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| Is J&K’s economic survey jugglery of figures? | | Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Plan | | |
Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 6: If the manner in which expenditure has been reported for the ongoing Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Plan (PMRP) is any indication, economic survey of Jammu and Kashmir for the year 2010-11 is more a jugglery of figures and less an officially approved sanctified document to be relied upon.
The seemingly erroneous compilation has been done by Department of Economics and Statistics which is under the direct control of planning ministry, presently being looked after by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. There is mismatch between expenditure figures reported by the economic survey and those reported to the union ministry of home affairs, which ironically the ministry had even quoted a few days back in the Lok Sabha.
Strengthening transmission and distribution network project:
Economic Survey of Jammu and Kashmir government puts the revised cost of the project at around Rs. 1350 crore and expenditure Rs. 841.59 crore by ending November 2010. However, report of the delivery monitoring unit of Union Ministry of Home Affai... | |
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| Opposition boycott stalemate: Will govt accept demand of House Committee probe ? | | Speaker convenes BAC meeting | | |
Jammu: In the light of entire opposition having decided to stay away from the proceedings of the Assembly until their demand was met, will the NC led coalition government go ahead with setting up of a House committee to probe into alleged irregularities and misuse of government funds by its ministers in their constituencies …….? This is the key question about which the government will have to take a decision, tomorrow being important day of the business as the Finance Minister AR Rather has to present the Budget in the House.
In order to break the stalemate that has occurred due to entire Opposition having decided to boycott the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, the Speaker ... | |
| | | | `CM needs a better understanding of Kashmir’ | | Truth and Reconciliation Commission | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 6: The Chief Minister while addressing the Legislative Assembly yesterday once again talked about his Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). He also talked about introducing a resolution in the House to set up the commission. Omar had promised a TRC immediately after he assumed office. He, however, failed to, fulfil his promise. Since then Kashmir has drastically changed and his mention of the TRC yesterday was not taken well by concerned circles in the Valley. According to them, the CM needs a better understanding of contemporary Kashmir. What does a reconciliatory commission mean by the way? The term reconciliation is coined when the victims are tol... | |
| | | | Avalanche damages 5 houses at Paddar | | | |
Early Times Report
KISHTWAR, Mar 06: Five houses were damaged completely in a snow avalanche at Ongie in Paddar area of Kishtwar Saturday. There was, however, no casualty as the inmates managed to flee to safety before the avalanche hit their houses, official sources said.
The damaged houses belonged to Ravail Singh, his brother Trilok Singh, sons of Rumail Singh, Sardar Singh, son of Mela Ram, Mehar Chand, son of Hari Lal, and Swami Raj, son of Pantoo Ram.
Several Paddar villages were still under snow cover and there was about 5 ft snow at Ongine. Police and civil officers from Gulabgarh reached the village after covering a long distance on foot to assess the situation. Rescue t... | |
| | | | Patwari held accepting bribe | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 06:
A patwari was today caught red handed by state vigilance organisation (SVO) while accepting bribe here.Police sources said Harminder Singh, son of Baldev Singh of Shanti
Nagar, Kunjwani, lodged a complaint with SVO, alleging therein that Deeli halqa patwari Sikandar Kumar had demanded from him a bribe of Rs 8,000 for issuing him the fard of his land at Shanti Nagar. Acting on the complaint, SVO sleuths laid a trap and apprehended the patwari red handed while accepting Rs 8,000 as bribe from Harminder.
SVO had registered a case in this connection under section 5 (2) of prevention of corruption Act read with section 161 of RPC.
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| | | | Hackers deface Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust website | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 06:
Supporting stonepelters and their acts in Kashmir, hackers today defaced the website of Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust. The hackers, who have earlier hacked the websites of Sikkim
government and an Amitabh Bachchan fan website, left a message on the site of the Trust.
The message said the defacing was in retaliation to the alleged beating of some students in Indira Gandhi Dental college in Jammu for celebrating the victory of Pakistan over Canada in the World Cup cricket match.
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| | | | One held for possessing PWD cement bags | | | | Early Times Report
AKHNOOR, Mar 06: One person was today apprehended by police at Khada
in Khour here for possessing PWD cement bags.Acting on a tip-off, police raided the residence of Mukesh Kumar at Khada and recovered 28 cement bags of PWD, police sources said.The bags were seized and Mukesh arrested, the sources added.
During his questioning, he told police that he had purchased the cement from a contractor.
Police had registered a case against Mukesh under section 411 and 420 of RPC and launched a manhunt to nab the contractor.
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| | | | One drowns, two rescued by people | | | | Early Times Report
KATHUA, Mar 06:
Of the three youth, who tried to cross Ujh river on their motorcycle at Kote Punnu near here today, one drowned, while two others were rescued by locals. The youth were on their way to Kote Punnu via Nagri. As one needs to cross Ujh to go to the other side of Kote Punnu, they too tried to wade through the river waters, according to police sources.
However, when their motorcycle (JK08B/3406) reached the middle of the stream, they started drowning, the sources added. Hearing their screams, some locals rushed to their rescue. They were able to save two of them, while the third was washed away by the
river currents.
The dead Raj Kumar, son of Do... | |
| | | | With Azad,Karan Singh & Fotedar in CWC J&K gets major share | | (Behind the veil) | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu,March 6 :-The troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir has received a fair share of seats in the reconstituted Congress Working Committee (CWC).When the Congress President Sonia Gandhi announced names of party men for the CWC on Friday Jammu and Kashmir got a bigger share than those states that have bigger population and area than the Jammu and Kashmir.
Ghulam Nabi Azad,Union Health Minister, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir is one among the 19-member CWC which is headed by Sonia Gandhi. Since he holds the cabinet post in the union council of ministers headed by Manmohan Singh he could not be considered for General Secretaryship,the post th... | |
| | | | PK playing with fire by hobnobbing with Jethmalani | | Seminar on Kashmir | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 6: Those who hold the view that Panun Kashmir (PK) led by Dr. Agnishekher is prone to aimless flip flops and cheap subterfuges may have felt vindicated after the deliberations of a seminar, organized by the group in the Constitutional Club, New Delhi, came to a conclusion yesterday. The main speakers invited on the occasion were Ram Jethmalani, the vociferous supporter of Musharraf formula, and Ashok Bhan, Congress leader and member of the Kashmir Committee of Ram Jethmalani, which had virtually acted as an over ground caucus for Musharraf plan in India. (The Musharraf formula stands for demilitarization of the state, irrelevant borders, joint-control or sha... | |
| | | | Jammu & Ladakh as important factors as Kashmir, says PM | | | |
STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 6: Has the attitude of the Prime Minister towards Jammu and Ladakh undergone some change? Has he finally realized that the solution to the “problems of Jammu and Kashmir” has to be such as is also acceptable to the people of Jammu and Ladakh? Has he come to the conclusion that the Kashmiri leadership has been exaggerating things in order to befool the powers-that-be in New Delhi to secure a dispensation outside the political and constitutional framework of the country and that accepting their demand would mean end of the Indian presence in Kashmir?
The answer to these straight and direct questions could be in the affirmative if one go... | |
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