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| Hold on. Poll bonanza in making | | All-please sops: 30,000 plus jobs, retirement age may go up | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 5
Just hold on. You thought party is over. No, it is not yet. Once the dirty dust of scams and allegations is settled down, the government is all set to come up with massive poll year sops.
Wait for the lucky card. When it opened there is luck for all –the youth, the elders, the employed and unemployed –all have their piece of cake in the poll bonanza which may start showing up in very near future.
Sources in the government have told EARLY TIMES that the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has worked out a model blue print which may be unveiled at an appropriate point of time to sweep the public mood. “There may be historic public welfare measures and a positive answer to a slew of demands pending since many years to enliven the public sentiments in favour of the ruling coalition regime”, said the sources.
Among the massive “all-pleasing” decisions, the government is most likely to enhance the retirement age of Jammu and Kashmir government employees from the current 58 years to 60 years. The Chief Minister has already indicated this. Sensing the possibilities of this move, the coalition partner Peoples Democratic Party too has gone public with the support of enhancement in retirement age. There are more than four lakh employees of the government and the decision to enhance the retirement age can earn the government an all time high support. Just imagine the number of families these four lakh employees represent and the multiplication effect which this decision can have.
However, this may not go well with the educated unemployed youth who endlessly for retirement of elders and creation of a space for them. Hold on. Government has some in store for them also. A blueprint is in making for creation of some 30,000 to 50,000 jobs in next few months. This, of course, will send across positive vibes among the unemployed youth who have been loosing hopes in wait of the government jobs.
In yet another massive initiative, the government had already kickstarted a process to solve the six-decade-old multi-dimensional refugee problem which has its origin in the Partition of the State in 1947.
In a historic policy decision, the State government has decided to give West Pakistan refugees domicile certificate thus enabling them to seek employment though they would not get a Permanent Resident Certificate.
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the government was ready to give all other facilities to West Pakistan refugees within the purview of State government. He admitted that consensus eluded an all-party meeting, called by him last year, on granting State subject rights to refugees.
According to official figures, 5,764 families migrated from the neighbouring Sialkot district as communal riots rocked the Punjab belt in 1947. |
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