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| Governor chairs 19th Executive Council meeting of SMVD University | | Calls for fast track infrastructure development to make varsity a centre of excellence | | | Early Times Report
KATRA, May 27 : Mr. N. N. Vohra, Governor, today emphasized the need for speeding up the construction of hostels, residential accommodation for faculty and staff and all other required infrastructure development of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU) to meet the emerging requirements of the varsity and develop it as a centre of excellence in teaching and research.
The Governor was chairing the 19th Meeting of the Executive Council of the SMVD University at Kakryal near here today. The Governor, who is Chancellor of the University, asked Prof. Sudhir K. Jain, Vice Chancellor, SMVDU, to urgently review the Master Plan, keeping in view the requirements for the next 20-30 years. The Vice Chan-cellor’s recommendations shall be discussed and finalized by the Executive Council at its next meeting to be held in September, 2013. Referring to the introduction of new courses and programmes in the University, the Governor stressed that these must be in sync with the emerging job market requirements along with focusing on ethical and moral values for equipping the s... | |
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| Telecom industry plays vital role to boost economy: Jora | | Adoption of positive approach a key for success: Mir to youth | | | SRINAGAR, May 27 : Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies Mr. Nawang Rigzin Jora said that Telecom industry has to play vital role in boosting the economy of the Country and also facilitate job opportunities to thousands of educated youth of the State. The Minister was speaking at a seminar on the eve of World Telecom Month, which was organised here today. Mr. Jora said presently thousands of youth are engaged with a dozens of communication channels like Aircel, Airtel, BSNLetc and are getting a handsome salary.
Referring the role of E-governance in Urban Development, Mr. Jora said that the Department has a number of Web sites including Jammu and Srinagar Municipal Corp... | |
| | | | Kishtwar police seize 74 vehicles for traffic violations | | | |
Early Times Report
KISHTWAR, May 27 : As a part of drive against traffic violations, Kishtwar police in last three days have seized 74 vehicles for flouting various traffic norms including over speeding, over loading, driving without driving licenses and valid documents.
While divulging the details, Dy SP Headquarters Farooq Qaiser said that Kishtwar police constituted three teams headed by Sub Inspector level officers under the supervision of SSP Kishtwar Thakur Kulbir Singh. The teams laid nakas at various places and seized 74 vehicles, mostly motorcycles for traffic violations. He said that nearly one dozen vehicles have also been seized for making their entries into restricted ar... | |
| | | | DDC Anantnag reviews situation arisen due to inclement weather | | | |
ANANTNAG : District Development Commissioner, Anantnag took stock of the situation due to intermittent rains in a meeting of officers of Flood Control and Allied departments here today. It was given out in the meeting that the water level recorded last night at Sangam Bridge was 15.88 and today due to fair-weather, the level has came down below 14:00 and is expected to come down further due to improvement in the weather since morning. It was also revealed that all the necessary manpower and machinery has been kept on alert. However, so far there has been no damage of property being reported from any place of the district.
District Development Commissioner, Anantnag directed the concerne... | |
| | | | Special provisions made for Water scarce, rural areas: Sham | | Various deputations call on PHE Minister | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 27 : A number of deputations and individuals from across the Jammu Division, including Akhnoor, Rajpur, Dewana, R.S.Pura, Mansar and various places of Jammu district today met the Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood & Control Mr. Sham Lal Sharma here at the Summer Secretariat and projected the demands and problems of their respective areas. The Minister, who is here on the rotational weeklong tour to attend the Jammu summer Secretariat, had a detailed review of essential services including power, water supply and other civic amenities, besides various issues concerning the people of the region. A deputation, led by former political advisor to the fo... | |
| | | | Talks tough on industrial Single Window System | | Omar holds marathon interaction session with budding entrepreneurs | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 27 : Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Monday talked tough on the functioning of single window system in industrial department and directed the concerned to bring various services related to clearance of industrial units under Public Service Guarantee Act (PSGA) to make delivery time bound and transparent.
Taking brief from various budding entrepreneurs about their experiences in launching entrepreneurship ventures, in a marathon interaction session he held with them here at EDI Pampore, the Chief Minister constituted a Secretaries Committee headed by his Principal Secretary to suggest the mechanism of making Single Window Clearance System in ... | |
| | | | Police foils protest march by government employees | | | |
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir police today foiled a protest march of government employees in support of their demands, including regularisation of daily wage and casual workers. Hundreds of employees of Public Health Engineering department assembled near Civil Secretariat here and tried to march towards its main gate, but were stopped by police who asked them to disperse, official sources said. The employees insisted on going ahead with the protest, following which police used batons and water cannons to disperse them, sources said, adding that dozens of employees were taken into preventive custody. The protest call was given by Kashmir PHE Joint Employees Association in support of demand... | |
| | | | AI to operate additional flight for Jammu-Leh on May 28 | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 27 : The Air India (AI) is operating additional flight on May 28, 2013 on Jammu-Leh sector for airlifting of stranded passengers of cancelled flight AI 450 of May 27. The flight A1 4449 will depart from Leh at 0750 hours and arrive Jammu at 0835 hours while the flight AI 4450 will depart from Jammu at 0910 hours and arrive Leh at 0955 hours. All the stranded passengers have been advised to report at Jammu Airport at 0730 hours.... | |
| | | | VC takes serious note of illegal constructions | | Appeals public not to violate building bylaws | | |
JAMMU : After receiving complaints from the residents of Trikuta Nagar, Housing Colony, Vice Chairman, Jammu Development Authority, Satesh Nehru, today visited Trikuta Nagar Housing colony and enquired about the land use violations being made by some allottees who have converted their residences into Hotels and other commercial purposes. Team of senior officers comprising Chief Town Planner, Director Land Management, Tehsildar and Chief Khilafwarzi Officer accompanied the VC. The VC has taken a serious note on these illegal constructions and has directed the DLM/CTP to depute surveyor along with Khilafwarzi officer to check these violations and submit their report within next 12 days so t... | |
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