SRINAGAR: The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said that the government would work out a strategy to provide jobs to another 3,000 Kashmiri migrant Pandit youth should they return home.
He said 2,160 Kashmiri migrants have been employed so far in the Valley while the selection for another 1,443 posts is under process.
He said as soon as these posts are filled up the process for recruiting another lot of 3,000 migrant youth would start.
“We have already taken up this issue with the Centre and hope very positive response in this regard”, he said
Tens of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits left their ancestral homes in droves 23 years ago when insurgency broke out in the Muslim-majority state. While some made their way to Delhi and other parts of the country, thousands of them live in the state’s winter capital, Jammu.
The Chief Minister directed for holding special entrepreneurship workshops at migrant camps in Jammu and in the Valley to make migrant youth aware of the self-employment schemes and facilities available to them to launch livelihood generating units.
Chairing the meeting of Apex Advisory Committee for Migrants on Friday here, the Chief Minister said that the State Government has vehemently taken up the issue of enhancing building construction finance available to migrants who want to return. He said the there is a plan to raise monetary help for construction of houses from present Rs. 7.5 lakh to over Rs. 20 lakhs.
