JAMMU, Oct 30: An anti-encroachment drive was conducted in Akhnoor town by Municipal Committee with the help of Akhnoor police and tehsil administration.
The drive was conducted under the supervision of SDPO Akhnoor, Varun Jandial, SDM Akhnoor Gopal Singh, Deputy SP Traffic Neeraj Padyar and Tehsildar Akhnoor Surinder Singh.
A team of police led by SHO Akhnoor Inspector Ravi Singh Parihar and officials of Municipal Committee Akhnoor led by Enforcement Inspector Kuldeep Raj take a round of the whole Akhnoor market and booked several for encroaching roads and footpaths and wrong parking of vehicles.
While traffic police booked 12 defaulters for wrong parking and imposed fine worth Rs 25,000 from them, 20 defaulters were booked under Municipality Act by the Municipal officials and fine of Rs 43,000 was realized from the defaulters. Besides, 2-full tipper of articles displayed on roads and footpaths were seized by the Municipal officials.
The team warned the shopkeepers of stern action for further encroachment of roads and footpaths, which led to traffic mess.
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Jammu, Oct 30: Government today ordered transfer and postings two KAS officers.
Ravinder Sharma, awaiting orders of adjustment in the General Administration Department has been transferred and posted as Custodian Evacuee Property, Jammu. He shall assume the charge of the post of Custodian, Evacuee Property, Jammu on 31-10-2020.
Suraj Parkash Rukwal, Additional Secretary to the Government, Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction shall continue to be the ex-officio Provincial Rehabilitation Officer, Jammu.
Lt Governor Manoj Sinha chairing a meeting on Friday.
Deadlines set for replacement of transformers
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SRINAGAR, Oct 30: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha today reviewed the winter preparedness and logistic arrangements of various departments in a meeting here at Raj Bhavan.
The Lt Governor directed the concerned officers to adopt a proactive approach to address the needs and requirements of the people; especially those living in far-flung and snow bound areas.
He asked them to be responsive and take comprehensive measures to minimize the difficulties of common people, work at grass roots level and reach out to the people to address their genuine concerns.
He also directed the officers to put committed efforts to ensure uninterrupted drinking water and power supply & timely restoration, availability of public utilities like firewood, ration, medicines and other basic amenities and essential supplies.
Necessary directions were passed to maintain sufficient stock of firewood, fuel, food grains, and medicines, especially in remote and difficult terrain areas.
The Lt Governor directed the Power Development Department to maintain the availability of buffer stock in District Head Quarters, besides ensuring proper functioning of existing transmission lines, transformers, electrical equipment, repair workshops, timely repairs and replacement of the damaged infrastructure and equipment.
After taking assessment from each DC, the Lt Governor set a deadline of 24 hours for urban areas and 48 hours for rural areas for replacement of the transformers barring difficult and inaccessible areas.
The Lt Governor stressed upon close monitoring of the functioning of the power distribution & transmission channels In order to ensure uninterrupted power supply during the harsh winter days.
While taking the preparedness review of Jal Shakti Department, the Lt Governor also set the deadline of the same day in urban areas and within the next day in rural areas for resolving the water supply and repair problems.
Laying special emphasis on ensuring uninterrupted road connectivity and proper Traffic management, the Lt Governor directed the officers to rationalize the deployment of snow clearing machinery and equipment for snow clearance from all the main and internal roads.
All the requisite arrangements must be made in advance for the stranded passengers on the national highway and other important district and town roads, besides putting a check on unnecessary and unruly movements on the national highway for smooth vehicular movement, he added.
The Lt Governor directed the concerned officers to timely issue weather advisories and make every necessary emergency facility available to render critical help in any contingent situation.
He also passed directions for setting up of control rooms in every District Head Quarters and the DCs were directed to monitor and to resolve grievances of the people pertaining to power, water, essential supplies, health services, road connectivity, and emergency evacuation/rescue.
The Lt Governor asked the Head of Departments to closely monitor the winter preparations of their respective departments and directed all the departments to work in a synchronized manner and put in dedicated efforts to avoid any inconvenience to the people of J&K by putting in place a much comprehensive and viable winter preparedness mechanism.
The Lt Governor also took stock of the implementation of the directions passed in the previous meetings.
Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Advisors to the Lt Governor; BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Arun Kumar Mehta, Financial Commissioner, Finance Department; Rohit Kansal, Principal Secretary, Power Development Department, and Information Department; Nitishwar Kumar, Principal Secretary to Lt Governor; Pandurang K. Pole, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir; M Raju, Secretary to the Government, Jal Shakti Department; Simrandeep Singh, Special Secretary to the Government, Department of DMRR&R; Mohammad Aijaz, Managing Director, Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited; Deputy Commissioners; Chief Engineers and other senior officers participated in the meeting, in person and through virtual mode.
SJM Gillani, ADGP (Coordination) was also present during the meeting.
BJP MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday said he has given Rs 2.5 lakh to the parents of a young boy from Ladakh after a video clip of him giving a crisp salute to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel posted in the region went viral.
The video clip of Namgyal saluting a team of ITBP personnel has been widely shared online. It was tweeted by the border patrolling force from its official handle on October 11.
“Namgyal had won the love and respect of an entire nation when a video him giving a crisp salute to the ITBP personnel passing through Shushul in Ladakh emerged,” Chandrasekhar’s office said in a statement.
“Namgyal’s spirit of patriotism encouraged many to call upon for helping the young Ladakh boy to realise his dreams. I have contributed Rs 2.5 lakh for him through Flags of Honour Foundation and a cheque of the same amount has been issued in his father’s name,” the BJP MP said in the statement.
Since its formation in 2009, the Flags of Honour Foundation supported and advocated the cause of the armed forces, the men and women who serve and the veterans who have made tremendous sacrifices for the nation, the statement reads.
In line with this endeavour, Chandrasekhar has sought to reach out to Namgyal’s parents so as to ensure that he shines and some day inspires others to stand tall for the motherland, it said. (PTI)
JAMMU, Oct 30: Bhartiya Lok Sangeet Kala Sansthan (BLSKS) in collaboration with Sangam Tru Art Production presented Dogri Musical Concert ‘Ekta Ka Diya’ on the theme ‘National Unity Day’.
The programme was inaugurated by the chief guest V.K Magotra, former Regional Director, Directorate of Field Publicity.
Dr. Tara Singh Charak, former Deputy Director Health Department was the guest of honour and renowned artists staged colourful cultural programme depicting the concepts of secularism.
Speaking on the occasion the chief guest said National Unity Day is celebrated on October 31 every year to mark the birth anniversary of Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
He said, Sardar Patel played a major role in the integration of India.
The programme started with songs composed by renowned music teacher Master Raju Bajgal.
Artists of BLSKS also presented songs on ‘Ekta Ekta Ka Diya’ written by M.L Dogra and recorded and uploaded on social media for general public.
Welcome speech was given by M.L Dogra, Chairman BLSKS.
The artists and students of Music and Computer Institute who participated in the musical concert were K.K Joshi, M.C Kotwal, Rajni Gupta, Sanjeev Kumar, Chahat Chadha and others.
Master Deepak Kumar presented vote of thanks.
Municipal Councillor, Rakesh Malhotra along with others starting construction work of lane and drain at Ward-6 in Akhnoor.
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AKHNOOR, Oct 30: Municipal Councillor Ward-6, Rakesh Malhotra of Municipal Committee (MC) Akhnoor along with Vice President MC Akhnoor, Amita Gupta and Councillors Deepak Mani, Rashmi Kumari and Depesh Singh today started construction work of lane and drain in Ward-6 with an estimate cost of Rs. 2 lakh.
Speaking on the occasion Malhotra assured the public of his ward that as per his poll promises he is leaving no stone unturned for the development of his Ward.
He said earlier he got replaced the old PDD wires, regulated drinking water and electricity supply and now he is working to provide better lanes and drains in the Ward.
Malhotra assured the locals that quality work will be done and instructed the contractor to use best quality material in the work.
He also said that he gives special attention to grievances of public in his Ward.
Others present on the occasion were Bharat Bhushan, senior BJP leader, Jugal Gupta, Anil Sharma, Rajesh Bhalla, Ankush Gupta, Sonu Malhotra and many residents of Ward-6.
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SRINAGAR, Oct 30: The civil secretariat, which is the seat of Jammu and Kashmir government, closed here on Friday as part of the biannual ‘Darbar move’, a practice started by Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1872, officials said.
Civil Secretariat and other Darbar move offices, which observe a five-day week, closed here on Friday, while the offices observing a six-day week will close on Saturday, they said.
All the offices will reopen at Jammu on November 9. The civil secretariat and other Darbar move offices function in Srinagar for six months of summer and in Jammu for the remaining six months of the year. (PTI)
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JAMMU, Oct 30: Two persons including a ‘Molvi’ were arrested in forgery (fake Nikkah Nama) case by Nagrota police.
“A case FIR number 84/2020 U/S 494/420/465/466 /468/469/471/474/120-B was registered in police station Nagrota following a written complaint by a lady namely Parveen Akhter wife of Gafoor Khan of Shibba (Nagrota) on 21-02-20 that her husband contracted 2nd marriage with a lady namely Ulfat Kosser wife of Anwar Khan of Shibba without her consent and knowledge,” a police official said.
He said that the woman in her complained also submitted that Gafoor Khan hatched criminal conspiracy with Molvi Mohd Hussain alias Bittu son of Bahar Din of Sandhi Kanna (Chargal) who prepared false, fake and fraudulent document of ‘Nikkah Nama’.
The official said that during the course of investigation, the allegations were found to be true and it was found that Molvi Mohd Hussain prepared false, fake and fraudulent ‘Nikkah Nama’ and produced the same before the High Court Jammu in a PIL no WP(C) no 185/2020 titled Ulfat Kosser & Anr. v/s U T of J&K & Ors and used the same document for getting relief in case FIR No 342/2019 U/S 366/109 RPC of PS Nagrota which was already registered by the husband of Ulfat Kosser namely Anwar Khan son of Saif Ali of Shibba (Nagrota) against Gafoor Khan for kidnapping his wife.
“It came to fore in the investigation that the Molvi prepared forged document of ‘Nikkah Nama’ in back date to give undue benefit to the accused,” the official said, adding, both the accused have been arrested in case FIR No 84/2020 and further investigation is going on.
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SAMBA, Oct 30: Four people received injuries, three of them critical, in two separate road accidents in Samba district.
According to a police official, a Swift car bearing registration number PB0AW-6370 being driven in a rash and negligent manner by an unknown driver towards Punjab side from Samba, hit a motorcycle (bearing registration number JK02BW-2342 when reached at Palli Morh at Jammu-Pathankot National Highway.
“In the mishap, three persons travelling on the motorcycle got critical injuries. They were immediately taken to District Hospital Samba, where doctors after giving them first aid referred to Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu for further treatment,” he added.
The official said that the injured were identified as Mani Ram son of Shiv Ram of village Diani, Naveen Singh son of Devinder Singh of Arnia and his brother Sandeep Singh. The concerned police had taken cognizance of the matter and started investigation, he added.
Meanwhile, a road accident also occurred at Glarh Morh in border area of Samba, where a speeding Swift car hit a bike and injured its rider namely Ravi Kumar (36) son of Rattan Chand. The injured was shifted to District Hospital, Samba for treatment while the concerned police had taken cognizance of the matter.
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UDHAMPUR, Oct 30: Retired and socio-religious people as well as women and youth wing of Jammu Kashmir Reserved Categories Empowerment Alliance (JKRCEA) in a joint press conference urged upon LG of JK UT to intervene and direct bureaucratic system of J&K to stop calculative atrocities on SC/ST employees.
They further urged the LG to take adequate steps to control caste and religion based unrest and atrocities which are on rise since last few years in J&K, taking the pattern of UP, Bihar and other parts of the country.
Vijay Bansalt, ex-president of Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Udhampur, said that bureaucrats led by Chief Secretary have totally sabotaged the issue of Reservation in Promotions’ in spite of it being protected through ‘J&K Reorganization Act 2019’ and extension of whole Constitution of India to J&K UT. He said they are neither implementing the Constitution as a whole in J&K UT nor are submitting objections in the Supreme Court for final disposal of the case.
Ram Rattan Drahi (ex-president, Shri Guru Nabha Dass Sabha Udhampur) said that harassment against employees and common man of SC/ST/OBC and religious minorities have become a day to day affair in J&K UT and it appears that the abrogation of Article 370 has caused more harm to these communities.
Ramesh Kumar (ex-president JKRCEA Udhampur) requested the LG Manoj Sinha to ensure immediate implementation of ‘Reservation in Promotions’ as the undue delay and willfully wrong tactics of bureaucracy led by Chief Secretary and Law Secretary has caused huge loss to SC/ST employees.
“If atrocities on SC/ST employees on official fronts are not stopped and if reservation in promotions is not restored these communities shall hold a ‘maharally’ in Jammu on 21st November and shall launch a movement of mass conversion,” he added.
