Srinagar, July 28: J&K Peoples Conference senior vice president and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil on Friday urged the Central government and the 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.
He also questioned the approach of both the Central government and the J&K UT administration towards the problem of unemployment.
In a statement, Vakil reacted sharply to the recent reply by MHA in Parliament regarding unemployment in J&K, which is currently at a staggering rate of 18.9 percent.
He said, “The government has failed to provide any relief to the educated unemployed youth with no proper job policy in hand. No job policy means that the government is worsening the situation and putting the future of unemployed youth in the dark.”
“On one hand, the Central government and UT admin 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, fusing these claims of employment,” he said.
“Not only unemployed youth, but daily wagers are also on the roads due to the poor policies of the UT administration,” the PC leader said, adding, “A number of daily wagers of PDD have lost their lives, and some became prey to having permanent injuries due to electric shocks received while performing their duties and have been unattended till today and their families have been left to the Almighty’s mercy as there is no insurance policy or any government scheme that can rehabilitate these affected families, who are left with nothing once an earning member of the family loses their life.”
These daily wagers, casual labourers have been protesting for years together for regularisation but nothing has been done so far, he said.
