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| All eyes on Govt’s job ticket | | Named after Sheikh, Govt’s employment programme popularity test for Omar, NC | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 2: A month before he completes full one year in office, it is the proposed big ticket announcement on December 5 which holds Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s popularity to perhaps the biggest test of his, so far, biggest inning in politics. Stakes are equally high for the Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather, the architect of employment project which everyone is waiting for.
In his budget speech August this year, the Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather did not reflect anything which could have created job avenues. Instead, he offered a promise, big ticket indeed, that government will unveil a mega-employment programme on December 5. Since this announcement, not only the lakhs of educated and unemployed youth and their parents but also the keen watchers of this government and the political opponents have their eyes hooked on to the key date when employment programme is unveiled.
For Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his party National Conference this is going to be biggest test of popularity. That the ambitious employment programme is being launched on December 5, the birth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, the Chief Minister clearly wants this employment programme to be seen as a National Conference project and not necessarily an initiative of the coalition government. The ruling partner Congress is though little miffed –as why the unveiling ceremony not on Indira’s or Nehru’s birthday –but it has to be seen what all the government offers in employment programme.
While half a dozen Ministers are already in Srinagar, almost entire council of Ministers and almost all National Conference legislators are flying to the summer capital on Friday to make their presence during employment programme’s unveiling ceremony the next day. The cabinet will be meeting here tomorrow to approve the employment programme.
Sources, however, say that the high billed employment programme named after Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah does not promise instant jobs. Instead the employment programme offers a guiding principle on how to make use of the available talent.
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