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GMC&H kills rules to appoint Principal's PA 9/2/2016 11:51:13 PM GS Asgotra Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 2: The powerful administrators of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) have been showing little regard for the recruitment norms set by the Government Administration Department (GAD). In the latest case, all norms were allegedly tailored to appoint Personal Assistant (PA) of the Principal. According to circular number 7 of GAD dated, 12/3/2003 and the ruling of Supreme Court in Suraj Parkash Gupta versus State the recruitment agencies and departments are directed not to change the cadre of employees and no relaxation of basic recruitment rules are to be made for direct recruitments through Public Service Commission or for the purpose of regular promotion/recruitment by transfer. "But in contravention to these rules, a powerful employee who was appointed as a Nursing Orderly in Health department, has been offering services as PA to Principal GMC due to his close proximity with all GMC administrators", officials in GMC said, pleading anonymity. They further said that as per recruitment rules and set guidelines, a person after a...   READ MORE

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'Op hush up' goes on in Hr Edu deptt for 3 yrs Theft of computers from MAM College goes unnoticed 9/2/2016 11:51:06 PM Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 2: A scandal, which is called a theft case in Higher Education department circles, involving computers worth R. 4 lakhs has tumbled out from Government Maulana Azad Memorial College Jammu, but even after the lapse of nearly three years, no FIR has been registered by administration. Sources informed Early Times that in the year 2013, during the tenure of the then Principal MAM College, Ramesh Chander, computers and some other items worth approximately Rs. 4 Lakhs was allegedly stolen from Gandhian Study Center of College. Surprisingly, no FIR was lodged by the then College administration and in year 2014, when new Principal took over the adminis...   READ MORE   26 hours to Kashmir, paltry 3 to Jammu All-party delegation 9/2/2016 11:50:55 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 2: Union home Minister Rajnath Singh, who paid two visits to Kashmir to conciliate the Kashmiris in-revolt and returned empty handed, will again visit Kashmir for two days on September 4 and 5. But this time as leader of the 35-member all-party delegation. He will also visit Jammu. Earlier, he had only visited Kashmir and left the people of Jammu and Ladakh high and dry, thus indicating the New Delhi's indifferent attitude towards these two regions and the neglected people these two regions house. Reports suggest that the Union Home Ministry had excluded Jammu from the tour propramme even this time, but because of the intervention of some BJP leaders, the ...   READ MORE   Govt appeases anti-nationals, forgets nationalist KPs Proposal to set up separate colonies shelved 9/2/2016 11:50:34 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 2: The present unrest in Kashmir has once again hit the Kashmiri Pandits as a few of them who had accepted employment under the Prime Minister's job package have already left Kashmir to save their lives, while the plan to resettle Kashmiri Pandits in separate colonies has been shelved. Many Kashmiri Pandits, who left Kashmir, alleged that they were threatened by miscreants and their quarters were attacked. Even a little known militant outfit Lashkar-e-Islam had pasted posters in a few areas in south Kashmir asking KPs to leave or face death. An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "Like nineties Kashmiri Pandits have been once again forced to migrate....   READ MORE   Dr Karan Singh ignores Jammu, worried about anti-nationals! 9/2/2016 11:50:24 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 2: Instead of protecting interests of the people of Jammu region, former Sadr-e-Riyasat and senior Congress leader, Dr Karan Singh is unfortunately toeing anti-Jammu line. First Dr Karan Singh had ignored Jammu region during his speech in the Rajya Sabha on Kashmir situation and secondly during his visit to Kashmir Valley he has shown more interest in involving Hurriyat Conference in the dialogue process. Dr Singh has strongly advocated that all party delegation, which is scheduled to visit Kashmir next week, must hold dialogue with Hurriyat Conference. Ironically, Dr Karan Singh has not uttered even a single word about wishes and aspirations of the peopl...   READ MORE   GMCH suffers shortage of AVS 'Lives of snake bite sufferers on risk' 9/2/2016 11:50:16 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 2: Lives of snake bite sufferers on risk, the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) itself suffering from dearth Anti Venom Serum (AVS), since day when a major fire broke out in medical store and gutted all the medicine available there on August 3. Sources in the hospital told Early Times that the hospital, facing acute shortage of AVS to overcome the cases snake bite, since the medicines gutted fire on August, 3 this year. "AVS is not like other medicine available in market, for AVS the hospital has to place order in advanced", sources said, adding that till the fire broke in the hospital's medical store, there were sufficient supply of AVS. "All...   READ MORE   Vasulis in Khaki: SHO making lakhs by settling land disputes 9/2/2016 11:50:05 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 2: Even the bribe money collected by this SHO can't be so huge as compared to his earnings from the 'unlawful' land business. In August only, he is alleged to have made several lakhs by settling three land disputes. He is alleged to be sharing the proceeds with a 'senior' officer, bypassing his other seniors. All the three plots are located in a posh city locality and are worth crores. "His monthly earnings run into several lakhs as he charges huge amounts of money from people to settle their land disputes," police sources alleged. Sources alleged that though at least one land dispute was being settled by him in a month, he settled three such cases last ...   READ MORE   Govt sits over Forest Deptt's Recruitment Rules Revision file 9/2/2016 11:27:23 PM Arun Singh Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 2: Although strengthening of service cadre in government departments is a continuous process for improving efficiency and effectiveness of work culture, the government has turned a deaf ear to the proposal of Principal Chief Conservator of Forests as regards the revision of Recruitment Rules. The file was alleged to be gathering dust in the civil secretariat since 2007, ie for nearly a decade, according to official sources. The J&K Forest Non-Gazetted Subordinate Service Recruitment Rules were framed in 1991. "Even with the introduction of centrally sponsored scheme (CSS) of Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (...   READ MORE   Patients suffer to get reports, admin unmoved 'Krsna Diagnostic V/s GMCH admn row' 9/2/2016 11:27:15 PM Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 2: Within blames and counter blames between Krsna Diagnostic Center Pvt Ltd and administration of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu, the patients are feeling the burnt who are running from pillar to post to get their medical reports after GMC&H authorities sealed the outlet of Krsna Diagnostics but the administration seems least bothered. If Sources within GMC&H Jammu are to be believed, the closure of PPP Mode diagnostic centre in hurry and hush- hush manner -is completely political motivated because the centre was running from last two years without any problem. "Since the establishment of centre neither the adminis...   READ MORE   Estates Deptt forgets Poonch House post Darbar move 9/2/2016 11:27:03 PM Vinod Sharma Jammu, Sept 2: The Estates department has completely ignored the Poonch House after the Secretariat moved to Srinagar in May. Garbage, stray animals roaming freely and wild bushes can be spotted in every nook and corner of the Ahata Poonch House, which speaks volumes of the negligence ofEstate department. A local resident Ramesh Sharma of Panjthirthi said, "Foul smell emanates from the area whenever we pass through it. Our repeated requests to maintain cleanliness fall on the deaf ears of the department officials", Sharma said, adding that the surroundings were unhygienic and can easily spread infection among the residents. He said that Estate department officials were Ka...   READ MORE   Mirwaiz to meet visiting delegation at Cheshma Shahi Desperate Govt takes Yasin, Sehrai, ors to Humhama 9/2/2016 11:26:57 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 2: Much against the nationwide sentiment that the all party delegation scheduled to visit Kashmir this weekend should not hold talks with the separatists, the government is busy setting the stage for the commencement of "backchannel" diplomacies this weekend. Official sources confirmed that senior separatist leader and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik and his party colleague Noor Muhammad Kalwal have been removed from the Central Jail Srinagar and shifted to Humhama Sub Jail, near the Srinagar airport. The same holds true for senior leaders from the Hurriyat G led by Syed Ali Geelani. At least three leaders from the Geel...   READ MORE   Cong ditched nation to allow Pak to annex PoJK Air Chief Marshal's plain-speaking 9/2/2016 11:26:50 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 2: Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha on Thursday did some plain-speaking on the circumstances under which Pakistan occupied our PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan and accused the Congress of allowing Pakistan to occupy our territories. He didn't name the Congress; he only referred to the period: 1947-1971. This was the period when the Congress was at the helm in Delhi. Raha claimed that had the government of the time given a freehand to the Air Force, PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan would have been in India, and not in Pakistan. "Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir would have been India's, had the country gone for a military solution rather than taking a moral high ground," h...   READ MORE   Govt mulling to take legal action against employees 'active in valley protests' 9/2/2016 11:26:43 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 2: As list of those government employees who are playing active role in the protests was prepared by police, the government here is mulling to take legal action against them. According to the sources the police have informed the government that over 20 per cent of the state government employees, mostly from the rural districts, are playing an active role in the protests. "Police has prepared a list of employees active in the valley protests. As soon as we will receive the list, we will take legal action in this regard," one of the top officials of the government told Early Times on Friday. He said that these employees, not only part...   READ MORE   Geelani gives veiled signal to meet APD 9/2/2016 11:26:36 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 2: Though maintaining the old rhetoric of saying no to meeting the All-Party Delegation (APD) coming to Kashmir on September 4, the 86-year-old Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Geelani has subtly said 'yes' to holding talks with the emissaries of New Delhi being sent to Srinagar. "We in principle were never against the talks as we believe that even after deadly conflicts and destructive wars, things are settled through the dialogue only," Geelani said in a statement on September 1. Though he kept many conditions for holding of talks, his hint of meeting the delegates was oblique. However, the contrary side of this story was witnessed when he asked others n...   READ MORE   Bring back students of Nishat orphanage: HC to SWD 9/2/2016 11:26:32 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 2: The state high court has directed Director, Social Welfare Department (SWD) to take measures for bringing back students of government-run orphanage at Nishat here. A division bench of the court comprising Justices Ramalingam Sudhakar and A M Magrey directed the SWD Kashmir to take appropriate measures to students back to the orphanage by contacting the guardians of the students. The court said it is necessary to bring the students back to the orphanage so that they are not put to any educational loss and their well-being is ensured. "If any student or guardian would need any help or any assistance in this regard, the director will make available ...   READ MORE   Agro Industries Corp under SIC scanner for appointment scam 9/2/2016 11:26:19 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 2: The J&K State Agro Industries Development Corporation (JKAIDC) is under the scanner of the Government and State Information Commission (SIC) as there are serious allegations of corruption in recent appointments for the posts of Assistant Managers. Aggrieved candidates have been moving from pillar to post to get justice and even tried to seek details of merit list and marks given by the selection committee during the interview. The said information was denied by the Public Information Officers (PIO) of the JKAIDC. The aggrieved filed an appeal before SIC which directed the corporation to give all these details to one of the aggrieved party. Inspite of...   READ MORE   Government ready to fulfil demands of tanker owners Fuel in valley available for 4 days only 9/2/2016 10:50:11 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 2: Appealing oil tanker owners association to resume fuel supply to Kashmir, the government Friday admitted that only four days of fuel is available in the valley. Jammu and Kashmir Oil Tanker Owners' Association has suspended supplies to Kashmir after attacks on their trucks and drivers. . "Whatever stocks of fuel are available in valley "right now" would come to an end within four days. From 27th of August oil supply had not reached to the valley. We understand that the oil tankers are being attacked in most parts of the valley and with the result they stopped the supply," Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Chow...   READ MORE   26 hours to Kashmir, paltry 3 to Jammu All-party delegation 9/2/2016 10:45:55 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 2: Union home Minister Rajnath Singh, who paid two visits to Kashmir to conciliate the Kashmiri Muslims-in-revolt and returned empty handed, will again visit Kashmir for two days on September 4 and 5. But this time as leader of the 35-member all-party delegation. He will also visit Jammu. Earlier, he had only visited Kashmir and left the people of Jammu and Ladakh high and dry, thus indicating the New Delhi's indifferent attitude towards these two regions and the neglected people these two regions house. Reports suggest that the Union Home Ministry had excluded Jammu from the tour propramme even this time, but because of the intervention of some BJP leader...   READ MORE

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