Unemployment &Corruption at peak in Jammu &Kashmir

Causal relationship between corruption and youth unemployment from two different perspectives. The discussion starts by asking how the corruption practices within government institutions that encourage the payment of bribes to access the job opportunities contribute to reducing the efficiency of the resources (labor force) allocations.

       The resources are diverted from the most productive economic sectors toward those (usually less efficient economic sectors) where self-motivated officials have more discretionary power in selecting the candidates who are less qualified for the job.

        

Jammu&Kashmir Second-worst unemployment

rate in the country

At 16.2% Jammu and Kashmir has the second-worst unemployment rate among states/UTs

Many unemployed youths believe that mis-governance, poor administration and corruption have been the biggest problems in J&K. “Earlier the jobs in the government sector were distributed by ministers, bureaucrats and top officials among their kith and kin. After abrogation of Article 370, no jobs are being advertised and our future seems to be bleak,” .

The rampant misuse of power and opportunism has created an uproar among the youth in the state where the rate of unemployment of 24.6 percent in the age group of 18-29 years is nearly double the national average of 13.2 percent. Obviously, such high unemployment rate is not merely due to a lack of job

opportunities or lack of education and requisite qualifications of the Jammu & Kashmiri youth".
                

              The CMS-India Corruption Study 2017 has, in addition, placed Jammu and Kashmir among the top corrupt states in India". Placing Jammu & Kashmir among the top corrupt states in India, the CMS-India Corruption Study 2017 has said: "

          
A report has further said: "Jammu & Kashmir received Rs 1.14 lakh crore (10 percent) of all Central grants given to states over the 17-year period of 2000-2016, despite having only one percent of the country's population. That means Jammu & Kashmir, with a population of 12.55 million according to the 2011 Census, received Rs 91,300 per person, while Uttar Pradesh, the country's most populous state, received Rs 4,300 per person over the same period. 

      The government has also been slammed time and again by CAG for "serious financial irregularities".
Besides, the report has said: "The latest admonishment from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) came because of the government dragging its feet on the implementation of the National Food Security Act and keeping a large section of the needy population deprived of the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) coverage, while "issuing foodgrain worth Rs 17.89 crore to ineligible families".
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