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| Jammu carves for water as Kashmir offices owe crores as water fee | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 11: In shocking development, which exposes how the “dynasts” had taken governance for a ride, many of the government offices in Kashmir owe crores of rupees to the Public Health Engineering Department now (Jal Shakti Deptt) as water fee for decades, while Jammu “continues to starve for water due to such financial mismanagement.”
Official sources told Early Times that for the past over a decade, when the then former state was largely ruled by the Abdullahs and Muftis, many of the government offices in Kashmir “gave a damn” towards clearance of water fee bills thereby putting the state exchequer to undue losses, which affected water supplies in Jammu.
Sources said the MLA Hostel in particular in Srinagar, till March31, 2019 owes over Rs 60 lakh to the PHE on account of water consumption but that over the years not even a penny was paid towards the department.
Likewise, the health facilities including the Government Medical College Srinagar and several government owned hospitals like the SMHS Hospital, JLMN, LD Hospital in the summer capital owe wh... | |
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| SKIMS to be Govt's next stop to omit Sher-e-Kashmir title | | The endangered ‘Lion’: | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 11: After rechristening the name of Sher-e-Kashmir international convention centre (SKICC) this week, the government seems to be adamant not to stop on this only. It is likely to rechristen the name of SKIMS this month.
Early Times in a detailed story published on Jan 31 had reported that the government may change the name of SKICC and is going to omit out Sher-e-Kashmir from it.
The government on January 25 issued an official notification in which it was announced that the Sher-e- Kashmir police medals awarded to police personnel for exemplary services shall be from now on called as Jammu and Kashmir Police Medals. Such an action was taken almost a month... | |
| | | | Principal Dental College Sgr gives damn to Govt order, persists with bio-metric attendance | | | | JEHANGIR RASHID
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Mar 11: At a time when the administration of Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir has ordered for doing away with the bio-metric attendance system Principal Government Dental College Srinagar, Dr Riyaz Farooq has given a damn to the same.
Sources told Early Times that Dr Riyaz has issued directions that the bio-metric attendance system would be continued at the Dental College, Srinagar. He has made it clear that the order issued by the government in this regard would not be implemented in letter and spirit at the dental college.
“The Principal Dental College, Srinagar is law unto himself and he gives damn to the government directions issued... | |
| | | | Corrupt look for rat holes to hide as ACB tightens noose | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 11: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) becoming active and acting tough against the corrupt elements across the Union Territory of J&K has made many people uncomfortable.
The ACB recently unearthed a multi crore scam in J&K Cooperative Bank in Srinagar and booked its top functionaries.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, “The politicians, who ruled J&K in the past were aware about these scams but they didn’t allow anti-graft agencies to act against the big guns. They just allowed the corruption to flourish under their very nose.”
He said, “After the transition of the erstwhile J&K State into a Union Territory many things have changed. People who... | |
| | | | Exploitation of rivers likely to come under strict monitoring | | Contractors to adhere EMP during extraction of minerals from rivers | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 11: The whimsical attitude of contractors, who have been getting contracts for the extraction of minor minerals from the rivers of Jammu and Kashmir for the last so many years, is likely to come under strict monitoring of the authorities as they have to adhere the Environment Management Plan (EMP) submitted for getting environmental clearance to start extraction.
The extraction of minor minerals from rivers, rivulets and other water sources was banned in view of the fact that extraction of minerals from 208 out of total 224 minor mineral blocks had been going on without any environmental clearance as well as without any mining plan, after which the mining w... | |
| | | | ICDS workers of Narbal Block allege misbehaviour by supervisory staff | | | | S TAHIR-UL HAQ
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Mar 11: The VIP culture still exists in various departments where some of the top officials or officers creates a sort of inferiority complex among the subordinate staff members, otherwise all are equal before law of the land, and same type of arrogances is being felt by some workers of Narbal block of ICDS.
According to sources that, the supervisory and other concerned staff members are habitual of hurling choicest abuses to subordinate staff including Anganwardi workers and helpers of ICDS block Narbal.
“One fails to understand that why there are some officials of the Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) Office Narbal, that have b... | |
| | | | Govt orders closure of all educational institutions till Mar 31 in J&K UT, board exams as per schedule | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 11: Jammu and Kashmir Government on Wednesday in view of Corona Virus threat ordered the closure of all educational institutions including colleges and universities till March 31 while board exams and entrance examinations will be held as per schedule.
"All education institutions (Public and private) including schools, Colleges and Universities of J&K UT to suspend teaching and classes work till March 31," Bhupinder Kumar, Director, National Health Mission t... | |
| | | | Cinema halls in entire Jammu region to be shut till March 31 | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 11: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has ordered closure of primary schools and aganwadi centres in five districts of Jammu and cinema halls across the region till March 31 as a precautionary measure amid the coronavirus scare. While only one person has tested positive for the deadly coronavirus in the union territory, one person has reported with high viral-load, officials said.
His samples have been sent to the National Centre for Disease Control in New... | |
| | | | Mining mafia active despite ban | | |  ASHWANI SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
UDHAMPUR, Mar 11: Despite ban on mining in rivers, the mafia connected to the illegal trade is freely extracting gravel and sand without any check or control by the authorities concerned.
Sources informed that earlier royalty was charged from the trucks, tippers, trolleys etc carrying gravel or sand from rivers but same is not there at present and in the absence of all this such materials are being extracted from the rivers putting the exchequers of govern... | |
| | | | 2 separate modules of militants busted; Arms and ammunition recovered | | | | S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 11: Police today claimed to have busted two separate modules of HM and LeT militant outfits from Kupwara and Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources while quoting a local news agency said that police on Wednesday has busted a militant module of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) outfit by arresting three of its associates.
“Acting on specific information Kupwara Police and army’s 5 Bihar regiment busted the module which was active in the Kralpora area of district Kupwara,” a police spokesman said in a statement.
He said that three militant associates affiliated with the organization have been arrested, they were in close contact with high profi... | |
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