 Hello and welcome to NewsClick. I'm Anushapur. Here at NewsClick, we try to bring you the daily news that is important but not so trending with our daily roundup. This is not the first time Prime Minister Narendra Modi is stopping the release of government data on jobs created in the country before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. On March 14, it was reported that a survey by the Labour Bureau on the number of jobs created under micro-units development and refines agency will not be made public for another two months. The recent sighted was that the expert committee had found normalities in the methodology used by the Bureau in arriving at the findings. Therefore, the findings of the survey will be made public only after the polls. The Mudra program which was launched in April 2015 provides loans at low rates for people to set up a small business and to generate jobs through the self-employment. The loans are even to micro-finance institution and other non-banking financial institution which in turn lend to the micro, small and medium enterprises. It was reported in February that the Bhakti Janda Party-led National Democratic Alliance had scrapped the report on unemployment by the National Sample Survey office and instead planned to use the Labour Bureau's Mudra survey on jobs. However, the expert committee in a meeting on March 8 asked the Labour Bureau to reconcile some errors. The Bureau has sought two more months to do so. The Union Labour Ministry is yet to approve the committee's decision. The NSSO survey that was withheld by the Modi government was the first employment survey to be conducted after the demontization. The survey report that was leaked to the business standard showed that the unemployment had reached a 45-year high at 6.1% in 2017-2018 after the employment data was withheld. The other job survey withheld from the release by the Narendra Modi government was the 6th annual Employment Unemployment Survey by the Labour Bureau. According to the survey, India's unemployment rate in 2016-2017 was the highest in four years at 3.9%. Last August, the Department of Financial Services had stated that around 90% of the loans fell in the lowest category of under Rs. 50,000 and amount too measly for any serious even if small entrepreneurial venture. Since the program was started in 2015-16, a grand total of Rs. 9.9 crore loans have been sanctioned and whopping Rs. 4.68 lakh crore has been disbursed. This seems to be impressive figures but this means that average loan per person is mirage of Rs. 47,249 crore. For a detailed report on this, you can check our website. Coming back to Mudra loans, during the survey period, the beneficiary stood at Rs. 10.35 crore which have now increased to Rs. 15.56 crore. Given the findings of the two suppressed government reports as well as other recent job surveys, it is anybody's guess that the Mudra survey result would have told a similar story of job losses and joblessness, a rise that, a risk that the Modi government must have been apprehensive to take before the elections, especially when the government had come to power with the promises of 2 crore jobs every year. In what seems to be another attack on education by the ruling government, the JNU administration has increased the entrance examination fee by 300%. According to a leaked prospectus on March 14, the fee has been increased from Rs. 1200 for the general category for admission in 3 subjects to Rs. 3600 for 3 subjects for general, Rs. 2700 for OBC and Rs. 1800 for SCST and others. They have also closed down literal entry to the BA program, reduced deprivation points for MFIL as well as PHD and de-linked in the integrated MFIL and PHD program. The fee hike is not just limited to Indian nationals. Foreign students too are facing the brunt of the administration's arbitrary decision. In a Facebook post, JNU General Secretary Ejaz Hamad said that the Modi government's policy to promote the foreign exchange and open Indian education for foreign students turns out to be a jhumla as fees for foreign students is being increased at an exponent level. The JNU entrance examination will be held from May 27 to May 30 and the registration process is set to start from March 15. While many students are claiming that the prospectus was uploaded on the JNU website yesterday and later taken down. JNU Public Relations Officer Poonam Kudusya said that no prospectus was uploaded and NTA will upload it by March 15. Earlier, infringing a democratic decision-making process, JNU VC Jagdish Kumar had unilaterally decided the admission policy which now reflects a 300 fee hike for Indian nationals and a 400 fee hike for foreign students. Apart from the massive fee hike, additional GSE is also applicable on the amount. A document on GST on education services states that education is not defined in the CGST Act. As per the SC's decision in the Lok Shikshana Trust, education is a process of training, developing knowledge, skill and the character of students. The implementation of these decisions taken undemocratically by the Jagdish Kumar-led JNU administration is now another step towards the privatisation of higher education in the country. Putting an end to the freedom and inclusivity of education system and making education for the economically weaker section unapproachable. The JNU SU has condemned the administration's decision and had called for a university strike yesterday, wanting the VC to hold back the anti-student prospectus. They have also said that they will continue the fight until the fee hike is withdrawn. The media has officially stopped making people's voices and you are an information-less voter. These are the things they have said in a special speech by the Hindi news editor Mukul Saral. Let's listen to this interview with a small special guest. It is very dangerous to get such a deep thought or to get such a deep thought. It is very dangerous. It is not possible because there is no reporter in the news channel. People from the West are saying that they are from Bengal, or China. It is not the time to read the newspaper. Half of the people don't read the newspaper. They are just sitting there and giving a speech. Yes, they are giving a speech on Google and debating. So there is no need to debate. What I do is very hard. I get in a bad shape. They say that they have to type a few words. They have to do research. So what I do research, there is no need to think about the prathmi. There is no need to think about it. There is no need to think about it. Because if a reporter is swimming in the water, it's right or wrong. If a reporter is swimming, what is LED? Should the government be able to claim that there is no benefit for any company in LED? Or is somebody working for a company that is helping someone else? We don't know. We don't know a lot of things. People believe that a lot of news channels have been formed recently. It is true. We will have to tell people that even after a few hundred news channels, there is only one way of thinking. So if you have one or two ways of thinking in such a big world, as much as you have, then I would say that you are in the state of thinking. You are an information-less voter. You have no idea whether you like Narendra Modi or Rahul Gandhi. That's all we have for you in today's episode of Daily Roundup. So don't be an information-less voter. To keep yourself updated in these coming elections, do log on to our website, www.newspeak.in. Also you can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.