Cabinet approves setting up of 4 fast track courts, adoption of Water Policy

Start-up hubs, incubators being set-up for young entrepreneurs

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 23: State Cabinet which met under the chairpersonship of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti at Civil Secretariat Srinagar this evening accorded approval to the setting up of four fast track courts and adoption of State Water Policy and Plan. Moreover, the Cabinet gave nod to the road-map for regularization of casual, seasonal labourers and daily rated workers.
As reported exclusively by EXCELSIOR in its edition dated October 22, the Cabinet accorded approval to the establishment of four fast track courts to deal exclusively with the cases of extreme violence and other offences against womenfolk.
These courts to be presided over by the District and Sessions Judge will be established in Kashmir and Jammu regions with supporting staff of 10 per court. The posts include one each of District & Session Judge, Junior Scale Stenographer, Head Assistant, Senior Assistant, Chowkidar/Safaiwala, 2 posts of Junior Assistants and 3 posts of Orderlies.
The Cabinet also put seal of approval on Water Policy and Plan formulated in terms of Section-4 of the J&K State Water Resources (Regulation and Management) Act, 2010. The Cabinet called for co-opting the Forest Department for effective implementation of the policy.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Cabinet vide its Decision No.71/5/2017 dated June 7, 2017 had referred the draft policy to the Cabinet Sub-Committee headed by Deputy Chief Minister and comprising of Ministers for Revenue & Disaster Management, Forest, Social Welfare, Finance and PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control for submission of report, which was considered today and finally approved.
The Cabinet also accepted the report of the high level committee headed by the Chief Secretary laying out a roadmap for absorption/regularization of casual/seasonal labourers/ daily rated workers so as to ensure sustainable livelihood to thousands of persons and engagements which were made from time to time. The Cabinet asked the Finance Department to workout concrete measures to operationalize the roadmap to meet the long-standing demand of such engaged persons.
As per the official handout, the Cabinet gave nod to the creation of 20 teaching and non-teaching posts for the two Schools of Architecture established in the State.
The newly created posts include two posts of Professors and HoDs, four posts of Associate Professors, eight posts of Assistant Professors, two posts of Lab/Workshop Assistants, two posts of Accounts Assistants and two posts of Computer Assistants.
Pertinently, the schools of Architecture have been established at Government MAM College, Jammu and Abdul Ahad Azad Memorial Degree College, Bemina, Srinagar and are affiliated with the University of Jammu and University of Kashmir respectively.
Registered with Council of Architecture (CoA), these schools will be offering 5 years Bachelor of Architecture course with an intake capacity of 40 seats.
Moreover, to give a major fillip to the entrepreneurship and innovation and to engage youngsters in the industrial sector, the Cabinet approved the scheme for setting up of Start-up hubs and incubators in Plug-n-Play model with initial capital infusion of Rs 5 crore through Higher Education institutions.
Under the scheme, an 11 member State Level Empowered Committee will be setup as a decision making body for establishment of Start-up  hub  to periodically monitor the performance of the Start-up Ecosystem and to take decisions about the modifications in the scheme guidelines as may be necessary.
Start-up hub will have two parallel centers, one at EDI Pampore in Kashmir and the other initially in the office of J&K EDI at Udyog Bhawan, Railhead in Jammu to be finally shifted to permanent Campus of the J&K EDI being established at Bari Brahman Jammu.
Fourteen institutions in Jammu and 15 in Kashmir including Ladakh and Kargil have been proposed as Incubators which will function under the platform of a designated Start-up Hub which will function as a Nodal Agency. The Nodal Agency will perform a variety of functions like holistic networking for all the Incubators, entrepreneurship development agencies, academic institutions, R&D centers, industrial bodies and associations and funding/financing entities.
The proposal regarding creation of 25 faculty positions for the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS), Srinagar also received the approval of the Cabinet. The newly created posts include one post of Director, Professor Mathematics, Associate Professor Mathematics, four posts of Assistant Professor Mathematics, three posts of Assistant Professor Physics, three posts of Assistant Professor Computer Application, one post of Assistant Professor Humanities, one post each of Accounts Assistant, Senior Assistant, Computer Assistant, Library Assistant and Library Bearer and two posts each of Library Assistant, Laboratory Bearer and Orderly.
The Cabinet also approved creation of different categories of posts for J&K Legislative Council Secretariat and J&K Legislative Assembly Secretariat.
The newly created posts in the Legislative Council Secretariat include one post of Private Secretary to the Chairman, Accounts Officer, Assistant Information Officer, Jr Legal Assistant, Jr. Librarian, Watch and Ward (W&W) Inspector, W&W Sub-Inspector, Jr. Scale Stenographer (Urdu), Jr. Scale Stenographer (Hindi), Assistant Marshal, Data Entry Operator, Dispatch Rider and 04 posts of Watch and Ward Staff (Class IV).
For the Legislative Assembly Secretariat, the newly created posts include two Estates Officers, one Under Secretary, one Information Officer, One Protocol Officer and one Translator.
The Cabinet also approved creation of post of Registrar (Computers) and Joint Registrar (Computers) in the High Court of J&K. The post of Registrar would be in the pay scale applicable to that of Director and Joint Registrar Computers to that of System Executive in the IT Services.
Even the proposal regarding absorption of employees of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir Cooperation Consumer Federation Ltd (CONFED) in the Cooperative Department received the Cabinet approval.
The nod was also given to granting of one more chance to the BOPEE selected Patwaries who could not qualify the trainees Departmental Examination conducted by the Financial Commissioner, Revenue, J&K.
The approval was also given to Jammu and Kashmir Rights of Persons with Disabilities Ordinance, 2017. The promulgation of the ordinance will provide for increase in the disabilities from existing 7 to 21 and increase in the reservation percentage (horizontal from 3 to 4 %). The legislation is expected to immensely benefit PWDs through interventions, education, development skills and preventive care etc.
The Cabinet called for extending the scheme for specially-abled children in the non-government educational institutions as well.

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