| Yuva Akrosh Yatra of PYC takes out in Reasi, Udhampur on fifth day | | |  Early Times Report
Reasi, Oct. 16: After receiving a response from the public at Kathua, Samba, Jammu, Rajouri and Poonch districts, Yuva Akrosh Yatra a movement organised by Pradesh Youth Congress, against the growing unemployment and other youth related issues, on the fifth day covered Reasi and Udhampur districts.
As per statement issued here, through the movement, PYC urged the government to abolish the new recruitment 2015 policy and adopt fair and merit based policy to recruit the youth and also the Yatra is aimed at expressing solidarity with the thousands of daily wagers and NYCs sitting on hunger strike across the state.
Senior Congress leader and MLC Jugal Kishore Sharma, Dr. Uma Shankar Pandey IYC, Incharge J&K, Pranav Shagotra State President, Satish Sharma , Paramjit Singha, Rajvir Singh, State Gen. Secretaries and Vinay Sharma LYC President led the rally at Katra. Hundreds of students and youth joined the Yatra at Katra and Udhampur and marched in the towns raising slogans against the BJP-PDP government. Senior Congress Leader Sh. Jugal Kishore MLC addressed the Yatra at Katra.
Addressing the gathering, Pranav Shagotra, PYC Chief said that, by introducing the latest Recruitment Policy 2015, under which one has work for the first five years as a contractual employee on lesser wages, a great harm has been done to the careers of the educated youth of the state. "It is a great injustice and the government should not play with the careers of the youth" PYC Chief strongly urged the government for scraping of this draconian policy and added that "this is an anti-youth recruitment policy and a total deviation from the promises that were made by PDP and BJP leaders during their election campaign.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Uma Shankar Pandey IYC, Incharge J&K, lambasted the government for ignoring the youth of the state in the new system. He revealed that the present government of BJP and PDP has abandoned many important employment schemes introduced by the earlier government including the NYCs. Tomorrow morning, the Yatra will proceed to Ramban and Doda districts. |
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