Over 5.67 lakh unemployed educated youth in J&K: Minister

Over 5.67 lakh unemployed educated youth have registered with various District Employment and Counselling Centres of Jammu and Kashmir as on December 2009.

In a written reply to the state assembly, minister for higher education, labour and employment Abdul Gani Malik said today that of the total 567358 youth, 272072 belong to Jammu division, 283288 to Kashmir valley and 11998 are from Ladakh region.

Besides, 27069 unemployed technocrats, agriculture graduates and post graduates have registered with the district employment and counselling centres.
 
The minister said the government has introduced an employment welfare programme whereby a monthly voluntary service allowance (VSA) will be provided to eligible unemployed educated youth having educational qualification of matriculation and above for the next three years, commencing from the financial year 2010-11.