Job crisis and vacant posts |
That the jobs are squeezing in J&K is now an old story. The rate of our unemployment is higher than any other state in India, but our response to this in no where matching. The news story that we have more than 40000 posts lying vacant in various government departments, raises some pointed questions. Why these vacancies kept piling up while educated youth kept adding years to their frustration? Why there is no regular, systematic way of filling up the posts as and when vacancies are created? Why our budget lay out is not made such that it takes due care of filling the vacancies and addressing the attending problems related to unemployment? Why government prefers ad hoc, contractual arrangements where lives of educated youth are actually wasted?
This is the time someone in the government started taking up these questions seriously. The off the cuff responses that government is short of financial strength and cannot take in such a huge number of people at a time may not work all the time. After all these vacancies have been created over a period of time. If all that while the concerned recruiting agencies would have been mobilised to fill in the posts we would have a sizeable number of youth now settled in their career path.
Now that the issue of more than 40 thousand vacancies lying vacant has come up, the government must not sleep over it till it piles up by another 10 thousand posts. This issue that came up in a meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary and was attended by the concerned Administrative Secretaries; Chairperson, JKSSB; Secretary, JKPSC and other concerned representatives from different departments, deserves a very serious follow up. The process of finalising the data on this, passing on the post to the respective recruiting agencies, doing the necessary formalities for recruitment – all this should be hastened. We are already facing a severe crisis in terms of our youth facing a void when it comes to employment.