In order to create a “nationwide youth movement” for employment, more than a hundred organizations, including job aspirants’ collectives, have come together to establish the Sanyukt Yuva Morcha, a youth alliance.
The group said it will launch campaigns for a ‘right to employment’ as a legal guarantee for every adult, and will also fight for a basic minimum wage.
The group will also demand filling up of all vacant posts in the public sector in a “fair and time bound manner.” Bihar and Madhya Pradesh teacher aspirants, Uttar Pradesh police candidates, army and railway candidates, ASHA workers, and several other such groups have come together from over 22 states including Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Jammu and Kashmir to take the campaign forward, according to a statement by the group.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, who is backing the campaign, said that the group has the “potential to become a movement bigger than the Lokpal.” “There is a lot of discontent among the unemployed youngsters. The youth movement has the potential to convert this dejection into hope,” retired IPS Yashovardhan Azad said.