Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 15: Expressing concern over the alarming rate of unemployment in J&K, the activists of NPP led by Harsh Dev Singh chairman , JKNPP and former minister held a massive demonstration at Press Club, Jammu today.
The protestors raised slogans against BJP govt and its leaders accusing them of playing treachery with the educated unemployed youth.
Referring to the tall pronouncements of the BJP govt made from time to time post Art 370 abrogation regarding employment bonanza for J&K youth, Singh said that the like various other slogans given by the saffron leaders, it too had turned out to be a hoax. While the BJP leadership had made tall promises of youth empowerment and their absorption in gainful employment through their successive statements, the actual delivery was in inverse proportion to the articulation of such promises.
Pointing towards the pathetic plight of the unemployed youth protesting on the roads every other day, Singh accused the BJP govt of cheating the daily wagers, BSF & CISF aspirants, Border Battalions aspirants, NHM, MGNREGA, SAMAGRA, Anganwari & Asha Workers, Dental Surgeons, contractual teachers, SPOs, VDCs, Home Guards, SHGs, REKs, empanelled RETs, Pharmacists, NYCs, NYVs etc. during elections on the assurances of gainful employment and regularization.
Recalling the govt assurance made in August, 2019 of engaging 50,000 youth on fast track basis through Accelerated Recruitment Committee (ARC), Singh maintained that the said statement had proved a cruel joke with neither such appointments made nor the proposed ARC making its presence felt anywhere.
Likewise on February 8, 2020, the Union Home Minister made a statement in the Parliament that 84,000 posts were going to be filled up in J&K. Giving the breakup of the said posts in the Parliament, it was stated that 76453 vacancies of non-gazetted and Class-IV posts and 7552 gazetted posts were proposed for filling up in a time bound manner. What happened to the said assurance is also not known. Similarly the govt had only last year announced to fill another 30,000 posts with nothing heard in this connection thereafter”, rued Mr. Singh.
Singh cautioned the govt to refrain from playing with fire by cheating the unemployed youth. He said any further exploitation of youth and their neglect could have earth shaking consequences.
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