(a) whether the Government has conducted any survey to check the increasing number of unemployed youths in the last
financial year;
(b) if so, the details of the survey and the States covered under such survey and also the actual amount spent during the
survey; and
(c) the number of unemployed youths in the country at present?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI M.A.A. FATMI)
(a) to (C) : Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation hilS informed that the National Sample Survey Organisation
(NSSO) has not conducted any survey on unemployed youths during the financial year 2005-06. HI)wever, the National Sample
Survey conducted employment and unemployment survey vide Its 61st round quinquennial survey during July, 2004 to June,
2005. The report of the Survey has not been released. The Survey (61 st round) covered the whole of the Indian Union except
(i) Leh (Ladakh) and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir
(ii) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond five kilometres of the
bus route and
(iii) villages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands which remain inaccessible throughout the year.As these surveys
were conducted on quinquennnial basis routinely no separate amount was allocated for the survey.