{"id":354465,"date":"2025-06-21T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=354465"},"modified":"2025-06-21T08:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T13:31:31","slug":"make-in-india-a-failure-manufacturing-at-record-lows-unemployment-has-surged-says-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/make-in-india-a-failure-manufacturing-at-record-lows-unemployment-has-surged-says-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Make in India a \u2018failure\u2019, manufacturing at \u2018record lows\u2019, unemployment has \u2018surged\u2019, says Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"655\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/IMG-20250621-WA0034-e1750511436984.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/IMG-20250621-WA0034-e1750511436984.jpg 655w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/IMG-20250621-WA0034-e1750511436984-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Terming&nbsp;\u2018Make in India\u2019 a \u201cfailure\u201d, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said that \u201cmanufacturing was at record lows and unemployment had surged in the country\u201d.&nbsp;Interacting with technicians in Delhi\u2019s Nehru Place, Gandhi said most products like mobiles are being \u201cassembled\u201d and \u201cnot being built\u201d in India<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn Nehru Place, New Delhi, I met Shivam and Saif &#8211; bright, skilled, full of promise &#8211; yet denied the opportunity to fulfil it,\u201d he wrote along&nbsp;a video he posted of the interaction on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cModi ji has mastered the art of slogans, not solutions. Since 2014, manufacturing has fallen to 14% of our economy. \u2018Make in India\u2019 promised a factory boom. So why is manufacturing at record lows, youth unemployment at record highs, and why have imports from China more than doubled? Since 2014, manufacturing has fallen to 14 per cent of our economy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe truth is stark: we assemble, we import, but we don\u2019t build. China profits.&nbsp;With no new ideas, Modi ji has surrendered. Even the much-hyped PLI scheme is now being quietly rolled back. India needs a fundamental shift &#8211; one that empowers lakhs of producers through honest reforms and financial support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must stop being a market for others. If we don\u2019t build here, we\u2019ll keep buying from those who do, he said, warning that clock is ticking,&#8221; he added.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terming&nbsp;\u2018Make in India\u2019 a \u201cfailure\u201d, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said that \u201cmanufacturing was at record lows and unemployment had surged in the country\u201d.&nbsp;Interacting with technicians in Delhi\u2019s Nehru Place, Gandhi said most products like mobiles are being \u201cassembled\u201d and \u201cnot being built\u201d in India \u201cIn Nehru Place, New Delhi, I met Shivam and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":354466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[16003,19872,15620,17912],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354471,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354465\/revisions\/354471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/354466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}