Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 4: Three residential houses were damaged in fire in Baramulla on Monday evening.
A police spokesman said fire broke out in village Hundi-Nowshera, Boniyar in district Baramulla, resulting in complete damage to three residential houses belonging to Mushtaq Ahmad Magrey son of Abdul Gaffar, Sharifa Begum wife of Late Ghulam Mohi-u-din and Pervaiz Ahmad Magrey son of Abdul Gaffar.
3 residential houses gutted
7 injured in road mishap
Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 4: Seven persons were injured in a road accident in Boniyar area of Baramulla district on Monday evening.
A police spokesman said seven persons were injured when a Tata Sumo, JK05/1272, skidded off the road and fell in a deep gorge at village Damping Boniyar, Baramulla.
“All the injured have been shifted to hospital for treatment and a case has been filed in this regard,” the spokesman said.
NCMO protests in front of Relief Organization
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JAMMU, Feb 4: Non Camp Migrant Organization (NCMO) held a demonstration in front of Relief Organization here today demanding allotment of quarters to migrant families putting up in rented accommodations for last 24 years.
The demonstration was led by Nana Ji Dembi. He urged the Relief Commissioner Migrants and other authorities to consider the plea of rented migrant families on priority basis as they are not in a position to pay the rent of private accommodations due to sky rocketing prices.
They demanded that allotment of quarters to rented migrants at Jagti township be made before Maha Shivratri festival. They further demanded enhancement of cash assistance to Rs 15,000 per family per month.
NC Migrant Cell president M K Yogi assured the protestors that his organization will also impress upon the authorities to allot quarters before Maha Shivratri.
Sachin getting Bharat Ratna big day for Indian cricket: Farooq
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JAMMU, Feb 4: Union Minister and Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association President Farooq Abdullah today said conferring Bharat Ratna to Sachin Tendulkar was a big day for cricket as he made India shine in the game.
“It (awarding Sachin with Bharat Ratna by President today) is big day for cricket. Today big people including one top scientist and another Sachin Tendulkar are getting Bharat Ratna,” Abdullah told reporters here.
“It is a big thing for Indian cricket, because he made India shine in the world of cricket,” he added.
LoC trade delegation from Poonch, Uri meets CCI
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JAMMU, Feb 4: The LoC trade delegation from Poonch and Uri called on president Chamber of Commerce and Industry Jammu, Y V Sharma in his office chamber here today and sought Chamber’s intervention to exert pressure on the Government to resolve the issue of suspended cross LoC trade at the earliest.
The traders expressed that they were facing lot of problems and their business has come to stand still after a vehicle carrying narcotics from PoK side was seized and its driver arrested. They said that due to wrong activity of one single person a large number of traders are facing lot of hardships.
During the meeting with the Jammu Chamber members, it was emphasized that solution to the problem has to be found in a way so that justice is delivered to other sufferers and wrong doer punished. The delegation through Chamber appealed to the Government to resolve this issue at the earliest so that CBMs are put in place and the stalled business is restored. They said any delay to normalize the relations will cause huge loss to the members of trading community.
The delegation members also appreciated the efforts of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who raised this issue with the Prime Minister during his recent visit to Jammu.
Villagers protest, lock school
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MENDHAR, Feb 4: The villagers from Khera Tappa area today locked local Govt High School as its building is in shambles and its two rooms are occupied by a villager to keep building material there and the children have been left to suffer.
Reports said during rain, the water pours down from ceiling of the rooms and veranda as the building was in dilapidated condition. There are hardly four rooms in this High School and two of them have been occupied on the behest of local Sarpanch for keeping cement and other material being used for the construction of Panchayat Ghar, just closer to school.
There are eight teachers and nearly 250 students in this school. As the school was found locked and children waiting for teachers during rain in Varanda, the villagers locked school and started protest. The headmaster and two teachers arrived after 2.30 pm and the villagers expressed their strong resentment.
Later, the villagers moved to the office of SDM and lodged their strong protest. The SDM contacted CEO Poonch and DyCEO and ordered an inquiry into the matter in presence of Tehsildar Mandhar. The villagers then returned.
Div Com reviews arrangements for senior skiing, snowboarding championship
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SRINAGAR, Feb 4: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Shalinder Kumar today reviewed the arrangements being made for the forthcoming senior skiing and snowboarding championship being held at Gulmarg from February 16 to February 20 2014 at a high level officers meeting here today.
District Magistrate Srinagar Farooq Ahmad Shah, Chief Engineer, Mechanical Engineering, CE, R&B, CE,PDD, officers of Tourism, Health and allied departments attended the meeting.
Divisional Commissioner Kashmir while addressing the meeting said that the objective of organising the event is aimed at promoting sports and tourism in the State besides improving the socio-economic conditions of the people.
He directed the officers to leave no stone unturned in extending all required facilities to participants as well as enthusiastic visitors during the event so that there is no complaint from any quarter.
Deputy Commissioner Srinagar on this occasion said that 15 teams drawn from all parts of the country are expected to participate in the event, being organised by J&K Winter Games Association.
He said that the event will be inaugurated on February 16, 2014 while concluding function will be held on February 20, 2014.
The officers present in the meeting assured the Divisional Commissioner that the event will be a great success and every effort will be made to provide all possible facilities to participants and enthusiastic gathering.
Govt Polytechnic organizes certificate distribution function
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JAMMU, Feb 4: The functions were organized at village Lehnu and Kamble Danga in Udhampur to distribute the certificates among the successful candidates trained at Extension Centres under Community Development Through Polytechnics (CDTP) Scheme.
The certificates were distributed by Er Arun Bangotra, Principal/Chief Co-ordinator CDTP Scheme in presence of Er KS Manhas Lecturer Civil / Internal Co-ordinator CDTP Scheme, Er. KS Bhatia HoD Mechanical Course Co-ordinator, under CDTP Scheme, local trainers and various students of the extension center.
The candidates were presented the certificates on successful completion of 6-month training course in Cutting and Tailoring at Lehnu and 6-month training course in Fashion Designing at Kamble Danga.
This is Centrally sponsored scheme under MHRD, Government of India providing free vocational skill development training to the weaker section of the society.
Speaking on this occasion, Chief Co-ordinator threw light on the benefits of the courses and stressed upon the students to take maximum benefit from this scheme.
Volleyball Tournament organized
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JAMMU, Feb 4: A Volleyball Tournament was organized by Government Degree College Akhnoor, here today.
SDM Akhnoor was the chief guest on the occasion.
9 teams drawn from Government and Private institutions participated in the event.
GHSS Pallanwalla defeated GDC Akhnoor in the summit clash to lift the title trophy.
The match was officiated by Roshan Lal Sharma and Rajesh Verma and Sandeep Sharma.
The trophies and mementoes were distributed among the winners and runners up teams on the occasion by the chief guest.
2 CAPD cashiers placed under suspension
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JAMMU, Feb 4: Director Consumer Affairs and Public Distributions (CAPD) Department, Jammu G S Chib has suspended two cashiers of the department and issued show cause notices to the two concerned officers of the department in connection with the lapse in handling huge cash, following incident of fire at the directorate on Akhnoor Road here on Sunday.
An official spokesman said that on the basis of preliminary findings of the three-member inquiry committee headed by Joint Director CAPD Jammu Reyaz Ahmed, the Director placed cashiers- Ashok Kumar and Ashok Kumar-II for the lapse. The cashiers had not deposited Rs 56.50 lakh cash in the bank or the Government Treasury but kept in the office. With the fire incident during wee hours on Sunday the office record and cash worth over Rs 3 lakh was damaged. The police has already registered an FIR in this connection.
Meanwhile, the Director also issued show cause notice to the two concerned Assistant Directors, CAPD in this connection. Inquiry committee members namely -Reyaz Ahmed (JD), Reyaz Choudhary Chief Accounts Officer and Arun Kotwal Dy Director Food & Rationing have been asked to submit the report with in a week.
The Director CAPD when contacted said that cash hardly worth Rs 70,000 was completely damaged while nearly two lakh partially but their numbers were intact. The remaining cash was retrieved. He said that inquiry committee is doing its job and report is likely to be received within a couple of days. He said that some lapse on the part of staff can not be ruled out.