Bhaderwah, Mar 7: Senior National Conference (NC) leader and Bhaderwah Municipal Chairman Dr Shahid Mogal today visited various areas of Bhaderwah segment to listening the problems and issues being faced by the Bhaderwah people.
During his series of interactions with people of Bhaderwah who apprised Dr Shahid Mogal about miseries and problems after heavy snowfall and rainfall in the segment since winter season.
The inhabitants also informed Dr Shahid about the worst conditions of drainage systems which has not been addressed by administration so far.
Dr Shahid after listening the issues and problems being faced by people of various villages including fully restoration of power and water supply and establishment of new electricity poles which were damaged during heavy snowfall.
Dr Shahid Mogal stressed upon the present dispensation to sanction funds to every Panchayat and Block Levels to clear the left out snowfall so as to end road connectivity of various villages which are still deprived of road connectivity with other towns.
He further assured the people of Bhaderwah segment to take up entire issues and demands of the Bhaderwah people with Governor SP Malik and other concerned Advisors keeping in view of miseries of the Bhaderwah people.
Poonch, Mar 07 : Department of Rural Development Poonch has allegedly violated High Court order seeking list of SBM/NBA workers. The department allegedly submitted incomplete list of Poonch workers to higher authorities to provide in response of honourable high Court.
According to a worker Shamim Akhter of Mandi at present Chandak of block and district Poonch she was enganed as Block Motivator in her respective block under Rural Sanitation Program under BDO Poonch’s order number 1202-1 dated 31-10-2014 under order number 241-242 of 1-8-1995.
Shamim further said, she is still continuing in the department and department especially Block Development Officer Poonch is deliberately ignoring her and harassing her due for unknown reasons.
She said the High Court Jammu has sought details of employees from the department in response of which BDO Poonch submitted incomplete list to the department.
She said the BDO Sain Baba Nangali Sahib has given the salary detail to her whereas BDO block Poonch is not giving the same salary as she has worked from 2005-2009 in block Poonch and has got rupees 11000 as honorarium from Poonch block. She said, details of all others have been submitted before the higher authorities whereas she has been ignored at all. She has appealed to governor Satya Pal Malik and Director concerned to take the matter seriously and take strict action against negligent officials and be merciful for her.
Rajouri,March 07J:–ammu and Kashmir police on Thursday arrested a lady for production of desi liquor in the jurisdiction of Police Station Dharamsal.
A raid was conducted at Soulki village of Dharamsal by police party along with lady cops and arrested one lady namely Shashi Bala @ Shambo wife of Late. Avtar Singh and recovered 4 litres of illicit liquor from her possession beside it 80 KGs of lahan was also seized and destroyed on spot alongwith working still.
A case FIR no 10/19 under sections 48(a) excise act has been registered at police station Dharamsal.
Raid was conducted by police team headed by SHO Dharamsal Amit Singh under the supervision of SDPO Nowshera Brijesh Sharma and Additional SP Nowshera GL Sharma.
Jammu, March 07 : Dr Shazad Malik renowned educationist hailing from border district Poonch today strongly condemned the gernade blast at Bus Stand Jammu on Thursday wherein several innocent people were injured. He said Jammu and Kashmir state is going through a very diificult time, one is terrorism and other cross border shelling.
Dr Shazad urged the people of the state to stand united and give a befitting reply to those who are innimical to the idea of peace and brotherhood.
He urged the State government and administration to provide all possible help to all those injured in the gernade attack and also called for more security at such places to avoid any such incident in future.
Jammu March 05 :– Chairman J&K Human Development Foundation (Regd.) Rajouri Sayeed Mughal met with Dr. Raghav langer, (IAS) Chief Executive Officer JTFRP world bank funded regading the bad condition of road..During the meet Mughal said that inhabitants of Ghambir Mughlan area of District Rajouri has been suffering due to the dilapidated condition of the basic facilities i.e. Road Connectivity from Ghulati to Gala. This road requires immediate repairment and widening throughout the stretch. This is a perennial demand of the people of this area since 2010. Several representations were placed before the concerned authorities, but people had to face the disappointment. He appealed to CEO JTFRP that the demand should be fulfilled as 15 thousand of the population is suffering.
Chairman JKHDF, Sayeed Mughal also alleged that the area is suffering due to political apathy and the officers sitting at the helm of affairs have also turned a blind eye. In the 21st century, we are demanding for a proper road. During the meet Mughal also highlighted it is difficult for one to walk by foot on this road. Since the vehicles are being plied on this road so the lives of people of this area are at danger. Anything can happen on this road and in case the road work is not executed at the earliest there is likelihood of an accident.
Dr. Raghav Langer, IAS heard with patience and positive mindset and assured Chairman J& K Human Development Foundation (Regd.) that the construction of road from Ghulati to Galla has started the work on war-footing basis for immediate redressal of genuine demand.
The Supreme Court struck down Section 66-A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, on Tuesday.
Pronouncing their verdict on a PIL filed against the section in a packed courtroom, which empowers the police to arrest a person for allegedly posting ‘offensive materials’ on social networking sites, a Bench of Justices J Chelameswar and RF Nariman said the section violated the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression and was therefore was illegal.
Terming liberty of thought and expression as “cardinal”, the Bench said: “The public’s right to know is directly affected by Section 66-A of the Information Technology Act.”
“Section 66-A of the IT Act is struck down in its entirety,” said the apex court bench of Justice J. Chelameswar and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman.
“Our Constitution provides for liberty of thought, expression and belief. In a democracy, these values have to be provided within constitutional scheme,” said Justice Nariman, pronouncing the verdict.
“There is no nexus between public order and discussion or causing annoyance by dissemination of information. Curbs under Section 66A of the IT Act infringes on the public right to know.”
Calling the written word of the provision, which comprises terms such as ‘”annoying”, “inconvenient” and “grossly offensive”, vague, the apex court said: “What may be offensive to a person, may not be offensive to others”.
The assurance given by one government was not binding on its successor, the Bench said. “Governments come and go but Section 66-A will remain forever,” the bench said.
The SC, however, refused to strike down two other provisions of the IT Act that provide blocking of websites.(The Tribune)
Rajouri,March,04: To facilitate the stay of officers and their families at district headquarters,District Development Commissioner,Rajouri Mohammad Aijaz Asad today laid foundation stone of multi-storey residential complex for district officers at DC office complex.
The multi storey residential complex will have 3 main recreational hall/dinning hall,6 bed rooms,3 living rooms. The project is handed over to PWD department and will be completed at an estimated cost of 200.00 lacs.
Additional Deputy Commissioner, Rajouri,Sher Singh,EXN PWD and other senior officers of district administration were present on the occasion.
The DDC informed that district administration has taken the task of construction of extra residential accommodation for district officers since there is not adequate accommodation so far at the district headquarters.
He said due to shortage of residential accommodation at district headquarters and expensive availability of private hired accommodation the district officers have to travel from other places.
DDC directed the PWD engineers to start the work on war footing and complete within time frame while ensuring the quality of work.
Rajouri,March 03: Secretary to Government, Education Department, Ajit Kumar Sahu today laid the foundation stone of Government Degree College at Doongi here.
The ceremony was held in presence of District Development Commissioner Rajouri Mohammad Aijaz Asad, Rashid Inqalabi Special secretary Higher Education. Principal of Government PG College Rajouri, XEN PWD Rajouri were also present on the occasion.
Senior officers of PWD (R&B) and the district administration were also present.
A large number of people from the catchment areas, various local Sarpanchs, Panchs and other people attended the occasion.
The work entrusted upon the PWD. XEN PWD informed that the college will be constructed on 75 kanals of land and the approximate cost of academic and administrative block is 1060.77 lacs.
DDC informed that about more than 60000 people from 28 villages will be benefitted and the construction work shall be completed within two years after allotment of the work.
The public on the occassion said that the literacy rate of the area is very low and the people from the LOC have migrated to the city area for receiving education. The public also demanded for 2 to 3 high schools and a sub- district hospital at Doongi.
Speaking on the occassion Mr Sahu said that no investment is more than the one on education and the government has approved 50 new Degree colleges in the state and Doongi is one of them.
He also said that the government is putting efforts in making all necessary facilities available to the schools especially staff and infrastructure.
Mr Sahu said that a long-pending demand of the people of the border area has been met today and Governor’s administration is committed to improve higher education scenario in the state.
Mr Sahu also inaugurated 4 additional class rooms(ACR’s) at Government Middle School Doongi.It was informed that the total construction cost is 20.24 lacs.The work on these class rooms started on 09-02-2018 and completed on 07-08-2018.
Rajouri March,02: District Election Officer, Rajouri, Mohammad Aijaz Asad, today chaired a meeting with nodal officers and other officers associated with elections to review the preparedness for upcoming elections.
ADC,Nowshera,Sukhdev Singh Sanyal,ADC,Sunderbans,Vinod Bhel,Additional DC koteranka,Ved Parkash, Additional SP,ACD,Akhter Qazi,Liaqiat Choudhary,ACR,Mohd Ashraf,Deputy District Election Officer,Rizwan Asger, EXN PWD,PDD,PHE ,tehsildar and other were present on the occasion.
Threadbare discussion was held on various issues for smooth conduct of upcoming general election/State assembly elections 2019.The issues deliberated upon included functioning of District Contact Centres (DCCs), providing of necessary infrastructure for polling stations, status of polling stations and providing AMF at every polling station and functioning of various teams, facilities of webcasting in the polling stations, requirement and movement of EVMs/VVPATs, progress under SVEEP program, communication plan, transport facilities for polling parties, security management, imparting of training to the polling staff as per schedule and several other allied issues, related to the election process.
DEO also reviews the status of DSEs Logical errors and other aspects like addition deletion and transposition of voters. EROs were directed to expedite the process and submit the report within two days.DEO also discussed the progress made under the bridging gender gap and directed the EROs to generate booth level awareness among the rural masses so that the vast gap can be mitigated.
Regarding the training of polling personnel, the nodal officer training and manpower informed that the first phase of training has been concluded. The training was conducted constituency wise at different locations and were conducted by master trainers and the assembly constituency level master trainers. He further informed that around 5000 polling personnel have been trained so far.
Nodal officer SVEEP informed that the special election vans Jashn-e jumariyat, exclusively flagged off for generation of awareness among voters and to acquaint them with the EVMs and VVPATs.He also informed that under SVEEP a total of 1200 ASHAs and Anganwadi workers were sensitised about the election process. He further said special awareness camps and nukad Nataks are being organised at different locations in association with J and K academy of art, culture and languages Rajouri.
Regarding the Assured Minimum facility at each polling station,DEO directed RDD mad PWD for the construction of Ramps and set 10th March as the deadline.Similarly EXN PDD,PHE were directed to ensure power and water supply at each polling station. Regarding the construction of toilet education department was directed to conduct a survey and construct the toilet at each polling station by 10th of March and submit a compliance report.
It is informed that there are 614 polling station out of which 65 have been categorised as hyper sensitive and 147 as sensitive polling stations.Similarly the ASP was instructed to deploy the police personnel accordingly.
DEO asked the concerned officers to work in coordination and remain proactive for successful completion of ensuing elections.
BHADERWAH , Mar 2: Advocate Mohd Majid Malik , has made an appeal to the Governor Jammu and Kashmir Satya Pal Malik that the winter vacation for schools in Doda , Ramban , Kishtwar , Bhaderwah and other far-flung areas of Chenab Valley be extended further in view of the bad weather conditions in the area.In a statement issued here, today, Advocate Mohd Majid Malik said heavy snowfall has taken place in the hilly reaches of Chenab Valley and other parts of the districts and the students have to travel four to five kilometers by foot to reach the schools where there is no road connectivity.
He said in view of the bad weather conditions and heavy snowfall the winter vacations on the pattern of Kashmir division be extended further so that the small children don’t face the problems.Malik said weather condition of Chenab Valley is same between Kashmir and Chenab Valley region of Jammu Province so there is dire need of extension of further winter action .
