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| PDP-BJP Govt may fall, countdown begins | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 21: The countdown of the Coalition Government in Jammu and Kashmir has begun and what was the matter of speculation in this regard, became a known fact in yesterday's Cabinet meeting when BJP Ministers suddenly woke up from deep slumber after three years and objected to certain anti-Jammu actions of the establishment.
According to the sources in BJP circles, the entire drama by the BJP Ministers in the Cabinet meeting was pre-planned under clear directions of the party high command, which had already signaled the state unit about the fact that days of the coalition Government were numbered.
A message in this regard from the high command was first flashed to the State BJP on the day when then Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu was sacked from the Cabinet by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and the same was indirectly repeated by Ram Madhav, BJP National General Secretary and Incharge J&K Affairs, during his recent visit to Jammu, sources informed.
In fact, sources said, the sacking of Drabu is not a reason behind the BJP decision to part ways fro... | |
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| State Govt back-stabs jawans | | Announces Rs 6 lakh reward for terrorists who surrender | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 21: The Chief Minister's new surrender policy has drawn flak from all quarters. Reactions ranging from critical to scornful poured in all day. Surprisingly nobody has hailed the policy. The overwhelming opinion is going to upset the Chief Minister, who must have framed it after consultations with her advisor popularly known as Birbal.
Kashmir watchers while ridiculing the move say that the policy reflects that the chief minister is not fully aware of the gravity of the situation and is disconnected with the people living at the grass root level. According to them, Kashmir is in mess because of mishandling and manhandling of the youth by the authorities es... | |
| | | | Around 14000 Govt schools without toilets | | Sharam Tum Ko Magar Nahi Aati! | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 21: In a bid to grab headlines and divert attention from the real issues, the school education department is out to launch cleanness frive while ignoring that there are more than 14 thousand schools in the state without the toilet facility for kids.
Pertinently, on Wednesday, the School Education Department launched its weeklong cleanliness drive in all the schools of the State.
Secretary School Education Department, reviewed the arrangements being made for the cleanliness drive at a meeting on Monday through video conferencing.
He as per the statement issued by the department also took stock of the education facilities in far-flung areas of the Stat... | |
| | | | Officials violate traffic rules with impunity | | |  Early Times Report
Kathua, Mar 21: The official vehicle of Tehsildar Billawar without number plate in front. A red plate background symbolizing it as the official vehicle of Tehsildar. It is shocking that Tehsildar level officers dint follow the traffic rules.
How can they ask the people to follow the rules and respect the law? It clearly shows the seriouness of the agencies.
Even MVD and Rural Traffic Police as well as civil police adopt different yard sticks while dealing with th... | |
| | | | Job aspirants falling prey to deceit of political activists | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 21: Many political activists have been accused of taking bribes from job aspirants in Jammu and Kashmir. Sources said that SSRB has received scores of complaints that candidates were asked to pay bribes for assured selection. "A candidate told the SSRB official that a person who claimed to be a senior official of the Board demanded Rs 5 lakh for ensuring selection as junior assistant," an official of the SSRB said. "When we enquired, we got to know that no SSRB employee had sought any bribe. They duped candidates in the name of providing jobs or securing their selection," the official said. The official said there seems involvement of p... | |
| | | | Transport department advertises AMVI, SMVI posts without sanctioned strength | | Leaves out important criteria for MVI posts | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 21: The Jammu & Kashmir government has a habit of framing recruitment rules for different government departments and then these rules are flouted with impunity by the people at helm.
On November 28, 2017 Services Selection Board (SSB) invited application for 20 posts of Motor Vehicle Inspector (MVI) in the transport department under Prime Minister's package for Kashmiri Pandits. Out of the 20 posts, 11 posts were earmarked for open merit (OM) category. These posts were advertised under Division cadre Kashmir.
Four posts were reserved under Resident of Backward Area (RBA) category while as two posts each were reserved under scheduled... | |
| | | | 2018 summer could be hot, warn intel agencies | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 21: With the onset of Spring in Kashmir intelligence agencies have sounded a high alert about the possibility of coming summer being hot as terrorists and their handlers are planning to set the Valley on fire.
Sources told Early Times that terrorists are waiting on the launching pads. "Terrorists are waiting for the snow to melt and passes to open. Due to less snowfall this year there is every possibility about infiltration starting early this year," they added.
Army engaged a group of newly infiltrated seven terrorists at Halmatpora village in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Monday. "The gunfight is on. Till the last reports came in four terrorists ha... | |
| | | | Sitaram came to Kashmir to muddy Indian waters, promote separatism | | Articles 35A, 370 not an elixir | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 21: Indian political class will not allow mainstream politics to flower in Kashmir. This again became clear the other day when CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury visited Srinagar to address the CMI-M workers. It was hoped that the recent massive defeat of the CPI-M in Tripura and the fall of its bastion will produce the desired results and Sitaram and his colleagues would learn lesson from the defeat and give up negative politics, but it has not happened.
In fact, Sitaram Yechury said in Srinagar that his party, which faced the collapse of CPI-M's over 20-year-old Government in Tripura, has "emerged strong after the defeat". Only he can say so given th... | |
| | | | Administrative reshuffle: Tainted given plum postings | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 21: Discouraging officers of integrity blemished service records, the government in the recent administrative reshuffle affected last Tuesday handed over plum postings to several officials, who were facing charges of misconduct or corruption.
The anti-graft bodies have recommended several times to government to avoid tainted officials at plum postings, however, in Tuesday's reshuffle in middle rung bureaucracy several officials were given plum postings against whom the anti-graft bodies had recommended action. Sources said these officials were given plum postings on the recommendations of several ministers.
One such official of the Health Department i... | |
| | | | Reservation to Paharis: Governor questions constitutional validity | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 21: Governor NN Vohra has done exceedingly well to question the rationale behind granting 3% reservation to "Paharis" on linguistic basis and raised very valid points while returning the concerned bill back to the J&K Government for reconsideration.
Questioning the vary rationale behind the bill, Governor Vohra has not just reportedly invoked provisions of the Indian Constitution concerning reservation, but also referred to the reports of various Commissions appointed from time to time by different state governments. These Commissions included Gajendragadkar Commission (1968), the Sikri Commission (1979), the Wazir Commission (1983), the Anand Commissio... | |
| | | | Audit report vindicates ET story about irregularities in H&UDD | | Vehicles, machinery purchased without floating tenders | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Mar 21: An audit report of the Accountant General, which was submitted by the government in Legislative assembly during the recent budget session, has vindicated an 'Early Times report' published seven months ago.
This newspaper had carried a detailed report regarding the procurement of Garbage Compactor vehicles and machinery for the scientific disposal of waste in Srinagar and other areas of Kashmir division.
The audit report has revealed that Director Urban Local Bodies Kashmir in March 2013 placed two supply orders for purchase of 22 TATA motor vehicles of different category with national garages at a cost of Rs 2.47 crore during 2012-2... | |
| | | | Transferred 8 months ago, influential cop evades relieving orders | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 21: Influential constable has been evading his relieving orders despite the fact that he was transferred from a police post in Jammu district around eight months ago.
If sources are to be believed, a constable who was transferred from a police post around eight months ago is mounting pressure on seniors not to relieve him.
Sources further said that the constable is part of the nexus involved in anti-social activities and has established friendly relations with staff of ministers and businessmen of the locality where he is posted.
"Said constable enjoys influence within the department owing to his congenial relations which he developed with businessmen a... | |
| | | | 'BJP MLAs helplessness before PDP Ministers' | | Macadamization of Airport-RS Pura road | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 21: The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) legislators are reportedly showing their helplessness before a Minister of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on the issue of getting few kilometres stretch of Airport-RS Pura road, macadamized.
Sources informed Early Times that for the last few years since BJP-PDP came to power, the condition of one lane of Airport-RS Pura road has been turning from bad to worse. "We the residents of Indira Nagar were very much optimistic when Naeem Akhter had taken over the reins of PWD department and we took up the matter of pathetic condition of this road with him over social networking site Twitter", a follower of Minister on Twitter sa... | |
| | | | SSB officials ignore CM's direction on recruitment | | 71 days on, JA aspirants await select list | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 21: In what could be termed as Service Selection Board (SSB) lethargy, its officials ignored Chief Minister's direction on recruitment, as more than two months have passed and the aspirants are waiting for interviews.
Aspirants wishing anonymity informed Early Times that in previous month, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti chaired a meeting of all government departments in which the directed both recruitment agencies to speed up the process to hire people for state government services. Due to lackadaisical approach of SSB officials, hundreds of Junior Assistant posts lying vacant in various departments and the functioning were not smoothly.
Sources further ... | |
| | | | Inadequate residential facilities for medical staff in rural areas | | | | Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 21: Despite the fact that providing adequate accommodation facilities along with other amenities to the doctors and other medical staff posted in rural areas is very important for their retention in these health institutions, Health Department seems non-serious in this regard as there is still acute shortage of residential quarters at various places. Sources told Early Times that the shortage of residential quarters for medical staff is one of the root causes for non -retention of doctors, other medical staff in rural areas which causes huge problems for their stay in remote areas, hampering smooth functioning of these institutions.
"As per Indi... | |
| | | | Favoritism, nepotism marks adjustment of teachers under RMSA | | Education Minister's interference sought | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Mar 21: The newly appointed subject based teachers appointed by the state Education Department as a part of centrally sponsored scheme Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) allege that despite clear directions from the government to make the placements of the selected teachers on the basis of merit,have alleged favouritsm.
As per the details available with "Early Times", state project director RMSA Jammu and Kashmir invited applications from eligible candidates for 110 newly upgraded high schools under RMSA during the year 2014-15 which include six schools of district Kishtwar viz HS Kuchalna, HS Damber, HS Pallali, HS Manzgam Qaderna... | |
| | | | Observing World Abror Day | | Campaign must start from schools | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 21: The department of social forestry has issued an advertisement on the World Abror Day urging the people to plant trees to save the planet earth. " Let us give something back back to earth," the theme of the advertisement reads.
While only a fool can oppose such noble efforts some questions need answers. What has been the role of the department apart from planting plants along the roads? Once planted, the plants are left at the mercy of unscrupolous elements who give a damn to the plant and rob it of the steel cage that the department installs around it for its protection.
Well a plant cannot be left at the mercy of a steel cage. Unless there are p... | |
| | | | Influential schools defy gazetted holiday | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 21: Despite a gazetted holiday announced by the government on March 21 in connection with the festival of Navroze, some of the influential private schools in the summer capital of Srinagar were functional mocking at the government norms and putting students and their parents to inconvenience.
The parents said they had to face terrible inconvenience in the wake of schools kept open when all government and private institutions were closed.
A parent whose ward studied at a prominent school in Soura said he had tried to convince the school authorities that it was unlawful to keep the school open when the people were celebrating a religious festival.
"Instead... | |
| | | | Around Rs 60 Cr un-utilized in Budgam, Baramulla | | SBM's Solid Liquid Waste Management | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 21: Believe it or not , more than Rs 60 crores remain unspent in Budgam and Baramulla districts alone under Solid Liquid Waste Management (SLWM) programme of Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM Gramin). Sources say that the unspent money was to be provided to each Gram Panchayat @ Rs 7 to 20 lakhs. From 2014 till date not a single penny has been provided to J&K Government as Rural Development Department and its Sanitation wing (Rural Sanitation) have failed to make any DPRs for the proposed work.
Details available with Early Times reveal that Rs 13 lakhs are provided to each village (Panchayat halqa) at an average by Govt of India to create solid and liqui... | |
| | | | Youth leader slapped by SDPO Nowshera, protester attempts self immolation | | Police thwart peaceful protest rally for ADC post at Nowshera | |  AB Sharma
Early Times Report
Rajouri, Mar 21: Police today thwarted a peaceful protest rally of the people of Nowshera Sub Division in support of their demand of Additional Deputy Commissioner post for Nowshera. The protest entered today into 35th day.
The protest later turned ugly when SDPO Nowshera and protestors entered into heated arguments and the former slapped a youth leader which led to attempt of self immolation by the youth which was foiled.
Thousands of people of Nowshera wer... | |
| | | | 5 militants, 4 security personnel killed, toll 9 | | 3 soldiers wounded | |  S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, Mar 21: Two army men, two police personnel and two militants were killed today in an ongoing encounter with militants at Check Fatehkhan, Halmatpora area of this north Kashmir district Wednesday.
The army had claimed yesterday that three militants were killed in an encounter.
A top police official said that four security personnel including two SOG men, and two army men were killed, while as two militants were also neutralized.
The deceased sol... | |
| | | | Thusoo family's lone bread winner attains martyrdom at Halmatpora-Kupwara | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 21: Only bread earner of Thusoo family today attained martyrdom while fighting with militants in Kupwara's Halmatpora in Kashmir.
Selection Grade constable Deepak Thusoo son of Darki Nath of village Karihama of Kupwara district, presently residing at block no 176 flat no. 21 lane no 27 Jagti Township Nagrota along with another police cop and two army jawans attained martyrdom during a gun battle with militants in Kupwara's Halmatpora in Kashmir.
Deepak was the... | |
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