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| J&K breaches Planning Commission rider; throws politically loaded employment salvo | | Cash starved State's fresh 80,000 Govt jobs | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Jan 11: In complete breach of stringent directives of Planning Commission of India (PCI) to cut down wage bill, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has announced 80,000 jobs for around 6 lakh unemployed youth.
Seen largely as attempt to woo young voters of Jammu and Kashmir, 80,000 jobs announcement is likely to invite wrath of Planning Commission, which has repeatedly asked the State to reduce annual wage bill of employees. A special committee has been constituted to oversee the process of employment and ensure that the jobs are given to the 80, 000 unemployed youth in the next two years.
This seemingly political development comes within few months of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah telling Government employees not to force Government for releasing arrears in one go, removing pay anomalies and increasing the retirement age on the plea that State was facing serious cash crunch. Besides, Chief Minister has gone on record to state that State was bearing a heavy burden of paying salaries amounting to Rs. 11,500 crore annually.
He has often asked the youngsters not t... | |
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| US dictating terms to sovereign India | | Helping rouge Pakistan | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 11: United States of America, which considers itself world master, which day in and day out crosses all the lines to promote its strategic and economic interests across the world and which enters deep inside countries like Pakistan to chase and kill Osama bin Laden, has started playing a mischief under the guise of peace in South Asia to help out Pakistan whose barbarous, inhuman and uncivilized Army breached the Line of Control on Tuesday last and brutally killed our two brave jawans Hem Raj and Sudhakar Singh and mutilated their bodies in the Mendhar sector in Poonch district. US says that it is concerned over the rise of tension between the brutalized India... | |
| | | | Cop grabs state land in Bijbehara; CM intervenes, but to no avail | | | | Saahil Suhail
Anantnag, Jan 11: The intervention of the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has also not been able to constraint revenue authorities in Bijbehara to probe into the allegations of grabbing state land by a police cop.
According to complaints, police cop identified as Farooq Ahmad Dar s/o Gulam Nabi Dar resident of Thajiwara Bijbehara has allegedly grabbed 51 Kanals of State land in the village.
Locals told ET, "Police cop has bribed everyone from peon to DC and that is the reason officials are keeping off."
Locals said that police cop has raised structure on state land in front of Government school building that was constructed in 1985.
"We have over a hundred times visited the... | |
| | | | Welcome to Lohri festival...... courtesy Tourism Deptt....! | | Why confine it to congested RN Bazar alone...? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 11: Once again the newspapers have been adorned with the colourful advertisements 'gifted' by the J&K's Tourism department , this time to celebrate the festival of Lohri in the City of Temples. It is a festive call for all to participate in the festivities of Lohri being organized by the Department, as always in association with the Raghunath Bazar Businessmen fraternity. The festive spirit so generated and enthusiasm of the RN Bazar business towards Lohri is well understood. But one wonders and is prompted to ask why Toursim Department chooses to shrink and confine the celebrations around this area, which is already too congested and heavily burdened with... | |
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