Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 3: Police today said that it has organized counselling sessions for youth who have been found indulging in stone pelting in Pulwama district.
A police spokesman said a team of experts had daylong sessions with these youth to make them understand the situations which draw these youth towards these acts of violence.
“The experts tried to assess their sociological perspective. Throughout the sessions the youth enumerated various problems being confronted by them and some of them need immediate attention,” he said.
They discussed during the interaction the good entrepreneurship development activities carried out by different departments including J&K Entrepreneur Development Institute (EDI), Directorate of Lifelong Learning (DLL) University of Kashmir, University Science Instrumentation Centre (USIC) University of Kashmir and the professional courses run by the other Industrial Institutes in the Valley.
The experts also provided information of the employment schemes of the State and Central Government, the spokesman said.
“The solutions were categorized and it was found that some solutions are within the hand of individual and his family, whereas, some solutions can be addressed by the society and some other by the policy makers and the Government,” he said.
He said on the basis of these sessions lenient view with regard to first time offenders is under consideration in Police Department.
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