Pay unemployment allowance to unemployed to take coaching for recruitment tests: demands Gudur

Hyderabad, March 9: BJP senior leader Gudur Narayana Reddy on Wednesday demanded Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao to release unemployment allowance to all the unemployed so that they could prepare for government job recruitment tests.

In a media statement he said that the government should pay Rs 1.14 lakh to each unemployed who have registered their names with Telangana State Public Service Commission. He said that the government has to pay Rs 3,016 monthly allowance to each unemployed for the past 38 months as promised earlier.

He reminded that the Telangana Rashtra Samiti has promised to pay Rs 3,016 monthly allowance to each unemployed in the state in its manifesto for the Assembly elections being held in December, 2018, after coming to power.

The allowance should have been paid for 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and till February, 2022. If the scheme has been implemented immediately after the formation of government in December, 2018, each unemployed would have received about Rs 1.14 lakh till February, 2022.

However the TRS has forgotten the promise and it did not pay even single rupee to the unemployed. The promise was also not kept in the state budget for the year 2022-23.

Narayana Reddy said that most of the unemployed belong to poor families. Many of them are depending on their parents or doing petty jobs to eke out life. Some graduates are working for daily wage under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

He said that though he welcomes the government’s decision to take up recruitment for 80,039 posts, there was a need to support the unemployed to prepare for the recruitment tests.

“Asking the unemployed to face the recruitment tests without giving them any support is sending the soldiers into the battle without arms,” Narayana Reddy said.

He said that unemployed youth need better coaching in cities like Hyderabad and Warangal to face the tests and this requires thousands of rupees. They need boarding and lodging facilities and have to pay thousands of rupees to the coaching centers.

He said that before the spread of Covid in the country, thousands of unemployed have come to Hyderabad to take coaching for the recruitment tests. Areas like Ameerpet teemed with thousands of youngsters.

He said that as the government would issue notifications to the recruitment tests lakhs of youngsters would start preparation for them and they need thousands of rupees immediately.

Most of the parents of unemployed were poor and they could not bear the costs of coaching. If the government did not help they have no other way than borrowing money at high lending rates.

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