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Singh flays Centre for step-motherly treatment to J&K Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: Mr Harsh Dev, Panthers Party MLA from Ramnagar has flayed the step-motherly.....more JU Cultural Council; Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: New Students Cultural Council- the only registered body of the Jammu.......more Strike in 4 degree colleges Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: Students of city colleges today boycotted their classes and held protest demonstrations.......more CSIR scientists observe Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: As per the directives of All India CSIR Scientific Workers Association, protest day was observed by SWA of Regional.......more Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: All J&K Diploma Engineers Association in a meeting under the presidentship of Mr R S Jasrotia, stressed.......more |
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Sufism is integral part of Kashmiriat: Farooq Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: The Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah today said that Kashmir’s Islam is tempered with.....more DYFI’s concern over hike Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) in its meeting here today has expressed grave concern.......more CGM Telecom urged Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: Bari Brahmanah Industrial Association (BBIA) has urged the Chief General Manager (CGM).......more Edu policy should Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: General secretary, National Conference (NC), Sheikh Nazir Ahmed....more |
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Harshdev Singh flays Centre for
step-motherly Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: Mr Harsh Dev, Panthers Party MLA from Ramnagar has flayed the step-motherly treatment doled out to the Jammu and Kashmir State by the successive Central Governments. As per a release Mr Singh said while the Centre waived off the debt liability of Punjab to the tune of Rs 8000 crore, Jammu and Kashmir State has been discriminated against in this regard with its several debt liabilities remaining unattended and unwaived despite repeated assurances from New Delhi. He said the State was given hostile treatment when it was not treated as a special category state to be eligible for aid on the basis of 90 percent grant and 10 percent loan retrospectively like North Eastern States and even the Himachal Pradesh which never experienced any insurgency or even aggression. Citing further instances of Centre’s hostile attitude towards the State, Mr Singh said the Centre owes to J&K on account of highly obnoxious Indus water Treaty which deprives the State of the bonafide use of waters of three major rivers. He said if the losses from this count are calculated from the time the treaty was signed, the entire debt liability of the State could be wiped off. Underlining the need for review of this treaty, Mr Singh urged the Centre to further compensate for the previous losses as the J&K State was neither consulted nor involved at the time of signing of this highly discriminatory treaty. Mr Singh criticised the dilatory tactics of the Centre on the question of transfer of various Hydro Electric Projects already commissioned or on the anvil to the control of State Government. He said that the NHPC having abandoned Baglihar and Sawalkot projects, the said transfer needed to be expedited so that vast hydro electric potential could be exploited which could give a fillip to the State’s shattered economy. Mr Harshdev Singh said another glaring example of Centre’s hostile attitude towards the State was the denial of additional funds to J&K for wage revision. He said commitments for funding of the State for the purpose of wage revision were made by the Central Government even during the President’s rule, but it was unfortunate that the Central Government managed to wriggle out of it. He said that such attitude of the Central Government could lead to grave tensions as the State was not in a position to pay even the salary bills of the employees at the current rates. Non-payment of security related expenditure has further aggravated the crisis, he said. Mr Singh regretted that the agricultural loans raised by the farmers in Jammu and Kashmir, assured to be waived off by the Central Government had also met the same fate. He said there was a great resentment amongst the farmers of the State as the Central Government and the then Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda had repeatedly assured the remission of agricultural loans. Flaying such an apathy and neglect of the State by the Central Government, Mr Harsh Dev Singh warned that this insurgency ravaged state ought to be treated as a national issue and given special treatment before it was too late. |
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JU Cultural Council; JURSA elections soon, says DSW Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: New Students Cultural Council- the only registered body of the Jammu University students is likely to assume office in the first week of February. This was disclosed by the Dean Students Welfare (DWS), Prof N A Ganai, while talking to EXCELSIOR. He said almost all the departments have submitted the names of their representatives to the DWS for further election of the Secretary Students Cultural Council, University of Jammu. He further disclosed that around 22 departments have elected their representatives and subsequently submitted their names through Head of the Departments to DWS. The representatives of the remaining 4 departments are expected within few days, he added. The new body would have been elected in the last week of January but due to international seminar being organised by the Jammu University, it was extended to the first week of February. While going through the constitution of the Students Cultural Council, Prof Ganai said, " as per the Cultural Council constitution, before the election of the Secretary, there should be a ‘Campus Cultural Committee’ headed by a senior Profession of the University", adding "thereafter, under the supervision of that committee the Cultural Council Secretary and other office bearers would be elected". When asked about the Jammu University Research Scholars Association, Prof Ganai, who was unaware of the expiry of the present JURSA body term said that the elections for the same would be conducted soon after the international seminar was over. He said, "I was unaware of this and came to know only after going through news paper reports that the term of present JURSA has expired". Mr Ganai further said that elections of the Students Cultural Council and JURSA will be held simultaneously. |
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in 4 degree colleges Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: Students of city colleges today boycotted their classes and held protest demonstrations to lodge their protest against the decision of the University authorities to wind up Home Assignment system, Supplementary Examinations system and wrong subjects combinations. The final year students were also demanding syllabus curtailment for the ensuing annual examinations. The agitating students also disrupted traffic at various places in the city. The students have also formed All Colleges Co-ordination Committee to intensify agitation to press for their demands. Braving chilly winds and down pours, students of Government Gandhi Memorial Science College, Women’s College, Parade, Women’s College Gandhi Nagar and MAM College came out on the roads after boycotting their classes in their respective institutions. Slogans shouting students of GGM Science College took out a huge demonstration and staged a protest dharna on Jammu-Akhnoor Road. Traffic on the highway remained disrupted for more than two hours. It was only after the intervention of the senior police office, the students lifted the dharna. Airing anti-University authorities slogans, the students marched towards the old city. The Traffic Police, however, had a tough time to restore the normal traffic which was diverted to Bakshi Nagar due to the dharna of the students. At Science College, the students, joined by some students of MAM College, took out the procession in the walled city. After passing the different bazars the procession culminated at Government College of Women, Prade. The students of Women’s College Gandhi Nagar and Parade also came out on the streets for their demands. Students of GGM Science College, Mulana Azad College, Women College Gandhi Nagar and Women College, Parade later convened a meeting and constituted All College Coordination Committee to intensify their agitation. In their first course of action, the students gave a ‘five day strike’ call. They also served an ultimatum and warned the authorities to fulfill their demands within five day , otherwise threatening to restore to other means. Mr Rajinder Singh Bhau, president GGM Science College, Mr Pushpinder Singh, Miss Alka Sharma, president Government College for Women Gandhi Nagar, and Miss Yogeeta Sharma, president Government College for Women, Parade addressed the meeting. Talking to EXCELSIOR, a final year student said that due the late commencement of their academic session it was difficult rather impossible for the final year students to complete their syllabus before April. "Till date we have completed only one and half units of our syllabus", he informed. It may be recalled that academic session for the degree course was delayed three months due to the last year’s students agitation against ‘biased’ and ‘manipulated’ MBBS/BDS selection list. President of Women’s College, Miss Yogeeta, regretted that they were forced to adopt agitational path by the authorities as their repeated meetings with concerned did not yield any result. She dubbed authorities’ decision as anti-Jammu and warned to take extreme steps. Mr Rajinder Singh Bhau, president of the GGM Science College, said that students in general and part-II in particular , were facing lot of hardships due to the wrong decisions of the authorities. |
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CSIR scientists observe black day at RRL Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 20: As per the directives of All India CSIR Scientific Workers Association, protest day was observed by SWA of Regional Research Laboratory Jammu today by wearing black badges and holding executive committee meeting. As per a release through various resolutions the association highlighted their demands which pertained to enhancement in the retirement age to 62 years from the existing 60 years, bringing pay structure of S&T staff of CSIR at par with that of UGC and IITs, bringing to an end the R&D mismanagement, financial and academic corruption, putting an end to discriminatory treatment meted to Grade III S&T staff, compensation through CSIR for the losses suffered by CSIR S&T staff, compared to those in other academic and S&T organisation during the earlier pay commissions and stoppage to victimization of all SWA leaders and members. Scientific Workers’ Association of RRL Jammu urged the CSIR and Government to ensure that Scientific and Technical Officers were protected from further degradation in the matter of pay scales and career benefits and they were brought at par with UGC and IITs. They said the scientific temper and ethos must be carefully nurtured in CSIR for the benefit of society and country at large, so that the slogan of "Jai Vigyan" given by the Prime Minister recently was realized. |
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