Jammu: Slamming the employment policy of the
Jammu Kashmir government as "useless", the entire opposition
today created noisy scenes in the state Assembly and staged a
walkout.
The opposition members were agitated over the new
employment policy announced by the government in December last
year saying the promise of providing one lakh jobs in five
years was too meagre to tackle the problem of unemployment in
the state.
Entire opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), BJP,
Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP), Jammu State
Morcha (JSM) and Independent members stood up from their seats
during Question Hour and raised anti-government slogans when
Labour Minister Abdul Gani Malik was replying to a question on
the issue of provision for capital subsidy in favour of
unemployed youth under the new employment policy.
They said the policy would be a "big failure" in
addressing the unemployment problem in the state and staged a
walkout.
The minister said Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship
Development Institute has been asked to offer entrepreneurship
programmes which apart from sensitisation, training and
consultancy inputs will provide an incentive to help people
kickstart their ventures.
The House again witnessed noisy scenes when Social
Welfare Minister Sakina Itoo said a fresh survey for the BPL
families has been delayed and the Union Ministry of Rural
Development has constituted an expert committee for specifying
a suitable methodology for identification of rural households.
Protesting against the delay in fresh survey, opposition
members, who returned after sometime, stood up and raised
slogans before staging another walkout.
PTI
