India Today Editors' Roundtable: Piyush Goyal says govt would like to create more jobs

When asked if job creation has been one of the biggest challenges of the Narendra Modi government, Union minister Piyush Goyal said that the BJP manifesto never gave a figure of 1 crore jobs every year.

"Our government's initiatives are praiseworthy," said the Minister of State with Independent charge for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines at the India Today Editors' Roundtable.

The Union minister was enumerating the government's achievements when India Today's Managing Editor Rahul Kanwal said it was Narendra Modi, then the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, who promised one crore jobs to youth every year if the BJP is voted to power, at a rally in Agra on November 22, 2013.

At this, the Union minister quickly changed tack and said the government would like to create more than one crore jobs for youth every year.