70 lakh jobs were created last year, claims PM Narendra Modi in an interview to Swarajya magazine

PM Modi, according to a part-transcript of the 45-minute interview posted by Swarajya, said that against a total of 66 lakh indirect taxpayers registered since independence, 48 lakh new enterprises have been registered since the launch of the GST on 1 July, 2017.
To a query on criticism of GST implementation, he said the new tax regime was a massive change, requiring a complete reset of one of the world's largest economic systems.
Watch the main highlights of this interview.