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Summon.........
taken the cognizance of Gen Singh’s remarks itself and that the instead the state politicians raise concerns but the response from GoI is not ‘satisfactory’. “When have they (GoI) responded to the concerns of the state government; it is not only the question of Chief Minister’s letter,” said Akhtar while adding that the GoI should not undermine the resolutions passed by the state assembly about retired Gen. Singh. Additional General Secretary National Conference (NC) Dr Mustafa Kamal while expressing optimism that the letter shot by Omar shall be answered in near future and that the GoI would thoroughly look into retired Gen. Singh’s remarks. “They will respond to the resolution passed by the state assembly about retired Gen Singh and that the matter is being followed seriously” Meanwhile the recently held meeting of the privilege committee of Legislative Council has, according to sources, not sought any clarification from the former army general but has demanded a thorough investigation on his remarks about army funding to Jammu and Kashmir mainstream politicians.
PM.........
The Prime Minister was received with a standing ovation and his speech on India, China - A New Era was given a huge round of applause by the audience. The Prime Minister is leaving for New Delhi this evening after a successful visit of China which witnessed signing of nine agreements, including two most important ones relating to border defence cooperation and management of transborder rivers. Today Dr. Manmohan Singh had the privilege of addressing future leaders of Communist Party of China at the party’s Central School in Beijing. In his speech as well as during the question-answer session, he repeatedly stressed on maintenance of peace and tranquility on the borders on which India-China relations can progress further. He said, India and China are not rivals but partners in progress. The Prime Minister also said there is enough space in the world for the two countries to pursue their aspirations without affecting the other adversely.
Govt Granted.........
committee comprising of additional commissioner Kashmir, vice chairman Srinagar Development Authority (SDA), commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), DC Srinagar, Chief Engineer Roads and Buildings and Special Secretary Housing and Urban Development was submitted to the government in time but the reason why this report was shelved and no follow-up action taken on the recommendations is best known to the authorities. “This report says that almost all automobile showrooms in city especially set up on Nowgam bypass road have come up in gross violation of master plan norms. Owner of an automobile showroom in this area had got permission for establishing a poultry farm. Instead of establishing a poultry farm, he raised an automobile showroom and a service station using the same permission,” sources had told KNS.
CM..........
meeting here, the Chief Minister said that development of handicrafts, handlooms and artisans associated with various handicrafts in the State need focused attention to help them improve their lot and contribute positively in the economic welfare of the State. The meeting discussed in detail the matters relating to 3 % interest subsidy to the industrial units, brand promotion, extension of Government of India incentives, VAT refund, extension of VAT remission, toll tax exemption, power infrastructure improvement, issues relating to Pollution Control Board, creation of industrial infrastructure, marketing support, role of JKDFC for development of MSME sector in J&K, on-line registration, setting up of new industrial units etc. The meeting was attended by Deputy Minister, Tara Chand, Chief Secretary, Mohammad Iqbal Khandey, Economic Advisor to the Government, Jalil Ahmad Khan, Principal Secretary, Planning and Development, B. R. Sharma, Chairman Pollution Control Board, Vinod Ranjan, Principal Secretary Finance, B. B. Vyas, various Commissioner Secretaries, Administrative Secretaries and Commissioner Secretary Industries Department, Farooq Ahmad Factoo. The Commissioner Secretary Industries gave resume of the major headway achieved in the industrial sector. He said presently 29,000 industrial units are functional in the State generating employment for 1.32 lakh persons. He said 15 Industrial Estates with 34,000 kanals have been established in the State and more 6,700 kanals are being brought under new Industrial Estates. He said 3.5 lakh artisans are associated with handicrafts sector and the export of handicraft items has touched Rs. 1538 crore.
CCA.........
chairman CCA. “But there are hundreds of students who after tallying their answer sheets easily get marks above 300, so somewhere somebody has goofed up,” a statement issued to Kashmir News Service said. Var asked the authorities to immediately release the answer keys for the KAS preliminary examinations so that no doubt remains among the anxious students. The association said that KAS is the most prestigious examination of the state and thousands of students study hard to qualify this once-intheir lifetime examination. “The commission should value the emotions and hard labour of the majority of 20,236 youths, who spent nights for this examination this year,” said Var, according to the statement received by KNS. “Unfortunately the commission is treating these answer keys as some defence secret,” said Var. The association said that the situation becomes murkier as the allegations of backdoor entry and nepotism runs high.”Transparency is the only solution to this problem, once you don’t hide anything, there is lesser chances of corruption,” said Var. The association also expressed concern on the reports that majority of students come from some particular subjects. “This is a skewed result, proving to be one of the worst, on the scale of cleanliness,” said Var. “On one hand about thousand students are selected from a particular stream and on the other hand no students have been selected from other
Daily subjects.” The optional subject has become a matter of great concern. Var said that it violates the fundamental right of equal opportunities, which needs to be redressed soon. “Some students are even contemplating RTI and going to court,” said Var. “So the commission should first clear the doubts for once and all and then go for mains examination.”
Drivers........
fronts,” the drivers said. They warned that in near future they would not allow any Ladakhi driver to ply in Kashmir. Pertinently, Kashmiri drivers Wednesday alleged that their vehicles were damaged while they also received injuries in an attack upon them by members of Ladakh Taxi Operators Cooperative Limited (LTOCL) in Leh market.
Power Cuts........
demonstrations few days back too but the authorities assured us that the power supply will be restored soon and we called off the protests,” the villagers told CNS. They said that, however, after the assurance of the administration the power supply in their areas has worsened and few of the villages are completely reeling under darkness. Traders Federation and Youth Welfare Forum Tral had called for a complete shutdown against the nonavailability of electricity in the town. Roads wore a deserted look while schools and other business establishments remained shut. One of the members of Traders Federation said that if PDD fails to improve the situation then they would go for indefinite strike. Meanwhile, PDD officials assured people that 18 hours electricity would be made available to them while the duration for curtailment would be only 6 hours.
Land Scandal.........
them fake attorneys. Holding Revenue officials responsible for all this mess, one of persons who purchased chunk of property from Ajab Singh said that how come he was given the permanent resident certificate without verifying the facts. Soon after these revelations, the District Administration has imposed a ban on the sale of the land and has said that the land would be deemed as government property in case no real of owner of the land comes forward.
Nepotism.........
professor’s flat (P-B) while as a liaison officer working in the close corridors of administration, having the same grade as equivalent to the head clerk, has been allotted Reader’s flat,” he said adding that Deputy Registrar has been also given professor flat (P-7). A non-teaching staff member Abdul Rashid said it is irony that the casual labourers (7 in number) have been given accommodation in the main as well as in Mirza Bagh Campus at the nominal charges of Rs 500 per month. “On the other hand, more than 100 permanent employees of the University are waiting for accommodation from last 5 years, said Abdul Rashid adding that height of the nepotism is that few months back, an orderly employee from the Department of Biotechnology got accommodation in the Assistant Professor’s Flat at Mirza Bagh campus, reportedly at the behest of Dean Research. Teachers and non teaching employees sought intervention of Chancellor Varsity to probe these allegations and demanded that committee should be framed to indict the guilty. When contacted, Chairman of Allotment Committee for Teaching Staff, Dr Professor Mushtaq Ahmed Kaw told CNS that such things have happened in the past and he is not responsible for this. “These violations have taken place before I took over as Chairman Allotment Committee, so it’s not my baby and I don’t know anything about it,” he said.
Chief Justice.........
Women’s Judicial Lockup and Litigation sheds within the Court complex at the earliest. Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir, Justice Muzaffar Hussian Attar, Justice Ali Mohamad Magrey, Justice Bansi Lal Bhat, Law Secretary Mohammad. Ashraf Mir, Registrar General, High court, Mr Suresh Sharma, Principal District and Sessions Judge Pulwama, Mr Shahzad Azeem, Deputy Commissioner Pulwama, Mr Manzoor Ahmad Lone, Principal Secretary to Chief Justice, Mr, Mohammad Yusuf Akhoon, Registrar Vigilance High Court, Mr. Vinod Chaterji, MD JKPCC, Mr. T.K. Baghat and all Judicial officers of District Pulwama were present at the inaugural function.
Injured.........
were shifted to hospital for treatment. Mirgund police has registered a case in this regard. In another accident, a Recovery vehicle bearing registration number Jk01C/1912 hit and injured a pedestrian, in the jurisdiction of police station Baramulla. The injured was shifted to hospital for treatment. In another accident, a Scorpio bearing registration number Jk03A/9372 hit and injured 10 years old Juniad Ahmad son of Ghulam Mohi-u-Din resident of Sether on National Highway, in the jurisdiction of Police Station Sangam. The injured was shifted to Sub District Hospital, Anantnag for treatment. Sangam Police has registered a case in this regard. In another accident, an Alto car bearing registration number Jk03D/3517 hit and injured a pedestrian, Ali Mohammad Dar son of Abdul Ganie resident of K.P road on K.P road, in the jurisdiction of Police station Anantnag. The injured was shifted to Hospital for treatment. In another accident in district Anantnag, a pedestrian Mohammad Maqbool Bhat son of Ghulam Mohammad resident of Balpora Yaripora was hit and injured by an unknown vehicle at Eidgah crossing Bijbehara. The injured was shifted to hospital for treatment. A Motorcycle bearing registration number Jk09/9881 meet with an accident at Lachipora in the jurisdiction of Police station Handwara, resulting in injuries to motorcyclist and two pillions. All the injured were shifted to hospital for treatment. Handwara Police has registered a case in this regard.
ZABARWAN TIMES
Division Bench of High Court dismisses PIL on construction of Raj Bagh Bridge Srinagar, October 24: The Division ted to challenge the policy decision. consideration is whether the petitionBench of High Court of Jammu and The plea about the viability of the ers are really espousing a public cause Kashmir comprising Chief Justice, bridge or its location and its technical in the petition. The contents of the Justice M. M. Kumar and Justice Ali aspects cannot be allowed to be petition overwhelmingly make it Mohammad Magrey has dismissed raised by those who, admittedly, axiomatic that the petitioners have the petition seeking to challenge the have no know how about the absolutely no public interest. Their decision of the government relating engineering aspects of the matter. endeavor, acting as proxy, is to protect to construction of a bridge over River The Court in its judgment has also the so-called interests of the School Jehlum near the Presentation observed that many private schools without minding about the larger Convent School, Raj Bagh. The like Mallinson, (girls) school, Biscoe interests of the populace. The Government in its response had school, Burn Hall school and Delhi environmental and ecological contended that the construction of Public School are all located in built concerns sought to be raised are the bridge was envisaged in the up areas which have continuous flow merely aimed at giving this petition a Master Plan 1971-91 and that the of traffic and movement of large colour of public interest litigation”, project cannot be construed to number of people, but they do not the Court said. While dismissing the contravene any provision of the hinder any development work petitions, the Court observed that no Master Plan. Moreover, 30 percent of undertaken around these schools, nor grounds have been found to entertain the work on the bridge has already do they complain of any disturbance the petition and dismissed it along been completed and Rs 9.91 crore in studies or raise any security with the connected CMPs with cost of stands expended. The Court in its concerns. The Court also observed Rs. 50,000 to be equally borne by the judgment has observed that when a that the concerns regarding environ- petitioners and paid within one project is undertaken and crores of ment and ecology raised by the month. The costs of realization have public money is spent, the petitioner petitioners are not genuine. “The been ordered to be deposited in the in the garb of PIL cannot be permit- fundamental question that arises for legal aid fund of the High Court.
Govt to regularize 1st batch of EVs as GLTs Srinagar, October 24: After rendering painstaking services for over seven consecutive years, the first batch comprising of over a t housand Education Volunteers (EVs) is all set to get regularized as General Line Teachers (GLTs) in a few days. The state government is scheduled to issue orders of regularization at a function that will be organized by the directorate of school education Kashmir. “Since my department will organize a function in Srinagar, I will have to return Valley for distribution of these orders. Over 1200 regularization orders of EVs turned into ReTs will be distributed,” Tara Chand, deputy chief minister who hold education portfolio as well told KNS. The EVs have been appointed under the SSA Scheme in 2002-2003 and were yet to be regularized, despite repeated contacts made with the government. After their appointment,
EVs were supposed to hire a building for providing basic education to students from 1st primary to 5th standard. An Education Volunteer gets Rs 1000 as monthly honorarium for his services. There are examples where EVs have rendered over eight to nine years of service before being regularized as Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReTs). Under the said scheme the volunteer was supposed to be regularized after a period of 2 years by the State Government, but many a examples are being quoted EVs where they were regularized as ReTs after giving consecutive services of over four years. The scheme was implemented in Jammu and Kashmir in 2002-03. For habitation as a unit of planning, the state government had sanctioned the Education Guarantee Centers (EGS) to the reserved habitations and appointed EVs in these centers following the same norms applied to appointment of ReTs.
Promotions in police department
Hundreds of policemen awaits Cabinet nod
Srinagar, October 24: Hundreds of policemen proposed to be promoted on the basis of seniority are waiting for the nod from the Cabinet. Even after the expiry of three years, Cabinet has not taken any decision in this regard. Sources told CNS that government had decided to promote hundreds of policemen in police department on seniority basis. Though all the formalities have been completed but State Cabinet has not come up with any decision in this regard. Scores of policemen told CNS that it is unfortunate that despite serving the
State round the clock, the government is insensitive towards their problems. “Revenue officials went for strike for a month and the government bowed before them and fulfilled their demands. It is unfortunate that we cannot go for an indefinite strike like them,” one of the policeman said. They said that Director General of Police had met Chief Secretary in this regard who had assured him that he would take up the matter with Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather. Despite repeated attempts the Chief Secretary could not be contacted.
CERTIFICATE LOST
I have lost my 10th pass marks certificate bearing Roll No. 101505 Session: Bi-Annual 2009 somewhere. Now I have applied for its duplicate. Anybody having any objection regarding this may produce the same to BOSE Sub-Office Anantnag within seven days from the date of publication of this notice. After that no objection will be entertained. Farooq Ahmad Koka S/o Ab. Ahad Koka R/o Mantipora Chattergul
Udaan
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Government of Jammu and Kashmir
Office of the Chief Education Officer, Srinagar
Sub: Absorption of CPW's/LFW's as Class IV
NOTIFICATION
Whereas, the list of CPW's who were found eligible for absorption in the department as Class IV was issued vide this office No: CEO/Estt/NT/8300-01 Dated: 15/10/2013 and the same was published in "Srinagar Times" and "Kashmir Reader" by the Information Department on 16/10/2013. Whereas, the period for inviting objection was given for 07 days from the date of issuance of notification in the newspapers. Whereas, this office received an objection from one Mr. Ab. Hameed Wani purportedly a social activist has objected that the period given in the notification is insufficient. Now, therefore in view of disposal of complaint lodged by Mr Ab. Hameed Wani it is for the information to the general public that the period for inviting objection is hereby extended for further period of 07 days from the date of issuance of instant notification. Anybody having any objection with regard to absorption of CPW's/LFW's shall personally visit this office with his identity proof. Bogus complaints shall not be entertained. DIPJK: 9087 Sd/- Chief Education Officer, Srinagar
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