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BJP’s duplicity on Sarore toll plaza exposed 1/4/2020 12:49:16 AM Early times report Jammu, Jan 3: Duplicity of BJP leadership has been exposed on the issue of abolishing Sarore Toll Plaza because publically one of party’s senior leaders had announced that after his letter this toll would be abolished but on Wednesday he took this issue with Lieutenant Governor Girish Chander Murmu. On October 12, 2019 the senior BJP leader had claimed to have written a letter to Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari to scrap toll plaza after facing criticism for the operationalisation of the new toll plaza on the Jammu-Pathankot highway in the Sarore area of Samba district. “It is an ill thought-out decision of the local officials of the NHAI in respect of the establishment of toll plazas in the Jammu region. There is one toll plaza functioning at Ban on Jammu Udhampur route and recently another toll plaza has been established and made functional at Sarore on the Jammu-Kathua route, while another toll plaza on the same route was established at Hiranagar or Rajbagh is being made shortly functional,” senior BJP leader had claimed to write Gadkari. After ...   READ MORE

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After Sarore, another toll plaza coming up at Lakhanpur very soon Another burden on Jammuites in offing 1/4/2020 12:49:10 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 3: The repeated protests by opposition parties as well as Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) state leadership to abolish toll plaza at Sarore have failed and now another burden is in offing for Jammuites in the form of another toll-plaza at Lakhanpur. Sources in the National Highway Authority of India (NHIA) informed Early Times that the date has not been finalized for officially start the collection of toll plaza at Lakhanpur but it has already been decided to start collection of toll-plaza at Lakhanpur very soon. “It is not decided whether the proposed new toll plaza at Lakahnpur would be located at the same place where goods toll collection was existing, whi...   READ MORE   Now ousted PDP leader improves ties with former banker close to NC 1/4/2020 12:49:00 AM Early Times Report Srinagar Jan 3: With political activities having geared momentum ahead of the prospective Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, a businessman-turned-politician who was ousted from the Peoples Democratic Party, has started improving ties with a former banker who is seen as close to the National Conference. Sources said the ousted PDP leader has been nowadays enjoying good relations with the former Managing Director of the J&K Bank. The former banker who was seen as a close aide of the Abdullahs now looks even closer to the ousted PDP leader. Sources said the two often hold deliberations with each other presumably with regard to the political developments in Jammu a...   READ MORE   ULB officials posted in Rajouri-Poonch become JEs, AE using fake degrees 1/4/2020 12:48:51 AM AVINASH AZAD EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Jan 3: At least half a dozen officials of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) department posted in Rajouri-Poonch district had managed promotions as Junior Engineers (JEs) on the basis of alleged ‘fake’ degrees or diplomas obtained from unauthorized institutes. Highly placed sources informed Early Times that on the basis of illegal (fake) degrees and certificates obtained from unauthorized institutes had managed promotion through back-door in past. “In 2009, the then state government issued a list of unauthorized institutes (study centres) running from the state or some institutes situated in others states, declaring degrees and certificates from these in...   READ MORE   Leaders who provoked people in soup Pakistan link puts Opposition in quandary 1/4/2020 12:48:44 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Jan 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching a scathing attack against the opposition parties for supporting rioters could be an indication that the opposition leaders could face the heat in coming days. An analyst while talking to Early Times said, “Since the day Citizenship Amendment Act has been passed leaders of the opposition parties have been issuing provocative statements and were in one way or another provoking the people to stage protests against the new law.” He said, “The opposition parties are downplaying the statement of the PM Modi that CAA has got nothing to do with the National Register for Citizens and the pan-India NRC has not even be...   READ MORE   Unlike Kashmiri apple, no special scheme for RS Pura Basmati Farmers seek LG’s intervention 1/4/2020 12:48:22 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 3: Even as the RS Pura area is world famous for its Basmati rice, the government looks unconcerned towards the plight of farmers, who have suffered severe losses due to damage to the crop in the wake of bad weather coupled with Pakistani hostilities in this border region in Jammu province. Even though the matter was recently picked up in the winter session of the Parliament, the Jammu and Kashmir government is yet to decide on the issue. The area farmers said braving the hostilities like shelling and unprovoked firing from the enemy country, they had managed to cultivate the famed crop of Basmati rice but that the same got damaged due to heavy and unpreced...   READ MORE   Centre mulling option of introducing residency norms for JK 1/4/2020 12:48:04 AM Agencies Chennai, Jan 3: The Centre is examining the option of introducing mandatory requirement of 15-year residency in government jobs, ownership of land, seats in professional and college education in Jammu and Kashmir to allay apprehensions of locals, officials said on Friday. The move came after several organisations in Jammu and Kashmir expressed fears of outsiders grabbing jobs, lands and seats in academic institutions after the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories. "We are examining the options of protecting the rights of locals of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir under the state domicile rules," a home ministry official said. Th...   READ MORE   Will Government act against corrupt officials? 900 cr spent on restoration of Dal go into drain 1/4/2020 12:47:48 AM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early times report SRINAGAR, Jan 3: Jammu and Kashmir government has spent over Rs 900 crore on restoration of the Dal Lake without any visible change in improvement of the famed water body. The Dal Lake is famous across the world and most of the tourists visit Srinagar to see the famed lake. The government had started several projects designed to lease fresh life to the Dal Lake. These projects cost over Rs 900 crores to the government since 2002. A major project ‘National Lake Conservation Programme’ was started in 2005 costing Rs 300 crore. The second conservation and management programme 'Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Programme' (PMRP) of 2010 costing Rs 350...   READ MORE   Sorry State of Affairs at MCH Anantnag: Chief Secretary seeks confidential report 1/4/2020 12:47:34 AM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Anantnag, Jan 3: With Jammu and Kashmir Government seeking a confidential report from the Health and Medical Education, the murkier deals and shortage of basic facilities at Maternity and Child Care Hospital Anantnag has now reached to top quarters. The Government appears to have taken note of the reports which expose the murkier deals and shortage of basic facilities at the hospital that is hogging headlines for all wrong reasons from last over four years now. In a letter, accessed by Early Times, Chief Secretary's Office has directed Financial Comissioner Secretary to Health and Medical Education, Attal Duloo to submit a detailed confidential repor...   READ MORE   Ex-CE PWD Jammu allotted works to his relative in Rajouri 1/4/2020 12:47:15 AM Rajesh Tandon early times report Jammu, Jan 3: An ex-Chief Engineer PWD R&B Jammu had reportedly allotted two roads works worth around Rs 30 crores rupees. According to sources, the tenders for both (road) works had been invited third to pave way for the relatives of former Chief Engineer. “Earlier, works for one of the road was allotted to a contractor, who reportedly, completed works Rs over one crore. But, the contractor, who was desperate to grab the works, manipulated things in connivance with a former Chief Engineer, and re-invited tenders for both works”, they said, adding that finally the contractor created dummy bidders to fulfill the criteria for tenders. “Works for both p...   READ MORE   EDI employee takes 10 minutes to land from Jammu to Srinagar; joins his new place instantly Gets designation changed according to his own will 1/4/2020 12:47:08 AM Jehangir Rashid Early times report SRINAGAR, Jan 3: It would usually take some days for an employee transferred from Jammu to Srinagar to join his new place of posting. However, an employee of Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) took just 10 minutes to join his new place of posting and send the joining report as well. On December 7, 2019 Director, Jammu & Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI) Tufail Matoo issued a transfer order of Raiyees Manzoor working as faculty, Centre for New Enterprise Creation (CNEC), Jammu. Raiyees was transferred from Jammu and sent to the main campus at EDI Pampore where he was asked to work as Regional Coordinator. “In the inter...   READ MORE   Even 10 months after PM Modi inaugurated Rattle Power Project, construction work is yet to kick off 1/4/2020 12:46:52 AM Asif Iqbal Naik Jammu Jan 3: It was about 10 months ago when Prime Minister Narendra Modi re-inaugurated the prestigious 850 MW Rattle Power Project, the work on which hit the road blockade following the fiasco between the GVK limited and L&T after the main developer faces the financial crisis— thus shows inability to carry forward the constitution work of the project. Earlier the project was inaugurated by the former PM Manmohan Singh during UPA II government in presence of former CM’s of J&K Omar Abdullah, Ghulam Nabi Azad and others. As per the details available with Early Times, the erstwhile J&K government under the regime of Satya Pal Malik on the direction of Union Government ...   READ MORE   Sweet Shop’s waste spoils rivulet’s water, public resents 1/4/2020 12:44:13 AM ASHWANI SHARMA EARLY TIMES REPORT UDHAMPUR, Jan 3: A renowned sweet shop at village Roop Nagar Panchayat Phangial is throwing its waste into a nearby rivulet thereby polluting the water body on one hand and creating a nuisance for the general public on the other. The passersby mostly complain that stink is caused by the disposal in the rivulet and they have tough time to pass through that particular stretch. “The foul smell caused by garbage throwing is unbearable. We have to cover nose...   READ MORE   RDD withdraws Rs 50,000 for work executed by local on his own expense 1/3/2020 10:38:07 PM Rajesh Tandon Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 3: Rural Development Department Rajouri has yet again hogging limelight for its corrupt practices wherein some officials withdrew Rs 50,000 in the name of a road work which was actually got executed by a local resident on his own expense. Sources told Early Times a local resident Lal Hussain of Panchayat Parodi of Tehsil Kotranka of District Rajouri had got widening work of a road leading to his house for transportation of building material but...   READ MORE

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