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| Posts advertised in 2015, interviews yet to be conducted | | Three years on, University of Kashmir fails to fill important positions | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
srinagar, Nov 18: For the last three and half years the authorities of University of Kashmir are sitting over the selection process of some of the key positions at the varsity. The non-fulfillment of the posts has resulted into total mess at the university campus.
Sources told Early Times that around a dozen important positions are vacant at the University of Kashmir since 2015. The people managing the affairs at the varsity seem to be non-serious in fulfilling these positions and the same is depicted by the fact that no worthwhile headway has been made in this regard over the past three and half years.
"The delay in filling the positions at the Unive... | |
| | | | ISM deptt bins court order | | Ineligible MO still serving as Dy Dir Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 18: The higher officials of Indian System of Medicine (ISM) department have virtually binned a court order on the promotion of an ineligible Medical Officer (MO).
Sources in the department informed Early Times that former ISM director, vide order No. DG-ISM/4082-87, dated October 17, 2014, had neglected eligible candidates and promoted a 'blue-eyed' candidate as Deputy Director, ISM, Kashmir even the officer was not eligible for the post.
"One of the eligible aspirants knocked court door regarding fraudulent promotions in the ISM department made by former Director ISM. The court on September 24, 2018 passed a judgment in which it was made clear that ISM dir... | |
| | | | Tainted officials roaming free, DVOs fail to conclude corruption cases | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
srinagar, Nov 18: Though the concept of Departmental Vigilance officers (DVOs) in government departments was to help in identifying corrupt officers, but over the years it has been seen that these officers have failed to complete time bound enquiries in case of corruption.
Official sources told ET that there are hundreds of corruption related enquiries pending for the last 10-years with vigilance officers of government departments in the state.
One of the top officials here in the vigilance organization told ET that though the organization over the years have registered hundreds of cases related to corruption, nepotism, high-handedness and red-tapism ,... | |
| | | | 'Department blatantly picks administrator out of remaining 27%' | | 73 percent post of consultants in Jammu division vacant | | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 18: With more than 73 percent posts of sanctioned strength of consultants lying vacant in Jammu division, the Health and Medical Education (HME) department is blatantly appointing administrators out of remaining 27 percent doctors.
Sources informed Early Times that the HME was violating guidelines for appointment of administrators including Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Medical Superintendent (MS), and Deputy Director. "Minimum qualification for the post of CMOs and equivalent is MBBS with five years administrative experience. Method of recruitment is by promotion from block medical officers/equivalent subject to suitability and satisfactory re... | |
| | | | Anarchy prevails in SICOP | | 'Blue-eyed' officials get promotion twice a yr, others ignored | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 18: Nepotism in the Small Scale Industries Development Corporation (SICOP) can be gauged from this: some 'blue-eyed' officials having close proximity with higher rung officials are getting promotions, that too, twice a year while others are ignored.
Sources informed Early Times that every year the corporation conducts Department Promotional Committee (DPC), but despite that some wings of the corporation are deliberately ignored due to unknown reasons, as some officials of particular wings get out of way promotions.
"Babus of particular wings like head office, testing wing and IT wing of the corporation are getting promotion twice a year, first time when Civ... | |
| | | | Suspense prevails over Udhampur MC Prez, Vice Prez election; cross-voting possible | | | | Ashwani Sharma
Early Times Report
udhampur, Nov 18: With BJP trying its level best to win the seats of President and Vice President of Municipal Council Udhampur and National Panthers Party (NPP) too leaving no stone unturned to get the same, there are more chances of cross voting, sources inform.
Sources further inform that some Councilors out of 21 not want Dr Yogeshwar Gupta as President of Muncipality and they could vote against party's writ.
NPP candidate for the post of President is Sunil Paroch while Preeti Khajuria is for Vice President. BJP has Dr Yogeshwar for the post of President and Surinder Singh Khalsa for the post of Vice President.
Sources further informed that NPP cl... | |
| | | | SMGS hospital remains headless | | 'Influential' docs try to delay MS appointment | | | Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 18: More than a month after the superannuation of Dr RK Sangra, Medical Superintendent of Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) hospital, the post has been lying vacant.
"Some influential doctors having strong proximity with politicians and bureaucrats want to delay the appointment of MS for their vested interests," sources told Early Times.
Notably, four departments of the SMGS hospital including Gyane and Obst, ENT, Dermatology and Paediatrics are being run in this hospital. Around 2500 patients visit the OPD every day and more than 300 admissions are effected on daily basis.
An official of the Health department, seeking anonymity, said it is... | |
| | | | New building for Kashmir's oldest library lacks basic facilities | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 18: After taking a year for completion of its works, the Shri Pratap Singh Library inaugurated last month still lacks the basic facilities.
The SPS Library which was established in the year 1898, hosts a collection of books in English, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Kashmiri, Hindi and Punjabi languages.
The oldest library of Kashmir has a collection of 74 Manuscripts in Persian, Sanskrit, Arabic and Urdu. This library has a collection of more than one lakh and fifty thousand books. The government started the work a decade ago on construction of the new building. However, it still lacks many facilities despite spending crores of rupees.
"We still fac... | |
| | | | BJP mats Congress in Rajouri | | Supports Independent candidate for President, gets VP in exchange | | | Early Times Report
Rajouri, Nov 18: An Independent candidate has become the president of Rajouri Municipal committee for which election was held today.
Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP) gave a big shock to Congress when it extended support to an independent candidate for the post of president Rajouri Municipality and in lieu got elected its candidate as vice president.
Mohd Arif, an independent candidate from ward No.16 has been elected president while a senior BJP leader Bharat Bhusan Vaid elected as vice president.
Earlier Congress leadership headed by former Health Minister, Advocate Shabir Ahmed Khan had claimed that it has managed the required support of 2 independent candidates in favour... | |
| | | | CUS crashes semester to 3 months, student appeal Guv | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 18: Even as the Cluster University of Srinagar here continues to be in news for allegedly wrong reasons, in the latest the CUS students have accused the varsity of reducing semester to three months thereby putting them to inconvenience.
Official sources said while the CUS had started classes for its second semester of the 5-year integrated courses only in the month of November, the students have been asked to fill up their examination forms in the coming days while the exams are expected to be held in the month of January.
This has left the students shocked. "How can we complete the course in less than three months when the semester is supposed to be of s... | |
| | | | BJP gets 6 Sarpanchs in boycott hit Marwah, PDP gets 4 | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Nov 18: The BJP that suffered massive defeat in Dachhan block while getting slight lead in Padder managed to get six seats of Sarpanchs in boycott hit Marwah including 4 seats uncontested as the people of Marwah had boycotted polls in view of Bursar Power Project controversy.
Similarly PDP manage to win four seats of Sarpanches from Warwan block including three unopposed.
As per the details available with Early Times, out of 12 Panchayats, the election for only two Panchayats were held which included Nawapchi and Yurdoo Panchayats from where BJP candidate Bilal Ahmed Khanday (343 votes) defeated Ashiq Hussain (272 votes) while Adil Rasool Sh... | |
| | | | SIC reprimands FAA, PIO of DSEK for withholding info | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 18: The State Information Commission (SIC) has once again reprimanded the First Appellate Authority (FAA) and Public Information Officer (PIO) of Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) for deliberately withholding an information sought under RTI Act by an information seeker. Commission has directed the PIO to provide information to RTI applicant and has castigated his and FFAs role in dealing with RTI related applications and appeals.
Details available with Early Times reveal that an application dated 19-02-2018 was filed by one Ghulam Muhammad Ganai R/O Akhran Kulgam with Public Information Officer (PIO) , Directorate of School Education Kashmir (... | |
| | | | Panch accuses lost Sarpanch candidate of causing death his mother in Mendhar | | | | Early Times Report
MENDHAR, Nov 18: Family of a panch who was elected unopposed here has accused a runner-up candidate of Sarpanch of Halqa Hundiayan in Surankote of Poonch district of creating bedlam outside his house, leading to the death of his mother due to a heart attack.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Reyaz Ahmad said that police have taken cognizance and started an investigation into the allegations by the Panch-Gulzar Ahmad and his family.
"As soon as we got the information, I along with a team of police personnel reached the spot and got the postmortem done," he said, adding, "The body was later handed over to family for last rites while police started investigation into the c... | |
| | | | JeM terrorists target security forces in two separate attacks, one CRPF jawan martyred | | | | Early Times Report
Pulwama, Nov 18: Militants attacked a newly set up camp of the CRPF in Pulwama district of south Kashmir Sunday, killing one head constable and injuring two others, officials said. According to media inputs, the terrorists opened indiscriminate fire and hurled grenades on the CRPF camp at Kakapora in the district. The camp had come up in view of the ongoing panchayat elections in the state.
CRPF personnel immediately cordoned off the area, leading to an encounter with the militants.
In a separate incident, two army jawans of 50 Rashtriya Rifles were injured after they were attacked by militants in Pulwama. The incident took place soon after a camp of CRPF in Kakapora w... | |
| | | | BJP, Congress join hand for power in Ramban | | | | Tahir Mushtaq
Early Times Report
RAMBAN, Nov 18: As they say politics makes strange bed fellows, the BJP and Congress have joined hands for just sharing power in MC Ramban taking on stake their political interests on national as well as state level by going away from their agenda and core issues.
Pertinent to here mention that BJP and Congress had secured each two seats whereas two seats was bagged by the independent candidates in recent held local body elections.
In a dramatic turn after notification for election of President and vice- President for MC Ramban, BJP has supported to an independent candidate Amit Bharti who was expelled by the BJP from District president of BJP youth win... | |
| | | | Stone-crushers illegally operating during night | | Geology & Mining officials hand in glove | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 18: Several dozen stone crushing units have been extracting river-bed material from Ravi river during night hours, exposing the nexus between stone crusher operators and the officials of Geology and Mining department.
Sources informed Early Times that though the mining permission in the River-Ravi had expired nearly three months back and on paper the mining from the Ravi river has been closed down by the department, but large number of dumpers and earth movers could be found digging the river-bed in violation of the mining permission from Lakhanpur to Jarai area.
They further said that during night hours, number of dumpers and earth movers could be found i... | |
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