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Rs 107.13 Cr, PM Modi's Swachh Bharat drive fails in JK 7/26/2016 11:57:45 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, July 26: Despite having received Rs 107.13 crore from Government of India for implementation of Prime Minister's much-hyped sanitation program "Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA)", the State has largely failed to fully implement it. Sources said that except a few districts, the state has done little to mitigate health threats from improper sanitary facilities in households, hospitals and educational institutes. "Though an amount of Rs. 107.13 Crore has been received by the state government from Government of India for implementation of " Swachh Bharat Abhiyan since its inception on 2nd October-2014 in the state, the government has so far failed in meeting the objectives of the sanitation," said an official. He said the state constructed 42,239 individual household toilets during 2014-2015 against the annual target of 0.3 million, a shortfall of 86 per cent. "The data shows the state never completed its annual objectives in construction of household, hospitals and school toilets," the official maintained. According to the sources three distr...   READ MORE

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'No one has authorized them to give shutdown calls, announce relaxation' We don't know Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik 7/26/2016 11:57:38 PM Early Times Report jammu, July 26: It's time for separatists to call it quits and wind up their shops in Kashmir. The relaxation in shutdown given by the so-called joint separatist leadership comprising Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik didn't evoke any response today as youth appeared at many places and enforced shutdown in different parts of Srinagar city. Reports said the masked youth asked shopkeepers and the transporters that shutdown is on and they should not dare to open their shops. "Who is Geelani, Mirwaiz and Malik. We don't know them. Neither do we follow their programmes. No one has authorized them to give shutdown calls and then give relaxation," loc...   READ MORE   Presence of 'Chipku' irks others at Fairview 7/26/2016 11:57:25 PM Hyder Ali Early Times Report srinagar, July 26: Amid the ongoing unrest in Kashmir, the chronic presence of a minister at the private office of Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, here has irked his colleagues and bureaucrats alike, who have nicknamed him "Chipku", meaning sticker in local parlance. His detractors lament that he has been habitually "over interfering, trying to poke nose in every development, whatever the government discusses or decides upon". Sources said minister leaves his residence immediately after offering the pre-dawn Fajr prayers only to make it to the Fair View Villa, Mehbooba's residence and private office, on the heels of picturesque Zaberwan Hills, as early as...   READ MORE   Kashmir unrest: No one talks about the pain of security forces 7/26/2016 11:57:16 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 26: Much has been written and is being written about the alleged use of excessive force against those who are indulging in violence to create a situation in the Valley that would force New Delhi to quit Kashmir. An impression is being created that our security forces have unleashed a reign of barbarities on Kashmiri people. On the other hand, there is hardly any report that indicates the kind of environment our security forces are operating in the Valley and the kind of attacks they are facing. An impression is being created that security forces have resorted to indiscriminate firing in the Valley and the result has been that have suffered injuries. This i...   READ MORE   JKMSC makes purchases without tendering Watchdog turns violator! 7/26/2016 11:57:10 PM Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report Jammu, July 26: The Jammu and Kashmir Medical Supplies Corporation (JKMSC) Ltd is meant to stop back door purchase within Jammu and Kashmir Health and Medical Education department but it seems that JKMSC is also following 'old tradition' by purchasing items for Indira Gandhi Government Dental College (IGGDC) Jammu without tendering reportedly. Reliable sources told Early Times that the officials of JKMSC have purchased 80 chairs, which are to be installed in new building of Indira Gandhi Government Dental College Jammu, in which 20 chairs full load (worth of a chair more than 4 lakh) and 60 others are on reference rate contract of Disaster Managemen...   READ MORE   Nepotism, Adhocism ruining Forest department Relatives of Babus man prize positions 7/26/2016 11:56:53 PM Avinash Azad ET Report Jammu, July 26: Forest Department, which contributes a lot in state economy, has become victim of nepotism and adhocism prevailing for decades. Source in department informed Early Times that In-charge, Range Officers, are manning the major territorial social Forestry, wild life, environment and remote sensing, soil conservation and other wings of Forest Department for years. "Overlooking the provisions of J&K Civil Services, Classification, control and appeal rules, 1956, the top Babus in the department had allowed 'ineligibles' to man the posts of Range Officers Grade-I for years together on 'incharge' basis", sources said promotion on 'incharge' capacity cannot ...   READ MORE   Transfer controversy in Jammu Educaton Department Many heads may roll in Directorate 7/26/2016 11:56:42 PM Early Times Report jammu, July 26: As more skeletons are coming out of the cupboard in School Education Department, the concerned officers and officials have resorted to shifting blame on each other for the fiasco amidst reports that some heads may roll in the Directorate of School Education Jammu. According to the sources, the Minister for School Education Naeem Akhter has taken a serious note of the alleged irregularities and floating of transfer policy norms in shifting of the Masters and Lecturers after recently held Transfer Mela for Jammu Division. Commissioner Secretary, Higher Education, Shalin Kabra is learnt to have apprised the Education Minister about the blunders committed ...   READ MORE   Alleged incident of release of man, woman who were caught 'nude' Probe being weakened against 'accused' SHO 7/26/2016 11:56:29 PM Early Times Report jammu, July 26: The SHO of a peripheral police station, who had allegedly taken a huge bribe money for freeing a man and a woman whom he had caught nude a few days back, is likely to go unpunished as reports suggest that the probe initiated into the incident by a senior officer is being being weakened and taken to a wrong direction. The SHO had extracted a huge amount of bribe money from the couple for not registering any case against them, police sources alleged. Both the man and the woman are said be officers in the civil administration. They were caught nude in a room by the SHO on the basis of a complaint lodged by locals, sources alleged. Their photographs were ...   READ MORE   Pak media questions Sharif's "Kashmir Banega Pakistan" remark 7/26/2016 11:56:16 PM Early Times Report jammu, July 26: Very interesting. At a time, when many in India and Kashmir have been questioning New Delhi's approach towards Kashmir, sections of Pakistan media have upped their ante against Pakistan PM Mian Nawaz Sharif and questioned his recent Muzaffarabad statement that he was waiting for the day when Kashmir became Pakistan. One of the leading Pakistani newspapers, Daily Times, took on Pakistan PM editorially. Describing what it called Nawaz Sharif's rhetoric about accession of Kashmir to Pakistan as "wishful thinking", Daily Times has said statements like these will invite "more trouble" for the country as well as for the Kashmiri people. "It has become a norm...   READ MORE   R&B Minister cuts senior BJP minister to size Foundation stone laying ceremony of Juthana bridge 7/26/2016 11:56:09 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 26: A senior BJP minister had to face humiliation for second time in 10-days as R&B ministry prevented him from laying the foundation stone of Rs 45 crore Juthanu bridge at river Ujh. The R&B ministry, according to the sources, told the minister that his decision to lay the foundation stone was incoherent to the guidelines of Union Surface Transport Ministry regarding inaugurations and laying foundation stones of developmental works. The 500 metre span bridge to be constructed over river Ujh in Kathua district from the funding by Union government is strategically very important bridge linking twin tehsils of Basohli and Billawar in the district and has bee...   READ MORE   Corruption charges: Mantris , babus sail in the same boat 7/26/2016 11:35:00 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, July 26: Eleven former ministers, one former Member parliament and more than 30 IAS, including IFS and KAS officers among whom some retired, are facing corruption charges by the investigating agencies. The official Date which is available with the early TIMES reveals that, under the FIR No. 6/2016 VOK, Ex minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din is facing case relates the officers/ official of revenue department have made various mutation /survey No's shown record under section 4 & 21 of Agrarian reforms Act, 1976 under fictitious fraudulent signatures of the then tehsildar and clerk tehsil office Shopian in connivance with other officers/officials of rev...   READ MORE   Traffic cops fail to enforce discipline on erring matador drivers 7/26/2016 11:33:13 PM Raj Sandeep Early Times Report Jammu, July 26 : Erring matador drivers continue to tax thr patience of traffic policemen on busy Jammu roads. It is not something which is one day's problem, said a commuter, Ashok Sharma ,who daily visits Mubarkh Mandi from Airport area adding that right from Satwari to inner city area , one finds the crowds of matadors being stopped by the drivers at their own sweet will in middle of the road causing unnecessary jams and inconvenience to normal commu...   READ MORE   As Kashmir burns smugglers, encroachers make hay 7/26/2016 11:31:26 PM Majid Nabi Early Times Report Srinagar, July 26: Illegal constructions and deforestation is at pinnacle with encroachers and smugglers taking full advantage of the prevailing situation in Kashmir valley which has left scores dead and thousands wounded. If sources and witnessed are to be believed smugglers and encroachers had a field day to carry out their illegal activities like constructions and deforestation under the grab of current unrest. Sources said that deforestation is going on unabated at many places including Ganderbal while material for illegal constructions is being carried in the dead of the night amid stringent curfew restrictions in the valley. "Both illegal constr...   READ MORE   Officers of Police, civil administration called on campus JU authorities trying to intimidate striking employees! 7/26/2016 11:19:36 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 26: In what is being seen as a bid to intimidate the striking class IV employees, the Jammu University administration today called officers from the Police and district administration to talk to them, even as they had no locus or relevance in the ongoing imbroglio that has plagued JU administration for last many days. DIG of the range, DC and SDM South were called to the campus allegedly to prevail upon the striking employees to call off their stir which is going on for close to 40 days now. "We are the employees of the university, which is an autonomous institution and these officers have nothing to do with our demands which are of financial nature, then w...   READ MORE   Youth electrocuted by fallen Electric wire PDD shrugs shoulders 7/26/2016 11:15:24 PM A B Sharma Early Times Report Reasi, July 26: A pal of gloom descended on a village Bluian,Tehsil Pouni in district Reasi when a 17 years old boy , out to graze his cattle in the meadow got in contact of a live wire that had fallen on the ground and was rendered almost handicapped. Tilak Raj, 17, s/o Munshi Ram of Bluian was out in the meadow to graze his animals when he skidded of a muddy protuberance in the field and got in contact of a live wire and fell unconscious. Police got into imme...   READ MORE   Religious preacher turns conman 7/26/2016 11:14:44 PM K Koushal Early Times Report Jammu, July 26: A self styled religious preacher, who allegedly possesses two state subjects, same number of voter identity cards and ration cards and even three firearm's licenses has been duping people for a longtime. How he manages all this has raised finger over the functioning of concerned offices? Besides his well placed connections, sources said. They said this so called 'Conman' has also been abandoned by the Sadhu Samaj. Sources claimed that a Conman who is originally a resident of Kathua and is presently residing at Pacca Danga has fraudulently managed to get all these documents. Documents in the possession of Early Times revealed that the Maha...   READ MORE   'Situation terrible and I am ashamed': Radha Batting for India's disintegration 7/26/2016 11:14:38 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 26: Pro-separatist, pro-Pakistan and anti-India forces have ganged up. They have seen in the present turmoil in Kashmir an opportunity to strike and dismember India by ensuring not just the separation of Kashmir Valley from India but also Jammu and Ladakh. They are all one as far as their support to Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists' demand seeking dialogue with Pakistan and Hurriyat leaders is concerned and their solutions range from Azadi to autonomy. Nothing short of this can end the turmoil in Kashmir, they have been asserting. Not a single so-called trouble-shooter or conflict-manager has talked about the aspirations, needs and compulsions of the people ...   READ MORE   Modi Govt likely to ignore 2010 interlocutors report 7/26/2016 11:14:28 PM Early Times Report Jammu, July 26: The Union Home Ministry is unlikely to go by the report of the interlocutors which was submitted by the three-member committee formed after the violent summer of the 2010. The ministry can at the best give a cursory glance at its recommendations on the restricted use of non-lethal weapons. "There is no need to study the report of interlocutors which were appointed by the then Home Minister P Chidambaram. It has not suggested anything which the government of India doesn't know. Chidambram was not a rooted politician and his report was just an exercise to save his friend Omar Abdullah," said a senior officer. The Kashmir based journalist had asked the Ho...   READ MORE   Unavailability of transport facility, People suffering due to admin apathy 7/26/2016 11:14:23 PM Tahir Mushtaq Early Times Report RAMBAN, July 26: Owing to the poor connectivity, people across the district Ramban face difficulties to reach the District Administration Complex Ramban for their day to day work in different government offices. In the absence of direct transport facility to Maitra where the District Administrative Complex has been situated, People are compelled to hire expensive auto rikshaws or taxis, which they can ill afford. Despite number of government offices shifted in newly constructive administrative blocks in mini secretariat of district Ramban, the district administration failed to provide direct transport facility to the people of different tehsils to reach ...   READ MORE   Middle aged man dies during stone pelting incident at Eidgah, toll reaches 53 7/26/2016 11:14:18 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, July 26: One person died during a stone pelting incident in downtown Srinagar even as the authorities lifted curfew from the whole Kashmir valley except the South Kashmir district of Anantnag. Reports said that 61 years old Mushtaq Ahmad sustained serious injuries while he was caught in the midst of stone pelting in the Eidgah area of downtown Srinagar. Mushtaq, a resident of Rajouri Kadal could not keep control of his Scooty while he was moving in the Eidgah area which was rocked by anti-government protests. The middle aged man sustained serious injuries in his head and he was immediately shifted to Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Scien...   READ MORE   Social media advisory for J&K police personnel 7/26/2016 11:14:13 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 26: After Army, J&K police headquarters (PHQ) too has issued a social media advisory to its personnel and strictly asked them to refrain from making any comment on the internal matters of police department and its functioning. A PHQ order in this regard, that makes a specific mention of two CID officers making unwelcome comments on social networking sites and of some other police officers making comments on Qousar Nag pilgrimage, has been circulated to all the senior officers, including ADGPs and SSPs, according to police sources. The order said any police officer, who was found violating the PHQ directive in this regard, would be dealt with sternly unde...   READ MORE

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