Tackling joblessness is Manohar Parrikar's new job

He knows running a coalition govt & pursuing development agenda would be maintaining a fine balance

In his fourth term as chief minister (CM) of Goa, Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar, 59, has his job cut out. Apart from handling turncoat MLAs in a coalition government, Parrikar, an IIT graduate, will have to solve Goa’s unemployment problem and bring the state back on track for industrial growth.

The mining ban had derailed growth in the state, with the primary sector’s contribution to gross state domestic product (GSDP) slipping from 21.52 per cent in 2011-12 to 9.11 per cent in 2015-16. The good news for Parrikar is that it has managed to register an upward trend from a