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| Students made construction labourers at Govt school, CEO assures action | | Omar's skewed Education priority | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Sept 18: A school situated just a few kilometers from the periphery of Jammu has been mocking at the tall claims of the Omar led government with regards to importance it assigned to Education and child rights.
The in charge Principal of the GHHS Narri Bala in Akhnoor , Sunita Rani Sharma has been abusing children physically and mentally by making them work as construction labourers in the construction of a water tank and main gate of the school, at the expense of their classes for days. Sources disclosed that the work of erecting a bigger gate of the school, construction of a water tank and plantation in the school compound has been going on in the school with utter lack of transparency as there is no contractor or executing agency and the work is being done by teachers and students who have been employed as labourers for digging, carrying sand, bajri and cement and mixing of concrete. One of the students pleading anonymity admitted that their teachers under directions from the Incharge Principal forced them to work rather than attend their classes.
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| 17 years on, Govt fails to remove disparity in pay-scale of two departments | | Employees of Finance dept. getting higher salaries than P&DD | | | Akshay Azad
Jammu, Sept 18: Alleging bias and discrimination on part of the government within its own employees, employees of the department of Planning and Development are still waiting for wage parity with their counter parts in department of Finance, seventeen years and umpteen representations after state government unilaterally hiked the emoluments of the employees of the department of Finance.
Sources informed Early Times that non-gazetted employees of Finance and Planning and Development department had been getting same pay-scale till 1996 but after the implementation of 5th pay commission, a disparity erupted between employees of two departments, due to selective approach of gov... | |
| | | | National Saffron Mission fails to produce desired results as state govt sits over sanctioned money | | Saffron production may be all time low this year | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Sept 18: The production of saffron in Kashmir valley is likely to come down drastically this year as the benefits of irrigation facilities under the National Saffron Mission (NSM) are yet to reach the farmers busy in cultivation of saffron in Pampore and adjacent areas.
The central government's initiative to provide the irrigation facilities have fallen flat since the amount for the same during this year as well as last year are yet to be released. Although, the money has been sanctioned and allotted by the central government it is yet to be released by the state government. This has led to disillusionment among the saffron growers with the major chunk of ... | |
| | | | 2001 batch KPS officers promoted in July still awaiting postings | | | | Mustansir
Srinagar, Sept 18: 93 Deputy Superintendents of State Police of 2001 batch promoted as Superintendents of Police (SP) in the first week of July are still awaiting postings.
The promoted officers include 46 Kashmir Police Service (KPS) of 2001 batch and the rest are the officers who were appointed as Sub-Inspectors in executive Police in 1982. The orders were issued by State Home Department vide order No 270/2013 dated July 4, 2013. However, the officers have not been posted as yet and all of them are still working as Dy. SPs at their earlier places of posting.
Official sources said that the orders were issued Thursday evening after the Chief Minister approved the list of ... | |
| | | | Failed CVPPL to issue fresh tenders for Pakal Dul HEP | | | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar, Sept 18: After it failed miserably to attract the foreign bidders for the construction of 100 MW Paka Dul Hydroelectric Power Project, the Joint Venture Company (Chenab Valley Power Projects Corporation) is now re-issuing the tenders on September 20.
Pakal Dul hydroelectric project has been appraised by Central Electricity Authority at an estimated cost of Rs. 8847.81 crore. The project has also secured environment, forest, defence, IWT, CWC and Geology & Mining clearances. It is one of the three major power projects to be constructed by State Power Development Corporation, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation and Power Trading Corporation of India in joint... | |
| | | | All NC show; with CM, Sagar on board, local MLA sidelined | | 'Umeed ' assessment function in Khan Sahib | | | 'Central schemes being politicized……attempt to weaken institutions by NC'
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 18: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah once again indulged in an act today that amounts to his attempt to keep complete hold and upper hand of only his party National Conference on the Centrally Sponsored schemes inevitably to get credit of the fruits of such schemes politically in NC's favour. In a function held in the Khansahib constituency Budgam district, the local MLA and former minister who until last year was a part of the coalition was kept out of the 'loop ' of function today apparently in bid to sideline him , though he was the only person on the forefront ... | |
| | | | MHA calls NC's bluff | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 18: NC working president and J&K CM Omar Abdullah and other party leaders like his uncle and additional general secretary of the party Mustafa Kamaal and MP Mehboob Beg had made revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) the cornerstone of their speeches and statements, particularly after September 2010 and created an impression that they were committed to what they had been saying about this legislation that provides legal immunity to the armed forces involved in anti-insurgency operations in Jammu & Kashmir State.
Many NC leaders, including Omar Abdullah, had even lambasted JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz for his stand on the AFSPA. Soz's init... | |
| | | | Will Cong form next Government in J&K? | | Azad's day dreaming | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 18: Union Health Minister and former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had on Tuesday asserted that the Congress party is very strong in all the three regions of the state and that the party will work hard to form the next government. He also kept the option of the Congress joining either the National Conference (NC) or the People's Democratic Party (PDP). "The Congress is the only party, which had strong base in all regions of the state and people needed to give a decisive mandate to help it to form the Government…However, in case the polls deliver a fractured verdict, the Congress will keep its options open and take help of either of the tw... | |
| | | | Azad's liking for PDP makes NC nervous, edgy | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 18: The veiled reference by Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad about possibility of Congress having post poll alliance with Peoples Democratic Party has made National Conference nervous. Senior Cong leader had said that Congress will be in the coalition government even after 2014 and it could form government with regional parties.
Former Chief Minister, who has a sharp sense of political narrative of the State, had made this statement after assessing then ground political situation. According to Congress leaders, Azad said that in the context of dipping popularity of National Conference.
As the Congress's own assessment, the NC is likely to suffer reverses i... | |
| | | | Govt fails to regulate fee structure, management fleecing people | | Politicians- private schools nexus | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 18: The mushrooming of private Schools In Kashmir Valley and failure of maintaining a check on their functioning and framing any broad based policy on fee structure by them has been a cause of concern for the people as some of these schools have been charging the annual fee ranging from Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000.
Despite the claims of the Government to regulate the fee structure in private educational institutions in the State, no steps have been taken in this regard till date due to which these educational institutions are maintaining a monopoly by charging the exorbitant fee from the students. With government's total failure to regulate fee structure th... | |
| | | | Kashmir: Modernization of libraries begins, book lovers elated | | | | Lubna Fayaz
Srinagar, Sept 18: Book lovers in Kashmir have a t reason to rejoice. In a major leap towards modernization of public libraries, the government has launched the pilot project for their automation and networking.
The project costing a little over Rs 1 crore, in the first phase will connect four major public libraries- SRS Central Library Jammu, SPS Central Library Srinagar, Oriental Research Library Hazratbal and City Central Library Karan Nagar, while rest would be taken up in the second phase. "It would bring J&K at par with national and international standards. To execute this project separate workstations have been set up at the four libraries of the state," Minister for Cu... | |
| | | | MWCD for strict implementation of laws to prevent violence against women | | Ministry mulls opening of women helpline across nation | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 18: Taking a serious note of the alleged complacency by states including J&K in effectively implementing the centrally sponsored scheme-Ujjawala, the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) has directed all the state authorities to take necessary measures for the effective functioning of this comprehensive scheme.
It may be mention here that Ujjawala Scheme was launched in 2007 by the Centre for prevention of Trafficking and Rescue, Rehabilitation and Re-Integration of Victims of Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation is being implemented since 2007.
Sources said in the next five years, the Ministry will focus on strengthening monitoring an... | |
| | | | Police arrest Principal, Secretary of 'Rotary Inner Wheel Home' for hiding facts | | Rotary Home Sexual abuse case | | | early times report
Jammu, Sept 18: In a latest development in the sexual abuse of mentally challenged girls at 'Rotary Inner Wheel Home for Mentally challenged at Channi Rama' which rocked the city on September 8/9, the Police today arrested the Principal and Secretary of above mentioned home for allegedly hiding facts and misleading investigation of police.
The duo arrested here today have been identified namely as Secretary Rajinder Kapoor and Principal G L Koul.
For inept, the Director of this shelter for mentally challenged children and a guard have been arrested for allegedly sexually exploiting five girl inmates of the home on September 9. Soon after the incident, police swung i... | |
| | | | Brown sugar worth crores seized in North Kashmir | | Driver among 11 detained by Police | | | early times report
Srinagar, Sept 18: Police today claimed to have recovered huge quantity of brown sugar along with arms and ammunition at Karnah sector in North Kashmir's frontier Kupwara district.
Official sources while talking to GNS said that troops of 5/5 GR and Police during routine checking intercepted a vehicle bearing registration number JK09C-6684 (Tata Sumo) at Karnah in Kupwara district today afternoon.
"1.2 kilogram of brown sugar along with a pistol, two magazines were recovered from the vehicle during searches," sources said, adding the driver Iliyas Malik along with ten other passengers travelling in the vehicle was detained by the joint team for questioning.
A case u... | |
| | | | JJM activists stage protest | | | | Kathua, Sept 18: Activists of Jan-Jagriti-Manch (JJM) today staged protest demonstration against the illegal detention and harassment of activists of Progressive Students Association. The protesters also burnt the effigy of those who are hatching the conspiracies against PSA activists only to strengthen their baseless and divisive politics among the innocent students of university.
The protest was joined by the hundreds of JJM activists amid shouting of slogans, demanding immediate release of activists. They also demanded an investigation of fair manner to bring the real face of the miscreants before the entire student community who played a planned and determined role to snub the demands ... | |
| | | | DC issues list of victims, seeks objections | | Kishtwar violence | | |
Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, Sept 18: Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar Baseer Ahmed Khan has made the list of the victims of August 9violence public vide order No: 524-29/SDK/R dated 16-09-2013. The victims include the dead, injured and those who lost their movable or immovable property.
The list prepared by Revenue, PWD and the Police department has 217 victims. The order urges the people to submit their objections within 15 days to the Additional District Commissioner.
Officials of the District administration informed the "Early Times" that once the process of seeking an objection with regard to the list framed by the administration gets completed, in accordance with the law, the distribu... | |
| | | | Alliance with PDP was never a closed chapter: Vakil | | 'People not happy with the incumbent Govt' | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 18: Day after former Chief Minster and Union Minister Gh. Nabi Azad hinted of entering into alliance with People’s Democratic Party, senior state Congress leader Ab. Gani Vakil today said that people were not fully satisfied with the performance of the incumbent government and the voters would judge the parties on the performance in the forthcoming elections.
"The elections are a matter of months now. We have completed the term with NC, so let us complete the term and then decide which way to go," Vakil averred today.
He, however, said that while Azad was politically right in saying that the option of entering into alliance with any of the regional pa... | |
| | | | If NC lives in minds & hearts, does PDP live in heads of masses? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 18: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, has said that the National Conference lives in the minds and hearts of the people. Should that be treated as the cause for peoples' support to the 75-year old NC? It may also denote that people vote for the NC without exercising their mental faculties.
If Omar's claim is accepted for the sake of arguments, which party then lives in the heads of the people ?Possibly for Omar Abdullah mind and heart are more important than head. And he seems to boast about it. He has said that the ruling NC has withstood "so many onslaughts and challenges", but came out "victorious and stronger" because the NC lived in "minds and hearts" o... | |
| | | | HC directs state to pay minimum wages to daily rate worker | | Employee in Govt Deptt on Rs 50 monthly | | | Et Report
Jammu, Sept 18 : Believe it or not that after 66 years of independence of the country, the State Govt paid Rs 50/- per month to an employee who is working in the Govt Dept. Justice Hasnain Massodi of J&K High Court Jammu Wing in a landmark judgment directed the Medical Department to pay minimum wages to the petitioner as are being paid to daily rated workers and accord consideration to his regularization having regard the averments made in the petition and rules governing the matter.
Respondent shall take a decision in the matter within a period of eight weeks from the date of a copy of order is served upon them.
The petitioner Mohd. Ramzan has been working as Safaiwala/Sw... | |
| | | | DyCM's orders ignored, CEO Doda attaches teachers | | | | Early Times Report
Doda, Sept 18: Despite Deputy Chief Minister's orders to the contrary, the Chief Education Officer (CEO) Doda attaches teachers to various offices and schools with impunity.
According to reports, one Mohammad Akhter who was originally posted to MS Laloor is attached into the office of Chief Education Officer Doda. Kabir Ahmed attached PS Sulipath original posting at PS Tuthwan. Abdul Qayoom PS Mootha attached at MS Larri, Firdous Ahmed original posting PS Tuthwan attached at MS Dhandal and apart from this there are so many attachments still functioning in Distt Doda.
It is important to mention here that Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand has banned the attachments of ... | |
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