Overview
- The scheme offers Rs 1,500 per month to unemployed people aged 21–40 who have passed Madhyamik, payable until they get jobs or for up to five years with a review afterward.
- Camps will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. across all 294 constituencies, where applicants can submit documents and receive acknowledgement receipts on the spot.
- Officials from youth affairs, agriculture, power and irrigation will be present, and the camps will also register people for a Rs 4,000 annual allowance for landless farm workers and free shallow-pump power connections.
- The shift from the previously signaled August start follows the interim budget announcement of the programme and comes weeks before Assembly elections.
- Finance Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya had indicated a Rs 5,000 crore provision for the scheme, while reports conflict on whether beneficiaries of other state welfare (excluding scholarships) will be eligible.