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| Rate of unemployment in Jammu over 69% as against 30% in Kashmir: JFI | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 11: The founders of Jammu for India (JFI) on Wednesday held a meeting to discuss the plight of unemployed youth of Jammu province and demanded a special package from New Delhi for them so that their problem is mitigated and they play an important role in the state's development. Meeting was held a day after a deputation of more than 50 unemployed youth met with them to narrate their woeful tales and ask them to take up their problem with right quarters.
Speaking during the meeting, JFI convener Prof Hari Om said that the demand of the Jammu youth was as genuine as it deserved immediate serious consideration. He said that unemployment rate in Kashmir is less than 30 per cent, as against 69.75 per cent in Jammu province and claimed that what he said could be easily verified from the assembly records. He said out of nearly 4.5 lakh employees working in government and semi-government establishments in J&K, including corporations, the number of employees hailing from Jammu province is not even 25 per cent, and that's the reason that the rate of unemployment in Jammu province is so high.
The people of Jammu province have a very little representation in the civil secretariat, the seat of power, he further said, and added that the number of employees from Kashmir, who are working in the civil secretariat, is almost five times that of Jammu. As for the share of the cold-desert Ladakh in the civil secretariat, the JFI convener said, it is just a paltry 0.68 per cent.
The share of Jammu province in non-gazetted positions in the civil secretariat is only about 26 26.23 per cent, as against Kashmir's share of 73.67 per cent, he said, adding that while the share of Jammu province in the civil secretariat as far as the fourth class employees is concerned is 29.48 per cent, that of Kashmir is as high as 70.52 per cent. The number of fourth class employees in the civil secretariat from Kashmir is more than 260 and that of Jammu province is less than 110, Prof Hari Om further said. He also said that the share of Jammu province in gazetted positions in the civil secretariat is also negligible and that almost all the gazetted positions have become the sole preserve of Kashmir.
The JFI convener further said that the figures from the employment exchanges located in the Kashmir's 10 districts and Jammu's 10 districts show that the number of unemployed youth in Jammu province is almost three time that of Kashmir's unemployed youth and that the number of unemployed post-graduates in Jammu is also three time that of Kashmir's unemployed post-graduate youth.
The story of neglect of the Jammu-based technocrats is no less pathetic, Prof Hari Om said, adding that while the number of unemployed technocrats in Jammu province is more than 20,000, in Kashmir, the number of unemployed technocrats is not even 5,000.
The founder members of the JFI expressed grave concern over the acute unemployment problem in Jammu province and took to task the elected representatives, saying they and the Delhi Darbar are squarely responsible for the prevailing discontent in Jammu province as well as alienation of the region both from the Valley and New Delhi.
"It's the Delhi darbar which has all through made invidious, humiliating and unjust distinctions between Jammu province and Kashmir Valley and rendered the people of Jammu province ineffective and unreal for all practical purposes," they said, adding that they are no longer prepared to accept the position of servitude and that their patience is ending and ending very fast. The biased and vindictive authorities in the state and at the centre would face a revolt in Jammu if they continued to pursue anti-Jammu policies, they warned.
Those who were present in the meeting included Dheeraj Pargal, Devender Choudhary, Dr Ajay Chrungoo, Sham Lal Bassan, Advo Pushpinder Singh, Dr Agni Shekhar, YR Gupta, Ajat Shatru Singh Jamwal, Ashok Kumar and Rajesh Dutta. |
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