Expressing concern about the rising unemployment levels Jammu and Kashmir Awami Awaz Party, a youth revolution lead political party, the latest entrant into mainstream politics of Jammu and Kashmir, has vowed to fight the issues of people especially youth.
Suhail Ahmad Khan, Party Chairman in a statement said “Today unemployment, especially among the highly qualified educated youth of Jammu and Kashmir, is destroying many dreams. As a result of unemployment, the youth are indulging in many immoral activities. Depression among youth is also rising due to unemployment. Today after Nagaland the Jammu and Kashmir has the second most unemployed Post Graduates in the Country.” “Once Jammu and Kashmir Awami Awaz party is voted to power we would take a solution of unemployment as top priority,” Khan said.
Syed Irfan Hashmi, observed that skilled programmes for the Youth of Jammu and Kashmir need to be launched on a mass scale to address the menacing proportions of rising unemployment.
He said that party would soon come with a broad-based vision document on all the contours that party hopes to implement in resolution of unemployment of Jammu and Kashmir youth.
The party leadership resolved that the answer to multiple woes of youth of Jammu and Kashmir could lie in showing them a pathways towards achieving self-reliance. The promising sectors like Horticulture, Tourism, Handicrafts can offer the youth of Jammu and Kashmir a gateway to the much-needed self-employment paths.
Jammu and Kashmir Awami Awaz Party envisaged presenting multiple suggestions to the Lieutenant Governor lead administration to solve the issues of unemployment. The party reaffirmed that it’s keeping a close watch on credible statistics in this regard.
Pertinently, according to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, the month of December 2021 has recorded 15 percent of unemployment while the percentage was higher in the month of November which recorded 21.2 percent.
