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14 years on, Convention Centre Jammu still a distant dream 2/22/2013 11:59:28 PM Akshay Azad Jammu, Feb 22: The ill planning and casual approach of Hospitality and Protocol department can be gauged from the condition of under-construction Convention Centre Jammu, which is still under construction after the lapse of around 14 years, and the project cost has doubled its original cost. Sources informed Early Times that on the pattern of Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) at Srinagar, the Government had conceived to construct a Convention Centre in Jammu. "The construction work was started in the year 1999, on the piece of land just adjacent to Government Guest House Canal Road Jammu, but after lapse of 14 years, the project is still a dream," they said. "When the project was mooted, the original cost of project was Rs. 12.21 crores and the project was to be completed in three years, i.e in year 2003, but amazingly, despite adequate funding for the first three years, the project lingered on and after spending of around 94 percent of funds (Rs 11.45 crores) only 60 percent works were completed till year 2009," sources said. They further said t...   READ MORE

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Govt registers yet another failure JK awaits user guide for RTI Act 2/22/2013 11:59:17 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Feb 22: It is almost four years now since the new version of RTI Act was enforced in JK. Under section 23 of Act, The Government is under a legal obligation to make people aware of using their right enshrined under the Act but nothing has been done to achieve the objective. How can people access information under RTI when they are not aware about this law? Instead of Government, the State Information Commission (SIC) has held few such programmes. The Chief Information Commissioner GR Sufi himself visited many far flung areas of the State and urged the people to use RTI Act. It is pertinent to mention that SIC is not bound to create such awareness. Section 23...   READ MORE   Woman conceives after Tubectomy procedure in private hospital 2/22/2013 11:58:57 PM Asif Iqbal Naik kishtwar, Feb 22: In a bizarre incident of cheating and medical negligence, a 28 year old woman was discovered to be pregnant, few months after he underwent tubectomy in a Valley based private hospital. According to Talib Hussain, a labourer in Kishtwar, his 28 year old wife Akthara Begum developed some gynaecological problem couple of months ago and was advised surgery of the same. Accordingly, he arranged money for the surgery by collecting donations from public and admitted his wife in Srinagar based Ramzaan Hospital, where the doctors operated on his wife. In addition to the surgery for her obstetric problem, the doctors also conducted tubectomy on his wife. After re...   READ MORE   Budget session likely to be stormy-PDP all set to corner coalition Govt 2/22/2013 11:58:46 PM Bashir Assad Jammu, Feb 22: The Budget Session of J&K Assembly beginning February 28 looks set to be stormy with Opposition vowing to strongly raise issues like corruption and non-governance even though Omar Abdullah led coalition Government is exploring all the possibilities to defend its "policies" during the month long session. A possible confrontation between Government and opposition PDP over Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's hanging cannot be ruled out given the reports in some sections of national media that Omar was taken into confidence by the UPA Government in advance over the hanging. Leader of the Opposition Mehbooba Mufti has already stated that the State Government ...   READ MORE   J&K Govt's transfer policy goes wrong; rules bent for political, personal reasons 2/22/2013 11:58:33 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi Jammu, Feb 22: For purely political and personnel reasons, State Government seems to be working overnight to violate much touted transfer policy announced by it in the year 2010. GAD has been so far dancing to the tunes of Ministers, MLAs and MLCs. Officers are shifted from one place to another without following this transfer policy in toto. Announced vide Cabinet decision no. 156/12/2010, Dated 27-7-2010, the policy on the transfer and posting of Government employees was made applicable vide Government Order No. 861-GAD of 2010 Dated 28-7-2010. But now this policy is a piece of paper and has no relevance for those who matter in the corridors of power. Chief Minister ha...   READ MORE   Can Omar deport Geelani, Malik? 2/22/2013 11:58:23 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 22: The deporting of VHP leader Parveen Togadia by the State Government exposes both its duplicity and also its failure in handling a possible law and order situation. The Chief Minister defending the decision to send back Parveen Togadia had said the people should realize that his earlier visit had created law and order problem resulting in curfew in Rajouri last year. The CM was here also selective by not writing about the police brutality in handling the situation, when cops barged into the houses and destroyed every thing resulting in more tension and eventual transfer of both SP and DC of the district. Had the administration handled the situation in a...   READ MORE   Shocking! 50,000 power connections still operative via Kundi system...? Deptt fails to identify black Sheep 2/22/2013 11:58:10 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 22: Unbelievable! But true that over 50,000 power supply connections are running illegally here in the winter capital. While senior officials in Power Development Department (PDD) are busy in instructing and supervising the visiting departmental teams collecting due arrears from residential as well as commercial sectors, certain officials at helm of affairs are allegedly "minting money" from that lot (slum dwellers) who do not have obtained power supply connections. A senior official of the rank of Executive Engineer (Xen) of PDD, while speaking to Early Times on the condition of anonymity disclosed that "though hectic efforts by the department have been made...   READ MORE   Tihar may embitter further relations between Geelani, Mirwaiz Clash of egos, interests 2/22/2013 11:57:55 PM Rustam Jammu, Feb 22: APHC (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani and APHC (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who worked together for sometime and then parted ways following some so-called ideological differences, may pull each other's legs in the coming days during the wake of the February 9 hanging of Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail, Delhi. Geelani wants the State's merger with Muslim Pakistan whose present leadership has been maintaining distance from the APHC (G) separatist for sometime now. Mirwaiz, who right now is in the good books of Pakistan, unlike Geelani, has been talking of many solutions, including former Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf's four-point Kashmir formula, notwithstandi...   READ MORE   Jammu's Rs 400 crore water supply project dropped from PMRP; funds, DPR issue? 2/23/2013 12:00:46 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Feb 22: Inefficiency and delay in submitting Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the much hyped Rs. 400 crore scheme for 'Augmenting and improving water supply in Greater Jammu' has been dropped from Rs.31745 crore under Prime Minister's Reconstruction Programme (PMRP). According to the status report of Prime Minister's Delivering Monitoring Unit (DMU), the Rs. 400 crore project is no more part of PMRP. The DMU report asserts that the project was dropped due to paucity of funds. It says "Project could not be taken up due to non-availability of sufficient funds under Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Project has been dropped." Report further indi...   READ MORE   They keep playing politics on Guru's body 2/22/2013 11:57:40 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 22: The execution of the Parliament attack convict Mohd Afzal Guru, seems to have given a handle to the Kashmiri separatists to re-establish their relevance and presence in the Valley where they have been instrumental in ruffling the calm waters of its lakes. Their presence and relevance would have gone unnoticed and unheeded had not Pakistan provided moral and material support to those gun toting youths who had received arms training in camps in Pakistan and occupied Kashmir during the last over two decades. These separatists miss no opportunity for registering their presence by motivating people to stage protest rallies and paralyse normal life over issues ...   READ MORE

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