Sopore November 13 (KNS): Senior vice president J&K People’s Conference (PC) and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil has said that the unemployment problem in J&K has taken a serious turn as the unemployed youth is getting day by day attracted towards drugs . If the said problem is not attended immediately the lives of the youth will get ruined which no country or state can afford.
While touring and addressing workers meetings in different villages of Rafiabad and Sopore including Doabgah , Seelu , Gonipora, Warpora and Watergam .
Vakil said that promises made by the Union Territory government for the unemployed youth have proved to be a damp squib.
He asserted that the promises and claims made by the government for thousands of educated youth have not yielded any results so far although the present Lt Governor Manoj Sinha has promised jobs to thousands of unemployed youth and fast drive for it but those announcements remained restricted to statements only,” he said.
Various departments notified several posts for which unemployed youth applied, their application forms were thrown in the dustbin and no progress has been seen in this regard. “The lack of employment opportunities in Jammu and Kashmir have pushed youth to trouble causing and increasing alienation among them from mainstream is not in the national interest. Vakil added.
Vakil urged the UT administration and the Central government to come out with a concrete job policy for the unemployed youth of J&K so that they cannot suffer anymore and will come closer to mainstream and at the same time will get rid of drug menace. Once the employment opportunities are created, the youth would be converged towards the mainstream, which is the need of the hour.(KNS)