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| Amid Covid crises, LG Sinha shows the way! | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 10: Even as entire nation is facing crises in the wake of second wave of Covid19 in the country, the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha is showing the way to lead through his unmistakable dynamism and dedication towards the Union Territory.
While many of the VIPs across the country have been avoiding personal visit to Covid hospitals, Sinha ensured visiting such facilities since day one into office.
The Early Times research team analysed a random day in Sinha’s life and found out some interestingly things about his commitment towards Jammu and Kashmir. On May 7, he visited Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar, CD Hospital, GMC Jammu to take first hand appraisal of Covid infrastructure and facilities here. During his visits, the Lt Governor enquired about number of patients being treated in the hospitals, patients discharged after recovery, availability of oxygen support beds.
The Lt Governor, while inspecting the functionality of Oxygen Generation Plants in the Hospitals, directed for effective rationalization of available resourc... | |
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| Focussing on COVID management now; LG administration unlikely to spare responsible officers | | Delay in establishing oxygen plants | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 10: Although administration of Lieutenant Governor is, as of now, focussing on intensifying battle against Corona, action is likely to be taken against bureaucrats responsible for delay in establishment of oxygen plants in different hospitals of Jammu. Highly placed sources in the corridors of power that LG administration has decided to utilize all energy in COVID management to break the chain of the virus and to control mortality. “After controlling of the virus, many heads likely to be rolled for criminal negligence in setting up oxygen plants”, sources said and added that senior bureaucrats have already been directed by the higher-ups to identity officers... | |
| | | | Strange safety protocols for COVID-19 patients before, after death | | Attendants can serve food and medicines till last breath but are not allowed to touch the body after death | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 10: The COVID-19 related safety protocols for the family members/attendants of the Covid positive patients are beyond one’s comprehension as before death of the patient, the family members/attendants are allowed to provide food, provide medicines and all other care till the last breath but once the patient dies, the family members/attendants are not allowed even to touch the body. The attendants/family members/close ones are grappling with a question as to why only after the death of a Covid positive patient the safety of other members becomes priority of the administration and not during the treatment of the patient.
According to the testimonies of the fam... | |
| | | | Revenue Deptt Kathua ignores High Court order | | Delays attestation, land mutation | | | Rajesh Tandon
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 10: The Revenue Department Kathua seems in no mood to implement High Court order on attestation of land mutation of a private land and is continuously delaying it due to alleged involvement of the notorious brother of a former minister.
It has been eight years, the matter has not been settled by the Revenue Department and the plaintiff has been put to harassment.
As per documents available with the Early times, J&K High Court had passed order on 26/7/2016 to attest the Virasti Intkal mutation no 1150 January 2014 within 4 weeks, in favour of Sharat Chander Nagra S/o Late Mela Devi W/o Late Kirpa Ram R/o Rakh Hoshiari, Kathua which was... | |
| | | | Opening of Qazigund- Banihal tunnel in limbo | | Project completed a month ago, awaits GOI’s nod for inauguration | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 10: Amid the drastic spike in COVID-19 cases in Jammu and Kashmir, the opening of the much-hyped and awaited Qazigund-Banihal tunnel has been kept in limbo. There are no dates being predicted over when such a vital project will be thrown open for vehicular traffic on crucial Srinagar- Jammu National Highway.
At present, the condition of the NH-44 is such that one has to cross the Jawahar Tunnel from the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway to reach Kashmir from various parts of the country by road. The new tunnel will become an alternative to Jawahar Tunnel and that although heavy snowfall and landslides occur at many places on the highway, most of this problem... | |
| | | | Twitter Restores J&K L-G’s Account After ‘technical Glitch’; Raj Bhavan Seeks Verification | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 10: Shortly after the official Twitter account of Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor (@officeoflgjandk) was suspended by the micro-blogging platform, it has now been restored. A senior official in the Raj Bhavan, on the condition of anonymity, told Republic Media Network that it was a technical glitch from Twitter's end and has now been rectified. The Senior official in Raj Bhavan said, "It was a technical glitch from Twitter’s end that has been rectified now and the official Twitter handle of the office of Lieutenant Governor of Union Territory of Jammu.
Earlier, the official Twitter account of Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant Governor (@officeoflgjandk) was... | |
| | | | PHC Roohi Morh exposes Health Department’s preparation in COVID pandemic | | Completed 10 years ago, hospital not made functional | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 10: At a time when Lt Governor Manoj Sinha is personally inspecting health institutions of J&K to ensure better care for CORONA patients and eradicate COVID pandemic, the Primary Health Centre (PHC) Roohi Morh with only minimum resources available has once again exposed the failure of Health Department. Though completed 10 years ago, the ill-fated PHC has not been made functional yet, which can contribute a lot in the ongoing war against Corona.
Early Time on 5th July 2020 had carried an exclusive report on the abandoned hospital, after which the Public Works (R&B) Department completed remaining works, but the Health Department turned deaf ear and ignored i... | |
| | | | Ghulam Hassan Mir demands availability of vaccines in Tangmarg, Kunzer PHCs | | ‘People ready for immunization but facing the vaccine dearth’ | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, May 10: Former Minister and Apni Party Senior Vice President Ghulam Hassan Mir on Monday raised concerns over the dearth of vaccination shots at the Sub District Hospital and Primary Health Centres in Tangmarg and Kunzer, wherein people have to face immense inconvenience due to the unavailability of inoculation jabs.
In a statement issued here, Mir said that the health experts have already declared that the inoculation remains imperative in order to safeguard i... | |
| | | | With 3614 new cases JK witnesses slight dip in fresh COVID-19 cases; 56 fresh deaths | | Positive cases 220546, active positive 49951, recovered 167813, casualties 2782 | |  Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 10: The union territory of Jammu & Kashmir witnessed a slight dip in fresh COVID-19 cases with 3,614 infection cases being reported in the past 24 hours; 5,190 cases were reported on Sunday (May 9). Following 56 fresh deaths the death toll reached 2,782 in the union territory.
Jammu district reported 31 fresh Corona Virus deaths followed by Srinagar district nine deaths, Pulwama district four deaths, Udhampur, Rajouri, Kathua and Anantnag di... | |
| | | | COVID knocks at doors of Kishtwar district’s remote villages | | | | ASIF IQBAL NAIK
EARLY TIMES REPORT
KISHTWAR, May 10: With each passing day, the COVID-19 situation keeps on worsening in Kishtwar district with more fresh cases reported from remote villages of the district forcing the administration to impose strict lockdown in those areas by declaring those villages as micro-containment zones.
As per the details available with Early Times, DC Kishtwar today notified fresh micro-containment zones and this time it was remote villages of Chatroo Sub-Division which were put under strict lockdown.
As per the order issued by Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar, in village Sigdi of Tehsil Mughal Maidan, the containment zone was declared from the house of Santoshi... | |
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