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Issues transfer order of official who retired 2 yrs ago GAD does a Jaspal Bhatti 4/11/2015 12:26:57 AM Early Times Report Jammu, April 10: After issuing controversial circular on State flag on March 12, 2015, the General Administration Department (GAD) of State Government today committed another blunder by transferring an official of Civil Secretariat who retired two years back. One Head Assistance who has been transferred on March 9, 2015 from Planning and Development Department to Power Development Department retired two years back but the GAD officials were not aware of the fact. Credible sources said that there was total anarchy in GAD and those at the helm of the affairs were not knowing about the secretariat staff. While issuing transfer orders, the GAD officers did not even confirm whether the officials they were transferring were serving or not. Order No 528-GAD of 2015 dated 9-4-2015 said: "In the interest of administration following transfers adn postings of the Section Officers and Head Assistants of J&K Secretariat (Subordinate) Services are here by ordered with immediate effect". Shockingly retired officials were also transferred under this order. Earlier GAD depart...   READ MORE

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Return of migrant KPs, a political stunt or an honest move? 4/11/2015 12:21:53 AM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, April 10: Lot of talk is going on for the past few days over the return of migrant Kashmiri Pandits to the Kashmir valley, but as on date it seems to be more of a political stunt rather than being an honest move. Since 25 years have passed ever since the Kashmiri Pandits left the Kashmir valley there is a general perception among people that the Kashmiri Pandits would not come back. This is more so with the young Kashmiri Pandits who were born after 1990 when the militancy erupted in the Kashmir valley. "Young Kashmiri Pandits who have got their education in different parts of India have got settled in India and abroad. These people would n...   READ MORE   New minister silent on old promotion scam in Agri Deptt 4/11/2015 12:21:46 AM Akshay Azad ET Report Jammu, April 10: A major promotion scandal, which had badly paralyzed functioning of Agriculture Production Department (APD) during previous National Conference-Congress led coalition government, is yet to catch the attention of new Agriculture minister. Ghulam Nabi Lone, the new minister, is yet to implement a slew of High Court judgments that were deliberately ignored by his predecessor Ghulam Hassan Mir. The scandal surfaced in 2008 after some ineligible officers were promoted on ad-hoc basis, ignoring the per recruitment rules of 1988. A government order (No. 279-Agri of 2008, dated 7/10/2008) was issued during the Governor rule in the backdrop of a court judg...   READ MORE   No'Israel type' clusters for Kashmiri Pandits: Mufti 4/11/2015 12:21:38 AM Early Times Report Jammu, April 10: Reiterating his opposition to composite townships for Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed today said his government was committed to bring displaced community back but ruled out setting up "Israel-type" separate clusters for their settlement. "We will not make separate clusters that Israel has set up. Neither we will make that (separate townships) nor they (Kashmiri Pandits) have desired to live in that," Mufti told the Legislative Council here on Friday. "During my previous tenure in 2003, we set up camps for them in Sheikhpura, and some places in Anantnag and Kupwara. They said they cannot live separately. We will ...   READ MORE   Justice (R) Khan to head SAC, Nazki SHRC 4/11/2015 12:21:26 AM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Jammu, April 10: The State Accountability Commission as well as the state Human Right Commission are all set to get the Chairman shortly as BJP-PDP government has decided to fill up the posts shortly. Pertinent to mention out of six commissions, five commissions set up by the Jammu and Kashmir government are "headless" as the post of chairman in these commissions is lying vacant, while all positions were vacant in four of these commissions. As per the sources, the State Accountability Commission that has been constituted under Jammu and Kashmir Accountability Commission Act, 2002 to inquire into grievances and allegations against public functionaries...   READ MORE   Posts advertised in Dec 2013, appointments yet to be made NREGA: Absence of ombudsmen breeds corruption 4/11/2015 12:21:11 AM Early Times Report Jammu, April 10: In December 2013, after an inordinate delay, the state government announced that it was appointing ombudsmen at various places for hearing complaints regarding implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). One year on, however, the appointments are yet to be made. On December 26, 2013 this newspaper exclusively reported how absence of NREGA Lok Pal (ombudsman) was affecting the implementation of this centrally sponsored scheme. The report prompted the Rural Development Department to issue an advertisement notice on December 30, 2013 regarding appointment of ombudsmen; applications were sought from the eligible candidates. The Nation...   READ MORE   Irresponsible statements making confusion worse confounded Ram Madhav the 'villain' 4/11/2015 12:21:01 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 10: BJP national general secretary and former "half-baked" RSS ideologue Ram Madhav is at the receiving end in Jammu region, which not only houses almost 4 million Dogras, but also over 1.5 million refugees from PoJK, West Pakistan and Kashmir valley. Everyone in Jammu is charging him with playing "dubious games" and directly and indirectly "encouraging" separatist and communal forces in the Valley. The original inhabitants of Jammu region are denouncing him because they believe, and rightly, that he and his bosses in Delhi like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah have compromised the age-old Indian stand on Jammu and Kashmir by ...   READ MORE   Unhappy with posting, IPS officer applies for deputation to Centre 4/11/2015 12:20:49 AM Early Times Report Jammu, April 10: Feeling dejected with his "unimportant" posting, a senior IPS officer of the rank of IGP has applied for deputation to the Centre. He had a long stay in the CID wing of the state police and his work was appreciated by one and all in his department. During the last reshuffle in the higher rung of police department, he expected some important assignment but when the government shifted him to Home Guards, he made up his mind to serve outside the state on deputation, according to reliable sources in police administration. Sources said the IGP had applied for deputation to the Centre and had been using his connections in the union home ministry to get his...   READ MORE   In Kar's demise Congress and Kashmir have lost a vocal voice 4/11/2015 12:20:40 AM M.L. Kak Early Times Report Jammu, April 10: Though he may have been a spent- up force for many Congressmen owing to his age,Ghulam Rasool Kar was a voice heard from various quarters in the Kashmir valley.In his demise the Congress has lost a real stalwart,a true nationalist and a real fighter for a cause. As a senior most Congress leader and a member of the Constituent Assembly Ghulam Rasool Kar was respected within the party circles and in the Congress High command. Veteran Congress leader and former minister Ghulam Rasool Kar passed away in Srinagar Thursday night. He was 93.Kar was not well for sometime and he breathed his last at S K Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura...   READ MORE   PCC revamp: Party retains anti-Hindu image in Doda 4/11/2015 12:20:30 AM Kunal Shrivatsa Early Times Report Jammu, April 10: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) has once again displayed its biasness against the Hindus in Doda district as members from the community have got negligible representation in the recently reconstituted PCC. One of the major factors in Congress' massive downslide in the state in Lok Sabha as well as Assembly elections in Jammu region in 2014 was its alleged anti-Hindu image. The verdict of Hindu community against the Congress in Jammu province during the 2014 polls resulted in worst ever debacle of grand old party of the country. It scored a zero out of two Lok Sabha constituencies while it managed to win only five A...   READ MORE   Former vanguard of nationalism, BJP now plays soft-separatism Dy CM seeks transfer of power projects to state 4/11/2015 12:20:21 AM ET Report Jammu, April 10: The J&K unit of the BJP, which assumed the role of the vanguard of nationalism, has now donned the role of soft-separatism. The party has changed its ideology to be seen as more sensitive to the 'nationalistic' or even 'sub-nationalism' aspirations and feeling of the people of the Kashmir. The changed position was reflective on Friday by the deputy chief minister Nirmal Singh, who also holds the power department portfolio. The Dy CM asked the centre to handover the NHPC projects to the State. The assertion and demand came after the union power ministry has categorically rejected this demand of the state in a reply to a question by the PDP MP Tariq Hamid Qara. ...   READ MORE   SAC,SVC drain exchequer, spare guilty Toothless tigers consume Rs 20 cr 4/11/2015 12:20:09 AM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report srinagar, April 10: The government led by Omar Abdullah coalition despite undermining the vitality of the anti-graft bodies in Jammu and Kashmir during the past six years has surprisingly claimed to have spent a whooping amount of around 20 crore rupees for the functioning of anti corruption commissions SAC, SIC, SVC and others. Early Times has learnt more than six crore, thirty lakhs rupees was the expenditure borne by the Jammu and Kashmir State Accountability Commission (JKSAC). During the year 2010-11, more than 85 lakh rupees were spent on the anti graft body by the state dispensation. One crore and seventy three lakhs were spent by the JKSAC a year...   READ MORE   NC, Cong, NPP are all ridiculing the party with a difference BJP of U-turns 4/11/2015 12:19:45 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 10: The BJP is not a party with a difference. It is a party of U-turns. The Congress, which was rejected by the Jammu electorate in the 2014 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, is ridiculing the BJP and accusing it of doing a complete U-turn on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-like institute both in and outside the Legislature. Congress Legislature Party leader, Nawang Rigzin Jora, on Thursday used the floor of the assembly to accuse the BJP of not standing by its promise of establishing the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Jammu. Making an intervention at the beginning of the question hour in the Assembly here, Jora asked th...   READ MORE   Neurosurgeon goes on leave, works in pvt hospital 4/11/2015 12:19:25 AM Arun Singh Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 10: A lone neurosurgeon posted at Government Gandhi Nagar Hospital is on leave for last four months but is working in a private nursing home. Dr Sudhir Sabarwal had been conducting OPD for five days a week. Now it has been more four months that the OPD is without a neurosurgeon as Dr Sabarwal has gone on leave. Sources said that he has gone on a long leave in search of a better and lucrative job. "He went on a long leave after he was not selected in Super Specialty Hospital against one vacant post of Assistant Surgeon," the sources said. "Feeling insecure and dejected, Dr Sabarwal tendered his resignation from the job, which was, however not...   READ MORE   Protest against Govt's plan to settle migrant KPs turns violent in Sgr Malik, other JKLF activists arrested 4/11/2015 12:17:39 AM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Apr 10: Protests broke out in some of the areas of the summer capital after the police and security forces did not allow the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) activists to carry out a march against the central government's plan of settling the migrant Kashmiri Pandits in satellite townships. Eye-witnesses told Early Times that soon after the culmination of Friday prayers scores of JKLF activists and some other people assembled near the Fr...   READ MORE   Work on quarters for doctors, paramedics, mortuary yet to start 5 yrs on, Health Deptt fails to construct DH Samba 4/11/2015 12:16:59 AM G S Asgotra Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 10: Five years on the construction of District Hospital Samba (DHS) has not ended causing inconvenienceto the patients. Source in the department informed Early Times that in March 2010, the department had started construction of a triple storey building of Samba District Hospital with ICU, CCU, OTs, Mortuary, six doctors and 12 paramedical quarters, but after more than two years since the expiry of deadline for completion, the construction of mortuary and quarters was yet not completed. Sources further said, "On one hand government had asserted to provide all the basic amenities at district level Health Centre, so that the burden of Governme...   READ MORE   3 lecturers posted against 23 sanctioned posts in GDC Ramban Peripheral colleges face pressing shortage of faculty 4/11/2015 12:16:44 AM Bijay Charak Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 10: The Government Degree Colleges (GDC) in peripheral areas of state have been grappling with shortage of permanent staff. GDC Ramban is a case in point which has only 3 permanent lecturers against 23 sanctioned positions. Reliable sources in Higher Education department informed Early Times that state government had established GDC Ramban in the year 2005 with 23 sanctioned posts of Assistant Professors, one post of Librarian and one of Physical instructor; but due to such shortage of permanent Assistant Professors, every year 20 contractual staffers are being engaged to manage the affairs of college. Criticizing state government, Ashiq Hu...   READ MORE   Officials working in PDD for 20 yrs, not yet transferred 4/11/2015 12:16:37 AM Ajay Sharma Early Times Report Rajouri, Apr 10: Some officials of PDD (power development department) Rajouri are alleged to be moving from pillar to post to remain posted in the area they have been serving for more than 20 years in almost all the 8 sub divisions of district Rajouri, including sub division Sunderbani, Sub-division Kalakote and Sub-division Kotranka. According to sources, some officials of PDD Rajouri are holding their office for the last 20 years in many of the sub-divisions of district Rajouri. Some Junior Engineers in these sub-division were again posted in the same sub-divisions after their promotion as Assistant Engineers. Chief Engineer Ajay Gupta, when contacte...   READ MORE   Anantnag Private Schools violate Court orders, charge fee for Sept, Oct 4/11/2015 12:16:28 AM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Anantnag, Apr 10: In blatant violation of the High Court directions, several private schools in this southern district are charging fee for September and October months of last year. Scores of parents whose wards are enrolled in Radiant Public School, Oxford Presentation, EFF EMM School, Sidra public School, Delhi Public School Sangam and Saint Lukes School complained that the school authorities were charging the tuition fee for both the months despite High Court directive. They alleged that School authorities were forcing them to clear the dues of September and October; otherwise their wards would not be allowed to sit in the classes. "I went to Ra...   READ MORE   J&K spends Rs 120 crore annually on security of protected persons 4/11/2015 12:16:17 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 10: Jammu and Kashmir government is providing security to 1278 Protected Persons (PPs) in the shape of PSOs, residential guards, vehicles and hotel accommodation. This information was given by Minister for Hajj and Auqaf, Abdul Rehman Veeri on behalf of Chief Minister while replying to a question by Jugal Kishore in LC here today. Minister said monthly expenditure on account of security of these protected persons in Rs. 10 crore per month (approx) which includes salary of PSOs , Fuel, Hotel, Accommodation and Residential Guard etc. This is around Rs.120 crore annually, which the government spends on the security of the protected persons. Minister further ...   READ MORE   Hectic lobbying begins for Chairman LC 4/11/2015 12:16:12 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 10: As the elections to the chairman and deputy chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council have been scheduled on April12, hectic lobbying for the posts has begun with Inayat Ali, Zafar Iqbal Manhas Khursheed Aalam and Saifuddin Bhat emerging as the front runners for Chairmanship of the council. Sources in PDP said that though senior and influential ministers is supporting Inayat Ali of Kargil for the post, other senior ministers are strongly opposed to the idea. Sources said some senior cabinet ministers in PDP are not in favour of Inayat. They, according to the sources, have a convincing argument that Inayat is undereducated and does not des...   READ MORE

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