As many as 50 job aspirants from Kashmir have been asked to leave New Delhi, halfway into training under much-hyped home ministry’s UDAAN program.
“We have come to New Delhi under UDAAN scheme and while we were into third of the six-month training program, we have been asked to leave without assigning any reason,” the group of students told from New Delhi.
They said that KMPG provides the training and on Saturday evening, they were asked to immediately vacate Aryan Residency Hostel, where they were staying in Greater Noida since their admission to the training programme.
“Yesterday at 9 pm, they first asked us to vacate the hostel but later, after the intervention of police and local media, we were allowed to stay till Monday 5 pm,” they said.
They said that they have also been denied training certificate as well as stipend for three months.
“We asked them to issue at least certificate for three months but they denied,” they added.
UDAAN is a much-hyped Rs 1,000-crore project aimed at providing employment opportunities to Kashmiri youth and it was launched in the aftermath of 2010 agitation, which led to the killing of over 120 persons, mainly youth, at the hands of police and Indian forces.
Four years into the project, many youth dropped out due to low salaries offered to them by the corporate.
The project is aimed to recruit the youth in the corporate sector in a bid to “bring them into mainstream”, a euphemism for weaning them away from anti-India sentiment.
The MHA bears the share of the Rs 1,000-crore project, which intends to create 40,000 jobs in the corporate sector by the end of 2016.
Over three dozen corporate, including Tata Motors, Wipro, Yes Bank, HCL, NTPC, BHEL, ONGC, TCS, Bajaj, SREI and Canara Bank are associated with the scheme.
50 Kashmiris asked to leave Delhi midway amid UDAAN training
