Guides to the berojgari bhatta yojana UP quote an unemployment allowance of Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500 a month, payable till the youth finds a job.
The allowance is paid by direct transfer into the bank account of the beneficiary. Registration is done with the district employment and self-employment guidance centre, and the application is made through the state employment department portal, sewayojan.up.nic.in which is popularly called Rojgar Sangam.
Many young individuals in Uttar Pradesh are reading these guides to understand the payment amount and the process, since the guides are written by private websites and not by the state government.
Eligibility and documents listed in guides
The guides list the following conditions for the applicants:
- Permanent residency in Uttar Pradesh
- No government or private job at the time of applying
- Annual family income not above Rs 3 lakh
- A minimum qualification of Class 10 pass
The guides do not agree on the age band. One guide gives the age as 21 to 35 years, while another guide gives it as 18 to 35 years.
Documents commonly listed are the residence certificate, Aadhaar card and birth certificate, and some guides add educational proof, income certificate and bank details. Individuals who take up work under the rural employment guarantee scheme will be counted as employed, and their eligibility for the allowance will end.
A state allowance, not a central one
The Union government does not pay any monthly allowance to job seekers, and the guides say that messages offering such an allowance against a registration fee are fraudulent. The unemployment allowance is run by each state separately, and the details differ from one state to another.
In Chhattisgarh, Press Trust of India reported that Rs 34.55 crore was transferred to 1.29 lakh registered unemployed youth as the August 2023 instalment. In Rajasthan, the allowance is limited to 2 lakh beneficiaries at a time, and the minister had told the Assembly that there was no proposal to raise this limit.
