The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) on Tuesday staged a protest against the Centre at Jantar Mantar over the issues of rising unemployment, drug abuse among youths, and the Agniveer scheme.
The first economic survey tabled after a gap of seven years in the Assembly on Thursday by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Jammu and Kashmir has shown significant progress in the employment sector, with the unemployment rate declining to 6.1 per cent in 2023-24 from 6.7 per cent in 2019-20.
India's biggest challenge is not just unemployment, but the unemployability of over 60 crore youth.
In Jharkhand, the issue of unemployment has once again become the center of a political debate. While the government is celebrating the handing over of appointment letters to 289 candidates under the Urban Development and Housing Department by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, BJP state president and former chief minister Babulal Marandi called it a "PR stunt".
Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress national general secretary demanded that the Centre should publish a white paper on the mounting unemployment in the country.
"Under the PM Mudra Yojana, 41 lakh have got loans. This means they are doing some business or engaged in some kind of employment. Hence this rhetoric that there are no jobs in Maharashtra is false," he said.
First, India has surpassed China to become the world’s most populous nation. India’s population is expected to increase for at least the next 70 years, according to the UN. By 2090, its decrease might recur.
India's urban unemployment rate fell to 6.8 per cent during the January-March period of 2022-23 from 7.2 per cent in the corresponding period of last year, according to data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Monday.
The Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee president said along with development in the state the budget will prove to be useful to address unemployment and provide self-employment to the youth.
The yatra began on September 7, 2022, from Kanyakumari and passed through 12 states, culminating in Jammu and Kashmir covering a total distance of about 4,000 kilometers over the course of four-and-a-half-months.
