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| Facts mock at development, prosperity claims | | Half of JK lives in backwardness, Survey | | Peerzada Umer
ET Report
SRINAGAR, June 30: With the state authorities beating the trumpet of development repeatedly, the figures coming to fore reveal that even today there is more than half of the JK's population (55.68 percent) which is backward- still yearning for the better days to come.
The report made public during the 9th Statistics Day, which was observed in Central University here, National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has punctured the development clams as backwardness in Jammu and Kashmir has is 55.68 per cent.
The facts further reveal how the state authorities and the political class treats the state as its private enterprise and raise slogans which are hollow and farce in nature. With every election in Jammu and Kashmir being fought with the plank of development, the dream to see a developed Jammu and Kashmir is yet to get realised with the people of the state, as per the survey, lack basic amenities including education, healthcare and drinking water.
What is more surprising is that the successive regimes in the state have not paid any heed to the repeated facts coming to fore about the state being pushed to snail's pace of development due to nepotism and political interference.
Earlier reports had revealed that there are more than six lac educated youth with the professional degrees in possession jobless and frustration among them is taking toll every day after. Even at that time, the state government here didn't even utter a single word about such a grave issue and preferred mum over what merits the highest concern from the government.
Ironically even today when the survey has unmasked the tall claims of development in the state with still 55 percent of the populace lurching in backwardness, the state government is seen unmoved and even the helmsmen preferring silence.
Such a dreadful trend has not only made people to lose hope in the institutions of democracy and fair play but has also put lid over the claims of the helmsmen to make JK a prosperous state. "It is indeed the most unfortunate entity that people who claim to govern us are not concerned about the scarcity of basic amenities in the state. There are no roads, no electricity and no drinking water to the people. It is their right to have such facilities at their disposal but anarchy seems to be ruling the roost in the state," says Amir Hussain, a research scholar at Kashmir University in Sociology.
Amir says that scores of surveys have been conducted in the past which should have made the governments to remain on tenterhooks to rectify the wrongs but ironically such studies are gathering dust with no one concerned about the findings.
The earlier survey about the unemployment in the state had revealed that the number of post graduates who are jobless in JK is more than sixteen hundred. These PGs have science streams including biotechnology, botany, physics etc. 3567 post graduates of are jobless. They have degrees in English, Urdu, Political Science etc.
The figures reveal that in valley there are more than 29034 graduates who are unemployed and in Jammu province the number of jobless graduates is 12426. The details inform that Kashmir division has 46703 people jobless who have passed 10+2 in various streams while as in Jammu the number is 27212.
The survey details inform further that more than four thousand five hundred registered degree holders of engineering jobless in the state are yet to find their livelihood while as the number of unemployed diploma holders is more than eight thousand five hundred.
Jobless ITI trained youth are five thousand five hundred in Jammu and Kashmir. The number is enough to prick the balloon of government that it would strengthen the vocational training institutes in the state and would employ the trained youth here.
Pertinently, the figures at large remained unchanged and no efforts by the government to end this dreadful crisis would entangle the situation further.
All we want, meanwhile , is that the government must come out of its self created shell and deliver for the people, it claims to be for. |
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