Multi-dimensional strategy to tackle unemployment in JK: Min

The Jammu and Kashmir government is planning to put in place a multi-dimensional strategy to tackle the unemployment and related issues in the state.
"A multi-dimensional strategy is being put in place by the government to tackle unemployment and related issues, so that our youth becomes economically self-reliant rather than hankering after white collar jobs," Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Choudhary Zulfkar Ali said today.
While spelling out various initiatives taken by the PDP-BJP coalition government, the minister said that a new culture of deliverance and accountability is being infused in the administration so that benefits of the government's pioneering welfare schemes percolate down to the grassroots level.

"The coalition government is working tirelessly to provide much needed relief to the people of the state, who have suffered immensely because of the mis-governance and corruption promoted and practiced by the functionaries of the NC-Congress regime during the past six years," he said.
Zulfkar said that when the PDP-BJP coalition government headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed assumed office earlier this year, the biggest challenge confronting it was not only to pull the state out of financial mess left behind by the previous regime, but set off new initiatives on the developmental front so that the people feel the change.

He said with various food and social security schemes like National Food Security Act, Laadli Beti, Aasra, Marriage Assistance for Poor Girls and other welfare initiatives already in place, the people have started acknowledging the structural transformation taking place at the grassroots level.
Regarding strengthening of democratic institutions at the grassroots level, Zulfkar said elections to Panchayats andUrban local bodies would be conducted soon to further strengthen the institutions of people's empowerment and delivery mechanism in the state.