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Kashmir gets Rs 600 Cr, Jammu Rs 100 Cr Macdamization of Roads 6/6/2016 12:26:16 AM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Srinagar, June 5: In yet another instance of BJP ministers and legislators acting as mute spectators towards discrimination being meted out to Jammu, the government has spent Rs 600 Crore on macdamization of roads in Kashmir, while Rs 100 Crore have been spent for the same purpose in Jammu region. This fact was brought to fore by the MLA Inderwal and senior Congress leader Ghulam Mohammad Saroori in the Legislative Assembly recently. Speaking in LA, Saroori accused the government of bias towards Jammu region, including Doda and Kishtwar. "The present government has so far spent Rs 600 Crore for macadamization of roads in Kashmir province as compared to Jammu region where a little bit over 100 Crore has been spent on macdamization of roads." He also demanded equal share from the government towards developmental works and further demanded construction of alternative National Highway 244 from Batote Zig via Bumalpura, Upper Khilani, Bhela, Phigsoo, Drab Agral, Shalimar to Kishtwar and said that this alternative road would not only reduce th...   READ MORE

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Edu Minister fails to keep his word, 20 masters transferred in Kupwara 6/6/2016 12:26:09 AM S Tahir-ul Haq Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 5: Tall claims of transparency and accountability in the education department have fallen flat with mid-term transfer in the educational institutions in the Jammu and Kashmir going on. In a recent case 20 masters were transferred in Kupwara district of North Kashmir. Director School Education Kashmir issued an order of transfer of 20 masters in Kupwara district vide order no: 937 DSEK of 2016 dated 31/05/2016. Early Times is in possession of the order. The masters who were transferred are Farooq Ahmad Khan from BMS Doonwari to BHSS Dudi Machil, Manzoor Ahmad Mir from BHSS Lalpora to HS Chuntiwari, Abdul Majeed Ahanger from UPS Gugar...   READ MORE   Mathura has umpteen lessons for Jammu, but are there any takers? 6/6/2016 12:26:03 AM Abodh Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, June 5: The gory incident at Mathura that left 28 killed, scores injured, an SHO shot dead from point blank range, a SP lynched to death and the conscience of entire country wounded has many lessons for the political class of Jammu and Kashmir also, but only if they could see beyond their vested interests. The old plot used by the politicians to create dedicated vote banks within their constituencies by encouraging their supporters to encroach large chunks of state land using their political influence not only to provide them immunity from the system, but also misuse the system to avail all facilities and amenities to them in their illegally oc...   READ MORE   State Motor Garages keeps ARTOs 'happy' 6/6/2016 12:25:53 AM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, June 5: Putting a huge burden on the state exchequer, the state motor garages department has allegedly allotted luxury vehicles to certain ARTOs without following rules. As per the government rules, entitlement of government vehicles is limited to ministers and administrative secretaries. However, according to sources in state motor garages, a senior officer, without any government permission, was alleged to have allotted three luxury vehicles -- JK01M/1663, JK01M/1661 and JK02H/9146 to ARTO, Budgam, ARTO, Pulwama, and ARTO, Srinagar, respectively. "I fail to understand that how the officer has allotted these vehicles to those who are no...   READ MORE   GMC Principal abuses Blood Bank staff 6/6/2016 12:25:47 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 5: It is shocking but true that a head of premier health institute- Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu abused staff of the Blood Bank and also ransacked the blood bank few days ago reportedly. Reliable Sources within GMC&H told Early Times that a close lieutenant of head of the institute called some doctor in the blood bank and demanded blood from them but due to unknown reason the blood was not issued. Then he approached the head of the institute and both were visited blood bank where the head of the institute enquired about the Head of Department (HoD) blood bank-who was not available in the office- when he come to know HOD was not in...   READ MORE   CEO Reasi, ZEO Pouni pass the buck Teacher's brutality on minor 6/6/2016 12:25:40 AM A B Sharma Early Times Report Reasi, June 5: Taking cognizance of the brutality of an ReT at Barakh Middle School where a girl child was beaten black and blue, the Chief Education Officer Reasi, Vinod Kumar Saini, in order to duck humiliation meted out to him by the Barakh residents had called explanation of Zonal Education Planning Officer who had forwarded the first hand report of the incident to the Commissioner Secretary Education Shaleen Kabra. The cock fighting amongst the officers is threatening to sweep the issue under the carpet, wherein a minor has been victim of teacher's frustration. As per sources, the CEO Reasi vide Order No. 2403 -06. Dated. 4. 6. 2016, sought th...   READ MORE   Militants out to disrupt Anantnag by-polls, Amarnath Yatra Separatists instigating youth to join guerilla ranks 6/6/2016 12:25:27 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 5: Militants carrying out two major strikes in south Kashmir's Bijbehara and Anantnag area has put the security agencies on high alert as the by-polls in the area for the Anantnag assembly constituency are scheduled to be held on June 22 and Amarnath Yatra would commence from July 2. Two policemen, including an officer, were killed when militants fired upon a Police party in Anantnag town on Saturday. Earlier, on Friday three soldiers of Border Security Force were killed and nine others injured as militants ambushed their convoy at Goriwan area of Bijbehara town on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway. The by-polls for the Anantnag seat were necessitated ...   READ MORE   Cops pick up brooms 6/6/2016 12:25:19 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 5: Even as there has been a sudden rise in deadly militant strikes in south Kashmir, which is the strategic route for upcoming Amarnath Yatra, the police are concentrating more on sanitation-cum-cleanliness drives in the region. Just a day after two personnel of the Jammu and Kashmir Police were shot dead by militants in Anantnag, the adjacent Awantipora police spend Sunday holding cleanliness drive in the area. This is not any hearsay, but officially confirmed by the police. "To supplement the efforts of civil administration in cleanliness and sanitation, a "Sanitation-cum-Cleanliness Drive" was launched by Police in Awantipora," an official handout ...   READ MORE   Militant caught on camera identified 6/6/2016 12:25:13 AM Early Times Report Anantnag, June 5: Security agencies today claimed to have identified on the basis of CCTV footage the militant who was involved in the yesterday's killing of two police personnel at the bus stand here. The CCTV footage showed two youth carrying AK rifles on Khanabal-Pahalgham road. While one kept standing near a car, the other, who had a bag, walked up to the vehicle. The one standing near the white car was identified as Junaid Mattoo, a resident of Khudwani. He had left home in June last year when he was 18 and had joined the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit, police sources said. This militant attack has evoked a sharp reaction from general public, particu...   READ MORE   From Babus in Farooq's regime to H&P deptt, JKPCC, all messed up JICC 6/6/2016 12:25:05 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 5: In what can be seen as unprecedented, for the first time in J&K any mega project dedicated with fanfare, the Hospitality and Protocol department chose to remain silent about the expenditure incurred on high profile Convention Centre in Jammu that was dedicated on Friday. The department came up with terse details to media about everything but amount spent on the Centre purportedly for the controversies it has remained embroiled in for nearly two decades. The moot point is will the PDP-BJP government order probe into each and every aspect of irregularity which hit the project badly…? This project remained embroiled in controversies over the last 17 ye...   READ MORE   SVO goes slow against corrupt police officers Enquiries linger on for years 6/6/2016 12:24:57 AM Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, June 5: The State Vigilance Organization (SVO) is allegedly going very slow on the complaints of corruption against police officers, who are departmentally their colleagues. The enquiries , therefore, go on fir years together. In response to an RTI application, the State Vigilance Organization has furnished a list of 77 police officers in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and a single complaint against police officer in 2015. The involved officers are two additional Superintendent of Police, one AIG (P) and rest of involved officials are Assistant Sub inspectors posted in various areas of state, against whom complaints were filed years' back but enquiries w...   READ MORE   JU's English teacher marks presence while on leave in DDE 6/6/2016 12:24:51 AM Raj Sandeep Early Times Report Jammu, Jane 5: In an act of tricking but interesting episode, an Associate Professor of English working in Directorate of Distance Education of Jammu University has marked herself present in the attendance register of PCP when she was actually on casual leave during that period. While talking to Early Times, RTI activist informed that in response to information sought from university about attendance report of Dr. Anupama Vohra Associate Professor English BA part II Personal Conduct Programme and leave availed during this period, it was revealed that she was on casual leave for three days as per the record provided by Directorate of Distance Educat...   READ MORE   SSC, JKOA at loggerheads We're above State Sports Council: Sharma 6/6/2016 12:24:43 AM Kunal Shrivatsa Early Times Report JAMMU, June 5: The confrontation between the sports bodies come to fore yet again today at a function organized by JKOA to honour medal winning players of 2015 National Games from the state as the Association asserted that they are the superior body in the field of sports in state and do not require any support from the State Sports Council. Lambasting State Sports Council for its alleged ''dictatorial attitude'', Secretary General, JKOA Prof Ashutosh Sharma while addressing the gathering during the function said, "We are a superior body and above State Sports Council. We do not need them in the field of sports, we will do it on our own.'' He also ...   READ MORE   Use of polythene bags continues unabated World Environment Day 6/6/2016 12:03:32 AM Tahir Mushtaq RAMBAN, June 5: Every year State Pollution Control Board celebrates World Environment Day with pomp and show, but on the ground it has failed to stop use of polythene bags. Despite tall claims of the State Pollution Control Board of having made district Ramban free from polythene, it continues to be used under the nose if the concerned department. If sources were believed raids by SPCB teams to seize the banned carry bags seem to be a mere "formality" as no serious initiative has been taken to curb the practice. Sources said when the ban was imposed on the use of polythene bags, several business establishments had placed orders for jute bags fearing raids and subsequent f...   READ MORE   Govt talks high, preservation of environment least priority World Environment Day 6/6/2016 12:02:12 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 5: As world observed 'Environment Day' on Sunday, its preservation has been least priority of the Jammu and Kashmir government. Every year, June 5th is observed as World Environment Day. This year United Nations (UN) had called for a worldwide campaign to take a strong action to curb the illegal trade of wildlife, that is threatening the biodiversity of our home planet. But here in Jammu and Kashmir, authorities have been only making tall claims about preserving the environment without taking concrete measures on the ground. This could be gauged from the fact that there has been no provision for the preservation of environment in the recent budget. The l...   READ MORE   Police transfer policy yet to take off 6/5/2016 11:49:46 PM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Srinagar, June 5: Despite passage of over three years, Police 'transfer policy' is yet to take off. Sources in PHQ told Early Times that as many as a dozen policemen posted in Kashmir zone since decades haven't been transferred. They said these policemen have political baking and apparently it seems PHQ has succumbed to political pressure. They said that minimum tenure was fixed three years by the PHQ through an order (2615/2012) dated July 21, 2012, however the cops in Kashmir zone are enjoying cozy posting from past over fifteen years. "PHQ issued order 2615/2012) dated July 21, 2012 in which it was decided that minimum tenure shall be of 3 years a...   READ MORE   'Resolution on separate Chenab council in Jammu raises tensions": Sandhya View from Delhi 6/5/2016 11:48:26 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 5: The submission by the Congress MLA G. M. Saroori resolution on Jammu's division and establishment of Hill Development Council in the erstwhile Doda district, the so-called Chenab Valley, and its acceptance for discussion in the Assembly has not only alarmed the people of Jammu region but also attracted the attention of Delhi-based serious think-tanks and commentators like Sandhya Jain. Commenting on the disturbing development, Sandhya Jain today said in New Delhi that "tensions are rising in Jammu province following the decision to accept a Private Member Resolution by Congress MLA G.M. Saroori for a separate Chenab Valley Hill Development Council, on t...   READ MORE   Hotels constructed in Eco fragile zone using chemicals to destroy green trees On world environment day, Gulmarg forests losing green gold 6/5/2016 11:48:07 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Tmes Report SRINAGAR, June 5 : As world is celebrating world environment day, the Forest officials in world renowned tourist resort are sleeping over devastating act of the hotel owners, who have not only established hotels in prohibited zones, but were allegedly using mysterious chemicals which were gradually drying up the natural vegetation. While talking to "Early Times" the locals informed that many green trees around Hotel Khyber and Hotel Zangeer Continental are d...   READ MORE   Thanks to China, thanks to Pakistan: Namgyal What is Sonia Congress up to? 6/5/2016 11:47:20 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 5: Something has gone wrong with the Congress. It has, it appears, lost its way. Its members in the J&K Legislative Assembly are behaving as if they were representatives of Pakistan and China. They have turned so perverted that they are openly siding with and praising China and Pakistan, India's two highly hostile countries, and they are flirting in a most brazen manner with those in Kashmir who wished to destroy the very identity and personality of Jammu region. If, on the one hand, Congress MLA from Inderwal GM Saroori on May 31 batted for Jammu's division and setting up of an autonomous Hill council in the erstwhile Doda district, a move which evoked a sh...   READ MORE   NC's political 'move' to face strategic 'punch' from Govt Discussion on Autonomy resolution implementation in LA unlikely 6/5/2016 11:47:10 PM Early Times Report Jammu, June 5: Resolution on implementation of Autonomy in the state by National Conference is unlikely to come up for discussion in the current session of Assembly even as it stands submitted in the House by party's Ali Mohammad Sagar in accordance with the procedural norms for inclusion in the business. Sources said though NC's move on the Autonomy is driven by the motive to corner its rival and ruling PDP, the latter would not let any situation happen which would pose problem or put both the ruling allies in a tight spot. The alliance government would not reject it right away as that would provoke NC into pointing fingers at it, mainly PDP said the sources adding tha...   READ MORE   Javaid should have brought new LARR Act Why to create ruckus in LA now? 6/5/2016 11:47:02 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 5: Javaid Mustafa Mir PDP's MLA and former Revenue Minister created ruckus in assembly on Saturday , over the failure of Government to pay compensation to some farmers who happen to be his neighbours. The said land was acquired few years back by the Government near Lasjan area of Chadoora constituency during widening of Srinagar Jammu national highway. One fails to understand why Javaid is creating such scenes in the assembly when he himself miserably failed to bring in new Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (LARR Act) in the state legislature last year when he was J&K's Revenue Minister. The PDP legislator and former Minister Javaid Mu...   READ MORE   Bhandari's appointment divides SKIMS Staff Doctors boycott meet, Employees seek probe into scams 6/5/2016 11:46:47 PM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report Srinagar, June 5: The appointment of In-charge Director SKIMS, Srinagar, has triggered a new controversy as Doctors stayed away from introductory meet and Non-Gazetted employees sought probe into scams. After retirement of former Director SKIMS, state government had on Friday nominated Mandeep Bhandari, Commissioner Secretary Health and Medical Education as interim Director SKIMS till the appointment of a new director for the institute. However according to sources his appointment has created a dividen among Doctors and non Gazzeted employees of institute after Non Gazzeted employees sought probe into scams which had surfaced over the years in the Inst...   READ MORE   Khadse's resignation exposes BJP's double standard Why same yardstick not applied in J&K ? 6/5/2016 11:18:54 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jun 5: Resignation of Eknath Khadse, the Revenue Minister in the BJP-led government in Maharashtra, has exposed double standard of nationalist BJP because similar allegations are leveled against two party ministers in the coalition government of J&K, where BJP is enjoying power with the PDP. Eknath Khadse, the strong OBC leader of Maharashtra, was asked to submit his papers because he was facing serious allegations. Khadse's troubles had aggravated over the last 15 days after Pune-based realtor Hemant Gavande made serious charges of land grabbing against him. Gavande alleged that Khadse had misused his position as the state revenue minister to illegally execu...   READ MORE   Change of guard makes no difference to owner of Classic Hospital in summer capital DHS Kashmir finds lots of deficiencies, but 'show' goes on 6/5/2016 11:17:39 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Jun 5: Change of guard in the state seems to be making very little difference on the ground in the health sector with violators continuing to flout rules and regulations. Same has happened in the case of a leading private hospital in the summer capital of the state. Classic Hospital located in the Hyderpora area on the bye-pass has been flouting rules and regulations. Despite having knowledge of the same, the authorities have so far failed to act against the owners of this private hospital. Responding to an RTI application moved by Abdul Rashid Khan, Dr. Anjum Afshan, Public Information Officer (PIO) Directorate of Health Services Kashm...   READ MORE

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