Budget 2018-19 is an opportunity for the Modi government to address issues that might hit the BJP's electoral base, and lack of jobs could be one such issue. The pace of job creation fell to a six-year low in 2015 with 135,000 new jobs being created compared with 421,000 in 2014 and 419,000 in 2013, according to a quarterly survey of industries by the Labour Bureau of the labour ministry. Another survey of households conducted by the Labour Bureau showed unemployment rate rising ..