Union minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday assured adequate job opportunities to the youth of Jammu and Kashmir but said that cannot be guaranteed to the "unemployed politicians who might have to remain jobless for a long time".

He said whether implementation of central laws or delimitation, everything is going to happen in Jammu and Kashmir and the people need to make the best use of it instead of getting "misguided by what somebody has been saying for his own consideration or motivation".

"All the apprehensions are be dispelled and we have notto get affected because every third day somebody gets up and says that what happened to the jobs... First, I believe that for any responsible government,it is not important to give salaried jobs because that is half justice to the youth. You have to create employ ability, making them capable of earning their livelihood instead of giving them a salaried jobs," Singh said at a function here.

He said the Centre has launched the Startup and the Standup India initiatives which have given "fruitful results" and referred tothe "transformation" in the north eastern states of the country,where, he said, the exodus of youth in search of jobs was a huge problem.

"Today, what we are witnessing in North East is thatthe youth from outside like Gujarat and Karnataka are coming there and sometimes it worries me. We have to prepare our youth for jobs rather than givethem those casual appointments on the eve of elections and fool them and ruin their careers," the minister said.

He said the job opportunities will come under the new set-upbut "we cannot guarantee employment to the politicians who might have to remain unemployed for a long time. These unemployed politicians have much more concern for employment".

Similarly, all the acts will be there but it has to happenone time because the Union Territory is being managed by the Home Ministrywhich is already hard pressed, he said.

The minister said there is talk of delimitation nothappening. "The delimitation (to redraw assembly constituencies) will takeplace but the politicians who are showing concern should be suggested thatinstead they should worry as their constituency might get declared reserved(after delimitation). I think that is the reason for their concern."

Inaugurating the Pension Adalat for Central governmentpensioners and an awareness programme on the National Pension System (NPS),Singh said in less than 16 weeks since the UT came into being, this is thefifth national-level programme in a row which has taken place here.

"It has happened with such an ease and convenience thatsometimes one wonders whether it would have happened in the pre-UT era,"the minister said.

He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reiteratedrepeatedly that Jammu and Kashmir should be given the same focus as was givento the North East in the past five and a half years.

"When BJP came to power, the North East was in the newsfor wrong reasons like months long blockades, violence, insurgency, corruptioncases and zero development. The militancy there was not the type of militancyin Jammu and Kashmir where elder brother is a militant and the younger brotherbeing a KAS officer.

"The psychological gap was so much that you had termsbeing used like hinterland and mainland. This is not used here. One of mycolleagues said he was addressed as minister from India. We overcome thispsychological gap and completely transformed the region and therefore I do notsee any reason why we cannot do it in Jammu and Kashmir," he said.

Singh said Gawhati, the main city in the North East, is muchmore cosmopolitan, metropolitan and developed than the two cities of Jammu andSrinagar. While Itanagar, which is close to the China border, is vibrating withslogans of ''Bharat mata ki jai'' and that is the kind of transformation there,he added.

"We have a model before us and it is a recent modelfrom Modi Govt 1.0 which need to be repeated in Modi government 2.0 in adifferent part of the country," he said.

The development eluded the erstwhile state because there wasa lack of will, lack of sincerity and lack of commitment as over the period oftime the vested interest sought to build "artificial barriers" tokeep themselves isolated and away from development journey with rest of theIndia because that suited to them.