Unemployment causing a swell of discontent across J&K

Unemployment causing a swell of discontent across J&K

The official joblessness rate of J&K and Ladakh hit 17.8% in October-December of 2020. The J&K’s unemployment bulge is witnessing a major swell in the face of disengagements of employees, mergers of government departments, and snail pace recruitments, which has resulted in the Union Territory (UT) figuring among the States facing the highest unemployment rates. Working as a helper for around 20 years, Mehjabeen Akhtar, in her 50s, is among the 918 supervisors and helpers disengaged by the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) — which looks after pregnant ladies, lactating…

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Could a 1977 like polling wave upend GoI’s J&K Plans?

Could a 1977 like polling wave upend GoI's J&K Plans?

Delimitation, Gujjar reservation, and the Shia factor could cause an electoral wave against Delhi. David Devadas Some of the most experienced politicians in Kashmir have begun to speculate on whether a ‘wave’ might develop whenever elections are finally held to elect an assembly for the union territory. Former minister Nizamuddin Bhat, for instance, has spent half a century in politics and journalism since he was a student at Delhi University. He recalls that the only non-NC candidates to scrape through from the Valley in 1977 were Syed Ali Shah Geelani,…

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