“While employment (both rural and urban put together) almost remained stagnant between 2004-05 and 2009-10 at 459 million despite the first four years of it being years of high growth hovering around 9%, the next 2 years (2009-10 to 2011-12) added 14 million jobs, taking employment to 473 million level, despite these being years that saw a big drop in gross domestic product (GDP) growth to near 6% along with a steep rise in inflation”.