 bill no 124 of  2017 the  youth (eradication of unemployment and miscellaneous provisions) bill,  2017 byshri nishikant dubey, mp a billto provide for the eradication of unemployment amongst the youth by granting right towork to every eligible youth and for payment of unemployment allowance duringthe period of unemployment and for making all the sanctioned posts ingovernment employment non-lapsable and free from abolitionand  establishment  of  right  to  work  fund  for  fundingunemployment allowance and for matters connectedtherewith or incidental theretobe  it enacted  by parliament in the sixty-eighth year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called theyouth (eradication of unemployment andmiscellaneous provisions) act, 2017short title, extent and commencement(2) it extends to the whole of india5(3) it shall come into force with immediate effect2  in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—definitions(a) "appropriate government" means in the case of a state the government ofthat state and in all other cases, the central government;(b) "employment exchange" means an employment exchange set up by the appropriate government;(c) "fund" means the right to work fund establishment under section 6;5(d) "government employment" includes all the services in the ministries, departments, subordinate offices, bodies, public enterprises, constitutional bodies, educational institutions including universities, colleges, schools etc, health services providers, banks and financial institutions and all such organisations which are under the appropriate government with sanctioned strength of officers and staff;(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this act;10(f) "youth" include any human being a male, female or transgender who hasattained the age of eighteen years but not crossed the age of forty five years and who is a citizen of india153 every unemployed youth shall have the right to work to be provided by theappropriate government as a measure of eradication of unemployment subject to the age, educational qualification and ability of the youth as may be prescribed:eradication of unemployment through right to workprovided that the youth seeking employment under this section shall register his namein an employment exchange under the oppropriate governmentgrant ofunemployment allowance204 till such time an employment is provided to the unemployed youth under section 3,the appropriate government shall pay to the youth unemployment allowance not being less than one thousand rupees per week in such manner as may be prescribed:provided that the unemployment allowance under this section shall be stopped withimmediate effect if, the youth secures any work or job either through the employment exchange or of his own or otherwise and his name shall also be removed from the register of the employment exchange255 the provisions of this act shall not apply to any youth,—act not toapply incertain cases(a) who has income, from one or more sources, not less than the amount ofunemployment allowances fixed under section 4;(b) who is covered under any scheme of unemployment allowance prevalent ina state or union territory, as the case may be30establishment of right to work fund6 (1) the central government shall, as soon as may be, by notification in the officialgazette, establish a right to work fund with initial corpus of one lakh crore rupees to be provided by the central government after due appropriation made by parliament by law in this behalf for the purposes of this act and thereafter make such grants to the fund, from time to time as may be required for the purposes of this act35(2) the fund shall also be credited with,—(a) all grants made by the central government and contributions made bygovernments of the states and administrations of the union territories; and(b) all voluntary donations made to the fund by individuals, bodies, corporatesand financial institutions etc40(3) the fund shall be administered for the purposes of this act in such manner asmay be prescribedmiscellaneous provisions457 notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, itshall be the duty of the appropriate government to fill up all the sanctioned posts of government employment within one month of the vacancies arising and no sanctioned post of government employment shall be subject to abolition and lapsing as a matter of policy or for any reason whatsoever of the appropriate government8 the central government shall, after due appropriation made by parliament by law in this behalf, from time to time, provide requisite funds to the states for the purposes of this actcentral government to provide funds59 the provisions of this act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistenttherewith contained in any other law for the time being in forceact to have overriding effect10 the provisions of this act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any otherlaw for the time being in force dealing with the subject matter of this actact to supplement other laws power to make rules11 (1) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rulesfor carrying out the purposes of this act1015(2) every rule made under this act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made,before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days, which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions,and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement  of  objects  and  reasonsunemployment amongst the youth is the biggest problem of our vast nation today and it is assuming menacing proportions with each passing day millions of educated and qualified youth are unemployed recently media highlighted that a state government invited applications for few posts of peons in response it received nearly five lakh applications and among the aspirants were engineers, technocrats and phd degree holders though the concerned state government ultimately cancelled the process, but this shows the gravity of situation so far as the unemployment in the country is concerned quite a large number of unemployed youth have become desperate due to poverty this situation is being exploited by anti-social and anti-national elements by luring the youth into their net and the youth is choosing the path of violence and crime lack of employment opportunities in the country is also leading to brain drain and exodus of large number of skilled and unskilled youth abroadagriculture sector and government provide majority of jobs but agriculture sector is under stress due to vagary of nature and consistent drought conditions in government the number of vacancies are shrinking year after year in central government there are peculiar rules for instance if a post is not filled for a year it automatically lapses similarly, ten per cent of the total vacancies arising in government employment every year stand lapsed then there are voluntary reitrement schemes so the sanctioned strength is decreasing year after year this trend needs to be checked by making it mandatory to fill up all the sanctioned postsit is high time to make concerted efforts for the eradication of unemployment amongst the youth by declaring right to work as fundamental and making it mandatory for the government to provide employment to all the youth in case the government fails to provide employment, it must pay the youth unemployment allowance because constitution of india guarantees to every citizen the fundamental right to life the apex court too has observed that for the right to life, decent livelihood is necessary and if a person is unemployed, he and his family can not enjoy a decent life the bill gives every youth the legal right to work and grants unemployment allowance the bill also provides for the establishment of a right to work fund by the government for the purposes of the billhence this billnew delhi;nishikant dubeyjune 29, 2017 financial  memorandumclause 3 of the bill provides for the eradication of unemployment through right to work clause 4 provides for the grant of unemployment allowance clause 6 provides for the establishment of right to work fund with initial corpus of one lakh crore rupees to be provided by the central government clause 8 makes it mandatory for the central government to provide requisite funds to the states for the implementation of the provisions of the bill the bill if, enacted will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india apart from the initial corpus of one lakh crore rupees, it is estimated that a sum of two lakh crore rupees may involve as recurring expenditure per annumno non-recurring expenditure is likely to be involved memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 11 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill as the rules will relate to matters of detail only, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character————— a billto provide for the eradication of unemployment amongst the youth by granting right towork to every eligible youth and for payment of unemployment allowance duringthe period of unemployment and for making all the sanctioned posts ingovernment employment non-lapsable and free from abolitionand  establishment  of  right  to  work  fund  for  fundingunemployment allowance and for matters connectedtherewith or incidental thereto—————(shri nishikant dubey, mp)gmgipmrnd—894ls(s3)—20072017