Hyderabad: Unemployed youth in Telangana will have to wait a bit longer to start receiving an unemployment allowance of Rs 3,016 per month from the state government.
With the election code coming into force from February 11, thanks to the Election Commission issuing schedule for MLC elections for two graduates’ constituencies, the chances of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao making an announcement on this scheme is ruled out until March 22, when election code will end.
Meanwhile, the finance department has initiated a process to draft a State Budget for 2021-22, in which it has proposed to allot a token amount of Rs 1,000 crore for “unemployment allowance.”
Official sources in the finance department said that since the Chief Minister cannot make any announcement on extending unemployment allowance due to election code, it will be mentioned in the budget.
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