Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 26: Accusing BJP Government of fudging the employment figures, Rattan Lal Gupta Provincial President, JKNC, Jammu, alleged that the Government is trying to mislead the people of Jammu and Kashmir by issuing such fictitious figures.
In a statement issued here the NC leader raised a question mark over the latest figures of unemployment in J&K and said that Government seems to be living in a fool’s paradise assuming that the people of the country are fools as it wanted them to believe something which is impossible.
Referring to latest figures shared by the Government wherein it was stated that Jammu and Kashmir’s current unemployment rate has decreased to around four per cent from 5.2 per cent in the financial year 2021-22, he said that not much time has passed when the government claimed that UT has secured the third spot on the list of highest unemployment rates in India, with an alarming 23.1 percent rate.
“In July only, Union Minister of state for home Nityanand Rai while responding to a question by Congress MP Akhilesh Prasad Singh, who asked about unemployment rate in the union territory, has said that the unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir was 18.3 percent”, said Rattan Lal, adding that it is very strange that with several recruitment processes entangled in scams and CBI enquires, the Government has dramatically achieved such a gigantic target although the journey of UT’s unemployment rate from over 23 per cent to nearly 4 per cent remained a clandestine affair as no one in the country knows that how this magical figure has been achieved by the Government which did nothing with regard to recruitment except lip service.
“Only a magic wand can do what has been made public by the Government that too without doing anything on ground in J&K,” he maintained.
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