“PAGD don’t have roadmap to get back article 370”, Altaf Bhukari

“PAGD don’t have roadmap to get back article 370”, Altaf Bhukari

“Rising unemployment in J&K should be a matter of serious concern for GoI”

Addresses election campaign convention at Handwara

Kupwara: Apni Party President Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Wednesday said the mounting unemployment ratio of Jammu and Kashmir should be a matter of serious concern for the government of India and it should come up with a comprehensive job–creation policy to address this burgeoning issue.

Addressing the Party’s DDC election campaign convention at Handwara, Bukhari said that the number of J&K’s highly qualified youth who applied for Class 4th jobs advertised recently should act as an eye opener for the policy planners in New Delhi.

“Around 600,000 educated youth had applied for 10,000 Class IV jobs including 1800 Accounts Assistant posts, indicating the level of unemployment in J&K. The Government of India should also imagine the level of frustration among our highly qualified unemployed youth,” Bukhari remarked.

Referring to a recent survey, Bukhari said that 2.5 lakh educated unemployed youth including PhD scholars, M. Phil students and postgraduates were registered with the department of employment during a drive last year to count the number of jobless persons in J&K. This number, he said, excludes the graduates, undergraduates and those who did not opt for registration at the employment department.

“Similarly, there are over 60,000 daily wagers, casual labourers, ITI skilled labourers, need based, contingency paid, consolidated, and NYC workers who are awaiting regularization. These employees are merely on muster rolls and are being paid peanuts in terms of their wages,” Apni Party president said while urging the Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha to expedite the regularization cases of the daily wagers.

Bukhari said the most of the unemployed youth genuinely blame decades old mis-governance, poor administration.

PAGD don’t have roadmap to get back article 370″, Altaf Bhukari said while talking with Media.

He further added, DDC elections will not help us to get back Article 370 and 35A.