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| People suffer 57,000 clerks missing from action | | | | ET SPECIAL
Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 6
Advanced budget sessions stay ahead of schedule and thrust of work culture to make the effective delivery system seem to have losing charm as nothing is practically moving on the government tables.
On every working day, aggrieved people run from one table to another and from one office to another but nothing is achieved at the end of day –clerks are on strike. When the most vital part in the administrative system –which can be described as cog in the wheel –is missing from action, there can not be any work culture or efficient administration as claimed from time to time.
The government and its various wings have set deadline for the public to follow. From depositing taxes, to paying electricity bills, road taxes, tokens, renewals and every thing, there is a definite deadline for the public to follow. Those not meeting these deadlines are liable to face the punitive actions. It makes things all the more worse when the clerks are on strike at the end of fiscal year and towards the beginning of new –this is the time when people have... | |
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| 500 % more, still not happy | | | | Nirbhay Jammual
Jammu | Apr 6
News Analysis
A central government move which has made thousands of landholders in Jammu and Kashmir rich by 500 per cent over night has still not made many happy even as it was most pressing demands from all quarters.
A definite troop strength has to be kept in all civilian inhabited areas across the state to maintain of a sense of security among the people. There are not enough barren lands or free fields in the civilian areas to station these troops. Therefore, it is the land of different categories –including agricultural and commercial –which comes under the feet of the troops.
Each one in the state, whose land is being used by the security forces,... | |
| | | | Lalu unhappy with treatment at Bhavan | | | | Early Times Reporter
Katra | Apr 6
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav reached Mata Vaishno devi bhawan shrine in a cheerful mood on sunday afternoon but he went back with a heavy heart. Lalu was not at all happy when he was inside cave shrine.
His gestures said it all when he came out after performing darshan, eyewitnesses said.
Official sources said Railway Minister was disallowed by priests inside holy cave to stay near the pindis for longer duration. He wanted to squat but he was told in plain words that it was not permissible. Irked Lalu didn't eat food and only tasted tea served to him and his family at the bhawan shrine. Lalu was later pacified by priests when he was informed th... | |
| | | | 7 new faces in UPA Ministry | | | | New Delhi | Apr 6
The much anticipated Union Cabinet reshuffle took place on Sunday. Seven ministers were inducted into the Council of Ministers. While six were inducted as Ministers of State, former Chief of the Election Commission, M S Gill was sworn in as Minister of State with independent charge.
President Pratibha Patil administered the oath of office to Gill at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Gill was followed by V Narayanasamy and Santosh Bagrodia. Jyotiraditya Scindia was among the two young faces inducted into the Ministry on Sunday. Other ministers who were sworn in by the President were young Jitin Prasada, Raghunath Jha and Ramesh Oraon.
Santosh Bagrodia will take over as Minister of S... | |
| | | | Gharib Rath set to chug from Jammu | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 6
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Sunday said that under the UPA government, unprecedented expansion in the railway sector was currently being witnessed in Jammu & Kashmir, adding that the entire nation and the people of the State were eagerly looking forward to the completion of the under-construction rail line to Kashmir. The Railway Minister, Lalu Prasad Yadav, in response to the Chief Minister’s observations, pledged full support to the development of J&K which, he opined, would be speeded up by the rail link to the valley.
Yadav and Mr. Azad were speaking at a well attended function here to flag off the pocket friendly fully air-conditioned Jammu T... | |
| | | | Crime in City | | Newly wed woman found dead | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 6
In yet another incident showing a growing graph of crime in the city, the Police have recovered body of a twenty-six year old woman, who was married few months back, from a rented accommodation in Rajpora Mangotrain area of the city this morning.
Reports revealed that inhabitants of Rajpora Mangotrain under the jurisdiction of police station Bakshi Nagar informed the police about foul smell coming from a residential house in the locality. A police team rushed to the spot and broke open the door of the room.
"We were shocked to see body of a young woman lying on the bed", one of the eyewitness said. He said that the body was decomposing and foul smell ... | |
| | | | Special status blocking J&K’s growth | | ASSOCHAM proposes Rs 280 billion investment in state | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 6
At a time when boundaries are blurring between the warring countries to give way to the prevalence of economics, the special status guided by Article 370 is withholding the industrial growth in Jammu and Kashmir.
This is a conclusion made by a top body of business houses which has conducted a special study on investment in Jammu and Kashmir. The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) conducted a study "Jammu and Kashmir: Striving for Industrial Revolution", which holds out a vision of high investment of nearly Rs.280 billion in the state. This investment, according to the study released Sunday, would wipe out the state's probl... | |
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