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Class X state board
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Interlocutors’ remarks on PoK refugees welcomed
Only one food analyser available to test food
samples In the absence of stringent laws, the JMC is unable to check food adulteration in the city. Tribune photo: Anand Sharma
Contractual coaches resent
delay
One-Day Cricket
Workshop on education at JU
Employees’ deputation meets Sports Council Secretary
Coaching programme concludes at college
Cricket tourney begins today
Gymnasts given send-off
Karate camp gets under way
Children take part in a karate training programme at Gandhi Bhawan in Jammu on Saturday.
Tribune photo: Anand Sharma
Oncologist felicitated
NC holds meeting to discuss various issues
Emphatic victories for KEP, SCC
BJP study group to begin tour from tomorrow
Interlocutors’ report flayed
CRPF jawan dies in accident
MP releases book
Volleyball tourney begins
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Private schools hog limelight
Malvika Sharma
Jammu, May 26 Oriental Academy, Jammu, was the talk of the town as the school boasted of 58 distinction holders, a record in the own history of the school. With a total of 111 students appearing for the examinations from Oriental Academy, the pass percentage was 100 per cent with 11 top rankers, the highest among any other school in Jammu. While four students bagged four positions (4th, 6th, 7th and 10th rank) in the top ten ranks, the others were well within the top 20 bracket. “We are thorough with our students from the very beginning and there is no let up in the rigorous academic grilling of all the students. We aim at pulling up even the average student to the rank of a topper. The sky’s the limit for our students and we hope to inspire many more in the coming years,” commented Vivek Chauhan, manager, Oriental Academy. GS Charak, Principal, Dogra High School, congratulated Vivek Gupta, 2nd ranker in this year result, and summarised the success of the students as a mix of hard work by students and teachers. “Every good teacher always aims at showing the right direction to his students. It is a result of this constant hard work that students feel grateful to their teachers for good results,” said Charak. Another city-based schools performing well is Scared Heart School, Pinther, which has five toppers in the top 20 rankers. A school situated far from the city in a small township of Pinther has surprised the locals who appreciated the effort put in by the school in helping their children realise their own potential. The other lesser-known schools, such as Holy Cross Convent, RS Pura, with four toppers and the coveted first ranker Russell Khajuria; Fatima Convent Bishnah, Christ Convent, Poonch, with four toppers, Brahmarishi Bawra SVP School, Udhampur, with four toppers and other schools from areas such as Pulowra, Nowshera, Hiranagar (Infant Jesus School with 4 positions) gave a good performance in the board examination. This year’s state board results have produced various new heroes in terms of educational institutes who have given a better performance in comparison to other well-advertised schools, in turn breaking the monotony of city students performing better than their counterparts studying on the outskirts of the region.
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Panchayat members want more teeth
Jammu, May 26 The agitating panchayat members have been pressing for the implementation of the three-tier Panchayti Raj System in the state for a long time. They have also demanded that like other parts of the country, 73rd amendment of the Indian Constitution should be extended to Jammu and Kashmir to empower the Panchayat Raj Institutions. They warned against imposing outsiders on the Panchayati Raj Institutions and demanded only members from Panches and Sarpanches should be elected as heads of the Block Development or District Development Committees. They have also demanded that four seats of Legislative Council reserved for the Panchayats should be filled from within the elected members the Panchayats. They also demanded that like MLA and MLCs, Panches and Sarpanches should also be provided with a protocol because they are also public representatives. Further more, they have demanded salaries on a par with the MLAs and MLCs. The demand for constituting Panchayati Adalat Committees at the earliest was also raised by the agitating members. Prominent among those who addressed the agitators included Anil Sharma, Kulbushan Khajuria, Madan Lal Sharma, Mohammad Aslam Choudhary, Raghunath Khajuria, Vijay Saini, Bishan Dass Bhagat, Munshi Khan, Naresh Choudhary, Goutam Singh Bajwa, Sham Lal, Pawan Raina, Mohammad Sadiq, Azhar Ali, Shashi Sharma, Balbir Singh and, Goutam Singh. Their demands
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Interlocutors’ remarks on PoK refugees welcomed
Jammu, May 26 Addressing newspersons here today, Rajiv Chuni, Chairman, SOS International, said the report by the interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir, headed by Dileep Padgaonkar, had rightly vindicated the stand of the PoK refugees that they were being discriminated against by the successive governments. He said the interlocutors’ observation that the PoK refugees’ entitlements were nowhere on a par with the other migrant communities was a big question mark over the working of the NC-Congress coalition government in the state. He said: “The government has been overlooking our voice, our people have made many sacrifices but the authorities concerned never pay any heed to our unending dilemmas”. He said they were not expecting much from the report by the interlocutors as it was only recommendatory in nature and not binding on the government. “At a meeting with the PoK refugees, immediately after his taking over as Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah had promised to constitute an apex committee to solve their problems, but even after more than three years this apex committee is no where in sight”. He warned they would launch a nationwide campaign to expose the ineffective government through the media besides holding rallies, dharnas, etc.
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Only one food analyser available to test food
samples
Jammu, May 26 Sources said this has not only increased the workload on the laboratory at the Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), but also slowed down the process to take legal action against people involved in adulteration of food.
The Public Analyser also has to test the samples brought from other districts of the region, making testing process very static, which also gives enough time to the suspects to jump law. It is pertinent to mention here that JMC launches routine checking drives and much publicity is given to such campaigns, but on the ground, not much has been done to eradicate the menace of adulteration from the city, because it takes months before the results of the sample testing are out. There are 71 wards of the corporation spread over 112 sq km in Jammu city and its newly developed colonies, which came up after 1990. The Health wing of the corporation has the responsibility to look after ward no.1 to 48 while the remaining wards are looked after by the legal meteorology department. Health Officer Vinod Sharma said: “We will have our own lab soon and a proposal has been put forth for the same. But, we are making efforts to establish the lab on a priority basis”. He said the corporation was facing certain problems but small-time food tests are conducted by the Health Wing of the corporation. It is pertinent to mention here that in the past
two decades there has been a rapid expansion of the city and along with it a large number of shops have come up in different areas. Adulteration is mainly found in milk, sweets, meat products, processed food and eatables served at hotels and restaurants where hygienic conditions are sometimes appalling, which directly affect the lives of the common man.
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Contractual coaches resent
delay
Jammu, May 26 According to sources, a total of 11 persons, including nine coaches and two instructors, were engaged on a contractual basis by the Sports Council in different disciplines with an objective to overcome the dire shortage of experts. They include Onkar Singh Gill (volleyball), Jagjit Singh (hockey), Shakti Gupta (judo), Dalwinder Singh (hockey), Rachna Jamwal (fencing), Vikas Magotra (swimming), Javaid Ahmed Sofi (football), Muneer Aalam Mir (volleyball), Rubia Jan (netball trainer) and Mohammad Ashraf Parray (handball instructor). The sources added that recruitment of more coaches for different disciplines was also decided at the meeting. “We simply fail to understand when the Standing Committee meeting has announced to engage us on a permanent basis then why there is an inordinate delay by the J&K State Sports Council in implementing it,” said one of the contractual coaches on the condition of anonymity. “In fact, the authorities at the helm of affairs have ditched us and playing a cruel joke with our future by delaying the process,” opined another instructor. “Despite getting offers from outside the state to impart coaching to sports persons we are more interested in grooming our own budding sports talents,” said another instructor. “Everyone of us went from pillar to post to put forth our case but in vain as the authorities are the least bothered and we are still struggling to get our genuine right,” he quipped. Meanwhile, the Minister for Youth Services and Sports, while talking to The Tribune, said the file regarding the regularisation of contractual coaches/instructors would be forwarded to the Finance Department soon for its approval. “In fact, the shifting of Darbar from Jammu to Srinagar has delayed the whole process of forwarding the file but I shall definitely monitor its progress,” said the minister. “The state government is committed to providing adequate infrastructure to the sports persons and for that recruitment of expert coaches in multi-disciplines is imperative,” he added.
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Samba XI topple FCC
Tribune News Service
Jammu, May 26 For Samba XI, Arjun scalped three wickets while Saleem and Naginder took two wickets apiece. In reply, Samba XI overhauled the target in 26 overs for the loss of four wickets. Mohammad Saleem played a match winning knock of 83 runs. He was ably supported by Sahil (18) and Jagtar (15). For FCC, Kunal and Rajneesh claimed three and two wickets respectively. In another match, Mohammad Saleem struck a brilliant knock of 64 runs to help Samba XI register an emphatic win by three wickets against Poonch XI. Batting first, Poonch XI could manage a meagre 177 runs in 48.2 overs. Nawaz Rather played a fine knock of 56 runs while Ankush and Pankaj chipped in with 33 and 25 runs respectively. For Samba XI, Saleem bowled splendid spell to grab three wickets at crucial junctures. Sunny bagged two wickets while Jaktar, Vikrant, Arjun and Siddarth shared a wicket apiece. Samba XI, in reply, did the needful in 43 overs by losing seven wickets in the process. After his heroics with the ball, Mohammad Saleem also top-scored with 64 runs with the help of 10 delectable hits to the fence. Gourav contributed 32 runs. For Poonch XI, Chamkor Singh was the pick of the bowlers with three wickets whereas Aquib and Navia claimed one wicket each. The match was officiated by Sadiq Hussain Malik and Sham Singh Langeh as umpires while Raghav Verma was the scorer.
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Workshop on education at JU
Jammu, May 26 The All-India Survey on Higher Education was a project initiated by the MHRD and was aimed at identifying and capturing all institutions of higher learning in the country with an objective to collect updated, correct and reliable information about the institutions of higher learning. Nodal officers from the universities and colleges have been nominated for conducting the survey. The workshop was attended by nodal officers from more than 120 affiliated government and private colleges of the University of Jammu, besides participation from nodal officers from sister universities, including the Central University of Jammu, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University and SKUAST-Jammu. DeshBandhu, Director, Colleges Development and Directorate of Distance Education, was the chief guest of the valedictory session of the workshop. |
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Employees’ deputation meets Sports Council Secretary
Jammu, May 26 Vikramjeet requested the Secretary to stress upon the higher authorities to consider their pending demands, which include pensionary benefits, regularisation of casual and contractual employees, holding of the DPC and proper implementation of transfer policy. The employees also expressed gratitude to Sports Minister, RS Chib, and Commissioner Secretary, Technical Education, Vinod Koul for sanctioning arrears of the Pay Commission. Gopal Dass, Vijay Choudhary, Rajinder Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Mohit Kumar and Onkar were also present on the occasion.
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Coaching programme concludes at college
Jammu, May 26 At the valedictory function, Prof (Dr) Anita Sudan, Principal of the college, was also present. Speaking on the occasion, she expressed gratitude to all the resource persons for sparing their valuable time to deliver lectures at the classes. Professor Sudan said the students were highly benefited at these coaching classes.
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Cricket tourney begins today
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Gymnasts given send-off
Jammu, May 26 These gymnasts have been selected on the basis of their performance in the 11th National Gymnastics Championship held at Vadodara, Gujarat, from January 16-18. The gymnasts are Tej Pal Kour, Honey Mehra, Gourav Sharma, Inderdeep Singh, Mayank Jain, Jaskaran Singh and Parul
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Karate camp gets under way
Jammu, May 26 Around 100 students in the age group 5-10 years, who have been selected from different schools, participated in the camp wherein training is being imparted by Ambedkar Gupta, 4th Dan Black
Belt and President/Chief Instructor, Shito Ryu Seiko Kai Karate Do, J&K. He had recently accompanied Indian Karate Team in the Asian Karate Championship held at Malaysia. |
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Oncologist felicitated
Jammu, May 26 Divisional Commissioner Pardeep Gupta who was the chief guest on the occasion also felicitated Dr Davinder Sharma, Oncologist from Medenta- the Medicity, Dr Deepak Abrol from the Department of Oncology, Government Medical College, Jammu, Archina Choudhary, working in SKUAST, Jammu, for regularly assisting Dr Vaid in his humanitarian work. Gupta lauded the role of the trust for the benefit of people. He particularly appreciated the contribution of Pawan Shastri, president of the trust, for providing a portion of his residential premises for holding these medical camps. A medical camp was also organised today during which 75 patients were given free check ups and consultations by Dr Vaid and his team of doctors. |
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NC holds meeting to discuss various issues
Jammu, May 26 The meeting was convened to discuss besides other issues, the issue of the upcoming elections of the Block Development Council (BDC) and election of the Urban Local Bodies. During the course of discussions, the party office-bearers apprised the provincial president about their day today issues and performance of the party at grass-root level. They also gave suggestions to the leadership regarding the BDC elections in their areas. Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Ghulam Hyder Malik, Kashmira Singh, Jugal Mahajan, Haroon Ahmad, Devinder Singh Bindu, Sagar Chand, Ajeet Singh, Sanjeev Badwal and others were also present in the meeting. |
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Emphatic victories for KEP, SCC
Jammu, May 26 In another match, SCC won the toss and opted to bat first. They accumulated 158 runs by losing six wickets in 18.4
overs. Farman and Adil scored 38 and 26 runs. From JCC, Sourav and Rohit took two wickets apiece. In reply, JCC perished for 80 runs. Amarjeet and Akash Deep scored 29 and 20 runs respectively.
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BJP study group to begin tour from tomorrow
Jammu, May 26 Sat Sharma, general-secretary of the BJP, said the visiting study group of the BJP MPs headed by Rajnath Singh would visit different parts of Jammu province in two different teams. While one team consisting Rajnath Singh, Avinash Rai Khanna and Basav Raj Patil would visit the Jagti Migrant Colony, Udhampur, Kishtwar, Bhaderwah and Batote between May 28 and May 30. Similarly, Ravi Shanker Prasad, Jagat Prakash Nadda and Bhupinder Yadav would be visiting Sunderbani, Rajouri, Poonch and
Reasi. He said the study group would be accompanied and assisted by Shamsher Singh Manhas, BJP state president, Ashok Koul, general-secretary (organisation), and other senior leaders.
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Interlocutors’ report flayed
Jammu, May 26 According to a handout issued by the SP, the report of the interlocutors has failed to address aspirations of various regions and sub-regions of
the state. The Chenab Valley in its emergent meeting strongly criticised the report of interlocutors and regretted that despite
several meetings with delegations of three districts, Ramban, Doda and
Kishtwar, the interlocutors have failed to address people’s aspirations. |
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CRPF jawan dies in accident
Batote, May 26 The deceased has been identified as Krishen Kumar while the injured Head Constable S Bhatacharya, who has been admitted to the Sub-District Hospital, Banihal.
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MP releases book
Jammu, May 26 Minister for Youth Services and Sports RS Chib was also present on the occasion. Dr Karan Singh congratulated Dr Sharma for writing such a masterpiece on the realities of his life. He also appreciated Dr Sharma for his tremendous contribution in the field of sports.
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Volleyball tourney begins
Jammu, May 26 In all 16 teams drawn from various districts of the valley are participating in this B Division League Series Volleyball Tournament. In the inaugural match, VVS Srinagar spanked Royal Club, Aglar.
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