After the abrogation of Article 370 many new decisions have been implemented to this UT of JK. Self Help Group was establish in 2003 under which many engineers started looking their future. Now after the abolishment of Self Help Group thousand of engineers are now again unemployed after 17 years.
As per a report by NewsClick, “Over 4,500 engineers-both degree and diploma holders- have been working under SHFs. Over 2,900 of them worked in different districts of Kashmir division and over 1,600 worked in districts of the Jammu division.”
All J&K Self Help Group of Engineers Association’s appeal
According to an appeal from Self Help Group (SHG) State President Syed Parvez Hussain, which states that, “We the big conglomerate of Self Help Group of engineers would like to draw the kind attention of above mentioned dignitaries toward the drawback of abolishing of the Self Help Group Of Engineers Scheme vide Order No.752-JK(GAD) of 2020 dated 10-08-2020. We would like to inform that this Innovative Scheme was launched in 2003 by the State Government for the Un-employed engineers is an alternative to the government job. The vision and mission of this innovative scheme is to organize the unemployed engineers of the State into groups to self employ them by providing them gainful sources of livelihood in the shape of supply and execution of work contracts in works/Development departments as an alternative to the government jobs, as also to create /promote, Group Consortium culture among these engineers for their socio economic empowerment so as to enable them generation employment opportunities for others as well. The Spirit behind this Scheme is to create an atmosphere of “Hand Holding, Accomodation, Encouragement”, and to achieve the cherished goal of providing employment opportunities to the un-employed engineers of the State.
The salient feature of this scheme is the 30% quota of works by different Government department/corporation and autonomous bodies has been earmarked for Self Help Group of Engineers, and the separate tenders are being advertise for this 30% quota of works by different departments and only the Self Help Group Of the Engineers can participate for healthy competition among the SHGEs and at the tendering stage and no work is being allotted without tendering to these Groups.
At present thousands of un-employed engineers are engaged in this scheme across the whole J&K since 2003, some have preferred to left their overseas jobs and returned to their home State to work here in this scheme, most of the unemployed engineers who are engaged in this scheme have crossed their age limit and are not eligible now for any Govt. job.
Now all of a sudden the present UT Administration has scraped this Scheme on 10.08.2020 without the consultation of stake holders and was shocking news for all the heartbroken technocrats and their families who are engaged in this scheme since 18 years. According to appeal by Syed Parvez Hussain, ” would like to know that does the State Administration considered any alternative for these technocrats before taking such harsh decision or just to push them to beg on the roads, what is our fault why the State Administration snatched this self employment opportunity to we people, though we were generating employment opportunities for others also and now what will happen to them whose employment was dependant on these heartbroken technocrats, does this Administration wants to put mental stress on these technocrats have huge bank loans and have also brought their own machinery for executing the works, now every technocrats is asking question with himself how I will survive and how I will feed my family in future. At the end it is our humble request to the Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor, Hon’ble Advisor(F) hon’ble Advisor(BK),Hon’ble Advisor(KS), Hon’ble Advisor (B), Hon’ble Chief Secretary, Worthy Commissioner/ Secretary GAD, Worthy Commissioner/Secretary Labour & Employment through this APPEAL to revoke the GAD order of Abolishing of SHGE Scheme at an earliest “To save our future and to save our livelihood” and do not force us to come on roads for self immolation which will expose the slogan of the Government for un-employed youths that “Self Employment is Self Reliant”.
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Syed Khalid Niyazi Shah is an author at The Chenab Times.
