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| No tendering, no transfer policy | | RTI exposes PHE skeletons | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Dec 12: Public Health Engineering (PHE), `the unbridled horse' violates all norms set by government of Jammu and Kashmir. In response to an RTI the PHE department is continuously violating norms and goes without tendering, transfer policy and fails to realize revenue of water supply from consumers.
The RTI was filed by a Jammu lawyer and RTI activist Kovid Khosla seeking details of items purchased by officials in PHE division city-1, Jammu, details of tenders for last three years, yearly losses in said division and period of stay of officials in the said division.
In reply of the RTI No PHECD-1/ W-80/5397-99, the office of the Executive Engineer PHE Division No. 1, Jammu said the department was of emergent nature and tendering takes a lot of time, therefore, the material is procured from PHE Mech. Proc. Division Jammu or from market on lowest market rates. In reply to another question PHE official said that, the PHE, division 1, still recovers Rs 415.68 Cr from consumers for consumption of water supplied.
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| Discourteous City Police confiscates handicapped pillion rider's bike | | | | ET Report
Jammu, Dec 12: In what could be described as dictatorial attitude of men in Khaakhi, City North police on late yesterday afternoon forced a two wheeler rider and his handicapped brother to leave his motorbike on the road and return home walking.
Shockingly, there was no fault of duo as they claimed that the rider was wearing headgear besides all documents of the two-wheeler including Insurance and Registration Certificate was up to date. Instead, police seized the vehicle showing that the rider failed to present the documents of the vehicle, on the spot. Furthermore, the police officer did not mention the number of the vehicle on the challan.
Meanwhile, Additional Mobile Magis... | |
| | | | Misuse of KU vehicles continues, scholars get peanuts | | Ground situation belies Talat's austerity claims | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Dec 12: Though Kashmir University incumbent Vice Chancellor Professor Talat Ahmad has been claiming that he cracked whip on misuse of funds and vehicles in the Varsity after he took over last year, situation on ground belies his claims.
Sources told Early Times that KU authorities have passed several orders since last one and half years warning the officials against misuse of the Varsity vehicles, but the same have been flouted with impunity.
Immediately after Professor Talat took over last year in June, a committee under the chairmanship of Dean Electronics, Prof Nisar Ahmad was formed to look into the complaints of misuse of official vehicles in the Unive... | |
| | | | Offices of Assembly to be shifted to Garage complex beneath building | | Govt comes out formal order on setting up of Committee today | | | ET Report
Jammu, Dec 12: A day after crumbling of concrete structures in the Assembly Secretariat due to excavation work on new project under construction adjacent to it, even as work continued in routine in the offices but on account of apprehensions of any mishap most of the sections converged in the Central Hall . Though 'unsafe' tag is yet to be attached to the building, the officials and employees from various sections have expressed unwillingness to continue from chambers which have developed cracks. What, however, emerged as official version from the scene post this mishap today is the step towards shifting of the offices from Central Hall to makeshift albeit safe places wit... | |
| | | | Session Court reserves order, seeks objections from Kishtwar Police | | Facebook blasphemy | | | Early Times Report
kishtwar, Dec 12: Slamming Kishtwar police investigation into alleged facebook blasphemy case involving three youths from Passarkot area of Chatroo tehsil of Kishtwar district, Principal District and Sessions Judge Kishtwar Pawan Dev Kotwal slammed the investigation conducted by the Kishtwar police and reserved his judgment for tomorrow and sought written objection from SHO Police Station Kishtwar who prayed for rejection of bail application moved by the defence counsel Advocate Rajesh Sharma.
The defence counsel advocated release of all the three accused person on bail and termed the prolonged detention of his clients as against law on the grounds that bar of 15 days ... | |
| | | | Omar using carrot,stick to woo Cong | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 12: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is using carrot and stick policy on Congress in desperate attempt to stitch pre-poll alliance before Assembly elections. Omar is now trying to project himself as the next Sheikh Abdullah, who was given the post on platter before being send to jail.
Addressing rallies in Rajouri and Akhnoor , he said history of Abdullah-Gandhi family relation goes back to the time of Sheikh Abdullah and Pandit Nehru, which got further cemented with the passage of the time.
He even went to the extent of saying that Pandit Nehru even didn't want the State unit of the Congress.
Omar had deliberately tried to take out the historical perspectiv... | |
| | | | Parents allege loot by KC Public School | | CEO Jammu assures action on receipt of complaint | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 12: In what can be seen as brazen and open loot in the renowned Public Schools of Jammu, parents of wards studying in KC Public School have alleged harassment at the hands of school management by forcing them to pay huge amounts of money for unwarranted purposes to school.
Harassed parents approached ET and said that they were being looted by school management for one or the other function under various pre texts this time for a so called Children's festival being organized by the School. Fresh in such series is that the management of KC Public School, Akhnoor Road, Muthi, Jammu has asked each student to pay Rs 1000 for making the School Fete 2012 a grand s... | |
| | | | Opposition parties, Congress allowed NC to go scot-free | | Semi-Independence for J&K | | | Rustam
Jammu, Dec 12: Neither the so-called ultra-nationalist BJP nor the so-called pro-Jammu and pro-India JKNPP has reacted to the NC resolution that advocated autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir more than 96 hours ago. Nobody would believe that the "think-tanks' of the BJP and the JKNPP did not know that the NC adopted divisive resolution in Jammu city itself. For, almost all the local dailies gave prominent place to what the NC suggested as a solution to the so-called Kashmir problem. In fact, it was believed in Jammu by many that both these parties would react sharply and take on the NC leadership for its insistence on a demand that had the potential of facilitating another communal partit... | |
| | | | DPC recommends promotions, Cabinet nod awaited | | Major police reshuffle on cards | | | Bashir Assad
Jammu, Dec 12: Though belated the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) which is usually headed by Chief Secretary in case of services, has finally cleared IGP Technical and Trainings in PHQ, Sheikh Owais Ahmad, IGP of Jammu, Dilbag Singh, IGP of Kashmir zone, Shiv Murari Sahai and IGP Trainings and CIV, VK Singh as Additional Director General of Police. Dilbag, Sahai and VK Singh are IPS officers of 1987 batch while Owais has now the distinction of being the first ADG from State Police Services (1977 batch).
Now when the Cabinet sanction to the appointment of ADGs is just a formality, it will be very interesting to note how the postings are effected in case of these top f... | |
| | | | Muslims resonate Hindu concerns over encroached shrines in Valley | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 12 : In a significant development the Muslims of Kashmir valley have also joined their Hindu brethren leading an exiled life for over last 22 years in raising concern over encroachment of land of Hindu religious places in Kashmir valley.
The Pensioners and Senior Citizens Welfare Association and People’s Welfare Society Ganderbal in a one day convention at Kangan yesterday have expressed there grave concern over the encroachment of land belonging to historical Naran Nag temple which is under Archaeological Survey of India. The two Associations during their day long deliberations while discussing various issues concerning the common man in the State as wel... | |
| | | | GMC Principal shames profession | | Leaves poor girl to die for inability to afford private surgery, DC orders probe | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Dec 12: Tall claims of the Government to afford healthcare were exposed today when a 2 year old girl child died due to criminal greed and gluttony of a tainted senior doctor who is officiating as the principal of the GMC&H Jammu and inability of the Government to rope in arbitrariness of the Government doctors to pursue private practice against all norms and professional ethics.
Protests sparked in SMGS hospital after the death of a 2 year minor girl, daughter of Amar Chand of Doda who died for want of immediate surgery. According to reports, the girl was admitted on Friday last after a corn of maize got struck in her wind pipe and chocked her throat. Doctors recommen... | |
| | | | When will UPA Govt uphold judicial verdict on terrorist Guru? | | Dec 13, 2001 Terror Attack On Parliament | | | ET Report
Jammu, Dec 12: It was on December 13, 2001 that five terrorists, including Afzal Guru, infiltrated the Parliament House in a car with Home Ministry and Parliament labels. While both the Lok Sabha had been adjourned about 40 minutes prior to the terror attack, a large number of Members of Parliament and Government officials, including Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister LK Advani and Minister of State for Defence Harin Pathak were still there in the building at the time of the well-planned attack. The terrorists had driven their terror vehicle into the car of the Vice-President Krishna Kant and got out and launched the attack. The guards of Krishna Kant and security personne... | |
| | | | Sonia on Kashmir secession body, says BSKS | | Congress In The Dock | | | Neha
Jammu, Dec 12: The Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS) President, Tajinder Singh Bagga, yesterday accused AICC president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi of associating herself with an international organization which, he alleged, stands for the independence of Jammu and Kashmir. He referred to the Forum of Democratic Leaders in the Asia-Pacific (FDL-AP). He demanded the cancellation of her Lok Sabha seat. Bagga leveled this serious charge in a press conference in New Delhi. His main refrain was that since Sonia Gandhi had not clarified her position on the issue of great national import, she cannot be allowed to sit in the Lok Sabha, the highest law-making body of the country.
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