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| BJP’s campaign to ‘educate’ farmers receives dull response | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 18: Like other parts of the country, the J&K BJP has also started a campaign to counter opposition’s ‘false propaganda’ against Farmers’ bills recently passed in the Parliament.
But BJP’s campaign in J&K received a dull response as the party has deputed those leaders who are unaware of the problems being faced by the farming community. Secondly, party leaders have failed to mobile the genuine farmers in the campaign.
After directions of Prime Minister Nare... | |
| | | | Finance Deptt to initiate action against R&B engineers for violating norms | | Macadamization fiasco! | | | SAAHIL SUHAIL
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Oct 18: The Finance Department has decided to initiate Regular Department Action (RDA) against the engineers of Roads and Buildings department for violating the norms during the execution of macadamization works after the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) intensified its probe. According to an official communiqué, a copy of which lies with Early Times, the Finance Department has decided to impose heavy penalty on those engineers who have executed the works without floating tenders.
The department has decided to initiate penalty proceedings for taking up works without getting the administrative approval, technical sanction and in violation of bu... | |
| | | | DMRRR considers experience of backdoor appointees for posts of consultants | | Issued merit list without break-up | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 18: Department of Disaster Management Relief, Rehabilitation (DMRRR) and Reconstruction has once again appointed two candidates as consultants who were previously appointed as Disaster Management Professionals without any advertisement notice, interview or examinations.
According to sources that, a fresh appointment order was issued by Secretary DDMRR on 7th of October 2020 vide no: 82 JKDMRRR, where in two candidates on serial number 2 and 3 of merit list were appointed as Consultants in the scheme of strengthening of District Disaster Management Authorities of Kupwara and Baramulla.
Ironically, department has only mentioned only the merit of candida... | |
| | | | Vehicle owners continue to wait for High Security Number Plates | | Transport Deptt fails to digitize record | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 18: Due to the alleged lackadaisical attitude of the Transport Department to digitize the record of old vehicles the unending wait to get the High Security Number Plates (HSRP) is continuing.
“People from far flung areas throng the RTO offices on the prescribed date given by vendors but have to return disappointed. The agents, who can manage HSRP on the same day after charging extra money from the customers, are calling the shots,” sources said.
They said that the Transport Department has got nothing to do with the HSRP as they have outsourced the work to the vendors, who have been harassing the customers. “I deposited fees for fixation of HSRP in first... | |
| | | | Even after 2 years of elections, Govt fails to appoint Ombudsman for Local Bodies | | BJP’s slogan of transparency proves damp squib | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 18: It has been around two years since the elections of two Local Bodies including Municipal Corporations, Panchayats were held across Jammu and Kashmir but the much talked about appointments of ombudsman for both local bodies have yet to see the light of the day.
Sources told Early Times that Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) had vociferously advocated the appointments of ombudsman to bring about accountability, transparency, curb on irregularities and mal functioning of local bodies but the undue delay on their appointments have been exposing their tall claims of BJP.
“The main objective of appointment of ombudsman was to redress grievances of thousands of com... | |
| | | | JK reports 578 new positive cases, 77886 recovered so far | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 18: The Government on Sunday informed that 578 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 193 from Jammu division and 385 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 87942. Also 07 COVID-19 deaths have been reported; 03 from Jammu division and 04 from Kashmir Division.
Moreover, 598 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and discharged from various hospitals including 288 from Jammu Division and 310 from Kashmir Division.
According to the daily Media Bulletin on novel Corona virus (Covid-19), out of 87942 positive cases, 8677 are Active Positive, 77886 have recovered a... | |
| | | | Maximum halt time reduces at Lakhanpur with effective measures | | 2500 LMVs, 2800 trucks pass in 24 hours; 6000-7000 people cross Lakhanpur everyday | | | Early Times Report
KATHUA, Oct 18: With improvement in situation at Lakhanpur, the authorities have managed to reduce halt timing of the commuters to 10 - 15 minutes as a result almost 2500 LMVs and 2800 trucks passed through the inter-UT/State border in last 24 hours.
The process of entry and exit of passengers has been improved by augmenting covid-19 testing facility and additional requirement of counters have resulted in reducing the halt-age time of passengers to 10 to 15 minutes maximum.
The HMV and LMV counters have also been increased by opening more counters to avoid heavy rush and sampling points (counters) have also been increased from 6 to 12 which has increased efficiency... | |
| | | | Sarpanchs, Panchs allege misappropriation of BADP funds in Rajouri | | Demand high level probe to expose irregularities | | | ANKIT KESSAR
EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, Oct 18: Several Sarpanchs, Panchs and locals across Rajouri district are up in arms against the administration as they apprehend alleged misappropriation of funds meant for Border Area Development Programme (BADP) in the district.
Local natives of Keri sector, Seri Deeng area and many other villages located right on the LoC of Border district Rajouri lambasted district administration Rajouri for not keeping a strict vigil over the misuse and diversion of the funds allocated for BADP.
People in one voice have castigated the administration particularly few mischievous characters, who hold the master key of all malpractices, scams and misapprop... | |
| | | | Centre initiates socio-development schemes in J&K: Manoj Sinha | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 18: Manoj Sinha, Lt Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, has warned that corruption would be strongly dealt with and nobody indulging in corruption would be spared.
Speaking to news agency he said corruption was behind the demands for separatism and restoration of the special status and action against corruption would have credibility only if it was impartial.
Asked about the recent meeting between the leaders of National Conference and PDP, Mr Sinha said these leaders now did not have any public support.
Common people’s lives were changing. Their ambitions and aspirations were so far suppressed by these political leaders. Now the... | |
| | | | Munish Gupta asks govt to pay attention towards residents problems of Sec-7 Lane 5 Guru Nanak Nagar | | Residents crave for better roads, improved sanitation | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 18: Munish Gupta, Editor in Chief, Early Times has asked the administration to pay serious attention towards problems of the people living in different localities of Jammu city in general and the residents of Guru Nanak Nagar’s Sector-7, Lane-5 in particular.
Referring to the problems being faced by the people of Guru Nanak Nagar in Gandhi Nagar Constituency, Munish said that like many other areas of this Assembly segment the residents of Sector-7/Lane-5 are al... | |
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