Man-eaters don't spare women

Critics say Narendra Modi’s decade-long rule has been one of jobless growth. Factories produced more, companies earned more, owners profited more, the government earned more; but fewer hands were hired, or those who were hired got work for fewer days. Putting the last two together, economists said the Indian economy generated fewer ‘man-days’.

- R. PRASANNAN

Man-day is a term coined a century ago to denote the unit of one day’s work done by one person—what we call “all in a day’s work”. Thus, 100 man-days could be the amount of work done by one man in 100 days, 100 men in one day, 10 men in 10 days or 20 men in five days. Modi is now trying to get rid of this odium of jobless growth. In the first three months of Modi 3.0, the government launched nine mega building projects costing ₹2.5 lakh crore—a mammoth port at Vadhavan, two metro corridors, eight high-speed roads, 12 industrial smart cities, a rail line from Manmad to Indore, and more.