National Conference today said unemployment continues to be one of the biggest challenges for Jammu and Kashmir and termed the BJP-PDP government's new recruitment policy as "visionless".
"The unemployment continues to be one of the biggest challenges for industrially underdeveloped state like J-K," National Conference Provincial President, Jammu, Devender Singh Rana said here.
"Unemployment has to be tackled with compassion and care," he said, claiming that the anti-youth policies were being pursued by the PDP-BJP dispensation by bringing visionless new recruitment policy in the state.
He sought continuity in the initiatives of promoting employability taken by the Omar Abdullah government in the state.
"We seek continuity in the path breaking initiatives of promoting employability taken by the Omar Abdullah government to satiate the aspirations of youth," Rana said.
"Initiatives during the past six years had rekindled hope among youths as they were looking forward towards vistas of opportunities ahead as a result of pragmatic schemes," he said.
Referring to SKEPWY and the centrally-assisted Udaan and Himayat programmes, he said these brought cheer into the lives of unemployed educated youths of the state.
He stressed the need for implementing such youth-oriented schemes with a sincerity of purpose to offset the challenges on employment front.
Rana said unemployment is a major challenge and to tackle this appropriate skill set is required in an enterprise.
"Like other parts of the country, the youths from J-K can also make a mark by taking up challenging positions in the most competitive and lucrative sectors," Rana said.
The NC-led government had devised a transparent mechanism in filling up vacancies in the government departments but the PDP-BJP coalition seems hell bent to upset this mechanism, Rana claimed.
NC will fight politicisation and commercialisation of jobs in the state with its full might, he said.
