Union ministers and senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Prakash Javadekar along with Rajasthan Chief Minister ... Read More

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan BJP , known not to favour providing an unemployment allowance earlier, released its manifesto on Tuesday, promising a monthly allowance of up to Rs 5,000 for educated but unemployed youth above the age of 21.

The manifesto promised 50 lakh jobs in the private sector along with 30,000 government jobs a year, cooperative farmer loans of Rs 1 lakh crore, the setting up of a Rs 250 crore farmer-centric rural start-up fund and a farmer debt relief commission in each division, among other things.

The focus remained on addressing unemployment, farmer issues and water. The document was released by Union finance minister Arun Jaitley and CM Vasundhara Raje in the presence of other senior leaders in Jaipur. BJP has assured it will bring an urban employment guarantee law on the lines of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and a committee to work on “universal basic income”.

