The eligible youth of Himachal Pradesh can now apply online for unemployment allowance under the Unemployment Allowance Scheme of the State Government.
This was decided in a meeting of the labour and Employment Department held on Friday under the chairmanship of labour and Employment Minister Mukesh Agnihotri.
The minister said that all those unemployed youth registered with any employment exchange since last one year should immediate apply online to get unemployment allowance. He said the youth can apply on website of the labour and Employment http://admis.hp.nic.in/unemp. "Eligible youth would be sanctioned unemployment allowance with effect from the month of the application, subject to his or her eligibility," he said.
Agnihotri said the State Government as per its election manifesto launched this ambitious scheme from 15th April, 2017. He said all the eligible youth in the age group of 20 to 35 years with family income less than Rs. two lakh and educational qualification of minimum ten plus two could take benefit of this scheme.
He said that the youth would be provided unemployment allowance of Rs. 1000 per month for two years whereas, physically challenged youth would be provided unemployment allowance of Rs. 1500 per month.
The minister said that the youth should be permanent resident of Himachal Pradesh.
The State Government has allocated Rs. 150 crore for this scheme during the year 2017-18 and an allocation of Rs 5 crore has been made for each district under the scheme.