After failing on employment front, Govt now snatching work from self-employed youth: AAP

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 16: State spokesperson of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Dr Nawab Nasir today hit hard at Jammu and Kashmir LG administration for showing insensitive approach towards self employment efforts for educated and professional unemployed youth by closing scheme of keeping a cap in development works for Self Help Groups and demanded resumption of the Scheme.
Addressing a press conference, Dr Nawab Nasir said that promoting self employment among educated youth is best tool to deal with problem of unemployment but J&K Government is insensitive to it and claims of Government for self employment efforts are not based on ground realities. He said that Government after failing on development front and ensuring a transparent mechanism for Government recruitment has now started to snatch jobs from professional and employed youth going self employment works.
He mentioned about Self Help Groups of professional engineers and technocrats and said that a scheme was started to keep a cap in development works for SHGs to the level of 30 percent and these SHGs comprising of professional engineers did tremendous job in upliftment of standard of development works and this scheme proved beneficial in two ways that include improvement in quality of works executed by professional men and self employment avenues for unemployed professional men.
“Astonishingly, LG administration closed this scheme in 2020 directly affecting life of 22,000 professional technocrats and making them jobless,” Dr Nawab said, adding,
these professional technocrats were running family affairs through earning in SHGs but closure of scheme has directly targeted their lives and now these professional technocrats are on roads and Government is sitting silent on a report submitted by a high level team with suggestive measures towards resumption of this scheme.
“We have only one demand that includes resumption of this scheme and to restore a cap of 30 percent in development works for SHGs,” Dr Nawab said and advised J&K administration and BJP to show some sensitive approach towards its slogans of self employment.