Unemployed youth carry out a protest outside the Haryana Chief Minister’s residence against rising unemployment in the state. The youth protested outside the Chief Minister’s residence by dressing up as grooms and also bringing a band to accompany them.

The reports of protest comes in the wake of the Unemployment ranking by the CMIE reports which had put Haryana at the very top of the unemployment ranking with 37.4 percent unemployment rate.

In the video, the people partaking in the protest can be seen wearing turbans used and worn during wedding ceremonies. The band members, as well as the protesting youth can also be seen dancing and marching on.

Some protesting youth can also be seen wearing the groom’s attire as they dance and protest against the Manohar Lal Khattar government’s inadequacy in dealing with unemployment in the state. The protesting youth can also be seen holding placards that question the government on unemployment.

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CMIE unemployment report

The CMIE report was released recently in which Haryana was at the forefront of the Unemployment ranking with 37.4 per cent in December. After Haryana, Rajasthan came in second with 28.5 percent and then Delhi at 20.8 percent. Bihar and Jharkhand followed behind at 19.1 percent at 18 percent respectively.

Haryana Chief Minister take on CMIE report

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had thwarted the claims and termed the CMIE reports as baseless and beyond fact. Khattar, while expanding on the CMIE reports, also said that the CMIE figures were based off of a very small survey. He also added that in the past 8 years, 50,000 MSME industries have been set up in the state and around 33,06,635 people have benefited from them.

CM Manohar Lal Khattar also said that the state government has hiked the annual income limit of BPL families from Rs 1.20 lakh to Rs 1.80 lakh. He also termed the move by Haryana government to increase the income of BPL families to be unprecedented

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Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday talked about the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) unemployment reports and termed them to be baseless and beyond facts. Haryana CM’s remark on the CMIE reports comes after the report had placed Haryana at the very top of Unemployment ranking with 37.4 per cent in December.

Khattar, while claiming the CMIE report to be baseless and beyond facts, also added that the figures were based off of a very small survey. He also said that in the past 8 years, 50,000 MSME industries have been set up in the state and around 33,06,635 people have benefitted from that as they got employment opportunities as well as self-employment opportunities.

The CM also said that the state government has hiked the annual income limit of BPL families from Rs 1.20 lakh to Rs 1.80 Lakh and said it was unprecedented for Haryana to increase the income of BPL families as it hasn’t been done before in the country.

He also highlighted and said that due to the state government move on BPL income hike, there was an increase by 12 lakh new families which tallied up to 29 lakh BPL families in total.

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The CMIE unemployment report was released last week that ranked Haryana to be at the very top of the Unemployment ranking with 37.4 per cent in December followed by Rajasthan 28.5 per cent, Delhi at 20.8, Bihar at 19.1 percent and Jharkhand at 18 per cent.

The Chief Minister while thwarting the claims of the CMIE reports said that special camps will be organised on block and village levels to record details of families registered in the Parivar Pechan Patra.

The Haryana CM had previously also attacked the Congress party for quoting CMIE reports by stating that the unemployment rate in the state was 34 per cent. Khattar had rejected the data quoted by Congress and said that the unemployment rate in the state was not more than 6.1 per cent.

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