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| Even after fortnight BSNL fails to restore communication network fully in Valley | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 23: Even after a fortnight of flash floods in Kashmir Valley the BSNL has failed to restore the services in Kashmir Valley completely. The people in flood hit Valley are facing complete problems due to networking failure and various banks have not also resumed their functioning in Kashmir fully due to networking problem.
The functioning of BSNL has come to a severe criticism and the organisation has been taken to task for not taking premptive measures to deal with the situations created due to natural calamites. The people even after a fortnight are unable to connect with their
relatives and friends in flood ravaged Kashmir Valley from other parts of country to know their welfare, said Abdul Khaliq a Kashmiri businessman in Delhi while talking to this reporter.
He said for last 15 days he was trying to talk to his relatives and friends in Valley but he could not get the line as there is problem in BSNL networking. Khaliq said if such is the functioning of an organisation in this modern age then what is the fun of keeping
telephones.
The failure of BSNL to restore the connectivity in flood hit Kashmir Valley has taken people to stone age where there was no link of people living in one area of the Valley to another area. Presently situation is in no way different in Kashmir, he added.
Supporting Khaliq Mohammed Yaqub a technocrat working with a private organization in Chandigarh said that he too tried a lot to talk to his relatives putting up in down town of Capital city Srinagar. Though I came to know from one of my friends who had visited Kashmir that the area near Hari Parbhat Srinagar was safe where my relatives were living I could not make any contact with them during last fortnight.
Yaqub said that Union Telecommunication Ministry should look into this problem and find out a mechanism for future in which there is any alternative to communication system during such natural calamities. The people over the years have totally become dependent on BSNL and private communication services but it has now been proved the same is not dependable, he added.
He said that the BSNL as well as other telecom companies should install its towers at such places where they are at least not affected by flash floods and in Kashmir Valley as well as Capital City of Srinagar there are many such places where the towers could have been installed. But till date BSNL has not given a thought to it, he added.
Govt Hospital Gandhi Nagar sans receipt books
Patients apprehend misappropriation of payments made for tests
Arun Singh
Jammu, Sept 23: Yet another can of worm is waiting to be unlid in Government hospital Gandhi Nagar where patients are being denied receipts against payments made for various diagnostic tests being conducted there.
Sources told Early Times that patients undergoing various Radiological tests like X-ray, Ultrasound, CT Scan etc. on the advise of the doctors in the Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar, are not being issued payment receipts by the Radiology Department for the last one week citing unavailability of stationery which smells another scam.
"Radiology department of GH Gandhi Nagar had been issuing unapproved payment receipts to the patients for tests till last week but later they stopped issuing the same on the excuse that stationary was out of stock," they said. Sources further revealed that this malpractice under the noose of hospital authority creates doubt that the amount collected for various test is being swindled.
When contacted Medical Superintend GH Gandhi Nagar Dr Mohammad Younis Choudhary admitted that the earlier payment receipts were issued on unapproved slips. "When I assumed office I found the practice unauthorized and immediately I have issued order to stop the practice," Dr said.
"We have placed an order for payment receipts books from Government Press which is taking time but in the meantime I have asked the employees to issue payment slips on a paper with their initials till the Government Receipts books are made available," he said.
'Long live our carpets'
Octogenerian couple dares flood fury for costly rugs
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 23: Even as Kashmiris are out to help each other, a team of burglars roamed in boats and homemade rafts to loot the devastated people. A few of them were caught and thrashed. The burglars hampered rescue operations as people , by and large preferred to stay at their respective places to protect their valuables from burglars.
An octogenerian couple in Shah Anbwar Colony braved the deadly water currents for seven days to save their precious carperts. Nobody visited them and they had no food to eat. Buytr, the determined old couple lived on what the people oif their4 locality called `clung-on' and miracolously survived till they were finally rescued.
The old couple are proud owners of very costly Kashmiri carpets each valued at Rs 300,000. As water made it way to their posh, clean and beautiful house, the couple somehow managed to take their carpets to the second floor (3rd strorey) of the house. This was enough to protect the precious carpets from water, but burglars were on prowl in the entire city. The couple took a quick decision. "We shall live or die with opur carpets." They stayed back in the house and it was not a `honeymoon' by any standards. They saved their carpets but put their lives to risk.
No interlocutor on Kashmir: Rajnath
Agencies
New Delhi, Sept 23: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has ruled out appointment of any interlocutor on Jammu and Kashmir saying such practices had been "non-productive" in the past.
The Home Minister also made it clear that he was not averse to talks and took a veiled dig at separatist conglomerate Hurriyat Conference saying he was against non-productive talks by anti-nationals "to burnish their own political image".
The Minister was asked that since Joint Intelligence Chief N Ravi was appointed as an interlocutor for the Northeast, whether a similar proposal for Kashmir was on the cards.
"How long can we go on appointing interlocutors? The practices of the past which are non-productive must be discontinued. Therefore, I am not in favour of appointing interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir.
"Now the time has come to have a rethink on appointing interlocutors. Having said this, let me clarify that I am not averse to talks. But I am also not in favour of non-productive talks which are carried out by anti-nationals to burnish their own political image in either Jammu and Kashmir or the Northeast," he was quoted as having said in an interview to a fortnighly magazine 'Governance Now'.
Academician Radha Kumar, veteran journalist Dileep Padgaonkar and M M Ansari had been interlocutors on Kashmir during UPA rule.
The Home Minister said government was keen on restoring peace in the northeast by empowering people and "not those who are working against the country?s interests.
About the initiatives taken by him since he was appointed as Home Minister, Singh said he would not be sharing operational details but added "my foremost task is to improve the morale of the forces. I have given clear instructions that we would not let our forces down, come what may."
Asked how he felt when he was bypassed in the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on matters related to crucial appointments in the government, Singh replied "I am amazed at people?s tendency to make a mountain out of a molehill. This is a procedural issue which does not merit undue attention. I am doing what I need to do."
Al-Qaeda India chief hires jihadists in J&K
New Delhi, Sept 23: Aasim Umar, the feared and reclusive leader of jihadist terror outfit al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent, christened Qaedat al-Jihad, is closely working with Harkat ul-Mujahideen (HuL) and Jaish-e-Mohammed to recruit and train jihadis for operations in Jammu and Kashmir, sources revealed.
According to intelligence sources, Umar is actively involved in recruitment of cadre from PoK and Jammu and Kashmir to carry out fidayeen (suicide) attacks targeting Indian establishments. He is also responsible for generating terror funds through donations using online forums and from sympathisers in West Asia. Although Umar's first operation, targeting a Pakistan navy frigate in Karachi in September, resulted in complete failure after three jihadis were killed and four were captured, intelligence officials say Qaedat al-Jihad may soon launch another attack in Pakistan.
The CIA's dossiers on Umar suggest that the teacher-turned-terrorist is is a close aide of Fazlur Rehman Khalil, self-styled chief commander of HuL. Umar, who is in his mid-40s, was introduced to Taliban leader Mullah Omar by Khalil. Umar had travelled to Khost in Afghanistan to meet former Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. A master of terror propaganda, Umar was later used by Qaeda as a cleric to brainwash youth.
Khalil was responsible for hijacking Indian Airlines flight IC814 in December 1999. |
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