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Glimpses of Future
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JAMMU TUESDAY | MAY 26, 2015 | VOL. 30 | NO. 143 | REGD. NO. : JM/JK 118/15 /17 | E-mail : [email protected] | epaper.glimpsesoffuture.in
ONE YEAR REPORT CARD
Modi says ‘bure din’ for scamsters
MATHURA, May 25:
Marking the first anniversary
of the NDA Government, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi today
presented a report card for one
year which he asserted has been
free of corruption and scams but
has brought “bure din” (bad days)
for those who have “robbed” the
country in their 60 years of rule.
Attacking the previous UPA
Government, Modi said one more
year to that Government would
have “sunk” the country and that
now there were no stories of a scam
involving “son-in-law or a son” of a
political leader happening.
“Some people are very troubled these days. Their trouble is
with the fact that ‘achche din’ has
come to all people but ‘bure din’ for
them. Those whose ‘bure din’ have
come, they are troubled. They are
shouting. Because for 60 years, in
Delhi’s political corridors, only
their voice was heard and the
country was run as they wished…
“I did not give guarantee of
‘achche din’ for those who looted
the nation for years. We will run
the country in a way that there will
be more ‘bure din’ for them and
their troubles will increase. Your
money can’t be looted by anyone,”
the Prime Minister said at a public
rally here at the birth place of Deen
Dayal Upadhyay, a BJP ideologue.
BJP has planned nearly 200
public rallies by its main leaders
across to mark the first year of the
NDA Government.
However, Modi, who made a
very pro-farmer and pro-poor
pitch during his hour-long speech,
did not mention the contentious
land acquisition bill, on which his
Government is facing tough opposition even from NDA allies.
Noting that thoughts of three
leaders “shaped us in the last several years – those of Mahatma
Gandhi ji, Lohia ji and Deendayal
ji”, the Prime Minister said he
See MODI on page 11
Militants strike twice in Kashmir;
soldier among three killed
SRINAGAR, May 25
Three persons, including a soldier and a
militant, were killed and two people were injured today as ultras targeted an army patrol
and a franchise of BSNL at two places in
Kashmir, police said. Militants opened fire at
an army patrol at Kanjikulla in Yaripora area
of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, about 80
kms from here, a police officer said.
Sepoy Dharam Ram was injured in the firing and succumbed later, the officer said.
Security forces immediately cordoned off the
area and tracked down a militant to an orchard where he was killed in a brief gunfight,
the police officer said. Earlier in the day, militants fired at a franchisee outlet of BSNL at
Iqbal Market in Sopore in north Kashmir
Baramulla district, 52 kms from here. The attack was apparently directed at telecom oper-
ators who have been threatened earlier, a police officer said. He said three workers of the
BSNL franchisee were injured in the firing
and they were rushed to a local hospital,
where doctors referred them to a hospital in
See MILITANTS on page 11
Two Union Ministers
to grace Modi Govt's
1-year celebration in JK
Rajnath to address party cadres at Jammu,
Najma at Srinagar: 1
Srinagar, May 25:
The Bhartiya Janta Party Central leadership has directed
its two Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Najma Heptullah
to attend a number of programmes in Jammu and Kashmir to
celebrate the Narendra Modi’s one year in office. BJP’s
National Secretary and close confident of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi Tarun Chugh said that Central leadership has
planed number of programs in the Jammu and Kashmir.
“Union Home Minister Minister Rajnath Singh will visit
Jammu on May 27 to attend ‘Jan Kalyan Parv’, an event to
highlight one-year achievements of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi-led government at Centre. Najma Heptulla the Minority
affairs Minister will address a public rally at Sher-e Kashmir
Park on 28,”.
He further said that the BJP has other plans to celebrate
the Narendra Modi government's one year in power in Jammu
and Kashmir. “The party has assigned me a job to make people
across the state aware about the achievements, good governance and completion of successful first year of the government led by PM Narendra Modi,”Chugh said. He added that
the party and the government together displayed a lot of coordination and there is enthusiasm among party workers across
See TWO on page 11
Status quo on Article 370
to be maintained: BJP
Patna, May 25:
Allaying fears regarding its stand on Article 370, which
guarantees a special constitutional status to Jammu and
Kashmir, BJP today said "status quo on it will be maintained".
"The status quo on Article 370 will be maintained. .... This is a
constitutional matter and any kind of change in it cannot be
brought in the Parliament," BJP's national spokesperson MJ
Akbar told reporters here. Akbar said this while responding
to a question on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stand on
Article 370 in the light of recent statements by some BJP leaders that it will be abrogated when the party gets two-third majority in the Parliament, during a media workshop for state
spokespersons of his party.
The journalist and author-turned-politician also sought
to portray that the Modi government was for economic development and welfare of the minority community without any
discrimination as part of his "sabka saath, sabka vikas" (development for all) philosophy on governance. "The biggest
problem faced by the minority community was that innocent
youths were picked up, arrested and held in custody for long
See STATUS on page 11
We Don’t Recognise
McMahon Line: China
‘Chinese ready to work with
Indian side to resolve issues’
Sticking to its stand that McMahon Line on India-China
boundary is "illegal", China today said it is ready to work with
India to resolve the vexed border issue at an early date through
"friendly consultations" to create more favourable conditions
for bilateral ties. "The Chinese side holds a consistent and
clear position on the eastern section of the China-India boundary," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said, reaffirming Beijing's claims on Arunachal Pradesh, which it says
is a part of 'Southern Tibet'. "The Chinese government does not
recognise 'the McMahon Line', which is illegal," she said, reacting to National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval's remarks made at the K F Rustamji lecture in New Delhi recently.
"The Chinese side is ready to work with the Indian side to
resolve the boundary question through friendly consultation
at an early date and create more favourable conditions for the
development of the bilateral relations," she said in a written response to a PTI query. In his address on May 22, Doval said settlement of the border issue is "critical" for India-China ties and
called for a "larger plan" for "tackling" that country to resolve
all ticklish matters.
Doval, also the Special Representative of the Sino-India
boundary talks, said while ties with China are looking up, "we
are particularly concerned about the Eastern sector where the
claims have been made on Tawang (in Arunachal Pradesh)
which is totally in contravention of accepted principles". He also expressed surprise that while McMahon Line was agreed
till Burma (Myanmar) by China, it was not accepted beyond it.
See WE DON’T on page 11
CYM K
CYM K
BEIJING | MAY 25:
Glimpses of Future
10TH DAY/KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of Smt Kamla Devi W/o
Master Hans Raj R/o W.No. 3 Ramnagar on
19-5-2015. Tenth Day will be performed on
27th May 2015 (Wednesday) at 11 AM at
our residence. Kriya will be performed at our
residence W.No. 3 Ramnagar on 30-5-2015
at 11 AM. Rasam Pagri will be performed at
4 PM at our residence W.No. 3 Near City
Middle School Ramnagar.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Master Hans Raj -Husband
Sons & Daughters-in-law
Anil Kumar & Smt Rajni Bharti
Late Rajinder Kumar & Smt Sneh Lata
Smt Kumari Ranjana -Daughter
Abhinandan -Grand Son
Khushi Suhani -Grand Daughter
Ashish (Dotra)
10TH DAY/KRIYA
Smt Kamla Devi
10TH DAY/KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad demise of our mother Smt.
Sarla Devi W/o Late Sh. Shiv Kumar
Sharma R/o W.No - 6, Akhnoor. TENTH
DAY will be performed on 27-05-2015
(Wednesday) at Jia Pota Mandir,
Akhnoor at 10 am. KRIYA KARAM will be Smt. Sarla Devi
performed on 28-05-2015 (Thursday) at
our residence at 1.00 pm.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Jeth & Jethani
Smt. Santosh Devi & Sh. Dharam Pal Sharma
(Ex- MP)
Smt. Swaran Kanta & Sh. Suraj Parkash Sharma
(Retd. ARTO)
Sons & Daughters-in-law
Smt. Nisha & Sh. Rajesh Sharma
Smt. Rajni & Sh. Satish Sharma - Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt. Kanchan & Sh. Harish Khajuria Manager J&K Bank
Grand Children Harshit, Riya, Shreya, Ananya, Arnav, Aryan
TENTH DAY
With profound grief and sorrow, we regret
to inform the sad demise of our beloved
Smt. Chuni Kaul W/o Late Amar Nath
Kaul of Sheshyar, Habba Kadal, Srinagar
presently at 36/4, Pandoka Colony,
Paloura, Jammu on 18-05-2015
(Monday). THE TENTH DAY KRIYA will Smt. Chuni Kaul
be
performed
on
27-05-2015
(Wednesday) at Muthi Ghat near Director
School Education, Jammu at 8.30 a.m.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Sons & Daughter-in-law
Mr Surinder Kaul & Mrs Bimla Kaul
Mr Ashwani Kaul & Mrs Veena Kaul
Mr Sumaid Kaul & Mrs Urmila Kaul
Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt. Sheshi Khosa & Sh. Raj Kumar Khosa
Grand Children
Mr Rohit Kaul-Grand Son
Mr Antul Kaul & Mrs Ananta Kaul-Grand
Son & Grand Daughter-in-law
Mr Rahul Kaul & Mrs Ruchi Kaul -doEsha Khosa-Grand Daughter
Kartik Khosa-Grand Son
Mob: 9419121595, 9419795637
TENTH DAY
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad and untimely demise of our
beloved son Sh Rohit Verma S/o Sh
Mohan Lal Verma on 18-5-2015 resident
of Dewal Tehsil Billawar Distt. Kathua.
Tenth Day will be performed on 27-052015 (Wednesday) at our residence Sh Rohit Verma
Dewal Billawar 10 AM.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt Rohini -Wife
Ridham -Daughter Rajat Verma -Son
Bhabi & Brother
Rama Verma & Ajay Verma
Anu Verma & Kamal Kishore
Poonam & Rajesh Verma
Jevan Prabha & Jagdish Anand -Sister & Brother-in-law
Jyoti Sharma & Arun Sharma -Sister & Brother-in-law
Tripta Devi & Kishori Lal Verma -Chachi & Chacha Ji
Sudesh Kumari & Makhan Lal Verma -Chachi & Chacha Ji
Sh Ashok Kumar Verma
Ph. 9419321621, 1921222393
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief, we regret to inform the sad demise of our beloved
mother Smt Arandati Kachroo W/o
Late Sh Ram Chand Kachroo of
Batapora, Sopore at present
H.No.39, Sector-3 Lower Roop
Smt Arandati
Nagar Muthi on May 20th. Tenth Day
Kachroo
Kriya will be performed on 29th May
(Friday) at Muthi Ghat, near
Directorate School Education Office at 8.30 am.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt Phoola & Sh T.N Nehru -Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt Bita & Sh M.K Bhat --do-Grand Children
Mrs Sunita & Mr Pawan Nehru
Mrs Pavitra & Mr Vinod Bhat
Mrs Sulakha & Mr Deep Ji Bhat
Mrs Seema & Mr Rakesh Pandita
Naveen & Komal
Mob. No. 9086597246, 9419231642
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad & untimely demise of our mother
Smt. Sheela Saraf W/o Lt Chaman Lal Saraf
originally resident of Chandapora Habba
Kadal Srinagar at present Qtr No. 16, Block
No.24, Lane No.5, Jagti Township. Tenth
Day will be performed near TRT Nagrota on
31-05-2015 at 8 AM.
Smt. Sheela
GRIEF STRICKEN
Saraf
Smt. Dulari Saraf - Devrani
Daughter & Son-in-law
Jyoti & A.K Bhat (Pintoo Ji)
Sons & Daughters-in-law
Sunil Saraf & Poonam
Ashwani Saraf & Sushmita
Grand Children: Rakshit, Raksha, Raunak, Bhavisha
(M): 9419228102, 8713041251, 9419209424, 09818016912
Koul, Daftari & Bazaz
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of our beloved SH MOHAN
BODH RAJ (Ex. Councillor Ward No. 3) R/o
Adarsh Colony Near Id-gah Ward No. 3
Udhampur who expired on 17-5-2015. 10th
day will be performed at Adarsh Colony
Udhampur on 26-05-2015 at 10.00 AM.
SH MOHAN
Kriya will be performed at Adarsh Colony
BODH RAJ
Udhampur on 27-5-2015 at 12.00 PM.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt Sansaro Devi -Wife
Daughter-in-law & Son
Smt Shallu & Sh Surinder Mohan
Smt Veena & Sh Baldev Raj -Bhabi & Brother
Smt Kiran Devi & Sh Pritan Chand -Bhabi & Brother
Sh Naresh Kundal -Nephew
Daughter-in-law & Son
Smt Nisha Devi & Sh Naresh Kumar
ADH-BARKHI
Half year has passed since you left us,
words are too short to express our feelings, Every moment we felt your absence. Adh-Barkhi of our beloved Late
Shri Arun Sharma S/o Late Shri Pandit
Badri Nath Sharma R/o H.No. 83 Dhakki
Hazama Jain Bazar, Jammu on 26-5Shri Arun
2015 (Tuesday) at 12.00 Noon.
Sharma
DEEPLY REMEMBERED BY:Nirmal Sharma -Wife
Sunny Sharma -Son
Sumegha Sharma -Daughter
Smt & Sh Rama Devi & Murti C. Sharma -Brother & Bhabhi
Smt & Sh Savitri Devi & Hira Lal Sharma -Brother & Bhabi
Shivam Computers Accessories
Contact No. 9086338479, 9419183593, 9419384228
UTHALA/RASAM PAGRI
With profound grief & sorrow, we regret to
inform the sad demise of our beloved Sh
Tara Chand Sharma S/o Late Sh Sunder
Dass Sharma R/o Opp Ind Estate,
Digiana, Jammu on 21-5-2015. UTHALA/RASAM PAGRI will be performed on
Wednesday, 27th of May 2015 at 4.00 Sh Tara Chand
p.m. at Ram Mandir, Shastri Nagar,
Sharma
Jammu.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Sons & Daughters-in-Law
Sh Vinod Kumar Sharma & Madhu Sharma
Sh Parmod Sharma & Pratima Sharma
Sh Ranjod Sharma & Santosh Sharma
Sh Anod Sharma & Omi Sharma
Daughter & Son-in-Law
Smt Sunita Sharma & Aman Sharma
Grand Son & Daughter-in-Law
Vikrant Sharma & Vedika Sharma
Nitish Sharma & Kajal Sharma
Ridham, Mohak, Aniket, Vanshit
Grand Daughter & Son-in-Law
Shikha & Kush Sharma,
Nitasha,Tejasvi & Muskaan
Great Grand Sons
Saksh Sharma & Vedant Sharma
Mob: 9419641763
SHADMOS/MASWAR
As we observe your Shadmos today on 20th
May, 2015 suddenly we realise that six
months have passed when you left us on
26th Nov. 2014. Mother, these six months
without your physical presence means six
ages of darkness for all of us. We miss your
motherly love and are now totally shattered.
Bless us from the heavens which you have Smt. Asha Koul
ascended silently.
SAMAST KAUL PARIVAAR
Mobiles: 94191-43678, 94192-87715, 94193-61935
Add: House No. 4, Lane No. 10, Kothian-Neter behind Army
School Barnai.
10TH DAY KRIYA
Surishta Devi W/o Sh. Partap Singh
Charak R/o Kartholi,Sarore factory Distt.
Samba, expired on 17-5-2015 (Sun).
Tenth Day will be performed on 26-052015 (Tues) at 10:00 AM at their residence.
Kriya will be performed on 29-05-2015 (Fri)
at 12:00 Noon at their residence.
Surishta Devi
GRIEF STRICKEN
Parents-in-law
Smt. Shanti Devi & Sh. Hoshanak Singh Charak
Sh. Partap Singh Charak -Husband
Sh. Prithvi Singh Charak -Brother-in-law
Deverani - Dever
Smt. Neelam and Sh. Ghar Singh Charak
Smt. Anjana and Sh. Mangal Singh Charak
Smt. Jyoti and Sh. Angrez Singh Charak
Smt. Bandana & Sh. Surinder Charak -Daughter-in-law & Son
Smt. Poonam and Sh. Anil Thakur -Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt. Sandhya & Sh. Rajeev Sambyal -Niece-Nephew-in-law
Sh. Amit Charak (Mittu) -Son
Sh. Rajinder Singh (Sunny), Ansh, Vansh -Nephews
Shelly, Paru, Jiya -Niece
Gopu, Pari, Peehu, Jairal -Grand Children
Mob : 9419199023, 9419117160, 9419112915
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform about the sad demise of our beloved
Daddy Ji Sh Badri Nath Misri S/o Late Sh
Raghu Nath Misri (original resident of
Zaindar Mohalla, Habba Kadal, Srinagar)
presently at Mumbai left for his heavenly
abode on 20th May, 2015. Tenth Day will Sh Badri Nath
be performed on 29th May, 2015 (Friday)
Misri
at Mumbai. We also convey our deep
gratitude and thanks to all our relatives, friends and well-wishers who stood by us in this hour of grief.
IN GRIEF:Smt Roopa Misri - Wife
Tulsi Nath Misri - Brother (09906083233)
Susheela & Satish Munshi - Daughter & Son-in-Law
Sons & Daughter-in-Laws
Usha & Ravinder Misri (09820459083)
Bimla Misri
Cherry & Satish Misri
Reeta Misri
Basanti & Umesh Misri (09872807313)
Fondly Remembered by:- Neha, Suneet, Rachita, Vikram,
Sailesh, Shivani, Ankit, Neeraj, Nisha, Rahul, Amrita, Ritika,
Sahil, Akhil.
Address: D-1101, Marathon Cosmos, L.B.S, Marg, Mulund
(West), Mumbai - 400 080
Contact No: (022) 25646522
JAMMU TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015, PAGE 2
10TH DAY/KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad demise of Surishta Devi W/o
Sh. Partap Singh Charak R/o
Kartholi,Sarore factory Distt. Samba, expired on 17-5-2015 (Sunday). Tenth Day
will be performed on 26-05-2015
Surishta Devi
(Tuesday) at 10:00 AM at their residence.
Kriya will be performed on 29-05-2015
(Friday) at 12:00 Noon at their residence.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Parents-in-law
Smt. Shanti Devi & Sh. Hoshanak Singh Charak
Sh. Partap Singh Charak -Husband
Sh. Prithvi Singh Charak -Brother-in-law
Deverani - Dever
Smt. Neelam and Sh. Ghar Singh Charak
Smt. Anjana and Sh. Mangal Singh Charak
Smt. Jyoti and Sh. Angrez Singh Charak
Smt. Bandana & Sh. Surinder Charak -Daughter-in-law & Son
Smt. Poonam and Sh. Anil Thakur -Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt. Sandhya & Sh. Rajeev Sambyal -Niece-Nephew-in-law
Sh. Amit Charak (Mittu) -Son
Sh. Rajinder Singh (Sunny), Ansh, Vansh -Nephews
Shelly, Paru, Jiya -Niece
Gopu, Pari, Peehu, Jairal -Grand Children
Mob : 9419199023, 9419117160, 9419112915
OBITUARY
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of our beloved Prof R.K.
Kaul H/o Smt. Sheela Kaul, originally resident of Chinar Colony, Sanatnagar, A/p
Sajjan Enclave, Padmavatti Colony, Jaipur,
on 17th May 2015. The Tenth Day Kriya will
be held at Shiv Mandir, Shipra Path,
Prof R.K. Kaul
Mansarovar, Jaipur, on 26th May 2015 at 8
O’clock in the morning.
GRIEF STRICKEN:
Sheela Kaul- Wife
Shalini and Dheeraj- Daughter-in-law and Son
Suneeta and Pankaj- Daughter-in-law and Son
Sunanda and Susheel Ji- Daughter and Son-in-law
Poornima and Vimal Ji- Daughter and Son-in-law
Vaibhav, Vibhuti, Vatsal, Yashassvi, Timu, Nishu, Krishna,
Suhaney. Kaul’s, Dhar’s, Trakroo’s, Pandita’s, Bagati’s.
M.No.: 09419130723, 09414371325
KRIYA/UTHALA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad demise of our father Sh.
Sain Dass Mahajan S/o Late Sh. Sant
Ram R/o Ward No. 10, Vijaypur
Teh./Distt. Samba. Kriya Karam will be
performed on 26-May-2015 (Tuesday) at
our residence. Rasam Pagri & Uthala will be Sh. Sain Dass
performed on 27-May-2015 (Wednesday) at
Mahajan
Laxmi Naryan Mandir, Vijaypur at 4PM.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Late Smt. Satya Devi -Wife
Son & Daughter-in-law
Sh. Parshotam Kumar & Smt. Sudesh Gupta
Sh. Romesh Kumar & Smt. Shashi Gupta
Sh. Dharminder Kumar & Smt. Ritu Gupta
Sh. Ashwani Kumar & Smt. Monica Gupta
Sh. Ajay Kumar & Smt. Baby Gupta
Son-in-law & Daughters
Sh. Ashok Mahajan & Smt. Champa Gupta
Sh. Romesh Kumar & Smt. Neelam Gupta
Grand Children : Rajan, Sonit, Akash, Harry, Navi, Kannu,
Sahil, Krishna
Mob No: 97966408120, 9796462323
10TH DAY/KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the certain absorb in Bhramleen on
dated 20-5-2015 of our beloved mother
Smt Shobawati W/o Lt. Kashinath Pandit
R/o Lalpora Lolab (Kupwara) Kashmir. At
present Haji Galli Nallah Toll Post (Durga
Vihar) Nagrota. Tenth Day Kriya will be
held on 29-5-2015 at Sainik School River
Tawi (Nagrota) on Friday 7 am.
DEEPLY MISSED BY:Sons and Daughter-in-laws
Smt and Sh Kanya Lal Ji
Smt and Sh Satish Ji
Smt and Sh Shuban Lal Ji
SMt and Sh Surinder Ji
Smt and Sh Veer Ji
Daughters and Son-in-laws
Smt and Sh Makhan Lal Pandit
Smt and Sh Makhan Lal Bhat
Grand Daughter and Son-in-law
Smt and Sh Kuldeep Raina
Grand Son and Daughter-in-law
Smt and Sh Kanwal Pandit
Ph: 9469252029, 9086351971
TENTH DAY
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad and untimely demise of our
beloved Jawahir Lal Raina S/o Late Sh
Arjan Nath Raina R/o Flat No. 17, Block
No. 127 Lane No. 22, Mini Township,
Jagti Jammu originally resident of
Narupora Teh. Kokernag Distt. Anantnag
Jawahir Lal
on 18-05-2015. Tenth Day will be perRaina
formed at Muthi Ghat near Office of
Director School Education Jammu on 2705-2015 at 8.00 AM.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt Asha Raina -Wife
Brother & Bhabi
M K Handoo & Sarla Handoo
Sons & Daughters-in-law
Rakesh Raina & Renu Raina
Rahul Raina & Arti Raina
Daughter & Son-in-law
Neeru Pandita & Sanjay Pandita
Sisters & Brothers-in-law
T N Sharma
Usha Handoo & Kishen Ji Handoo
Babli Tickoo & M K Tickoo
Vimla Kumari & K L Sidha
Contact Numbers: 9906368874, 9797920955
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad demise of our beloved mother Smt. Soomavati Bhat W/o Late
Shankar Nath Bhat of Manigam
Ganderbal at present House No. 383/Q,
Sector-2, Durga Nagar on 19-05-2015.
The 10th Day Kriya will be performed at Smt. Soomavati
Bhat
Muthi Ghat, near Directorate of School
Education Jammu on Thursday the 28th
May, 2015 at 7.30 am.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Daughters-in-law & Sons
Smt. Usha Ji & M K Bhat
Smt. Basanti Ji & Kaka Ji Bhat
Smt. Prana Ji & Chaman Lal Bhat
Smt. Veena Ji & Rajnath Bhat
Smt. Girja Dhar & Sunil Ji Dhar-Daughter & Son-in-law
Grand Children
Sanjay, Ashwani, Sameer, Ashwani, Vanshu, Anshul, Tichu,
Shivani, Archana, Neelam, Meenakshi, Arush, Shivani Dhar &
Akshay Dhar Bhats, Razdans, Kouls, Dhars & Rainas
Mob : 94690-94202, 94191-16352, 90183-35812
OBITUARY
Smt Shobawati
10TH DAY/KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of Sh Daljeet Singh
Jamwal (Retd Principal) S/o Lt Sh
Bishamber Singh Jamwal, who left us for
heavenly abode on Sunday 17-05-2015.
The Tenth Day is being observed on
Tuesday 26-05-2015 at H.No 615, Ext II
Sh Daljeet Singh
Subash Nagar, Jammu at 10.30 AM.
Jamwal
GRIEF STRICKEN
Daughters-in-law & Sons
Renu & Vinay Singh Jamwal
Pooja & Raman Singh Jamwal
Daughters & Sons-in-law
Sudha & Subash Singh Chib
Pratibha & Rajiv Singh Salathia
Neeraj & Dinesh Singh Salathia
All Jamwal Family
Mob: 9697120740
10TH DAY KRIYA
TENTH DAY
With profound grief and sorrow, we regret to
inform the sad demise of our beloved Smt.
Chuni Kaul W/o Late Amar Nath Kaul of
Sheshyar, Habba Kadal, Srinagar presently
at 36/4, Pandoka Colony, Paloura, Jammu
on 18-05-2015 (Monday). THE TENTH DAY
KRIYA will be performed on 27-05-2015
(Wednesday) at Muthi Ghat near Director Smt. Chuni Kaul
School Education, Jammu at 8.30 a.m.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Sons & Daughter-in-law
Mr Surinder Kaul & Mrs Bimla Kaul
Mr Ashwani Kaul & Mrs Veena Kaul
Mr Sumaid Kaul & Mrs Urmila Kaul
Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt. Sheshi Khosa & Sh. Raj Kumar Khosa
Grand Children
Mr Rohit Kaul-Grand Son
Antul Kaul & Mrs Ananta -Grand Son & Grand Daughter-in-law
Mr Rahul Kaul & Mrs Ruchi Kaul -doEsha Khosa-Grand Daughter
Kartik Khosa-Grand Son
Mob: 9419121595, 9419795637
With profound grief, we regret to inform
the untimely and sudden demise of Shri
Rajinder Raina (S/o Late Sh. Sham Lal
Raina and Late Shrimati Roopa Raina) .
Born on 5 Feb 1960, he left for his heavenly abode on 21 May 2015. Rajinder
Raina, originally a resident of Rajbagh,
Shri Rajinder
Srinagar was currently residing at his resRaina
idence Flat no. 103 VSNL Apartments,
Plot C-58/17 Sector 62, Noida. He is now survived by his wife,
daughter and son. The 10th Day Rituals will be conducted on
29 May 2015 at Murad Nagar, Meerut Road.
IN GRIEF:
Raina's, Ganju's , Vashnavi's and Khushu's
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad and untimely demise of our
beloved Jawahir Lal Raina S/o Late Sh
Arjan Nath Raina R/o Flat No. 17, Block
No. 127 Lane No. 22, Mini Township,
Jagti Jammu originally resident of
Narupora Teh. Kokernag Distt. Anantnag
Jawahir Lal
on 18-05-2015 at present behind Block
Raina
No. 114, Lane No. 20. Tenth Day will be
performed at Muthi Ghat near Office of Director School
Education Jammu on 27-05-2015 at 8.00 AM.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt Asha Raina -Wife
Brother & Bhabi
M K Handoo & Sarla Handoo
Sons & Daughters-in-law
Rakesh Raina & Renu Raina
Rahul Raina & Arti Raina
Daughter & Son-in-law
Neeru Pandita & Sanjay Pandita
Sisters & Brothers-in-law
T N Sharma
Usha Handoo & Kishen Ji Handoo
Babli Tickoo & M K Tickoo
Vimla Kumari & K L Sidha
Contact Numbers: 9906368874, 9797920955
10TH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad demise of our beloved
Shri Soom Nath Bhat (Papa Ji) S/o
Late Shri Mohadav Ram Bhat originally
resident of Safapora (Ganderbal) at
present H.No.105, Sector-4, Colonel’s
Shri Soom Nath
Colony Bohri, Jammu on 17-05-2015.
Bhat
The Tenth Day Kriya will be performed on
26-05- 2015 (Tues) at Muthi Ghat, near
Director School Education Jammu at
8.00 am.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt Jai Kishori -Wife
Smt & Sh C.L Bhat -Babi & Brother
Sisters
Smt Kamlawati Bhat
Smt Tulsi Bhan
Smt Ratni Bhat
Daughters & Sons-in-law
Smt Veena Dogra & Dr K.L Dogra
Smt Rajni Raina & Sh Ramesh Raina
Smt Reeta Sachar & Sh Rajnesh Sachar
Son & Daughter-in-law
Sh Ashok Bhat & Smt Reeta Bhat
Sh Vinod Bhat & Smt Sanjana Bhat
Grand Children: Dr Velonica, Dr Varun, Eshnu, Viveka,
Vitasta, Devya, Hritik, Kanshit & Paru
Glimpses of Future
JAMMU TUESDAY, MAY 26 2015, PAGE 3
Encouraging results of Govt Institutes
depicts positive trend: Priya Sethi
Releases annual magazine
of GHSS Canal Road
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, May 25:
Underlining commitment of the
government to improve performance of
education institutions, Minister of State
for Education, Culture and Information
Priya Sethi said the new dispensation is
working on a comprehensive policy to
revive the education department at all
levels and all out efforts have been initiated to bring back the faith of public in
government schools.
She said positive trend has been seen
in the recent results as number of top positions has gone to government schools
and all out efforts have to be made by the
teaching fraternity to improve the performance of government schools. Over 35
positions have been from the govern-
ment schools and this benchmark has to
be improved in the coming years, she
added. “Government schools have good
human resource and infrastructure and
need of the hour is to motivate and reorient the working so that these institutions
become hub of good education,” she
added. The Minister was speaking at the
annual magazine release function of
Government Girls Higher Secondary
School, Canal road, here today.
The annual number – Creations is a
joint effort by the school to showcase the
achievements in the field of academics,
sports and extra-curricular activities.
CEO, Jammu Joginder Sudan, Principal
Dr. Kuldip Sharma, Ashish Sareen, parents, prominent citizens and members
of staff of the school attended the annual
event. Priya also inaugurated Library
block of the school. The Minister said
time has come when those involved in
the pious profession of education have
to give their best to the field and it has to
be ensured that the government run
schools give better results compared the
private institutions. “We will work to-
gether to ensure that people regain confidence in the government education
and the age old culture of giving preference to government schools for quality
education is revived,” she added.
She appreciated the performance of
students of the school as first position in
commerce stream of 12th class has been
won by Mimansa Bhardwaj and Diksha
Langeh has secured 5th position in
Biology. Sonakshi Sharma bagged 10th
position in Chemistry and the school
has got 28 distinctions.
The position holder students along
with their parents and teachers were
awarded on the occasion. Priya said
counseling centers would be established
in the government schools and students
would be advised as per their performance and potentialities, adding that each
child is unique and special care needs to
be taken to identify the strong points so
that the student can be guided for future
depending upon his capabilities. She
said teacher has to play the role of mother and each student needs to be handled
with proper care and attention so that
Jammu, May 25:
The Directorate of Health
Services Kashmir has directed
all its subordinate offices including Chief Medical Officers
and
Medical
(CMO’s)
Superintendents of District and
Sub–District Hospitals to ensure
that hospitals and various other
health institutions are made
‘Tobacco free premises’. The
move is aimed at strengthening
the public health measure at the
district and sub-district level to
achieve the status of ‘Tobacco
free Kashmir’. The order issued
asks officials to–identify nodal officer from Health Institutions,
Display ‘Tobacco Free premises’
board at the entrance of the
boundary wall, display of nonsmoking signage’s along with the
name and contact details of nodal
officer within the building at entrance, reception, prominent
places of every floor, staircase,
lift and other important places.
The order also directed officials for ensuring ban on the sale
of tobacco products within 100
meters of all buildings or premises under health department to
promote tobacco cessation services within the dispensary and
hospitals and extend tobacco
cessation services of neighbourhood community premises and
to ensure no-smoking and tobacco free status within the premises. Pertinently, the Cigarettes
and Other Tobacco Products Act
(COTPA) enacted in the year
2003 and applicable to the entire
country was aimed to discourage the consumption of tobacco
products through progressive
restrictions and to protect nonsmokers from passive smoking.
Notably, the Jammu and
Kashmir Police is already booking people who are found violating the provisions of COTPA.
Many States have taken effective steps for implementing
COTPA. Prohibition on smoking in public spaces, prohibition
Information Deptt
organises musical program
at Ambphalla jail
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, May 25:
The artists of Cultural Wing
of Department of Information
and Public Relations today organised a cultural programme
at district Jail Ambphalla for entertaining the jail inmates by
musical items. On the occasion,
Superintendent District Jail
Ambphalla Mr. Harish Kotwal
was the Chief Guest. Jail inmates in large numbers were also present on the occasion and
enjoyed the 2-hour long cultural
programme. The endeavour of
the Information Department is
to
organise
cultural-cumvariety shows in other jails of
the Jammu province to provide
healthy environment and ease
stress of the jail inmates.
Speaking on the occasion,
Superintendent District Jail
Ambphalla
thanked
the
Information Department for or-
on all forms of direct/indirect
advertisement, promotion and
sponsorship of tobacco products, prohibition on sale of tobacco products to minors and
within a radius of 100 yards of educational institutions and
mandatory depiction of specified health warnings on all tobacco products are the major
provisions of COTPA. As per
Section 12 of COTPA, any police
officer, not below the rank of the
Sub Inspector, can take action
against these violations.
Interestingly, the Global
Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)
India released by Ministry of
Health & Family Welfare
(MoHFW), GoI conveys that 26.6%
population of Jammu and
Kashmir is using tobacco product
in one or the other of its form.
According to the survey the state
has 12% cigarette smokers, 3.8%
bidi smokers and 8.0% smokeless
tobacco users. J&K’s cigarette use
prevalence (12%) is almost double
the nationwide prevalence of 5.7%.
hidden potentials can be explored.
Responding to the demands put
forth by the school administration, the
Minister said the institution has shown
good results and requirements for infrastructure and human resource would be
addressed on priority. The Chief
Education Officer called upon the
school administration to encourage stu-
dents for taking part in literary activities by forming literary clubs so that the
culture of reading and writing is developed among the students. He said special time period should be formulated
for library visit and the facility of library should be utilized to maximum.
On the occasion, the students presented
various cultural items.
Jammu, May 25:
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, May 25:
A protest demonstration
was held by Jammu West
Assembly Movement (JWAM)
against the Chief Minister
Mufti Mohmad Sayeed and
Bhartiya Janta Party over the
AIIMS, new recruitment policy
and artificial lake issue.
Addressing the protesters,
Sunil Dimple appealed to the
people to support Jammu
Bandh on 27 May, for opening of
AIIMS in Jammu, against the
NHAI Road toll tax, new
Recruitment Policy, total surrender of Jammu before
Kashmiri leaders and discrimination with the Jammu region
on the visit of the Home
Minister Raj Nath Singh in the
Jammu Kashmir state.
He appealed to the Home
Minister Rajnath Singh to come
with official order for AIIMS in
Jammu on May 27 rally regarding Jan Sampark Abhiyan.
Among others who participated in the protest were Vinod
Suri, Harbans Tondon, Vijay
Khjuria, Dev Raj, Kulwant
Sharma, Sanjay Sethi, Vipan,
Mukesh, Rakesh, Joginder
Kumar, Brahma Datt Sharma
Raj Kumar, Rajinder Gandotra
Ravinder Mishra and others.
Jammu, May 25:
Indian Council for Cultural
Relations, Ministry of External Affairs
Government of India, Regional office
Jammu today completed its three eventful years in Jammu. On the occasion the
Regional Director of ICCR Jammu released a document ‘Three Eventful Years
of ICCR Jammu’ at ICCR headquarters in
Jammu before the media and invited
guests. Elaborating details, Regional
Director ICCR Balwant Thakur said that
in just three years ICCR established new
International professional trends of cultural showcasing in Jammu. In this short
span of time with 50 (Fifty) major events,
ICCR established Jammu as an
Prof Bhim Singh, Chief Patron of National Panthers Party and
Member of National Integration Council today reacted to the
Defence Minister’s statement during his visit to Kashmir Valley
that, “Terrorism shall be met by terrorism”. NPP Supremo said,
amounts to terrorism itself. This has reflected an open admission
of Modi government that it has failed to provide security to the
people in J&K and utterly failed to demolish foreign planted terrorism in the state. His statement has also revealed that present government in J&K in partnership with BJP has also utterly failed to protect the national security and civil liberty. Another statement by
senior BJP leader in Jammu last evening that the BJP cannot do anything with Article 370 for want of sufficient members in the
Parliament. This is highly intriguing because BJP having majority
in the Lok Sabha can always bring a resolution to empower
Parliament to legislate in respect of J&K. However, it is the
President of India alone who can bring any amendment or change
Article 370 as the mandate of the Constitution. These statements by
the BJP Defence Minister in Kashmir and political statement by BJP
leader in J&K have given clear signal that the Modi government has
failed in J&K and cannot fulfill its promise vis-à-vis J&K. The NPP
Supremo urged the President of India to amend Article 370 by using
his constitutional power in the interest of national interest, advice
the Governor of J&K to dismiss the present government as it has
failed to perform rather has become security risk. It must go.
Paul
Sanson,
Yash
Secretary
General/
Spokesperson of the Aarakshan
Virodhi Manch Jammu (AVMJ)
condemned discrimination being done to the people on the basis caste, religion and region,
which is the most basic denial of
the principle of equality and jus
In a press statement issued here
today, he said Manch demanded
abolition of reservation and provisional of special support measures (SSM) adopted for the poor
irrespective of their caste, religion and region. Sanson also demanded constitution of a commission consisted of renowned
jurists to review all the contradictory articles and rules. The
government should implement
all the judgements given by the
Supreme Court of India which
were not allowed to be implemented by all the previous government by amending relevant
provisions for vote –bank politics and totally changed the form
and spirit of Dr. B R Ambedkar’s
Constitution.
Ram Paul Seth President of
the Manch criticized the role of
political parties which did nothing for the welfare of the youth of
the J&K and now they have been
playing negative role. A.V.M.J
appeal the Government to immediately provide jobs to the unemployed youth through any recruitment policy.
Seth appealed the people of
General Category to awake,
arise and get ready for struggle
to remove discrimination policy. Seth said AVMJ demanded
immense support from the general masses and needs to be vigorously brought in more and
more people especially Head of
the Social Organization, the
youths and social thinkers.
Seth urged upon all ExMLAs , MLC’s , Ministers and
Senior Bureaucrats to submit to
the people their assets raised by
them during their tenure.
Kumar
Banathia
Raj
stressed the government to take
effective steps for the welfare of
masses suffering from sky soaring, price rise, irregular supply
of electricity, ration and water.
He demanded 50% cost cut on
these services, he also demanded to immediate start the 4 lane
work on Jammu Akhnoor Road
which is a big problem for the
people of area.
Those who participated the
conference were Ravi Sawhney,
Deepak Khajuria, Ashok Kumar
, Tara Singh, Jagdish Dogra ,
Som NAth Sharma , Bhushan
Pargal, Jagdish Sharma and
Rajat Sudan.
MLA Sat Sharma starts works of Deep Drains in Bhagwati Nagar
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, May 25:
Continuing the spree of development in Jammu West, BJP
MLA Sat Sharma (CA) started the
work of improvement of Deep
Drains at Sector Number 4,
Bhagwati Nagar area in Ward
Number 14. Accompanied by
UEED officials, JMC officials,
PWD (R&B) officials, local BJP
leaders and local residents of the
area, Sharma started the works
in the area in the presence of
scores of people. The work will be
done under the supervision of
UEED department and it will
complete the work of Deep Drains
in Sector Number 4 of Bhagwati
Nagar area at an estimated cost of
around Rupees 3.50 lakhs.
On the demands of local residents of the area, Sharma also
started the works for four Speed
Breakers in Bhagwati Nagar
which was a dire need and people
complained to the respected
MLA that many vehicles approaching from the area did not
bother about the speed of their
vehicles and it was necessary to
build speed breakers to control
speed of the vehicles moving
form that vicinity.
Addressing the gathering,
Sat Sharma (CA) assured the
public that the works for other
lanes and drains in the area will
soon be taken up by the concerned departments so that people might not face any problems.
Sharma also instructed the
PWD (R&B) officials to install a
fence on the centre of the road
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, May 25:
A fabulous and mesmerizing "Ek Sham Mahalaxmi Ke
Naam" was organised at the
premises of Aap Shambu
Mandir sector 3 Channi Himmat
last night in which renowned
singers participated it. This programme was organized by the
followers of Mahalaxmi Mata
led by social activist Ashutosh
Gupta. Various singers especially the melodiious voices of
prominent singer Surrinder
paid
tribute
to
Manhas
Mahalaxmi Mata through their
Bhajan and Bhaints. The followers offering prayer for the prosperity, peace of the state. Those
who participated in the function
were Subash Shastri, Bhupesh
Sharma,
Sourab
Jandial
(Lovely) Sumit Gupta, Sunil
Malhotra,Vinay
Malhotra,
International destination of vibrant cultural happenings.
Jammu Regional Centre of ICCR was
inaugurated by Dr. Karan Singh, then
President of ICCR on 25th May, 2012 with
the super-mega spectacular presentation
‘Jammu Mega Cultural Show’ which featured over two hundred prominent
artists and performers. In the last three
years, ICCR organized 50 major cultural
events which included four International
presentations. The first in the series to
come from outside India was the dances of
Zambia. This amazing presentation was
an eye opener for everyone and people out
here were exposed to the International
standards of performances and presentations for the first time. This was followed
by the presentation of the music and
dances of LAOS presented by a group of
the musicians and dancers of Peoples
Democratic Republic of LAOS.
The JAZZ band from Poland mesmerized everyone with their spellbound
singing and instrument playing. The last
group of the series came from Malaysia
and brought for Jammu the essence of
truly Asia through their traditional and
classical performances. During this period two cultural troups of Jammu also
went for cultural presentations to Central
Asian Countries and to the Kingdom of
Bhutan. During the tour to central Asian
countries, the group visited Kazakhstan
above the Nullah which was earlier causing disruption for pub-
Srinagar, May 25:
B.R.Abrol, Karan, Ajay Gupta
and others. The religious function is the quarterly future of the
followers of the Mahalaxmi in
which reknowned singers participated in every function.
Several social activists
were honoured on the occasion
by Kehar Singh Charak for their
contribution s in social field.
Two minutes silence were observed in respect of those people
killed in recently earth quake in
Nepal and other parts of the
country. The function concluded with Mahalaxmi Arti and
Prasad were distributed among
the devotees.
and Kirgizstan. At Bishkek, the Jammu
group presented a cultural programme in
the honour of the President of Kirgizstan.
In Thimbu, Jammu group presented the
programme to commemorate the prestigious National Day of Bhutan.
Under the popular Horizon Series
programme, ICCR Jammu organised 45
programmes in Jammu, the major shows
which outshined in the series included
'Geetru' by Romallo Ram and Party, 'Aus
Dogre Aan' by Raman Salathia and group,
'Bhakhan' by Praduman Singh and
Krishna Kumari, Karkan by Ghulam
Mohd. and Group, 'Mehfil-e-Ghazal' by
Dhramesh Nargotra, 'Flute recital' by
Rakesh Anand, 'Jagrna' by Rakesh Kona
and group, 'Jashan-e-Ghazal' by Suraj
Singh, 'Sitaar Recital' by O.N. Raina,
Tabala Recital’ by K.L. Verma, 'Bahar-eGhazal' by Sham Sajan, 'Sufi Ghazal' by
Ghulam Ahmed of Delhi, four theatre
events 'Kava Chala Hans Ki Chaal' by
Sumeet Sharma and 'Government
Inspector' by Abhishek Bharti, ‘Musuem
of million Hamlets’ by Pranav Mukharjee
of Kolkatta, ‘An Interaction with Dr.
Satyabrata Rout of Hydrabad, two literary events 'Do Kahanikaar' featuring
Khalid Hussain and Chattarpal, 'Triveni'
with Arsh Sehbai, Pritpal Singh Betab
and Vidya Rattan Aasi', 'Kathak Recital'
by Priya Dutta and Group', 'Jammu Rock
Show' by Anmol Amla and Band, 'Sangeet
Sandhya' featuring Sargam Pant,
Gursharan Kaur and Zulekha Fareed
‘Surmai Shaam’ featured Subash langeh
and Neelam Langeh’.
In three eventful years of ICCR,
Jammu witnessed seven major festivals
'Celebrating Diversity' 'Rangla Jammu',
'Guldasta' 'Hern Festival' ‘Lok Rang’
‘Jammu Youth Theatre Festival’ and 'Kud
Festival' which set new standards of excellence of the holding of mega cultural
events. Few unique programmes included 'Kukua Bol' by Bashir Mastana,
'Musical Tribute to Vijay Malla', musical
opera 'Gulab Gaatha' and ‘Kunju
Chanchlo’, 'Actors at Work'- a theatre
training programme conducted by
Asheish Nijhawan of London
International School of performing Arts,
'Rhythmic Moves in Spring'- a programme of contemporary Dances by
Trance Academy and Screening of
Internationally acclaimed art film
'Nainsukh' by globally acclaimed film director Amit Dutta.
Amongst visual art event, ICCR
Jammu organised an All-India art
Exhibition as well featuring the painting
collections of ICCR and Ist ever
International Exhibition of Cartoons, curated by Chander Shekhar. To encourage
young talents ICCR Jammu started a new
series ‘Young Tarang’ and showcased the
talent of over 100 young budding artists.
lic as many times lives of people
were at risk when they had to
pass through that road and
caused accidents and hurting
people.
XEN UEED Rakesh Gupta,
PWD (R&B) AEE Sandeep
Gupta, UEED AEE Satish
Sharma, UEED AE SL Raina,
UEED JE Sunil Gupta, JMC JE
SK Bhat, BJP Leaders Parmod
Kapahi,
Ayodhya
Gupta,
Darshan Lal, Sanjay Sawhney,
Deepak Gadyal, Purshottam
Khajuria, Arjun Mehra, Ankush
and others were also present on
the occasion.
PDP asserts to make aware for
commitment & programmes
GOF Staff Reporter
ICCR completes three eventful years in Jammu
GOF Staff Reporter
GOF Staff Reporter
AVMJ condemns discrimination
on caste, religion & region
GOF Staff Reporter
‘Ek Sham Mahalaxmi Ke Naam’ organized
ganising such type of wonderful
programme in Jail to ease the
stress of jail inmates. He requested for organising similar programme in future also in the other jails of the Jammu province.
He said such programmes not
only provide entertaining atmosphere to the inmates but also
provide them some moments of
enjoyment and to leave a soothing effect on their minds.
The artists of Information
Department who presented the
scintillating cultural programme in the jail which enthralled the inmates included
Jeevan Sharma, Vijay Anand,
Zulikha Farid, Kamal Kumar,
Avtar Kour, Hukam Chand and
Banti Kumar. During the 2-hour
long cultural programme, the
inmates and employees of the
jail also showcased their skills
in dance, skit and music jointly
by Cultural Wing of State
Information Department.
Asks PM should call NIC meeting
Jammu, May 25:
Directorate of Health goes tough against Tobacco users JWAM stages protest; appeals
Of ficials asked to ensure ‘tobacco free premises’ people to support Jammu Bandh
GOF Staff Reporter
Modi Govt panicked,
no Govt in J&K: Bhim
A deputation of Gujjar and
Pahari’s today interacted with
party office bearers including
party
General
Secretary
Nizamudin Bhat and coordinator for north Kashmir Raja Aijaz
Ali Khan . During the interaction it was suggested that combined gujjar and pahari cells of
PDP be created in every constituency with an objective to increase participation of these
communities at grossroot level
in organizational matters.
The proposal was appreciated as it will facilitate grossroot
strength of underdeveloped communities in farflung areas. It will
also help extent government pro-
Shri Ram Sena
congratulates
Class XII toppers
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, May 25:
State President, Shri Ram
Sena, Rajiv Mahajan today
congratulated the position
holder students, their parents
and teachers in Jammu and
Kashmir Board of School
Education (JKBOSE) and
Central Board of School
Education (CBSE) class XII results 2015, announced recently.
Congratulating the position
holders, Rajiv said dream of the
country’s development could not
be materialised without achieving targets in the field of education. Saying that government
school teachers are provided
larger salaries compared to private school teachers, requisite
infrastructures are also provided besides students welfare
schemes from time to time but
somehow it has become extremely hard for government schools
to produce successful candidates
leave apart securing positions as
compare to private institutions,
Rajiv acknowledged that there is
a major flaw in the education system of the State.
grammes to remote areas
through public participation.
The gujjar and pahari’s have
been deprived of specific programmes for them by previous
which came under sharp critism
for also having undermined
boards for gujjar and pahari’s.
The party functionaries assured
the deputation that they will
reach every nook and corner of
the state to further make people
aware about PDP’s commitment
and programmes. They were told
that creation of tribal ministry
by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed led
government will go a long way to
help ameliorate the lot of tribals
and will also facilitate better
management of finances which
are specially arranged for gujjars
and pahari’s. The functionaries
made an appeal to government to
issue a directive to CAPD, PDD,
rural Development, Animal
Husbandary, Health , horticulture, agriculture and information & Technology ministries to
ensure that administration
reaches out to the deprived lot
and funds spared for them are
spent in full to resolve their immediate problem which mainly
pertain to these sectors.
During this interaction yesterday’s damages by hailstorm
particularly in pulwama and
Shopian districts was also discussed. The leaders expressed
their agony and made an appeal
to the government to make immediate assessment of the losses
to Horticulture and Agriculture
sectors for early relief.
Capacity Building
Workshop organized
for Science Teachers
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, May 25:
A capacity Building programme for science (Secondary
Level Teachers) was organized
under the Aegis of Regional
Training
Centre
(RTC)
Jalandhar zone headed by Mrs
P.P Sharma, Worthy Regional
Director. Dr Neera Sharma,
Principal DAV Public School,
Lawrence Road, Amritsar was
the Resource Person for Biology.
Jaswinder
Kaur
Sidhu,
Principal DAV Public School,
BRS Nagar , Ludhiana was the
Resource Person for Physics &
Chemistry. 75 teachers from
various schools of Punjab & J&K
attended this highly interactive
programme. Host Principal
Alok Betab welcomed the esteemed resource persons & the
delegates. Various educational
methodologies were discussed
during the sessions through the
PowerPoint (PPT), activities &
brain storming. Concluding remarks & thanks were given by
the Principal Mr Alok Betab at
the end of the programme.
Glimpses of Future
JAMMU TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015, PAGE 4
Train students to be future
entrepreneurs: Akhtar tells teachers
Visits Government College for Women, GGHSS Nawakadal
Srinagar May 25:
Minister for Education, Naeem
Akhtar has called for making academic
and vocational courses relevant to market demands, so that educated youth do
not have to wait for jobs. He asked the
teaching community to guide students to
pursue career oriented vocational courses so that students after completing their
degrees do not add to the number of unemployed, but become real entrepreneurs. This was stated by the Minister today during his visit to Government
College for Women, Nawakadal, to review the functioning of the educational
institution. He called for strengthening
the infrastructure and rejuvenating the
academic process in the institute.
Stressing upon the need to tap human re-
source into value assets of the State,
Akhtar said with changing market needs
the demand for skilled manpower has increased, adding that courses to be taught
in educational institutions need to be
technical and divergent enough to help
students develop entrepreneurial skills.
He asked the college authorities to formally introduce vocational course on
Papier Machie from this session and
asked the concerned to immediately
arrange an expert for the same on academic arrangement basis.
The Minister said that in order to
develop entrepreneurial skills in the students and to provide them on the job
training, a course on ‘Boutique
Technology’ should be formalised and a
boutique should be set up in the College.
He said that a buy–back mechanism for
the same could also be developed. He further said that such a set up will also help
develop marketing skills and salesmanship among the students. Referring to
courses under Home-Science stream,
Akhtar said in order to prepare students
gain hands on experience and to create a
space for themselves in the market a
‘Diet Restaurant’ may also be started by
the college students on similar lines. He
said an arrangement with the Institute
for Hotel Management (IHM), Rajbagh
would also be made to provide help to
students in such an initiative. The
Minister appreciated the ‘Education
Outreach Programme’ initiated by the
College on his instructions, to provide
academic help and guidance for all those
students who do not have any academic
guidance at home, through after-school
extra classes. He said that such an initiative should be given wider publicity so
that more and more people are aware of
and could take benefit from such an initiative. The Minister also asked the
Principal of the College to adopt one or
two schools from the vicinity, in order
to provide academic guidance and
handholding to them. On the occasion,
the Minister was also briefed on the repair and renovation work of damage occurred to the college infrastructure during September-2014 floods, and the status of the new academic block coming
up in the college premises.
Later, the Minister also visited
Government Girls Higher Secondary
School, Nawakadal, where he interacted
with staff and students. He also took stock of
infrastructural and academic facilities
available at the school. Showing concern
over teachers not preparing a lesson plan,
the Minister urged upon them to have their
lecture notes prepared before taking their
classes, “thorough preparation of a lecture
will increase your confidence, improve
your delivery style, and enhance the effectiveness of your preparation”, he said. He also called for conducting an academic audit
of the school shortly. The Minister also
asked the School authorities to promote extra-curricular activities like field visits,
trekking etc. He instructed the concerned to
organise a day trek for the school students.
Mela Kheer Bhawani
Yatra flagged off from Udh
Udhampur, May 25:
inister of State for
Finance
and
Information
Technology, Mr. Pawan Kumar
Gupta in presence of Deputy
Commissioner Udhampur, Dr.
Shahid Iqbal Choudhary flagged
off the Mela Kheer Bhawani
Yatra at from DC office complex
Udhampur, here this morning.
Speaking on the occasion, the
Minister congratulated the yatris and wished that this Mela
Kheer Bhawani will usher the
state in the era of peace, prosperi-
M
ty and success. The District
Administration Udhampur and
Zonal Officer Migrants, Relief
Zone Udhampur have made adequate arrangements of food,
drinking water, medicare, bus
service etc for the convenience of
the yatris. Among others present
were Joint Director Planning,
Mr. Rakesh Jamwal, Assistant
Commissioner Revenue, Mr.
Rajeev Magotra, Zonal Officer
Relief Zone Udhampur, Mrs.
Spana Kotwal, Tehsildars Relief,
Mr. Ved Parkash and Mr.
Romesh Singh and prominent
citizens of the district.
Kohli convenes grievance Ganga inaugurates Handloom Cluster Development project at Chenani
redressel camp at Dalli
Exhorts people to avail benefits of centrally sponsored schemes
Asks administration to be prompt in
addressing developmental concerns of people
Kalakote, May 25:
Minister for Transport
Abdul Ghani Kohli today said
that the Government is determined to reach out to the people
especially in remote and inaccessible areas to meet their development needs and aspirations in a
prompt manner. The Minister
was addressing a grievances redress camp at Dalli- a remote area
in Kalakote. Stressing on needbased and comprehensive development of the area, the Minister
said a well conceived plan has
been formulated to give fillip to
the developmental projects besides ensuring that their benefits
percolate to the deserving.
Emphasizing on holding
grievances camps periodically in
inaccessible areas, the Minister
said; “Our endeavor is to involve
citizens and take their suggestions and feedback as an integral
part of the development process”.
Various demands projected by locals pertained to augmentation of
potable water, repair of roads,
construction of water tank at
Dalli, construction of Bedok to
Behargala road, upgradation of
primary schools and deployment
of adequate staff at Dalli, establishment of sheep sub centre, establishment of veterinary and
Mulberry centers, up-gradation
of local PHC and posting of ade-
quate medical staff. The people also demanded opening of ration
depots in remote and hilly areas.
Responding to their demands, the
Minister said the people have
high expectations from the present dispensation and all possible
resources are being pooled to address their genuine demands in a
phased manner. The Minister informed that upgradation of Soit
to Kalakote road and black-topping of 30 km Baddal to Khawas
road has been sanctioned.
The Minister directed the administration to generate awareness among the people about various Centrally Sponsored schemes
so that the people easily avail their
benefits and improve their lives.
Earlier, in order to make people
aware about the ongoing development projects under different sectors, the Minister asked the officers to be prompt and responsive to
the development needs of people
and to reach out to every area of district for ascertaining their grievances and their early redressal.
The Minister also directed
the concerned for early replacement of power distribution transformer. Many other issues were
solved on the spot by issuing necessary instructions to the concerned departments. Enroute several deputations met the Minister
and appraised their problems to
him for early redressal.
Udhampur, May 25:
Minister for Industries and
Commerce, Mr. Chander Parkash
inaugurated a Handloom Cluster
Development Project in presence of
Client Activity and Group
Session held in Baramulla
Srinagar, May 25:
Police Drug De-addiction Centre
Baramulla in collaboration with Peoples
Social Culture society organized a client activity cum group session in Baramulla today.
Police drug de-addiction Centre, Baramulla
organized a client activity cum group session in collaboration with an NGO Peoples
Social Culture society at District Police
Lines, Baramulla. While talking to the patients DYPS Dar Maliz Aijaz gave a detailed
psycho education about the adverse effects of
drugs and ways to curb the menace from society. Later senior Psychologist Mohammad
Ashraf Mir briefed the patients about psychological aspect of the substance abuse and
importance of care takers in detoxification.
Minister of State for Finance and
Information Technology, Mr.
Pawan Kumar Gupta and MLA
Chenani Mr. Dina Nath Bhagat at
Panchayat Ghar, Chenani, here today. The project has been taken up
under
the
comprehensive
Handloom Development Scheme of
National Handloom Development
Programme, Ministry of Textiles,
Government of India
Minster for Industries &
Commerce informed that this is
first such project for J&K, sanctioned by the, Ministry of
Textiles, Government of India to
empower handloom weavers and
build their capacity to enhance
competitiveness of their products in the domestic and international market .He said that the
project will facilitate collectivization of handloom weavers
and provide assistance for procurement, production, marketing and other support activities
to promote sustainable growth
and diversification.
Chander Parkash also distributed cheques of an amount of
eight thousand each among ten
beneficiaries for setting up
looms to revive their traditional
livelihood sources. He said that
this is the first such project for
J&K, sanctioned by the, Ministry
Commercial Taxes
Department organizes
free eye check up camp
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, May 25:
The Commercial Taxes
Department, Jammu with the support of Tax Bar Association,
Jammu arranged a free eye check
up camp in Excise and Taxation
Complex today. The free eye check
up camp was organized by ‘Centre
for Sight Hospital’, a pioneer in the
field of eye treatment providing
health insurance and special cashless facilities for all the Gazetted
DDC discusses Amarnath
Yatra arrangements
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appreciated the efforts of
Handloom development department for organizing such a programme at Chenani. Among othExcise
Commissioner,
ers,
Director
Tsering Angchok,
Industries, Dr. Abdul Rashid,
Director Handloom, Mr. Rajesh
Sharma,
Deputy
Director
Handloom, Mrs. Namrta Dogra,
SDM Chenani, Mr. D.K. Sharma,
Assistant Director Handloom,
Udhampur, Dr. Kusum Chib, AD
Handicraft, Mr. Vishavjeet,
Sarpanches, panches, prominent
citizens and a large numbers of local people of the area were also
present on the occasion.
Officers in the State of Jammu and
Kashmir. All the staff members of
Excise and Commercial Taxes
Department availed the opportunity and got benefitted from this
camp. Additional Commissioner
Commercial Taxes Jammu, Smita
Sethi, Additional Commissioner
Commercial
Taxes
(Adm)
Jammu, Anoo Malhotra, DC
Commercial Taxes, Arvind
Kotwal, DC Commercial Taxes,
Pankaj Magotra and other officers
was also present on the occasion.
Rogi Kalyan Samiti
Office of the Election Authority, Assistant Commissioner ‘R’) Kathua meeting held at Kathua
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of Textiles, Government of India.
The Minister said that the
Government is committed to uplift the economic condition of the
people related to handloom industry. He directed the concerned departments to organize more and
more awareness camps in rural
areas in order to aware the people
about various welfare schemes so
that they avail maximum benefits
from these schemes.
Minister of State for Finance,
Mr Gupta stressed upon the people to come forward and avail
maximum benefits from the centrally sponsored schemes and
raise their economic standard. He
Election Authority GPC Election
Assistant Commissioner ‘R’
Kathua
A meeting of Rogi Kalyan Samiti
was convened under the chairmanship
of MLA Kathua Rajiv Jasrotia in
District Hospital Kathua here today.
During the meeting Medical superintendent Dr. Anoop Manhas apprised
about the status of expenditure and revenue of District hospital . Taking a review of the functioning of the hospital
the Chairman directed JKPCC to install glow sign boards of the hospital
along the National Highway and to submit the DPR for strengthing the emergency wards by increasing beds from 8
to 20. The directions were also given for
construction of entrance gate towards
the city side. PWD was directed to lift
the old bridge material and to furnish
estimates for the extension of OPD registrations counters. PDD was directed
to take up repair of the damaged electric poles in parking area, regulate the
power supply in the hospital and to install electronic meter in the hospital
The Chairman also gave approval for
purchasing
the
surgical
equipments/lab reagents/ medicines
for operation theatre and Blood bank.
He also gave approval for procurement
of necessary items for Bio medical
waste management.
Regarding the Mahatma Gandhi
child and maternity hospital Kathua
Chairman gave approval for procurement of emergency drugs, lab reagents
etc besides approval for payment of
charges on the account of OPD slips/other stationery items and sanitation material. It was decided in the meeting that
separate cabins will be provided for
panchkarma for male and female patients and separate registrations counter
for AYUSH. The Chairman Rogi Kalyan
samiti Rajiv Jasrotia announced Rs. 5
lacs from his CDF for better health care facilities in the hospital.He stressed upon
the officers to work with team spirit for
providing better health care services to
the people. Among others Members of
Rogi Kalyan Samiti, officers of
PHE,PDD,JKPCC,CDPO,CTM,NGO
members were present on the occasion.
Kathua May 25:
The DDC Kathua Ajay
Singh Jamwal chaired a
meeting of officers and
prominent citizens to discuss
arrangements for ensuing
Amaranth Yatra. The DDC
reviewed the preparation of
each department for the
smooth conduct of yatra. He
called for formulating a comprehensive plan for the
smooth conduct of yatra and
meeting every type of exigency. The DDC said that district administration will
make all out efforts for offering best hospitality to the yatris and make provision of
other amenities like food,
drinking water and lodging.
He directed departments of
PHE, PDD to ensure round
the clock uninterrupted water and power supply at
Lakahnpur. He directed the
police department to formulate security plan at
Lakahnpur and also directed
Traffic police to make traffic
arrangements with special
focus on one time checking
procedure for the convenience of the pilgrims. He said
a Coordination Committee
shall be constituted for keeping a close vigil on market
prices of the eatables and its
quality, hygiene and cleanliness, besides accommodation for yatries. Earlier the
DDC listened to the suggestions of the prominent citizens and social organizations
for making better arrangements for the yatra. The representatives assured full cooperation to the administration for successful Yatra.
The DDC directed the
concerned departments to
ensure sufficient accommodation with proper sanitary
and other basic facilities.
Traffic regulations, management of pilgrims, required
infrastructure to manage the
rush of vehicles, security and
medical facilities shall be
given first priority, the DC directed. DC Excise Rajesh
Sharma, ADC Kathua Dr
Mushtaq Ahmed, ADDC
Kathua Dr Manmohan
Singh, ASP Kathua Nisar
Ahmed, ACR Kathua Atul
Gupta, ACD Kathua Sunil
Sharma, XEN PDD Karam
Chand ,AEE PHE Gopal
Sharma, AEE PWD, Dy S.P
Civil
Defence
Kathua
Rajinder
Sharma,
DTI
Traffic, Tehsildar Kathua
Avtar Singh, Tehsildar HQ,
other officers prominent citizens, members of social organizations, private schools
association, private colleges
association were also present on the occasion.
DGP felicitates distinguished Kouser Mushtaq of PPS Bemina
Srinagar, May 25:
The Director General of Police (DGP),
Mr. K. Rajendra Kumar today felicitated
the distinguished student Ms. Kousar
Mushtaq of Police Public School Bemina,
hailing from Karnah, who has secured
20th position in the recently announced
Matriculation results. He has also felicitated the principal, teachers and the
school management for their dedicated efforts to make the school shine.
Rajendra, who is also Patron of Police
Public Schools, addressing the felicitation
function held in school premises, said that
it was due to the dint of hard work by the
students and teaching staff that the children have displayed an exemplary performance, bringing laurels to their parents and the Jammu and Kashmir
Organization. The cooperation extended
by the parents has also encouraged the
school administration to work with more
dedication, he added.
The DGP, expressing his satisfaction
over the performance of the institution
said that the school started its functioning
some years back with primary classes and
within a short period it has progressed,
bringing good results and has now been
upgraded to secondary level. He said that
the school administration under the guidance of DIG, Mr. G. H. Bhat has been put-
ting in place result oriented efforts to
make the institution more progressive.
Rajendra said that besides the recent
declared results, in which 92 per cent students of the school have qualified including the exemplary student Ms. Kousar
Mushtaq, securing 94.4 percent marks,
performance of the institution has remained excellent in other examinations
including, professional competitions,
making the Organisation to feel proud. He
emphasised upon the school administration and teaching staff to work in coordination with each other to perform better
as there is always a room for improvement. He said that pass percentage and
performance of the students has been improving, which is encouraging and requires more dedication.
Chairperson, J&K Police Wives
Welfare Association, Mrs. K.Vijaya
Rajendra, who was also present at the
function, congratulated the students for
securing distinctions in the examination.
She advised the students to keep their performance up and excel better in future examinations to make their career bright.
She along with the DGP handed over cash
prizes to Ms. Kouser, the Principal and
the teacher with best performance.
Rajendra and Mrs. Vijaya Rajendra
also congratulated Ms. Ameet Kour of
class 12th of the Institutions, who has secured 13th position in the examination,
the result of which declared this morning.
Ms. Kour is hailing from Yechgam
(Badgam) and has secured 95.6 percent
marks. Earlier, the Principal, Tazim
Wahidi giving details about the academic
activities of the institution said that besides infrastructural facilities, the institution upgraded its facilities and the students are being provided high-tech laboratory and other facilities. He thanked
the DGP and school management for
their personal intervention and support
in grooming the institution. Among others, the function was attended by ADGP
(Headquarters) SP Vaid, IsGP, SMJ
Geelani and AG Mir, DIG (CKR), GH
Bhat, PAWWA Member Dr. Pallavi
Gillani, AIG (Welfare), Rajeshwar Singh,
SsP Manoj Koul and Param Veer Singh,
Exn: PCD, Rashid Mustafa, staff members
and other police officers.
Glimpses of Future
JAMMU TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015, PAGE 5
Altaf Bukhari orders setting
up of Enforcement Wing
in R&B Department
Calls for launching
sustained
anti-encroachment
drive to ease
traffic movement;
EC expresses concern over impact
of pollution on environment
Yellow poplar dangerous for environment, unsafe for human
health: LA Panel
‘No works to be
taken up for
execution without
tendering’
Srinagar, May 25:
Minister for R&B, Gardens,
Parks and Floriculture, Syed
Mohammad Altaf Bukhari today
ordered setting up of a fullfledged Enforcement Wing in the
R&B Department to launch an
immediate and sustained drive
against road encroachers. The
Minister said that the
Enforcement Wing will start
functioning immediately and
launch a massive drive to remove all the illegal structures
raised along the highways and
roads. He said this is being done
to facilitate smooth traffic move-
ment as encroachments have become a major contributor to traffic congestion especially in
Srinagar and other major towns
on the State.
The Minister also ordered
that no work should be taken-up
without inviting tenders and
warned stern action against
those found violating the instructions. “No road project should be
taken up and framed without provisions of drainage system,” said
the Minister, adding that concerned engineer will be penalized
for negligence, if any, on this
count. The Minister was reviewing the status of road projects of
Inauguration of ATF
Homshalibugh, Shangus and
Pahalgam constituencies at an officers meeting here today.
Besides former legislators, Sofi
Abdul Gaffar, Peerzada Mansoor
Hussain, Rafi Ahmad Mir, the
Commissioner Secretary R&B,
Chief Engineer, R&B, and Chief
Engineer PMGSY, Kashmir and
other engineers of the department were present in the meeting. The Minister instructed the
authorities of R&B department to
launch a massive anti-encroachment drive across the State, particularly on KhannabalPahalgam road and dismantle all
illegal structures. He asked them
to sensitize people through print
and electronic media about the
hazards of encroachment. He
said that no construction should
be allowed on both the sides of expressways and directed chief engineer to keep close watch on
such activities.
Syed Altaf Bukhari instructed chief engineer R&B to take action against those contractors
leaving works incomplete for
years together and debar them
from executing further works
besides cancelation of their licenses. “We cannot make people
to suffer because of the negligence of the contractors,” said
Srinagar, May 25:
the Minister, adding that time
has come to make everyone accountable in implementing the
projects. The meeting was informed that Rs 1.00 crore have
been released for completion of
Club bridge at Pahalgam, which
is lingering on for the past seven
years. Earlier, the former legislators briefed the Minister about
the road projects of their areas,
need for widening, up-gradation
and macadamization. The
Minister in certain cases authorized chief engineer to take
up the work while in some projects asked to frame DPRs under
NABARD and CRF schemes.
Committee
on
The
Environment of Jammu and
Kashmir Assembly headed by
Mr. G. M. Saroori has expressed
serious concern over the pollution and its impact on environment in the State. The Committee
which met here today discussed
threadbare the measures to be
taken to control the pollution. It
decided to seek detailed report
from the Pollution Control Board
about the measures taken for the
purpose. The Committee decided
to call Pollution Control Board
and Environment Departments
in the next meeting of the
Committee.
Legislators Mrs Shamima
Firdous, Abdul Majid Larmi,
Altaf Ahmad Wani, Muhammad
Amin Bhat, Deleep Singh, Dr.
Krishan Lal, Muhammad Abbas
Wani, Aijaz Ahmad Mir, Neelan
Kumar Langeh, Davinder Kumar
Manyal, Gulzar Ahmad Wani,
Dr. Gagan Bhagat and Anjum
Fazili attended the meeting.
Legislators suggested that
Brick Kilns, use of polythene,
Garbage, Waste Management,
mixing and use of K-Oil in vehi-
cles etc needs to be checked for
which they suggested various
measures. They unanimously
said that the court directions in
respect of cutting of yellow poplar
needs to be implemented with letter and spirit as these poplars are
not only dangerous for environment but are unsafe for human
health al Earlier, Secretary
Legislative Assembly Mr. M.
Ramzan briefed newly nominated members of the Committee
about its way of working. Besides
the Secretary Assembly, senior
officers of Assembly Secretariat
attended the meeting.
KSP at ALG Rajouri
Asiya visits SKIMS Hospital Bemina, Dr Jitendra orders probe into 900 cr Arunachal scam
enquires about Hamid Nazir’s welfare
Towards upgradation & modernization of logistic infrastructure at Rajouri,
Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) Kerb side
Pump at Advance Landing Ground
(ALG) Rajouri for direct refueling of helicopters and aircrafts established by
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation
Limited was inaugurated on 25 May 2015
by Major General Saranjeet Singh, GOC,
Ace of Spade Division in presence of Mr
RK Rai, Operational Head Aviation,
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation
Limited India. This facility will not only
boost the logistic infrastructure of Army
but will also be instrumental in providing safe and quick refueling facility to
Army and civil helicopters landing at
this ALG . This will also minimise losses
of ATF while handling. The facility will
cater for needs of both Army as well as
civil helicopters which will be a great asset while providing relief during operation as well as natural calamities.
Minister of State for
Health and Social Welfare,
Ms. Asiya Naqash visited JVC
SKIMS Hospital Bemina here
today. The Minister during
her visit to the hospital took
stock of the medicare facilities
being provided to the recently
injured patient Hamid Nazir
Bhat (15) of Palhallan area of
Tehsil Pattan, who has received multiple pellet injuries
in his head, face and eyes. The
patient is under treatment at
SKIMS Medical College,
Bemina Srinagar.
During her visit, the
Minister was informed by the
hospital authorities that the injured boy was operated by the
specialists of the college successfully. The authorities also informed that the decision will be
taken after ultra sound for fur-
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Jammu, May 25:
New Delhi, May 25:
Srinagar, May 25:
ther investigation. She stressed
upon the doctors and paramedical staff to attend the patient
with utmost care. The Minister
said that if the injured patient
shall not be operated by the
Hospital authorities due to nonavailability medical machiner-
ies then patient shall be referred
to AIIMS Delhi for further treatment. The Minister also visited
wards and interacted with the
attendants of the indoor patients
and get brief about the facilities
being provided to them during
their stay in hospital.
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The allotment of department shall be decided by the committee constituted for the purpose vide Govt. order No. 274-HME of 2010 dated 2804-2010 on the overall merit/rank/preference of the candidate (indicated in the application form) as per the Govt. order No. 706-HME of 2007
dated 11-01-2007 and instructions/amendments issued by the Government in future.
Terms and conditions :1. The House Officers will be whole timers and will be non-practicing.
2. The tenure of house job will be for a period of one year. Selection of candidates shall be made in terms of Govt. Order No. 706-HME of
dated 11-01-2007 and the instructions issued by the Government from time to time and in future.
3. The candidates of Indira Gandhi Govt Dental College, Jammu will be given preference for house job and list of students of other colleges
will stat after the last student of the college.
4. The candidate is required to indicate the subject/discipline in the order of preference to be filled in the application form.
5. During the tenure of House job, they will be subject to the Rule of conduct and discipline like other doctors as per the Service Rules.
6. During the tenure of House Job, they shall not be entitled to any kind of leave except casual leave for 15 days only. The casual leaves
shall be availed by the doctors proportionately due during the month. The House Surgeons availing excess of leave during the period of
House Job shall have to repeat the same in his/her own interest without any stipend after obtaining prior permission from the Principal,
Indira Gandhi Govt. Dental College, Jammu.
7. The House surgeon will receive a consolidated stipend under rules sanctioned by the Government.
8. The services of the House Surgeon shall be terminated by the Principal, Indira Gandhi Govt. Dental College, Jammu without prior notice
if he/she indulges in strike or any other activity which is against the interest of institution/patient care and as & when his/her work and
conduct is reported to the unsatisfactory by the concerned Head of the department or any other officer under whom they are working.
9. The stipend of the first month will be kept with held and will be paid after successful completion of full tenure of house job.
10. No student will be given house job for more than one year duration.
11. Candidates who have already done house job in any department in any institution or left the house job in between, are not eligible to apply and their forms will be rejected without any notice. The candidates shall have to submit an affidavit/undertaking alongwith the application form, duly sworn in before the Ist class magistrate, to the effect that he/she has not done house job previously anywhere in any institution within or outside the state in any discipline.
12. The candidate selected to undergo the house job and fails to join within stipulated period shall be considered at defaulter and he/she
shall not be eligible to apply for subsequent session.
13. The House officers selected in various departments will be put on Emergency duties in the Hospital on rotational basis as per the monthly roster issued by the medical superintendent, Govt. Dental College Hospital Jammu. Strict action under rules will be taken against
those who do not attend the duties as per roster.
14. The candidates who apply for House job shall submit two passport size photograph one to be affixed on the application form duly attested by the Gazetted Officer and other one to be submitted to the office of Medical Superintendent, without which the form shall not be accepted.
15. Incomplete and unfilled entries of each column of the form shall be given no weightage, while preparing the merit of the candidate.
16. First preference will be given to the student of this college and then the list of students of other colleges will start after the last student of
this college even if the merit of the student of other college is higher, as per the guidelines issued by the Government. The students from
other institutions will not be considered if any seat is left after absorbing students of this college.
(Dr. Romesh Singh)
Principal
Indira Gandhi Govt. Dental College
No. DIP/J-1681/2015
Jammu
Dated : 23-05-2015
On the eve of his departure
for a three-day tour of Northeast
marking the completion of one
year of Narendra Modi government, Union Minister of State
Charge)
for
(Independent
Development of North Eastern
Region (DoNER), MoS PMO,
Personnel, Public Grievances,
Pensions, Atomic Energy and
Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today
ordered probe into allegations of
embezzlement, misappropriation, corruption and siphoning of
government funds to the tune of
over Rs.900 crore in Arunachal
through
various
Pradesh
Centrally Sponsored Schemes related to Non-Lapsable Central
Pool of Resources (NLCPR) and
North-Eastern Council (NEC).
Dr Jitendra Singh took this
decision in response to a representation submitted by 11 MLAs
from Arunachal Pradesh who alleged that the State Government
of Arunachal Pradesh was responsible for misuse and misappropriation of Government of
India funds released against projects sanctioned during 2011-12 to
2014-15.
Accordingly, Dr Jitendra
directed
Secretary,
Singh
Ministry of Development of
North-Eastern Region (DoNER) to
immediately collect all the relevant information related to these
projects and institute an inquiry
into the status and progress of
these projects. After compilation
of the details and examination of
the issues raised by the MLAs,
comments may be sought from the
State Government before deciding
further course of action. The
MLAs who signed the complaint
included Tamiyo Taga, Leader of
Opposition in Arunachal Pradesh
State Legislative Assembly, Japu
Deputy
Leader
of
Deru,
Opposition, Er.Tage Taki, Chief
Whip, BJP Legislative Party,
Er.Tumke Bagra, Tamar Murtem,
Dr Mohesh Chai, Laisam Simai,
Tesam Pongte, Kaling Moyong,
Kento Rina, and Olom Panyang.
They alleged that the present State
Government had grossly misused
and siphoned central funds due to
which majority of projects have
not been completed and are behind schedule. They further alleged that the funds had been
whimsically diverted and used
under Non-Plan Head. This was
the reason why the State
Government was unable to furnish ‘Utilization Certificates’
against the funds released under
the Scheme. The MLAs requested
for special audit and inquiry into
misuse of central government
funds in response to which Union
Minister Dr Jitendra Singh directed the DoNER Ministry officials to immediately take cognizance of the complaints, furnish all the details and fix accountability. He also expressed
concern over the fact that the
State Government had failed to
release the matching State’s
share either in full or in part as a
result of which as many as 15 projects are running behind schedule
and Utilization Certificates were
pending in 20 cases.
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Glimpses of Future
CYMK
Glimpses of future
One year of Modi
s the Narendra Modi-led NDA government completes a year in
the government, surveys conducted by various news agencies
agree on one thing: Modi sarkar still continues to enjoy great
popularity across the nation, however, the excitement and optimism that
had seized a greater section of the country when the government had
come to power has ebbed considerably. Surveys say Modi government is
still popular, though not as popular as A survey poll stated that nearly
20 percent of the respondents said that the government's performance
has been 'very good'. But the number of those who said that the government's performance had been 'somewhat good' made up for almost half
the responses. A total of 66 percent respondents were satisfied with the
government's performance. However, the poll said that even though the
number of respondents calling the Modi sarkar's performance 'somewhat good' had not changed since a similar poll done in Decemeber-end,
the number of those calling it 'very good' had reduced from more than
one-fourth to a little less than one-fifth now. Statements like those made
by Sakshi Maharaj, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and Giriraj Singh has clearly
dented the government's image as the PM's inability to rein in loose-talking ministers was regarded as Modi's biggest blunder. This effect was
compounded by the controversy over the land acquisition bill, the nameembossed bandhgala suit Modi wore during Obama's visit to India and
the 'mishandling' of Parliament, according to the poll. Even though government's performance with respect to job creation had been rated the
lowest, with only 43 percent satisfied with it, the IBN survey said that 62
percent of its respondents felt that jobs have either gone up or have remained the same. The IBN poll said that over 72 percent were satisfied
with the Modi government's performance. 56 percent felt that Modi is effective as a Prime Minister. Over 60 percent respondents felt that India's
economic situation has improved and 55 percent said that corruption
has either reduced or remained the same. An overwhelming 85 percent
of the respondents said that the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was the government's best initiative while 76 percent felt Jan Dhan Yojana was the
second best. Make in India and Digital India initiatives were also popular among the people, according to the poll. However, the poll added that
while just 35 percent supported the land bill, an almost equal number
was undecided on the bill while only 28 percent supported the bill. A surprising conclusion made by the poll was that despite PM Modi's regular
tweeting and reaching out to the public through his rallies, only 20 percent felt that Modi effectively communicated through social media and
a mere 17 percent felt Modi's rallies made a substantial impact. Modi's inability to make a mark on social media was also portrayed by the India
Today Group-Cicero snap poll, which said that "the noise over online
trends and hashtags notwithstanding, 72 percent do not follow him
(Modi) on social media." 56 percent respondents had not even heard of
Modi's 'Mann ki Baat' radio programme. Although 56 percent of the respondents in the India Today poll felt that the government's performance
had been good, the poll added that 33 percent felt Modi should be the
Prime Minister, down from 57 percent in August 2014. 43 percent of the
respondents felt that Rahul Gandhi was right in calling the Modi government a "suit buit ki sarkar". 11 percent felt Rahul Gandhi should be
the PM, up from 6 percent in August. Over 30 percent said Rahul was the
best performing Opposition leader and the biggesst challenger to Modi.
However, the poll also said that Modi's pro-poor image had improved,
with 23 percent respondents saying he was working for the poor, compared to only 16 percent feeling this way during another poll conducted
in March. The poll also said that the BJP's vote share had gone up. ABP
News-Nielsen's latest opinion poll also said that NDA's vote share had
risen to 41 percent from 39 percent in 2014. However, it also said that
NDA would win 317 seats if general elections were held now, down from
the 336 seats which NDA won during the Lok Sabha polls last year. Giving the Modi government 7 out of 10 for its first year's performance, Assocham on Sunday had said it still needs to cover some ground on tax
issues and a lot more needs to be done on improving ease of doing business. The industry body had said the country's macro-economic situation has improved in the past one year with decline in inflation, stability
in currency and attractive financial markets. "However, the NDA government has to cover some ground in terms of taxation issues, particularly with regard to FIIs' problems on retrospective liabilities and in
taking big-ticket infrastructure projects off the ground," the chamber
had said in a statement.
A
JAMMU TUESDAY MAY 26, 2015, PAGE 6
Pushing the envelope in foreign policy
BY : SRINATH RAGHAVAN
arendra Modi’s foreign policy has
been continuous with that of his predecessors but he has also sought to
push the boundaries of certain engagements
much further. Foreign policy is all about securing permanent interests. As such, it may
be best judged in the long run. Nevertheless,
since foreign policy has been so prominent
during the government’s first year in office,
an interim assessment may be useful. What
are the areas of continuity and change, the
successes and blind spots? Since the early
1990s, the overarching goal of our foreign policy has been a stable and conducive external
environment for India’s internal economic
transformation and a larger international
profile. Towards these ends, successive governments have sought simultaneously to preserve India’s key security interests and to
deepen its ties with the global economy. From
this standpoint, Prime Minister Modi’s foreign policy has been continuous with that of
his predecessors. Yet, Mr. Modi has also
sought to push the boundaries of certain engagements much further. This is not just a
question giving a fresh vim to foreign policy,
although the vigour is palpable.
THE U.S. AND CHINA
Consider his approach to dealing with
the two most important powers: the United
States and China. For over two decades now,
every Indian government has tried to impart
more substance to relations with these countries. Even as New Delhi has moved steadily
to forge strategic ties with Washington, it has
sought to place its relations with Beijing on
an even keel. However, Mr. Modi has been exceptionally clear in articulating India’s interests and trying to leverage the relationship
with the U.S. and China. Thus, during U.S.
President Barack Obama’s visit to India in
January 2015, India issued a separate joint
statement on security in the Asia-Pacific and
Indian Ocean. And on Mr. Modi’s trip to
China this month, a separate joint statement
N
was issued on climate change in the light of
the upcoming conference in Paris. In both
cases, there may be a gap between rhetoric
and reality. Still, Mr. Modi is clearly attempting to push the envelope and advance India’s
interests without making binary choices in
its engagement with these countries.
IN SOUTH ASIA
Closer home, he has consistently outlined
a vision of shared prosperity for South Asia
and has credibly projected Indian leadership
in the region. His visits to Nepal, in August
2014, and Sri Lanka, in March 2015, have gone
a long way in helping reset relations with
both these countries. Similarly, his decision
to abandon the Bharatiya Janata Party’s
stance and ratify the Land Border Agreement
with Bangladesh has given a shot in arm to
the bilateral relationship. Yet, the real challenges lie ahead of him. The earthquake in
Nepal will certainly delay and may even complicate the arduous task of drawing up an
agreed constitution. India will not only have
to prepare for longer-term assistance in reconstruction, but will also have to engage
Nepalese parties more proactively to prevent
the political process from drifting. In Sri
Lanka, the present government has rolled
back the worst features of the presidential
system. It has also moved to return the land
acquired by the security forces, including in
the Tamil areas. But it remains to be seen if
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena is
open to a political settlement with the Tamils.
After all, his own base includes a slice of the
Sinhala chauvinists. In any event, the Tamil
question remains a potentially thorny issue
in bilateral relations. Colombo’s relationship
with Beijing is another sensitive area. On
campaign trail, Mr. Sirisena had spoken out
against his predecessor, Mahinda Rajapaksa’s tilt towards China. In office, he has
struck a more equivocal note. This is hardly
surprising given China’s economic importance to Sri Lanka ties that will deepen further with China’s plans for a maritime silk
route. During his forthcoming trip to Dhaka,
in the first week of June, Mr. Modi will undoubtedly seek to capitalise on the boundary
agreement. Bangladesh also seems open to
improve transportation and transit links with
India. So far, New Delhi’s inability to deliver
on an agreement on Teesta river waters had
led Dhaka to hold back on transit arrangements. It is unlikely that Bangladesh Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina will execute a complete volte-face and fall in with India’s requirements. Yet, growing international
pressure on her government may make her
more amenable to Indian interests. New Delhi
has done well to stand by Ms. Hasina in the
face of the ongoing onslaught by the Islamists.
Yet India must also be mindful of the problem
of being identified solely with the Awami
League. A stable two-party democracy in
Bangladesh is in India’s long-term interests.
THE PAKISTAN QUESTION
As ever, the sharpest challenge for
India’s regional ambitions comes from Pakistan. Despite getting off to a good start with
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Mr. Modi has
been unable to craft a coherent and consistent
approach to dealing with Pakistan. Like his
predecessors, he has swung from engagement
to disengagement — only to be forced to pick
up the diplomatic pieces and return to the
table. There is something curious about
India’s policy towards Pakistan, which consists of doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting a different result. Mr.
Modi has to break this mould. Diplomatic engagement should not be seen as a reward for
Pakistan’s good behaviour. The symbolism of
diplomacy should be reduced — even if substantive progress remains tough to achieve.
The current impasse with Pakistan also impinges on our ties with Afghanistan. Here,
Mr. Modi faces a situation that has turned
rather unfavourable from New Delhi’s perspective. Afghanistan President Ashraf
Ghani’s attempt to cosy up to Pakistan has led
to an inevitable downgrading of ties with
Year of hope after six decades of despair
BY : BALBIR PUNJ
n January 2014, at the most famous annual high table of global entrepreneurs
in Davos, India could gain only a small
table. “The India Story was over”, they
said. Many Indian industrialists had
sensed the mood earlier and did not turn up
at the Swiss resort town. Between May 2014
and now, there has been a rush of world
leaders to New Delhi — Prime Ministers,
Presidents, Foreign and Defence Ministers
et al. Every major country that counts has
sought an appointment with India. What
has made this difference? How did India
move from despair to discernment within
so short a time? The dramatic change in the
situation has been brought about by an
abroad that 1.2 billion people, with a two
trillion dollar economy, a $350 billion foreign exchange reserve, and plans to invest
a trillion dollar in the next five years in
various infrastructure projects, are back in
action. Also, instead of a dummy Prime
Minister at the helm, the Government is
now headed by a real leader, with a strong
majority in Parliament. Globally, leaders of
most Governments that count have already
showed, with their enthusiastic visits and
statements, that there is a new India that
has emerged over the last 12 months. This
is the result of a Government that is determined to get things done with lighting
speed. For the first time, inflation, that was
hovering near double digits for years, is decelerating. The Indian economy is finally
in a recovery mode. Economic growth has
improved from less than five per cent to
more than seven per cent. The fiscal deficit
is down to four per cent and revenue deficit
rests at 2.8 per cent. Power output is up by
22,566 MW as against an uncertain addition
of 17,830 MW the previous year. There is a
large-scale thrust for solar power and a
push for nuclear power reactors with a single complex alone pegged at near 10,000
MW. The infrastructure push is also remarkable by any standard. Look at the bold
five-time jump in the target for solar energy: From 20,000 MW to 100,000 MW. Look
at Indian Railways: From an enterprise
that only 18 months ago had no money to
pay for spare parts, it is now working for
bullet trains, more freight corridors, new
I
Gujarat: a tale of two cities
management institutions and large scale
private investment in multiple commercial
areas. A six lakh crore rupee investment is
planned. No different is the story of the national highway programme. During the
two terms of the previous Congress-led
Government, the ‘progress’ was just two
kilometers a day. Under the Modi Government, the National Highways Authority of
India is doing 10km a day and plans are in
place to move up to 30kms a day in the near
future. In his election campaign, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi had envisaged a
new federal structure with the States as
equal partners. It is the Union Government’s ability to establish this new federalism that is partly responsible for the States
participating in the implementation of
highway projects.
The same new federalism has also
been at the core of this Government’s success in bringing the goods and services tax.
These successes expose the defeated and
disoriented Congress’s efforts to delay the
NDA’s fast track progress. The latter is
using its strength in the Rajya Sabha to filibuster legislations and programmes. Filibuster is the Congress’s last resort to deny
the people the Government that they had
voted to power on the promise of fast tracking governance. The Congress is using its
numbers in the Upper House to halt legislations on one pretext or the other. In some
cases, the laws had actually been envisaged
by the Congress itself. The Congress is also
resorting to falsehoods to turn innocent
farmers against the Government. It is instigating other sections, like industrial workers, to block much needed labour law
reforms — many of which again have been
under discussion for more than a decade,
since the National Labour Commission envisaged these reforms. International organisations, like the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank,
which had only 12 months ago repeatedly
expressed doubts over India’s progress,
given the state of policy paralysis it was in
under the Manmohan Singh Government,
are now boldly forecasting that the country
will soon overtake China’s growth rate.
The IMF and the World Bank are not
the only ones to compliment a regime on
the fast track. Industry has raised Rs56,801
crore in capital for new ventures and expansion compared to Rs29,381 crores in
2013-2014. Medium and small enterprises,
which contribute about 45 per cent to the
country’s export earnings, have new hope
in the Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency bank. A Government determined to put the country on the road to
high speed growth, must have the guts to
take bold decisions and go against the culture of chalta hai attitudes within society
and Government itself. The bureaucracy is
on the alert with the Prime Minister taking
regular updates and Secretaries getting the
taste of his displeasure for lagging behind
expectations. The same Prime Minister
who is pushing the Government to be on
the fast track, is also urging the bureaucracy not to hesitate in taking decisions.
The recent effort to protect honest officers,
from targeted attacks and primed accusations from those they may have displeased,
in the discharge of their duties is a good example of a practical Prime Minister who
expects the best from his officers and Ministers.
Contrast that with the decision-making process under the UPA regime. There
was no Government but every Ministry
was a Government by itself. The weird
arrangement led to multiple scams, resulting in huge losses to the exchequer. This
has naturally led the Union Finance Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley, to underline that, “in
one year, the Government under the leadership of Modi has erased the word corruption from the political dictionary of India”.
The grime of the past 65 years, over 50 of
which were under Congress rule, has put
India behind a big country like China as
well as a tiny city-state like Singapore. The
Congress owes an explanation to the country. Why after 30 per cent of Indians still so
poor? Why do two-thirds of farmers have to
hold on to tiny plots of land and live on the
margin? Why is India so far behind China
that adopted free market policies while
being run by a single party? Mr Modi’s one
year in power has taken India to a discernment of hope after six decades of depression that the Nehru-Gandhis had
bequeathed.
confidant of Mr. Modi. “You will see, you will
not even recognise the new India,” he said.
Moments later, he chided me for asking a
question about Gujarat’s Muslims. “Mohamed,” as Mr. Bhatt addressed me, “today we
should speak only about one Bharat.”
INTEGRATION A CHALLENGE
A few feet away, I noticed a group of saffron-clad men dancing. On noticing my camera, one of them stopped to declare, “We will
now teach Bangladesh and Pakistan a lesson.”
Later that night, groups of BJP supporters
drove through Juhapura, chanting, “Kashmir
hamara hai! (Kashmir is ours!)” Fireworks
were set off throughout Ahmedabad that night
but Juhapura was on police lockdown. In a recent study published by Charlotte Thomas of
France’s Sciences Po University, she cites integration — both economic and social — as
being one of the key challenges that Muslims
in Gujarat face. Thomas spent six years visiting Juhapura and she has documented the
struggles Muslims face in having loans sanctioned, getting school admissions, and even in
filing complaints with the government. She
concludes: “Although formally Muslim citizens have the same rights as their Hindu counterparts, in Ahmedabad and even more in
Juhapura, their ethnicity disqualifies them
from an effective form of citizenship.” (See:
http://goo.gl/XZMR7u) J.S. Bandukwala, a retired physics professor and one of Gujarat’s
most seasoned human rights activists from
Vadodara, is not optimistic about the changes
he has seen since Mr. Modi’s victory. In September last year, clashes between Muslims
and Hindus erupted for nearly a week near his
home, leading to two deaths and the arrest of
over 150. He spoke about the growing influence of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) over
Gujarati society. Ali Asgar Zaveri, a Muslim
businessman, bought a house in an upperclass Hindu neighbourhood in Bhavnagar; in
December, after his neighbours objected to his
presence, Pravin Togadia of the VHP led a
campaign and forced him to sell the house and
move back to a Muslim area.
The Gujarat Chief Minister’s attempt to distinguish herself from her predecessor by making women’s issues a priority hardly gets around the deep discrimination that Muslims in
the State face in the form of communalism and a lack of housing.
BY : ZAHIR JANMOHAMED
n April 11, Gujarat Chief Minister
Anandiben Patel visited Juhapura, a
neighbourhood in the new west zone of
Ahmedabad. The convoy of sports utility vehicles that was followed by police and media vehicles marked the first time that a Chief
Minister was visiting the Muslim ghetto,
whose population doubled after the 2002 riots.
Two weeks prior to this, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation had announced its plans
to demolish more than a hundred illegal buildings in what is the largest Muslim ghetto in
the city. Demolitions and the consequent resistance by residents began in late March.
Shabnam Sheikh, a 17-year-old girl living in
Juhapura, sent a petition in the form of a single question to the Chief Minister. Her parents’ house was on the list of buildings to be
demolished while her uncle’s house had been
razed. Ms. Sheikh had heard rumours that
Ms. Patel had planned to announce new projects to ensure the uplift of Muslim women and
that she would reverse the Gujarat’s government earlier record of denying basic services
like schools and roads to Juhapura. The girl
wrote out her question on a sheet of paper and
walked through a crowd of photographers and
politicians, both from the ruling Bharatiya
Janata Party and the Opposition Congress
party, to reach Ms. Patel’s inner circle. Before
she could speak to the Chief Minister, one of
the staff members stopped Ms. Sheikh,
grabbed the paper from her hand, and read it.
It said: “If my father pays the ‘impact fee’, will
you stop the demolition of our home?” He
O
tossed the sheet of paper aside and said, “No!
No! The CM will not answer that. She is only
here to talk about women’s issues.” After Ms.
Patel went around Juhapura for about an
hour and a half, she announced the government’s plans to build a school and a woman’s
health centre, all of which left Ms. Sheikh unimpressed. “None of these promises will make a
difference if we do not have a home,” she said.
‘IMPACT FEE’ AND JUHAPURA
Weeks earlier, on a Saturday morning on
March 28, Ms. Sheikh was watching television
at home when bulldozers arrived. Being Ram
Navami, the birthday of Ram, she was off from
school. Her 14-year-old cousin, who lived a few
buildings away, ran in frantically shouting
about an “impact fee”, the first time Ms.
Sheikh heard the phrase. Juhapura is an area
with nearly five lakh residents, almost all of
them Muslim. On the outskirts of Ahmedabad,
it came under the city’s municipal government in 2007. Most of the area is still designated as prime agriculture land despite the
fact that there is no farming done today within
the boundaries of Ahmedabad. Juhapura is
also the largest land area within city limits
earmarked for sewage storage and treatment.
Ms. Sheikh’s family moved to Ahmedabad from rural Gujarat five years ago. Unable
to take a house on rent elsewhere in the city,
they moved to Juhapura. Before the 2002 riots,
Juhapura’s population was about half its size
but has grown since. The Sheikhs knew that
they could save money living in an illegal
building, as the rent can be half of what it is
for a legal building, an important consideration for a struggling carpenter like her father,
Mansoor Sheikh. They hoped to gradually
save and make their home legal. “The government is obliged to provide residents the option
of paying the ‘impact fee’, a service which
would start the legalisation process,” said
Rizwan Kadri, an architect in Ahmedabad.
This was not an option given to Juhapura residents like Ms. Sheikh’s relatives whose home
was torn down. As the bulldozers began demolishing eight buildings in Juhapura, Mr.
Sheikh had some questions for the city officials: “Why are you only doing this to Muslim
buildings? Why are you making us pay taxes if
you are not providing us with services?”
HE GOT NO ANSWERS.
Policemen carrying batons and tear gas
canisters also surrounded Fatehawadi and arrested dozens of residents who resisted the
demolitions. While Mr. Sheikh was in a
mosque, his wife and children watched from
their apartment. “They are breaking our
backs,” he said. The controversial Fatehwadi
site, across 84 acres, was acquired by the
Ahmedabad Collector after the Ahmedabad
Urban Development Authority (AUDA)
planned a sewage treatment plant at the site.
But after the 2002 riots, a number of Muslim
families began migrating to the open plot from
different areas of the city. In 2006, with the expansion of Municipal Corporation limits, the
area came under its limits but the civic body
saw that constructing a treatment plant would
be impossible. On the day of Narendra Modi’s
landslide victory as Prime Minister and leader
of the Bharatiya Janata Party last May, I
spoke with Bhushan Bhatt, a BJP legislator in
Gujarat whose late father, Ashok Bhatt, was a
India. Whether or not this yields results, India
has to ensure that its interests in Afghanistan
are not placed on the chopping block. China’s
backing for reconciliation with the Taliban
will further complicate India’s position on
Afghanistan. Unless New Delhi adopts a clear
strategy, Mr. Modi may well find himself presiding over a retrenchment in Indian engagement with Afghanistan. While the overall
record in South Asia has been mixed, there
has been a startling lack of focus on our extended neighbourhood to the west. Even as
West Asia is roiled by a range of conflicts, the
government has remained content with
mounting rescue missions for Indians living
in trouble spots. This policy will prove unsustainable if instability deepens and widens in
West Asia: some seven million Indians live in
the Gulf countries. India needs to position itself as a force for stability in the region, which
in turn will require enormous diplomatic engagement. So far, the government has proved
purblind on West Asia. Part of the problem is
the persisting flaws in the institutional set-up
on foreign policy and security. Despite considerable centralisation in the Prime Minister’s
Office, the silos between various ministries
seem intact. The lack of functional integration of expertise is evident in several areas.
Think of the ill-considered decision to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets. The Defence Minister is still unable to explain how the
remaining 90 aircrafts will be procured — if
at all. The inability to grasp the import of
mega regional trade pacts being negotiated
under American leadership is another case in
point. The Ministry of Commerce has done little more than set up a company to invest in
countries like Vietnam—hoping thereby to
secure access to other markets if the TransPacific Partnership goes through. There is
still no indication of a strategic response to attempts by leading industrial economies to
change the rules of world trade. The government’s stance on Intellectual Property Rights
in yet another example.
A great opportunity lost
BY : BHAMY V SHENOY
uring its first year, the NDA government
missed a golden opportunity to implement the much desired oil sector reform.
Oil and gas sector is undoubtedly a critical sector of the economy. It has a huge impact on
India’s sustainable development, energy security and on the country’s desired policy to contribute to solving climate change problem.
Hopefully, even now it is not too late. International oil markets are relatively at a low level
compared to the last four years. World benchmark Brent after staying above $100 per barrel
during 2010-2013, fell below $50/b in the first
quarter of 2015. That was the time when the NDA
could have taken some hard decisions to reform
the oil sector pricing. It is to the credit of the
NDA that it totally liberalised diesel price from
October 18, 2014. As in the case of petrol (liberalised from June, 2010), public sector oil companies now have the freedom to change it to reflect
international oil market. As oil prices were
falling, the NDA government boldly increased
excise taxes to mop up additional revenues. One
needs to admire the government for such bold
steps. Unwisely, they had been reduced by the
UPA when oil prices were high, purely for political reasons. For several sound reasons, excise
taxes on diesel and petrol are kept high in most
countries. They serve to reduce green house
gases (GHG), and contribute to improving the financial position of the government to balance
the budget. Petrol and diesel prices touched a
low in the past 12 months owing to fall in international crude price. But they firmed up later.
Since such unpopular decisions are made by the
oil companies without the interference of the
government, there has not been the usual protest
by the opposition. Let us hope that unlike the
UPA, when oil prices go up in the future, the
NDA will not be tempted to control petrol and
diesel again to the detriment of the economy. In
December, 2014, the NDA announced a policy to
scrap PDS kerosene to plug leakages and reduce
corruption. It would have allowed kerosene to be
sold at market prices. The poor would still be
given subsidy through direct benefit transfer to
reduce diversion. It is a mystery why the government backed down to take a historic step of liberalising kerosene, a commodity controlled
since the World War II. Also at one stroke, the
NDA would have eliminated the mother of all
corruption. However, it is in the distribution of
residential LPG where the NDA govt has completely failed to take a much desired decision of
removing subsidy and liberalising LPG to reduce diversion, and to reduce subsidy burden.
Studies have shown that the 20 per cent of the
rich get 39 per cent subsidy and 50 per cent middle class get 47 per cent of LPG subsidy. In 201314, LPG subsidy burden was Rs 52,246 crore.
Aware of this reality, the government had urged
the well-to-do to voluntarily give up the subsidy.
Only an insignificant number has so far done so.
A bold policy of scrapping residential LPG
would have showed the real desire of the NDA to
reduce subsidy burden and to divert the resources generated for other sectors like education, health, water. The govt can still continue to
assist those below the poverty line through DBT
to plug the leakages.
A BABY STEP
In case of gas sector, the NDA government’s
reform was at best a baby step. The gas formula
suggested by the UPA was arbitrary, but it reflected the Indian market reality of LNG imports
to meet the domestic demand. Criticising the
UPA gas formula as generous, the NDA removed
LNG prices and replaced them by unrelated
Canadian and Russian gas prices. It looks as
though the goal was only to reduce the resultant
gas price. Instead of allowing the market place
to discover the price, govt continued to control
the price without realising how it will result in
reduced exploration. At least one good thing
they did was not to have multiple pricing or a
postal stamp kind of pricing. The NDA also
failed as a result of wrong gas pricing policy to promote shale gas exploration which has brought about
dramatic changes in the US oil and gas sector, and
is likely to do the same in China. The Vijay
Kelkar committee submitted a report in September, 2014, outlining several recommendations to
reduce oil and gas import dependency. If implemented in totality, India’s oil and gas import dependency would be only 39 per cent versus the
77 per cent under the business as usual scenario
in 2030 and the current 62 per cent.
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CYMK
Glimpses of Future
Kangana Ranaut
enjoys some fun
time post success
of Tanu Weds
Manu Returns
ENTERTAINMENT
Azhar Trailer: Emraan
Hashmi’s Azharuddin
act is simply PERFECT!
After the tremendous success of Dirty
Picture that was based on the sex siren
Silk Smitha’s life, Ekta Kapoor will now
be bringing to screen the scandalous life of
former Indian captain, Mohammed
Azharuddin. He was one of India’s most
successful cricket captains, who was
banned from all forms of cricket for his involvement in match-fixing and later became a Congress MP. Emraan Hashmi
will be playing Azhar in the movie, that is
also titled Azhar.
The movie will be directed by Tony
D’Souza, who previously helmed Blue and
Naam Hai Boss. During the IPL finals yesterday, Emraan had appeared in the
Extraa Innings pre-match sessions of the
IPL finals. He launched the first teaser of
the film. Since the film is still to begin
shooting, it was very short. But whatever
it showed, gave us a clear picture of what
to expect in the movie. It begins with
Emraan Hashmi as Azhar wearing a helmet and picking up his bat and then coming out of the pavilion to bat. As he walks
out, on one side of his, there are cheering
and screaming fans shouting out his name
and clamoring to touch him. But on the
other side there are placards and effigies
of him being burnt – a clear indicator towards his match fixing allegations. There
are chants of him being a gaddar! As he is
about to enter the field, an enraged fan
jumps the barricade and tears off his shirt
Kangana Ranaut wants only respect and not friendship
from Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra!
Kangana Ranaut is enjoying a fresh bout of success as
her latest release Tanu Weds Manu Returns is doing incredibly well at the Box office. Kangana plays a double
role in the sequel to the Aanand L Rai film and her
Haryanvi avatar is being more loved by the audiences
than her original role as Tanu.
Kangana was spotted at a sub-urban restaurant last
night, dressed in a peek-a-boo blue dress and casual nude
slippers. Kangana was rocking the risque dress, of course
and looked really chilled out when spotted by shutterbugs. Kangana’s Queen got her massive love and support
from the audiences and now Tanu Weds Manu Returns is
turning out to be another feather in Kangana’s cap!
Kangana’s TWMR is all set to beat Deepika
Padukone’s Piku as it is on its way to becoming the highest grosser of 2015 within a few days of its release.
Kangana attended Deepika’s success party recently and
looks like soon Dippy will be seen attending Kangana’s
success party! What are your thoughts on this?
from the back. Later he is seen on the field
near the boundary line, as the title, i.e. his
name shows up for the first time. As all
these things happen, we could Emraan
narrating about how, as Azhar, he is famous for three things – first, he is god-fearing, second, his marriage and thirdly, the
match-fixing allegations against him.
Though we never see his face, Emraan has
mimed the former captain’s lopsided
walking style perfectly, as well as adapted
certain trademark quirks of his looks, like
those little amulets on his neck. Though,
the film will only release next year, the
teaser ends with a promise that we are to
see something really interesting when it is
finally brought to our screens.
JAMMU TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015, PAGE 10
SCREEN SHOW
Woah! Shahid Kapoor
has 1 million followers
on Instagram
It wouldn’t be wrong to claim Shahid Kapoor as the
most desirable actor on Instagram. The dishy dudes pics
are drool worthy! His selfies are bang on, from being cute,
candid, goofy to flaunting some extraordinary sexiness;
Shahid’s shirtless avatars are closely followed by his crazy
fans! No wonder the Shaandaar actor now has 1 million followers on Instagram. And there he is, posing and celebrating this victory with a post and a caption that reads, “A milli a milli a million .thank u thank u.” Awwww!!!! I’m sure
there were a few more who just hit that follow button after
this one… We’re sure Shahid’s female fans are now enjoying his singleton status, till he gets hitched next month to
his Delhi gal Mira Rajput. And we’re sure that over a million hearts broke after he announced his wedding news,
right? Anyway, to help you cope with a heart break that
awaits Sasha fans, we have compiled some drool worthy
pictures of the actor right here. So go check them out! As for
the Udta Punjab actor, congratulations on your 1 million
mark Shahid! Whatever be the case- single or hitched- we
won’t stop following you, right BollywoodLifers?
Karan Johar celebrates birthday with Ranbir
Kapoor and Shilpa Shetty Kundra in London
Kangana Ranaut has been in the news for a while now for reasons more than one.
The actress had been making headlines a few days back when she threw a party with
Priyanka Chopra. The two were even assumed to become new BFFs of B-Town. Prior to
that, Kangana also seemed to warm up to Deepika Padukone after Dippy called by her to
sort the whole ‘called me not called me’ confusion. While media circuits might be speculating new friendships in tinsel town, Ms Ranaut declares that she has NO friend in the
industry. While talking about her relation with the two Bajirao Mastani actresses,
Kangana said, “My friendship with Priyanka comes from the fact that we have known
each other for ages. We had a lot of warmth and we still do. We worked together in
Fashion and Krrish 3. With Deepika, I don’t have any experience of working with her,
but she comes across as a very warm and affectionate person.” She further added, “I
have immense respect for them and that she all I want from them.” Basking in the success of her last release, Tanu Weds Manu Returns, the actress claims that she has no
time for friendships and the little time that she can spare from work, she likes to spend it
with her family. She said to the same daily, “I am not a very friendly person, may be because I have my family with me. These past 10 years have been very demanding.
Whenever I have time, I give it to my family. I feel so complete. I don’t feel the need for
any other friendship or close relationship.”
Karan Johar is not throwing his grand starry birthday bash in Mumbai today. The director-turned-actor is
instead spending his special day in the United Kingdom with his Bombay Velvet co-star, actor Ranbir Kapoor
and director Ayan Mukerji in London. That’s not it, Karan also found company in Shilpa Shetty Kundra and husband Raj Kundra while in London. In fact a new entrant on Instagram, Shilpa shared a picture with the birthday
boy at the Clarifges Hotel Mayfair.
We hear that away from the buzz around his movie Shhuddhi and his debut debacle with Anurag Kashyap,
Karan is chilling with his buddies in UK. Did they party? Well, we’re certain that the boys had a gala time. As for
his big birthday bash in Mumbai, well Karan will be calling in his celebrity friends from the industry next week.
We hear that Santino Morea and Karan together will play the hosts. And if not Salman Khan (who will be in
Dubai for Arab-Indo Bollywood Awards) and Shah Rukh Khan (who’s recuperating from his surgery), his
Shhuddhi lead actors Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt will definitely glam up the occasion.
31 years of Anupam Kher in Bollywood: Saaransh, Daddy
Scoop: Sonali Raut to do a special song in
and A Wednesday films of the actor you simply cannot miss!
Great
Its been 31 years since Bollywood got on board one of the most
talented actors in Anupam Kher! An actor who can mould himself
according to his role and make his character come alive. He has
made you laugh, cry and simply despise him with his varied roles.
Anupam Kher successfully managed to look 60 in Saaransh, when
he was barely 27 and can look 30 today in his latest film, Baby, when
he actually 60.
The actor reminisced his 31 years and tweeted, “Today I complete 31 yrs in Film Industry. It has been d most amazing journey
since SAARANSH. Happy Birthday to me.:)” He moved on to share
some of his most favourite moments from the past 31 years and
tweeted, “Glimpses of #ThirtyOneAnupamYears .:)”
I personally have always loved him in all his avatars, but here
are five performances of Mr Kher that deserve a special mention…
Saaransh Anupam Kher’s portrayal of BV Pradhan a man
grieving the death of his only son killed in New York tops this list.
Kher managed to impress everybody with his acting chops and his
first BIG hit. His simple Maharashtrian family man character was
so in-sync with the age and times that people just couldn’t stop talking about the tight script and direction of Mahesh Bhatt and the brilliant acting of Kher. No wonder the world took notice of this brilliant actor, whose performance paved way for his over three decade
long acting career.
Daddy Anupam Kher’s portrayal of Aanand, Pooja Bhatt’s dad
is etched in everyone’s memories till date. The story is about the relationship between a father and his daughter. It is his alcoholic father’s character and Pooja’s staunch daughter’s character which
made this movie a masterpiece. Mahesh Bhatt definitely needs to be
credited for the superb script and timing of making this film. The
story was apt for that era and Anupam was on a top pedestal. His
performance made his an even bigger name and got him his first
National Film Award.
Grand
Masti
The sex comedy
is coming with a
third installment
and
this
time
Riteish Deshmukh,
Vivek Oberoi and
Aftab Shivdasani
will be seen some
new actors. Ever
since Bigg Boss 8
contestant Sonali
Raut posted her
photograph with
Riteish Deshmukh
on Instagram stories
about the actor doing
Great Grand Masti has been doing media rounds.
A source close to the film informs us that Sonali Raut has a pivotal role in the film. She also has a sexy and hot number
which will be a big highlight of the film. “Sonali has a role with all the three boys in the movie. However, it’s not clear
whether it is a full fletched role or not in the film. Btu she has a hot song in it.” Well this would indeed be a big break for the
Sonali. Sources also claim that ex-Bigg Boss contestant Sana Khan has also been roped in the film and will be doing a small
role opposite one of the main leads. This definitely looks like an interesting line up for the sex comedy movie. Stay tuned to
this space as we’ll soon be back with some more information on Great Grand Masti.
JAMMU TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015, PAGE 11
Glimpses of Future
Mehbooba Mufti chairs District
Electricity Committee meeting
at Pulwama
Pulwama, May 25:
Member Parliament Ms
Mehbooba Mufti today reviewed the power supply and
infrastructure position in
Pulwama and Shopian at a
meeting of the District
Electricity Committee convened here under her chairpersonship.
The meeting was informed
that Rs 48.05 crore project is under implementation for various feeders of Pulwama and
Shopian districts for renovation of LT and HT lines under
Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram
Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) and
Integrated Power Distribution
System (IPDS) schemes.
Speaking at the meeting,
Pr ovides Rs 20 lakh fr om MPLAD fund f or
upgr adation of Electric Wor kshop Shopian
Ms Mehbooba announced that
Rs 20 lakh will be provided to
electrical workshop Shopian
from her MPLAD fund for its
upgradation. She said two generator sets will be provided to
Jamia Masjid Shopian and
Jamia Masjid Pulwama from
her MPLAD fund to ensure uninterrupted power supply in
view of the ensuing holy month
of Ramadhan. She directed PDD
Engineers to provide electricity
to the consumers during
Ramadhan without any disturbance. The meeting was attended
by
MLAs,
Deputy
Commissioners of Pulwama &
Shopian district, and Engineers
Power
Development
of
Department.
Darbar of SP
Railways Jammu
held at GRP Lines
OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL
SHIV VIDYALAYA LANSI (UDHAMPUR)
S.No Name
Jammu, May 25:
1.
Suram Singh-SP Railways
Jammu held darbar of jawans
of GRP Jammu at GRP Lines
Jammu. Besides jawans/officers of GRP Jammu, Gori
Shanker, Dy.SP GRP Lines
Jammu, Devinder Singh SDPO Railways Jammu, Inspr
Neeraj Choudhary, SHO P/S
GRP Jammu were also present. During the darbar ample
opportunity was provided to
jawans/officers to put forth
their problems/grievances.
The problems of jawans/officers were heard and on spot redressal of problems was made.
Besides that necessary briefings were provided to all the participants for better policing
and performing dedicated duties to keep railways Jammu
safe and secure. Jawans/officers were provided necessary
related
security
instructions/guidelines for
better safety and security of
Railways Jammu which is
paramount for GRP Jammu.
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PSUF felicitates
students for qualifying
Class 12 examination
Announces grand function to felicitate class
12, 10 toppers
Srinagar, May 25:
Private Schools United Front
(PSUF) has congratulated the higher
secondary students for qualifying
the class 12 examination after a tumultuous 2014. Expressing its displeasure over non performing government schools, the front offered to
take up government schools in a private-public partnership to improve
their quality. The front congratulated the students in general and private schools in particular for passing
the examination with flying colours.
“This is the day of immense happiness for us. The students of the last
academic session had suffered a lot
due to floods and it was their third
year in the same class,” said G N Var
president PSUF. “We congratulate
the students for working hard in trying times and proving their merit.”
The front announced a program
to facilitate all the toppers of class 10
and class 12 in the coming days.
“These students are extraordinary.
They deserve special thanks from us.
They suffered both physically and
psychologically during the floods
and yet they didn’t lose hope and
kept the candle of education burning,” said Var. “We are going to organize a grand function to felicitate
all the toppers of class 10 and 12. It is a
small gesture from the society to acknowledge their hardwork. This will
also inspire all other students too.
The date of the function will be announced soon.”
The front said that private
schools have again proven their
worth by leading from the front. “It
has now become a routine that private school students emerge as toppers and students of government
schools constitute majority of failures,” said Var. “This drags down
the entire result and same has happened this year too.” The front asked
government to come clean on the education policy regarding government schools. “In a society where
teachers are protesting on roads
what miracle can we expect from the
schools,” said Var. “It is not the fault
of poor students as they have become
causality of an inefficient system
which nobody is improving.” The
front reiterated their cooperation to
adopt government schools in public
private partnership. “We are ready
to help the government schools, but
it is the government which has to
take a final call. Unfortunately till
date they have not conveyed any response to long standing offer. Despite
the fact that the project will take minimal expenditure, yet they don’t
seem to be interested,” said Var.
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MEMBERS OF MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
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Smt. Neelam
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Sh. Beli Ram
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Business
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Secretary
Manager
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Teacher of
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Member
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Teacher of
School
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Sh. Ramesh
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Anju Devi
Monika Devi
SambalDanga
Sh. Shiv Ram
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Sh. Ram Parshad
10th
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Sarpanch
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hundred only) in favour of Garrison Engineer payable at Samba. Tender cost to be submitted separately for
each work.
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any circumstances. Only electronic offer bids shall be accepted. For detailed instructions please refer to
website. Tender information is also available in www.mes.gov.in.
2. Contractors not enlisted with MES will be required to enclose necessary documents to prove their eligibility
as given above including Affidavit for no recovery outstanding.
3. In case of rejection of tender, the contractor shall be refunded the cost of tender. However, contractor may
apply to next higher Engineer Authority i.e. HQ CWE Mamun for rejection of his tender whose decision shall
be final and binding and contractor shall not be entitled to any compensation what so ever for non issue of
tender.
4. The above details are also available on MES website : www.mes.gov.in. Full Notice of tender IAFW-2162
and Enlistment Criteria is available in all offices of MES and also on MES website.
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foundation of Shaheed Modi
Bhagat Amarnath statue Militants
Pledges support to cause of community
GOF Staff Reporter
Jammu, March 26:
Minister of State for Information, Education and Culture Priya Sethi
and Senior BJP leader Yudhvir Sethi today laid foundation of statue of
Shaheed Bhagat Amarnath at the park opposite Civil Secretariat, here. The
statue would be constructed in the memory of Bhagat Amarnath a martyr of
the Scheduled Caste community who laid down his life for the cause and welfare of the down trodden sections of the society. Pledging support to cause of
the community, Yudhvir said described Bhagat Amarnath as a towering
leader of the state who gave his life to that oppressed sections of society get
their due share and start living a life of dignity and honour. He said sacrifice
of such leaders should be remembered so that coming generations come to
know how much struggle has been done to ensure that down trodden sections of society get uplifted. “I assure full support to the cause and would extend personal support of all kinds for the installation of the Shaheedi
Samarak,” he reiterated. Expressing gratitude for fulfilling the long pending
demand of the community, Surinder Bhagat said Bhagat Amarnath was a
national leader who sacrificed his life for the community and since long people of the community wanted to install a statue in the memory of the great
leader. He thanked the Minister and Yudhvir Sethi for taking personal interest in the matter and informed that very soon the statue would be installed.
Among those who organised the event include, State President, BJP
Aunsuchit Jaati Morcha Surinder Bhagat, General Secretary Puran Chand,
Bachan Lal, Neeraj Jogi, Vice-President Sham Lal, Bansi Lal Chowdhary,
Mohan Lal Pawar, Tilak Raj and Sanjeev Manmotra.
therefore picked the “Deen Dyal Dham” to share
the one year achievements of his Government.
(AGENCIES)
Srinagar for treatment. One among the injured,
Mohammad Rafiq (26), a resident of Handwara area of
Kupwara district, succumbed to his injuries at the
Srinagar hospital.
The two injured, Ghulam Mohammad Bhat (40)
and Imtiyaz Ahmad Lone (30), both residents of
Sopore township, were being treated, the officer said.
This was the second terror attack in Sopore in
less than 48 hours. Earlier during the intervening
night of May 23 and 24, suspected ultras had hurled a
grenade at a residential compound where a mobile
transmission tower was installed.
Although officials were tight-lipped as to why the
militants were targeting telecom installations,
sources said the ultras were upset about “theft” of
their communication equipment from mobile transmission towers in Sopore and surrounding areas earlier this month.
The militants had allegedly installed communication equipment atop the towers of private and PSU
companies.
Later, police said the militant killed in the
Kulgam encounter was identified as Ataullah Bhat
alias ‘Khumani’ who was affiliated with Lashker-eToiba (LeT).
Bhat was a resident of Chinigam village of
Kulgam and was wanted in a number of militancy-related incidents, police said. Meanwhile, police in a
statement said district commander of LeT was killed
in an encounter in Yaripora area of South Kashmir’s
Kulgam District.
The militants fired upon an Army vehicle near
Kanjikula, Yaripora, this afternoon resulting in injuries to an Army Jawan. The injured was shifted to
the Base Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. Soon after the attack, the Army alongwith
Kulgam police launched a cordon and search operation in the Kanjikula village. During the search operation, the joint search party came under fire in an orchard, which was retaliated ensuing an encounter in
which a militant was killed.
The slain militant was later identified Ayatullah
Bhat alias Khoumaini alias Maaz who was functioning as District Commander of LeT. Khoumaini was
active since 2010 and was involved in various militant
activities including killing of Sarpanch Gul
Mohammad resident of Hawoora in 2012, killing and
snatching of weapons from police and CRPF in
Arwani and Awneera Shopian.
He was also involved in the killing of Zakir Syed
Bhat in Sangas, Kulgam.
Khomaini a close associate of Divisional
Commander LeT Abu Qasim was also instrumental
in recruiting many youth into militancy including
Abass Malla and Zubair Bhat.
We
The line that was agreed to by Britain and Tibet
as part of the 1914 Simla Accord is named after Sir
Henry McMahon, foreign secretary of the British-run
Government of India and the chief negotiator of settling disputes with China.
"We have got a very long border, we have got
3,488-km long border, a very difficult and mountainous terrain snow- clad... Now for the bilateral relations with China, border is the critical and vital issue," Doval said.
In a guarded response, Hua skirted Doval's assertion that China recognised the McMahon Line in the
case of Burma but not when it came to the Indian border.
She said, "It is not easy to resolve the China-India
boundary question, as it is an issue left over from history.”
The 18 rounds of Special Representative talks between India-China so far to resolve the dispute "made
important progress, laying a solid foundation for the
continuous and steady growth of China-India relations", she said.
"During Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's
recent visit to China, the two sides reaffirmed their
commitment to a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution to the boundary question by pressing ahead with the process of the special representatives' meeting," Hua said.
Status
periods without their involvement in any incident" (previously), he alleged.
"No such incident has occurred in the last one
year since Modi government has come," he added.
Akbar further alleged there had been days of harassment of people belonging to the minority community, vendetta and discrimination, which were like
an "epidemic" during the Congress rule and claimed
all these were over now.
"Our Prime Minister wants justice, economic
prosperity, education for the minorities. The Centre
has launched a special, innovative, technology-driven programme for weavers, of which a majority is
from the minority community," he added. PTI
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the Jammu and Kashmir. “Our party and our
cadres in Jammu and Kashmir are proud of
Narendra Modi’s performance,”he asserted.
Confirming her visit to Kashmir the Union
Minority Minister Najma Heptullah said that she is
attending many programs in the Kashmir valley to
celebrate the BJP’s one year in the government.
“There is clarity of direction in the government. A
very big change is that corruption has been replaced
by transparent governance,” Najma told KNS over
phone. She said that the Modi government has already decided to celebrate May 26 as the Jan Kalyan
Parva as part of the celebrations, functions will be
held in every city of the country including in Jammu
and Kashmir to mark the BJP government's one year
in office.
Meanwhile sources told KNS that the Party Chief
Amit Shah has clearly directed the BJP leaders to carry the message about the government's achievements
to the masses of Jammu and Kashmir. KNS
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HC stays shifting of Village from
Rajouri Tehsil to newly created
Tehsil Quila Darhal
Governor chairs 3rd Governing
Body meeting of UMIKS
Calls for making it a
reputed SAARC
institution
Jammu, May 25:
Srinagar, May 25:
Jamia Milia Islamia; Mr. P.K. Tripathi,
Principal Secretary to the Governor; Prof.
Gull Mohd. Wani, Director, UMIKS; Prof.
Zafar Ahmad, Registrar, Kashmir
University; Prof. Naseem Ahmad Shah,
Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, KU; Prof.
Ab. Rashid Malik, Department of
Kashmiri, KU; Prof. Satyabhama Razdan,
Department of Sanskrit, KU; Prof
Mujtabha Khan, Director, Academic Staff
College, Jamia Milia Islamia attended the
meeting.
The Board approved the joint award
of Masters Degree in “Kashmir and South
Asia Studies” by the Jamia Milia Islamia
and the University of Kashmir. Director
UMIKS informed that for the purpose of
working towards the joint award of the
aforesaid MA degree, the Institute has de-
veloped academic collaboration with certain centres of learning in the Jamia Milia
Islamia. The Board asked the ViceChancellor of Kashmir University to take
up with the State Government to ensure
that the MA degree to be awarded by the
UMIKS would be duly recognized for the
pass outs being considered for employment in the State Government and its various agencies. While reviewing the
progress achieved on redrafting the paper
on “Religions of South Asia”, for which an
academic arrangement has been arrived
at with JMI, the Governor pointed to the
high importance of such studies and
stressed that the outcomes of studies and
researches in this field are of vital current
and future relevance to countries of South
Asia. In this context he called upon both
the Vice-Chancellors to see that the researches in this arena are of the highest
academic excellence.
The Governor urged that all the
UMIKS students, both the SAARC scholars and local students, are properly counseled at the time of admission to the
Institute. He urged Chairman SAF to provide sustained fiscal and other support for
the balanced growth of the Institute.
Mani Shankar Aiyar, Chairman,
South Asia Foundation (India Chapter)
assured adequate financial and other required support to the UMIKS for undertaking its activities. He assured the
Chancellor that the issue of visa extension
of the foreign students at UMIKS shall be
taken up with the concerned authorities
in the Central Government.
In a petition filed by inhabitants of village Bagla from Tehsil
Rajouri to newly created Tehsil
Quila Darhal, Justice Bansi Lal
Bhat of J&K High Court Jammu
Wing after hearing Adv Vikram
Sharma appearing for the petiissued
notice
to
tioners
Commissioner Secretary to
Government, Department of
Rural
Development
and
Panchyati Raj , Commissioner
Secreatry Revenue and Dewputy
Commissioner Rajouri
returnable within
four weeks.
Justice BL Bhat
after hearing Adv
Vikram Sharma
observed that it is
contended by that
Village Bagla was
originially included in Block
Doongi of Tehsil Rajouri but in
terms of SRO 488 delinked from
Block Doongi and included in
newly created Tehsil Quila
Drahal.
In the petition it has been
further submitted that (ii)
That a bare perusal of the map of
Tehsil Rajouri would show that
the road distance between Bagla
and Quila Darhal is 60 kms
(Approx.), and has to be travelled
through the villages of AgratKallar –Chatyari – Chingus –
Batta - Rajpur upto Quila.
Similarly, the road distance between Bagla and Quila is 50 km
(Approx.), if travelled through
the other route passing through
villages Pir Badesar- ThandiKassi- Challan- Pukharni- Laam
upto Quila. As compared to this,
Abetment to Suicide case
Omar concerned about
incidents of Pak flag waving
New Delhi, May 25:
Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
has attacked the PDP-BJP coalition in
Jammu and Kashmir expressing concern
over the "regularity" with which Pakistani
flag was being waved at separatist rallies
and the "few nasty scraps" between the two
parties which does not augur well.
He describes the over two-month-old alliance between the two parties as "extremely
uneasy" and says the gap between PDP and
BJP on political positions will become
"more glaring".
"No, I don't think that things are as bad
as that. We learnt some costly but very valuable lessons in 2010. Therefore, I don't perceive a summer of discomfort but it's not a
comfortable situation where you have this
sort of regularity with which Pakistani flags
are being displayed," Omar told PTI here.
"When these flags are waved, you end
up with statements where BJP starts targeting the PDP and then the Chief Minister has
to react and it is seen to have to react on the
directions of the central government or the
BJP....so this sort of regular display of
Pakistani flags is troubling the state govern-
ment and making difficult the life of the
coalition and the understanding between
the BJP and the PDP," he said.
The former Chief Minister said such a
situation had obtained in the state because
Sayeed government had "exposed its weak
flanks". He also took a dig at the government
over its stand on separatist leadership.
Omar disagreed with Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley's description of the PDP-BJP
alliance as an infliction of the verdict of the
Assembly polls and said "it was stretching a
bit further".
"As far as serving the national interest
is concerned, I would hold judgement on
that because I am concerned with the regularity with which now Pakistani flag has
started to unfurl in Srinagar," he said.
The former Chief Minister said Jaitley
has to justify this coalition because it is just
less than three months old and he cannot attack it. The PDP-BJP coalition was one of the
four possibilities, he added.
Omar said he was not claiming that
waving of Pakistani flag did not happen during his government but "the frequency with
which it is happening now is something that
we should not ignore". PTI
HC dismissed
Petition seeking
dismissal of bail
granting by Trial
Court
Jammu, May 25:
Students celeberate their success at a school after CBSE announced its 12th class results in New Delhi.
BJP Cannot Abrogate Article 370 Even With 2/3 Majority: Cong
Srinagar, May 25:
Congress today charged BJP
with misleading people of the country
by promising abrogation of Article
370, which gives special status to
Jammu and Kashmir, saying it was
possible
to
repeal
the
not
Constitutional provision even if BJP
gets
two-third
majority
in
Parliament.
"Just like Ram Temple, BJP is befooling the people of this country on
the issue of Article 370. Article 370 is
the binding force between India and
Jammu and Kashmir; it is a commit-
ment that was signed between the
Maharaja and the Indian government
of that time," Congress spokesman
Meem Afzal told reporters here today.
He said that the abrogation of
Article 370 was impossible and BJP
would not be able to do it even if it secures two third majority in
Parliament. BJP spokesman Sambit
Patra had yesterday said that the issue of the abrogation of Article 370
continued to be part of the core ideology of BJP and the party would work towards its removal once it gets two
third of majority in Parliament.
"They will never get two third
majority and even if they do they cannot be able to abrogate it. BJP sacrificed all its ideology and sat in the laps
of PDP just to be in the power.
"The party which once accused
PDP of being sympathetic towards
separatists has now joined hands
with the same party to enjoy power,"
Afzal said. The former MP also said
that Hurriyat Conference should
fight elections to prove its relevance
in Kashmir. He said that dialogue in
Kashmir can only be held with the
elected representatives of the people
and Hurriyat Conference does not
have a representative character.
"The recent polls in Jammu and
Kashmir have proved that more than
95 per cent people in the state follow
the democratic process, if Hurriyat
wants to hold talks it should first fight
elections and prove its representative
character," he said.
Accusing the Narendra Modi-led
government of being soft on terrorism
and cross-border aggression, Afzal
said in the past one year there have
been more than 746 ceasefire violations which was several times more
than the number of such violations
during UPA tenure. "Where has the
56-inch chest gone, every day we see
that a Pakistani flag is being hoisted
in the Kashmir Valley, separatists are
having a field day and terrorist activities have increased, this government
has shown a weak-kneed approach towards terrorism," he said.
Afzal accused the Modi-led government of "diluting" the constitutional institutions like CVC, Lok Pal
and RTI and said that if more teeth
were given to such institutions "much
bigger scams" would surface.
"BJP government has diluted
these institutions, we pray that there
is no corruption but if these institutions get more teeth then much bigger
scandals would surface. The Congress
gave laws like RTI which have empowered the people to expose corruption," he said.
He said that during the last two
years of the UPA government at the
Centre "some corruption cases" did
surface but the people involved were
punished as per the law. Targeting
Prime Minister Narendra Modi for
wearing "a ten lakh rupees" suit during the visit of US President Barack
Obama to India, Afzal said, "The country gave a tea seller a chance to be the
prime minister of the country as they
expected him to work, but he is taking
pride in wearing a ten lakh worth of
suit," he said.
Guv, CM greet people on Kheer Bhawani Mela
Srinagar, May 25:
N N Vohra, Governor, has felicitated the people on the eve of
Khirbhawani Mela. In his message of greetings, the Governor observed that this Festival is a shining example of communal harmony
and brotherhood, which are the hallmark of the glorious pluralistic
ethos of Jammu and Kashmir in the centuries past. The Governor, on
the occasion, prayed for peace, harmony, progress and prosperity in
the State. Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, has extended
warm greetings to the people, particularly Kashmiri Pandit community, on the eve of Mela Kheer Bhawani. In his message of felicitation,
the Chief Minister prayed for peace and prosperity of the people of the
State and the country. He wished the day to be harbinger of happiness
and development in the State. Emphasizing upon the significance of
Mela Kheer Bhawani in the multi-religious ethos of the State, Mufti
Sayeed said that the celebration of the Mela has been an epitome of
harmony and brotherhood since ages.
Class 10th result of Jammu Division declared
Jammu, May 25:
Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) has
declared the results of class 10 examination (Jammu Division) in
which the top positions has been bagged by girl.
A total of 51442 students had appeared in the examination and result have 62.27 passing percentage Pratiksha of B V M High School
Ramnagar bagged first position with 98.40% (492 marks out of 500)
while second position shared by Kiranpreet Kour of Caramel Convent
High School Kunjwani Jammu, Nitin Pandita of S L Mem Model H S
Santra Morh Anand Nagar, Avantika Jamwal of Little Flower
Convent High School Udhampur who secured 491 marks (98.20%).
While Deepanshu Sharma of ST Mary Convent School Smailpur
bagged third position secured 490 marks (98.00%). However, 360 students shared top 20 positions in Class 10th.
Parliament Panel Urges Government to Provide Financial Assistance to JK
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SRINAGAR, May 25:
Criticising the Union and the
Jammu and Kashmir governments for
"inadequate" relief to the last year's flood
victims, a Parliamentary committee today said the Centre should give liberal financial assistance to the state to compensate the people. "We have discussed a
number of issues, particularly the issue
of relief of the people affected by the last
year's floods. I must say that while the
state government has informed us that it
has done its best with the resources at its
command, my own view, and that is the
view of the members of the committee also, is that a lot more is required to be
done.
"The relief and compensation given
so far is totally unacceptable, inadequate and it does not constitute the reasonable compensation... I and the committee are of the view that it is not
enough," head of the 16- member
Parliamentary Standing Committee on
Science and Technology, Environment
and Forests, Ashwani Kumar, told reporters here. Kumar said the central
government should give liberal financial assistance as per the plans submitted by the state government to the Union
government. "In our report, we intend to
make a strong case for liberal financial
assistance to the state of Jammu and
Kashmir for the purpose of relief and rehabilitation and compensation to the
commercial establishments and also for
reconstruction of the houses.
"There has been a suggestion that
the business community, in order to
kick-start their business, could be given
loans on easy interest rates. This, I be-
the distance between village
Bagla and Rajouri City in Tehsil
Rajouri is hardly 25 km
(Approx.) from village Bagla.
The huge distance which the villagers of village Bagla would
have to cover to reach to Quila
Darhal itself makes the decision
of respondents impugned herein
apparently unjust and opposed
to the interests of the villagers.
The shifting / retention of villages in the newly created
Blocks / Tehsils, it is
submitted, was
mooted with
an idea to
facilitate
redressal
vilof
lagers’
grievances at a nearby located Tehsil rather than
making it virtually impossible
to seek such redressal by shifting
village in the jurisdiction of a faroff Block / Tehsil.
Justice Bansi Lal Bhat after
hearing Adv Vikram Sharma in
length observed that subject to
objections from other side and
till next date of hearing, shifting
of Bagla from its original Tehsil
Rajouri to newly created Tehsil
Quila Drahal shall stayed. JNF
lieve could be easily possible," he said.
Kumar also questioned the lack of
political will of the state government to
address certain issues.
"We also believe that there are other
certain critical areas of governance in
which the question is not of the lack of resources, but about the lack of political
and administrative will. For example,
the master plan of Srinagar is not being
complied with. Haphazard constructions are the order of the day, the pollution of the water bodies, including Dal,
Nigeen and Wullar continues unabated,"
he said. The parliamentary committee
also criticised the state government over
massive deforestration and encroachments of the forests.
"The other issue that we feel deserves immediate attention is deforestation. This is a reality (that) there is a
large scale deforestation going on and
the compensatory afforestation has not
kept pace. We have given specific examples in Ramban area of the scale at which
the encroachments have taken place.
"And the state government has confirmed that 13,300 hectares of land has
been encroached upon in the state," he
said. Kumar said the state government
had informed the committee that they
have succeeded in reclaiming some part
of the encroached land.
"That however is very minimum. I
have asked them to give within one week
an action plan on how they would prevent further encroachments," he said.
He said the solid waste management
in Srinagar and Jammu cities was an issue. "The discharge of sewage continues
unabated into the lakes. Large scale constructions that block the water in chan-
nels is an issue. They (government) said
they have given a plan to have another
flood channel, but that is a long-term
plan. I have insisted for short-term measures which are absolutely imperative
and cannot wait any longer. The de-silting and dredging of Jhelum has to continue on a war-footing," he said.
He said the committee would submit its report to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi for his immediate personal intervention.
"We plan to submit our report within four weeks of our visit. We will send
this report to Prime Minister for his immediate personal intervention. We believe that the state of Jammu and
Kashmir, because of its unique geographical position, the political situation and its state of economic development, needs massive dose of financial assistance by the central government and
the sooner that happens the better it
would be," Kumar said.
On the delay in sanctioning relief
package, Kumar said "I cannot pass a
judgment. The state government itself
informed us that it took two months for
them to form the government. Then immediately they went into their own
budget session and they had to take time
to formulate their own demands".
In a petition filed by Prabhat Singh the father of the deceased, by seeking cancelation of
bail to respondents by Magistrate in abetment
to Suicide case. According to case 1. One
Mohan Singh Salathia is said to have committed suicide by hanging himself to death on
14.09.2014. After inquest proceedings under section 174 Cr.P.C. Police Station Domana registered offence under section 306 RPC as FIR No.
366/14 against respondent- 2 to 4 and took up the
investigation. All the respondents were arrested on 04.10.2014. On the same day, however, application for bail on their behalf was filed in the
Court of Judicial Magistrate
(SubRegistrar), Jammu and the learned Magistrate
ordered their release on interim bail. State filed
objections to the application and also provided
detailed report about the incident to the
Magistrate and the Magistrate vide order
passed on 20.10.2014 confirmed the interim bail
with a direction that respondents shall not
tamper/ hamper the investigation or try to win
over prosecution witnesses and shall assist the
I.O in the investigation. The same was challenged in the High Court . Justice Janak Raj
Kotwal of J&K High Court Jammu Wing after
hearing Sr. Adv BS Salathia for the petitioner
whereas Adv Asee Sawheny for the private respondents observed that A ground for cancellation of Bail granted to respondent certainly is
not made out and it can be said that no such
ground even has been alleged. To say that one of
the respondents being a judicial employee is influencing investigation, without explaining in
what manner and how she exercised her influence, is too scanty to make out a ground for cancellation bail. Such a ground or any other
ground sufficient to seek cancellation of the
bail can well be raised by the investigating officer of the case. No case for cancellation of the
bail, therefore, is made out. Court further observed that in regard to the legality and correctness of granting bail at initial stage, this Court
having regard to the nature of allegations, am
not persuaded to take a view that granting of
bail was improper exercise of discretion by the
learned Magistrate or that bail was against general public interest. Given the nature of allegations, ends of justice would be served by properly investigating the case and arriving at a wellconsidered conclusion by the investigating officer and not by keeping the respondents in custody during investigation. With these observations Court dismissed the petition. JNF
DB held downgrading of ACR of an employee
is illegal and cannot be acted upon
Jammu, May 25:
A Division Bench of State High Court Comprising Justice
Mohammad Yaqoob Mir and Justice BS Walia after hearing Sr. Adv
SS Lehar with Advs Meharban Singh and Aditya Sharma in a landmark judgment while allowing a petition filed by Ramesh Tiwari and
Ors, held that downgrading of ACR (Annual Confidential Report) of
an employee from Good to Average that too without giving any reason is illegal and such ACR cannot be acted upon. This landmark
judgment has been passed in a petition challenging the order of
Central Administrative Tribunal on the ground that the Central
Administrative Tribunal instead of deciding the matter itself, directed the petitioner to file a representation. According to the case of the
petitioner was that Reporting Officer has reported Good grading for
the year 2002, 2003 and 2004 but the reviewing officer, while agreeing
with the remarks of reporting officer reviewed the same to be
Average but never communicate to the petitioner. Sr. Adv SS Lehar
assisted by Advocates Advs Meharban Singh and Aditya Sharma
submitted before the Court that the petitioner, whoc was working as
Marketing Officer was given the benefit of ACP with effect from
August 28, 2005 but he could not be given the same as his ACRs were
reduced from Good to Average without assigning any reason. He further submitted that this was done t the back of the petitioner who was
not given any opportunity of being heard. According to the ACP
scheme, the employee must have three Good ACRs in the five preceding years and these two ACRs were reduced from Good to Average, so
they have toe be treated as Good and the petitioner has to be given
benefit of ACP. Division Bench while allowing the petition held that
downgrading of ACRs, that too after agreeing with the report of reporting officer, is illegal and such ACRs cannot be acted upon and
Division Bench further directed that such ACRs are treated to be
Good and the petitioner is entitled for all the benefits including the arrears and other consequential benefits. JNF
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N N Vohra, Governor, emphasized
the need for making the UNESCO
Madanjit Singh Institute of Kashmir
Studies (UMIKS) a reputed SAARC institution which serves the unique objectives
of this vibrant centre of excellence by undertaking quality teaching and research
on social, cultural, historical, governance
and other areas, viewing the same, in the
historical, contemporary and future context. The Governor, who is the Chancellor
of the Kashmir University and Chairman
of the Governing Board of the Institute,
was chairing the 3rd Governing Body
Meeting of the UMIKS at Raj Bhavan here
today. The Meeting reviewed the
Institute’s functioning in the past year
and discussed its activities which are
planned during 2015-16.
Amb.(rtd) Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar,
Chairperson, South Asia Foundation
(SAF); Amb. (rtd.) Veena Sikri, Vice
Chairperson, SAF; Mr. P.K. Prabhakaran,
CEO, SAF; Prof. K.I. Andrabi, Vice
Chancellor, Kashmir University (KU);
Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor,
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