news details |
|
|
| CM's no smoking order should first apply to Ministers | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 18: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has asserted that smoking should be banned from public places and attempts should be seriously made to check the scourge of smoking in public life.
The statement has universal appeal and application and as such also highly relevant to the State of Jammu and Kashmir. But, the CM must remember that charity should always begin at home. Unless there is a blanket ban on smoking among the Ministers in the State the ban on smoking should always fall on deaf ears. Some of the senior Cabinet colleagues of the CM are known smokers and they do not desist from the habit even during public meetings.
It is common knowledge that some of the Ministers of the Government leave official meetings to smoke on the sides of such official engagements. Unless the CM issues clear cut instructions that none of his senior or junior Ministers should be seen lighting a cigarette in the public, the ban shall not work at all.
A similar ban should be imposed on bureaucrats and police officers many of whom are known to enjoy smoking in parties and official functions. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
STOCK UPDATE |
|
|
 |
| BSE
Sensex |
 |
| NSE
Nifty |
|
|
| |
CRICKET UPDATE |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
