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| Forget Jammu, New Delhi to host ‘Kashmir’ centric festival | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 24: Amid no let up in apparent pampering of valley even after the abrogation of the special status of the erstwhile state, in the latest the national capital is set to host a festival to showcase the crafts, cuisine and culture of the recently created Union Territory with no mention of Jammu but only Kashmir in the name of festival.
Sources said the six day festival, named after Kashmir and “first of its kind” since the abrogation of Article 370, will be held at the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts in New Delhi this month.
Sources said most of the prominent performers for the event will be from one particular region or belong to one particular community with “Jammu being ignored.” “The idea of Jammu and Kashmir is being showcased to be idea of Kashmir alone, and this is something which hurts the sentiments of the Dogra community, which feels neglected as always for seventy years now,” said some observers.
The people of Jammu have reservations over holding of such an event as the mention of Jammu is missing in the very title of the fe... | |
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| Curtains all set to fall on Junaid Mattu as Mayor of SMC | | 40 councilors move no confidence motion against him | |  Jehangir Rashid
early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 24: Curtains seem to have fallen over Junaid Azim Mattu as Mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) as a group of councilors of the Corporation today moved an application showing no confidence over Mattu as the city father.
Early Times has learnt from sources that a group of 40 councilors of SMC moved an application with the Commissioner, Srinagar Municipal Corporation seeking withdrawal of support to Mattu as Mayor of SMC. The counc... | |
| | | | BJP yet to evolve consensus on name of J&K president | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 24: Contrary to the claims of BJP leadership party leadership is yet to arrive at a consensus on the name of president of the party. Hectic lobbying is going on within the party to capture the top post and some senior leaders are also projecting them loyalists for the same.
Credible sources said that earlier the present party president Ravinder Raina was sure to retain the top position but the situation has been changed during the last one week because some claimants have utilized services of their mentors at New Delhi.
Now many leaders have stake their claims on the post of president of J&K BJP through their mentors at the central level.
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| | | | Threat of becoming irrelevant pushes NC, PDP to brink | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 24: Kashmir-centric parties-National Conference (NC) and People's Democratic Party (PDP) are making desperate attempts to regroup and return to the political scene of Jammu & Kashmir.
Both these parties held the meetings of their leaders in Srinagar on Monday for the first time since August 5, when centre announced its decision to reorganize the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir and bifurcated it into two Union Territories.
The crux of both these meetings, according to analysts, was to seek the release of their leaders. They had no other agenda. "NC and PDP leaders had met to send a message to their detained bosses-Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehb... | |
| | | | Home Ministry withdraws 72 companies of CAPF from J&K | | | |
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New Delhi, Dec 24: The Ministry of Home Affairs, on December 24, decided to withdraw 72 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) with immediate effect, news agency reported.
The move comes over four months after the government decided to abrogate Article 370 of the Indian Constitution that granted special status to J&K.
Earlier in the day, a high-level review meeting on J&K was held to discuss development matters and the security situation in the newly carved out union territory, officials told the agency.
The meeting was chaired by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, and attended among others by the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu an... | |
| | | | No procurement of goods without approval | | Govt chops wings of Deptts | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Dec 24: Government departments in Jammu and Kashmir have a reason to worry after authorities issued strict directives to stop procurement of goods by officials in respective departments in violation of the rules, which has been causing huge losses to the exchequer.
“Every authority designated with the powers of procuring goods and hiring services in public interest has the responsibility and accountability. There has to be economy, efficiency, fairness, transparency, quality and amount of money while purchasing goods,” reads directive issued by Finance Department.
The government has directed departments that care should be taken to av... | |
| | | | Delay in appointment of JKPSC members stalls recruitment process | | Wait of candidates shortlisted for various posts getting prolonged | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 24: The failure of state government to appoint the members and Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) has been delaying the recruitment for various gazetted posts of the candidates, who have been shortlisted for various posts including administrative services and Assistant professors.
According to the government orders, the exercise to appoint new Chairpersons and Members JKPSC along with five other Commissions, was necessitated following the re-organization of J&K state into the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh and all the members appointed in these bodies were deemed to have held office till October 31, 2019.
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| | | | JK’s pending graft cases to be transferred to CBI | | Central agency tasked to expedite inquiries, submit reports without delay | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 24: The Jammu and Kashmir government is all set to transfer the pending graft cases registered in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with cases gathering dust in State Accountability Commission (SAC) being given top priority.
As per the official sources, post creation of Union Territory on October 31, this year, the government was mulling to get the Jammu and Kashmir’s anti-graft bodies under the purview of central anti corruption agencies and in the recent past, it was decided that Jammu and Kashmir’s anti- corruption bureau will now be headed by the CBI with its staff coming under its control.
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| | | | Transferred PWD officials manage to get withheld salaries released | | | | ASHWANI SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
UDHAMPUR, Dec 24: Despite Chief Engineer PWD Jammu’s clear instructions to withhold the salaries of those clerical staff who didn’t join new places of postings after getting transferred in first week of August this year, the Ministerial Staff (Junior and Senior Assistants) in Public Works Department (PWD, R&B) Udhampur-Katra have managed to get their perks released.
It is pertinent to mention here that the transferred junior and senior assistants are making frantic efforts to modify their transfers to get some prize postings whereas the Chief Engineer PWD (R&B) Jammu issued two written reminders with respect to transferred clerical staff’s failure ... | |
| | | | GMC Anantnag asks Health Deptt to vacate erstwhile district hospital building | | Residents for immediate shifting of MCH | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Dec 24: As the clamor to shift maternity and children hospital from Sherbagh Anantnag to old district hospital grows, the Government Medical College Anantnag has served a notice to health authorities asking them to vacate from its premises.
"We have written to Chief Medical Officer Anantnag and directed him to vacate his office and allied units of health department housed in old district hospital building at Jaglatmandi so that we could shift MCH there," Principal Medical College, Dr Shwoket Jeelani told Early Times.
He however said that shifting of MCH Anantnag to under construction Remat-e-Alam hospital is the utmost priority.
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| | | | Encroachers reclaim hospital's land, sow wheat crop | | | | SAHIL KOUL
Early Times Report
KALAKOTE, Dec 24: Encroachers have reclaimed the land belongs to Kalakote Hospital, after six weeks when the local administration on the direction of Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rajouri demolished a temporary structure raised on the land retrieved it, by sowing wheat crop recently.
The District administration had retrieved encroached land belongs to the health department in Kalakote town of district Rajouri on November 11, during an anti-encroachment drive conducted by the Tehsildar Kalakote.
"On the spot, the land was handed over to the Block Medical Officer (BMO) Kalakote. But few weeks after the entire exercise the encroachers reclaiming the land sowed whea... | |
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