‘Mukhyamantri Yuva Nestham’ scheme officially launched today in Andhra Pradesh. Through this scheme, government will give away an amount of Rs 1000 as monthly unemployment allowance to the eligible, jobless youth in the state. CM Chandra Babu Naidu launched this scheme today and interacted with youngsters at Undavalli. Unemployed youth turned up in big numbers to this event. Local ministers and MLAs are distributing the unemployment allowance certificates to the beneficiaries in all 175 constituencies in the state.
Background:
TDP manifesto promised unemployment allowance of 2000/- per unemployed.Earlier Telugu360 reviewed performance of TDP government compared to what was promised in their 2014 manifesto (Click here for : Revisiting TDP manifesto 2014 (Part-2) – List of Promises failed miserably). One of the observations made during this review is the failure of TDP government on fulfilling the promise of jobs or unemployment assistance. However, later, TDP government announced launching of this scheme. However, unemployment assistance is modified to 1000/- per month. The government hopes, this scheme will impact around 12 lakh youngsters. So far already, more than 2 lakh unemployed youth registered on the web portal of the scheme. Around Rs 1,200 crore will be spent annually on the ‘Mukhyamantri Yuva Nestham’ scheme.
Real-time governance:
So far, 626,783 applied for this scheme, and out of these, already 215,832 applications are already verified by the government and 183,585 have been sanctioned. All these details are updated in online portal of the government (Click here for :Mukhyamantri Yuve Nestham). The application process is online and the statistics of the scheme will be updated on regular basis online. Moreover, the allowance will be credited into the bank account of the beneficiary by the first week of every month. All the applicants will be linked through Aadhar.
Not just about giving money:
As per the officials, ‘Mukhyamantri Yuva Nestham’ scheme is not just about giving money to unemployed every month. It also focuses on skill development and apprenticeship opportunities to unemployed youth.CM told, the primary purpose of the scheme is to empower youth by providing skill development, self-employment opportunities and use youth power for the development of the economy.
Top officials from private companies like Kia Motors, Foxconn and Amara Raja also present during the event and it needs to be seen how the government can coordinate this private sector and unemployed youth.
The future of this scheme:
As of now, it looks like nowhere in the country has this kind of scheme been done at this large scale till date. Even though current phase focuses on disbursing monthly allowance, once this phase is done, government is going to focus on skill development and apprenticeship. So, if whatever is planned on paper now goes live really, definitely it will be like a model for the entire country.
