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Corruption cases rising in JK Compared to previous years, SVC witnesses surge in complaints this year 3/7/2016 12:03:08 AM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report Srinagar, Mar 6: A sharp surge is being witnessed in cases related to corruption in the state, with graft complaints only mounting with each passing day at the State Vigilance Commission (SVC). As compared to previous years, there are highest number of complaints related to corruption in the state being received by the SVC at present. The SVC which was established in August 2013 to keep a check over the graft cases in the state is witnessing an abrupt increase in the number of complaints, hence compelling commission to remain on the tenterhooks every time. The official documents in possession of the Early Times reveal that there were more than 3000 graft related cases received by the commission and that more than two thousand complaints were investigated till the recent past. Sources said that the corruption graph in the state is touching the dreadful mark and that SVC in this regard has been receiving complaints pertaining to misappropriation of funds, embezzlements, mis-use of the official position by the public servants every day after. "S...   READ MORE

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Blue-eyed enjoy attachments in different offices, DSEJ mum Violation of Guv's direction 3/7/2016 12:02:52 AM ET Report jammu, Mar 6: Not having an iota of fear in their minds for violating Governor's clear directions, some officials including Zonal Education Officers (ZEOs) and Tehsildars in their respective areas of jurisdiction are still allowing attachment of teachers and other allied staff of School Education Department. Adhering to the Governor's instructions of going ahead with the detachments of various staff of School Education Department, the Director School Education (DSE) Jammu Smita Sethi has initiated the process though selectively. DSE, Jammu issued orders of suspension of ZEO Ramgarh on March 2, 2016 for not detaching the staff attached earlier due to political considerations, ho...   READ MORE   Mehbooba ignores state BJP leaders 3/7/2016 12:02:40 AM Early Times Report jammu, Mar 6: Desperate to again get power at any cost, some leaders of the BJP have reportedly approached PDP, president Mehbooba Mufti for dialogue but the later has reportedly not given any encouraging response to them. Mehbooba Mufti has not shown any interest to meet with "irrelevant" BJP leaders because she has decided to start direct dialogue with BJP high command directly. Credible sources said it was decided in the meeting of some senior leaders of BJP to meet with Mehbooba Mufti to open channel of communications at state level. BJP leaders were aware that Mehbooba Mufti was visiting Jammu from March 3 to March 6 so party had given responsibility to two seni...   READ MORE   Wants PDP to elect Legislature Party leader first BJP may lose the plot by 'annoying' Mehbooba 3/7/2016 12:02:32 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Mar 6: Despite Peoples Democratic Party Chief Mehbooba Mufti dropping enough hints about she being ready to form the government the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trying "spoil the party." Sources told Early Times that BJP has got it conveyed to the PDP that it should elect Mehbooba as the Legislative Party leader to end the political stalemate in the state. "BJP is committed to implement the Agenda of Alliance and Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing Rs 80,000 Crore for development of Jammu and Kashmir is an ample proof of our sincerity," a senior BJP leader said. The leader said return of power projects from NHPC to state and a few other issues that th...   READ MORE   Govt formation hits roadblock 3/7/2016 12:02:20 AM Ashok Atri Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 6: The President of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mehbooba Mufti may not form the government till Centre announces Confidence Building Measures and assures peace in JK, sources told Early Times on Sunday. They said she had sent former finance minister Haseeb Drabu to Delhi to hold negotiations with BJP leadership to end stalemate over government formation in Jammu and Kashmir. "Negotiations lasted for two days but without any results. The issue of CBMs raised by PDP was discussed threadbare ,during the course of discussion with BJP leadership. BJP had agreed to accept some of the demands but not all," they added. "Fresh attempts were made to...   READ MORE   When City is on high alert, 'Hon'ble Speaker' is dancing 3/7/2016 12:02:02 AM Early Times Report jammu, Mar 6: Even as the state is confronted with political uncertainty and Jammu city has been put on high security alert ahead of Mahashivratri, Speaker of the State Legislative Assembly, who remains lone statutory elected institution in the absence of a popular government, had time only to shake a leg at a function in Jammu on Sunday. Alert has been sounded all across the state, especially Jammu region ahead of the Shivratri that falls on Monday. Under such circumstance...   READ MORE   JK to reel under darkness as APDRP misses yet another deadline 3/7/2016 12:01:29 AM Peerzada Ummer ET Report srinagar, Mar 6: The deadline for the implementation of the Restructured-Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Program (R-APDRP) was March 2016 but government is yet to initiate any measure to review its progress. Sources in the Power Development Department told Early Times that there is not even a single area covered entirely under the R-APDRP in the state and that the snail's pace of the project implementation has lead to the serious crises on ground with the project failing to meet another deadline. Earlier, the authorities amid much fanfare has claimed that to ensure the betterment in state's power sector R-APDRP- the project worth 1600 crores has been s...   READ MORE   Despite termination of 100 doctors, indiscipline galore in Health deptt 3/7/2016 12:01:22 AM Abodh Sharma Early Times Report jammu, Mar 6: Termination of services of 100 doctors who remained absent from their duties without any authorization for a longer period by the government has not made a strong impact as most of these doctors had already migrated to the greener pastures outside the state and the country without tendering their resignations. While a senior officer in the Health and Medical Education said that the termination of these doctors would help government in enforcing discipline in the department and help the administration to recruit new doctors at the vacant positions, the fact of the matter is that the government has failed to make these doctors abide by its dire...   READ MORE   Time to tell Pakistan enough is enough Scourge of terror 3/6/2016 11:56:10 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 6: The latest stand taken by the Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on the January 1 Pathankot Airbase terror attack that resulted in the martyrdom of our seven soldiers and by the Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on the same attack on our vital security installation has rattled Pakistan. On March 1, Parrikar told Rajya Sabha that the Pathankot terror attack was the handiwork both of non-state actors and state actors. Parrikar said: "All details will come out in NIA investigation. In this, non-state actors from Pakistan are certainly involved, that is sure... And any non-state (actor), they can't function smoothly without state support". It was p...   READ MORE   Govt starts process of rectifying mistakes in ration cards 3/6/2016 11:54:15 PM Mohd Irfan Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 6: In the wake of large-scale complaints about mistakes in the names of consumers in new ration cards, CAPD department has started the process of rectifying mistakes. These mistakes could have crept into the application forms during renewal of ration cards, official sources said. Long queues of people could be seen outside ration shops here for signing forms and rectifying mistakes. This is the only mode of rectification available to consumers in J&K. No online facility has been extended to them. Cardholders had been allowed to propose the corrections only once since it consumed time, the sources added. The whole exercise is being done to ca...   READ MORE   BJP starts addressing PDP’s ‘concerns’ 3/6/2016 11:53:46 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 6: The BJP has finally decided to address the concern of the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti , who had make it clear that it has to understand the ‘sensitivities’ of the Kashmir-read Muslim. In a first sign of the BJP taking it seriously it has sacked the Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activist Kuldeep Vashney who had ‘offered’ Rs 5 lakh for cutting the tongue of JNUSU president Kanihya Kumar. “The action was taken on the day PDP president had expressed a sort of reservation in formation of the government. The BJP has taken a serious view of it and it shows that the party is now taking steps to create the ‘conducive’ atmosphere’ for the government form...   READ MORE   DC awaits preliminary probe report, accused officials unmoved Multi crore carriage scandal 3/6/2016 11:30:39 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Kishtwar, Mar 6: Despite Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar taking cognizance of the multi crore carriage scandal in Kishtwar hydraulic division which was exposed by the Early Times three weeks ago the officials involved in the scam are taking the administration scrutiny for a ride and are trying to mislead the authorities. The whistleblower who brought the scam to fore has demanded a judicial probe into the scandal so the top officials of the department including the then Executive Engineer, now Superintending Engineer, another Executive Engineer, AEEs JEs, draftsmen, who are roaming scot free after embezzling crores of rupees are brought to the book. As p...   READ MORE   Palladium ruins calling: 25 yrs on, authorities remain indecisive 3/6/2016 11:12:20 PM Hyderi Ali Early Times Report Srinagar, Mar 6: Over 25 years on, the historic Palladium cinema site here in the heart of the summer capital remains in ruins as the successive regimes have failed to end the dispute between the building owners and the government. The cinema site has been sealed with a paramilitary bunker since 1990s when the building on Nazool land was gutted in a devastative fire at the peak of militancy. By then, the Gauris, a prominent family who owned the cinema hall, had migrated to safer havens. The cinema, actually owned by noted businessman of his time, Bhai Anant Singh was subsequently inherited by his descendants. But as militancy continued for years, the Gauri...   READ MORE   Meant for North, fertilizer dealers dump stock in South Kashmir 60 out of 300 vehicles unloaded in South Kashmir against rules 3/6/2016 11:12:14 PM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Anantnag, Mar 6: Contrary to rules, fertilizer wholesale dealers in nexus with enforcement wing of agriculture department, allegedly dumped and sold fertilizer meant for north Kashmir to retailers in South Kashmir. A group of fertilizer dealers told Early Times that as many as two dozen trucks loaded with IPL-MOP unloaded the fertilizer in Anantnag, Kulgam, Shopian and Pulwama instead of dumping the stock at Rack Point Nowgam. They claimed that senior officers of the department were aware about the business of selling fertilizer to retailers of south Kashmir against rules. Wholesale dealers claimed that dealers from north Kashmir sold IPL-MOP fertilizer...   READ MORE   After yrs of nuisance, NBCC hijacking city's sanitation for undue payment 3/6/2016 11:12:05 PM Abodh Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 6: At a time when environment conservation initiatives are being carried out with added urgency to save the world from imminent environmental catastrophe, NBCC has allegedly hijacked Jammu's sanitation for a part pending payment close to 20 cr. which it is reportedly expecting without completing the project. NBCC had been entrusted with the project of revamping city's sanitation at a cost of Rs. 129 cr in 2006 but after putting the city in gross inconvenience and untold misery for its residents for ten long years, wherein all roads and lanes of the city were dug out for years, the project is still not complete and sources divulged that the corpo...   READ MORE   Following reprimand by Guv, I&FC officials take up dredging works on war footing basis 3/6/2016 11:12:00 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Mar 6: Following reprimand by Governor Narendra Nath Vohra officials of Irrigation & Flood Control (I&FC) department have taken up the dredging work in river Jhelum on war footing basis and the progress is being reviewed almost on daily basis at the highest level. The Governor today took a stock of the dredging process and issued on spot directions to the officials accompanying him. He was told by the officials that the dredging being carried out by the department would be completed by the end of this month. Chief Engineer, Irrigation & Flood Control Department, Javid Jaffar told the Governor that more than 75 percent of dredging has been co...   READ MORE   People protest against PHE deptt, block road 3/6/2016 11:08:34 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Kishtwar, Mar 6: The inhabitants of Fareediya Mohallah and Hidyal living in the close vicinity of PHE Hydraulic Division here on Saturday held a protest against PHE department over its failure in providing adequate supply of drinking water to the localities, besides blocking the road. When despite repeated requests to PHE authorities, the problem was not solved, people, including men, women and children today held a protest against the department and blocked the main road, plugging all entry and exit routes. "The department last year promised people to lay water pipes, especially in ward No 1 from Gudhali Chowk. While pipes have been dumped in the area...   READ MORE   Traffic snarls make life hell for residents 3/6/2016 11:08:29 PM M S NAZKI Early Times Report POONCH, Mar 6: Traffic snarls and illegal parking in the heart of Mendhar town have assumed such alarming proportions that people are suffering for not being able to finish important work for reaching their destinations late. The frequent traffic jams on Mendhar roads have been a common feature, causing problems for commuters, school going children and office goers. Haphazard parking of minibuses, Tata sumos and cars on the main road in tehsil area has become a cause of concern for locals as well as commuters since the serpentine rows of vehicles block smooth movement of vehicular traffic. "Minibuses and Tata sumos encroach half of the road leading to traffi...   READ MORE   CEO orders transfer of 240 teachers Teacherss association, others condemn transfers 3/6/2016 11:08:21 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Kishtwar, Mar 6: The transfers of 220 teachers ordered by the chief education officer (CEO), Kishtwar, have come under severe criticism of the teachers' association and political parties. As per his order No CEO/K/NG/2016/25462-66 of March 5, 2016, the CEO issued the transfer list of 240 teachers Saturday and directed the concerned DDOs to draw salaries of the transferred teachers for March 2016 at their new places of posting. Reacting to the transfer list, various teachers' association, PDP and NC criticized the transfer list and added that the aspirations of the teaching community who were eagerly waiting for home postings after serving in far-flung ...   READ MORE   NHAI to book traffic violators, encroachers 3/6/2016 11:08:12 PM Ashwani Sharma Early Times Report Udhampur, Mar5: The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to book people found indulging in traffic violation along the highway. Regarding shifting of utilities of various departments from National Highway four lanes under construction in Udhampur District, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Udhampur, Angrez Singh Rana convened a meeting of concerned officers at DC office, Udhampur, here on Sunday. During the meeting, threadbare discussions were held on various issues which mainly include two closures, each of social forestry & soil conservation, demolition of structures in Phangyal segment, shifting of utilities of EM&RE, STD & PHE, demo...   READ MORE

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