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Several provisions in the Budget are a last ditch effort to boost employment.

During his election campaign in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to create 10 million new jobs if elected to power. In practice, unemployment has risen marginally under NDA rule, from 4.9 per cent in 2013/14 to five per cent in 2015/16. An estimate by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) says the country added just

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