AAP leaders claim 10 lakh jobs given, but Delhi govt. data says 12,588

There is no information available on the names or any other details of people who actually got jobs

National convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other party leaders have been claiming for the past several months that their government has provided 10 lakh jobs in the private sector to Delhiites through its Rozgar Bazaar portal. But only 12,588 people had actually secured jobs through the portal till May 1, according to official data accessed by The Hindu.

This figure of 12,588 is also an estimate of the government’s as it’s based solely on phone calls with people who posted the job openings, without cross-checking with people who actually got the jobs. The Delhi Government doesn't have names or any other details of people who actually got jobs, multiple sources privy to the information confirmed. “The portal was not a huge success and there was no mechanism to actually find out how many people got jobs, or their details. It worked with a very small team,” a source told The Hindu.

Despite multiple attempts, the Delhi Government refused to comment on this.

The AAP government’s claims on the “10 lakh jobs” has varied over the last 20 months, depending on who made the claim and where it was made.

In an interview with The Hindu in March, when asked about it, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia reiterated that 10 lakh people actually got jobs through the portal and it was not that 10 lakh openings were posted on the portal.

But as per the data, only 76,646 candidates were “screened” by people who posted the jobs and 12,588 were the “candidates selected” from its inception in July 2020 till May 1. The government has never made this detailed data public.

"Details about 10 lakh jobs are there in Delhi government’s web portal… Go and check in Delhi government’s Rozgar portal," Mr. Kejriwal had said in an interview with India Today in March. But the portal does not have any details on the number of jobs provided.