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| J&K Mantris, Babus, Netas do not pay electricity bills | | PDD's novel ways! Brickbats for commoners, bouquets for VIPs | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Mar 27: Brickbats for commoners and bouquets for us! Ministers, legislators and bureaucrats seem to be following this adage in Jammu and Kashmir when it comes to paying electricity dues.
What to talk of paying, they prefer not to even inquire about their pending bills. It is this part of democratic set-up which frames stringent rules and regulations for commoners, accuses them of power theft and illegal connections, wails over inability to control transmission and distribution losses and above all, threatens to disconnect their power connections if they do not pay their bills regularly.
It is not known how they get their salaries released without submitting their electricity bills. Reply to a cut motion, copy of which is with Early Times reveals that Ministers, legislators and bureaucrats living in posh bungalows and flats do not pay electricity dues both in Jammu as well as in Kashmir. Despite living luxurious life, they prefer to talk about illegal connections of connection rather then paying their pending electricity dues.
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| Rs 2289 Cr works done in Gandhi Nagar constituency in violation of codal procedures | | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, Mar 27: Works at an estimate of Rs 2289.38 crores were undertaken as well as completed in Gandhi Nagar assembly constituency in the year 2011-12 allegedly in breach of the codal procedure.
Sources said that all these works were done at the sweet will of certain officials of PWD or under the political pressure. This startling revelation has been made by PWD department in response to the RTI application filed by one Prem Singh son of Nihal Singh of Upper Belicharana. The department has admitted fault in clear-cut manner against the questions filed by the RTI activist.
In response to RTI application vide No 18144-46, the Executive Engineer PWD (R&B) Construction Divisio... | |
| | | | 5786 people arrested under substantive & preventive laws: CM | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 27: Over 5,000 people have been arrested under substantive and preventive laws during the last two years in the state, the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly was today informed.
"As many as 5,786 persons were arrested under substantive and preventive laws during past two years between April 2010 and March 2012," Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said in reply to a cut motion of PDP MLA Choudhary Zulfikar Ali in the Legislative Assembly today.
Out of which, 5,782 persons have been bailed out, the Chief Minister said in the House.
As on March 10, 2012, 15 persons were under detention and lodged in different jails in connection with the summer unrest of 2010 in... | |
| | | | Minister's nephew stirs up Hornet's nest in Baramulla | | | | Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, Mar 27: The arrest of Gowhar Habib Dar the nephew of Javaid Ahmad Dar, minister of state for R&B has stirred up yet another Hornet's nest not only in Baramulla district, but throughout the Valley.
Gowhar Habib Dar has an unenviable reputation in Rafiabad area. He is a known 'Goonda' in the area. On Saturday last, Dar followed two college girls, Kulsoom Nabi and Farhat Nabi, both sisters, on his motorcycle when they left for their home.
He used lewd language against the two sisters even daring to spit on one of them in full public glare. The younger sister, Farhat Nabi was frightened by the behavior of the unruly youth, but her elder sister, Kulsoom Nabi tol... | |
| | | | Omar's uncharitable tweet touches new towers | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 27: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah is angry. He seems to have lost his cool, if he has any, over an incident of heckling and attacking of senior Kashmiri separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani in New Delhi allegedly by the activists of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS) and the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
Omar is so much upset over the incident that he, in his tweet ,described the activists of the BSKS and the ABVP as "goons." Omar has said "These BSKS and ABVP goons are bloody idiots. Anyone can assault an old man. As if attacking Geelani will make the Kashmir issue just disappear."
Omar Abdullah is right. The right to heckle, to attack to criti... | |
| | | | JKNPP's anger with NC-Cong coalition justifiable | | Terming JK Govt As K Govt Not Surprising - II | | | Neha
JAMMU, Mar 27: It was not for the first time on February 22 that biased elements in the administration termed Jammu and Kashmir Government as Kashmir Government. It has been happening since the day the state acceded to India in October 1947. Believe it or not but it is a fact that the Government of India, under Jawaharlal Nehru of the Congress, party had even tried its level best to omit Jammu from the nomenclature of the State. It happened on May 27, 1949. That day, Gopalaswami Ayangar, then controlling the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs, moved a motion in the Indian Constituent Assembly to the effect that "notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph 4 (of the Schedule to the Consti... | |
| | | | ‘Business of 'criminals' taken over by people close to CM’: Mehbooba | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 27: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti today fired salvo of aces against Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and said his government is identified only with crime, corruption and Institutional erosion. She also warned the government of full scale agitation incase 5000 cases against stone pelters were not withdrawn. PDP president took out sheen out of the hot arguments by relying on hard facts, figures and logic and not resorting to political rhetoric.
Participating in discussion on grants of the departments under Chief Minister, PDP president in a scathing attack on National Conference-Congress Coalition government hit out at coalition and... | |
| | | | BJP unlikely to repeat 2005 'performance' in Municipal polls | | PDP main threat to party prospects ……? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 27: NC led coalition government may or may not be able to fulfil its commitment of holding Local Bodies polls in the state within the period it has envisaged the overdue exercise to be completed, its frequent reiteration and reaffirming tone on this front have only set the ball of political parties moving into a spate of activities aimed to generate the momentum. While coalition allies are trying to put the cadres in that mode of preparedness, opposition PDP and BJP have begun their 'campaign' ahead of any formal announcement or schedule. BJP may well started off on an enthusiastic note but is that zeal well founded or speaks of complacency of 2005 wonder whic... | |
| | | | Enhancement in retirement age, waiting for what? | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 27: Both the state government employees' unions including the JCC and the EJAC have threatened stir if the State government does not decide soon on the enhancement in retirement age in respect of its employees.
The committee set up by the State government to make recommendations on the issue has hardly met ever since it was constituted under the chairmanship of the State Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal.
The response of the State government appears to be completely lukewarm on this issue and it simply indicates the non-seriousness with which the State government addresses issues till they come to a boil.
State government employees have their duties and rights an... | |
| | | | Geelani not a problem, problem lies somewhere else | | Delhi Attack | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Mar 27: Who says Syed Ali Shah Geelani is a problem? Geelani, who was again attacked in Delhi yesterday by the activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS) for his anti-India stand or for his right to self-determination demand, is not a problem. He can be tackled in no time. He is surviving and thriving simply because the authorities in New Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir have abdicated their authority and allowed the likes of Geelani to muddy waters not only in Kashmir Valley but also in the national capital, Delhi. The problem is not Geelani. The problem lies somewhere else.
Take, for example, the response the attack on Geelani evo... | |
| | | | BUMS, Ayurvedic, ISM doctors practice allopathic system in rural hospitals of valley | | 'Authorities playing with the lives of patients to hide their fault' | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 27: In blatant violation of the norms the doctors possessing degrees in Unani, Ayurvedic or Homeopathic system of medicines are practising the allopathic system in the hospitals of the valley at the cost of the heath of gullible patients. This illegal practice by the doctors is going on mostly in the hospitals of rural areas.
Reports and official sources said that these doctors have been indulging in this practice in almost all the sub-district hospitals (SDHs) and primary health centers (PHCs) of rural areas at the cost of the lives of the patients.
"Since the doctors holding MBBS refuse to go to the rural areas and the government to evade the pu... | |
| | | | BSnl's 'connecting India' fails in Rajouri' | | | | Amit Sharma
Rajouri, Mar 27: India's largest telecommunication company BSNL having slogan 'Connecting India' is not fulfilling the desire of Rajourians and we can say that this service provider is not upto mark in 'Connecting Rajouri'.
In the area it is providing the service of landlines, mobile telephony and internet (EVDO + Broadband) facility to people, but none of these seem to fulfill their needs. Whereas mobile telephony is concerned, at least once in a week or even many days the whole system dashes down and customers suffer badly.
Even on the previous big festivals of Diwali and Eid-ul-Azha, people were crying due to non-functioning of mobile telephony of BSNL. On regular basis,... | |
| | | | SAC call for the comments from CM and notice to Charak then Minister & others | | Rs 30 CroresPul Doda Bridge Contract | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Mar 27: The anti-graft Body State Accountability Commission (SAC) comprising Justice YP Nargotra (Retd) Chairperson and Justice Hakim Imtiyaz Hussain (Retd) Member today issued notices to Gulchain Singh Charak, the then PWD (R&B) Minister and others for allegedly adhering to codal procedure of inviting tenders for mega project of more than Rs 30.00 Crores. Meanwhile SAC asked the office call for the comments fromOmar Abdullaha, the Chief Minister of the State, who is presently the Chairman of JKPCC also, regarding the present status of the Project along with the details of action, if any, taken in the matter.
The SAC issued notices to the then concerned Mi... | |
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