Uttar Pradesh government makes ‘hyperbolic claims’ on employment, says Samajwadi Party

The Samajwadi Party (SP) connected Saturday (March 14, 2026) accused the Uttar Pradesh Government of making “hyperbolic claims” connected employment, alleging that astir one-third of the State’s younker remains economically and educationally inactive—a level higher than the nationalist average.

Citing information from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), SP spokesperson Ram Pratap Singh said that portion Uttar Pradesh’s authoritative unemployment complaint stood astatine 2.4% successful 2022-23—lower than the nationalist mean of 3.2%—the fig did not seizure the afloat grade of younker disengagement from acquisition and work.

According to the National Sample Survey 78th Round Multiple Indicator Survey 2020-21, 33.5% of younker aged 15-24 successful Uttar Pradesh were Not successful Education, Employment oregon Training (NEET), compared to the nationalist mean of 29.3%. For the 15-29 property group, the State’s NEET complaint stood astatine 36.7%, higher than the nationalist mean of 32.9%. Among young women successful the State, the complaint was arsenic precocious arsenic 59.5%.

Mr. Singh said the discrepancy arises due to the fact that unemployment figures number lone those actively seeking enactment wrong the labour force, whereas the NEET indicator captures each younker who are neither working, studying, nor undergoing training.

“Even arsenic the ceremonial unemployment complaint falls, astir one-third of U.P.’s younker stay economically and educationally inactive, astatine levels supra the nationalist average. This suggests that portion measured unemployment improved, economical maturation whitethorn not beryllium translating into meaningful employment oregon accomplishment improvement opportunities, peculiarly for young women,” helium said.

Another SP spokesperson, Nasser Salim, questioned the State Government’s claims regarding concern and employment generation.

He said the Global Investor Summit 2023 had produced 18,643 MoUs worthy ₹33.5 lakh crore, portion the authorities has claimed to person created betwixt 7.5 lakh and 8.5 lakh authorities jobs implicit the past 8 years.

Mr. Salim besides referred to the Uttar Pradesh Skill Development Mission, which reportedly trained astir 12 lakh people, of whom much than six lakh were told to beryllium “directly linked to employment”.

“These figures deficiency autarkic verification, and the favoritism betwixt ‘linked to employment' and existent occupation placement remains undefined. Even if accepted, they correspond humble gains comparative to Uttar Pradesh’s younker colonisation and the standard of the NEET challenge,” helium said.