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| Goyal to go on central deputation, Rakesh returning | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 3: Resident Commissioner (RC) of Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi Raj Kumar Goyal is strongly tipped to take over as new Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology.
An IAS officer of 1990 batch, Goyal will replace 1985 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre officer Anita Bhatnagar Jain. Goyal would be the 20th IAS officer proceeding on central deputation. He is likely to be replaced with Sonali Kumar, who is presently Financial Commissioner (Coordination).
Ex-Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been elevated to the rank of Additional Secretary vide DOPT's order No.35/4/2012-EO(SM-I) Dated 27-07-2012. A 1982 batch IAS
officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre, Ganai is presently serving as Additional Secretary (Foreigners).
Meanwhile, Additional Secretary in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Rakesh Gupta is likely to return to the state. Sources said that he is being relieved of his responsibilities in the commission and would be joining the state soon.
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| Future of CIC operators in jeopardy | | Govt dithers about creating posts | | | early times report
srinagar, Feb 3: The State Government has put the future of at least 270 IT technocrats into jeopardy after failing to decide on creation of posts for providing the CIC operators a permanent living, even after they rendered 9 precious years of their life in working for the CIC project.
The Community Information Center (CIC) operators mostly having MCA and BE degrees were appointed by the committees headed by District Development Commissioners on contractual pattern throughout the J&K State to run Community information Centres at block levels. The Centres were established in the year 2003-04 by the Ministry of Information Technology Government of India with modern ICT e... | |
| | | | Stumbled once, JKPCC adheres to deadline on repair works | | Likely to handover Assembly building complex today | | | early times report
Jammu, Feb 3: Cautious on the safety point, the government has given strict instructions to its construction agency JKPCC to execute necessary renovation and repair works in the damage inflicted Assembly building complex in utmost professional and foolproof manner on technical front so as to leave nothing to chance for the ensuing budget session. As countdown for commencement of Budget session JKPCC, the construction agency has expedited its work and likely to handover it to Assembly Secretariat on Monday, February 4.
JKPCC was entrusted with the job of executing this work after the expert team from outside J&K as also the panel set up after the some porti... | |
| | | | Fake certificates used in NRHM selections | | CMO Shopian blames state medical faculty for faulty verification | | | Javaid Naikoo
Jammu, Feb 3: With an intention to allegedly grab lakhs of rupees, District health society Shopian selected candidates with dubious degrees and dropped the deserving ones.
In a major disclosure, it has come to the fore that the documents produced by many of the selected candidates were fake as their certificates showed the dates of course during which they were admitted in different other colleges and institutions as regular students
According to the document details received in this regard, the candidates selected under this programme have produced 18 months diploma certificates under MM-PHW which have contradictions in time period, seal, Roll Nos and durations of the cou... | |
| | | | Tarnished Kashmiri psyche: Collateral damage of prolonged violence | | | | early times report
Srinagar, Feb 3: Are people of Kashmir work shirkers? Well yes, experts think so saying the Kashmiris are more focused on self-interests than collectively thinking.
This they plead with a simple example that even as the world is moving at fast pace on the developmental front, most of the Kashmiris still prefer class four jobs in the government sector only because they don't fear losing it even if they don't work.
Experts observe that over the years, work culture has been spoilt due to which Kashmiris have become work shirkers.
Kashmir's noted physiatrist, Dr Mushtaq A Margoob while commenting on the issue said, "This process has evolved over a period of time. We don... | |
| | | | Govt rejects Justice Verma Committee recommendation on AFSPA | | Setback for Omar | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
New Delhi, Feb 3: NC working president and J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had felt quite relieved on January 23 when the Government of India-appointed Justice J S Verma Committee submitted its report and, inter-alia, recommended repeal of the AFSPA under which the Army and paramilitary forces enjoy immunity. The committee was appointed following gang rape of a young girl in New Delhi on December 16 and it, inter-alia, demanded revocation of the AFSPA from "conflict zones" such as "Jammu & Kashmir and Northeastern states". Talking to media persons in New Delhi on January 23, Gopal Subramaniam, member of the committee, had said that the report had suggested that the arm... | |
| | | | Less than 50 pc funds utilized under MGNREGA during 2012 | | While Minister fumes at not getting award | | | early times report
Srinagar, Feb 3: The J&K Government is under scanner once again for having failed to spend the funds provided by the Govt of India during the last four years under NREGA and during year 2012 less than 50 % of the allotted funds have been utilized.
As per reports the J&K Government on Saturday complained about not getting due recognition from the Center on the good work in rural development being undertaken by the state despite the threat of militancy and inhospitable terrain and the matter was raised by Ali Mohammad Sagar J&K's Rural Development Minister at the MGNREGA Sammelan held in New Delhi which was attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson... | |
| | | | People of Pul Doda still homeless | | Beyond Baglihar | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 3: Even after the years of commissioning of Baglihar hydroelectric power project, people evacuated from Pul Doda area in district Doda due to rise in water level of the dam, have not been rehabilitated so far.
This has not been done despite assurance from people sitting at the helm of affairs from district administration to the Chief Minister. These people are still living in rental homes in and outside town but so far government has not done anything to rehabilitate them. Not only this, the full compensation of land has not been given to them yet.
One of the biggest hydroelectric project of J&K, the Baglihar power project on the river Chenab, situated at C... | |
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