Am trying to use jquery with cgi program but perl compiler is not recogonizing the $ symbol of jquery.

Why would perl know how to interpret a javascript program?

If you wish to include/inline a html document in your perl program, you have to quote it, use heredocs (single quotes are non-interpolating)

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
Main( @ARGV );
exit( 0 );
sub Main {
    my $html = <<'__THIS_IS_MY_HTML__';
...
__THIS_IS_MY_HTML__

    my $q = CGI->new;
    print $q->header, $html;
}
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See perlintro, Tutorials > CGI Programming