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PDD fails to install check meters in bulk Power using industries Official apathy triggers Industrial Power pilferage worth crores Communications of PDC ignored 8/24/2012 12:15:47 AM Abodh Sharma Jammu, Aug 23: Blame it on criminal administrative inertia or deliberated conspiracy to extend undue benefits to some blue eyed, many macro industrial units set up in the State which use Power in bulk are operating without check meters, allowing them pilferage of Power worth crores every month, thereby confronting domestic users with power cuts during scorching summer days and even nights despite paying up their dues. Despite repeated communications from the State Power Development Corporation (SPDC) to Chief Engineer M&RE, Check meters and CT PT units which are mandatory for industrial power connections using power above 1 MVA, many such industrial units which already enjoy sops and tax holidays have been allowed to use power without said metering system, allowing them an opportunity to use huge quantum of unaccounted industrial power. Interestingly, one of such industrial units is promoted by son of a senior Minister of coalition Government. In continuation of its earlier communication to the Chief Engineers, vide office letter no. EMD/II/J/RS/5340-43, dated Decem...   READ MORE

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BD Sharma stalls promotions in PHE, sits over files 8/24/2012 12:15:11 AM Bashir Assad srinagar, Aug 23: The PHE department has come to a grinding halt due to inefficiency of its Commissioner Secretary BD Sharma who is averse to effecting promotions at different levels in PHE leading to the frustration of officers in the department. There are so many instances to substantiate the fact that about a dozen Executive Engineers are holding additional charges of one or two more divisions which has hampered the functioning and the Commissioner Secretary BD Sharma is reportedly sitting over the files who has stalled the promotions completely. Notwithstanding that Minister for PHE Taj Mohi-ud-din is very particular about the issue of promotions, Sharma seems to be in n...   READ MORE   Ladakhis to intensify struggle for UT status 8/24/2012 12:14:57 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 23: Facing the continuous discrimination through the hands of State Government, Ladakhi's may intensify their struggle for grant of Union Territory status to Ladakh region. According to sources, people in Ladakh feel totally alienated due to discriminative policies of successive State Government's towards the Himalayan region and they have now decided to re-launch the agitation for grant of Union Territory status to Ladakh for the overall development of the region. Sources said recently a meeting of prominent citizen's of Ladakh has decided to re-activate the activities of Ladakh Union Territory Front (LUTF) and intensify the struggle for the UT status for t...   READ MORE   Will Davender seek judicial intervention? Rana v/s Sajjad 8/24/2012 12:14:44 AM Early Times Report srinagar, Aug 23: It seems Chief Minister's Advisor, Davender Rana has given up the idea of filing a case against People’s Conference chairman, Sajjad Gani Lone. Angered by Sajjad's statement, Rana had threatened legal action against him. However, the Jammu based business tycoon has decided not to go to the court for `political' reasons. Sajjad issued a hard hitting statement last month against Rana when some cable operators called on him and accused Davender of exploiting them. Sajjad accused Rana of land grabbing taking lucrative contracts of trucking at the cost of other businessmen of Jammu. Reacting to Rana's warning, Sajjad also tried to get some political mil...   READ MORE   PYC's 'new found tamasha' on 73rd, 74th amendments Roping in DCs to act as a ‘bridge’ to reach Govt 8/24/2012 12:14:20 AM Saroj Razdan Jammu, Aug 23: Roping in district administration to reach the Government of which they are a part to impress them upon the need and urgency of implementing 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments in J&K- this is the 'novel strategy' state unit of Youth Congress has adopted lately while using administration as alternative bridge through most convenient and potent weapon of memorandums submitted to Deputy Commissioners, a formal act which is preceded by some token protests in support of the cause. The 'new found tamasha' which commenced over a week ago was seen in Jammu on Wednesday and today in district Budgam which will be followed by Srinagar and Ganderbal districts...   READ MORE   Some separatist organizations are registered with ECI! Pseudo separatism 8/24/2012 12:13:49 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 23: Separatist, by and large are averse to the electoral process. Some among them want to join the electoral process but political compulsions prevent them from taking a `bold stand'. Reluctantly they urge people to boycott the elections. Interestingly a few of them continue to be registered with the Election Commission of India. Most of them have been selling wine in the name of vinegar. Why this dichotomy? Why not take a stand like People’s Conference chairman, Sajjad Gani Lone? In early 90s when militancy gained momentum, an organization issued a very important statement. It urged all the parties registered with the Election Commission of India (E...   READ MORE   SP allegedly intimidates Food Station owner at Rehari, misusing his official position Police officer denies allegations, terms them baseless 8/24/2012 12:12:39 AM ET Report Jammu, Aug 23: In an alleged case of a Superintendent of Police (SP) misusing his official position to intimidate his cousin at Rehari here, police have registered a case against the police officer on the direction of Special Municipal Mobile Magistrate. The case was registered against SP (home guards) Vikas Gupta and his father Rajinder Gupta at Bakshi Nagar police station under Sections 426, 440, 447, 452, 503, 506 and 509 of RPC. The court directive came in June last on a petition filed by Tripta Gupta, wife of Rajesh Gupta of Rehari. The family claimed that police had made no headway in the case till date and they continued to live under fear. The SP is Rajesh's next door ne...   READ MORE   Gandoh tense as police fails to register case over jurisdiction row Alleged murder of youth 8/24/2012 12:12:10 AM Asif Iqbal Naik kishtwar, Aug 23: Protests broke out in Gandoh area of Doda district as a dispute over police jurisdiction between two police stations of two neighbouring districts led to non-registration of an FIR of alleged murder of a youth whose body was found at Bashi Top area situated on the borderline of Doda and Kishtwar districts. A 22 year old Mushtaq Ahmed son of Maskeen Ali resident of Batri Gandoh of Doda District was allegedly killed by some locals of the area including an SPO. According to sources, people after seeing the body of the deceased lying under the bushes at Bashi Top informed the nearby police post of Kishtwar district, which after verifying the spot informed th...   READ MORE   Opposition in Kashmir to Soz, Bhalla, Taj & Mir Politics Of Separatism 8/24/2012 12:11:48 AM Rustam Jammu, Aug 23: Some "opinion-makers" in Kashmir (read votaries of greater autonomy or separatists) have upped their ante and taken on JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz, Revenue Minister Raman Bhalla, PHE Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din and Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir. They have described these Congress leaders and Democratic Party (Nationalist) president as anti-Kashmir and stooges of Delhi. Mir has not only been dismissed as a stooge of Delhi but also a man of intelligence agencies and a Congress plant in the Government. What actually provoked these "opinion-makers" in Kashmir were some recent statements purportedly made by the JKPCC president and these three Ministers in the Omar A...   READ MORE   Congress wants jobs for refugees from WP outside J&K Another Committee 8/24/2012 12:11:29 AM Neha Jammu, Aug 23: Committee after committee after committee but the refugees' night of discontent and despair has not drawn to its close even after 65 years of their stay in Jammu Pradesh. I am referring to the plight of the over one Lakh refugees from West Pakistan, all non-Muslims and mostly members of depressed classes. They had crossed over to Jammu in 1947 in the wake of the communal partition of India and the emergence of Muslim Pakistan. They crossed over to Jammu hoping that they would be treated by the Jammu and Kashmir Government the way other refugees from Pakistan were to be treated by the Government of India. Remember, the Government of India had given all citizenship rights...   READ MORE

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