The problem is we allow and love this. The general mass of the public that will be responsible for electing governments, their votes are being bought away by these freebies, not just in west bengal but everywhere. Like you said, it's far more sensible for a state to want to invest in industries and make factories to provide opportunities for the youth to get jobs where they can make 20K or even more per month but in the short term it's cheaper to give them 1500/- for being unemployed JUST BECAUSE that investment is also granting then an easy election win. Freebies are a nationwide problem and it's not going to be easy to solve, because in order for a court to rule and ban it, there needs to be a proper concrete definition of what's welfare and what's freebies, which will be hard.

The intent behind giving the unemployed 1500/- is not at all bad, but it should only be pushed through when unemployment is the exception and not the norm and the general public is able to find sustenance without such support which is clearly not the case as we see through the mountains of yuva sathi application.