Bhubaneswar, July 9 -- Bhubaneswar: The recent announcement of Odisha government to freeze creation of new posts has not gone down well with the Opposition parties who slammed such austerity measures. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday took a jibe at the Biju Janata Dal (BJD)-led Odisha government by asking has the State government generated enough employment so as to curtail it now.

BJP general secretary Golak Mohapatra said, "Nearly 35 lakh unemployed had registered themselves for jobs in the last 20 years. Out of which only 35,000 persons have got jobs, which is a mere 1.1 percent."

Mohapatra further questioned, "If there is no recruitment in the field of education then how the nation and state will function. Apart from the...