Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU Mar 23: All Ladakh Unemployed Youth Association headed by Dorjay Angchuk in collaboration of Ladakhi students under the amalgamation of All Ladakh Student Association Leh, All Kargil Student Association, Zanskar Student Association and Student Association of Leh Jammu expressed their anguish against the new recruitment policy.
They appealed the students of Ladakh in particular and J&K in general to stand together against this policy which is not in favour of unemployed youth as they can’t make their both ends meet after getting a job and are posted in a far-flung area of the State. This policy violates the established Constitutional principle of ‘equal wages for equal work’ under Article 14 and 15 (1) of the Constitution, they added.
Further, the Table of fixed monthly salaries issued by the State Government reveals that the new recruits under the first two pay bands shall be paid less than even the Minimum Wages notified by the Government itself, they said.
This clearly violates the Minimum Wages Act and also Articles 41 (Right to Work) and 43 (Living Wages with decent standard of life, leisure and social & cultural opportunities) read in conjunction with Article 21 (Right to Life with dignity), they added.
They appealed the youth of the State not to cast their vote in favour of those political parties which will not include this issue in their election manifesto. Students and scholars also highlighted the issues regarding the rising of unemployment youth in the State and appealed every political party to revoke the new recruitment policy.
They said already in the presence of Article 370, the State youth were perturbed as no multi national industry like TATA, Infosys, Reliance, Wipro etc is able to set up their units and on the other hand Government is implementing the policies denying the full wages to newly recruited employees.
They said the State Government’s decision to deny regular pay scales to the new recruits in various non-gazetted cadres from November 1, 2011 will amount to 5 to 6-fold lower salaries than the present ones.
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