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'Allotment of funds to Jammu region; Discriminatory, arbitrary, lopsided' State Finance Commission Report-Part 1 - - - Tax collection far less in Kashmir region 11/28/2011 11:42:18 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Nov 28: Criteria for allotment of funds by respective government since the year 1953 for developmental schemes in Jammu and Kashmir regions separately has remained discriminatory, arbitrary and lopsided. Owing to reasons better known to the ruling elites of the state, Kashmir region has got far higher plan allocations than Jammu region. On the contrary, despite getting higher plan allocation, Jammu region supersedes Kashmir in the payment of taxes. From VAT/GST collection to payment of excise duty, Jammu has a clear edge over Kashmir. These spine chilling revelations have been made by State Finance Commission (SFC) in its five volume report submitted to the government on November 30, 2010. A copy of the report is with Early Times. Commission was headed by ace economist Dr. Mahmood-ur-Rehman and included Swami Raj Sharma, Prof. Nisar Ali and Sonam Dawa as its members. It took on board three consultants and 7 officers of the state government. It was constituted on August 31, 2006 for a period of one year and assigned the task of examining eight points of ...   READ MORE

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Dr Farooq Abdullah towing Kamal's line? NC top leadership engages in self-contradiction 11/28/2011 11:28:02 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: As if the confusion already generated by the ousted NC spokesman Mustafa Kamal was not enough, union minister and NC president, Dr. Farooq Abdullah has started towing the line of his younger brother. Dr. Abdullah told a public meeting in Kathua district that the army is not the master and it is the chief minister and his son Omar Abdullah who is the real master in the state. Strange that the elder Abdullah should be talking in exactly the same language for which he criticized and finally removed his younger brother from the NC chief spokesman's post. It seems that the NC and its leaders have decided to lead the state from one confusion to the other. Some...   READ MORE   PDP refutes NC's claims of 'PDP cadre joining' 11/28/2011 11:27:34 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: Strongly refuting the press release issued by the ruling National Conference today regarding joining of the entire Arnas-Gool unit of PDP in the NC, general secretary of the PDP Thakur Balbir Singh said that self-styled president of Gool-Arnas unit of PDP Dr Shamshad Shan has already been expelled from the party long time back. Thakur Balbir Singh further stated Shamshad Shan was sacked from the party for her anti-party activities and she was not even a primary member of PDP. He said that not even a single PDP member has left the party. Ridiculing NC's claiming, Thakur Balbir Singh said that large number of NC workers from PDP have already joined PDP ...   READ MORE   UID card project shelved; Incompetence of IT minister or red tape? 11/28/2011 11:27:13 PM Asif Iqbal Naik JAMMU, Nov 28: Call it incompetence of Minister for Science and Technology or alleged red-tape in the department headed by him but the much hyped Unique Identification card (UIC) project has been reportedly shelved within four months of its inauguration by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. The Rs. 24 crore dream project of Chief Minister has been kept in cold storage. It needs to be mentioned here that Omar was first person to be scanned for Unique Identification Number or 'Aadhar' or UID. Jammu and Kashmir Bank which acts as a nodal agency to monitor and enroll UID card awarded contract to two companies, Wipro Technologies, Gurgaon and Srinagar's based Comptech Technology aft...   READ MORE   E-tendering in police from January 2012: Vaid Says payments of contractors will now directly go to their bank accounts from treasury to end "commission" culture 11/28/2011 11:26:47 PM Bharat Bhushan JAMMU, Nov 28: In today's world, innovation is the mantra of success. Winners are those who match new and workable ideas, feels additional director general of police (ADGP) S P Vaid. Vaid, who is back to the state after the completion of his deputation period to the Centre, is all set to implement new and innovative ideas to make his department corruption-free and bring transparency in the police recruitment process. His concepts are the new ways of dealing with the persistent problem of corruption. He also feels that innovation and transparency are the mantras of good administration. He was director (training) for three years in bureau of police research and development,...   READ MORE   Omar's ‘close aide’ calls shots in CM's office: Rattanpuri 11/28/2011 11:26:15 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: National Conference MP from South Kashmir, GN Ratanpuri believes Jammu Kashmir was a police state. Besides his encounter with the police, he lightened his burden by making a mention of Chief Minister's close aide. He said the aide trying to impose Gulab Singh's rule in the state. The MP has not named anybody and all attempts to contact him on his local and Delhi cell phones went in vain. However slight application of mind helps in identifying him (CM's aide). He happens to be the most detested person in NC's senior circles. The `mauled' MP said the CM's `close aide' wanted to "teach me a lesson when I tried to present the true picture of NC in the Chief ...   READ MORE   Farooq, Omar treading different paths Fooling People 11/28/2011 11:25:57 PM Rustam JAMMU, Nov 28: The owners of the NC, which is becoming more and more unpopular with each passing day, have, it seems, gone totally confused and astray. They appear clueless, frustrated and desperate. They do not know how to get out of the difficult situation they themselves created in their desperate bid to deflect the people's attention from the issues of corruption, mal-administration and death of the Abdullah family's loyalist Syed Mohammad Haji in mysterious circumstances and save their positions. The case in point is the Chief Minister's October 21 sudden and unilateral controversial announcement that he would remove AFSPA from certain districts before the Secretariat reopens i...   READ MORE   Has New Delhi told Abdullahs to pack up? Farooq's Turns Angry -- I 11/28/2011 11:25:24 PM Neha JAMMU, Nov 28: Have the troubled Congress high command and the under-severe-attack-Prime Minister told the NC president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to pack up saying they have outlived their utility? Have they told the two Abdullahs that their brand of politics has no place in the New Delhi's political scheme of things? Have they snubbed and rebuffed the two Abdullahs for what they have been doing to communalise the institution of Army to win back the trust of the estranged Kashmiri Muslims and divert the people's attention away from the real issues, including the issues concerning governance? Have they decided to revive the 2002 po...   READ MORE   Coalition has lost credibility, responsible for creating trust deficit: Mufti 11/28/2011 11:24:52 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: Lambasting Omar Abdullah led Government , former Chief Minister and PDP patron Mufti Mohammed Syeed today accused the coalition of creating trust deficit. This Government has failed on all fronts and has lost its total credibility as it has negated all the good works and process started for gaining peoples confidence by his government, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed told reporters here today. He while complimenting the former Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee for starting a peace mission in the state during his visit in 2003 said, when former PM came to Srinagar he was told people of valley that they wanted peace and nothing else. And the initiative taken b...   READ MORE   Deployment of Kashmiri Hindus by the separatists and the government New Fifth Column 11/28/2011 11:24:28 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: In a current affairs programme on a national television channel a Kashmiri Hindu was seen as launching a scathing attack on the AFPSA and advocating for its revocation. This person, not well known within Kashmiri Hindu community or beyond it, is working outside and was being flaunted by the NDTV India as an expert on the subject as well as an impartial observer of the civil society. A Kashmiri Hindu attacking AFPSA could be music to the separatists' ears and has the potential of confusing the national opinion which has till now upheld the role of Armed Forces as exemplary and also supported the AFSPA act in Jammu and Kashmir as well as north east. To the K...   READ MORE

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