Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 16: Chairman J&K People’s Democratic Front ( JKPDF) and former Minister Hakeem Muhammad Yaseen has expressed serious concern over the alarming unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir.
He has urged the Centre to announce special employment package especially in Central Government departments, to prove its off repeated assurances and sincerity towards JK youth.
Speaking to a deputation from Khansahib Budgam today, Hakeem Yaseen while expressing serious concern over highest un- employment rate in Jammu and Kashmir, said available statistical data about unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir was quite contradictory to the Government’s tall claims about providing thousands of jobs to the un- employed youth of Jammu and Kashmir.
He said the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy has also pegged the unemployment rate in J&K as highest in the country. He said the ever increasing unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir was a cause of serious concern adding that unemployed youth in thousands were getting trapped into drug addiction out of sheer frustration and depression. He said the unemployment rate in J&K has reached to such a grim situation as never before.
PDF Chairman has urged the Centre to announce a special employment package for youth, especially in Central Government departments, if it was serious and sincere towards welfare of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. He said Government was duty bound to come to the rescue of unemployed youth and provide them jobs for their livelihood.
He has also demanded a monthly stipend of Rs 20,000 in favour of each unemployed graduate youth and Rs 15000 for each undergraduate unemployed person till a special employment package was announced by the Center, like in past, when militancy was at its peak in the Kashmir valley. At that time, hundreds of educated unemployed youth were recruited in Central Government departments and PSUs including AG’s Office, various Insurance corporations and Indian Railways under a fast track special recruitment drive, Hakeem Yaseen added. He said failure on the part of Government to provide job to unemployed youth has made thier future bleak, due to which they are becoming easy prey to drug mafia and in some cases, take extreme steps like suicidal tendencies.
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