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Woman crushed to death STATE TIMES NEWS
KISHTWAR: A speeding truck crushed a woman to death indistrict Kishtwar on Thursday. According to reports, a truck(JK02R-4895) crushed an middle-aged woman atSangrambhata area of Kishtwar, 2 km from town, when shewas on morning walk on Kishtwar-Chatroo road.
Passerby shifted the lady to District Hospital Kishtwarwhere doctors declared him as brought dead. The deceasedhas been identified as Somi Devi wife of Puran chand ofThakrai Kishtwar. Police has registered a case vide FIRNo.106/2017 under section 304-A at Police StationKishtwar.
8 injured as matador skids offSTATE TIMES NEWS
SAMBA: About eight passengers were injured when a mata-dor in which they were travelling skidded off the road atBari Brahmana.
As per the details, a matador (JK21A 2195) which was onits way from Smailpur to Bari-Brahmana skidded off onroad on Bari Brahmana-Smailpur road near Dainik JagranOffice Bari Brahmana resulting in eight passengers gettinginjuries. On receiving the information Bari-Brahmana policerushed to the spot and shifted all to nearby hospital.
The injured were identified as Zaid (10) son of MunirAhmed, Mohd Asif (7) son of Munir Ahmed, Sumaria (29)wife of Munir Ahmed, Vikas Kumar (25) son of ArvindKumar, Deep Kumar (33) son of Krishna, Jatinder Kumarson of Dev Dutta, Gourav Kumar son of Romesh and ShamLal son of Mohan Lal. All the injured were later shifted toGMCH Jammu. Police has registered a case for investiga-tion.
Cop, boy washed away in ChenabSTATE TIMES NEWS
RAMBAN: A cop and a boy were feared to have washedaway in Chenab yesterday evening in Ramban district.
A JKP(Armed) cop identified as Selection GradeConstable, Subhash Chander of Jourian, Akhnoor wasfeared to have washed away in Chenab when the police vehi-cle (JK02AR-0493) he was driving, rolled down about 200ft into Chenab from the NH44 at Seri in Ramban.
Soon after receiving information, the SHO, Ramban,Inspector, Rajeshwar Singh and the Quick Response Teamincluding the policemen and the local volunteers of IndianRed Cross Society made all efforts to search his body, but invain. A case has been registered under 174 CrPc and inves-tigation initiated into the matter.
A boy Ishfaq Ahmed Ganai,13, of Marnal Maligam at pres-ent Chandrog was reportedly washed away while bathing inChenab in Ramban last evening and his body is still untrace-able.
According to the eyewitnesses, when on seeing two boysgetting washed away into the Chenab after diving into itanother boy standing on the bank tried to save both of them,could manage to retrieve only one of them.
Two held with 40 pouches of illicit liquorSTATE TIMES NEWS
BHADARWAH: Police on Thursday arrested two bootleg-gers and recovered 40 pouches of illicit liquor at Kalniebridge, Thathri on Thursday.
According to reports, on a specific information a Policeteam led by SHO Thathri Inspector Manjeet Singh laid aNaka at Kalnie bridge, Thathri and apprehended two boot-leggers, while they were on way to their native village.During checking, Police recovered 40 pouches of countrymade liquor from their possession. The accused have beenidentified as Joginder Singh son of Mulkh Raj Sharma resi-dent of Kandni, Kishtwar and Suresh Kumar son of NaibChand Resident of Kuntwara at present staying at Kandni,Drabshalla, District Kishtwar.
A case vide FIR No 42/2017 under section 48-A Excise Actwas registered against them at Police Station Thathri.
STATE TIMES NEWS VIJAYPUR: FormerMinister and JKPCC GeneralSecretary Manjit Singhappealed to government todirect Revenue Departmentnot to harass displaced per-sons for one reason or other.
Addressing gathering hereat Haria Chak in Kathua, for-mer Minister said that therevenue department hasturned into a corruption hubbecause they are deliberatelyharassing the DisplacedPersons of POJK andChamb, 1947, 1965 and 1971who was preparing their doc-uments for package.
He said that the package isnot being given to the DPseven as two longs years havepassed.
They alleged the DP fami-lies are being forced to faceharassment at the hands ofrevenue officials who allegedlydemanding bribe though theiragents to complete the paperformalities.
"Formalities sought by the
revenue department havebecome a source of exploita-tion of the DPs and they arebeing told to being one docu-ments or other. The govern-ment should ease the processof granting package to theDPs instead the process ismade more complicated," saidManjit Singh.
He said that the agents ofrevenue officials likeGirdawar and Patwaridemand huge bribe for everyfile to complete and people areforced to give them bribe.
He said that the revenue
records of DPs from 1965and 1971 are in Delhi andrecords of DPs of 1947 is withthe revenue department orwith the PRO office.
He said that the children ofDPs should be given reserva-tion like KPs in educationalinstitutions, and a board ofthe DPs should be constitut-ed.
Later, he threatened that iftheir demands are not accept-ed and harassment of DPs isnot stopped, they will come onthe roads and hold protestagainst the Government.
Don't force DPs to come on roads: Manjit
JKPCC General Secretary Manjit Singh addressing thegathering at Vijaypur.
STATE TIMES NEWSKATHUA: Alleging stateregime responsible for its fail-ure to initiate the infrastruc-ture development of Sub-District Hospital Hiranagar,and other public issues,Congress activists stagedprotest in front of SDM Officeand later handed over memo-randum under the leadershipof District CongressCommittee President FormerMLC Subash Gupta, onThursday.
Subash Gupta whileaddressing the protesters saidthat escalating hardships ofpublic and lackadaisical atti-tude of the governmenttowards the redressal of theproblems had proved that theState Coalition as well as theUnion Government hadturned Nelsons' eye towardspublic. Subash Gupta saidthat Former Union HealthMinister Ghulam Nabi Azadannounced expansion of 30-bedded hospital, to 100 bed-ded and as part of this, hereleased token money of
Rupees 80 Lakh in year 2013,which is lying with the R&Bdepartment. "Congress takingserious not of the delay inexpansion would initiatestruggle if government fails tomeet their demand," he added.
Subash Gupta said thatSocial Welfare Departmenthas launched 'State MarriageAssistance Scheme' for ruralun-married girl's which hasattained 18-years of age. Hesaid that he feels it sorry tosay that government haddenied this scheme for urbangirls.
"What sin the girls of urban
area has committed that thejustice is not delivered to themand are facing discrimina-tion," he irked. Subash Guptasaid that poverty has no reli-gion, caste, sex, creed, andregion. Ram Krishan Sharma,Master Satpal Sharma,Narinder Rathore, RameshKundal, Parveen KumarBhagat, Ashok Kumar,Advocate Vinay SharmaGeneral Secretary PYC, PYCLoksabha President PankajSharma, Sanjay, and LuckyRathore, were among theprominent present on theoccasion.
Cong flays State, UnionGovts for neglect of people
Congress activists staging Dharna at Kathua.
STATE TIMES NEWS VIJAYPUR: In order to pro-mote communal harmonyamong staff and trainees,the staff of PTTI Vijaypurorganised Chhabeel pro-gramme with light refresh-ment on the occasion ofMartyr's Day of Shri GuruArjun Dev Ji Maharaj infront of PTTI Vijaypur atGurh-Slathia road. AshokKumar, SSP, PrincipalPTTI Vijaypur was theChief Guest on the occasion.The Chabeel was startedwith the prayers by GianiSohan Singh Granthi inpresence of V.K Jamwal, SPVice Principal PTTI
Vijaypur, Mukesh KumarDy. SP Admn-Security, R.SJamwal Dy.SP R and D,Yogesh Bamba Dy.SPIndoor, Riaz Ahmed Sr.Prosecuting Officer, Inspr.Khushwant Singh, Inspr.Kavinain Singh, Inspr.Ramesh Kataria, Inspr.Rajesh Rana, Inspr.Hemanshu Mahajan andothers.
Ashok Kumar SSP whilespeaking on the occasionappreciated the efforts putin by the staff and traineesin organising such event andsaid it helps promoting com-munal harmony and frater-nity.
PTTI Vijaypur organises Chhabeelon martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev
Officials of PTTI Vijaypur during Chhabeel.
‘Letar-Devak-Athal Roadin dilapidated condition’STATE TIMES NEWS
SUNDERBANI: RavinderSharma (former MLC),Chief SpokespersonJKPCC visited Letar,Makole, Devak, Athal andother parts of NowsheraConstituency and interact-ed with the people andparty workers to take stockof the problems of people.
Sharma said that the con-dition of Letar-Devak-Athal road has gone bad toworst due to non-mainte-nance and it requiresimmediate repairs. Hedemanded that this roadshould be repaired/black-topped on top prioritybasis. He blamed the pres-ent Govt. for the neglect ofthis area.
He said that Devak wasrecommended for a full-fledged BDO Block andTehsil status by the previ-ous NC-Congress coalitionGovt. But it was unfortu-nate that the present Govt.has not considered it sofar. It should be consideredon the basis of populationand distance from Sub.Dist. HQ, Sharma added.
STATE TIMES NEWS SAMBA: Minister forIndustries and CommerceChander Parkash Ganga onThursday chaired a meetingto review the arrangementsfor three day Baba SidhGoria Mela held every yearat Swankha Temple shrine.
The Baba Sidh Goria Melais scheduled to start fromJuly 2 and is expected towitness huge rush of devo-tees.
District DevelopmentCommissioner Samba,Sheetal Nanda, DirectorTourism Department SmitaSethi, ADDC VivekSharma, ADC Tilak RajShastri, ExecutiveEngineers of PWD, RDD,PHE, BDOs, Tehsildars,CMO, senior officers ofpolice and district adminis-tration besides prominentcitizens attended the meet-ing.
The meeting discussedvarious matters including,Medicare facilities, smooth
traffic, supply of power anddrinking water, sanitation,and cleanliness around thetemple shrine.
The minister directeddepartments to ensure unin-terrupted power supply,upgradation of roads andprovision for adequate park-ing facility for the pilgrims.The Minister also directedto ensure barricading at theMela sites so as to avoidinconvenience to pilgrims.
The minister furtherdirected the key depart-ments to install stalls at the
venue to highlight and edu-cate people about the stateand central schemes andprogrammes. The ministerasked the Police to regulatesmooth flow of traffic duringMela and check overloadingand overcharging.
Earlier, DDC SambaSheetal Nanda briefed thata control room will be setupin the premises of BabaSidh Goria where officer ofPWD, PHE , PDD andTraffic Departments will bepresent round the clock tofacilitate the pilgrims.
Ganga reviews Sidh Goria Mela arrangements
Industries Minister Chander Prakash Ganga chairing a meeting.
STATE TIMES NEWS SAMBA: The ongoingprotest of FemaleMultipurpose HealthWorkers (FMPHWs) entered32nd day on Wednesday. AtDistrict Hospital Samba,these employees were joinedby a large number of ReTand RReT teachers alongwith Satish Dutta, Disttpresident of RET TeachersAssociation samba, besidesteachers PDD and PHEemployees also sat on protest.Kuldeep Dabgotra DisttPresident of JKMEFappealed the government towoke up from deep slumberand address the grievances ofsuffering employees. He fur-
ther said that it's very unfor-tunate on part of the govern-ment that more than onemonth has passed since theseailing employees are onprotest but no one has turnedup to listen to their miseries.
Those who were present onprotest at DH Samba includ-ed Kuldeep Dabgotra Disttpresident JKMEF, DevinderKumar Vice President DisttSamba, Sat Paul PublicitySecretary Distt Samba,Kamla Devi Distt PresidentFMPHW Association,Harbansh Lal, SubhashChander, Sunil Bandral,Bhag Ali, Saroj Devi,Mukesh Devi and BimlaDevi.
Employees join FMPHWs’ongoing protest
Medical employees raising slogans during protest at Samba.
STATE TIMES NEWS RAJOURI: District levelcommittee headed by DeputyCommissioner, Rajouri DrShahid Iqbal Choudhary hasfixed the rates for agricultureoperations including tractorsand harvesters for regulatingthe prices in view of reportsof unregulated heavy chargesimposed on farmers.
The committee has fixedrates for ploughing by trac-tor in Hilly and Plain areas,Threshing and Mechanicalharvesting. In hilly areas ofDistrict Rajouri the rates forploughing have been fixed asRs 700 and Rs 750 per hourrespectively for tractors upto35 HP and above 35HP.
In plain areas the rates tobe charged during currentyear shall be Rs 760 and Rs800 per hour for below andabove 35 HP tractors respec-tively. Threshing of wheatwould cost Rs 160 per quin-tal while as threshing ofMaize has been fixed at therate of Rs 110 per quintal.Rates have also been notified
for mechanical harvesting ofwheat both by way of reapercum binder and tractormounted reaper. Rate of Rs1800/hour has been notifiedfor area above 1 hectare orRs 300 per kanal for arealess than 1 acre in case ofmechanical harvesting byreaper cum binder.Meanwhile, the rate notifiedfor tractor mounted reaperfor threshing has been noti-fied at flat Rs 800/hour. Therates were finalised afterreceiving inputs fromAgriculture Department,Revenue authorities, MotorVehicle Department, LegalMetrology, Krishi VigyanKendra and other specializedagencies.
CPO A H Choudhary, ACRParamjeet Singh, ChiefAgriculture Officer M YChoudhary, ARTO JugalSharma, Asstt ControllerLegal Metrology, Tehsildarheadquarter and other offi-cers attended the meeting asmembers of district levelcommittee.
District committee notifies ratesfor agriculture operations
STATE TIMES NEWSUDHAMPUR: MartyrCaptain Tushar MahajanMemorial Trust, Udhampur incollaboration with Rotary Eyeand ENT Hospital,Udhampur organised a freeEye screening cum surgicalcamp on at villages Landerand Karcha, Teh. Pancheri,Dist. Udhampurin which 250patients suffering from differ-ent eye ailments were exam-ined and out of which 42patients were identified forcataract surgeries. All these
patients were operated torestore their vision. A girl of 16years namely Bimla Devidaughter of Surma Chand res-ident of Vill. Malti, Teh.Pancheri, Dist. Udhampurwho was blind since birth wasalso successfully operated andgot her vision in one eye. Aftersome time her second eye willalso be operated.
On Thursday, all the operat-ed patients after follow upwere discharged from the hos-pital. In this regard a confer-ence was also organised in the
hospital premises in whichMLA Udhampur PawanKumar Gupta was ChiefGuest, Dev Raj Gupta,Chairman of Martyr CaptainTushar Mahajan MemorialTrust, Rtn D. N. SharmaChairman of Rotary EyeHospital Udhampur, DrYogeshwar Gupta, Mr SatishChopra, Rtn S. S. Kerni, RtnRajeev Gupta, Rtn RajendraSanson, Rtn Puran LalSharma, Jeevan KumarSarpanch along with the oper-ated patients and their atten-dants were also present duringconference.
Pawan congratulated Trustand Rotary Eye and ENTHospital, Udhampur fororganising such camp in whichthe patients of far fling areaswere selected and providedvision. Chairman of RotaryEye Hospital Udhampur, RtnD. N. Sharma assured thepublic to organise such morecamps in rural areas ofUdhampur dist. till the wholeof the Dist. is not becomeavoidable blindness free.
Rotary Eye Hospital conducts 42 cataract surgeries
Patients treated by Rotary hospital at Udhampur.
Past 3 years of Modi Govtgolden era: Vibodh
STATE TIMES NEWS RAJOURI: BJP seniorleader and MLC VibodhGupta on Thursday visitedvarious remote and far offvillages of Rajouri and heldpublic meetings there.During this extensive tourhe visited Dasal, Karianand Mubarakpura villagesand listened to various dayto day problems of thelocals. On this occasionbesides various publicmeetings he also held one toone interactions with thelocals specially the elderlypeople and women.
Many people raised thevarious issues related tovarious developmental proj-ects which can benefit thesevillages. Addressing thelocals during these publicmeetings Vibodh said thatthe past three years will beseen as golden years in thehistory of development inIndia. This he said is theresult of hard work andtireless efforts present gov-ernment led by PrimeMinister Narinder Modi.He said that present gov-ernment is working day andnight so that various servic-es reach to the door steps ofpoor and needy.
Prominent among otherswho accompanied MLCVibodh during this tripincluded Kamal Gupta,Naresh Bakshi, KewalSharma, Ghani Sham,Vikas Sharma, AbdulRashid, Ganesh Kumar andPawan Sharma.
STATE TIMES NEWS RAMBAN: AdditionalDistrict DevelopmentCommissioner( ADDC)Ramban Ravinder NathSadhu on Thursday con-vened a meeting to discussarrangements for orgnisingtwo days Special InteractivePublic Awareness Campaign(SIPAC) to be organisedfrom 28th June, 2017 atRajgarh by Field PublicityOffice, Doda Ministry ofInformation andBroadcasting GoI.
PO ICDS, Ashok Pandita,CPO Uttam Singh, DSWOVarunjeet Charak, CEO,CAO, AD FCS and CA,District Lead Manager,FPO, Srinagar and Ddiodaand other senior officers ofconcerned departmentsattended the meeting
It was revealed in the pro-gramme aims to create
awareness among the mass-es in respect of CentrallySponsored Schemes. Duringthe meeting threadbare dis-cussion was held on variousvital issues to make the twoday event a grand success-ful.
ADDC enjoined upon thevarious departments toensure that all necessaryarrangements would beplaced well in time. He alsostressed for coordinationamong the various depart-ments for the smooth andsuccessful conduct of event.
It was informed in themeeting that various depart-ment dealing with employ-ment generation schemesand the financial institutionswill participate in the aware-ness campaign besides dis-playing their products andschemes in their respectivestalls.
STATE TIMES NEWS AKHNOOR: A meeting wasconvened in the PWD GuestHouse Akhnoor under thechairmanship of SunainaMehta, SDM Akhnoor in orderto make preparations for meet-ing out critical situation duringmonsoon. In the meeting sec-toral officers of all the depart-ments, representative of armyfrom HQ 10 INF Div. and rep-resentatives of BSF participat-ed.
The Disaster ManagementPlan of Sub Division Akhnoorin respect of monsoon season2017 was discussed. ExecutiveEngineer Flood Control SubDivision Akhnoor explainedthat the catchment area of riverChenab is about 21400 Sq.
Kms. Upto Akhnoor bridge.The Catchment area is rugged,Steep and mostly swift. Floodin Chenab resent from heavyrainfall in the upper drainagebasin which falls under themost active monsoon belt due towhich high flood occurs duringthe short time. Resulting in thelarge scale damage to both thebanks. The villages which gets
affected by the floods in subdivision Akhnoor are Lehairan,Sangrampur, Chanjwan,Bhour, Dalpat , Maira,Sitriwala, Chak Sikander onright bank and Garkhal, FathuKotli on left bank of riverChenab, among these Garkhal,Maira, Sitriwala, ChakSikander are most vulnerablespots. SDM Akhnoor said that
a joint control Room shall be setup in Akhnoor and committeesat Tehsil level and village levelshall be constituted for speedycommunication in case of anyeventuality. Duties wereassigned to all the sectoral offi-cers for speedy communication,evacuation of sufferers, settingof rescue camps, managementof camps, etc.
Public Awareness systemshall be installed at the impor-tant spots to aware the masses.SDM Akhnoor instructed to allthe Tehsildars of Sub divisionAkhnoor to use flags of green,yellow and red colour to awarethe people green colour signifiesnormal level of gauge, yellowsignifies danger and red colourflag signifies evacuation.
SDM discusses disaster management plan
SDM Sunaina Mehta chairing a meeting at Akhnoor.
SBI R-SETI conductstailoring courses
STATE TIMES NEWSKATHUA : A valediction ofcutting and tailoring coursewas organised by SBI R-SETI, Kathua was held onThursday. This was the pro-gramme organised at SBI-RSETI, Kathua and validat-ed by Director SBI- RSETIShiv Kumar Pangotra. LDMKathua ,DDM NabardMadan Lal, State Director ofRSETI Sudesh KumarSharma and BranchManager of SBI Kalibari J.SPuri were the Guest . Duringthe courses of programes 53participants were trained invarious skills and knowledgeinvolved in this programe.They were explained regard-ing entrepreneurship develop-ments, advantages of selfemployments etc. Certificateswere distributed to all theparticipants who expressedgreat satisfaction on thetraining conducted at theinstitute.
ADDC discussesarrangements for SIPAC