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| Centre seeks list of honest officers | | Operation Rehabilitation | | | Says no to int'l aid; keeps State govt, separatists at bay
Fazal Khan
Srinagar, Sept 22: Centre is all set to expedite the rehabilitation process in flood ravaged Jammu and Kashmir in coming days. However, it wants that relief should reach the needy people and none of the political parties should try to derive mileage out of it.
Sources told Early Times that to begin with Centre has set up a high level committee to assess the losses across the state. "Centre is keen on roping in the honest officers, who don't have any political affiliations, for the job," sources said, adding, "a few BJP leaders from JK have been asked to forward the list of the honest officers to the party high command."
There are rumors making rounds that State Government is insisting that relief operations should be handed over to the local administration as it is aware about the topography of the state.
BJP led NDA Government in the Centre is understood to have turned down State Government's proposal to handover the rehabilitation operation to the local administration. "State Government has been told in cle... | |
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| Both Jammu and Valley suffered huge losses | | Needed: Equal treatment | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 22: The September floods were perhaps the first in history, in the living memory of Jammu & Kashmir. These flash floods, coupled with landslides on an unprecedented scale in both the regions of the state, threw the entire life out of gear and disrupted all socio-economic and political activities. The suffering of the people and infrastructure is just unimaginable. It was no wonder then that the highly moved Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited the flood-ravaged state to have on the spot assessment, described the crisis as a national-level disaster and made a passionate appeal to all to donate as much as they could to the relief fund so that some of the hardships of ... | |
| | | | Favourites get carrots, others get stick | | Govt's dichotomy | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 22: The Government's pick and choose policy can be gauged from the fact that while some face axe for no fault , others get privileges, though number of protest demonstrations were held against the employees and officials who left to Jammu leaving the people of Kashmir in the lurch.
The action is yet to be taken by the Government against the employees who remained absent in Civil Secretariat in Srinagar which re-opened on Thursday after being shut for 11 days due to the devastating floods that ravaged the state. Less than 10% of the employees reported to work at the scheduled opening time at 9:30 am, the official in-charge of security at the Secretariat sa... | |
| | | | Floods wash away many a political ambitions within BJP | | | | Abodh Sharma
JAMMU, Sept 22: Recent floods across Jammu and Kashmir have washed away not just precious lives and property in Jammu and Kashmir, but also political ambitions of many within state BJP who were expecting to ride over the strong Modi wave that swept last Parliamentary elections.
With unprecedented floods negating any political activity in the state atleast for the next couple of months, the political ambitions of these BJP aspirants are slowly ebbing out and the recent results of the Assembly by polls in four states have further dampened their ambitions.
The enthusiasm and the spirit that was imbibed in the workers by the results of Parliamentary elections and visit of the p... | |
| | | | Seek liberal funding from New Delhi without assessment | | JK Govt fails people yet again | | | ET Report
Srinagar, Sept 22: The Centre has expressed its displeasure over the failure of the State Government to assess the exact damages to the state infrastructure due to floods. It's because of this callous attitude of the state Government, that the Centre has not been able to finalize the exact details of funds to be provided.
The issue had according to source, cropped up in the meeting of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who had asked for liberal funding from the Centre.
"Omar insisted on liberal funding. But when the Union Minister asked for details, the CM gave sketch and conflicting figures, which put off the Union Minister," said a senior Government... | |
| | | | DyCM's Department ignores GAD order on transfers | | | |
Sandeep Bhat
JAMMU, Sept 22: The General Administration Department (GAD) orders on transfers in various departments after September 1, has not been implemented in letter and spirit till today when the deadline fixed by the GAD for its implementation expired.
Sources revealed that the Education Department which is under the control of DyCM Tara Chand is sleeping on the order. There are around 150 transfers which took place from 1st to 7 th September in Education Department and more transfers took place even after 7th September in Jammu province particularly in Jammu district.
As per GAD order, those who have been transferred after 1st September have to report back to their previous post... | |
| | | | Zoology man heads Environmental Sciences deptt, manages to get-in wife also | | Tragic tale of Central University (CU) Jammu-II | | | *Selector selected as HOD
Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Sept 22: Teaching departments in Central University (CU) Jammu too have their own story where heads and other faculty members have been appointed without following rules and regulations which other Central Universities adhere to.
Ex-Vice-Chancellor of Sudhir Singh Baloeria has seemingly applied the bureaucratic mindset while making appointments to the Central University (CU) Jammu. If the records are any indication, Baloeria has not even bothered to cross-check what the so-called experts and high profile so-called subject specialists had been doing vis-à-vis the selection of faculty members for heading various courses.
In the departm... | |
| | | | HC defers hearing on PIL seeking relief, rehabilitation to flood victims | | Govt says 2,34,516 structures damaged | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 22: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court today deferred hearing in a Public Interest Litigation, seeking immediate rehabilitation, systematic relief and payment of compensation to flood victims in the state.
As the PIL filed by two lawyers came for hearing before a division bench of Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey, Government informed that a similar subject was pending before Supreme Court and sought dismissal of the petition.
In the reply to the contention by the petitioners, Government submitted that there is no denial with regard to loss of life and property.
Regarding stores in commercial complexes and the shops, Government submi... | |
| | | | Health department jeopardizes health of thousands of children of flood affected areas | | Fails to administer them necessary vaccines | | | Jehangir Rashid
Srinagar, Sept 22: Health of thousands of children living in the flood affected areas has been put to risk by the health department since the vaccination of these children has not been done so far. This is despite the fact that immunization is important for the children so that they don't fall prey to different diseases.
Residents of many areas told Early Times that health department has miserably failed in vaccinating the children who have been affected by the devastating flood. The residents alleged that health department is just making claims about the vaccination and doing nothing to suggest that they are really serious in this respect.
"Our area has been badly hit by... | |
| | | | Geelani, Mirwaiz resume their subversive activities | | Under the garb of devastation | | | Neha
JAMMU, Sept 22: Enemies of humanity and the Indian nation Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who sought and got the army's help to save his life, and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who did not utter a word of sympathy even for the flood-ravaged Kashmiri Muslims till the other day, are back on the scene. Instead of hailing the efforts of the Government of India and Army, Air Force, Navy, NDRF, CRPF and BSF and the Indian nation as whole, which swung solidly behind the flood-affected people in the state, these ungrateful separatists have started indulging in dirty politics.
On the one hand, Geelani on Sunday urged the authorities to releaseall the detainees from prisons and on the other hand, Mirwaiz the s... | |
| | | | A broken television cable that connected them | | Flood stories | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 22: Ashiq Husain was looking at the once busy Airport Road from the second floor window of his house at Magarmal crossing on September 8. A day earlier floods had wreaked havoc in the entire city. The busy and important road had turned into a roaring river. Ashiq saw gas cylinders, water tanks, furniture, cars and a variety of goods being washed away by the water. He was worried about the machines in his shop (PCO) in the ground floor of the house. Suddenly he saw an army boat approaching the Government building housing some newspaper offices and `influential' families.
The rescue attempt, Ashiq said failed as the boat capsized. The RR Jawans manag... | |
| | | | Govt Hospital Gandhi Nagar charges fee for OPD slips illegally | | | | Arun Singh
Jammu, Sept 22 : Exploiting the helplessness of senior citizens of the state, Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar is fleecing senior citizens who visit for consultation with specialist doctors, by charging OPD fee in disregard of the norms.
Sources told Early Times there were four receipt counters for patients at OPD super specialty block in the basement of the complex which remained crowded all the working days. "Of four counters one is for female patients, one is for male patients and one for senior citizens but today at 11 am there was no employee available at the seat of senior citizens counter to issue them OPD slips which led to huge problems to the aged people", they sai... | |
| | | | Govt leaves Bangladesh colony to fend on its own | | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
BANDIPORA, Sept 22 : A small hamlet known as Bangladesh Colony on the down hills of Baba Shukar-Ud-Din Sahib's Shrine in Watlab Sopore, encroached a small piece of land which belongs to the Flood department on the banks of famous Wular Lake in Bandipora district of North Kashmir.
Residents of this colony have grabbed the land for construction purpose which actually belongs to the Flood and Irrigation Department and these people claim that state government has not provided any relief to them in this hour of grief, when floods damaged whole Jammu and Kashmir state.
According to Abdul Ahad Dar, 83, of Zurmanz Colony of Bandipora District popularly known as Bangladesh... | |
| | | | Govt fails to clear Rs 2 cr bills of drug suppliers | | | | Bijay Charak
Jammu, Sept 22 : The state government has failed to clear the liabilities of suppliers of drugs and equipments as Director Health Services (DHS) and Govt Hospital Gandhi Nagar are yet to clear their bills worth Rs 2 cr. A supplier spoke to this newspaper on the condition of anonymity and said that last year he had supplied drugs to DHS and Gandhi Nagar Hospital and also installed X- ray machines, digital X- ray machines and other equipments there is an estimated cost of more than Rs 1 crore but surprising the government has failed to clear his bills.
"Repeated visits to these institutions have so far yielded no results. Whenever I approach the authorities for payment, they ... | |
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