New Delhi | Jobs and Economic growth, these are the two issue on which the previous Narendra Modi was highly criticised by the opposition and to tackle these issue in the new government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has formed two High-Level ministerial panels regarding this.
As reported in News18, PM Modi has formed a 5 member cabinet committee under his leadership on investment and growth which includes Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Railway and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Minister of MSME Nitin Gadkari.
Another 10 member ministerial panel is also formed focusing on employment and skill development which comprises of Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Skill and Entrepreneurship Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey and Minister of State for Labour & Employment Santosh Gangwar and Minister of State for Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Puri. The Panel will also include Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal and Nitin Gadkari.
The Panels are bee formed at a time when the country’s economic growth rate slowed to a five-year low of 5.8 percent in January-March 2018-19 compared to China’s 6.4 percent. While in the data released by the Ministry of Statistics on employment showed that the unemployment rate in the country rose to 6.1 percent in the 2017-2018 fiscal year which is the highest in 45 years.
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