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Bathinda: Even though lakhs of youth are roaming unemployed in the state, none of them is getting unemployment allowance at the moment. However, the employment department says that it is not that unemployment has ended in the state, but no one is applying for it because the allowance is very low and the conditions are very strict. As of August 31, 2023, 1,88,741 unemployed have registered in the district employment offices of Punjab, of which 1,30,167 are boys while 58,574 are girls. According to the data of the Punjab government, no unemployed in the state received allowance during the year 2022-2023. This year also no unemployed youth approached the Punjab government to get employment allowance. During the year 2021, only one youth got allowance in the state, who was given Rs 2025 as allowance by the government. After the year 2006-2007, the number of unemployed receiving unemployment benefits is continuously decreasing. During the year 2006-2007, 4803 unemployed approached the Punjab government to get this allowance, after which the Punjab government issued an allowance of Rs 65 lakh 32 thousand 68 to the unemployed. Next year, the number of unemployed getting unemployment allowance decreased to 3067, to whom the government issued an allowance of Rs 41 lakh 89 thousand 546. Thus, the number of unemployed people is decreasing every year. During the year 2020-2021, only seven people remained unemployed in the state, to whom the government issued unemployment allowance of Rs 7650. Similarly, in the year 2021-2022, only one unemployed remained in Punjab, who got the allowance. After this, the Aam Aadmi Party came to power in the state and the allowance to the unemployed reached zero. During the year 2022-2023, no one has taken unemployment allowance in the state. In this regard, the officials of the employment department say that the unemployed do not apply to get employment allowance because the conditions are very few and the conditions are more, due to which there is no one to take unemployment allowance. Before coming to power in Punjab, AAP had given 6 guarantees to the people of the state, in which it was promised to give unemployment allowance of Rs 3 thousand per month to the unemployed youth of the state. Apart from this, 6 lakh government jobs were also promised, but the government has not yet taken any concrete steps to give employment allowance. Whenever assembly elections are held in Punjab, the issue of unemployment allowance arises and various political parties promise to give more employment allowance to the unemployed, but after the elections the situation remains the same.
Employment department official Baltej Singh said that the Punjab government is currently giving unemployment allowance of Rs 150 to 10th pass unemployed, Rs 200 to 12th pass and Rs 250 to graduate unemployed youth. The beneficiary should be at least 10th pass, age should be more than 17 years and less than 40 years, family income should not be more than Rs 12 thousand per year. It is proposed to give unemployment allowance to deaf and blind beneficiaries after 3 months of registration, Divyangjan after 1 year of registration and general category after 3 years of registration. Due to making strict rules, no one is getting this allowance till date. Let us tell you that after the rule of giving allowance to unemployed made in the year 1978, an amendment was made in 2005, after which no amendment could be made. The rules for claiming unemployment benefit are very strict.
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When and how many unemployed were there and how much allowance was continued
Year Amount unemployed
2006 4803 65,32,068
2007 3067 41,89,546
2008 2446 33,86,706
2009 2308 34,04,001
2010 1808 25,77,821
2011 1080 14,85,358
2012 950 12,69,547
2013 309 34,67,771
2014 444 65,25,575
2015 210 2,72,100
2016 134 1,54,950
2017 212 3,37,275
2018 97 1,33,025
2019 42 53,5000
2020 7 7650
2021 1 2025
2022 0 0