www.thenorthlines.com www.epaper.northlines.com Volthe No: XXI|Issue No. 296northlines | 15.12.2016 (Thursday) |Daily | Price ` 2/-| Jammu Tawi | Pages-12 |Regd. No. JK|306|2014-16 With situation improving Kashmir, Apply mind before using separatists hint at calling off strikes NL CORRESPONDENT long term plan of programs Separatists have been In the joint statement, pellet guns in J&K: SC SRINAGAR, DEC 14 and initiatives. issuing weekly protest and Geelani, Mirwaiz and Malik They announced five-day shutdown calendars. For said the leadership is With the signs of fatigue breaks in the shutdown. over four months, separatists working on a plan for NL CORRESPONDENT "indiscriminately" for going deep and a large In a joint statement, did not announce any transition from weekly NEW DELHI, DEC 14 controlling street protests in Try not to use pellet guns: CM section of population Jammu and Kashmir. separatist leaders Syed Ali relaxation in shutdown. The protest calendars to a long shifting out of Kashmir Even as Jammu and The apex court Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar separatists had even not term plan of programs and n the other hand, Mufti today asked security forces valley, both for family Kashmir Chief Minister added that it Farooq and Mohammad relaxed shutdown on Eid-ul- initiatives. to restrain themselves from using pellet guns. reasons and Darbar Move, a Yasin Malik, issued a new Aza, the Muslim holy “The the last six months Mehbooba Mufti asked "When we have to deal with such situation, we have O marked improvement in the “weekly protest shutdown” festival, which was long agitation has taken our security forces to to use force sometimes and I have no hesitation in saying differentiate this. We should all speak truth. We had to use force because situation has been emerging calendar and announced celebrated in September. freedom struggle forward between stone- should we had to protect the lives and properties of all the people in the valley. Sensing the five-day relaxation in On November 17, separatists and opened out the pelters/militants be of Jammu and Kashmir," she said. change in the popular mood, shutdown in the week. for the first time during the possibilities and scope of and their resorted to only after The CM was speaking at the passing-out parade of Jammu the separatist leaders, who They asked people to unrest announced two full- our struggle and we have families, the "proper application of and Kashmir Police at Commando Training Centre here in are spearheading the observe strike only for two day relaxation in shutdown. moved closer to our goal,” Supreme Court south Kashmir's Pulwama district. ongoing agitation in the days – Friday and Saturday. Since then, they have they said. mind" by the Mehbooba said if force was not used, losses would have on Wednesday authorities. Valley triggered by the Kashmir has been relaxing shutdown on The leaders said now it is been more. "If we had not done so, there could have been killing of three Hizbul witnessing unrest and weekend. time to consolidate the gains said pellet guns A bench headed more killings, more losses. But now, our endeavour should Mujahideen militants on shutdown since July 8. At The relaxation in shutdown and build upon them in order should not be by Chief be to see towards those people who were confined to their used Justice TS homes because of the situation, strikes and curfew and what July 8, on Wednesday hinted least 94 people have been for five days will bring a to move ahead further. Thakur they have gone through in these six months," she said. at calling off over-five killed, more than 13000 major relief for people of the “In this regard, the issued notices The CM said now that the situation has improved and the month-long shutdown injured and over 8000 Valley especially to traders leadership feels that a long- to the Centre time has come to "change our ways". saying they are working on a people arrested during the and transporters, who have term sustainable strategy and the "But now I think that when the situation has improved, the plan for transition from over five-month long unrest borne the maximum brunt of based on proactive Jammu P2 time has come to heal the wounds P2 weekly protest calendars to a in the Valley. the continuous shutdown. initiatives, P2 'JK ranks first in unemployment in North India' ‘Income Tax, Interest rates likely to come Registered degree holders struggling to find their livelihood down; J&K also have to implement GST’ NL CORRESPONDENT He also indicated there is a Bharti here. NL CORRESPONDENT youths registered in various registration in the However sources said that As per the reports it has been NEW DELHI, DEC 14 possibility of income tax Assuring relief to the SRINAGAR, DEC 14 district employments and employment exchanges was this (one lakh figure) is not found that the number of counselling centres was 6.01 not mandatory for them to correct as during the past jobless youth in the state has rate cut in the upcoming MSME sector, Meghwal Income tax rate, as well as budget which is expected said the next budget will The Jammu and Kashmir lakh," reads the report. get a government job. years number was more than almost doubled in five years. interest rate, are expected to on February 1. look into their concerns. state has earned a distinction The number would touch 10 "As per directions of the five lakh. An official of the come down as a result of "There Spelling out to have the highest number lakh in 2017 as thousands of Supreme Court, the Sources termed the issue as Employment department demonetisation of high- are advantages of of unemployment rate in youths had been passing out registration with the 'serious', saying the said that getting 2-3 value currency two demonetisation, entire North India, reveals a from various universities in employment exchanges was Government would plan job thousand rupees a month is notes, Minister of Meghwal said survey. the country every year. held as not mandatory for policy on basis of one lakh as equal as unemployment. State for that it will help As per the "Annual "Due to lack of political will, obtaining government job. figure and not five lakh. "It has been found that Finance Arjun lower interest rate. Employment and the unemployment rate is The government did not "Government should re- among educated Ram Meghwal issues Besides, it is choking Unemployment Survey increasing while the pockets have exact figures about work the data and present unemployed youth in J&K, said on the funding to terrorist Report released by Labour of politicians are swelling," educated or uneducated the factual picture," sources 54.9 percent youth are from Wednesday. with organisation and flushing Bureau under Union said Muzammil, a post- unemployed persons. maintained. rural areas while the "I cannot reveal income out black money from the Ministry of Labor and graduation student of the However, the number of Sources said that the remaining are from urban everything which will tax--system. Employment, J&K has the University of Kashmir. unemployed youth government should aware areas," sources said be part of the budget, but the exemption limit and another Naxal activities have come highest unemployment rate Sources added that over the registered with various about the threat of A senior official said if a interest rate will come is the slab. Both of them will down significantly across in North India with 10 years the exact number of Employment Exchanges is radicalisation due to the 10th pass couldn't find a job down...It will definitely be looked into," he said the country, he added. percent unemployment rate. unemployed educated youth 1. Lakh," one of the officials growing rate of that could be understood but come down", the minister while addressing an event On the issue of major "The number of unemployed in the state was not known as of the government said. unemployment in the state. the P2 said. organised by Laghu Udyog amount of P2 Top LeT commander, another After 5 months, CM says Arbitration between Power Dev Corp, Pvt Co militant killed in J&K encounters excessive force used in Valley Govt officials 'mis-handled' case for 2 decades SRINAGAR, DEC 14 SRINAGAR, DEC 14, CNS situation, we have to use force NL CORRESPONDENT the works was set as company filed an JKSPDC to claim Rs 58, 14, sometimes and I have no SRINAGAR, DEC 14 November 30, 1989. application under J&K 623 (loss of profit on A top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander was one of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti hesitation in saying this. We Subsequently, another work Arbitration Act in court and balance work) from the two militants killed in separate encounters with Wednesday “acknowledged” that should all speak truth. We had to While a probe has been at Wangath Link was also claimed penalty to the tune company. But the tribunal security forces in Kashmir's Anantnag and unwarranted force was used on use force because we had to initiated into the alleged awarded to the contractor. of Rs 9 crore. upheld its August-2015 Baramulla districts on Wednesday. people during the past five protect the lives and properties of negligence by legal officers The work was to be The concerned JKSPDC order. Abu Bakar, a top commander of the militant months of unrest in Kashmir. all the people of Jammu and in arbitration between the JK completed by August 31, authorities filed a counter An official, dealing with the LeT carrying on his head a bounty of Rs 10 Addressing a passing out parade Kashmir," she said adding that if State Power Development 1990, and the total value of claim before the Arbitral documentation of the case, lakh, was killed in P2 of commandos at Commandos force was not used, losses would Corporation (JKSPDC) and the contract was Tribunal, demanding about explained that it has Training Center (CTC) Lethpora have been more.