Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 26: Senior vice president of People’s Conference (PC) and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil today criticized the Administration of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for failing to provide employment opportunities to educated youth and solving issue of daily rated workers (DRWs).
Addressing the youth workers of PC at Rafiabad in Nowpora Rafaibad, he said the lofty claims and announcements of administration of employment have remained restricted to papers only. He said such claims were also made by former Governor SP Malik, who promised 50, 000 jobs to J&K youth.
“Although youth filed their forms in some Government departments, things remain unchanged on the ground. It is unfortunate that the youth are being neglected by the present administration and there are unemployment crisis in the region,” he said.
Vakil said it is irony that instead of providing employment opportunities to the youth, J&K Government is terminating employees from the services. He cited a recent example of 918 helpers, Anganwadi workers and supervisors in the Social Welfare Department who were terminated without any concrete reasons, which is injustice and unfair with them, he said.
“We demand they should be re-engaged, so that their families do not suffer anymore, otherwise, such policies will have an adverse effect on society,” he said.
The senior PC leader said there are more than 60,000 daily wagers working in different Government departments and every regime Government sidelined their demands and neglected them.
“It would have been a kind gesture of the LG Administration, if they could have been accommodated permanently in respective departments, before the onset of assembly elections ,” he said.
Vakil urged the UT Government that on an immediate basis, there should be a concrete policy to address the unemployment crisis in the region so that youth will not feel alienated.
The meeting was also attended by Khawaja Ghulam Nabi Shah, Block Development Chairman Ghulam Mohammad Mir, Youth leader Tariq Ahmad Mir, Women Youth leader Taslima Akhtar, Block president Shiekh Gulam Nabi and general secretary Abdul Salaam.
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