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| NHPC rejects state's claim on Salal as Cabinet decision no. 328 disappears in thin air | | A costly miss! | | | Losses add up to whopping Rs 2300cr
Akshay Azad
Jammu, Jan 4: The highhandedness of state government and its bureaucratic machinery could be well gauged from the fact that a Special Task Force (STF) which was constituted, to fix responsibility for the misplacement of cabinet decision, has itself been lost in oblivion, as no one knows about the fate of much hyped STF.
Sources informed Early Times that on May 22, 2012, the state government had constituted a four members Special Task Force, to find out circumstances under which Cabinet decision number 328 of 21-06-1975 -pertaining to agreement between J&K and Union governments for execution, energy sharing and transfer of Salal Power Project- had gone missing and fix the accountability for the lapse; but astoundingly, the STF itself has been lost in oblivion as none of the officer has any trace of the report.
"It was on the basis of above said cabinet decision that the state government had entered into an agreement with NHPC for Salal Power Project, but the record pertaining to the cabinet decision as well as the agreement was foun... | |
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| Omar's five years have been an era of scams and scandals | | Yes, facts speak-I | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 4: Omar Abdullah led coalition government completes five years in office tomorrow. A detailed advertisement titled `Facts speak' has been issued by the Department of Information highlighting the achievements of the coalition government.
Yes, facts speak. Nobody contests this but what do they speak by the way. The facts reflect that corruption has flourished and almost `institutionalized' in the past five years. It has been an era of scams and scandals. Spurious drugs, BOPEE scam, Exam-gate, Infant deaths, land grabbing, fudging of forensic reports and the list is endless.
Interestingly, the Chief Minister while assuming office on January 5, 2009 promised ... | |
| | | | J&K politicians have no need to emulate Kejriwal and his AAP | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 4: A number of political leaders have started emulating the style of functioning of the new Delhi Chief Minister,Arvind Kejriwal,and the policies of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
A senior Congress leader belonging to Maharashtra has urged Chief Minister,Prithivi Raj Chavan to reduce power tariff on the pattern the AAP has introduced in Delhi.Uttarakhand Chief Minister,Vijay Bahuguna,has been visiting various localities in Dehradun for assessing the plight of shelterless people so that he too could emulate Kejriwal who has announced constructing 45 shelter sheds for shelterless people.
Number of political parties have started emulating AAP's pattern of collecti... | |
| | | | Infighting in "disciplined" BJP getting murkier over mandates for Lok Sabha seats | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 4: Infighting in the state unit of "disciplined" BJP has intensified as large number of leaders have been staking claims on two Parliamentary seats of Jammu province.
During the visit of BJP national general secretary Ram Lal, who was in Jammu for the last three days, a large number of BJP leaders staked their claims on Lok Sabha seats. BJP leaders not only presented themselves as winnable candidates but they also "exposed" others before the visiting leader.
Infighting in the disciplined party getting murkier with every passing days and "dedicated" and "committed" leaders using every opportunity and platform to expose their rivals in the party.
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| | | | Omar Govt completes five years; nothing to show on ground | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 4: What has Omar Abdullah led National Conference (NC)-Congress government to show to people of Jammu and Kashmir after completing five years in office?
Going by the facts, one can easily understand that this government is one of the worst ever governments in the state which only promoted corruption within and outside without getting caught. The National Conference has never worked for the betterment of people of the state and this time also, they failed to make any heady.
Even they showed a backward trend in fields like development, security and integrity.
The chief minister Omar Abdullah was more of a separatist man than a person having integrity with the... | |
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