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| After lapse of two and half months, Law Commission recommendations on amendment in SRO-202 gather dust | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 1: The recommendations, of Law Commission for making amendments in SRO-202, also called the new job policy, have reportedly been gathering dust as no action has been taken by government after the lapse of over two and half months.
The Law Commission of Jammu and Kashmir headed by retired Justice MK Hanjura had taken suo-moto cognizance of the SRO-202 and had submitted his recommendations to the Chief Secretary for making amendments in the SRO.
The recommendations were submitted by Law Commission in mid of November 2010 and it was recommended for reduction of probation period of employees engaged under new job policy (SRO-202) from five years to two years.
It had also recommended that the government employees, who have completed two years of probation on the date of the promulgation of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act 2019, may be regularized subject to the conditions laid down in the SRO.
After the lapse of over two and half months since the recommendations were submitted, no action has been taken so far by the government, evoking anger and c... | |
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| JK Govt employees likely to get salary hike after budget session | | Monthly Dearness Allowance to jump from 17 % to 21 % | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 1 : The government workers in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir are likely going to have a salary hike along with other central government employees after the ongoing budget session in the parliament.
As per the reports, the central government may announce the Dearness Allowance (DA) for the Central Government employees after the Union Budget 2020.
This time, central government employees are expecting their H1-2020 DA hike by at least 4 per cent. If the Central Government announces 4 per cent DA hike for the central government employees, their DA will jump from 17 per cent to 21 per cent.
The DA hike announcement will benefit around 1.1 crore cen... | |
| | | | Fails to contains regulations in departmental manual for large purchases | | PDD overlooks guidelines of JKFC | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 1: Despite repeated directions from government time to time, Power Development Department has not put in place department specific purchase manual for procurement of material to bring transparency in procurement.
Sources told Early Times that as per rule of the Jammu and Kashmir Financial Code, the department, should have detailed rules and instructions contained in its departmental regulations for large purchases.
Moreover, the Central Vigilance Commission guidelines also stipulate that there should be a departmental manual for procurement of material.
They further said that instead of carving out guidelines, the PDD had been continued to procure mate... | |
| | | | Azad to take command to revive ‘demoralized’ Congress in Jammu and Kashmir | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 1: Following failure of the incumbent leadership to reactive the party in J&K, leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad is likely to return to the J&K politics to review ‘badly shattered’ confidence of party workers in J&K, ahead of the forthcoming assembly polls. Only one year tenure GhulamNabi Azad is left in the Rajya Sabha so before completion of his tenure he is going to establish himself in the politics of J&K again. During his recent visit in Jammu, Azad had tried to convince ‘demoralized’ party cadre that “Congress is still a strong force in Jammu region and there is need to establish contact with the common masses”. Credible sources ... | |
| | | | Budget 2020-21: Jammu and Kashmir gets Rs 30,757 crore; Ladakh 5,958 crore | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Feb 1: The government has allocated Rs 30,757 crore for the newly created Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in the Budget for 2020-21 presented by Union Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman on Saturday.
The government has provisioned Rs 279 crore as the contribution to Union Territory Disaster Response Fund while Rs 30,478 has been allocated for meeting its resource gap, the Budget document said.
Another Union Territory, Ladakh, which was carved out of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, has been allocated Rs 5,958 crore in the Budget.
In Ladakh, the government has allocated Rs 83.38 crore for rural development, Rs 80.69 crore for public works, Rs 54.07 cror... | |
| | | | NIA team visits Anantnag for more info on Davinder Singh | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 1: A 20-member NIA team arrived in Kashmir on Saturday to collect more information on disgraced J&K Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh, who was arrested while escorting two militants to Jammu last month.
The team led by a DIG-rank officer went to Anantnag and met police officials there regarding the case, sources said. Davinder Singh was arrested on January 11 by police along with two HizbulMujahideen militants NaveedBabu and Rafi Ahmed, and one Irfan Mir, a law school dropout, while travelling in a car to Jammu.
According to sources, Babu, Ahmed and Mir had planned to travel to Pakistan.
After initial police investigations, the case was ha... | |
| | | | Admin fails to issue notice to officials who facilitated encroachment of water bodies, state land | | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 1: The district administration of Srinagar has started retrieval of encroached land in some areas but so far no notice has been served to the revenue officials who facilitated encroachment of water bodies and state land in the city limits.
Early Times has learnt from sources that over the years that some of the Patwaris, Girdawars, Naib Tehsildars and Tehsildars have facilitated encroachment of state land and water bodies in the summer capital of union territory of Jammu & Kashmir. So far no action whatsoever has been taken against these officials and officers of Department of Revenue.
“Humanely speaking it is not possible to encroach... | |
| | | | Despite repeated directions from Admin, concerned depts reluctant to demolish structures | | Unsafe Govt buildings in Nowshera pose life threat to locals | |  Ankit Kessar
Early Times Report
Nowshera, Feb 1: Although several government offices buildings have been declared unsafe yet the concerned departments have been showing reluctance to carry out demolition of these buildings, which have been posing serious life threat to the locals living adjacent to these structures.
Moreover, the Nowshera Administration seems to be non serious towards this grave issue by not taking strict action against the concerned departments for not complying the ord... | |
| | | | SDA under scanner for ‘shady’ auction of shops | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 1: The Srinagar Development Authority (SDA) has come under scanner for allegedly shady auction of shops in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
Official sources said the SDA had invited bids for allotment of shops at more than one place in Bemina locality but in alleged contravention of norms.
Sources said on December 10, 2019, in a allegedly hurried decision the SDA had issued two separate notices vide auction notice number 10 and 11 for allotment of the shops at “EWS Colony and shop site at HIG/MIG Colony Bemina Srinagar.”
Sources said the auction was done without the mandatory e-auction whereby the bid had to be done online and the bidders had... | |
| | | | Entrepreneurs are the Job Creators and wealth Creators in an economy: Lt Governor | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 1: In a boost to entrepreneurship and Silk Farming in the Jammu region, Lt Governor Girish Chandra Murmu today inaugurated the newly constructed, State-of-the-art Administrative cum Faculty Block of the Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI), besides a Government Silk Weaving Factory and Silk Filatures facility at Bari Brahamana.
Advisor to the Lt Governor, KK Sharma; Chief Secretary B. V. R. Subrahmanyam; Financial Commissioner Heal... | |
| | | | Private School vehicles violate traffic norms with impunity | | |  Rajesh Tandon
Early Times Report
MENDHAR, Feb 1: Scores of private school vehicles including vans and buses ferrying school children in Mendhar Sub Division are openly indulging in violating traffic norms.
The school vehicles are being operated without the mandatory provision of windows having three grills with a maximum gap of 20 centimeters besides over loading. This shows that how the drivers are overlooking the safety norms and are least bothered about the children.
They play with th... | |
| | | | 2 boys held while trying to cross LoC in Baramulla | | |  S TAHIR-UL HAQ
EARLY TIMES REPORT
BARAMULLA, Feb 1: Two students of class 11th who were arrested while trying to cross Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir district of Baramulla, after which they were handed over to their families today, while as 5 youth of south Kashmir were earlier handed over to their families.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Baramulla, Abdul Qayoom in a press conference said that, two young boys namely Nadeem Ayoub Dar S/O Mohammad Ayoub Dar R/O Shopian, Shak... | |
| | | | JK to bolster local entrepreneurs | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 1: To bolster local economy, Jammu and Kashmir administration has come up with a list of directives to departments asking them to procure certain goods and services produced and provided by micro and small enterprises in the new Union Territory.
This comes at a time when Kashmir’s economy is almost shut while local entrepreneurs are not able to export or import goods. An official said that Lieutenant General Girish Chandra Murmu wants to boost the economic activities of small entrepreneurs. “Kashmir’s economy has been badly hit since August 5. Units of several small entrepreneurs are at the verge of closure because they are not able to do... | |
| | | | OBCs term new reservation rules a fraud with them | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 1: There is a brewing resentment among the people belonging to other backward classes in the J& K against the new reservation policy in the UT announced by Government yesterday.
The people of OBC communities feel cheated by the Government decision and term it usurping of their Constitutional rights.
The OBCs of both the divisions of UT including Jammu and Kashmir are shocked over the decison saying that Government has failed to provide justice to them.
The resentment among the OBC people has come from Kashmir Valley mostly and representatives of the community in the Valley term the decision unfortunate.
Sources said OBC bodies of both the regions have de... | |
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