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RNI NO. JKENG/2006/16811
A Constructive Force In The Community
Vol. 10 Issue No: 128
Jammu, Saturday 30, May 2015
Pages 8
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BJP, the most treacherous party: Chuni
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
“Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) the
most treacherous party that kept
aside all its ideology, principles
and values only for its lust to
enjoy power” Rajiv Chuni,
Chairman S. O. S International An organization for PoK
Displaced Persons stated this
while addressing a press conference in Jammu. “During one year
of its rule in centre, BJP has totally sidelined the issue of PoK
Displaced Persons who have
been waiting for the package for
the last 68 years. Although, BJP
has given the assurance of resolving the issues/problems of PoK
DPs and it has mentioned it in
their manifesto and if BJP has
forgotten it then it must read its
manifesto to prove if our allegations are wrong” Chuni stated.
S. O. S International Chairman
further stated that PoK DPs voted
BJP candidates wholeheartedly
during 2014 general elections
with a ray of hope and looking at
the commitment of BJP to
resolve their long pending
demands since 1947 as it was
mentioned in the BJP’s national
manifesto; PoK DPs not only
extended their overall support to
BJP but also played a concrete
role in their win in general elections. He further said that PoK
DPs community used their franchise with high morale and with
great expectation as he appealed
the community to extend their
full support to BJP. “Two sessions of parliament were held
since BJP took the reins of nation
but both BJP MPs i.e. Jugal
Kishore Sharma, MP JammuPoonch Lok Sabha seat and Dr.
Jitendra Singh, MP Udhampur Doda Lok Sabha seat has never
raised/mentioned the issues of
PoK DPs in parliament, forum or
any public arena as per BJP’s
promise which it was made during elections. BJP government in
centre has been enjoying power
for one year and nothing has been
done on ground, even though
BJP MPs intention of not presenting PoK DPs issues at any
public arena has brought BJP
under scanner” Chuni alleged.
He further said that during elections, both MPs used to appease
PoK DPs and showed castles to
deprived community and after
winning elections, why did they
turn Nelson’s eye towards PoK
PC on environment discusses
core issues with stakeholders
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
The
Parliamentary
Standing Committee on
Science and Technology,
Environment and Forests
held a meeting with the
officers, representatives of
civil society and NGOs
here at Jammu today to
deliberate upon core environmental issues.
Chairman
of
the
Committee, Mr. Ashwani
Kumar and the members
held threadbare discus-
DPs? “Why have they kept criminal silence for the last one
year?” he asked.
While making BJP remembering, Chuni said that S. O. S
International has fought a long
battle for the resolution of PoK
DPs issues and only then erstwhile government of NC-
Congress after the spam of 67
years passed the proposal in this
matter and sent it to centre for
approval but it’s very unfortunate
that Modi government and both
BJP MPs has not given any
momentum to the genuine
demands of PoK DPs but on the
contrary it was put in cold bag-
gage. S. O. S International
Chairman further stated that
Prime Minister, Narinder Modi
raised slogans of “Sabka Sath,
Sabka Vikas” and “Ache Din
Aane Wale Hai” but it has been
proved just a farce and if BJP
looks and observes on both slogans of Modi then it will find
Asks them to support business activity in J&K
Cont. on P-6
Stage set for “Pedal for Kashmir” on May 31
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
More than 2000 participants from across the J&K
State including 1050 participants from JK Cycling
Association
and
50
International,
National
players from other States of
the Country have expressed
their interest to participate
in the cycling event being
held on May 31. Four participants who have recently
attended Common Wealth
Games are also participating in this event.
Cont. on P-6
further said that Modi government
has brought several schemes for
the Valley migrants for their return
which cost in billions. Chuni stated
that in spite of knowing the fact
that Kashmir is in India and it has
democratically elected government, adding that thousands of
Kashmiri Pandits are doing businesses, jobs without any fear moreover they are residing there in
peaceful manner. “What is the constraint of bringing schemes worth
billions for the community (KPs)
for their return to valley whose
thousands of people are already
residing there peacefully on their
own sweet will”? Chuni asked. He
stated that it is exceptionally hard
to understand for him that new
schemes are being made for their
return to Valley even after knowing
that they are being given bundles
of money for living outside the
Valley. “It seems that Central
Government’s and its bureaucrats’
ability to think has gone out of
order that is why they are simultaneously showering billions of public money for return of KPs to
Kashmir Valley as well as to keep
them out of Valley”, Chuni alleged.
Cont. on P-6
Several deputations call on CM RBI Governor interacts with J&K Bankers
sions with the stakeholders
on the issues pertaining to
environmental degradation
and the steps afoot to preserve the fragile ecology of
the region.
While responding to the
issues highlighted by the
participants, the committee
members stressed that the
need of the hour is to think
ahead of time to achieve
sustainable developmental
goals. They stressed on
taking up afforestation
More than 2 thousand cyclists
expected to join the event: Sahai
none of the slogans have been
executed for PoK DPs. “BJP
should ashamed of itself of conceitedly briefing its one year’s
achievement but on the contrary,
the truth is totally dissimilar.
“BJP witnessed unprecedented
success in Jammu province in
general elections by winning 2
seats and winning 25 seats in
Legislative Assembly in which
PoK DPs played a constructive
role where BJP has never opened
its account in Kashmir Province
even though security deposit of
BJP candidates were forfeited but
BJP has briskly insulted PoK
DPs mandate. Chuni further said
that since BJP came into power
has given various relief packages
to Kashmiri Pandits for more
than 12 times in a year and on the
other hand, PoK DPs have been
given only fake assurances for
the last one year. “It is very sad
those who boycotted BJP in elections are given affectionate treatment and all the policies are
made for them but those who
supported BJP wholeheartedly
are being deprived from everything which is totally unacceptable to PoK DPs” Chuni alleged.
S. O. S. International Chairman
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
Chief Minister, Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed, met
several deputations here
today. A delegation of
media-persons
from
Chhattisgarh, which is on a
study tour to J&K, also
called on the Chief Minister.
Led by Mr. Mohan Rao,
Chairperson, Press Gallery
Committee, Chhattisgarh,
the delegation informed
Mufti Sayeed that during
their visit to J&K, they are
looking forward to get firsthand experience on how legislative business is conducted and covered in the State.
The team of journalists has
already visited Himachal
Pradesh.
A deputation of Islamia
College
Teachers
Association (ICTA), led by
its President Prof. Abdul
Majeed, highlighted the
issues confronting the col-
lege, in particular, its teaching and non-teaching staff.
The
Chief
Minister
informed the delegation that
he will soon convene a
meeting of the Governing
Board of the College to
resolve the issues raised by
the Association.
A deputation of Hari Singh
High
Street
Traders'
Association also met Mufti
Sayeed and requested for
proper rehabilitation of
Municipal
Building
Shopkeepers, who have been
relocated due to Jahangir
Chowk-Ram Bagh Flyover.
The
Chief
Minister
assured the delegation that
he will get their representation examined for necessary
action. In his meeting with a
delegation of Wings and
Shalimar Exhibition, led by
Akeel Hassan, the Chief
Minister issued directions to
Deputy
Commissioner,
Srinagar, to examine their
representation for appropriate action.
Another delegation of
Salamabad-Chakoti Traders’
Union, led by its President
Tariq Ahmad Khan, met the
Chief Minister and requested for promotion of crossLoC trade by inclusion of
more items.
Mufti Sayeed assured the
delegation that he will
review cross-LoC trade so
that it is made vibrant. He
said inclusion of banking
and telecom facilities, people-to-people contact and
introduction of luxury
coaches will be taken up to
facilitate the trade and people-to-people contact across
the LoC.
A team from HDFC Bank,
including Ravi Narayanan,
Senior Executive Vice
President, Head Branch
Banking West, and Zubair
Iqbal, Circle / State Head,
Cont. on P-6
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
Governor, Reserve Bank
of India (RBI), Mr.
Raghuram Rajan Friday
asked Banks in J&K to create an environment for
stronger business activity
especially following devastating floods that damaged the economic pursuit
of the people. He said concerted efforts are needed to
enhance the Credit Deposit
Ratio (CDR) in the State
and in this regard asked the
Regional Director, RBI,
Mr. D. Sethy to take up
with the banks the issue of
low CDR.
He said it is extremely
important that financial
sector succeeds in helping
the business activity in
J&K and assured that RBI
will certainly help in facilitating the process of
spread of credit and financial services.
Mr. Rajan said that there is
immense potential and
scope in J&K tourism and
it requires a big push which
is only possible with the
support of the Union
Government.
Earlier, the Regional
Director RBI, Mr. D.
Sethy, while welcoming
the RBI Governor, said that
J&K needs more such visits of the top management
of RBI.
Chairman J&K Bank, Mr.
Mushtaq Ahmed on the
occasion said that J&K
Cont. on P-6
Academic excellence with extra co-curricular
activities need for hour: Priya Sethi
Inspects various educational institutions of Anantnag
RM NEWS SERVICE
ANANTNAG, MAY 29:
Upliftment of academic
standards with extra cocurricular activities are on
priority of the present
Government.
This was stated by
Minister of State for
Education and Information
Smt. Priya Sethi while
inspecting various educational institutions of
District Anantnag. She was
accompanied by District
D e v e l o p m e n t
Commissioner Anantnag,
Director School Education
Kashmir, besides other
concerned officers.
Priya Sethi visited Govt.
Cont. on P-6
Asiya Naqash visits CHCs, PHCs Drabu for providing incentives for revival of economy
Rajan assures of looking into suggestions put forth by Govt
Directs round the clock operationalization of PHC SafaPora
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
Minister of State for Health
and Social Welfare Ms.
Asiya Naqash today visited
community
Health
Centres, Primary Health
Centres
of
Sumbal,
Sonawari, Hajan SafaPora,
Naidkhai and Trigam areas
and reviewed their functioning.
The Minister took
stock of the medical facility being provided to the
patients at these centres
and
interacted
with
patients and their attendants. She also inspected
wards, labs, OPD and other
Medicare units.
Ms Asiya Naqash
interacted with ASHA and
Anganwari workers during
her visit and highlighted
the importance of mother
and child care. She said
that
ASHA
and
Anganwari workers have
to play important role in
creating awareness among
the people about the Health
Care facilities available
under different schemes
Cont. on P-6
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
Calling for the need of providing incentives for promotion of
entrepreneurial spirit and revival
of the flood ravaged economy of
the State, Minister for Finance,
Labour, Employment and Culture,
Dr. Haseeb A Drabu said that such
efforts would give an impetus to
the economy of the State.
The Minister was speaking at
an interactive programme organized for the Governor of Reserve
Bank of India, Dr. Raghuram
Rajan.
Chief Secretary, Mr. Iqbal
Khandey,
Financial
Commissioner, Industries and
Commerce, Mr. Khurshid Ahmed
Ganai, Principal Secretary to Chief
Minister, Mr. B. B. Vyas and
Administrative Secretaries of different departments were also present. Dr. Drabu while pitching for
declaring all the lending in J&K as
priority sector lending for one year
said that financial debt relief in the
form of waivers/write offs should
qualify as CSR expenditure. He
further added that Ministry of
Finance be requested to subsidize
rate of interest on all rehabilitation
and reconstruction lending of
Commercial Banks.
“Specific relief package be
given for existing KCC barrows,
one time waiver of Rs. One lakh
would benefit 8 lakh farmer family
and all farm lending be converted
into KCC lending, same to be done
for ACC lending”, Dr. Drabu
added.
The Minister said that there is a
need to move away from asset
based or financial statement based
lending and called for putting in
place a mechanism by which banks
can lower the rate of interest on the
Cont. on P-6
(PAGE 2)
SATURDAY 30, MAY 2015
Avoid these heartburn triggers
A
lso known as
chronic
acid
reflux, or gastroesophageal reflux
disease, heartburn can
lead to serious complications.
Even though heartburn
is caused by reflux of
gastric acid in the food
pipe, if a person has
symptoms of heartburn
for the first time it may
be difficult to distinguish it from pain of
cardiac origin, because
that pain can sometimes mimic heartburn;
and
vice
versa.
Therefore, it is not
advisable to take new
heartburn lightly as it
may require immediate
medical consultation.
Here are the top 5
heartburn
triggers,
which one must consider.
Heartburn
and
Smoking. As if there
were not enough reasons to quit smoking
already; smoking is one
of the main causes of
heartburn
too.
Smoking can weaken
the valve between the
stomach and esophagus, making the fatdigesting bile salts to
go to the small intestine, thus leading to
heartburn.
Large meals, fatty
foods and heartburn. A
giant greasy pizza
along with a tall glass
of iced coke might
sound like an ideal
meal on a Friday night,
but watch out; this can
be one of the main reasons why you might
suffer from heartburn.
Right after eating a
meal full of calories,
one may suffer from
stomach
stretching.
This basically happens
D
Shraddha Kapoor
goes house hunting
he actress has been wanting to buy a house
of her own to have her own space. For the
same, even in the midst of her busy schedule
promoting her upcoming film and prepping for
her next, the actress has taken some time out and
has been checking out apartments. The actress is
looking for these apartments not very far from
where her parents live; so somewhere in Bandra
or Juhu. There are few things that she has in
mind for her apartment. Infact she has also liked
a few apartments but is yet to zero down on the
best one.
Shraddha shares, "Yes, I have been hunting for
an apartment, not very far away from where my
parents live. I have shortlisted a few. Mom and
dad are helping me finalize."
T
when the LES, the ring
of the muscle that
keeps the stomach
acids from flowing in
the unwanted direction
stretches - acting as
one of the main trigger
of heartburn symptom.
Heartburn and exercise. If you suffer from
heartburn, then exercises such as crunches
and extreme ab exercises can put extra pressure on the abdomen,
pushing the stomach
acids back into the
esophagus. This leads
to heartburn giving a
feeling of burn. Also
avoid exercise related
to certain positions
such as headstands
and yoga moves reversing the natural flow of
stomach, thus leading
to heartburn. Also if
you are a heartburn
victim, never exercise
on an empty stomach
and wait for two hours
after eating and before
working out.
Heartburn and medications. At times,
many medications can
also lead to heartburn.
A regular use of medicines like aspirin and
nonsteroidal
antiinflammatory
drugs
(NSAIDs may play a
havoc on oesophagus.
NSAIDs,
such
as
ibuprofen, naproxen,
and prescription Cox-2
inhibitors such as
Celebrex can lead to
heartburn. Thus, it is a
must to take these
medications, with due
permission from your
doctor.
Quick ways to prevent heartburn: Some
of the quick ways to
prevent heartburn are:
Don't wear belts or
clothes that are tight
fitting around the
waist.
Make sure your bed
clothes are loose-fitting. Eat smaller, more
frequent meals.
Sleep on your left
side. Studies have
shown that this position aids digestion and
helps with the removal
of
stomach
acid.
Sleeping on the right
side has been shown to
worsen heartburn.
Sonakshi to follow
Shraddha and Priyanka
a b a n g g "
a c t r e s s
Sonakshi
Sinha, who will soon be
seen as a judge in
"Indian Idol Junior",
will entertain the audience in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia with her voice
and sing live at the
16th edition of the
three-day International
Indian Film Academy
(IIFA) Weekend and
Awards in June.
Hosted by actors
Ayushmann Khurrana
JAMMU
and Parineeti Chopra,
IIFA Rocks, an exclusive music extravaganza, will see a host of
musical performances
by Shankar-EhsaanLoy,
Mika,
Ankit
Tiwari, Kanika Kapoor,
Javed Ali and the
Nooran
sisters.
Sonakshi will also exercise her vocal chords at
IIFA Rocks on June 5.
"There will be some
exciting first-ever at
the IIFA Weekend and
Awards.
Sonakshi
Sinha is going to take
the stage as a singer at
IIFA Rocks," Sabbas
Joseph,
director,
Wizcraft International
Entertainment,
the
organisers of IIFA, told
IANS over phone from
Mumbai.
Actresses
Jacqueline Fernandez,
Aditi Rao Hydari, Lisa
Haydon and Lauren
Gottlieb will also perform at IIFA Rocks.
Joseph shared that
Sonakshi will perform
on the awards night
June 7 as well.
"On the awards
night, we will see performances by Hrithik
Roshan,
Anushka
Sharma,
Priyanka
Chopra,
Farhan
Akhtar,
Parineeti
Chopra,
Shraddha
Kapoor, Sonakshi and
Shahid Kapoor. It will
be larger than life, big
and spectacular," he
said.
Established in 2000,
the
International
Indian Film Academy
was initiated with the
aim of celebrating
Indian cinema across
the world.
Tobacco set to kill
8.4 million people in
2022
R
ise in tobacco use will lead to death of 8.4
million people across the globe by 2020 and
at least 70 percent of these will occur in the
developing countries, health experts said here on
Thursday.
Pointing out that tobacco-related diseases were
the single most important cause of preventable
deaths in the world, they said there has been a
rise of 20 percent of women smokers due to
lifestyle changes.
"In all 50 percent of the cancers in India are
directly or indirectly related to tobacco consumption," said Sudhir Khandelwal, head of psychiatric department of All India Institute of Medical
Sciences (AIIMS).
Khandelwal, also the chief of National Drug
Dependence Treatment Centre at AIIMS, said:
"There are several myths because of which people
start consuming tobacco and slowly get addicted
to it ending up ruining their life."
Noting several myths as the prime reason
behind youngsters picking-up smoking or consumption of tobacco in other forms, Khandelwal
said many people were under the wrong perception that consuming less amount of tobacco would
not cause any damage.
"Every form of tobacco consumption such as
hukka, inhaling and the pan causes the same
damage that chewing tobacco does. Slowly and
slowly there comes a time when people get addicted to it," he said, adding that the youth consuming tobacco in any indirect form was more likely to
get into active consumption of tobacco with time.
The Global Youth Tobacco Survey stated that
in India the percentage of students who initiated
bidi smoking before 10 years of age has increased
from 26 percent to 45 percent. Donali Jhanjee,
additional professor of the psychiatric department, said the disturbing trend as earlier age of
initiation leads to higher chances of getting
addicted to tobacco and greater health damage in
the longer term. She also said India currently has
275 million of tobacco users and its consumption
is responsible for half of all the cancers in men
and a quarter of all cancers in women. "India also
has one of the highest rates of oral cancer in the
world, partly attributed to high prevalence of
tobacco chewing. It is also associated with more
common dental ailments such as dental caries,
periodontal disease and tooth loss," Jhanjee told
IANS. She added that the tobacco addiction was
now recognised as a chronic medical illness on the
same lines as hypertension and asthma.
"Treatment in the form of both medicines and
counselling is available to treat tobacco use and a
psychiatrist may be approached for the same in
both government or private setting," she said.
Wednesday,
and
wrote:
"Thanking
sharukh n amir for
the
1st look
of
bajrangi bhaijaan. V
touched n extremely
happy. God's give
them n thr fans all
the happiness."
The first look of
"Bajrangi Bhaijaan"
focusses on only a
peek-a-boo
into
Salman's look. One
can make out that he
sports a rugged and
intense look with a
stubble. But it's a silver locket dangling
from his neck that
has grabbed all the
attention.
f you are consuming more than five espressos
worth of caffeine every day, you are putting
your health a risk.
According to the European Food Safety Authority,
excess caffeine consumption could cause problems
like increased heart rate, higher blood pressure,
irregular heartbeat, tremors, nervousness, insomnia and panic attacks, reported the BBC.
As per the report, if healthy adults were 400mg a
day, they were still in the safe zone with no health
consequences. For pregnant women, the limit is
200mg a day due to the impact on the growing foetus, while in kids 3mg per day for every kilogram
the child weighs was been recommended.
is that, Pradeep Gharat was
appointed as public prosecu-
tor at a fee of Rs 6000 per
hearing. However, on May
6, 2015 the session court
found Salman Khan guilty
and sentenced him to five
years of jail, convicted under
all charges including under
Section 304 A of the Indian
Penal Code (rash and negligent driving); 279 (rash driving); 337 (causing minor
injuries); 338 (causing major
injuries) 427 (negligence) in
connection with the case.
But the sentence was suspended by the High Court
and he was granted bail in
cash of Rs 30,000.
The final appeal would be
heard in the month of July
2015.
Meantime,Salman
Khan has been given permission by the court to travel
abroad.
The 49-year-old also
shared that the teaser of his much anticipated film would be
releasing
on
Thursday night.
"Bajrangi Bhaijaan
ka namaste, aapko!
# BB Tea s e rTo nig ht
@BBThisEid,"
he
tweeted.
Directed by Kabir
Khan,
"Bajrangi
Bhaijaan" is extensively
shot
in
Kashmir, Mandawa
and Delhi. The movie
narrates the tale of a
Muslim boy and a
Brahmin
girl,
essayed by Kareena
Kapoor Khan.
Big B teases Deepika
about the Way She
hat the 'Piku'
family gets along
very
well
is
almost a fact by now.
With Deepika calling
Amitabh
Bachchan
Baba and with the
entire cast having their
share of inside jokes,
they are definitely a
happy bunch. And
recently we hear that
Amitabh Bachchan,
acting like a typical
father, pointed out
specific things about
T
the way she writes!
During the shoot of
the film,there was a
scene
wherein
Deepika was required
to fill out details while
checking into a guest
house. And while she
stood filling out the
register, her Baba
walked up to her and
openly
teased
her
about the way she
wrote. Sr. Bachchan
even went on to demonstrate and explain to
her the correct way of
writing. Now isn't this
something all of us
have heard in our houses too? 'Piku' is a family comedy drama that
revolves around a
quirky father-daughter
relationship essayed by
Amitabh Bachchan and
Deepika
Padukone
with Irrfan Khan top
lining the cast, in a pivotal author backed role.
'Piku' also marks coming together of Shoojit
Sircar, Ronnie Lahiri
and Juhi Chaturvedi,
the team behind Vicky
Donor. Produced by
MSM Motion Pictures
(a division of Sony
Entertainment
Network), in association with Saraswati
Entertainment
Creations Limited and
Rising Sun Films, and
distributed worldwide
by
Yash Raj Films. 'Piku'
released worldwide on
May 08, 2015.
Ajay Devgn's big plans for
Diwali 2016, 2017
I
S
achieve so. The only details
available regarding the case
uperstar Shah
Rukh Khan and
Aamir Khan's
gesture of promoting
"Bajrangi Bhaijaan"
has
touched
the
"Dabangg"
actor
Salman Khan, who
has "thanked" his
colleagues for supporting his forthcoming film.
Both Shah Rukh and
Aamir shared the
first look of "Bajrangi
Bhaijaan" on their
respective
social
media pages.
The
"extremely
happy" Salman took
to
micro-blogging
website Twitter on
S
Drinking more than 5 cups
of espressos is dangerous
Salman Hit and Run Case: Matralaya
fire destroy all documents
uperstar Salman Khan,
allegedly accused of 2002
hit and run case, faces a
new detour in the chain of
events.
As the star was granted
bail, after getting convicted of
all charges on May 8, 2015.
According to the sources the
Maharashtra Government's
top department does not posses any file in relation to
Salman's hit and run case. It
has been revealed that the
file of Salman's hit and run
case 2002 were burnt during
the fire at Mantralaya in
2012.
Further it was informed
that, the Government officials were suppose to recreate all the documents and
files, but apparently the officials have been unable to
When SRK and Aamir made
Salman emotional
T
hough he might
miss the 2015
Diwali to entertain
his
fans,
Bollywood superstar
Ajay Devgn is all set to
dominate the silver
screen on Diwali 2016
and 2017. The release
date of Ajay's upcoming
directorial
venture
"Shivaay" has been preponed from January
2017 to Diwali 2016.
Also the sequel of his
2012 film "Son Of
Sardaar" has been
lined up for Diwali
2017, read a statement.
"Shivaay",
which
marks the 46-year-old's
return to the director's
chair after "U Me Aur
Hum", will feature him
in the title role alongside
17-year-old
Sayesha
Saigal.
Meanwhile, "Son Of
Sardaar 2" will see the
actor back in a turbaned look.
Ajay, who has mastered almost all the
genres
including
action,
thriller,
romance and comedy,
announced the film's
release date on Twitter
on Wednesday. "Sorry
yaar, duniya bekar
bina Son of Sardaar!
Get ready for the
sequel releasing Diwali
2017," he tweeted.
Until then, Ajay will
next
be seen in
"Drishyam", a thriller
directed by Nishikant
Kamat. He plays a middle class family man
named
Vijay
Salgaonkar.
Check Out: What is the biggest
surprise of 'Singh Is Bliing'
ct or- filmm aker
Pr abhudhe va,
who is directing
"Singh Is Bliing", says
Lara Dutta will be a
surprise package in the
film.
"I was impressed by
Lara's performance in
the film. She is a surprise package... she is
superb. I can't reveal
anything about her
character at this point
of time, but we have
shot all the major portions of the film with
Lara and she is too
good with her work,"
Prabhudheva
told
IANS. "Singh Is Bliing'
features
Akshay
Kumar, Bipasha Basu
A
and Amy Jackson apart
from Lara. It is releasing on October 2.
Asked about the chemistry between Akshay
and Amy in the film, he
said: "I know it's an
unusual pairing, and
their chemistry is too
good. You all will
realise it once you
watch the film.
(PAGE 3)
SATURDAY 30, MAY 2015
JAMMU
Jammu Bandhs reflect anger of people against BJP-PDP: Congress
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
A meeting of JKPCC was
held here today at PCC
Headquarters,
Shaheedi
Chowk Jammu to review the
status of ongoing membership
drive of the party and the current political situation in the
state.The meeting was attended by senior functionaries of
the PCC, members of the
executive, frontal heads and
district presidents of Jammu
province which was presided
over by Vice President and
former Minister Shri Mula
Ram.The meeting was attended by Vice President PCC,
General Secretaries PCC,
Members of the Executive
PCC,
Secretaries
and
Organizing Secretaries PCC,
District President and heads
of Mahila Congress, INTUC,
Seva Dal and Youth
Congress.The participants
shared the inputs about the
ongoing membership drive
from different blocks and
assembly constituencies of all
districts of Jammu province
and the present status of the
current membership drive as
part of the membership all
over the country as per
instructions of the AICC. The
participants sought more
membership for various
blocks and constituencies in
view of good response from
the grass root level and
requested for extending the
time limit in this regard to
reach to every nook and corner especially in the remote
and farflung areas.The
President JKPCC Mr. Ghulam
Ahmed Mir who was scheduled to arrive from Srinagar to
preside the meeting could not
reach in time due to delay of
the flight while Shri Sham Lal
Sharma-Sr. Vice President
PCC was unable to attend the
meeting because of ill health.
The meeting was attended by
Vice President PCC and former Minister MR. Raman
Bhalla, Kanta Bhan besides
other senior leaders of the
party.On the request of the
party leaders, the President
JKPCC extended the date for
the membership by ten days
and requested all concerned to
deposit the membership by or
before the 10th of June,
2015.Speaking in the meeting
the senior leaders of the party
asked the party functionaries
and workers at the grass root
level to accelerate the process
of ongoing membership drive
and enroll the maximum
members in order to strengthen the secular and democratic
forces in the state.
They said that Congress has
a vital role in the state in view
of its unifying and secular
policies which are essential
for maintaining harmony and
secular fabric of our pluralistic society.Senior Congress
leaders said that people are
getting disenchanted with the
policies of the BJP and PDP
government in the state in
view of the failure the coalition partners to honor the
commitments made to the
respective electorate during
the elections. The people feel
cheated by the betrayal of the
BJP to their ideology and
election promises made to
hoodwink the people in
JWAM activists protest against failure
of various departments to perform
Jammu region to secure their
votes. The party made a 'UTurn' on all important commitments and has made a
'summersault' for entering in
to corridors of power. The two
consecutive complete bandhs
in Jammu region reflect the
anger of the people who have
rejected the policies of the
unholy coalition in the state
and the policies of the centre
government.The meeting felt
that the party has been playing
the role desired from a vibrant
opposition in the state when
the two ideologically and fundamentally opposite forces
have entered into an unholy
alliance for the sake of power,
keeping aside the electoral
promises and aspirations of
the people and are taking such
decisions which are against
the interests of the people and
different sections of the society. The meeting also
expressed satisfaction over
the series of conventions held
in various parts of the state
and decided to further gear up
the activities to activate the
cadres in order to expose the
opportunist combination and
their wrong policies as a result
the political and security
atmosphere is being vitiated
and the anti national forces are
getting encouraged day by
day.
Various Sikh Organizations criticize baseless statements
over issue of delay in Gurudwara elections
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
Various Sikh Organizations
of J&K under the banner of
Sikh United Front J&K
including Bhai Kanhiya
Nishkam Sewa Society,
AISSF, Sikh Naujwan Sabha,
Sikh Welfare society and
other intellectuals have
strongly criticized the baseless statement of members of
S.G.P.B., Akali Dal Badal,
Akali Dal Amritsar regarding
the issue of delay in the
Gurudwara elections.While
addressing a joint press conference, S.Avtar Singh
Khalsa, Gen.Secy. Sikh
United Front J&K said that
according to J&K State
Gurudwara Endowment Act
the tenure of the District
Gurudwaras
Parbhandak
Committees is for five years
but unfortunately the president J&K State Gurudwara
Parbadhak Board has dismissed the elected DGPC
Jammu without any fault.
Mr.Khalsa asked chairman
Gurudwara Board that why he
dismissed an elected DGPC
Jammu which was elected in
2003? He said that the Sikh
Sangat also asked when all the
DGPCs in J&K are working
smoothly but the Chairman
PDP-BJP coalition to script
new chapter of peace, progress
in J&K history: Bhasin
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
In spite of the repeated
requests and pleas for complete black topping of Jammu
roads and the west constituency, to the BJP-PDP Govt,
PWD R&B ministries and the
chief engineers of PWD R&B,
JMC, ERA no action is being
taken for the black topping of
the Jammu city and west constituency roads.Traders of the
west constituency demanded
the resignation of the BJP
MLAs of Jammu city, raised
slogans for their resignations
and took out strong protest
rally held dhrna on the
Amphalla, Rhari Chungi New
Plot Janipur high court road
led by Sunil Dimple president
Jammu west assembly movementfor the worst condition of
the Jammu city roads, the
worst traffic problems, for the
construction of the flyovers in
Jammu city and against the
betrayal by the BJP-PDP
Govt, on the NHAI toll road
tax zazia on the Bantalab,
Nagrota high way.Dimple
alleged that PWD R&B has
no immediate plan of blacktopping as the tendering
process for all the BT works
has increased the problems
and no black topping is being
done due to three years maintenance guarantee. Dimple
also said we will continue the
agitation for opening the
AIIMS in Jammu till the foundation stone of the AIIMS is
not laid down.
"RBI Governor's visit fruitful"
Coalition sensitive to sufferings of flood affected artisans: Hamid
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
Appreciating the visit of Governor, Reserve
Bank of India, Dr Raghuram Rajan to floodaffected areas of Pampore, Rajpora,
Awantipora, Littar, Kakapora and other areas of
Pulwama district in Kashmir, People's
Democratic Party (PDP) leader Abdul Hamid
Choudhary today said that these people if are
provided better means to sustain their livelihood they would go a long way in also keeping
the traditional handicrafts alive while making
their both ends meet.Having suffered a lot during floods these people including artisans were
still trying to bring their lives back on rails and
this effort of Finance Minister, Dr Haseeb
Drabu in making RBI Governor have the first
hand information about people's sufferings is a
great initiative that will enable financial institutions to come forward and help affected ones in
whatever manner they can, Choudhary Hamid
added.The PDP leader said that state government was quite sensitive to people's sufferings
and such initiatives were also aimed at supporting the flood-affected people of J&K and reviving their livelihood in whatever possible manner the coalition government can. He said
financial institutions can play a major role in
reviving the shattered economy of flood affected people and RBI must explore all such possibilities and extend the same to J&K State as
soon as possible.
CII organised Workshop on 7QC Tools for Industry
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
CII J&K State Council
organized workshop on 7 QC
Tools for industry. Welcoming
the delegates Mr Rahul Sahai,
Convenor,
MSME
&
Ma n u f a c t u r i n g
Competitiveness Panel, CII
J&K State Council &
Managing Director, Sahai
Group of Industries said that
CII has been continuously
working towards its mission
on strengthening the industry
through its various activities
with the help of its Centers of
Excellence (CoEs) helping
SMEs transform their business processes.7QC Tools
form the fundamental founda-
tion for all problem solving
and quality control activities
and are also an important element of Lean Manufacturing.
They are used to analyze the
production process, identify
the major problems, control
fluctuations of product quality, and provide solutions to
avoid
future
defects.
Statistical literacy is necessary to effectively use the
seven QC tools.
These tools use statistical
techniques and knowledge to
accumulate data and analyze
them. The knowledge of
these tools has become
essential to improve the
internal competitiveness of
organizations.The objective
of the workshop was to make
the participants understand
the 7 QC tools, Methodology
of improving quality, reducing in-house rejection, reducing customer complaints &
customer returns, Role and
responsibility of Production
Supervisor Basics of Quality
Circle for Product Quality
Improvement.
The workshop was conducted by Mr Rajesh Dahiya,
an experienced Counselor in
Manufacturing Excellence at
CII AVANTHA Center of
Comp etitiveness,
Chandigarh. Workshop was
attended by 40 participants
from Samba, Gangyal and
Baribrahmana Industrial Area.
Reiterating commitment of his party to address grievances of
every sections of the society, General Secretary of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Daman Bhasin today called upon
party workers to reach out to the masses to solve their day today
problems. He observed that after formation of PDP-BJP coalition government in the State responsibility on party workers has
enhanced manifolds and workers have to shoulder this responsibility with dedication.Addressing one day convention of party
workers of Jammu West Assembly segment, Mr Bhasin maintained that formation of PDP-BJP government was historic
event in the political history Jammu and Kashmir because both
the parties have over-whelming mandate of the people of the
entire State. "As visionary leadership of both the parties is
aware of all issues pertaining to the State, this historic opportunity would be proved as turning point in the history of J&K to
change destiny of the residents of this State", Mr Bhasin hoped
and mentioned that PDP would play the role of big brother in
Kashmir Valley and BJP would play the same role in Jammu
region. He hoped that PDP-BJP coalition would script a new
chapter of peace, progress, prosperity and development in the
history of Jammu and Kashmir.Bhasin made it clear that attaining power was not aim of forming PDP-BJP coalition but main
objective of this government was to set up new system of governance with transparency and accountability."Aim of PDP-BJP
government is to transform the system of governance by removing mis-governance, corruption and maladministration", he said
and exhorted party workers to work as agents to bring change in
the system and to provide governance to the people at their door
step.Highlighting achievements of PDP-BJP government in the
State, Mr Bhasin said that during the tenure of nearly three
months this regime has earned credibility and trust of the common masses through its actions and acts. "Effective steps are
already being initiated by the present regime to provide muchneeded relief to the common people from the miseries of the
mis-governance and corruption promoted by the NC-Congress
coalition regime during the past six years", he said and regretted
that legalization corruption was not noticeable achievement of
the previous NC-Congress government.Senior Leader & Former
MLC Sh. Ved Mahajan, Vinod Sharma, Senior Leader, R K Bali,
Ashok Jogi, Rajinder Manhas, Narinder Singh Raina, Geeta
Thakur, Suresh Sharma, Vikas Bhatti, Sukhvinder Singh, Anju
Bhan, Ritu Gondhi, Nana Ji Wattal, Mushtaq, Ashok Jain,
Ashutosh Kapoor, Davinder Dogra, Geeta Kapahi , Sneha Gupta
and many others were present on the occasion.
Burglaries soar despite police patrolling
Rising thefts question mark
on police functioning : ANC
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
Theft cases are on rise in and around Jammu city. Cases of
thefts are being reported everyday but police failed to plug this
menace. Awami National Conference (ANC) has expressed serious serious concern over increase in cases of burglaries, and
stressed to take concrete steps to restore credibility of Police in
public who otherwise in fear psycosis over sudden spurt in burglary cases in Jammu. Addressing media persons in Jammu,
ANC Provincial President, Gian Singh in presence of Youth
President, Raj Sharma and District President Jammu, Vijay
Magotra asked the Police authorities to have an over-all view of
the crime, security, law and order situation of the zone.While
elaborating, Singh mentioned that maintenance of law & order,
prevention of crime, speedy investigation and disposal of cases,
adequate attention to public grievances on day-to-day basis,
special attention to public importance cases, strengthening
police-public rapport are of utmost importance and Police
should give prime focus to address all these issues.Singh, while
briefing the Media emphasized the need for people-friendly
approach and behaviour of the police force at the cutting edge
level and stressed that the Police should not only be fair in their
actions but also should look like being fair to everyone. Public
confidence can be generated through their people-friendly attitude which should be exhibited at all levels. He stressed for professional approach in investigation of crime especially public
significance cases. The Involvement and close supervision of
senior officers, use of scientific-investigation methods is
required for quality investigation and public satisfaction, he
added. General conduct of police especially subordinate ranks
to common people has to be helping and cordial and not rude
and indifferent. Singh also stressed that touring by police officers in their respective areas, meeting people and interacting
with them on social and professional matters is of significance.
Gurudwara Board has dismissed the DGPC Jammu
vide Article 63B of
Gurudwara Act for his direct
personal interference to run
the affairs of DGPC Jammu.
Some vested interests persons
connected with the present
Gurudwara
Parbhandak
Committee Jammu have filed
litigations in various courts
including J&K High Court in
order to delay the gurudwara
Elections deliberately for their
vested interests and have managed to get stay orders issued
as and when the election notifications were issued by the
Government. All these petitions were challenged by the
members of Sikh United Front
J&K. In response to this the
Govt. of J&K nominated a
new DGPC Committee to
look after the affairs of the
State Gurudwaras headed by
S.Dalip Singh vide Article 63C of Gurudwara Act, SRO
No.357 in the year 2008 for a
period of six months. After the
completion of the above said
period S.Dalip Singh resigned
from the post vide letter
No.DGPC/197-200/2009
dated 28.04.2009. the law
department of the State nominated a new committee vide
SRO-375 vide notification
dated 19.12.2011 headed by
S.Mohinder Singh, Retired
District Session Judge for running the Gurudwara affairs.
The order of this committee
was challenged by previous
District
Gurudwara
Parbhadak Committee Jammu
through
its
Joint
Secy.S.Manjit Singh in the
Hon'ble High Court of J&K at
Jammu vide OWP No.D1657/2011,
CMP
No . 2 3 0 5 / 2 0 11 / Ca v e a t
No.1426/2011 and 1427/2011
and got an interim order
issued in their favour and
refused to vacate the office of
the DGPC Jammu.Others who
were present at press conference are S.Ramneek Singh
Bijral, S.Gurdev Singh Gill
S.P.(Retd), S.Surinder Singh
Kala Convener J&K Motor
Transport
Companies
Association, Jammu, Fateh
Singh, Raja Singh, Darvinder
Singh, S.Harpreet Singh,
S.Gajjan Singh, Surjit Singh
Kuku, S.Kulwant Singh,
S.Rajinder
Singh,
S.Manmohan
Singh,
S.Kapoor Singh Dutta,
S.Harpal Singh & Ors.
Remove Bann Jammu Toll Plaza or be
prepared for consequences: Harsh
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
Seeking the removal of Toll
Plaza at Bann Nagrota on
Jammu-Srinagar National
Highway, Mr. Harsh Dev
Singh lambasted the Union
govt. for doling out the most
differential treatment to
Jammu region in yet another
field. He regretted that while
the Union Govt. has closed
down 62 toll plazas across the
country
on
National
Highways and Expressways
recently during the current
week in 'public interest', the
toll plaza in Jammu has been
most contemptuously allowed
to operate much to the chagrin
and indignation of the
Jammuites. Hailing the closure of the said Toll Plazas
elsewhere in Andhra Pradesh,
Bihar, Chattisgarh, Gujrat,
Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya
Pradesh,
Maharashtra,
Manipur, Rajasthan, Tamil
Nadu and Utter Pradesh on
public demand, he questioned
the State and Central govts.
for discriminatory treatment
doled out to J&K which was
also being governed by a BJP
partnered govt.Admonishing
the Union as well as State
govt. for their apathy and
neglect of the Dogra Land,
Mr. Harsh Dev Singh lamented that the duly elected MPs
and MLAs of the region had
miserably failed to espouse
the cause of Jammu public at
appropriate forums resulting
in their deprivation. He regretted that despite public protests
and demonstrations for
removal of Bann Toll Plaza,
the elected representatives
failed to impress upon the
concerned authorities to
remove the same on the analogy of the aforesaid 62 Toll
Plazas removed in various
other states. Making out a
strong case for closing of
Bann Toll Plaza, Mr. Harsh
Dev Singh said that Jammu is
visited by millions of pilgrims
every year who would be
obliged to pay heavy taxation
in the form of Toll fee for conducting their religious pilgrimage. Likewise, he pointed
out , that lacs of pilgrims
would be visiting the
Amarnath ji shrine who would
also have to bear the burden of
heavy taxation. He said that
imposition of Taxation on pilgrims in the form of Toll fee
from Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrims and Sri Amar Nath ji
pilgrims is like imposing
'Jazia' which is unacceptable
and intolerable. He said that
taxation of pilgrims is highly
impious, irreverent and sacrilegious act which would
receive stiff resistance from
the Jammu people. He further
cautioned the govt. that the
said highly profane act of the
govt. would further affect the
tourist influx in the state in
view of huge fee prescribed
for various kinds of vehicles.
He said that as per the schedule published by the NHA1 a
car/jeep has to pay Rs. 85 for
single journey or a monthly
pass of Rs. 2810.
Likewise the rate for 7 axle
vehicles is Rs. 545 for single
journey or a monthly pass of
Rs. 18,185.He further said
that huge tax being extorted
from pilgrims and tourists visiting the state would also have
dissuading effect on them thus
giving a blow to the tourist
promotion initiatives of the
govt. and overall economy of
the state which is largely
dependent upon pilgrims and
tourists. Besides, he said,
there were several commuters
who were daily shuttling and
the toll was operating very
harshly upon them. He said
that huge tax fixed was unaffordable for a common man.
Moreover, the National
Highway was incomplete, pot
holed at various places with
construction work still in
progress at several locations,
the govt. could not have
launched the toll plaza at all,
he maintained. He also
expressed concern over the
grossly inadequate and highly
congested space specified for
opertionalization of the said
toll plaza resulting in huge
traffic Jams.
Rebuking the despicable
apathy and cowardice of the
Saffron representatives, Mr.
Harsh Dev Singh called for
immediate removal of the toll
plaza Bann Jammu in public
interest in conformity with
decision taken by the Union
Govt. with regard to identical
cases in other states.Pointing
out towards the web portal
launched by the Union Road
Transport Ministry for providing information to the road
users regarding the Toll Plazas
operational in the country
along with fee rates for various kinds of vehicles, facilities available and emergency
contact nos
., Mr. Harsh Dev Singh further stated that the said web
portal reveals that the Bann
Toll Plaza is charging the
highest rates without being
provided with corresponding
facilities.
Strongly flaying the police
action on the protestors and
commuters at Bann Toll Plaza
yesterday who were protesting against huge fees and lack
of facilities, he cautioned the
state govt. to refrain from dictatorial approach and settle
the issue of Toll Plaza at the
earliest or else be prepared for
the consequences.
Dogra Sadar Sabha organizing "Save the
Birds Day" programme on June 2nd
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
Gulchain Singh Charak,
President Dogra Sadar Sabha
issuing press statement in
Jammu has said that as per the
past practice, Dogra Sadar
Sabha, J&K, Jammu in collaboration with Wild Life
Protection Department, J&K,
is organizing "Save the Birds
Day" programme on 2ndJune,
2015 at 10:00 AM at Dogra
Hall, Jammu wherein besides
large number of Sarpanches,
Panches,
Numberdars,
Chowkidars, other prominent
persons of the civil society
and large number of students
hailing from different educational institutions are going to
take part. Sabha will provide
them the earthen pots to be
installed at different places
filled with water for the birds.
Sabha also provides large
quality of such pots to various
other organizations.
It is campaign towards saving the birds in which Sabha
distributes earthen pots to
school and college students,
Villagers and members of the
civil society.While expressing
the importance of the day, he
said as we all know, Birds and
Wild animals play very
important role in maintaining
the ecological balance. For
birds, the Summer months till
Monsoon sets in - is difficult
period especially in whole of
the Jammu province when
ponds have tried up and there
is hardly any water for the
birds to drink.It is more of an
awareness campaign and in
this, the role of Press &
Electronic Media is very
important, so we feveroently
appeal to all the medial persons to extend their help for
this noble cause.
He, on behalf of the Sabha
appealed the students in particular and public in general to
join us in our endeavors of
saving the birds by spreading
this noble message and
putting the same into actions
as well - which we are going
to convey on "Save the Birds
Day" on 2nd June, 2015 at
Dogra Sadar Sabha Bhawan,
Jammu.
(PAGE 4)
SATURDAY 30, MAY 2015
JAMMU
From universities to coaching shops
EDITORIAL
Endemic discrimination
ecent reports about some Muslim families and individuals being denied housing accommodation or not being allowed
to buy apartments in Indian cities point to an
endemic issue of urban bias. While discrimination and biases of various kinds are common in
urban sprawls across the world, there is something systemic about the denial of housing to
Muslims in Indian cities. Surveys have pointed
to various forms of bias, where residents display
an aversion to those belonging to other castes
and religions being in their neighbourhood.
Neither access to education nor economic betterment has mitigated the problem of social
bias. The sad reality in the city of Mumbai in
particular has been that more than two decades
since the 1992-93 communal riots, discrimination remains entrenched; indeed, it is today
open and unchecked. Communities such as
Dalits also encounter biases when they seek
housing, but Muslims are an “easy target”
because their names often point to their identity. Even online websites have seen home-sellers
and owners openly denying houses to Muslims
and people from certain other communities,
before outrage against the practice got some
websites to announce non-discriminatory policies on listings. Legally speaking, this is a difficult issue to tackle. In the case of public housing, there cannot be any discrimination, and
any form of bias in renting out or selling houses
is illegal. But in the case of the private and cooperative housing market, the issue is more complicated. There are several housing colonies
that are exclusive if not exclusionary to particular communities. These restrict residents to a
particular community on the basis of their right
to freedom of association, which was endorsed
by the Supreme Court in Zoroastrian Co-operative Housing Society Limited v. District
Registrar Co-operative Societies (2005). Yet, the
Supreme Court has over the years developed a
fairly comprehensive jurisprudence that regulates relations between “private parties” based
on constitutional principles and fundamental
rights. This could legally provide a basis for
non-discrimination on matters related to housing. Judicial interventions apart, legislative
action is required to address such acts of discrimination. The Rajindar Sachar Committee in
its recommendations in 2005 sought the setting
up of an Equal Opportunity Commission to provide a legal mechanism to address complaints
related to discrimination in matters such as
housing. Towards the fag end of its tenure the
UPA government discussed the setting up of
such a Commission, but nothing came of it. It is
time to revisit the issue and implement this legislatively.
R
ROMILA THAPAR
he proposed standardisation of university syllabus will
only drag down the quality of education to the lowest common denominator.
The Ministry of Human
Resource
Development
announced a short while ago
that it was introducing
changes in the structure and
functioning of central universities, numbering around 40.
The suggested changes were
made public in a proposed
Universities Act. A large
number of academics from
various colleges and universities based in the National
Capital Region examined the
suggestions. They went
through
the
proposed
changes with a fine-tooth
comb, since the proposed
changes, if implemented,
would affect the academic
quality of tertiary education
at the college and university
level. After frequent meetings over six months, they
have jointly produced a document titled ‘What is to be
Done
About
Indian
Universities?
Reflections
from Concerned Teachers’.
The document explains at
length why they have found
unacceptable, for academic
reasons, much of what has
been suggested. It is available on Facebook and has
already brought in many
worthwhile posts. It is an
extremely important statement from a large body of
teachers, containing their
responses to the proposals,
as had been requested.
Hopefully, it will be discussed widely by the HRD
Ministry, the University
Grants Commission, and
other organisations related
to undergraduate and graduate teaching.
Education, unfortunately,
has not been taken seriously
enough by governments,
either past or present. The
abysmally low budget for
education is now down to
around a minuscule 3 per
cent. Despite this, there is
still a fond belief that development can be achieved.
Development needs well-educated people or else it goes
nowhere. Do politicians fear
an educated citizenry?
Reform over overhaul
T
Governments tend to start
at the wrong end in their
attempts to improve education, drawing plans to make
dramatic changes at the
highest levels, advocating
more central universities,
IITs, IIMs and the like. As is
often said, the concern
should be to improve the levels of existing institutions.
Yet the nitty-gritty of education lies in the quality of
schooling. Proposals made by
United Progressive AllianceII, for more universities, continue to be the project of the
present government. But a
serious revision of the educational system in India
requires laying a good foundation for primary and secondary schooling by improving their quality in a systematic and rational manner.
This applies as much to content as is does to facilities.
A higher budget would
allow for a larger number of
schools, and these are desperately needed. But numbers are not enough. The
location of the school has to
be such that it is not hijacked
or marginalised by upper
castes and the wealthy. The
socially and economically
underprivileged are then left
without education. Schools
also have to be adequately
equipped, teachers properly
trained, and the benefits of
education made apparent.
This needs as much careful
attention as tertiary education. Without good quality
schooling, the institutes of
higher learning are handicapped. Students with substandard
schooling
are
unable to cope with higher
education, the heavy financing of which has little meaning.
Education has many functions. It provides information, as the Internet does,
but the difference is that it is
meant to provide reliable
information, and teach students to think logically and
analytically. If knowledge
has to advance, existing
knowledge should be questioned. Such critical enquiry
is the crucial point of education in any field — whether
the sciences, social sciences
or the humanities. It is also
incidentally the best job
training a student can
receive. Myth-spinning is
important to a child’s imagination but should not be confused with learning and
scholarship.
The linking of schooling to
tertiary education also has to
do with some reactions to the
suggestions made in the proposed Universities Act. The
proposed standardising and
centralising of the syllabus
has been suggested as a way
to improve the quality of education. Also, the centralised
recruitment of faculty and
students, we are told, will
allow them mobility. Can the
complete syllabus for all subjects in 40 universities be
centralised and standardised? It will be a mammoth,
unnecessary exercise, predictably a disaster. The budget would have to be doubled
to provide for adequate
libraries and laboratories. Or
will education be reduced to
a set of statements to be
memorised?
Better institutions will
have to lower their standards
to accommodate those that
are inferior, in order to standardise the syllabus. The
quality of education will
have to be that of the Lowest
Common Denominator. High
standards demand diversity
and a constant and reliable
upgrading of knowledge,
essential for nurturing intellectual curiosity. With standardisation and centralisation, universities will become
teaching shops and coaching
schools. A common entrance
exam will mean a rush for
the metropolitan universities, as these are better
launching pads for decent
jobs. How then will the system of quotas and reservations play out? Will the numbers have to be continually
reconfigured?
The other major problem
will be language. Today,
regional languages are the
effective medium in most
universities, particularly at
the undergraduate level. So,
can teachers and students be
moved from, say, Punjab to
Kerala, with the demand
that they have to use whatever language is current in
the new place? Or will the
transfer of teachers and students be also used as a punitive measure to silence opposition? Bilingualism — a
regional language and a com-
mon language — may be one
solution, provided a common
language can be agreed
upon.
Schools for the rich
and poor
This is just a sample of the
kind of problems that will
confront us if the proposed
changes are introduced. It
doesn’t take much foresight
to predict the major casualties in our university system.
Poor quality education and
large numbers of young people who are unqualified for
the jobs they seek doesn’t
make for a healthy society.
Neither the sciences nor the
social sciences can be taught
merely as identical information in 40 universities. Every
discipline requires thinking,
questioning and debating, as
there is intellectual content
in each subject, essential to
its understanding. This
debate cannot be dictated. A
syllabus handed down ‘from
above’ and not thought
through by the faculty will be
turned into merely memorising information.
If state universities provide poor quality education,
then quality education will
shift to private universities
that do not have such restrictions. But private universities are usually unaffordable
for most students. Public
universities will become
institutions for the poor, just
as the government school
system has.
A bigger problem will be
the end of the autonomy of
the university, as has been
pointed out in the response
by the Delhi academics. The
viability of a university
depends on its being an
autonomous
institution
responsible for maintaining
high standards and initiating innovation. The quality
of the public university system and its continuance is
crucial to any modern society. Private universities,
however good they may be,
cannot provide the required
tertiary education for everyone. The proposed changes
will therefore destroy the
more significant aspects of
the role and function of the
university as an educational
institution.
(Romila
Thapar
is
Professor Emeritus in
Ancient History, JNU.)
The Chinese fault line in foreign policy
M. K. NARAYANAN
lack of coherence marks the
Modi government’s foreign
policy, especially in strategic relations with China and
Pakistan. Nothing that has been
said or done during the past year
has reduced differences between
India and them
A
This is the season of results and of
drawing up report cards. Having
completed a year of governance, the
Bharatiya Janata Party-led government’s performance is up for review,
with its approach on the foreign policy front attracting a great deal of
attention. Not surprisingly, political
pundits have accorded it an ‘A’.
Nevertheless, it still merits a more
detailed look.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
record of visiting 18 countries in 57
days has to be appreciated. Yet, it
should not be overlooked that even a
less ebullient Prime Minister like Dr.
Manmohan Singh of the predecessor
United Progressive Alliance government managed a hectic schedule during his first year in office. But two
major differences, no doubt, exist.
The first is that in marked contrast to
visits by previous Prime Ministers to
foreign countries, each of Mr. Modi’s
visits has involved detailed planning
to ensure the best teleological impact.
The second is in terms of economic
content — new business openings,
substantial increases in foreign direct
investment (FDI) flows, estimated to
be around $28.8 billion, and talk of
India as being the next big investment destination. If the raison d’être
of high profile prime ministerial visits is Business with a big ‘B’, then Mr.
Modi has made a spectacular start.
Mixed results
Both aspects are in keeping with the
Prime Minister’s penchant for transformational initiatives, an aspect
that was evident during his more
than a year-long election campaign.
Foreign visits have the added advantage of linking the Prime Minister’s
persona with outcomes, and where
the Prime Minister’s image becomes
the crucial selling point. Mr. Modi’s
visit to the United States in 2014
demonstrated what impact a brilliantly calibrated campaign could
produce.
However, on many of the substantive
issues, the balance sheet tends to be
mixed. For instance, the Prime
Minister kept his commitment to pursue an “activist neighbourhood policy”. Yet, to claim that his visits have
already produced concrete results
would be premature. Foreign policy
outcomes need a long period of gestation and it would be naive to think
that a single visit would alter another country’s policies. This is particularly true of countries like Sri Lanka
and Nepal who tend to hedge their
bets when it comes to India versus
China. Nevertheless, the energy and
drive on display has helped push the
boundaries, enabling India to demonstrate its determination to be the preeminent power in the region.
Coming to strategic aspects, one discerns a certain lack of coherence and
consistency. This is specially true of
strategic relations with our two
biggest neighbours, China and
Pakistan. Vis-à-vis Pakistan, the
inconsistencies in our attitude have
further compounded the dysfunctional nature of Pakistan’s approach to
India. Nothing that has been said or
done during the past year has
reduced tensions between the two
countries. If anything, the degree of
suspicion has increased.
Dealing with Beijing
The approach towards China has
clearly needed to be more subtle and
dexterous than has been the case.
The bonhomie on display during
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit
to India in September 2014 and Mr.
Modi’s visit to China in May 2015
was exceptional. Notwithstanding
this, the hype and glamour have
tended to obscure the reality that little progress on most aspects of the
relationship has taken place. Mr.
Modi’s recent visit did yield much in
economic terms — agreements and
business-related memoranda of
understanding worth at least $22 billion. He also unveiled a vision of
unlimited opportunities for Chinese
business and investment in infrastructure and energy-related projects. The Joint Statement issued
after the visit is extremely positive on
trade, development and investment
issues, and also on taking the necessary measures “to remove impediments to bilateral trade and investment and facilitate greater market
access”.
However, dealing with China is like
dealing with the unknown. Rather
than protocol-driven statements, one
needs to look out for signals and
nuances which are often better indicators of where the relationship is
headed. Hence, references in the
Joint Statement issued after Mr.
Modi’s discussions with Chinese leaders, to the “historic imperative for
India and China to enrich their bilateral relations” and that “India-China
bilateral relations are poised to play a
defining role in the 21st Century in
Asia and Globally”, count for little. In
specific terms, the Chinese have
given no indication, whatsoever, that
they would back India’s claim to a
seat in the United Nations Security
Council; no assurance of helping
India with nuclear Export Control
Regimes, and in overcoming the
remaining obstacles to nuclear trade
issues, and no signs of softening its
stance on the vexed boundary question, merely committing itself to
maintaining peace and tranquillity in
the border areas, pending a final resolution. As a keen observer, the
Prime Minister would certainly have
noted the absence of any reaction
from the Chinese side during the
visit, to both the contents of the Joint
Strategic Vision for the Asia-Pacific
and the Indian Ocean Region
(unveiled by him and U.S. President
Barack Obama during Mr. Obama’s
visit to India in January 2015), and to
the deepening of India’s relations
with Shinzo¯ Abe’s Japan. This is significant and disconcerting, compounded further by the absence of
any serious discussion on the situation prevailing in Pakistan and West
Asia, and the implications for the
region of Mr. Xi’s signature initiative
viz., the Maritime Silk Road.
Apparently, the Chinese believe that
there is not much scope for a meeting
of minds on crucial issues.
The Afghan vacuum
Meanwhile, China continues to
engage in a series of moves that are
highly detrimental to India’s interests. With Pakistan as the fulcrum of
China’s approach to South Asia,
China is now seeking to exploit the
vacuum in Afghanistan, at a time
when India’s leverage there has been
greatly
reduced
following
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani
taking charge. China has also very
recently hosted “secret talks”
between Afghan and Taliban leaders
in China, which were attended by
both Chinese officials and representatives of Pakistan’s Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI). China also continues to stall India’s moves in the
United Nations to have Hizbul
Mujahideen chief and head of the
‘United
Jihad
Council’,
Syed
Salahuddin declared as a “global terrorist”.
The proposed China-Pakistan
Economic Corridor linking Western
China with the Gwadar Port in
Pakistan through Pakistan Occupied
Kashmir (PoK), is an even more serious matter, directly impinging on
India’s sovereignty and security. Its
implications are far graver than the
border dispute between India and
China.
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SATURDAY 30, MAY 2015
Radioactive Leak Detected at
Delhi Airport; Plugged, Says
Home Minister Rajnath Singh
NEW DELHI, May 29 (Agencies): A radioactive
leak from a medical consignment was detected in
the cargo area of the Indira Gandhi International
Airport in Delhi this morning. Home Minister
Rajnath Singh said the leak has been plugged.
Officials have emphasised that there is no need
for panic. The incident has not affected airport
operations. Two people who handled the consignment have been taken to AIIMS hospital in Delhi.
Officials said the consignment of sodium iodine
from Turkey meant for a private hospital, had
leaked in a small area of the cargo hold and was
quickly isolated. The area has been cordoned off
and a team of the National Disaster Response
Force or NDRF is at the spot.
Atomic energy experts are on their way to the
airport, Rajnath Singh said.
Officials said the leak was detected after two
loaders at the airport offloaded from a Turkish
Airlines plane, packages that were wet and then
reported that their eyes were watering. Both the
men have been taken to hospital.
The plane on which the consignment flew to
Delhi from Istanbul has been isolated. The airline
and the cargo company are also looking into how
the leak happened. Sodium Iodine is used in the
treatment of cancer.
Patanjali food park shootout:
Ramdev's brother jailed for 14 days
DEHRADUN/HARIDWAR: Yoga guru Ramdev's
younger brother Ram Bharat was sent on a 14day judicial remand after being produced in a
Haridwar court late on Wednesday for his alleged
involvement in a clash at Patanjali Herbal Food
Park, which left one dead and almost eleven others injured. Tight police security was put in place
in the Padartha area, where the food park is located, as tension loomed large after 42-year-old
Daljeet Singh, who was killed in the fight that
broke out between food park staff and local transporters, was cremated at his village Aithal near
Haridwar on Thursday. Police teams probing the
incident reported finding seven rifles and several
lathis from inside the park premises. "All the
weapons have been seized," Sanjay Gunjyal, IG
Garhwal, told TOI. In another development later
in the day, seven men, who were identified as private guards employed with the food park, were
arrested from the Badshahpur bus stand in
Haridwar. Arrest Ramdev too along with his
brother: Congress Meanwhile, reacting to the
incident, Ramdev's close aide, Archarya
Balkrishna told mediapersons on Thursday that
the incident at the food park was a result of "the
food park's employees acting in self-defence". "We
feel genuinely sad that a man was killed in the
incident," he added. Regarding Ram Bharat's
arrest, Balkrishna alleged that he was being
falsely being implicated at the behest of the state
government who was out to take "political
revenge." "No FIR has so far been lodged against
the real culprits in the case," he alleged, adding
that after the Wednesday incident, a number of
miscreants had ransacked the food park factory
for hours. "Almost eight people were injured in
the melee, but the police refused to file an FIR. It
is unfortunate that the police, in connivance with
politicians, is conspiring to render thousands of
people working at the factory, jobless,"
Balkrishna alleged.
Oxford gets its first-ever
female vice-chancellor
LONDON, May 29 (Agencies): The oldest university in the English speaking world has got its first
ever female head.
Professor Louise Richardson, currently the principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St
Andrews, has been nominated as the next VC of
the University of Oxford.
The first women's colleges were founded in the
19th century and women became full members of
the University in 1920.
Five all-male colleges - Brasenose, Jesus
College, Wadham, Hertford and St Catherine's first admitted women in 1974.
St Hilda's College which was originally for
women only was the last of Oxford's single sex colleges. All colleges have admitted both men and
women since 2008.
Oxford currently has 11 female heads of house
- the Rector of Exeter; the Principals of Lady
Margaret Hall, Mansfield, St Hilda's, St Hugh's,
and Somerville; the Provost of Oriel; the Master of
Pembroke; the Warden of St Antony's and the
Presidents of St John's and Wolfson.
Oxford has been the alma mater of the who's
who of the world.
Twenty-six British prime ministers have been
educated at Oxford University. The list includes
present PM David Cameron, Tony Blair,
Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson and Edward
Heath.
Oxford has educated Indians since 1871. Since
then, some of the most famous Indians, including
two of India's PMs - Indira Gandhi and
Manmohan Singh have studied here.
Indians have also held academic posts here
including former president of India, Dr Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen
and India's Chief Scientific Advisor and Bharat
Ratna recipient Professor C N R Rao.
Mamata to accompany PM during Bangladesh visit
KOLK ATA/DELH I,
May 29 (Agencies): In a
significant
development,West
Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee on Thursday
decided to accompany
Prime
Minister
Narendra Modi during
his visit to Bangladesh
next month.
The decision follows a
formal request from the
Centre. However the
West Bengal CM kept
the Centre on tenterhooks as MEA officials
said they had not heard
officially from the State
government till late on
Thursday evening.
Speaking to The Hindu
Trinamool
Congress
secretary general and
State's
Education
Minister
Partha
Chatterjee confirmed
the visit of the Chief
Minister saying it
would further strengthen the country's relation with Bangladesh.
Ms. Banerjee's decision
could also be the first
clear sign that apart
from the LBA, the two
countries could even
consider an accord on
Teesta water sharing
that has been held up
by West Bengal's concerns.
"We want a win-win
situation for both India
and Bangladesh. The
presence of the Chief
Minister will ensure
that interest of West
Bengal is not jeopardised," Mr. Chatterjee
said. The visit also
assumes significance as
Ms.
Banerjee
had
refused to accompany
former Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh during
his
visit
to
Bangladesh
in
September
2011.
Despite much persuasion from the Centre
Ms. Banerjee had opted
out of visit at the
eleventh hour expressing reservations over
not being consulted
over
the proposed
Teesta water sharing
treaty which she had
described against interest of farmers of the
State.
Rahul Gandhi's 'paathshaala' quip is
is another win is a resurgent run
NEW DELHI, May 29
(Agencies):
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
was his nonchalant self
when in a recent interview he was asked about
the sustained attack by
Congress Vice President
Rahul Gandhi against his
government and its policies. "The Congress has
suffered a crushing defeat
and ended with less than
50 seats. Even after a
year, they are not able to
digest this. The peop le
have punished them for
their sins of omis sion
and commission. We
thought they would
learn from this, but it
looks as though they are
proving right the earlier
saying that if con is the
oppos ite of pro, then
Congress is the opposite
of Progress," he told PTI
when
asked
about
Gandhi's sustained campaign.
W hile
the
Prime
Minister has exhibited
calm, his ministers have
been launching an all
about attack against
Gandhi. Home Minister
Rajanth Singh returned
to the BJP's familiar
pre-poll
refrain
of
'yuvraj' to describe the
Congress Vice President
while trying to justify
the multiple foreign visits of the Prime Minister
during his first year in
power. "Earlier, there
was nothing to show on
TV when PM went outside Ind ia. Now TV
channels all over the
world broadcast the
visit. Presidents and
PMs of other countries
break all the protocols
to welcome our PM at
the airports...Congress'
`yuvraj' went on two
months '
sabbatical
abroad without informing anyone. As the
Home Minister, I was
also worried about his
whereabouts. And he is
now levelling mindless
allegations against our
PM," he said. External
Affairs minister Sushma
Swaraj
also
while
attending a meet to
mark one year of the
Modi government in
Dehrad un like many
other BJP leaders before
here was effusive in her
praise of the Prime
Minister "It is no mean
achievement that in just
one year of his tenure
our Prime Minister has
emerged as one of the
front ranking leaders of
the world," Swaraj said.
But coming on a day the
Congress Vice President
launched
a
fresh
scathing attack on the
Prime Minister over his
meeting with his predecessor
Manmohan
Singh, the BJP only ends
up sounding like it's on
the back foot.
HRD ministry's lesson for IIT Madras students:
Kids, criticising PM Modi is not on syllabus
NEW DELHI, May
29 (Agencies): 1908.
The
venue
is
University of California
at Berkeley. Christian
evangelist J. Lovell
Murray
who
had
worked in India is giving a lecture at the
University
on
Awakening
of
the
Orient. Indian students
who found the talk
offensive because of his
comments
about
Hinduism asked if he
would skip the part of
his talk that called
Hindu priests immoral.
He refused. 16 of them
led
by
Girindra
Mukerji, who had just
obtained his master's
degree at the university, occupied the front
row. Mukerjee had
been cited as a "role
model"
for
other
Indians by the university's president at his
farewell
after
he
defended his thesis.
After Murray's talk,
Mukerji asked for the
chance to reply and
launched into an attack
on British rule in India.
Half a dozen more of
the protesters joined
him and the meeting
had to be quickly
brought to a halt. The
January 18, 1908 issue
of San Francisco Call
ran
the
headline
"Hindu Students Flay
Missionary." Someone
commented that whatever
his
intent,
Murray's
talk,
'Awakening of the
Orient', had certainly
lived up to its name.
This story is now part
of the South Asian
Radical
History
Walking
Tour
in
Berkeley.
Flash forward to
2015. Another reputed
institution of higher
learning. Another political protest. This time
in India. And the headline reads "IIT-Madras
bans student group for
criticizing PM Modi,
his policies." Girindra
Mukerjee feels like a
distant dream.
By now the facts are
fairly
well-known.
Someone
sent
an
anonymous complaint
to the HRD ministry
accusing the Ambedkar
Periyar Student Circle
at
IIT-Madras
of
spreading
"hatred"
against the Prime
Minister. At issue is a
pamphlet reproducing
the speech of Dravidian
university academic R
Vivekananda Gopal on
Dr. Ambedkar which
accuses the government of a "Hindutva
agenda",
"assisting
multinational corporates to loot Mother
India" and "communally polarizing the people
by the ban on cow
slaughtering,
ghar
wapasi program and
promoting Vedas".
These are accusations that you can rou-
tinely see debated and
discussed in the media.
The opposition parties,
whether the Left or the
Congress, have all gone
to town and shouted
themselves hoarse on
some variant or the
other of this. This is
hardly "maut ka saudagar" territory.
To think that a university, a place that
should actually foster
debate, an IIT that is
routinely touted as one
of India's crown jewels,
wants
to
squelch
debate is just plain
shocking. The dean
Sivakumar
M.
Srinivasan has said
that the APSC has
"broken the code of conduct" and did not follow
"certain procedures".
Perhaps there are technical reasons for de-recognizing the APSC that
the dean will care to
inform the public about
later.
Kejriwal-Jung tussle: SC issues
notice to AAP govt after Centre's
plea on anti-graft body's powers
NEW DELHI, May 29 (Agencies): The Supreme
Court asked the Delhi government on Friday to
reply within three weeks on the Centre's plea for
a stay on a high court ruling that restored the
power of the state government's anti-corruption
branch (ACB) to probe central government's
employees in graft cases.
A recent HC ruling had said the anti-corruption branch (ACB) can probe Delhi Police officers,
giving a shot in the arm to chief minister Arvind
Kejriwal in his tussle with lieutenant governor
Najeeb Jung. Delhi
Police function under the Union home ministry.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government had
moved the Delhi high court on Thursday, challenging the home ministry notification that also
said Jung had discretionary power over appointments and transfers of key bureaucratic posts in
the Capital.
The Supreme Court described as tentative the
HC observation, even as it issued the notice to the
city government. The apex court, however, clarified that at this stage there was no stay on observations by HC, which had termed the Centre's
notification a "suspect".
The NDA government notifcation issued last
week barred the ACB from registering cases
against central officers, escalating an all-out turf
war between CM Kejriwal and LG Jung.
The gazette notification dated May 21 also said
the LG will have jurisdictions over matters connected with services, public order, police and land
and he may consult with the chief minister whenever he thinks necessary on issues of services
using his own "discretion".
The appointment of senior bureaucrat Gamlin
as acting chief secretary by the LG had initiated
the slugfest in Delhi, with Kejriwal questioning
the LG's authority and accusing him of trying to
take over the administration.
Modi's first year: Chinese
state media slams NDA's
foreign policy
NEW DELHI, May 29 (Agencies): Terming Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's foreign policy securitydriven with no dramatic reforms, an article in staterun Chinese media said his decision to provide evisas for Chinese nationals is inadequate and it
should be extended to business and work visas.
"With only a vague foreign policy platform one year
ago, it now becomes clearer that Modi has largely
inherited his two predecessors' foreign policy legacies and no dramatic reform has so far been seen,"
the article by a researcher from Tsinghua University
published in the Global Times on Thursday said
about Modi's first year in power. "This is especially
evident in his handling of major power politics. He
tries to seek better relations with the US and Japan
in general, and strike an optimal trade-off between
guarding against China's increasing influence and
expanding the economic cooperation," it said. "Under
Modi, India's China policy is still heavily securitydriven. As a result, Modi's foreign economic initiatives to work with China are jeopardised by security
concerns, especially those from the security institutions and domestic hawks," the article said.
"In a successful piece of public diplomacy, Modi
announced during his recent visit to China that evisa facilities will be extended to Chinese nationals,
a hard-won compromise after bargaining with security and intelligence wings over their security concerns. But what gets in the way of bilateral
exchanges are the conference, business and working
visas, a situation that this announcement does nothing to improve because e-visas cover only tourists," it
said. Overt security concerns such as border dispute
and China's Pakistan policy drives India's policy
towards China, it said. "Thus there is a vicious circle
preventing the improvement of bilateral relations:
When China proposes expanding cooperation, India
stresses there is no trust; China proposes to establish and enhance trust, while India mentions China's
relations with Pakistan; China hails mutual understanding, and India wants unilateral compromise on
border disputes; when China wants to negotiate on
border issues, India says there is no trust to base a
solution on," it said.
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SATURDAY 30, MAY 2015
JAMMU
Mufti visits MLA Kupwara,
condoles son’s demise
From Page: 1
BJP,
the most treacherous...
Is Kashmir in the possession of other Nation where KPs require visa or passport to visit there? Asiya Naqash visits CHCs...
including National Health Mission (NHM).
he asked. Why can’t rest of KPs reside in Valley if thousands of KPs are already living there
peacefully? Chuni asked.
Chuni further stated that he would like to revive PM Modi that PoK DPs deserve respectable
return as PoK DPs were looted and deprived from their every basic stuff that makes one’s life
worth living. “PoK DPs were thrown out of their native places by brutally killing, raping their
women and till date they have got only repeated fake assurances by government of sending
PoK DPs back to their places with dignity and honor. “Our ancestral land is still in the illegal occupation of Pakistan for the last 7 decades and presently we are running in fourth generation desperately waiting for our dignified and respectable return to our homes”, Chuni
said.
S. O. S. International Chairman put various question to Prime Minister Narinder Modi to
answer during the press conference:
1.
Why hasn’t the government brought such schemes for PoK DPs who are living in exile
to provide them monthly cash relief, kerosene oil, ration and other necessary commodities for
their livelihood as provided to Valley Migrants?
2.
Why hasn’t government tried to vacate PoK territory till today?
3.
Why weren’t schemes introduced for PoK DPs for their livelihood till their respectable
return to their home?
4.
Why weren’t scheme made for education facilities for PoK DPs wards?
5. Why weren’t reservations made for admissions to PoK DPs wards in technical and professional institutions of the Country?
6. Why hasn’t any scheme been introduced to give better life to PoK DPs by shifting them
from camp’s life for the last 68 years?
7.
Why hasn’t such schemes formulated for unemployed youth to accommodate them in
government services?
8.
Why have distressed PoK DPs been deprived from such facilities as it is being provided to Valley Migrants since their migration from Valley by every successive government?
S. O. S International General Secretary Dr. Gurmeet Singh said that biased approach is being
kept by all the successive governments towards PoK DPs. “At the end I want to know that
why there are two yard sticks in tackling Valley Migrants and PoK DPs?” he asked.
Others who were present JS Mangal, Lalit Kumar, Roshan Lal, Virinder Khajuria, Vinay
Sharma, SP Gupta, Sanjay Kohli & Rajesh Sharma.
PC
on environment discusses...
process in entire state on war footing and abridge the gap between the plantation and
tress that are being cut.
The Members suggested for taking up plantation on a large scale and setting up of local
nurseries to meet the requirements of saplings.
“It is imperative to set realistic goals and chalkout effective plans for tangible results”
the members maintained. They also called for intensifying action against encroachment
of forest lands and strict enforcement of laws.
The Committee expressed dismay over the appalling condition of River Tawi and
stressed on immediate removal of waste from the river bed.
The Chairman asked Commissioner JMC to mobilize the resources for cleaning of the
river adding that the preservation of water resources should be prioritized.
The Committee maintained that solid waste management plan should be well envisaged
and incorporated in the master plan to cater to the increasing population and to provide
better quality of life to the people. The concerned executing agency was directed to submit a report regarding the sewage treatment plant at the earliest.
It was stressed that the Master Plan is implemented strictly with special provisions of
green spaces and parks which act as lungs of a city. The concerned agencies were asked
to enforce the laws strictly and take measures to contain noise pollution.
The Committee also reviewed the steps being taken during the Amarnath Ji Yatra and
Mata Vaishno Devi Ji Yatra for disposal of waste and stressed that effective mechanism
should be put in place to ensure that the ecology of the area is not disturbed.
They stressed that sensitizing the general public and strict enforcement of laws hold the
key to environment preservation. The Chairman exhorted that the problem of environmental degeneration has assumed great proportion and ‘We can no more remain mute
spectators to the issues”. “Collective responsibility towards the cause is required by all
stakeholders to ensure that we give better environment to our future generation” he
added. He also stressed on introducing environment as a compulsory subject in the
school as a step to generate awareness.
Representatives of various organizations highlighted the vital environmental issues
regarding deforestation, encroachments on forest lands, threat of endangered species,
issues of unplanned urbanization and inadequate solid waste management plan.
The Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Dr. Pawan Kotwal was asked to submit a comprehensive detailed report on action plan regarding the Master Plan of Jammu City. The
Committee members stressed that concerned departments should work in synergy to prepare realistic plan for sewerage and solid waste management.
Later, while speaking to the media persons, Mr. Ashwani Kumar informed that the
Parliamentary Committee held deliberations with various stakeholders in the state on the
issues pertaining to safeguarding and preserving the ecological balance. He said that
directions have been issued to the concerned departments to submit detailed plans to
cater to the futuristic needs of the people which will be taken up at the concerned quarters to ensure that bottlenecks are removed and feasible solutions are found . He said that
the Committee will submit a detailed report regarding these vital issues to the Prime
Minister and to the concerned Ministry so that concrete measures are taken to preserve
and rejuvenate the fragile ecology of the region. Mr. Ashwani Kumar stressed that public participation is imperative to save the environment and asked the NGOs and members of civil society to involve the people in this mission. He said science and environment should be made complimentary and supplementary to each other. “Environment is
a legacy we have inherited to pass on to our future generations and its paramount that
we protect and preserve it” he added.
More than 2 thousand...
This was disclosed by Additional Director General of Police (Armed) J&K, Mr. S.M.
Sahai at a Press Conference held here today. He said that participants from other States
including Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana, Bihar, Karnataka, Cycling Federation of
India, National Campers of Cycling Federation of India.
Mr. Sahai said that aim of organizing such sporting event is to promote sports culture in
the state and identify the talented sports persons besides providing opportunity to the
youths of the state to enable them to prepare themselves in National/ International level
sporting events. By carrying out such activities J&K Police wishes to create a healthy
society and conducive environment in the State.
Director General of Police, Mr. K. Rajendra shall flag-off the event at 6.30 am on May
31, 2015 (Sunday) at Police Golf course Boulevard Road. Prize distribution ceremony
shall take place at 8.30 a.m. at the same venue. Minister for PWD (R&B), Jenab Altaf
Ahmed Bukhari will be the chief guest on the occasion.
Adequate arrangements have been made at the Venue and enroute with sufficient number of water sponges, table, medical aid and ambulances. The rules & regulations for the
event shall be as per the guidelines of Cycling Federation of India. Open registration
shall be held at Golf Course from 29th May-2015 onwards.
Several
deputations call...
J&K, also met the Chief Minister and discussed various issues concerning the banking sector. During the meeting, HDFC Bank agreed to adopt two educational institutions to be identified under CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility).
RBI
Governor interacts...
State has passed through very difficult and challenging times and banks will try their
level best to meet genuine demands and aspirations of the people. He said people have
suffered immense loss due to floods and we have to see whether we can entertain
requests of debt and interest relief and in this regard we would like to take up the issues
with the State and the Central Governments. The meeting was attended by representatives of public sector banks operating in the State.
Academic excellence with...
Girls Higher Secondary School Anantnag and interacted with the students and enquired
about their academics besides needs and problems. She urged the girl students to opt for
the career based streams and not to adhere to the traditional ones.
The Minister felicitated the girl students who got different positions in recently
announced board results. She also visited Middle School Khandipahari located at far
flung area and directed for finalizing the land acquisition dispute there so that additional accommodation and toilet facilities can be arranged for the said school.
Mrs. Sethi also visited District Institute of Education and Trainings Anantnag and took
a detailed review of the available facilities there. She showed dismay over the condition
of the infrastructure of the main building and directed for its early renovation.
Earlier various employee unions also met the Minister which include K.P. Colony
Welfare Forum and K.P. Colony Vessu Welfare Forum.
Mrs. Priya Sethi gave patient hearing to the deputations and assured early disposal of
their problems. She also interacted with teaching community and urged them to work
with dedication for upliftment of academic excellence in schools.
The Minister asked the authorities to equip the hospitals with latest diagnostic facilities
and other equipments and ensure availability of all Medicare facilities to the patients so
that they do not suffer during their medical investigation. She announced that the
Primary Health Centre SafaPora will function round the clock from today and directed
the Hospital authorities to implement the orders with letter and spirit. She said that an
ambulance would be provided to PHC SafaPora soon.
During the visit to Community Health Centre, Hajan a large number of locals met the
Minister and demanded posting of a lady doctor and other Para-medics.
Asiya Naqash stressed on regular cleanliness of wards and corridors and maintaining
proper sanitation of the hospitals. On the occasion, the Director General Indian System
of Medicines (ISM), Director Family Welfare briefed the Minister about the facilities
being given to the indoor patients.
Drabu for providing incentives...
loans taken for developmental activities in the State so that the pace of development of
state can be accelerated. For the post flood management scenario in the State, Dr. Drabu
spelled out a 5-R programme of restoration of livelihoods, reconstruction of public infrastructure, revival of business, rebuilding flood management systems in the State and redeveloping J&K as the sustainable State.
The Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Dr. Raghuram Rajan while interacting with
the officers highlighted the core areas including tourism which need special focus and
attention so that it can be promoted in a big way and the economy of the State gets the
required fillip. He also called for digitization of the land record which he said would
expand the credit flow substantially.
Dr. Rajan said that many good small industries got affected due to floods and focus
should be on these healthy sick industries rather than focusing on unhealthy sick industries. He said Agricultural Infrastructure and marketing also needs to be strengthened in
the State to boost the local economy.
“All the suggestions and requests put forth by the government would be explored”, Dr.
Rajan said. Financial Commissioner, Industries and Commerce, Mr. Khurshid Ahmed
Ganai also spoke on the occasion and spelled out the measures needed to be taken for
putting the industrial scenario of the flood hit valley and other parts of Jammu division
back on the rails by providing the necessary incentives. Principal Secretary to the Chief
Minister, Mr. B. B. Vyas also spoke on the occasion.
Veeri reviews arrangements for Haj pilgrimage
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
Minister for Hajj and
Auqaf, Mr. Abdul Rehman
Veeri Friday chaired a
high-level meeting to
review the arrangements
put in place by the State
Hajj Committee and various state and central government departments for
the Haj pilgrims from the
state.
The
Minister
was
informed that flights from
Srinagar
to
Madina
Munawara will operate
from August 16 .The
flights will operate directly
from Srinagar to Madina
Munawara. A total number
of 6600 pilgrims are proceeding for Haj this year
from the State.
He was also informed
that Air India is putting in
service planes of greater
capacity this year. He
directed timely arrangements of boarding and
lodging and vaccination of
pilgrims.
Mr. Veeri directed the
officials to ensure that the
pilgrims do not face any
inconvenience during their
stay and travel. He
stressed for close coordination between all agencies responsible for the
conduct of Haj for providing best services to the pilgrims.
The meeting was further
told that first phase of
training of the selected pilgrims has been conducted
throughout the State
except Leh and Kargil,
where it had to be postponed on the advice of district administration and
now a team of trainers is
being deployed shortly for
the purpose. The 2nd
phase of training to the pilgrims would be given after
the holy month of
Ramadan, the meeting was
informed.
The
meeting
also
reviewed flood restoration
works of the Haj House
and the Minister was
apprised by the concerned
about the status of each
work of the complex.
The Minister directed the
concerned authorities to
ensure the completion of
the flood restoration works
with focussed attention on
completion of renovation
and landscaping, drainage,
sewerage, jacketing of
boundary walls, street path
lights of the Haj Complex
well in time.
Mr Veeri also directed
the concerned authorities
for installation of lift system in residential block on
priority. In this regard he
instructed them to submit a
proposal to the government at the earliest for
sanction of funds.
D i v i s i o n a l
Commissioner, Kashmir,
Dr.
Asgar
Samoon,
Executive Officer State
Haj Committee, Mr Fayaz
Ahmad Lone,
Chief
Engineers R&B, PHE,
ERA, UEED, MD JKPCC,
besides senior officers of
Health,
Floriculture,
Airport
Authority,
Municipal Cooperation
and other concerned
departments attended the
meeting.
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
Minister for Agriculture
Mr. Ghulam Nabi Lone
Hanjura while on tour to
Karnataka State to have an
insight and first hand information of the Silk Industry
in
Karnataka
met
Chairman and other officers of Central Silk Board
and discussed various
important issues pertaining
to Sericulture and Silk
Industry of Jammu and
Kashmir.
It was decided that in
addition to the promotion
and development of Precocoon Sector emphasis
will be laid on Post
Cocoon Sector for value
addition and employment
generation. It was pro-
posed that in addition to
multiend reeling Units,
possibilities of establishment of automatic reeling
machines will be explored.
This initiative will help the
State to produce Silk yarn
of International quality and
will in turn strengthen the
weaving sector and export
of silk fabric and garments.
Chairman Central Silk
Board agreed to continue
the support to the State to
develop Silk Industry on
modern lines.
The Minister also visited
Central Silk Technological
Research Institute at
Bengaluru and Central
Sericultural Research and
Training Institute, Mysore
and discussed various
issues of R&D in Silk
Industry.
Central Silk Board
agreed to provide technology and financial support
to the State to promote the
Silk Industry.
The Minister was accompanied
by
Director
Sericulture Dr Malik
Farooq and Joint Secretary
(Tech.) Regional Office,
Central Silk Board, New
Delhi Dr R.D. Singh.
It is pertinent to mention
that Jammu and Kashmir
has very congenial climate
for cocoon production.
Due to the concerted
efforts of Sericulture
Development Department
and Central Silk Board,
Sericulture has become
attractive and profitable in
the State.
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, today visited the residence of Bashir Ahmad Dar, MLA Kupwara,
whose son, Basharat Bashir, died in a fatal road accident
near Pattan on May 26.
Deputy Chief Minister, Dr. Nirmal Singh, Minister for
Rural Development, Abdul Haq Khan, Minister for
Public Works, Floriculture, Gardens & Parks, Syed Altaf
Bukhari and Minister for Animal Husbandry and Science
& Technology, Sajad Gani Lone were also present.
The Chief Minister spent some time with Bashir Ahmad
Dar and the other members of the bereaved family and
expressed sympathies with them in their hour of grief. He
also prayed for peace to the departed soul.
Beerwa Fruit Growers Association
calls on Horticulture Minister
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
A deputation of Fruit Growers and Traders Association
Beerwa led by former MLA, Dr. Mohammad Shafi Wani
called on Minister for Horticulture, Mr Abdul Rehman
Veeri here today.
The deputationists pleaded for development of fruit
mandi at Beerwa, providing of quality pesticides to fruit
growers, relief for affected growers of September floods,
implementation of crop insurance scheme and development of fruit plant nursery in the area.
The Minister gave patient hearing to the deputationists.
He said that horticulture is the backbone of States’ economy and government has initiated several measures to promote this industry in the State. Mr Veeri said that high density fruit plants imported from European countries would
be introduced in the State. He said in order to control the
menace of sale of spurious pesticides the government
would constitute a State Regularity Authority. He said
steps have been also initiated to launch crop insurance and
market intervention schemes to support the growers.
Power shutdown
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
In order to carry out emergency works/branch cutting
on 11 KV Nagrota feeder, the power supply to TRT
Nagrota, Migrant Camp Nagrota, Toll Plaza Nagrota etc
will remain affected from 6 am to 12 noon on May 30.
SDM reviews Sudhmahadev
Mela arrangements
RM NEWS SERVICE
UDHAMPUR, MAY 29:
A meeting was held under the chairmanship of
Devendra Sharma Sub Divisional Magistrate, Chenani at
Sudhmahadev to review the arrangements for the smooth
conduct of three days Sudhmahadev Mela which is commencing from June Ist at Sudhmahadev.
The meeting reviewed the plan for making provision of
drinking water, power supply, medicare, sanitation, security, transport, accommodation, repair of road, checking
of rates of essentials and parking of vehicles etc.
Sub Divisional Magistrate stressed upon the officers
concerned to make coordinated efforts for ensuring the
arrangements well in advance to make the mela a grand
success.
DC pays surprise visit to Govt. offices,
Hanjura meets Chairman Central Silk Board, discusses
seeks explanation from absentee employees
future action Plan for Sericulture, Silk Industry
RM NEWS SERVICE
KATHUA, MAY 29:
To check the punctuality in the offices, District
Development Commissioner Kathua Ajay Singh Jamwal
paid surprise visit to various offices in DC Office
Complex today. Assistant Commissioner Revenue, Atul
Gupta, Chief Planning Officer, Ram Rattan, AD Planning
Babu Ram accompanied the DDC during the inspection.
During the inspection, the DC found some officers and
officials absent from duties without proper leave or permission besides movement registers were also not properly maintained. Taking serious note of this, the DC issued
notice to the absentees to explain their position. While
warning the officers/officials, the DC said that strict
action will be taken against the erring employees. He
passed strict directions to the officers for maintaining
punctuality and movement registers in their respective
offices. He directed the district heads to be on time and
adhere to the office timings strictly so that general public
do not face any inconvenience. During the inspection, the
DC also checked the cleanliness in and around office
premises and passed instructions to the officers for keeping the offices neat and clean. Assistant Commissioner
(Development) Kathua Sunil Sharma was nominated as
Nodal Officer for checking cleanliness of the offices in
Snehapriya Roi crowned Indian Princess 2015
Javid Baig chairs
Estimates Committee meet
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
A meeting of the Committee
on Estimates of J & K
Legislative Assembly was held
here today. Chairman, Mr.
Javid Hassan Baig presided.
Legislatures Mr. Mubarak
Gul, Mr. Ishfaq Ahmad Sheikh,
Raja Manzoor Ahmad and Mr.
Abdul Rahim Rather, who are
members of the committee,
participated in the meeting.
The meeting discussed various matters relating to
Estimates at length and gave
various suggestions with
regard to future course of
action of the committee.
Speaking on the occasion, the
chairman urged upon the members to make the best use of
their powers as people have
pined hope on them. He also
called concerned members to
ensure punctuality in the committee meetings. Earlier, the
members gave assurance of
support to the chairman and
put forth various suggestions to
discuss the matters relating to
Irrigation and Flood Control,
Consumer Affairs and Public
Distribution
and
Power
Development Department during next meetings. They also
gave suggestions for making
the committee a vibrant tool
for bringing transparency and
accountability in the public
delivery system. Secretary
Legislative Assembly Mr.
Muhammad Ramzan was also
present in the meeting.
Snehapriya Roi has won sixth season of
Indian Princess 2015. The first runner up
award has gone to Shaista Marianne
where as Sukanya Bhattacharya was
adjusted second runner up.The mega
event was held at Music hall, Rangsit
University; Bangkok.It was hosted by
Bollywood heroine, Minissha Lamba. The
event started with a wonderful welcome
speech by event organizers, Mr. Sunil
Rane and Ms. Varsha Rane. Several
important dignitaries were present to
pledge their support. Mr. Satish Sahgal of
Sahgal group was one such personality.
Mr. Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul, Minister
of Tourism and Sports, Thailand was the
chief guest of honour during occasion.The
previous year's winner Chandni Sharma
performed on a medley of songs after
which a participants' introduction round
was held with Bollywood dance finale.
Actress Surveen Chawla gave sizzling
performance on hit songs like "Aaj phir
tumpe pyaar aaya hai", "Tune mari entry"
and "Tere bina kick milti nahi". Gauhar
Khan set the stage on fire with performances on "Chittiya kalaiya", "Suraj
dooba hai yaro" and "Dance basanti".
Among the other winners, Miss
Photogenic award was won by Sukanya
Bhattacharya. The Best Body award went
to Audrey D'silva and Amanpreet
Karnawal got Miss Talented award.
Bhavna Makhija was declared winner for
Best Hair category and Best Smile was
gone to Shaista Marianne. Miss Reality
was bagged by Aparajita Verma and Miss
Great Community Award was got by Parul
Sharma.The contest was conceptualised
by Mr. Sunil Rane . It was backed by the
Atharva Group in association with its hospitality division-Blue Ocean Resort & Spa
and its entertainment divisionAshwagandha Entertainment Pvt. Ltd as
well.The Tourism Authority of Thailand
has actively supported Indian Princess for
the international training and grooming of
contestants in Thailand .
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SATURDAY 30, MAY 2015
JAMMU
FIFA Congress live: Sepp Blatter asks to be re-elected despite corruption crisis
ZURICH: Sepp Blatter will
seek another term as FIFA
president later Friday after
asking soccer leaders to
entrust him with guiding the
governing body's recovery
from a corruption crisis —
again.
"We have been hit and I personally have been slapped,"
Blatter said at his 2011 reelection, which was overshadowed by a bribery scandal
within FIFA. "I don't want
that ever again."
Four years on, FIFA's reputation has been bruised by the
deepest scandal in its 111year history, and Blatter's
leadership is coming under
question.
Sepp Blatter wants a fifth
term as head of FIFA. APSepp
Blatter wants a fifth term as
head of FIFA. AP
The 209 FIFA member
nations will decide Friday
whether to stick with the 79year-old Blatter or end his 17year rule by backing Prince
Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan.
The vote comes two days after
Swiss police arrested seven
soccer officials, including two
FIFA vice presidents, as part
of corruption investigations in
the United States and
Switzerland. It has been a
dramatic build up to the election, which European dele-
gates wanted to delay.
"It is necessary to begin to
restore trust in our organization," Blatter told the opening
session of the FIFA congress
Thursday, a day after the
police raids in Zurich dominated headlines around the
world. "Let this be the turning
point. More needs to be done
to make sure everyone in football behaves responsibly and
ethically." UEFA President
Michel Platini believes that
requires the departure of
Blatter, warning that a boycott of the World Cup by
European nations could be
considered if there wasn't a
change of president. "I feel
pain in my stomach," Platini
said. "As someone who has
worked with FIFA for many
years, I am absolutely sickened." Having opted against
challenging Blatter himself,
Platini is among the leading
supporters of Prince Ali and
believes at least 45 European
votes will go to the Jordanian
royal. But a Blatter victory
seems more likely — given the
broad extent of his power base
— barring a fresh development in the twin-pronged
investigations by Swiss and
American authorities.
A two-thirds majority would
be enough to win the secret
vote, or a simple majority in a
second round of voting.
Just forcing the ballot to a sec-
Abhinav Bindra seals berth for fifth consecutive Olympics
NEW DELHI: Abhinav Bindra
walked away with India’s fourth
Olympic quota place in his first final
of the year. After failing to make the
cut in the previous two World Cups
at Fort Benning and Changwon, luck
smiled on the country’s only Olympic
gold medallist. Bindra totalled 627.5
points to qualify sixth for the final on
Thursday, and once he shot 122.4 in
the final to finish sixth at the ISSF
World Cup in Munich, a quota place
for the Rio Olympics was India’s.
There were three spots up for grabs
in the 10m air rifle event and of the
eight finalists, Zhu Qinan and Yang
Haoran of China, having already
won quota places were ruled out.
Belarusian Vitali Bubnovich too had
already won a quota place and
Russia’s Vladimir Maslennikov was
not in contention as two of his countrymen had already bagged spots in
the event.
So the moment reigning Olympic
champion Alin George Moldoveanu
of Romania was eliminated in the
final, the quota places were decided.
Ukraine’s Oleh Tsarko was awarded
the first quota of the day while
Serbia’s Stephen Pletikosic was the
third after Bindra.
Gagan Narang (50m prone), Jitu Rai
(10m air pistol) and Apurvi
Chandela (10m air rifle) are the
other shooters to bag quotas before
Bindra. Bindra had faced fitness
issues before flying to Munich. He
had complained of shoulder impingement, but the injury wasn’t serious.
National Rifle Association of India
chief Raninder Singh lauded Bindra
for the result.
“He is not an Olympic champion for
nothing. He is very clear about his
goals and preparations leading up to
big events. It is something every professional sportsman in this country
should emulate. We have our fingers
crossed for him for the Olympics,” he
said. The gold was won by Qinan
with a total of 206.0 points while
Maslennikov finished second with
205.7. Tsarkov finished third with
184.2 points. This was Qinan’s 21st
medal in World Cups.
Rio would be Bindra’s fifth successive Olympic Games and maybe the
last time he will compete in India
colours. He had announced his
retirement from active sports during
last year’s Asian Games in Incheon.
“Tomorrow will mark the end of my
professional shooting life! I will,
however, still shoot, compete as a
hobby shooter, training twice a
week. Yes, I will still try to be at Rio
and my bio is now most appropriate!
Great times and am sure there will
be a few more!” Bindra had tweeted
then.
ond round could represent a
victory of sorts for Blatter's
critics, denying the incumbent
president an emphatic mandate in his next term.
But while pressure seems to
be mounting on Blatter globally, he has proven to be a survivor of scandals.
Blatter's presidency seemed
set to end after four years
when, in the build-up to the
2002 vote, he was accused of
financial mismanagement by
members of FIFA's ruling
executive committee and a
criminal complaint was filed
with
Swiss
prosecutors.
Blatter still beat Issa Hayatou
— now a FIFA vice president
— to retain the presidency
and the criminal complaint
came to nothing.
FIFA is clearly in the sights of
law enforcement agencies
again, although Blatter has
not been accused of wrongdoing in the criminal investigations.
A U.S. Justice Department
probe accused 14 international soccer officials or sports
marketing
executives
of
bribery, racketeering, fraud
and money-laundering over
two decades in connection
with marketing rights worth
hundreds of millions of dollars
awarded for tournaments in
North and South America.
Is the FIFA waiting to
hear from Chennai?
LONDON:
Chennai
may not have made its
big moves to get the
2017 under-17 FIFA
World Cup but the
championship officials
who were in Kochi on
Thursday, appear keen
to have the Tamil Nadu
capital as a host.
“Javier Ceppi (the
Tournament Director)
mentioned today that
Kochi is one of his
favourite venues but
Chennai
is
his
favourite,”
Joy
Bhattacharya,
the
Project Director of the
under-17 World Cup,
told The Hindu.
“It has the only
FIFA-compliant stadium in the country and
we have also had a look
at the training venues.”
“We are waiting for
that big push, the
Tamil
Nadu
Government guarantee, to get things moving in Chennai.” That
could be one reason
why the FIFA has provisionally selected five
venues, it could be
waiting for Chennai to
be the sixth to host the
group phase. “Now that
Jayalalithaa is back as
the Chief Minister,
things could happen
very fast if she wants
to,” said Bhattacharya.
Are the Tamil Nadu
Government and the
State football body
TFA listening?
Defending champion Saina Nehwal
bows out of Australian Open
NEW DELHI: World number one and defending champion Saina Nehwal crashed out of
Australian Open Super Series on Friday, after
losing to Wang Shixian of China in the quarterfinals. Fifth seeded Wang dominated the match
from the beginning and registered an emphatic
21-15, 21-13 victory over the second seeded Indian
ace. Saina could not live up to her reputation of
being a gritty fighter against the Chinese on
Friday and lost the last 8 encounter in straight
games in just 42 minutes.
With Saina's defeat, Indian challenge in Down
Under came to an end as others had failed to
reach the quarterfinal stage in Sydney.
A four-decade wait ends for Warriors
OAKLAND: It wins Game 5 to
best Rockets 4-1; to tip-off
Finals at home against the
Cavaliers
Golden State Warriors is
headed to the NBA finals for
the first time in 40 years,
eliminating the Houston
Rockets on Wednesday to set
up a title clash with Cleveland
Cavaliers. The Warriors, the
best team in the regular season with 67 victories and 15
defeats, pulled away late to
beat the Rockets 104-90 and
seal a 4-1 series victory in the
best-of-seven
Western
Conference finals.
Warriors are back in the
championship series for the
first time since 1975, when
they swept the Washington
Bullets in four games to win
the title.
The Warriors hosts game one
in Oakland on June 4.
Four games to glory
“We’re four wins away from
the goal,” reigning MVP
Stephen Curry told the crowd,
his words almost drowned out
by the cheering of the
Warriors faithful. Curry, playing with a protective sleeve on
his right arm after a frightening fall in game four in which
he also hit his head on the
court, led the Warriors with
26 points.
Forward Harrison Barnes
played a key role, helping
Golden State break open a
close contest with four
straight baskets to cap an 112 scoring run that turned a
six-point lead into an 87-72
Warriors advantage with 7:07
left to play. Barnes scored
nine straight points on a jump
shot, a three-pointer, a running basket and a dunk. “I
was just trying to be aggressive,” said Barnes, who
stepped up after team-mate
Klay Thompson left the game
with an ear laceration that
had to be stitched up.
Thompson scored 20 points
before he took a knee in the
ear from Rockets forward
Trevor Ariza. “Obviously they
were putting a lot of attention
on Steph,” Barnes said.
“When (Thompson) went
down, I was just trying to fill
in the pieces.”
Golden State’s rookie coach
Steve Kerr, who won five NBA
titles as a player, said it was a
different feeling to coach a
team to the finals. “It’s maybe
even more rewarding because
you feel responsible for a lot of
people’s welfare,” he said. As
for getting there for the first
time in 40 years, Kerr said,
“it’s a joy.”
The Warriors defence harried Rockets star guard James
Harden into a dismal two-for11 shooting performance. He
missed all three of his threepoint attempts and finished
with an NBA play-off record
13 turnovers. Harden, runnerup to Curry in MVP voting,
had scored a spectacular 45
points as the Rockets fended
off elimination in game four,
but was held to just 14 in this
one.
Dwight
Howard
led
Houston with 18 points and
16 rebounds, but the Rockets
shot just 35.1 per cent from
the field. “We were extraordinarily bad at finishing at the
rim,” said Rockets coach
Kevin McHale.
“We didn’t finish very well
at the rim. They got too many
offensive rebounds and we
had too many live ball
turnovers at the top of the
floor,” McHale said. “Those
three things really doomed
us.”
Barnes delights
Houston had cut the
Warriors’ lead to eight points
with 4:19 remaining when
Barnes hit two free throws
and came up with another
dunk.
The Rockets couldn’t get
the deficit below nine points
the rest of the way in an end
to a season in which they battled injuries but notched the
third-best record in the regular season.
“This isn’t where we wanted to end at,” Harden said.
“It’s a really good season for
us. Next year we want to be
better, and we will.”
Bengaluru FC - Mohun Bagan:
Where the battle lines will be drawn
BENGALURU: As the
I-League title decider
looms ever closer, Goal
takes a look a some key
performers for both
teams and explain how
the battle will shape
up...
History will be created
this
weekend,
on
Sunday to be more precise, when Mohun
Bagan step up to challenge Bengaluru FC in
a fairy tale winnertakes-all I-League title
deciding match, at the
Kanteerva
stadium,
Bengaluru. No one
could’ve scripted a better finish to this year’s
championship, which
has entertained with
the right dollops of
thrills and spills.
But what’s enticing is
that the Blues’ bout
with the Mariners will
put on show some of
the best performers
throughout the season
on display in direct
retaliation with one
another. Individualistic
opera’s are often key to
a team’s synchrony and
so both teams' lynchpins will be on top form
to put in their best display of the season in
this fulcrum of tie on
which their champi-
onship hopes rest.
It’s easy to categorize
this match as a war of
the league’s best attack
versus
defense.
However,
deference
must be paid to the
other great façade of
these teams - their
midfield. The engine
rooms have succeeded
in taking the pressure
off their strikers and
it’s a vital hunting
ground that must be
dominated by either
team.
For the hosts, impetuous
lies
on
the
Eugeneson Lyngdoh
and Joshua Walker
axis of control. 13 of
Bengaluru’s 34 goals
have been sourced from
the centre of the park
and Sanjoy Sen, the
coach of Bagan will be
aware
that
with
Bengaluru’s strikers
are hardly in record
breaking form, he will
find the need to stop
the dam breaking from
the middle. They have
a habit of shooting from
distance, as illustrated
from a few of Lyngdoh’s
strikes, which have
often confounded goalkeepers and smacked
the back of the net.
Also, on the minds of
the visitors is the
method to keep Sunil
Chhetri quiet. The
Indian record goal scorer for the national team
is having an extended
parched season, scoring
just
two
goals,
although one may
argue he has been
played blasphemously
out of position. On the
flip side, he played virtually in the same spot
last year, but with a
different output, that of
14 goals. Bello Razaq
and company will be on
their toes to keep
Chhetri
and
his
cronies, namely Robin
Singh and Sean Rooney
out of the most dangerous areas of attack.
Denson Devadas and
Sehnaj Singh have
stepped up to the fore
in the Bagan midfield
this term, with not just
goals but also plenty of
bite. Are they an oddpair that complement
each
other
tidily?
Based on their combined
performances
this term, one would
think so. Sehnaj and
Devadas have both
scored a goal apiece,
whilst their partner
often in the middle,
Bikramjit Singh too
has a goal to his name.
The
aforementioned
duo, in the absence of
an out and out creative
attacker, tend to act
like destroyers and
their efforts to keep the
duo of Lyngdoh and
Walker shut will be of
particular importance.
Sehnaj has earned an
international call up
for his adventures and
he will be keen to cap it
off with an I-League
title.
Sri Lanka Cricket sacks three
in sexual favours scandal
COLOMBO:
Sri
Lankan cricket’s governing
body
on
Wednesday announced
the sacking of three
officials after allegations that members of
the women’s national
team were asked to
perform sexual favours
to keep their places. Sri
Lanka Cricket (SLC)
said all three officials
were shown the door at
the end of their contracts last month after
an internal inquiry
found two of them
guilty of sexual harassment and a third of
improper conduct.
The board said in a
statement that “there
was no evidence of any
physical intimacy” by
any of the three men,
none of whom have
been named. But the
investigation had nevertheless determined
that “there have been a
few incidents of sexual
harassment
which
were committed by two
male officials” and that
the third was guilty of
“improper conduct ...
which did not amount
to sexual harassment,”
the SLC added.
Sri Lanka’s sports
ministry said at the
weekend that criminal
prosecutions would follow after its own
inquiry had found two
team
managers
demanded
sexual
favours from team
members. Under Sri
Lankan law, anyone
found guilty of sexual
harassment can face up
to five years in prison
plus an unspecified
fine. The board said
both its own report and
the separate inquiry by
the sports ministry had
highlighted the “unsat-
isfactory
situation”
involving the women’s
team, where there was
“favouritism and bias”.
“Both reports have
commented adversely
on the failure to ensure
that a female manager
handles the women’s
cricket team,” SLC
said, adding that they
will take appropriate
action to “rectify” management issues.
Despite the sports
ministry’s
weekend
announcement,
no
charges have been
brought against any
official so far.
An
independent
panel was asked by the
ministry
last
November to investigate local media allegations that unidentified
players were dropped
from the team for
refusing to have sex
with sports officials.
Velavan Senthilkumar triumphs
CHENNAI:
Tamil
Nadu’s
Velavan
Senthilkumar defeated
Yohan Darius Pandole
of Maharashtra 11-3,
11-4, 6-11, 12-10 in the
under-19 section of the
ISA
junior
Open
squash
here
on
Thursday.
Ms. D. Sabitha Bengra,
Principal
Secretary
(School
Education),
Government of Tamil
Nadu, gave away the
prizes.
The results: (all finals):
Boys: U-19: Velavan
Senthilkumar (TN) bt
Yohan Darius Pandole
(Mah) 11-3, 11-4, 6-11,
12-10.
U-17:
Adhitya
Raghavan (TN) bt
Abhay Singh (TN) 1210, 11-3, 4-11, 9-11, 115.
U-15: Tushar Shahani
(Mah) bt Rahul Baitha
(Mah) 11-7, 7-11, 11-9,
11-6.
U-13: Neel Joshi (Mah)
bt Navaneeth Prabhu
(TN) 11-9, 8-11, 11-8,
11-13, 11-8.
U-11: Paarth Ambani
(Mah) bt Vivaan Shah
(Mah) 8-11, 6-11, 11-2,
12-10, 11-9. Girls: U19: Adya Advani (Mah)
bt
Harshit
Kaur
Jawanda (Del) 10-12,
12-10, 11-5, 11-6.
U-17:
Akanksha
Sulankhe (Goa) bt
Sunayna
Kuruvilla
(TN) 11-8, 11-5, 12-10.
U-15:
Samita
Sivakumar (TN) bt
Diya Joukani 11-4, 511, 11-7, 11-9.
(PAGE 8)
SATURDAY 30, MAY 2015
JAMMU
Sukhnandan inaugurates Channi-Mansar WSS
Lift water supply scheme to benefit 17300 souls
RM NEWS SERVICE
UDHAMPUR, MAY 29:
Minister for Public Health
Engineering, Irrigation and
Flood
Control,
Mr
Sukhnandan Kumar today
inaugurated newly constructed Water Supply
Scheme-Channi Mansar.
The scheme is a Lift
scheme and the Source of
WSS is Gambhir Nallah.
A lift scheme, with
Gambhir
Nallah
as
sources, has been developed to delink Mansar
Lake, and completed at a
cost of Rs 5.28 crore.
With a capacity of supplying 15000-gallon water per
day, the scheme will benefit 17300 population of
Channi Mansar, Morah
Padey, Lower Machia,
Upper Kha, Saral, Chowa,
Battal, Kakrae, Bhatti and
pilgrim/tourist spots of
Khoon and Mansar.
MLA Ramnagar Mr R
S Pathania ,
Deputy
Commissioner, Udhampur,
Dr
Shahid
Iqbal
Choudhary,
Chief
Engineer, PHE Mr Pran
Nath, SE PHE, SE
Irrigation and Flood control,
XEN
PHE
,
Sarpanches, panches and a
large number of local people of the area were also
present on the occasion.
Addressing the people,
the Minister said that the
Government is committed
to the overall development
of the state and “Our priority is to complete the ongoing projects so that people
get the benefit at the earliest”. He further added that
the Government is committed to uplift the economic
condition of the people and
I&C Minister visits Chakan-Da-Bagh
Holds interaction with Cross LoC traders
RM NEWS SERVICE
POONCH, MAY 29:
The Minister for Industries
and Commerce, Chander
Parkash today visited
Trade Facilitation Centre,
Chakan-Da-Bagh
and
interacted with the Cross
LoC traders.
Accompanied by Deputy
Commissioner,
Nisar
Ahmed Wani, Senior
Superintendent of Police, J
S Johar and Senior BJP
Leader, Pardeep Sharma,
the delegation of traders
apprised the Minister about
the issues hampering
smooth flow of cross LoC
trade and put forth their
demands for its further
growth and expansion.
They demanded increase in
number of tradable items
as well as increase in the
number of trucks allowed
in a day to other side. They
also demanded further
strengthening of infrastructure at TFC and communication facility between
traders of the two sides.
The delegation also urged
the Minister to facilitate
visit of J&K traders to
PoK.
Saying that LoC trade is an
effective
tool
for
Confidence
Building
Measures (CBM) between
the people of two sides, the
Minister assured the
traders that appropriate
measures would be taken
to facilitate further growth
of the trade. He said that
with the removal of bottlenecks cross LoC trade
would further expand and
benefit the traders besides
normalizing
relations
between the two countries.
Earlier the Minister also
chaired a meeting of officers of DIC, Handloom
and KVIB to review their
functioning. The concerned officers briefed him
about various activities of
their departments.
The Minister emphasized
on the need for establishing new industrial estates
and asked the concerned
officers to identify land for
the same, which would in
turn help in the establishment of more industrial
units and generation of
employment for the unemployed youth in district. He
asked the officers to facilitate industrial unit holders
and eliminate unnecessary
formalities, which lead to
delays. He directed them to
proactively facilitate the
growth of industrial units
and work with dedication
and aware the public about
various schemes of their
departments.
Later, the Minister also
addressed a public meeting
at Dak Bungalow Poonch,
where he reiterated the
commitment of coalition
government to work for
overall development of the
state with special focus on
the hitherto neglected
areas.
He said there is huge scope
for the development of
agriculture and horticulture
sector in the district and
necessary steps will be
taken to harness the same.
The Minister also met a
delegation of flood victims
and gave a patient hearing
to their grievances.
Tarigami, Hakim condemns killing of telecom
operators, demand stern punishment for guilty
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
Strongly condemning the
spree of fatal attacks on
cellular operators and
civilians associated with
telecom franchise business,
MLA Kulgam Mohammad
Yousuf Tarigami and MLA
Khan
Sahib
Hakim
Mohammad Yaseen have
expressed serious concern
over the fallout of such
attacks on normal life in
Kashmir.In a joint statement issued here, the two
leaders demanded that the
guilty be immediately
identified and stern punishment be awarded to them.
They said that the killing of
an operator and a deadly
attack on a civilian who
had donated land to a telecom company in Pattan
have not only resulted into
network breakdown but
has hit the business community in North Kashmir
badly."J&K is suffering
from mounting unemployment problem and in such
circumstances
telecom
business had provided a
ray of hope to the qualified
unemployed youth. The
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cellular services have
become a lifeline for the
people both in terms of
communication and the
business. The government
must ensure that adequate
measures are taken to
ensure their safety and hassle free telecom," Tarigami
and
Hakim
demanded.Meanwhile, the
two leaders have appealed
the people of Budgam to
maintain peace and social
harmony so that the forces
trying to disrupt the peaceful environs for their petty
interests are defeated.
provide them better basic
facilities.
Minister also listened
to the demands of the people and assured all possible help from the Govt
side. MLA Ramnagar
demanded additional WSS
for Majalta Hqr and water
tankers for Majalta and
Ramnagar. He urged for
sanctioning of more funds
for making old WSS functional.
Earlier,
Minister
inspected the under construction Water Supply
Schemes Sialkoribar and
Bilaspur-Deot at Majalta
area.
The work on both these
schemes is in full swing at
an approx cost of Rs 3.79
crore (Sialkori-Bar WSS)
and Rs 3.87 crore
(Bilaspur-Deot WSS).
The Minister directed
the executing agency to
ensure speedy completion
of these WSS so that the
people of the area get the
desired benefit at the earliest . He further directed
that there should not be any
compromise on the quality
of works. He also directed
the officers to ensure proper filtration and treatment
of the drinking water
before it is supplied to the
common masses.
Art in Public Places: Programmes
on Habba Khatoon, Ahad
Zargar on May 30, 31
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
Under its much acknowledged initiative “Art in Public
Places”, J&K Government’ Department of Culture is
organizing special programmes on legendary Kashmiri
poets, Habba Khatoon and Ahad Zargar at Iqbal Park
and Badam Vaer on 30 and 31 May respectively.
Habba Khatoon is a 16th century Kashmiri mystic-poet
and ascetic, who is also known as 'Nightingale of
Kashmir'. Ahad Zargar is a celebrated Kashmiri poet
famous for his fiery verses.
Pioneered by the Minister for Finance & Culture, Dr
Haseeb Drabu, the initiative is aimed at bringing local
culture and art into the day to day lives of the people.
Drabu is known for his inspiring initiatives, during his
stint as J&K Bank Chairman, to preserve and promote
state's cultural heritage.
It is being done in a different way to bring out the richness of the state's culture through theme-based programmes by dedicating evenings to legendary poets,
musical instruments and poetic genres, Dr Drabu said.
The programmes also provide a platform to the youth to
showcase their talent through art and photography exhibitions, street plays and street art. "The objective of this
distinctive series of programmes is also to promote creative theatrical expression and artistic enrichment," Dr
Drabu said.
Reasi Police holds PCPG
meeting at Jerri
RM NEWS SERVICE
REASI, MAY 29:
To understand the concerns of local residents about
policing issues in a better way and strengthen the bond
with public, District Police Reasi have organized a
series of public meetings across the district. Under this
series, a Police Community Partnership Group Meeting
(PCPG) was held today at Jerri, Reasi, with DySP(Hqr)
Reasi-Mohan Sharma in the chair. The meeting was
attended by sarpanches, panches, prominent citizens, a
large number of local youth and women of the area. The
participants raised various issues and sought ban on
liquor, check on bovine smuggling, overloading by
matadors and buses, improvement of roads and special
matador service for students. While speaking on the
occasion, Mohan Sharma explained the objective of the
event and appreciated the people for sparing their valuable time to attend the meeting.
Rafi anguished on mysterious fire
breakout at Mausoleum in Budgam
Kavinder reviews progress of
R-APDRP works in Jammu city
RM NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, MAY 29:
Speaker
Legislative
Assembly Kavinder Gupta
today
reviewed
the
progress of Restructured
Accelerated
Power
Development
Reforms
Programme (RAPDRP)
works in Jammu city being
executed by IRCON
International Limited – a
Government of India
Undertaking.
Chairing a meeting of
Power
Development
Department
engineers
PDD and representatives
of Ircon, the speaker had
thorough review of the
status and progress of
works undertaken to
strengthen the power distribution system in the
Jammu
city.
Superintendent Engineer
EM&RE Sunil Gupta,
XEN Arvind Chibber, AEE
Sanjeev Rometra, General
Manager/
Electrical
IRCON
International
Limited Rajendra Kumar
Choudhary, other senior
officers attended the meeting. Kavinder Gupta
directed the executing
agency to gear up men and
machinery for timely completion of the prestigious
project.
Showing serious concern over the pace of work
under
the
project,
Kavinder Gupta said that
the work of erection of
poles is very slow and it
need to be speeded up to
improve the power scenario in Jammu city . He
also directed the executing
agency to ensure quality
work and immediate
restoration of dug up roads.
General Managar, IRCON
told the Speaker that the
work is delaying due to
shortfall in supply of PCC
Poles. However, he said
that company has now
ordered the same from outside the state.
The Speaker also asked
the Power Development
department to maintain
smooth supply of power in
the city so that people may
not suffer in the prevailing
hot conditions. He called
for close check on the
power pilferage, which
lead to damage to the distribution transformers. He
also asked them to ensure
replacement of damaged
transformers within shortest possible time.
Pertinently, as a part of
Reforms in the Power
Sector, Government of
India has launched the
Restructured Accelerated
Power Development and
Reforms Programme (RAPDRP) as a Central sector scheme. The focus of
the project is on the actual
demonstrable performance
in terms of AT&C loss
reduction, establishment
of the reliable and automated sustainable systems for collection of
base line data, adoption
of information technology
in the areas of energy
accounting, consumer care
and strengthening of
Distribution network of
State Power Utilities. The
scheme also envisages
establishment of supervisory control & data
acquisition system/ distribution management system in large towns, capacity building, incentive
scheme for distribution
personnel etc.
Qamar for Integrated Development of Horticulture in Rajouri
RM NEWS SERVICE
RAJOURI, MAY 29:
MLA Rajouri, Ch. Qamar
Hussain today presided
over one day Horticulture
awareness camp at Lah
(Thana Mandi) wherein a
large number of fruit growers from adjoining areas
participated.
Director Horticulture,
Jammu, A.K. Sharma was
also present on the occasion along with field functionaries including Chief
Horticulture Officer, Y.K.
Kesar, District Horticulture
Officer and Horticulture
Development Officers.
The farmers were made
aware about different components of the schemes
launched for Integrated
Development
of
Horticulture in Rajouri
District.
The MLA emphasised
upon the farmers to plant
more and more fruit trees
as the area has huge potential for horticulture growth
due to its good agro climatic conditions. He also
advised the field functionaries of the Department
to interact with the farmers
in different zones of the
District to train them and
facilitate the horticulture
activities to increase profits for the poor growers.
He also advised the
Horticulture Department to
get
certification
of
Horticulture produce to
enable the growers to earn
better returns.
He asked the unemployed
youth to get training in top
working/ budding/ grafting
operation so that they can
earn their livelihood from
the
incentives
being
offered by the Department.
The Director Horticulture
Jammu, while speaking on
the occasion, informed that
a road map has been formulated for Rajouri district
for implementation of different components under
Area Expansion with
intensive crop cultivation,
integration with vermi
compost unit/ vermi bed,
creation of water source,
protected cultivation and
INM/IPM practices. He
stressed upon the growers
to go for high yielding
varieties of fruit plants and
execute the components
timely to cash maximum
benefits.
The participating farmers
demanded power tillers,
vermi compost/ vermi
beds, water harvesting system and integration with
micro irrigation.
Shiv Sena leaders to perform 1st poojan at
Holy Cave of Baba Amarnath Ji on 2nd June
RM NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, MAY 29:
PDP General Secretary Rafi Ahmad Mir has expressed
deep sorrow and anguish over mysterious fire break out
at a mausoleum of revered Shia religious leaders in
Budgam.Mir urged upon the government to investigate
the case on fast track basis and stressed that if it is confirmed to be a man made conspiracy then strict action
should be taken.Mir said that PDP calls for sectorial harmony and condemns such incidents in strongest words
"disrespect to the mausoleum of revered leaders is unacceptable ,let's spare no efforts to condemn this cowardly act and we must maintain peace and tranquillity to
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JAMMU, MAY 29:
Press Conference jointly
addressed
by
State
President Dimpy Kohli
Sena Leader Vikrant
Kapoor, Rakesh Gupta
Chief Spokesperson G.I
Singh of Shiv Sena Bala
Sahib Thackrey while taking to media person they
expressed regrets that
despite of several communications through memorandum and through media
neither CEO of Amarnath
Ji Shrine Board nor
Governor Sh. N.N Vohra
responded. As a matter of
fact as per centuries old
Hindu traditions 1st
Poojan used to held in
Jyesth Purnima this year it
falls on 2nd June. This 1st
Poojan should be performed at the Holy Cave
before commencement of
Yatra culmination of Yatra
takes place on Sawan
Purnima which falls on
29th
August
Shri
Amarnath Shrine Board
following the culmination
tradition then why not 1st
Poojan on 2nd June at
Holy Cave. So sena volunteers and other volunteers from Hindu organizations will proceed for
Holy Cave on 31st May
from Jammu to perform
the 1st Poojan at Holy
Cave of Baba Amarnath
Ji. He further said that we
still appeal to Governor
N.N Vohra to arrange this
Poojan on 2nd June and
also permit our volunteers
to perform the same. If the
Governor fails to do so
our volunteers will proceed to Holy Cave at any
cost. We donot understand
why the other Hindu organization like Bajrang Dal,
RSS and even BJP over
these issues and have not
issued any statement
injustice of our demand so
for and other who present
in the press conference Sh.
Vinay Gupta, Rohit Bahu
and others.