New Delhi: The National Students Union of India (NSUI) on Saturday launched the 'Naukri Do Ya Degree Wapas Lo' (Give employment or take back degrees) campaign against the Central government.
The campaign was launched by NSUI national president Neeraj Kundan at the Congress headquarters here.
Addressing the media, Kundan said that the main motive behind NSUI's campaign is to point out the reality to a government that has no interest in giving jobs to the youth.
Kundan said, "Today we are launching this campaign against the anti-student Modi Government as our students are feeling cheated. Despite paying heavy amount of money as their fees and getting good grades, their future is on stake as there is no employment generation in our country."
He said, "We would be collecting five lakh degrees of unemployed students. By this, abundant evidence will be provided to the government which will bring out the reality of the central government for hiding the actual data of unemployed people from the youth of this country."
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Kundan also asserted that the Central Government did not think about about the future of final year students whose placements were pending when the nationwide lockdown was announced before any prior notice.
"The most shocking part is that the unemployment rate in the country is at the highest in 45 years," Kariyappa added.
The NSUI also highlighted that in 2014, the BJP had promised to generate more than two crore employment opportunities every year and now, this sums up to 12 crores and failed to provide the same.
"They betrayed the youth of the nation. According to the report of the National Sample Survey Office, the rate of unemployment rose to 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, which was 2.2 per cent in 2011-12," the NSUI chief added.
NSUI also shared a toll-free number, asking the unemployed youth to give a missed call on that number. Degrees of these unemployed youth will be mailed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a mark of protest against the rising unemployment.
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With IANS inputs
