“While Government plans to open up more and more industrial estates in most of the districts in both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division , the interest of local youth in opening up new ventures in medium and small scale industries is not developing as fast as it should have developed in recent years.”
While the efforts are on to generate more and more employment opportunities for youth in private sector in Jammu & Kashmir, the Government jobs are still the only hope for educated unemployed youth in Jammu & Kashmir. Not only the incumbent Government of Jammu & Kashmir but the successive popular Governments of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state too were exhorting youth to put up their own ventures not only in social service sectors but also in Industrial sector. Since the topographical position of Kashmir Valley does not make it a fit place for the operation of heavy industries, the medium and small scale industries are still most suited to business environment in Kashmir Valley. While Government plans to open up more and more industrial estates in most of the districts in both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division , the interest of local youth in opening up new ventures in medium and small scale industries is not developing as fast as it should have developed in recent years. Though the rapid expansion of digital technology has resulted in new avenues of employment for the skilled educated youth in Jammu & Kashmir but yet again the unprecedented rise in unemployment noticed in recent job surveys in Jammu & Kashmir is matter of concern for the newly elected Government. While hundreds of pass outs of both polytechnic and as well as engineering colleges of both Kashmir Valley and Jammu Division were recruited by several multinational companies through several on campus recruitment drives held with the intervention of J&K Government’s skill development department few years ago but unfortunately the launch of such annual campus recruitment drives by the skill development Department has been discontinued for last more than two years in polytechnic and engineering colleges in both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division .
While the revival of the discontinued process of campus recruitments could bring a huge respite to both the jobless engineering graduates and as well as diploma holders, the much bigger hope obviously remains on more expansion and extension of medium and small scale industries in Jammu & Kashmir. Since the majority of the job seekers in Jammu & Kashmir have not only the capacity to invest in the medium and small scale industries but they have also interest in investing in such industries in both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division. The onus to boost the investment tendencies of the jobless youth of Jammu & Kashmir lies on the Jammu & Kashmir Government which by all standards of understandabilities would most likely throw up new avenues of employment for local engineering graduates and diploma holders in medium and small scale industries in Jammu & Kashmir.
Under the newly elected Government the discontinued process of campus recruitments of youth by multinational companies through J&K Government in polytechnic and engineering colleges should have been revived months ago. While the revival of the discontinued process of campus recruitments could bring a huge respite to both the jobless engineering graduates and as well as diploma holders, the much bigger hope obviously remains on more expansion and extension of medium and small scale industries in Jammu & Kashmir. Since the majority of the job seekers in Jammu & Kashmir have not only the capacity to invest in the medium and small scale industries but they have also interest in investing in such industries in both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division. The onus to boost the investment tendencies of the jobless youth of Jammu & Kashmir lies on the Jammu & Kashmir Government which by all standards of understandabilities would most likely throw up new avenues of employment for local engineering graduates and diploma holders in medium and small scale industries in Jammu & Kashmir.
