Karnataka State Committee of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) has charged the JD (S) -BJP coalition government with aggravating the miseries of youth by totally failing to address the burning issue of unemployment.

“The chief minister cannot solve the problems of people by making night halts in villages. Instead, he should concentrate on opening avenues of employment to youth by strengthening public sector and starting manufacturing industries,” said DYFI State Committee Secretary N L Bharatraj.

Speaking to media persons here on Thursday, Mr Bharatraj criticised the State government for making budgetary allocations to religious institutions instead of making funds available for the revival of sick public sector units. He said the chief minister was under the wrong impression that the growth of IT-BT sector was the growth of the State.

“The IT-BT sector provide employment only to elite sections. Hundreds and thousands of poor have been left in the lurch. It is for the Government to take adequate steps to ensure employment to common people,” Mr Bharatraj said.

He pointed out that part time lecturers, guest lecturers, Mahiti Sindhu teachers, Morarji Desai Residential School teachers, library supervisors, literacy motivators, have been facing untold miseries due to uncertain future they have been facing. Some of them have even committing suicide.

Bharatraj asked unemployed youth not to resort to suicide as the DYFI would stand by them in their hour of crisis.

DYFI leaders welcomed the Government’s move to take over encroached lands in and around Bangalore but he wanted the Government to distribute land to landless poor, slum dwellers and make use for public purposes instead of auctioning it.

The DYFI has planned ‘Save Freedom Jatha’ in August from Basavakalyan and Mangalore on the occasions of 150 year of India’s first freedom struggle, birth centenary of Bhagat Singh and 60 years of country’s Independence.