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| As Raman Bhalla interferes state loses huge amount in lieu of granting rights for commercial properties | | Property worth crores sold for peanuts in heart of Srinagar | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Jan 7: Raman Bhalla, incumbent Minister for Housing, Horticulture and Culture in the Omar Abdullah led coalition Government had set a precedence which if followed by other Ministers and bureaucrats would spell doom for the state and incur huge loss to the state ex-chequer more so when Jammu and Kashmir is grappling to tide over economic crisis.
On February 24, 2010, Bhalla being the Revenue Minister set aside the rate fixed by a Price Fixation Committee constituted for the price of fixing rate for a prime property located in the heart of Srinagar city. The Price Fixation Committee consisting of then Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Mehboob Iqbal took up various cases which were pending since there was no consensus on the rates to be charged for properties located across the Srinagar city.
The Price Fixation Committee while deliberating upon the case of Bakshi Saleem son of Bakshi Bashir Ahmad resident of Sonwar decided that Saleem would have to pay Rs. 1, 91, 91,177 (rupees one crore ninety one lakhs ninety one thousand and one hundred seventy seven) fo... | |
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| Migrants want relief from Relief Commissioner's atrocities | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 7: Population of over four thousand Kashmiri Pandit families have decided to launch a campaign for the replacement of incumbent Relief Commissioner Ravinder Pandita as the officer of Kashmir Administrative Service has completely lost his contact with the displaced diaspora, particularly so in the last one year.
When Vivek, the five-year-old son of the poor Pandit Piaray Lal was knocked down by a tractor at Jagati, near Nagrota, and later he died last week, inmates of several blocks called up the Relief Commissioner so as to request him to visit the colony and initiate an official process for some ex gratia relief to the bereaved family. However, the officer n... | |
| | | | 8 months on, State yet to get Rs 710 Cr financial assistance | | Pending Land compensation cases under PMGSY | | | Arun Singh
JAMMU, Jan 7: Giving a damn to the State Government, New Delhi has not sanctioned the approved Rs 710 Crore, under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) to Jammu and Kashmir as a special one-time allowance as cost for land acquisition for completion of PMGSY programmes, even after the eight months since the announcement made by the Prime Minister himself during his visit in Jammu and Kashmir last year.
Sources told Early Times that the financial assistance of Rs 710 crore was approved to expedite the completion of PMGSY projects running across the state which had been come to halt due to pendency of various compensation cases in acquisition of land.
"This much ambitious... | |
| | | | Militants kill ASI in first major strike of 2014, three other cops injured in Sopore encounter | | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Jan 7: Militants carried out the first major strike of this year by attacking a cordon and search party in the restive Sopore town in North Kashmir's Baramulla district today morning. The militant attack led to the killing of an Assistant Sub Inspector of Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir Police.
Three more SOG personnel were injured in the incident while as reports said that the militants managed to give police the slip. The area has been cordoned off with cordon and search operations going on in the Chanakhan and adjoining localities of Sopore area.
Reports reaching here said that as soon as the cordon and search party mostly comprising of... | |
| | | | NC-Cong coalition Government alien to aam aadmi | | | |
Bashir Assad
JAMMU, Jan 7: Even as the Omar Abdullah led National Conference-Congress coalition Government has completed five years in office and will, for all its probabilities, complete its full term , the performance of the Government is so disappointing that corruption has reached a peak. One would recall that at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2012, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah startled everybody by stating that it is not possible for the alliance Government to wipe out corruption. This clearly indicates that the Chief Minister himself has belied all his assertions because in the last four years, as the Chief of the alliance Government, he kept harping on promises to wipe out... | |
| | | | NC continues 'bragging' on achievements, Congress in silent mode | | Realization on 'unfulfilled' commitments haunting party....? | | | ET Report
JAMMU, Jan 7: Come January and the Omar Abdullah led coalition Government tires itself for days together in highlighting the performance of coalition of the year that passed as also the 'achievements' it counts cumulatively for the years gone during which it ruled the state. January first week which marks the anniversary of the NC-Congress regime in the state makes a hammering of such progress reports in a euphoric manner till all media spaces get occupied by the lengthy press notes and colourful advertisements decorated with pictures of veterans from UPA too. It is somehow all NC show as ally Congress does not appear to be competing in the race of 'bragging and boasting', no ma... | |
| | | | Geelani, Mirwaiz treading different paths | | UN Resolutions on J&K | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 7: The other day on the eve of the completion of 65 years of the UN-adopted resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir, separatists expressed themselves differently as far as their approach towards the same was concerned. In fact, APHC-M of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and and Tehrik-e-Hurriyat of Syed Ali Shah Geelani organized seminars in Srinagar on the theme on January 5, the so-called Kashmir Solidarity Day.
Expressing his views on the UN-adopted resolutions, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq took on the United Nations for its failure to implement its resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir and hinted at exploring "other alternatives" for arriving at a solution to the Kashmir problem. "It is unfortunate that... | |
| | | | Reliance providing sub standard services to subscribers, authorities clueless | | | | early times report
Srinagar, Jan 7 : As people using Reliance internet connections are repeatedly complaining against the quality of services, office bearers of Reliance network in Kashmir express helplessness to provide modernized facilities to people as it needs huge investments to upgrade the system on modern lines.
At a time when people outside Jammu and Kashmir are enjoying modernized 4G and 5G internet facilities of many networking companies, people of Kashmir consider themselves unlucky to even enjoy 3G internet facility as companies like Reliance network are yet to upgrade their systems in the Kashmir to provide modern fast speed internet facilities like 3G and 4G to the people d... | |
| | | | ‘Kangaal’ Govt averse to austerity measures | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 7: The cash starved Government which has no money to pay the bills of contractors and take forward the developmental works seems reluctant to take austerity measures.
Not only this every day almost 80 percent Government vehicles enter the airport either to drop or pick up the relatives of Ministers and bureaucrats. It has also been seen that Government vehicles are used by the families of Ministers and babus for holidaying and shopping.
There are no austerity measures taken by the Government, neither Ministers nor bureaucrats with respect to travelling in Government vehicles.
Though the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) impact is seen in few states where officials a... | |
| | | | Artisans deserve a better deal | | Not by assurances alone | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 7: The Director Handicrafts during her visit to various centres at Samba and Kathua raised hopes by promising stars to the artisans who work hard to create masterpieces. She told them that the Government would leave no stone unturned to ensure their betterment.
The reality however is very harsh especially for the artisans. It has been observed that the artisans receive peanuts for the hard efforts they put in. The artisans who work for the private firms get exploited in the name of employment. At times when the pieces created by them win awards, the poor artisan is hardly mentioned. He is always a suffering unsung hero.
The condition of artisans working at... | |
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