Srinagar- After abrogation of Article 370, large scale recruitment drive has been carried out in Jammu and Kashmir where the Union Territory administration has filled over 29000 vacancies, Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai said Wednesday.
The Minister also said that the identification of vacancies in the government and recruitment is a continuous and on-going process and the same is taken up under Accelerated Recruitment Drive. He said that recruiting agencies have advertised 7924 vacancies and examinations in respect of 2504 vacancies have been conducted.
“The Government of Jammu and Kashmir has carried out several governance reforms, including in the area of recruitments in Government. After abrogation of Article 370, large scale recruitment drive has been carried out and the Government of Jammu and Kashmir has filled 29,295 vacancies,” Rai said in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.
The J&K Government, he said, has taken various initiatives to bring down un-employment by implementing various self employment schemes through different departments by providing subsidized loans for establishment of their own sustainable income generation units.
He mentioned a number of self employment schemes like Mission Youth, Rural Livelihood Mission, Himayat, PMEGP, Avsar, Tejaswani that are being implemented for providing employment opportunities.
Referring to the results of Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), the Minister said that estimates of unemployment rate is not available specifically for the educated youth in Jammu and Kashmir for the period April-June 2021.
“However, from the PLFS conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) during July 2020-June 2021, estimate of unemployment rate according to usual status among the persons of age group 15-29 years for Jammu and Kashmir was 18.3 per cent,” he added.
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