NC’s student wing for youth empowerment
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 28: A meeting of the J&K National Conference Student Wing was convened at party office Jammu under the chairmanship of Harshvardhan Singh, president of the JKNC Student Wing Jammu province.
The meeting, attended by the senior functionaries including Ajay Sadhotra, additional general secretary of JKNC and former Minister, Rattan Lal Gupta, Provincial president, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed Provincial secretary of JKNC, Ayub Malik Provincial secretary, Vijay Lochan Chairman SC Cell and others, addressed the pressing concerns faced by the youth of Jammu region due to the present Government’s anti-youth policies.
Harshvardhan opened the session by highlighting the challenges encountered by Jammu’s youth, emphasizing the detrimental effects of the Government’s policies on their future prospects.
Addressing the gathering, Ajay Sadhotra lamented the scarcity of job opportunities and rampant recruitment scams, asserting that the incumbent Government has plunged Jammu and Kashmir’s youth into uncertainty and despair.
Sadhotra accused the incumbent Government of failing in bringing a job policy and said the initiatives taken during the previous Government led by Omar Abdullah have been negated. He underscored the persistent issue of unemployment in the industrially underdeveloped State, urging the authorities to acknowledge and address this critical issue.
Provincial president said that the issue of youth grappling with uncertainty as the government lacks a concrete policy to ensure a secure career path for this demographic. He emphasized that under the current administration’s incapability, the future of these educated unemployed youth is at risk of deterioration.
In the meeting the senior NC leaders strongly condemned the militant attack in Khaned (Basantgarh) in District Udhampur in which a VDC was martyred. They accused the wrong policies of this present Government and lapses of security agencies.
Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, echoed the sentiment of discontent among the youth, particularly the educated unemployed, attributing their disillusionment to the administration’s nepotistic practices and anti-youth policies. He asked them to remain in students and work for addressing and highlighting their issues from time to time.
Those who were present in the meeting include- Som Raj Taroch, Ajay Kumar, Manohar Khajuria, Dr Gazala, Arunpal Singh, Sakib Kichloo, Deeraj Sharma, Vishal Thakur and others.
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