Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 23: Inviting the attention of PM Narinder Modi towards ever growing unemployment in J&K, Harsh Dev Singh former minister made a fervent appeal to the former to address the concerns of the educated unemployed and underemployed youth of the UT on priority. He implored the personal intervention of PM for implementation of the earlier assurances given with regard to creation of new jobs besides regularization of daily rated, need based and contractual workers engaged in various govt departments for the last several years.
Referring to the tall pronouncements of the BJP government made from time to time post Article 370 abrogation regarding employment bonanza for J&K youth, Singh said that the like various other slogans given by the saffron leaders, it too had turned out to be a hoax. While the BJP leadership had made tall promises of youth empowerment and their absorption in gainful employment through their successive statements, the actual delivery was in inverse proportion to the articulation of such promises.
Singh accused the BJP government of cheating daily wagers, BSF & CISF aspirants, Border Battalions aspirants, NHM, MGNREGA, SAMAGRA, Anganwari & Asha workers, Dental Surgeons, Contractual Teachers, SPOs, VDCs, Home Guards, SHGs, REKs, empanelled RETs, Pharmacists, NYCs, NYVs etc. during elections on the assurances of gainful employment and regularization.
Singh said that the said statement had proved a cruel joke with neither such appointments made nor the proposed ARC making its presence felt anywhere. Likewise on February 8, 2020, the Union Home Minister made a statement in the Parliament that 84,000 posts were going to be filled up in J&K. What happened to the said assurance is also not known, he said.
He said that rather than filling up the existing vacancies or creating new positions, the government had issued a bizarre order withdrawing even the earlier posts referred to PSC and SSB which had triggered massive outrage amongst the youth. Earlier the govt had disengaged 1500 health professionals engaged in H&ME Deptt under SRO-24. Likewise, it had arbitrarily disengaged over 1000 subject specific teachers appointed through a proper procedure under RMSA. It has dis-engaged 918 employees who were working in the Social Welfare Department for several years. It had rendered 5000 employees of Saakshar Bharat Mission (SBM) jobless by discontinuing the said scheme. |
