. He noted that the unemployment problem was quite bad even before the Covid and it has become alarming as a result of the pandemic.
According to Subbarao, roughly a million people join the labour force every month and India is not able to create even half as many jobs. He added, as a result, the unemployment problem is not just growing but is becoming a crisis.
He pointed out that India will be able to take advantage of demographic dividend only if, ‘we are able to find productive employment for the burgeoning labour force.’ He also said that the biggest takeaways from the FY24 budget are the government's emphasis on growth and its commitment to fiscal responsibility contrary to the widely held pre-budget view that the finance minister will go full blast on populist measures because of electoral calculations.
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