Karnataka govt's 'Yuva Nidhi' unemployment allowance scheme to start from Jan 1
Bengaluru: Registration for the Karnataka government's 'Yuva Nidhi' scheme, one of the five poll guarantees of the Congress party offering unemployment allowance to the graduates and diploma holders, will start from December 26.
According to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, the scheme will be implemented from January 1, 2024 and applicants can enroll themselves on the 'Seva Sindhu' portal.
''Those who have completed six months of graduation in the academic year 2022-23 and are not in higher education or any employment are eligible to apply,'' the CM said on social media site 'X'.
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The scheme will be applicable to degree holders and diploma pass holders. He added that under the scheme, monthly financial assistance of Rs 3,000 will be provided to unemployed graduates and Rs 1,500 to diploma holders. This money will be directly transferred to the beneficiary's account till they are employed for a maximum period of two years.
Congress had announced five guarantees during the assembly election this year and 'Yuva Nidhi' was one of them.
Other guarantees are Shakti offering free bus ride to women in non-luxury government buses, 'Gruha Jyoti' promising up to 200 units of free electricity to residential buildings, 'Gruha Lakshmi' providing Rs 2,000 to the woman head of the families having APL/BPL ration cards and Anna Bhagya offering 10 kg food grains to each member of the family free of cost.
2022-23ನೇ ಸಾಲಿನ ಶೈಕ್ಷಣಿಕ ವರ್ಷದಲ್ಲಿ ಪದವಿ ಪಡೆದು ಆರು ತಿಂಗಳು ಪೂರೈಸಿದವರು ಮತ್ತು ಉನ್ನತ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಅಥವಾ ಯಾವುದೇ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರದೇ ಇರುವವರು ಅರ್ಜಿ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಲು ಅರ್ಹರು. ಪದವಿ ಹೊಂದಿರುವವರಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಡಿಪ್ಲೊಮಾ ತೇರ್ಗಡೆ ಆದವರಿಗೆ ಈ ಯೋಜನೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಸಲಿದೆ. ಯೋಜನೆಯಡಿ ನಿರುದ್ಯೋಗಿ ಪದವೀಧರರಿಗೆ ಮಾಸಿಕ 3 ಸಾವಿರ ರೂ., ಡಿಪ್ಲೊಮಾ… pic.twitter.com/0CW7OgkiMa
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EC demands extra security as unrest grips Bangladesh afresh
Dhaka (PTI): The Election Commission (EC) has demanded extra security for its chief, other commissioners and officials as fresh unrest visibly gripped Bangladesh after gunmen shot an upcoming parliamentary polls candidate and frontline leader of last year's violent street movement dubbed 'July Uprising'.
"The EC has written to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) urging comprehensive security arrangements for the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Election Commissioners (ECs), senior officials of the Election Commission Secretariat," the state-run BSS news agency reported on late Saturday.
The EC simultaneously sought the extra security for its field-level offices ahead of the 13th national election, as two of them came under attack in southeastern Lakshmipur and southwestern Pirojpur by unidentified miscreants after the announcement of the schedule for the upcoming polls on Thursday.
The commission demanded an additional escort vehicle for the CEC, while one such police escort with a vehicle was currently in place for him. It asked for round-the-clock police escorts for the four commissioners and the senior secretary.
The letter said the enhanced security measures were "urgent and necessary," while EC officials said their 10 regional offices, 64 district election offices and 522 sub-district level offices would store important documents and election materials.
The EC on Thursday said the upcoming parliamentary election would be held on February 12 next year, while a day later, Sharif Osman Hadi was shot from a close range in the head, critically wounding him, as he initiated his election campaign from a constituency in the capital.
Critically ill former prime minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) simultaneously asked Muhammad Yunus' government to provide security for all candidates in the upcoming election after the attack on Hadi, who leads a radical right-wing cultural group called Inquiab Mancha.
"We demand that the real culprit be identified immediately and brought under the law, and we call upon this government to ensure the security of all candidates without delay," BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.
Hadi was also a frontline leader of last year's student-led violent uprising that toppled then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government on August 5, 2024.
His Inquilab Mancha was also at the forefront of a campaign to disband the Awami League, which the interim government complied with in May this year, disqualifying the party from contesting the polls.
The government on Saturday ordered a nationwide security clampdown called 'Operation Devil Hunt 2' amid escalated fears over the law and order situation and promised to issue firearms licenses for election candidates for their own security.
Home adviser (retd) Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said the government had taken steps to ensure special security for the "frontline fighters" of the July Uprising and promised to issue firearms licenses for the election candidates.
He emphasised that the second phase of the 'Devil Hunt' was aimed at helping ensure public safety and combat the growing threat of illegal arms.
The operation was initially launched in February this year following protests over an attack on the private house of a former minister of the ousted government in the northern suburb of the capital, when it targeted alleged "henchmen" and supporters of the now disbanded Awami League.
