Jammu,July 19: The Aam Aadmi party today held a press conference at every district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Hitting out at the central government the AAP party workers in Jammu said that the unemployment rate for Jammu and Kashmir is still 17.2 percent. They said on one hand the BJP government makes tall promises of creating 50,000 job options , but it’s very unfortunate that even after setting up the committee for the same no appointments have been made till now .
According to the CMIE, the unemployment rate in the erstwhile state of J&K for the month of June, 2022 has declined to 17.2 percent in comparison to the higher rate recorded at 18.3 percent in May 2022.
AAP party worker Harsh Dev Singh ,said that instead of creating job options for them ( youth) , the youth of J&K is compelled to took to the streets and raise slogans against the ruling government as the administration is constantly turning a blind eye to the grave issue of job retrenchment in the region.
The CMIE in its monthly report for the month of March 2022 had estimated the unemployment rate for J&K at 25 percent, which as per CMIE data, was the highest since 2016 when the unemployment rate was recorded at its worst— 29.9 percent.
As per CMIE, since the start of this year, there has been an increase of 11.8 percent in the unemployment rate. In the month of January, the data notes, J&K’s UR stood at 15 percent. Though in the month of February it dipped down to 13.2 percent but in March the rate took an ugly turn and jumped to a grueling 25 percent.
The latest UR for the month of June has brought some respite as it has come down 8 percent from the unemployment rate recorded in March.
Another credible labor survey report which substantiates the chronic unemployment scenario in the region was published by the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation for April-June 2021 quarter. As per that survey, J&K registered a staggering unemployment ratio of 46.3 percent.
