Excelsior Correspondent
SHOPIAN, Aug 31: Mumkin, a customized livelihood generation scheme of Mission Youth turned out to be a saviour for Hatib Javaid of Memendar, Shopian who always aspired to become self-reliant by becoming self-employed to secure a respectable livelihood that could fulfill the needs of his family.
Earlier, working as daily wage labourer, Hatib could hardly bear the expenses of his family with a meagre earning.
“Getting to know about the Mumkin scheme of J&K Government through an awareness programme by District Employment and Counseling Centre (DE&CC) Shopian gave me a ray of hope of realizing my dream” said Hatib adding, “Besides, the awareness programme also gave my dream a direction i.e. to become self-employed by owning a vehicle”.
Hatib said he is satisfied being the happy owner of Tata Yodha and is earning enough to not only feed his family but also meet other expenses that he would earlier only dreamt of.
Laying emphasis on self-employment, the Employment Officer, DE&CC Shopian said that Youth of Shopian should get more and more involved in self-employment ventures and entrepreneurship by availing the benefits under various self-employment schemes of the J&K Government to stand on their own feet and earn for themselves besides creating job opportunities for others.
He said that the youth of Shopian have shown tremendous response to the Government’s promising self employment scheme viz. Mumkin to become self employed, earn for themselves and their families.
Giving details, he said that the department has received as many as 200 applications under the Mumkin Scheme, 144 cases have been approved till date, out of which 88 commercial vehicles have been provided to the beneficiaries.
Similarly, Sahil Ahmad Khanday of Pinjoora said he is on cloud nine after receiving a Mahindra Pickup Vehicle under ‘Mumkin’ scheme.
Like many youngsters of his age, Khanday always dreamt of earning decent to improve the economic conditions of his family.
Seeing the struggle of his family in making their ends meet, Khanday learnt driving at a young age and started lending a helping hand to his family. He was working for private companies and other vehicle owners on a daily basis.
“I was not earning enough to fund the education and other needs of my four younger siblings. I used to work for 12 to 14 hours daily, but at the end of the day, I was getting peanuts,” said Khanday while revealing his ordeal of tough times.
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