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| Public penniless, representatives Crorepatis | | | | Akshay Azad
Jammu, Feb 23: A State having 7.36 lakh families living below poverty line (BPL) and facing hard time to meet both ends but amazingly the contestants, who have filed nominations for MLC polls, and are likely to represent the hapless public, have great difference viz-a-viz their economic status. Except two candidates out of 10, eight are Crorepatis irrespective of the parties, with which they belong.
According to affidavits submitted by all the contestants for seven seats of MLC polls, which are in possession of Early Times, Abdul Majid of National Conference topped the list with moveable and immovable property of approximately Rs 16 Crores on the name of him and his family. "He has moveable assets of around Rs 70 lakhs on his name while his spouse has Rs. 7 lakh assets, besides the immovable property of around Rs 15 Crores," the affidavit disclosed.
Devinder Rana of NC, who is elected for second term, followed the list with moveable and immovable assets of around Rs. 14 Crores. "The moveable assets of Rana have total value of Rs. 2.64 Crores while his wife has Rs. 3... | |
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| SIC issues show cause notice to BDO Kulgam | | Sarpanch v/s BDO | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 23: Infighting in the Panchayat Raj came to fore when a Sarpanch was denied information under RTI Act by the Rural Development Department, Kulgam. The Sarpanch knocked the doors of State Information Commission (SIC) Srinagar and the SIC issued a show cause notice to the BDO asking him why penalty should not be imposed on him? According to details the State Information Commission vide its order No: SIC/K/Comp/173/2012/01 dated Jan 1, 2013 has directed the BDO to explain why the penalty / criminal proceedings could not be initiated against him. According to details the Sarpanch of village Shurath district Kulgam, Mubarak Ahmad had approached the Information C... | |
| | | | What is CCDU? Sham asks clueless officials | | | | Sanjay Pandita
Jammu, Feb 23: What is CCDU? Can anyone give me the extended meaning of this abbreviation? This question was asked by none other than the State PHE and Irrigation Minister Sham Lal Sharma recently during a meeting of the PHE officials in winter capital.
Surprisingly, none of the officers including the Chief Engineer were able to answer the Minister's question even though crores of rupees are reportedly being spent annually under this scheme by the department?
Sharma was aghast at the more than callous behavior of the PHE officials. He immediately ordered an enquiry into the spending under CCDU (Communication and Capacity Development Unit) of the department. To fast track ... | |
| | | | MOS proposes, Xen disposes and a JE is suspended | | | |
Asif Iqbal Naik
KISHTWAR, Feb 23: Executive Engineer PHE Division Kishtwar Abdul Wahid Zarger placed Junior Engineer Masood Ahmed Dev under suspension on the direction of MOS PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control Nazir Ahmed Gurezi for not attending his duties in Marwah/Warwan area of Kishtwar District presently under 4 to 5 feet of snow.
As per order No:HDK/8238-43 dated 22-02-2013, Minister for PHE I&FC along with MOS Home Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo visited Kishtwar on 17-2-2013 where a deputation of people of Marwah headed by an unknown Sarpanch apprised him about the absence of field staff. However, only one JE was placed under suspension. The employees including the JE were present and acco... | |
| | | | Scared, village heads accuse Govt of playing with their lives | | Fresh spate of threatening | | | Javaid Naikoo
SRINAGAR, Feb 23: With threatening spate afresh pushing resignations out of fear by the Village Heads, worries seem to be unending for Panchayat members in Kashmir , most of whom are ruing and regretting their decision of having participated in the polls held in 2011.
Nine more village heads were threatened to resign by some unidentified people in south Kashmir's Rawalpora, Dashipora and Ayend areas of District Shopian. Soon after they were elected with overwhelming participation of people in their respective areas, unidentified gun man started killing them across the Kashmir without any discrimination of age and sex.
The village heads namely Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din, Fayaz A... | |
| | | | Scared, village heads accuse Govt of playing with their lives | | Fresh spate of threatening | | | Javaid Naikoo
SRINAGAR, Feb 23: With threatening spate afresh pushing resignations out of fear by the Village Heads, worries seem to be unending for Panchayat members in Kashmir , most of whom are ruing and regretting their decision of having participated in the polls held in 2011.
Nine more village heads were threatened to resign by some unidentified people in south Kashmir's Rawalpora, Dashipora and Ayend areas of District Shopian. Soon after they were elected with overwhelming participation of people in their respective areas, unidentified gun man started killing them across the Kashmir without any discrimination of age and sex.
The village heads namely Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din, Fayaz A... | |
| | | | Following irregularities, 4 Members transferred | | 4 GMC&H Purchase Committee | | |
Avinash Azad
Jammu, Feb 23: Following huge irregularities in purchase of various goods and articles for Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu, the administration has transferred four officials of Purchase committee, including Chief Accounts Officer (CAO).
Informed Early Times that acting on the complaints against some members of purchase committee, the administration took a decision to transfer four employees, who were working at the same posts for the last around five years.
The transferred employees including CAO, GMC&H Dr SK Sharma, who is replaced by Dr Tabbusm, while Pawan Sharma of purchase committee has been transferred and posted at CD hospital.
"Jag... | |
| | | | Of endangered industries and official apathy | | `70% units closed down in Jammu' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 23: Thanks to the `non-professional attitude of Omar led coalition Government, the industries in Jammu and Kashmir have suffered a huge setback. Reports about closure of 70% of the industrial units in Jammu have been received.
Local industrialists of Jammu feel that the incumbent Government is not doing what it was supposed to do to promote industries. According to them, the Government invites big industrialists from outside who first establish business here and go back after making a fortune.
Talking to Early Times, few local industrialists said that present Government is not supporting locals in promoting the industries. "But when Mufti Mohammad Sayeed ... | |
| | | | Police fails to arrest student of BGSB booked for ragging | | | |
Early Times Report
RAJOURI, Feb 23: Two engineering students of the BGSB University have been booked for ragging two junior students at their hostel, but police has still failed to trace the second student who had escaped from the spot.
However, misconduct on part of the students of the Baba Gulam Shah Badshah (BGSB) University has become a general rule, especially for the Kashmir based students, but university administration has been sitting silent on the matter owing to political considerations.
Reports said that two junior students of Engineering and Technology of BGSBU, (identified as Tahir Mohi-ud-Din and Shaheb Nawaz in their written complaint to police said that today two senio... | |
| | | | Senior BJP leader works hard for 2 NC candidates | | LC elections | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 23: A senior BJP leader has been working overtime to ensure smooth sailing of both the National Conference candidates in the Legislative Council elections from the quota of Kashmir valley. The leader, who has been recently assigned an important job, has been vociferously demanding that instead of supporting a Kashmiri Pandit candidate, who has filed his papers as Independent candidate, the party should not budge from its earlier stand on boycotting the elections.
If BJP boycott the Legislative Council elections it will ensure victory of both the NC candidates, Shoukat Ahmed Ganai and Abdul Majid Bhat. Insiders in the BJP said that this party has over-... | |
| | | | Apprehensive, Omar, Soz discuss strategy | | BJP to support Dudha in LC polls…? | | |
Jammu: With apprehensions of opposition getting united on one of the candidates who filed papers in independent capacity from Kashmir, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Pradesh Congress Chief Saifuddin Soz met here today to discuss the strategy for the upcoming Legislative Council elections in the state. Shiban Dudha,who filed nomination with PDP's support is all set to get the party support besides the votes of PDF president Mohammad Hakim Yasin and CPM legislator MY Tarigami . However, what is worrying NC and Congress is the prospect of BJP MLAs too favouring Dudha during the elections which are slated for March 7.
PCC President Saifuddin Soz and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah ha... | |
| | | | PDP's master stroke leaves BJP, NC in catch-22 situation! | | Mufti's move to support KP candidate | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 23: A smart move by Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) of supporting an Independent candidate belonging to Kashmiri Pandit community, contesting election of Legislative Council from Kashmir division, has left BJP as well as ruling NC in catch-22 situation.
The Independent candidate in question has been supported by Peoples' Democratic Forum (PDF) headed by former Minister and sitting Legislator Hakim Yaseen.
Officially, State unit of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has announced to abstain from voting in the ongoing elections to eight vacant seats in Legislative Council. However, the seven expelled Legislators of BJP have decided that Legislators are at their free ... | |
| | | | Creation of SSZs bound to face opposition in Valley | | Police Bill 2013 draws flak | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Feb 23: The JK Police Bill-2013, which is believed to confer special powers to police to deal with the abnormal situation, much before introduction and passage in the legislature, has started evoking reactions from different sections of the society.
According to sources, the bill, proposed to be tabled in the upcoming session of the State legislature, will enable the Government to declare an area as a Special Security Zone, as and when violence erupts in such area, may that be the violence due to communal clashes, terrorist strike or situation on account of other activities perceived as anti-national acts to an intolerable level. This, as per the provisions... | |
| | | | Army's call for free & fair poll holds democracy in Pakistan by slender thread | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 23: Is it within the parametres of democratic setup to leave it to the military authorities to suggest to a duly elected civilian Government to ensure "free, fair and timely" election in the country? Normally it cannot be part of the strong democratic traditions.
Yes, the Army can call for "free,fair and timely" elections under two circumstances. First, if the military authorities in that country have some devious plan of either taking over the reigns of the Government or installing men of their choice to head the Government they can give a call to the civilian establishment to ensure free,fair and timely elections.
This step would be aimed to convincing ... | |
| | | | Jammu Kashmir loses forest cover as encroachments continue | | `Ministers, politicians patronize land mafia' | | | Bashir Assad
Jammu, Feb 23: The Jammu and Kashmir State is losing rapidly its green forest cover as encroachment of forest land continues across the State. The forest land has shrunk from 20,230 sq km to just 7,590 sq km as per data furnished by the State Department of Forests earlier this year.
Though the Minister for Forests Mian Altaf has been asking the officers of his department to make accountability more effective to safeguard the interests of the State but the vested interests within the department in connivance with the high profile politicians and Ministers are facilitating the land grabbing endangering the green cover of the State alarmingly. And the single largest reason re... | |
| | | | Available funds Rs 92 Cr 40 lakhs; spent 238 Cr 5 lakhs! | | Can Panchayati Raj Minister explain? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 23: An advertisement issued by the Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj makes an interesting read.
The advertisement says: Swranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY) is a self employment scheme for generating the avenues of self employment in rural areas by augmenting the income of village people. This programme has brought economic revolution in rural areas especially womenfolk have been benefited and has helped them in self sustenance."
Interestingly the concerned department has spent more than twice the amount that was available to it. The advertisement says available funds during four years i.e. ending December 2012 were Rs 92 Crores and 40 ... | |
| | | | Jammu leadership is again 'defeating' Jammu | | Shrill anti-India campaign in Kashmir | | | Neha
Jammu, Feb 23: People of Jammu province are at the crossroad. There is no leader worth its name in Jammu who is prepared to take on and challenge the Kashmiri leadership, which has unleashed a no-holds-barred anti-India campaign in the aftermath of the lawful hanging of the Parliament terror attack case convict Afzal Guru and is challenging the very institution of the State. It is hardly necessary to reflect on what has been happening in Kashmir and what the Kashmiri leaders of all hues, without any exceptions, have been saying and doing in Kashmir and New Delhi ever since the hanging of Guru, as nothing is secret. Suffice to say that they have reiterated their dubious stand that Indi... | |
| | | | Confusion over State Subject Definition of 1927 | | Refugee Problem | | | Rustam
Jammu, Feb 23: Refugees from West Pakistan, blame Article 370 and the State Subject Definition of 1927 for their failure to obtain citizenship rights in Jammu & Kashmir. They said so in a seminar on the problems facing the refugees from West Pakistan only the other day held at Press Club Jammu. They were absolutely right. However, it is important to understand the circumstances under which the State Subject laws were enacted in 1927 and the attitude of Kashmiri leadership towards it. A proper understanding on the issue is a must.
The State Subject Definition was introduced by Maharaja Pratap Singh to defeat the questionable intentions of the Kashmiri leadership with the Dogra Sadar... | |
| | | | Off the road: Kashmir's nomads settling down | | | | early times report
Jammu, Feb 23: Among the numerous scarred inhabitants of Jammu and Kashmir are the nomadic Gujjars, whose languid rhythm of life and simple traditions are dying a gradual death due to the over two-decade long militancy in the state.
Thousands of Gujjars have for centuries moved to mountainous pastures along with their cattle in summers and returned to the plains in winter before snowfall. But with insurgency persisting, most of these tribes are forced to stay put in the plains around Jammu and other areas, adversely affecting their culture, lifestyle and habits.
According to official statistics, there are about two million Gujjars in Jammu and Kashmir, of whom around 5... | |
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