JAMMU: As per the Labour Bureau, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India (GoI) Jammu Kashmir has a very high unemployment rate in entire India and as per a survey conducted by the bureau in 2015-16, Jammu Kashmir has 72 unemployed persons per thousand, which means the number of unemployed youth in the State is over 9 lakh based on 2011 Census.
Interetingly of these more than 9 lakh unemployed youth only over 1.03 lakh of them are registered for employment assistance across 22 district employment and counselling centres of the State.
The time has come for Government to provide more jobs and at the same time boost entrepreneurship to tackle the issue.
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