The best way to reach out to anyone is to receive them at your doorstep. And, if possible, offer them coffee at your table and then offer it in their native place as well.
This is the new initiative undertaken to bring the youth, from Jammu and Kashmir in particular, into the national mainstream.
A batch of about 25 young students and freshly employed persons along with university teachers are getting to know the functioning of the Union government and what it had to offer to the people in the valley, be it relating to their jobs, education or security. The initiative was launched during Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's visit to the valley, when the locals raised issues such as their being kept away from the mainstream and kept in the dark of what the Union government was doing for them.
During the past three days, this batch has been meeting ministers. On Wednesday, they interacted with Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, who has initiated a scheme to provide work skills and jobs for one lakh school and college dropouts in the next five years.
As of now, 300 of them have secured training and jobs, of which about half a dozen are part of the touring delegation which will return on Friday.
They all were happy about the jobs they had landed as narrated by Shaukat Ahmad Lone. Hilal Ahmad Bhat added that removing unemployment would put an end to stone-pelting incidents.
So far under the programme “Himayat,” 416 youth have received skill training and 300 have been provided with jobs. Currently, 1,350 are receiving training and Mr. Ramesh will hand placement letters to 800 on December 18.
