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 Government too were exhorting youth to put up their own ventures not only in social service sectors but also in Industrial sector as well. 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. Though 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 but still the interest of local educated youth in opening up ventures in medium and small scale industries is not as intense as it should have been this time, Though the rapid expansion of digital technology has resulted in new avenues of employment for the skilled educated youth of Jammu & Kashmir but yet again the unprecedented rise in unemployment noticed last year in Jammu & Kashmir is matter of concern. 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 on campus recruitment drives held with the intervention of J&K Government’s skill development department last year across Jammu & Kashmir but yet again the said recruitment drives too did not make much difference for reducing the increasing rise in unemployment in Jammu & Kashmir.
“When the majority of the job seekers have both the capacity and as well as the interest to invest in medium and small scale industries for the purposes of increasing the employment avenues, 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 can ease both the technical and as well as financial practices and procedures for establishing new ventures in medium and small scale industries in Jammu & Kashmir”.
As such it can be said that when recruitment of youth by multinational companies through J&K Government could not make much difference, the much bigger hope obviously remains 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. It is obviously clear that when the majority of the job seekers have both the capacity and as well as the interest to invest in medium and small scale industries for the purposes of increasing the employment avenues, 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 can ease both the technical and as well as financial practices and procedures for establishing new ventures in medium and small scale industries in Jammu & Kashmir.
