{"id":14390,"date":"2020-08-12T12:44:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T12:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14390"},"modified":"2020-08-12T12:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T12:44:38","slug":"mamata-banerjee-unemployment-rate-in-west-bengal-reduced-by-40-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14390","title":{"rendered":"Mamata Banerjee: Unemployment rate in West Bengal reduced by 40% | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>KOLKATA: <!-- -->West Bengal<!-- --> chief minister <!-- -->Mamata Banerjee<!-- --> on Wednesday claimed that the unemployment rate in the state has been reduced by 40 per cent at a time when the country is witnessing an all time high of 24 per cent joblesssness. <br \/>Moreover one lakh unemployed youths in the state will be provided with soft loans and subsidies to become self-reliant under the government&#8217;s &#8216;<!-- -->Karma Sathi Prakapla<!-- -->&#8216;, she said on <!-- -->International Youth Day<!-- -->. <br \/>&#8220;Today is #InternationalYouthDay. #GoWB is committed to empowering the youth. A new scheme &#8216;Karma Sathi Prakalpa was launched by #Bengal Govt. One lakh unemployed youth will be provided soft loans and subsidies to make them self-reliant,&#8221; she tweeted. <\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo id-r-component\" data-pos=\"14\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Today is #InternationalYouthDay. #GoWB is committed to empowering the youth. A new scheme &#8216;Karma Sathi Prakalpa\u2019 wa\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/h7E5683k5a<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MamataOfficial\/status\/1293390786503905280\">1597203368000<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;When the unemployment rate in India is at an all-time high of 24%, unemployment rate in #Bengal reduced by 40%,&#8221; she added. <br \/>Banerjee said she is hopeful that like in the past, the hardworking and talented youth of Bengal will lead the country to a bright future. <br \/>&#8220;We are proud of our youth. They are the future. The new generation will take our nation forward. The youth are talented, skilful, hardworking. Their dreams of today will become a reality tomorrow,&#8221; she added. <br \/>International Youth Day is observed around the world on this day to highlight issues impacting the youth around the globe. <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/unemployment-rate-in-west-bengal-reduced-by-40-mamata-banerjee\/articleshow\/77503697.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that the unemployment rate in the state has been reduced by 40 per cent at a time when the country is witnessing an all time high of 24 per cent joblesssness. Moreover one lakh unemployed youths in the state will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1597236279_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}