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| Pak not keen on cross-border trade: Azad | | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | May 29
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has pointed a finger at Pakistan for delaying the cross-border trade between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad.
Azad said the formalities were complete on the Indian side, but a green signal was awaited from Pakistan. "As far as LoC trade is concerned, we are ready but, they (Pakistan) do not seem too eager," said Azad. India and Pakistan had decided to introduce a truck service in 2005, on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, nearly five months after launching the historic Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service on the same route.
India and Pakistan decided to facilitate trade ties between the two countries by allowi... | |
| | | | Fuel price hike decision by May 31 | | | | New Delhi | May 29
A decision on raising retail fuel prices and partly compensating revenue losses of oil firms will be taken by Saturday, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today assessed the problems caused by the spike in crude prices.
"Hopefully, by day after tomorrow, we will have a solution," Petroleum Minister Murli Deora told reporters after a meeting with the Prime Minister and key ministers here.
A meeting of the Cabinet, which was to have taken up the matter today, has been postponed, he said.
Any hike in prices would be accompanied by a duty rejig to help state-run oil companies curtail revenue losses that are pegged at Rs 225,000 crore for this fiscal on account of crud... | |
| | | | SVO contemplates senior superintendents for districts | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 29
Corrupt beware! The state Vigilance Organisation is contemplating expansion at district level to catch corrupt in its own backyard.
A senior most officer of the state vigilance organisation has revealed, "Very soon the state vigilance organisation is going to station senior superintendents across all the district headquarters to oversee vigilance inquiries and sort out complaints originating at district level.
Giving an insight in to the working of the state vigilance organization, the officer revealed the plans of posting senior superintendents to supervise progress of cases at district level. The first thing on our agenda is to strengthen the netwo... | |
| | | | Samba awaits another Kundal | | Chief Secretary all set to take political plunge | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 29
The central assembly constituency of newly created Samba district is all set to assume a high profile with a top bureaucrat considering to contest assembly election from their.
If sources in the bureaucracy and the Congress circles are to be believed, the present Chief Secretary BR Kundal is all set to bid adieu to the top post and embark on the political battlefield. "Chief Secretary is almost ready to seek premature retirement and contest the forthcoming assembly election", a source close to Kundal told the EARLY TIMES.
A 1972 batch IAS Officer, Kundal took over as Chief Secretary in October last year succeeding Chhewang Phunsog. He is due to retire... | |
| | | | Is clerks' strike complex than Kashmir Issue? | | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | May 29
When the government is out to make claims, they promise to resolve the vexed Kashmir issue in no time. How soon can one expect the resolution of Kashmir issue can well be gauged from the fact that the government has not been able to resolve the crisis arising out of the ongoing strike launched by the clerks of all departments.
The strike of clerks may have been an insignificant issue for the authorities at the helm of affairs but here is a small of account of what it is leading to. Hundreds of vehicles are running on the roads without registration numbers; thousands of job aspirants are not able to apply as they are not able to get certificates; man... | |
| | | | E-governance in state – a distant dream | | As proposal on separate IT directorate gathers dust, department loses 10 Cr every year | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | May 29
Even as the tall claims of the coalition government about e-governance and employment generation in the state of Jammu and Kashmir were falling flat, the proposal to create a separate directorate for Information Technology in the state was eating dust for last about six years forcing the department to surrender Rs 10 crore annually.
Highly placed sources in the civil secretariat revealed that government had proposed separate IT Directorate for Information Technology in 2002 for the purpose to open call centers, IT parks and software development in the state so as to attract foreign investment.
"The government had decided to set up an IT Directora... | |
| | | | Adding more traffic cops unlikely to reduce level of road mishaps | | | | Gareeb Dass
Jammu | May 29
After having slept over the matter during the last over 20 years the state Government has decided to nearly double the strength of the force in the traffic department. Over 600 traffic cops are to be added to the department in order to ensure that the level of road accidents registered a marked decline. On the face of it the idea of strengthening the traffic department is sound. But while adding more than 600 cops to the traffic police force the Government has to take into account factors that have been responsible for increase in road accidents in which scores of people get killed.
First the Government has to review the worthiness of the roads, especially in t... | |
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