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| Will power balance still tilt towards Valley or justice be done to winter capital? | | Dear Govt., Jammu’s area is 10773 SqKm more than Kashmir! | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 31: Even when the figures pertaining to the area of Jammu as well as Kashmir valley are becoming public, there are wide-scale apprehensions amongst the public circles about whether Jammu will be accorded its rightful due this time.
Post bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019, and subsequent creation of Ladakh as a separate union territory, the area of Kashmir valley is 15,520.3 km2 (5,992.4 sq mi). However, the total area of Jammu division is 26,293 km2 (10,152 sq mi). It means the area is 10773 sq kms more than Kashmir valley.
Now the question arises that in the recent delimitation process why the power balance is still tilted towards Kashmir valley while Jammu has been asked to remain contended with mere addition of six years making the total sum as 43 assembly constituencies. However, even when Kashmir has 10773 sq kms less than Jammu, its assembly segments will have 47 seats as per the delimitation commission proposal.
Also, the discrimination being meted out to Jammu over scores of centrally sponsored sch... | |
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| Jammu Circular Road in shambles | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 31: The Circular Road in Jammu city being in shambles has outraged the people.
Locals said, “This is an important road in Jammu city but has been abandoned by the helmsmen. In the recent past it has caved in twice but no one is paying any attention towards it.”
They said, “We have approached the corporator of our area on many occasions but he has just ignored our pleas. If one wants to go to Udhampur he can cover the distance in one hour but if someone wants t... | |
| | | | DPC not done after 2019, poor students being deprived of Education | | Around 3500 of lecturer posts vacant in J&K | | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 31: It might sound strange but the fact that amid government claims to strengthen the education system in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, there were 3021 posts of Lecturers vacant on February 1, 2021, the number might be gone high till date.
Reliable sources informed Early Times that more than 3500 posts of lecturers are lying vacant in the Department of School Education, as DPC has not been done after 2019. “Government is not serious about our sufferings, in the absence of a popular government we have no say”, said the teacher wishing not to be named. He further said that bureaucracy is not listening to us and the Raj Bhawan is not ... | |
| | | | Illogical lockdown: Markets closed; parks, gardens open | | Restaurant, hotel staffers lose jobs, babus least bothered | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 31: The weekend restrictions imposed by the Jammu and Kashmir administration seem illogical.
An observer while talking to Early Times said, “The government closes down all the business establishments on weekends but keeps parks and gardens open. And hundreds of people visit these parks and gardens on weekends.”
He said, “The officials sitting in their cozy offices are unaware about the ground situation. They just issue orders without taking the ground situation into account.”
“Restaurant and hotel owners and workers of the unorganized sector have been the worst hit. Many of them have lost their jobs during the past one month,” he added.
“It seems that th... | |
| | | | CAG raises alarm over implementation of GOI schemes for migrants in Jammu | | Report points out non-updation of database, beneficiary details under the cloud | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 31: The CAG has pulled up the Jammu and Kashmir administration in its latest report over the absence of a database about migrant families, stating that it could not be ensured that only eligible beneficiaries have been paid assistance under the Schemes.
As per the latest report of the CAG, the Jammu and Kashmir government had not adopted any policy for inclusion/ deletion of family members due to birth or death, bifurcation, rehabilitation for return of migrant families of Jammu and discontinuation of cash assistance and free ration after acquiring any Government job by the beneficiaries. The updated database of Jammu migrants to indicate the details of ... | |
| | | | SPF accuses LG led administration of making hollow promises | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 15: Sikh Progressive Front on Monday accused about Lieutenant Governor led administration of making hollow promises.
President Balvinder Singh along with other members of the front, S Surinder Singh Wazir General Secretary, S Manjit Singh Sr Vice President S Rajinder Singh Sudan while addressing a news conference here recalled their meeting held with the Lieutenant Governor on March 14, 2021, in which a memorandum consisting of ten demands was submitted by th... | |
| | | | Current situation of unemployment in JK UT is very alarming and dangerous: Jasvir Singh DDC Member | | ‘Youth have been losing trust, faith from current system’ | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 31: Reacting on the continuous protest demonstrations lodged by the educated unemployed youths of Jammu region, the DDC Member Jasvir Singh said that the current situation of unemployment is very alarming and dangerous in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
While talking to the Early Times, Jasvir Singh said that the present government has failed to fulfil its promises made with the youth.
“I strongly feel that the level of dedication and commitment is meeting in this government. Class IV aspirants, Border Battalion, Army aspirants are on roads for their recruitments, which shows the shortcomings in our recruitment process,” he said.
Pointing ou... | |
| | | | Govt diktat leaves residents in distress | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 31: Residents of HMT and Qammarwari staged a protest at Press Enclave here on Monday against the authorities asking them to surrender their land.
Protesters said, “They have received a diktat from the government to vacate the land on which their dwellings are established.
We are being told to give our account numbers so that money can be deposited in our account. We want to tell them that we don’t want any money, we don’t want to get displaced.”
They urged Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to intervene and stop their displacement. ... | |
| | | | Principal GMC Jammu holds additional responsibility as HoD Microbiology | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 31: Amid the peak of the third wave of deadly Coronavirus, higher-ups in Jammu and Kashmir administration appears to be so causal in streamlining the functioning of the health institutes across the Union Territory.
Instead of decentralizing power to ensure smooth functioning of the prestigious health institutions, authorities have over-burdened some senior doctors by giving them additional charge.
Those who have been working with dedication and commitment have been over-burdened. What to say of other institutes, even Principal Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu, Dr. Shashi Sudan Sharma is also over-burdened because she is performing two important duti... | |
| | | | Sallian Talab-Battel Ballian road in shambles at Udhampur | | | 
Ashwani sharma
Early times report
Udhampur, Jan 31:: Even after 75 years of independence the Sallian Talab-Battel Ballian road in Udhampur not maintained properly and is in shambles exposing development crisis by the authorities at the helm , many times road was blacktopped but every time within few months road will again converted into pot holed
Major portion of the road is full of pits and the locals claim that condition of the road is same since years.
The road is daily used by h... | |
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