Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Apr 12: Former Minister and NPP President Harsh Dev Singh today submitted a petition in PMO, addressed to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, highlighting the problem of bourgeoning unemployment in J&K and the growing anger amongst the youth against the recruitment agencies and the current regime.
In the memorandum, Harsh Dev Singh has drawn attention towards purported job scams in J&K hitting the headlines of various media houses for the last several years with hardly any action having been initiated against the powerful employment mafias ruling the roost.
“The educated unemployed youth have been persistently on the roads agitating for a fair deal and justice with none to take note of their shrill cries. A deep rooted patronised culture of corruption continues to prevail in the UT where the educated youth has become the worst casualty of the system,” reads the memorandum.
Mentioning that even the Chief Secretary had recently given a statement in the media that around 2.50 lakh appointments have been made in J&K through back door without following the due procedures, Harsh Dev said that the vested interests continue to pose hindrances in view of involvement of some powerful people in such job rackets necessitating Prime Minister’s indulgence and a high level probe into all such back door appointments which have earned the most dubious notoriety for the UT.
As per the memorandum, the number of daily wagers swelled to 1, 10,000 in 2018 from 62,000 in 2014 thereby providing the most glaring example of misuse of authority and patronized corruption during the coalition rule.
Harsh Dev appealed to the Prime Minister to order Supreme Court monitored probe into all the recruitment scams during the last few years so that the justice is delivered to the youth of J&K who have been languishing on roads for long.
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