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| Budget silent on resolving unemployment problem: Opposition | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 6 : The National Conference led Government has totally failed in reviewing the entire unemployment issue that has bothered a large segment of people after about 6.50 lakh unemployed youth stand registered with the employment exchanges in the state.
That the ruling coalition continues to believe that the scope of providing jobs to the educated unemployed youth belonging to Jammu and Kashmir in the private sector,is quite meagre and limited is indicated by the official report that 42 per cent of the annual budget is spent on the wage and pension bills.
If there is any failure on the part of Rather it is his inability to reduce the burden of wage and pension bill on the Government exchequer. If the official figures are to be relied on about 42 per cent of the annual budget is spent on the wage and pension bill, opposition leaders, including those belonging to the PDP, the BJP, the CPIM and the Panthers party, while criticisng the budget proposals presented in the state Assembly in Jammu on Monday, said that the proposals are simply "old wine in not so new bottles." M.Y.Tarigami, Harsh Dev Singh, Ashok Khajuria and Nizam-u-Din Bhat have said that the Finance Minister has remained silent and noncommittal on the Government's resolve to solve the problem of unemploment.
They said that by allowing 42 per cent of the budget to be spent on the annual wage and pension bill the state Government has demonstrated its failure in exploring job avenues for the youth of Jammu and Kashmir in the Armed forces,paramilitary forces,centr al public sector undertakings and even in the central Government departments.
Nizam-ud-Din Bhat said that it was during the time Mufti Mohd.Sayeed headed the coalition Government that the youths from Jammu and Kashmir got a good share in the recruitment drive launched by the Army, the Air Force,the Navy and the paramilitary forces.
Harsh Dev Singh said that as a result of poor management the NC led Government has not been able to ensure sustained development in the sector of industry.
He berated the National Conference leadership for its attempt at discouraging industrialists who have shown interest in setting up new units in Jammu when they were told to open their units in Kashmir which they opposed which had forced them to give up their plan on opening units in the state.He said that by adopting Kashmir centric approach towards the expansion of industrial sector the state been able to get a total investment of R s.3, 000 to R s.5, 000 crores in the sect or of industry during the last three years when Himachal and Uttarakhand states received an industrial investment to the tune of R s.70, 000 to Rs.80,000 crores during the same period.The opposition leaders wanted a major review of the problem of unemployment at a special meeting of senior political leaders of all mainstream organizations so that a comprehensive and time-bound programme was formulated for resolving the problem. |
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