No outsider bought land in J&K: Government

2,000 Kashmir migrants to return this year, Ministry of Home Affairs tells parliamentary panel.

More than a year after the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was revoked and the State made a Union Territory, the administration has identified over 22,000 government jobs but recruitment is yet to take place. No person from outside J&K has purchased land in the UT so far, according to information provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to a parliamentary panel.

The panel was informed that the vacant jobs include only 533 gazetted posts and 21,846 Class IV posts.

J&K has been under Central rule since June 2018 and was made a UT on August 6, 2019. On August 28, 2019, then J&K Governor Satyapal Malik said the government had identified 50,000 government jobs and vacancies would be filled soon.

In a report tabled in Parliament in March 2020, the number of such vacancies stood at over 84,000.

In a report tabled in the Rajya Sabha on March 15, the MHA said the government of J&K constituted an Accelerated Recruitment Committee (ARC) to identify vacancies and fill them on immediate basis. “The Committee in the Phase-I identified 10,000 Class-IV vacancies across various departments, out of which 8,575 have already been put to advertisement by the Board ...As part of Phase-II of Accelerated Recruitment Drive, the Committee has identified 12,379 Gazetted and Non-Gazetted vacancies which comprises 533 Gazetted and 11,846 Non-Gazetted vacancies. Out of these, 383 Gazetted and 7,433 Non Gazetted vacancies have already been referred to the recruiting agencies,” the report said.

The report said that the J&K government had received memoranda of understanding (MoUs) for 18 private hospitals with investment of ₹3,200 crore and 33 proposals with an investment of ₹2,100 crore in the education sector.

Source:the hindu