new delhi with elections in mind and to defend itself from no jobs being created charge of opposition parties the ministries and departments have started compiling data on estimated direct and indirect jobs created with central government projects and schemesthese will be in addition to formal jobs which get recorded with the employees provident fund organisation epfo sources said infrastructure ministries are finalising their data on the impact of projects on employment generation and subsequently these would be put togethertoi has learnt that the government would use this data to show how employment opportunities have increased across the country during the past nine years due to the flagship schemes and spurt in activities in the infrastructure sector while the opposition parties have been targeting the government over unemployment and its announcement of creating twocrore jobs annually the centre has maintained that it is creating employment and self employment opportunitiesofficials said that while the number of people who have got formal jobs is nearly two crore the number of total man days created since 2014 is huge for example only in the highway sector over 20 crore man days have been created on average in every financial year as thousands of construction workers and other labourers get work during construction of each project similar is in the case of railways rural roads and other infrastructure projectssources said the data will also quantify the number of jobs created because of the pm awas yojna scheme in both rural and urban areas and the swachh bharat missionon thursday pm modi had talked about how crores of people have got direct and indirect employment due to infrastructure projects and schemes including pm mudra yojnawith its focus on disseminating information on the impact of government decisions on employment it has made it mandatory for government departments to indicate the estimated creation of jobs when they move any proposal seeking approval of cabinet the government has also been mentioning these details in every cabinet decision