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| Will quit if reservation promotion row is not settled, say BJP MLAs | | More trouble in store for saffron party | | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 29: The BJP is likely to face more trouble in coming days as one of the party legislators Dr. Davinder Kumar on Sunday threatened that he along with half a dozen other legislators would resign if the issue of reservation promotion is not solved.
Addressing a convention organized by J&K Reserved Categories Employees Association, ST, ST, OBC, RBA and ALC employees here, Kumar assured that reservation granted to them under constitution would not be compromised "at any cost."
Dr Kumar said he along with other seven MLAs from reserved caste communities would resign from the party if the BJP failed to defend constitutional right of these communit... | |
| | | | BJP can't dictate terms to us, PDP Ministers tell CM | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 29: Some senior PDP ministers have complained to Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed that the BJP can't dictate terms to them and that the ministers of the BJP should look at how much work a junior minister has got in the Central government headed by the BJP.
According to sources, three senior PDP ministers-Naeem Akhtar, Basharat Bukhari and Altaf Bukhari-have communicated to Mufti that calling entire BJP leadership for a meeting with him and then planting stories in the media is likely having an adverse effect for the PDP in Kashmir.
"The BJP seems to be believing that it can dictate anything to the PDP. It is not acceptable. Mufti is the last person ... | |
| | | | BJP Minister leading organizers in defying HC order | | Punjabi concert at MA Stadium! | | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 29: A group of people, evidently led by a BJP Minister and projecting themselves as sports administrators, are blatantly planning to subvert the judgment of the High Court which restrains allocation and use of sports infrastructure for any other purpose except organizing sports activities; by organizing a mega commercial concert of Punjabi singers in the garb of the opening ceremony of the national championship of a little known sport at M A Stadium.
Organizers of the concert have scandalously attempted to camouflage purely commercial event as the opening ceremony of a sporting event to hoodwink the directions of the Court, to get M A Stadiu... | |
| | | | BJP fails to uphold Jammu's cause | | Major developmental projects remain abandoned | | | G S Asgotra
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 29: Despite BJP Ministers claiming that the two major projects of Jammu, Artificial Lake and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) would be completed within stipulated time frame, there has been no progress on both the projects of vital importance for the region.
It may be recalled that just few months after coalition Government of BJP-PDP came to power, the Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed had announced that due to non feasibility of artificial lake, the government was going to shelve the project, which was sanctioned by UPA-II Government during former CM, Azad's tenure. He had also stated that AIIMS would be established in ... | |
| | | | Utilization Certificates certify incapability, inefficiency of Agri Deptt | | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 29: Notwithstanding the fact that successive State Governments have been demanding more and more funds from Union Government but the Utilization Certificates (UCs) submitted by Agriculture Production department to Union Government speaks of incapability of department to utilize funds.
According to the UCs submitted by Agriculture Production department to Union Ministry, it has been come to fore that a major chunk of funds remained unutilized.
A total of Rs. 401.35 Lakh grant in aid was sanctioned during the year 2014-15 in favour of Directorate of Agriculture Jammu and Kashmir under centrally sponsored scheme National Food Security Mission... | |
| | | | SMG unlawfully spends Rs 12 lakh on construction | | | |
Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 29: The State Motor Garages (SMG) has unlawfully spent an amount of Rs 12 lakh on construction of two huts in its Srinagar premises.
Official sources said the Deputy Director of SMG Kashmir, without any approval from the Government, ordered construction of two huts worth in front of the office building in Srinagar.
"Both huts have proved useless. We fail to understand that despite having a full-fledged two storey building for office use, what was the need for constructing these huts," officials of the department told Early Times.
They said that after the 2014 floods, the official building of the department was submerged and then a... | |
| | | | Narayanan diagnoses what ails Kashmir | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 29: Former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief and National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, M K Narayanan, has diagnosed what ails Kashmir and expressed the view that if things remained unchanged in Kashmir for some more time, it will become impossible to retrieve the situation.
Take, for instance, the argument by M. K Narayanan in his "How the Valley is changing" (The Hindu, November 24, 2015). He sums up his findings in the words which read: "Developments in Jammu and Kashmir do not look very promising. The portents point to difficult times ahead. Internecine tensions and violence are on the increase. Cross-border firings show no sign of aba... | |
| | | | Advani's Kulkarni bats for autonomy for J&K at Pak HC | | Traitors in India | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 29: The problem of the nation in Jammu & Kashmir is that there are enemies within who are working against the territorial integrity of India and seeking separation of Jammu & Kashmir from India on the ground that its people have the right to reject the Indian Constitution and have a system of governance of their own liking.
These enemies are within Jammu & Kashmir and outside it as well. They refuse to recognize the realities in the state, especially the fact that the state has three regions - Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh - and that the aspirations, needs and compulsions of the people of the three regions are contradictory and mutually exclusive.
The fact i... | |
| | | | PDP-BJP's Coordination Committee pushed into State of oblivion…! | | No meeting held after Aug 18, BJP not taking call despite ‘earnestness' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 29: PDP-BJP coordination committee has been pushed into a state of oblivion with no meeting held during the last over three months by the alliance Government. In the backdrop of disgruntlement and grudge nourished by some junior Ministers of BJP and a visible disharmony between the two senior cabinet Ministers of the two parties, even as holding of the meeting has been necessitated, there is no initiative from either end. Coordination Committee held its last meeting in Srinagar on August 18, after postponing it twice.
Sources said the earnestness for convening the Coordination Committee meeting has been felt for some time mainly within the BJP but the senio... | |
| | | | Raj Bhawan official intervening in JU | | Influencing sanitary supervisor's regularization as sanitary inspector | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 29: An official of the Raj Bhawan is throwing his weight around in influencing the administration of the University of Jammu to get undue favours for his blue eyed.
The official is reportedly trying to get a university sanitary supervisor appointed as Sanitary inspector in contravention of norms. The sanitary supervisor who has put in seven years of service as contractual employee was being regularized as sanitary inspector against the norms which lay that regularization of contractual employee can be done on the same post. However, after the report of an attempt being made by the JU authorities to extend undue favour to the said employee appeared in ET, th... | |
| | | | 6 teachers for 8 students; academic performance dismal | | Poor state of education in peripheral schools | | | Early Times Report
Rajouri, Nov 29: Belying claims of priority to the education sector, many government schools having high enrollment in Rajouri district have not been provided with subject wise teachers while many teachers in nexus with the senior education officials have managed their appointments in the schools near their houses irrespective of requirement.
In one such government middle school, 6 teachers have managed their postings to teach 8 students just to draw salary without any work.
The school in question is at Chajja under Lower Hathal Education Zone in Sunderbani tehsil. On November 27, Chief Education Officer along with ZEPO paid surprise visit to the school and found 8 stu... | |
| | | | Medical reps face sales pressure; pharma companies make their life hell | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 29: Pharmaceutical companies have made life hell of the medical representatives by setting unworkable sale targets, thus draining them physically as well as mentally.
Some of the medical representatives have taken to hypertensive drugs to ensure that their heath does not deteriorate much due to the work pressure from the companies. According to medical representatives working with various top companies, they are assigned targets which are either too high or too much unworkable and then threatened with being removed from the job, if the target is not met within the stipulated time period.
They said that the companies both national as well ... | |
| | | | Ex-SHO threatens "party", demands his share of proceeds | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 29: A peculiar situation was witnessed a day or two back when the ex-SHO of a police station approached a "party" and demanded his share of the proceeds earned from a deal which was actually facilitated by the incumbent SHO.
The party had actually approached the ex-SHO when he was head of the police station. A deal was struck between the two. Police sources said while the SHO started taking interest in the work assigned to him by the party, he was transferred.
The new SHO too took equal interest in the work and got it done. He was accordingly given his share of the proceeds. However, when the ex-SHO came to know that the work had been done, he too approache... | |
| | | | Loot, plunder of green gold creates panic in Ganderbal district | | |  Wahid Beigh
Early Times Report
GANDERBAL, Nov 29: There seems to be no end to the loot and plunder of green gold in the Kashmir valley. Scores of green trees are being felled by the timber smugglers with the concerned department not able to pose any challenge to them.
This Central Kashmir district has also been hit by this disturbing development. Reports said that timber smugglers have felled and are in process of felling more green trees in the Gutlibagh and adjacent areas. The felling of t... | |
| | | | 3 weeks after PM's announcement follow-up action missing | | Rehab of flood victims | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 29: Confusion looms large among the people of Kashmir valley who were battered by last year's devastating flood with respect to the compensation they are going to receive under the package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a public rally addressed by him earlier this month.
Much to the surprise of common people more so those who were affected by flood the concerned officials are in a fix as how much is to be paid to the flood hit people. Officials of Revenue department are somewhat tightlipped on the issue and they plead that they are yet to get the instructions from the government in this regard.
According to the details o... | |
| | | | Dermatologist attends gynaecology patients in Bijbehara Hospital | | Sorry state of affairs in Health Department, Woman dies after delivering dead baby, family accuses of negligence | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, November 29: In a shocking incident, 24 years old lady after delivering dead female baby at Sub-district hospital Bijbehara died allegedly due to medical negligence as a Dermatologist attended on her in the absence of a Gynaecologist.
Family of the deceased lady accused doctors posted at Bijbehara hospital of medical negligence and demanded stern action against the doctor who attended on the patient.
Deceased, identified as Suraya w/o Mehraj-u-din resident of new colony Bijbehara, according to family was admitted in sub-district hospital Bijbehara after she (deceased) complained of labor pain.
Official sources told Early Times that gynaecologi... | |
| | | | BSF adopts 'winter strategy' to check infiltration | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 29: BSF has put in place its "winter strategy", which includes deployment of devices that ensure visibility in fog, to prevent infiltration as it apprehends that terrorists may turn to International Border (IB) to sneak into India as the LoC would be inaccessible due to snow.
The steps to beef up the security along the IB have been taken after intelligence reports suggested that 8-10 militants have been brought close to the IB on the Pakistani side by ISI to carry out attacks in Jammu and Kashmir with the help of terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM).
The BSF has installed anti-fog devices and deployed more troops... | |
| | | | Govt to modify existing Srinagar Master Plan | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 29: The PDP-BJP government has decided to revise comprehensively the existing Srinagar Master Plan in view of the "glaring discrepancies" in the draft land use plan.
According to sources, in this regard ,the Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed convened a high level meeting with the top officials of the Housing and urban local bodies, SDA, LAWDA, Srinagar Municipality and officials of the Chief town planer. "During the meeting, several discrepancies and deficiencies were pinpointed by the officials in the existing land use plan," sources said.
The Chief Minister constituted a high level committee and instructed the members of the committee to complete the... | |
| | | | People of rural areas deprived of specialist docs | | | | Bijay Charak
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 29: Despite winning accolade on national platform for better health care facilities as vast population of state particularly in rural areas remains deprived of specialist doctors.
As per latest Rural Health Statistics 2014, data clearly indicates that in state proper planning for making available requisite manpower and other facilities in rural health care institutions has not received.
According to report, across the state there are total 315 sanctioned posts of Specialist doctors for the Community Health Centres (CHCs). However, against this only 176 Specialist doctors are in place while as 139 posts are lying vacant for years.
Similarly, ag... | |
| | | | As ISI masterminds fake currency racket in J&K, govt gets ready to deal with menace | | High level committee formed as inputs suggest that J&K is becoming hub of fake currency | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 29: Watch out, you may be holding a fake Rs 500 or Rs 1,000 currency note. Ever since the Pakistan's infamous ISI has been masterminding the fake currency racket in J&K, the problem is getting bigger and bigger. The fake notes are smuggled into the state from Nepal and the J&K borders with Pakistan. Infiltrating groups of militants too carry fake IC notes with them. This was first discovered after the troops had recovered a large quantity of the fake notes from the ones killed by them on the LoC in Poonch sector some time back.
To deal with the menace, the state home department has constituted a high-level committee vide its order No 534. It would be headed ... | |
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