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Monthly performance report: Another means of corruption, victimization of female staff

4/20/2022 11:51:21 PM

Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 20: With much publicity, the Jammu and Kashmir government in February this year has directed all its employees to upload their monthly performance reports but this decision of the administration has turned into a new means of corruption and nepotism. Not only employees are forced to give bribes to get better grading, but some heads of the departments are also brazenly misusing this initiative of the J&K government to humiliate and exploit female staff members. Although employees of all government departments are facing hardship and discrimination due to this decision of the government, the worst victims are the teaching staff who are victimized by their...

In cash starved JK, Govt ‘hurriedly’ spends Rs 1 Cr to hire vehicles for Panchayat Day conference

4/20/2022 11:51:11 PM

Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 20: In cash-starved Jammu and Kashmir, the government is “hurriedly” spending Rs one crore to hire vehicles for the Panchayat Day celebrations scheduled on April 24. Officials said when the government was spending Rs one crore on transportation alone, the total amount being spend on the event can only be imagined. Official documents accessed by the Early Times reveal that the Transport Department had sought huge money for the expenditure vide Transport Department's No. TC/JK/857-63 dated 08-04-2022, 0.M No. TRPT-ACCTOBGT/4/2022-02 dated 11-04-2022 8c 0.M No. TRPT-ACCTOBOT/4/2022-02 dated 12-04-2022. The money is likely to be spent through the office of D...

NC rebuffs Apni Party over B-team remark, counters charge

4/20/2022 11:51:01 PM

Early Times Report MENDHAR, Apr 20: National Conference today snubbed Apni Party for terming it B-Team of New Delhi and countered the charge by claiming that its leadership is acting as ‘Yes Man’ of Centre. Additional Spokesperson of the party Zeeshan Rana lambasted Syed Altaf Bukhari, President Apni Party for his remark that NC has always been B-Team of New Delhi. Rana said that everybody knows about the B- team of New Delhi and who is dancing on the tunes of centre. He said when Art 370 was abrogated almost all the political leaders from the valley were in the custody but it was only Altaf Bukhari sitting in the lap of New Delhi waiting to dodge the entire Kashmir by back-stabbing...

Jammu tops list with 48 non-functional schools followed by Doda, Kathua

4/20/2022 11:50:55 PM

Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 20: A startling revelation about the dismal state of education in Jammu division has come to the fore. More than 250 government run schools are closing down due to the zero enrolment in them, brutally unmasking the claims of the administration about ensuring education at the grass-roots in the erstwhile state. Jammu district has the highest number of primary schools with 48 primary schools with zero enrolment. There are 22 such primary schools in Doda district, 30 in Kathua, 25 in Kishtwar, 17 in Poonch, 31 in Rajouri, 9 in Ramban, 5 in Reasi, 25 in Samba and 33 in Udhampur. Enrolment is zero in 35 primary schools in Anantnag and Baramulla in Kashmir divi...

Poonch administration violates Supreme Court ruling by entertaining anonymous complaints

4/20/2022 11:50:49 PM

Rajesh Tandon Early Times Report POONCH, Apr 20: Although the union government and Lieutenant Governor led Jammu and Kashmir government has assured people to provide good governance, but this good governance is nowhere seen in District Poonch. As government has launched a portal “LG grievance cell” to redress the grievances of common masses Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir UT before LG administration but this portal is looking only at the masses of transmission in Poonch as none of the complaints has been redressed by Poonch administration properly till date. Locals allege the concerned officer without lying complaints which are anonymous summons the masses and the same is a...

Ban on extraction of MFP deprives rural population of livelihood in Chenab region

4/20/2022 11:50:41 PM

Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report KISHTWAR, Apr 20: Contrary to the claims of successive state governments of finding the ways and means to resolve the unemployment problem across the state, the ban on extraction of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) on which thousands of people depended in mountainous districts of Kishtwar, Ramban and Doda has deprived them of their livelihood puncturing the balloon of tall claims of successive regimes in Jammu and Kashmir which has highest unemployed ratio in the country. The ban on the extraction of MFP has virtually exposed thousands of villagers in far flung areas of Chenab region to starvation. The villagers in entire Chenab valley residing in higher ...

Single teacher manages Primary School at Check Dadoo in Anantnag

4/20/2022 11:50:32 PM

Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Apr 20: Mocking at the entire education system of Jammu & Kashmir a single teacher has been posted at the Government Primary School, Check Dadoo in Anantnag district. The whole building of the school is in dilapidated state thus risking lives of the children receiving education at this school. The locals of the area said that they are forced to send their children to the other villages of the district where adequate staff is in place. They said that if adequat...

Tragedy: 24-year old man has no money to get himself treated

4/20/2022 11:50:13 PM

Early Times Report Mendhar (Poonch), Apr 20: A 24-year old man Mohammad Zubair, who is suffering from kidney infection for the past 2-years, has not been able to get himself treated due to him having no money. “I have not been able to get myself treated as I have no money. I have three kids and have no avenues to feed my family.” Zubair’s wife said, “No one from administration has come forward to help us. At times we find it even difficult to manage two square meals in a day. My humble appeal to administration and philanthropists is that we need help and they should come forward to help us.”...

Our livelihood being snatched in ‘Naya Kashmir’, say poor labourers

4/20/2022 11:50:08 PM

Early Times Report Pahlagam, Apr 20: Residents of Aathnandan Pahalgam staged a protest here on Wednesday against them not being allowed to carry on with their work at Chandanwari and Betab Valley. Protesters said that there was a dispute between Aathnandan and Phrisan villages that they will work on shift basis in Chandanwari and Betab Valley. “This morning we reached Chandanwari to work but some goons from Phrisan didn’t allow us to work and chased us out. They even snatched our money,” they said. Protesters said, “We have informed the police. It’s unfortunate that some goons are troubling poor labourers and are not letting us work. If the administration fails to resolve our issue w...