Jobs are drying up in Kashmir with CMIE reporting 23 per cent unemployment for April, even as the data was disputed by the government officials. A large number of workers — mostly from Bihar, Punjab, West Bengal, and Jharkhand — flocking to the valley to earn a good livelihood for decades are reporting finding little to now work as compared to pre-COVID levels. Naba Paswan, a daily wage labourer from Bihar, has been coming to Hawal Chowk every morning in the hope of getting some work. “Before COVID, work was…
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