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|| #Kejriwal claims 10 lakh jobs given, but only 12,588 as per govt. data ||

* AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and other party leaders have been claiming for the past many months that the #Delhi govt has given – 10 lakh jobs – in the private sector to Delhiites (1/n)

through its “Rozgar Bazaar” portal. But only 12,588 people have actually gotten jobs through the portal till May 1, according to official data accessed by The Hindu.

* This figure of 12,588 is also an estimate of the government, as it is based solely on phone calls with (2/n)

people who posted the job openings, without cross-checking with people who actually got the jobs.

* The AAP government’s claims on the “10 lakh” jobs varied over the last 20 months depending on who made the claim and where it was made. (3/n)

* "Details about 10 lakh jobs are there in Delhi govt’s web portal… Go and check in Delhi government’s Rozgar Portal," Mr. Kejriwal had claimed in an interview with IndiaToday in March.

* The AAP had used the claim of giving “10 lakh jobs” in multiple occasions ranging (4/n)

from election rallies to press conferences and budget speech to interviews to project what the AAP term as the “Kejriwal model of governance” in Delhi.

* "These are the kind of claims that the BJP also make and it is definitely problematic," said Santosh Kumar Mehrotra, (5/n)

former Professor and chair of Centre for Labour Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

I report. @the_hindu @THNewDelhi
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