Steno Kailash Chandra Vol-24 Dictation No. 437

Sir, the hon. Minister read out the whole list of schemes which the Government had been introducing like the rural works scheme, crash programmes, half-a-million jobs scheme and the whole plethora of schemes but he has deliberately concealed the most important thing, namely, despite all these efforts by the Government employment has been continuously rising ever since the First Five Year Plan if in the beginning of the First Five Year Plan unemployment totalled 33 lakhs, now it is anywhere near 400 lakhs plus 30 per cent of the population who are in a state of disguised unemployment. Unemployment problem is continuously getting aggravated despite all the crash programmes, despite all the rural works programmes that have been undertaken so far.