On Tuesday, the National Conference said, “Jammu and Kashmir was facing unemployment and administrative inertia while the educated unemployed youth were at the receiving end.”
Nasir Aslam Wani, the Party’s Provincial President while addressing a meeting of block Amirakadal functionaries at Nawa-e-Subha Srinagar said in a statement that the previous lockdown and the prevailing COVID-19 crises has affected every vital sector of Jammu Kashmir’s economy.
He said the much touted development was not perceptible on the ground and the local youth in particular were at the receiving end.
“Thousands of educated young women and men in Kashmir are bearing the brunt of unemployment and are struggling to find jobs. Prevailing economic crises and administrative inertia has compounded the scenario. The measures taken by GOI, and the subsequent fall out of the global pandemic has only increased the trepidation of the people. There is no accountability on ground and people have been left to fend for themselves,” he said.
Wani also said that “there can be no trade off between the political aspirations of the people and development activities and that both have to go hand in hand.”
He further added the unilateral and unconstitutional abrogation of J&K’s special status by Government of India on August 5, 2019 have not fared well in any region of Jammu and Kashmir.
The valley of Kashmir has become a byword of widespread and inescapable poverty, unemployment, development deficit and administrative inertia, and the airdropped bureaucracy has failed to redress the issues of people.