By PTI
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir has the second highest unemployment fee within the nation at 46 per cent, the National Conference stated on Saturday, citing a report which, it stated, contrasts the federal government’s claims on job creation publish Article 370’s abrogation.
The “Periodic Labour Force Survey April-June 2021” launched by the statistics and programme implementation ministry is in stark distinction to the “false realities” projected by the Centre on fostering employment in Jammu and Kashmir after the article was revoked, get together spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar stated.
The knowledge revealed by the premier authorities company flies within the face of the central authorities and the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s claims on swelling employment alternatives within the union territory, he stated, including it has punctured their claims.
“The report hasn’t caught us by surprise. We have been saying this all this while that the unemployment charts have soared since the reading down of Article 370 on August 5, 2019. What is worrying here is that the figures have made a quantum jump from previous levels,” Dar stated.
The article, which gave particular standing to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, was abrogated and the state was bifurcated into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The magnitude of the joblessness could be assessed by the truth that key recruiting company JKSSB has collected Rs 77 crore as examination price between March 2016 and September 2020 from job looking candidates, in line with an RTI utility, he stated.
The response of the individuals to job purposes, Dar claimed, could be gauged from the truth that when JKSSB marketed round 8,000 jobs for Class IV workers, greater than half one million aspirants utilized for them, with many amongst them holding post-graduate levels and doctorates.
“The private sector on the other hand, which had taken baby steps to establish itself during the Omar Abdullah-led government, has been dealt severe blows due to successive lockdowns, clampdowns in the last three years,” the NC spokesperson stated.
“Government indifference towards artisans, tourism players, marginal traders, manufacturers have further choked the employability in the local private sector. The already meek private sector has been in a free fall since 2016 but the situation post August 2019 has been exceedingly grim,” he stated.
Dar stated the figures reveal that J-Okay has the second highest unemployment fee within the nation with a staggering 46 per cent and the report has proven the mirror to the central authorities and the Jammu and Kashmir administration.
“The myths which are being peddled day in and day out stand deflated. The report has confirmed our stand,” he added.
