Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s grand plans for reviving the handicraft sector in the state seem to have fallen flat as the audit has revealed that 64 per cent of cooperative societies established for promoting crafts and providing employment to unemployed youth are defunct or under the process of liquidation.
As per the data, of the 1,789 societies, 1,143 are non-functional. The training centres run by the Department of Industries for unemployed have failed to provide proper skills-improvement courses across the state, thereby defeating the idea propounded by the coalition government to make youth productive and defeat the agenda of separatists to take away youth from the path of peace.
The audit has revealed that nearly 350 societies of Jammu province and Srinagar district classified as active were not actually viable as average wages in the range of Rs 29 to Rs 636 per annum were not even touching the basic survival sustenance allowance for human beings.
The industrial cooperative wing of the Department of Industries is mandated with the task of placing successful trainees into cooperative societies to generate employment in the handicraft sector.
Further, the much-hyped 464 training centres run by the department in the state, (145 in Jammu province and 319 in Kashmir province) for imparting training in 33 crafts have failed to provide skill development as per their capacities.
“Against the intake capacity of 58,600 persons in 464 training centres, only 30,901 persons (53 per cent) were trained during 2007-12. A total of 371 cooperative societies involving 4,095 trainees were formed during 2007-12 against the requirement of 2,895 cooperatives,” said an official.
Director, Handicrafts, Salma Hamid said, “I will have to check the records. You can get information from the Joint Registrar on the issue.”
The Joint Registrar, Abdul Rashid, who looks after the cooperative societies, said, “I cannot talk to you now, call me later. I am travelling.”
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