AGARTALA, February 12 (TIWN): Tripura is suffering from serious unemployment crisis. However, replying to the question about unemployment allowance, Chief Minister, Manik Sarkar had informed that the allowances are likely to be decided after examining the report of the 14th Finance Commission. Meanwhile, the latest report of the Employment Exchange, Government of Tripura shows that till January 31st, 658679 persons were unemployed. Among them, number of persons failed in the 8th Standard is recorded as 59494, 8th Standard passed- 248665, Madhyamik- 195034, H.S (+2), Graduate- 47199, Post-Graduate- 9335, Engineer-3026, Doctor-303, Technical- 2101 and others- 27199.Among minority classes, the number of unemployed youths in Scheduled Caste category is 107209, Scheduled Tribes- 152732, OBC- 49018, Muslim Minority- 27357 and Handicapped- 5280. According to the latest National sample survey (NSS Report No-554, 68/10/1) in 2011, the ration of unemployed according to the population is 128 per thousand.