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Early Times Report
Srinagar Nov 27
Peoples Democratic Party Patron, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has said unemployment poses a major challenge to our society and its collective wisdom. In statement issued here today, he called for long term and short term measures to tackle the problem which is resulting in immense loss of our human resource potential.
Responding to various government announcements about an impending employment policy, Mufti said while a social security system was an accepted principle in most parts of the world the government must implement it in the State through a well devised scheme that should not confine itself only to extending doles to the unemployed.
The scheme he said must rise above petty considerations and aim at the larger goal of harnessing the huge human resource potential that we have in the shape of the educated youth. Mufti said hundreds of thousands of young men and women in the state are seeking employment without any avenues in sight. This has added to levels of frustration and could prove to be a highly destabilizing factor for the society.
Stressing the need for a system that improves the employability of our youth, Mufti said that job-oriented education was necessary to tackle the problem. He said dozens of colleges and hundreds of senior schools were opened in recent years and it had been planned to introduce streams that would enable our students to compete in the job market but unfortunately it seems that is not done in most cases.
Mufti said the purpose of PDP’s campaign for renegotiation of power projects with the NHPC was to seek a fair deal for the State and its economy which could improve the employment situation. He said it was sad that the NHPC was employing even and skilled and unskilled labour from outside the State on most of the projects under execution here,
citing lack of skills among the locals as a reason. Similar was the case with other major infrastructure companies working in Jammu and Kashmir. While this might be true, Mufti said it was the social responsibility of these money making giants to organize skill
development programmes for the local youth so that they could also get their share of jobs. He said that government must lay down rules in this behalf to streamline this concept.
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