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A survey by the National Sample Survey Office noted that the country’s yearly unemployment rate was the highest in the last four decades at 6.1 per cent during 2017-18, compared to 2.2 per cent in 2011-12.

Launched in 2014, the Narendra Modi government’s Make In India programme, supposed to increase employment in the manufacturing sector to 100 million by 2022, appears to have faltered.

The core question is whether unemployment is to be seen as an economic issue or a governance failure with serious social consequences?

In one of the most memorable scenes in Satyajit Ray’s 1972 film, Pratidwandi, the protagonist was asked during a job interview about his “aim in life”. His reply was, “To find a job”. And yet, he was rejected. Five decades later, the real and the

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