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| Young entrants' salaries halved, Legislators' perks doubled and CM says: "My hand holding of youth above political motives" | | | | Abodh Sharma
JAMMU, Feb 21: Call it an irony of misfortunes that the Government that impelled the youth of the State to work at less than half their legitimate wages for the first five years of their careers in the veil of 'New Recruitment Policy' arguing paucity of resources, announced Club Class air travel for its Legislators besides doubling their car and home loan ceilings and DA for attending the sittings of the Legislature.
This bonanza for the legislators was announced for the 'honourables' the previous day notwithstanding the fact that just two years back, the legislators had accorded sanction to a proposal to more than double their salaries within no time. Many a legislators had at that time argued that since they were placed higher in the hierarchy of protocol than the Chief Secretary, the senior most bureaucrats in the State, their emoluments must also be higher than the gross salary drawn by the Chief Secretary. Less than two years after that more than hundred percent hike, on Thursday, Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Mir Saifullah announced to enhance the ... | |
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| 17 officers of Accounts and Treasury cadre overstaying on various posts | | Violation of Transfer policy goes unabated in FD | | | Akshay Azad
JAMMU, Feb 21: The violation of transfer policy is going on unabated in Finance department as 17 officials are presently overstaying at various posts in several Government departments.
Sources informed Early Times that as per transfer policy of State Government, the minimum stay on a particular post should not be less than 2 years and not more than 3 years, but several others are holding the posts for more than three years, due to the reasons best known to concerned authorities.
As per documents in possession of Early Times the 17 overstaying officers include Mazher Hussain Special Assistant to Minister of State for Power, who is on the post for the last more than 4 years tha... | |
| | | | Of Rs 8.51 Cr from Centre, Rs 1 Cr released, work going on at snail’s pace | | Dogra Art , Culture facing utter neglect under NC Government | | | Bivek Mathur
JAMMU, Feb 21: Dogra Art and Culture is facing utter neglect under ruling National Conference-Congress Government as majority of the historical monuments have not seen any renovation and repair work despite heavy funding from Government of India for the same.
Member Legislative Council (MLC) Naresh Gupta today raised a discussion under Rule 60-A of the rules of procedure and conduct of business in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council about the repair/restoration works being carried out by the State/Centre to repair the historical Mubarak Mandi complex in district Jammu and sought to know the progress made in this direction.
Minister for Tourism replied to the member that ... | |
| | | | 185 religious places of Kashmiri Pandits still in damaged, dilapidated condition in Valley; admits J&K Govt | | | | Avinash Azad
JAMMU, Feb 21: State Government's repeated claim that religious places of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir valley have been restored was exposed today when it admitted in the legislative council that 185 out of 542 religious places in Valley are still in the damaged or dilapidated conditions.
The information was given by Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation department in response to question of MLC Ravinder Sharma, who had sought information regarding number or religious places, damaged and in dilapidated condition in Valley.
The Government has further informed that maximum religious places 17 out of 30 were damaged in Kulgam.
Astonishingly, where maximum religious places have bee... | |
| | | | Omar justifies ban on Pre-paid SMS; forgets 'regressive, counter-productive' tweet | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Feb 21: Putting virtually a question mark on his public posturing, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who is also incharge of the Home department today justified ban on pre-paid Short Messaging Service (SMS).
In a written reply to PDP legislator Syed Naeem Akhtar Andrabi's question, Home Ministry of Jammu and Kashmir has said that ban on pre-paid services has been imposed to check spread of false and frivolous rumours which have a potential to incite violence, thus, posing serious law and order problem.
With the continuation of ban on this service, spread of rumours and false propaganda against the Government has declined to a large extent, the Home Minister has sai... | |
| | | | BJP high command to seek support of Panthers Party for LS polls | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 21: Desperate to win both Lok Sabha seats of Jammu province at any cost to achieve the target of 272 Plus, the BJP high command has decided to approach Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) to ensure support of the party for Parliamentary elections.
Credible sources in the BJP said that high command is annoyed over the way state unit has been working regarding preparing for the Lok Sabha elections. Instead of seeking support of like minded parties like JKNPP, local BJP leaders are more concerned about getting mandate rather than ensuring victory of party candidates,
Credible sources said that some central BJP leaders have opened channel of c... | |
| | | | Town remains shut over Changa abduction | | Gunmen kill Sopore youth | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
BARAMULLA, Feb 21: Un-identified gunmen struck in the apple rich town of Sopore in this North Kashmir district and gunned down a civilian who was returning from a Masjid after offering evening prayers in the Krankshivan locality of the area.
Reports said that Waseem Mehraj Malla son of Mehraj-ud-din Malla resident of Naseembagh locality of Krankshivan-Sopore came under a volley of bullets from unidentified gunmen at 6:40 while coming out of the Masjid after offering evening prayers in his locality. Waseem succumbed to his injuries on spot.
The assailants wearing masks could not be identified. The killing of Waseem adds to the list of civilian killings that has been... | |
| | | | GMCs in JK facing acute shortage of faculty, doctors | | | | Bashir Assad
Jammu, Feb21: Government today informed the Legislative Assembly that Government Medical Colleges of Jammu and Srinagar have been reeling under shortage of 433 faculty members.
In reply to questions of Professor Chaman Lal Gupta and Abdul Rehman Veeri, the government said that 278 posts of faculty members have been lying vacant in Government Medical College, Srinagar and 155 in the Government Medical College, Jammu.
In GMC, Srinagar out of sanctioned strength of 519 Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors and Lecturers, 241 are in place and 278 posts are lying vacant.
Similarly, against sanctioned strength of 358 in the Government Medical College, Jammu , 2... | |
| | | | Opposition alleges scam, stages walkout; Speaker directs probe | | Repair work on Samba-Mansar Road | | |
Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Feb 21: Speaker Legislative Assembly Mubarak Gul today issued directions to the Government through Minister of state for R&B Sajjad Kitchloo to probe the allegations of scam in the repair/renovation of Samba -Mansar road leveled by MLAs of the National Panthers Party.
Refuting the claims of the Minister who was replying to a listed question of NC MLA Bimla Luthra during Question Hour in the State Legislative Assembly Thursday, NPP MLAs led by MLA Samba Yashpal Kundal claimed that the Samba Mansar road was in dilapidated condition and no repair/improvement work had been done on the road. Alleging a scam, the MLAs claimed that the information given by the Minister w... | |
| | | | 11 security personnel killed, 25 civilians injured in 2013 | | | | Avinash Azad
Jammu, Feb 21: With no let-up in cross border skirmishes, as many as 11 security personnel were killed while 24 men including 25 civilian were injured in 208 incidents of firing from across Lone of Control (LoC) in Jammu region last year. This was stated by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah while replying in question of Congress member Sham Lal Bhagat in Legislative Council. He said that 11 security personnel were killed and 25 civilians and 24 security force personnel were injured in 208 incidents of LoC firing in Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Rajouri and Poonch districts in 2013. "9 security personnel were killed and seven security men and six civilians were injured in 143 incidents al... | |
| | | | Legislator demands withdrawal of JU's autonomous status | | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Feb 21: Expressing his anguish over the inability of Jammu University authorities to start work on the Udhampur campus, Panthers party MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia on Thursday demanded to withdraw the autonomous status of the Jammu University and bring it directly under the Ministry of Higher Education.
Mankotia rued that the University had been allocated Rs. 5 crore by the state government and another 18 crores by the University Grant Commission; yet, it had not expended a single rupee in years for the construction of its off campus at Udhampur.
"There is no accountability and the University authorities are only interested in contesting elections. University must be... | |
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