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| Fate of spl secretaries, HoDs hangs in balance | | Apex Court Verdict | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
KISHTWAR, Feb 4: Many special secretaries and head of the departments, who had allegedly used their influence to get the top slots, are likely to face demotion in wake of the recent Apex court order asking state government to allow officiating arrangement at special scale level strictly as per the judgment of the single bench.
Pertinently, the dispute pertaining to the seniority of KAS officers is unsettled for the past six years wherein the state government instead of implementing the KAS Rules 1979/2008 preferred to keep it hanging due to various litigations.
The impugned final seniority list challenged before the High Court has been held legally valid by Single Bench subject to certain changes like pushing down 49 officers having been inducted without availability of slots plus the reviewing of the cases of the petitioners under rule 15(4) owing to availability of slots to their feeding services with effect from 2004 to 2007, the government instead of recasting seniority has preferred several LPAs and SLPs.
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| 'First institution in JK which has no annual income budget' | | JKHCC turns into 'white elephant' | | | Mohit Puria
ET Report
JAMMU, Feb 4: Jammu and Kashmir Housing Co-operative Corporation (JKHCC) continues to be in the news for wrong reasons, various scams which surfaced during the past few years have ruined the reputation of the corporation and it has turned into a "white elephant" since its inception.
Despite Governor rule being in place for the past one month in JK official website of the corporation still claims that Manohar Lal Sharma is the Cooperative Minister during whose tenure it witnessed several irregularities. Office of the Registrar Cooperative Societies J&K Jammu has categorically mentioned that Jammu and Kashmir Co-operative Housing Corporation Ltd is the first ever in... | |
| | | | Hakim, Rashid give 'cold response' to Azad | | RS polls | | | Cong leader can't win without their support
Bashir Assad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 4: Independent candidates from Kashmir giving "cold response" to former union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad joint candidate of National Conference and Congress for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls has put the veteran Congress leader in a tight spot as he cannot win the RS polls, slated to be held on Saturday, without their support.
As the election to the four Rajya Sabha seats is just 3-days away confusing signals are coming from MLA Langate Er Rashid and MLA Khansahib Hakim Mohammad Yasin which are likely to upset the prospects of Congress heavy weight Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Even though Azad met Hakim, Ta... | |
| | | | BJP, Cong working hard to win RS seat | | Role of independent MLAs crucial | | | Rustam
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 4: The BJP, which has fielded two candidates for the four Rajya Sabha seats in J&K and contesting the election in alliance with the PDP, is, like the PDP, all set to win one seat hands down (notification No. I) and is working hard to win the other (notification No. III) . It can win the other seat only if it succeeds in mustering the support of three MLAs. As of now, it has the support of 27 MLAs (25 BJP MLAs and 2 PC MLAs), three less than the required number. Its advantage is that the PDP is also working for the success of the BJP candidate. The PDP is better placed as far as its chances of winning the two seats is concerned (Notifications No. I and ... | |
| | | | Home Secy Anil Goswami sacked | | For trying to stall arrest of Sardha scam accused and ex-union minister Matang Singh | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 4: Anil Goswami, the first bureaucrat from J&K to rise to the post of union home secretary, has been sacked for interfering with CBI probe into the multi-crore Sardha chit fund scam to stall the arrest of Congress leader and ex-minister Matang Singh, an accused in the case.
He was given marching orders later Wednesday night. The final decision was taken after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh met and discussed the issue, highly placed sources said.
Goswami is the third top-ranking bureaucrat to have been shunted out since the Modi government took charge. Earlier, in January the tenures of Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and DRDO c... | |
| | | | Worries ahead for BJP as JPUF takes up pro-Jammu agenda | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 4: Newly formed Jammu Pradesh United Front (JPUF) has given sleepless nights to the power hungry leadership of BJP, which is desperate to become part of the government at any cost. JPUF has started exploiting the pro-Jammu issues which BJP earlier used to highlight to exploit sentiments of the people of Jammu region since decades.
While as BJP leadership has maintained a criminal silence on the issue of chief minister of Jammu and granting citizenship rights to the poor refugees from West Pakistan, JPUF has started strongly taking up these issues to corner the party which has won 25 seats from Jammu region by exploiting these issues.
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| | | | Charged with coercion, criminal nexus, tainted doctor reinstated at same posting | | | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 4: Ousted after he was found coercing patients to get their tests conducted from selective laboratories, Casualty Medical Officer, at emergency wing of GMCH, Dr Sauqib Shafi was reinstalled at same post today.
Dr Shafi was transferred at Super Specialty Hospital, Jammu when a technician of a private diagnostic centre was caught while carrying the blood sample of a patient outside the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) premises on July 25, 2014. The preliminary police inquiries had hinted at an alleged nexus between a doctor and the owner of the diagnostic centre.
"However, on the basis of departmental enquiry, the doctor on Wednesda... | |
| | | | Refugee Issue: JKLF Malik partly right, partly wrong | | Spreading falsehood | | | Neha
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 4: Self-styled chairman of JKLF Yasin Malik, like many others in Kashmir, has unleashed a vilification campaign against PDP leader and Lok Sabha MP Muzzaffar Hussain Beig for his reasonable stand on the refugees from West Pakistan, the other day said that State subject laws were directly related to Kashmiris' struggle. "The State Subject Act was enacted by erstwhile Maharaja (Hari Singh) of J&K in 1927 and the main reason for it was that Kashmir being a hill state full of natural resources needed to be safeguarded from the flow of population, who apparently cared for the ecology of Jammu Kashmir more than the new era pro-India politicians," he said, and ... | |
| | | | Autistic children suffer owing to non- availability of required facilities in J&K | | | |
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 4: Tall claims made by the previous government headed by Omar Abdullah about health services in the state were only confined to his speeches and official files as on an average, two Autistic children (Children with neurobehavioral disorder Autism) are being brought to hospitals every week.
Pertinently, recent data released by USA's Center for Disease Control and Prevention quoted the prevalence of autism at an alarming one in 68 children in March 2014. In year 2012, the figures stood at one in 88.
Sources informed Early Times that last year the Post Graduate Department of Psychiatry GMC Srinagar in collaboration with Royal College of Psych... | |
| | | | It's Pakistan that changed majority Shia region into majority Sunnis in Gilgit-Baltistan | | "India needs pat on back for supporting Pak-thrown outs : Hina Bhat | | | Arun Singh
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 4: Terming it as a contemptuous remark made by Pakistan's foreign secretary Aijaz Chaudhary that India is changing the demography of Kashmir by settling non-state citizens in Jammu city, Jammu politicos dismiss it as another desperate attempt made by Pakistan to create chaos in Jammu and Kashmir
"What Pakistan has to do with it, India needs a pat on the back to be liberal enough to accommodate people who are thrown out by Pakistan itself. The state of Pakistan is a deep state that has no locus standi. Aijaz Chaudhary's statement is just out of desperation as he knows that now that Jammu and Kashmir goes well with India," said Hina Bhat, senior BJP... | |
| | | | RTO Jammu repatriates SRTC officials working with MVD | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Feb 4: A day after "Early Times" published a news item titled "RTO Jammu ignores Commissioner's order---Fail to repatriate SRTC officials working with MVD" on 3-2-2015 wherein it was stated that despite clear directions from Commissioner Secretary Transport Department, Regional Transport Officer (RTO) Jammu was reluctant to repatriate SRTC officials working with Motor Vehicle Department, earlier engaged by the government on stop gap basis soon after the creation of new Districts. The RTO Jammu today relieved all such employees working in his and associate offices after senior government officials take the cognizance of the news item.
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| | | | Over 20000 solar lights await distribution in Kishtwar | | Beneficiaries watch helplessly | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Feb 4: In a case non serious and callous approach on part of District administration in Kishtwar, the Science and Technology Department fails to distribute over 20000 solar lights worth approximately 56 crore sanctioned by the government of India through New and Renewable Resources Ministry as the administration fails to appoint nodal officer for monitoring the distribution of these solar lights to be distributed by Jammu and Kashmir Energy Development Agency (JKEDA).
As per the details available with "Early Times", government of India sanctioned 12500 solar lights for Kishtwar constituency and 8000 for Inderwal Constituency at subsidized... | |
| | | | Allow inspection of LPG dumping sites | | SIC's direction to HPCL | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 4: In one of the encouraging orders passed by State Information Commission (SIC) against Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) , the SIC has directed the HPCL to allow inspection all the LPG dumping sites by an information seeker. Pertinent to mention that the information seeker had sought some information from HPCL in May last year and he also had asked the PIO of HPCL (Sr Regional Manager) for allowing him to undertake inspection of the LPG dumping sites under the section 2 (i) of J&K RTI Act which was not granted.
Details available with Early Times reveal that Dr. Raja Muzaffar Bhat R/o Gopalpora Budgam moved an application dated 13-05-2014 ... | |
| | | | Blame it on insensitivity of Transport Department | | Road accident victims await compensation for years | | |
Shiv Dev Thakur
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 4: Attribute it to the insensitivity and apathetic attitude of the transport department, the victims of road accidents in Akhnoor tehsil are awaiting compensation that was awarded in their favour by the Motor Vehicles Department for over 3 years.
Reliable sources told Early Times that the accident victims of many cases are still awaiting the compensation to be given by the transport department even after more than three years. ET learnt that commendation awarded to accident victims from 67th to 109th meeting of the transport department to finalize such compensations has not been delivered and the victims are suffering more pain in trau... | |
| | | | Agri Deptt fails to re-establish 6 labs destroyed by floods | | | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
srinagar, Feb 4: The department of agriculture has failed to re-establish six labs destroyed by floods last year. The destroyed labs include Quality control lab at Lal Mandi where according to experts sampling of pesticides and fertilizers was done annually before clearing them for marketing. The other labs include soil testing lab where testing of different kinds of soil collected from orchards and paddy fields is done, pathological lab, Mashroom Production lab, Soil Survey lab and Computer lab.
The Director, department of Agriculture Kashmir, Peerzada Mushtaq said 'all the testing, production and documentation labs and required infrastructure w... | |
| | | | Centrally sponsored schemes fail to benefit poor in North Kashmir | | | | Mudasir Tariq
Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, Feb 4: While centrally sponsored schemes like Indira Awaas Yojna (IAY) and National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) were aimed to benefit rural poor, unjustified execution of these schemes in North Kashmir has deprived the deserving to yield the benefits.
Locals of Pattan and its adjacent areas told Early Times that state government has failed to implement these schemes properly. The locals alleged that deserving people were not getting benefits out of these schemes.
While the scheme of IAY is aimed at helping construction and up gradation of dwelling units of members of scheduled castes, weak and underprivileged, schedule tribes, f... | |
| | | | I&FC department keeps 'influentials' out of purview of demolition drive across Kashmir | | | | Shakeel A Khan
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 4: The axe of the demolition drive has fallen on the poor people only since the authorities have adopted pick and choose policy while carrying out this exercise. Parameters vary from class to class resulting into a situation where the affluent continue to violate the rules and regulations.
While the Irrigation and Flood Control department announced through different forms of media that all illegal structures will be razed, but actually it has failed to gather courage to deal with the defaulters who incidentally are the big guns, enjoying the political shelter.
"Last two and the half decades which witnessed turmoil in the valley provide... | |
| | | | Sopore, Baramulla street lights go dysfunctional | | | | Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, Feb 4: Despite the fact that the state government has spent a huge sum of money to illuminate the dark roads here in Sopore and Baramulla towns but these street lights have gone dysfunctional within six months, locals accused the PDD and Muncipal authorities for their failure .
According to sources these street lights were installed long back in Sopore town right from Chanakan Bridge to Model town, including the Main Bazaar, Dak Bungalow and the Tehsil Road , but most of them are not functional.
A local resident of Model town Sopore told Early Times that, "government is spending crores of rupees on these street lights but it is unfortunate that the s... | |
| | | | Influential hotelier digs sewage trench in Lidder | | I&FC deptt supervises unlawful activity | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Feb 4: Throwing high court directions to winds, an influential hotelier in Movera Pahalgam is digging a sewage treatment plant in river Lidder under the nose of Flood Control and irrigation department officials who were caught supervising the unlawful activity.
Informed sources said that the influential hotelier a few days ago during the night hours used heavy machinery for digging the trench required for the sewage treatment plant.
Pertinently, State High Court has banned any sort of constructions on the river banks after floods.
They said that officials of the concerned flood and irrigation department provided logistic support to the hot... | |
| | | | BJP State leaders, MLAs camp in New Delhi for their future roles | | Ahead of Government formation | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 4: Moving ahead with the government-formation process in Jammu and Kashmir, State BJP's top brass and newly-elected MLA's are camping in New Delhi from last couple of days for their possible future roles perceived by the party high command for them.
On Wednesday one of the top BJP leaders from New Delhi said that State BJP leadership including Jugal Kishoor, Dr Nirmal Singh, and most of the newly elected MLA's are camping in New Delhi from last couple of days for their possible future roles in the Jammu and Kashmir government.
Hectic parleys were on from last two days at BJP's headquarter New Delhi between top BJP and state BJP leaders over the pos... | |
| | | | Airline companies make hay amid snowfall | | Increase fares, dump passengers midway, get away | | | Fazal Khan
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 4: The inclement weather leading to the closure of 300-km Srinagar-Jammu highway, only road link connecting Kashmir with rest of the country, proved to be a blessing in disguise for private airline carriers as these companies exploited the situation to hilt and left no stone unturned to earn huge profits amidst snowfall in the Valley.
During the past few days many Srinagar bound flights couldn't land here due to continuous rain and snowfall. Many passengers were left half way by these airline carriers and scores couldn't even board the flights thus leaving them exasperated at the airports itself.
Soon after the weatherman issued an... | |
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