Today we are having a jobless growth. Growth rate is undoubtedly high but it jobless. In the last 3 months, 5 lakh employee have last their jobs. Definitely, this is an incomplete report. It is must higher. Previous speakers have also mentioned this. But how to check this jobless? What needs to be done? There is certainly come weaknesses on our part. Sir, agriculture, small industries etc are the main sectors. In the small industries, bank loans are not easily available, though it is in the priority sector. Even if credit is available, the rate of interest is very high. The bigger industries are given easy credit. The interest rate should be lower in case of smaller entrepreneurs but that it not happening. I think we should look into this aspect. In the same manner, Swaminathan Committee has recommended that interest rate for the farmers should be brought down from 7% to 4%. Therefore, the priority sector has to be nurtured through proper planning and budgetary allocation. Are we doing that? Perhaps not. Sir, at least four or five major sectors are there like R&D. Nothing can be more important than this. Education is another such sector with immense potential. When will be the Budget expenditure on education touch 6% mark? What are we going to have 5% expenditure on health sector? We are not functioning in a proper manner. There is definite lack of political will. While concluding, I may say that once Lal Bahadur Shashtri had said Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan. We were all very happy at that time. So many years have passed since then. But the farmers have not succeeded, the young people have not succeeded. Unemployment has risen; the basic problems of the cultivators have not been addressed. We can only find a cover of India shining. The Execution of pro-democracy leaders and elected officials for exercising their fundamental freedoms. Leaders of the Uddhav Thackeray campt of the Shiv Sena have approached the Supreme Court to freeze the proceedings before the Election Commission of India on pleafiled by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde for recognition of his faction as the real Shiv Sena with the right to use the party symbol of bow and arrow. An application filed by the Thackeray camp alleged that the Election Commission did not pay heed to the request to stop its proceedings. West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a teacher recruitment job scam, was asked to get discharged from hospital as his condition was stable, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Bhubaneswar said here on Monday.
