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J&K yet to get nod from Planning Commission for meeting Clearance to plan size unlikely before presentation of budget 2/25/2011 11:18:07 PM CABINET CLEARS BUDGET PROPOSALS 10 PERCENT HIKE IN PREVIOUS PLAN PROJECTED EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Feb 24: NC led coalition government in the state has not yet got any nod from the Planning Commission with regard to fixing up of a meeting for finalizing the plan outlay for next financial year. The final plan size approval, as such appears to be unlikely before the state presents its annual budget in the state Assembly on March 7. The state cabinet, however, approved the proposals mooted in the next year's budget in the cabinet meeting held here today. Sources said even as the Finance ministry has finalized the draft of the plan outlay with expected hike in size, justifying increased need and requirement on various sectors, the final figure will only be known after Planning Commission gives nod to it. However, as always, the PC has asked the state to go ahead with 10 percent hike in comparison to the previous plan size which after persuasion by the state government was fixed at Rs 6000cr. For now, the state has went ahead with the hike of 10 percent in the draft plan , which pu...   READ MORE

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Withdrawal of DAA & AFSPA Befooling and hoodwinking people of Kashmir 2/25/2011 8:40:31 AM MINCING NO WORDS NEHA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Feb 24: Are the people of Kashmir province fool? No. They are not. Or, are they so innocent that they can’t understand what their leaders, including the Chief Minister, say again and again? Certainly not. Or, can anyone take the people of Kashmir for a ride and befool and hoodwink them? It’s a question that needs a definite answer. Or, is the memory of the people of Kashmir is so short that forget unequivocal statements of their leaders in no time? Again, it’s a question that needs a definite answer. Why these questions? Why because certain developments have taken place between February 20, when the Central Working Committee of the Natio...   READ MORE   Pandering To Separatists Separatists won’t meet us, but we will not give up 2/25/2011 8:39:57 AM STARK REALITY -- I RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Feb 24: The New Delhi-appointed interlocutors – Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari --- would submit what they called their “initial” report to the Union Government within the next two weeks. If one goes by what they told reporters on Wednesday in Jammu before leaving for Kashmir, then it can be said without any hesitation that the report would focus primarily on what the National Conference (NC), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the People’s League (PL) and the Awami National Conference (ANC) have been advocating for years and what chairman of the Working Group on Centre-State Relations Justice Sageer Ahmad had recomme...   READ MORE   PM assures one lakh jobs to JK youth 2/25/2011 8:39:20 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT New Delhi, Feb 24 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today announced that the Government had almost finalised a plan for the creation of 50,000 to one lakh jobs for the youth of Jammu and Kashmir in a bid to stop them from ''being misled by wrong persons.'' Once these jobs will be in hand the mindset of the people is '' bound to change'' in the State, the Prime Minister said while replying to the debate in the Lok Sabha on the motion of thanks on the President's Address. He said the Government will not allow any secessionist forces to control the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. ''We will not do anything that will encourage secessionist forces.'' He said i...   READ MORE   Mehbooba interacts with interlocutors Seeks involvement of Pakistan, separatists in dialogue 2/25/2011 8:38:54 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT Srinagar, Feb 24: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti today interacted with New Delhi’s nominated interlocutors on Jammu Kashmir at her residence. Senior leadrs, Iftikar Ansari, Dilawar Mir and Nayeem Akhter were also present. Mehbooba reminded that unilateral or bilateral decisions earlier taken by the previous regimes, from time to time, had proved counterproductive ‘so there is need to take comprehensive and holistic view of the whole issue so as to solve this problem once for all.’ She stressed need for involving Pakistan in the dialogue process for resolution of Kashmir problem. She said that involvement of Pakistan in the talks...   READ MORE   Fulfil your promise Padgoanker Go to detained militants 2/25/2011 8:37:48 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 24: The fifth visit of New Delhi’s nominated interlocutors on Jammu Kashmir is about to conclude. The team of interlocutors led by veteran journalist, Dileep Padgoanker will address a press conference in the summer capital Saturday. And that is it. Will anything change after that? The question haunts Kashmiris. Frankly speaking, the interlocutors have not met people who matter in contemporary Kashmir yet. They have met National Conference leaders and the opposition parties at Jammu and Srinagar. Strangely enough most of the mainstream parties do not expect anything positive from them. On the contrary they have severely opposed and criticized the interlocu...   READ MORE   Omar tweets over power deficit bill, budget proposals 2/25/2011 8:37:21 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 24: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has now tweeted on the state budget sharing his concern over the burgeoning power deficit bill and interest payments. Chairing a high level meeting with his cabinet colleagues to discuss this years budget proposals Omar Abdullah shared few hair raising figures with his followers clearly indicating that he is finding it difficult to carry forward his developmental agenda as very little amount of money is left after paying a hefty salary bill of 14,700 crores. In his specific tweet Omar said, " Interest payments 2360 Crs & power deficit 1500 Crs. Where's the money for anything else" He started by writ...   READ MORE   Now, Omar tweets for 50 inch LCD 2/25/2011 8:36:59 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 24: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s twitter account seems to be virtually making news for everything. In the latest instant, Omar had sought suggestions and recommendations for buying a 50 inch LCD/Plasma television for his official residence at New Delhi. Omar tweeted on February 23 and within minutes received responses from all those who have been following him closely on Twitter. More interesting is the fact that Omar responded to every tweet within seconds. One Megha Sharma suggested Omar not to put extravagant shopping plans on twitter since he is Chief Minister of a state in India. Omar responded and wrote “I'm buying a TV not a Rolls Royce or a Gulf...   READ MORE

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