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| NC-Cong Govt raises its hands, says no jobs for youth | | U-turn a futile exercise | | Rustam
JAMMU, Dec 17: NC leader and J&K CM Omar Abdullah and his Cabinet colleagues had been repeatedly saying that their Government would soon fill up 80,000 jobs to tackle the acute unemployment problem in the State. But on December 15, the NC-Congress Government raised its hands and declared that it could not fill up the available jobs as it has no money in the State exchequer to meet the wage bill. The declaration was made by none other than Omar Abdullah and that too while addressing the students at a function organized by the Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) to mark its 10th Foundation Day. Indeed, not an appropriate place to make such an anti-youth statement.
"The financial position of the state is not good. Its income is far less than the expenditure and so it can no more provide jobs to you (read students). The total revenue of the State from all resources is Rs 6500 crore per annum and state pays Rs 15500 crores annually to serving and retired employees in the form of salary and pension. And one can imagine the gap between income and expenditure," Omar Abdullah said to disappoint the students of the BGSBU and other youth, both educated and otherwise. He not only raised his hands, but also justified his anti-youth statement. "The Government jobs were not the solution to the increasing unemployment. Better concentrate on the corporate sector jobs. Moreover, Government jobs cannot solve the challenging problem of unemployment. It is better for the educated youth to opt for corporate sector jobs. The increased opportunity provided to the students by opening and up-grading university campuses, degree and technical colleges and polytechnics in the State has expanded the orbit of receiving modern education for the youth nearer to their homes. This has also catapulted the employability of the students to get lucrative and remunerative jobs in the open job market," he said while justifying his statement on the issue of employment.
A day later, Omar Abdullah did amend his statement fearing a backlash and claimed that "during the past 5 years around one lakh youth have been absorbed in Government and the process to explore more vacancies is on". He made this statement in the University of Jammu while interacting with the students after unveiling the old foundation stone of the New University Campus of Jammu University laid by his grandfather Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on 16 December 1976. What he said on Monday was meaningless, as what he had said on Sunday was what was his actually stand.
The U-turn that Omar Abdullah took in Jammu will neither help his Government nor the NC, which is already at the receiving end due to the various acts of omission and commission committed by his coalition Government during the past five years or so. Indeed, it is strange that Omar Abdullah who is not able to pay even salaries to the Government employees and depends wholly and solely on the Indian taxpayers' money, instead of improving its administration and generating resources by pursuing State-Centric and people-centric policies, demands autonomy on a daily basis, saying Kashmir is an issue that still remains unsettled. |
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