The state social welfare and social education minister Tinku Roy on Tuesday claimed that the state of Tripura recorded a significant reduction of unemployment rate from 11% in 2018-19 when the erstwhile Left Front government was in power to 1.4% now during the present BJP-led coalition government.
Replying to a question moved by Opposition Congress MLA Gopal Chandra Roy on the last day of the state Assembly, Roy claimed that Tripura now has 1.4 percent unemployment. The Congress MLA asked whether the government has any plans to introduce unemployment allowance for unemployed youths registered with the government.
The minister said, “The unemployment rate in 2018-19 (11 percent) was higher than the national average (8.7 percent). The four subsequent annual unemployment reports suggest that the figures have gone lower than the national average and it is further going down. This proves that scopes of work and income have increased the opportunity of work and employment in the state.”
“The overall unemployment rate in Tripura has come down consistently in the last six years, with 11 percent unemployment registered in 2018-19, 3.2 percent in 2019-20 and 2020-21, 3 percent in 2021-22 and a major dip in the last financial year,” he informed the assembly.
However, Roy also added that government jobs can’t be treated as the sole solution of unemployment.
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