Fact check: Adityanath’s claim about Uttar Pradesh’s unemployment rate doesn’t add up -Factchecker team

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The state’s unemployment rate never touched double digits in 2017, and instead of a drop, data shows there has been a 29% rise during his tenure.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath, in a speech addressing the UP Investors Summit in Lucknow on June 3, claimed that since the Bharatiya Janata Party government came into power in the state in 2017, the unemployment rate had fallen from 18% to 2.9%.

He attributed the drop to the implementation of the Industrial Investment and Employment Promotion Policy. While claiming that the UP government provided jobs to lakhs of youngsters, Adityanath said, “Aaj Uttar Pradesh mein, jo unemployment rate hai vo 18% se ghatkar 2.9% reh gai hai [In Uttar Pradesh, the unemployment rate has reduced from 18% earlier to 2.9% now].”

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