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| Failing to give jobs, JK Govt starts festival for jobless youth! | | Yogyata se Rozgaar Mahotsav draws flak from jobless | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 7: Even as the cash-starved government of Jammu and Kashmir has been facing criticism for holding so many festivals, where public money is “wasted” on events like musical concerts, singing and dancing, the administration has now launched a “festival” for the jobless. The educated unemployed have called it “insult to the injury” of those craving for jobs.
In an official handout released by the Information Department on March 6, the government said: “In order to provide adequate Job opportunities to the youth of J&K and make them self dependent, the Government of Jammu and Kashmir has started ‘Be Rozgar Se Swarozgar Scheme… To create awareness among the youth about ‘Be Rozgar Se Swarozgar’ Scheme, the government started “Yogyata se Rozgaar Mahotsav.”
The government handout has drawn severe criticism from the educated youth who said that a “Mahotsava or mega festival on awareness speaks about the insensitivity of the government towards the miseries of the youth.”
“There’s a Punjabi saying that ‘Bibi Mare Te Halwa, Baba Mare Te Halwa. And Jammu and Kashmir government is its apt example. We don’t need festivals on awareness where babus will make deals with event management companies for holding such festivals. All what we need is job and no drame baazi,” said a delegation of educated youth, who are jobless.
They youth said the government should hold a festival on “awareness of the evils of babu giri which is ruining Jammu and Kashmir.”
“Recently the government withdrew job that were already advertised by previous regimes.
Instead of creating job opportunities, the government is snatching even the already announced vacancies and now new festivals being launched to hide the misadventures,” said the aggrieved youth.
Referring to the official hando t which stated that “This Scheme is launched to provide job opportunities to youth who are struggling to earn their living,” the youth said that government has itself confessed that the youth of Jammu and Kashmir were “struggling.”
“Almost two and half years since the abrogation of the so called special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the government confesses that the youth are still struggling, which in other terms means the youth are starving due to babu giri,” the youth lamented.
The government on the other hand says that the Be Rozgar Se Swarozgar Scheme is part of 10-point campaign initiated to give a renewed push to the implementation of employment and other beneficiary oriented schemes on the ground.
“The objective of the 10 point campaign is to achieve quantifiable results within specific timelines, in an effort to touch the lives of ordinary citizens at the grassroots level,” the official handout said.
“Under ‘Be Rozgar Se Swarozgar Scheme’ scheme, the youth of J&K will get a chance to get employment. This Scheme is launched to provide job opportunities to youth who are struggling to earn their living. It is a targeted campaign to identify and provide self employment to at least 5 persons in every Panchayat and overall two lakh youth in the entire UT. It will include financial support and skilling as part of the process. It will ensure that a local youth will get a chance to earn livelihood,” the official handout said.
A senior official told the Early Times on the condition of anonymity that the scheme was “another eyewash to mislead the youth and New Delhi both.”
“The scheme doesn’t talk anything beyond Panchayats and ‘chance’ of getting jobs. So, what about highly educated youth and those living in urban pockets? And what about government jobs,” asked the official. |
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