Unemployed youth protest against UT admn
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 10: Annoyed over the new criteria laid down by the UT Government for filling up of 8575 Class-IV posts debarring the highly qualified youth from participating in the selection process, a large number of youth led by Harsh Dev Singh, chairman-JKNPP and former minister held a protest demonstration at Jammu today.
The protestors torched the effigy of the Government and raised slogans of “Pade Likhe Yuvaon Ke Saath Insaaf Karo, Insaaf Karo”, “Ek Lakh Naukriyon Ko Advertise Karo, Advertise Karo”, “10+2 Se Zyada Pade Yuvaon ke Liye Posts Nikalo” etc.
Later, speaking to media persons, Harsh Dev accused the BJP Government of betraying the educated unemployed youth in the name of jobs. He said that all tall promises of BJP leaders on youth empowerment and gainful employment for all had proved a hoax with the unemployment rate increasing day after day.
Pointing towards the repeated announcements by the BJP Government of job bonanzas post Article 370 abrogation, Singh lamented that the actual delivery was in inverse proportion to the articulation of promises itself. Rather them providing jobs to youth, the Government had retrenched/disengaged thousands of youth working in various Government departments during the past one year.
While the fast track recruitment of 50,000 vacancies announced after State’s Reorganization on August 5, 2019 had proved to be another ‘Jumla’, the GoI’s announcement in Parliament during 2020 Budget Session in February of having created another 50,000 new posts also seemed to a mere hyperbole.
Calling upon the Govt to advertize all the one lakh posts for filling up as per its repeated claims, Singh said that any delay in the matter could prove counter-productive. He added that not only should the highly qualified youth be allowed to participate in Class-IV selections but also in the selections for Panchayat Assistant posts where also a ceiling of 50% marks had been prescribed, be reviewed.
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