AGARTALA, January 16 (TIWN): Enormous people without a job is on the rise in India as economic slowdown and slower business expansion activities cast a shadow on employment generation, said Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today. Addressing in the Army recruitment rally at Dasarath Deb Stadium Manik Sarkar today said that unemployment not only has financial impact but also has many social impacts like increase in cases of theft, violence and other criminal activities. And not to forget poverty which is directly linked with unemployment as well as inequality. Job creation is vital for the growth of the economy which means that majority of India's population will be out of poverty, he added.With Population of 122 crore in our country the unemployment rate is increasing day by day. The problem of unemployment is rising, he mentioned.

 Manik further said that ever since independence, the Army has been involved in helping sort out multiple insurgencies, terrorism, fissiparous tendencies and has participated vigorously in stemming the rot and stabilizing the situation. It has also extended the reach of the state to inaccessible areas and, through egalitarian recruitment policies and secular conduct, it has contributed immensely to nation-building and national integration.

The Army has been at the forefront as the guarantor of the nation’s freedom against external aggression, along with the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force, and as the primary force engaged in keeping the nation together in the face of internal discord, communal disharmony and fissiparous tendencies, he mentioned.

A total of five hundred will be recruited in the army recruitment rally. Many army officers were present in the recruitment rally.