<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi has rejected the opposition charge of lack of employment generation. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In an interview to Swarajya Magazine, Mr Modi wondered, if the States are creating good number of jobs how the centre could create joblessness. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Giving examples, Mr. Modi said, the previous Karnataka government claimed to have created 53 lakh jobs. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The West Bengal government said, it created 68 lakh jobs in the last term.  He asked if states are all creating good numbers of jobs, is it possible that the country is not creating jobs. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mr. Modi pointed out that the issue is the lack of data on jobs, not the jobs. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Prime Minister said, the country has seen a vibrant growth in jobs. He said, more than 41 lakh formal jobs were created from September 2017 to April 2018 based on EPFO payroll data. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">According to a study based on EPFO data, more than 70 lakh jobs were created in the formal sector last year. He said, informal sector constitutes around 80 per cent of all jobs and job creation in the formal sector can have a spin-off effect on job creation in the informal sector also.  </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Prime Minister said, India had around 66 lakh registered enterprises from Independence till July last year and in just one year, 48 lakh new enterprises got registered. He said, more than 12 crore loans have been given under Mudra scheme. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He added that more than one crore houses have been constructed in the last one year and pace of road construction has doubled per month and it has also generated a lot of employment. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mr Modi said, a recent international report showed how quickly poverty in India is declining and it is not possible without people having jobs.</div>