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Failing to secure job, educated youth from Kulgam joins archaic ‘Aab-e-Grate’ work for livelihood

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Failing to secure job, educated youth from Kulgam joins archaic ‘Aab-e-Grate’ work for livelihood

[ad_1] Umaisar Gull Ganie Kulgam, Mar 17: An educated youth from south Kashmir’s Kulgam, after failing to secure a job, finally joined his family’s decades-old work of running a watermill, locally known as ‘Aab-e-Gratte’. This mill, now obsolete, has been running in Kashmir for centuries and is powered by fast-flowing water channeled from streams that … Read more

Winds of Change: Female auto-rickshaw driver from Jammu transcends gender-centric barriers to earn respectful livelihood

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Winds of Change: Female auto-rickshaw driver from Jammu transcends gender-centric barriers to earn respectful livelihood

[ad_1] Suhail Khan Jammu, Mar 7 (GNS): Gender gaps and barriers are fast vanishing for the women in Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, as the fairer gender can now access resources and decision-making opportunities more easily – with Jammu’s Ranjeet Kour being one such glaring example. Ranjeet Kour, a resident of Kunjwani in the … Read more