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| Rs. 78428.62 crore yet to be regularized, Rs. 3762.45 crore unspent, 90 percent expenditure in March | | CAG unveils J&K's financial mess, questions legislative competence | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Apr 4: Audit of state finances by Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has put a question mark on the planning, estimation and legislative competence of those running the state government.
It has picked up holes in the annual budgetary exercise and stated that state planning and development department has failed to ensure scheme specific funding and instead, prefers placing lump sum amounts at the disposal of the controlling officers. This has resulted in poor budgetary and administrative control.
Owing to this, state government incurred an expenditure of Rs. 6130.34 crore in excess of the approved budgetary provisions. As projected and demanded by various government departments, state legislature through vote allowed the state government to expend sum of Rs. 10, 312.58 crore during the financial year 2010-11.
However, government expended Rs. 16443.43 crore i.e. Rs. 6130.34 in excess of the allocated sum. Of this, there was excess expenditure of Rs. 1049.81 crore in 11 grants and 1 appropriation in the revenue section while in the capital se... | |
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| CAG indicts JK Bank for losses, undue favour to State govt | | | | early times report
Jammu, Apr 4: Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its report had come down heavily on the functioning the J&K Bank, the preimer financial institution of the State.
The report has come at a time when bank has under scanner in the recent J&K Cricket Association scam and PDP has alleged that State government is using Bank as its personal property.
The report said the credit deposit ration(CDR) of the bank has declined from 69 to 59 percent. This concern was expressed none other than RBI Governor during his visit to the State.
The CAG report says that J&K Bank lacked in monitoring credit facilities.. The percentage of Non Performing Assets(NPA) ranged between ... | |
| | | | Kathua official threatens RTI activist | | | | early times report
Kathua, Apr 4: Right to Information activist of Shiva Nagar Kathua Ankur Sharma has been threatened and warned by Ajay Singh Jamwal ADDC Kathua of dire consequences if he continues to demand a magisterial probe in the scam related to laying double lane road project from Kalibari to Hatli Morh via Kathua.
Ankur had submitted more than two RTI
applications about the said project in the office of the Deputy Commissioner Kathua but no information was furnished in total violation of the RTI Act.
Sensing foul play by the concerned, Ankur sought a magisterial probe. The DC Kathua, Zahidha Parveen Khan very cleverly forwarded the application to ADDC Ajay Singh Jamwal ask... | |
| | | | Assembly appeals GOI to take up issue with Pak | | CM for doing away with bartar system, vouches for better banking | | | early times report
Jammu, Apr 4: J&K Assembly unanimously appealed Government of India today through verbal resolution to take up the issue of bringing requisite improvements in Cross LOC Trade with Pakistan to make it meaningful and purposeful. The entire House also supported Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's suggestion of doing away with the existing 'Bartar' system and replacing it with trade through proper currency by putting in place banking facilities besides setting up communication links between the two sides for traders. The House endorsed CM when he said GOI must take up the issue with the President of Pakisatn during his forthcoming visit to India.
It was during the ... | |
| | | | Government again betrays KPs on Shrine bill | | | | early times report
JAMMU, Apr 4: Contrary to the expectations of over seven lac Kashmiri Pandits leading an exiled life for the last 23 years the government has failed to bring much talked about shrines and temples bill for passage in the state executive assembly.
Though the entire community including those KPs who are residing outside the country were optimistic that government will bring the bill on the last day of the session but government showed no signs of the same.The coalition also came under a steep attack in the assembly today when Panthers' party MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia sought a reply from the government for delaying the passage of bill which was introduced in 2008.The... | |
| | | | Speaker expunges Mehbooba's remarks against director information | | | | early times report
JAMMU, Apr 4: Legislative assembly speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone today expunged Mehbooba Mufti's remarks which she made against director information on March 25 last.
Immediately after her remarks in the House, director information had submitted in writing to the speaker that Mehbooba might be asked to produce a single case of illegal order of recruiting any person in local bodies by him.
The statement was ordered to be forwarded by the speaker to the MLA for response. Today, when this matter came up in the House, Mehbooba, Nazir Ahmed Gurezi, Mohammad Ramzan, Javid Mustafa Mir, Rafi Mir and Zulfkar Ali spoke on it.
Mehbooba was repeatedly asked by the speaker to prod... | |
| | | | Lal Singh reflects apprehensions of Congman | | | | early times report
JAMMU, Apr 4: Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad's recent statement about Chief Minister's term reflects that all is not well with the coalition.
Congress MP, Lal Singh's recent attack on Omar Abdullah indicates that the Congress men are not happy with the functioning of the coalition government. Lal Singh who is l known for his articulations has urged the Congress leader to save the state from being ruined for want of good governance.
The Congress workers feel that the party may not perform well in the local body elections if the policies of the coalition government continue. Congress has a strong hold in Jammu region but the party has failed to live up t... | |
| | | | VC SKUAST J in post haste to complete unfinished agenda | | | | early times report
Jammu, Apr 4: Just eight days before he demits office, B.L. Mishra, Vice Chancellor of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Jammu (SKUAST J) is really hurried to complete his agenda of administrative and recruitmental priorities.
Despite clear instructions from the state government to halt interviews for various selections, the VC has been unrelenting. Interviews for the posts of registrar, project planning and monitoring officer, assistant professor (direct recruitment) and career advancement interviews for professors' posts were held recently and all these appointments have been made today.
Ironically the board of management meeting was ... | |
| | | | Within 3 years PDP grows in size, stature on the ashes of Cong, NC, BJP in Jammu region | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu,Apr 4: Even the PDP patron, Mufti Mohd.Sayeed, would have not imagined that within a span of three years his party, which was as good as an untouchable for majority of people in the Jammu region in 2008,would assume so much political weight, strength and stature that it can measure swords with the National Conference and the Congress in various segments of the region of Jammu.
What triggered loss of face for the PDP in the Jammu region in early 2008 was its stout opposition to the diversion of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board. Though the stand that the Muftis took on the issue helped the PDP to win 19 Assembly seats in the Kashmir valley against two in the Jammu... | |
| | | | Even Shias, Gujjars & Paharis have different 'political leanings' | | Heterogeneous Kashmir | | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, Apr 4: A Kashmiri commentator only the other day wrote in his political essay "Division and ideologies" that "compartmentalizing the Kashmiri society in various sections has been part of a larger conspiracy which succeeds when people themselves fall pray to such tactics". He also wrote: "For long time we have been hearing that Shias, Gujjars, Paharis etc have different political leanings" and "this is precisely to cut to size the dominant political sentiment in Kashmir". The operative part of the highly politically motivated essay read like this: "It is time to defeat the designs of those who want to see the people fighting on issues for which the solution lies in all the te... | |
| | | | Congress stands condemned, Jammu parties up in revolt | | Delimitation & Empowerment | | | NEHA
JAMMU, Apr 4: Have the Jammu-based parties like the BJP, the NPP and the JSM identified those responsible for the miserable plight, neglect and marginalization of the people of Jammu province? The answer seems to be in the affirmative when viewed in the light of what the MLAs of these three parties did on Tuesday on the floor of the assembly while demanding constitution of delimitation commission charged with the responsibility of delimiting assembly segments de novo. They have identified the real culprit and it is, according to them, the Congress party. Indeed, they have identified the sinner.
It was perhaps for the first time that the BJP, the NPP and the JSM MLAs were not that sha... | |
| | | | Inter-department sports meet of JU MCA wins men's chess title | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 4: The MCA Department clichéd chess title in the ongoing inter-department men's sports meet beating Department of Law 2-1 in the final played at gymnasium hall on the campus, here today.In the first game, Abhinav Khajuria defeated Salman Khan but only to see Rahul Gupta losing to Rajan Bhagat in another singles game.
However, in deciding third game, Abhinav Khajuria overpowered Rajan Bhagat to make it a 2-1 win in the title clash.
TABLE TENNIS: In table tennis event, Department of Mathematics shall be playing against the Law School in final scheduled for April 11 at 11 am. Earlier, in the second semifinal, played today, Mathematics trounced Department of ... | |
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