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IFS officers depleting fast in J&K, 17 retiring in 2 years 600 Forestry grads unemployed even after J&K got 40 ACFs after 27 years 5/30/2011 1:09:09 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, May 29: Even as no recruitment of Forestry trained officers through proper channel has taken place in the last 27 years, 600 Forestry graduates continue to be unemployed through successive regimes, Jammu & Kashmir state’s Forest and Forest-related developments will be almost completely dominated by unqualified and untrained officials in near future. With everybody being “incharge” of senior positions, in violation of all service rules and Supreme Court directions, as many as 17 of the senior most IFS officers are reaching superannuation in the next 24 months. In absence of Forestry trained officers for many years, unqualified and junior officials are enjoying prize postings with the blessings of their patrons in politics, bureaucracy and other institutions. While a number of Foresters are functioning under the so-called stop gap arrangement (completely banned by Supreme Court) as Range Officers and ROs are posted as “incharge ACFs”, ACFs are manning the positions of full-fledged DFOs. Even a number of very junior ROs, enjoying politic...   READ MORE

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J&K in no mood to implement high court order Promotion of 900 agriculture officers 5/30/2011 1:07:56 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 29: Jammu and Kashmir government has seemingly decided against implementing the High Court directions in the  controversial 2008 government order of Agriculture Production Department (APD) in which around 900 officers were elevated to higher positions. Informed sources told Early Times that agriculture department had sought opinion of the law department for going in appeal against the single bench decision of the High Court. They added that agriculture department is mulling option of approaching Division Bench of High Court with a hope of getting the decision reversed. It has been reliably learnt that initially law department had asked ag...   READ MORE   Doda tense after B.Ed student jumps into Chenab following her detention by police 5/30/2011 1:07:05 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 29: Tempers ran high in Doda after a B Ed student, who felt insulted following her alleged detention by police at Pul-Doda Sunday for “no” fault of her, committed suicide by jumping into Chenab river. In a similar incident that occured at Paddar in Kishtwar on July 13 last year, two school girls had jumped into Chenab and died.Giving details of today’s incident, police sources said B Ed student Rashida Bano, daughter of Abdul Rafiq of Bashi in Bhalessa, Bhaderwah, was strolling on the Pul-Doda road with a youth when police allegedly detained both of them. The girl’s family was also informed of her detention. While the youth was put behind the bars, the gir...   READ MORE   Outgoing KU VC throws rules to winds Grants 3 yr leave to female faculty member 5/30/2011 1:06:39 AM Early Times Report Jammu, May 29: Throwing rules to winds, the outgoing Vice Chancellor of Kashmir University, Reyaz Punjabi, has allowed a female faculty member to proceed on three-year leave with salary the concerned HoD and Dean’s opposition notwithstanding. Sources told Early Times that a junior faculty member of Department of Sociology and Social Work approached her head of department for grant of three-year level. However, the HoD rejected her application on the plea that there was already shortage of faculty in the department and the University wasn’t in a position to make an alternate arrangement in view of a recent circular from the government. Sources said the concerned Dean a...   READ MORE   UPA pushing the frustrated Jammu youth to the wall 12-Point Package For K Youth 5/30/2011 1:05:47 AM Rustam EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 29: Congress-led UPA Government is all out to push the already rather frustrated and abandoned Jammu youth to the wall in its desperate bid to identify itself completely with the already over-empowered, over-represented and over-appeased Kashmir and its privileged youth. In effect, the UPA Government has devised a policy that makes invidious, humiliating and unjust distinctions between the already over-represented Kashmiri youth in the service sector and technical and professional institutions and the rather neglected and the rigorously excluded Jammu youth. It is no more a secret that the rate of unemployment in Kashmir is less than 30 per cent, as a...   READ MORE   LeT threatens candidates against contesting panchayat polls 5/30/2011 1:05:08 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 29: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has pasted posters in Mendhar area of Poonch, threatening candidates of serious repercussions in case they contested panchayat polls. The handwritten posters were found pasted on the walls of Salva school, Mendhar, according to official sources. The posters were later torn by police, the sources added. However, when contacted, Poonch SSP ruled out the involvement of any militant group in the incident, saying it could be the handiwork of candidates to scare each other. ...   READ MORE   Devotees take on Agnivesh, threaten SASB Amarnath Yatra 5/30/2011 1:03:51 AM Neha EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 29: Situation in and outside Jammu is getting out of hand. It appears. The immediate causes are two. One is the decision of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) to reduce the Yatra period from 60 days to 45 days. The other is the provocative comments made by the controversial and essentially pro-separatist and pro-Maoist Swami Agnivesh against Lord Shiva and the Holy Amarnath Yatra. The devotees of Lord Shiva have interpreted the SASB decision and the comments of Agnivesh as a direct attack on their faith and they have threatened an agitation against the SASB and action against Agnivesh. In fact, action against Agnivesh has already started. In Ahmedaba...   READ MORE   Early Times- Crossing Milestones 5/30/2011 1:02:39 AM When Early Times was conceived less than a de cade ago, it ruffled few feathers in the community.It was admittedly a run-of-the-mill stuff. During embryonic days, most of the readers, for obvious reasons, attached little importance to the fresh entry in a thick crowd of daily newspapers. Soon it unfolded as an eyesore for powers that be on account of its unflinching commitment to professionalism. Threats, in the conflict area, were transparently galore. Falling in the trap of government, police and intelligence agencies from New Delhi to Srinagar and Jammu to Islamabad—and perhaps far beyond—, becoming the mouthpiece of militants, terrorists of various hues, separatist groups and establis...   READ MORE

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