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No Disturbed
Areas Act since
1998: Govt
Jammu, March 24:
n a revelation that is bound to rake up
controversy over the powers of Jammu
and Kashmir Police to fire, destroy any
arms dump or fortified position being or likely
to be used by terrorists, and their immunity
from legal prosecution for such actions during
counter insurgency operations except with the
previous sanction of state government, the state
government on Tuesday said that there has
been no Disturbed Areas Act in the state since
1998.
Significantly, the revelation has come at a
time when Mufti Sayeed government is talking
of denotifying certain areas of the state for
phased withdrawal of Armed Forces Special
Powers Act (AFSPA). “Keeping in mind that the
situation is steadily improving, the government will examine the need for de-notifying disturbed areas and this, in turn, would enable the
Central government to take a final view on the
continuation of AFSPA in such areas,’’ read the
Governor’s address to a joint sitting of both the
Houses of the State Legislature on opening day
of the current budget session.
“This is to inform you that the Jammu and
Kashmir Disturbed Area Act, 1997, was valid for
only one year and has lapsed on 7th of October
1998. At present, the Disturbed Area Act is not
in force in the state. T
herefore, the resolution submitted by you
for revocation of Disturbed Area Act has been
disallowed,’’ read a letter written by Additional
Secretary in the Legislative Council to NC’s Dr.
S. Bashir Ahmad Veeri.
get the resolution placed in the House for
adoption, the opposition member had submitted the resolution in the Council secretariat.
Agitated over rejection of his resolution by the
Council Secretariat, the NC member raised the
issue in the House and even walked into th e
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News Digest
Council-2015:
Governor assents to 3
Bills, returns 1
Jammu, March 24:
Secretary Legislative Council, Mr.
Mohammad Asharaf Mir informed the
House that the Bills ‘The Jammu and
Kashmir Pharmacy (Amendment) Act,
2014’, ‘The Jammu and Kashmir Water
Resources (Regulation and Management)
See COUNCIL on page 11
Proposal to set up over
20,000 bunkers along
border sent to Centre:
JK Govt
Jammu, March 24:
Jammu and Kashmir government has
submitted a proposal to the Central government for setting up of over 20,000 bunkers
at a cost of over Rs 1,000 crores at 448 border
areas in the state. “The revised proposal for
See PROPOSAL on page 11
Army Commander
visits Samba
Jammu, Mar 24:
Army
Commander
Western
Command, Lt Gen KJ Singh visited Samba
Military Station on 22 and 23 March 2015.
The Army Commander said “Sabaash” to
the Officers and Jawans who had professionally eliminated two terrorists trying to
enter one of the unit locations but were
See ARMY on page 11
Weather
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Minimum :
16.1 Degree
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Maximum :
22.7 Degree
Minmum
6.8 Degree
Today`s Weather Forecast
JAMMU:MAINLY CLEAR SKY BECOMING
PARTLY CLOUDY SKY. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE WILL BE AROUND 30 DEG, CELS.
Today`s Weather Forecast
SRINAGAR: MAINLY CLEAR SKY BECOMING
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well. “I have moved a motion seeking adjournment of question hour to discuss this important
issue as it has serious and wider ramifications,’’
he added.
The Council’s Chairman Amrit Malhotra
asked the member to take his seat, saying that
he has given him the full reply while rejecting
his resolution on Disturbed Area Act. However,
as Veeri did not listen to him, the Chairman
asked the Marshals to take him out of the House.
Later, outside the Council, Veeri said that
the absence of Disturbed Area Act in the state
has rendered the continuation of AFSPA “illegal’’. How AFSPA is continuing in the state
when the state government has to first declare
an area disturbed under provisions of the
Disturbed Area Act which, however, is not in
vogue in the state since 1998, he asked.
The State’s Education Minister Nayeem
Akhtar, who also happens to be PDP’s chief
spokesperson, accused the NC member of raking up a non-issue. The power to declare an area
disturbed was “inherent in AFSPA itself”, he
pointed out.
The Law Secretary Mohammad Ashraf Mir
endorsed the government view, saying that the
Jammu Kashmir Disturbed Area Act was promulgated by State Governor in 1990 and it was
meant to give similar powers and protection to
state police as were available to Army and other
Central forces under AFSPA while carrying out
counter insurgency operations in Jammu
Kashmir. The Governor’s Act, which was due to
expire in 1997, was ratified by was ratified for a
period of only one year by the then Farooq
Abdullah government.
The ratified Act expired on October 7, 1998,
he said. In its absence, he said that while the
Army enjoys all the powers and immunity for
its counter insurgency actions under AFSPA,
the state police who is really fighting terrorists
does not such powers and immunity. (Agencies)
CM orders release
BJP, PDP to announce coordination committee in J&K
New Delhi, March 24:
Hit by differences, Jammu and
Kashmir's ruling alliance partners BJP and
PDP would soon announce a coordination
committee to ensure better coordination in
the government and that the government
there works in consonance with the common minimum programme.
According to sources, the two parties
will have three members each on the panel
which would meet periodically and decide
on important matters for the government in
the state to work as per CMP agreed on between the two parties.
Sources said that PDP president
Mehbooba Mufti and BJP's Jammu and
Kashmir unit president Jugal Kishore
Sharma will be part of the committee, besides two other members from each side.
The sources add that the committee
will be finalised in the next two-three days
but may be announced once the current session of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly is
over by the end of the month.
The coordination committee at the
state level will see that there is smooth functioning in the government and this will ascertain the process of consultation and communication in running the government, a
senior party leader said.
CMP was announced in Srinagar after
a 25-member council of ministers led by
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed was sworn in on
March 1.
BJP leaders have expressed the hope
that there will be no further controversies
in Jammu and Kashmir and the government there will work as per CMP.
MULTICRORE ROSHNI LAND SCAM
DB’s expresses displeasure
over SVOs status report
Jammu, March 24:
In the much publicized Public
Interest Litigation filed by Prof. S.K.
Bhalla V highlighting organized land
grabbing in the State of J&K wherein
CMA No.48/2014 has been preferred
seeking entrustment of multi-crore
Roshini Land Scam to the CBI, today a
Division Bench of the State High Court
comprising First Puisne Judge Justice
Mohammad Yaqoob Mir and Justice
B.S. Walia after hearing Advocate
Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed for the PIL
and Senior AAG Gagan Basotra for
the State/SVO expressed its displeasure over the latest status report filed by
the SVO and directed the Senior AAG
to file the latest status report in the matter within two weeks.
When this PIL came up for hearing
Advocate S.S. Ahmed drew the attention of the Division Bench towards the
latest status report wherein the Court
was informed that five cases pertaining
to Roshini Scam were concluded as
“Proved” and submitted to the State
Vigilance Commission under Rule
24(1) of SVC Rules, 2013 and case FIR
No.6/2014 PS VOJ was also sent to the
State Vigilance Commission after conclusion of the investigation in the case
as proved. It was also pointed out in the
status report that three more FIR have
been registered by the Police Station
VOJ bearing FIR Nos.3/2015, 4/2015
and 5/2015 and the investigation in
these fresh FIRs is at its threshold.
It was also disclosed
in the status report
that the SVC
raised some
observa-
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tions in
five cases i.e.
FIR
case
Nos.6/2014 PS VOJ,
15/2014 PS VOJ, 16/2014
PS VOJ, 17/2014 PS VOK and
19/2014 PS VOK with the advice
to rectify the same and submit the case
to the competent authority for accord of
sanction in respect of in-service accused public servants.
Division Bench after going
through the status report observed that
the Senior AAG Gagan Basotra has
filed the latest status report which on
perusal is not found to be satisfactory.
The position as was reflected in the
earlier order is almost the same except
for one i.e. in connection with case FIR
No.18/2014 PS VOK, the competent authority to whom the case was submitted for accord of sanction has raised
certain objections in the matter in light
S
of representations submitted by some
accused persons, as such, remanded
back for further investigation in light
of the said representations.
The Division Bench further observed that in the light of the said
representations the VO has asked
the SSP concerned to rectify the
same and submit his comments.
Division Bench further observed
that firstly Advocate Sheikh Shakeel
Ahmed appearing for the petitioner
submitted that the sanctioning authority was not competent to sent the matter back in view of the observations
made by the Apex Court in case titled
Subramanium Swami V/s Manmohan
Singh wherein in Para 44 the Apex
Court observed that grant or refusal of
sanction is not a quasi-judicial function
and the person for whose prosecution
the sanction is sought is not required to
be heard by the competent authority
before it takes a decision in the matter.
What is required to be seen by the competent authority is whether the facts
placed before it which in a given case
may include the material collected by
the complainant or the investigating
agency prima-facie disclosed commission of an offence by a Public Servant.
However Gagan Basotra Senior
AAG submitted that there is no question of hearing to the accused persons
See DB’S on page 11
Boundary talks:
India, China agree
to control disputes
NEW DELHI, March 24:
India and China today began the 18th round of talks
to resolve the contentious boundary issue after which
the Chinese official media said the two sides have
agreed to “properly handle and control” their disputes
before the boundary issue is solved.
The Special Representatives talks for boundary issue, the first such meeting after Prime Minister
Narendra Modi came to power in May last year, was cochaired by Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi and
Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.
Though there was no official statement or reaction
from India on the talks, which will continue tomorrow,
Chinese news agency Xinhua reported, “The two sides
agreed to jointly safeguard peace and tranquillity in
their border regions before the resolution of the vexed
issue.”
Reviewing the progress achieved over the past
years at the SR talks, they emphasised that the two sides
should continue to move forward the process of framework talks in a correct direction on the basis of the existing achievements and consensus, while taking into consideration the overall bilateral relations and long-term
interests of the two peoples, it said. It further said the
of Rs 85.50 lakh
ex gratia to
compensate flood
victims
See CM on page 11
Jammu, March 24:
Devotees stand on a long queue at Bawe Wali Mata Mandir on the occasion of Navratri in Jammu on Tuesday.
GOF PHOTO
Guru’s resolution not drawn
out of balloting in assembly
Srinagar, Mar 24:
The resolution for the return of
the mortal remains of Afzal Guru,
moved by independent legislator
Engineer Rashid, will not be admitted
in the house this session as same was
not drawn out of the balloting process
held on Tuesday.
Balloting the resolutions moved
by various legislators was held on
Tuesday in Assembly secretariat
Jammu.
Engineer Rashid said that in his
absence the balloting was done on resolutions and alleged that it was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the resolution. “It was informed that balloting
will be done on March 24 at 5 P.M. I
made my presence at 4.45 P.M but was
See HC on page 11
Amarath land
resolution
rejected, Congress
stages walkout
Jammu, March 24:
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed today ordered release of an amount
of Rs. 85.50 lakh as ex gratia relief in favour
of the remaining persons who were missing,
dead or seriously injured during September
2014 floods. The money has been credited to
from out of the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund
to the Chief Minister’s Flood Relief Fund for
onward disbursement to the affected people.
An official spokesman today stated that
the funds have been transferred electronically to the Divisional Commissioners of
Kashmir and Jammu for onward distribution to the Next of Kin (NoK) of 37 deceased
and 23 seriously injured persons.
While Rs. 62.00 lakh shall be given to the
NoK of 27 dead and 16 seriously injured persons in Jammu Division, an amount of Rs.
23.50 lakh shall be provided to NoK of 10 dead
and 7 seriously injured persons in Kashmir
Division. The NoK of those persons who
died in the floods will get Rs. 2.00 lakh each
as compensation while those seriously
There have been some controversies,
especially on Chief Minister Mufti
Mohammed Sayeed's post-oath taking remarks crediting Pakistan, Hurriyat and
militants for having contributed to the
smooth conduct of elections in the state and
on the release of separatist leader Masarat
Alam.
Some MLAs of PDP demanded that the
NDA government return the mortal remains of Parliament attack convict Afzal
Guru, another potential point of tension in
the coalition. PTI
told that the balloting had been already done at 2 P.M. It is a murder of
democracy and on diktats of New
Delhi, they run the house in Jammu
and Kashmir. This is nothing but a
clear injustice and anarchy. I will expose such measures before the outer
world so that people come to know
what the true face of democracy is
here,” Rashid said, while pledging
that he will continue his struggle to
bring back mortal remains of Afzal
Guru.
Meanwhile, contesting Rashid’s
claims, secretary Legislative assembly Mohammad Ramzan told KNS
that on March 20, in a bulletin it was
informed to all members that the balloting will be held on 24 March at 1.35.
See GURU’S on page 11
Congress on Tuesday staged a walkout from Jammu and Kashmir Legislative
Council after its resolution demanding
grant of land for building permanent infrastructure for annual Amarnath yatra
was rejected.
Congress MLA Jugal Kishore stood
up from his bench during Zero hour and
sought an reply from the Council
Chairman Amrit Malhotra why his resolution was rejected.
"I have powers and I have rejected it",
the Chairman replied with angry
Congress member rushing to the Well of
the House to lodge protests over the rejection. After few minutes of protests, they
staged the walkout. Later talking to reporters outside the House, Jugal said "I
had brought a resolution in the house demanding grant of land for building permanent structures for Amarnath yatra at
various places including Baltal etc". "I
wanted a discussion on it and reply from
the government that whether they want to
See AMARATH on page 11
Crop losses due to floods is Rs 784
Crore: JK Government
Jammu, Mar 24:
There was a total loss of Rs 784
crore in the horticulture and farming sectors in Kashmir valley due to
the recent floods, followed by an assessment report submitted to the
Centre, the state government said today.
"The fruit growers of Kashmir
valley sustained huge losses due to
recent floods adding that in this regard damage assessment report has
been submitted by the Government
to the Centre", the Minister for
Horticulture, Haj and Auqaf, A R
Veeri said. Replying to the supplementaries to the main question by
Advocate Bashir Ahmed Dar in the
Legislative Assembly, Veeri said
among other sectors includes
Horticulture crop losses for which
an amount of Rs 784 cr representing
50 per cent of the actual loss, these
fruit growers have suffered has been
projected. Sharing concern of the
members about alleged sale of spurious pesticides, the Minister announced that the government shall
enact a stringent law to check this
menace in the interest of the world
reputed Horticulture Industry.
He said that he has directed that
both the Agriculture Universities of
the State to prescribe scientifically
proven standard pesticides and
fungicides to the fruit growers and
farmers well in advance of the spray
season so that they are not fleeced by
the unscrupulous pesticide traders.
The minister said that horticulture industry has given sustenance
to the livelihood of the people of the
state in most difficult of times and
nobody will be allowed to destroy
this vital sector of state's economy.
He said that promotion of
Horticulture sector has been flagged
as priority sector by the present government adding that several measures are being taken to promote this
sector on modern lines.
The minister said the government proposes to construct one cold
storage in each fruit mandi of the
state so that fresh fruit is exported in
its original flavour to other terminal
markets of the country.
In addition, to this soil testing
and pesticide testing laboratories
would be set up in each district so
that production and productivity is
increased manifolds on scientific basis, informed the Minister.
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10TH DAY/KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we
inform the sad and untimely demise
of our beloved mother Smt Satish
Kumari (Munni) W/o Sh Ishwar Dass
Sharma of Reasi who left for heavenSmt Satish
ly abode on 16-03-2015. 10th Day
Kumari
will be performed on 25-03-2015 at
11.00 AM and Kriya on 26-03-2015 at
10.30 AM at our residence House No.
64, Ward No. 11 (Reasi).
GRIEF STRICKEN
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(Rtd. Headmaster) Ph. 9796076140
Son & Daughter-in-law
Sh Naresh Kumar & Shobha Ph. 9419959221
Grand Children: Shivom, Shivaansh
Daughters & Sons-in-law
Smt Babita & Dr. Lakshmi Kant Sharma
Ph. 9419200534
Smt Sangeeta & Hemant Padha Ph. 9419165185
Grand Children: Bhavyansh, Mokshi & Inaya
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of our beloved Late Sh
Mansa Ram (Chacha Ji) age of 100 years
son of Late Sh Kamal Singh R/o Village
Dhanoo (Gatyal) P.O Chiryai Teh & Distt.
Udhampur. Tenth Day will be performed
on 25-03- 2015 11 am at home. Karam Sh Mansa Ram
Kriya will be on 28-3-2015 at home.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Wife
Diya Banti (i)
Durgi Devi (ii)
Sons & Daughter-in-laws
Late Inder Singh & Makhana Devi
Sh Gopal Singh & Puspha Devi
Sh Chain Singh Dehati & Nisha Rani
Sh Karnail Singh & Kanta Devi
Sh Ajeet Singh & Sharista Devi
Daughters & Son-in-laws
Rano Devi & Romal Singh, Shakti Devi & Romal Singh,
Surishta Devi & Angrej Singh, Santosh Devi & Gian Singh,
Shova Devi & Karan Singh
BHOG/ANTIM ARDAS
With profound grief and sorrow, we
inform the sad demise of our
beloved Smt. Shant Kour W/o Late
Bhagwan Singh originally resident
of Village Narsinghpora Distt.
Budgam Kashmir and at present Smt. Shant Kour
Baba Faried Nagar (Seora) near
Sarweshwar Rice Mill Jammu, died on 18-03-2015.
PROGRAMME Arambh Sri Akhand Path Sahib 2503-2015 (Wednesday) at 9.00 hrs at residence at
(Seora) Bhog Sri Akhand Path Sahib 27-03-2015
(Friday) at 9.00 hrs at residence (Seora). Kirtan and
Antim Ardass 27-03-2015 (Friday) 10.00 a.m. to
12.30 hrs at Gurdwara Singh Sabeh Baba (Faried
Nagar Seora) Jammu.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Sardar Surjeet Singh-Son (9906884056)
Sardar Harjinder Singh-Son
(9419763730, 9796003993)
10TH DAY KRIYA
With immence grief and sorrow, we regret
to inform the sad demise of Smt. Kamla Ji
Koul W/o Sh. Nand Lal Koul of Lalgam
Budgam A/P H. No. 62 Lane No. 9, Gurah
Keran Barnai Jammu on 18-3-2015.
TENTH DAY KRIYA will be performed on
Smt. Kamla Ji
27-3-2015 (Friday) at Akhnoor and
Koul
Assembly will be held at our residence
Barnai at 10.30 a.m.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Sh. Nand Lal Koul-Husband
Daughters-in-law and Sons
Smt. Sarla Ji & Sh. S.L. Koul
Smt. Asha Ji & Sh. Ravi Ji Koul
Smt. Priya Ji & Sh. Pintoo Ji Koul
Smt. Manju & Sh. Vijay Ji Koul
Daughters and Son-in-law
Smt. Usha Ji & Sh. M.K. Dhar
Smt. Daisy Ji & Sh. Opinder Bhat
Grand Children
Smt. Sushma & Sh. Deepak Ticku
Smt. Poonam & Sh. Shailunder Koul
Susheel, Anamika, Pooja, Neha, Sneha, Manav, Anash,
Sheen Ticku-Great Grand Daughter
Ph. Nos: 9419494821, 09871495403, 9419674598
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of our Karamyogi father
Shri Sham Lal Talashi S/o Late Sona Ram
Talashi, original resident of Kounzgam,
Pahalgam at present H.No 06, Sector No
04, Lane No 01, Sharika Vihar Lower
Roop Nagar Jammu on 20-03-2015. 10th Shri Sham Lal
Talashi
Day Kriya will be performed on 28-032015 at Akhnoor. However Assembly will
be held at our above mentioned residence at 10.30 am.
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Smt. Omashori & Sh. D.N. Pandita
Daughters-in-law & Sons
Smt. Dulari & Sh. Laxmi Nath Ji
Smt. Girja & Sh. Rattan Lal Ji
Smt. Jeeta & Sh. Pran Nath Ji
Smt. Girja & Sh. Ashok Ji
Smt. Pummy & Sh. Raj Nath Ji
Smt. Dimple & Sh. Ramesh Ji
Daughters & Son-in-laws
Smt. Nancy & Sh. Sham Sunder Bhat
Smt. Bimla & Sh. Roshan Lal Dhar
Smt. Rajni & Sh. Bushan Lal Koul
Grand Children: Sanjeev & Archana,
Chanchal & Pankaj Ji, Sheetal & Vimal Ji, Amit Wali, Vishal,
Sandeep Ji, Sunil, Vivek, Vikas, Shivani, Priyanka, Sakshi,
Amit, Roopal, Ronit, Hardik, Vaibav
Contact Nos: 9419329170, 9469234547, 9419255549
10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALA
With profound grief and sorrow we inform
the sudden demise of our beloved Smt.
Kaushalya Devi (W/o Late Sh. Ram Dhan
Gupta, Ramsoo Wale. 10th Day will be observed at our residence H.No. 22, Butta
Nagar Enclave, near KCS College, (Police
Post Naka, Roop Nagar) at 11.00 a.m. on
26th March, Thursday. Kriya will be per- Smt. Kaushalya
Devi
formed on Saturday 28th March, 2015 at
10.00 a.m. and Uthala at our residence on
same day at 4.00 p.m.
GRIEF STRICKEN
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Late Smt. Taro Devi W/o Sh. Ramesh Chander Gupta
Smt. Shakuntla W/o Sh. Sat Pal Gupta
Smt. Kanta Gupta W/o Late Sh. Jugal Kishore Gupta
Smt. Surishta & Sh. Vijay Kumar Gupta
Smt. Anju & Sh. Ajay Kumar Gupta
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Contact : 9419133325, 9419168068, 9419185525, 9419223069
10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of our beloved father Sh.
Om Parkash Tagotra S/o Sh. Kanshi Ram
Tagotra (Malhotra Gali Wale) R/o 123
Lower Laxmi Nagar Sarwal Jammu who
left for heavenly abode on 16th of March
2015. TENTH DAY will be performed on Sh. Om Parkash
25th of March (Wednesday) at 11 a.m. at
Tagotra
Shiv Mandir Vikas Nagar Sarwal Jammu.
KRIYA will be performed on 26th March at our residence.
UTHALA will be performed on 27th of March at Shagun
Banquet Hall Vikas Nagar Sarwal Jammu at 4.00 p.m.
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(SAMAST TAGOTRA PARIVAR)
MOB- 9419189294
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we regret
to inform about the untimely demise of our
beloved Sh. Sham Lal Koul S/o Late Sh.
Neel Kanth Koul (Papa Jee) of
Hangalgund Kokernag (Anantnag) at
present H.No 44, Lane No 4-A Sub Lane
No 2, Laxmi Vihar Tomal Bohri Near Om
Sh. Sham Lal
Saraf Palace on 16-03-2015. The 10th
Koul
Day Kriya will be performed at Akhnoor
Ghat and Assembly at our residence at 12
Noon on Wednesday, 25th March, 2015.
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Smt. & Sh. Ashok Kumar Koul
Smt. & Sh. Kamal Koul
Smt. & Sh. Krishan Koul
Grand Children : Jann , Tamanna , Kalhan , Sharad Koul
Ph. Nos: 9419224702, 7298184584, 9906213679
KRIYA/UTHALA
With profound grief and sorrow, we
inform the sad demise of our beloved
Sh Girdhari Lal Dogra S/o Late Sh
Tara Chand R/o 161/128 Pacci Dacci
Jammu on 13- 03-2015. Kriya will be
performed at our residence Pacci Sh Girdhari Lal
Dacci on 25-03-2015, Wednesday at
Dogra
10 AM to 12 PM. Uthala will be performed at Brahman Sabha, Prade on
27-03-2015 (Friday) at 5 PM.
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Smt Santosh & Sh Suraj Parkash (Retd. PNB)
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Smt Babita & Sh Parshotam Lal - 9419703272
Smt Savita & Sh Naresh K. Dogra
(APS Udhampur) - 9419160590
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Sandeep & Poonam (9419121467)
Grand Daughters & Grand Sons-in-law
Shaveta & Sameer
Meenakshi & Ajay
Grand Children: Sushant, Sakshi, Sahil,
Swati, Shivani, Shipra, Mugdha & Bhavishika
Great Gr. Children: Saamya, Sanyam, Manan & Ridhima
M/s Girdhari Tea Stall, Pacca Danga, Jammu
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we regret to
inform about the untimely demise of our
beloved mother Karamyogi Smt. Prabhawati
Tickoo W/o Late Shri Prithvi Nath Tickoo R/o
Achan Pulwama, Kashmir at present House
No: 57, Sharika Vihar, Roop Nagar, Jammu
on 19-03-2015. 10th Day Kriya will be perSmt. Prabhawati
formed at Akhnoor Ghat on 28-03-2015 at 7
Tickoo
AM and Assembly will be held at Muthi Ghat,
near Directorate of School Education, Jammu at 10.30 AM.
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Tickoo & Kachroo Parivar
0191-2591546, 9797525101, 9796209699
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we regret
to inform that our beloved Sh. Kanaya Lal
Ji S/o Late Sh. Gopi Nath, erstwhile resident of Village Waterkhani (Kupwara,
Kmr.) and presently residing at H.No # 70
- D/5, Lane No. 23, Swarn Vihar, Police
Colony, Bantalab, Jammu, left this mortal Sh. Kanaya Lal Ji
world for his heavenly abode in the wee
hours of 16th of March, 2015. The Tenth
Day Kriya of the departed soul shall be performed at Akhnoor
on 25th of March, 2015 @ 8.00 am (Wednesday) Assembly
shall take place thereafter at his residence at 11.30 am.
IN GRIEF:
Smt. Phoola Ji -Wife
Mr. Nikhil & Mr. Dushant -Sons
Smt. Umashori W/o Late Sh. Lassa Kak -Sister
Smt. & Sh. Moti Lal Pandita -Brother & Sister-in-law
Smt. & Sh. Vijay Kaul -Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt. & Sh. Sandeep Dhar -doSmt. & Sh. Umesh Bhat -doSmt. & Sh. Sanjay Pandita -doSmt. Umawati Pandita (W/o Lt. Ram Ji Pandita -Mother-in-law
Panditas, Bhats & Kauls, Dhar
Con: 94194-01662, 97960-23996, 97966-83746, 9622046686
10TH DAY KRIYA
JAMMU WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015, PAGE 2
With profound grief and sorrow we regret to
inform the sad demise of our beloved mother
Smt Indrawati W/o Late Maheshwar Nath
Pandita originally R/o Rohama District
Baramulla Kashmir presently at TRT-01,
Block-A, Muthi Camp (Phase II), Community
Hall (Ekta Bhawan) Jammu on dated 17-032015 (0320 hrs). Tenth Day Kriya will be held
Smt Indrawati
at Akhnoor Ghat on date 25- 03-2015
(Wednesday) and Assembly will be held at
11.30 hrs at TRT-01, Block-A, Muthi Camp
(Phase II),Community Hall (Ekta Bhawan).
GRIEF STRICKEN
Sons & Daughters-in-Law
Sh Roop Krishan Pandita & Smt Bharti Pandita
Sh Ashok Kumar Pandita & Smt Sweety Pandita
Sh Raj Nath Pandita
Sh Roshan Lal Pandita & Smt Durga Pandita
Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt Veena Pandita & Sh Ahsok Kumar Bhat
Grand Children: Rahul, Komal, Adarsh, Aditya, Rithik
Mob : 9469050344, 9419106038, 9469807758, 9419240601
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of our beloved mother
Smt Nirmala Devi W/o Lt Sh Tara Chand
originally resident of Tailwani, Anantnag
Kashmir A/p Flat No. 15, Block 34, Lane
No. 7, Jagte Coloney. Tenth Day will be
performed on 28-03-2015 at Nagrota Smt Nirmala Devi
Near Sainik School Nagrota Jammu at
9.00 AM.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt & Sh Tej Krishan - - Daughter-in-Law & Son
Smt & Sh Shuban Krishan - Daughter-in-Law & Son
Smt & Sh Ravi Ji Tikoo - Daughter & Son-in-Law
Smt & Sh Tej Krishan - Daughter & Son-in-Law
Smt & Sh B N Pandita - Daughter & Son-in-Law
Mob: 9419159679, 9419275367
10TH DAY KRIYA
WITH PROFOUND GRIEF AND SORROW WE INFORM THE SAD AND UNTIMELY DEMISE OF OUR REVERED
AND RESPECTED MOTHER SMT.
KAMLA SAPRU (JIGRI) W/O LATE
SHAM LAL SAPRU (TAROZDAR) ORIGINAL RESIDENT OF ZAINDHAR MOSMT. KAMLA
HALLA, NEAR KATHLISHWAR TEMSAPRU
PLE, SRINAGAR, KASHMIR (AT PRESENT 51-C, OM NAGAR, UDAIWALA, BOHRI, TALAB TILOO,
JAMMU), ON 17.03.2015 AT NIT SRINAGAR. TENTH DAY
KRIYA WILL BE PERFORMED AT PURSHYAR, HABBAKADAL, SRINAGAR, KASHMIR ON THURSDAY THE
26TH OF MARCH, 2015 AT 9 A.M.
GRIEF STRICKEN:
Daughters and Son-in-laws
Mrs. Ratna Dhar & Mr. K. L. Dhar
Mrs. Santosh Raina and Mr. M. L. Raina
Mrs. Girja Raina and Mr. K. L. Raina
Daughter-in-law and Son
Mrs. Priya Sapru and Mr. P. L. Sapru
AND DHARS, MUKUS, SARAFS, KOULS AND TIKOOS.
9419143102; 9419298727
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we
regret to inform that our beloved
mother Smt Shobawati Pandit W/o
Sh Sri Kanth Pandit R/o Tral Payeen
(Erstwhile)
Lajuran
Pulwama
Kashmir A/P Lane No. 17/18 Block Smt Shobawati
92, Flat No. 9 Jagati Colony Nagrota
Pandit
Jammu has proceeded to heavenly
abode on 21-3-2015 Saturday. Tenth
Day will be performed on 30-3-2015
Monday at TRT Nagrota Jammu at 9 PM.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Sh Sri Kanth Pandit -Husband
Sister: Mrs Mohni Jee W/o Mr V P Dhar
Sons & Daughters-in-law
Mrs Girja Pandit & Ramesh Kumar Pandit 9419611426
Mrs Shakhti & Vinod Pandit 9796020283
Daughters & Sons-in-law
Mrs Jyoti Bhat & J L Bhat
Mrs Bubli Pandit & Ashok Kumar Pandit
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we regret
to inform about the untimely demise of our
beloved Smt. Rita Vaishnavi W/o Sh.
Manmohan Vaishnavi originally R/o
Chatta Bal, Srinagar A/P 189/B, Sarwal
Chowk, Jammu. The 10th Day Kriya will
Smt. Rita
be performed at Akhnoor Ghat and
Vaishnavi
Assembly at our residence at 11:30 AM on
Wednesday 25th March, 2015.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Sh. Manmohan Vaishnavi - Husband
Dr. Chetna & Vijay Vaishnavi - Brother-in-law
Jaya Dhar & Usha Kour - Sister-in-law
Reema & Varun Singh - Daughter & Son-in-law
Dr. Meenakshi & Anil Vaishnavi - Daughter-in-law & Son
Preeti & Ajay Vaishnavi - Daughter-in-law & Son
Megha & Navneet Vaishnavi - Daughter-in-law & Son
Gehna Vaishnavi - Daughter
Dhar’s, Kissu’s, Koul’s, Wali’s (M): 9419661426, 9796818195
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad and untimely demise of our
beloved mother Ashaji (Kaushalya) R/o
Ichikoot Budgam at present H.No. 5
Sector-1, Krishna Vihar Vinayak Nagar,
Behind Govt. Middle School (Girls) Muthi,
Ashaji
Jammu. 10th Day Kriya will be performed
(Kaushalya)
on 27th March 2015 at Akhnoor Ghat.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Shri M.L Bhat - Husband
Smt. Rukmani - Mother-in-law
Smt. Mohini Pandita - Sister-in-law
Daughter-in-laws & Sons
Smt. Tathi & Shri Surender Bhat
Smt. Anjali & Shri Vinod Bhat
Smt. Ishwari & Shri Sanjay Bhat
Grand Daughters: Anu, Diksha, Khushi, Guddi & Gunni
& Samast Bhat, Kachroo, Raina Parivar
(M): 9596876081, 9419199611, 9796479447, 09310860024
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of Sh. Durga Nath Dhar
S/o Lt. Sh. Ram Chand of Bijbehara
Anantnag Kashmir A/P Community Hall
near Block No. 125, Flat No. 18, Lane No.
21 Jagti Nagrota Jammu on 20-3-2015.
TENTH DAY KRIYA will be performed on Sh. Durga Nath
Dhar
29-03- 2015 Sunday at TRT Camp
Nagrota Jammu at 8 a.m.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Bimla Dhar-Wife
Indu Bushan Kachroo & Babli-Brother-in-law & Sister
Shuban Krishen Dhar & Savitri-Brother & Bhabi
Vimal Kumar Dhar & Sunita-Brother & Bhabi
Rajinder & Meenu-Son & Daughter-in-law
Parvinder Garoo & Chanda-Daughter & Son-in-law
Mob : 9858065018, 8803982587, 9697100667,9419313187
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
that our beloved mother Karmyogni Smt.
Sumitra Patwari (Appa) W/o Lt. Sh. M.N.
Patwari and Grand Daughter-in-law of
Yogi Raj Swami Parmanand Jee Patwari
of Mattan, left for her heavenly abode on
19-3-2015. 10TH DAY KRIYA will be performed on Saturday 28-3-2015 at Delhi
for Ghat Venue Contact on mentioned
Mob Numbers on dated 27-3-2015.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Patwari’s 09419130120, 09818574547
Rishi’s - 09419190387
Kaul’s – 09810511945
Smt. Sumitra
Patwari
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of our beloved Shri Jagar
Nath Raina S/o Late Shri Raja Ram originally resident of Hianjan Kulgam Kmr at
present H.No 12, Lane No 3-A, Roop
Nagar Enclave, Jammu. Tenth Day will be
performed at Akhnoor Ghat on 29.3.2015 Shri Jagar Nath
Raina
(Sunday) & Assembly will be held at the
present residence at 10.30 AM.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt Dura Devi -Wife
Smt Chuni Devi -Sister
Brother & Bhabi
Smt & Shri Bansi Lal Raina
Smt & Shri Pushkar Nath Raina
Sons and Daughter-in-laws
Shri Ramesh Kumar & Jyotishna
Sh Manoj Kumar & Dolly/ Sheela
Vijay Raina & Sarishta
Grand Children: Antra, Varsha, Mayuri & Vansham
Mob: 9419192849, 9419200997, 9419278573
OBITUARY
With profound grief we regret to inform that
our mother Shanta Pandit W/o Late Sh. Som
Nath Pandit has passed away peacefully on
18.03.2015. 10th day (Kriya) shall take place
on 27.03.2015 at Gaggar River, Panchkula
(Near Shani Dev Temple) at 08.00 am.
Smt Shanta
IN GRIEF :Pandit
Sons and Daughter-in-laws
Satish and Rimpy Pandit (M)- 8968833444
Kanwal Kishore and Anita Pandit
(M)- 9876638468
Vinod and Nalani Pandit (M)- 9814008711
& Thathus', Mattoos', Wazirs', Kauls',
Adaltis', Zutshis', Dhars'
A/P: A6/631, 3rd Floor, Palm Court, VIP Road, Zirakpur (Punjab
SHADMOS/MASWAR
Shadmos and Maaswar of our Mother
Smt Jaikishori Warikoo Wife of Sh. Som
Nath Warikoo will be performed on 24th
and 25th March 2015 at our residence
1045 FF C2 Block Palam Vihar, Gurgaon.
DEEPLY REMEMBERED
Smt Jaikishori
Sh Som Nath Warikoo: Husband
Warikoo
Daughter-in-Law and Son
Arti and Maharaj Krishen Warikoo:
Daughter and Son-in-Law
Neena and Narinder Razdan
Puja and Rajinder Warikoo: Daughter-in-Law and Son
Ashutosh Dr. Shantanu (USA) and Ketan: Grand Children
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we regret
to inform about the untimely demise of our
beloved Smt. Mohini Wali (Bhabhi) of
Chinkral Mohalla, Habba Kadal, Srinagar
on 16-3-2015 (Monday) at Jain Nagar
Delhi. 10TH DAY/KRIYA will be performed on 25-3-2015 (Wednesday) at Smt. Mohini Wali
Sector 18, Opp Badli Bus Depot, Rohini.
The Mourning is being held at H. No. 2057, Jain Nagar, Karala
Road, opp Sector 22, Rohini, Delhi -81
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt Seemaji and B. K. Wali (Bitu Ji)- Daughter-in-Law & Son
Smt Neena and Kuldeep Wali- Daughter-in-aw & Son
Smt. Veena and Sh. Vinod Kuchroo-Daughter and Son-in-Law
Grand Children: Nikita Wali, Nitika Kuchroo, Siddhi Kuchroo &
Vivaan Wali (Shehjar)
Samast Arazbegi Pariwar
Ph. No. 9419174959, 9810108782, 9910108792, 9310108782
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of our beloved mother
Smt. Mohini Devi (Bhat) W/o Late Sh.
Mohan Lal Bhat originally resident of
Gund Chakpora ( B K Pora) Teh. Chadura
Distt. Budgam Kmr. A/P Govt Quarter No.
E-101 Toph Sherkhania Subash Nagar Smt. Mohini Devi
Jammu on 17-3-2015. TENTH DAY will
be performed on 26-3-2015 (Thursday) at Akhnoor and
Assembly will be held at Present Address at 11 AM.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Sons and Daughter-in-laws
Sh. A.K. Bhat & Smt. Veena Bhat
Sh. Ajay Mohan Bhat & Smt. Pupli Kumari Bhat
Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt. Titli & Sh. Manohar Raina
Grand Children : Kunal, Suraj, Ayush & Bhumica
Mobile Nos: 9419156471, 8713852021, 9469231795
GLIMPSES OF FUTURE
JAMMU WEDNESDAY, MARCH, 25, 2015, PAGE 3
Education standards to be improved: Naeem
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu March 24:
Terming education as the
most powerful medium to create
an enlightened, progressive and
a peaceful society, the Minister
for Education, Mr. Naeem
Akhtar, today said that the present government has flagged this
sector as its top most priority.
The Minister along with
Minister of State for Education
and Information, Ms. Priyar
Sethi reviewed the progress
achieved under Sarva Shikhsha
Abhiyan (SSA) at a high level
meeting here. Commissioner
Secretary Education, Mr.
Shaleen Kabra, Mission
Director SSA, Mr. Ramesh
Students need to be taught with devotion, commitment: Sethi
Kumar, District Development
Commissioner, Udhampur Ms.
Yasha Mudgal, Secretary, Board
of School Education (BOSE),
Director School Education
Jammu, Simrandeep Singh,
Director School Education,
Kashmir, Mr Showkat Ahmed
Beig, Additional Secretary
Education, Mr. F. A. Dar were also present in the meeting.
The Minister said that in order to further enhance the standards of education, the education system is being rationalized, which is imperative for
brighter future of the students.
He said to achieve 100% literacy
in the State, the Rehbar-eTaleem (ReT) have to play a pivotal role in increasing the enrolment of children in schools in
their locality. Akhtar said that
20 KGBVs will be constructed in
the State during this year for
which Union Government has
provided Rs. 90 lakh for each KGBV. The Minister said four
schools; two each in Jammu and
Kashmir will be developed as
Model Schools. He said in the
first phase Ranbir Singh School
and Higher Secondary School
Sunjwan in Jammu and Girls
Higher Secondary School
Amirakadal and MP Higher
Secondary School in Kashmir
will be provided modern equipments during this year.
The Minister asked the officers to launch an awareness
campaign all over the State highlighting the major schemes under implementation through
SSA. He asked them to use print
and electronic media for the purpose so that people in remote and
far-flung areas remain fully
aware about the schemes.
Underscoring the importance of education in mental,
moral and physical development
of the children, the Minister of
State for Education, Ms. Priya
Sethi impressed upon the teaching fraternity to teach the students with devotion and social
commitment. “Each word
First budget viable, aimed at making
NPP threatens movement against Govt policy J&K Self Reliant: Hamid Choudhary
on AFSPA, Delimitation
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu March 24:
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu March 24:
Prof. Bhim Singh condemned the BJP-PDP government for adding to the terror in
the state which is already under
security threat by the terrorist.
He said that withdrawal of
Army from Bani area of Kathua
District smacks conspiracy that
a district struck with terror has
been made soft for the terrorists
by the anti-national policy of
Modi Government. Addressing
meida persons here today, Prof
Singh said the Delimitation of
the Assembly Constituencies
must be held immediately and
the Civil Secretariat should
function around the year both in
Srinagar as well as in Jammu.
Prof. Bhim Singh released
political and international resolutions adopted last evening at
the 33rd Foundation Day of
JKNPP in Parade Ground,
Jammu ( a copy of the resolution
already released to the media)
Prof. Bhim Singh said that the
BJP had sold out the interest of
the people of Jammu to PDP just
for the sake of power and surrendered to PDP even the security of
the state. NPP Supremo also demanded implementation of
Supreme Court direction to pro-
vide full relief to the Jammu migrant including those camping
in Talwara without any delay.
He warned that the JKNPP
shall launch a civil disobedience movement in the State for
the reorganization of the state
and amendment in article 370.
He appealed to all the citizen to
preserve communal harmony
for seeking ultimate justice for
all. Prof. Bhim Singh also visited the striking temporary teachers, Civil Defence volunteers
and nomads tribes volunteers
sitting on protest, hunger strike
and dharna outside the press
club, Jammu. Expressing full
solidarity with the protesting
organization/groups of people,
he assured that the JKNPP shall
fight for their cause from the
streets to the Supreme Court
Other who were present in
the press conference included
Masood Andrabi Vice-President,
Thakur,
General
Anita
Secretary, Bansi Lal Sharma
Adv, Political Advisor NPP,
Jagdev Singh Coordination
Secretary, S. Paramjit Singh
Marshal President PTU, Sewa
Singh Bali, State General
Secretary PTU, Gagan Pratap
Spokesman
Young
Singh
Panthers, Neeraj Gupta Zonal
President etc
Appreciating coalition government's first budget, People's
Democratic Party (PDP) Abdul
Hamid Choudhary today said
that provisions in the financial
planning reflect government's
resolve to make Jammu and
Kashmir a self reliant state. This
balanced budget is a beginning
to help each and every section of
society and in the years to come
incumbent government led by
Chief Mister Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed is likely plan a better financial management as well.
He said that creation of 3660
posts of helpers for regularisation
of daily wagers, privatisation of
Toll Plaza at Lakhanpur, Rupees
2200 crore earmarked for releasing DA of employees and pensioners, merging Plan and Non-Plan
for ensuring employees salaries
in time, concessions for flood affected people and transporters
and exemption to all hoteliers
from payment of entry tax on furniture/office are some of the historic decisions taken by he coalition government. The budget
aimed at establishing fiscal autonomy for the state is appreciable for the reason that it intends to
give people a quality life. Fight
against corruption is also the resolve of this government.
Criticizing the state government
merely for the sake of criticism is
no good job of opposition, he said
adding that continuation of VAT
exemption on Paddy, Rice,
Wheat, Pulses, Floor, Atta, Maida,
Suji and Besan upto March, 2016
and exemption of toll on export of
fresh vegetables are all aimed at
helping people at domestic level.
Terming the budget a balanced one, Choudhary Hamid
said while Dal Development
Bonds for restoration of the Dal
lake will generate enough funds
for the government, Setting up of
Pesticide Regulation Authority
will approve and monitor all the
pesticides that go into J&K. This
is indeed a historic step aimed at
taking good care of people's
health. The PDP leader said that
in the first ever budget the government has been able to touch
every section of society and in
years to come benefits of such a
balanced budget will percolate
down to each and every individual in one or the other way.
Contribution of Rupees 1000 per
month on behalf of every new
born girl child for the next 14
years and on reaching 21 years
giving her Rupees 6.5 lakhs is a
very good scheme which will
help bring foeticide to zero level.
The project has been envisaged to begin from six districts
with the most adverse child sex
ratio and gradually extended to
other districts as well. Another
best thing in the budget is treating women employees of the
state at par with women employees when it comes to admissibility of child care leave. This will
not only help children have a
good care but will also enable
women to take good care of themselves as well. The children will
be better nourished and grow into a healthy human being. The
women who used to ignore themselves only to take care of their
children will also be able to help
themselves lead a healthy life.
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu March 24:
National Students’ Union of
India (NSUI) held a strong
protest demonstration outside
the Jammu University Campus
against BJP government at
Centre and termed it a certified
U-turn sarkar by burning effigies of modi govt. The protesters
were led by Neeraj Kundan,
State President of NSUI and accompanied by other members of
NSUI State committee.
Addressing protesting student activists & media persons,
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu March 24:
Kundan said that BJP is following a double standard in dealing
with the matters with Pakistan.
He also added that in twin attacks at Kathua & Samba districts BJP has not even spoke a
single word and union MOS
V.K.Singh
has
attended
Pakistan Day parade along with
Hurriyat leaders at Pakistan
high commissioner in Delhi.
Kundan further added that
before coming into power BJP always spoke big words and made
large speeches on the issue of terror attacks and also raised a
great hue & cry in social media
CEO inspects
examination centres
GOF Staff Reporter
POONCH March 24:
Chief Education Officer
Poonch Ch. Lal Hussain heading a team of vigilance squad,
inspected the Secondary
School Examination Annual
2015 centers set up in GHSS
Surankote, BHSS Surankote,
HS Draba and HSS Bufliaz and
framed 24 cases of unfair
means against the examinees.
In all two cases have been
booked at GHSS Surankote, 10
cases framed at HS Draba and
12 cases at HSS Buffliaz.
On account of dereliction
of their duties in the examination canters, Mushtaq Ahmed
Assistant Superintendent and
Mohd
Iqbal
Assistant
Superintendent at centers
GHSS Surankote have been
placed under suspension with
immediate effect.
Another team headed by
DEPO Poonch N.M Suri inspected BHSS Poonch and
framed four cases of unfair
means against the examinees.
on the meeting of Dr. Manmohan
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu March 24:
entire Ex-Servicemen community in the J&K State welcomes
this announcement & thank
Jenab Mufti Mohd Sayeed,
Hon'ble CM & his entire cabinet
for fulfilling this long pending
demand of the Ex-Servicemen
community. The other demands
of the Ex-Servicemen viz were
reservation in re-employment of
Ex-servicemen in J&K Govt. departments to be restored to the
Ent Test for Eng Diploma:
BOPEE extends date for
online form submission
YP flays the withdrawal of Army from Bani,
demands re-deployment of forces
The J&K Board of
Professional
Entrance
Examinations (BOPEE) has
extended the date for the submission of online Application
forms for Three Year Diploma
course
in
Engineering
(Polytechnic) Entrance Test2015 up to April 1-2015.
As per a Notification issued by BOPEE, “All eligible
candidates who are interested
in appearing in the Three
Years Diploma in Engineering
(Polytechnic) Entrance Test2015 are hereby informed that
the date for the submission of
Online Application forms (for
Open and Category candidates) as well as receipt of communication page (for category
candidates only) has been extended upto 1st of April -2015
(5.00 PM).
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu March 24:
Rebuking the recent withdrawal of Armed forces from
Bani several Panthers Party activists led by Shri Pawan Dev
Singh staged a protest demonstration at Press Club, Jammu
and burnt the effigy of the state
government amid raising slogans against the BJP-PDP coalition. Pawan Dev Singh, state
Secretary Young Panthers,
while addressing the media said
that soon after the state government’s decision to withdraw security forces from certain zones,
the armed forces have been
withdrawn from several areas of
Bani like Dhaggan, LohaiMalhar, Machedi, Chochrugala,
Lohang and Roulka. As a result
a feeling of psychosis and fear
has brewed among the people of
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu March 24:
University Health Centre
and the Department of Botany
jointly organized an awareness
lecture on Tuberculosis on the
of
World
occasion
Tuberculosis Day-2015 in the
seminar hall of the Botany department,
University
of
Jammu. Dr.Sanjeev Narang,
Consultant Pulmonologist at
Dr.T.R.Narang Chest Clinic
was the key speaker during
this event. Prof.Geeta Sumbali
from the Department of Botany
was Chief Guest. Dr. Yash Pal
Sharma, HOD Botany and convener Health Centre Advisory
Committee , apprised the audience that such programmes are
organized with an objective to
sensitize the general public regarding the spread and control
of TB which is taking prestigious lives of both rich and
poor in India and other parts of
the world.
He further said that more
such awareness lectures and
health camps will be organised
by heath centre in near future.
Dr.Gautam Sharma, Dental
Surgeon, delivered the welcome address and introduced
the speaker to the audience.
Jammu March 24:
A meeting was convened at
the Chamber House wherein
Presidents of all the Trade and
Industrial Associations across
Jammu province were present
to assess the proposed budget
presented by the Finance
Minister H.A. Drabu for the fiscal year 2015-16 in the J&K state
assembly. Almost all the heads
of the associations representing
to trade and industry conveyed
their displeasure regarding the
anti trade / industries attitude
of the government of J&K. while
discussing the pre-budget memorandum submitted to the
Finance Minister and deliberated upon, it was felt that the prebudget meeting was a meager
formality and eyewash as all the
legitimate / genuine demands of
Chamber of Commerce &
Industry which were well taken
and agreed upon by the Finance
Minister found almost no place
in the proposed budget.
The main demands of
Chamber of Commerce &
Industry included VAT on
Shawls, Exemption of VAT on
anti cancer drugs, benefits to
the tourism / service industry
as per the definition of the industry, reduction of tax on
Automobiles in CSD, reduction
in highest rates of tax on Beedi
and Cigarette, reduction of tax
on Desi Ghee, Uniformity of tax
on dry fruits other than exempted, uniformity of tax on Shoes,
amnesty on GST recoveries, exemption of Toll tax on import of
fresh fruits and vegetables, exemption of entry tax on machin-
ery used by stone crushing industry, VAT on TIN foil with
retrospective effect since 20112012 , double taxation of service
tax on MES contractors and
deletion of Mustered Oil
Industry from the Negative List.
All the above said point
were well explained and agreed
upon by the Finance Minister
but the Chamber of Commerce
& Industry is surprised that
these genuine demands have
not met justice in the proposed
budget. The Chamber also expressed anguish over the taxation on nursing homes which is
not applicable elsewhere in the
country and also taxation on
sports services.
The government of J&K
that if our genuine / legitimate
demands are not met with and if
the people adversely effected by
the flash flood last year are not
rehabilitated we shall have no
option but to take the course of
agitation at the state level
against the coalition government. Chamber feels that before
calling for any such steps which
would be detrimental to the
tourism and the economy of our
state we invite the Hon’ble
Finance
Minister
Mr.
H.A.Drabu for an open debate on
any TV Channel as to why the
government has behaved like a
dictatorship and not as a democracy as also we would like the
people from trade / industry and
the common man in the state to
know the cruelty action of the
government which will not only
render most of the people in
business community bankrupt
but also result in unemployment
of lakhs of youths in the state.
15% as was earlier prevalent,
fast tracking of all Revenue cases of Ex-Servicemen so that they
do not face any problems due to
their long absences while performing their duties for the
country, the raising of a Disaster
Management Force & Ecological
Battalions exclusively consisting of the young Ex-servicemen
so that their training & expertise
is put to gainful use.
Bani constituency. It is pertinent to mention that earlier
many villages of Bani were targeted by the militants and subsequently the armed forces were
called upon for the protection of
the people. He added that the
withdrawal of armed forces
would foster a security threat to
the inhabitants of the area and
reiterated his demand to revoke
the withdrawal order of forces
and re- deploy them without any
delay to save the people from further death and destruction.
Pawan Dev disclosed that
the entire Bani-Bazar has shut
down for expressing resentment
against the withdrawal of the
forces and expressed his solidarity with the people of Bani on behalf of NPP. He maintained the
Panthers Party shall stand by
the people of Bani in all odds and
circumstances and warned the
state government of dire consequences if any untoward incident happens in future and it
shall only be BJP-PDP coalition
including the local MLA who
would be held responsible for
Singh with Nawaz Sharif. In a re-
cent interview, Mr. Modi said
that in the blasting sounds of
bombs,no one can listen each
other's voice but at this point of
time, when twin bomb blasts
took place in samba and kathua,
modi led govt. is busy in engaging talks with pakistan, which is
a very sadful story to narrate.
After election and coming into
power they forgot all their
speeches and promises made to
the people. They have started
sympathizing with separatists
and hurriyat leaders.
Agitated NSUI activists
raised slogans against Pakistan
& BJP, Modi sarkar and said that
it is very unfortunate that the
promises and speeches made by
BJP leaders especially Narendra
Modi are contrary to the actions
they are doing after coming into
power.
Other main NSUI leaders
who were present in the protest
demonstration included Nasib
Ali, ajay kumar (national deligate), sahil singh langeh (senior
nsui
leader),
ranjodh
singh,mehran Anjum,shahbaz
kohli, satvinder singh,Imran
yaser javed,Sehdev
akram,
singh and many others.
Grant special package of 2000 Cr to J&K
per annum: NMC appeals Centre
Capt. Anil Gour, State
President
JK
Peoples
Democratic
Ex-Servicemen
Wing (JKPDESW) & Brig. Anil
Gupta, State President, BJP ExServicemen Wing alongwith
Capt. M. S. Reen & others addressed a Press Conference today wherein at the outset they
paid homage to the brave police
personnel & innocent civilians
who lost their lives in the cowardly attack of the militants in
Kathua. Later they welcomed
the recent budget announcement of Mr. Haseeb Darubu,
Hon'ble
Finance
Minister
wherein he has announced that
the VAT being levied on CSD
goods within the state will be rationalised to the levels as that being levied in the neighbouring
states of Himachal, Punjab &
Rajasthan. This is the fulfilment
of the promise of both PDP &
BJP in the recent elections & the
Jammu March 24:
Awareness lecture
on tuberculosis
held at JU
GOF Staff Reporter
NSUI stages protest over BJP’s new u-turn on India-Pakistan relations
Rationalization of VAT on CSD goods
hailed by Ex-Servicemen of J&K
GOF Staff Reporter
taught by them to children embeds life-long, far reaching and
indelible impression and impact
on their clean mind”, she asserted. The District Development
Commissioner, Udhampur,
Yasha Mudgal, who has served
as Mission Director SSA earlier,
as an expert gave a detailed resume through Power Point
Presentations about the
‘Concerns and Solutions in education sector’ particularly the
functioning and implementation of SSA in the State. She suggested some measures for
streamlining the system.
Budget 2015 is
anti-trade & Industries:
Business community
President of the National
Mazdoor Conference (NMC)
Subash Shastri today appealed
to the Prime Minister, Union
Finance Minister and Minister
of State, (PMO) to immediately
grant special package to the tune
of 2000 crores per annum for the
regularization of sixty one thousand casual/seasonal laborers
working in the various departments of the state Govt. to overcome their miserable conditions, they are facing their daily
life due to non disbursement of
wages and sharp increase the
prices of essential commodities.
Talking to media persons
here, Shastri reminded the new
Government at the state to fulfill
their commitment which the
BJP, a coalition partner in the
State Govt. and their senior leaders had committed to resolve
this very sensitive issue on pri-
such mishap. Others who led the
protest
included
Thakur
Virender Singh, Rishi Badyal,
Shori Lal, Lovely Singh, Amit
Singh, Shubam Singh, Shubam
Jasrotia etc.
ority basic during the election
rallies of recently conducted
State Assembly election in presence of Prime Minister, if voted
to power.
Shastri hoped that BJP led
NDA Govt. at the centre will rescue the Jammu & Kashmir Govt.
by providing special package
particularly for this purpose so
that the long pending demand of
these poor daily rated workers
get fulfilled.
While welcomed the decision of State Govt. to create 3660
posts of helpers for regularization of an equal number of daily
rated workers Shastri described
it as pro working class decision
adding that same method may be
adopted in phase manner to regularized remaining 61000 daily
rated workers.
Emphasizing on the need
for creating separate Head in
each department for their timely
disbursement of wages, Shastri
said this measure will go to ad-
dress their financial problems
permanently.
Enhancing salary of daily wagers to rupees ten thousand per
month, strictly implementing CP.
Fund deduction scheme in all departments of the State Govt., increasing medical allowance to rupee one thousand per month and
immediate release of all pending
due s of daily wagers working in
irrigation and flood control department, PWD, PDD and other
departments were other demands
highlighted on the occasion.
Among others who also present
on the occasion were Rajan Babu
Khajuria, Sunil Kochar, Surinder
Kumar, Pardeep Kumar, Jaipaul
Sharma,
Surjeet
Kumar,
Bhupinder Singh, Sudesh Kumar,
Paramjeet and many others.
JKACCL announces Annual Drama Festival 2014 -15
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu March 24:
J&K Academy of Art Culture
and Languages Announced the
results of Annual Drama festival
held here recently at Govt.
College for Women Gandhi
Nagar, Jammu wherein fourteen
plays in different languages were
staged by the various theatre
groups. The Jury has recommended the various awards to the
Groups and in individual categories. The play Komal Gandhar
by Pancham Society for art ,
Culture, Education and social upliftment was adjuged the best production while the play Andha
Yug by Samooh Theatre has been
adjuged as 2nd best production .
Gurmeet Kour awarded as
Best Director and Best Actress and
Dinesh Dogra as Best actor for the
play Komal Gandhar .Best Set has
been awarded to Shalini Sharma
for the play The last Seance while
Best lights has been awarded to
Juned Kak for the play Komal
Gandhar . Best make-up and Best
costumes have been awarded to
Shami Dameer and Ravinder
Sharma respectively for the play
Andha Yug . Best Music has been
awarded to Abhishek Bharti For
the play Last Colony while Mega
Ajanbi has been awarded as Best
child artist for the play Sandhya
Chhayya . Shadi Lal Koul as
Bushan Lal for the play Local Tax
Extra and Sapna Soni as Kasturaba
for the play Adalat Mein Gandhi
have been awarded 2nd best actor
and actress respectively.
In the consolation category
Sonia Dhamir and Abhishek
Bharti has been awarded in Make
up and direction respectively
while Sonia Dubey has been
awarded in costumes for the play
“the last Colony” and Sh.
Himanshu Darshan has been
awarded in music for the play The
Last Séance The merit certificates
in acting have been awarded
to.Kanika Sharma as Gandhari ,
Vishal Singh as Ashwathama for
the play Andha Yug ,Inderjeet
Singh as Jogi ,Parul as Mubeen for
the play Dukh Darya ,Farooq
Sheikh as Malik , Meenal Peer as
Usha Ji for the play Local Tax
Extra , Aaditya Bharti as Chorus-1
Neha Bhat as Chorus-2 for the play
Last colony , J. R. Sagar as
Mahatma Gandhi , Deepak
Sharma as Hari Lal Gandhi for the
play Adalat Mein Gandhi ,
Archana Sharma as Laxmi ,
Sahiba as Champa for the play
Sakha Ram Binder , Raj Bhagat as
Devdas, Neha Raj Dabia as Paro
for the play The Last Séance ,
Meenu Sharma as Nani, Rakesh
Mayus as Mhadu for the play
Sandhya Chhayya , Dharambeer
Choudhary as Prem Singh, Javed
Gill as Mushtaq, Som Nath Azad
as Hawaldar for the play Kandyali
Taar, Dilshad Ahmed as Nawab,
Anoop Goswami as Boota for the
play Wattan Fry , Pardeep
Sharma as Shah, Anuroop
Pathania as Gara for the play
Shah Shahni , Mousami Thakyal
as Noori, Vijay Sharma as Boota
for the play Fasley Aryaveer
Singh as Shakuni Dimpal Sharma
as Bhishma and Seema Bhatti as
Dassi for the play Komal Gandhar.
Glimpses of Future
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Govt proposes stringent law to eradicate
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Council -2015: Discussion
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CONSIDERING SETTING UP OF PESTICIDES, SOIL TESTING LABORATORIES
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, March 24:
Sharing concern of the Members
about alleged sale of spurious pesticides,
the Minister for Horticulture, Haj and
Auqaf, Mr. A. R. Veeri today announced
that Government shall enact a stringent
law to check this menace in the interest of
the world reputed Horticulture Industry.
He said, he has directed that both the
Agriculture Universities of the State to
prescribe scientifically proven standard
pesticides and fungicides to the fruit growers and farmers well in advance of the
spray season so that they are not fleeced
by the unscrupulous pesticide traders.
Replying to the supplementaries to
the main question by Advocate Bashir
Ahmed Dar in Legislative Assembly to-
day, the Minister said that horticulture
industry has given sustenance to the
livelihood of the people of the state in
most difficult of times and nobody will be
allowed to destroy this vital sector of
state’s economy.
Horticulture Minister said promotion of Horticulture sector has been
flagged as priority sector by the present government adding that several measures are being taken
to promote this sector on
modern lines. He said
government proposes to
construct one cold storage
in each fruit mandi of the
State so that fresh fruit of the State is exported in its original flavour to other terminal markets of the country. In addition,
to this soil testing and pesticide testing
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laboratories would be set up in each district so that production and productivity
is increased manifolds on scientific basis,
informed the Minister.
The Minister said that to
enhance the KCC Loan, the
matter would be taken up
with the Finance Ministry,
adding that 50% KCC loans upto
Rs. one lakh have been exempted by
the Government. He said Government
is committed to initiate all necessary
measures for the benefit of Fruit growers.
He said focussed attention would be given
to develop Fruit Markets in the districts
adding that Fruit Mandi Sopore would be
upgraded and necessary infrastructure
shall be ensured at the Mandi to facilitate
the fruit growers and traders of the area.
He said efforts would be also made to com-
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Govt to consolidate educational
infrastructure, rationalize teacher
pupil ratio: Naeem Akhter
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Minister
Forests,
Environment and
Ecology, Mr. Bali
Bhagat in reply to a
question by Mr. Ajaz
Ahmed Khan in Legislative
Assembly here today, said that
presently there are no projects sanctioned
for block Arnas, Mahore, Gool, Sangaldan
and Chassana under IWDP till date adding
that as a result no funds have been released
/ utilized so far.
He said the question of taking up works
in these blocks under IWDP does not arise.
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done for rehabilitation of
flood affected families despite
tall promises by the Prime
Minister on the release of Rs
44000 crore package prepared
by the previous Government.
Kichloo said un-employment is a big problem in the
State and presently five to six
lakh educated youth are unemployed. He said no attention has been given towards
Industries and said need is to
look into this aspect seriously. He said there is no mention
about the Singhpoura-Vailoo
tunnel and the medical colleges sanctioned by UPA
Government for the State.
Regarding the newly created administrative units, Mr
Kichloo said that no mention
has been made in the budget
speech for creation of infrastructure in these units. He
said survey for generating
10000 MW, electricity in
Chenab Valley has been completed but the budget is silent
about its future. He said these
projects will provide jobs to
thousands of persons. He said
there is mention of Apple of
Kashmir and Basmati of
Jammu in the speech but
Saffron, Pulses, Peas, and nuts
produced in Kishtwar also
need to be given due consideration.
Sham Lal Bhagat while
taking part in the discussion
highlighted the involvement
of Panchayati Raj Institutions
in the development process of
the state. He said there should
be a separate budget for
Panchayts like done in case of
the Power Budget introduced
this year. He said Chenab
Valley is a major producer of
vegetables and suggested for
its promotion like Basmati of
Council -2015: Calling Attention Notices in LC
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, March 24:
Minister of State for Power,
Mr. Mohammad Ashraf Mir informed the House that during the
current year in Kashmir Province
including Lolab, about 5480 distribution transformers got damaged
upto ending February 2015 while
5492 were repaired and re-installed
in the period.
The Minister was replying to a
Calling Attention Notice by Mr.
Qaiser Jamsheed Lone. He said
that the capacity of Receiving
Stations as well as Distribution
Sub-Stations is more than sufficient to cater to the load demand of
the consumers of Lolab constituency. Mir said due to recent rains and
landslides majority of transformers were damaged adding that repair time of transformers depends
upon the extent of damage. He said
the average restoration time is of 45 days in urban areas and 10-12 days
in rural areas. The Minister said
that at present 13 Distribution
Transformers (DTs), out of total 469
including 7 No 25 KVA DTs are under repairs. Ashraf Mir said that
one Mr. Naseer Ahmad Khan
(Civilian) S/o Mohammad Yaqoob
Khan R/o Nunwani, Kalaroosa was
fiddling with the electric network
un-authorizedly on March 06 this
year and got electric shock. The
person was referred to the SKIMS,
Soura Srinagar for treatment
where one of his arms has been amputated during the surgery to save
his life. The concerned Police
Station has been informed by the
Electric Sub Division Kupwara
vide No: KSD/645-46 dated 07-032015 for lodging an FIR to this effect.
Meanwhile, Minister of State
for PHE, Irrigation and Flood
Control, Mr. Abdul Majid Paddar
informed the House that the popu-
lation of Sirhama is presently being
provided drinking water by virtue
of a closed scheme with spring as
source. He said a new lift scheme at
a cost of Rs. 198 lakhs is in progress
in Sirhama to augment the water
supply position in the area.
The Minister was replying to a
Calling Attention Notice by Dr.
Bashir Ahmed Veeri. He said water supply scheme Kerwa
Waghama, coming up at an estimated cost of Rs. 497 lakh is going
on, adding that Rs. 25.40 lakh have
been incurred during last year on
the project. The Minister said that
in order to cover the extended ar-
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while replying to a question by Ghulam
Nabi Monga in the Legislative Council
said that under SSA, 723258 students
and under RMSA, 210689 students have been benefited in
the State. The Minister also informed the House
that already an expert
panel has been constituted
to formulate education policy for school system in J&K. The Minister
said that Jammu and Kashmir School
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Education Act, 2002 is
applicable throughout the State of
Jammu
and
Kashmir.
However, the act is
under review to augment the spread and scope of
the State law in perspective of
the Central Act of right of children
to Free and Compulsory Education
(RTE) Act, 2009. Ali Mohammad
Dar, Surinder Kumar Choudhary,
Ghulam Qadir Pardesi, Dr.
Shahnaz Ganai, Showkat Hussain,
Vibodh Gupta and Haji Anayat Ali raised
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Minister for Agriculture, Mr.
Ghulam Nabi Lone informed the
House that to tap the tourism potential along Mughal road, Rs. 5.6 crore
project is under implementation in
the area adding that Mughal road car
rally was also organized for few years
to popularize the area among the
tourists. Replying to a question by
Mr. Mohammad Yousuf Bhat in
Legislative Assembly, the Minister
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committed to promote
tourism in the State
adding that necessary steps
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taken up
to tap hidden tourism potential of virgin
spots in the State including Shopian area.
The
Minister
said
Mughal road is presently not an all
weather road and it is being mostly
used by the people from Poonch and
Rajouri districts desiring to visit the
valley in connection with trade and
personal visits. Legislators, Mr. G. M.
Saroori, Mr. Shakti Parihar, Mr.
Deldan Namgyal, Mr. Nazir Ahmed
Gurezi, Mr. R. S. Pathania, Raja
Manzoor Ahmed, Mr. M. Y. Tarigami,
Mr. Altaf Ahmed Wani and Ch.
Mohammad Akram raised the supplementaries to the main question and
demanded development of tourism
spots in their constituencies.
LC 2015: Union Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways to take up Zojila, Z-Morh tunnels: Altaf Bukhari
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Mar 24:
Minister for R&B, Syed
Mohammad Altaf Bukhari replying to a question by Haji Anayat
Ali in the Legislative Council said
that the Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways has taken up construction of Zojila tunnel as well as Z-Morh tunnel on
National Highway-1D in order to
have all weather connectivity for
Leh region in the State.
The Minister said that the
construction of the tunnel was entrusted to BRO who invited
Request for Quotation (RFQ) for
the project in which four bidders
were found qualified, besides, an
amount of Rs. 20.86 crore was also
deposited by BRO with the
Deputy Commissioner
Ganderbal for acquisition
of revenue and forest land.
He further informed
that in order to expedite the
construction of this tunnel,
the Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways
has decided to take up the
work directly under Builtoperate-Transfer (BOT) basis. Accordingly the
Ministry has asked BRO to
transfer all related documents. He said that invitation of the RFP is presently
under progress for the
award. He said that after its
award, implementation of
the work will start.
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Rs. 20 cr released as
land compensation
for R&B: Javaid
Mustafa
Jammu, Mar 24:
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als. The Minister said that Deputy
Commissioner Jammu has authorized the Sub Divisional
Magistrate Marh to demarcate
the land which will indicate the
status of actual occupants. He has
been asked to complete the task by May
2015, as it could not be completed earlier due
to standing crops and engagement of field staff
with other duties. He said no recent enumeration of
trees has been done. However, tree growth on the
land is thick and more than 6000 trees grow there.
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Minister for Revenue, Mr. Javaid Mustafa Mir
replying to a question by Bashir Ahmed Magrey in
the Legislative Council said that the shortage
of boats was not a main reason causing
huge loss to the life and property during
the September, 2014 floods. The
Minister said that the government is contemplating to get the
Disaster Management Plan of
whole State approved by State
Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) and in future all the disasters including floods
will be effectively dealt as per the said State
Disaster Management Plan.
The Minister further informed that the World
Bank has also agreed to fund $ 25 million for the
Capacity Building, setting up of emergency
Operating System and strengthening of the State
Disaster Management Authority.
He said that the State Government has also
submitted the detailed memorandum to
Government of India for release of funds which includes provision of Rs. 155 Crore for strengthening
of SDMA and Rs. 100 crore for establishment of two
emergency Operation Centres (EOCs). Out of Rs.
155 crore projected for strengthening of SDMA a
provision of Rs. 5 Crore has been kept for procurement of specialized boats for rescue purposes during emergencies.
Sofi Yusuf, G. Q Pardesi and Jugal Kishore
were raised supplementaries to the question. In reply to another question by Ajay Kumar Sadhotra,
the Revenue Minister said that as per revenue
records the land measuring 1213 kanals and 19 marla has been found recorded in the name of cooperative society, Gajansoo. He said this land has not
been recorded in the name of individuals. He said
there is also more land which is recorded in the
name of different institutions, bodies and individu-
eas of Mushhama and Balyar villages and to augment the supplies,
work is in progress on Water
Supply Scheme Balyar costing Rs.
930 lakhs, adding that Rs. 50.16
lakhs has been expended on the
scheme upto ending February,
2015. He said that population of
Wapzon/Kandipora villages is
presently being provided drinking
water through WSS Wapzon, commissioned recently at a cost of Rs.
350 lakh, adding that a lift water
supply scheme for Dadoo (GB) has
been incorporated in district plan
during 2014-15 with an estimated
cost of Rs. 90 lakh.
GOF Staff Reporter
Rs 5.6 cr project under implementation to State Disaster Management Plan
promote tourism along Mughal road: Lone being prepared: Javaid Mustafa
GOF Staff Reportr
Jammu and Apples of
Kashmir.
Terming the budget anti
people and anti poor, Ajay
Sadhotra said that it will increase inflation. He said that it
looks as arrows have been
fired in the air. Regarding
newly administrative units,
Sadhotra said no mention has
been made in the budget about
this. He said increase in service tax on certain items will
put extra burden on common
people. He said Omar
Abdullah led Government has
recommended package of Rs
44000 crore for flood victims
and 25 lakh as one time settlement of West Pakistan
refugees but these are missing
in the budget. He said Finance
Minister should answer these
points while replying on the
budget.
Charangeet Singh described the budget as people
friendly. He said Finance
Minister has for the first time
presented such a comprehensive and people friendly budget in the State, where every
section of the society has been
well represented. He said the
initiatives taken in the budget
will benefit everyone. He appreciated Dr. Haseeb Drabu
for presenting this people
friendly budget. Yasir Reshi
while taking part in the discussion termed the budget as
pro people.
said
previous
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Government had put the State
under heavy burden of debt. He
said people suffered a lot due to
floods last year and some villages in Tehsil Sonawari are
still inundated. He asked the
Government to take steps to
prevent such things from happening in future.
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Minister for School Education, Mr.
Naeem Akhter informed the House that
Government would initiate all possible
steps to consolidate the educational infrastructure in the State. He said focus
will also be given to rationalize the
teacher-pupil ratio in schools and colleges in the State.
Replying to the main question by
Mr. Ajay Nanda, the Minister said that
23 new Degree Colleges have been
opened during last five years in
the State. He said that no new
high and higher secondary school has been
opened for last five
years under RMSA and
State Plan in the State.
The Education
Minister informed that 35 new primary
schools have been approved by MHRD
for Jammu division including three
schools for Reasi district during current
financial year. He said 224 middle and
153 high schools were upgraded to the
next level in Jammu division including
one middle and one high school in Reasi
constituency under State Plan adding
that 64 schools from middle to high
schools have been also upgraded under
RMSA in the division which includes 6
schools in Reasi district.
The Minister said that at present 95
Government Degree Colleges are functional in the State, out of which 22 Degree
Colleges were sanctioned during the
year-2011. He said Government intends
to equip these existing Degree Colleges
with all infrastructure facilities to make
them fully functional. He said
Government Degree
College, Reasi is functional in the vicinity of
Katra, Pouni and
Mongri. He said
there are 606 students
enrolled in the College including 367 female students
and BA BSc and B Com streams
are being taught.
The Minister informed that the
Government has constituted a
Committee to look into the feasibility /
other parameters and to device a mechanism for establishment of new Degree
Colleges in un-covered areas of the State.
He said the Committee has submitted
the feasibility report; however, appropriate decision with regard to opening of
new colleges would be taken in consultation with the Finance and Planning
Departments.
Legislator Mr. Usman Majid in his
supplementary question demanded
opening of Women’s Degree College at
Bandipora whileas, Mr. Vikar Rasool demanded filling up of vacant posts of
teachers in educational institutions of
Banihal constituency.
Initiating the discussion
on the general budget in the
House,
Bashir
Ahmad
Magray said that the budget
presented
by
Finance
Minister, Dr Haseeb Drabu
has generated hope among the
people of the State. He said in
the budget, every section of
the society has been taken
care of particularly the poor
and the destitute population.
He said waiving off the farmer
loan is a good gesture. He said
little has been mentioned
about tackling unemployment and suggested that finance Minister should look
into this aspect also.
Regarding the Power
budget, Magray said that generation of power will promote
our industries which can create jobs for educated youth.
He said PDD infrastructure in
villages is in dilapidated condition and needs to be improved by way of replacing of
old poles and wires, damaged
transformers besides providing adequate manpower to
cater to the needs of the department in the field. Sajjad
Ahmad Kichloo, while commenting on the budget said
that at several places in the
budget, the Finance Minister
has thrown arrows in the air
while certain schemes of previous Government have been
replicated. He said, he doubts
that Centre will release funds
to the State as promised.
Sajjad Kichloo said neither the poor nor farmers
have been taken care of in the
budget but only rich people
seem to have been benefitted.
He said nothing has been
plete the development of Fruit Mandi
Zazan-Ganderbal.
Replying to the main question, the
Minister informed that fruit growers of
Kashmir valley sustained huge losses due
to recent floods adding that in this regard
damage assessment report has been submitted by the Government to the Centre,
which among other sectors includes
Horticulture Crop losses for which an
amount of Rs. 784 crore representing 50%
of the actual loss, these fruit growers have
suffered has been projected. Legislators,
Mr. Mohammad Khalil Bandh, Sheikh
Ishfaq Jabaar, Mr. Zahoor Ahmed Mir,
Mr. Altaf Ahmed Wani, Mr. Mohammad
Yousuf Bhat, Mr. Shah Mohammad
Tantray, Mr. Yawar Dilawar Mir and Mr.
M. Y. Tarigami raised the supplementaries to the main question.
Jammu, Mar 24:
The Minister further informed the
House that the scheme aims to cater to
the vulnerable areas on priority, where
HT/LT network is in a dilapidated condition with an objective to replace the
rotten poles, un-serviceable/unauthorized conductors at 11 KV and below, unauthorized/sub-standard line
supports, damaged LT cables, damaged
insulators/guys and damaged earthing
of distribution sub-stations.
The Minister said that an amount
of Rs. 1 crore has been authorized per
district during financial year 2014-15,
which will also cater to the areas of
Karnah. He said that there is no proposal for conversion of pole structure into
tower structure for 33 KV line from TeePee to Bagh Billa.
Minister of State for Power, Mr.
Mohammad Ashraf Mir, while replying to a question by Mr. Javid Ahmad
in the Legislative Council said that the
PDD department has initiated an
HT/LT improvement scheme in
Karnah during 2013-14 and the same is
going on during the financial year 201415. The improvement of HT/LT lines
are being carried out under
Transmission and Distribution and
Constituency Development Fund in a
phased manner in Non Re-structured
Accelerated Power Development
Reforms Programme towns.
Jammu, March 24:
Presently no IWDP
projects for block Arnas,
Mahore: Bali Bhagat
Rs 1 cr authorized per district for augmentation
LC-2015
of power infra: Ashraf Mir
GOF Staff Reporter
GOF Staff Reporter
Minister for Revenue, Mr.
Javaid Mustafa Mir replying to a
question by Mr. Naresh Kumar
Gupta in the Legislative Council
said that during the current financial year, an amount of Rs. 20 crore
stands released as land compensation out of the State Plan R&B sector. However, under PMGSY, an
amount of Rs. 710 crore has been
sanctioned by the Government of
India for land compensation out of which
Rs. 347 crore have been already released.
The Minister further informed the
House that an amount of nearly Rs. 640
crore (approximately) is lying with
Collectors of land acquisition throughout
the State for payment of compensation to
the rightful claimants on account of various works of public purposes pertaining
to R&B, PHE, PDD, BRO, PMGSY,
Education, Judiciary, Horticulture (Plg
&marketing), Urban Local Bodies, NHAI,
railways etc. while as an amount of Rs.
55.33 crore approximately is the additional requirement for Collector Land
Acquisition ACR, Doda, SDM Bhaderwah
and SDM Gandoh. Mr. Mir said that the
land acquisition cases are at different
stages of acquisition and the disbursement is in progress in various cases.
In reply to another question by Mr.
Master Noor Hussain, the Revenue
Minister said that an area of evacuee land
measuring 141774 kanals and 07 marlas is
under unauthorized occupation of various individuals in Jammu Division and
land measuring 8049 kanal and 14 marlas
is under such occupation in Kashmir
Division. He said that no illegal construction on evacuee land is reportedly going
on in Jammu and Samba districts.
The Minister said the department retrieved land measuring 1001 kanal 15 marlas from illegal occupants in Jammu
Division and 287 kanals and 7 marlas in
Kashmir Division. He said the department has been geared up to either regularize the position on payment of premium or
vacate the illegal position in terms of the
J&K State Evacuees (Administrative
Property Act) He said the evacuee property lands measuring 365159 kanal in
Jammu district and 102251 kanal in
Samba district were allotted to the displaced persons. While as 153159 kanals in
Jammu and 146283 kanal property has
been allotted to local allottees of these districts. He said various land deficiency cases of PoK Displaced Persons are also under process in Revenue Department.
Glimpses of Future
JAMMU WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015, PAGE 5
Sukhnandan inaugurates IFFCO
Crop Seminar Exhorts farmers for balanced, judicious use of fertilizers
DLRC meet held at Reasi, banks
performance reviewed under ACP
Jammu, March 24:
A meeting of District Level
Committee
Review
(DLRC)/District Consultative
Committee (DCC) for the quarter
ending December-2014 of Reasi
District was held under the
of
District
chairmanship
Commissioner
Development
Reasi, Sushma Chauhan, who is
also chairman of DLRC. DDC
Reasi had a threadbare review of
Annual Credit Plan, CD ratio,
JKSES, SC, ST, OBC, KVIB,
KVIC, Industries, Agriculture,
Handloom, Handicraft, Social
Welfare, Employment with special emphasis on KCC and financial inclusion. In this connection, she advised all banks and
agricultural department to complete the 100% coverage of farmers under KCC. She directed all
the banks to adopt multi-pronged
approach to make their outreach
possible in the far-flung villages.
They should endeavor to deepen
the penetration of financial inclusion and expand the coverage
GOF Staff Reporter
Minister for PHE, Irrigation & Flood
Control, Sukhnandan Kumar exhorted
upon the farmers to make balanced and
judicious use of fertilizers for enhanced
agriculture production. Addressing the
farmers during a seminar titled importance of micro nutrients in crop production by Indian Farmers Fertilizers
Cooperative (IFFCO) here today, the
Minister asked them to get soil tested to
know about the potential and requirement of their agriculture land. “It will
help them feed their land with proper and
need based fertilizers for enhanced agriculture production,” he added. He said
that fertilizer contributes to 50 percent of
the agriculture production so it needs to
be used as per the requirement of the land.
The Minister said that the government has a vision of creating durable assets in every part of the state but simultaneously it becomes the moral responsibility of the people to ensure proper upkeep
of these public utilities. He sought people’s participation in effective implemen-
tation and monitoring of development
works in their respective areas.
Responding to demands of locals, the
Minister assured that a tube well would be
dug in the area besides other issues of better basic amenities would also be looked
into for consideration.
Elucidating the objective of the semi-
nar, state marketing Manager, Shakti
Singh, said that it is endeavour of IFFCO
to raise awareness among the farmers
about the significance of balanced use of
fertilizers for better yield. He asked the
farmers to use water soluble fertilizers
that too as per land requirement. He said
that besides fertilizer production IFFCO
is involved in various social activities.
The organization has contributed Rs.10
crore for Swachh Bharat Mission besides
it has distributed 7 trucks of ration and
45000 blankets among flood victims in the
state. Later, the Minister distributed blankets donated by IFFCO under relief programme for flood victims.
Employment fair held at Chadoora
1100 jobless youth
register at
employment
counseling centre
GOF Staff Reporter
Budgam, March 24:
In order to aware the unemployed educated youth about various employment oriented programes and schemes of the Govt, an
Employment fair was today organized by
District Employment and Counseling Centre
Budgam at Eid Gah Chadoora.
While inaugurating the employment
fair, the District Development Commissioner
Budgam stressed upon the unemployed educated youth to take advantage of such fair as
the aim and objective of organizing such em-
ployment fairs is to provide awareness to the
common masses about various Government
sponsored schemes and welfare programmes.
The DDC directed the youth to come forward for setting up of different kinds of income generating units in agricultural and allied sectors and also in private sectors. The
Deputy Director employment Budgam on the
occasion said that District Employment and
counseling centre Budgam has provided an
amount of Rs. 56 lakh Voluntary Service
Allowances to the unemployed educated
youth during 2014-2015. During the fair varidepartments
like
Agriculture,
ous
Horticulture, floriculture, Handicrafts,
Handlooms, Fisheries, Sheep and Animal
Husbandry, Co-operative, Industries and
many financial institutions had established
their stalls were requisite products and print
potential was put on display.
GOF Staff Reporter
Reasi, March 24:
HC orders Status-quo regarding
post of Motor Vehicle Inspectors
Jammu, Mar 24:
In a petition filed by sunil
Cannie and ors are Junior
Engineers (Mechanical) from PW
(R&B) Department, having been
brought in the Motor Vehicle
of
Transport
Department,
Department, against clear available vacancies of Motor Vehicle
Inspectors. The petitioners possess
all the qualifications/eligibilities
prescribed under J&K Transport
Controller (Subordinate) Service
Recruitmet Rules read with SRO
263 of 08.08.2012, for the recruitment
of Motor Vehicle Inspectors seeking quashment of Transport
order
no.
Commissioner’s
TC/JK/Estt./673 dated 29.01.2015,
being in violation of the Transport
Controller’s (Subordinate) Service
Recruitment Rules, 1974 read with
SRO 263 of 08.08.2012 and also seekingdirectiontorespondentsforconsidering the petitioners for their
permanentabsorptionintheMotor
Vehicles Department, J&K, in
termsoftherecommendationsvide
Transport Commissioner’s No.
TC/JK/Esst./3264 dated 22.05.2014.
Justice Janak Raj Kotwal after
hearing Adv Vikram Sharma with
Suresh Sharma appearing for the
petitioner issued notices to the
Commissioner/Secretary
Transport department returnable
within four weeks and directed to
file objections and in meanwhile directed respondents that till next
date, status quo in regard to the post
held by the petitioners shall be
maintained.JNF
NOTICE
I,
Subash
Chander
Gandotra S/o Sh Som Raj
Gandotra R/o Ward No. 4,
Ram Gali, Reasi has opened
Nav Durga Super Store at Bus
Stand Reasi. Now, I am applying for the License of Packing,
Weight & Measurement from
Legal Metrology Department.
If anybody has any objection,
may be conveyed to Legal
Metrology Department within
seven days from the date of
publication of this notice.
DIC Kathua organizes DLRC meeting held at Ramban, Rs
Mushiara
176.15 Cr advanced in priority sector
GOF Staff Reporter
kathua, march 24:
District Information Centre,
Kathua organized a multilingual
Mushiara at Rajiv Gandhi College
of Education, Kathua today.
Additional District Development
Commissioner, Er Narinder
Singh Bali was the chief guest,
while Superintendent District
Hospital Dr. Rajinder Kumar was
the guest of honour on the occasion. Chairman of the college
Pankaj Dogra, Principal of the college Dr. G P Sachdev, staff and
large number of students were
present on the occasion.
Principal of the college welcomed the chief guest and other
dignitaries. The programme started with lighting of traditional lamp
by the chief guest and other dignitaries. The poets recited their ghazals and poems in Hindi, Urdu,
Punjabi and Dogri languages.
The poets also threw light
on serious social issues like
ADDC
reviews Bankers
performance
GOF Staff Reporter
Udhampur, March 24:
To review the performance of
all banks in key area of deposits and
advance for quarter ending
December 2014 under Annual credit
dowry system, Drug Addiction,
female feoticide and corruption.
They suggested ways and means
to eradicate the various social
evils. Prominent among the poets who recited their writings included Santosh Dhiman, Renu
Padha, Hajoora Singh, Kuldeep
Kippi, Chandu Bhau, R S Katal.
While speaking on the occasion, the ADDC said that poets
play an important role making
the masses aware about the various social evils, they guide the
society in the direction leading
to unity, peace and harmony. He
appreciated the efforts of information department for organizing the musharia with which the
students of the college got
awared about the various social
issues. Dr. Rajinder Kumar
speaking on the occasion appreciated Information Department
for organizing Mushyara. He
said such programme provide
platform to the artist to aggravate their talents & share their
ideas with people.
GOF Staff Reporter
Ramban, March 24:
Development
District
Commissioner, Ramban Farooq Shah
Bukhari today chaired the District
Level Review Committee Meeting at
Ramban. Chief Agriculture Officer,
Chief Animal Husbandry Officer,
Chief Horticulture Officer, CPO,
DSHO, AD Employment, AD Fisheries,
GM DIC, AD Handlooms, LBO,
Representative of NABARD and
Managers of all the banks of the district
were present in the meeting.
The LBO informed that the banks
of the district have recorded 9.12% increase in Deposits and 25.52% increase
in the Advances over the corresponding December Quarter of the previous
year. An amount of Rs 176.15 Cr has
been advanced in the Priority sector up
to the end of Dec 2014.
The Chairman expressed concern
over the CD ratio of the banks. He directed the banks to involve and mobilize the
Self Help Groups for taking up activities
Plan 2014-15, the District Level
Review Committee cum District
Consultative Committee
(DLRC/DCC) meeting of bankers
and district officers of various
Government Departments of district
Udhampur was held under the
Chairmanship of Additional
District Development
Commissioner, Mr. Ajay Singh
Jamwal here today.
Joint Director Planning,
Rakesh Jamwal, Lead District
Manager, M.K Pandita, AGM RBI,
Jammu R.B Gupta, Cluster Head,
J&K Bank, Iqbal Singh,District
Information Officer, Dr Ashwani
like Floriculture, Horticulture and
Allied activities under Agriculture for
advancing more funds to the needy
which can not only generate more employment but also improve the
CD
Ratio as per the standards of RBI.
Regarding the disbursement made
under KCC, the banks were directed to
advance money as per the norms to the
farmers since mere sanctioning of the
KCCs without advancing the money
shall not suffice the concept of this
Financial Inclusion Scheme of the
Government of India. It was given out
that the banks in the district have so far
lied departments can play a vital
role in making people aware about
the skill and capacity building programmes of R-SETI.
He issued instructions to Chief
Agriculture officer to provide sponsor troops for vegetable and saffron
training in R-SETI. He stressed for
better coordination for achieving
the fixed target and would be seen at
ground level for the welfare of rural
masses.
During the meeting, the Lead
District Manager, Udhampur revealed that deposit of the district
were 2557.54 Crores and advances
Rs.738.35 crores as on December
advanced an amount of Rs. 141 Lacs to
4595 KCC beneficiaries.
The LBO informed that the banks
have been organizing various
Financial Literacy Camps for including people under the recently announced Prime Minister’s Jan Dhan
Yojna and upto 31st of Dec 2014, 23814 accounts have been opened. The DDC directed the officers to work in coordination with the bankers and try to exploit
every opportunity for advancing money to the needy unemployed youth under various schemes which shall minimize the unemployment of the district.
2014. He disclosed that CD ratio of
the district was 28.88 percent. Under
ACP 2014-15, the achievement of the
banks was 40.72 percent against the
annual target of Rs. 536.05 Crores
and the achievement was Rs. 218.33
crores. AGM RBI, Mr Gupta while
speaking on the occasion asked the
LDM to allot targets to all private
banks. He also asked to form sub committee for enhancing CD ratio in
the district.
Annual Action Plan and Budget
of RSETI Udhampur for the financial year 2015-16 was also discussed
and approved by the Task Force of
District Level Advisory Committee
posts by Sessions Judge
DB grants two weeks time on the assurance of AG
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Mar 24:
Jammu, March 24:
Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Dr.
Pawan Kotwal today chaired a high level meeting to discuss issues pertaining to expansion of
Jammu Airport.
The meeting was attended by Deputy
Commissioner Jammu, A.K. Sahu, Assistant
Commissioner (C) Sachin Dev Singh besides
senior officers of Army, Air Force and civil administration. Threadbare discussions were
held regarding expansion of Jammu Airport
and issues impeding the expansion.
Underlining the need for early expansion of
NOTICE
I, Ujjawal Pradhan S/o Sh.
Sudhir Pradhan R/O Rehmbal,
Teh. & Distt. Udhampur (J&K)
inform that I have lost my
Driving Licence (D/L) bearing
no.JK1420110016105 at any
where & not traced out. Now
I want to get duplicate
Driving Licence (D/L) to ARTO Udhampur. Objection if
any may be convey to concerning authority.
I, Nitish Kharka S/o Sh
Kewel Krishan Kharka R/o
Surni, Tehsil Ramnagar, District
Udhampur have lost my original Driving License bearing
Dl.No. JK1420100014595.
Now, I am applying for duplicate
of the same. Objection, if any,
may be conveyed to ARTO
Udhampur within seven days
from the date of publication of
this notice.
I, Adarsh Anand have
purchased Vehicle XUV 500
bearing Registration No.
JK02 BD 1700 from M/s
Sheela Builders Prop NICO
DEMES R/o Prem Nagar,
Jammu. Now, I am applying
for transferring of the vehicle. Objection, if any, may be
conveyed to Concerned
Authority within seven days
from the date of publication
of this notice.
I, Ghulam Nabi Khatana
S/o Ghulam Hassan R/o
Ferozpora (Drung) Tehsil
Tangmarg District J&K and at
present
Jojran
Talab
Udhampur inform that the
name of my son has been incorrectly entered as Ahqib
Nabi Khattan instead of correct name Aqib Nabi Khatana.
No, I am applying for the correction of the same. Objection,
if any, may be conveyed to
Concerned authorities.
NOTICE
NOTICE
DDC initiates disciplinary action
Budgam, March 24:
In order to maintain punctuality and accountability in government institutions, particularly health institutions, the District Development Commissioner
Budgam today in a surprise inspection of SDH Chattergam found 10 officials including 3 doctors and 7 paramedics absent from duty besides Block Medical Officer of the
concerned SDH was not also available during the inspection. The DDC ordered disciplinary action against the absentees.
Srinagar, March 24:
Hansa, Chief Agriculture Officer,
Chief Animal Husbandry Officer,
Block Development Officers,
Bankers and officers of line departments attended the meeting.
Stressing greater need for generating awareness about different
poverty alleviation schemes of the
government, the ADDC exhorted upon the bankers to organize awareness camps with the involvement of
block level officers especially in rural areas of the district by the banks
so that rural masses may get aware
about their financial inclusion
schemes.
He said that Agriculture and al-
Jammu Airport, the Divisional Commissioner
stressed that all agencies involved in the project
should synchronize their working for timely
completion of the prestigious project.
Bottlenecks related to shifting of various utilities adjoining the airport were also deliberated
upon besides transferring of land adjoining
Airport which is presently housing several utilities of the Army and will be used for the expansion of the Airport.
Dr. Kotwal asked the Army, UEED, PWD
and other concerned authorities to constitute
a committee of officers for effective monitoring of implementation of this project in a stipulated time frame.
NOTICE
covered within stipulated period.
LDM apprised the house that the
deposits and advances of all commercial banks as on 31 Dec-2014
stood at Rs 1441.46 lakhs and 41074
lakhs respectively. Additional
Deputy Commissioner, Reasi Shiv
Kumar Gupta, CPO Reasi HL
Sharma, GM DIC Krishan Lal,
Chief Agriculture Officer Dr Iqbal
Choudhary, AD Employment
Sulakshana
Thakur,
AD
Handicraft Manu Hansa, CHOSusheel K Angurana, Cluster
Head JK Bank, sectoral and district officers of various government departments and officers
from banks attended the meeting.
81 city shopkeepers penalized for violating
EC Act
Div Com discusses Jammu Airport expansion Manning of Member Secy SLSA
GOF Staff Reporter
of financial services to all sections of society particularly to
those at the bottom of the economic pyramid, added the
Deputy Commissioner.
She impressed upon the
banks and line department, to ensure effective coordination in
their working to achieve desired
results. Lead District Manager
Sanjeev Bhardwaj informed the
meeting that against a target of
2208500 lakhs under ACP 2014-15
ending Dec-2014, in the district
achieved 20.30%. More than 1049
KCCs were issued during the period and assurance was given that
all the eligible farmers would be
In a Public Interest
Litigation filed by Rufi Khan
& Ors final year students of
Graduation
in
Law,
University of Jammu, seeking effective prosecution of
criminal trials particularly
involving capital sentence
and life imprisonment with a
view to prevent crime, convict the offenders and to
make punishments a real deterrent and also seeking direction to respondent to ensure the quality of Public
Prosecutors and the guidelines for appointing the
Public
Prosecutors/
Additional
Public
Prosecutors in which an application for implementation of resolution passed in a
Chief Justice and Chief
Minister’s Conference on
April, 2013, today A Division
Bench of State High Court
Comprising Chief Justice N
Paul Vasanthakumar and
Justice Bansi Lal Bhat granted two weeks’ time to state
on
the
assurance
of
Advocate General that immediately after the budget
session is over, the cabinet
take into the consideration
th issue involved in the appointment
of
Member
Secretary JKSLSA.
When the matter was
came-up for hearing today Sr.
AAG Gagan Basotra has pro-
duced a letter dated March 23,
2015 given by Law Secretary
wherein it is stated that the
department has initiated
process of placing the matter
with regard to making
amendment in J&K Legal
Services Authorities Act, so
far as it relates to the appointment of Member Secretary is
concerned before the cabinet.
Advocate General RA
Jan who is also present in the
Court gives the assurance to
the Court that immediately
after budget session is over,
cabinet take into the consideration the issue involved.
Upon this Court granted two
weeks time to do the needful
and directed Registry to list
this PIL On April 15, 2015. JNF
The enforcement squad of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution department conducted market checking of various markets of Srinagar city including
Lawaypora, Methan, Pantha Chowk, Batwara, Khanyar, Sonwar, Pandrethan,
Zewan, Balhama, Kanitar, Alamdar Colony, Fateh Kadal, Batmaloo, Lal Bazaar,
Bota Kadal, Rajbagh, Jawahar Nagar, Rambagh, Shalimar, Hari Singh High Street,
Zoonimar, Lal Mandi and Regal Chowk. During the checking, 620 business establishments were inspected and Rs. 64800 as fine have been collected from 81 erring
shopkeepers for violating Essential Commodities Act.
Attention Srinagar flood sufferers
SRINAGAR, MARCH 24:
All those affected Traders and Shopkeepers having business under Rs. 10.00
lakh and whose establishments were not insured are advised to furnish their details
as per the notified format to the office of Additional Deputy Commissioner,
Srinagar. Similarly the affectees of full damaged not insured houses shall furnish an
undertaking to the effect of being not insured to the respective Tehsildar’s immediately. Destitute women who lost their residential houses along with household
items as well as other means of sustenance due to floods of September, 2014 are also
advised to give their details to respective Tehsildar’s immediately.
Employment fair held at Bandipora
Bandipora, March 24:
District Employment and Counseling Centre Bandipora organized an
Employment Fair here today which was inaugurated by Additional Deputy
Commissioner Bandipora. Various department like Handicrafts, Fisheries, Sheep,
Animal Husbandry, Sericulture, Floriculture, Health and financial institutions installed stalls in the employment fair during which the concerned officers provided
awareness about various schemes. Speaking on the occasion, ADC said that the motto of organizing such programme was to mould the tendency of unemployed youth
towards private sector so that they could adopt these schemes on their own will and
improve their economy. On the occasion, it was informed that 18834 unemployed
youth have so far been registered in the district whileas an amount of Rs. 12.35 lakh
has been distributed as voluntary service allowance among 1702 candidates during
the current financial year.
World TB day observed in Sgr
Srinagar, March 24:
District Tuberculosis Control Society Srinagar in collaboration with Health
Department today organized a function at Law College today. On the occasion, various speakers delivered lectures, generating awareness among the participants. It
was informed that earlier TB was a deadly disease and was not curable but by now
the disease is completely curable and free medicare, diagnostic facilities and medicines are available at every health institute of the state. The speakers also stressed
for initiating vigorous awareness campaign in the valley especially in far off and
hilly areas. Moreover, they also stressed for organizing awareness camps in colleges, schools and Anganwari centres so that patients suffering from this ailment
could get benefited from this awareness.
World TB Day observed at Anantnag
Anantnag, March 24:
In connection with World Tuberculosis Day, the ADC Anantnag flagged off a
rally of students from various Nursing Training Schools and educational institutions for awaring the common people about preventive measures for TB Control.
The students were carrying banners and ply boards and went from street to street
and other parts of the District. A seminar was also organized at District TB Hospital
Anantnag in which the Doctors and experts from WHO awared the audience about
the preventive measures. The District TB Officer Anantnag highlighted the performance of RNTCP in Anantnag /Kulgam during the year 2014. He also informed
that 16 treatment units under TB are functional in Anantnag and Kulgam Districts
and 286 Dot centers have been established in the twin Districts. The rate of TB patients has reduced yearly which was 1010 in 2012,787 in2013 and 720 in 2014-15 due to
the collective efforts of the department. 378 cases of TB were detected against sputum
examination of 10286 cases during the current year.
Glimpses of Future
JAMMU WEDNESDAY MARCH 25, 2015, PAGE 6
DIVINE ENERGY (PART 2)
CYMK
Glimpses of future
The evil
he dowry system is a blot on rich Indian culture.
Even modern, well-educated families start saving up
money for their daughter's dowry as soon as she is
born, so what can one expect from the uneducated masses,
whose only form of education is tradition? When demands
for dowry are not met, the bride is subject to torture, and
often even killed. The reason many parents don't want to
have daughters is because of the dowry they will have to
shell out at her marriage, and the stress they go through
due to never ending demands from her in-laws. Dowry is an
evil, evil system and all of us, at some level, condone it and
even contribute to it. Often the boys parents don't demand
dowry, but our culture is such that we feel we must give
something to the in-laws. In such cases, give as much as you
receive. When you go out of your way because you are the
parents of the girl, you are contributing to this evil. Come
festivals like Diwali or Holi, and the parents of the daughter
flood her in-laws with gifts. If gifts are expected - your
daughter is married into the wrong family. If such giving is
self-inflicted, you're making a mistake. Give a token present
to your daughter. If you want to give her something more,
do so, but don't feel pressured to give anything more than
you receive to her in-laws. You don't need to if your daughter is happily married and has a supportive husband - so
DON'T. An astounding number of parents still don't lay
enough emphasis on educating their daughters. They believe their daughters will get married eventually, and husbands will support them, so why push them so hard? Poorer
sections of society would rather send their daughters out to
work and earn some money, to help them save up for her
dowry. Those from regular middle and upper class backgrounds do send their daughters to school, but don't emphasise career options. They view education as a rite of
passage. If their daughters do well, it's something to brag
about at kitty parties. Similarly, very wealthy parents will
happily support their daughters until they get married. Because of the family status and their ability to fork out a high
dowry, they know they will get good matches for their
daughter, and don't take their daughters education very seriously. Get serious about your daughter's education. Encourage her to have a career of her own, no matter what
your financial standing. One of the reasons parents of the
boy ask for dowry, is that they often expect that their son
will be earning and supporting the wife, and it is only fair
that she contribute somewhat towards the household by
way of dowry. If your daughter is educated and has as good
a career as her husband to be, you've got a strong step in
your favour. Instead of giving her dowry so everyone is nice
to her at her new home, give her a great career, so they can't
help but respect her. So if they treat her badly, she can walk
out, as she is not dependent on them. So they need her
monthly contribution to the household expenses and dare
not mess with her. Providing your daughter with a solid
education, and encouraging her to pursue a career of her
choice is the best dowry any parent can ever give their
daughter.
T
In right hands
he allotment of 38 mines to central and state public
sector units including power major NTPC, DVC and
steel giant SAIL is step taken BJP government to
undo the wrongs of previous congress led government. The
move comes on the heels of the auction of 33 coal blocks in
two tranches to private companies with the government
garnering over Rs 2 lakh crore, surpassing CAG's earlier
estimates of losses of Rs 1.86 lakh crore on allotment without auction. Most of these 38 blocks have gone to the earlier
allocatees. The Supreme Court had in September cancelled
the allocations of 204 blocks in all, terming the process as
"fatally flawed", leading the current round of auctions and
allocations. The Coal Ministry had earlier received 107 applications from PSUs for allocation of 43 coal blocks. Finally, black gold in right hands.
T
THE GALACTIC NUCLEUS
Energy remains as energy. A nuclear
war would destroy the earth and only energy
would be left. Whether it would be in the
form of radioactivity, or light, or something
else, it would
remain as energy. If you follow the theory
of action-reaction, it says
that if destruction is the acthen
tion,
construction
must be the reIf,
action.
upon its destruction, matter
is
transformed
into energy, then the universe must have
been created from energy, whose form was
merely changed into matter. So before the
creation of the material universe, there was
spiritual energy. There are stars, which are
millions of light years away from us, so far
away that their light has not even reached us
yet. God has created such an amazingly vast
universe full of wonderful phenomena.
There is so much radioactivity in the sun
that it can give heat and light to the entire
solar system. But from where does the sun
get its heat and energy? Our solar system has
only one sun and just imagine how many
other solar systems and suns there must be!
Just as our planets revolve around their sun,
so countless suns revolve around a galactic
nucleus. You can call the ‘galactic nucleus’
the Origin, the ‘first Cause’ or anything else,
but it is actually pure consciousness. Just as
the sun gives us light, from this point emanates the light of Consciousness.
MIND – THE MIDDLEMAN TO GOD
We all know that God is Truth Con-
BY : RAHUL VERMA
he ongoing controversy in the Aam
Aadmi Party (AAP), between the proKejriwal faction and other party leaders, over organisational matters raises two
important questions that concern most political parties in India. The first why do political parties in India have a tendency to
centralise? And the second why do leaders
of these parties project themselves as
“supremo,” or the ultimate authority? This
“high command” culture is often attributed
to political parties that are dynastic in nature. Parties like the Congress, the Shiv
Sena, the Akali Dal, the Biju Janata Dal, the
Telugu Desam Party, the Samajwadi Party,
the YSR Congress and the Dravida
Munnetra Kazhagam are the usual suspects.
However, centralisation of authority also extends to non-dynastic parties like the All
India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and
the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in Assam,
the Trinamool Congress, the All India Anna
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Bahujan Samaj Party. The Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) and the Left parties which occupy two ideological extremes in Indian politics have remained an exception, to an
extent, to this trend. In our opinion, India’s
political parties and their leaders have the
propensity to centralise authority because
most political parties do not have independ-
T
ent organisational bases, a large section of
citizens depend upon India’s mai-baap state
[nanny state] for their general well-being,
and the nature of financing election campaigns in the country. The organisational
base of political parties in India often precedes their formal creation. While the BJP
spun off the Jana Sangh with support from
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
the Left was moulded by the unification of
splintered communist movements in the
early 20th century. These parties and their
leaders are often kept in check by strong,
cadre-based organisations. If a party has a
strong organisation and allows other contenders an equal opportunity to reach to the
top, then factional politics within the party
would create independent bases of power
and incentivise lobbying. This is true in the
case of the BJP and the Left parties as they
are rooted in strong civil society organisations. For example, in case of the BJP, the
RSS and its affiliates act as a strong check on
party leadership. The AAP has severed its
ties from the Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption movement in the wake of its party formation. It now lacks an independent
organisational base that could check the
leader becoming the party — a phenomenon
common to most political parties in India.
Even if it had retained its ties to the anti-corruption movement, the latter was just a
movement without any structure or organi-
you listen to beautiful music. The batteries
could be in a watch that tells the time, the
batteries could also be in a remote-control
mechanism that triggers in atom bomb.
Now, will you say that the batteries kill?
People shoot with a gun; the gun kills but
have you ever seen a gun convicted? There
power is there; the gun is like the power. A
person cannot kill without having a gun or a
pistol, but is a gun convicted or sent to jail?
No, it doesn’t happen because a person does
it. The mind pulls the trigger. Similarly God
is energy, but that energy is utilized, directed
by the mind towards destructive or towards
a constructive end. When a man doesn’t
have the mind, then the energy simply flows.
It’s like man-made canals and God-made
canals. Isn’t there a difference? The latter are
just right there. It’s like causing artificial
rain and having natural rain. God is more
like the energy that gives power to different
things. God gives power to the mind also, but
the mind dominates the body. With the
power of soul, with the power of God, the
function of the mind is actually to understand itself, to meditate, to be concentrated.
But if that mind, which is energized, goes out
in the world, then definitely that mind is
going to suffer. And so the pains, the infliction that we suffer through the mind, are not
suffered by God.
THE KUNDALINI SHAKTI
Chakra means a plexus, a circle of energy, a point of energy and when we study
the Kundalini Shakti, we find the bottom
charka, called muladhar charka is the South
Pole. Then we have swadhisthan charka,
manipurak charka, anahat charka, vishudhi
charka and the other chakras, which are circles of energy along the etheric double of the
spine. The ultimate charka is the sahastradalkamal, which mans ‘the lotus of one
thousand petals’. So the bottom part of the
spinal column is the muladhar charka like
the South Pole and the top portion of the
A new way forward for backward castes
BY : SANDHYA JAIN
n a judgement with far-reaching consequences for reservation politics in India,
the Supreme Court on March 17 scrapped
the UPA Government’s March 2014 notification that included Jats in the Central List of
Other Backward Classes in nine States. In
Ram Singh & Others vs Union of India (WP
Civil No 274 of 2014), Justices Ranjan Gogoi
and Rohinton Nariman inserted a startling
‘exit clause’ into the hitherto closed world of
quotas and insisted that reservations must be
justified on merit rather than slogans based
on caste-centric mythologies of historical injustice and backwardness. The impugned notification put Jats in the Central List of
Backward Classes for the States of Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya
Pradesh, National Capital Territory of Delhi,
Bharatpur and Dholpur districts of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Barring Gujarat, (Hindu) Jats are listed as
OBC in these States; they are the erstwhile
rulers of Bharatpur and Dholpur. The UPA
amended the rules to allow the National
Commission for Backward Classes to review
their status at the national level.
In June 2011, the NCBC deferred a decision on Jat representations until the finalisation of the Socio Economic and Caste Census
2011. But, in July 2011, the NCBC approached
the Indian Council of Social Science Research to conduct a comprehensive survey in
Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh,
Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat to
ascertain the community’s socio-economic
status. In October 2012, the NCBC pruned
this to a two per cent sample survey. However, in June 2013, the Prime Minister’s Office informed the Ministry of Social Justice
and Empowerment that a Group of Ministers
chaired by the Finance Minister would interact with Jat leaders regarding their demand
for inclusion. The GoM would also monitor
completion of the ICSSR survey and facilitate
an early decision by the NCBC.
An ICSSR Expert Committee gathered
all literature on the subject, including reports of the various State Commissions regarding inclusion of Jats in State OBC lists,
and presented the NCBC a summary without
recommendations. The NCBC asked the
States to fix public hearings in the respective
I
The supremo culture in Indian polity
Political parties and their leaders have the propensity to centralise authority because most parties do not have independent organisational bases, a large section of citizens depend
upon India’s mai-baap state for their general well-being, and
the nature of financing election campaigns in the country
sciousness and Bliss. Now, when we say that
God is Truth, consciousness and bliss, we say
that the power that makes everything move
in the universe is God. So the energy that
flows and controls us, that makes us move, is
Truth, consciousness and Bliss. Now that
bliss is coming down and mind is like a man
that gets a pure drug and mixes it with other
things, and dilutes it. It takes the pure thing
and dilutes it. That bliss is flowing. Mind, as
the middleman, goes after, for example, food.
It will take temporary satisfaction there,
which is happiness, contentment. Or, it’ll go
for wealth; it’ll get a temporary satisfaction
there. Don’t people feel satisfaction in these
things? Behind the temporary experiences of
satisfaction that we all seek, we all demand
that totality, the experience of totality, or
completion. From eating a little bit, you taste
a thing and you say “It’s fine” and you then
eat the whole thing. So, it is because we experience peace or bliss or happiness bit by bit,
that we all want to get the entire thing, the
whole bliss. Mind is like a gate that stops
everything, like a sluice gate. In Hardwar
there is dam and it has gates and if they open
them completely, then the water flows. If the
gate is closed, then the water doesn’t flow. So
the flow of the water is controlled. Now the
water is energy, but that energy is still being
controlled by the gates, which is like the
mind. So, if you have not mind, then it simply
flows and engulfs you life, but if the mind is
there, then that thing will be checked. So, if
you actually want to have more experience,
you won’t get more, you’ll get less, because of
the mind. “Man is destined to be perfect.”
This means that through his trials and errors, man has to understand that his mind is
the cause of suffering. His mind is dissipated
and so the energy is dissipated. So he has to
have a concentrated mind. Concentrated
mind is ‘no mind’. God is like the batteries,
but the batteries could be in a radio. Then
you extract the energy from the batteries and
sation. The AAP has been created from
scratch on the back of general discontent
with “politics as usual.” Currently, most
leaders within the AAP have no independent
political base. Their political careers are tied
to the success of the party. Those eyeing positions of power — either for enhancing their
political career or for carrying out genuine
political reform — align their interests with
that of their leader and suppress any challenges to his authority. It is this internecine
conflict that lies at the heart of the recent internal feud within the AAP, and, broadly, its
centralised leadership structure. Political
parties in India have an incentive to centralise party organisation because the Indian state is the mai-baap. In a mai-baap
state, the state is involved in everyday economic activity of most citizens — from running railways and building big industrial
complexes to social sector programmes like
the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), midday meals, etc. The state is the primary
investor, creator and provider of most goods
that citizens consume. The control over the
state and its institutions help in crystallising
the support base of a politician. The leader,
especially if the party is in the government,
is incentivised to restrict party colleagues
who are not part of the faction from using
the levers of this mai-baap state, as it would
allow them to develop independent support
bases and potentially challenge the authority of the leader. Other politicians from the
pro-leader faction support this centralisation because their association with the
leader protects them from challenges to their
own positions within the party by others.
The recent fracas in the AAP reflects these
dilemmas. There are those who want Arvind
Kejriwal to remain the leader of the party
State capitals, but on receiving no response
organised public hearings at Siri Fort Auditorium, Delhi, in February 2014.
The same month, the NCBC advised the
Centre that Jats did not qualify for inclusion
in the Central List of OBC, as merely belonging to an agricultural community cannot
confer backward status. Ruling that Jats
were neither socially or educationally backward, the NCBC suggested the need for a noncaste based identification of backward
classes. It noted that Jats were adequately
represented in public employment (Armed
Forces, Government services and educational institutions). Surprisingly, the Union
Cabinet ruled that the NCBC failed to note
“ground realities”. Claiming that the OBC
lists of the concerned States was reasonable
basis, it included Jats in the Central List of
Backward Classes for the said States and notified the same on March 4, 2014. The general
election were notified the next day, giving
the decision a distinctly political taint.
The Supreme Court, however, has
opined that the backwardness contemplated
by Article 16(4) of the Constitution is social
backwardness, which may be linked to educational and economic backwardness, but is
a distinct concept with its own implications.
This was overlooked by the Cabinet meeting
of March 2, 2014, as shown by a scrutiny of
the minutes. The Court noted that while the
minutes detail the deliberations with respect
to Jats in Haryana, the National Capital Territory of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand,
Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan, they omit
to mention Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and
Bihar, though these States were also included in the amended Central List of OBC.
This suggests that these States were not considered by the Cabinet at all. Justices Gogoi
and Nariman concluded that barring
Haryana (Justice KC Gupta Commission Report, 2012), all State Commission reports and
literature on the subject was at least one
decade old and hence inaccurate for measuring backwardness for purposes of inclusion
in the List of OBC. As citizens are expected
to continually progress on the social, economic and educational fronts, the data to
measure their growth must be more contemporary. Disapproving of the fact that over the
past two decades, there have only been inclu-
and the Chief Minister. For many politicians
in the AAP, and for Mr. Kejriwal, this makes
sense as the AAP attempts to expand its electoral influence. It will use its control over the
Delhi government to build the party. As it
follows this path, the AAP will begin to look
like all the other parties in India — a centralised party controlled by a leader accompanied by fellow politicians who need the
leader to retain their position. The secondary leadership in the party also cannot allow
dissent — especially challenges to the authority of the supremo. This centralisation
is also helped by the opaque campaign finance regime of parties in India, which is
closely tied to the mai-baap state and its institutions. Campaign finance in India is
often undisclosed, collected centrally, and
distributed by the central party office. While
the central leadership handles the bulk of
the campaign spending, political parties also
allocate tickets to candidates with a substantial amount of wealth and a criminal background so they could finance their own
elections. Nevertheless, all politicians, especially after winning elections, contribute
greatly to a party’s election coffers by collecting commissions from businessmen and contractors by providing them access, such as
getting them permits, licences, contracts,
sions in the Central and State OBC Lists, the
judges labeled this “negative governance”,
which was not envisaged in the constitutional scheme. The Court acknowledged that
backwardness is caused by several factors —
social, cultural, economic, educational, even
political. In Hindu society, owing to historical conditions, it has generally been associated with caste. The Supreme Court has now
guillotined this conflation of class and caste
by nixing the use of caste as sole basis of identification of a group as backward. Article
16(4) and Article 15(4) enjoin the State to take
affirmative action for the most deserving. Social groups that are “most deserving” must
necessarily undergo continuous change, and
new methods and yardsticks must be evolved
to identify them. In National Legal Services
Authority vs Union of India (5 SCC 438, 2014),
the Supreme Court mooted recognition of the
third gender as a socially and educationally
backward class entitled to affirmative action.
This path breaking judgement showed the
high degree of vigilance needed to identify
emerging forms of backwardness. The constitutional mandate cannot be misused to enable groups of citizens to recover “lost
ground” by claiming benefits on the basis of
historical prejudice. Self-proclaimed social
backwardness will no longer be constitutionally permissible. Nor will backwardness be
ascertained through mathematical formulae
based on social, economic and educational
indicators. Backwardness must also cease to
be relative erroneous inclusions cannot justify further inclusions. Henceforth, only the
most distressed must be included. It follows
that politically organised groups like the Jats
cannot be included as OBCs just because
groups who have fared better than them have
been included. By enunciating rational criteria to determine backwardness and suggesting periodic revision of the OBC List to
include newly deserving categories, and exclude those who no longer need affirmative
action or were included on flawed premises,
the Supreme Court has taken jurisprudence
to a new morally just dimension. The task
ahead is to take this to the next level and revise all quotas to exclude creamy layers and
extend benefits to those who have never received them due to cornering by dominant
groups within the SC or ST categories.
etc., to the mai-baap state. [Read: 400% rise
in parties’ spend on LS polls The AAP is indeed one of the few political parties that talks
about and even experimenting with methods
of open campaign finance. We will have to
wait and see how politicians from the AAP,
with a key to this mai-baap state, deal with
it in the coming months, but one thing is for
sure — a lot of candidates contesting on AAP
tickets rely on the central party office for
their funds. This is true for other parties as
well. Thus, the control-command structure
of financing election campaigns creates incentives for leaders to centralise party organisations.
The tendency of party
centralisation also explains why India has
such a high rate of party fragmentation
more and more parties competing in the next
election and electoral volatility the net
change in the vote share of a party from one
election to the next. When one leader frequently makes the decisions regarding appointments to positions of power within a
party, then others within the party become
unsure of their career paths. Ambitious
politicians in such a scenario are likely to
desert their parent party and join another
party to enhance career prospects. Lateral
entry to a similar position in another party
is however not always easy.
spinal column, which comes right up to the
top of the head, is sahastradalkamal – North
Pole. So every human being is functioning
and behaving like a magnet. But the magnet
will only be charged when the energy flows
from the North Pole returning back to the
south, and when the energy from the South
Pole goes to the North Pole. When the flow
from the south to the north happens, when
the energy circulates, then the magnet behaves like magnet. It has that magnetic flux
and that magnetic energy. Now the problem
is that we all are magnets but the South Pole
is not giving energy to the north one. We
have not raised ourselves from the lower
level to the higher level. We have not evolved.
The beauty of sadhana, the beauty of meditation is that it elevates you consciousness.
When the consciousness is elevated, the energy from the South Pole goes to the North
Pole, then human being functions like a magnet and this is called the awakening. This experience is called the awakening of serpent
power, the awakening of the Kundalini
Shakti, the potential power in us.
So the Shakti is within us. The shakti,
the energy is not outside; the Shakti is right
within us. If we press a coil, the coil has a potential power; the potential energy is right inside the coil. The energy does not come from
outside; it’s right within the coil. So when a
person meditates, when a person concentrates, the function of the evolution of soul
happens, it takes place within the body. The
body is the temple of God. And the jiva, the
soul, the small self realizes the big Self. This
realization is called bhakti, devotion; this realization is called Gyan, Knowledge; this realization is called the awakening of the
Kundalini. And this realization is called the
second birth – that unless and until you are
born again, you can not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the second birth.
By : Shri Satpal Ji Maharaj
Swachch Bharat, Swasth Bharat
BY : JAGDISH PRASAD
n Gandhi Jayanti, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi launched the Swachch
Bharat Abhiyan, a nationwide cleanliness campaign. This flagship programme is designed to achieve its objectives by 2019. The
campaign aims to provide sanitation facilities
to every family — including toilets, solid and
liquid waste disposal systems, village cleanliness, as well as safe and adequate drinking
water supply. The campaign is snowballing
into a mass movement with the public and private sector, civil society, academics and individuals, all lending their support to the cause
of a Clean India. A clean environment and hygienic setting are intrinsically linked to a
healthy life. They stem the spread of diseases.
Population explosion, rapid urbanisation, poor
sanitation, hygiene and poverty have compounded the public health problems in our
country. Immunity of a person is compromised
by un-hygienic living conditions and communicable diseases such as malaria, diarrhea and
tuberculosis that spread at an alarming pace.
World Tuberculosis Day is celebrated on
March 24. It is a time to reflect on the past
year’s achievements and outline challenges for
the future. High prevalence of tuberculosis
continues to threaten the health and well-being
of millions of Indians. Unfortunately, India
holds the dubious distinction of having the
highest tuberculosis burden in the world. In
2013, out of the estimated global annual incidence of nine million tuberculosis cases, 2.1
million were estimated to have occurred in
India. The Government of India has been
working with great commitment and zeal to
curb the scourge of tuberculosis. The National
Tuberculosis Control Programme was rechristened to Revised National Tuberculosis
Control Programme in 1997 and is based on the
World Health Organisation-recommended
strategy of Directly Observed Treatment,
Short Course. By March 2006, RNTCP achieved
complete geographical coverage spanning the
entire country. RNTCP has consistently
achieved treatment success rate of more than
85 per cent, and case detection close to the
global target, in line with the Millennium Development Goals set in the year 2000. Although
millions of lives have been saved and we have
come a long way, the road to achieve our goal
is a long one. Pro-active Governments and bureaucracies can always achieve a great deal, as
we have seen in the case of tuberculosis control in Mumbai. The Municipal Corporation of
Greater Mumbai has been steadfast in its efforts to combat the disease. The Mumbai Mission for TB Control, launched in March 2013,
drew a comprehensive strategy to tackle the
heavy burden of TB in Mumbai and serves as
an example of an effective TB control programme. In December 2014, the ‘TB Harega,
Desh Jeetega’ campaign was launched as part
of the mission’s awareness building strategy.
The induction of Bollywood megastar Amitabh
Bachchan as the brand ambassador has
brought unprecedented attention to the campaign. With Bachchan, the campaign has managed to galvanise support from all quarters.
This writer has stressed upon the need for key
figures from the corporate sector and the film
industry to adopt at least one slum in Mumbai
to work for TB control and prevention. Corporates, individual donors and civil society organisations have been playing a major role by
contributing additional resources, which will
help reach the target of the mission in a
quicker and more holistic manner. Different
ministries and departments of the Government have come together as TB prevention and
control is influenced and affected by a number
of factors, of which good hygiene and a clean
environment are of high priority. It is heartening to see the Swachch Bharat Abhiyan get a
strong push from the authorities, which has
propelled the movement to involve all stakeholders. To implement any policy effectively,
the process has to be stakeholder-driven. The
impact of any policy should be visible to the
stakeholders for increased participation. The
success of the Swachch Bharat Abhiyan in its
initial phase is reflected in the fact that the
campaign has garnered the support of the people and mobilised them to work towards the
common goal of a clean and healthy India.
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Nirbhaya documentary: Supreme Court
seeks reply from advocates of accused
Agencies
New Delhi Mar 24 :
As the ban on the telecast of controversial BBC
documentary "India's Daughter" on the December
16, 2012, gang-rape continues, the Supreme Court
on Tuesday sought response from two lawyers for
making derogatory remarks against women in the
short film. While hearing the case, the apex court
maintained that the matter requires consideration
in view of the factual and legal argument made by
women lawyers' association. "We have heard the
argument, pleadings and grievances urged in the
petition. The matter requires consideration in
view of the factual and legal submissions," a bench
comprising justices V Gopala Gowda and C
Nagappan said. The bench issued notices to the two
advocates, ML Sharma and AP Singh, and sought
their response in two weeks. The Supreme Court
Women Lawyers Association, in its petition, had
sought restriction on the entry of the two advocates
in the apex court premises, alleging that their remarks in the controversial BBC documentary were
"inhumane, scandalous, unjustifiable, biased, outrageous, ill-minded" and are a "direct affront to and
in violation of the dignity of women", especially
those practicing in the Supreme court. Senior advocate Vibha Datta Makhija, appearing the
women's association, submitted that the Supreme
Court has to lead from the front and show zero tol-
Azam skirts comment on
SC order on Section 66A
Agencies
Lucknow Mar 24 :
In the eye of a storm over
arrest of a student for allegedly
posting "objectionable" remark
against him, SP leader Azam
Khan Tuesday refused to comment on the Supreme Court
scrapping the controversial
provision of cyber law but accused the media of "supporting
criminals".
"Aap log aparadhiyon ki himayat kartey hain (you support
criminals)," he said when asked
by reporters to comment on the
apex court's judgement holding
the provision as "unconstitutional". Khan was embroiled in
the controversy after the male
student was arrested in Bareilly
on March 18 for allegedly misusing Section 66A of the IT Act by
posting on Facebook "objectionable" comments against the senior Uttar Pradesh minister.
Section 66A (sending false and
offensive messages through
communication services) of the
IT Act is sweeping in its powers if convicted, a person can be
sent to jail for upto three years
for sending an e-mail or other
electronic message that "causes
annoyance or inconvenience".
The SP leader had earlier told
reporters that the Class XII student has made "objectionable
comments" against him.
"Law is enforced with
strictness and he has been arrested within 24 hours.
Comments were made against
me earlier also on Facebook," he
had said, justifying the police
action. A petition was filed before the Supreme Court in this
regard alleging that its advisory
was violated after which the
apex court had asked Uttar
Pradesh police to explain the
circumstances leading to the
boy's arrest. Terming liberty of
thought and expression as "cardinal", the apex court today
said, "The public's right to know
is directly affected by Section
66A
of
the
Information
Technology Act." The boy, who
bore the brunt of the controversial Section 66A and spent two
days in jail, welcomed the judgement, saying the clause was being misused. "I am happy that
Section 66A has been scrapped
but I had a very rough time
when I was booked under the
provision which entailed a jail
term of three years. I was
stressed and was made to spend
two days in jail. "I was also embarrassed about what I posted
as I did it by mistake. I am still
recovering from what happened and it will take some time
for me to get completely normal
on social media and other
things," he said. His father,
though relieved with the scrapping of the provision, said his
son has suffered. "All this has affected his studies, his mental
stability and the family too," he
said.
erance for such views. "We need an environment
where we are fearless," she said and added that the
two advocates need to be sensitised. Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for SCBA, submit-
ted that there should be a meaningful and proper
implementation of gender sensitisation regulation. He said, "SCBA has taken a unanimous decision to take action against Sharma." The petition
had sought protection of fundamental rights, guaranteed under the Constitution, of the female advocates practicing in the apex court to work with dignity and without any gender bias. The documentary is about the gang-rape of a 23-year-old trainee
physiotherapist, who was brutally assaulted on
December 16, 2012 in a moving bus in Delhi. It
kicked up a storm after one of the convicts Mukesh
Singh was interviewed in Delhi's Tihar Jail.
The documentary has comments from the convicts' counsel AP Singh and ML Sharma, who allegedly made derogatory remarks against women.
The banning of the telecast of the documentary in
all formats caused an uproar in India. The Centre
on March 3 issued an advisory to ban the broadcast
of the documentary and the trial court had on
March 4 banned it until further orders. The
Supreme Court in July put on hold the execution of
the four convicts in the case. As per social media,
the public at large wanted to see the documentary,
as within a day of it being put up on YouTube, it was
viewed by more 2.86 lakh people, the pleas said.
Land ordinance likely to be
allowed to lapse on April 5
Agencies
New Delhi Mar 24 :
Government is likely to allow the controversial land ordinance to lapse on April 5 amid
stiff opposition by many political parties and activists who
have stepped up campaign
against the measure. "It has to
lapse on April 5. We will then see
what to do next," a senior
Cabinet Minister said here today. Government had promulgated ordinance on land acquisi-
tion on December 31 last year. A
bill to replace the ordinance was
brought to Parliament in Budget
session which started on
February 23.
While the bill, providing for
amending the Act of 2013,
cleared Lok Sabha earlier this
month, it got stuck in Rajya
Sabha with entire opposition
uniting in the House where the
ruling NDA is in a minority.
Since then the Budget session
has gone into recess till April 20
and for re-promulgating the ordinance, Parliament has to be
prorogued.
Sources indicated that the
government is not keen to take
the unusual step of proroguing
the Budget session during the
recess as it will hardly serve any
purpose and may lead to charges
of arrogance on the ruling dispensation, which has not completed even one year in office.
The thinking in the government
is that the states have not
framed rules and as such they
cannot acquire land under new
ordinance. Moreover, there is
no big ticket investment project
Agencies
NEW DELHI Mar 24 :
Rajasthan chief minister
Vasundhara Raje, who had demanded scrapping of the MGNREGA last year, has now
turned to the same law for helping her tide over a crisis. With
hailstorms causing massive
devastation of crops in 26 of the
total 33 districts in early March
— and Congress president
Sonia Gandhi coming down to
join protests against the state
administration — among the
multiple relief packages for
farmers announced by Raje, is
move to provide additional
'wage employment' funded
from state coffers to the 2.26
lakh workers who have already
received 100 days of work under
MGNREGA. The central law
guarantees employment for 100
days in various civic works
funded by the union government. But the state government has decided to provide
"additional wage employment
on its own to 2.26 lakh workers
who have already worked for
100 days" and are in need of
sources of livelihood after hailstorms, explained Rohit
Kumar, secretary of disaster
management and relief department. No funding limits have
been set for this, he added.
The decision is striking because, in a letter to the Rural
Development Minister Nitin
Gadkari last year, Raje had
said, "It is difficult to see the advantages of an Act, except that
it can lead to increased litigation by all manner of organisations. Whether it is to be NREGA or NREGS is a matter of debate and decision". According
to officials present at the March
19 meeting, where Raje announced this decision, not
much debate happened before
taking this decision as "she was
clear that providing employment will help the needy".
THRISSUR Mar 24 :
The
112-year
old
Kunjannam of Parannur, near
Choondal in Thrissur district
in central Kerala died on
morning.
Tuesday
Kunjannam's name figured in
the latest Limca Book of
Records as the oldest living
woman in India. Kunjannam
was not well for some days and
she couldn't take any food since
Monday. She was admitted to
the hospital on Monday afternoon, and efforts to save her by
providing intravenous feed did
not prove successful. She died
when her relative and wellwishers were planning a major
celebration on her 113th birthday which was to fall on May 20.
The officials of the Limca
Book of Records had decided to
include Kunjannam's name af-
A saree trader with two specially made sarees of 65 thousand rupees each, to be gifted to team India captain Mahendra
Singh Dhoni, after winning the World Cup
Andhra Pradesh to name capital Amaravati Gen VK Singh should quit
Finally, chief minister
Chandrababu Naidu has zeroed
in on Amaravati as the name of
the new capital of Andhra
Pradesh. TOI had hinted at the
same name in November last
year. The CM will announce the
name in a couple of days at an auspicious moment, said sources.
According to the sources,
Naidu finalized Amaravati as the
name of his upcoming capital on
the banks of river Krishna on the
rationale that in one stroke, a
new modern capital can be linked
to history dating back to at least
2000 years when the small town of
Amaravati, which is about 32 km
away from the core capital region, was a major Buddhist centre. Since Amaravati is also associated with Telugu heritage dating back to the Satavahana kingdom, Naidu felt that it would be
Those who work on MGNREGA related issues seemed surprised about the decision. "It
has come as a welcome surprise. Last year, she had argued
for converting it into a scheme
instead of an Act. In the recent
past, Odisha had also provided
150 days employment to control
stress migration, apart from
some drought affected states,"
said Pramathesh Ambasta of
the national consortium on
NREGA. Economist Jean
Dreze, who played a key role in
drafting the act, said, "It may be
more of a symbolic announcement, we will have to see how it
is implemented on ground. I
Agencies
Tumakuru, March 24
HYDERABAD Mar 24 :
New Delhi Mar 24 :
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Prashant Bhushan on
Tuesday said that the Supreme Court's decision to strike down
the controversial Section 66A of the IT Act was essential as it
was extremely 'vague'
. "It is a very essential judgment. People were being victimized due to a law which was very vague," said Bhushan. Earlier
in the day, the Supreme Court struck down the IT Act Section
66A , terming it 'unconstitutional'. According to reports, the
apex court ruled that the section falls outside Article 19(2),
which relates to Freedom of Speech, and thus has to be struck
down in its entirety.
Person who circulated rape
video on WhatsApp held
Agencies
NEW DELHI Mar 24 :
CBI on Tuesday arrested a person in the case where videos
showing two women being gang-raped by men who even smiled
for the camera were doing rounds on the WhatsApp. The
Supreme Court had last week, while observing that videos were
"shocking and scary" handed over probe to CBI. The alleged sexual offender in the videos circulated on WhatsApp has been
identified as Subrata Sahu from Odisha.
Little Heaven Playway
School celebrates
annual day
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Mar 24:
A colourful cultural programme by the little students
marked the 6th annual day celebration of Little Heaven
Playway School at K L Sehgal Hall Abhinav Theatre Jammu.
The Programme was received with big applause by the audience including parents of the students. Principal of the school
Gurmeet Jamwal along staff members thanked the Chief Guest
Sohail Kazme reputed media person. Tanvir Dar renown film
personality and main actor of Dogri feature film ‘Geetiyan’ will
be the special guest of the function. The principal also thanked
the parents of the students and hoped for a positive cooperation
from the parents in improving the concept of education of their
wards.
Further, prizes were presented to the little students by the
chief guest. He also presented his views concerning moral values among little students through playway manner which is
good concept and the need of the hour.
don't think it (seeking scrapping of MGNREGA) was her
own idea or she was advised...I
don't think she had thought
that thing through, and it's unclear if she has thought this
thing through, either. I feel we
are not getting a clear message
from the BJP on (the party's) social policy. There is certainly
an element of austerity, but
there are times when they realise these things are important
for people and, in this case for
example, she may have realised
that she has to do something.
What is lacking is a sustained
commitment to programs like
NREGA that help poor people".
Last week, barely a day before
Congress president Sonia
Gandhi was to begin her tour of
hailstorm-affected districts,
Raje had her own day long visits to similar areas. Despite the
state administration's own survey of losses not having been
concluded yet, Raje announced
several measures for providing
relief the same day. Among
them was a measure to, as a
statement from the chief minister's office put it, "provide additional employment in hailstorm affected gram panchayats to workers who have already worked for 100 days under MGNREGA till March 31".
Oldest woman in India dies
Agencies
Agencies
Agencies
Vasundhara Raje turns to MGNREGA as hailstorms
cause devastation of crops acrorss 26 districts
Mallinkarjuna
Bande’s wife demands
CBI probe
Mallamma Bande, wife of
slain
police
officer,
Mallikarjuna Bande has demanded a probe by the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
into death of her husband. Ms.
visited
Mallamma
Doddakoppalu
village
in
Kunigal taluk and spoke to the
parents of IAS officer, D.K. Ravi
and consoled them.s Speaking
to reporters, Ms. Mallamma expressed her satisfaction about
handing over the case of D.K.
Ravi to CBI for investigation.
“However, I did not get justice in
this regard,” she said. She said
“I
will
get
Criminal
Investigation Department (CID)
investigation copies through
RTI (Right to Information) and
approach CBI for a thorough investigation into my husband’s
killing”. She also demanded the
State government to give her
husband a bravery award for
taking on anti-social elements.
pending and hence there is no
point in rushing with the repromulgation which will bring the
government under unnecessary
criticism if they prorogue the
session, the sources said.
There is also a thinking in
the government that the ordinance can be re-promulgated after the Budget session comes to
an end on May 8 as taking the
step before the second half of the
budget session is unlikely to
yield any result since the opposition is unrelenting on scuttling
the measure.
It was essential to strike down
'vague' Section 66A: Prashant
the most appropriate name for
the AP capital. It was also felt that
the name Amaravati will elevate
the status of the new capital and
will be embraced by all Telugus,
whether they are in Andhra,
Telangana, elsewhere in India, or
abroad.
The sources said many in the
government and the TDP had
suggested that the capital be
named after NTR, but Naidu had
shot it down. "The chief minister
preferred the historical importance of the region to the
parochial sentiments expressed
by some of his colleagues," a minister, who revealed to TOI
Naidu's decision to name the capital as Amaravati, said. A GO on
the name would also be issued after the formal announcement by
the chief minister himself, the
minister added. Naidu was to
have announced the name of the
new capital while taking part in
the Ugadi festivities in Tullur vil-
lage last Saturday. "Before leaving Hyderabad, he told us that the
name Amaravati would be announced on Ugadi and carried
with him all the necessary historical reports about the political
and spiritual importance of
Amaravati. However, the CM later decided to make the announcement on an exclusive occasion,"
the minister said. The sources
said Naidu did not want the capital name announcement to be
mired in any controversy as the
model election code of conduct
was in place for the legislative
council polls. Apparently, the
CM zeroed in on Amaravati after
discussing it with historians and
vaastu experts. The TDP government has already acquired 33,000
acres of land from farmers of 26
villages to build the core capital
on the banks of river Krishna. As
per indications, the foundation
stone for the capital would be laid
on June 12 in a grand ceremony.
if disgusted: Congress
Agencies
NEW DELHI Mar 24 :
The Congress on Tuesday
said that minister of state for external affairs Gen VK Singh
(retd) should quit if he felt disgusted, referring to the tweets
with the hashtag "Duty" and
"Disgust" he sent out after attending Pakistan Day function
here. "If the minister is so disgusted with the double standards of the government on
Pakistan.... then he should have
quit," Congress leader Manish
Tewari told reporters. He also
tweeted that if the minister felt
"disgusted with the double standards of his government on
Pakistan he should quit? Other
ministers in the past refused to
attend Pakistan events." Singh
on Monday attended the
Pakistan Day function in the
presence of the Pakistan envoy,
leaders of the Hurriyat
Conference and other separatist
outfits. Hours after attending
the event, Singh sent out a series
of tweets, calling to define "disgust" and "duty", indicating that
he was unhappy at being deputed to attend it.
TN fishermen
released by Sri
Lankan courts
Agencies
RAMESWARAM, TN Mar 24 :
Two Sri Lankan courts today
ordered the release of 54 Tamil
Nadu fishermen, whose arrest by
Sri Lankan Navy has threatened
to derail talks between representatives of fishers of the two neighbouring countries, a Fisheries department official said here. The
judicial magistrate courts in
Trincomallee and Mannar in
northern Sri Lanka ordered the
release of the fishermen, arrested
for allegedly fishing in Lankan
territorial waters on March 21, at
around 11.30am. Quoting information
received
by
him,
Assistant Director of Fisheries
Gopinathan said the fishermen
would return tomorrow after being handed over by the Sri lankan
Navy to the Indian Coast Guard
personnel. The Tamil Nadu government had last night threatened
to call off the third round of fishermen-level talks, scheduled here
today, if the arrested were not released by 11am.
ter her family could produce
her baptism records which was
performed on May 20, 1903 by
the Vicar of Our Lady of Rosary
Church at Eranellur, near
Parannur. The baptism certificate was issued by the
Archdiocese of Thrissur. The
church authorities testified
that Christian families of those
days used to get the new born
babies in their families baptised within the seventh or
eighth day of birth in those days
. Kunjannam had lost both her
parents in a gap of 40 days when
she was young and she chose to
remain a spinster after that.
She was living with the family
of brother's son Jose, and was
hardly taking any medicine.
Most of her faculties including
vision, hearing, speech and
even memory were fairly intact
till couple of days back. Hailing
from a poor family she had to
work as home maid in a nearby
Hindu family for about 50 years.
She used to go to work till about
five years back, though she was
little scared to step out of her
house following fall last year.
During a recent interview with
TOI, Kunjannam had said vegetarian food and regular walks
were what kept her healthy.
Mostly she was in a cheerful
mood, though occasionally she
was lamenting that she was
alone now as all her 10 siblings
had died earlier. "I want to live
more, but I don't want to be a
burden to others. I always
thank God for His support
throughout my life," she had
said when she was told about
her selection as the oldest living
woman in India. The family
members said the last rites of
Kunjannam would be performed on Wednesday morning.
Despite Karti episode,
Chidambaram welcomes scrapping
of Section 66 of IT Act
Agencies
CHENNAI Mar 24 :
Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram on
Tuesday
welcomed
the
Supreme Court judgment that
struck down Section 66A of the
Information Technology Act,
though
his
son
Karti
Chidambaram had earlier filed
a case against a man under this
section for a tweet against him.
"I welcome the judgment of
Supreme Court holding that
Section 66A of the IT Act is unconstitutional," Chidambaram
said in a press release.
"The section was poorly
drafted and was vulnerable. It
was capable of being misused.
In fact, it was misused," he said.
He said, "There could be a case
of misuse of the freedom of
speech. In such cases, the ordinary laws should apply and the
offender should be dealt with
under those laws. If some provisions of the law have to be
strengthened, that could be considered. But Section 66A was
not the answer."
In October 31, 2012, S Ravi,
a native of Puducherry, was arrested on charges of trying to
malign the image of Karthi.
Ravi had posted a tweet calling
the minister's son 'corrupt.'
Ravi, an active member of the
India Against Corruption (IAC)
movement, tweeted that Karthi
had amassed more wealth than
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's
son-in-law
Robert
Vadra.
Following the complaint lodged
by Chidambaram's son, the
Puducherry asked him to appear before them. He was taken
into custody just a few minutes
after he had met them, and a
case was booked against him
under Section 66(1) of IT Act.
Glimpses of Future
Govt to hold ‘stress relief’
programmes for officers: Dr Jitendra
GOF Staff Reporter
New Delhi, March 24:
Govt of India's Department of
Personnel & Training (DoPT) will
hold a series of regular "stress relief"
and rejuvenating programmes including Yoga, workshops,sports, cultural events, etc. for IAS, Civil
Services and other government officers in order to help them maintain a
conducive frame of mind and ensure
a harmonious well-being. At the
same time, DoPT has also mooted a
"stress management" segment in the
Induction course for new employees
joining State Services in the three
States of Jammu & Kashmir, Tamil
Nadu and Maharashtra, and based on
the experience from these three
States, the same practice would be
replicated in other States as well.
This was disclosed here by Union
Minister of State (Independent
Charge) of the Ministry of
Development of North Eastern
Region (DoNER), MoS PMO,
Public
Personnel,
Atomic
Grievances,Pensions,
Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh
while inaugurating the “All India
Civil Services Tournament” organised by Central Civil Services Board
under the auspices of DoPT.
Addressing the IAS and other
Civil Service Officers assembled for
the event, Dr Jitendra Singh said
such efforts not only help in rejuvenating the energies and spirits of officers who are subjected to increasing
work load and office stress but also
help in bringing together the fraternity of civil service officers from all
over India thus promoting a spirit of
comradeship among them. “Today I
see in you a mini India gathered here -- brimming with hope, confidence
and competetive spirit --- ready to
take up any challenge inside or outside the office and this is indeed a
great reassurance for all those keenly
watching the march of 21st century
India to become a world power”, he
added. Increasing accountability and
rising expectation level in administrative work tend to take their toll,
said Dr Jitendra Singh and therefore,
in-house provisions for stress management are called for.In this context, he referred to a two-day "Stress
management" programme for officers being organized at New Delhi on
28th and 29th of this month followed
by a Yoga course for officers beginning from April in forty different centers across India.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, the DoPT
will not only plan events for government officials but will also devise programmes for their children in the
form of academic tutorials, summer
coaching camps, etc.
JAMMU WEDNESDAY, MARCH, 25, 2015, PAGE 8
AJHLA hails Kohli’s
effort to decongest
General Bus Stand
GLOBAL NEWS
US Drone Kills
Nine Pakistani
Taliban
Militants in
Afghanistan
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Mar 24:
All Jammu Hotels & Lodges Association
has appreciated the efforts of Minister for
Transport, Abdul Ghani Kohli for his sincere
efforts to de-congest General Bus Stand,
Jammu by ordering shifting of all ideal buses
from General Bus Stand immediately.
Inderjeet Khajuria, president AJHLA,
while issuing statement on the issue made clarification that shifting of ideal buses from the
General Bus Stand is one of the measures for decongestion. Main demand of the traders is to ensure entry of interstate buses at General Bus
Stand only for pick and drop of the passengers,
which otherwise were diverted at bye pass
Kunjwani. Main damage causing set back to
Jammu tourism is due to rail-link extension to
Katra besides diversions of long route buses
and light vehicles carrying pilgrims and
tourists from Kunjwani itself.
He appreciated the MLA East Mr Rajesh
Gupta for taking keen interest in solving the
problems of traders. Mr Khajuria reminded the
MLA of the commitments made by him with the
traders and made a fervent appeal for ensuring
execution of multistoried shopping complex
with parking and ISBT for which Rs 70 crore is
already allotted by the center government to
JDA department and foundation stone stand already laid by the then Chief Minister. He also
stated in his press statement that the commitments made by two former Chief Ministers Mr
Ghulam Nabi Azad and Omar Abdullah;
Member Parliament Madan Lal Sharma;
Jammu based former ministers and MLAs
should be honoured, for retaining Interstate
Bus Terminal at General Bus Stand.
Agencies
Peshawar, Mar 24:
A US drone strike today
killed at least nine Pakistani
militants
in
Taliban
Afghanistan's Nangarhar
province near the country's
porous border with Pakistan
amid an intensified offensive
against terrorists in the
restive tribal areas using unmanned aerial vehicles.
Militants belonging to
the proscribed Tehrik-iTaliban Pakistan (TTP) and
Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) terror
organisations were killed in
the strike in Nazyan district
of Afghanistan's Nangarhar
province, near the PakAfghan border in Khyber
Agency. "Nine militants
were killed in the attack," a
Pakistani security official
said. Most of the dead were
identified including one
Shakir Sipah, driver of
Mangal Bagh, the chief of
Lashkar-i-Islam group. The
outlawed Bagh-led Lashkari-Islam had recently merged
itself into the TTP under a reorganisation by militants.
The CIA-operated unmanned
aerial vehicle targeted a suspected militant hideout with
two missiles, completely destroying the compound.
Several people were also
wounded in the strike. The
details could not be independently verified as the access of media personnel is severely restricted in the region.\ Militant hideouts
have been frequently pounded by Pakistan's security
forces in Tirah Valley area of
Khyber region. Khyber is
one of Pakistan's seven semiautonomous regions governed by tribal laws and lies
near the porous Afghan border. Pakistani military operations were launched by security forces and aimed at
targeting
militants
in
Khyber Agency, particularly
the Tirah Valley of Bara
which borders Nazyan. The
operations in Khyber tribal
region were launched amid
operation Zarb-i-Azb being
CDO Baramulla organizes awareness programme Computer training programme
GOF Staff Reporter
Baramulla, Mar 24:
Civil Defence organization
Baramulla
organized
an
awareness programme on
growing menace of Drug Abuse
in youth at English Medium
High School Botingo Sopore 0n
23rd March 2015. A large number of people participated in
the programme including students,teachers,CD Wardens/
volunteers and SDRF people.
A welcome note was addressed by priccipal Mr. Azad
who also presided as chief
guest and stressed upon the social,economic and health hazards of drug abuse in youth.
He also showed a great concern on the cultivation of opium and cannabis around the
vicinity and the level of ignorance where mother cultivates
and son abuses.
On this occasion while giving a presentation Dr. Mir
Chief Warden CD said the social and economic implications
of substance abuse are worrisome. Increased absenteeism
and deterioration in quality
and quantity of work output
are also witnessed in substance
abuse cases. These youngsters
who should be at the prime of
their abilities become dysfunctional entities within society in
the long term, the official said.
He said that the effects of
drug abuse are long-term and
limitless, as they percolate
through all the aspects of life.
There is an increase in the
crime rate, road accidents, sui-
Jammu, Mar 24:
An emergency meeting of
JK Youth Sharnarthi Action
Committee was held under the
leadership of its president R C
Sharma strongly condemned
and censured the move of the
BJP government to confer minority status only to Kashmiri
Pandits and depriving other
Hindus residing within the
state in general and PoK
refugees in particular.
While addressing the meeting, Mr Sharma pooh-poohed
the BJP leaders belonging to
J&K for their double standard
and double speak, who are hell
bent to divide the peace loving
Hindu community on the basis
of their living place.
He said that if the BJP government is keen to announce
Hindu as minority in the state,
which they are, it would be welcome step but within the Hindu
community they attempted to
divide it on basis of language.
He said that it was the BJP
which opposed the then
Kashmiri Hindu Shrine Bill in
J&K assembly last year, while
terming it as dividing the
Hindu and now they are doing
the same thing.
He said that Kashmiri
Pandits are elite section of the
state and conferring minority
status to them, amounts to
criminal conspiracy against
the other deprived and downtrodden Hindu community in
general and Hindu of PoK
refugees in particular.
He said that if government
is conferring the minority status to KP for being Hindu then
inaugurated at Hiranagar
GOF Staff Reporter
Kathua, March 24:
Project Officer, District
Urban Development Agency
Kathua Jaffar Abass today inaugurated Computer Training
programme taken up under
Project - Himayat of district administration for the skill development of the border youths
here in Hiranagar today.
Himayat is an initiative of
the District Administration
under Border Area
Development Programme
(BADP), especially devised to
give opportunity to the border
people by imparting them
trainings under different departments and provision for
exposure visits. In its first
phase twelve youths were selected from different border
villages for the six months
computer cum accounts training. Abass said Project Himayat is a mission under
which an effort has been made
to capacitate border people involving all stakeholders which
include youth Boys and Girls,
Women Folks and Farmers to
improve their socio economic
status. He appealed the beneficiary students to educate others about the project and encourage them to come forward
to avail this opportunity.
He informed the selected
students about the objective of
the training and also job
prospects in the government
and private sectors. He said on
the completion of the
Computer cum Accounts
Training, stipends and certificates from NIELET (formerly
DOEACC) will be given to the
successful candidates.
Director Regional
Institute, Kathua Suraj
Parkash was also present on
the occasion. Earlier, five day
training for Poultry farmers
was held at panchayat Pansar
in village Gujre Chack at zero
line of border in Hiranagar.
During the training extensive lectures by Resource
Persons of the department on
bird disease were given to the
beneficiaries besides pamphlets, brochures on department schemes were also distributed on the occasion.
GOF Staff Reporter
Reasi, March 24:
Social
Welfare
Department Reasi organized
an awareness camp at Gari,
about 60 Km from Reasi today.
The awareness camp is an effort to familiarize the public
with various social welfare
schemes being implemented
by the department aiming to
ameliorate the socially and
we also qualify the same merit,
if government is conferring minority status to KPs for being
migrants within the state then
PoK refugees are thousand
time worst migrants then KPs
and there is no justification for
conferring minority status to
rich and well up KP community.
He said that KPs are sitting
in the high offices of state and
termed as ruling class of the
state, which are enjoying all facilities on the government expensive and they all are white
collared and they do not deserve the minority status for
their upliftment.
He said that KP migrants
have eaten more than Rs 36000
crores rupees of government in
the name of relief and rehabilitation within a period of 25
years, whereas the government
has not spent more than Rs 50
crore on PoK refugees for last
68 years including transit
charges when they were shifted
in safer places during the riots.
He said that more than
50000 PoK refugees including
children and women had been
slaughtered and 20000 persons
died post genocide due epidemics spread after the genocide.
He asked the BJP elected
representatives to be impartial
and judicious, while granting
minority status to the Hindu
community in J&K.
He urged the Narender
Modi not indulge in such shallow acts to get the get the media
hype, which can damage the
peaceful atmosphere of the
country.
economically backward, students of underprivileged class,
differently disabled persons
and widows.
The camp was attended by
a large number of locals including sarpanches, panches,
prominent citizens, school
teachers and students.
District Social Welfare
Officer, Reasi Rafiq Ahmad
Jaral stressed upon the people
to come forward for availing
the benefits of various schemes
such as Pension schemes
(National Social Assistance
Programme, Integrated Social
security Scheme, Contributory
Social security Scheme),
Family
Benefit
National
Scheme, Aam Admi Bima
Yojna and Rehabilitation of
militancy victims scheme.
Teachers were also requested
for in time submission of schol-
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GMC, Bakshi Nagar
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An Indian-American journalist suffered a
heart attack inside the White House, but a prompt
response by US Secret Service personnel saved
his life. Manku Singh, the only Sikh journalist accredited to the White House, collapsed in the East
Room while covering the White House Science
Fair moments before President Barack Obama
was to speak. Singh is a community reporter-cumcameraperson for TV Asia -- the largest South
Asian cable network in the US.
The alert Secret Service personnel immediately responded to him and called the ambulance.
The emergency responders who tried to revive
him found that he had no pulse. They used cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which is commonly
known as CPR, to try to revive him while adminis-
arship proposals of eligible students under various categories.
Jaral apprised about different scholarships schemes
such as Pre and post scholarship to SC, OBC, RBA, Disable
students, orphan etc.
Later a lecture as well as
film show on Beti Bachao Beti
Padhao was also presented by
the department.
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conducted by the Pakistan
Army in North Waziristan
tribal region. Pakistan Army
said yesterday at least 80 militants were killed and over
100 others injured in ground
and aerial offensive in
Khyber tribal district over
the weekend. TTP chief
Mullah Fazlullah, who masterminded the Peshawar
school massacre, was also believed to have been killed after being seriously hit in air
strikes.
However, the Taliban rejected the claim and said
their chief was alive. Also,
earlier this month, senior
commander
Khawrey
Meshud, who was a close relative of former Taliban chief
Hakimullah Mehsud, was
killed along with two other
Taliban members when the
CIA-operated drone targeted
TTP militants in Shabak
area of Kurram tribal district. The strikes also come
amid warming relations bePakistan
and
tween
Afghanistan, traditionally
hostile neighbours who accuse each other of harbour-
ing insurgents to act as proxy
forces.
‘Don’t know yet
what happened’
to Germanwings
flight: Lufthansa
chief
Agencies
Paris, Mar 24:
airline
German
Lufthansa said Tuesday that
it has no information yet
about the crash of a jet belonging to its Germanwings
subsidiary, describing it as a
"dark day." "We do not yet
know what has happened to
flight 4U 9525," Lufthansa
chief executive Carsten
Spohr said via Twitter. "My
deepest sympathy goes to the
families and friends of our
passengers and crew on 4U
9525. If our fears are confirmed, this is a dark day for
Lufthansa. We hope to find
survivors."
Secret Service Personnel Saves Life
of Indian-American Journalist
Social Welfare organizes awareness camp at Reasi
JKYSAC condemns BJP move to
confer minority status to KPs
GOF Staff Reporter
cides and suicidal attempts,
deaths due to overdose, psychiatric disorders and high cost on
general health issues due to
chronic drug abuse like liver
disorders, gastritis, accidental
injuries and an increased risk
for HIV infections due to
Intravenous Drug Use (IDU).
Kashmir is losing the most productive age group to drugs,
with manifold repercussions
on social and occupational
function, affecting both society
and economy.
from
SDRF
Mudasir
demonstrated about fire fighting and utilization of ropes in
rescuing the survivors during
disasters.
They were also informed
about the treatment facilities
provided by the ,J & K police ,
Civil Defence and Indian Army
at Drug De-Addiction centres.
At the end an interactive
session was held where students asked many questions
which were answered by the
experts .
The session concluded
with vote of thanks by the chief
guest and requested the organization for more such programmes.
Nathalie Emmanuel poses at the Season 5 premier of "Game of Thrones" at the War Memorial Opera
House, Monday, in San Francisco.
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INDIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT TIMINGS
FLIGHT NO. & SCHEDULE DEPARTURE
IC-821 AB 320 Daily
11.30 Delhi a.m
01.20 Jammu p.m
IC-822 AB-320 Daily
2.35 Srinagar p.m
3.50 Jammu p.m
IC-425 B-737 (Mon. & Fri.) 07.40 Leh a.m
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tering oxygen. After about four minutes, one of
the technicians said, "We have a rhythm."
CPR is an emergency procedure performed in
an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore
spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a
person who has cardiac arrest.
The emergency medical technicians later
said Singh had a strong pulse. He was transferred
to the nearby George Washington hospital. At the
hospital, soon, Singh underwent a heart catheterisation, and the early signs were reported to be encouraging.
"Secret Service literally saves a life in back of
East Room," Benjamin Corb, who was in the East
Room representing the American Society for
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, tweeted
about the incident. The fair was attended by several Indian-American students.
JET AIRWAYS FLIGHT TIMINGS
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BUSINESS & SPORTS
JAMMU WEDNESDAY MARCH, 25, 2015, PAGE 9
Glimpses of Future
India to lead Asia's
economic growth: ADB
New Delhi, March 24:
Projecting a slowdown in
Chinese economy, the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) on
Tuesday said the economic
growth in Asia would be led by
India for the next couple of fiscals. The Asian Development
Outlook 2015 projected
Emerging Asian economies to
clock average 6.3 percent
growth in both 2015-16 and 201617 fiscal, as in the current financial year. The growth would be
supported by a strengthening
recovery in the major industrial
economies and soft global commodity prices. "The expected
pick-up in India and in most
members of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) could help balance
gradual deceleration in the region's largest economy, China,"
ADB said. The ADB has forecast
that India's growth will improve
from 7.4 percent in current fiscal to 7.8 percent in 2015-16 and
further to 8.2 percent in 2016-17.
As regards China, the ADB
projected the economic growth
to decelerate from 7.4 percent in
current fiscal to 7.2 percent next
fiscal and 7 percent in 2016-17 as
the government proceeds with
its structural reform agenda
and fixed asset investment
slows. ADB said the growth in
Asia would be aided by soft commodity prices and recovery in
major industrial economies. It
said India is poised to overtake
China in terms of growth as as
government removes structural
bottlenecks and lifts investor
confidence. Besides, expected
easing of monetary policy and
pick up in capital expenditure
would also boost growth.
Developing Asia is making
a strong contribution to global
economic growth, ADB Chief
Economist Shang-Jin Wei said.
However, ADB warned of several risks to Asia's growth outlook. "Risks to the outlook include possible missteps in the
PRC as it adjusts to its new normal, less decisive action on reforms in India than anticipated,
potential spillover effects on the
global economy of the Greek
debt crisis and the deepening recession in the Russian
Federation," it said.
The impending rise in interest rates in the US may reverse capital flows to the region,
requiring monetary responses
to maintain stability, ADB said.
"Falling commodity prices are
creating space for policy makers
across the region to cut costly fuel subsidies or initiate other
structural reforms.
This is a key opportunity to
build frameworks that will support more inclusive and sustainable growth in the longer term,"
he added.(PTI)
Gold, silver
rebound on
demand increase
Agencies
New Delhi, March 24:
Gold prices rose by Rs. 100
to Rs. 26,550 per 10 grams at the
bullion market on Tuesday on
increased buying by jewellers
and retailers amid a firm global trend. Silver also moved up
by Rs. 200 to Rs. 37,800 per kg on
increased off-take by industrial units and coin makers.
Bullion merchants said increased buying by jewellers to
meet rising demand amid a
firm global trend mainly boosted the sentiment here.
Gold in New York, which
normally sets price trend on
the domestic front, rose by 0.58
per cent to $1,189.30 an ounce
and silver by 1.49 per cent to
$16.98 an ounce in Monday’s
trade. In the national capital,
gold of 99.9 and 99.5 per cent purity shot up by Rs. 100 each to
Rs. 26,550 and Rs. 26,400 per 10
grams, respectively.
Sovereign, however, held
steady at Rs. 23,600 per piece of
eight grams. In a similar fashion, silver ready rose by Rs. 200
to Rs. 37,800 per kg and weeklybased delivery by Rs. 360 to Rs.
37,780 per kg. Silver coins also
spurted by Rs. 1,000 to Rs.
56,000 for buying and Rs. 57,000
for selling of 100 pieces.
Sensex falls for 5th
day, down 30 points at
over nine-week low
MUMBAI, March 24:
The benchmark Sensex today succumbed to a flurry of
selling in the last one hour to
give up initial gains and extend its losses for the fifth
straight session to end 30
points down at over nine-week
low. The BSE 30-share barometer resumed better and rallied
further to a high of 28,455.32, up
by 263 points, on sustained capital inflows amid Asian
Development Bank's (ADB)
painting a positive outlook of
India's economic growth.
However, a brief period of
heavy selling mainly in auto,
banking and IT shares at the
fag-end pulled it down to a low
of 28,130.09, before settling at
28,161.72, showing a fall of 30.30
points or 0.11 per cent. Today's
fall takes the Sensex to its lowest closing in over nine weeks
since January 16. Similarly,
the 50-issue NSE Nifty moved
erratically in a range of
8,627.75 and 8,535.85 before
ending at 8,542.95, a net fall of
7.95 points or 0.09 per cent. In
five straight day, the NSE index has shed about 180 points.
Traders said volatility was
mainly due to rolling over of
positions in the futures and options segment from the near
month March to April series.
March derivative contracts
will expire on Thursday. On
Sensex, scrips like, Tata
Motors, HDFC Bank, Infosys,
SBI, ICICI Bank, HUL and
Hero MotoCorp suffered losses. Tata Motors suffered the
most among Sensex stocks by
plunging 3.27 per cent ahead of
company's board meet tomorrow to consider rights issue.
However, rise in HDFC,
Bharti Airtel, Sun Pharma,
RIL, Dr Reddy's Lab and Wipro
among others cushioned the
fall to a major extent. Pharma
stocks attracted buyers' attention after Sun Pharma and
Ranbaxy got approval from the
CCI for sale of seven brands to
Emcure Pharma to comply
with the fair trade watchdog's
conditional nod for their USD
4-billion merger.(PTI)
Rupee ends at 62.26; logs longest run of gains since 2011
Agencies
Mumbai, March 24:
The Indian rupee on Tuesday
inched up by a paisa against the
American currency to end at 62.26, extending its winning streak to seventh
straight session — the longest string of
gains since June 2011. The rupee
opened higher at 62.20 per dollar as
against Monday’s closing level of 62.27
per dollar at the Interbank Foreign
Exchange (Forex) Market. It then
firmed up further to 62.14 per dollar on
initial selling of dollars by banks and
exporters in view of sustained capital
inflows. Expectations that the U.S.
Federal Reserve will not tighten its
monetary policy until the second half of
the year has helped emerging market
currencies like rupee to gain.
However, the rupee trimmed its
initial gains on some dollar demand
from banks and importers and ended at
62.26, showing a marginal gain of one
paise or 0.02 per cent. The rupee has
now gained 71 paise or 1.13 per cent
against the U.S. dollar in seven straight
trading sessions. In the Asian market,
the euro fell against the dollar and the
yen, with some traders adjusting positions after the currency staged a rally
overnight. The dollar index, a gauge of
six major global rivals, was down by
0.19 per cent on Tuesday.
In New York Market Monday, the
dollar traded lower against its rivals after recording its largest weekly percentage decline against the euro since
October 2011. Oil prices declined in the
Asian trade on Tuesday after activity
in China’s factory sector fell to an 11month low, stoking worries over the
strength of the world’s No.2 economy.
Meanwhile, the Indian stock benchmark Sensex ended lower by 30.30
SPORTS NEWS
District volleyball meet
from March 29
points, or 0.11 per cent, to 28,161.72.
“Technically, the pair has remained below an important level of
62.40. So only a break above the level
could push the pair higher. On the other hand, we believe that importers may
have to come into the markets to cover
for their month-end and year-end positions around 62.10 levels,” said Suresh
Nair, director, Admisi Forex India Pvt.
Ltd. Globally, the dollar index remained weak as markets will be turning their attention to Tuesday’s U.S. inflation report after Fed Chair Janet
Yellen warned last week that the
stronger dollar was pushing down inflation. The euro continued its upward
momentum against the dollar on
Tuesday, he added. The forward premia firmed up further on sustained
paying pressure from corporates. The
benchmark six-month premium
payable in August firmed up to 223-1/2-
225-1/2 paise from Monday’s closing
level of 217-219 paise and forward contracts maturing in February 2016 also
moved up further to 457-459 paise from
445-447 paise. The Reserve Bank of
India fixed the reference rate for dollar
at 62.1988 and for euro at 68.0330. The
Tawi Trekkers holds events for
handicapped children
GOF Staff Reporter
JAMMU, March 24:
Organised by the Jammu District Volleyball Association,
the district (boys and girls) championship shall take place at
MA Stadium, here from March 29 to March 30.
Those interested participants have been advised to report
to the general secretary of the District Association, HS Gill on
or before March 27. For further queries, the clubs and institutions can contact on Mobile No. 9419142292 and 9419274764.
ICC World Cup: Perfect
time to beat Australia, says
Virat Kohli
Sydney, March 24:
Crediting bowlers for
Indian team's remarkable
turnaround after a winless
show preceding the World
Cup, star batsman Virat Kohli
feels it is the perfect time to
beat Australia in Thursday's
semifinal and do justice to
their performance in the
showpiece event. "There
couldn't be a better time for us
(to beat Australia). It is an opportunity for us to do justice to
the way we have played so far
in Australia, and we haven't
had the results," Kohli told
cricket.Com.Au. India have
won all their seven games going into the semifinal at the
Sydney Cricket Ground, after losing the Test series 0-2 and
turning up last in the tri-nation event in early part of the
Australian summer. Glenn Maxwell, earlier in the week, reminded the Indians that they are yet to beat Australia during
the long tour. Kohli spoke about how the team prepared in the
little time it got leading up to the 50-over showpiece event. "We
felt as a group that we need to step up and make corrections
now. We don't really have too much time because we can't afford to go into the World Cup thinking 'okay fine, we have
things to work on but we can do that over the period of time'.
"So we immediately went to work, wrote things down, what
are the things we need to improve on," said Kohli, who has not
crossed the 50-run mark since hitting a fine hundred in the
tournament opener against Pakistan.
If the batsmen have played their part then the bowlers,
ably led by Mohammed Shami (17 wickets in 6 games), got
their act together in the quadrennial extravaganza. Kohli said
the bowlers' stand-out show has made the biggest difference.
"The way the bowlers have reacted and the way they have performed with the composure and the confidence and the aggression all together, it has been wonderful to watch. "So we expect
the bowlers to step up if you want to beat quality sides in the
world and the way they have done this in this World Cup has
been commendable. "We have played the right kind of cricket
and the difference now is how our bowling attack has come into play in this World Cup taking 70 wickets in seven games.
That's probably been the difference, and if we continue to do
that we have a great chance come game day," added Kohli.
rupee recovered against the pound to
92.79 as against 92.88 previously while
continued to decline against the euro to
68.33 per euro from 67.82 previously.
The domestic currency also dropped
further against the yen to 52.14 per 100
Japanese yen from 51.98 previously.
GOF Staff Reporter
JAMMU, March 24:
Indian Mountaineering
Foundation (IMF) North Zone
Committee, in collaboration
with Tawi Trekkers, J&K organised two -day programme
(activities) for Specially abled
children at different venues,
here. The event concluded with
the holding of sport climbing
competition at Sprawling Buds
School, Chinore, Jammu. “The
purpose of the programme was
to inculcate the spirit of adventure especially mountaineering, sport climbing and allied
sports among the younger generation and to spread it to the
nook and corner of this part of
the country. The programme
was highly successful as it received overwhelming response
from Home for Handicapped
and School for Blinds,” informed vice president of the
Tawi Trekkers, Ram Khajuria.
Earlier, on the first day, on
the spot painting competition
was organized at Home for
Handicapped , Udheywala,
here. Mr Chattarpal, a reknowned writer, an artist and
president
Dogri
Sanstha,
Jammu was the judge. Painting
competition was followed by a
visit to the Aquarium at Bahu
Fort for the inmates of the Home
for Handicapped besides an adventure films show and some
interesting talks by prominent
personalities in the field.
On the second day today,
the specially abled children of
Home for Handicapped and
Home for Blind were imparted
training in sport climbing in
which all the participants
showed keen interest and enthusiasm. An informal competition
was also organised and winners
in various categories were honoured with cash prizes. It was
for the second time that such a
programme has been conducted
by the IMF North Zone
Committee
at
Jammu.
Chairman, IMF North Zone
Committee, S. Bhattacharjee,
who has come to Jammu especially for the conduct of this IMF
Metro Programme , personally
supervised all the arrangements and facilities provided to
the participants. Secretary IMF
North Zone Committee, Ram
Khajuria and secretary, Tawi
trekkers
J&K,
Shawetica
Khajuria were the resource persons of the rare event.
State wrestling
meet gets underway
GOF Staff Reporter
POONCH, March 24:
Organised by the Jammu
and
Kashmir
Wrestling
Association, the 20th Men and
VI
Women
Wrestling
Association got underway at
Indoor Complex, MA Stadium,
here today. Around
150
wrestlers drawn from all over
the state, including those from
districts of Poonch, Doda,
Jammu, Srinagar, Samba,
Reasi, Ramban, Udhampur and
department team of J&K Police
have reported for the two-day
competition to be held in different weight categories.
The competition was declared open by Director General,
Department of Youth Services
and Sports (DYSS), Navin
Agarwal, who was chief guest.
The distinguished gathering
was welcomed by president of
the Association, Dushyant
Sharma.
Vote of thanks presented by
general secretary, Ajay Vaid.
Among others present were
Chief Sports Officer, Abdul
Qayoom, Sports Officer, Rajan
Sharma, Managers, Ravi Singh,
Satish Gupta and SP Singh as also Vikas Gupta, Raju Pahalwan,
Amit, Dheeraj Sharma, Rakesh,
Sukhdev, Mulkh Raj, Ravi
Sharma, Om Parkash and
Kulbir Singh.
BUSINESS NEWS
Cairn Energy seeks compensation
from India on tax demand
New Delhi, March 24:
Cairn Energy of UK is seeking compensation from the
Government of India for the loss in value it suffered due to an
"unfair and arbitrary" Rs 10,247 crore tax demand raised using a
retrospective tax law. Using the UK-India Investment Treaty,
the Edinburgh-based firm filed a formal dispute notice against
the tax demand raised on an internal business reorganisation
seven years ago and sought an arbitration with the government
to quickly resolve the dispute that is impinging on its investment plans. Cairn said the imposition of capital gains tax on
transfer of its India assets to a new company, Cairn India in 2006,
was not only contrary to relevant legal standards but unjust because it was an internal transaction and no shares or assets
were sold to any third party to make any capital gains. The internal reorganisation was fully disclosed to relevant agencies and
ministries including Income Tax Department in 2006-07, the
company said adding it would not have undertaken the internal
reorganisation if it had received any indication that its purely
internal transaction would be subject to capital gains tax.
Prior to the previous UPA government bringing a new law
in 2012 to tax share transfer retrospectively, foreign firms - filing
returns in their respective jurisdictions - were not required to
file tax returns in India. Cairn Energy, being based outside
India, too did not file returns. The tax demand breaches several
of India's obligations under the UK-India Investment Treaty including that of creating favourable conditions and ensuring fair
and equitable treatment and full protection and security of
Cairn's investments by introducing unfair and arbitrary tax obligations, it said. Also, the attachment of Cairn Energy's 9.8 per
cent share holding in Cairn India in the aftermath of the
January 22, 2014 tax notice also breached the treaty obligations.
Income Tax Department says Cairn Energy allegedly made
a capital gain of Rs 24,503.50 crore in 2006 while transferring all
its India assets to a new company, Cairn India, and getting it listed on the stock exchanges. Cairn Energy, which had in 2011 sold
majority stake in its Indian unit to mining group Vedanta for
USD 8.67 billion, still holds 9.8 per cent stake in Cairn India. The
I-T Department, in January last year, barred it from selling this
stake. In the Notice of Dispute filed under UK-India Investment
Treaty, Cairn sought withdrawal of all notices, release of attached shares and payment of full compensation for any resulting damages sustained by it, including for the diminution in value of the attached shares (which have declined in value by hundreds of millions of US dollars since they were first attached).
Cairn said it was encouraged by the new BJP government's
public disapproval, including one by Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley, of the retroactive taxation. But it regretted that those sentiments were not reflected in any plan or undertaking to relieve
Cairn from the taxation policies of the prior government. Cairn
said given the circumstances, it has no choice but to safeguard and
protect its interests and the interests of its shareholders by serving the Notice of Dispute. Article 9(1) of the UK-India Investment
Treaty provides that the parties shall endeavour to settle their disputes through amicable negotiations. In accordance with this provision, Cairn invited the Government of India to engage in negotiations, which should be commenced immediately. Cairn said it
has been fully compliant with the tax legislation in force in each
year and paid all applicable taxes. Under the terms of the UK-India
Investment Treaty, the Government of India and Cairn are now
required to enter a period of negotiations to seek a resolution to the
dispute. To the extent that a satisfactory resolution is not reached
during that period, an international arbitration panel will be constituted to adjudicate on the matter.(PTI)
Pinto Club faces Manjeet
Club in volleyball final
GOF Staff Reporter
POONCH, March 24:
Pinto Club shall be playing
against Manjeet Club in the final
of the two-day 12th Manjeet
Singh Memorial Volleyball
Tournament, organised by
District Police at Sports
Stadium, here today. In the semifinals, Pinto Club defeated
Surankot Club while Manjeet
Singh Club outplayed District
Police XI in straight sets. Earlier,
in the preliminary round of the
competition, Pinto Club beat
Shah Club Mendhar 2-0.
In all, nine teams, representing various clubs of the district, are taking part in this
knockout competition. The
competition was declared open
by Padamshri Shambhu Nath
Khajuria was chief guest, who
interacted with the participating teams. Prominent among
others present were SSP Pooch,
JS Johar, chairman orginsing
committee, Additional SP Amit
Gupta , DySP, DR, MR Giri, vice
president hockey J&K, Sham
Lal Sharma, Prem Parkash
Luthra
and
Principal
Government Boys Higher
Secondary School, Pooch,
Kerath Singh. Today’s matches
officiated by the technical penal
comprising Rajinder Singh
PEM, Narinder Singh PEM,
Ram Prakash, Bal Krishan and
Narinder Singh PEM and
Sourab Sharma PET.
More misery for South Africa as Kiwis advance to maiden final with 4-wicket
De Villiers shows raw emotions after SA falls again
Agencies
Auckland, March 24:
South Africa-born Grant Elliott`s
brilliant 84 not out, capped with a stunning six off the penultimate ball, saw
New Zealand to a four-wicket win over
the Proteas in a cliffhanger World Cup
semi-final at Auckland`s Eden Park on
Tuesday. Elliott`s winning six, off injured South Africa fast bowler Dale
Steyn, took New Zealand into the World
Cup final for the first time and they will
play the winner of Thursday`s second
semi, between Australia and India in
Sydney, in Sunday`s showpiece match
in Melbourne. New Zealand faced a revised target of 298 under the
Duckworth/Lewis method after South
Africa made 281 for five in 43 overs,
which included a near two-hour rain
stoppage. Black Caps skipper Brendon
McCullum made a typically quickfire
59 off 26 balls at the head of the innings.
Then came a valuable 103-run partnership between Elliott and Corey
Anderson and New Zealand appeared to
have the game in hand with six overs to
go. But Morne Morkel regained the initiative for South Africa by taking a wicket and conceding only one run in the 38th
over and by the start of the 43rd, and final, over New Zealand required 12 to
win. They started with a bye, a single, a
four to Daniel Vettori, another bye and
then Johannesburg-born Elliott, who
turned 36 last weekend, smacked Steyn
high into the stands as New Zealand, after losing all six of their previous World
Cup semi-finals, completed a thrilling
win. South Africa, struggling to throw off
their unwanted "choker" tag, have now
failed to win all four World Cup semi-finals they have contested. As McCullum
flung his bat at the start of New Zealand`s
run chase, South Africa captain AB de
Villiers was forced to take three of his
frontline bowlers out of the attack.
At a news conference after his
team’s Cricket World Cup loss to New
Zealand, as the emotions of the defeated captain were almost painfully raw,
AB de Villiers’ most revealing answer
was of only one word. De Villiers’
voice cracked as he fielded questions,
and he paused at times to wipe his
eyes. At other moments, his answers
trailed off and he looked almost vacantly into the middle distance.
Finally, he was asked whether
this was the worst he had felt on a
cricket field, and he answered, simply, frankly, “Yes.” That single syllable spoke more eloquently than any of
his deeper and more reasoned answers. This was the nadir of de
Villiers’ career as South Africa captain. His deep belief in his team’s ability to win under any circumstances
had been tested and even shaken, and
he found the dissolution of his hopes
almost too much to bear. “It doesn’t
make me feel better at all,” he said.
“My goal is to win games of cricket, to
take glory home, and make a difference in the nation’s heart and hope,
and we didn’t achieve that, and it
hurts quite a bit. I’m gutted. We had
our chances and didn’t take them.
CYMK
Glimpses of Future
62nd National Film
Awards: Priyanka Chopra’s
Mary Kom declared as the
best popular film providing
wholesome entertainment!
ENTERTAINMENT
Should Sunny Leone, Sonakshi
Sinha and Lisa Haydon be worried
due to no Sec 66A?
The Supreme Court has slashed
Section 66A which curbed freedom of
speech on the Inernet and while many will
benefit from the verdict we are worried
about how Kamaal R Khan is going to use
the Supreme Court decision. There is bad
blood between the self-proclaimed critic
and many B-Town actresses. Reason? The
man is always objectifying them on social
media and tweeting debasing comments
about them. Sonakshi Sinha and Lisa
Haydon have even retaliated in the past.
Considering that his tweets are his only
claim to fame, we are sure that KRK will
take the No Sec 66A and turn it on it’s
head!
Our concerns aren’t entirely unsubstantiated. Here is what KRK tweeted
when he found out about the SC verdict,
“Thanks to Supreme Court to strikes
down #Sec66A Main Abb Kisi Ki Bhi
Kahkar Le Sakta Hoon.” A little while lat-
Katrina Kaif: I’m really looking forward to
unveiling my wax statue at Madame Tussauds
Priyanka Chopra’s Mary Kom took the nation by a
storm upon its release. A biopic based on the famous boxer of the same name, the venture proved to be a massive
hit not only in India, but overseas as well. The film settled
with 92 crore gross at the domestic box office and grossed
over 12 crore in the international market. Mary Kom gave
a tough fight to films such as Mardaani starring Rani
Mukerji and Queen featuring Kangana Ranaut. The
biopic now has another feather added to its cap, as it has
bagged the national award upon being declared as Best
Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment!
We bet all the die hard Priyanka fans will be ecstatic
with joy! The 62nd National Film Awards were declared
recently and Mary Kom bagged the trophy in the titled
mentioned above. With this achievement, the venture has
proved to become not only big in terms of competition
with other ones featuring women in lead roles such as
Mardaani, NH10 and Queen, but also a film being celebrated for the powerful impact it has had on the people.
Priyanka’s stint as the protagonist in the film was and
will be cherished by her fans for years to come. All we can
say is, congrats team Mary Kom, this was well deserved!
Actress Katrina Kaif, who
is set to unveil her wax statue
at Madame Tussauds London
on March 27, is very excited
about the achievement and is
looking forward to this special moment.
“It was really exciting
when I first heard the news. It
is something which will be
there forever,” Katrina, who
spent her childhood in
London, said here on Monday
at the red carpet of Femina
Women Awards.
“I have grown up in
London for a few years, so it
brings back lot of nice memories. I would be launching it
on March 27 in London at the
main Madame Tussauds and I
am really looking forward to
it,” she added. Before Katrina,
Bollywood celebrities like
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan,
Amitabh Bachchan, Shah
Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan,
Kareena Kapoor and cricket
legend Sachin Tendulkar have
their wax statues at Madame Tussauds. The 31-year-old British-indian actress is over the
moon about her wax statue being unveiled and calls it a special moment for her family and
added: “Everyone always wants to be acknowledged for his work in whatever way possible.”
Meanwhile, it is being said that superstar Salman Khan, who is close to Katrina and Ranbir
Kapoor, will fly off to London with his entire family to support the actress
Neither Salman Khan nor Shah Rukh Khan, Sidharth
Malhotra wants to work with Amitabh Bachchan!
Sidharth Malhotra is currently gearing up for two big releases- Brothers and
Shakun Batra’s next. While in Brothers
he will be seen playing Akshay Kumar’s
younger brother, it was recently confirmed that Shakun Batra’s film will
have an ensemble cast of Sid, Alia Bhatt
and Fawad Khan in lead roles. We certainly are excited for Sid’s upcoming
ventures. But the actor on the other hand
is wanting to work with an even bigger
star. No, not Shah Rukh Khan or Salman
Khan. Sid is aiming at legendary
Amitabh Bachchan. Yes!
The Brothers actor took to Twitter
recently and wrote, “Good morning
peeps feel like chatting this morning so
#asksid ” Is when one his fans quizzed
him asking, ‘Who is that one actor who
he wishes to work with, at least once in
his career?’ And Mr Malhotra was quick
enough to prompt- “Mr Bachchan”
Knowing how its usually either of
the Khans making it to the’ wishlist, fans
were quite surprised hearing Sid’s
‘Bachchan’ confession. But Sid will definitely make an impressive team with the
Piku actor, don’t you think so?
Hope filmmakers take a note of Sid’s
wish! And meanwhile, you do watch out
this space for more updates!
ter, his next tweet was, “Oye Nangi,
Chalu, Porn Star @SunnyLeone when are
you going to leave India? Stop spoiling our
youngsters. And Refund my 3$ you
cheater no.1.” So, you see we weren’t all
worked up for nothing.
With No Sec 66A regulation, we are expecting KRK to become an even bigger
pain in the ass. What are your thoughts on
this? Let us know in the comments section
below!
JAMMU WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015, PAGE 10
SCREEN SHOW
I won’t be dancing in
Gabbar Is Back since it is
not a dance-oriented
film, says Akshay Kumar
Actor Akshay Kumar, who has put on his dancing
shoes for almost all his films, will not be seen showing his
moves in the forthcoming film Gabbar Is Back as he says
“the character does not demand dancing”.
However, he admitted there are three-four songs in the
film as per the requirement.
“It’s not a dance-oriented film so you will not see
Gabbar (me) dancing in the film. However, there are threefour songs in the film as per the demand of the film,”
Akshay told reporters here on Monday at the unveiling of
the trailer of the film. Directed by famous southern director
Krish and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Viacom
18 Motion Pictures, Gabbar Is Back also features Shruti
Haasan. It is a remake of the 2002 Tamil film Ramanaa and
features Akshay as a vigilante, a righteous man and an enemy of the corrupt.
Kareena Kapoor Khan: Saif Ali Khan is okay
with returning the Padma Shri Award!
Kareena Kapoor Khan was
calmness personified as she
battled media queries on
Saif Ali Khan being stripped
of the second biggest honour
Padma Shri Award. Bebo
who looked ravishing
Anamika Khanna at the
Lakme Fashion Week said,
“The fact is that it is a national honour and they have
obviously researched pretty
well to have given him this
award. If they want to discuss it, what had happened
at Wasabi and how it should
affect the Padma Shri, as far
as I know, I haven’t discussed it with him yet but I
am quite sure he is pretty relaxed and okay to give it
back.” A look back at Saif’s
Wasabi brawl, In February
2012, Saif Ali Khan was having dinner with Kareena
Kapoor, Amrita Arora,
Malaika Arora Khan, Shakeel
Ladak and two other friends at Taj hotel’s Wasabi restaurant. An NRI businessman Iqbal Sharma allegedly
complained about Saif and his friends creating a ruckus at the restaurant.
It seems that an irritated Saif called him an ‘idiot,’ which gave way to a verbal dual and finally turned into a fist fight that lead to Sharma walking out with a fractured nose. However, Saif alleged that Sharma had
misbehaved with the ladies and hence he got into a scuffle with Sharma. Sharma and his wife filed a complaint against the Humshakals actor and doled interviews after interviews to the press.
Zarine Khan to make her Tollywood debut?
She was a sensation
back in 2010 when Salman
Khan introduced her as
his heroine in Veer. She
was the talk of the town
for her uncanny resemblance with Katrina Kaif.
But four years and three
films later, Zarine doesn’t
have much work in
Bollywood. So we hear
that the pretty belle may
be packing her bags and
move down South for
greener pastures.
If rumours are to be
believed, then Zarine
Khan has apparently
signed a Telugu film opposite actor Srikanth.
Apparently, the actress
will be seen romancing
Govindudu Andarivadele
actor in a Telugu film titled Jalsa Rayudu. The
makers are still in talks
with the Housefull 2 actress. Director Sudheer
Babu said,”I wanted to
spring a surprise with the
film’s casting. I saw Zarine‘s earlier films and was very impressed with her acting and dance skills. She fits the bill perfectly and when we
approached her for the role, she agreed to do it. However, negotiations are still on. She is yet to sign on the dotted line.”
The film marks Srikanth’s comeback into playing lead roles after being sidelined as a supporting cast after emergence of new heroes.
Will Zarine sign the dotted line and feature in a Telugu film? Only time will tell, but I think it is the right choice by Veer starlet to tread
down South, in order to resurrect her acting career.
JAMMU WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015, PAGE 11
Glimpses of Future
TBS JU holds UGC SAP National Conference on Tourism Management
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, March 24:
A National Conference on “Integrated
Strategies for Marketing Tourism and
Allied Services” (Under UGC SAP-DRS-II)
was organized by The Business School,
University of Jammu.
Prof R D Sharma, chief guest on the
ocassion in his address highlighted the
role of tourism in providing employment
and entrepreneurial opportunities and also congratulated the School for their efforts towards such deliberation which is
the need of the hour. Prof Sharma further
said that the tourism education should be
directed towards the pragmatic concepts
of Peter Drucker and quoted that destination should be prepared in such a manner
that the total output delights the clients
and tourists.
Prof. Nimit Chowdhary ,from Indian
Institute of Travel and Tourism
Management (IITTM) Noida in his key Key
Note Address highlighted the need to understand that every destination has a
unique personality and that the personali-
ty of the destination should be the focal
point of marketers for devising the integrating marketing strategies..
Prof. Anu Singh Lather, GGS
Indraprastha University, Delhi and
Member of the SAP Advisory Committee
during her inaugural address shared her
experiences and nostalgic memories about
the destinations around the globe.
Earlier Prof. Versha Mehta, Director,
The Business School in her welcome address elaborated on the outline of the ini-
Students of Bhajnowa
pledge for Swachh Bharat
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Mar 24:
Bhajnowa village of Naushera Tehsil joined the
rest of India in Swachh Bharat Campaign, Indian Army
in continuation with Governments agenda of Swachh
Bharat Campaign, joined the campaign by sensitising
the locals of remote border Villages to keep pace, with
rest of the country. Kalal Based Rashtriya Rifles
Battalion under the aegis of Reasi based Counter
Insurgency Force organised screening of an animated
movie for students of Govt High School, Bhajnowa. The
animated movie gave the young minds a vivid description of importance of cleanliness, hygiene and its relation with a healthy body. The idea of incorporating
children in the cleanliness drive would give a solid
foundation to the Campaign and would take the movement ahead. Eight teachers and 40 Children of
Government Middle School attended the same. The
Indian Army has planned several more screening of
movies and lectures for the entire Naushera Tehsil.
The image of a smart looking soldier with clean military station not only strengthens the cleanliness drive
but also is a reflective of the fact that Indian Army is not
only a security apparatus of the nation but also a harbinger of good social ethos.
TIC Bhaderwah organizes
multilingual musharia
GOF Staff Reporter
Bhaderwah, March 24:
Multilingual Mushaira was organized by Tehsil
Information Centre Bhaderwah at Government Higher
Secondary School (Boys) Bhaderwah.
Tehsildar Bhaderwah Bashir-ul-Hassan was the
chief guest on the occasion while Principal,
Government Higher secondary School Boys
Bhaderwah Ajit Kumar was the guest of honour besides senior lecturers, students, prominent citizens
and media persons were present on the occasion.
Prominent poets of Bhaderwah town recited their
poetic compositions in Urdu, Kashmiri, Hindi and
Bhaderwahi languages. T.H.Rind was the Mire-eMajlis.
The other poets who participated in the Musharia
include S.H Sarmadi, Chanderkant, Amardeep, S.Kak
An and,F.H Tahir, Touseef Tabish, M.H.Mir, Adil
Choudhary, A.H Rahat, A.U Naizi, R.A Bhaderwahi.
Tehsildar Bhaderwah appreciated the efforts of
Information Department in preserving and promoting
the rich cultural heritage of the region. He said that the
poetic compositions represent many social issues prevailing in the society adding that such events also provides a platform to the artists and poets to showcase
their talents. Principal, Government Higher secondary
School Boys Bhaderwah recalled the contributions
made by the renowned poets of the region in field of art,
culture and languages, said that this Chenab valley region has a history of producing great poets and artists.
BJP Kashmir Displaced
Unit meets Secy JKSSB
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Mar 24:
T N Bhat, President BJP (J&K) Kashmir Displaced
unit met Khurshid Ahmed Shah, Secretary SSB J&K in
his office and apprised him about the problems of those
migrant Candidates who could not present themselves
before the concerned authorities for the respective interview in the different district Head Quarters in
Kashmir Valley due to road block of national highway
and non-availability of Air Services.
The Secretary assured Sh. T.N Bhat that the Board
is going to consider the cases of these candidates sympathetically. The secretary directed that those candidates who could not present themselves for the interview in Kashmir due to various reasons shall submit
their application to the Chairperson SSB J&K immediately in person or through post, so that their interview
can be also held accordingly. Moreover, the selection of
those Candidates whose selection has been withheld
shall produce their certificates before the concerned
authorities in the office of SSB J&K (Jammu).
tiatives undertaken by The Business
School to promote academic research.
Prof. Keshav Sharma, Dean, Faculty of
Business Studies and Coordinator, UGC
SAP DRS-II said that J&K is a frontline
state of India in Northern Frontier. It has
both strategic and cultural significance.
The need is to amalgamate the cultural resources and spiritual moorings to develop
marketing strategies comprehensively.
Prof. Neelu Rohmetra, Deputy
Coordinator, UGC SAP DRS-II while set-
J&K Bank holds awareness
camps in Baramulla, Udhampur
GOF Staff Reporter
Srinagar, Mar 24:
J&K Bank conducted a financial literacy and credit counseling session at Rural Self
Employment Training Institute
(RSETI) Sopore, which was attended by a batch of sixty
undergoing
trainees
Entrepreneurship Development
Programme.
RSETI
Riyaz
Director
Ahmad Mir after introducing the
FLCC
centre
Facilitator
Baramulla to the trainees impressed upon them the importance of the credit counseling
session.
Facilitator
FLCC
Baramulla informed the audience about benefits of savings
with banks besides various attractive plans of banks like
Savings
Bank
Account,
Recurring Deposit, Mehandi
Deposit and other fixed invest-
ment plans. He explained to them
various products of the bank like
Kisan Credit Card, Education
Loan, Computer and Laptop
Loan facilities and subsidy
linked plans of government agencies so that they also spread the
message in their respective areas
for the benefit of people and other
unemployed educated youth.
Customer rights and responsibilities, why repay in time, recycling of funds, RTGS, NEFT were
also discussed.
Educating the trainees about
how to finalize their credit proposals with the bank, the facilitator educated the trainees about
pre sanction, post sanction and
post disbursement formalities
required to be completed by the
entrepreneurs. He impressed upon them to establish their units
for income generation to ensure
the repayment of installments to
the Bank and for earning of
DDC Samba convenes
SBI R-SETI LAC meeting
GOF Staff Reporter
Samba, March 24:
The District Development
Commissioner Samba Sheetal
Nanda (IAS) today convened a
meeting of Local Advisory
Committee (LAC) of SBI RSETI
Samba to review the progress of
training programmes for the
quarter ending December 2014 today. Convener of the Committee
Rajesh Sharma Director SBI
RSETI, Samba, briefed the house
about the progress of RSETI, for
the quarter ended Dec 2014, and
presented the training calendar
for the year 2015-16 in which various programs are designed viz
Dress designing for women,
plumbing and sanitary works,
soft toys making, advanced beauty parlour, poultry, multi phone
servicing, Computer tally, Light
motor vehicle (LMV) driving,
Fashion designing, Mushroom
cultivation, Beauty parlour management, Dairy farming etc .
He informed that four training programmes covering 128 candidates were held in different
streams by RSETI during the
quarter and 24 awareness camps
were held by RSETI in different
parts of the district to educate the
masses especially the youth about
the programmes of R-SETI. He assured that more training would be
conducted at the institution as per
local need and requirement.
The DDC while speaking on
the occasion impressed upon the
sponsoring agencies to conduct
the awareness camps in the villages especially in far flung and
border areas to expand their orbit
so that maximum people are educated, motivated and facilitated to
initiate self employment enterprises.
She stressed for giving training to the female candidates especially in the rural and far flung areas so that they can start their
own enterprises and become self
dependent.
The DDC further asked the
Banks and line Departments for
sponsoring candidates particularly the female candidates to
RSETI and also suggested that
possibility of holding training
courses for Agro related activities
viz mushroom, Apiculture should
also be encouraged with other activities. Among others, GM DIC,
DDM NABARD besides officers
from various government departments and Financial Institutions
participated in the meeting.
JU SC/ST
employees hold
meeting
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, March 24:
The Jammu University
SC/ST Employees Association
held its meeting in the University
Campus, today which was
chaired by its President Mr R.L.
Kaith and attended by a large
number of SC/ST employees. The
meeting resolved to commemorate the incoming 125th birthday
of Bharat Ratna Baba Saheb Dr
Bhim Rao Ambedkar on April 14,
2015 with enthusiasm and present
Ambedkar Award 2015 to Mr S.K.
Shavotra
for
Social
Understanding and Promoting
Ideology of Ambedkar.
The meeting also resolved to
invite the J&K Social Welfare
Minister Bali Bhagat to grace the
Birth Commemorative Function
as the Chief Guest. While discussing the reservation and other
matters, the Association urged
the Vice-Chancellor Professor
R.D. Sharma to take their important issues in the ensuing meeting
of the University Syndicate and
have the same considered sympathically in the larger interest of
social justice.
Adbi Kunj holds special multifaceted patriotic tributes literacy meet
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, mar 24:
In keeping with its tradition the front ranking multilingual literary organization
Adbi Kunj J&K, Jammu continued its weekly and social activities for the last 40 years
since 1975. With this view on
the eve of “Navratra” and
“Nauroz Aalam” festivals and
the occasion of martyrs day the
organization held a very special multifaceted patriotic tributes literary meet at its literary
centre Zee Pre Kidzee School
Talab Tillo, Jammu.
The meet was presided
over by noted poet writer and
journalist
Aarash
Om
Dalmotra whereas a well
known Gojri poet and writer
Ch. Mohamad Adris Shad was
the guest of honour. K.L.
Dewama Vice President of the
ting the tone of the conference said that
tourism as an industry depends upon synergy, partnership and working together.
Tourism impacts communities empowerment, social interaction, employment and
infrastructure development. She added
that tourism market strategy must embrace potential allied services, develop
wholesome packages and should revolve
around market penetration, extension and
development. Dr. Nirupa Rai (KAS), Joint
Director Tourism Jammu, in her address
organization conducted the
proceedings of the meet. In the
welcome address Sham Talib
president of the organization
greeted the people as well as
writers of various languages
on the eve of Navratra and
Nauroz Alam festivals. He also
paid rich tributes to the Martyr
sons of the nation like Bhagat
Singh, Raj Guru and Sukhdev
who sacrificed their lives for
attaining Independence. Mr.
Sham Talib and others also
threw light on the various aspects of the festival of Navratra
and Nauroz Alam. In the prose
session the presentations were
included Sarfarosh an Urdu
write up on martyrs by Sham
Talib, Nauroz-Te-Us (Gojri
write up) by Ch. Mohd Adris
Shad, Jaisi Karni Waisi Bharni
(Hindi Kahani with patriotic
tributes on Navratra occasion
by K.L. Dewana (d) Shikari (a
Punjabi Kahani) by S.K.
Deewana. In the composite poetic session the poets were recited their poems, songs and
Ghazals, on the said occasion
the participant poets were included Aarash Om Dalmotra,
Taiyab Bharti, Bishan Dass,
Ch. M. Adris Shad, Sanjeev
Kumar Shahid Iqbal Kosar,
Rajeev Kumar, K.L. Deewana,
M. Ashraf Ganaie, S.K. Gupta,
Abdul Jabar Butt, Raj Kumar
Uttam, M.S. Kamra, Raj
Kamal, Ch. Manzoor Badana,
Santosh Nadan, Dr. R K
Sahjandhan, Sham Talib.
The meet was come to end
with the vote of thanks by
Santosh Nadan.
livelihood. Certain clarifications
were sought by the participants
regarding various schemes
which were cleared on spot by
the facilitator. Another such
credit couselling camp was organized at Seer jagir in Sopore.
Meanwhile, the bank organized
an awareness camp regarding
PMJDY besides a Coin-cum-Note
exchange mela at Majalta in
Udhampur. Speaking on the occasion, Cluster Head S. Iqbal
Singh highlighted the Bank’s efforts to provide world class banking facilities to unbanked areas.
He also informed the audience about the salient features of
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna
Scheme. He educated the participants about the benefits of
Insurance and RUPAY Card under PMJDY.
On the occasion 1332 pieces
of soiled and mutilated currency
notes were exchanged and coins
of denomination of Rs. 1, 2, 5 & 10
were distributed. Head B.U
Majalta presented vote of thanks
& appreciated all the people for
sparing their valuable time and
making the event successful.
talked about the growth and employment
generating aspect of tourism.. During the
function the conference proceedings were
also released. Dr. Vinay Chauhan,
Conference Organising Secretary, presented a formal vote of thanks while
Dr.Komal Nagar, Asstt. Prof., The
Business School conducted the proceedings of the inaugural function.
Later during the day, a panel discussion was organized which was moderated
by Prof. Ashok Aima, Central University
of Jammu and coordinated by Dr.
Rajendra Mishra, The Business School.
The panelists included Mr. Ujjwal Kant,
Vice President, Cox and King, Mr. Jyoti
Bhatti, Principal, FCI, Jammu. and Sh. VK
Sehgal, Founder Chairman, Jammu,
Kashmir & Ladakh Tourism Promotion
Council.
Five technical sessions were also held
wherein around 60 papers were presented
on the diverse issues related to the identified themes of the technical sessions.
In the valedictory session. Sh. S.S.
Beloria, IAS, Former Vice-Chancellor,
Central University of Jammu , Chief Guest
on the occasion in his address enlightened
the audience with the birds eye view of
tourism potential of Jammu region. He
highlighted the five untouched virgin areas of Jammu region that need to be exploited and explored.
Prof R D Sharma, Vice-Chancellor,
University of Jammu presided over the
valedictory function.Prof. Desh Bandhu,
Director, CDC, JU was also present at the
occasion and spoke about the marketing
strategy of tourism and how to modernize
tourism in our country. Prof. Ashok Aima,
Professor, Central University Jammu suggested the remodeling of the present teaching pattern of the higher education and
suggested the SAP committee for undertaking projects and research that have applicable relevance to the state.
Prof. Vinay Chauhan, Conference
Organizing Secretary and Dr. Rachna
Mahajan presented the conference report.
Prof. B.C. Sharma, Dean Student
Placements, University of Jammu, also
spoke on the occasion. Prof. Alka Sharma,
TBS, JU presented a formal vote of thanks.
Dr. Amisha Gupta, Assistant
Professor, The Business School conducted
the proceedings of the function.
Centennial Battle Equitable development is not possible
Honour Day
without delimitation commission: Rao
celebrated by 5th GOF Staff Reporter
managed to obtain stay orders
from the High court and movJammu, Mar 24:
Sikh Battalion
ing scout free and working on
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Mar 24:
5th Battalion-the Sikh
Regiment set an unparalleled
benchmark of bravery and
chivalry during World War I
and earned laurels for the nation as well as the SIKH community. On the historic occasion of
100th anniversary of La-Bassee
Day, the unit is organizing a
function with full military
grandeur to pay a befitting tribute to its martyrs from 29 - 30
March 2015. In order to ensure
maximum participation Col
Rajiv Mehta, VSM and all ranks
of the battalion are extending a
warm welcome, through an
open invite, to all the retired
and serving Officers, Junior
Commissioned Officers and
Jawans. During this landmark
event, War Memorial service,
Sainik Sammelan, Memorial
Paath
at
Unit
Akhand
Gurudwara,
traditional
Barakhana (community meal)
and other such functions will be
organised with Military Elan.
Kuldeep Kumar Rao, an
member
of
the
active
Movement for Peace, Equality
& Justice, hoped that newly
formed PDP-BJP coalition
government will fulfill aspirations of the people of both the
regions irrespective of cast,
creed and colour.
In a press statement issued here today, Rao said that
despite having Accountability
Commission & State Vigilance
Commission in our state, not a
single politician, any minister
and big fish were put behind
the bars till date.
Politics is for serving the
nation and society whereas today, politics means crime &
corruption. Money for power
and power by using money is
the foundation of modern politics.
Mr. Rao hoped that Cheif
Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed
will take quick and daring action against the corrupt officials, bureaucrats and politician who have been convicted
earlier and who have easily
Vibodh meets FM, demands
promotion for Banking Associates
‘J&K Bank must
adopt district-wise
recruitment quota ’
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, Mar 24:
Taking into the consideration the plight of the people
who were recruited in the
Jammu & Kashmir Bank as
Banking Associate about seven
years back under the ‘hard
area recruitment’, Member
Legislative Council (MLC)
Vibodh Gupta on Tuesday met
Finance Minister Haseeb
Drabu at Civil Secretariat
Jammu. Vibodh apprised to the
Finance Minister that about
260 people were appointed in
the districts of Rajouri,
Poonch, Doda, Udhampur and
Kishtwar under the ‘hard area
recruitment’ quota and they
are still waiting for their promotion to the scale-1 level even
after serving in the J&K Bank
for the last seven years. He also
informed Drabu that the promotion of these employees had
already been delayed by two
years which was due after the
completion of five years in
service. Gupta also took up the
matter regarding the recent
of
‘Relationship
posts
Executives’ being advertised
by the bank in which neither
selection criterion nor total
number of posts were properly
mentioned which according to
him is creating confusion
among the aspirants across the
State. In the meeting, Vibodh
also appealed to the Finance
Minister that the J&K Bank
must adopt district-wise recruitment quota so that the
people in any district of the
State would not feel discriminated and every aspirant
would get equal opportunity to
serve in the bank. Giving a patient hearing to the issues of
public importance raised by
Vibodh, the Finance Minister
assured that he will personally
look into the promotion issue of
the Banking Associates after
the conclusion of the Budget
Session. Drabu further assured that the recruitment in
the bank would be made district-wise and in the most
transparent manner.
top lucrative posts under the
nose of state govt. because
without taking action against
these corrupt officers, good
governance is not possible.
He added that equitable
development to all the three
regions is not possible without
De-limitation commission.
He said that total voters of
assembly segments of Karnah
27,672, Gurez 15,676, Habha
Kadal 50,780, Khanyar 52,159 is
hardly equivalent to one
Gandhi Nagar constituency of
Jammu region having around
1.50 lacs. voters & Jammu
west with 1.42000 voters,
which is an open disparity
with Jammu
. The Highest voter constituency in Kashmir division
is 70,000 & lowest is 27,000 & the
Highest constituency in
Jammu division is 1,50,000 &
the lowest is 70,000. Is equitable development possible in
this open discrepancy?
Roadside bomb kills two
soldiers in Egypt’s Sinai
Agencies
Cairo, Mar 24:
A roadside bomb killed two
soldiers and wounded six others
on Tuesday as it struck a passing
armoured vehicle in the restive
Sinai peninsula, Egyptian military and medical officials said. A
military official said the explosion took place as army forces patrolled an area near the village of
el-Kharouba, close to the Gaza
Strip in the north. Egypt has been
battling an Islamist insurgency in
North Sinai since the army ousted president Mohamed Morsi in
July 2013. Militant attacks in
Sinai are spearheaded by a group
called Ansar Beit al-Maqdis
(Partisans of Jerusalem), the
Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic
state group that controls swathes
of territory in Syria and Iraq.
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis has claimed
some of the deadliest and most sophisticated attacks against
Egyptian security forces in the
Sinai peninsula, which neighbours Israel and the Palestinian
enclave in Gaza. Islamist groups
say the attacks are in response to
the deaths of more than 1,400 civilians and the arrests of more than
15,000 since Morsi`s ouster.
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DB’s
but the Hon’ble Governor has received the representations and on
finding some positions requiring clarification has send the cases back
to the Vigilance Organization for verification. DB further observed be it
as it is, such question is not required to be decided and deliberated upon
at this stage. Expressing its displeasure the Division Bench observed
that respondents /SVO are required to show some promptness in the
matter. In the status report it is nowhere mentioned as to when the case
FIR Nos.6/2014, 15/2014, 16/2014, 17/2014 and 19/2014 were send to the
Branch SSPs for clarification and what is the latest status regarding the
steps taken by the Branch SSPs. The Division Bench observed with annoyance that after all there has to be some time limit for finalizing the
process as permissible under law. Tardy Pace by no stretch of imagination shall be substitute for effective action, be it in favour or otherwise.
The DB further observed, “We are not satisfied with the report so filed,
therefore, fresh status report shall be filed by the SVO wherein it shall
be clearly indicated as to when these cases have been received back
from the Vigilance Organization, when these cases have been send to
the Branch SSPs and as to why till date process has not been finalized.”
Advocate S.S. Ahmed also pointed out that in terms of order dated 17-122014 status of all 547 Roshini cases pointed out by Audit was requisitioned but the same has not been filed and the Division Bench issued directions to the SVO that the same be filed by or before the next date before the Bench. In OWP No.1810/2014 Senior Advocate B.S. Slathia appeared on behalf of the petitioners and after considering the submissions of the Senior Counsel the Division Bench disposed of the same
with a direction to the VOK that they shall receive and look into the said
documents which the petitioners may have and finalize the process.
Boundary
two sides will make common efforts to implement the important
consensus reached by their leaders, maintain the momentum of highlevel exchange of visits, and enhance the development of China-India
strategic cooperation partnership.
CMinjured will be paid Rs. 50,000 each, the spokesman added.
Amarath
grant land for building infrastructure for Amarnath yatra. It was
arbitrarily rejected by the Chairman without giving any reasons", he
said. Jugal claimed that deaths have taken place due to poor infrastructure at the yatra places so we wanted better infrastructure, as BJP is in
the government they should facilitate grant of the land for the yatra. It
may be recalled that on 26 May 2008, the then Jammu and Kashmir government led by Gulam Nabi Azad had transferred 99 acres of forest land
to the Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) in the main Kashmir Valley to
set up temporary shelters and facilities for pilgrims. This caused a controversy, with demonstrations from the Kashmir valley against the
land transfer and protests from the Jammu region supporting it. PTI
Guru’s
“There is no question of balloting being held at 5 P.M on Tuesday. It
Army
is very much in the records that we have intimated all members that
balloting process will start at 1.35 P.M,” secretary L.A said. (KNS)
successfully foiled by the alert sentry on the post. The Army
Commander in his visit met troops deployed in the forward area and applauded their role in ensuring the peace and security of the area. The
alertness and timely action not only foiled the terrorists’ attempts in
gaining entry inside the Military Station but also prevented any loss of
life of any citizen of our country. The Army Commander also felicitated
three civilians who had assisted the security forces during the operation.
He took stock of the present security scenario in the region in view of the
two back to back terrorists attacks. In this interaction with the local
Formation Commanders and intelligence agencies he re-emphasised the
need to maintain a strong vigil against inimical design of terrorists.
Proposal
construction of 20,125 community bunkers at an estimated cost of
Rs 1006.25 crores in 448 identified border villages in the state has been
sent to the Government of India,” Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed said in a written reply to the question of BJP member Sham Lal
Choudhary in J&K Assembly today. The proposal will cover a population of 4,02,455 close to the border areas in districts of Kathua, Samba,
Jammu, Rajouri and Poonch, he said, adding the proposal has been sent
to Government of India on February 23, 2015 for consideration.
Council-2015:
(Amendment) Act, 2014’ and ‘The Jammu and Kashmir Civil services (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Act, 2014’ passed by both the
Houses of Legislature during the last session (August, 2014) have been
assented to by the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. He also informed
that the house that the Bill “The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation
(Amendment) Bill, 2014 (L.A. Bill No 18 of 2014) passed by both the
Houses of the State Legislature during the last session (August, 2014)
and presented to the Governor for his assent has been returned by the
Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on 5th January, 2015 for reconsideration of the Legislature under Proviso to section 78 of the constitution of
Jammu and Kashmir.
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SC strikes down Section 66A of
IT Act, says it's unconstitutional
New Delhi, Mar 24:
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court
today struck down a controversial provision in
the cyber law providing for arrest for posting allegedly "offensive" content on websites saying,
it is "unconstitutional" and has a "chilling effect" on freedom of speech and expression.
The apex court also held that the expressions used in section 66A of the Information and
Technology Act, which had been used by various administrations against inconvenient
posts in the cyber space, are "completely openended and undefined".
However, the bench turned down the plea
to strike down section 69A and Section 79 of the
Act which deal with the procedure and safeguards for blocking sites and exemption from liability of intermediaries in certain cases respectively. It is clear that the impugned provision of Sec 66A "arbitrarily, excessively and disproportionately" invades the right of free
speech and upsets balance between such right
and reasonable restrictions that may be imposed, the court held. The provision, which had
come under the scanner of the court after two
Mumbai girls were arrested for posting and liking a comment on Facebook relating to shutdown in the city following Shiv Sena leader Bal
Thackeray's death, was also invoked recently
against a youth in Uttar Pradesh for his post on
the state minister Azam Khan.
The court examined the validity of the provision by referring to various aspects relating
to the freedom of speech and expression under
Article 19 (1) (a) and 19 (2) of the Constitution
which deals with reasonable restrictions and
its impact on Article 14 and 21 which relate to
the right to equality and personal liberty respectively.
While quashing section 66A, which was
brought through an amendment by previous
UPA government and defended by present NDA
regime, a bench of justices J Chelameswar and
R F Nariman said, "Incidentally, none of the expressions used in Section 66A are defined.
"Even 'criminal intimidation' is not defined – and the definition clause of the
Information Technology Act, Section 2 does not
say that words and expressions that are defined
in the Penal Code will apply to this Act."
Regarding the other two sections, the court
said, "Section 69A and the Information
Technology (Procedure & Safeguards for
Blocking for Access of Information by Public)
Rules 2009 are constitutionally valid.
"Section 79 is valid subject to Section
79(3)(b) being read down to mean that an intermediary upon receiving actual knowledge from
a court order or on being notified by the appropriate government or its agency that unlawful
acts relatable to Article 19(2) are going to be
committed then fails to expeditiously remove
or disable access to such material.
"Similarly, the Information Technology
'Intermediary Guidelines' Rules, 2011 are valid
subject to Rule 3 sub-rule (4) being read down in
the same manner as indicated in the judgement," said the bench in its 123-page judgement.
The bench assailed the provision, which in
the recent past has resulted in indiscriminate
arrests, on the ground of its "chilling effect and
over breadth".
"We, therefore, hold that the section is unconstitutional also on the ground that it takes
within its sweep protected speech and speech
that is innocent in nature and is liable therefore
to be used in such a way as to have a chilling effect on free speech and would, therefore, have to
be struck down on the ground of over breadth,"
the court said.
The apex court, which held that the expressions used in section 66A are "open minded and
undefined", also analysed the meaning of terms
like "causing of annoyance, inconvenience,
danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal in-
timidation, enmity, hatred or ill-will", used in
the provision.
Referring to various judgements, it said, "It
was further held that a penal law is void for
vagueness if it fails to define the criminal offence with sufficient definiteness. "Ordinary
people should be able to understand what conduct is prohibited and what is permitted. Also,
those who administer the law must know what
offence has been committed so that arbitrary
and discriminatory enforcement of the law
does not take place."
The apex court also rejected the plea of the
Centre that the fact that Section 66A is capable
of being "abused" was not a ground to test its validity and its contention that the government is
committed to free speech and undertakes that it
will be used only when excesses are perpetrated
by persons on the rights of others.
"In this case, it is the converse proposition
which would really apply if the Additional
Solicitor General's argument is to be accepted.
If Section 66A is otherwise invalid, it cannot be
saved by an assurance from the learned
Additional Solicitor General that it will be administered in a reasonable manner.
may
come
and
"Governments
Governments may go but Section 66A goes on
forever. An assurance from the present
Government even if carried out faithfully
would not bind any successor Government. It
must, therefore, be held that Section 66A must
be judged on its own merits without any reference to how well it may be administered,"
Justice Nariman, who wrote the verdict, said.
Dealing with the plea of the Centre that
some part of the provisions can be saved by applying the doctrine of severability, the bench
said, "The submission is vague. The Additional
Solicitor General does not indicate which part
or parts of Section 66A can possibly be saved."
It dealt with the subject matters of Article
19 (2) and said that "...no part of Section 66A is
severable and the provision as a whole must be
declared unconstitutional".
The court, however, did not allow the plea
of petitioners that the provision is unconstitutional also on the ground that it violates Article
14 (equality before law) as the freedom of speech
and expression be made applicable equally to
internet and other traditional medium.
"We make it clear that there is an intelligible differentia between speech on the internet
and other mediums of communication for
which separate offences can certainly be created by legislation. We find, therefore, that the
challenge on the ground of Article 14 must fail,"
it said.
Govt says it’s not in favour of
curbing dissent on social media
New Delhi, March 24:
Government, whose counsel had defended the constitutional validity of Section 66A
of IT Act, today maintained that it respects
freedom of speech and expression and is not
in favour curbing dissent on social media.
At the same time, it said it had conveyed
a request to the court that government is
willing to come out with additional, more
stringent guidelines so as to prevent abuse of
Section 66A of the Act which allows arrest of
a person for posting allegedly “offensive”
content on websites.
“Our government led by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi took a very conscious decision that we don’t support the stand of the
previous government.
“We respect the freedom of speech and
expression. We respect communication of
ideas on social media and we are not in
favour of curtailing communication of honest dissent, opinion, disapproval or criticism
on social media,” Union IT Minister Ravi
Shankar Prasad said.
In his initial comments on the Supreme
Court verdict, he said the government had
stressed that it will not support any interpre-
tation of Section 66A of IT Act that curtails
the ideas of freedom of speech and expression enshrined under Article 19(1) of the
Constitution.
“It is very important to be noted that in
our affidavit filed, apart from reiterating our
new position on behalf of Government of
India, we have clearly conveyed that if
Section 66A of the IT Act cannot be interpreted in consonance with Article 19(1) read with
Article 19(2), then we don’t support that interpretation at all,” he said.
Though Prasad said he will come with a
structured response once he reads the entire
judgement that runs into 200 pages, he said,
on government’s instruction the additional
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta also conveyed a request to the bench that “government is willing to come out with additional
more stringent guidelines so as to prevent
abuse of Section 66A of the Act”. “I am awaiting the judgement. The Government of
India’s stand is quite different from the previous Government’s and it has been very
clear and consistent which I have just mentioned. I will come with a structured response after going through the judgement,”
he said. (AGENCIES)
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JAMMU WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015, PAGE 12
Glimpses of Future
Conference on energy
sustainability in J&K
through Renewables held
Ease of Doing Business in J&K is on Govt priority: DyCM
Jammu, March 24:
PHD Chamber of Commerce &
Industry in collaboration with Jammu &
Kashmir
Power
Development
Corporation Ltd. and the Department. of
Economics, Jammu University, organa conference on “Energy
ized
Sustainability
in
J&K
through
Renewables”, today at the Rajinder Singh
Auditorium at Jammu University. Dr
Nirmal Kumar Singh, Hon’ble Deputy
Chief Minister and Minister of Power
Development, Government of Jammu &
Kashmir was the Chief Guest on the occasion.
Dr. Nirmal Singh while addressing
the gathering highlighted the present
condition in the power sector in the State
of J&K. He said that the new government
of Jammu & Kashmir is committed to
make the power department more efficient and transparent. He also highlighted that in the present budget there are special provisions for the development of
power projects in the State both in the areas of Hydel and thermal. He assured that
the Government is committed to make J &
K an investor friendly State and extended
the wholehearted support of the government to the industry and the investors. He
emphasized that bringing ease of doing
business in the State of Jammu Kashmir
is one of the priorities of the new government. Saurabh Bhagat IAS, Secretary,
Department of Science & Technology &
IT, Govt of J & K was present as the Guest
of Honour on the occasion. Other dignitaries who were present during the
Inaugural Session were Mr. Ruchin
Gupta IRS, Deputy Secretary, MNRE,
Govt of India, Mr Upinder Singh, Director
(Finance), JKSPDCL, Mr Sudarshan
Mundhra, Director, Simplex Projects
Ltd., Mr Vikrant Kuthiala, Chairman, J &
K Committee, PHD Chamber, Mr
Mushtaq Ahmad Chaya, Co Chairman, J
& K Committee, Prof Dipankar Sengupta,
HOD, Dept of Economics, Jammu
University and Mr Saurabh Sanyal,
Secretary General, PHD Chamber.
Saurabh Bhagat, IAS shared that the
state of J&K has the second highest potential for generation of renewables in the
country and can contribute towards 17%
of the total energy generated in the country through renewables. He said that out
of the 25 solar parks in the country with
production capacity of 500 MW, 100 MW
capacity is presently the contribution in
the state of J &K.
Ruchin Gupta, Deputy Secretary,
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy,
Govt of India pointed out that the State of J
& K has tremendous potential for generating solar power of 111 GW, Hydel power of
1500 MW and wind power of 5000 MW , but
the performance of the state in this regard
has been moderate. He stressed on the initiatives of the Ministry and exhorted all
stakeholders to undertake consorted efforts to capitalize the immense natural resources available in the state. The
Conference also had two Technical
Sessions on Opportunities & Challenges
in Renewable Energy Sector in J & K in
the wake of Make in India & Financing &
Regulatory Issues of Renewable Energy
Projects, that were addressed by experts
from the Government, Industry, academia, media, financial institutions and regulating authorities. The participants included Prof Dipankar Sengupta, Mr
Yoginder Kotha of NHPC, Mr PB Jain of
CVPP Ltd, Mr Sudarshan Das Mundhra of
Simplex Projects Ltd, Mr Shafat Sultan of
JKEDA, Mr Iftekhar Ahmed of JKSPDCL
in the first session and Mr AA Khatana of
IREDA, Mr PR Dhar of JKEDA, Ms
Jyotsna Kumar JK Bank, Prof G.M. Bhat
Rector
Bhaderwah
Campus
and
Department of Geology, Dr Manoj Bhatt
Department of Economics, Mr Rahul
Jalali independent media commentator
and Mr Debojit Talapatra PHD chamber
of commerce in the second session.
Salal Power Station distributes scholarship
to students under CSR-SD programme
Continuing its initiatives in the
Education Sector, Salal Power Station of NHPC Limited distributed scholarship among
38 meritorious / economically weak students
of Govt. Hr. Secondary School, Salal / MS
Chubbi / MS Salal, Kotli. Sh. A.G.Ansari,
General Manager, Salal Power Station was
the chief guest who distributed the scholar-
M&ULB pensioners
call on Director
Account & Treasures
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Jammu, Mar 24:
A five member delegation of Municipal & Urban
Local Bodies Pensioners Association Jammu Province
under the leadership of B S Jamwal advisor-cumSpokesperson of the association met Lochan Dass
Director Accounts and Treasures, Finance Department
in his office chamber to apprise him about the burning
problems of the pensioners and sought redressal at the
earliest. The delegation demanded bifurcation of
monthly pensionary and Gratuity commutation funds
like and ensure disbursement of monthly pension on
1st day of each month as per the standing Govt order No.
18-f of 2012 Dated 18-12-2012.
Strict direction he passed to all the treasure officer
of Jammu Province not divert the pensionary funds of
gratuity/commutation to pensioners out of monthly
pensioners funds. Delegation also demanded disbursement of gratuity/commutation to the civic body pensioners under the formala 1st come 1st serve and maintenance of the register in each treasures any office to
register pension/gratuity case serial & date wise and
when those pensioners office to treasury officers.
was also urged to the Director to issue fresh circular on this account at the earliest direction the Try
Officer to comply with the standing instruction strictly.
Delegation also demanded removal of anomaly among
the IV class family pensioners, Safai Karamcharis.
Besides the civic body pensioners also hailed the state
Govt in releasing two installments of 17% pending DA
since January and July 2014 in favour of employees and
pensioners of J&K state. The Director listened the demands and problems of the pensioners patiently and assured for its redressal at the earliest. Y S Jamwal,
President, B D Verma, general secretary, K S Jamwal,
district President, Jawhar Lal Sharma secretary participated along with B S Jamwal in the meeting.
Girl carrying an umbrella to save herself from heat as temperature rise in Jammu.
GOF PHOTO
Assembly-2015: Budget local requirement specific: Drabu
3-phase rehab
plan of flood victims
from 1st April
Jammu March 24:
While winding up the Budget Speech
discussion in the Legislative Assembly,
the Finance Minister, Dr. Haseeb Drabu
has said that the budget presented by the
government has been formulated for the
specific local requirements and would ensure that the benefits percolate to every
section of the society.
The Minister said that budget has
been formulated in such a manner so that
it provides succour to not only the people,
but also benefits entrepreneurs businessmen practising various trades in the State.
“Care has been taken to make it comprehensive, by exploring the possibilities of
putting back the sagging economy of the
State on the trails and also catalyzing the
business environment in the State which
has witnessed a slump post-floods”, he
added.
Referring to the proposed out sourcing
of the Lakhanpur Toll Post, the Minister
said that by privatising it we would be getting the additional revenues besides
checking the menace of corruption. He
said the business community has also been
pressing for the same and it would go a
long way in catalyzing the business related
activities in the State.
“Our duty is to protect the State’s
Special Taxation Powers”, the Minister
said while referring to the General Sales
Tax (GST) regime. He said ‘we have to cre-
ate a conducive atmosphere so that businessmen can carry out their trade without
hassles’. “We do not need any special assistance if power losses are managed”, Dr.
Drabu maintained while referring to the
presentation of a separate power budget.
We are looking on reducing the T&D losses
then only we can make a head away in reducing the electricity duty thereby giving
the consumers much needed relief. “Under
the power reforms the Jammu and
Kashmir State Power Development
Corporation (JKSPDC) would be offering
shares to the public and we hope that people would receive dividends on the same
which would in future take care of entire
electricity bills.
Referring to the Government’s initiative of preserving, propagating and professionalizing the traditional handicrafts
which go a long way in contributing their
bit in economy and job-employment generation, the Minister said that craft economy
will be made buoyant and to revive it
courses of MBA in craft management
would be introduced in the twin
Universities of the State. “Unless we
change the basis of the craft economy, we
will not able to revive and revitalize this
important aspect of our heritage and culture”, he added.
“We have 7 lakh small and micro-enterprises involving 14 lakh people.
Through technology inputs, market incentives and proper branding we hope to encourage natural growth in the handicraft
sector, thereby giving employment to
more than 21 lakh people associated with
this sector”, Dr. Drabu maintained.
Terming tourism as one of the mainstays of the State’s economy, the Minister
said that we will be taking the necessary
steps to ensure its augmentation so that it
also contributes in the revenues of the
State. He said focussed attention would be
paid to promote Jammu as an independent
tourist destination. “Pilgrim Circuit
would also be developed in Jammu by
virtue of which the devotees can pay obeisance at various shrines of the division
which would be properly augmented by
various logistics and infrastructure development”, the Minister added.
On Public Enterprises, Dr. Drabu said
that Government will initiate steps for reviving these enterprises by bringing them
under a common ambit so that their resources can be pooled in a coordinated way
and the concept of corporate set up can be
introduced. This would facilitate the private investor developing the much needed
confidence in investing in these enterprises which would in turn contribute immensely in the economy of the State, he
maintained.
Referring to the Relief and
Rehabilitation package for the flood affected, Dr. Drabu announced that from 1st
April, a 3-phased rehabilitation plan will
be launched starting with restoration of
livelihood followed by restoration of business and restoration of houses and assets.
It is the top priority of the Government to
ensure that the people, who were affected
by the September deluge start their normal
business and day-to-day activities as soon
as possible, he said.
Dr. Drabu while referring to the development of backward areas said that
Government would accelerate their
growth by carrying full-fledged programmes as special projects, so that these
areas are developed at par with the developed pockets of the State.
“The Agriculture sector would be revived and developed on modern and scien-
tific basis by introducing certain new and
traditional farm practices and in this regard the Khul Development Programme
would be introduced on a large scale so
that proper irrigation facilities are provided to the farmers round the year which
would in turn increase the agriculture productivity and yield thereby contributing
in making the State a prosperous agrarian
belt”, the Minister said that this would also
result in making the state economically
strong. Responding to the demands of legislators for increasing the CD Fund, the
Minister said that a mechanism would be
framed in future, for equitable development of every constituency, which would
be based on the requisite para meters of
area, population, accessibility and efficiency. “We will see that a scheme is
framed where area, population and efficiency in the constituency is given due
consideration for releasing additional
funds besides the normal CD Fund”, he
added.
Dispelling the doubts being created
about privatization of the State Motor
Garages, the Minister said that the organization would be empowered, so that employees would be getting incentives and
would also increase the efficacy in working of the same. He also negated the news
report that was circulated in certain media
about the reduction in retirement age of
the employees.
“The Dal forms one of the important
part of our culture and its preservation is
one of the top priorities of the Government
as well as the people and J&K Diaspora and
it is in this regard we would be floating Dal
Development bond for its restoration. It
would be a pilot project to involve the nonresident state subjects of Jammu and
Kashmir by leveraging their professional
competencies, financial strength, and emotional equity”, Dr. Drabu elaborated.
Announcing certain additional incentives, the Finance Minister said that he respects the sensitivity of the House towards
widows, disabled and the destitute and announced merger of various pension
schemes for widows available under Sate
and Central Social Welfare initiatives. He
announced a hiked pension of Rs. 1000 per
month for widows. He also announced Rs.
1000 per month for disabled persons having disability of more than 60%.
In addition to these welfare measures,
Dr. Drabu also announced that the
Government will try and explore possibility of ensuring that grown up girls get financial assistance at the age of 17 or 21
years depending upon their choice. In his
budget speech under the gender welfare
initiative, the Finance Minister had proposed to contribute Rs. 1000 per month on
behalf of every new born child for the next
14 years and on reaching 21 years, she
would receive Rs. 6.5 lakhs.
Dr. Drabu also announced three more
model business villages of Rajmah, Mango
and Apricot in the state which would further accelerate the agriculture and horticulture related activities besides creating
an integrated business infrastructure and
foster a culture of modern business practices in these villages.
He also announced an ethnographic
village to preserve the rich cultural heritage of Kashmiri Pandits at MartandAnantnag and a village for Gaddi-Sippi
tribe in Jammu.
The Minister also announced for taking the necessary steps for upgrading the
exiting press club in Jammu besides establishing another one in the Summer
Capital, Srinagar.
CYM K
Jammu, Mar 24:
ship to the students at Govt. Hr. Secondary
School, Salal in a simple function in the presence of Principals of all the schools, students
and locals. The aim of the programme was to
facilitate the students and develop the feeling of competitiveness among them.
Speaking on the occasion, Sh. Ansari advised
the students to work hard and make judicious use of their time.
He further said that lack of resources
can not come in the way of students to obtain
good results if the students take studies on
priority. Principal, Govt. Hr. sec. school,
Salal, Sh. V.K. Damral appreciated the initiatives taken by NHPC Limited and thanked on
behalf of all the schools. To promote Art and
Culture, a workshop on ‘Tips on Art’ was also organised for the students wherein Artist
Smt. Anuradha Rishi and her team members
gave basic tips to the students on Art & use of
colours in a painting. Response of the students during the workshop remained interactive. Earlier, Sh. J.K.Sharma, Manager
(HR) welcomed all present in the function
and apprised about the event.