Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 17: Alleging brazen disregard for the concerns of the educated unemployed and underemployed youth of J&K by the incumbent Government, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman-JKNPP and former Minister regretted that discontent amongst youth was growing with each passing day after the abrogation of Article 370.
He said that BJP led Government had announced to create 50,000 posts immediately after Reorganization of J&K and it was followed by another announcement in Budget Session of Parliament of creation of 50,000 new jobs. However, he regretted, not only were the youth cheated in the name of employment package post Article 370 abrogation but the existing vacancies were also allowed to remain unfilled.
“The only notification issued in the past few months by Government related to 8575 class-IV posts and 1889 posts of Panchayat Assistants. Strangely the candidates above 10+2 qualification have not only been debarred from applying for class-IV posts but no posts have been advertized for them and for other professionally trained youth,” he said while addressing a contingent of Jammu youth who joined JKNPP today.
“Not only has the present dispensation deprived the youth of job opportunities in the new UT, the age relaxation in civil services too has been withdrawn creating huge resentment amongst the educated unemployed of J&K,” he said adding that rather than regularizing the adhoc lecturers who had been teaching in educational institutions for years, they had been converted as need based to be paid on hourly basis. Harsh Dev Singh further said that equally pathetic was the plight of underemployed youth including Rehber-i-Khel, NHM, MGNREGA besides Anganwari and Asha workers.
Cautioning the Government against growing anger amongst the youth, Singh called for regularization of all adhoc, contractual and daily rated workers who had completed seven years continuous services as per the repeated assurances doled out to them.
Singh further said that all promises made by the BJP leadership with temporary employees of NHM and MGNREGA, needed to fulfilled before it was too late. He cautioned that any further betrayal with the cause of educated youth could have earth shaking consequences. Those who joined Panthers Party, included Sourav Bhagat, Suresh Bhagat, Rocky Jojao, Lovepreet, Gourav, Vijay and others.
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