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| Technical Education department promotes officials without convening DPC meeting | | Technical staff asked to do office work at Directorate | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Nov 13: Virtually playing with rules and regulations and showing no respect to the norms laid down for the promotion of officials Director Technical Education, Jai Pal Singh has issued promotion orders of scores of officials without convening the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) meeting.
Sources told Early Times that last month scores of Senior Assistants in the Technical Education department were promoted as Head Clerks. The promotions were made through order no 702 of 2013 dated 10-10-2013. At the same time the department promoted scores of Junior Assistants as Senior Assistants vide order no 703 of 2013 dated 10-10-2013.
"The promotions were made by D... | |
| | | | Routine 'hustle-bustle' goes missing despite formal functioning of Darbar | | Power 'magic' eludes winter capital | | | Kunas Shrivatsa
Jammu, Nov 13: Even as the 'Darbar' has moved to the winter capital of the State and began formal functioning here since November 4, the usual buzz associated with the 'highest seat of power' is missing which could easily be felt after visiting the Civil Secretariat.
Generally, the visitors start to make rounds of the Civil Secretariat right from the day one thereby making it alive with customary hustle-bustle.
However, this time around the Civil Secretariat that would remain crowded till late evenings is still wearing a deserted look as one could hardly find long queues of people waiting near Visitors' Lounge or outside the Civil Secretariat.
A small group of visitors o... | |
| | | | SIC reprimands Under Secretary PHE-Irrigation | | Rs 7500 to be deducted from his salary | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 13: Acting tough against the Government officials for showing official negligence towards implementation of Right to Information Act (RTI) in the state the State Information Commission (SIC) has ordered for imposing penalty against the Public Information Officer (PIO) of Public Health Engineering, Irrigation and Flood Control Department (PHE - Irrigation-FC) at Civil Secretariat Jammu. An amount of Rs 7500 would be deducted from the salary of the said PIO who happens to be the Under Secretary of the PHE- Irrigation and FC department J&K Government.
As per details one Haji Nazir Ahmad Shah filed an RTI application before the PIO Irrigation Department seekin... | |
| | | | Shortage of staff irks Police Department | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 13: The shortage of manpower is hampering normal functioning of the Police Department. After Darbar policemen of various police stations across Jammu city hardly get time to do their official work.
Police stations across Jammu and Kashmir are short of manpower which often leads to delay in work. The two capital cities, Jammu and Srinagar are the worst affected areas where policemen for most of the time are engaged in VVIP duty. There are 25 police stations in Jammu district and 30 in Srinagar district where policemen are busy in VIP movement for most of the time.
After Darbar moved to Jammu in November first week, station house officers (SHOs) of police sta... | |
| | | | Accuse him of misleading people like Sheikh Abdullah | | Kashmiri leaders wary of Geelani | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 13: Hurriyat hardliner Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani who has been put into dock for his statement saying armed struggle was the only option for the self determination of Kashmiris by various main stream organizations yesterday has now been reprimanded by the youth and various leaders of political parties in Kashmir.
Taking on Geelani BJP Muslim Morcha State president Mushtaq Ahmed Noorabadi said that same statement of self-determination and plebiscite was given by former Chief Minister of State and NC leader Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah to blackmail India after he was jailed in 1953. But this slogan was confined to taking reins of State Government in 1975. During th... | |
| | | | Azad's frequent visits to J&K create jitters in political circle | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 13: Frequent visits of Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to Jammu and Kashmir have created jitters in the State politics because Azad has become pro-active during last couple of months and has been covering all regions and sub-regions of the State.
Azad is reaching Ramban on November 14 on a three days visit to erstwhile Doda district. For the last quite some time Azad has become active in State politics. Recently Azad had conducted an extensive tour of cross firing affected border areas. He spent two days at Jammu and interacted with cross sections of the society.
Sources in the Congress said that Azad has directed his supporters to... | |
| | | | 7 posts filled, selection list on 'political considerations' not made public | | LC goes Assembly way in making appointments | | | ET Report
Jammu, Nov 13: J&K's Upper House of legislature is going the Assembly way in making appointments and recruitments for various posts for the functioning of the House. Even as the authorities sometime back publicised through advertisements in news papers about the vacancies and the number of posts that were sought to be filled from both the regions of the State, the selection so made was done in a manner that has raised many a eyebrows. While the procedure for selection appeared ambigious, what indicates some 'unfair play' and adds fuel to apprehensions of alleged nepotsim having played its role is the fact that authorities did not make the list of selected candidates public nor h... | |
| | | | Drug Scam: 2 weeks granted to Govt to decide on prosecution of officials | | Status of drug-policy adopted by Govt by Dec 2 sought | | | S Sabaqat
Srinagar, Nov 13: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has granted government two more weeks to decide about the according sanction for the prosecution of persons against whom chargesheet has been presented after adequate evidence was found by Crime Branch during its investigation into much hyped spurious drug scam.
Division Bench of the court comprising Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir and Justice M H Attar granted two weeks time to state government to decide on prosecution of officials whose name have been enlisted in charge sheet filed by Crime Branch.
Earlier, Advocate General M I Qadri submitted that matter was pending for consideration before the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who als... | |
| | | | NC ups ante against PDP on presumed facts | | | | ET Report
Jammu, Nov 13: National Conference has upped the ante against People’s Democratic Party on frivolous, false and imagined facts. NC has gone to the extent of the saying that PDP received money from both the Army and agencies.
NC MLC and deputy chairman of legislative council, which de-facto a constitutional posts, Javed Rana addressing a rally in Kalakote, without naming the PDP had said a party which receives money from Army and agencies can't claim to be savior of the people.
Rana, had either not gone with developments are deliberately ignored the facts, that former army chief had said, as per the leaked report, that money was paid to some politicians for carrying out developm... | |
| | | | Amid restrictions, Police foil Muharram processions with batons, tear gas | | | | Javaid Naikoo
SRINAGAR, Nov 13: Amid curfew like restrictions around Lal Chowk area in Srinagar and at entry points, Police and Central reserve forces used batons and tear gas to disperse people from taking out a Muharram processions along Lal Chowk and other areas of the city.
Locals in Shahheed Gunj and Karan Nagar areas alleged excessive use of force by police and CRPF and added that authorities had imposed undeclared curfew as nobody was allowed to move towards Lal Chowk.
However, according to the police sources restrictions were put in place as per an order from No. DM/JW/Muharram/3082-3087/13 dated 11-11-2013, issued on Monday by the district Magistrate Srinagar and accordingly res... | |
| | | | SHO lands in judicial lock up for contempt | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 13: An Inspector posted as SHO Janipur landed in judicial lock up following the violation of the court order in the premises of court here today. As per reports, SHO Janipur Niaz ul Haq who was standing before Forest Magistrate attended a phone call. After his act, he was warned by the judge to mend his ways.
After some time, SHO again took a call. Responding to the magistrate's questions, he said his senior officer had called and it was important for him to take his call. Taking serious note of the breach, the magistrate ordered his judicial arrest.
The SHO was later granted interim bail to the tune of Rs 10,000 after the court granted him time up to ... | |
| | | | Curfew in parts of Srinagar City in view of Muharram | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 13: Apprehending law and order problems, authorities here today imposed curfew in parts of Srinagar city to prevent any Muharram processions.
"Curfew has been imposed in seven police station areas of the city as a precautionary measure," District Magistrate Srinagar Farooq Ahmed Shah said.
He said that restrictions on the movement of people have been imposed as there was an apprehension of law and order problem in lieu of some groups planning to take out Muharram processions.
The police station areas where curfew has been imposed include Kothibagh, Maisuma, Batamaloo, Shergarhi and Shaheedgunj.
The imposition of the curfew led to traffic jams in areas... | |
| | | | Administrative, Technical wings headless in Sports Council | | ----- Multipurpose Hall of MA Stadium without light for five days----- | | | Sanjeev Sharma
JAMMU, Nov 13: The important Administrative and Technical wings of the autonomous sports body in J&K, State Sports Council have been made headless, courtesy callous attitude of the authorities towards sports and sportspersons.
The poor set-up at the higher level has started leaving its impact on the normal functioning of the Sports Council at the ground level. Although the authorities claimed to have made alternate arrangements either by giving the charge to a junior officer or fixing the responsibility of the technical head on a man from accounts background.
The non-performance of those, who have been given additional charge of the stadias and important coaching center... | |
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