According to official figures, the state has over five lakh unemployed youths.
Describing unemployment in Jammu and Kashmir as the "biggest challenge", chief minister Omar Abdullah today said efforts were on to engage maximum number of youths in the government sector.
"My government is endeavouring to engage more and more youths in the government sector besides working for expanding employment generation orbit as a whole," Omar said while responding to a question in the Legislative Council.
He said unemployment in the state was a big challenge and the legislature and government were equally concerned about it.
According to official figures, the state has over five lakh unemployed youths.
"Government is keen to fill up the posts on fast track and provide job opportunities to the youth in the government sector. All departments have been directed to give priority to the process of referring vacant posts to the Public Service Commission (PSC) and Service Selection Recruitment Board (SSRB)," Omar said.
The government had referred 1,888 gazetted posts to the PSC and the Commission has filled these vacancies besides clearing backlog of nearly 1,400 posts, he added.
Similarly, he said SSRB has made 14,611 selections as against the 10,993 posts referred to it, thus also clearing the backlogs.
To a query, finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather said the government has created 20,000 new posts and was in the process of streamlining the recruitment process. All government departments have been directed to refer vacancies every January, he added.
Enactment of Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services Decentralisation and Recruitment Act, 2010 would further improve the pace of recruitment process, he added.
Rather said the government was monitoring the functioning of recruitment agencies regularly and "it is due to this constant monitoring that a large number of vacancies have been made this year as compared to last year, which is exemplary," he claimed.
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