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- Over 1.71 lakh youth have registered under Mission YUVA, resulting in around 70,000 enterprise applications.
- Recruitment boards collected ₹48.88 crore in application fees (2023–25), drawing criticism in the Assembly amid promises of free applications for unemployed youth.
- De-freezing of teacher posts is under active consideration to address staff shortages said the Education Minister
The unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir has remained consistently higher than the national average over the past several years, the government said on Monday.
In response to a question by legislator Mubarak Gul in the J&K Legislative Assembly, Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary said, citing official data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), said the overall unemployment rate stands at 6.7 per cent in the Union Territory, which is significantly higher than the national average of 3.5 per cent.
Quoting the PLFS of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, the deputy CM who is minister incharge Labour and Employment department said the unemployment rate among persons aged 15 years and above in Jammu and Kashmir has remained higher than the national average over the last six years.
In 2024–25, the unemployment rate in the UT stood at 6.7 per cent against the all-India average of 3.5 per cent. The rate was 6.1 per cent in 2023–24 compared to India’s 3.2 per cent, while in 2022–23 it was 4.4 per cent against the national figure of 3.2 per cent, he said, quoting the data from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
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