Yuva Utsaha Prakalpa Scheme In West Bengal:-
Yuva Utsaha Prakalpa : Employment Bank is primarily a State-owned job-portal and is a unique e-governance initiative of the Labour Department. Government of West Bengal to widen the widow of job opportunity for job seekers of the state.
Yuva Utsaha Prakalpa new name is Yuvasree was launched in 2013 for providing financial assistance to jobseekers enrolled in Employment Bank to enable them to enhance their employability by undergoing some education or training within the period of assistance.
Objective
The objective of the scheme is to provide unemployment assistance to the enrolled jobseekers of employment bank to enable them to upgrade their level of skill in order to make them employable or suitable for setting up of self-employment ventures.
Eligibility criteria for Yuva Utsaha Prakalpa Scheme :
Some eligibility criteria for the scheme are as follows:-
- He or she must unemployed & redident of West Bengal.
- His or her educational qualification should be Viii pass or above.
- He or she should enroll with the Employment Bank as job seeker.
- He or she has not availed financial assistance or loan under any government sponsored Self-Employment scheme.
- His or her age must 18-45 years on the 1st day of April of the year in which is consider under the scheme.
- Only one member of a family is eligible to receive assistance under the scheme.
How to Apply :
- Subject to fulfilment of the above mentioned eligibility criteria a desirous applicant may apply for unemployment assistance in a prescribed form to be available in the Employment Bank web portal along with Unemployment certificate.
- The Central Management cCell at the outset, will prepare a District/Sub Division wise list of the first one lakh enrolled job-seekers from the Employment Bank database and inform them, through e-mails/SMS that they can apply for unemployment assistance subject to fulfilment of the eligibility criteria. For those Jobseekers, borne in the aforesaid list and having no mobile phone number or e-mail ID, the SDO/Joint Director or Employment, Kolkata shall inform them by post in due course.
- The Labour Department will simultaneously publish advertisement in the Newspapers to disseminate all relevant information including eligibility criteria, date and mode of submission of application etc.
- Applicants will submit their filled in applications with required documents to the office of the Sub Divisional Officer Concerned or Joint Director of Employment, Kolkata within the specified time period. He or she shall have to possess a bank account in his or her name with any nationalized bank like State Bank of India.
Selection of Beneficiary
The State Government will provide Unemployment Assistance to a maximum of one lakh jobseekers annually.
In case of Kolkata District, the Joint Director of Employment Kolkata shall be the sanctioning authority. For the rest of West Bengal, concerned SDOs shall act as sanctioning authority.
The selection of the applicants shall be done strictly on ‘First come, first served’ basis taking into account the date and time of enrolment of the applicant in the Employment Bank and on fulfilment of the eligibility criteria laid down in this regard.
Whenever a recipient becomes employed or otherwise becomes ineligible for Unemployment Assistance, next job-seeker enrolled in the Employment Bank will consider for this assistance within the quota of one lakh.
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