The state authorities do not have any employment policy to address the “serious challenge” of unemployment in Jammu and Kashmir.
What is more ironic is that the state authorities do not have the “real, sound and dependable database” of the exact number of unemployed educated and uneducated youth in the conflict-ridden state.
Apart from this, the much-touted “state policy on employment” — Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Policy for Youth (SKEWPY) — launched by the then NC-Congress coalition government on December 5, 2009, with an aim to provide jobs to unemployed educated youth of the state, has also remained “on hold” for the last four years allegedly on “political considerations”.