Saturday March 24, 20184 DISTRICTS

STATE TIMES NEWS R S PURA: Minister forPHE, Irrigation and FloodControl Sham LalChoudhary on Friday saidthe government has takenvarious path breaking initia-tives for providing basicamenities to the people attheir doorsteps and specialstress is being laid onimproving road connectivityin rural and far-flung areasof the state.

The minister was speakingafter he started the black-topping works on 3.5 kmlong road from BSF PostAbdullian to Bidhipur to beexecuted at an estimatedcost of Rs. 1.06 crore underBADP.

Highlighting the impor-tance of road network in thearea, the Minister said thatthe stretch would providerelief to the locals of ChanduChak and its adjoining areasbesides improving the econo-

my of the area .He also highlighted the

other developmental initia-tives underway in the Stateand said that the concernedexecuting agencies have beendirected to ensure time

bound completion of theworks with strict adherenceto the quality norms .He alsoexhorted upon the people toactively partake in the devel-opmental process to achievetangible results on ground.

Focus on improving road connectivity in rural areas: Sham

PHE Minister Sham Choudhary starting blacktoppingworks on Abdullian to Bidhipur road.

STATE TIMES NEWS KATHUA: Deputy ChiefMinister, Dr Nirmal Singhon Friday inaugurated aPanchayat Ghar at villageKah of Tehsil Billawar whichhas been constructed byRural DevelopmentDepartment with a cost ofRs. 22.50 lakh.

After inaugurating the util-ity, the Deputy ChiefMinister convened a publicgrievances redressal campsat Kah, Barota and JasyalGalak villages and took stockof public issues. He interact-ed with several deputationsto get first-hand account oftheir problems and demands.

Dr. Singh assured thatgenuine issues would be con-sidered and redressed in atime bound manner. Hedirected the officers to lookinto all the issues raised bythe people and initiate neces-sary steps for early redressalof the same.

Dy CM directed ACDKathua to prepare a DPRfor construction of a culvert

near Sherd Deity Shrine atKah village and sanctionedRs. 8 Lakh for the purpose.He said that a new roadproject has been sent toNABARD for Kah villagewhile assuring that severalroad compensation cases willbe disposed off at the earli-est.

At Mandli, Dr Singhinformed that Mandli hasachieved 93 per cent targetof making the area ODF andappealed all the stakeholders

to synergize their efforts inachieving 100 per cent ODFtarget to realise the objectiveof SBM. He further statedthat in Billawar constituencyRs. 11.91 Crore have beenreleased to clear MGNRE-GA liabilities.

Dy CM directed ADCBillawar to hold campsunder PSGA in the firstweek of April at villageBarota, Kah and otherremote locations so that req-uisite certificates can be dis-

tributed to people onassigned date and venue. Headvised the villagers tomaintain cleanliness andhygiene in and around theirareas and construct IHHLfor their own interest.

Underscoring the impor-tance of Panchayati Rajinstitutions in developmentof rural areas, Dy CM saidthat Panchayat is the soul ofa village and Gram Sabhahas an important role inmaking Panchayats thevibrant units. At JasyalGalak, Dy CM announced a25KV transformer and aCommunity Centre.

Earlier, Dr Singh inspect-ed the ongoing constructionwork on PHC at villageBarota and instructed theofficials to complete it instipulated time frame.

ADC Billawar JoginderSingh Rai, ACD RajivKhajuria, Tehsildars, BDOsand other district officersbesides social activist MamtaSingh were present on theoccasion.

Dy CM convenes public grievances redressal camps

Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh inauguratingPanchayat Ghar at village Kah of Tehsil Billawar.

244 stranded passengers airlifted

STATE TIMES NEWS UDHAMPUR: Indian AirForce once again came forthe rescue of the strandedcivilians of Jammu andKashmir State by air lift-ing 244 civil passengers onMar 23, 2018 fromUdhampur to Leh. Due torecent snow and cold wavesin the entire northernareas of J&K a lot of civil-ians of Leh and Kargil sec-tor were stranded inJammu and Udhampur .IAF operated its specialaircraft IL-76 popularlyKnown as Gajraj to airliftcivilians on requisition byJ&K Government.

Air Force Station,Udhampur was the stagingbase for this rescue activity.Special arrangements weremade by Air Force StationUdhampur and DistrictAdministration Udhampurfor Security andMarshalling of civilianswhich included Ladies andChildren also, into the tech-nical area of Air Force.

STATE TIMES NEWS RAJOURI: DeputyCommissioner Rajouri,Shahid Iqbal Choudhary onFriday conducted a detailedreview of up-gradation ofpublic utilities in JawaharNagar town under the CityRe-development plan.

A team of administrationheaded by DistrictDevelopment CommissionerDr Shahid Iqbal Choudharyalong with SSP YougalManhas, ADC, AQ Mir, ACRNoor Alam, Exen, TehsildarRajouri and MunicipalCommittee officials visitedthe Jawahar Nagar area oftown and inspected variousroads and markets for expan-sion of roads and creation ofparking places.

People of Jawahar Nagarincluding Beopar Mandal,trade bodies and prominentcitizens of the area warmlywelcomed the initiative ofdistrict administration underCity Re-development Planand volunteered to remove allthe structures existing on

public roads and lanes forcreation of better facilities.

Administration informedthe residents that three park-ing spots are being developedin the area including DIETcomplex, Cooperative com-plex and Irrigation premiseswhich will accommodate 350-400 vehicles. Locals werealso informed about the deci-sion for installation of delin-eators from Panja Chowk toChhaprian aimed for regula-tion of traffic in particularlanes to avoid traffic jams.Locals demanded construc-

tion of road from JawaharNagar chowk to PHE com-plex.

Structures involved inwidening of alternate roadfrom DIET complex to PHEcomplex including CMOoffice and a local schoolpremises were also inspectedby administration.

Becoming active partici-pants of City RedevelopmentPlan of administration, shop-keepers of Jawahar Nagararea volunteered to removetheir structures from thedrains and lanes of main

road which already standswidened to stipulated width.

DDC appreciated the peo-ple of Jawahar Nagar forproviding a helping hand tothe administration for imple-mentation of developmentprogramme and termed theirvoluntary action ofapproaching administrationfor such a step as exemplary.

He assured the people thatefforts will be taken in a timebound manner for providingbetter amenities to public inline with commitment ofState Government for betterpublic services delivery.

It is to mention here thatDistrict Administration isinitiating installation ofdelineators on various roadsfollowed by yellow lining forparking and special recoveryvan has been procured forlifting wrongly parked vehi-cles.

More than a dozen parkinglots have also been approvedfor the town that will solvethe problem of traffic conges-tion.

Rajouri Redevelopment Plan: DC meetstraders over up-gradation of public utilities

DC Shahid Iqbal Choudhary during visit to Rajouri town.

Wife, paramour arrestedfor murdering husbandSTATE TIMES NEWS

UDHAMPUR: In a bizarre incident a wife and her paramourmurdered her husband on intervening night of 21-22 Marchin her house at village Samleri in Udhampur. Sources dis-closed that both accused had hatched up a conspiracy andmurdered the man with repeated hit by hard wooden stick.Coming in action Rehmbal Police expedite the investigationand arrested both accused.

According to sources, a woman identified as Ritu Devi wifeof Captain Singh and her paramour identified as DarshanKumar hatched up a conspiracy to kill her husband. Sourcessaid that both accused repeatedly hit victim with hard wood-en stick and killed him. After killing, they buried dead bodyfar off near a Nallah. Some passerby notice suspicious move-ment of both and immediately informed police. Coming inaction Rehmbal Police led by SHO Sanjeev Singh Chib underthe supervision of Dy.SP Kameshwar Puri rushed to the spotand took woman to police station for questioning.

During investigation woman disclosed the whole story ofconspiracy and also arrested her paramour involved in mur-der. Police on the basis of investigation expedited process ofinvestigation and took FSL expert team and gathered thecircumstantial evidences and also recovered stick used inoffence. Police exhumed body and shifted to District HospitalUdhampur where a team of doctors performed autopsy andhanded over the body to family members. Rehmabl Police hasregistered a case under section vide FIR No. 38/2018 undersection 302 CrPC.

17 bovines rescued, smuggler flees STATE TIMES NEWS

SAMBA: Police on Friday foiled a bovine smuggling bid byrescuing 17 bovines however smuggler managed to flee fromthe spot.

According to a report, on an information, a team of policestation Ghagwal led by Amit Singh Andotra laid a Naka onJammu Pathankot National Highway near Tapyal and inter-cepted a truck (JK02AE- 1552) which was coming fromKathua side.

During search, police found 17 bovines laden in it whichwere rescued , however driver of the vehicle managed toescape from spot. A case vide FIR No 51/2018 under section88 RPC 2/3 PCA Act was registered in Ghagwal PoliceStation.

Man held with 70 pouches of liquor STATE TIMES NEWS

MENDHAR: Police on Friday nabbed a bootlegger andrecovered 70 pouches of illicit liquorfrom his possession in Mendhar.

As per the details, District SpecialBranch along with a police team head-ed by SHO Mendhar Mohd Aminunder the supervision of SDPOMendhar Reyaz Tantray intercepted aman in Mendhar town and duringfrisking, 70 pouches of liquor wererecovered from his possession.

He has been identified as Rajinder Kumar son of LalChand resident of Ari Mendhar and a case under relevantsections has been registered in Police Station Mendhar.

650 Kgs of Lahan destroyed STATE TIMES NEWS

KATHUA: Excise Department onFriday destroyed 650kgs of Lahanduring different raids carried outagainst illicit liquor in Excise RangeKathua.

On the directions of the ExciseCommissioner Mohd. Javed Khanand supervision of Deputy Excise

Commissioner (Executive), Jammu Syed Muried Hussain Shah,the Excise Team Kathua led by ETO Excise Range Kathua,Vikas Anand, Inspector Excise Sanjeev Khajuria, SI AmitSharma along with Excise Guards Rajinder Singh, AkeelAhmed, Balbir Singh , Samsher Dev and Mohd. Ramzan raidedthe Jarai, Kangrayal, Banyari and Birso Chak areas of KathuaDistrict to arrest the menace of illicit distillation of liquor.

In the process more than 650 Kgs of Lahan, raw material ofillicit liquor was recovered by the raiding team from state landand later destroyed on spot.

STATE TIMES NEWS UDHAMPUR: Minister forAgriculture, Ghulam NabiLone Hanjura exhorted uponthe Agriculture Departmentto take appropriate measuresfor providing the benefits ofdifferent schemes to thefarmers to uplift their socio-economic condition. Theminister said this after inau-gurating one-day exhibitioncum Kisan Mela on Friday.

Vice Chairman StateKissan Board, Daljit SinghChib, Member LegislativeAssembly Udhampur PawanKumar Gupta, DeputyCommissioner Ravinder

Kumar, Director AgricultureJammu H.K Razdan, ChiefAgriculture OfficerUdampur S.K Gandotra,Chief Horticulture OfficerBrij Vallabh Gupta, besidesother officers and largenumber of farmers attendedthe mela.

The minister said that thepurpose of organizing suchprogrammes is to sensitizethe farmers about new tech-nology and high yieldingvariety of seeds being intro-duced in the agriculture sec-tor to increase productivityand to provide better market-ing facilities to the farmers.

Hanjura for benefit of agricultureschemes to farmers

Agriculture Minister, Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura visiting astall at Kisan Mela in Udhampur.

STATE TIMES NEWS KATRA: To promote the tra-ditional culture of J&KBhartiya Lok Sangeet KalaSansthan (BKSKS) organ-ised two days Navratra festi-val under the caption 'TwoDays Devotional Folk SongCum Dance Festival' in coor-dination with Durga PoojaSamiti ,Katra (Vaishno Devi) at Main Fountain Chowk,Bus Stand Katra under theaegis of Union Ministry ofCulture , Govt. of India andpresented scintillating per-formance with therenowned artistes of theState.

The programme was inau-gurated by lighting of tradi-tional lamp by the ChiefGuest Deepak Paroch,President Durga PoojaSamiti Katra, NeelamKahjuria,SDM Katra, VinodSharma DSP Katra whilerenowned members of theDurga Pooja Samiti were

Executive Members ShankerDass, Rajinder Heera,Vinay Heera, Neelam Arora,Neeraj Plaser, RahulGandotra they all were alsoGuests of Honour. V.KMagotra, MD, BLSKS andR.P Amla, Event Directorwere also present on theoccasion. Main attraction ofthe programme wasglimpses of Mata VaishnoDevi like Geetru, folk formof Dogri folk (KalayeKanwan) , Dogri danceMaiya he Maiya , Meri MayiDa Jhula Sat-Rangiyan ,

Dandaras , Bakh, Bhajansand Sufiana, comedy, songsand Dances presented byartistes.

At the venue of the pro-gramme a glorious Mata KaPandal Akhand Jyoti hasalready been established bythe Durga Pooja Samiti. Alarge number of devoteesthronged the venue to wit-ness devotional song cumdance festival being organ-ised by over 60 renownedfolk artistes of the State. Earlier, the programe waspresented at Trikuta Public

Higher Sec. School, Katraon the theme of BetiBachao-Beti Padao andSwatch Bharat for studentsof host school.

Since the programme coin-cided with the ongoingChaitra Navratras , thedevotional songs and dancesby the artistes were addedattraction of the pro-gramme. The main attrac-tion of the devotional folksong cum dance festival wasUsha Handoo, ZulekhaFarid, K.K.Joshi and RajuBajgal. Troupes which par-ticipated in the festival wereBhartiya Lok Sangeet KalaSansthan, Raju Bajgal andParty , Sanjay Pashi andParty , M.C Kotwal andParty, Deepak Kumar andParty, Sahil Gill and Party,Ali Mohd. and Party, RamDitta and Party. The pro-gramme was conducted byK.K Joshi, Vice ChairmanBLSKS.

BLSKS unveils mega Navratra festival at Katra

BLSKS officials along with artists during the festival.

STATE TIMES NEWS BILLAWAR: Dr Manohar LalSharma, Former Minister andsenior Congress Leader onFriday said that present BJP-PDP Government is a big failureof Modi's experiment on Jammuand Kashmir. He said that BJPGovernment at Centre also failedto come up to the expectation ofthe people of country as well asthe State in four years of his gov-ernance.

Dr Sharma while interactingwith the people of areas said thatthe BJP-PDP Govt. is a totalfailure in all fronts of develop-mental activities, giving justice tocommon men, in generatingemployment opportunities, fight-ing against terrorism, keepingcheck on corruption, maintain-ing law and order includingrestoring peace in the State andsimilar is the position of Modi'sGovt. in Centre. He said that thepresent chaos in State is a resultof coalition failure which is ulti-mately gifted to us by Modi.

Dr Sharma launching ascathing attack on BJP-PDPcoalition for prevailing mess anduncertainty in State, regrettedthat during the last three years,the present regime has spoiledthe peaceful atmosphere whichwas achieved by the previousgovernment. He further saidthat what is happening after theformation of PDP-BJP coalitionin 2015 is that they have crossedall limits in corruption in every

field of public life and brazenlyeroded sanctity and credibility ofdemocratic institutions throughtheir deceitful tactics.

Dr Sharma Said that it is veryunfortunate that Nirmal KumarSingh is only inaugurating oldcompleted projects of previousgovernment on one hand, but onthe other hand, he alwaysremained busy in criticising pre-vious regime for non perform-ance.

Dr Sharma accused BJP andNirmal Singh for complete fail-ure to initiate or start a singlenew project for the welfare ofpeople living in Billawar till dateexcept inaugurating previouslycompleted building of primaryand middle schools, tar coal on ablack topping roads and smallbridges/culverts, but Dy CMalways show dream of big proj-ects for Billawar. He questionedwill the Dy CM tell the peopleabout fate of big projects evenafter more than two years inpower ?

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VIJAYPUR: Principal PTTIVijaypur, SSP Ashok Kumarorganised a lecture-cum-demonstration on Fire SafetyMeasures here at PTTIVijaypur.

R.C Raina, Dy Director FireServices was the GuestSpeaker on the occasion.Ashok Kumar in his inauguraladdress welcomed R.C. Rainaand his team for visiting PTTIVijaypur to share his experi-ences on fire safety and exhibit-ing fire safety drill.

Raina, while addressing thegathering, explained about thefire safety norms and ways toextinguish various types offires.

He also shared his knowledgeof handling of fire fightingequipments and other meansof fire fighting so that in case ofany fire incident police person-nel are able to take preventivemeasures. He said keeping inview of availability of adequatecombustible material at workplaces and houses, the knowl-

edge of fire safety norms is ofparamount importance to savethe life and property in case offire incident. He said duringsummer season such incidentstakes place and further saidthat the knowledge of handlingof fire fighting equipments/other such measures can avertmajor tragedy.

Raina and his team also por-trayed fire fighting drill andworking of equipments usedduring disasters. RakeshSambyal Dy.SP Indoor pre-sented vote of thanks.

Ashok Kumar and SavitaParihar SSP Vice Principalpresented a memento to theGuest Speaker as a token ofrespect.

Mukesh Kumar Dy.SPAdmn, Karanjit Singh Dy.SP(Outdoor), Ramesh KatariaDy.SP (S) Inspr. Manoj Bali,Inspr. Hemanshu SunilMahajan, Inspr. Puran Singh,Inspr. Rajesh Kumar, Inspr.Yashpal Singh, Inspr. JatinderSingh, Inspr. Charanjit Singh,Inspr. Pawan Parihar were alsopresent on the occasion.

PTTI Vijaypur organises fire safety drill

Officials of Fire Services giving demonstration.

STATE TIMES NEWS UDHAMPUR: To sensitiseand motivate the peopleabout the importance ofGourav Yatra under SwachhBharat Mission Gramin(SBMG), DistrictDevelopment CommissionerRavinder Kumar conductedtour of Panchayat Battal

The Yatra was organizedto generate awarenessamong the common massesabout the benefits of con-structing toilets in theirhouses and making theirhamlets Open DefecationFree.

During the yatra, theDDC interacted with the cit-izens of the village andasked them to cooperatewith the district administra-tion in generating aware-ness and also sought theirsuggestions in makingUdhampur Open Defecation

Free. He further informedthe people that in PanchayatBattal; Chary and Kothiwards have been declared asODF. On this occasion,DDC also inauguratednewly constructed toilets.

Later, the DDC distributedfelicitation certificatesamong the volunteers whoparticipate in awarenessprogramme and also admin-istered 'Swachhta Pledge' toall the participants on theoccasion.

Assistant CommissionerDevelopment, AngrezSingh, Chief HorticultureOfficer, Brij Vallabh Gupta,District Panchayat Officer,Sunaina Sawney, ADFisheries, KulbhushanVerma, Block DevelopmentOfficer, Rupali Vaid, districtand sectoral officers besideslarge number of people werepresent on the occasion.

DDC educates peopleabout SBMG benefits

STATE TIMES NEWS POONCH: Jammu andKashmir EnergyDevelopment Agency(JAKEDA), DistrictOffice Poonch organ-ised a training pro-gramme at Poonch inwhich 40 youths weretrained with regard tomaintenance/ repair-ing of renewable ener-gy devices.

During the programmelarge number of locale peopleand Technical OfficerGurdeep Singh and Vinod

Kumar also attended theworkshop that made aware

about renewable energydevices being promotedthrough JAKEDA in theJ&K State.

JAKEDA organises awareness camp

JAKEDA official speaking during aprogramme at Poonch.