No jobless dole for car owners

Any educated unemployed person having a four-wheeler, 2.5 acres of wet land or five acres of dry land will be ineligible to get dole from the AP government. Besides, the beneficiary should be betw-een the ages of 18 and 35 years, and should not be pursuing formal education.

The government has prepared draft guidelines for the pay out of unemployment allowance to about 10 lakh persons from the 2018-19 financial year.

As part of this, the government recently collected data on unemployment from all districts and found that there were 20.19 lakh unemployed youth in the state.

The scheme is designed to upgrade skills of educated unemployed youth to make them employable. The government said that the applicants must be unemployed and should be natives of AP.

The minimum educational qualification is 10+2 or technical courses like ITI.

The beneficiary’s family should be below the below poverty line, and one unemployed person from a family will be considered for the scheme.

A family, for the purpose of the scheme, means a group of individuals drawing rations on a single civil supplies card. Those who have availed financial assistance or loan under any state or Central government sponsored self-employment scheme are not eligible to get the dole. Those who are working in public or private sector, quasi-government or are self-employed are not eligible for the assistance.

The rate of allowance per month will be uniform irrespective of age and qualification and the suggested allowance is `1,000 per month. The state government has estimated total budget required per annum for 10 lakh persons for six months is `600 crore.