AGARTALA, Jan 15 (TIWN): The Bharatiya Janata Party, which came to power on the mantra of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Biswas” to lead a coalition government in Tripura completed its 21 months rule in the state. According to Tripura CM Biplab Deb, the state is on the path towards becoming a model state. One of the major issues, which BJP promised to solve, was unemployment.

It promised to provide 50,000 jobs within 1 year of its rule. However, after 21 months BJP has failed to curb the burning issue of Tripura unemployment.
The data compiled by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy lucidly indicates that the employment scenario continues to be on a sticky wicket. The CMIE data on February 2019 puts the Tripura unemployment rate at 26.1 per cent, which is the highest in the country. However, this is the other side of the picture, where Tripura didn’t feature as the state with the highest percentage of unemployment in the country, but the Tripura Youths registered the most number of unemployed people in India. 
These figures clearly indicates that the Deb- led BJP government has failed to curb rising unemployment in the state, which was the main election issue highlighted by the Saffron party during its Assembly election campaign. This data has raised eyebrows about its seriousness to control the issue of joblessness.  Also, allegations have been raised against the BJP government of limiting the vacant posts of the Teacher’s Eligibility Test. As local media reported, the present government declared only 180 vacant posts for TET-1, against the advertisements of 6,422 vacant posts done by the previous Left govt. also the BJP government recruited only 319 teachers.
Curbing unemployment in the state was the main election promise of BJP. However, the BJP government seems to have failed to deal with the serious problem that has emerged in the state. Severe angst and resentment prevails amongst the youths of the state who are directionless, moving door to door in search of employment opportunities.