After Manoj Jha’s moving speech came Nirmala Sitharaman’s steely reply. Who’s making more sense?
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00:00Where a double engine has changed, they try to make a trouble engine.
00:04Trouble engines were then and not now.
00:24Now one thing I don't understand is who were these great men
00:28who invented the word double engine.
00:32Sir, if it was such a desirable thing,
00:35then even in the assembly meetings,
00:37there was talk of a double engine,
00:40that yes sir, there should be a double engine in the whole country.
00:42Congress had a huge majority,
00:44but never a double engine was created.
00:46But nowadays a double engine works.
00:48Where a double engine has changed,
00:50they try to make a trouble engine.
00:53Trouble engines were then and not now.
00:57Trouble engine.
00:58Sardar Sarovar Dam, sir.
01:01The plan was made in 1979.
01:04The construction began in 1987.
01:07And the Honorable Chief Minister,
01:09now the Honorable Prime Minister,
01:11was begging with the central government saying,
01:13let this get completed because
01:15the state is a semi-arid state.
01:18The Gujarat water table was going down
01:21and measures taken by Honorable Chief Minister then
01:24was trying to help farmers.
01:26But Sardar Sarovar,
01:28every trick in the bag was used
01:30to delay the project.
01:55So on malnutrition
01:58and also people
02:00coming down below the poverty line,
02:03the UNDP MPI 2022 report
02:07notes that nationally
02:10the relative reduction from 2015-16
02:14to 2019-21
02:17has been faster.
02:1911.9% a year
02:22compared to 8.1%
02:24from 2005-06
02:26to 2015-16.
02:28So in that period,
02:30the reduction was 8.1%.
02:32Now, in 2015-16 to 19-21,
02:36the reduction is 11.9%, sir.
02:39And this is UNDP saying it.
02:49If we were unemployed,
02:50what would we be worried about, sir?
02:52Unemployment, no job,
02:54long, wide mosque, temple.
02:57Sir, this unemployment cannot be avoided.
03:00This unemployment cannot be avoided at all.
03:03My faith is my religion.
03:05But my life will run on bread and butter.
03:08What is the arrangement for that?
03:10When startups are created and given funds
03:12through the fund of funds,
03:14which is aligned with the SIDBI,
03:16and also through many venture capitalists
03:18who come to fund them,
03:19for whom we have facilitated
03:21through various many ease of doing business,
03:25jobs are being created there.
03:27And the government's Rozgar Mela,
03:29where the PM has launched the scheme
03:32and 10 lakh jobs are being given,
03:34the process is ongoing,
03:36jobs are being created.