Skill Development is a priority in Jammu & Kashmir obviously for reducing the burden of employment on the Government as it carried out recruitment drive for the pass outs of the polytechnics and engineering colleges last summer through several multinational companies with the intent of reducing the increasing stress of employment on the jobless engineers across Jammu & Kashmir. Though recruitment of hundred of engineers during the said placement drive through multinational companies was a very good attempt to reduce the increasing unemployment in Jammu & Kashmir but still hundreds of engineers are jobless for last several years and as such there is still dire need for generating more and more employment opportunities for the pass outs of both polytechnics and as well as engineering colleges of Jammu & Kashmir. Though increasing skilled workforce by expanding the networking of engineering colleges is a good omen for the development of Jammu & Kashmir but without taking fast track employment initiatives the services of jobless engineers can’t be utilised in the completion of infrastructural projects taken up by the Jammu & Kashmir Government in both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division in recent years. Placement drives for the jobless pass outs of both polytechnics and engineering colleges of Jammu & Kashmir is though a good initiative for reducing the increasing unemployment in Jammu & Kashmir but the engagement of jobless pass outs of both polytechnics and engineering colleges of Jammu & Kashmir for completion of incomplete infrastructural projects in both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division would by all standards of understandabilities signal a shift in the present employment scenario of Jammu & Kashmir.
Involvement and engagement of jobless youth in both engineering and non engineering sectors in fact would by all standards of understandabilities further the cause of youth empowerment in Jammu & Kashmir. Since the skill development initiatives focused on development of Government owned infrastructural facilities are being executed in a demand driven manner in many states and union territories of the Country, the Jammu & Kashmir Government can also carry forward works on both old and news infrastructural projects in a demand driven manner by involving and engaging the youth of Jammu & Kashmir in the execution of developmental projects in both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division.
As the previous popular governments of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state had constituted Self Help Groups (SHGs) for reducing the intensity of joblessness among the jobless engineers, the incumbent Government can also revive the policy of constituting Self Help Groups (SHGs) of jobless engineers for furthering the cause of their involvement and engagement in the completion of both old and new infrastructural projects in both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division. Involvement and engagement of jobless youth in both engineering and non engineering sectors in fact would by all standards of understandabilities further the cause of youth empowerment in Jammu & Kashmir. Since the skill development initiatives focused on development of Government owned infrastructural facilities are being executed in a demand driven manner in many states and union territories of the Country, the Jammu & Kashmir Government can also carry forward works on both old and news infrastructural projects in a demand driven manner by involving and engaging the youth of Jammu & Kashmir in the execution of developmental projects in both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division.
