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Bani Jun 23: Residents of Bani raised their voice for the beginning the construction of a Govt Degree College (GDC) which was announced by State Govt of Jammu and Kashmir after a foundation stone was laid down by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on 6th of August 2013.
While speaking to the media persons, protestors including parents, prominent residents and students lodged their objections over the delaying of construction of the Govt Degree College (GDC) Bani due to which the students of the area are facing hardships.
Chairman of Panchayat Sarthali of Bani, Qyoom Bhatt and a prominent resident Liyakat Ali told that the state government has announced a Govt Degree College for the students of far-off areas of Bani and even 62 kanals of agricultural land was acquired by the government for the project from the farmers at Sarthal nothing concrete has been done in this regard barring classes started at a rented building after foundation stone was laid by chief minister of state with great fan fare.
Students of Part 1st of GDC Bani, Javed and Tasleema Bano also rued that the classes are running in a rented building and the facility of only Arts stream is given to them till date but science steam is still absent due to which the students of science stream have to face more and more problems to get education.
Protestors demanded an intervention of state government for the construction of Govt Degree College so that students of the area could attain the education without any hurdle.
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MLC opposes proposal of scarping ‘train halts’ in Samba-Kathua
Hiranagar Jun 23: Subash Chander Gupta Ex Member legislative Council and President District Congress Committee (DCC) Kathua has opposed the proposal of lifting of stoppage of Trains from Hiranagar & Ghagwal stations viz. of Shaldha express, Shalimar Express and Hamkund express running between Jammu to various destinations of the country.
Former MLC, Gupta said that this proposal will cause inconveniences to the general public instead of giving then sigh of relief. “The suffers are particularly the public of Border and Kandi areas of Ghagwal, Hiranagar, Billawer as these station were easily accessible to these people, he added.
Gupta further said that the railway authorities should reconsider their decision of lifting stoppage of Shaldha Express, Shalimar Express and Hamkund Express from Hiranagar and submits memorandum of demands to railway authorities in this regard.
Prominent signatories of memorandum of demands were Vijay Tagotra, Bhagwan Dass, Ganesh Dass, Narinder Singh Rathore, Yash Pal Singh Mintu, Bishan Singh Jasrotia, K C Bhagat, Yugal Kishore Bali and many others.
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JKTF holds meeting, discuss problems
Early Times Report
Jammu, June 23
A meeting of the Jammu Kashmir Teachers Forum was held today under the Chairmanship of Rajinder Gupta, Provincial President of the JKTF. In the meeting, various issues confronting the teaching community were discussed threadbare. The speakers expressed great resentment against the working of the S.S.A. Scheme in the State. They complained that teachers working under S.S.A. Scheme are not getting their regular salary. Most of the teachers under the scheme are without salary for the last 6 months.
To express their resentment, the teachers working under S S J l Scheme under the banner of Jammu Kashmir Teachers Forum have decided to hold protest demonstration in front of the Press Club on June 25 to highlight the issue of non-release of salary grants.
All the members of JKTF are requested to assemble in the press club on the said date and time to impress upon the authorities to immediately release the grants of S.S.A. Teachers.
Those who attended the meeting included Gopal Singh, Raj Singh, Soorat Singh Toofani, Darshan Sharma, S. Ravinder Singh, Narinder Chib, Shankar Singh, Kuldeep Raj and others.
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AJKUEA appeals Omar to appoint them on the pattern of ReT
Early Times Report
Jammu, June 23
All Jammu and Kashmir Unemployed Engineers Association (AJKUEA) Monday urged Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to appoint them on pattern of Rehbar-e-Talim teachers.
Addressing a press confernce , the president of Association Rajeev said that they were struggling since 2007 for adjustment as Rehbar-e-Timarat scheme but nothing has been done by the government so far.
“Former Chief Minister Gulam Nabi Azad and Dy. Chief Minister Pt. Mangat Ram Sharma had assured to appoint us on the pattern of Rehbar-e-Zarat, Rehbar-e-Talim but their assurances proved to be hollow”, he said.
He further said that RET scheme was a complete solution for adjustment of all unemployed engineers and especially for those who were over aged
Gen. Secty Atul Sudan.
Atul sudan added that “ We all j&k Unemployed Engineers just wanted to request to present govt that a file regarding in the scheme of Rehbar-e-Tamirat was framed and was on the table of GAD under file no 402/ENG/526 dated 09-05-2007 and the chief Minister Secretariat no CMS/GEN/22-05-2007 jammu/Sgnr dated 31-05-2007. So it is urge to C.M Omar Abdullah to please intervene in this matter and complete the commitment of absorption of Unemployed Degree Diploma Engineers through Rehbra-e-Tamirat Scheme”.
Atul urged that “ we want to tell that the Rehbar-e-Tamirat(Ret) scheme is a complete solution for adjustment for all unemployed Engineers and Specially for those who were oveaged and got another chance to get a job after worthy decision of expanding time frame of eligible age for the govt job from 37 to 40 years. So Especially the diploma Engineers got a lifeline by this who are not eligible in any other category and are at the stage of starving at the moment”.
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Power curtailments, water crisis forcing people to turn conventional lifestyle
Rajouri, Jun 23: Ongoing heat wave in addition to the unscheduled power cuts and acute water crisis have not only affected the normal life of the people Rajouri and its adjoining localities but also forcing them to adopt conventional methods like hand fans and fetching water from traditional rivulets.
The prolonged power curtailments ranging between 12 -14 hrs a day have left people almost in every corner of the district to live an irritate life and especially during mid day hours when people are forced to turn to traditional methods like hand fans, bathing in the rivers/rivulets to beat the heat in scorching June days.
In the towns and in the areas where people can afford invertors also facing problems as the batteries don’t get charged fully in the absence of power or due to very low voltage.
In many parts people have been holding protests against the Power department officials/ district administration and the State government.
The officials concerned seem least bothered about the problems being faced by the common man as they have only one excuse ‘it is because of over loading the power have been snapped from control room at Jammu.’
Locals namely Lal Hussain, Bal Krishan and many others from habitats of Tatapani, Sum, Broh, Kothia , Zata etc in Kalakot tehsil have alleged that for the last few months besides official curtailment of 2 hours after every two hours, the people are forced to face unscheduled prolonged power cuts.
Jatinder Sassan, JE, said that the department has been supplying power as per schedule. “However, due to overloading the power remains sometimes snapped from Jammu, he meekly defended.
Resident from Nowshera town and its adjoining areas too have been facing acute shortage of power while people in Nowshera and its close vicinity are also feeling irate over frequent power cuts which are adding more miseries in the routine life style of locals during hot days of June month.
Here also AEE Anterpal has the brief and same reply, that overloading and fault in the supply lines resulting in frequent power snapping from the central control room.
He however, added that unauthorized /illegal Air Conditioner connections across main township and illegal connections in rural areas increase load on the existing transformers resulting frequent damage.
Locals alleged that officials concerned are aware about such illegal connections but they fail to take action as there exists an unholy nexus within the department which has deep roots and none dare to take any initiate against such defaulters.
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BSP warns of protest against Rail fare hike
Early Times Report
Jammu, June 23
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Monday warned of a protest against the railway fare hike on June 25 if the same is not considered back in the interest of general public.
Addressing a press conference, General Secretary of BSP, Narinder Kumar Kashyap said that steep hike of 14.2 percent in railway passenger fare and 6.5 per cent in freight charges as declared by the Union Government even before the presentation of the Railway Budget, has thoroughly exposed the sincerity of the NDA government for the welfare of the common man.
"The people of India have not expected that the new government within a short span of time, will forget its promises of better days and will brought bad days”, he said, adding that the Union government should take step back for the welfare of people.
He further said that they would organize a protest rally against the government, from Satwari Chowk to Raj-Bhavan.
He appealed all the people to come forward and sign the memorandum of BSP, which would submit before Union government
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Mufti’s cavalcade stuck in Jam near Hirpora
Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 23: PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Monday faced a piquant situation when his cavalcade was left stranded along with hundreds of common vehicles owing to stone pelting at Hirpora area of Shopian on Mughal Road.
According to local reports, residents in the area were protesting against the shortage of power in their area and were up in arms against the non-serious attitude of the PDD authorities. According to these reports the local residents were suffering from lack of power supply for over last one month and non-availability of transformer.
Ironically, miseries of residents were compounded after the new transformer installed in the area was damaged after few hours of installation. Local residents came on the streets and started pelting stones on police and vehicles on the Mughal road resulting in the chaos in the area.
“Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was on way to Peer Galli at the time of protest and his cavalcade also got stuck in the stone pelting,” local sources said. However, Mufti’s cavalcade managed to leave the spot without any damage, they added. As hundreds of vehicles from both the sides of the historical Mughal road got stranded police swung into action and used tear smoke shells and batons to disperse the protesters.
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Pawar asks Mahila Cong activists to work sincerely
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 23:
Exhorting upon women party activists to work sincerely and whole heartedly at grass root level, the President Pradesh Mahila Congress Indu Pawar stressed the need to establish strong links with the electorate and common masses by attending to their problems and issues of common development.
Addressing a meeting of the executive body of Pradesh Mahila Congress of Jammu region here today, Pawar said that Congress party is the oldest political organization in the country and has presence in all the areas of state and country and will come back with flying colours.
An overall view of Mahila Congress was taken on the reasons of party’s performance in recent Parliamentary elections
Pawar urged the office bearers to put in their best efforts for the coming assembly elections in the state to ensure that Congress wins more seats than last assembly elections and form a stable government.
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Dealing J&K is a challenge for BJP led Govt: Mufti
Early Times Report
Poonch, June 23:
Chief Patron, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said that dealing with Jammu and Kashmir is the biggest challenge before the BJP led government in the centre.
Mufti hoped that the new Prime Minister will follow the ideology of Atal Behari Vajpayee to deal with the northernmost state of the country.
Addressing an impressive public meeting at Poonch today, Mufti said that peace is the only option to move ahead on development path and resolve all sensitive issues. He argued that Jammu and Kashmir needed a holistic approach to help it come out of its immense problems.
While emphasizing on the adopting human approach to restoring lasting peace in this region, Mufti regretted that residents of state are facing hardship due to mis-governance of the present regime headed by National Conference.
“Governance deficit is not only increased in the last nearly six years but what is a cause of a greater worry is the erosion of credibility of our democratic institutions”, he observed.
“PDP is committed to bridge the gap between different regions and also between people of Jammu and Kashmir and rest of the country”, he said, adding “During our tenure we had proved how to treat all regions and sub-regions equally and party would further facilitate the process of bridging the gap to ensure justice and equality to all regions and sub-regions”,
“Our aim is not to attain the power by deceiving the people”, he said and reiterated that one and only agenda of PDP is to establish lasting peace and to restore dignity and honour of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
He sought support of the people to further pursue the pro-peace agenda of the PDP.
Yash Pal Sharma, MLC, Basharat Bukhari, MLA, Hamid Manhas, district president, Shah Mohammad Tantray, PDP candidate for Poonch-Haveli assembly segment, Prem Sudan, Iqbal Qazmi, Shamim Dar, Haji Taj Khan, Javed Choudhary, H S Qureshi, ex-MLC, Shahzad Khan and others were among those who were present.
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Low capacity transformers increasing maintenance expense of PDD
Early Times Report
Jammu, June 223: Low Capacity Transformers installed in the city led
to increase maintenance expense of the Power Development Department of
the state. As about 4-5 transformers are being damaged everyday in
Jammu due to overloading.
The residents alleged that the department has not changed the
transformers of many of the localities in the city for the last two
decades, which led to damage the transformers during summers.
“The transformer of over locality is of 250 KVA, for the last more
than 20 years, population have increased, houses built, commercial
houses established but with the same existing transformer,” said
Ashish Raina, a resident of Bohri.
“Whenever the transformer burns, the department replaces it after
two-three days, but despite of repeated requests, they never upgrade
the capacity of the transformer, which results repeated damage of the
same transformer. I wonder why the department doesn’t understand that
the repairing one transformer for five times in a season costs more
than replacing it with a higher capacity transformer,” he added.
Same is the problem with many of the areas in the city, like Bantlab,
Roop Nagar, Janipur, Sarwal, New Plot, Satwari, Gangyal, Channi and
Sainik Colony. But the casual attitude of the department led to the
sufferings of the common people.
“We are living in 100 percent metered area, we are paying our bills
timely, then why we people are being harassed by the department,”
Meenakshi Sharma of New Plot.
“The department is forcing us to come on roads, as whenever we
complain them about the transformer damage, they blame us for power
theft without checking our meters and connections, power theft has
become the only excuse for them to get rid of their duties,” she
added.
More than 170 transformers have been damaged in the city from April to
till now, and most are the transformers are from the same point, which
are being damaged again and again due to overloading.
A PDD official, while refuting all the allegations, said, “Our team is
doing its job responsibly, all transformers are above the capacity of
legal load.”
“This is the time for the consumers to understand their moral
responsibility and use the power judicially,” he added.
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One killed other injured in road accident
Rajouri, Jun 23: One person (conductor of a mini bus) was killed while his friend received serious injuries when the vehicle fell deep into 300 feet deep gorge after the conductor lost control over the steering.
According to police sources the mishap took place near village Hayan in Budhal area on Sunday when Altaf Hussain, conductor/helper of mini bus bearing regd no: JK02-2843 alongwith his friend was driving the vehicles towards a rivulet to get it washed.
Police sources said that while making room for a vehicle coming from opposite direction, Altaf lost control on the vehicle in it skidded 300 feet down in the gorge. The locals evacuated injured to SDH Budhal from where they were referred to District Hospital (DH) at Rajouri.
However on way to Rajouri Altaf succumbed to his injuries, sources said, adding, “after getting autopsy upon body, the police handed over the body to the family members for its last rites.”
Meanwhile concerned police have started investigation in this regard.
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Teen murder case: Family decries injustice as FSL reports still awaited since 4yrs
Seeks Rajindra to look into the matter
Jammu Jun 23: Atleat year after a teen namely Karan Sharma of Miran Sahib -R S Pura was allegedly murdered in a drowning incident on 28 September 2010 at Baba Pedh Udhampur, the family members today alleged ‘foul play by some influential people in getting investigation fiddled as the Forensic Science Lab (FSL) reports still are awaited till today.
In a meeting held today at Indira Nagar (Miran Sahib), Jammu, the family members of Late Master Karan Kumar Sharma deliberated upon future strategies to get justice for Master Karan Kumar Sharma. The family members alleged that Master Karan Sharma was allegedly murdered but the same was given a shape of drowning incident.
During this meeting, the mother of the master Karan, a widow Usha Sharma alleged that her teen age son Master Karan Kumar Sharma was gruesomely murdered by drowning on 28 September 2010 at Baba Pedh, Udhampur. She alleged that four culprits namely Pradip Singh, Vicky Singh, Rajan Sharma and Nitin Kumar were said to be involved in killing of Master Karan.
“The concerned Police Officials yet have not taken any action against the culprits still now,” she alleged and said, “all the four culprits were left free without investigating the brutal killing of my son.”
Accusing police for succumbing to pressure from political and influential big wigs including local MLA, the mother of deceased and other speakers said that not a single information related to this gruesome murder case including lodging of FIR is shared to the deceased family by the police.
‘How shameful that FSL report yet is awaited even after the passage of the over three years,” she added. Family members alleged that the political pressure as one of the four culprits is close relative of local MLA and corruption has already delayed the case for over three and half years sought new Director general of Police (DGP), K Rajendra, IAS, to look into the matter personally and pass directions to concerned police to expedite investigation in the case and also constitute a Special Investigating Team (SIT) to book the culprits.
They also said that failing to get justice at the hands of police, they are left no option to approach National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and High Court of J&K for justice to the Master Karan.
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Delhi HC warns ‘Naturelite’ for making look alike product
Srinagar Jun 23: In a major development in the on-going battle against look-alike brands and products, the Delhi High Court has granted ex-parte restraining orders against look-alike brands and products having resemblance to Nutralite marketed by Zydus Wellness Ltd and restrained “Naturelite” marketed by Everlike Food Products.
According spokesperson of aggrieved company, the court has observed the brand was found to have packaging similar to the Zydus Nutralite brand which is the market leader in the table spread category.
“Zydus Wellness has built the Nutralite brand of healthy table spread into a trust mark through years of consistent effort, court said and adding, “Zydus Wellness is determined to restrain those who intend to pass off a look-alike product as Nutralite.”
“ The recent order of the court will provide further strength to Zydus Wellness’ efforts to restrain such unethical activities of its competitors.” said a company spokesperson.”
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