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| Wedge between NC-Cong continues to deepen | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 8: National Conference and Congress differences are growing rather than narrowing down, the perception NC is trying to build.
Omar Abdullah, who is attempting to woo Cong before the next Assembly election, got overboard to appease Rahul Gandhi when he said the panch who disturbed rally addressed by Congress vice-president in Jammu was not member of Cong or NC but from Panthers Party.
Omar didn't think twice to the facts that panchayati elections were not held on party basis but some members off late showed their loyalty to different political parties.
Rahul Gandhi, however, was quick to snub the Chief Minister when he said that it doesn't matter whether h... | |
| | | | MGNREGA- JK among 11 non-performing States | | | | Mustansir
SRINAGAR, Nov 8: The non-performance of the state Government particularly the Rural Development Department can be judged from the fact that Jammu and Kashmir figures among 11 states which have less than 50 per cent work completion rate under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) audit report, 2013 has brought to the fore this glaring example of non-performance of the Rural Development Department in terms of the implementation of the MGNREGA scheme.
"Maintain 60:40 ratio for wage and material as per the operational guidelines. Inadmissible works will not be taken up. Keeping in view the low work com... | |
| | | | Why Cong wants Assembly elections to be held along with general election? | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 8: There are many Congress leaders in Jammu and Kashmir, especially in Jammu, who want the party high command to pre-pone Assembly elections in the state so that these could be held along with the upcoming general election. There are potent reasons for the local Congress leaders in Jammu and Kashmir to persuade the Congress high command to ask the Election Commission of India to hold the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections simultaneously in the state.
One of the most important factors which has forced some local Congress leaders to think in terms of persuading the Congress high command to prepare the ground for holding the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections simu... | |
| | | | 5 years on, work of 22 km long Siot-Kalakot road hangs in balance | | NC represented Kalakot rues Omar's indifference | | | Avinash Azad
JAMMU, Nov 8: Notwithstanding accusations of discrimination by opposition parties against constituencies represented by their MLAs, certain constituencies represented by National Conference MLAs are facing indifference of state Government on account of various development works.
Kalakote constituency, being represented by NC since 2002, where widening of a 22 kilometers road stretch, was incepted around five years back, but so far survey of road was conducted thrice but still the project is hanging in balance.
First time, in 2008 the task of road widening between Siot to Kalakot was given to Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) with an estimated cost of Rs 32 crore.
"Govern... | |
| | | | Despite 194 FIRs; crores spent on protection, fuel, accommodation of separatists | | Whopping cost of separatism on public exchequer! | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, Nov 8: Notwithstanding 194 FIRs under various crimes, the separatist leaders in Kashmir have been enjoying police protection which has costed crores of rupees to the public exchequer for the last five years.
Huge contingent of Police has been deployed in the security of these separatists and their families even as Police rue shortage of manpower for regular policing.
As per the information given by Department of Home, Civil Secretariat, Srinagar (J&K), an amount approximately Rs 1980210 has been in last 5 years on the salaries of PSOs/drivers/ security guards of the security provided to the Hurriyat and separatist leaders.
Department further divulges that around 194... | |
| | | | Some Cong Ministers want to pre-poll alliance with NC | | Party leadership against any pre-poll arrangement | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 8: Although Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has hinted to enter into pre-poll alliance with coalition partner National Conference, his party leadership is not taking his statement seriously. Party leadership has been trying to percolate a message among the cadre that statement was given just for sake of statement and there is nothing seriousness in that.
Instead of working on pre-poll alliance with NC, local Congress leaders have started work on contesting all the 87 assembly segments of the State.
Sources in the Congress said that state leadership has given clear signal to the cadre that party would convince high command not enter pre-poll alliance wi... | |
| | | | CM, HM fail to initiate action against Director ISM | | Jobs in lieu of fake certificates under NRHM | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 8: The office of the Chief Minister and the Minister of State for Health have failed to initiate action against the Director Indian System of Medicine (ISM) who is said to be involved in the issuance of fake Pharmacist (ISM) diploma's to hundreds of candidates from various parts of the state. These candidates have even been provided jobs under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) which has been facilitated by the ISM Directorate.
The Chief Minister office has already received a complaint in this regard on August 28 this year and subsequently the CM's office send a letter No: CMS.Gen/2013/278 Dated 22.08.2013 to the Secretary to Government Health and Medical E... | |
| | | | J&K Govt; all for legislators, commoners await their turn | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Nov 8: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's Government is less bothered about common man and more worried about privileges of the legislators.
This is despite the fact that legislators including the ones from the opposition get most of the attention in the Government offices across the state. Commoners are made to toil hard even for trivial issues. Neither the GAD nor the Chief Minister's office has ever issued an order imploring upon the officials to prioritize commoners issue apart from giving due time to concerns of legislators.
State Government has issued more than 10 orders asking administrative secretaries, both Divisional Commissioners, all Heads of department... | |
| | | | Stung by Rahul's plain speak, Coalition claims to resolve 73rd amendment | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 8: Rattled by the bluntness with which Rahul Gandhi publically denounced state Government for its failure to empower panchayats and implement 73rd amendment in its Panchayti Raj Act, Coalition today came out with a hurried cover up announcing that the issue of 73rd amendment had been resolved.
A day after Rahul Gandhi advised Omar Abdullah to implement 73rd amendment, Medical Education Minister and senior Congress leader Taj Mohi-ud-Din today said that Rahul may not have been informed by State Congress that matter had been already resolved and National Conference during Coordination Committee had agreed upon that good provisions of Indian Panchayati Raj Ac... | |
| | | | Bhim admits protesting Sarpanch was his nephew | | Calls Omar politically naive | | | Early Times Report
SAMBA, Nov 8: Responding to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's claim that Ramnagar Sarpanch who jeered Rahul Gandhi's speech belonged to National Panthers Party, chief patron NPP, Prof Bhim Singh today admitted that the said Sarpanch Parikshit Singh was his nephew and he had gone to attend the rally so that he could draw the attention of Gandhi towards the mess created by the State Government in Panchayati Institutions.
"Yes, he was my nephew and he is the Sarpanch of our party. It was a general rally and like others Parikshit also went there and expressed his concerns," Bhim Singh told adding that there was no politics in it.
Singh said that even Rahul snubbed Omar by say... | |
| | | | MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan going BJP way; hung Assembly in Delhi | | C-Voter opinion poll | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Nov 8: Anti-Congress wave is sweeping the poll-bound states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi. Election process would be completed on December 4 and results will be announced on December 8. According to an opinion pre-poll survey, which was conducted by C-Voter for private TV news channel TIMES NOW this month covering all the assembly segments in all the poll-bound states, the BJP is heading for an impressive victory in the coming assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh while Delhi is heading towards a hung assembly. Right now, the BJP is in power in MP and Chhattisgarh and the Congress in Rajasthan and Delhi.
According to the pr... | |
| | | | Pro-separatist Radha opposes implementation of 73rd amendment | | Poking dirty nose in J&K | | | Neha
JAMMU, Nov 8: "Anti-democratic" and pro-greater autonomy National Conference (NC), which is leading the coalition Government in the state for almost five years and which is vehemently opposed to the demand seeking implementation of the provisions of 73rd constitutional amendment in the state, has got support from the pro-separatist former interlocutor Radha Kumar. The elected panchs and sarpanchs across the state have been demanding the implementation of this amendment for almost three years now so that the Panchayati Raj Institutions are strengthened, but with no result.
The NC has been opposing the demand of the panchs and sarpanchs on the spurious ground that the implementation or... | |
| | | | J&K govt goes missing; sports lovers come to rescue of teen talents | | | | Javaid Naikoo
JAMMU, Nov 8: As Jammu and Kashmir cricket association (JKCA) turned murkier after scams surfaced, sports loving people are coming forward to finance enthusiastic players of different fields of sports to play at national and international level.
Though not for the first time, the fruit companies namely Khan apple trading company,Shopian fruit growers association and a non government association of sports loving people namely Shopian sports association of district Shopian have once again decided to provide every sort of financial assistance to two teen aged martial art players namely Hamid Rashid Mirm aged 14 years, son of late Abdul Rashid of Shopian main town and Hazik B... | |
| | | | Former SM bears brunt of exposing coal contractors-railway officials' mafia | | Jaswant Singh's fast unto death enters 2nd day | | | Akshay Azad
Jammu, Nov 8: A retired Railway official is bearing the brunt of blowing whistle over thriving unholy nexus between coal contractors and black sheep of the Railways at Jammu Railway station. The vindictive officers have now withheld his legitimate dues after his superannuation, forcing him to sit on fast unto death.
Narrating his ordeal at the hands of Railway authorities, Jaswant Singh, former Station Master at Bari Brahmana Railway Station said that instead of rewarding him, Railway authorities denigrated him with four transfers in two years, withholding of salaries, undue curtailment in dues besides other humiliation in the last two years.
Explaining about the unholy nex... | |
| | | | HC grants 2 weeks time to review suspension of former MS-SKIMS | | | | S Sabaqat
Srinagar, Nov 8: Jammu and Kashmir High Court today granted two weeks to a government committee headed by state Chief Secretary for reviewing suspension of former Medical Superintendent of SK Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura here. Responding to the contempt petition filed by the former Medical Superintendent, Dr Mohammad Amin Tabish, a single bench of the High Court, Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir granted the time underlining that no further time will be granted to committee to complete its mandate.
On November 1, the court had granted five days time to comply with the directions to review the suspension order of Dr Tabish. However, the SKIMS authorities filed an appli... | |
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