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Tag: Unemployment Allowance

  • UP government has no plans to give unemployment allowance: Labour and Employment Minister

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has no plans to give unemployment allowance in the state, Labour and Employment Minister said here on Friday.

    Anil Rajbhar was replying to a question raised by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Umashankar Singh in the legislative assembly.

    Singh asked about the number of unemployed youths presently registered in the state who have been given employment and whether the government will consider giving unemployment allowance to the remaining unemployed youths.

    In his response, the labour and employment minister said there is a system of registration of candidates interested in employment on the employment department portal on which a total of 25,39,619 candidates have registered themselves from March 19, 2017 to September 12, 2022.

    A total of 6,68,269 candidates have been selected for employment by the Employment Department through employment fairs in the private sector, Rajbhar added.

    Singh supplemented the question of whether the government would give unemployment allowance to the remaining candidates who were deprived of employment, in response to which the minister said there is no such plan.

    In other proceedings, Deputy Chief Minister and Health Minister Brajesh Pathak informed the house that from January 1, 2022 to September 13, 2022, only one person died due to dengue in the state, adding that no deaths were caused due to malaria during this period.

    LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has no plans to give unemployment allowance in the state, Labour and Employment Minister said here on Friday.

    Anil Rajbhar was replying to a question raised by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Umashankar Singh in the legislative assembly.

    Singh asked about the number of unemployed youths presently registered in the state who have been given employment and whether the government will consider giving unemployment allowance to the remaining unemployed youths.

    In his response, the labour and employment minister said there is a system of registration of candidates interested in employment on the employment department portal on which a total of 25,39,619 candidates have registered themselves from March 19, 2017 to September 12, 2022.

    A total of 6,68,269 candidates have been selected for employment by the Employment Department through employment fairs in the private sector, Rajbhar added.

    Singh supplemented the question of whether the government would give unemployment allowance to the remaining candidates who were deprived of employment, in response to which the minister said there is no such plan.

    In other proceedings, Deputy Chief Minister and Health Minister Brajesh Pathak informed the house that from January 1, 2022 to September 13, 2022, only one person died due to dengue in the state, adding that no deaths were caused due to malaria during this period.

  • No more easy unemployment allowance to Rajasthan youth from 2022

    Express News Service

    JAIPUR:  Over three lakh unemployed graduates receiving allowance will no longer get the same by simply sitting at home as in the past.

    The Rajasthan government has tightened the conditions for giving unemployment allowance from the New Year.

    The allowance scheme was announced as a poll promise before the 2018 assembly elections to get youth’s votes. 

    The Ashok Gehlot government, which spent Rs 800 crores in the last three years, has revised its scheme of unemployment allowance for graduates.

    While the amount for both girls and boys has been increased, the rules to get the allowance have been made tougher now.

    For boys, the incentive has been raised from Rs 3,500 per month to Rs 4,000 per month, and for girls, the amount was hiked from Rs 4,000 to Rs 4,500.

    It is, however, accompanied by new conditions.

    Youngsters will have to first undertake skill training and later work in various departments.

    Under the scheme, the government will provide free training in different skills for three months before the youths become eligible to receive their unemployment incentive.  

    The youth will have to work four hours daily as an intern in a government office/government scheme.

    Also, they will now have to do a three-month course from Rajasthan Skill Development Corporation without which this allowance will not be given.  

  • 2.5 lakh youths got unemployment allowance so far: Rajasthan government

    By PTI
    JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government said on Monday it is fulfilling its election promise of giving allowance to the educated unemployed and so far about 2.5 lakh youths have benefited from it, Skill, Employment and Entrepreneurship Minister Ashok Chandna said.

    During the Question Hour, the minister informed the Assembly that under the Chief Minister Yuva Sambal Yojana, started in February 2019, unemployment allowance has been given to 2,49,433, till date.

    He added that till date over 4.56 applications were received for the allowance.

    “Earlier, there was a cap of 1.60 lakh on the maximum number of beneficiaries, which now has been increased to 2 lakh,” he said.

    In reply to the supplementary question of MLA Rajendra Rathore, Chandna also said 50,202 beneficiaries have opted out of the scheme.

    He informed that this scheme is being operated on first come first serve basis.

    The Minister of State for Entrepreneurship said the Rajasthan government is very sensitive towards the unemployed in the current economic situation.

    In view of the state of unemployment, the government has increased the maximum limit of the candidates for granting unemployment allowance from one lakh to 1.60 lakhs earlier and currently this limit has been increased to 2 lakhs.

    He said that unemployment allowance of Rs 3,000 per month is being given to male candidates and Rs 3,500 per month to transgender, female and special qualified candidates.

    He informed that as on January 31, 2021, a total of 15,03,834 educated unemployed candidates are registered in employment offices on the departmental portal.

    Of these, the number of undergraduate and graduate unemployed is 12,24,008, he said.

  • Convention on Unemployment and Employment, Seeks Unemployment Allowance from Government

    The Convention on Unemployment, Eradication of Jobs, Declining Quality of Employment was jointly organized by the Center of Indian Trade Union, CITU Democratic Youth Federation of India and Students Federation of India. Several Labor leaders of the country including former MP Tapan Sen addressed the convention in Delhi. The current situation in the country was discussed. Unemployment allowance was also demanded.

    Representatives of all three organizations from all provinces participated in this convention. Archana Dhruva, in-charge of Student Federation of India Durg district participated in this convention. The Convention supported the ongoing agrarian movement to withdraw agricultural laws, the withdrawal of the Electricity Bill Amendment Bill 2020, and to make legal provisions for the minimum support price.

    At the convention, the speakers said that unemployment was already at a very high level due to the global crisis. The lockdown has made the situation worse. The labor force survey 2019 report of the Ministry of Labor concludes that the unemployment rate in our country was the highest in 45 years. A January 2021 report by the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy stated that the number of unemployed reached 38.7 million in December, higher than the figures before the lockdown. The unemployment rate indicates the proportion of unemployed of working age population who are willing to work but the government is making fun of them instead of providing them jobs or employment. The convention demanded that the government should provide employment to the unemployed and till then unemployment allowance of 5000 per month should be given to the unemployed through statutory measures.