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| J&K babus out to ‘sabotage’ PM Modi’s plans for poor and needy | | PMAY set to turn into flop show, to meet target, Govt has to build 128K houses in 6 months, 718 every day | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 7: Bureaucrats in Jammu and Kashmir seem to be hell bent upon making the mockery of the system by putting impediments in the plans envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to build “Naya J&K.”
Officials messing up centrally funded scheme Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is a glaring example of the failures of the UT administration. The implementation of this scheme was recently reflected when a report was tabled, underlining the mismatch between the claims and actual position on the ground.
After J&K’s transition into a Union Territory Prime Minister Modi has made every possible attempt to turn J&K into a “Super State” but the helmsmen are out to spoil the broth.
Sources divulged that the J&K administration was asked by the Central Government to share the actual picture about the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) - a scheme under which houses for the economically downtrodden are built at the expense of the government exchequer. However, Jammu and Kashmir as per the latest inputs is becoming the worst performing territory in... | |
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| Promise of 4 airports in Jammu yet another ‘lollypop’ | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 7: Ten Union Ministers visited different parts of the Jammu region on January 21, 2020, during the first phase of the ‘Public Outreach Programme’ and made a number of promises but these promises remained only on papers.
These ministers visited the rural areas of Jammu province to spread the message of developmental works initiated by the Central Government post abrogation of articles 370 and 35-A and conversion of the erstwhile State into the Union Territory and explaining to the people the benefits of the decisions taken by Narendra Modi Government on August 5.
The then Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs and Civil Aviation (Independe... | |
| | | | Babus maligning LG’s image by erecting hoardings at wrong places | | ‘Road To Every Village’ | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 7: A big hoarding at Panama Chowk here reads: “A Road To Every Village” but the irony is that the place where the hoarding has been set up is surrounded by a dilapidated road.
An observer while talking to Early Times said, “Bureaucrats are maligning the image of the Lieutenant Governor by erecting the hoardings in the heart of the city where roads are in shambles.”
He said, “Roads in the city are in a bad shape, one can imagine the plight of the roads in rur... | |
| | | | Even after 7-yrs, landslide-hit Saddal village awaits rehabilitation | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 7: On Monday survivors of ill-fated Saddal village organized a prayer meeting to pay tributes to forty inhabitants- who were buried alive during a devastating landslide in the intervening night of September 5 and 6, 2014.
Even after the passing of seven long years, the survivors are still waiting for proper rehabilitation due to the casual approach being adopted by those at the helm of the affairs.
Fed up with the repeated promises of the authorities, the inhabitants have recently approached the Court to get justice.
On September 3, Division Bench of High Court comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Sanjay Dhar has issued directions for the... | |
| | | | More than 30 Assistant Directors, Tourist Officers retire without promotion | | 37-years on, Tourism Deptt fails to hold DPC | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 7: The J&K Tourism Department has not held Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) meeting (Gazatted) during the past over 37 years while at least a 30 officers viz Assistant Directors and Tourist Officers retired on the same post which they had joined three decades ago.
As per the details available with Early Times, the babus ignored the directions to hold DPCs passed by the successive governments including LG Administration’s in March this year. “Senior officers at the helm of affairs in the J&K Tourism Department did not pay much attention towards this issue, thus aggravating the miseries of the junior officers who were faced victimis... | |
| | | | Probe committee likely to submit report today | | Dead wrong! Security guard handles autopsies at GMC Anantnag | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Sept 7: A high-level committee, constituted to probe how an untrained security guard was allowed to handle the post-mortem cases for years at Government Medical College Anantnag (GMC), is expected to submit its report today. Highly placed sources told Early Times that the five member committee constituted by Principal GMC Anantnag has concluded its probe and the ‘committee is about to submit its report’.
“While the claim that the Security guard was actually and single-handedly conducting post-mortem of dead bodies isn’t factually correct, serious negligence on part of the concerned department has been established,” they claimed.
Sources rev... | |
| | | | Ward No. 39: Toph Sherkhania devoid of basic amenities | | Dilapidated roads, drainage system, heaps of garbage greet visitors | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 7: Toph Sherkhania of Ward No. 39 sans basic amenities such as roads, proper garbage collection system and drainage systems.
Roads and streets have been dug at various points and it has been since months the streets have not been repaired which have made it unfit for vehicular movement. “The streets were dug in the entire area for a lying drainage system but never repaired due to which huge potholes have developed in the area making it difficult for the reside... | |
| | | | PM Modi inaugurates ‘Shikshak Parv’ conclave | | Says education should be ‘inclusive and equitable’ | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Sept 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (September 7) inaugurated the "Shikshak Parv" conclave through video conferencing, and launched multiple key initiatives in the education sector. The theme of `Shikshak Parv-2021` is "Quality and Sustainable Schools: Learnings from Schools in India".
Addressing the event, PM Modi said that the initiatives launched today will shape the future of the sector, and added that "One of the initiatives, School Quality Assessment and Assurance will not only make education competitive but will also make students future-ready."
The Prime Minister said, "I want to congratulate the teachers who received National Awards. You have w... | |
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