New Delhi: National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) on Thursday said that country is creating enough jobs for new entrants but probably not high-quality ones.

NITI Aayog statement came after a report showed the country's unemployment rate rose to a 45-year high during 2017/2018. The Business Standard newspaper quoted an official survey that has been withheld by the government on the jobless problem under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who faces a general election by May.

Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog said the leaked unemployment report was only a draft, and that the government could release jobs data in March.

At a press conference, Kumar on Thursday said the quarterly employment data sets for the July-December 2018 period (two quarters) are still being processed and the government would release the employment survey report by March “after collating quarter-on-quarter data”.

The survey claimed that India’s unemployment rate surged to over 6 per cent in 2017-18, the highest since 1972-73.