Indian Express: Ludhiana: Saturday,
October 01, 2016.
In the past
four years of the SAD-BJP rule from 2012-16 in Punjab, only 1,913 unemployed
persons have been given the monthly unemployment allowance, the Congress
claimed on Thursday. In Ludhiana on the third day of his ‘Jawaani Sambhaal
Yatra’, the leader of opposition in Punjab Assembly Charanjit Channi presented
a document procured under the Right to Information Act (RTI) which shows that
only 1,913 persons were given unemployment allowance from 2012-16. Not only
this, the number of beneficiaries also dwindled from 950 in 2012-13 to 210 in
2015-16. According to the RTI reply, only 25 youths in Jalandhar got allowance
from 2012-16. The number stands at zero for Jalandhar in 2015-16. In
Nawanshahr, not a single beneficiary was given allowance and in Ludhiana, only
36 beneficiaries got allowance in four years. The number stands at two for
Ferozepur, one for Fazilka, zero for Ropar and Mohali, 20 for Mansa and two for
Moga.
While 61
youths got allowance in Bathinda from where Harsimrat Kaur Badal is an MP, it
is zero for Muktsar under which falls the Lambi constituency which has the CM’s
village Badal. Only one beneficiary got allowance in Fazilka in 2012-13 the
district having Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal’s constituency Jalalabad and the
number stands at zero for Fazilka from 2013-16. The maximum beneficiaries 728 are
in Amritsar who got allowance in four years, followed by Tarn Taran having 363
and Gurdaspur with 162. In Pathankot, only 58 youths got allowance in four
years.
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