Editor,
I respectfully submit this follow-up representation as a youth welfare and social activist, with serious concern over the continuing public apprehension surrounding the implementation of the Chief Minister Yuva Kaushal Yojana (CMYKY) under the Department of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship.
The repeated representations, public concerns and widely published media reports on the CMYKY have already raised serious questions regarding its allocation and implementation. The growing public apprehension and the adverse perception this important youth-oriented programme is beginning to create confusion among Arunachal's youths, and there is an urgent need for decisive government intervention to restore confidence and reposition CMYKY as a credible, high-end, youth-centric programme dedicated to empowering and upskilling the next generation of Arunachal's youths, while ensuring responsible utilisation of the multi-crore public funds committed for this purpose.
The present CMYKY implementation and allocation model may therefore immediately be kept in abeyance, so that the multi-crore youth-development funds allocated by the Government of Arunachal
Pradesh are preserved for genuine, quality and youth-centric training and visible, verifiable benefits on the ground. These funds should translate into real skills, employment and sustainable opportunities for youths, rather than merely annual target completion or paper-based documentation without commensurate ground-level benefit.
The present concentrated officer-level implementation pattern may also be discontinued. In view of the serious allegations and continuing public apprehension, officials facing credible allegations may,
wherever the circumstances so require, be relieved of their existing CMYKY responsibilities and placed under appropriate scrutiny/inquiry.
The project should thereafter follow a multi-layer, decentralised and institutionally accountable mechanism, with clear separation of responsibilities, cross-verification and collective oversight, preventing excessive or unchecked individual control over this multi-crore youth-development programme.
More importantly, the CMYKY may be given a fresh government-led institutional model based on government-to-government MoUs and direct training partnerships with reputed government institutions,
national-level public institutions, autonomous bodies and premier government training institutions, utilising their established infrastructure, laboratories, technical manpower and institutional expertise.
Such an arrangement would substantially end dependence on the present private-institution training/MoU pattern and enable the government to exercise stronger institutional oversight while delivering quality training, recognised qualifications, practical exposure, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities to Arunachal's youths.
The CMYKY should not become merely a target-completion or paper-documented success programme. The substantial government investment dedicated to youth development must visibly translate into genuine skills, careers and sustainable opportunities for the state's young generation.
I therefore respectfully request the chief minister's personal and immediate intervention to keep the present model in abeyance, discontinue the existing concentrated implementation pattern, and establish a multi-layer government-to-government institutional framework, so that CMYKY can be strengthened as a transparent, accountable and genuinely youth-centric programme serving the long-term interests of Arunachal's youths.
Michi Sango,
Youth welfare &
social activist