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Corporation silent over deputation of SMVDU PIO Queer ways of JKML 12/31/2013 11:00:21 PM Avinash Azad Jammu, Dec 31: The casual working of Government departments could be well gauged from the fact that Jammu and Kashmir Minerals Limited (JKML) is still silent over the deputation period of Rajesh Kumar Sharma, incumbent Public Information Officer (PIO) of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU). Sources informed Early Times that Rajesh Kumar Sharma, the then Section Officer at Jammu and Kashmir Minerals Limited (JKML) had joined SMVDU as Section Officer (Legal) on July 1, 2009, on lien basis. "The posting on lien basis is maximum for three years and if some officer will not return to the parent department, his lien stands cancelled but astonishingly, the Jammu and Kashmir Minerals Limited is still silent over the status of Rajesh Kumar Sharma, who is at SMVDU for the last around five years", sources said, adding that in the meantime Rajesh Kumar Sharma had also get adjusted as Assistant Registrar in SMVDU. In reply to RTI application, the Jammu and Kashmir Minerals Limited was found silent over the deputation of Rajesh Kumar Sharma on lien basis. "Rajesh Sharma SO...   READ MORE

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Adhocism in State administration mars Governance 12/31/2013 11:00:08 PM Bashir Assad Jammu, Dec 31: Governance in Jammu and Kashmir continues to be affected by the administrative adhocism and hundreds of gazetted officers, including Heads of Departments (HoDs) and Secretaries to the Government, are either holding additional charge of other substantive posts or officiating on substantive positions without the Government's confirmation and the list of top-level bureaucrats and officers managing more than one post is piling up with each passing day. Even a cursory look at the hierarchy of the State's bureaucracy brings to fore that many top bureaucrats of the level of Commissioner Secretaries and Secretaries to the Government are holding additional charges of di...   READ MORE   Congress, NC Ministers express differences over key issues Cabinet meet witnesses 'verbal duel' 12/31/2013 11:00:01 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 31: In what can be seen as the two allies of the coalition government Congress and National Conference coming to fore, Omar Abdullah led cabinet today saw differences over some issues expressed by ministers from both the camps. It is for the first time that ministers from both the parties asserted on the key issues that were to be discussed as agenda in the meeting held here today in the Secretariat premises. Sources said while the Congress camp put its foot down in government making delay in incorporating 73rd constitutional amendment in the state law, a demand which Congress has been raising for along time and on which the high command has also asserted lat...   READ MORE   NH closed, avalanche warning issued, 3 rescued Heavy Snowfall Decorates Kashmir 12/31/2013 10:59:48 PM Javaid Naikoo SRINAGAR, Dec 31: Even as heavy snowfall decorated Kashmir in white colour, it also closed the national highway and forced the authorities to issue a avalanche warning. With the MET office predicting moderate to heavy snowfall till January 2, the decoration may turn into a nightmare. The MET office has also predicted avalanches. The weather, MeT office said is likely to improve after January 2. The fresh snowfall which decorated Kashmir in white colour, closed the national highway, increased chances of avalanches in upper reaches, followed by forecast of MeT department predicting moderate to heavy snowfall till January 2nd, besides three youth buried under an avalanche were...   READ MORE   New Delhi seeks suspension of SC proceedings Kashmir in UN 12/31/2013 10:59:34 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 31: On January 1, 1948, the Government of India lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations accusing Pakistan of aggression in "Indian territory." The complaint made clear that the Government of India was committed to allow people of Jammu Kashmir exercise their option once the Valley was cleared off the invader. Gopalaswamy Ayyanger, the Indian representative made the Indian stand clear. He said: "The question whether she (Kashmir) should withdraw from her accession to India and either accede to Pakistan or remain independent with a right to claim admission as a member of the United Nations-all this we have recognized to be a matter of unfettered ...   READ MORE   Yet another Congress' attempt to hoodwink ignored Jammu Equitable development of three regions 12/31/2013 10:59:09 PM Rustam Jammu, Dec 31: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) and the Congress Ministers in the Omar Abdullah-led coalition Government would not reform themselves taking into consideration the mood of the people of Jammu province. This became clear on December 28, when the JKPCC and Jammu District Congress Committee (JDCC) members organized a function in connection with the foundation day of the Congress party. It was on December 28, 1885 that the Britons founded the Congress party at Mumbai with the help of 72 English educated Indians drawn from different parts of British India to check the ongoing freedom struggle in the country. During the function, several Congress ...   READ MORE

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