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SUNDAY 24 August | 2014 | 27 Shawal, 1435 AH | PAGES 12 | VOL NO: 4 | ISSUE NO: 233| RS: 2/- (AIR SURCHARGE FOR JAMMU /DELHI/LEH 50 Paisa)Pen For Justice Largely Circulated, No. 1 Bilingual Daily of J&Khttp://www.zabarwantimes.com

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Jammu, August 23: Four Persons were killed and six others including a Border Security Force (BSF) man were injured after Pakistani army reportedly targeted scores of Indian posts and several villages last night near the international border in RS Pura sector in Jammu district.A senior police official told GNS that Pakistani troops targeted about 20 BSF posts and several villages in

the Arnia and RS Pura sectors using long range mortar shells and heavy to medium machine guns.He said that two civilians of Joda-farm village in RS Pura sector were killed after the village was targeted by the Pakistani Rangers. “Eight persons including a BSF constable Jai Khishan of 94 bn were also in-jured in the incident.The

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4 Persons killed, BSF man among 6 injured in

RS Pura firingBorder Firing: Top official put under suspension after

denying shelter to fleeing residents

Srinagar, August 23: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday placed a top government official under suspension after she denied shelter to residents fleeing border firing in RS Pura sector of Jammu.“The District administra-tion, Jammu has placed Su-perintendent ITI RS Pura, Ms Ruchika under suspen-sion for not unlocking the college complex for provid-ing shelter to residents of adjoining Border areas in view of continuous firing across the Border, pending further enquiry into the matter,” an official spokes-man said in a statement is-sued to GNS.As per an order

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Srinagar, Aug 23: Flagging the issue of return of power projects by NHPC to the State as of significant importance and critically essential for the energy supply and economic development in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Saturday reiterated that losses caused to the State on ac-count of Indus Water Treaty (IWT) are enormous.Omar Abdullah said that while both India and Pakistan have been bene-fited by Indus Water Treaty, the State of Jammu and Kashmir has been put to disadvantageous position. He said due to this treaty Jammu and Kash-mir cannot utilize its water resources to its will for generating hydro power, irrigating agriculture fields and pro-viding drinking water to the people. He mentioned the hurdle recently brought

under Indus Water Treaty for launch of huge water supply project for Greater Jammu to utilize Chenab water to meet the requirements of the people for next 25 years.The Chief Minister was addressing a high level meeting of the officers of Union Power Ministry and J&K State Power Development Depart-ment which was also participated by the Union Minister of State for Power (Independent Charge) Pyuish Goyal, J&K Minister of State for Power, Vikar Rasool, Chief Secretary, Mohammad Iqbal Khandey, Union Power Secre-tary, Devendra Choudhary, J&K Prin-cipal Secretaries, B. R. Sharma, B. B. Vyas, Suresh Kumar, A. K. Mehta and senior officers from various Union Power Agencies and

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IWT puts J&K in disadvantageous position: Omar

Baramulla, Aug 23): Minis-ter for Health and Medical Education, Mr. Taj Mohi--ud-din today inaugurated Lift Irrigation scheme at Azadpora Boniyar Uri. The Project has been construct-ed by Mechanical and Irri-gation Department (MID), Baramulla and would meet the growing need of irriga-tion water in the area.Among others, District Development Commission-er Baramulla, Dr. Farooq Ahmad Lone, officers of district administration, besides the officials of the line Departments were also present on the occasion.Earlier, the Minister in-augurated Heath Camp at Zamur Pattan Uri, or-ganized by Health De-partment. The patients were provided free Health check-up and diagnostic fa-cilities during the camp. A huge excitement was seen among the people who at-tended the Health Camp. The problems and diseases related to Blood pressure, Blood Sugar, Haemoglobin, TLC,DLC, Mocroalbum were checked-out and the patients were given free medicines.The Minister also ad-dressed a public meeting at Azadpora Uri. He high-lighted the efforts

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Taj inaugurates Lift Irrigation

scheme at Azadpora Uri

Srinagar, August 23, : Peoples Democratic Par-ty (PDP) president, Me-hbooba Mufti has said though Gulmarg-Tan-marg constituency has

the potential of becoming one of the economic pow-er houses of the state on the strength of its tour-ism potential alone, but lack of development in the area has resulted in immense problems of in-frastructure and ameni-ties for its residents.During an extensive tour of the constituency in which she visited more than 30 villages, Mehboo-ba said there was hardly

any visible sign of devel-opment in the area with the people complaining of lack of drinking wa-ter, irrigation facilities, power deficit, scarcity of ration and very poor con-dition of most of the in-ternal roads. She was told that none of the hundred odd villages in Tanmarg assembly constituency has filtered water supply available to it.While thanking the peo-ple, who had come out in large numbers to greet and listen to her, for hav-ing voted for the PDP can-didate, Muzzafar Husain Baig in the recent Lok Sabha elections, Mehboo-ba said her party treats itself as accountable to the people for its perfor-mance. She said the par-ty is coming up with a manifesto that apart from addressing the political issues facing the state will try to focus on de-velopment issues and the severe

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Srinagar, August 23: The Union Minister for Power, Pyush Goyal on Saturday said that the Government of India under Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi has focused Jammu and Kashmir specially and the de-velopment of power sector would receive special place.Goyal, who visited Kashmir today, said that the issues between the State and the Union Power Minis-try can be easily resolved through the process of meetings and interac-tions, according to a statementThe Union Minister was addressing a high level meeting of the officers of Union Power Ministry and J&K State Power Development Depart-ment which was also participated by the Jam-mu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdul-lah, J&K Minister of State for Pow-er, Vikar Rasool, Chief Secretary, Mohammad Iqbal Khandey, Union Pow-er Secretary, Devendra Choudhary, J&K Principal Secretaries, B. R. Sharma, B. B. Vyas, Suresh Kumar, A. K. Mehta and senior officers from various Union Power Agencies and State Government Power Department.“He said Union Power Ministry will provide full cooperation to the

State in moving ahead confident-ly on road to achieve new goals in power development sector. He said the huge potential of 20000 MWs of hydro energy available in the State if harnessed would not only give significant boost to the State’s econ-omy but also benefit the Country,” the statement quoted the Minister as saying.Pyuish Goyal asked the offi-cers of Government of India and the State of Jammu and Kashmir to draft DPRs for all the identified hydel projects so that no delay is caused at the time of the launch of each project. He said generation of 20000 MWs should be the goal for us to achieve in near fu-

ture. “Let it happen in our time”, he maintained. He said Government of India would provide all financial support to Jammu and Kashmir to realize this goal.

He also welcomed the establishment

of Chenab Val-ley Power

Company by the State Government to take up power projects under joint venture mode. He said this would give considerable fillip to

achieve the power generation tar-gets.The Union Minister said that Mo-di-Government has flagged quality and affordable power generation as an important and priority concern and efforts would be

made to provide the adequate

and afford-able pow-er to 125 crore pop-u l a t i o n of the Country irrespec-tive of

any pol-i t ics .

H e

said the Country’s economic uplift-ment; development of social fabric, improvement in

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Srinagar, August 23: Mil-itants on Friday night managed to give slip to the army after they broke the cordon at Gugerpati in Zaloora area in north Kashmir’s Kupwara dis-trict.Official sources told GNS that army’s 47 RR had launched a search oper-ation at Gugerpati area of Zaloora in Sopore last evening. As the patrolling party reached near the Gugerpati forests, the militants hiding in the area had a face-off with the army at around 7:50 pm.A brief exchange of fire took place; however, in the firing incident, no one has been injured, they said.Later in the night, the militants opened indis-criminate fire and man-aged to break the cordon laid by the forces, they said, adding that the forc-

es recovered an AK-47 ri-fle, left by militants, from the spot.“Massive search oper-ation in the area is still going on with the help of reinforcement to track down the militant group hiding in the forest area,” sources said.According to sources, army has cordoned off all the routes connecting to Gugerpati forest area in Zaloora. “Army’s 18 and 28 RR cordoned off the forest area in Lolab that connects Vilgam-Zaloora forest while as army’s 30 RR and 27 RR cordoned off the forest area including Yemberzalwari that con-nects Bandipora. Besides, army’s 22 RR launched the search operation in several forest areas that connects Sopore.”A senior army official told GNS that the militant group managed to

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PDP to focus on political, development, unemploy-ment issues: Mehbooba

Modi government focusing specially on J&K: MoS Union Minister

LeT group breaks cordon in North

Kashmir

Srinagar, Aug 23: Nearly four months before As-sembly elections, politics in Jammu and Kashmir took a new turn on Satur-day as the new political party, “Peoples Republi-can party” was formally launched in Srinagar.According to KNS cor-respondent Party claim-ing to eradicate corrup-tion from the state, was launched in a local hotel by its members in a brief ceremony while the mem-bers of the party made an open appeal to all sections and shades of people to join hands with them.Soon after the launch-ing ceremony, the senior member of the party Mo-hammad Amin Andrabi while addressing a press conference said, “Our main focus will be to make Jammu and Kash-mir a corruption free state as we are ranking at the top of the list of cor-

rupt states in the country. The party will also work towards the formation of a Rehabilitation Board for the victims of conflict over the past 24 years,” he said and added that the party may not contest the coming elections.He further said, “There is a trust deficit among var-ious regions of the state and rest of the country as well. We will work for constitution of a Recon-ciliation commission for addressing these issues,” he added. The party com-prises several Business-men, Advocates who, according to the Andrabi have the mission to fight political corruption in the Jammu and Kashmir.Andrabi said that the general belief surfaced is that the real democracy is quiet at a distance in Jammu and Kashmir and the present order

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Tanvir dropped; Omar, Afaq, Ak-hoon to surface

in the list Srinagar, Aug 22: As the Chief Minis-ter Omar Abdullah arrived in valley on Friday and the final list of the party candidates has been final-ized, Syed Akhoon will get his old turf Hazratbal while as Omar Abdullah has made up his mind to contest from Sonawar assembly segment of Srinagar.Sources within the National Conference told KNS that the party has decided to field Syed Akhoon from Haz-ratbal while as Peer Afaq Ahmad will be nominated from Zadibal constituency. Reports said that party president has been strongly backing Afaq’ nomination from the area while as other party leaders were advocating the name of Tanveer Sadiq from the constituency. The party president earli-er has categorically maintained that the mandate will be given to the party loy-alists and to whom who would join the rival amp tomorrow as they have done the same during the past.

Reports also informed that the party is in a fix over the candidature of its addi-tional general secretary Dr Shiekh Mus-tafa Kamal with some suggesting Tang-marg constituency for Kamal. Tough fight between Ghulam Hassan Mir and Mustafa Kamal will be witnessed if Kamal contests from North Kashmir’s Tangmarg area with the support of Con-gress votes will also be in Mir’s favor. Congress has already declared that it will not file any candidate from Tag-nmarg against Mir.

Interestingly, earlier the reports informed that Ka-mal won’t be contesting the coming polls with Ka-mal himself reluctant in entering into the contest. Omar Abdullah will be fielded from Sonawar according to the sources while as strong voices within the party are sug-

gesting the name of Sheikh Jabbar for Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal assembly segment.Earlier, Dr. Farooq during the detailed meet with NC leadership has asked Omar not to skip Ganderbal as the turf has remained NC’s bastion since 1977 when for the first time NC founder Shiekh Mohammad Abdullah contested and won.Meanwhile, 4th list of the

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NC to issue 4th list todayNew political party launched in JK;

Srinagar, Aug 23, CNS: Police Saturday regis-tered a case against a doctor after a female at-tendant accused him of passing lewd remarks in-side his office chambers at Maternity and Child Care Hospital (MCCH) Sher Bagh in South Kash-mir’s Islamabad district. The victim from Mom-inabad Islamabad told CNS that she had gone to MCCH Sherbagh along with her 3 years old ail-ing kid Obaidullah who was suffering from severe fever. “It was my second visit to the hospital as my son was not showing any signs of recovery. I ap-proached Medical Super-intendent MCCH and was shocked when he passed lewd and vulgar remarks and even tried to offer me his mobile number,” the

victim said adding that after narrating whole in-cident to her husband, they decided to register a case against the ‘debauch’ Medical Superintendent. Her husband who wished not to be named told CNS that he ap-proached both the Health Minister and Director Health Services Kashmir who assured him of stern action against the ‘erring’ doctor. “Such type of moral-ly corrupt doctors has brought disgrace to Med-ical Institution that was once regarded as noble profession. How can our mothers and sisters feel safe when such ‘beasts’ are at the helm of affairs,” he said and demanded stringent punishment to the accused

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Police registers case against doctor for

passing lewd remarks

Flags necessity for return of NHPC projects

‘Rout of NC, Congress in LS polls resulted into BJP’s resurgence’

All forest routes connecting Zaloora cordoned off

PHQ orders 37 promotions,

DGP congratu-lates promoteesSrinagar, Aug 23 :Po-lice Headquarters (PHQ) today issued promotion orders of 37 officers in Ministeri-al Executive Cadre in Jammu and Kashmir Police with immediate effect.The Director General of Police (DGP), Mr. K. Rajendra Kumar has congratulated the pro-motees and their fam-ilies. He also stressed upon the officers to rededicate themselves for public service with more zeal and dedica-tion.Among the promoted officers, 17 are Sub-In-spectors as Inspectors, 18 Assistant Sub-In-spectors as Sub-Inspec-tors and 02 SGCT as Head Constables.The Sub-Inspectors promoted as Inspectors are S/Shri Mushtaq Ahmad, Trilok

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Says NC, PDP Congress corrupt, will work for accountability, transparency

‘Will taken stern action’: Director Health

11 Srinagar, Sunday 24 August 2014 Zabarwan Times

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BSF....

Border....

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deceased were identified as Muhammad Akram and his 06-year-old son Alam.The official said that Akram’s wife, his three children and Harnam Singh were among the injured.All the injured people have been shifted to the Jammu Medical College for treatment.“Firing by Pakistani troops is still on. BSF troops took positions and retaliated which resulted in intermit-tent exchange of fire”, the official said.The official said that following the continuous shell-ing in the area, more than 2,000 villagers from three villages close to the international border in RS Pura sector had on Friday shifted to safer places leaving their homes and cattle behind.He said that the villagers have been temporarily ac-commodated in two government high school build-ings and an Industrial Training Institute (ITI) build-ing in the area.This is the 14th ceasefire violation along the Indo-Pak border during the past 12 days, and the 16th ceasefire violation in August, the official added.Meanwhile, Pakistani officials also accused India of violating ceasefire.“Today Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) again resorted to unprovoked firing in Chaprar and Harpal sectors on the working boundary near Sialkot. Two ci-vilians including a woman and a 60-year-old man were martyred due to BSF firing,” reports quoting officials as having said. (GNS)

issued in this regard by Deputy Commissioner, Jam-mu, SDM RS Pura had telephonically informed the Superintendent, ITI RS Pura to immediately unlock the building and provide the safe shelter to the people.“Whereas, the Superintendent ITI didn’t comply with the order and indulged in non-compliance and as the District administration faced hardship to tackle the issue of providing safe shelter to the affected people due to negligent attitude/non-compliance by Super-intendent ITI RS Pura, Ms. Ruchika Superintendent ITI RS Pura, is hereby placed under suspension with immediate effect and attached with SDM RS Pura” the order reads.Meanwhile, Assistant Commissioner (G) Jammu Mr. Shehnaz Choudhary has been appointed as Inquiry Officer for conducting an in-depth enquiry into the matter. (GNS)

Omar....State Government Power Department.Omar Abdullah said that quality and affordable pow-er to the consumers in the State has remained his gov-ernment’s priority in the last about six years. He said while sufficient measures were taken to upgrade the infrastructure and improve power distribution and transmission system, the focus remained on indige-nous power generation. He said power sector is the key sector to bring turn around in the economic de-velopment in the State besides making adequate ener-gy available to the people and exporting the surplus. “This is the sector which can transform the State from the deficit to the surplus one”, he said and added that projects of the capacity of 1500 MWs have been launched during the last about six years while proj-ects of the capacity of over 9000 MWs are in different stages of execution.The Chief Minister said that old infrastructure has been upgraded or replaced to improve the transmis-sion and distribution system. He said two Data Cen-tres have been established one each in Srinagar and Jammu to benefit the consumers and digitalize the system of transaction and other aspects. He said un-der flagship programmes like R-APDRP and RGGVY, the system is being further improvised. He said R-AP-DRP will be rolled out fully in the towns and the two cities in coming months.While welcoming the Union Minister and thanking him for the interest he is showing in the fast track development of power projects in Jammu and Kash-mir, the Chief Minister expressed the hope that the various power projects under execution in the State would be completed in the fixed time frame with the support of the Centre Government. He described the deliberations of the meeting highly productive and a major step to address the issues and find out befitting ways and means to settle these.Omar Abdullah mentioned PMRP under which Jam-mu and Kashmir received funds for power and other projects. He said that the huge amounts earmarked for the development and completion of power proj-ects has not been utilized by the Centre. He said these funds can be transferred to the State through the win-dow of PMRP for completion of various power proj-ects.In his address Union Minister for Power, Pyuish Goy-al said that the Government of India under Prime Minister Narindra Modi has focused Jammu and Kashmir specially and the development of power sec-tor would receive special place.Union Minister said that the issues between the State and the Union Power Ministry can be easily resolved through the process of meetings and interactions. He said Union Power Ministry will provide full coopera-tion to the State in moving ahead confidently on road to achieve new goals in power development sector. He said the huge potential of 20000 MWs of hydro energy available in the State if harnessed would not only give significant boost to the State’s economy but also ben-efit the Country.Pyuish Goyal asked the officers of Government of India and the State of Jammu and Kashmir to draft DPRs for all the identified hydel projects so that no de-lay is caused at the time of the launch of each project. He said generation of 20000 MWs should be the goal for us to achieve in near future. “Let it happen in our time”, he maintained. He said Government of India would provide all financial support to Jammu and Kashmir to realize this goal. He also welcomed the establishment of Chenab Valley Power Company by the State Government to take up power projects under joint venture mode. He said this would give consid-erable fillip to achieve the power generation targets.The Union Minister said that Modi-Government has flagged quality and affordable power generation as an important and priority concern and efforts would be made to provide the adequate and affordable power to 125 crore population of the Country irrespective of any politics. He said the Country’s economic up-liftment; development of social fabric, improvement in the sectors of health, education, industries, agri-culture and allied activities besides all round devel-opment revolves round the development of power

sector. He said round the clock power supply particu-larly to the youth to utilize it for achieving economic and technological goals is the endeavour of the Gov-ernment of India.The Union Minister asked the officers of Union Power Ministry to give special dispensation to Jammu and Kashmir in the schemes pertaining to power develop-ment.In a PowerPoint presentation Principal Secretary Power Development Department, A. K. Mehta gave overview of various projects under execution in the State in power sector. He gave details of the projects being executed by the Central Agencies, State Gov-ernment and the private parties.He said 14 projects with capacity of 6263 MWs in the State Sector, 5 projects with the capacity of 1679 MWs in the Central Sector, one mega project with 850 MWs in IPP mode and 37 small projects with 453 MWs also in IPP mode have been initiated for completion by the end of 13th Five Year Plan. He said in 2013-14 six projects with a capacity of 355 MWs have been com-missioned while 25 projects with 1980 MWs are under various stage of execution. He said 20 projects with the total capacity of 2237 MWs have been tendered out and six projects with the capacity of 4669 MWs are at clearance stage.The Principal Secretary also gave resume of various schemes under execution for the improvement and upgradation of power transmission and distribution system. He also highlighted some issues needing at-tention at the Union Power Ministry level. (KNS)

Taj.... of the Government for timely execution of develop-mental projects being carried out in the area. (KNS)

PDP....unemployment problems.Mehbooba said horticulture, agriculture, energy de-velopment and tourism is the thrust area of PDP’s de-velopment agenda. She said the National Conference and Congress had ignored development and employ-ment generation and linked their political survival to either hollow slogans or election time gimmicks which it is practicing at present. “PDP will strive for generation of remunerative and respectable employ-ment opportunities so that our youth don’t have to fall victim to the false promises and fake appointment or-ders,” she added.Mehbooba said the present coalition government having sensed its defeat in the coming assembly elec-tions after its rout in the Lok Sabha elections was misleading different sections of the society especially the youth by issuing fake and fraudulent engagement orders. She said the results of the Lok Sabha elections had established the primacy of the PDP on the polit-ical scenario of the state. “By securing a lead in as many as 41 assembly segments the PDP had emerged on top but the complete collapse of NC and Congress had resulted in the resurgence of the BJP in the state,” she said.She said the emergence of the PDP government looked imminent, given the statistics of the Lok Sabha re-sults. “The emergence of the PDP government in the state looked imminent but it was for the people now as to how strong that government would be in order to be able to face the new challenges, “Mehbooba added.Introducing the local candidate for assembly elec-tions, Mehbooba said Mohammad Abbas Wani was a young and energetic worker of the party who had re-mained loyal to it and was connected with the people of the constituency at the grass root levels. She said Abbas would prove worthy representative of the peo-ple who would continue to remain connected to the ground and feel answerable to his voters and the peo-ple in general in the constituency. The PDP Chief said her party will try to focus on hor-ticulture and tourism in Tangmarg constituency and it would ensure that adequate infrastructure is built in the area so that tourism activity would not remain confined to Gulmarg alone. She said while Gulmarg is prime tourism assets of the state which needs to be provided with most modern amenities for the high spending tourists but every other place in the constit-uency could be developed as part of a larger tourist circuit. This, she said, would ensure disbursal of the revenue generated by tourism and ensure respectable jobs for the youth in their own locality.Naeem Akhtar, Chief Spokesperson; Mohammad Ab-bas Wani, candidate for Gulmarg constituency; Prof. Abdul Jabbar, local leader; Abdul Aziz Dar, Zone President and others were also present on the present.

Modi.... the sectors of health, education, industries, agricul-ture and allied activities besides all round develop-ment revolves round the development of power sector. He said round the clock power supply particularly to the youth to utilize it for achieving economic and technological goals is the endeavour of the Govern-ment of India.The Union Minister asked the officers of Union Power Ministry to give special dispensation to Jammu and Kashmir in the schemes pertaining to power develop-ment. (GNS)

LeT.... escape while taking the advantage of darkness. He said that the search operation may take more than three days to trace the militants.Sources said that top Lashkar-e-Toiba Commander Saifullah of Pakistan was among the militants who managed to escape from the spot.Meanwhile, army’s Army 45 RR recovered large quan-tity of arms and ammunition during a search opera-tion at Indra Behak in Machil sector in Kupwara dis-trict. “AK 56 rifles – 02, AK 56 mag – 02, AK 56 rounds – 38, Pistol Chinese – 01, Pistol Pak – 01, Pistol mag – 02, Pis-tol rounds - 06, UBGL – 01, UBGL Grenade – 12, Hand Grenade (H/G) 36 – 01, H/G 90 - 01, GPS- 01, Pouches - and First Aid medicine”, a senior army official said. (GNS)

PHQ....Singh, Sajad Hussain Mehboobi, Gh. Nabi Khan, Girdari Lal, Manzoor Ahmad Tak, Sunil Kumar Dhar, Mohammad Feroz Ashok Kumar, Feroza Akhtar, Nis-sar Ahmed, Mohammad Aslam , Siraj-Ud-Din, Ab.Ha-mid Shiekh , Mohammad Shafi Shah ,Mohammad Shafi and Mohammad Rafi.Similarly the ASIs promoted as Sub Inspectors in-clude S/Shri Mohammad Ashraf, Mushtaq Ahmed. Abdul Rashid Dar, Gh. Mohammad, Ms. Suman Latta,Ghulam Hassan, Mohammad Amin Dar, Ms.

Shashi Tikoo, Kastori Lal, Harish Kumar, Moham-mad Amin, Yasmeena Jan, Vidya Sagar, Mohinder Singh, Suman Kotwal, Mushtaq Hussain, Ashok Ku-mar and Bishamber Dass.Likewise, the SGCT promoted as Head Constables are S/Shri Adbdul Hamid and Showkat Ahmad. Further, the DGP ordered 62 in-situ promotions in favour of officers of Prosecuting Wing and one DYSP(Retd). (KNS)

New.... is the order of Democratic Lords. “Because of the corruption in the main political parties namely NC, PDP, Congress the overall developments in the state has become stand still. It is an alternative to the exist-ing political system and we will work to end dynastic politics, favoritism and regionalism in politics and will strive for the development of the state,” he added. (KNS)

Police....doctor. When contacted, Medical Superintendent MCCH Sherbagh told CNS that he didn’t do anything and is innocent. “I only offered her the mobile number of a doctor and asked her to consult him for the better treatment of her child,” he said. Director Health Service Kashmir Dr Salim-ur-Reh-man while confirming the incident said that they care about the dignity of every patient and attendant. “I am looking into it and stern action will be taken against the doctor if proven guilty,” he said adding that the Directorate will listen to both parties before taking fi-nal call on the matter. A top police official of the district said that after re-ceiving an application from the husband of the female victim, they registered a case in this regard and inves-tigation is going on. (CNS)

NC.... party candidates that is scheduled to be declared on Sunday will include the candidature chief minister Omar Abdullah. Omar has gone through the list that his party general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar has prepared in consultation with other party senior lead-ers. (KNS)

Peace, tranquility must to realize developmental

goal: G.A.MirAll areas to get equal development

Srinagar, Aug 23 (KNS): Minister for Tourism, Mr. Ghulam Ahmad Mir has said that in view of tourism emerging as global economic force, the present gov-ernment has attached much importance to this sector for employment generation and poverty alleviation. He said tourism potential in each and every area of the state including Dooru area and its surroundings would be optimally exploited to give impetus to so-cio-economic activities.Addressing a public meetings at Nowgam, Halllan, Rainchogund and Thamankot in Dooru today, the Minister called upon the people to cooperate with the administration and executing agencies to help government in speedy completion of projects being carried out in the area and helpful in socio-economic transformation of the State.The Minister said "Peace and tranquility is imper-ative to achieve the goal. Every citizen of the State have right of equal opportunities of development and prosperities,” and reaffirmed government’s resolve for uniform development and equal social justice to the people in all the three regions of the State. "Our endeavour is to provide all the basic and modern fa-cilities to the people of the backward areas at par with their counterparts living in urban areas of the State," Mir asserted.Mir cautioned the people about the forces inimical to peace, adding that some anti-social elements in order to satiate their vested interests are hell bent to vitiate the atmosphere of peace by raising frivolous issues. “But they will never succeed in their nefarious de-signs because the people are aware about their mach-ination and double standards”, he said and added that they have neither any agenda nor any mass base and rely only on politics of lie and deceit. He said no body will be allowed to disturb the peaceful atmosphere of the State.The Minister reaffirmed that being a local representa-tive, equal development of all the areas was my prior-ity and no injustice would be done to any area of the Constituency on the developmental front. He assured the people that all their genuine developmental needs would be carry out in a phased manner.He also impressed upon the officers to solve the peo-ples’ genuine problems and developmental needs on priority. He also called upon the officers to ensure their frequent visits in remote and hilly areas for on- the-spot solution of the problems and developmental needs of the masses of these areas. The Minister ex-horted the people to benefit from various schemes launched under various innovative programmes by the government for their economic emancipation. (KNS)

Assembly polls: Try us too,ALSO BJP leader to

Kashmir peopleSrinagar, August 23: (GNS) In order to accomplish its ‘Mission 44+’, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has increased its activity in Jammu and Kashmir partic-ularly in valley with its senior leader and Union Min-ister for Power asking Kashmir people to vote for the party in upcoming Assembly polls.Piyush Goyal, who is also Union Minister of State (MoS), Power, landed here in BJP’s Kashmir head-quarters and interacted with party leaders and activ-ists before meeting the Chief Minister Omar Abdul-lah, the party leaders told GNS.“There were two reasons for Goyal’s visit to Kashmir. One is to discuss power projects with CM Abdullah and other our Mission 44+,” said Dr Hinna Bhat, add-ing: “in the meet, it was discussed how to achieve the target of 44+.”“Once BJP comes in power, we will work for peace and would try to bring Central Government and peo-ple of Kashmir together,” she said. Goyal, according to another BJP leader, Altaf Thakur, appealed Kashmir people to vote for the party in the coming Assembly polls. “He left a message to Kash-miris that right from 1947, you voted PDP, NC and Congress to power but they have failed you and now

give us a chance, try us too,” he said.“Goyal said our aim is good governance, development and end to unemployment in the state,” Thakur said.Interestingly, Thakur said the Kashmir Pandits were not discussed in the meet as BJP ‘doesn’t want to di-vide people on the basis of religion’. “For us, Pandits and Muslims are citizens of J&K and we discuss in that manner. Why to divide?” he said.The BJP leaders said the Goyal want to setup new power projects in the state. “The Minister want that people of the State should get 24 hour electricity and that too on cheaper rates,” they said. (GNS)

Fencing of Pulwama Park removed to pre-

vent immoralitySrinagar, August 23: (GNS) To prevent the immor-al activities at public place, authorities on Saturday dismantled the fencing from the local park in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.A senior district administration official told GNS that following the public anger in the district regarding immoral activities inside the Shaheed Park, the au-thorities dismantled the fencing of the park.“It was demand of locals to remove the walls from all the sides of the park,” he said.The official said that following the orders from Depu-ty Commissioner, the walls were dismantled and the park will now remain visible to everybody.Meanwhile, the locals in the area have hailed the dis-trict administration role. (GNS)

‘Youth interaction’ organized by army

in BaramullaBaramulla, August 23: (GNS) Army on Saturday orga-nized a ‘Youth Interaction’ at Govt Higher Secondary School, Sultanpur Kandi in Baramulla of north Kash-mir.A defense spokesman said the ‘Youth Interaction’ was organised by the Army to create awareness amongst the local youth regarding the various career options available after clearing the 10 + 2 exams as well as af-ter completing their graduation.“Various eminent speakers from fields of Media & Mass Communication, Tourism Industry & Civil Ser-vices interacted with the youth & created awareness about their respective fields,” the spokesman said, adding: “ In addition, Adil Mushtaq, Deputy Director, Directorate of Employment, Mr Asadullah, District Social Welfare Officer & Maknoo, Section Officer, Dis-trict Industries Centre, Baramulla were also present & briefed the youth regarding the various self-employ-ment schemes, social welfare schemes and the cottage industry schemes being run by the J&K State Govt.”The youth were quite enthused by the plethora of in-formation provided to them, he said.“In the end, a lecture on motivating the youth to join the Army was also conducted, highlighting the ethos, discipline, the way of life & value system existing within the services. The contribution of Indian Army towards nation building & its role in times of crisis was also stressed upon,” he said. The spokesman said: “In addition to this, the emol-uments being offered in the Army & various entry schemes available were explained in detail. This also had a profound impact on the youth & the response generated was highly encouraging.”“All the stakeholders present during the event lauded the Army for its efforts & reposed faith in the “Men in Uniform” to facilitate peace and prosperity in the state,” he said, adding: More than 200 students & youth from the area participated in the event.” (GNS)

DC orders suspension of two JEs at Budgam

Srinagar, August 23: (GNS) In order to making Gov-ernment servants accountable of their responsibil-ities, the Deputy Commissioner Budgam, Manzoor Ahmad Lone today ordering the suspension of two Ju-nior Engineers of Public Health Engineering Division Budgam namely JE (Hqr) with immediate effect. The action was taken on the basis of complaints received against the duo and the report submitted by Addition-al District Development Commissioner, Budgam, Mr. Aijaz Ahmad while having an on spot inspection of the concerned sites and the status of works carried out, it was found in the report that both the Junior En-gineers have shown serious negligence of responsibil-ities and dereliction of duties. While discharging their required duties Mr. Shabir Ahmad Junior Engineer found guilty of ordering the laying/fitting of pipes above the required approved estimation.Similarly Junior Engineer (Hqr) Mr. Ishtaq Ahmad found unprecedently delaying the execution of ap-proved work to be carried out at Kachwari (under Sub Division Khansahib) by more than 3 months without intimating any higher authorities. (GNS)

8 Jewelry Shops booked in Srinagar City

Srinagar, August 23: (GNS) The Legal Metrology De-partment (LMD) under the supervision of Joint Con-troller LMD, conducted surprise inspection of Jeweler Shops of Hari Singh High Street and booked 08 jewelry shops for using un-reverified scales in their trade and commerce.Under Legal Metrology laws, a jewelry shop has to use a high accuracy scale of Class-II for the trade and has to periodically re-verify the same from the local In-spector of the department. A jewelry shop owner can also use the beam scale of Class-B type with bullion weights. The monitor of the digital scale should be vis-ible to the consumer while do weighment of the gold jewelry. The erring traders were penalized for violat-ing the norms. (GNS)

Account holders accuse JK Bank staff

of misbehaviourIslamabad, Aug 23, CNS: Customers visiting Jam-mu and Kashmir Bank branch General Bus Stand in South Kashmir’s Islamabad district have alleged that the Bank staff often misbehave with them and treat them like beggars. Customers mostly traders told CNS, that whenever they visit the branch to do trans-actions they are being treated badly. The behavior of the staff always remains rude and they made cus-tomers to wait for hours for petty matters. “Being a businessman, I am a regular customer of this branch of Jammu and Kashmir Bank. For small transactions, they made customers to wait for hours and when any customer objects,

Daily ZABARWAN TIMES NEWS SRINAGAR | SUNDAY 24. 08 .2014

SRINAGAR, AUGUST 23: The Union Minister for Agriculture Mr Radha Mohan Singh laid founda-tion stone of Rs 24. 54 crore presti-gious Saffron Park Project at Dussu, Pampore today.

Minister for Agriculture, Jammu and Kashmir State Mr. Ghulam Has-san Mir, Member Parliament Mr. Ghulam Nabi Ratanpuri, Minister of State for Agriculture Mr. Nazir Ahmad Khan Gurezi, MLA Pampore Zahoor Ahmad Mir were present on the occasion.

The Saffron Park is being devel-oped by the National Horticulture Board, Union Ministry of Agricul-ture under the National Saffron Mis-sion started in the State in 2010. The period for completion of the Mission has been extended for 6 years during which an amount of Rs 400.11 crore will be spent on revival of saffron in Jammu and Kashmir under Nation-al Saffron Mission.

Addressing the gathering, the Union Agriculture Minister said that Kashmir has the proud privi-lege of producing the finest quality saffron which is famous for its co-lour and flavour all over the world. He said that the union government is determined to provide all assis-tance to the saffron growers in pro-ducing the worlds No: 1 saffron from Kashmir, adding that strengthening farming community is necessary for the development of the nation.

Terming the Kashmir as the crown of India, the Union Minister said that the union Government will make all out efforts and provide as-sistance to develop the State.

Mr. Radha Mohan said that aim and objective of the Saffron Mission is to double the average production of Saffron from 2. 5 kgs per ha to over 5 kgs per ha by adopting appropriate technology, improving soil health and providing irrigation facility for

the crop and to develop appropriate systems for organized marketing, quality-based pricing of Saffron and for formulating direct transactions between growers, traders, exporters and industrial agencies.

The Union Minister said that Soil Health Cards will be provided to the farmers of the country in next 3 years so that they should not face any problem in producing qual-ity productions from the cultivable land.The Union Minister said that during the implementation of the Mission a large number of local youth will get employment opportu-nities which will surely change their socio- economic conditions.

Referring to setting up of Horti-culture University in Jammu and Kashmir State, the Union Minister asked the State government to sub-mit a detailed proposal to the con-cerned Union Ministry for appropri-ate action.

JAMMU, AUGUST 23: The District administra-tion, Jammu has placed Superintendent ITI RS Pura, Ms Ruchika under suspension for not unlocking the college complex for providing shelter to residents of adjoining Border areas in view of ‘continuous firing across the Border, pending further enquiry into the matter.

As per an order issued in this regard by Deputy Commissioner, Jammu, SDM RS Pura had telephoni-cally informed the Superintendent, ITI RS Pura to im-mediately unlock the building and provide the safe shelter to the people

“Whereas, the Superintendent ITI didn’t comply with the order and indulged in non-compliance and as the District administration faced hardship to tack-le the issue of providing safe shelter to the affected people due to negligent attitude/non-compliance by Superintendent ITI RS Pura, Ms. Ruchika Superin-tendent ITI RS Pura, is hereby placed under suspen-sion with immediate effect and attached with SDM RS Pura” the order reads.

Meanwhile, Assistant Commissioner (G) Jammu Mr. Shehnaz Choudhary has been appointed as In-quiry Officer for conducting an in-depth enquiry into the matter.

Union Agri Minister laid foundation stone of Saffron Power Project

Superintendent ITI RS Pura put under suspension

R S PURA, AUGUST 23: Minister of state for Home, Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo to-day visited the border hamlets where two persons were killed and five others were injured in overnight firing by Pakistani troops.

The Minister met the families of the deceased persons and expressed heartfelt condolence. He told the bereaved families that the people of the entire state share their grief adding that the government would take every measure to ensure safe-ty and security of the life and property of the people of border areas. He directed the administration to ensure providing all basic amenities to the affected people.

The Minister also handed over ex-gra-tia relief of Rs one lakh cheque to each to the next of the kin of the deceased persons and Rs ten thousand to those injured in the firing. Inspector General of Police (IGP), Rajesh Kumar, Deputy Commis-sioner, Jammu Ajeet Kumar Sahu, senior officers of BSF and local administration accompanied the Minister.

Later, Minister for Industries and Commerce Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo today inspected ongoing works of JK Cement Limited Plant at Samba and took stock of progress of work. He instructed JKCL Management to accomplish all the re-maining works and make it commission at the earliest.While inspection, it has been noticed that 2.5 MVA transformer has not been received from the PDD which is main hurdle in commissioning the plant. In response of this Chief Engi-neer PDD Shenaz Goni has assured that the transformer has been commissioned by 15th of September.He also instructed MD JKCL R. K. Sharma to commission the plant immediately after receiving the transformer i.e 15th of September.The Minister also instructed for completion of proceeding of land acquisition for Indus-trial Growth Centre (IGC).Among others, Deputy Commissioner Samba Mubarak Singh, SSP Samba Anil Mangotra, Chief Engineer PDD Shenaz Goni, Director In-dustries and Commerce.

CHARAR-I-SHARIEF, AUGUST 23: Saying that Chrar-i- Sharief town , the heavenly abode of revered sofi saint , Hazrat Sheikh Noor-ul- Din Wali (RA) is the crown of Chrar-i-Sharief Constituency, the Minister for Finance and Ladakh Affairs, Mr Abdul Rahim Rather has vowed to develop this historical place as a cen-tre of excellence in every field of life. He said all the available resources are being pooled to bring faster socio-economic transformation of this prominent religious place, add-ing that all possibilities are being explored to bring various left out revenue villages of rural Chrar-i-Sharief town under Backward cat-egory so that benefits available un-der this classification also accrue in these areas which include Batapora, Zinpachal,Darkanen, Fresdab Rah-kai etc.

Addressing a public gathering at Batapora near Chrar-i- Sharief town

last evening , Mr Rather exuded con-fidence that his desire to see all the backward and kandi areas shall fruc-tify very soon owing to accelerated and un precedent developmental pace going on in nook and corner of the J&K including Chrar-i-Sharief Constituen-cy. He said expansion and upgradation of road connectivity in remote and in-accessible areas remains the fulcrum of states planning framework as it was imperative for generating socio eco-nomic activities. He said the present government under the leadership of Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah is en-deavoring for inclusive development , balanced growth and uniform justice to all the sections of the society, adding that availability of all basic amenities to the people living in rural areas at par with urbanities to is our sacred mission. He assured the people that no stone will be left unturned to come upto their expectations and to redress their genuine grievances.

Kichloo visits firing affected hamlets

Charar-i Sharief town is the crown of my constituency: Rather

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 23: National Conference of the State Ministers for Indus-tries and MSME for the De-velopment of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises was or-ganized by the Union Minis-try for Micro, Small and Me-dium Enterprises (MSME) at Vigyan Bhawan, here today.

The Conference was held under the Chairmanship of Minister for MSME, Gov-ernment of India, Mr. Kalraj Mishra. The Financial Com-missioner Industries and Commerce, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Khurshid Ahmed Ganai pre-sented the views of the State Government at the confer-ence on the issues identified by the Ministry of MSME.

Speaking on the confer-ence, Mr. Ganai said the proposal of the Ministry to simplify the MSME registra-tion by single form registra-tion mechanism is a wel-come step. The mechanism if put in place will replace the cumbersome process of filling up of multiple forms, he said. The Financial Com-missioner suggested that

a mechanism of across the table clearances in the single Window Clearance meeting may be evolved to reduce the period of registration and al-lotment of land.

On the allotment of land Mr. Ganai said that the en-tire process is transparent, the Financial Commissioner stressed that updated in-formation about allotments and vacant plots needs to be uploaded on the official web-sites.

Appreciating the idea of Vertical expansion Mr. Ga-nai said that it would require timely and adequate funding and requested the Ministry of MSME to issue guidelines on the same to help in the identification of the units that can be provided space in such a manner.

The proposal of the Minis-try regarding EM-I and EM-II forms all MSMEs is likely to facilitate proper planning and implementation of the schemes of the State and Central Governments, he said. However, making it mandatory will need further discussions, he added. Re-

garding online registration Mr. Ganai said that the State will be eagerly waiting for the software package from the Ministry to put in place the process of online regis-tration.

Highlighting the State Government’s priority to the proposal of setting up of the Technology Centre in the State the Financial Commis-sioner said that the Govern-ment has already identified land for the purpose at Ghat-ti, District Kathua in Jammu Division and the memoran-dum is under submission to the State Cabinet for formal allotment. He reiterated the demand of the State Gov-ernment for approval to the setting up of an Extension Technology Centre at Sanat Nagar, Srinagar.

Under the Scheme MSE-Cluster Development Pro-gramme (CDP), Mr. Ganai requested the Ministry to consider liberal funding for J&K keeping in view the ab-sence of adequate industrial infrastructure in the State and stressed that the cost of developing an Industrial Es-

tate has increased over time and therefore, the ceiling of Rs 10.00 crore under the scheme also needs to be re-visited. He suggested that the Ministry earmark an annual allocation of about Rs 100 Crore for the State of J&K for the development of industri-al infrastructure and estates. Mr. Ganai further suggested that funding be provided on 100% or 90%-10% basis in-stead of the existing 80%-20% basis.

Urging the MSME Ministry the Financial Commissioner said the detailed guidelines are requested to be issued by the Ministry for the units un-der the Services Sector to en-able these units to take benefit under the various schemes of the Ministry. He also said that awareness of the provi-sions and implementation of MSMED Act needs to be cre-ated on a bigger scale.

Speaking on the Cred-it Guarantee Trust Fund Scheme (CGTFS) Mr. Ganai said that this scheme needs to be emphasized and popular-ized, and suggested holding of a workshop on this scheme

in J&K. He said the Minis-try has agreed to hold a one day workshop of officers and bankers on the scheme on 30th August at Srinagar. Un-der the scheme, the borrowers will not be required to give collateral security for loans upto Rs. 50 lakh. If the State Government contributes to the Trust Fund then the banks will be required to sanction 20 times that amount as credit to the MSME borrowers without any collaterals.

The Financial Commis-sioner said that in order to provide Marketing Support to the local MSMEs, the GoI may consider issuing instruc-tions to the Central Govern-ment Departments located in the States to make 25 to 30% purchases from the local MSMEs.Mr. Ganai said that J&K has already proposed in-clusion of Transport activity under PMEGP which needs to be considered favourably.

Speaking on Pashmina processing activity the Fi-nancial Commissioner stressed for the inclusion of Pashmina activity under PMEGP.

State requests MSME Ministry to earmark Rs. 100 cr allocation under CDP: Khurshid Ganai

LMD Kathua charges Rs

29000 Penalty from erring

tradersKATHUA, AUGUST

23- The Legal Metrology Department Kathua has challaned twenty two traders this month and charged Rs 29000 penalty from them for violating the provisions of J&K Weights and Measures Enforcement Act 1997and Package Commodities Rules.

During the check-ing the LMD teams in-spected provisional stores, Karayana stores, Atta chackis, Ration De-pot, Sweet shops, Bar-tan Shops, Goldsmith ,Veg./Fruit Seller, Pro-curement Dealer, Scrap Dealer,Iron Traders, Wine Shops, Manufac-turer/ Packer in Kathua, Nagri, ChanGrahn, Ni-halpur palli Morh.

‘Says Govt mulling on single window clearance for allotment of land for industries’

GOVT. OF JAMMU & KASHMIR

DEPUTY DIRECTORATE OF SERICUL-TURE DEV. DEPARTMENT ANANTNAG

(Phone No. 01932-222301) (Email ID: anantnagsericulture@gmail.com)(Chairman District Level Recruitment Committee- Class IV)

Corrigendum to the Advertisement Notice No. Ol/DDSA/Estt/2013-14 dated 23.10.2013 andDDSA/Estt/13/886-88 dated 31.10.2013

Ref.:- Additional Director Sericulture Dev. Department Srinagar's letter No. ADSL/Admn/2014-15/3745-56 dated: 19.08.2014This office vide advertisement Notice No.'s Ol/DDSA/Estt/2013-14 dated 23.10.2013 and DDSA/Estt/13/886-88 dated 31.10.2013 adver-tised different categories of posts as per the details given Below

S.No Name of the Post

No. of Posts OM RBA SC

1 Mali 01 01 - -2 Mulberry man 03 01 01 013 Nursery man 02 01 01 -4 Mulberry guard 02 01 01 -5 Santary guard 01 01 - -Total 09 5 3 1

In view of the petition file by some labourers in the Hon'ble High Court J&K.the Hon'bh High Court finally disposed of the writ petition restricting the categories and the No of posts to be advertised as per Jammu and Kashmir Sericulture (Subordinate) Service Recruitment Rules 1979 (Class C) of sub rule 2 of rule 5 and now as communicated by the Additional Director Sericulture vide No. referred above, the final position of the posts for which applications shall be invited is as under:-

S.No. Name of Tost No. of PostsOM RBA SC Total

1. Mulberry Man 01 01 01 032. Orderly 01 01 0 023. Attendant 01 0 0 01

Total 3 2 1 6

In view of above, the applications are invited for the posts of Mulbeery Man (03 posts), (02 posts) of Orderly and (01 Post) of Attendant as per category shown above which shall reach this office by or before 30.08.2014 The candidates who have already applied for the posts of Mulberry Man (03 Posts) advertised vide this office No. Ol/DDSA/Estt/2013-14 dated 23.10.2013 and DDSA/Estt/13/886-88 dated 31.10.2013 need not apply a fresh. However the applications of the candidates in light of the earlier advertisement for the posts of Mali, Nursery Man, Mulberry Guard and Santary Guard will now stand cancelled.The other contents and conditions as laid down in the advertisement Notice No. Ol/DDSA/Estt/2013-14 dated 23.10.2013 and DDSA/Estt/13/886-88 dated 31.10.2013 shall remain unchanged excepting as under: -"The minimum age of the candidate as on 01.01.2014 should be 18 and maximum 40 years for the OM category and age relaxable as per Govt orders i ̂respect of other categories." DIPK: 5598 Deputy Director

UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIRDEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS

& FINANCIAL STUDIESNOTICE

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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.

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar, Sunday 24 August 2014

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Fruit Industry at the verge of collapse

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Quote of the day

Alfred Hitchcock

The fruit industry has suffered most this year because of unfriendly weather and the

production of fruit will be much lesser than the usu-al. Whatever the produc-tion that too is not of high standard and quality be-cause it has been spoiled by many diseases includ-ing scab which is rampant this year. There are various reasons for the extensive damage caused to fruit pro-duction this year besides bad weather including hail storm many a times. The Departments of Horticul-ture and Agriculture are in fact the main culprits as far as supply of spurious pesti-cides, chemicals and fertil-izers are concerned. As per media reports, these two departments in connivance with vested interests have worked as villains and from seeds to pesticides, every-thing has been spurious and adulterated. The fruit indus-try has reached at the brink of collapse and the cultiva-tors and the fruit growers are seemingly empty hands despite putting hard labour for the full year. Their toil and resources have been wasted by the callous atti-tude of the concerned de-partments and inclement weather. It is because of this whole situation that the fruit growers and agricul-turists are passing through a critical phase of their lives. The govt. is not show-ing any concern towards the fruit industry which is col-lapsing with every passing day. Now as the growers are facing enormous difficul-ties, the govt. should come to their rescue and provide financial relief as per their losses. In addition to this the concerned departments should be streamlined and their monitoring made ef-fective so that the supply of spurious pesticides, chemi-cal and fertilizers is halted.

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar, Friday 07 March 2014

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Be passionate, they are young and deserve leniency

Cricket has become a very pop-ular game across the world and this game offers name,

fame and a lot of money not only to the players but to various boards, ad-vertising agencies and hundreds of stake holders connected directly or indirectly with this game. Once con-sidered a gentleman’s game, cricket is now engulfed with lot of contro-versies including betting, fixing and other negative things. It is not a sin to like or dislike a player or a team but it is the way that one expresses his sen-timents connected with his likings. Once chief election commissioner of India M.S.Gill who later became a cabinet minister and held sports portfolio was interviewed on a TV channel were he openly said that he is a big fan of Pakistani cricket team. It does not attracted any ill will against the country and cannot be treated as treason or a hate act against the coun-try, but if you celebrate the victory of Pakistani cricket team over India and raise slogans it definitely can be treated as a hate act and will amount a punishment. The J&K chief Minis-ter Omer Abdullah has said that the act of Kashmiri students is not a kind of treason but has justified their pun-ishment by the university authorities. The question arises as to why should these students instead of putting their abilities to study and achieve new heights indulge in such acts. Definite-ly they are in Meerut where the uni-versity has provided them an oppor-tunity to study different courses and where most of the students belong to other parts of India who will neces-sarily get hurt when somebody raises slogans against their team or country. The Kashmiri students should have known that they are availing all the facilities provided by Govt. of India and the government of the country where they live and make their car-rier. It is unfortunate that they are swayed by emotions without caring for the emotions of others and are in-dulging in such acts which could fur-ther complicate their future and cre-ate many more problems. By doing so they have also put their parents in lot of inconvenience as everybody is not affluent and does not have enough money to spend on the education of their wards. There are people who barrow the money or sell the proper-ty for the education of their children. It is the duty of the children to respect the hard work and toil of their parents who do everything for their educa-tion. They should refrain from doing such acts. As they are young hence the university authorities should take a passionate view and should now give them one more chance and should not spoil their career. The UP govt. should also keep their young age in view and withdraw the cases against them, particularly the case of treason. As they are young, the govt. of Utter Pradesh and the University instead of coming heavily on them and proving harsh, should instead be polite and lenient on them.

Drinking Water Facility for Villages

Five crore people living in over one lakh habitations in villages in our country do not have access to safe drinking water even today.

According to official figures twenty two per cent rural families have to walk for at least half a kilometer or more to fetch water (mostly it is the women who have to bear the burden). The percentage of such families is the maximum in Mani-pur, Tripura, Odisha, Meghalaya, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh. Fifteen per cent of households in villages depend on uncovered wells and other unimproved sources like rivers, springs, ponds for drinking water. Also eighty five per cent of all drinking water resources in villages are based on underground sources of water and in many of these areas water is contaminat-ed. Only 30.80 percent of the rural population has access to tap water. In fact there are only four states which have been able to bring fifty per cent or more of the rural areas under piped water supply. Many of the states are yet to fully comply with the Supreme Court order on supply of potable water in government schools. The latest available data shows that less than the 44 per cent government schools in villages have drinking water fa-cility.During the national consultation in Delhi held recently on the prog-ress of national rural drinking water programmers and related issues , it was revealed that in spite of this unsatisfactory sce-nario with regard potable water availability in villages many of the states have failed to fully utilize the funds allocated by the centre under the various heads of NRD-WP.To achieve the objective of provid-ing drinking water facilities to all the villages, the Government is bringing about a major paradigm shift in the National Rural Drink-ing Water Programme in the XIIth

Five Year plan period. In the back-drop of over extraction of ground water in most parts of the country, the emphasis is to shift away from ground water to surface water. The focus would be on piped water sup-ply and minimizing the use of hand pumps. The target is to ensure indi-vidual household connections to at least 35 per cent of the population in villages by 2017 against only 13 per cent today.In order to encourage the villagers to take water connections, the Gov-ernment is roping in Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA). A recent order said the ASHAs will get an incentive of 75 rupees for motivating each of the fami-lies in villages to take individual household tap connection. The states can use the money from the support funds allocated to states under the NRDWP.The norm of 40 litres of water per capita per day( LPCD) in villages was set way back in 1972 but now under the 12th five year plan , it is being increased from 40 to 55 li-tres .In the 12th plan the target is to cover at least half of the popu-lation to get 55 LPCD water with-in in their house hold premises or within 100 meter radius. Once the states are able to increase the per capita availability of drinking water, it will help in bridging the gap to some extent between urban areas and rural areas. Under NRD-WP, States have the flexibility to fix their own supply norms. The Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister Bharatsinh Solanki has urged the states to aim at 55 LPCD , this he says will enable higher level of household connections and reduce the burden on women and girls in fetching water from hand pumps and public taps as well as reducing risk of contamination.Quality of drinking water avail-ability is a major concern in villag-es many parts of the country are af-fected by contamination of arsenic and fluoride, which are considered

the most hazardous in terms of their effect on health. In the budget proposals for 2013-14 Rs 1,400 crore will be provided for the setting-up water purification plants as there are still 2,000 arsenic and 12,000 fluoride affected rural habitations in the country. Then there are contaminants like iron, salinity uranium and pesticides. The cen-tre is assisting States affected with Chemical contamination of drink-ing water, and those States which have cases of Japanese and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome through a provision under the NRDWP by allocating 5% of the NRDWP funds for Improving the quality of drink-ing waterGiven the growing importance of water quality issues, under the 12th plan dedicated funding will be provided to States with quality af-fected habitations, over and above the normal NRDWP allocation to the State. Highest priority will be given to arsenic and fluoride affected habitations. Part of the funding would also be made avail-able to tackle bacteriological con-tamination in the priority districts with high incidence of Japanese and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome as identified by the Ministry of Health and Family WelfareUnfortunately many of the states like Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Kerala, and Uttara-khand & Tripura are yet to submit proposals to get the benefit from 5% Water Quality earmarked fund.World over lack of drinking water and sanitation facilities account for over nine per cent of the dis-eases and more than six per cent of deaths. In our country where more than half the population resorts to open defecation, the situation is worse. It is in this scenario that ma-jor emphasis in the 12th plan is strengthening convergence be-tween rural drinking water supply and rural sanitation by taking up

villages covered with piped water supply to get Open Defecation Free status priority and vice versa.The 12th plan draft document says that all government schools and anganwadis in government or community buildings will be pro-vided with water supply for drink-ing and for toilets as per relevant quality norms by convergence of NRDWP for existing schools and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and for new schools set up under SSA. For private schools this will be en-forced the right to education provi-sions. All community toilets built with public funds and maintained for public use will be provided with running water supply under NRD-WP. Care will be taken to ensure that minimum distance is main-tained between the toilet systems and water sources, to alleviate the problem of nitrate contamination.A part of NRDWP outlay will be set aside for integrated Habitat Improvement Projects to provide housing, water and sanitation fa-cilities in rural areas at par with urban areas.Participation of the beneficiaries especially women in drink water supply schemes is also proposed.In another initiative Solar pow-ered pumps will be provided for implementation in remote, small habitations and those with irreg-ular power supply by converging subsidy available under Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.Waste water treatment and recy-cling will also be an integral part of every water supply plan or project.India is fast becoming a water stressed country and over and above everything else there is need to generate awareness about pro-tecting drinking water sources from contamination, regular testing of drinking water sources, conserving rainwater in tanks and ponds, water recharge and water saving devices so that everyone in the country is able to get the basic facility of drink-ing water.

Measures to Check Cheating of investors by Unscrupulous Companies

heating of investors by unscrupulous compa-nies takes many forms, such as: ‘vanishing’ after raising money through public offers; il-legal collection of deposits in violation of Sec-tion 58A of the Companies Act, 1956; floating sham ‘Collective Investment Schemes (CIS)’ in violation of SEBI Act; collecting money from public by posing as ‘Non-Banking Fi-nancial Companies (NBFCs) in violation of RBI Act; and resorting to ‘Ponzy’ or money circulation schemes under the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has tak-en action against ‘vanishing companies’ which have raised funds through initial public offer but thereafter are not trace-able. The Ministry has also taken action against certain companies which have failed to repay deposits to public violat-ing Section 58A of the Companies Act, 1956. Complaints of cheating by companies - which promised high rates of interests to investors, have been received against 87 companies. In these cases Inspection under Section 209A/ Investigation un-der Section 234 of the Companies Act, 1956 has been ordered. Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) also looked into the affairs of 669 companies whose operations were in violation of SEBI (Collective Investment Schemes) Regulations, 1999. The amount collected by these companies was about Rs 7,435 crore. Out of these companies, 75 have been wound up and the money refunded to the investors. A total of 552 compa-nies were prosecuted; convictions have been secured in 124 cases. RBI also regulates deposits / investments of the public with Non- banking Finance Companies (NBFC) that are registered with RBI. Complaints received against companies posing as NBFC’s and Unin-corporated bodies indulging in cheating

/ fraud are forwarded by RBI to the Eco-nomic Offenses Wing of the State Police for investigation and further action. There are certain companies which have floated fraudulent investment deposits mobilizing schemes (also called ponzi schemes) under various guises and are liable for action under the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Ban-ning) Act, 1978. This Act is administered by Ministry of Finance (Department of Financial Services) through the State Governments.The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has constituted a Steering Committee to de-velop a “Fraud Prediction Model” aimed at generating alerts for prevention of fraud and malfeasance. It is also pro-posed to revamp the existing Market Research & Analysis Unit (MRAU) in the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to enable it to function as an intel-ligence unit. Giving a fillip to the early establishment of a state-of-art Forensic Lab within the premises of SFIO in the national capital; and the development of a Comprehensive Early Warning System (EWS) for detection of corporate fraud and malfeasance at the earliest, three important MoUs have been signed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. These MoUs are: Between Director, SFIO ( which func-tions under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs) and Director, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technol-ogy (NIELIT), a scientific organization under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology; Between Joint Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Director, Finan-cial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND), an agen-cy under the Ministry of Finance; andDirector, SFIO and Director, FIU-IND. As per the Memorandum, NIELIT will set up a state-of-art Forensic Lab within

the premises of SFIO - with a total outlay of Rs. 3.80 Crore on a turnkey basis, to be completed in two phases. The MoUs signed with FIU-IND will lead to better and faster exchange of information be-tween the three Government entities. FIU has been playing a pivotal role in the collection and dissemination of informa-tion on suspicious banking transactions under the Prevention of Money Launder-ing Act, 2002. FIU-IND has been helping both the Ministry and SFIO from time to time by supplying information on sus-picious banking transactions. Having access to banking information as well as expertise of FIU, the MoU will help SFIO in conducting its investigation in a more effective manner. These initiatives will facilitate development of a comprehen-sive EWS for detection of fraud and mal-feasance at the earliest. The concerned regulatory agencies of the Central Government have adopted different measures aimed at sensitiz-ing the public of the need to be cautious while making investments into schemes, etc. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs conducts Investor Awareness Programs (IAP’s) for making the public aware of the various instruments of investments available to them. Similarly, RBI is-sues notice in newspapers regularly to caution the public against the design of entities in collection of deposits illegal-ly. Editors of Newspapers are also sen-sitized to exercise caution for accepting advertisements pertaining to acceptance of deposits by un-incorporated bodies. Presently, RBI is in the process of under-taking a comprehensive campaign aimed at alerting the public against falling prey to the Ponzy schemes and other monetary mal-prac-tices. SEBI also conducts Investor Awareness Programs in cities / towns across the country and has recently launched publicity cam-paigns through electronic and print media.

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