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| Chenab valley power projects turning white elephant | | 'Corporation headed by a non technical, over aged person' | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 19: Ever since the Chenab Valley power Project Private Limited (CVPPP) came into being, nothing on ground has been found tangible which could boost the economic condition of the state in general and locals of Chinab valley in particular.
CVPPP was incorporated on June 6, 2011 as a Joint Venture Company of NHPC Limited, JKSPDC and PTC (India) Limited for execution of four Hydroelectric Projects Pakal Dul, Kiru and Kwar with aggregate capacity of 2220 MW and Dul Hasti stage two at Chenab River Basin in district Kishtwar with equity participation of 49%, 49% and 2% by NHPC, JKSPDC& PTC respectively.
The insiders of the CVPPP who wished anony... | |
| | | | Illegal shopping mall in restricted zone poses threat to Srinagar airport | | 'Militants can easily target aerodrome, air force, security installations' | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 19: With no check on illegal constructions in the summer capital during the ongoing unrest, the government is now allowing illegal construction of a mega shopping complex in the restricted high-security zone outside Srinagar airport thereby posing a major threat to the security installations.
Senior officials confirmed to Early Times that that construction coming up just next to drop gate poses a "major threat" to the airport and the adjoining area owned by the Indian Air Force. The training camp of the paramilitary CRPF and BSF also fall in the proximity.
Official said the upcoming mall will "compromise the entire security arrangement in the area." "No c... | |
| | | | After making youth as cannon fodder, separatists threaten political workers | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 19: As the Kashmir unrest entered into its 41st day on Friday, separatists at the behest of their masters sitting across the Line of Control (LoC) have asked their henchmen to intimidate the mainstream politicians across Kashmir and seek their resignations so that they are unable to act as a bridge between people and the government.
It's in place to mention here that separatists have warned the mainstream politicians of 'social boycott' if they don't tender their resignation.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "Present situation is reminiscent of the 1990s, when almost all political activists across the Valley submitted their resignations to sa... | |
| | | | Minister's nephew leads shady gang | | Plantation mafia at work in RDD again | | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 19: Open loot of funds under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in the name of plantation is on in the Department of Rural Development and a close relative of a senior Minister in the coalition government is the kingpin of the plantation mafia which has prevailed upon the senior officers of the department to purchase truck loads of plants worth lakhs in complete violation of norms and then dump them in the block head quarters across Jammu division without any policy guidelines.
Sources in the department divulged that the plunder of MNREGA funds in the name of plantation started again after the previous Government une... | |
| | | | Unwilling to leave Jammu, SHO prefers PCR to PS posting | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 19: Unwilling to leave Jammu, an influential SHO has preferred his posting at PCR here to a police station in Kathua district.
At the time of his transfer to Kathua district, he headed a police station in Jammu as its SHO. In Kathua, he was again posted as SHO of a police station. After serving there for a few months, he has managed his transfer back to Jammu PCR, according to police sources.
"Though PCR posting is not considered good as compared to the posting as SHO of a police station, he preferred it because he wanted to come back to Jammu," sources said.
"He enjoys the blessings of a senior police officer who manages all his postings. This officer ha... | |
| | | | On Minister's recommendation, Inspector posted as SHO | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 19: On the recommendation of a minister, a police Inspector has been posted by the police headquarters as SHO of a police station in Kathua district.
He was transferred to his home district of Kathua in the recent past with the blessings of senior officers. "Now on the recommendation of a minister and a senior officer, he has been posted as SHO of a police station in the district," police sources said.
He was earlier posted in Jammu district, but got himself transferred to Kathua district after his repeated attempts to get himself posted as SHOfailed.
Sources said after his posting in Kathua, he met the minister and urged him to speak to his senior of... | |
| | | | Ms Memon, J&K was not part of partition plan | | Misinformation campaign | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 19: Ideological and expansionist Pakistan will, it appears, not reform itself. It will not stop misinformation campaign to convince the people occupied areas, including PoJK, that Jammu and Kashmir was part of the 1947 partition Plan under which the Muslim State of Pakistan came into being. It will also use barbarous methods to keep the Muslims of PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan under its yoke.
That the Pakistani political establishment is preaching falsehood can be seen from what a junior minister in the toothless Mian Nawaz Sharif Government said the other day at Hattian Bala and Chakothi in PoJK. Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Marvi Memo... | |
| | | | Hr. Edu deptt leaves majority of over staying physics professors untouched | | | |
Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 19: The Jammu and Kashmir Higher Education department has not touched majority of overstaying Assistant Professors of Physics, working in various colleges of city, in the recent transfer order.
According to the documents furnished by Higher Education department under RTI Act, a list of 86 Assistant Professors of physics was provided out of which 40 have been overstaying and in the recent transfer order issued, only 13 professors of Jammu province have been touched and majority of overstaying remain inert to transfers.
According to the RTI reply, the overstaying list include Assistant Professor Sudha Sehgal, presently posted at Women Colleg... | |
| | | | Despite anti begging law, begging turns into well organized industry in Jammu | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 19: Blame it on the incapability of Police to implement anti begging law, the menace of begging has become a well organized mafia in Jammu. Families and clans, comprising men, women and children of all ages have usurped city's squares, malls, traffic lights, hospitals, educational institutions, temples and mosques and even parking lots of Government and private offices where they beg fearlessly and sometimes even aggressively.
Sources reveal that the entire men... | |
| | | | Power hungry BJP out to punish nationalists | | No to Vande Mataram | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 19: The so-called nationalist BJP is determined to punish and demoralize the nationalists in its desperate bid to keep its masters in Kashmir on its right side and enjoy power. Ever since it became part of the government in J&K, the BJP has been endorsing and supporting all the official measures designed to demoralize and frighten nationalists and promote the communal interests of a particular constituency in the Valley. The BJP endorsed the decision to impose jaziya on pilgrims; it endorsed the official stand on cow killing and beef eating and fired two law officers who belonged to the Sangh Parivar; it supported the controversial and anti-India Land Trans... | |
| | | | Education Minister's latest 'salvo' to open schools fails to enthuse masses in valley | | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 19: After maintaining silence for a month the Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar is once again in news with regard to the reopening of the schools in the valley and this time too he is in news for wrong reasons.
The education minister has sought the cooperation from the parents in making the schools functional in the Kashmir as they are closed since July 1. Akhtar has asked the parents to play a pro-active role in throwing open the schools so that the class work gets started and the education system is back on rails.
However, the latest 'salvo' of the education minister has not gone well with the people who say that the state governm... | |
| | | | Opposition sulks over 'muteness' of PDP-BJP Govt to demands raised in meeting | | Terms silence as 'non serious' approach to 'joint oppn initiative' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 19: PDP-BJP alliance government's silence over the demands put forth by a 'united' opposition in the state has left the latter sulking with most of the leaders irked over muteness from the ruling PDP. The demands came up during the meeting held two days back jointly by the opposition parties led by National Conference in the wake of Kashmir unrest but evinced no response from the government even as BJP at the party level reacted to certain issues raised in the meeting at Srinagar.
The opposition leaders have left for New Delhi to meet President Pranab Mukherjee and discuss the situation prevailing in Kashmir and also to apprise him about what it feels as ... | |
| | | | Ram Madhav's unscheduled visit raises many eye brows | | | | Jammu, Aug 19: Unscheduled Srinagar visit of BJP national general secretary, Ram Madhav and his meeting with Governor, N N Vohra has raised many eye-brows because BJP's important man reached Summer Capital without any prior information to the any one. Ram Madhav's visit has given air to the speculations that some being cooked at Delhi to deal with the turbulent situation in Kashmir Valley.
Ram Madhav, met Governor N.N. Vohra at the Raj Bhavan on Thursday. Governor and Madhav discussed the recent developments and the urgent need for restoring normalcy in the State.
Credible sources said that Ram Madhav has met Governor with a special message of the Union Government. His meeting was aimed a... | |
| | | | Blame game in PDP over 'mishandling' of situation | | Scared workers, leaders want Mehbooba to resign | | | Saqib Junaid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 19: The PDP workers and some legislators have been mounting pressure on the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to resign in view of increasing attacks on their homes by the protestors in Kashmir.
Kashmir is tense since July 9, day after Burhan Wani was killed. During these days, there has been massive protests across the Valley and property worth crores of rupees have been vandalized by the angry mob.
Many people in the Valley have been blaming the ruling parties, the PDP and BJP for failing to deal with the situation.
"We are facing a huge pressure from the party workers to resign from the government," a senior PDP leader said. "There are als... | |
| | | | Food department's MMSFES scheme fails to take off in Anantnag | | Consumers yet to receive supplement quota under MMSFES | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Aug 19: Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Food Entitlement Scheme (MMSFES) launched to provide supplement quota to consumers has failed to take off in this southern district as consumers are yet to receive supplement quota. Reports pouring in from several areas of Bijbehara, Srigufwara, Pahalgam, Shangus, Achabal, Dooru said that storekeepers haven't disbursed the ration under the scheme in the month of July- the month it was formally implemented in the state. Residents of several other villages of the district narrated the same story. "We received what we used to receive as per National Food Security Act (NFSA) nothing less nothing more," Gulzar Ahmad, ha... | |
| | | | Violating norms, Sunderbani PWD issues Rs 50 lakh works without tendering | | Locals allege contractor-Babu nexus, seek probe | | | AB Sharma
Early Times Report
Rajouri, Aug 19: In alleged violation of norms, Public Works Department (PWD) of Sundarbani Sub-Division here has allotted works to the tune of over Rs 50 lakhs without inviting tenders to "favorites".
Officials said in 2015, then Works Minister Syed Altaf Bukhari had issued formal orders that in a bid to increase transparency, works may be allotted only through tendering except for emergencies when the work of upto Rs 20-30 thousand could be allotted without tendering. But presently many works were being allegedly executed without requisite tendering. The 2 km Dhar Pul link road falling in Panchayat Nallah Makoll is undergoing upgradation.
Sources said th... | |
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