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| PHE Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din's wish fulfilled! | | Forest, Revenue to jointly probe Sedhav forest land grab | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Nov 29: State government is constituting a Joint Committee of Forest and Revenue departments to probe into land grab allegations against PHE Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din.
Forest Minister Mian Altaf while confirming this to Early Times said "As demanded by PHE Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din, Forest Department would soon constitute a joint committee of officers of both Forest and Revenue departments. They would look into the land issue and submit the report to the government within a stipulated period of time." Stating that the action is being taken purely because Taj Mohi-ud-Din has requested, Altaf preferred not to divulge any details about the actual make-up of the committee.
However, sources in the Forest Department said that committee would include two officers of the forest department, not below the rank of Divisional Forest Officer and two from the Revenue Department, both not below the rank of Tehsildar. The hi... | |
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| Govt ignores Jammu, fattens kitty of eight Srinagar NC MLAs; calls for drainage plans worth crores | | Eye on Municipal elections! | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Nov 29: In a case of blatant discrimination, Srinagar Municipal Corp-oration (SMC) has fattened the kitty of eight National Conference (NC) MLAs whose constituencies fall within the municipal limits of Srinagar district.
Rs. 15 crore, which was lying unattended with Srinagar Development Aut-hority (SDA) was diverted to Srinagar Municipal Cor-poration (SMC) for improving the drainage system of city. Corporation, according to sources, heeded to the directions from the National Conference top brass and asked the eight MLAs of NC to submit drainage plans for their respective constituencies.
They added that eight MLAs of NC have been authorized to prepare comprehensi... | |
| | | | SVO likely to probe GMC's 100 Cr ‘scam’ | | Blacklisted pharma companies allotted tenders | | | early times report
Jammu, Nov 29: A 100 Cr `scam' in Government Medical College and the hospital associated to it here has come to fore. A complaint has been lodged with the State Vigilance Organization (SVO).
The complaint has been filed by Som Nath Dabgotra alleging grant of tenders to blacklisted pharma co-mpanies by the Health and Medical Educa-tion Department.
The companies have been blacklisted by Maharashtra Food and Drug Adminis-tration, Central Medical Store organizations, And-hra Pradesh Medical Servi-ce Infrastructure Develop-ment Corporation. Firms like M/S Ind Swift Limited Chandigarh, M/S Parental Drugs Limited Indore, M/S Quality Pharmaceutical Private Limited Amritsar, M/... | |
| | | | To release plan allocation in 4 installments | | New Delhi's policy shift | | | Bashir Assad
Jammu, Nov 29: In a major policy shift, the Union Finance Ministry has decided to release the annual allocation for the year 2012-13 in four install-ments. The allocations un-der central share too are delayedowing to the failure of the different departments in submitting the utilization certificates.
Only two installments have been released so far, thereby, impeding the developmental projects in the state. Sources in the Civil Secretariat told Early Tim-es that the Central Gover-nment, in a major shift in its policy, decided to release the plan allocation to the Jammu Kashmir gover-nment in four installments and the first installment was received by the Union Government as l... | |
| | | | Omar sheds tears at Frisalan, shut eyes to Dudu tragedy | | Condolences of discrimination | |  Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Nov 29: Chief Minister's pictures showing him sharing the ordeal of the residents of Frisalan village in Pahalgam that faced a major inferno on Sunday last did help in his projection as a compassionate head of the government, but his indifference towards the Dudu tragedy that left 21 dead badly exposed regional bias within his dispensation.
Dudu tragedy took place on the afternoon of Saturday last, the 24th of November, leaving 18 of a marriage party killed on the spot wh... | |
| | | | PCC reconstitution: Combination of youth, experience on cards | | Set for fresh innings, Soz busy in 'shuttling' | | | early times report
Jammu, Nov 29: A flurry of activity has finally begun in the direction of reconstitution of J&K Pradesh Congress Comm-ittee with Party High Com-mand giving final touches to the likely names being suggested and sought from the senior leaders. The incumbent chief Prof Saif-u-Din Soz is all set to begin fresh innings as the president , even as the new body shall see significant chan-ges in terms of its composition this time. In order to facilitate and expedite the matters related with the move initiated by the High Command, Prof Soz shuttled twice between New Delhi and Jammu during the last couple of days.
Sources said Prof Soz landed in Jammu on Mon-day only to be s... | |
| | | | Jammu leaders playing second fiddle to Kashmir centric parties | | | | early times report
JAMMU, Nov 29: With Jammu centric parties playing second fiddle to Kashmir centric parties heading the state governments from time to time, there is a leadership vacuum in Jammu.
The BJP which had generated a hope among people since the prajaparishad days by leading a nationalist movement in the state and opposing the permit system is a divided house in the state as out of 11 MLAs seven have already been expelled by the Party for cross voting in MLCs elections in 2010.
According to sources the failure of BJP to perform the opposition role and take up the cause of Jammu people vigorously in the Assembly and outside has been a cause of concern among the people and they ... | |
| | | | Moves seem afoot to destroy Congress in J&K – IV | | Pre Poll Alliance | | | Neha
JAMMU, Nov 29: In the cold-desert Ladakh region, which consists of two districts, the NC is very strong in the Shia-dominated Kargil district and the Congress and the Ladakh Union Territory Front (LUTF) are very strong in the Buddhist-majority Leh district. The NC represents both the assembly segments in Kargil district - Kargil and Nobra - in the assembly. In Leh district, which also returns two members to the assembly, Leh assembly constituency is represented by the Congress party and the Zanskar assembly constituency by an Independent candidate. The NC has little or no support-base in Leh district. The story of the PDP is no different. The PDP has also little presence in Kargil dis... | |
| | | | Coalition candidates to face 'ire' of 'disgruntled voters' from erstwhile Doda | | | | Early Times report
Jammu, Nov 29: The sarpanches and panches of erstwhile district Doda may snub National Confer-ence-Congress party allia-nce candidates in the forthcoming election for legislative council polls from Panchayat quota.
The 33000 sarpanches and panches of state will cast their votes for four seats of legislative council on December 3 for which the NC-Congress coalition government is fighting the election jointly. The elected panchayat representatives of Jammu will vote for two candidates J1 and J2 and similarly from Kashmir region these representatives will vote for two seats K1 and K2.
In Jammu region the main focus of all political parties in the erstwhile district Doda... | |
| | | | Jammu Pradesh has 1021244 households, Kashmir 954855 | | Fit Case For Fresh Census Operation - II | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Nov 29: The population of Kashmir region cannot be more as compared to Jammu Pradesh. It would be only appropriate to quote here some statistics from the 2011 census report on Jammu & Kashmir to set the record straight. These statistics do indicate certain glaring disparities between Kashmir and Jammu as far as the number of households and gas connections are concerned.
The number of households in Jammu Pradesh, which has almost double the land area as compared to Kashmir and which contributes more than 70 per cent revenue to the state exchequer annually, is 10,21,244. The break-up is: Jammu district 3,02,016; Poonch district 88,878; Rajouri district 1,24,000; Kathua distric... | |
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