Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 5: Apni Party has appealed the Government to fast track recruitment process in Jammu and Kashmir.
While speaking at an impressive function at Apni Party office in Gandhi Nagar where many youth joined Apni Party, Vijay Bakaya (general secretary of Apni Party and ex-MLC) expressed great satisfaction that so many youth, college going youth had come forward to show interest in the pragmatic policies of the Apni Party.
He told the gathering that youth had a vital role to play in helping the Apni Party to take the people of the UT towards a stable peaceful and prosperous future. He said that this would happen as the Apni Party do not believe in divisive politics and is not indulged in empty rhetoric.
Bakaya said the Apni Party would strive to make youth develop an optimistic and healthy attitude and to assure employment opportunities for all deserving youth. He urged the Government to fast track recruitment and also takes care of the aspirations of youth engaged on temporary basis who were working like any Government servant with meager emoluments with hope of becoming permanent only after completing seven years of service.
Apni Party general secretary Vikram Malhotra appealed the Government of India to reserve certain jobs in Union Government departments keeping in view the troubling period since the last three decades. Malhotra said that there was frustration among the youth due to poor employment avenues in Government departments.
Provincial president and former Minister Manjit Singh termed the youth as backbone of J&K and the nation who should be given special attention and special recruitment drives should be conducted in the border area of Jammu division from Kathua to Poonch district.
Provincial president, women wing, Namrta Sharma, ex-MLC and vice provincial president, Asghali Ali and Shoaib Lone (district president, Baramulla) also addressing the gathering.