16 lakh new jobs are created every month: Railway minister quotes EPFO
Press Trust of India | November 25, 2022 | 07:37 PM IST | 1 min read
As part of the employment fair, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday distributed more than 71,000 appointment letters to recruits.
JAIPUR: Quoting Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Rajasthan PIB has said about 16 lakh jobs are being created in the country every month according to the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) data.
When Vaishnaw visited Ajmer in connection with the Centre’s Rozgar Mela on Tuesday, a statement by the Rajasthan PIB had said 16 lakh jobs are created every month “under this government”.
The state PIB has now issued an "updated press release" that clarifies that Vaishnaw was referring to the EPFO data. The EPFO data includes private as well as government jobs.
As part of the employment fair, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday distributed more than 71,000 appointment letters to recruits via video conferencing from New Delhi. Physical copies of appointment letters were handed over at 45 locations across the country.
If you want to share your experience at work, write to us at theworkplace@careers360.com. To know more about The Workplace itself here's a handy note: Let’s talk work…
If you want to share your experience at work, talk about hiring trends or discuss internships, write to us at theworkplace@careers360.com. To know more about The Workplace itself, here's a handy note: Let’s talk work…
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- Assam Women’s University: From handful of students to robots in village schools, AWU is just getting started
- Teacher Training: Deemed university on paper, NITTTRs lose ground as AICTE, MMTTCs muscle in on domain
- CBSE mandatory 3rd language rule leaves Sanskrit as only R3 option at many pvt English-medium schools
- Mofussil to Markets: SNDT Women’s University is taking fashion design boom to the Maharashtra hinterlands
- Promised, but missing: Five years on, National Digital University reduced to a budget item, with no funds
- Amravati University drops Marathi novel on Covid lockdown from syllabus; ‘targeting literature,’ says author
- JNU, TISS Mumbai, BHU: Student unions vanish from universities with elections scrapped, councils taking over
- Students in University of Aberdeen, Mumbai, get credential exactly the same they’d get in Scotland: COO
- ‘IIMC to upgrade all journalism and mass communication courses to MA degrees, phase out PG diplomas’: VC
- Rebuilding Calcutta University: VC Ashutosh Ghosh’s priorities are recruitment, fixing finances, reforms