New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- The Centre on Thursday said employment generation and economic schemes in Jammu and Kashmir are central to its strategy of integrating the region's youth into the national mainstream, with the government citing rising formal employment, entrepreneurship and credit support in the Union Territory.

The government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is working to bring the youth of Jammu and Kashmir into the national mainstream and prevent them from going on the wrong path, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Shobha Karandlaje said in the Rajya Sabha.

Replying to supplementary questions in the Upper House during the Question Hour, she said there was a time when incidents of stone pelting were...