 bill no xxviii of 2007 the  constitution (amendment) bill, 2007 a billfurther to amend the constitution of  indiabe it enacted by parliament in the fifty-eighth year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2007(2) it shall come into force with immediate effectshort title and commencement2  after article 16 of the constitution, the following article shall be inserted, namely—insertion of new article 16aright to gainful employment and unemployment allowancequalifications and calibre and in the event of  failure of the state to provide him gainful employment, he shall be paid unemployment allowance till he is provided gainful employment (2) for the purposes of clause (1), parliament   may by law provide for,—(a) different rates of unemployment allowances for the illiterates, primary and middle passed, matriculates, senior secondary passed, graduates, post graduates, technicians and professionally qualified and others and in particular for the physically challenged citizens;(b) unemployment insurance scheme and fund to be established so as to pay unemployment allowance therefrom and contributions to be made therein by different agencies, corporates, institutions and individuals including the beneficiaries" statement of objects and reasonsour constitution has guaranteed us the right to life and liberty as one of the fundamental rights but without economic security this right is a mere farce for economic security one requires gainful employment which gives him food, shelter and other requirements of  life necessary  which is called one's livelihood unfortunately, there is severe unemployment in the country crores of youth consisting of illiterates, semi literates and educated, are unemployed employment exchanges are overflowing with the names of such unemployed youths who are without any means of livelihood they are a frustrated lot and are being lured by anti-social and anti-national elements to indulge in crimes, violence and terrorism leading to erosion of their ethical values this problem has to be tackled by making the right to gainful employment a fundamental right right to work mentioned as the directive principle of  state policy can soon be enforcedhence, it is high time to make the right to gainful employment a fundamental right to make it enforceable and provide unemployment allowance to the unemployed youths  in case of failure by the state to provide gainful employment  to  such youthhence this billalka  balram  kshatriya financial  memorandumclause 2 of the bill provides for right to gainful employment and also for unemployment allowance to the citizens the bill, if enacted will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is estimated that a sum of twenty thousand crore rupees may involve as recurring expenditure per annuma sum of rupees one thousand crore may also involve as non-recurring expenditure rajya  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india—————(prof alka balram kshatriya, mp)mgipmrnd—1776rs(s3)—27-04-2007