The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Monday said the 23.1 percent unemployment rate in the erstwhile state against a 7.8 national percentage is the living spectacle of the incumbent government’s failure in providing jobs to the skilled and educated youth of Jammu and Kashmir.

The data has again exposed the claims of the incumbent admin on fostering employment extravaganza in Jammu and Kashmir, the party’s spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar said in a statement released in Srinagar.