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Jammu continues to beg for Government attention World Tourism Day 9/28/2012 12:39:56 AM Early Times Report jammu, Sept 27: The world tourism day celebrated across the country of Sep 27 must come as a reminder to the State to correct its Kashmir centric skewed tourism policy which believes Jammu and also Ladakh as fringe and non-descript tourism entity. About 7-lakh tourists had visited valley but about one-crore people visit Jammu to pay pilgrimage to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi. This is more than 10-time the number of tourists coming to Srinagar. And a sizeable percent of these pilgrims visits tourists spots of Jammu like Patnitop, Sanasar, Mansar and Sruinsar to name a few. If just a 10-percent of these pilgrim visit these places as tourists even than this number is more than all the tourists that have visited Valley this summer. But even then the funds for development of these places are not only meager but even conditions of infrastructure haven't been improved upon. Dal has received about Rs 400 crores for cleaning and resettlement of people living there. In comparison it the plan of Mansar and Surinsar is not more than Rs 10 crores clubbed together Even th...   READ MORE

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Cong says party well within its right to do so…. On to Omar's 'displeasure' on Soz letter: Soz-Azad 'harmony' lends credence to raising pitch 9/28/2012 12:38:07 AM Early Times Report jammu, Sept 27: A day after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed 'displeasure ' the way JKPCC president Prof Saif-u-Din Soz shot a letter to him reminding Congress' stand on need to empower the Panchayats, Congress today hit back asserting it was well within its right to reiterate and assert over the issue till some practical action is taken in the matter. Omar had also taken strong notice of what he said the letter or any statement meant to be communicated to Chief Minister should not have been leaked to media. "Congress leadership is well within its right , ours being the major alliance party in coalition to raise and rake up issues which matter in the State……....   READ MORE   Factionalism growing in State Cong Soz loyalist Minister seeks entry in Azad camp 9/28/2012 12:36:42 AM ET Report jammu, Sept 27: The dissidence in State Congress is increasing with more and more leaders from Saif-ud-Din-Soz camp shifting their loyalty to Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's camp. According to sources the leaders in Soz camp feel dejected with increasing importance of Azad in the AICC affairs and his close proximity to Nehru-Gandhi family. Sources said Mr Azad who is on the tour of State at present to assess the situation in the State has also met many of Soz loyalists in Srinagar and at Jammu. Sources said with increasing popularity of Mr Azad some of the Ministers having proximity with PCC chief and former Union Minister Saif-Ud-Din-Soz are using mediators to break ...   READ MORE   Did Army swindle funds for Mini Hydel Projects? Sadbhavna turns Durbhavna! 9/28/2012 12:35:49 AM Abodh Sharma jammu, Sept 27: Just a few years after they were commissioned, hundreds of Mini Hydel Projects constructed by the Army under operation Sadbhavna in the far flung border areas of the State are either lying defunct or have been certified unfit by the inspecting technical teams, thereby draining of crores of rupees sanctioned through Prime Minister's Reconstruction Plan in the State. Of the 1000 such MHPs sanctioned for providing Power to the people living in these difficult regions in shortest possible time, 735 were entrusted to the Army. While 300 were to be constructed directly by the Army under operation Sadbhavna, funds for the other 435 to be constructed by the Ministry o...   READ MORE   No 'Omar vs Rahul' on Sarpanch security issue 9/28/2012 12:35:28 AM Early Times Report new delhi, Sept 27: Congress today dismissed suggestions that it is "Omar versus Rahul" on the issue of the security of elected Sarpanches in Jammu and Kashmir but stressed they should be provided full security by the State Government. "Not at all. There is nothing like Omar Abdullah versus Rahul Gandhi in this matter," party spokesperson Rashid Alvi told reporters when asked whether the issue of security of elected Sarpanches and Panchayat members in Jammu and Kashmir was leading to some sort of a tiff between Gandhi and Omar. A delegation of nine Sarpanches from the State met Gandhi here and some of them complained to him that the State Government was treating the ...   READ MORE   CEO PB promotes Shami Shair as DDG Influential men in Delhi at work to fail CBI probe 9/28/2012 12:34:25 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Sep 27: In a severe blow to the credibility of Indian institutions in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Prasar Bharti, Jawahar Sircar, has promoted 14 officers of Indian Broadcasting Service, including Deputy Director Programme Shami Shair, as "incharge Deputy Directors General". Informed sources in the union capital told Early Times that influential men in politics and bureaucracy have begun all-out efforts to salvage Mrs Shair from the current morass of ignominy witnessed at Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar. "Some influential men have been roped in to protect Mrs Shair. They are at work to stall and fail CBI investigation into the irregularit...   READ MORE

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