New Delhi, Feb 18: Describing as ''false'' Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's claim that his government created 85 lakh jobs yearly, the Congress demanded he explain to the nation what was done in the past five years to provide jobs for 300 million unemployed youth below 25 years of age. How has the prime minister arrived at the false statistics of 85 lakh jobs created every year, Congress spokesman Kapil Sibal asked and said the PM had either been given wrong information or he had deliberately chosen to mislead the country. Addressing a press conference here, Sibal said new jobs were created when there was growth in the agriculture sector. He pointed out that during the last five years the growth rate in agriculture was only 2 per cent with little investment and development witnessed in the sector. Under the tenth plan too little investment was being made and whatever investment was there was in the private sector, with the result that employment in the agriculture sector was nil. Recalling the speech made by the Prime Minister in Parliament on March 18, 2002, Sibal said he had declared that in view of the jobs shrinking in the heavy industry and in the technical sector and the possibility of further drop in job opportunities in the near future, the government would take steps to provide job to one crore people every year and in five years time five crore new jobs would be created. Of these, three crore jobs would be created subject to the condition that the growth rate would remain at 8.5 per cent and the remaining two crore jobs would be created through schemes under the Tenth Plan, Sibal recalled the PM as having said. He claimed that the government had failed to achieve the growth rate anticipated by it in agriculture, industry and service sector as also to make the investments under the tenth plan leaving no scope for creation of job opportunities. Bureau Report