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| JK cements staff starves as debt-ridden factory only feeds higher-ups | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Nov 23: With the debts of the JK Cements Ltd having risen to multi-crore, the government owned subsidiary has been unable to pay salary to its staffers for the past around four months.
While the staffers have been protesting unheard, their demand for release of salary has been pending with the government.
Sources said a top official posted in the JK Cements has been keeping the government in dark about the plight to the cement factory that operates from Khrew area on the outskirts of Srinagar city.
Sources said the official in question has been managing to get his salary drawn but that he is unable to get the salary of staffers released.
"Our families are... | |
| | | | Sajjad Lone caught in 'Sach' or 'Jhooth' row! | | From CM aspirant to ordinary prisoner | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 23: Separatist turned mainstream politician, People's Conference chairman Sajjad Gani Lone, who is under detention since August 5 in Srinagar has denied the media reports that he tried contacting anyone within the establishment to seek his release.
A media report had claimed that Lone had used a cell phone of some policeman and spoken to the people at the helm in New Delhi. However, Lone rubbished the media report and even threatened to file a defamation suit.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "Soon after the PDP-BJP coalition government was formed in Jammu & Kashmir, Sajjad was inducted into the council of ministers on BJP quota. Infact he d... | |
| | | | How officials loot SKIMS resources | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Nov 23: Putting a huge burden on the exchequer, vehicles of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura are being used by officials for their personal use.
Sources said some influential employees are using official vehicles despite not entitled for any such services.
Two ambulances deputed at Director SKIMS's office for official work are often used for ferrying family members of some employees posted in Director's office.
The ambulances are hardly available for official work.
"It has become a routine for these officials to use official vehicles for personal use. SKIMS have to spent lakhs of rupees on the fuel charges annually on these vehicles which... | |
| | | | Newly carved out Panchayats not listed on official portal | | 'Queer ways of RDD Samba' | | | Gurdas Kumar
Early Times Report
samba, Nov 23: The slackness on the part of Rural Development Department Samba can be gauged from fact that it has not uploaded the information about newly carved out panchayats on its official website putting panchayat representatives in difficulty.
Sources told Early Times that the representatives of various panchayats of Vijaypur and Ramgarh areas alleged that they have not received funds under various schemes the concerned department due to which the development pace has come to halt.
"We are being deprived off fund under MGNREGA, 14 FC, PDF etc. ever since the panchayats have to come into existence. Government has been starting Back to Village (B2V... | |
| | | | Rehabilitation, re-integration of child should be ensured: Chief Justice Gita Mittal | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 23: Juvenile Justice Committee, Supreme Court of India, Juvenile Justice Committee High Court of J&K in collaboration with Government of Jammu & Kashmir and supported by UNICEF today organized Third J&K Roundtable Conference on Implementation of Juvenile System in the Union Territories of J&K &Ladakh.
Chairperson, Supreme Court Committee on Juvenile Justice Deepak Gupta, Chief Justice High Court of J&K Justice Gita Mittal, Chairman, Juvenile Justice Committee Hig... | |
| | | | Drug addiction impacts society, economy, public safety, women & children | | Kashmiri society no more a conservative society | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
srinagar, Nov 23: Kashmiri society is no more a conservative society and various ills associated with the modern life have virtually upset the social equilibrium that was intact for the past hundreds of years.
Over the years drug addiction has come up as a huge social problem in the Kashmir valley. The impact of drug addiction on the overall fabric of society can be felt at multiple levels. The drug addiction has assumed alarming proportions over the past few decades and there is immediate need to tide over the crisis.
The policy document for Drug De-addiction for Jammu & Kashmir has spelled out the various impacts of drug addiction. The impact can... | |
| | | | Mobiles seized from Kashmir's VIP prisoners' rooms | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 23: Jammu and Kashmir police seized at least a dozen phones during a search operation of rooms of political detainees at MLA Hostel, here, on Saturday.
Sources said that security personnel searched the rooms of nearly three dozen VIP politicians, who are undergoing detention since August 5 after the Center abrogated Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370 and bifurcated the erstwhile state into two union territories.
"The searches were carried after it came to the notice of the security wing of the J&K police that the VIP prisoners were using mobile phones from the MLA Hostel, which had been converted into a sub-jail last week," they said and... | |
| | | | Illegal parking in SDH Mendhar causing inconvenience to public | | |  Rajesh Tandon
Early Times Report
Mendhar, Nov 23: The illegal parking on the road leading to the Sub District Hospital, Mendhar and even inside the Complex is causing great inconvenience to the ambulance services during an emergency, while the patients and their attendants and staff are left to suffer.
BMO Mendhar, Dr Parvaiz Khan said that the illegally parked vehicles in front of the hospital gate are causing problems to the patients.
"The road leading to the hospital has a Police Sta... | |
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