Having registered more than 20 lakh unemployed youths with the State Employment Exchange office here, only to about 18000 candidates are receiving the benefit of Unemployment Allowance. The allowance, which was earlier Rs500/ month, was increased to Rs1000 per month from January 1. The senior officials, on their condition of anonymity, claimed that this hike was announced before the Assembly election only to garner the voters’ support. As per the rules, the candidate between the age group of 18 and 35 years, who has passed higher secondary and belong to below poverty line (BPl) family, can apply for the allowance. The applicants should have live-registration with the employment registration office of more than two years Besides, they should be depend on parents/family members for livelihood and should not have any source of income to get the allowance. Presently, less than 1 per cent (about 17693) beneficiaries are getting the benefit of unemployment allowance. If one goes by this, there is a need of making changes in order to maintain accurate and acceptable records of the unemployed youths instead of keeping a vague data. “The government is in process of bringing a bill, which will make it compulsory for all the departments to mandatorily informed the Employment Exchange on recruiting any of the registered youths to make necessary changes in our data” said a senior officer.