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| They eye Govt. jobs as industrial base is weak? | | | "Government jobs are no solution to the problem of unemployment in Jammu and Kashmir."This statement from Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,is as old as the partition of India. Or to be accurate this statement of Omar is as old as the history of National Conference's rise to power in the state in 1947-48.Omar seems to have run short of ideas because he did not explain as to what is the solution to the problem of unemployment. Does he plan to convince the educated youth that the new recruitment policy is the only solution to unemployment problem? Possibly he wants to convey to the youth that by accepting the new recruitment policy ,under which the youth would get 50 per cent of the basic pay, they would not be a burden on their parents. He would have given 10 more sermons on the new recruitment policy had not the High Court stayed its implementation. Omar Abdullah should have learnt about it, or should have been told that Government jobs alone cannot resolve the problem of unemployment not only in Jammu and Kashmir but in other Indian states too.Hence there is nothing new in his sermon. He has said so simply to manifest his helplessness in creating better job avenues in the state services.
He has asked the unemployed educated youth to try their hand in the fields of agriculture, horticulture,handicrafts and tourism. Does he mean to say that let the educated youths take to sowing foodgrains,raising orchards, manufacturing shawls, carpets etc or working in hotels, houseboats as waiters or as guides for guiding tourists and trekkers who visit Jammu and Kashmir ?Yes, educated youth can find suitable job avenues if they are helped and guided ,financially and technically, in setting up agro-based industries, fruit processing units, looms for carpet and silk weaving, and handicraft export firms. The state Government has not initiated new and innovative schemes in this area.
In the absence of strong sectors of agriculture, horticulture, floriculture unemployed educated youth in Jammu and Kashmir have to bank on Government jobs. If the state Government claims that the security environment in Jammu and Kashmir has shown signs of marked improvement warranting partial revocation of the AFSPA why it has failed to promote private and Government investment in the industrial sector? Even if Pakistan sponsored insurgncy raised its head in the state in 1988-89 the district of Jammu and its immediate adjoining areas had remained incident free during the last two decades. This should have motivated the state Government to initiate measures for attracting private and public investment in the sector of industry in Jammu. The successive state Governments failed to take any step that could have enlarged the industrial base in Jammu allowing instant expansion in job avenues for the unemployed. Not only this. The concerned state agencies discouraged those industrialists, from outside the state, who wished to set up their units in Jammu. These state agencies wanted them to set up units in Kashmir for which they were not prepared because of difficult security scenario in the valley. The result was that leading
Companies abandoned their plan to set up their units in Jammu. These factors may have contributed to a situation in which total investment in the industrial sector in Jammu and Kashmir has been between Rs.3000 crores and Rs.5,000 crores during the last 10 years against an investment of Rs.75,000 crores and Rs.80,000 crores in Himachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand during the same period.Omar should know it that educated youth are forced to bank on Government jobs in those states where the industrial base is weak.If Omar has no Government jobs for the educated youth let his Government intiate revolutionary steps for srengthening indust rial secto
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