Unemployment on the rise in J&K, says NC

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, September 29

The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani today said that J&K was in “deep throes of crises and the party has to live up to the expectations of people by walking shoulder to shoulder with them during the prevailing situation”.

He made the comments at a meeting of the Amirakadal block functionaries at the Nawa-e-Subha party office here.

Stating that “the much-touted development is not perceptible on ground and youths, in particular, are at the receiving end looking in the deep chasm of uncertainty”, Wani said: “Thousands of educated young women and men in Kashmir are bearing the brunt of unemployment and are struggling to find jobs. The prevailing economic crises and administrative inertia has compounded the scenario. The measures taken by the Government of India, and the subsequent fall out of the global pandemic has only increased the trepidation of people. There is no accountability on ground and people have been left to fend for themselves.”

The Valley has become a byword for widespread and inescapable poverty, unemployment, development deficit and administrative inertia, and the “airdropped” bureaucracy has failed to redress the issues of people, he added.

Social activist Shoaib Ahmed Dar joined the JKNC on the occasion.