STATE TIMES NEWSBANIHAL: In an endeavourto enhance awareness level ofstudents so as to expose themto the diversity and cultural
strength of India, a CapacityBuilding Tour of 35 studentsand 5 teachers to the city ofAgra was flagged off atRamban District. This is apart of the series of initia-tives taken by the Army inengaging youth creativelyand changing mindsets andattitudes towards a produc-tive, responsible and inclu-sive outlook.
The tour will expose thestudents to the rich culturaltapestry of India. The struc-tured tour for the studentsaims to inculcate a sense ofbelonging and foster anational sentiment amongstimpressionable minds, whichwill help in motivating andguiding youth towards a con-structive growth path.
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STATE TIMES NEWSREASI: Shiv Sena, J&Kunit leaders held a publicmeeting at Thanpal inTehsil Reasi on Mondayunder the chairmanship ofPresident J&K , ManishSahni.
In the meeting, ShivSainiks demanded toincrease the assembly seatsof Jammu province and 80per cent reservation inemployment for the youth of
J&K. Sahni said that peopleof the area have spoken tohim of lack of medical facil-ities and lack of doctors inReasi government hospital.
At the same time, ShivSena leaders also expresseddeep concern over the devel-opment of Thanpal's area,especially the poor conditionof the fisheries department.Sahni said that the pools forfish farming have dried upand there is no system to
maintain them. There is alot of anger among the peo-ple of the area about theignored attitude of BJPleaders and administration.On this occasion, about 100people in the villageThanpal got influenced bythe policies and principles ofShiv Sena, joined the party.
The Shiv Saniks also tookthe oath of patriotism andsocial service. Sahni alsoannounced Bhuri Singh asPresident Teh. Reasi Tehsiland Mangu Ram asPrabhari While Swan Singhwas appointed as VicePresident.
President women wingMinakshi Chhibber, GeneralSecretary Vikas Bakshi,Secretary Raj Singh, Youthleader Vishal Kohli, joint-secretary Raju Salaria,Pawan Singh and UttamSingh were also present.
Shiv Sena demands increase inassembly seats for Jammu province
Shiv Sainiks taking oath at Reasi.
STATE TIMES NEWSBHADARWAH: About 60per cent citrus fruit crop wasdamaged due to recent snow-fall in this picturesque Valleyof Bhadarwah and adjoiningareas in Doda district ofJammu and Kashmir, a sen-ior government official saidon Monday.
Bhadarwah, along withKellar, Pranoo, Shiva,Bhallesa, Dessa, Chatrooand Marmat, experiencedheavy snowfall betweenThursday and Sunday.
"Nearly 60 percent of thecitrus fruit crop have suf-fered irreparable losses in thelatest snowfall, as harvestingseason starts after first fort-night of January"Bhadarwah horticulturedevelopment officer AabidHussain Tantray said, quot-ing preliminary informationreceived from the field staff.Putting the loss suffered bythe orchards in the snow-bound areas to nearly 60 per-cent, Tantray asked thefarmers not to let snow accu-mulate on trees.
It is after several years thatChenab region has witnessed
heavy snowfall in Novemberand first fortnight ofDecember and brought cheerto the tourism industry.However, it has turned out tobe a bane for locals and fruitgrowers with losses incurreddue to the snowfall touchingin crore as 60 percent of theorchards got completelydamaged as unripe fruit fellfrom the trees.
On the other hand, ruralareas of Doda, Ramban andKishtwar districts of theChenab region remained intodarkness on fourth day aspower supply lines also dam-aged due to the snow. While
60 per cent potable watersupply has been restored inthe Bhadarwah valley, mostof the localities are still with-out water.
Although the white blanketis a delight to the eyes, it hasbrought a great deal of trou-ble to the locals.
We didn't expect such aheavy snowfall. We tried overbest to save our citrus fruitbut overnight snowfall dam-aged 70 percent of myorchard. I was in tears andam still in a state of shock tosee the heap of unripe lemon,sweet lemon, Oranges andKinnu lying on the ground.
All of it has been damaged,said Sheikh Mohd Shafi ofBharova-Bhadarwah, a lead-ing fruit grower of ChenabValley. According to officials60 percent of the citrus fruitcrop including lemon,Oranges, sweet lemon, Kinnuand Mousambi got damageddue to the heavy snowfallfrom Thursday to SundayMorning. Harvesting seasonof the crop starts from 15thJanuary.
"We get no support fromthe government orHorticulture department aslike Kashmir, we are not evencovered under PrimeMinister's crop insurancescheme. I took of the matterwith DDC Doda Dr SagarDattaray Doifode during afruit Mela, although hepromised to take up the mat-ter with Chief secretary butnothing has been done sofor,"said Sheikh Shafi,President fruit growers asso-ciation Chenab Valley.
"Our family invested 11years of life to grow orchardand since last 5 years wehave been totally dependenton the the income we used to
get from these citrus fruit,mostly sweet lemon, but asingle night of snowfallchanged everything as 75percent of sweet lemons felldue to snow and got totallydamaged. Hope administra-tion will bail us out from thissituation," said SurinderKumar of Village Gajoth-Kellar.
"We removed snow afterevery two hours from our cit-rus trees even during nighthours during last three daysbut as ill luck have prevailed,we could not save our yieldjust before the harvestingseason. It was a horriblesight to see the oranges,lemons, and Mousambi scat-tered everywhere on thewhite snow, I could not gath-er courage to collect theunripe fruit from snow," saida farmer Parveen Khan ofGatha- Bhadarwah.
It is notable to mentionhere that Bhaderwah, Kellar,Pranoo and Shiva areas ofDistrict Doda are the leadingproducer of the sweet lemonin the state with BhadarwahValley contributing 45% ofthe total yield.
STATE TIMES NEWSKISHTWAR: Congressparty delegation of KishtwarDistrict headed by its stateVice President and FormerMinister, G. M Saroori callsfor provisions of free electric-ity to the inhabitants ofKishtwar District as waspromised to them by theNHPC at the time of takingover of 390 MW Dool-Hastipower projects and demand-ed jobs for local unemployedyouths including Engineers,Diploma holders in 1000MW power projects.
Congress delegation com-promises of former MinisterGhulam Mohammad Saroori,Trade Unionist Raj KumarBadyal, Counsellor SanjeetKumar, Congress BlockPresident Ghulam QadirSheikh, Ali Mohd Naik,Tariq Hussain Mintoo,Surjeet Kumar, Student
leader Waseem Saroori, ExSarpanch Bidya Lal,Sarpanches and many otherintellectuals from theCongress party calls uponDeputy CommissionerKishtwar and appraise himabout the genuine aspira-tions of the people ofKishtwar.
They called upon DCKishtwar Angrez SinghRana to take up the issues
and matters raised by themwith the government ofJammu and Kashmir as wellas with the higher officials ofNHPC and CVPPP so thatthe locals aspirations as waspromised to them will get ful-filled. Among the variousissues raised by them withthe administration includeprovisions of free electricityin Kishtwar town and itsperipheral areas as nothing
has been done by NHPC sofar for the welfare and bene-fits of people of Kishtwar,installations of high masklights in each wards ofKishtwar Municipality andoutside the town, black top-ping of two important cityroads viz Om Mehta andBagwan Mohallah roadexclusively used by theNHPC etc.
They also submitted thememorandum to DCKishtwar in this regard high-lighting the various publicissues. DC Kishtwar gavepatience hearing to the issuesraised by the Congress dele-gation with him and assuredthat he will take up the mat-ter with concern quartersand made an appeal forgreater participation of pub-lic for taking benefits undervarious government runsschemes.
Congress calls for provision of free electricity,jobs for locals in power projects
Congress delegation handing over memorandum to DDC.
Early snowfall damages citrus fruit crop in Chenab region
Orchards covered under snow blanket at Bhadarwah.
NPP demandscompensation for
damaged cropsSTATE TIMES NEWS
R S PURA: Jammu KashmirNav Nirman Party Party(NNP) held a meeting at R SPura district Jammu. Themeeting was held under thesupervision of State PresidentJasmer Singh Chohhala.People highlighted variousproblems during the meeting.
While addressing the people,Jasmer Singh Chohala assuredthem that their problems willbe taken up with the concerneddepartments. Singh said thatdue to the unseasonal rains, thepaddy crop of the farmers hasbeen damaged, but no one haslistened to the farmers. Herequested the district adminis-tration to inspect the damagedcrops of the farmers and prop-er compensation to the farm-ers. Prominent among thosewho attend the meeting includ-ed Vice President ParminderSingh, Rajesh Sharma Bablu,Manmeet singh,Satish Bhagat.
STATE TIMES NEWSREASI: Indian Army iscontributing towardswomen empowerment byconducting job orientedcadres for women in remoteareas. As part of this initia-tive, Indian Army conduct-ed a Pickle Making Cadreat Bagga, from 02 to 16December 2019.
In its pursuit of empower-ment of local women, theArmy has organised variousvocational training activi-ties in remote areas.Women look forward to selfsustenance and improvingtheir standard of living.Such initiatives by theArmy, especially thoseenhancing traditional skills
such as pickle making,weaving and knitting havehelped women in realizingtheir true potential. Theseinitiatives will encouragemore women to come for-ward, enhance their skillsand thereby improve thestandard of living of thesociety as a whole.
Speaking on the occasion,the women who attained theskill, thanked the Army forenabling them to becomeself reliant for the futureand reduce their dependen-cy on the male members oftheir families. The localpopulaces have conveyedthat the various initiativesby the Army, especially forthe women, would assist inthe all-round socio econom-ic development of theregion.
Army imparts pickle-making training to women
STATE TIMES NEWSRAJOURI: Two weeks DSTSponsored FacultyDevelopment Programme onQuantum Science &Technology commenced from16th December, 2019 in theSchool of Material Sciences& Nanotechnology, BabaGhulam Shah BadshahUniversity Rajouri. ViceChancellor BGSBU Prof.Javed Musarrat expressedhis greeting and wishes forthe success of theProgramme. He furtheremphasized on keeping pacewith the latest trends andtechnologies in MaterialSciences & Nanotechnologyparticularly in QuantumScience. Prof. Iqbal Parwez,Dean, Academic Affairs wasthe Chief Guest of the occa-sion. Prof. Iqbal Parwezappreciated the efforts of theSchool for organizing theFDP and highlighted theimportance of such pro-gramme for overall groomingof Academia.Prof. Iqbal saidthat such programmes wouldstrengthen the vision of The
Vice Chancellor Prof. JavedMusaart to develop BGSBUas a centre of excellence inteaching and research. Hestressed upon the participantto get maximum benefit ofthe expert lecture and shouldcome up with novel ideas andcontribute in the ongoing inthe field of quantum sci-ences. Earlier, Dean, Schoolof Material Sciences &Nanotechnology Prof.Mohammad Asger, welcomedthe guests and the partici-pants and shed light on theobjective of conducting FDPon such an important theme.Prof. Patrick Dasgupta,from the Department ofPhysics & Astrophysics,University of Delhi, was thekey note speaker in theinnagural session. He delib-erated on the theme of theprogramme and its relevancein research and other appli-cations. He shed light on thelatest trends and challengesin the area of the QuantumSciences.
Experts from within andoutside Jammu and Kashmir
have been invited to deliverlectures during the two weeklong course.Present on theoccasion were, Prof. G. M.Malik, Dean of School ofEducation, Prof. NaseemAhmad, Dean, School ofManagement, Heads of vari-ous Teaching Departments,besides scholars, students &faculty members. The formalvote of thanks was proposedby Dr. Feroz Ahmad Mir,Assistant Professor,Department of Physics.
FDP on Quantum Science &Technology begins at BGSBU
Women undergoing training at Reasi.
Army officials along with participants posing for photograph.
STATE TIMES NEWSBARI BRAHMANA:Members of Jat families liv-ing in Tehsil Bari Brahmanaheld a meeting of State LevelJat leadership, inviting ChManmohan Singh StatePresident All India JatMahasabha J&K as theirpatron.
As known, in an effort toconnect with people of Jatbiradari living in far flungareas, Ch. Manmohan Singhand his team has been tour-ing all the places where jatfamilies live and they thanform a committee of theirlocal members. In responseto his steps for integration ofour biradari people, the resi-dents of Bari Brahmanaattended this meeting andasked Ch. Manmohan Singhto form committees for them.
On their demand, Ch.RajSingh Randhawa was electedTehsil President of AIJMSBari Brahmana, MaanSingh and Capt. Des Raj asSr. Vice presidents Capt.Manmohan Singh and CaptSikander Singh as VP,Gurjeet Singh as Gen.Sec.,
Sain Choudhary and CaptRaj Kumar as Secy., unani-mously. This meeting wasattended by all the Jat resi-dents including women inlarge numbers. Ch.Manmohan Singh said thatby forming such committeesat every Tehsil/ village, he is
making communicationbetween our people veryeasy. He said that being cho-sen as a representative of theBiradari entails a lot of ded-icated work for our people,and it is no less than a fulltime job. Choudhary saidthat by forming these com-mittees, he is enabling ourpeople to raise their concernsindependently.
Ch.Manmohan Singhasked the committees toreach out to every family andbring their issues to hisnotice so that he and histeam can raise these con-cerns with the respectiveauthorities.
Ch Diwan singh Ch Shamlal, Ch Rashpal singh, ChSurinder Shinda, Ch PremPal Ch Baljeet singh and ChJanak Raj were also present.
Jat Mahasabha constitutes Bari Brahmana Tehsil unit
Minor girl rescued,kidnapper nabbed
STATE TIMES NEWSBHADARWAH: Police onMonday worked out a kidnap-ping case and recovered aminor kidnapped girl.
According to reports, par-ents of a minor girl (namewithheld) lodged a complaintwith Bhadarwah police thattheir 17 years old minor girlwas kidnapped by a youthfrom Bhadarwah area.
As soon as the parents filedthe complaint, BhadarwahPolice took the cognizance andregistered a FIR 187/2019under section 363/109 IPC atPolice Station Bhadarwah andinvestigation was started.
On the direction and overallsupervision of SSP DodaMumtaz Ahmed, ASPBhadarwah Raj Singh Gouriaconstituted various teams forsearching the kidnapped girland accused.
Finally the Police team ledby SDPO Bhadarwah AdilRishu and SHO Police StationBhadarwah InspectorShamim Ahmed recovered thegirl from Padyarna area of dis-trict Kishtwar. The accusedinvolved in the kidnapping ofthe minor girl has been identi-fied as Rohit Kumar, son ofBhag Singh, resident ofShakla Thathri District Doda,who has been arrested byPolice. The recovered minorgirl handed over to her parentsafter completing legalformalities.
Members of Jat Mahasabha during the meeting.
Army flags off capacitybuilding tour for students
STATE TIMES NEWSUDHAMPUR: DistrictD e v e l o p m e n tCommissioner, UdhampurDr. Piyush Singla con-vened a meeting with offi-cers of various depart-ments to finalize the annu-al action plan under JalJeevan Mission on thetheme 'Har Ghar Nal SeJal'.
The meeting was attend-ed by SE PHE CircleUdhampur, Kuldip Badyal,Chief Planning Officer,Rajeev Bhushan, AssistantC o m m i s s i o n e rDevelopment, MushtaqChowdhary, DistrictInformation Officer, Er.Sajad Bashir Somberia,Executive Engineer, PHEMechanical, TajChowdhary, ChiefEducation Officer, P.DSharma, Chief MedicalOfficer, Dr. K.C Dogra,Chief Agriculture Officer,Satish Bhagat and othersenior officers of differentdepartments.
Detailed discussionswere held on various issuesregarding effective imple-
mentation of Jal JeevanMission in the district likefinalization of annualaction plan, preparation ofDPRs for all the schemesand preparation of IECplan.
While addressing themeeting, the DDC stressedthat Jal Jeevan Mission iscentrally sponsoredscheme launched withobjective to provide100 percent tap water to all house-holds. DDC asked the con-cerned departments toconstitute village levelwater sanitation commit-tees and submit detail
within five days.DDC asked PHE depart-
ment to submit DPR ofNarsoo, Sewna and Lattiblock while ACD wasasked to sensitize BDOsand all PRIs about theJJM scheme and ensurethat plans are framed ingram sabhas.
Meeting was informedthat all the households inUdhampur district wouldget water connections by30th October, 2020 and infirst phase 03 blocks Latti,Narsoo and Sewna will getwater connections byMarch 2020.
DDC Udhampur finalisesannual action plan under JJM
DDC Udhampur Dr. Piyush Singla chairing a meeting.
STATE TIMES NEWSDODA: DistrictD e v e l o p m e n tCommissioner, Dr SagarD Doifode chaired a meet-ing of the DistrictEnvironment Committeefor the preparation ofDistrict EnvironmentPlan.
The meeting was attend-ed by ADC Doda, KishoriLal Sharma, DFO DodaNavneet Singh, Jointdirector PlanningParshotam Kumar,CMO,CEO, DistrictPollution Control Boardofficer, EO MC Thathri,Bhaderwah.
Threadbare discussionwere held on preparationof District EnvironmentPlan wherein DDC direct-ed members of DLEC forsubmission of detaileddistrict Environment Planregarding various initia-tives for environmentalconservation and improv-ing parameters within oneweek.
DDC said that the actionplan shall be aimed atimproving overall parame-
ters of environment in thedistrict includes solidwaste management, biomedical waste manage-ment, construction anddemolition waste, pollutedriver stretches, industrialpollution control, utilisa-tion of treated sewage,conservation of water bod-ies, e-waste management,prevention of illegal sandmining, widespread meas-ures to curb use of plastic/polythene, communityparticipation and massawareness, strengtheningGreen Clubs, soil andmoisture conservation,water conservation, curb-ing air and water pollutionand grievance redressal
mechanism.DFO Doda was appoint-
ed as Nodal officer for theformulation of the basicstructure of the DEPwithin two days, besidesADC Doda was asked tocollect the informationfrom all the members tomake a broad frameworkof the plan which shall besubmitted to theChairman for the finalapproval within a weektime.
Moreover DDC Dodadirected the ADC to con-vene the meeting of thesaid committee in everymonth, besides to monitorthe working of the com-mittee on regular basis.
DDC Doda directs to prepareDistrict Environment Plan
DDC Dr Sagar D Doifode chairing a meeting at Doda.
