Srinagar, August 31(KNS): Chairman People's Democratic Front ( PDF) Hakeem Yaseen has expressed serious concern over the burgeoning unemployment problem in Jammu and kashmir and has urged the Center to announce a special employment package to bring a breeze of hope on the pensive faces of unemployed youth.
As per the statement issued to Kashmir News Service, speaking to various reputations of his constituency , who called on him to seek redressal of thier day to day problems confronting , includeding a delutatipn of unemployed youth, Hakeem Yaseen while expressing serious concern over the plight of unemployed youth, urged the Central government to announce an exclusive special employment package for jammu and kashmir youth to save desperate jobless youth from commiting suicides and drug addiction.
" Given the large-scale rise in drug addiction and suicide tendencies , announcement of a massive Central employment package for JK youth was the first priority of the hour , " Hakeem Yaseen maintained adding that redressal of developmtal and other socio- political issues could take it's own time.
He said " We can not afford to wait and see our youth - the creamy layer of our society - getting ruined merely due to non availability of job opportunities for thier livelihood , Hakeem Yaseen said while urging the Central government to announce an exclusive employment package immediately.
He said a special job package could be an effective confidence building measure (CBM) to bring the youth of jammu and kashmir more close to the mainsteam.
He said youth of jammu and kashmir are desperatly in need of Central government's outright support for earning thier livelihood as there was dearth of private sector jobs in jammu and kashmir, because of it's tail end and mountain rugged disadvantageous location.
He said history was testimony that sucessive regimes in jammu and kashmir since 1947 ,have never tried to exploite it's own vast natural resources for creating job opportunities for it's youth except satiating thier vested interests and creating assets for them and thier near and dear ones, thereby betraying the youth repeatedly and mercilessly.
Hakeem Yaseen has the government for turning a deaf ear towards proper development of three important tourism development authorities ( TDA) of Yusmarg,Doodpathri and Tossamaidan in central district Budgam ." These three tourism development authorities (TDA) possess a vast potential to provide jobs to the local youth, had these been developed adequately but Ala s! , " Hakeem Yaseen observed. He has demanded raising of adequate tourism infrastructure at these three tourism development authorities for optimum exploitation of thier tourism potential so that local populace could be benefitted adequately.(KNS)