 EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 17: Calling upon the government to fill up all the vacant as well as newly created posts in UT of J&K, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) and former Minister said that gainful employment to the educated youth needed to receive priority attention of the present regime. Though promises were being made on regular basis for absorption of unemployed youth, the delivery was in inverse proportion to the articulation of such promises with unemployment numbers growing with each passing day. It was most regrettable that all announcements made in the past had remained restricted to the confines of lip service, said Singh adding that Panthers Party alone was championing the cause of all such dispirited youth. He was addressing a press conference after admitting the new entrants into the Party fold at Jammu today.
While the BJP had catapulted itself to power on the slogan of empowerment of youth, it had completely forgotten the lofty promises doled out by it to the youth who were passing through acute mental trauma, said Singh. “Rather than providing jobs to the aspiring youth, the saffron rule witnessed large scale disengagements and retrenchments in various government departments as well as in private sector. While the employees of Health Department appointed under SRO-24, the education employees appointed under SMAGRA, the high qualified contractual lecturers and teachers and Information Department employees were terminated in the most arbitrary manner, the recent order disbanding the Self Help Groups (SHGs) of Engineers had further rendered around 15000 professionals jobless. Similar was the plight of the Pharmacists and Medical Assistants numbering around 20,000 whose diplomas were not being recognized after conversion of State to UT on the plea of new rules having been extended to J&K despite the fact that they had completed their diploma courses from State recognized Para-medical institutes.
The plight of daily rated workers, contractuals, Anganwari & Asha workers, NHM and MGNREGA employees besides Rehber-i-Khel as equally pathetic with none to address their concerns thereby resulting in massive outrage amongst the affected youth. It is however shocking that government has chosen to disregard the simmering discontent amongst the younger generation which could have earth shaking consequences” said Singh.
Prominent among those joined NPP included Davneet Singh, Tanmeet Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Gagandeep Singh, Harmeet Singh, Jageet Singh, Taranjeet Singh, Jas Kunwar, Vijay Pratap Singh, Arunam Singh besides others. Present on the occasion were Capt. Anil Gour, State Secretary-JKNPP, Surinder Chouhan, District President Jammu (Rural)-JKNPP, Gurdeep Singh, District Secretary Jammu (Rural)-JKNPP and Bhanu Partap Singh, Youth leader-JKNPP. |
