Centre working on issue, decision soon: Ashok Koul; unemployment surge up to 2.5 lakh in UTs
Owais Gul
Srinagar : As the Central government continues to keep suspense on the domicile rights of non-J&K UT residents, the recruitment process of J&K government has been badly hit as most of the departments are not advertising the posts, adding more to the rising number of unemployed youth in the five-month old UT.
According to the wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the number of unemployed youth has risen up to 2.5 lakh as on December 2019. “This is the number of youth registered with the employment exchange,” said an official.
In September 2019, the then Governor Satya Pal Malik had announced that 50,000 jobs will be filled on fast track basis. However, the entire recruitment process has got stuck due to the delay by the Government of India in clearing the air about domicile rights for the non J&K UT residents, who intend to work in the UT’s government departments.
“Centre is very much working on this and there will be soon an announcement,” a senior official in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs told KNO.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary (Organisation) Ashok Koul said that BJP will ensure that land and job rights of people of J&K UT are protected by all means. “We will ensure there is no tempering with it. As far the domicile rights, Centre is working on it and by February end, a formal announcement will be made,” he said.
Simran Bashir, mental therapist at a private NGO, said that she has been waiting for the advertisements in government hospitals for the post she deserves, since past over three months, but there is a buzz that recruitment has been freeze given a row over domicile status. “Government must come up with the advertisements over the posts so that desired candidates can apply on time without wasting further time,” she said. (KNO)
