new delhi former finance minister p chidambaram friday raised doubts over the gdp figures wondering how the economy is growing at 7 per cent when the unemployment rate was the highest in 45 yearstaking a dig at the centre he claimed that when the government revised the gdp figures it did not realise that the unemployment figures also got revisedchidambarams remark came ahead of the interim budget on fridaythe government thursday said it has not finalised the survey on labour force which reportedly showed that the unemployment rate in the country hit a 45year high of 61 per cent in 201718the national sample survey offices nssos periodic labour force survey plfs according to the business standard newspaper states that unemployment was last this high in 197273 the unemployment rate was 22 per cent in 201112 it saidniti aayog vicechairman asked how can a country grow at an average of 7 without employment that is exactly our question with unemployment at a 45year high how can we believe that the economy is growing at 7 per cent chidambaram said on twittermodi government revises gdp growth figures upward what government did not realise was that unemployment figure was also revised upwards he tweetedon thursday niti aayog vice chairman rajiv kumar who had previously mounted a defence of lowering of upaera gdp growth rates at a hurriedly called press conference said the report cited by the newspaper is not finalised it is a draft reportthe report generated a lot of controversies with congress president rahul gandhi saying the modi government had promised two crore jobs but five years later a leaked job creation report card has revealed a national disasterchidambaram also took a swipe at the government over claims of high growth despite demonetisation and asked if this time rs 100 notes would be demonetisedthe demonetisation year was the best year of growth 82 under mr modi so lets have another round of demonetisation this time lets demonetise 100 rupee notes he said