Govt Fails Youth, 17,453 Posts Vacant: Waheed Parra
Health Department Tops List With 7,285 Vacancies
Srinagar, Oct 30, KNT: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) legislator Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra on Thursday lashed out at the Jammu and Kashmir government over its “abject failure” to provide employment, citing official data that shows more than 17,000 government posts lying vacant across various departments.
Parra said the government that came to power with the promise of creating one lakh jobs for the unemployed youth has “utterly failed” to deliver. “Today, unemployment in Jammu and Kashmir stands at a staggering 32 percent, the highest in India. Behind every statistic is a broken promise, an unfulfilled future, and a generation pushed to despair,” he remarked while reacting to the official figures tabled in the Assembly.
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According to the official data presented in the Assembly in response to Parra’s unstarred question, there are 2,960 Gazetted and 14,493 Non-Gazetted posts lying vacant across various government departments, taking the total to 17,453 positions.
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The Health and Medical Education Department accounts for the highest number of vacancies, 985 Gazetted and 5,300 Non-Gazetted posts, totaling 7,285, followed by the Finance Department with 1,561 and the Power Development Department with 1,497 unfilled posts. Other departments with major vacancies include Industries and Commerce (1,175), Public Works (1,099), and Jal Shakti (987).
Parra said that such large-scale vacancies reflect the government’s indifference toward educated youth. “These are not just numbers; they are lost opportunities for thousands of young people who have been waiting endlessly for recruitment drives that never come,” he said.
Accusing the NC government of betraying public trust, Parra added, “When the government sits silent while thousands of sanctioned posts remain vacant, it is not inefficiency, it is betrayal.”
The data also reveals unfilled positions across School Education, Social Welfare, Rural Development, and other essential sectors, further intensifying concerns about administrative stagnation and service delivery gaps in the Union Territory. [KNT]
