Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 27: Former legislator and Congress candidate from Kalakote Assembly Constituency, Ashok Sharma, said that there is urgent need for devising a comprehensive employment policy in Jammu and Kashmir, so that all the educated and other unemployed youths get job within a fixed time framed.
Addressing youth rally at Dhangri in Kalakote Constituency, Sharma said that he would work for ensuring that all the vacant posts in various Government departments and corporations will be advertized in one go and filled-up by the recruiting agencies within a period of 3 months besides thousands of posts shall also be created for the new administrative units setup in the State, so that maximum number of unemployed youths get employment.
The remaining unemployed youths will be provided unemployment allowance as per their qualifications till they are permanently provided job.
He added that likewise, the other unemployed youths of the constituency will be provided training in different skills and provided financial support and marketing facilities, so that they earn their livelihood.
Referring to the need for promotion of computer education in tune with job market requirement, all the students of 11th and 12th classes in Kalakote constituency will be provided Laptops while as all the high and higher secondary schools in the constituency will be equipped with computer labs with internet facility to impart modern education.
A large number of youths joined Congress party on this occasion and extended their whole heartedly support to Sharma to ensure his victory in the Assembly elections from Kalakote Constituency with a huge margin.