Kohima, July 2 (MExN): The North East Students Organization (NESO) has reminded the Centre that one of the most urgent needs of the northe eastern people of India “is an opportunity to get employment.”
“The problem of unemployment has reached a saturated point where the youths are compelled to stray, often indulging in anti- social activities for want of identification and survival,” NESO said in its recent memorandum submitted to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
The NESO felt that the Union Government cannot remain a mere spectator and ignore the issues of unemployment, particularly among the uneducated youths of NE.
“It is the bounded duty of the central government to initiate measures to contain the excessive growth of unemployed youths. God forbid, if one day in near future, these multitude of unemployed youths joins hand together and starts a movement which is totally anti-national and violent in nature, then the Government of India will have to bear responsibility,” said a memorandum signed by its Chairman Dr. Samujjal Bhattacharya and General Secretary NSN Lotha, a copy of which was made available here.
The NESO strongly demanded that the Government of India immediately initiate these measures:
That the Union government must take a comprehensive study on the nature, causes and consequences of unemployment problems of youths in the North East by instituting a National Commission for NE unemployed youths so that a clear cut policy for solving the unemployment malady can be evolved.
The NESO strongly urged the Government of India to make NE a special Employment Zone, set up regional Placement/Employment Exchanges in the North East Region with its networking covering the whole of the NE states.
Further, as an immediate short-term relief, the NESO requested for a special economic package purely for generating self-employment avenues for the unemployed youths as well as undertake special recruitment drives. These initiatives must be directly supervised through the Prime Minister’s office with a sub committee at the regional level. Also, the Government of India should review the existing reservation for recruitment of local youths in central offices located in the region.
In addition, all the employment opportunities arising out of the central offices located in the NE in the category of III and IV grade recruitments and filling up of vacancies must be cent per cent reserved for the people of NE with special preferences in I and II grade jobs.
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