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The adminstration has become non-responsive, lithargic, indifferent after the recent debacle of the state coalition Govt. and political leader-ship particularly the ministers have gone inhibernation. The bureaucra-cy is in no way accountable because the ministers have lost their grip and control on the officers from commis-sioners down to patwaris and clerks, everybody is going his own direction and looting the people in whatever way he can. Ministers are most of the time conspiciously absent from the secretariat and who so ever attends his office, does it only for his person-al interests. The ghost of corruption

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Pandth assails State Government over fire incidents in Kashmir

Srinagar, June 17 : Expressing shock over the massive fire in-cident at world famous Tourist Spot Pahalgam which resulted in the damage to scores of ho-tels and other business estab-lishments’ including damage to tourist reception centre, Senior Leader Awami Ittihaad Party Zeeshan Pandth has stated that current government has failed to bring in any effective mech-anism to tackle fire incidents as over the past few years valuable assets have been lost in major fire incidents.“On 25th June, 2012,.the sa-cred two centuries old shrine of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani (RA) popularly known as Gaus-ul-Azam Dastgeer Sahab (RA) was gutted in a mysterious fire incident in Khanyar area hurt-ing the emotions

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Srinagar, Jun 13 : Two persons were arrested by police in South Kashmir on Friday after a female complained against them al-legedly for making objectionable remarks.Reports informed KNS that after a complaint filed by a local woman the police station Mattan swung into action and arrested the duo. The case against them with the FIR number 45/2014 under section 294 and 506 RPC has been regis-tered against them at the police station.Reports added that the lady in her complaint had informed the police that the two persons name-ly Zaffarullah Sheikh and Abid Hussain Khan were passing the comments with the objectionable content to the lady from the last one year and were

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2 Eve teasers arrested in South Kashmir

Poonch, June 13: In major escalation, India and Pakistan exchanged heavy fire and mortars along the Line of Control (LoC) and accused each other of violat-ing ceasefire in Poonch and Rajouri dis-tricts of Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian army sources told GNS that the fresh firing, initially, started at Lantoide near LoC in Balakote sector on Thursday from 8: 30 pm to 10: 00 pm where earlier twin Improvised Explo-sive Device (IED) allegedly planted by militants claimed live of a an trooper while five others including a Major were injured.“A large group of seven to eight mili-tants tried to sneak into Indian Terri-tory but their infiltration attempt was foiled during which heavy exchange of fire occurred. The Pakistan forces were giving them cover by firing at us near Shiva post in Lanjoite,” an army source told GNS.On Friday early morning, fresh ex-change of firing between India and Paki-stan started in twin districts of Rajouri and Poonch, army sources said.They al-leged that Pakistan ‘violated

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Heavy firing on LoC in Poonch, Rajouri

‘Two Pakistan soldiers wounded in Indian shelling’

Scheduled to chair high level meeting in

SrinagarSrinagar, June 13 : De-fense minister Arun Jaitley is scheduled to arrive on a 2-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir to assess and review the

security situa-tion. A senior police officer told KNS that prepara-tion have been made for the smooth visit of Jaitley and ad-equate security arrangements

have been made in and around the places, where the de-fence minister is scheduled to visit.Jaitley will be the first

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Arun Jaitely arriving today

Srinagar, June 13: As the Defence Min-ister is all set to visit the state to review the security situation; the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdul-lah on Friday questioned the timing of ‘ceasefire violation’ on Line of Control (LoC).The Defence Minister Arun Jait-ley is visiting the state on

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‘Ceasefire violation’: Omar questions timing

Srinagar, June 13: (GNS) The op-position Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and lawmaker Sardar Rafiq Hussain Khan has condemned the ‘unprovoked firing and shelling in Balakote sector by the Pakistan army’. In a statement issued to GNS, the PDP lawmaker of

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PDP condemns LoC firing

ReTs express gratitude to Government

Srinagar, June 13 : An-nouncing the initiative of the Coalition Govern-ment to give service ben-efits of first five years of their stipendiary service to the Rehber-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers and make it transferable, Chief Minister, Omar Abdul-lah amid thunderous applaud and pro-govern-ment slogans by hun-dreds of ReTs, Friday said that this move of the government would ben-efit over 55,000 ReTs and creating job opportuni-ties for educated youth.The Chief Minister made this announcement at the ReT Educational Confer-ence at SKICC here this morning in which Deputy Chief Minister, (Incharge School Education), Tara Chand, Minister for Hajj and Auqaf, Peerza-da Mohammad Sayeed, Minister for Agricul-ture, Ghulam Hassan Mir, Minister for Higher Education, Mohammad Akbar Lone, Minister for CAPD, Ch. Moham-mad Ramzan, Minister for Tourism, G. A. Mir and Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Na-zir Ahmed Gurezi were

present besides various senior officers of Educa-tion Department.Omar Abdullah said that the Government observed that these two demands of ReTs were justified and should be accepted to ac-crue benefits to them and strengthen the system of education delivery in the rural areas. “This would not only help the ReTs to grow and develop but cre-ate a continuous process of creating vacancies of ReTs in the rural, remote and backward areas for the educated youth”, he said and received stand-ing ovation from the hundreds of ReTs partici-pating in the Conference, when he made this an-nouncement.The Chief Minister made same announcement in Jammu today afternoon at another ReT Confer-ence at Zorawar Singh Auditorium in Jammu University in which Dep-uty Chief Minister, Tara Chand, Ministers, Sham Lal Sharma, Raman Bhal-la, G. A. Mir, Dr. Mano-har Lal Sharma and Leg-islator, Devender Singh Rana were also present.Addressing the confer-ences, the Chief Minister highlighted

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Government benefits ReT teachers

Srinagar, Jun 13: Over two months after the lease agreement between the army and the state government expired on Tosa Maidan firing range, the govern-ment is yet to issue any formal order to de-notify the firing range.Despite the large scale protests for relocation of the Tosa Mia-dain firing range, the authorities have also failed so far to identify an alternative place. According to the reports received by KNS, the army is still in control of the Tosa Maidan meadows with the gov-ernment in slumber over taking steps for the alternative place for the army. Reports maintained that after the lease agreement between the army and the government had ended two months ago and ear-lier had also identified two loca-tions in north and south Kashmir wherein it had expressed its will for relocation of the firing range, the government still has not taken any step in this regard on ground.

It however maintained that in the near future a decision in this re-gard shall be taken. Reports informed KNS that after the series of protest demonstra-tions were held in valley over the relocation of the Tosa Maidan firing range by the political par-ties and civil societies, the state authorities swing into action and held series of meetings with the army over the issue. The govern-ment informed the army over the ground situation into this regard and army later identified two lo-cations, one in south and one in north Kashmir so that the firing range could be relocated. The army, according to reports had written a detailed intimation about its willingness of relocat-ing the firing range from Tosa Maidan, however, the govern-ment is yet to take final call over the issue. Official reports in-formed KNS that despite around two months have passed

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Two months on, Govt still indecisive on alternate place for firing range Srinagar, Jun 13 (KNS): The

employees at SKIMS while pro-testing against hospital author-ities on Friday over what they termed ‘anarchic’ attitude both against patients and hospital employees, decided to go for the mass leave and halt the facilities of the transport to the senior of-ficials of the hospital.According to the KNS reports, the employees while protesting in the hospital premises against the director and other senior of-ficials stated that one employee namely Farooq Ahmad Sanga suffered the serious brain hae-morrhage on June 7. He was admitted in the hospital after that. The protesting employees stated that the family of the pa-tient was told to purchase the items needed for the surgery worth 70 thousand rupees. After the same was done by Farooq’s family, the doctors told them to shift him to home and that sur-gery will not be carried. “With-out any reason, the doctors asked Farooq’s son to shift his father to home that too in the

condition of coma. If such is the treatment given to the employee of the hospital what would be the condition of the general pa-tients,” said one of the protest-ing employee.They stated that Farooq who works as the helper in SKIMS was in September last injured severely on duty when the ve-hicle crushed him. He at that time was shifted to JVC hospi-tal wherein he undergone three continuous surgeries. The em-ployees said that not even a sin-gle penny was given to Farooq by his department and that it was his poor family that had to bear the brunt.The employees while accusing the director SKIMS of having anti-employee approach stated that he has virtually changed SKIMS into a corporate hub wherein the poor patients have no place. The section of the em-ployees in the Hospital Friday decided to go for the mass leave against the ‘official apathy’, thus choking the

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Register mass leave, threaten agitation Srinagar, June 13: Patients, attendants in Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital complaint of inconvenience and lack of patient care which has rendered thousands of patients, attendants in the hospital to face the brunt.According to KNS correspondent, the irony is that two to three patients have been accommodated on sharing basis on a single bed that has created trouble for the patients. This correspondent witnessed that the patients admitted in the ward number 18 of the hospital are forced to share the bed for couple despite their several pleas to the concern authorities about the unbearable incon-venience.“We were asked to share the bed due to non availability of beds in the ward. It is very tough to share the bed amid summers that too when patients is elderly”, said Farooq Ahmad, one of the attendant.Attendants also allege that the doctors on duty are not available in their rooms most of time. However they added that doctors round checking are satisfactory but during night hour’s patient cares is lacking. Interestingly when this corre-spondent was present at the hospital, the doctor on duty was not available

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Sharing beds, roaming cats in SMHS hospital

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Srinagar, June 13 : Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani is continuously under house arrest and today the strength of police force were increased and he was forcibly stopped from offering the Friday prayers.According to a statement is-

sued to KNS, while terming these actions of the admin-istration as state terrorism and the interference into the religious affairs, Hurriyat Conference has strongly con-demned this. In a statement issued to KNS, Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar said

that today on 13th June, Gee-lani were 9th time denied his religious right and from 16 April when he returned from New Delhi, he was never giv-en any chance to offer prayers in the Masjid. He expressed his surprise that the Omer led government is maintaining absolute silence over the con-tinuous house detention of Geelani and no reason is be-ing provided that why and for what crime has been Geelani imprisoned. Till now neither has state administration giv-en any information about this house detention nor have po-lice mentioned any act or sec-tion of the law under which Geelani is being imprisoned.The spokesman said that Hurriyat Conference also ap-proached High Court in 2010 with this respect but neither his freedom was restored nor was he given any kind of re-laxation nor has they given any legal justification of his detention. He said that justice delayed is equal to the justice denied and Geelani has be-come the victim of this injus-tice. Hurriyat

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Geelani under house arrest, was stopped to offer Friday

prayers: Hurriyat (G)

Srinagar, Jun 13 : The in-vestigations ordered into the killing of a 17-year-old youth during a police firing at Naid-khai Sumbal in March this year have been completed last week and a detailed report has been submitted to the gov-ernment.According to the reports re-ceived by KNS, the magis-terial probe ordered by the district administration of Bandipora on March 21this year was submitted with the detailed account of the eye witnesses over the firing in-cident in which a 17-year-old Fahat Dar was killed and oth-ers injured.“We completed the inquiry last week and have submit-ted the findings to the gov-ernment through divisional commissioner Kashmir,” said DC Bandipora Shah Faisal. He however maintained that the report is a secret docu-ment and its contents cannot

be revealed. The Bandipora police had earlier appealed people who have information on March 14 Naidkhai po-lice firing in which a youth was killed and three others wounded, to get their state-ments recorded.Additional Deputy Commis-sioner (ADC) N A Baba was appointed as the inquiry magistrate to conduct inves-tigation into the firing inci-dent following massive pro-tests at several places in the north Kashmir. Authorities, however, imposed curfew re-strictions in most areas in the north Kashmir for four days after the incident. The district authorities had stated that those with any knowledge about the incident and are willing to get their statements recorded shall approach him at his Tehsil Office Sumbal on March 24, 25, 28 and 29, 2014 during office hours.

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Probe completed, report submitted to Govt: DC Bandipora

Srinagar, June 13: Hu-man Rights Activists Friday castigated govern-ment for not removing molestation accused Dr Saleem-ur-Rehman from his chair. Scores of HR activists including the victim appeared in Prat-ap Park Srinagar and demanded immediate re-moval of Director Health Services Kashmir. The activists carrying placards and banners seeking justice for the victim staff nurse al-leged that on the name of investigation and probe, government is trying to hush up the case. “Di-rector Health Kashmir and other three officials are accused and it is irony that he still occu-pies the chair. There is ample proof that being in the chair he is inter-fering in the probe. We demand that he should be removed from his post till probe is completed,” a hu-man rights activist Shella Rashid told CNS adding

that government is acting as a mute spectator and even after constituting a committee to probe the allegations allowed the accused to issue state-ments in the press. Another human rights activist Muhammad Ah-san Untoo appealed the doctors to take cogni-zance of the matter and raise their voice against this molestation issue. “I appeal all those doc-tors who have charac-ter and conscience to come forward and seek justice for the victim. If government will shield the culprit, then we will start an agitation in Kashmir and will ask people including students to come on roads and raise voice against the ac-cused,” he warned. Pertinently, Director Health along with other three doctors was book after a staff nurse from South Kashmir accused them of molesting her sexually. (CNS)

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ceasefire’ at various places along the LoC and fired mortar shells and firing with automatic weapons. “We also retaliated in the effective manner,” army sources said.“The firing and shelling started from 7: 00 am in the morning at in Balakote sector, Mendhar sector and in Keri sector of Rajouri,” they informed.Sources said the firing between the two armies con-tinued till 11:00 am which created fear and tension among civilian population.“From 7:30 am to 7: 55 am, Pakistan army resorted to unproved firing on Indian posts,” an army spokes-man told GNS, adding: “our forces also gave a befit-ting reply.”“Many shells fired from Pakistan landed in civilian areas in which a buffalo was killed while two others were injured in Mendhar,” local sources said.The buffalo which was killed belonged to Sarpanch Nazir Ahmad, sources informed. Later, two other buf-faloes also succumbed to their injuries.The shelling created fear among locals of Mendhar, Balakote, Bassoni, Gohlad and Turkandi, sources said, adding people refrained from moving out while many others left their house and moved to safer plac-es. The situation along the LoC is tense and army has beefed up security and started massive searches, sources said.Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said: “Significant ceasefire violation in Ra-jouri and Poonch with reports of some shells having landed in civilian areas. The District Administration of Poonch sent medical teams to the affected to areas in order to provide as-sistance to local people, Deputy Commissioner of Poonch, Mr. Sajad Ahmad Khan told GNS.Meanwhile, the Pakistan army alleged that two of its men sustained injuries in Indian shelling on LoC, media reports quoting Inter Service Public Relations, said.According to media reports, army chief Gen. Bikram Singh briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the latest situation of Jammu and Kashmir especially over ‘ceasefire violation’ in Rajouri and Poonch dis-tricts. (GNS)

minister in Narendra Modi led union government to visit Kashmir. He will be chairing a high level meet-ing in the summer capital and after that he is sched-uled to meet Governor N N Vohra and the chief minis-ter Omar Abdullah.He is likely to be accompanied by the army chief Gen Bikram Singh. Jaitley will be briefed about the secu-rity situation by top army, police and intelligence of-ficers in Srinagar. (KNS)

Saturday to review the security situation. This will be his first visit to Jammu and Kashmir as a Defence Minister.“It is just a coincidence that the Defence Minister is visiting J&K, for his first visit, to review the security situation on Saturday?” Omar wrote on micro blog-ging Twitter site.

Mendhar said the firing, which started today in which machine guns and mortar shells were used, has caused ‘huge havoc among the people’. He has requested the Central government to immedi-ately intervene and help in stopping the firing. Demanding bunkers for the civilians living along the border, Khan said earlier due to similar firing inci-dents huge loss of life and property has resulted in Mendhar area and no compensation was given to the victims. (GNS)

the role of teachers and said that they are architect of future and in their hands is the destiny of Nation. “Teachers fraternity in general and those impart-ing education at elementary levels are builders and protectors of the future of a Nation. You lay the strong foundation for a healthy society and your responsibility and service are stu-pendous”, he told the teachers and expressed the hope that they would redouble their efforts in moulding the young children into the best mould making them capable and qualified hu-man resource to lead the Nation towards new highs of prosperity and development.Omar Abdullah referred the launch of ReT in the tenure of Dr. Farooq Abdullah led government and said that since then it has served in a best way to en-sure good education in the rural and far flung areas. He said ReT scheme was best designed to suit the local requirements. He said the scheme withstood the chal-lenges and proved a success. He expressed the hope that it will get further fillip in the years to come.Referring to various initiatives taken by the Govern-ment for the welfare of government employees, the Chief Minister said that the Government is actively considering the enhancement of retirement age of the universities faculty and medical education faculty. He said there is also a proposal under active consid-eration of the Government pertaining to creation of contingency employees in the education sector.Speaking on the occasion, Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand presented the background of these two demands and said that for being justified, the Chief Minister and the State Cabinet are on the same page to accept these and help in ameliorating the lot of ReT teachers community and help enhance the reach of children in far flung, rural and remote areas to educational facilities being provided by the government.Tara Chand also mentioned the role of ReTs in mak-ing Government schools in rural and remote areas functional and said that the service and transfer benefit to them will not only upgrade their condi-tions but help in a big way to universalize the ed-ucation in the State particularly at the elementary level.The Deputy Chief Minister while mentioning the benefits of the historic initiative of the Coalition Government led by Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah to benefit more than 55,000 ReTs in the State and strengthen the edifice of elementary education said that various measures taken by the Edu-cation Department to streamline its functioning

and ensuring the quality education have yielded positive results. He said that outcome of these mea-sures is visible in the results obtained by government schools in the matric, 10+2 and other standards showing quantum jump in 2013 as against previous years.The Deputy Chief Minister said that during the last year about 20,000 promotions at various levels have been effected in the School Education Department to remove stagnation and provide better opportunities of growth and development to both teaching and non-teaching staff. He said the process is continuous in this regard.Tara Chand said about 20,000 vacancies of teachers and ReTs have been identified and referred to recruiting agen-cies for selection. He said efforts are on to create about one lakh more vacancies in the education sector for the youth of the State.The Deputy Chief Minister also highlighted the role of teachers in building a healthy society and impressed upon the ReTs to render best service to the State by imparting quality education to the students.The Director of Education, Kashmir and the Director of Education, Jammu presented the welcome address at the two venues while the vote of thanks was resented by the Director RMSA. Thousand of ReTs at Srinagar and Jammu expressed their gratitude to the Chief Minister and the Coalition Government for this his-toric initiative. They raised slogans in favour of the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and the Coali-tion Government. (KNS)

when the lease agreement ended the government is yet to initiate any action into the proposal put forth by the army for relocating its firing range to other places from Tosa Maidan. The divisional commissioner Kashmir Shalider Ku-mar when contacted by KNS stated that the steps for the relocation of the firing range are being taken and that a report in this regard shall be sent by him to the government in near future. “We are identifying the places for the army. I travelled to several places in valley so that a place for the firing range is identified and finalized. I can only tell you that very soon I am going to send a detailed report in this regard to the state authorities,” maintained the Divisional commis-sioner. (KNS)

transport facilities to the senior officials. (KNS)

inside his room at 7:30 in the evening, though he has placed a piece of reading ‘Doctor on call 9797257078’. Abdul Hameed, one of the attendants from Srinagar said, “I wonder how can doctor drop his cell number outside his cabin when most of attendants are not fa-miliar to cell phone. He asked, “Does it mean putting cell number outside cabin makes the doctor present and available for patients.Surprisingly this correspondent witnessed ‘cats’ rooming inside the ward which can be dangerous for surgical patients. It was also observed that cats room-ing inside hospital also irritate attendant especially during night hours. The scene inside the hospitals does not end here, however the doctor who entered one of the ward was without apron which hardly dominate him as doctor among attendants. (KNS)

Spokesman said that the government in New Delhi has changed and BJP came into power but it is still unknown that weather the house detention of Geelani will be ended or the traditions are kept alive.While demanding immediate release of Geelani, Hurriyat Spokesman said that the government’s claim has been proven baseless on November 2013 that the freedom and political activities of the pro-freedom leader are threat to the law and order. During the few days of his release, Geelani orga-nized 5 mega gatherings in which although lakhs of people participated but these gatherings remained very much peaceful, neither any type of peace was disturbed nor any order was violated. Hurriyat Conference appeals Amnesty International and lo-cal non-government human rights organizations to take serious notice of the illegal house detention of the pro-freedom leader and use their influence for his release. (KNS)

However, the separatist organizations rejected the magisterial probe while opposition Peoples Democrat-ic Party (PDP) and Awami Itehand Party (AIP) want-ed to know what had happened to other investigations ordered by the government in similar killings in the valley. (KNS)

harassing her at large through such actions.On the bases of the compliant, the police arrested the duo, slapping non- bailable charges against them. However, sources informed KNS that the police is under tremendous pressure by some local panchayat members who demand the release of the accused. (KNS)

and sentiments of Kashmiris. We had also wit-nessed f ire incidents in civi l Secretariat in 2013 destroying government records and scores of other f ire incidents over the past few years destroying important inst i tutes and records ,” s tated Pandith, according to a s tatement issued to KNS.Pandith stated that government has fai led to provide e f fect ive answers to as to what causes mysterious f ire incidents in Kash-mir and has fai led to bring in an ef fect ive f ire safety mechanism to tackle the same. “Masses and voices of sanity are deeply pained over this historical loss to Kash-mir caused on account of frequent f ire in -cidents . Government should wake up to f ix the problem,” observed Pandith. Even To-day’s incident of Fire at Bagh Ali Mardan is a tes-timony of the fact that fire incidents still continue on Kashmir. (KNS)

Srinagar, June 13 : Wel-coming indications from the Home Ministry that the Central Government might accept the propos-al of the Omar Abdullah government to enhance the package for re-con-struction of houses by Kashmiri Pandit Migrants in the Val-ley from the earlier 7.5 lakhs to 20 lakhs per displaced family, National Conference Spokesman has said that this significant en-hancement in the pack-age would translate into a major impetus to rehabilitation efforts. According to a state-ment issued to KNS, National Conference Spokesman said the UPA regime had in 2008 announced a package for return and reha-bilitation of Kashmi-ri migrants in which the assistance offered for reconstruction or construction of houses was capped at Rs. 7.5 lakh. "Based on feed-back gained from Mi-grant families and on ascertaining various issues faced by them, the Omar Abdullah led J&K Government had sent a proposal to the Central Government to enhance the package to Rs. 20 lakh per family for re-construction of their houses in the Val-ley. The Home Ministry has recently given in-dications that the pro-posal sent by the Omar Abdullah government will be approved", the NC Spokesman said. Lauding this major ini-

tiative taken by Chief Minister Omar Abdul-lah, NC Spokesman said that this initiative was in line with National Conference's efforts since Dr. Farooq Abdul-lah's government in 1996 to ensure a dignified and 'naturalized' return of Kashmiri Pandit Mi-grants to their homes and in further continu-ation of various initia-tives of relief, reassur-ance and rehabilitation taken by the Omar Ab-dullah government since 2008.He said that when the National Conference Government took over in 1996 under Dr. Fa-rooq Abdullah, in order to preserve and protect these unattended prop-erties, frequent and high-level directions were passed by Dr. Fa-rooq ABdullah to the government's field agen-cies and District Admin-istrations to file the sta-tus of Kashmiri Pandit properties and ensure their protection. "It was for this precise goal that the Dr. Farooq Abdullah government in 1997, just a year after coming to power in unimaginably troubled times, passed the "Jammu and Kash-mir Migrant Immovable property (Preservation, Protection and Restric-tion on Distress Sale) Act, 1997" to preserve these properties, safe-guard the interests of the migrant owners and to also regulate under due process of revenue laws the pro-cedure for alienation

and also to prevent instances of distress sale. The NC Spokesman said that when Muf-ti Sayeed became the Chief Minister of the State in 2002, he continued with his track-record of 1989 by disappointing Kashmi-ri Migrants - perhaps on purpose and per-haps partly due to lack of vision. "The PDP government did abso-

lutely nothing to start a process of return for Kashmiri Pandit fam-ilies. If anything, we remember that it was Mehbooba Mufti who opposed interim re-lief being provided to migrant families through her brazen opposition to the Jag-ti township - perhaps a misplaced attempt at divisive posturing within the State", Mat-tu said.

NC committed to dignified return of Kashmiri Pandits

‘Welcomes positive response on State's relief package enhancement proposal’

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By 30th June, 2014 (Jammu Province)

SNo.

By 30th June, 2014 (Kashmir Province)

1. District Fund Office, Jammu

1. District Fund Office, Sri-nagar.

2. Prov. Police Cell, Jammu

2. GPF Move Cell, Civil Sectt. Srinagar

3. GPF Migrant Cell, Jammu

3. GPF Police Move Cell, PHQ

4. District Fund Office, Udhampur

4. District Fund Office, Budgam

5. District Fund Office, Kathua

5. District Fund Office, Kupwara

6. District Fund Office, Doda

6. District Fund Office, Pulwama

7. District Fund Office, Poonch

7. District Fund Office, An-antnag

8. District Fund Office, Kishtwar

8. District Fund Office, Shopian

9. District Fund Office, Samba

9. District Fund Office, Ganderbal

By 15th July, 2014 10. District Fund Office, Bandipora

10. District Fund Office, Ramban

11. District Fund Office, Kulgam

11. District Fund Office, Reasi

By 15th July, 2014

12. GPF Class-IV Cell, Jammu

12. Prov. Police Cell, ZPHQ, Srinagar

13. District Fund Office, Baramulla

14. District Fund Office, Leh

The concerned DDOs are accordingly in-formed to arrange the collection of the Annual Account Statements of their respective offic-es by themselves or through their authorized representatives. In the interest of subscrib-ers it is further made imperative on the part of DDOs to get their GPF accounts recon-ciled with the concerned District Fund Offices as per instructions issued vide Circular No. DGAT/PS/DR/264 dated 17.12.2013.

Sd/- Deputy Director (Central) J&K Funds organization

DIPK NO. 1955 Finance Department Sgr.

New Delh/ Noida, June 12, 2014: Delhi- NCR based reputed university Noida International Uni-versity (NIU) opened a scholarship for Kashmiri students for high achiev-ing quality education who seek to attend one of the country’s best universities. Noida In-ternational University in the past has given scholarships worth 1.5 crore to kashmiri students and this year too they are planning to offer scholarships of similar stature. NIU’s motive is to encourage meritorious students by providing upto 100% scholarship and they are moreover promoting girl education with special preference to them.NIU in the past has awarded scholarship worth Rs.3.5 crores of scholarship to the mer-itorious students. The recipients awarded with

the scholarship will be decided through a writ-ten examination.The Kashmir resident students will be eligible for 100% scholarship. Each student must meet minimum eligibility criteria for the scholar-ships. The scholarship examination eligibility for girls starts at as low as 60% marks in High School, 10+2, Gradua-tion examination, and at 70% for boys.“We are proud to offer one of the most gen-erous college scholar-ships in the country, our program will do more than alleviate the financial burden of higher education to the families of the stu-dents who are merito-rious and exceptional in studies and want to build their career in any field with NIU,” said Vice Chancellor NIU- Vikram Singh.

Noida International University Offers 100

% Scholarship for Kashmiri students

Daily ZABARWAN TIMES NEWS SRINAGAR | FRIDAY 14. 06 .2014

ANANTNAG, JUNE 13- Govt Degree College (Boys) An-antnag today organized “Annual Cycle Race – 2014”, of 18 kms from College Campus to Akad Park, in which more than 30 students participated.

The event was flagged off at 06:00AM from the College Campus by Deputy Inspector General of Police (SKR) Mr. Vijay Kumar in presence of the Principal Dr. M.Y. Peerzada and members of various committees including the Sports.

Mr. Sajad Ahmad Wani of BG 3rd year, Ishfaq Ahmad Sheikh of 2nd and Sajad Mushtaq Wani of Ist year bagged the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively, besides two conso-lation prizes were given to Mudasir Nazir and Amir Shafi.

After the conclusion of the event a prize distribution cer-emony was held at Akad Park, which was attended by the members of various departments of like Revenue, Health and Police, besides local public.

The College Principal appreciated District Administra-tion for deputing various departments like Police, Revenue and Health for making the event a success.

Rajendra congratulates promoted Dy.Ssp

wwSRINAGAR, JUNE 13: Congratulating the newly 67 promoted Deputy Superintendent of Police, the Director General of Police (DGP), Mr. K. Rajendra Kumar has asked them to serve with more zeal and zest. He has stressed upon them to rededicate themselves for public service, em-phasising to ensure quick redressal of people’s problems.

In a message conveyed to the promoted officers, the DGP has expressed hope that the officers would continue their public service with more dedication and devotion. He has also congratulated the families of officers, wishing that their public service and interest in professional polic-ing would bring a good name, strengthening image of the Organisation.

Mr. Rajendra reiterated that Police Headquarters (PHQ) would take more efforts to create promotion avenues for all ranks of the force. Vacancies in the department would be fulfilled on priority, he has added.

Rise of BJP in West Bengal ‘an illusion’: TMC

KOLKATA: The ruling Trinamool Congress has dismissed talk that BJP is emerging as a potential opposition force which could effectively counter it in the 2016 assembly elections in West Bengal, claiming that the saffron party’s success was “an illusion”.

“In Bengal, BJP will not be able to secure major opposi-tion space. This (success of BJP in Lok Sabha elections in the state) is for the time-being and (only) an illusion. This will be proved in the coming Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) polls and in the elections to several municipalities,” Trinamool Congress general secretary Mukul Roy said.

“You are talking of the rise in the BJP’s percentage of votes, but not taking into account that (in the Lok Sabha elections) the party lost deposits in 136 of the 294 assem-bly segments in the state. The party took a lead in only 23 assembly segments,” he claimed.

TMC, on the other hand, took a lead in 216 assembly seg-ments, he said.

BJP’s vote share in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls in the state was 6.15%. TMC, led by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, won 34 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state with 39.4% of the votes. The Left Front secured 29% of the votes while the Congress managed to corner 9.6%.

SRINAGAR, JUNE 13: Minister of State for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control Mr. Nazir Ahmad Gurezi di-rected the PHE authorities to gear up their field functionaries and contin-ue with the task force constituted to seize on-line boosters and PVC pipes to stop misuse of water for watering of lawns, gardens, washing of ve-hicles, constructional activities and other illegal use. He also asked them to make aware general public about the misuse of drinking water as per the J&K Water Resources (Regulation & Management) Act 2010.

This direction was given by the Minister while chairing a meeting of officers of the Public Health En-gineering (PHE) Department con-vened to review the status of ongo-ing water supply schemes and other activities of the department.

Chief Engineer, Kashmir PHE De-partment Mr. Ahmad Muzaffar Lan-kar, Superintendent Engineer Hy-draulic District Srinagar/ Ganderbal, Er. Fida Mohammad Farouqi, Execu-tive Engineer Water Works Division Er. Bilal Rasool and other officers and

engineers of the PHE department at-tended the meeting.

It was informed in the meet-ing that the Water Supply Scheme Sukhnag and WSS Tangnar taken up at a cost of Rs.121.00Crores and Rs.148.37Crores respectively are nearing completion. Rs.160.83 Crores in aggregate have been spent on these schemes.

The Minister directed the con-cerned to speed up the pace of work and complete WSS Sukhnag within a month and WSS Tangnar by the end of September this year. He said upon commissioning of these water supply schemes, the tail end areas and shortage areas like Shalteng, Bemina, Tengpora, Hyderpora, Bat-maloo, Narkara, Gungbugh, Natipo-ra, Sonawar and all such areas shall be benefited.

While taking review of the facili-ty of tanker services, it was informed in the meeting that the department has already put in place, a sufficient fleet of tankers to address the de-mand from deficit and shortage ar-eas of the city and its outskirts on a

permanent basis. The tanker service of the department also extends its cooperation to the public on de-mand for marriages, demises and other social functions free of cost, it was maintained.

The Minister while appreciating the officers directed the concerned to ensure tanker services are run as per the present policy. He appreci-ated the people of Down Town for not using on-line boosters. Mr. Gure-ziappealed the general public not to misuse drinking water as it is an of-fence in terms of the J&K Water Re-sources (Regulation & Management) Act 2010.

He said the Jammu and Kash-mir State is the only State in the country where minimum charges @ Rs.3 per day is levied as water usage charges from the domes-tic consumers. He said that the department is giving about 22 hours water supply facility to the consumers but we should for the sake of God stop blatant misuse of the precious commodity i.e. potable drinking water.

GDC Anantnag organizes Annual cycle Race PHE Task Force to seize

on-line boosters: Gurezi

‘Directs to make Tube Well at Sri-Warpora

functional’ SRINAGAR, JUNE 13: In order

to provide adequate irrigation facilities to the farmers of Tangmarg and Pattan Tehsils of district Baramulla 3 Tube Wells at an estimated cost of Rs 1. 50 crore will be dug at Warpora, Nehalpora and Chichiloora, besides the Tube Well at Sri-Warpora is made functional soon.This information was given to the Minister for Agriculture Production Mr. Ghulam Hassan Mir while chairing a high level meeting of the officers of Irrigation and Flood Control Departments convened to take stock of the measures for providing irrigation facilities to the farmers during the current kharief season.

The Minister directed the officers to formulate a proposal for digging Tube Wells at Warpora, Nehalpora and

Chichiloora so that the funds are arranged accordingly.The Minister directed the authorities to install necessary infrastructure

at Sri-Warpora for the Tube Well to make it functional within shortest possible time in view of dire need of both irrigation as

well as drinking water facilities in the area. An amount of Rs 25.00 lakh will be provided to the concerned authorities

for purchasing the necessary equipments for the same.Mr. Mir said that government is making all out efforts to provide adequate

irrigation facilities to the farmers from the tail to end of their field for which several schemes have already been approved. He

directed the concerned engineers to identify the spots in Karewa of Poshkar area where the water dams can be constructed which

in the long way would prove beneficial for the people of the area.While taking a review of present status of Nehalpora Kul, Gama Kul, Babul Kul, Bewa Kul and other important kuls flowing in the area, the Minister was informed that crores of rupees are being spent on these kuls for which tenders have been floated and the work of desilting and construction of bund has been started. It was given out in the meeting

that tenders for desilting work in Gundaripora Nalla in Sopore area has also been started and the work in is in progress.

Government of Jammu and Kashmir

District employment and counseling centre SrinagarNotification

Application on prescribed format are invited from educated unemployment youth of District Srinagar who are desirous of setting up of their income generat-ing units under Jammu and Kashmir State self Employment Scheme in Industry, Service and Business Sector.

Terms and ConditionsEligibility: 8th class passed and above. However, no educational qualification shall be insisted upon for candidates having qualified traning courses of not less than on academic year’s duration from Government Institutions.AGE: 18-24 years for general category with 5 years relaxation for woman and for person belonging to the categories of Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled tribes/ Ex-Servicemen/ Physically handicapped as on date of interview.Last date for submission of application forms extenden upto: 28.06.2014Incentives: The Employment Department provides:a) Subsidy 5% of the total cost subject to maximum of Rs 7500/- per projectb) Govt. Margin Money 15% of project cost as soft loan (without intrest) recoverable after liquidation of Banks loan.c) Interest Subsidy During 6 months 100% One year after 6 months 75% Next six months 50%Financial patterns:Loan from Bank: 75% of project costGovt. Margin money 15% of total project costPromoters own contribution 5% plus shortfall if anyCapital Subsidy 5% subject to maximum of Rs 7500/-Unit Cost: Up to Rs 2.00 lacs for trade and 3.00 lacs for industry/Service and Rs 10.00 lacs in case of joint venturesThe eligible candidates may submit their complete application forms in duplicate along with relevant documents/certificates in the office of the Deputy Director Employment and counseling Center Srinagar. The eligible candidates shall have to enclose the following documents/Certificates in duplicate duly attested by any Gazetted officer.a. Date of birth Certificate (2 copies attested)b. Qualification certificate (2 copies attested)c. State subject certificate (2 copies attested)d. First page of Ration card (2 copies attested)e. Identification certificate as prescribed in the loan application form from a Gazatted officerf. Unemployment certificate from a Gazatted officerg. Affidavit as prescribed by the department.DIPK: 18843 Deputy Director Employment and Counseling Centre Srinagar

OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEERPEE RURAL WATER SUPPLY DIVISION GANDERBAL/SRINAGAR

DUDERHAMA GANDERBAL.Annexure * A * to Short Term N.I.T. No: - 05 / PHED/RWSD - Civil of 2014 - 15, issued under No: 1288-1322 dated: 09-06.2014

Sealed Short Term tenders affixed with Rs: 4/- Revenue stamps are invited for and on behalf of the Governor of J&K State, from approved/ registered contractors / agencies of J&K State, whose enlistment cards are renewed for the current financial year 2014 - 15 and having also TIN Registration of J&K State for the work(s) detailed as under. The tenders which are to be submitted through Registered post / by hand should reach die Office of the Executive Engineer RWS Division Ganderbal (Sgr) on or before 18.06.2014 UP to 2 p.m. In case the receipt date of tenders or last date of issue of tender documents is declared a holiday / Civil strike/ Curfew etc, the tenders / tender documents will be issued / received on next working day up to specified time..The Tender documents shall be issued to the intending tenderers only after submitting of their application along with their enlistment cards and call deposit receipt of each particular work on 16.06.2014 up to 2 pm. Further details of the NIT can be had from the office of the undersigned on any working day during office hours up to the due date of issue of tender documents..

S.No Name of work EsttCost (In lacs)

Amount OfC.D.R. (In Rs.)

Cost of tender Document (In Rs.)

Class of Contractor

Time of-’ comple-tion

Position of Funds

Head of Ac-counts.

Tender Opening Authority

01 Bed treatment to 0.68 lac gallons capacity of RCC SR at Chunrwar for WSS Chuntwaliwar 1.42 2840.00 140.00 DEE 10 days Demanded O & M Executive Engineer RWS Division

Ganderbal (Sgr)02 Silt clearance of 70,000; 50,000 & 30,000 gallons SR’s at Mammer for WSS Mammer 0.29 580.00 50.00 -do- 05 days -do- M&R (AR) -do-03 Silt clearance of 2 No. SR’s of 55,000 & 50,000 gallons capacity at Filtration plant Kangan for WSS Kangan 0.27 540.00 50.00 -do- -do- -do- -do- -do-04 Silt clearance of various structures of WSS Harithune 0.25 500.00 50.00 -do- -do- -do- -do- -do-05 Silt clearance of intake chamber and PST for WSS Mammer 0.23 460.00 50.00 -do- -do- -do- -do- -do-06 Silt clearance of 2 No. SR’s of 70,000 and 25,000 gallons capacity at filtration plant Kangan for WSS Kangan 0.22 440.00 50.00 -do- -do- -do- -do- -do-07 Silt clearance of 50,000 gallons capacity SR for WSS Yechama 0.11 220.00 50.00 DEE 05 DAYS DEMANDED M&R (AR) -do-08 P/F of 1 HP Mono block pumping motor at filtration plant Shuhama 0.10 200.00 50.00 -do- -do- -do- DISTT DECTOR -do-09 L/F of 40/25/20 mm dia GI pipe line (on temporary basis) for providing water supply facilities to pilgrims of

Amarnadi Yatra at Nilgrad on eve of Amamathji Yatra1.42 2840.00 130.00 -do- -do- 07 DAYS DO SH. AMARNATH JI

YATRA- 2014

Date of issue of Tender documents: - 16. 06. 2014 upto 2.00 p.m. Date of Receiving of Tenders: - 18. 06. 2014 upto 2.00 p.m.

(Er. M.S.Sofi)Executive Engineer,Water Supply Division, Ganderbal (Sgr).

DIPK: 1901

Consider making some plans for a vacation or short getaway, Libra. Looking forward to something fun can make even the tough-est of days far easier to handle. You’ll be amazed how much you can manage when there’s an end in plain sight. Your entire attitude can lighten. So take the bull by the horns and create an incentive for yourself. Do something special to reward the hard work you do day after day.

Don’t judge someone if he or she has a different lifestyle than what you consider to be OK, Scorpio. You probably lean toward the traditional, yet not everyone feels this way about re-lationships, working, or lifestyle. While it may seem impossible to understand and even frighten you, try not to be too harsh on those you deem odd. You’d be better off using that energy to keep your own life on track.

Friends seeking advice or a shoulder to cry on could be plentiful today, Sagittarius. You’re one of best people to give them the support and care they need. Just be sure that you don’t give so much to others that you don’t have anything left for yourself. True friendship is about sharing and the exchange of problems and help. Running yourself down will leave you in a place where you aren’t going to be much help to anyone.

Getting through today shouldn’t pose too big a problem for you, Capricorn. You may feel a huge second wind that can give you the drive and determination to see your chores and projects through. Make some plans for this evening, such as getting to-gether with friends or taking in an event that really intrigues you. Until then, go about your tasks bit by bit. You’ll get things finished before you know it.

Working within boundaries and restrictions could really get to you today, Aquarius. Yours is an independent spirit and your best achievements are often born of doing things your own way. Yet like it or not, we all have to follow guidelines and rules. Do your best to follow suit and finish what needs to be done. Afterward, you may find more freedom to act independently without consequences. Exercise patience and diligence as needed today.

Chances are that you’ll feel upbeat and positive today, Pisces. Consider sharing this energy with those around you who are feel-ing less than content. Your attitude can have a profound effect on friends, partners, spouses, and children. Even neighbors and ex-tended family can pick up on your spirit without you even real-izing it. Share your optimism with everyone you can today. If you see someone hurt or angry.

Feeling the effects of today’s energies, Virgo? Take heart if this is the case, because the end of the tunnel isn’t as far away as it seems. Do your best to take things one step at a time and see about making some plans for a little fun this evening. Get together with friends or take in a movie. Help yourself feel better by staying busy and focused and follow up with some recreation. Before you know it, the aspect will pass and you’ll be back to normal.

Don’t discount your ability to be extremely resourceful if you need to be, Aries. If you don’t have everything you need or all of the required information, take time to think. Who can you ask? What places can you access? Who might know where you can find what you need? Rather than panic because the pieces aren’t all there, instead make a list of contacts and go for it. Trust in yourself.

Try not to let today’s blues get you down, Taurus. While it’s true that some days can seem to drag on, the busier you are the faster time will pass. Get down to finishing any work still before you and then make plans for tonight. If there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, not only will things seem to speed up but you’ll feel better knowing it’s coming.

Dare to be different, Gemini. It can be so easy to fall into a drill. Sleeping at the same time, eating at the same time, wearing the same style, and going about work the same way day after day. Be-fore you know it, you feel like you’re in a rut. The only way to get away from this is to make a decision to break free by doing some-thing unique. Try a new haircut. Wear colors that are unusual for you. If the need is there, consider a new career. Pursue expansion.

If your lifestyle is considerably different than that of others, re-sist feeling self-conscience about it today, Cancer. Try to remember that you chose the life you have for specific reasons. Even if you’ve come to a point where you’re considering a change, there’s no need to feel badly, ashamed, or embarrassed about where you are now. Everyone has to make his or her own way. If this conforms to the norm, that’s fine. If it doesn’t, that’s fine, too.

An enhanced feeling of determination could motivate you today, Leo. Finish the things that aren’t complete and make some plans for this evening. Don’t hesitate to take on something that feels compli-cated or big. Chances are you’ll be able to handle most anything and it will feel great when it’s finished. Enjoy your day by making the most of opportunity.

Rs 1.50 cr for construction of Warpora, Nehalpora and Chichiloora Tube Wells: Mir

SRINAGAR, SATURDAY, 14 JUNE, 2014

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar, Saturday 14 June 2014

Disclaimer : The contents and comments appearing in any article published in this paper are purely the personal opinion of the writer

Wake up before it is

too late

The adminstration has be-come non-responsive, li-thargic, indifferent after the recent debacle of the state coalition Govt. and

political leadership particularly the ministers have gone inhiberna-tion. The bureaucracy is in no way accountable because the ministers have lost their grip and control on the officers from commissioners down to patwaris and clerks, ev-erybody is going his own direction and looting the people in whatever way he can. Ministers are most of the time conspiciously absent from the secretariat and who so ever attends his office, does it only for his personal interests. The ghost of corruption has gone wild and is sucking the blood of common masses ruthlessly. The politicians are reportedly trying to cash the left over months, as they know they have a very grim chance to return to their chairs. Already more than half of the ministers are facing charges of corruption, nepotism and usuage of their pow-ers through unfair means. Some are involved in bunglings of Govt. funds, some in land grabbing cas-es, some in drug scandles, some in back door recruitments and some in other various types of fraud-ulent acts. These people are not even ashamed of what people think about them and what they deliver in the shape of standing decisions like the humiliating defeat they in-flicted on them in the recently held parliamentary elections. Coming back to bureucracy and district administration, the plum postings offered to their stooges, the polic-itcans have smashed a last nail in the coffin of the whole public ser-vice delivery system. The Deputy Commissioners have become polit-ical agents and halqa presidents of National Conference and Congress and busy day and night in carrying out his master’s voice. The peo-ple in general are suffering on all accounts. Depleted roads, erratic electricity supply, dearth of essen-tial commodities particularly due to defective public distribution sys-tem, poor healthcare, rising prices, growing unemployment, increas-ing crime and above all the spread-ing corruption has broken the spine of a common man. He feels betrayed, let down disillusioned by one and all in the Govt. The youth are so much frustrated that they are taking to drugs and other so-cial evils, which will prove very costly for this society and the state which was once treated as the seat of peace and was free of all such im-moral activities. The bells of alarm are sounding the danger ahead, it is time for introspection and collec-tive efforts to do away with corrupt and corrupt system.

Life is not about getting and having, it is about giving and being

Qoute of the day

Kevin Kruse

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar, Tuesday 11 March 2014

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No cake walk for any party in coming polls

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar, Saturday 15 February 2014

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High number of heart and cancer

patients Nursing Sick Units Back to Health

Once blue chip Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) like BSNL, Air In-dia, Hindustan Cables Ltd and Fertilis-er Corporation of India today stand testimony as to how not changing with

the changing times and technology could change their fate and turn them into sick units.However, there has been always a silver lining in this regard as the government has been relentlessly mak-ing efforts to revive maximum number of sick public sector units (PSUs) to take the country’s growth en-gine forward. This was possible with the help of re-vival packages provided by the government to these units. With this aim, the Government set up the Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enter-prises (BRPSE) in December 2004 to advise the gov-ernment, inter-alia, on the measures to restructure/revive, both industrial and non-industrial CPSEs. Since then cases of around 67 sick CPSEs have been referred to BRPSE up to October 2012, out of which the Board has made recommendations in respect of 62 cases, while returning five cases to the concerned ministries for further examination.No wonder, there has been significant improvement in the overall condition of these enterprises since 2004. In comparison to 90 sick CPSEs in March 2005, there were 66 sick PSUs in March 2012. As per the BRPSE recommendations, of these cases, 45 were accepted for revival by the Government.Most of the remaining cases are awaiting nod for

revival while in case of 45 cases accepted for reviv-al, 14 have already turned around including Bharat Pumps and Compressors, Cement Corporation of India, HEC, Andrew Yule and MECON and making profits while others have been infused with revival packages.The companies for which revival packages have been approved include Hindustan Shipyard, HMT and Scooters India. As the CPSEs operate under dynamic market conditions, it is quite natural to see ups and downs in their performance. As far as the reasons for losses and sickness in CPSEs are concerned it varies from enterprise-to-en-terprise. While in some cases, the cause is historical. In case of textile companies which were taken over from private sector on socio-economic consider-ations could not be modernised quickly.Likewise other enterprises in the engineering and refractories sector too failed to modernise. Still others like some consumer goods companies and the new ones, turned sick over the years on ac-count of inadequate job orders, high man-power cost, lack of finance, technological obsolescence, high input costs and competition from cheap im-ports.In addition, other problems common to most sick and loss-making PSUs have been poor debt-equity structure, weak marketing strategies and slow de-cision-making process. As one such policy initiative, the Sick In-

dustrial Companies (Special Provision) Act, 1985 (SICA) brought the CPSEs under its purview in 1991 (made effective from 1992). Under the pro-visions of the SICA, CPSEs with at least five years of registration whose accumulated losses are equal to or have exceeded their net worth may be referred to the BIFR. During the last twenty years -- between 1992 and 2011, 63 CPSEs have been referred to BIFR. The government has made several attempts to over-come “sickness” in these CPSEs through various pol-icy initiatives.The strategies for revival/restructuring of sick CPSEs include financial restructuring involving investment by the government in the form of equity participa-tion, loans, waiver of debt etc and business restruc-turing which includes change of management, hiv-ing off viable units from CPSEs for formation of separate company and closure of unviable units, besides formation of joint ventures.The other strategies include manpower rationalisa-tion by shedding excess manpower and introduction of voluntary retirement schemes. The contribution of each and every company is significant as CPSEs are considered as the backbone of the economy and are equal partners in the nation building.As on March 31, 2012, there were 260 CPSEs in the country. These companies contributed Rs 1.6 lakh crore to the central exchequer by way of taxes, duties, interest on loans and dividend, amounting to 21.4 per cent of government’s revenue receipts.

ndia is a vast country with a popula-tion of about 1.21 billion and a labour force of around 475 million. There is an open unemployment of 9.5 mil-lion as per estimates available for the year 2009-10. Employment is the main source of livelihood and self-ful-fillment for most women and men. About 6% of the total work force in India is employed in organised sector while remaining 94% are in the un-organised sector. Scope of additional employment generation in the orga-nized sector for additional wage em-ployment is less. India has a younger population not only in comparison to advanced economies but also in relation to large developing countries. As a result, the labour force in India is expected to in-crease by 32 per cent over the next 20 years, while it will decline by 4.0 per cent in industrialised countries and by nearly 5.0 per cent in China. We are, therefore, endeavoring to reap this ‘de-mographic dividend’ by providing for higher levels of health, education and skill development. This will create an environment where in the economy not only grows rapidly, but also en-hances good quality employment and livelihood opportunities to meet the needs and aspirations of the youth. The Government has been making constant efforts for reduc-ing unemployment through normal growth process and implementing various employment generation programmes, such as, Swarna Jayan-ti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY); Prime Minister’s Employment Gen-eration Programme (PMEGP) and National Rural Livelihood Mission besides entrepreneurial development programmes run by the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises. The Mahatma Gandhi Nation-al Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) also assures every rural household at least 100 days of manual work at minimum wages. Jawaharlal Nehru National Ur-

ban Renewal Mission (JNNURM): The Mission’s aim is to encourage re-forms and fast track planned develop-ment of identified cities. Focus is on efficiency in urban infrastructure and service delivery mechanisms, commu-nity participation etc. Bharat Nirman In Bharat Nirman, critical areas of rural infrastructure – Irrigation, Roads, Water Supply, Housing, Elec-tricity and Telecom connectivity have been covered. This has improved liv-ing standards of the rural population and also created infrastructure which will ultimately enhance the economic activities in the rural areas and gener-ate significant employment opportu-nities for the rural people.Infrastructural Development The investment on infrastructure is proposed to be increased to Rs.45 lakh crore during XII Plan period. About half of this is expected to come from private sector. Skill Development · Skills and knowledge are the driving forces of economic growth and social development of any coun-try. Countries with higher and better levels of skills adjust more effectively to the challenges and opportunities of the world. · Government is serious in cre-ating training infrastructure and pro-viding quality employment to youth. According to a study carried out by Quality Council of India, placement rate has increased to about 80% to 99% because of improved infrastructure in the modernized ITIs. Skill Develop-ment Initiative (SDI) Scheme based on Modular Employable Skills (MES) was started during the Eleventh Five Year Plan for early school leavers and existing workers, especially in the unorganised sector to improve their employability. About 16 lakh persons have been trained under the scheme so far. · Sincere efforts are being made

for skill development of a large num-ber of people under various skill de-velopment programmes. The Prime Minister has set a target of skilling 500 million persons by 2022 and the Ministry of Labour & Employment is required to train 100 million. Gov-ernment is systematically working to achieve the target and the training capacity has been increased from 9 lakh in 2006 - 07 to 26 lakh in 2011-12. All the Government ITIs are being modernized. New courses have been introduced and most of the ITIs are running in two to three shifts. During last five years, the number of Govern-ment and private ITIs has increased from 5114 in 2006-07 to 10,344 which is more than double. Government has also planned to set up 1500 more ITIs in PPP and 5000 Skill Development Centres in PPP to enhance the ca-pacity further. 27 Advanced Training Institutes are also planned in PPP to produce adequate number of trainers in the country. Focus Area in the 12th Five Year Plan In the 12th Five Year Plan the thrust of the Government is in bring-ing about an inclusive growth strategy that will provide job opportunities as well as make the young of the country employable. The main focus areas are:a) Thrust on Manufacturing Sec-tor-to make it the engine of employ-ment growth-that would create 100 million additional jobs by 2025.b) To bring in supportive pol-icies to incentivise labour intensive manufacturing sectors such as textile & garments, leather & footwear, food processing, gems & Jewellery to gener-ate more employment opportunities.c) Expanding employment in services like IT, finance & banking, tourism, trade & transport.d) Prioritizing skill training for the informal sector; creation of appro-priate skill sets among rural migrants and urban poor to make growth inclu-sive.

e) Ensuring the employability of skilled persons by involving Sector Skill Councils in preparation of Skill Modules matching market demand.f) Building on the potential of Modular Employable Skill pro-gramme by ensuring combination of modules to ensure employability.g) Extending Social Security ben-efits to Unorganized sector Workers.h) Enable skill loans for poor stu-dents (Credit Guarantee Fund)i) Streamlining the skill devel-opment programs for disadvantaged sections to ensure much larger fund-ing for skill development.j) Setting up of National Skill Registry to link data bases across Min-istries / States to provide a platform linking people who seek/provide em-ployment. Expenditure on social services which include education, sports, art and cul-ture, medical and public health, family welfare, water supply and sanitation, housing, urban development; welfare of Scheduled Castes (SCs), Sched-uled Tribes (STs) and other Backward Classes (OBCs), labour and labour welfare, social security and welfare, nutrition, relief for natural calamities, etc. by the Government (Centre and State combined) has also shown in-crease in recent years reflecting higher priority to social services. National-e-Governance National-e-Governance Plan has identified Upgradation and modern-ization Employment Exchanges as one of the Mission Mode Projects (MMP). The MMP aims to progressively sup-port all Employment Exchanges in the country to make effective use of IT in various activities of employment services. A national web portal will be developed to make all employment related services available on a single window and will work like a virtual job market. This will help Employ-ment Exchanges to provide efficient and quality services at wider scale and speed.

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An alarming signal for society

The number of heart and cancer patients in the Kashmir valley is in-creasing at an alarming rate day by day. So far, these fatal diseases used to be treated as fallout of urbanization, food habits and sedentary lifestyle. But unfortunately, this is spreading in rural areas too. During the last few years, the number of patients suffer-ing from these life taking diseases visiting Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science has increased many fold. A major population of the valley has to spend a large chunk of their in-come on medication for grave diseas-es for years together. The more miser-able condition is those of middle class families who have to meet the ex-penditures by their agriculture land, property selling jewelry or by taking loan. As per reports the main cause attributed for the spread of these fa-tal diseases is stress along with other factors .the cases of breast cancer too are on higher side as compared to the other parts of the country in the re-cent past. The stress protein rich food salty tea etc. could be prominent caus-es for this increase but lack of aware-ness amongst the women especially in the villages is taking its toll. Early detection means early cure. But due to many social hesitant the women do not speak out very easily and take it lightly which aggravates the situa-tion. As per expert reports, the breast cancer in India is going to double in next four years. Now this type of can-cer has overtaken cervical cancer. The cost of curing this deadly disease may vary from 10-15 thousand to 3-4 lacs per month depending on the stage and gravity of the disease. Almost all the regions of the world are affected by these diseases.The time has come when the society as well as the health caring agencies has to rise to the occasion for fighting against these grave diseases by awak-ening the masses to change their life style and avoid self medication .The awareness camps should be organ-ised in the remotest area where med-ical facilities are almost nil. The more stunning part of the serious situation is there are thousands of medical shops which sell medicines without the prescription of the doctors, rath-er suggest medicines and the gullible patients consume medicines till it turns otherwise and patients have to be rushed to the hospitals where it is too late. As it is the consumption of medicines in the valley is much high-er as compared to other parts of the country in a way making it safe haven for the sub standard medicines. The health care agencies should put ban on the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing such kind of med-icines. A strict drug policy should be initiated and licenses for medical shops should be given after proper scrutiny and under the guidelines prescribed by rules and regulations set by ministry of health. Defaulters should be served with severe penalty so that people are able to live a healthy life as is the case in other developed and under developing countries.

The situation as re-gards pre-poll alli-ance between con-gress and national conference is now

very clear and the two parties have decided to go together if they want to register their win in some parliamentary con-stituencies in the state. The chief minister Omer Abdul-lah had very categorically said that there is no alternative but to go for alliance with the con-gress party. He said that his party will never go for any poll pact with BJP lead NDA. He said that it is necessary to join hands with congress because both the parties are already in coalition both at Centre and in the state. Now it is evident that in Jammu they will have to face formidable BJP which is strengthened because of the candidature of Narinder Modi as PM and in Kashmir the PDP has strong packets of support and may cause big upsetsif congress and national con-ference do not go together. Still PDP has the chance of going neck to neck with the congress NC alliance. Meanwhile the an-nouncement of Congress par-ty that it will start its election campaign with the union health minister G N. Azad alongwith the PCCI president Saif ud Din Soz from 13th of March. It indi-cates that on one side congress is trying to bridge the differ-ences between its leaders and on the other side it is not taking the electoral battle in J&K very lightly. The state has this time about 70 lakh voters which will use their franchise to elect six members from the state. The valley itself has 36 lakh voters and these voters in the entire state will decide the fate of the candidates in five phases. Elab-orate security arrangements are needed as the separatists have already issued poll boy-cott calls and there may be some kind of unpleasant things here or there which can create fear in the minds of the voters. How-ever, keeping in view the pan-chayat elections the voters may again turn in good numbers to elect their representatives.This time the elections are quite different than the previ-ous elections as the voters are more aware about their rights and politically the situation is somehow confused through-out the country. It remains to be seen who will win the battle royal but it is clear that this time most of the candidates will have tough time to convince the voters in their favour.