Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar. Apr 25: National Conference today said PDP’s continued arrogance on its anti-youth recruitment policy was a clear revelation of the Party’s growing insensitivity towards the unemployed youth of the State. In a joint statement issued from NC Headquarters here, Senior NC leaders including NC General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar, NC Provincial President (Kashmir) Nasir Aslam Wani and NC Kashmir South Zone President and Senior leader Sakina Ittoo castigated the BJP-PDP combine for playing a practical and cruel joke with around six lakh unemployed youth of the State who had been promised jobs by PDP in the run up to the elections.
“The anti-youth new job policy is not only bereft of any legal basis in how it sidelines all established norms and procedures of recruitment but is also deprived of a humane perspective of the day to day struggles of the State’s unemployed youth. We strongly oppose the proposed promulgation of an Ordinance to this effect by the BJP-PDP Government and have already submitted an official memorandum to the Honourable Governor in this regard. This is a brazen attempt by the PDP-BJP Coalition Government to bypass all well established mechanisms of recruitment agencies like Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission and State Services Selection Board and is hence an overt move to undermine the constitutional role of institutions, which is fraught with dangers of encouraging corruption, nepotism and exploitation of unemployed educated youth”, the NC leaders said in their joint statement.
The senior NC leaders said the anti-youth Job Policy proposed by the PDP-BJP Government is would encourage a tendency of biased pick-and-choose among job seekers, obviously in lieu of consideration and not necessarily as per their merit. “In turn this will usurp the legitimate rights of talented job seekers and be a great disservice to the educated, unemployed youth of the State. This will also impact the Government’s performance with merit taking a serious hit and applicants with lesser merit eventually ascending to key posts. The anti-youth policy does not spell out the future of those who may not find themselves in the good books of their controlling officers and local politicians and thus would be doomed to get terminated. In such a scenario, what will be the fate of these retrenched appointees, who may by then have become overage for Government employment? The policy is therefore bound to cause frustration to the youth in a period of time”, the Senior NC Leaders said while strongly opposing the proposed promulgation of the particular Ordinance.
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