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Govt .Employees call of strike 8/18/2009 11:31:16 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, AUGUST 18 – Government will constitute a committee to look into the issue of pay anomalies. The committee would address the issue within six months.This was decided at a joint meeting of Ministers and Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) chaired by Minister for Finance, Mr. Abdul Rahim Rather late this evening. The meeting decided to sort out pay anomaly issue of the employees appointed after January 1, 2006 by the end of August, 2009. It was stated in the meeting that conversion of COLA into D.A. in favour of Public Sector Undertaking employees was under active consideration of the government. The issue will be decided within two months. Addressing the meeting, the Finance Minister said that HRA is being rationalized. He asked the employees to give up agitation path as confrontation complicates issues. He said that government has already taken several pro-employee decisions including implementation of 6th pay commission despite resource constraint. He said all the genuine demands of the employees have already been fulfilled and c...   READ MORE

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Roshni: Dark deals and misleading figures Govt caught on wrong foot on land regularization applications 8/18/2009 11:30:06 PM Zafar Choudhary Srinagar/Jammu, Aug 18: Seven years back the then Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah described it as a rare milestone in history of Jammu and Kashmir set to illuminate every household. In 2006, the then Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad portrayed it as the only best thing to have happened to Jammu and Kashmir after the 1949 agrarian reforms brought by Sheikh. Both observations notwithstanding, Roshni Act has proved as one of the most controversial legislation in the state in recent years. Originally enacted by the National Conference government, the Roshni Act was conceived to vest ownership rights upon illegal occupants of government land on subsidized rates. The amount re...   READ MORE   Tampering date of birth is rampant in J&K 8/18/2009 11:27:43 PM Early Times Special JAMMU, August 18: Some days ago, the public health engineering (PHE), irrigation and flood control department issued an interesting notification urging hundreds of employees to seek voluntary retirement. Alternatively, they have been asked to undergo age determination test. The reason for this notice is that the government suspects that a large number of employees have been continuing in service long after they have attained the age of superannuation. The employees under scanner have been urged to seek voluntary retirement within the next three months. In that case, they have been promised full pensionary benefits. In case such employees fail to follow the gover...   READ MORE   BSF seizes Rs 125 cr heroin at Indo-Pak border 8/18/2009 11:27:19 PM Early Times Report Jalandhar: In a major haul, the biggest this year, Border Security Force (BSF) personnel Tuesday seized 25 kilograms of heroin worth Rs 125 crore from the Indo-Pak border in Gurdaspur sector. On a tip off, special pickets were formed to neutralise Pakistani smugglers' aim to transport narcotics to India, Jagir Singh Sran, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of BSF said here. He said in wee hours this morning, some movement was noticed on the border and the intruders were challenged by sleuths of the BSF. Sensing danger, smugglers from the Pakistan side fled towards their territory and their Indian counterparts, who had virtually received the consignment, which was push...   READ MORE   Time not ripe for troop withdrawal: Govt 8/18/2009 11:26:50 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 18: Though there has been marked improvement in the internal security situation in the state, Jammu and Kashmir government today said time is not ripe for total withdrawal of the army and Central paramilitary forces. "Time is still not ripe for the total withdrawal of the army and Central paramilitary forces from the state even as there has been marked improvement in the internal security situation," Law and Parliamentary Minister A M Sagar told the state Legislative Council. Replying to supplementaries by Murtaza Ahmad Khan of PDP, Sagar said any such withdrawal will be considered only after the defeat of insurgency and terrorism. "We also want withd...   READ MORE

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