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| State, Central ministers urged to take unemployment issue with centre | | | Jammu, Sept 12: Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah, and the PCC Chief Saif-ud-Din Soz besides two central ministers from Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad, have been requested to take up with the central Government the issue of unemployment problem plaguing the state.
Senior political leaders belonging to the PDP, Congress and the NC want Omar Abdullah and other top NC and the Congress leaders to persuade the central Government for reserving some quota for educated but unemployed youth from Jammu and Kashmir in not only union Government departments but in various public sector enterprises in the country.
Experts said that over one lakh jobs were getting vacant in scores of public sector enterprises including banks, Ordinance factories, Bharat Coking Coal where a large number of employees were going to retie within a couple of months. Several thousand posts were being added to these public sector undertakings, especially the banks, following their expansion programme.
In some public sector enterprises there were posts vacant for officer cadre and their requirement was candidates should be engineers, law graduates, technicians.
According to a number of unemployed youth in Jammu, there were over 10,000 candidates with engineering degree, law graduates and having technical training registered with the employment exchanges in Jammu and Kashmir.
They wanted the state Government to mount pressure on the union Government so that maximum number of unemployed youth was given jobs in the public sector undertakings.
These youths also suggested to the Government to fill all the over 50,000 posts that have remained vacant in various department in Jammu and Kashmir. (KIP) |
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