Excelsior Correspondent
SOPORE, Aug 23: Senior leader of J&K People’s Conference and former minister, Abdul Gani Vakil, today visited several villages of Rafiabad and Sopore including Tujar Sharif, Paizalpora, Liacar and Tarzowa, Sopore and had assessment of the public issues.
While intercting with the workers Vakil expressed concern over rising unemployment in J&K and said that the rate of unemployment in J&K is currently at a staggering 18.9 percent and questioned the approach of both the Centre Government and the J&K UT administration towards the problem of unemployment. He said that the Government has failed to provide any relief to the educated unemployed youth with no proper job policy in hand and alleged that no job policy means that the government is worsening the situation and putting the future of unemployed youth in dark.
On the one hand, the Centre Government and UT Administration claim that large-scale recruitments have been created for educated youth, but everyone knows that a number of such recruitment processes like that of Police SI, JE recruitment, and FAA have fallen flat, and irregularities got exposed, therefore refuting these claims of employment.
Vakil said not only unemployed youth, but daily wagers are also on the roads due to the poor policies of the UT administration. He said that a number of daily wagers of PDD have lost their lives, and some became prey to having permanent injuries, while thousands are having minor to medium-scale injuries due to electric shocks received while performing their duties diligently, and these daily wagers are the employees who make these essential departments functional on ground. But it is unfortunate that there is no insurance policy or any government scheme that can rehabilitate these affected families of daily wagers who are left with nothing.
Vakil stressed upon the Centre government and LG administration to devise a concrete job policy for the youth of J&K and come up with an insurance scheme for daily wage workers who have lost their lives or got injured while performing duties.
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