As many as 43,999 youth in Haryana have got themselves registered under the Sakhsham Yuva Yojana.
These included 29,113 post-graduate and 14,886 graduate youth.
Haryana Minister of State for labour and Employment Nayab Singh Saini on Wednesday said that honorarium amounting to more than Rs 23 crore has been distributed to 17,630 graduate and post-graduate youth under Sakhsham Yuva Yojana launched last year.
Apart from this, 32,686 candidates have been given unemployment allowance of about Rs 39 crore in the state, said the Minister while talking to the mediapersons here.
He said that 12,958 post-graduate youth and 4672 graduates have been provided honorary work. Also, unemployment allowance has been provided to 22,335 post graduate and 10,351 graduate youth.
The Minister said that the scheme started for the educated unemployed youth is first-of-its-kind scheme in the country.
Under this scheme, the post graduate and graduate youth are provided Rs 9000 and Rs 7500 per month in lieu of 100 hours work.
This facility is provided to them for a maximum period of three years so that they could become self-reliant, he added.