More than 5 lakh youths have registered at employment exchanges across the state ever since political parties,including the Samajwadi Party,promised an unemployment allowance in its manifesto. Now,with the SP set to form the government,the crowds at employment exchanges have increased manifold apparently under the impression that only those who get registered before March 15 — the day Akhilesh Yadav will take oath as chief minister — will get the allowance.
In almost 75 districts,applicants start queuing up outside employment exchange early in the morning,at some places as early as 4.00 am,to submit applications forms.
According to officials at Directorate of Training and Employment,around 20 lakh unemployed youths were registered until December 2011. Deputy Director D Prasad said around 5 lakh new registrations were done in February and March — soon after the SP announced the unemployment allowance promise. These include around 3 lakh off-line and around 2.08 lakh on-line registrations.
In the last two days,the employment exchanges have been swamped with huge crowds even though no one has said that March 15 is the cut-off date to get unemployment allowance.
On Tuesday,there were as many as 9,900 registration in Kanpur,including 7,100 women. A total of 9,874 applicants registered in Gorakhpur,6,873 in Lucknow,around 3,000 in Meerut,2,700 in Allahabad,2,500 in Rae Bareli and 2,800 in Etawah. Details from other districts were not available.
On Monday,10,000 registrations were done in Lucknow,8,333 in Gorakhpur,6,000 in Varanasi,5,007 in Kanpur,4,000 in Rae Bareli,2,000 in Allahabad,and 3,000 in Meerut. Besides,16,594 candidates got registration on-line on Monday.
In the last one and a half month,around 40,000 new registration were done in Gorakhpur,35,000 each in Allahabad and Varanasi,33,798 in Lucknow,30,000 in Kanpur,23,000 in Rae Bareli.
Out of total 2.08 lakh applications received on-line in past one month,the maximum of 1.12 lakh were reported in Allahabad,followed by 18,131 in Varanasi,17,527 in Lucknow,11,672 in Mirzapur,7,810 in Azamgarh,11,722 in Bareilly,and 6,355 in Sultanpur.
Gorakhpur Regional Employment Officer Shashibhusan Singh said applicants started arriving at 5:30 am. To avoid overcrowding,Varanasi Regional Employment Officer Ravi Shekhar has made arrangements for distribution and submission of application forms at two separate places,located 2 km apart.
In Lucknow,barricading was done in the employment exchange office to separate the queues of candidates for distributing and collecting applications forms.
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