Govt. Claims about heavy investment in Jk only a publicity gimmick to hide failures
Srinagar August 27 (KNS) : Chairman J&K People's Democratic Front ( JKPDF) and Former Minister Hakeem Muhammad Yaseen has expressed serious concern over the highly burgeoning unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir. " The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy has, pegged the unemployment rate in jammu and kashmir at 25 percent in March this year - the second highest in the country , Hakeem Yaseen said while blasting tall claims of the Government about providing thousands of job opportunities to the unemployed youth in the region.
Speaking at meeting of the party workers on Saturday Hakeem Yaseen while expressing serious concern over highest unemployment rate in jammu and kashmir , said that available statistical data about unemployment in jammu and kashmir was quite contradictory to the government's tall claims about providing thousands of employment opportunities to the un- employed youth of jammu and kashmir. He said in March 2022, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, which maintains monthly data, has pegged the unemployment rate in the region at 25 percent - the highest in the country. He said the ever increasing unemployment rate was a cause of serious concern . He said the unemployment rate in jammu and kashmir has reached to an unprecedented alarming level that such a grim unemployment situation was never seen as before . He said Centre must announce a special employment package for JK youth ,in central government departments ,if it was serious about the welfare of the people.
PDF Chairman also poohpood government claims about heavy investment in JK from Oversees and opening up new job opportunities adding that it was only a hoaxpass just to divert attention of the people from it's failures on all fronts including socio political and developmental spectra.." "As a result of the failure on the part of government to create job avenue , the dejected un employed youth were constrained to take to drugs and even take extreme steps, in some cases, Hakeem Yaseen observed.
PDF Chairman said on one side government was unable to provide employment to educated youth but astonishingly, on the other side it was on made race to terminate the in service employees in various departments on one pretext or the other , without providing them any opportunity to clear thier position or defend themselves . He said there was extreme arrogance and cruelity in the bearucratic hierarchy where people feel themselves totally helpless and hopeless.
PDF leader said that instead of creating employment opportunities, the government has started outsourcing and leasng out government gobs in various departments which has struck last nail on the transparency and accountability in the overall recruitment process .
He said the plight of contractual employees , daily wagers ,Angan wadi and ASHA's workers was most miserable whereas government was acting as mute spectator to the much annoyance of the common people .
Hakeem Yaseen also castigated the government forkeeping many ambitious developmental projects in languishing status from decades in Khan sahib constituency which include constrution of two mini hydel power projects at nalla Shaliganga and nalla Sukhnag , construction of Grid station at Khan sahib and construction of Gulmarg - Tossamaidan and Yusmarg tourist circuit . He said early execution of these developmental works was imperative for the overall socio- economic transformation of the area and it's prosperity . (KNS)