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| SRTC’s middle-path after 100 days | | Strike called off, govt agrees to pay off salaries | | | MUNISH GUPTA
JAMMU, DEC 3: After 100 days of street battles, bare chest protests and empty stomach marches, the aggrieved employees of state owned Road Transport Corporation today agreed to meet the government midway as they called off their strike following an assurance to address most of their grievances. The concrete results from the government are though yet to pour in, practically. The visibly amicable decision was taken in a meeting of the employees’ representatives with Transport Minister Qamar Ali Akhoon.
Government agreed to release pending salaries, benefit of TA, DA and overtime, regular releasing of salaries, VRS benefit besides implementation of Road Transport Corporation 1950 Act fully. Government also agreed to run the J&K State Road Transport Corporation on the pattern of Himchal Pradesh Road Transport Corporation. Government however categorically refused implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission as would depend on the future income of the corporation.
Strike started in the last week of August and completed its 100 days today. Negotiations in a meeting of SRTC ... | |
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| ReZ stipend doubled | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, DEC 3: The Government has approved the increase in the stipend of Rehbar-e-Zerat personnel from Rs. 1500 to Rs. 3000 per month with effect from the date the Budget Speech was made by the Finance Minister in the Legislative Assembly i.e. 10th of August, 2009.
The Chief Minister has also directed the agriculture department to gainfully utilize the services of Rehbar-e-Zerat personnel for capacity building of farmers and enhancing the agriculture production in the state by using modern technology. He has also asked the department to make a road map for the regularization of the services of Rehbar-e-Zerat personnel on the basis of their performance in these servic... | |
| | | | Omar, Ajaz received Hajjis | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 3: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah and Hajj Minister Ajaz Ahmed Khan today received the first batch of Hajjis at Srinagar International Airport. In all 401Hajjis arrived in three flights to Srinagar.
Among others, present to receive the Hajjis were Minister of State for PHE, Tourism, Revenue and Housing, Mr. Nasir Aslam Wani, the Advisor to Chief Minister, Mr. Mubarak Gul, besides Mir Saifullah MLA and Mr. Abdul Gani Vakil, senior Congress leader and MLC. Senior civil and police officers were also present at the Airport to receive the Hajjis.
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| | | | Honours for Prof Desh Bandhu | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 3- Prof Desh Bandhu Gupta Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education has been elected in the Board of Governors of Commonwealth Association of Open Schools (COMOSA).
Under the leadership of Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver, Canada an initiative was taken to establish a Commonwealth Association of Open Schools (COMOSA) involving Commonwealth countries. The need to establish such a body to act as an international network for sharing knowledge, disseminating innovative ideas, building capacity and raising the public profile of open schooling. The high demand for Secondary Education has led to many countries investing in establishing Open Sc... | |
| | | | Vaishno Devi pilgrim jumps from hillock | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 3: A Vaishno Devi pilgrim allegedly attempted to commit suicide by jumping from a hill rock near Hathi Matha en route Katra in mountainous Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, police sources here said.
''A woman pilgrim Santosh, 24, allegedly jumped from the hill rock in a bid to end her life while she was returning to Katra along with her family members after paying obeisance at the Vaishno Devi Shrine last night,'' the sources said.
The woman, however, survived but got seriously injured.
''She was immediately shifted to the hospital at Sanjhi Chhat from where she was referred to the Katra hospital,'' police added. A case has been registered and t... | |
| | | | Only 7 guests from PoK on LoC bus | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR : The number of cross-border travellers in the Karvan-e-Aman bus remained low as only seven guests arrived here from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) while nine from here crossed to other side of the Line of Control (LoC).
Official sources told that seven guests, including two women, from PoK, arrived here in the Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad since April 7, 2005.
They said six residents of the Kashmir Valley, who had crossed over to PoK, also returned to their homes in the bus after meeting their relatives there. They included two women and a child, who travelled to other side recently to meet their relatives separated since 1947 par... | |
| | | | Twin capitals selected JNNURM mission cities | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
New Delhi, Dec 3: The twin capital cities of Srinagar and Jammu have been selected as two Mission cities under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The Mission envisages focus on efficiency in urban infrastructure and governance, basic services to the urban poor, to encourage reforms and fast track planned development of identified cities, and service delivery mechanisms with community participation and accountability of Urban Local Bodies.
This was stated at the National Conference on JNNURM inaugurated by Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi today Thursday.
From Jammu and Kashmir, the Conference was attended b... | |
| | | | J&K is bilateral issue: Krishna | | No discussions with world counties, multilateral forums | | | Early Times Report
New Delhi, Dec 3: Asserting that Jammu and Kashmir was a bilateral matter between India and Pakistan, New Delhi today clarified that it did not encourage discussion on the issue with other countries or multilateral bodies or forum.
Answering questions on Chinese views on J&K, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna in written replies in Rajya Sabha said China regarded J&K as a 'dispute' and it should be settled properly through dialogue between India and Pakistan. The Government had taken up depiction of India in Chinese maps with Chinese side conveying its 'clear and consistent position that J&K was an integral part of India, Mr Krishna said.
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| | | | Wajahat stuck in Delhi: no information about Chief Information Commissioner | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, DEC 3: Strangely, there is no information regarding the Centre’s next Right to Information (RTI) Commission boss. And, thus, the present incumbent, Mr Wajahat Habibullah, is in a way stuck in Delhi despite his keenness to go to Jammu and Kashmir and set up the State RTI office.
The result of this delay in the appointment of Mr Habibullah’s successor leaves him less than 10 months time to accomplish the task of setting the RTI machinery in J&K rolling. Mr Habibullah would attain 65 years of age in September 2010. The RTI boss as per the new law at the Centre as well as in J&K can remain in office only until the age of 65.
Last month Prime Minister Manmohan Sin... | |
| | | | Wait for CM’s Dec 5 speech: people more curious about ‘job package’ than ‘quiet diplomacy’ | | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
EARLY TIMES
SRINAGAR, Dec 3: Budget Session announcements of Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, and Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather, have generated so much of high expectations and enthusiasm among the unemployed in Jammu & Kashmir that half-a-million of them have got themselves registered at recruitment exchanges all over the state. Even as both, Omar and Rather, have said in unambiguous terms that the coalition government would draft the state’s first ‘Employment Policy’ and unfold it on occasion of the National Conference founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s birth anniversary on December 5th, people at large seem to have mistaken it for an ‘Employment Package”.
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| | | | Pak national dies at GMC | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 3: A Pakistan national who was undergoing trail and lodged in district jail Jammu died in Government Medical College hospital here after a illness today.
Pakistan national identified as Musa Khan of 65 years son of Fasadu Din was arrested during trans border bid in 1983 and was under trail. He was booked 14 Foreign Act. His hearing was suspended for a brief period due to his upper story problem. On 23 November he developed some pain in his kidneys and was sent to GMC hospital where he succumbed to pain. His body after postmortem was handed over to the jail authority, an official spokesman informed.
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| | | | Another mysterious death: | | Corporator’s daughters’body found in Belichrana | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 3: Barely a couple of days after barbaric murder of an officer of the Department of Economics and Statistics, yet another shocking and mysterious death has been reported in the town.
One Rimpi Bhagat of 17 years daughter of Manohar Lal, corporator in Jammu Municipal Corporation, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a canal at Balicharana area under the jurisdiction of Satwari Police Station.
She went to Nakul Palace at Baranai to attend a marriage function with her mother and brother where she complaint of vomiting and for the purpose she went outside from the palace but she did not come back. Relatives of the deceased informed that after sh... | |
| | | | Udhampur-Baramulla rail project work commences | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
New Delhi, Dec 3 : Union Minister of State for Railways K H Muniyappa informed the Lok Sabha on Thursday that the work of new line from Udhampur-Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir has been initiated.
In a written reply Muniyappa stated the section from Qazigund-Baramulla has already been commissioned.
"Surveys for Baramulla-Kupwra, Jammu-Poonch new lines have already been conducted. As regards Srinagar-Bandipore-Sopore-Baramulla railway line, it is stated that Srinagar has already been connected to Baramulla via Sopore through a rail link as part of the recently completed Qazigund-Baramulla new line," he said.
He also clarified that no survey has been done for t... | |
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