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PDP plans comprehensive policy for youth
Police to recruit women battalion soon
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‘Corrupt’ official’s property attached
Gang of thieves busted
Rs 14 lakh looted from ATM
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PDP plans comprehensive policy for youth
Srinagar, November 20 This was announced here today by PDP patron and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed while addressing a convention of its youth wing from Anantnag. He said the problems of the youth in the state were many and varied with their aspirations high adding that the policy would try to address these problems in the right perspective. "We have to invest in this enterprise of hope to secure a peaceful and prosperous future for our coming generations", he said. Mufti Sayeed said while the turmoil adversely affected almost all spheres of society in the state, the youth became its specific target as the violence had consumed nearly an entire young generation. He said the society could not afford to lose more youth now, and measures had to be taken to safeguard their future. "The need, therefore, is not only to safeguard the precious lives of the youth but create increasing opportunities for them to develop their personality and their functional capability and make them economically productive and socially useful", he said. The former CM said that even in the most difficult times, youth of the state were doing proud in whatever field they took a plunge. He pointed out that three new universities were opened in as many years and four additional campuses added to the existing ones and a major initiative of upgrading and expanding the education and technical training were taken recently. He suggested establishing a SAARC university in Jammu and Kashmir to provide an opportunity to the region’s new generation and others to visit, understand and appreciate the state in its true essence. Expressing concern over the problem of unemployment especially among the educated youth Mufti lamented that they were mostly eyeing the government jobs as the sectors outside the government had just not flourished, because of the lopsided policies. |
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Police to recruit women battalion soon
Jammu, November 20 The police authorities said here on Sunday that the battalion would have six companies and though “we have around 6 women police officers holding the rank of SPs and DSPs, it is not necessary that the first women police battalion has to be headed by a women officer.” They said with the raising of the “Khawatin” battalion, the state would have 15 IRP and 14 JKAP battalions. Hitherto the services of majority of women constables and officers were being utilised in the traffic and security wings. But, constables in the new women battalions would receive full arms training. In reply to a question, senior police officials admitted that there had been a phenomenal increase in the strength of the police force during the past 18 years. The number had gone up from 30,000 to 80,000, including SPOs, because of the complex security scenario. However, there was no corresponding increase in the manpower in the traffic wing and the Motor Vehicles Department. They agreed that in view of a significant increase in the number of cars, buses, trucks, two and three-wheelers in the state every year (between 20,000 and 25,000), there was a dire need for augmenting the manpower in the traffic department.
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‘Corrupt’ official’s property attached
Srinagar, November 20 The commercial building belonging to Finance Department accountant Abdul Ahad Rather was attached after it was established, prima facie, the official had acquired assets disproportionate to his known sources of income by indulging in corrupt practices and misusing his official position, a spokesman for the SVO said. The building was constructed by Rather at a cost of Rs 17 lakh after purchasing a 5,440 sq feet of land at Dangarpora for Rs 6.09 lakh in 2005, he said.
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Gang of thieves busted
Jammu, November 20 According to Zahid Manhas, SP South (Jammu), two of the four thieves were arrested from here and two from Delhi. They were Dulia and Rakesh of Chhaterpur in Madhya Pradesh and Raja and Vishnu of Samstipur in Bihar. They had reportedly broken into a mobile handset shop in Jammu in September and October. They used to sell the mobile phones back in Chhaterpur at a lower price. The local SHO Rafiq Manhas said, 133 mobile phones costing about Rs 14 lakh were recovered from
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Rs 14 lakh looted from ATM
Srinagar, November 20 The police is suspecting it to be an insider's job as only bank employees and those associated with the maintenance of money dispensing machines are familiar with the digital codes used to open the ATMs. It is for the first time that a bank ATM has been looted in Jammu and Kashmir.
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