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| `Govt lethargy and not just CSC responsible for delay' | | New Administrative Units still a distant dream | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
Jammu, Jan 6: Though the State Government time and again blows trumpet of completing the tasks in hand in a time bound manner, the series of extensions given to Cabinet Sub-Committee (CSC) on creation of new administrative units reflects the real 'seriousness and work culture' of the Government.
The CSC headed by Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand was constituted on July 24 last to examine the modalities for the implementation of the Mushtaq Ganaie Committee report and to inculcate fresh demands which came to fore from time to time.
The Committee, which was supposed to complete the entire exercise within a period of one month, has so far consumed a period of more than five... | |
| | | | Govt's VSA scheme: payment releases without record | | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Jan 6: The mismanagement, in the Voluntarily Service Allowances (VSA) scheme launched by the J&K Government under the Policy Document on Employment titled ' Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for the Youth (SKEWPY), proves a dent on public exchequer involving Crores of rupees as the payment is being released to the beneficiaries on monthly basis for the last three years without record.
As per scheme launched from April 1st, 2010, "the VSA will be paid, on monthly basis, through the concerned District Employment and Counselling Centres, on non cash basis (through bank) which including Rs 600 per month in favour of each eligible persons who have passed ma... | |
| | | | Omar fails to time frame implementation of PM's employment package | | Overage KP youth in dilemma | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 6: Dashing the hopes of displaced youth, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah failed to make any commitment on the filling up of remaining 4500 posts under PM's employment package.
Addressing a convention of Youth All India Kashmiri Samaj (YAIKS) here the previous day, Omar did not make any reference to the PM's employment package and its time bound implementation.
The CM also failed to make any commitment on the 221 over aged youth who did not appear in the previous merit list. These 221 youth had high expectations from CM and were hopeful that he will announce jobs for them.
Omar Abdullah failed to give reasons for delay in implementation of PM's employment pa... | |
| | | | Vested interests sabotage insulation of neutral conductors | | PDD fails Omar in curbing Power theft, T&D losses | | | Avinash Azad
Jammu, Jan 6: The Power Development Department has miserably failed Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who was under pressure from the Planning Commission of India to take SOS measures to plug T&D losses and power pilferage in the state. PDD has failed to insulate neutral conductor, remedial step suggested by SERC to prevent power theft.
Sources informed Early Times that the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) in its recommendations had asked PDD for providing insulated cable as neutral conductor in all LT networks to prevent illegal hooking. "As per the direction issued by the SERC, the insulted cable was to be placed in phase manner two years back. But, paradoxically s... | |
| | | | Achievement claims rub salt in pestering wounds | | 5 Years of Coalition Govt | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Jan 6: Extravagant advertisement issued by the Coalition Government highlighting its achievements to mark completion of five years of its term has turned out to be a spoof on its own credibility and claim.
The advertisement titled "Let Facts Speak" speaks volumes of the failures and disappointments of the Coalition Government that dot its hyped list of achievements which include Awami Ikhtiyarat, Rozgar, Bijli, Pani, Sadak, Sehat and Taleem.
It is ironical that first in its list of achievements, the coalition Government has made a mention of Public rights and empowerment, while the fact is that the coalition Government would be remembered for withholding empowerment o... | |
| | | | Expelled Shah, Nayeem, Inqilabi square up against Mirwaiz led faction | | Fragmented Separatist camps on civil war | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 6: The fragmented separatist factions who used to claim themselves as representatives of Kashmir are now up in arms against each other after one faction led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq recently expelled top brass leaders from the amalgam and declared them as undisciplined.
According to the details, reacting back strongly against the separatist faction named as (M) led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, top brass leaders who are also heads of their own separatist parties namely Shabir Shah heading 'freedom party, Chairman 'National Front' Nayeem Ahmad Khan and Azam Inqilabi chairman of 'Mahaz-i-Azadi' after being expelled from the separatist amalgam not only claimed stake ove... | |
| | | | NC-Congress coalition perpetrates one more injustice on Jammu | | Grant of backward area status to 45 villages | | | Rustam
Jammu, Jan 6: The other day, the National Conference (NC)-Congress coalition Government officially declared 45 villages as "Backward Areas" and entitled the people of these villages to 20 per cent reservation in Government jobs and 10 per cent in promotions. The Social Welfare Department notified 45 backward villages after the State Cabinet under Chief Minister Omar Abdullah okayed the proposal to this effect in a meeting held last month. The villages were notified as backward after amending the relevant Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Rules. The Congress Ministers, who repeatedly say that the coalition Government is fair and doesn't discriminate between regions in any sphere, were a ... | |
| | | | Swindles Rs 2 cr, probe progresses at snail's pace | | Over 500 women duped by JWCC bank | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Jammu, Jan 6: Around 500 women from Jammu have been allegedly duped by the Jammu Women Credit Cooperative Bank renamed as "Jammu Women Credit Cooperative Ltd. The bank is governed by the Cooperative Department of Government of Jammu and Kashmir. The officials of the said cooperative society not only befool these innocent women's but also decamped with their hard earn money amounting to approximately over Rs. 2 crore.
As per the details available with "Early Times" The Chairperson of the "Jammu Women Credit Cooperative Ltd" namely Kailash Kumari duped these women on the pretext of providing them jobs with minimum salary of at least Rs. 25000 in the banking sector in lieu of... | |
| | | | NABARD pays tribute to Sheikh Abdullah | | Omar not invited | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 6: The National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) organised a seminar today to commemorate the birth Anniversary of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, but surprisingly Omar Abdullah was not invited.
Governor N N Vohra, was the chief guest and P. G. Chengappa, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Agricultural Science, Bangalore was the Guest of Honour, but all the participants and guests were shocked to see that NABARD is paying tribute to the former Chief Minister, Sher-e-Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah for his tremendous reforms in Agricultural sector of the state and his grandson, Omar Abdullah, who is the Chief Minister of the state was... | |
| | | | CSC to visit Jammu region districts without prior information | | Govt again cheats Jammu region | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 6: The National Conference -Congress coalition Government again deceived people of Jammu region when the Cabinet sub-committee changed its programme of visiting various districts of Jammu region without prior information.
The committee was scheduled to start its process from Kashmir valley from Tuesday but all of a sudden the programme changed and now Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban districts will be first visited by CSC followed by other districts of Jammu region. The Kashmir valley will be visited after completing the process in Jammu region.
Sources in the Government said that a meeting was held inside the chamber of Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand today where... | |
| | | | Police gives clean chit to JKRDCS, closes case against NGO | | Says no case of cheating can be framed | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Jan 6: The Jammu & Kashmir Police has given a clean chit to J&K Rural Development Coordinate Society (JKRDCS) and said that the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) is registered and has not duped anybody while promising jobs to the youth of the state.
Following allegations that JKRDCS is receiving Rs. 200 from each youth while registering their name in lieu of the promise that they would be given a government job, Police Station Rajbagh launched investigations into the case. The police station lodged FIR 98/2013 under sections 120B and 420 Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) in the case and investigations were taken up.
In the report finalized by Police Station, Rajba... | |
| | | | Div Coms, IGPs urged to take preventive measures | | JCC proposed protest worries Govt | | | Arun Singh
Jammu, Jan 6: The Government seems worried over the proposed Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) protest. Strict instructions were issued to Divisional Commissioners and Inspectors General of Police of the both regions of the state to take all preventive measures to foil the statewide protest call given by Joint Consultative Committee, an apex body of Jammu and Kashmir Government employees scheduled on January 8.
Sources told Early Times that Government today sent a communication to Divisional Commissioner Jammu Shantmannu and its counterpart Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Shailendra Kumar besides Inspector General of Police (IGP) Jammu zone Rajesh Kumar and IGP Kashmir Zone ... | |
| | | | KVIB fails to hold interview for posts advertised in April 2013 | | | | Bivek Mathur
Jammu, Jan 6: Even as the Chief Minister is trumpeting his successful completion of five years in office, the candidates who responded to 60 posts advertised in J&K Khadi Village Industries Board (J&KVIB) on April 26 last year are yet to be interviewed.
A document in possession of Early Times reads that Jammu and Kashmir Khadi Village Industries Board Old Secretariat Srinagar/Exhibition Ground Jammu invited forms from the eligible candidates for 60 different posts in the board through the advertisement notice number KVIB/02 of 2013 dated 26-04-2013 but even after a lapse of eight months, students are yet forced to wait for the interview. The document further reads that one... | |
| | | | Congress must reveal what understanding it had reached with Musharraf | | Playing with fire | | | Neha
JAMMU, Jan 6: BJP ideologue and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, in his article (January 3) on the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's press conference in New Delhi drew attention to what he said about the "Kashmir issue" - an aspect of the prime Minister's media address that got buried under the many other things the Prime Minister said. Jaitley recalled that Manmohan, in a response to a question on Pakistan, had said that "a possible solution to the Kashmir impasse had almost been arrived at but later things didn't work out as Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf had to make way for other leaders". "If a solution to Kashmir was this close to taking shape", Jait... | |
| | | | PC seeks annual plan from J&K, 5 percent increase in normal assistance likely | | CSS restructured into 66 schemes | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Jan 6: While the state government is yet to decide dates for holding either budget session or getting 'vote on account'; Planning Commission (PC) has started routine exercise for the finalization of annual plan for Jammu and Kashmir.
Commission has in a letter D.O.No.M 13048/38/2013/SP-Coord. Dated 02-12-2013 asked the state government to send the draft annual state plan 2014-15 documents by the end of January 2014. They have said that figures which the Planning Commission would discuss with the state government would be tentative and shall be confirmed after the new government takes over in New Delhi in June 2014.
In the wake of this exercise being done pu... | |
| | | | Solar lights lit houses of influential, deserving left out | | | | Bashir Assad
Jammu, Jan 6: Like all other centrally sponsored schemes, the benefits of solar lights being provided by Science and Technology department under centrally sponsored scheme at fifty percent subsidy, does not reach to the deserving in Jammu and Kashmir. The central government has been implementing a scheme on distribution of solar lanterns in the un-electrified villages and hamlets of the special category States including Jammu and Kashmir under which these solar lights are made to the beneficiaries at subsidized rates.
However, as has been the case with many other poverty alleviation schemes, the benefits of this scheme do not reach to the deserving due to its faulty impleme... | |
| | | | Hurriyat has outlived its existence | | | | Mustansir
SRINAGAR, Jan 6: Has the separatist amalgam (Hurriyat Conference) outlived its existence, has it became redundant forum, has it lost the credibility, has it lost the public support it once enjoyed in trouble torn Kashmir and last but not least have the separatist leaders got exposed for their overt and covert deeds-certainly yes.
Lacking maturity and leadership qualities, having no concern for the miseries and sufferings inflicted upon the common people and building edifices and doing politics on dead bodies, the Hurriyat leaders are now fighting on properties. Recently a little known separatist organization alleged one of its leaders of amazing wealth in crores (without what c... | |
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