SRINAGAR: The Graduate and Post Graduate unemployed youths on Wednesday held a protest demonstration here in Srinagar against the recruitment process of fourth class posts through Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board ( JKSSB) demanding the government to change the eligibility criteria in the recruitment process.
Scores of Graduate and Post Graduate unemployed youths from the various areas of the Kashmir Valley assembled here in the press colony and holding placards and banners in their hands which read “Revoke anti-youth Policy”, “Justice for 3 Lakh unemployed youth of J&K”, “We want justice,” and “Violation of Article – 16 Right of equal opportunity for all” and “Graduates must be eligible.
Feedaan shah, one of the protesting educated unemployed youth said that the government has issued an advertisement for the recruitment of the IV- posts through the JKSSB in which Graduate and Post- Graduate degree holders are not eligible for the posts.
“The minimum eligible criteria for the recruitment process is 10th and maximum is 12th pass, due to the low eligibility criteria in the recruitment process the high qualified educated people can not apply for the iv- posts as per the eligibility criteria,” they said.
One of unemployed protesting youth said that we are nearly 3 lakh unemployed Graduate, Post Graduate, M. Phil and Ph.D. unemployed youths across the Jammu and Kashmir which can not apply for the IV- posts due to the low eligibility criteria in the recruitment process,
“We are demanding government to change the eligibility, so the Graduate and Post Graduate youths can also apply for the fourth class recruitment process,” he said
The protesting educated youths requested the LG Jammu and Kashmir look into the matter, so everyone can apply for the fourth posts.

ARIF RASHID