Youth Cong launches NRU

NEW DELHI: The Indian Youth Congress on Thursday launched a campaign to collect the date of the jobless on its a “National Register of Unemployed (NRU)” to highlight the rising unemployment in India. It invited all unemployed Indian to register themselves with NRU by giving a missed call to a toll-free number 8151994411.

Its national media in-charge Amrish Ranjan Pandey told a press meet in Delhi the statistics released by CMIE (Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy) present a very disturbing picture, demolishing the exaggerated claims of growth and development, propagated by the Modi government. This is the Youth Congress answer to the government’s campaign on the NRC to divert attention of the people from the highest unemployment ever in the past 45 years. Pandey said the demand for NRU is a response to the deplorable state of unemployment. The Youth Congress will promote the notion of “Naukari ki baat” through the NRU drive. The CMIE statistics show one in four graduates in unable to find a job, India’s current unemployment rate stands at 7.5%, unemployment in urban India stands at 9% and in rural India at 6.8% and the overall unemployment rate among females is 17.5%. Pandey said: “From 6.1% in 2017-18, the unemployment rate catapulted to 7.5% at the end of 2019. With the number of unemployed people crossing the 30 million mark, the nation is in a dire state. The present government, however, seems to be completely out-of-touch with reality. Not only it has failed in generating 2 crore jobs a year, as it promised, but it has constantly neglected and dismissed reports from credible institutions like CMIE, CSE (Centre for Sustainable Employment) and its own NSO (National Statistical Office).