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JAMMU, Apr 8: Around 332 candidates were shortlisted with packages starting from Rs 1.5 lacs up to Rs 3.5 lacs, during 26th Aryans Job Fest held today at Aryans Campus in Chandigarh.
Chairman, Punjab State Education Board (PSEB), Dr Tejinder Kaur Dhaliwal, inaugurated the Fest while Chairman, Aryans College of Engineering (ACE), Dr Anshu Kataria, presided over the event.
Over 4000 candidates from all over the country participated in this job fest. The fest attracted almost 50 leading companies of corporate world including Axis Bank, Bebo Technologies, Caddesk Ltd, Impinge Solutions, Reliance, GS Alloys, Jasier Technologies, Satguru Technologies etc offering a variety of jobs for all the sections present.
Dr Dhaliwal mentioned that Board would also visualize towards the integration of general, technical, skill based, Industry oriented and vocational courses at school level to give industrial exposure to the students so they may get the help to adopt the curriculum of these courses later on. She urged students not to look for package but to go for good profiles which will take them quite far in their Career.
She emphasized need for discipline, time management and above all agility and curiosity to succeed in life.
Dr Kataria said, “Established in 2007, the Aryans Group has completed 8 glorious years in the field of education. Through this period, Aryans has regularly provided the corporate world with well-prepared professionals and industry leaders. This history of excellence has been validated by the fact that Aryans Group of Colleges has been consistently at the top in providing best placements to the job seekers.”
Registrar, ACE, Prof BS Sidhu while expressing his great joy said that an excellent team work by the students, teaching and non-teaching faculty and admin staff under the guidance of the management made this mega event smooth and successful.
Tejinder Kaur, TPO, ACE said that it’s for the first time that more than 5000 candidates were being registered for this job fest. Students of various Universities and Colleges not only of Chandigarh but other states like Punjab, Haryana, HP, JK, UP and Rajasthan also came to participate in this Job Fest.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: Sunil Dimple President Jammu West Assembly Movement held a meeting with DyCM Dr Nirmal Singh and discussed various problems faced by the people regarding traffic jams, worst condition of city roads and urgent need to construct flyovers.
Dimple held detailed discussion over the PDD, JMC, PWD, ERA sewarage and PHE schemes. He demanded to install the fresh new receiving station of 50 MVA at Janipur to overcome the load problem and the curtailment of power.
He put forth demand for new 10 MVA small sub-station for Manda Ambphalla, Shiv Nagar Shakti Nagar, fresh electrification of the Jammu city, widening of the BC Road, constructing of the fly over’s at Rehari Chungi, and Jewal Chowk as also starting of Metro Rail.
He also demanded to hold the inquiry in on going work of the ERA and to hold immediate Jammu Municipal Corporation elections.
Dr Nirmal Singh assured that all demands put forward will be redressed at the earliest.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: A militancy victim has been waiting for past nine years the benefits of SRO 43 recruitment but the administration has turned Nelson’s eye towards him.
Puran Chand, 32, son of Munshi Ram, a resident of village Thopal in Batote was 23 when his father (Munshi Ram) was killed in a grenade blast, triggered by the militants, in a BJP rally at Doda on May 13, 2006.
Then Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha LK Advani had visited residence of Puran Chand to condole killing of his father in a militant attack.
Now Puran has turned 32 and was moving from pillar to post for job under SRO 43, which is given to the kin of militancy victims.
Puran said whenever he visited office of the Deputy Commissioner, Ramban, he was told that there was no Government job for him.
He has appealed to the Government as the BJP was now in power to immediately arrange the due job for him.

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POONCH, Apr 8: A large number of people from Sathra and adjoining villages today came out on Jammu-Poonch road and disrupted movement of traffic for about four hours and shouted slogans against the Administration.
The people who have suffered massive damages during recent rains and floods came out on the road at Sathra and blocked the highway. They alleged that several bridges have washed away and roads remain blocked. The people are facing scarcity of ration, kerosene oil, LPG and other items. The Administration has failed to restore roads and bridges and provide essential services to the people.
They also raised slogans against PDP-BJP Government and MP Jammu-Poonch Constituency Jugal Kishore Sharma and MLA Poonch from PDP. They alleged that both of them have been least bothered about the plight of the people. They also raised loud slogans and alleged that even the MP was not seen in the area since long.
A large number of vehicles remained stranded for hours together and students and Government employees could not reach their destinations. Later, Tehsildar Poonch and SHO reached the spot at around 12.30 pm and they motivated the villagers seeking 7 days time from them to restore roads and improve supplies. Later, the villagers lifted dharna and allowed movement of traffic at around 1 pm.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: Expressing confidence that State Coalition will soon bring sea change in the development profile of Jammu and Kashmir, senior BJP leader and MLA from Jammu East Constituency Rajesh Gupta said that State Government has already initiated execution on several developmental works to upgrade the current inadequate infrastructure created by previous dispensation for ensuring welfare of its State subjects.
He was addressing a largely attended function organized in connection with the up-gradation of lanes and drains at Jullaka Mohalla locality falling under Ward No.2 of Jammu East Constituency here today.
The estimated cost of up-gradation of these lanes and drains is approximately Rs. 4.50 lakh.
Commissioner Jammu Municipal Corporation, Soujanya Kumar Sharma was also present on the occasion.
Rajesh while interacting with the residents of the area assured that public service and welfare of society will be his benchmark approach. He vowed to work relentlessly for achieving his goal in making the constituency an example for its counterparts with up to the mark edifice and all round development. He also invited innovative suggestions from people for putting in more vigour into his mission to provide bounties in the shape of facilities and services to the residents of Jammu East.
Speaking on the occasion, JMC Commissioner Soujanya Kumar Sharma assured the residents that Ward No. 2 will be developed as a model ward by accomplishing cent percent work.
Prominent among those who accompanied Rajesh Gupta during his visit to Ward No. 2 included Murari Lal, Dalip Gupta, Rajinder, Shashikant Sapolia, Pardeep Langeh, Ajesh, Nittu, Satpal Rathore, Lalit, Karan Singh, Ashwani, Ramesh, Rajesh, Manav, Chamanlal, Raj Kumar, Lucky Jain, Montu and Amit Sawhney.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: The 120 MW Sewa-II Power Station of NHPC, Mashka (Jammu and Kashmir) has exceeded its MoU targets set for ‘Excellent’ ratings both in terms of Power Generation as well as Plant Availability Factor (PAF) for the year 2014-15.
At the end of Financial Year 2014-15, the Sewa–II Power Station has generated 594.01 MUs (Million Units) which is 14.23% higher than its target of 520 MUs. The Power Station also recorded highest PAF among 18 Power Stations of NHPC i.e. 97.1% which is 11.6% higher than our target of 87%. It is also the highest generation since commissioning.
Against the scheduled generation of 2.88 MU per day, Power Station has generated 3.173 MU in one day i.e. all time highest till date since commissioning. Power Station under Corporate Social Responsibility Sustainable Development Scheme has spent Rs 63 lakhs on different social activities for local public in this financial year.
PK Langer, Chief Engineer-I/c Sewa-II Power Station has credited the hard work and perseverance of all officers and personnel of Sewa-II Power Station towards the achievement of these milestones.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: 270 posts of general line teacher are lying vacant in district Kargil and the same would be filled as soon as the select list is received from recruiting agencies.
The information was given by the Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar while replying to a question of Haji Inayat Ali in the Legislative Council.
While replying to an another question of Ghulam Nabi Monga, the minister on behalf of Minister for Relief and Rehabilitation informed the House that a comprehensive relief and rehabilitation package of Rs 43959.56 crore has been submitted to Government of India for approval but till date no funds have been released.
The minister said that relief/compensation have been paid on account of damages/losses to life and private property. He said steps taken by the Government for rehabilitation for flood victims include ex-gratia relief @ of Rs 1.50 lakhs each under SDRF norms/rules, has been sanctioned/paid in favour of the NoK’s of deceased persons, while as an amount of Rs 2 lakhs each has been sanctioned as ex-gratia relief out of Prime Minister’s Relief Fund.
Naeem Akhtar further said that ex-gratia relief out of the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund @ Rs 1.50 lakhs each has been sanctioned and disbursed to families of the deceased persons. He further said that similarly ex-gratia relief @ Rs 1 lakh for fully damaged Pucca and Rs 0.50 lakh for fully damaged Kacha house is also being directly deposited in the individual bank accounts of each affected family by the Prime Minister’s Office.
The minister said that rent @ Rs 5000 in Municipal areas, Rs 3500 in urban areas and Rs 2000 in rural areas per family/per month is paid to all such families, whose residential houses were fully damaged during floods. He said those families who opted for shelter sheds instead of house rent have been provided shelter sheds at different places.
The minister said that besides 6 months free ration, timber to the extent of 100, 50 and 30 cft to fully/severely/partially damaged houses respectively is being provided to the sufferers on concessional rates and without charging VAT.
While replying to another question raised of Jugal Kishore on behalf of the Minister for Revenue, Naeem Akhtar informed the House that 6 mutations have been attested in Tehsil Reasi in favour of 54 persons under Section 121 of Land Revenue Act.

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UDHAMPUR, Apr 8: Police today arrest a bootlegger from Samroli area and seized 43 pouches of illicit liquor from his possession.
The accused has been identified as Sukhdev Kumar of Samroli, who was carrying the liquor pouches for illegal sale of the same. The arrest was made during a naka by Police, led by SHO Chenani, Inspector Ajit Singh.
Police has registered a case in this connection under J&K Excise Act.

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JAMMU, Apr 8: Two motorcyclists wearing masks robbed an elderly woman of her gold chain weighting around 3 tolas in Friends Colony area, falling under the jurisdiction of Channi Himmat police station.
As per police sources, an elderly woman identified as Jai Kishori Raina, wife of Pushkar Nath Raina, a resident of Friends Colony, Trikuta Nagar was returning home from the market, when two persons wearing masks riding on motorcycle snatched her gold chain weighting around 3 tolas.
The woman raised hue and cry, but the accused managed to escape from the spot.
A case under FIR number 31/15 under Section 382 RPC has been registered at Channi Himmat police station and investigation started.