Jammu, March 19 -- The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday informed the legislative assembly that it has no plans to provide stipend to unemployed youth in the union territory. Responding to a question of BJP MLA from Samba, Devinder Kumar Manyal, minister in-charge labour and employment Surinder Choudhary said there was no such plan.

Choudhary informed the house that a total of 3,70,811 unemployed youth are registered with the government. Of them, 2, 13,007 are registered in Kashmir Valley and 1,57,804 in Jammu, he said. Choudhary, however, said that all the departments refer their vacant posts after fulfillment of codal formalities to Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission and Services Selection Board.

"The employment departm...