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How J&K 'shields' corrupt bureaucrats, politicians 3/30/2015 12:51:15 AM Mohammad Hamzah Early Times Report Srinagar, Mar 29: When it was formed nearly a decade ago to investigate into allegations of corruption against bureaucrats, ministers and other powerful government functionaries in J&K, many had pinned hopes on it, but the State Accountability Commission (SAC) has proved to be a huge damp squib. The SAC has been issuing notices and filing cases against the corrupt; the latter however do not care a fig for these notices. According to the data available with Early Times, SAC has recommended 20 cases involving 42 corrupt bureaucrats and politicians for perusal and further action by the government since it was constituted in 2005 under the Jammu and Kashmir Accountability Commission Act 2002. And out of these 20 cases, the accused have in 14 cases managed to get stay orders from the High Court to prevent any action by the government. The remaining six cases are awaiting follow up action from the competent authorities. LACK OF WILL TO PUNISH CORRUPT The SAC had registered cases of corruption between 2005-07 and decided them up to 2008. But the ...   READ MORE

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DC orders inquiry, J&K govt takes accused official to BOSE Flourishing transfer industry! 3/30/2015 12:50:59 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 29: Ex-Chief Education Officer (CEO) Baramulla Syed Abdul Rouf, against whom an inquiry has been ordered for affecting large scale transfers in education department Baramullah after his transfer, clandestinely in connivance with some officials of the CEOs office, was transferred and posted in the Headless Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education (JKSBSE) on March 19, 2015 vide govt order no. 102-Edu of 2015. The order has been issued by Commissioner/Secretary School Education Shaleen Kabra. According to this order, Rouf was transferred to the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education on deputation for a period of two years a...   READ MORE   Kewal's sensational CD against Tara Chand: Social organizations to approach court of law to get allegations probed 3/30/2015 12:50:46 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 29: Some social organizations of Jammu city are seriously thinking to approach Court of Law to get directions from the Court to get serious allegations leveled by notorious Kewal Sharma against former Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand probed. These organizations have decided to seek direction of the Court to get all allegations probed so that truth should come out because either Tara Chand or Kewal Sharma is a liar. In the month of July 2013, Kewal Sharma, who was additional Public Relation Officer (PRO) of ex-Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand had leveled serious allegations of sexual exploitation, planned murder and rampant corruption in departments under...   READ MORE   Omar Govt failed to check mushroom growth of study centers KU refuses to entertain degrees acquired through distance mode 3/30/2015 12:50:37 AM Fazal Khan Early Times Report Srinagar, Mar 29: The ousted National Conference-Congress regime not paying much heed towards the higher education sector from 2009 to 2014 led to mushroom growth of study centers across Jammu and Kashmir. Various universities offering degrees through distance mode opened their centers at different places and enrolled hundreds of students promising them lucrative careers and jobs. During the past six years these study centers and universities have produced an army of graduates and post graduates and they are running from pillar to post to pursue their higher studies or get a suitable job. In 2014 Equivalence Committee University of Kashmir (KU) decided...   READ MORE   Not willing to take any chance CM Mufti air dashes to Srinagar to review flood like situation Convenes meeting of officials, issues on spot directions 3/30/2015 12:50:26 AM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Mar 29: Taking a cue from the failure of state government in tackling the September 2014 situation, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today rushed here to review the situation that has arisen due to incessant rains going on across Kashmir since Saturday morning. Immediately after landing here, Mufti chaired a high-level meeting and directed the divisional administration to secure the lives and properties of the panic-stricken people so that they don't face any problems which they experienced during the devastating flood of 2014. The CM directed the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CA&PD) department to stock essential commoditi...   READ MORE   Employment generation schemes launched by NC-Cong Govt proved fruitless: CAG report 3/30/2015 12:50:12 AM Avinash Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 29: Various employment schemes launched by the previous regime in the state with much fanfare have failed to achieve their goal. Reprimanding failure of the previous government to meet its target, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has revealed in its report that scheme under Skill Development and Employment Generation for Unemployed Youth remained fruitless. CAG report read that during 2009-14, the state government with the Gol assistance launched a number of schemes, including Sher-i-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for the Youth (SKEWPY), predominantly aimed at imparting skills, promoting creation of jobs and prov...   READ MORE   Bedlam in LA over Justice Gandhi report on Kishtwar riots BJP, PDP legislators demand Kichloo's arrest 3/30/2015 12:48:52 AM Gandhi Commission indicts civil administration, senior Police officers of dereliction in duty Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 29: After selective leaking of the Justice R C Gandhi commission report submitted by him to the government on 16-3-2014 indicting former Minister of State for Home in Omar Abdullah government, the members of ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today demanded an immediate arrest of former MoS Home Sajjad Ahmed Kichl...   READ MORE   Justice (R) Gandhi reverses his interim report; indicts Sajjad, Ors Kishtwar ghost haunts Kichloo 3/30/2015 12:36:57 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 29: In a development that may have serious political ramifications, former MoS Home, Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo has been indicted in Kishtwar communal riots of August 2013. The former DIG, Ashkoor Wani and IGP Rajesh Kumar were also indicted. The Justice (Retd) Gandhi Commission of Inquiry submitted its final report to the GAD and indicted Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo, the former DIG and an Inspector General of Police, Rajesh Kumar for the violence in Kishtwar in August 9, 2013. Pertinent to mention that Kichloo was given a clean chit by the Commission of Inquiry in its interim report submitted in December 2013. The commission said that none of the persons who had ...   READ MORE   CAG picks hole in Public Sector Undertakings SSI fails to utilize developed area at Kathua 3/30/2015 12:22:47 AM Avinash Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 29: Picking holes in the functioning of Public Sector Undertakings, the Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) revealed that J&K Small Scale Industrial Development Corporation Limited fails to utilize developed area for integrated infrastructure. More the SICOP had allotted 40 times more land to a single entrepreneur. The Jammu & Kashmir Small Scale Industries Development Corporation Limited is engaged in aiding, assisting and promoting Small Scale Industrial (SSI) units in the State. CAG said that 55 per cent developed area in Integrated Infrastructure Development Centre, Govindsar (Kathua) and 93 per cent developed area in Silk Park Zakura re...   READ MORE   Govt assures multi pronged initiatives to eradicate corruption from Rev, RDD & Police Corrupt, Non performing officials to face action 3/30/2015 12:22:36 AM Asif Iqbal Naik Jammu, Mar 28: The government has assured major initiatives to eradicate the menace of corruption from the government departments including Revenue, Rural Development Department (RDD) and Police. In a written reply to a listed question of MLA Ravinder Raina , the government stated that besides strengthening the existing Anti-Corruption institutions, it will adopt various measures to curb the menace of corruption in the Government, which include the Revenue, RDD and Police Departments. These measures inter alia, shall also include encouraging the honest and weeding out the corrupt, non-performing and inefficient officers/officials from Government Serv...   READ MORE   Of 41059 posts referred to recruiting agencies, 11334 still vacant 3/30/2015 12:19:34 AM Asif Iqbal Naik Jammu, Mar 29 : The government of Jammu and Kashmir in last five years referred 41,059 vacancies to Jammu and Kashmir Service Selection Board and Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission and out these 11,334 posts are still lying vacant as both the prime recruiting agencies of the state fail to fill these posts. In reply to A.Q No. 90 of MLA Mian Altaf Ahmed, the in charge Minister GAD through Additional Secretary GAD in reply to a question on department-wise the total number of vacancies referred to the SSRB and PSC and filled up by these agencies during the last five years stated that out of 7782 Gazetted post were referred to JKPSC, only 5101 post were fill up bo...   READ MORE   Failure to install AC leaves equipment worth Rs 54.75 lakh defunct for years No accountability in FSL 3/29/2015 11:56:17 PM Arun Singh Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 29 : The lack of foresight and height of carelessness of the officers of the State Forensic Science Laboratories (FSL) Jammu can be gauged from the fact that just for the petty maintenance amount, an equipment of Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) worth Rs 54.75 lakh for conducting various forensic analytical test was rendered dysfunctional. As per The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (Gol) supplied (February 2006) a Gas Chromatograph with Mass Spectrograph (GCMS), purchased during the year 2004-05 under ''Police Modernization Scheme", to the State Forensic Science...   READ MORE   Govt says men, machinery ready to tackle crisis 3/29/2015 11:53:14 PM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report Srinagar, Mar 29 : Yet to overcome the shock of last year's devastating flood, threat of another flood is looming over the Kashmir Valley as uninterrupted rains lashed the region on Sunday. Water level in the Jhelum was rising till late Sunday. According to the Irrigation and Flood Control Department, at 5 pm, the level at Sangam in Anantnag was 14.25 ft, Ram Munshi Bagh (Srinagar) 14 ft and Asham (Bandipora) 8.75 ft. Officials, however, insisted that there was no need to panic. Sonam Lotus, director of the meteorological office, said that although there has been a rise in the water level of rivers and streams in the Kashmir Valley due to overnight i...   READ MORE   CAG slams Estates Dept for giving undue benefits to officials Water usage charges pile up to Rs. 12.97 cr 3/29/2015 11:50:20 PM Bivek Mathur Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 29 : The Estates Department is giving undue benefits to officers residing in its quarters and has even failed to collect water usage charges that have piled up to Rs. 12.97 crore. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in its audit report has submitted that scrutiny (November 2012) of the records of Executive Engineer, Estate Division Jammu showed that instead of raising bills on account of water usage charges against the licensees, the bills had been raised by the PHE department against the Estate Department for bulk water supplied to buildings/premises under the control of Estate Department. The report further reads that the ...   READ MORE   6 autonomous bodies fail to submit records to CAG Kunal Shrivatsa 3/29/2015 11:49:57 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 29 : In yet another embarrassment to the state government, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has castigated it for non-submission or delay in submission of Annual accounts by several Autonomous Bodies thereby leading to serious financial irregularities. According to CAG Report, as many as six Autonomous bodies required to be audited by the CAG of India under Sections 19 (3) and 20 (1) of the Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service Act had not furnished the annual accounts amounting to Rs 831.28 crore. For the period 2013-14, the Ladakh Autonomous Hill District Council (LAHDC), Leh has failed to produce the details of the grants to the tun...   READ MORE   No placement under SOEC, excess funds released under SES 3/29/2015 11:49:37 PM Avinash Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 29 : Established with much fan-fare, various employment schemes in J&K by the previous state government proved boondoggle, as none of scheme achieved its target. Moreover the J&K State Overseas Employment Corporation has not been able to provide a single placement after lapse of six years. Reprimanding failure of previous state government to meet target, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) revealed that scheme under Skill Development and employment generation for unemployed youth remained fruit-less. CAG report read that during the period 2009-14, the State Government with the Gol assistance launched a number of schemes, inc...   READ MORE

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