Govt assures employment to 2 million people next year

New Delhi, Nov 30 (UNI) Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan today informed the Rajya Sabha that in the coming year, employment will be provided to about 2 million people in different sectors.

He identified the areas as agriculture, tourism, infrastructure development, banking and shipping.

Mr Chavan said that agriculture was a major area of employment generation and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has been launched to provide employment to the youth in rural areas.

The Government is implementing many schemes in the rural areas for the purpose, he added.

Brinda Karat of the CPI(M) wanted to know as to how many jobs were being provided in the wage employment in the NREG as mostly they were in the self employment category.

On the question or unemployment allowance, the Minister said the same was under consideration.

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