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| 64 per cent of Handicraft Cooperatives in J&K dead and done with | | Beyond Omar's dream to revive handicraft sector | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 20: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's grand plans for revival of handicraft sector in Jammu and Kashmir seem to have fallen flat on ground as audit has revealed that 64 per cent of Cooperative Societies established for promoting crafts and generating employment are either defunct or under process of liquidation.
Audit has revealed that nearly 350 societies of Jammu province and Srinagar district classified as active were not actually viable as average wages in the range of Rs 29 to Rs 636 per annum, not even touching the basic survival sustenance allowance for human beings.
Further the much hyped 464 training centers run by the department in the state, (Jammu province 145, Kashmir province 319) for imparting training in 33 crafts have failed to provide skill development as per their capacities.
Against the intake capacity of 58600 persons in 464 training centers, only 30901 persons (53 percent) were trained during the period 2007-12. Further 371 cooperate societies involving 4095 trainees were formed during 2007-12 against the requirement of 2895 cooperatives.
Off the 1789 societies, 1143 are non-functional, while the training centers run by the department for unemployed have failed to provide proper skills improvement courses across J&K, thereby defeating the idea propounded by the coalition government to make youth productive and defeat the agenda of separatists to take away youth from path of peace.
Pertinently the industrial cooperative wing of Department of Industries (DIC) is mandated with the task of organsing successful trainees into cooperative societies to generate employment in handicraft sector. For the growth of these societies, the department provides assistance in the shape of managerial subsidy and interest subsidy on institutional finance.
This defeated the main objective of the programme to generate employment in the handicraft sector and an expenditure of Rs 15.43 crore incurred on stipend, purchase of raw material, rent of training centers during the period 2007-12 was largely rendered unproductive. |
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