Unprecedented 24% unemployment demands a focus on livelihoods as the reducing intensity of Covid-19 pandemic has almost reduced the whole business operations in Jammu & Kashmir like many states and union territories of the country. Though recent hike in the daily wages of daily rated workers (DRWs) shows J&K Government’s concerns on gainful employment but the restoring the job of those rendered jobless during the high intensity pandemic periods remains a bigger challenge for the Government in Jammu & Kashmir. With it’s proposed industrial investment plans likely to take shape in next couple of years the untapped potential of youth if explored in the fast changing economic scenario could probably bring down the increasing unemployment in Jammu & Kashmir gradually in coming months. Taping the untapped potential of unemployed youth won’t only reduce the trends of increasing unemployment in Jammu & Kashmir but it would also change the proposed plans of sustainable growth into a reality in coming years. Unless and until the government does not move forward on the proposed plans of skill development the targets of high growth can’t be achieved in short time. Finally it is not only the challenge of tapping the untapped potential of youth but it is also a challenge of utilising the natural resources for generating new sources of income and gainful employment for jobless youth in Jammu & Kashmir.
Keeping in view the fact that reduced focus on industrial investment and entrepreneurial development is the main cause of the rising unemployment in Jammu &Kashmir the involvement and engagement of the Jammu & Kashmir youth in the proposed plans of industrial expansion and entrepreneurial development has become not only imperative but also unavoidable in Jammu & Kashmir. Never forget that it is also a fact that without raising the standards of infrastructure and basic facilities for the working classes the targets of using natural resources for employment generation and entrepreneurial development can’t be achieved in short time.
Never forget that people of Jammu & Kashmir bore the brunt of the high intensity pandemic periods during last three years more intensely than any state or union territory of the country and as such while tapping the untapped potential of youth the focus of the government has to remain on the utilisation of the natural resources for the purposes of industrial and entrepreneurial development in Jammu & Kashmir. Keeping in view the fact that reduced focus on industrial investment and entrepreneurial development is the main cause of the rising unemployment in Jammu &Kashmir the involvement and engagement of the Jammu & Kashmir youth in the proposed plans of industrial expansion and entrepreneurial development has become not only imperative but also unavoidable in Jammu & Kashmir. Never forget that it is also a fact that without raising the standards of infrastructure and basic facilities for the working classes the targets of using natural resources for employment generation and entrepreneurial development can’t be achieved in short time.
