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| Basic facilities for KP youth recruited in Valley elude….! | | No follow up action from Apex Committee with Govt | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 17: One of the core issues that Apex Committee of Kashmiri Pandits in its recent meeting with the Government rakes up in unequivocal terms was that of the facilities for around 1400 youth of the community who have been recruited during last two years under PM's employment package for the migrant community. These youth comprising over 60% of females have been posted at various district headquarters in Valley but a comprehensive package of facilities including a dignified and permanent shelters for them, as assured time and again by the State Government still eludes.
While the frontline KP organizations are divided over the mode and pattern of the employment package, mainly Panun Kashmir opposing recruiting youth back home in parts of Valley and therefore unconcerned about the plight of the young boys and girls working there, there are organizations like YAIKS (Youth wing of All India Kashmiri Samaj) and other bodies who have been persistently pursuing the matter with concerned authorities. But the Government, on expected lines , remains unmoved and so are the administrative heads or the departments concerned which are supposed to provide minimum and basic facilities of sanitation and drinking water to the youth inhabiting in various camps.
All that Government derives satisfaction and is complacent in terms of its responsibility is that the recruited youth have been provided accommodation in camps at some district headquarters. However, this arrangement too is on temporary basis as suggested in the affidavits at the time of their recruitment. The camp accommodation has been created in Budgam, Baramulla, Anantnag, Pulwama and Tullamulla. In most of these camps the candidates share the accommodation at present. Accommodation problem is severely felt by around 180 KP youth in district Kupwara who have no such facility of camp and have managed it on private rented houses. These youth, through a number of KP bodies and on their own have tried to get their problems addressed by the Government but there is no action, at any level till date.
Even in well established camps there are several basic problems which require attention of the Government on priority basis, given the fact the youth have for the first time moved out to live on their own, no matter their homeland where things and situation has yet to become perfectly conducive for their survival without basic facilities. Major irritants and hardships are being felt in pre fabricated structures in at least three camps at Anantnag and Baramulla, mainly on account of sanitation front and lack of drinking water facilities.
The young girls and boys have no choice but to live under such conditions as it is a matter of their career and livelihood. Almost all of them have chosen the jobs under PM's package voluntarily and therefore no organization can woo them to quit for any cause. One only wonders at the attitude of high profiled Apex Committee members who show utter disregard to their own concern in the meetings on this front. Should this be construed as their hypocrisy … why there is no follow up action on what they strongly sought during the last meeting with Government. |
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