“A Ph D scholar having worked as contractual lecturer for 13 years in education department choosing to do the job of a vendor on a footpath shows that frustration of joblessness among youth is brewing up in Jammu & Kashmir.”
Amid commencement of much awaited assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir the political parties talk much about unemployment of the educated jobless youth than other pressing socio-economic issues and very rightly so. While there is very little scope for Government recruitments, the growth and development of medium and small scale industries could open floodgates for jobs in the private sector for jobless educated youth in Jammu & Kashmir. Recently a Ph D scholar won lot of sympathy when a video showing him selling dry fruits on a hand driven cart on a footpath went viral on social media sites Face book, twitter and Instagram. A Ph D scholar having worked as contractual lecturer for 13 years in education department choosing to do the job of a vendor on a footpath shows that frustration of joblessness among youth is brewing up in Jammu & Kashmir. Though National Conference has recently promised one lac jobs in his party’s election manifesto to job aspirants of Jammu & Kashmir but such a poll promise won’t be taken serious by thousands of job aspirants as manifesto has not put in public domain a road map for job placements of one lac job aspirants in Jammu & Kashmir. Unless and until political parties don’t indicate figures about the scope of the recruitments both public and private sectors, the job aspirants won’t believe even a single word on job promises from any political party and more so in election time.
“The prevailing job scenario demands that political parties besides promising fast track Government recruitment also promise launch of an industrial policy for expansion and extension of industrial entrepreneurship in Jammu & Kashmir for the purposes of increasing the scope for jobs in private sector. Experiences of decades show that medium and small scale industries but not the heavy industries have greater scope to thrive in Jammu & Kashmir due to Kashmir Valley’s topographical position and poor road connectivity with rest of the country.”
Since corporate culture did not take roots in decades of popular rule in erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir, the political parties are suffering from the crisis of credibility on Government recruitments and growth of entrepreneurship in Jammu & Kashmir. While the Government in almost all states and union territories of the country promise more jobs in private sector and less in Government department, the political parties in Jammu & Kashmir have obviously no scope to promise more jobs in Government departments and less in private sector which is yet to grow with the intensity it has grown in last several decades in most of the states and union territories of the country. The prevailing job scenario demands that political parties besides promising fast track Government recruitment also promise launch of an industrial policy for expansion and extension of industrial entrepreneurship in Jammu & Kashmir for the purposes of increasing the scope for jobs in private sector. Experiences of decades show that medium and small scale industries but not the heavy industries have greater scope to thrive in Jammu & Kashmir due to Kashmir Valley’s topographical position and poor road connectivity with rest of the country.
