Former prime minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that the government needed to create jobs to employ 10 to 12 million people every year.
“We have to evolve a strategy to create jobs for 10-12 million people every year,” he said at the 200th year celebrations of Presidency University.
“India is a country with vast potential. Talented people abound in the country, but sadly even so many years after Independence we obviously have to do much more”, he said. “India must grow and grow rapidly,” he added.
Singh, however, emphasised on the need to maintain environmental balance while creating jobs for a sustainable growth.
“We have to find pragmatic solution to poverty and equality and to create a climate in which internal tensions can be dissolved without recourse to violence,” Singh said.
He also stressed on the need to find effective means to address systematic disadvantages on account of caste, tribe and religion, while paying adequate attention to education and health.
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