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Will opposition contest dilution of RTI Act? 1/30/2013 11:36:34 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Jan 30: Many months have passed since the J&K Government made amendments in J&K RTI Rules of 2010. The Government has been under serious criticism from RTI activists , media and civil society. Even the Chief Information Commissioner of State Information Commission G R Sufi had shown his resentment over the amendments which eventually made the State Information Commission a lame duck as it cannot initiate action against the top Government officials over the non implementation of J&K RTI Act 2009. The Information Commission has powers to penalize the Public Information Officers (PIO's) and this continues in the new rules as well. Earlier the Commission could even summon the Chief Secretary of the State but that thing cannot happen now in view of the amendments made in J&K RTI Rules 2010. As the budget session of the Assembly is going to start next month the RTI activists across the state are having their eyes on the opposition who they feel could take up the issue in the Assembly. Last year when the orders for amendments of J&K RTI Rules 2010 were p...   READ MORE

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Khanday likely to take over as new CS 1/30/2013 11:35:26 PM Early TImes Report Jammu, Jan 30 : With the incumbent Madhav Lal's name having been cleared for appointment as Secretary to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Govt of India, the stage is all set for appointment of a new Chief Secretary. Sources said that Lal, who had already intimated the Department of Personnel and Trainings (DoPT) that he was available for the appointment as Secretary with the Union Government, will replace Vivek Rai, a 1978 batch IAS officer, who has been posted as new Petroleum Secretary with the Central Government reportedly, having given its nod to the proposal.However, when contacted, Chief Secretary Madhav Lal expressed ignorance over the development. "I do...   READ MORE   NREGA scam comes to fore in Shopian 1/30/2013 11:35:18 PM Javaid Naikoo Srinagar, Jan 30: What could turn out to be major scam in the name of Mahatma Gandhi, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and constituency development fund in Shopian as the estimates shown for the construction of a link road varies extremely with what is being actually spent on the said work. According to details, the material and labourers used for the construction of a link road between Rawalpora Shopian to Zeran-Nad gives a clear picture of how Government funds sanctioned are grabbed by high profile people in nexus with Government officials in Kashmir. Some 1069 labourers have been shown in the estimate for cutting of trees and dressing of sides along...   READ MORE   Ordeal of a militant's wife 1/30/2013 11:34:44 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 30: Being married to a militant leader was quite like being the wife of Vito Corleone in her start-up days. Young girls in the neighbourhood would take care to be seen around Shayista Naseem only, in a burqa. The more awed would say prayers to keep on the right side of the wife of a militant leader. The militant (requested anonymity) and Shayista set up home in Srinagar after marrying in 2000, the 24-year-old woman than, a willing bride to a militant who was the so-called commander of the Hizb-ul Mujahideen, Kashmir's top rebel group. There was danger in that life, but there was also veneration for the queen of the mohalla. Shayista was also as pretty a...   READ MORE   PHE Minister Sham Lal to act tough against corrupt, probe likely to be ordered soon Scam worth crores in Kathua, Reasi, Rajouri divisions 1/30/2013 11:36:07 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Jan 30: If the manner which Minister for PHE and Irrigation Sham Lal Sharma has tightened noose around the delinquent officers is any indication, a thorough probe into allegations of scams worth crores of rupees in PHE divisions of Rajouri, Reasi, Kathua and Samba during the last 16 years is likely to be ordered soon. Sources said that an umbrage of complaints have reached the office of PHE Minister with people seeking a thorough probe into the alleged wrongs committed by officials at various positions during their postings in these three divisions. They maintained that copies of complaints which renowned social worker of Samba Late Hoshiar Singh had made d...   READ MORE   Pro-autonomy NC says it will expose 'divisive' forces Exercise in self-deception 1/30/2013 11:35:05 PM Early TImes Report JAMMU, Jan 30: Newly-appointed provincial president National Conference (NC), Devender Rana, in whom NC working president and J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah reposed confidence a few days back believing that he would improve the party's poll prospects in Jammu province, yesterday dismissed certain parties in the state as "aberrations on the political map of the state" and declared that the NC will "isolate and expose the divisive forces which are power hungry and are hoodwinking the people for their petty political gains". He did not name the parties. He simply asserted that these parties will "disappear from the same because they lack an ideological bond or polit...   READ MORE   Govt unable to take decision on Sahai's replacement? 1/30/2013 11:36:22 PM Early TImes Report Jammu, Jan 30: The inability of the State government to issue promotion/posting orders of police officers to the ranks of ADGs, IGPs and DIGs after the DPCs cleared those promotions is creating a lot of frustration and anger among the senior police officers in the state. Talking to Early Times one of the officers cleared by the DPC for higher rank said, "It is pathetic that the state government is holding the entire promotion process to the ADG, IGP and DIG ranks on the hold because it is not able to decide on the replacement of present IGP Kashmir zone." It is widely believed in the Police Department that the State Government has been toying on names to replace the ...   READ MORE   Dis-contented Ministers stay away from offices Post reshuffle 1/30/2013 11:36:49 PM Bashir Assad Jammu, Jan 30: The conspicuous absence of a number of senior Ministers from their offices after January15 cabinet reshuffle-cum-expansion has revealed a festering discontentment in Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's government. Most of the senior Ministers particularly from Congress chose to stay away from their offices in the Civil Secretariat on one pretext or the other while offices of a couple of newly inducted senior ministers from NC camp also remain locked for most of the time since January 15 when the cabinet expansion took place. While Congress Ministers are upset over stripping of the important portfolios- they were holding before Jan15, few NC Ministers are upse...   READ MORE   BSF board to negate tunnels on Indo-Pak border 1/30/2013 11:35:43 PM Early TImes Report Jammu, Jan 30: Taking serious concern of a 400-mt tunnel at the Indo-Pak border, BSF has set up a high-level board for meticulous scanning of the international boundary to rule out existence of such underground passages, a senior official said today. "IG BSF (Punjab Range) will head the board," Inspector General of the border guarding force, which protects 2,289 km of the IB along Pakistan, Rajiv Krishna told reporters here. BSF authorities had detected the 400-mt tunnel from Pakistan to India along Indo-Pak Border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on July 28 last year. "It is a matter of very serious concern. This exercise is not only being carried out in J...   READ MORE

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