Jammu Tawi, May 29 -- The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee on Thursday criticised the government's decision to freeze the creation of all vacant posts as part of its austerity measures, calling it a "cruel joke" on the educated unemployed youth of Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a public gathering at Channi Himmat in Jammu, working president of JKPCC, Raman Bhalla, said that the decision would further aggravate the unemployment crisis in the Union Territory and shatter the hopes of thousands of qualified youth aspiring for government jobs.
"The move to freeze the creation of all vacant posts in government is a cruel joke on the educated unemployed youth of Jammu and Kashmir who are already grappling with limited employment oppor...