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BJP’s duplicity: ‘More than’ Sixth schedule for Ladakh, nothing for Jammu to protect job rights 10/7/2020 11:39:26 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 7: With elections of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Leh in mind, the ruling BJP on Wednesday promised to grant ‘more than’ Sixth schedule to Ladakh to protect culture, job and land rights to the people of the mountainous region. Party has promised to protect land, job, culture, values, customs and ethnicity of Ladakh at any cost but as far as Jammu is concerned the party has failed to make institutional arrangements despite the fact that people of Jammu too had voted in favour of the party. Formally launching election campaign for LAHDC in Leh today, Union Minister of State for Finance, Anurag Thakur assured people of Ladakh that they will be given more than Sixth Schedule. He referred towards his own state Himachal Pradesh where non-tribal cannot purchase land in tribal areas. “Despite being a four-time Lok Sabha member from Himachal Pradesh, even I am not entitled to purchase land in tribal areas of my state”, he said and assured that similar provision would be made for Ladakh region where people are demanding Sixth schedule....   READ MORE

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People’s money allegedly swindled at Post Office Nowshera 2 employees suspended, case referred to investigating agencies 10/7/2020 11:39:18 PM Ankit Kessar Early Times Report Rajouri, Oct 7: A scam worth crores has surfaced at Post Office Nowshera in Rajouri district, wherein agents in collusion with the concerned employees have allegedly withdrawn money from the accounts of common people particularly the ones having fixed deposits in the post office. Meanwhile, the Postal Department has taken a serious note of the issue and has suspended its two employees in this connection. According to the details available with Early Times most of the cases, which have come to fore are of the Fixed Deposits of different customers bearing same account numbers. This has created the chaos. However, in some of the cases the amount was...   READ MORE   Several panchayats in Samba boycott B2 V3 Term it futile exercise, wastage of public money 10/7/2020 11:39:13 PM GURDAS KUMAR EARLY TIMES REPORT SAMBA, Oct 7: Several panchayats in Samba district have reportedly boycotted Back to Village Phase-III programme terming it eyewash and wastage of public money by organizing such programme as the problems highlighted in the meetings are hardly addressed. The B2V Phase-III which started in Block Ramgarh of District Samba wherein the concerned Sarpanch Vijay Kumar Panchayat Halqa Chak Slarian along with the Panchs boycotted the B2V Programme as soon as the ...   READ MORE   B2 V3 turns into flop show in Panchayat Dharamsal Neither officials nor panchayat representatives turn up in programme 10/7/2020 11:38:43 PM Rajesh Tandon Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 7: A very unprecedented situation was witnessed today in Panchayat Dharamshal of block Siot of district Rajouri during the phase-3 of Back to Village programme, where neither concerned incharge of the programme nor the panchayat representatives were present on the occasion. Even the local residents were also not present as they were not informed about the organising of the B2V programme. The local residents alleged that the concerned officials as well as the Sarpanch and panches were not available in the programme. Senior officials, who were incahrge of the programme remained absent only few employees were present, which shows that the orga...   READ MORE   Face-off: Teaching community versus SED Teachers to hold 10 day ‘Satyagrah’ to wake up authorities 10/7/2020 11:38:34 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 7: The government teachers have reportedly decided to take the path of ‘Satyagrah Movement ‘against the School Education Department for their continuous overlooking of their genuine demands, which they have been fighting for the last many decades. In order to bring the entire teaching community together to fight for their long pending demands, which have been lingering on due to deliberate negligence of School Education authority, the teaching associations have now resolved to adopt a unique way to wake up the authorities from deep slumber by holding ‘Satyagrah’. Interestingly, this ‘Satyagrah’ movement will not affect any teaching routine activities as ...   READ MORE   Connect people through Panchayats: LG to officers 10/7/2020 11:38:25 PM ISHTIYAQ AHMAD EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Oct 7: As the third phase of Back to Village programme is under process, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has stressed for strengthening of grassroots in Jammu and Kashmir. The Jammu and Kashmir government last Friday started the third edition of the back to village (B2V) programme. The 10-day edition is to focus on implementation and execution of all that was conceived and achieved in the previous two editions. A senior official said Lieutenant Governor was keen to strengthen Panchayats in Jammu and Kashmir. “He has directed officers to connect the common masses through Panchayats,” the official said The official said LG has told officer...   READ MORE   JK reports 621 new positive cases, 67684 recovered so far 10/7/2020 11:38:19 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 7: The Government on Wednesday informed that 621 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 260 from Jammu division and 361 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 81097. Also 14 COVID-19 deaths have been reported; 07 from Jammu division and 07 from Kashmir Division. Moreover, 2188 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and discharged from various hospitals including 1629 from Jammu Division and 559 from Kashmir Division. According to the daily Media Bulletin on novel Corona virus (Covid-19), out of 81097 positive cases, 12131 are Active Positive, 67684 have recovere...   READ MORE   Panel for fee fixation of private schools gets statutory powers 10/7/2020 11:38:12 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 7: In a significant move, the Government of India has carried out amendments in the Jammu & Kashmir School Education Act-2002 to grant statutory powers to committee for determining and regulating fee of students in private schools in the newly carved out Union Territory. The amendments are part of “The Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir Re-Organization(Adaptation of State Laws) order- 2020” issued by the Union Home Ministry . According to the amendments, the committee shall be headed by a chairperson who has been a Judge of a High Court or a government officer who has been a financial commissioner of the Union territory or above. “The members of t...   READ MORE   Munish Gupta asks government to solve problems of people of Sector 6 Lane 7 Guru Nanak Nagar Residents of Sector 6 Lane 7 Guru Nanak Nagar at receiving end since problems remain unattended 10/7/2020 11:35:26 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 7: Munish Gupta, Editor in Chief, Early Times has asked the administration to come up to the expectations of the people living in the Jammu region and solve the problems living in the different areas of the city. Referring to the problems being faced by the people of Gandhi Nagar constituency Munish said that many areas of this constituency have been left to the mercy of God. He said that despite repeated reminders the people at helm have not taken any ste...   READ MORE   People resist poor execution of black topping work on PMGSY Road 10/7/2020 11:34:18 PM ASIF IQBAL NAIK EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 7: The people of Kahara and Tanta areas of Doda District strongly resisted the poor execution of black top on 9 KM Kahara Tanta road in Doda District which is being constructed by the private contractor under PMGSY scheme. As per the details available with “Early Times”, the people after noticing the use of dust and crusher sand for preparing the surface of the road instead of using high grade metal and shingle before the start of black topping, the people raise objection and lodged strong protest in front of the concern AEE and JE of PMGSY department forcing the senior officials to rush to the spot for on spot verification. The locals tol...   READ MORE

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