Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 1: National Conference today said the Government has miserably failed to tackle the burgeoning unemployment in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the bravado created by the Government on job extravaganza in J&K has turned out to be mere jugglery of words.
While interacting with scores of unemployed youth at party head quarters Nawa-e-Subha in Srinagar, General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar said that unemployment is at all time high in J&K and the Government on its part is clueless. While ruing the failure of the Government to tackle with the increasing unemployment rate in J&K, Sagar said, “Not to talk about the special employment drives, the Government has failed to ensure a swift recruitment process in Government sector and the entire process is marred by ineffectiveness.
“Besides ensuring swift recruitment in PSCs and SSB, special employment drives were conducted during the Omar Abdullah led Government. It included various youth oriented schemes which gave a boost to entrepreneurship in J&K. Various flagship schemes were introduced to ensure spaces to youth of J&K to pursue their vocation. Such measures had reprieved young educated youth from anxiety and stress,” he said.
He said the incumbent Government in J&K and center has done nothing substantial to ease the suffering of our youth, who regrettably are taking to substance use and drug addiction in the wake of closing avenues of employment in J&K. “The burning issue of unemployment has been further compounded by previous clampdown and the successive lock down on account of declining tourism activities and other private sector activities, he said.
Far from creating more job avenues and delivering on its promise of coming up with an employment extravaganza in J&K, the Government, he rued has shown the door to thousands of already employed youth, terminating SHGs being a point in case. The administration, he said, has also failed to redress the issues of pay anomaly and regularization of contractual, need based and daily wagers employees.
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