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JAMMU: Deputy Chief Minister, Surinder Choudhary, on Monday said that a total of 370811 unemployed youth including 240502 males and 130309 females have been registered on the Employment Portal ending January, 2025.
The Minister was replying to a question raised by Ali Mohammad Sagar in Legislative Assembly .
The Minister informed the House that registration of the unemployed educated youth is a voluntary process and job seekers register themselves on the Employment Portal to access different Self Employment Schemes. He apprised that, as of February 2 2025, a total of 558870 potential entrepreneurs have been surveyed under the Baseline Survey of Mission YUVA. The survey revealed 154695 employed, 347247 unemployed and 56928 unregistered potential entrepreneurs.
allotted to mitigate the difficulties being faced by landless to avail the facility.
In a separate written reply to an unstarred question by National Conference legislator Khurshid Ahmad, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said 1,288 houses were gutted in separate fire incidents across J-K over the past two years.
While 574 houses were gutted in 2023-24, the number increased to 714 in 2024-25, Abdullah, who is also minister in-charge disaster management, relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction department said.
He said the maximum 107 houses were gutted in Kishtwar district, 97 Kupwara, 64 Kulgam, 61 Anantnag, 56 Srinagar, 52 Budgam, 51 Baramulla, 47 Ramban, 36 Bandipora, 20 Doda, 21 Shopian, 17 each Pulwama and Udhampur, 16 Rajouri, 15 Reasi, 12 Poonch, 11 Ganderbal, seven Samba and six Jammu in the FY 2024-25.
Similarly in 2023-24, the maximum 91 houses were gutted in Srinagar, 76 Kupwara, 71 Anantnag, 68 Baramulla, 48 Bandipora, 30 Budgam, 27 Ramban, 25 Kulgam, 21 Kishtwar, 20 Pulwama, 18 Poonch, 14 each Udhampur and Jammu, 11 each Shopian and Rajouri, eight Ganderbal, five Kathua and two Reasi.
An amount of Rs 1.30 lakh is given as compensation for completely gutted houses under SDRF norms, he said.
