National Conference dubs Jammu and Kashmir government's new recruitment policy as 'anti-youth'

JAMMU: Terming the new recruitment policy of the Jammu and Kashmir government as "anti-youth", opposition National Conference today sought special session of the Legislature to discuss the issue of unemployment in the state.

"Special session has become imperative in view of the anti-youth measures being brought in one after the other by the insensitive and visionless coalition government," senior National Conference leader Devender Sing Rana told reporters.

Describing Governor N N Vohra's decision to return the draft ordinance on the new recruitment policy as the "most required healing touch", Rana said the youth of the state have been finding themselves in a lurch in the wake of "clandestine recruitment of favourites through back-door channels and the commercialising and politicising the process".

Rana said a delegation of National Conference leaders had met the Governor at Raj Bhavan yesterday and apprised him of the "serious ramifications" of the new recruitment policy on the future of the youth.

"We brought to the Governor's notice that the proposed policies would cause frustration among the youth and leave them in lurch as politicisation of jobs will result in large scale corruption and nepotism," he said.

He said that instead of finding ways and means to generate employability and ensure recruitment to a large number of vacancies through fast-track process, the coalition government was "sprinkling salt on the wounds of stakeholders".