JK News Today
Jammu, February 7: Government of India today claimed to have provided employment to 25450 youth in Jammu and Kashmir till December 2022 whereas around 8000 posts will be filled in near future.
This was stated by union Minister of state for Home Nityanand Rai in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
He said that after formation of union territory the government has taken several reforms including in the area of recruitments which has seen the filling of vacancies in various government departments. “Large scale recruitment drive was conducted in transparent manner which has resulted in filling of these vacancies,” he said.
He further said that 33,426 vacancies of Gazetted and Non-Gazetted categories have been identified in Jammu and Kashmir, out of which 25,450 vacancies have been filled till December, 2022, while recruiting agencies have advertised 7,976 vacancies for recruitment.
He also said that the identification of vacancies in the Government and recruitment is a continuous and on-going process and the same is taken up under Accelerated Recruitment Drive.
“The Government of J&K has taken various initiatives to bring down un-employment by implementing various self employment schemes through different departments by providing subsidized loans for establishment of their own sustainable income generation units.”
He said a number of self-employment schemes like Mission Youth, Rural Livelihood Mission, Himayat, PMEGP, Avsar, Tejaswani are being implemented for providing employment opportunities.
