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Narwal bypass emerges as new commercial hub
JKCA to take up key issues with president Farooq Abdullah today
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West Pak refugees to take out cycle march to Parliament
Students demand action against traffic violators
Before agitation, employees on Samparak Abhiyan
Jammu schools gear up for Oxford quiz
Reasi gets set to strengthen tobacco control initiatives
‘Govt ignoring special children’
Army organises tour for college students
KU clinch All India Vice-Chancellor’s T-20 Cricket Cup
FNCC win T20 tourney
Sahil to face Anish in TT finals
Kathua Club win hockey tourney
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Narwal bypass emerges as new commercial hub
Jammu, December 3 Hundreds of shops, eating joints and showrooms have come up in the area in the recent past as a result of which land prices have shot up remarkably. The highway stretch, particularly from Channi Himmat till Sidhra, is abuzz with activity as new commercial establishments have come up here. The area which was covered with forests and shrubs till a decade ago is becoming a concrete jungle. All the main roads, including streets, are packed with shops and other commercial outlets. Reports suggest many of them have come up illegally in violation of the Jammu Master Plan. “Earlier, the focus was on the highway passing from Jammu to Satwari but now most of the tourist traffic gets diverted through the bypass. In the next few years, it will become a major commercial hub,” said Lal Din, a local resident, who is establishing a chain of shops near Sidhra. In the past few years, major automobile companies have opened their showrooms in absence of space in city’s central areas. The upgradation of the road to a national highway has given boost its commercial potential. The highway project has already missed its completion deadline in August this year. The deadline was then rescheduled to be met by the and of the year. The Jalandhar-Pathankot-Kunjwani National Highway has become a preferred route for lakhs of devotees going to Amarnath Yatra and Vaishno Devi shrine. Hence, the road remains overcrowded during the pilgrimage season. Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) president YV Sharma said, “The stretch will become a major commercial centre in near future as the focus of traders will be on this road. Not only this, the stretch has also witnessed emergence of a number of residential colonies.” The government has also cleared Rs 250 crore 60-km-long Jammu-Southern bypass project which will further create new commercial areas. The bypass will start from Raya Morh on the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway and connect it to Ban Talab on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway. Along the way, it will pass through Miran Sahib, Raipur and Domana touching the Akhnoor road near Jhiri and also the upper areas of Chinore and Roopnagar. Stretch becomes new hotspot
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JKCA to take up key issues with president Farooq Abdullah today
Jammu, December 3 Sources said the boycott by some Kashmir Province cricketers against the alleged biased selection of the team and also locking of Sher-i-Kashmir stadium in Srinagar besides other key issues would be taken up with JKCA President Dr Abdullah who is likely to reach Valley tomorrow. “The indiscipline shown by the senior cricketers of Kashmir Province- Sammiullah Beig and Majid Dar- who had opted out despite being selected to play the ongoing Ranji Trophy match against Assam in Guwahati is not an encouraging sign. Such incidents will encourage young players to repeat such things in future over trivial issues,” a JKCA official said. “JKCA Treasurer Manzoor Wazir, who recently offered his resignation to JKCA president owing to selection row, was not accepted. We will brief Dr Abdullah that how the senior cricketers had decided not to accompany the team and that too after submitting a written apology to the association along with other cricketers,” he added. “After the locking of Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium incident by the cricketers, we have requested the district administration to provide adequate security on the stadium premises till the situation gets normal. We would also appeal to the JKCA president to ensure security arrangements so that such incidents do not happen again,” the official said. “We are not against the cricketers no matter if they are senior or junior. But if they continue to involve in acts of indiscipline it would send a wrong message to other associations across the state. We are not going to tolerate this non-seriousness in future and for that we will request Dr Farooq Abdullah to take stern action against the law-breakers,” the official added. “Just look at the way the J&K team is performing against Assam. Young cricketers who became the victims of politics are now playing brilliantly. They have realised that they were misguided by some vested interests,” he opined. |
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West Pak refugees to take out cycle march to Parliament
Jammu, December 3 The refugees have already started mobilising people to make Parliament Chalo march a success. Labha Ram Gandhi, chairman of the West Pakistani Refugees Action Committee (WPSAC) yesterday organised a meeting of refugees in Vijaypur and apprised them of the march. “This is a high time to launch the decisive battle. We have decided to take out Parliament Chalo cycle march this month to make countrymen aware about our plight and grave injustice meted out to our people,” Gandhi said while speaking to The Tribune. He said around 150 refugees riding on bicycles would march to Parliament. “We will cover Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh before reaching New Delhi. Our main objective is to make people aware about the grave injustice being meted out to us over the years,” Gandhi said. They had decided to rope in more organisations in their struggle for getting citizenship rights, he added. He alleged that Kashmir-centric parties, including the ruling National Conference and opposition Peoples Democratic Party, were opposing citizenship rights to West Pakistani refugees citing special status of the state. Gandhi also slammed the Congress-led UPA government for making “hollow promises with the refugees”. Meanwhile, taking serious notes over the construction of illegal colonies in Jammu, Kranti Dal took on the state government for ignoring the demands of refugees, including those from West Pakistan and the Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK). “The state government is supporting foreigners from Burma, Bangladesh and Nepal and working for their settlement in violation of Article 370. It has done nothing for the welfare of refugees who had migrated here in 1947, 1965 and 1971,” said Anan Sharma, Kranti Dal chairman. -- TNS
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Students demand action against traffic violators
Jammu, December 3 The protesters demanded strict action against those drivers who violate traffic rules. Students of Polytechnic College in Purkhoo, along with the leaders of the National Panthers Students Union (NPSU) boycotted their classes and expressed anger against the death of one Sandeep Kumar who died in a road accident near Domana recently. The students gathered at the main gate of the college in morning and demanded that the Traffic Police should take action against the violators who were posing threat to commuters and pedestrians. NPSU’s rural wing president Deepak Raj Panday led the protest. He said 37 people had lost lives in one month but no action had been taken to streamline the traffic. The protesters alleged that the Traffic Police was not performing its duty well. A student said if more traffic police personnel were pressed into service on this portion of the road, especially from Jammu and Akhnoor to regularise the traffic, the rate of accident and death might be reduced. The protesters said the Akhnoor road, an important route connecting Jammu via Poonch to Kashmir, had become a death trap for the commuters. NPSU state president Partap Singh Jamwal alleged that the government had failed on every front to make life of people secure. He demanded action against the drivers who run their vehicles on high speed and also sought fine on violators. He said the Jammu Poonch highway should be started soon. |
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Before agitation, employees on Samparak Abhiyan
Jammu, December 3 Enhancement in the retirement age is one of the key demands of the amalgam of nearly dozen unions of government employees. The malgam had negotiated on a number of issues with the Sub-Committee, including removal of pay anomalies, conversion of the cost of living allowance into dearness allowance (DA) and regularisation of daily wagers. The campaign has been started across the state to apprise the trade union leaders about the issues employees were facing. Many trade unions operating from Kashmir and Jammu divisions had formed small unions splitting the original EJAC which was established in 1992. “It was due to the narrow and selfish approach of some union leaders that the demands of employees have not been fulfilled yet. The present mess created by these so-called leaders has only helped the government thus badly jeopardising the trade union movement in the state,” said Subash Verma, a senior union leader. Suresh Sharma, a union leader, said they were receiving good response from employees in various districts and they would have broader and united platform. Other demands include regularisation of daily wagers, consolidated, ad hoc and contractual workers in all departments, removal of pay anomalies in all cadres, increase in the medical allowance to Rs 1000, Sixth Pay Commission benefits to PSUs and budgetary support to sick PSUs. Sources said factionalism within employee unions had provided an advantage to the government to avoid a sustained stir. But hectic efforts being made to forge unity among various organisations to present a united challenge to the administration had not been achieved so far, they added. “Only a united front can make the administration relent. The government has no regard for problems faced by workers, particularly daily wagers working in different departments,” said Sushil Sudan, a union member. What are their demands
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Jammu schools gear up for Oxford quiz
Jammu, December 3 The quiz will be held at Delhi Public School on December 8. Over a hundred schools in and around Jammu have been invited to participate in the competition. The contestants will compete for various prizes from the Oxford University Press, India, of which the grand prize is an Oxford Dictionary Quiz Trophy, which has been crafted in silver and looks like a dictionary. The quiz will have a written preliminary test and then the stage round for the top scorers of the test. Ranjan Kaul, Acting Managing Director, Oxford University Press, said, “Dictionary publishing has long been at the heart of the Oxford University Press’s ability to aid language learning internationally. It completes 100 years of publishing in India this year. Our commitment has been high-quality publishing which upholds the advancement of education, research and scholarship. With these quizzes, we at the Oxford University Press, India, are able to bring together students from various schools and help them to connect in a meaningful way.” The quiz will be held at Delhi Public School on December 8. Over a hundred schools in and around Jammu have been invited to participate in the competition.The quiz will have a written preliminary test and then the stage round for the top scorers of the tes
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Reasi gets set to strengthen tobacco control initiatives
Katra, December 3 The meeting was attended by Degree College Reasi Principal Prof Ajeet Angral, Chief Medical Officer Dr Desh Raj, Chief Education Officer Tarsem Lal, Assistant Controller (Drugs) Munish Gupta, Assistant Controller (Food) Madan Magotra, Voluntary Health Association of India district coordinator Altaf Dar and representatives of various NGOs. The meeting saw discussions on effective implementation of the Cigarette and other Tobacco Products Act. It was decided in the meeting that block-level special squads, including SHO, Naib Tehsildar, Block Medical Officer, Food Safety Officer, would conduct regular checks of public places such as hospitals, court buildings, public and private offices, hotels and educational institutions to make Reasi a smoke-free district. It was also decided that apart from keeping a check on violations, it was the duty of the squad members to make people aware about the provisions and rules of the Act. Quarterly review meetings to evaluate its implementation and to further plan to strengthen tobacco control initiatives in the district would be held at the district headquarters at the end of second week of March, June, September and December. It was stated during the meeting that a fine of Rs 6,080 had been imposed upon 66 defaulters for smoking at public places in the district during the last year. Addressing the meeting, the District Development Commissioner stressed the need to create awareness about the Act among general masses for its successful implementation. He said sincere and collective efforts of different enforcement agencies would go a long way in making the district smoke free. Action Plan
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‘Govt ignoring special children’
Jammu, December 3 Members of the association alleged that they were being discriminated against in matters of reservation in jobs and admissions in educational institutions. They lashed out at the government for ignoring special children in the state and for failing to implement the the J&K Persons with Disabilities, Equal Opportunities and Full Participation Act-1998, which has laid down the guidelines for reservations in government jobs for deaf and dumb educated youth.
J&K Association of the Deaf president Vijay Gupta said, “On December 3, the World Disability Day will be observed but successive J&K governments have discriminated against the disabled and the J&K Persons with Disabilities, Equal Opportunities and Full Participation Act-1998, which reserves 3 per cent quota of jobs for handicapped people in the government sector, is yet to be fully implemented.” Association members said only a little progress had been made to improve the life of differently-abled people. They said efforts in this regard need to be continued at all levels of society to ensure that such people enjoy full and equal participation.
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Army organises tour for college students
Poonch, December 3 The tour aims to make youth of border area aware of the rich heritage and cultural grandeur of the country. Brigadier Shanbag briefed the participating students about the importance of various historical places, which are part of the itinerary. Twenty three college students hailing from remote areas of Poonch district were selected for the educational tour, which is a part of Operation Sadbhavna. Col KL Roy, Commanding Officer, 25 RR, said the tour was aptly called Paigam-e-Aman as it gives out the message of peace and harmony from insurgency-affected areas of Poonch. "The aim of the tour is to spread the message of peace and to give students an exposure to the development, quality of life and historical places in other parts of our country,” Colonel Roy said. The students will visit Delhi, Trivandrum, Kanyakumari, Coimbatore, Mysore, Ooty and Bangalore among other adjoining areas. Mohd Sadiq, a BA student said, “This is the first time in my life when I am going outside J&K. I am thankful to 25 RR for making me a part of this tour.”
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KU clinch All India Vice-Chancellor’s T-20 Cricket Cup
Jammu, December 3 The host team won the toss and opted to bat first. The Jammu University accumulated 118 runs in the allotted overs. Raj Kumar was the top scorer with 32 runs while Amit Targotra contributed 18 runs. For the University of Kashmir, Parvez Bassey and Parvez shared two wickets each while Latif and Mohammad claimed a wicket each. The University of Kashmir took off with a decent start by their openers. The team lost its way in the middle but eventually managed to overhaul the target for the loss of 4 wickets in 18.3 overs. Shahnawaz played the match-winning knock of 38 runs while Parvez Bassey made 28 runs. For the Jammu University, Raj Kumar was the pick of the bowlers with two wickets while Rajesh and Daud Iqbal claimed a wicket each. The University of Kashmir team’s Parvez Bassey was adjudged the man of the match, Samiullah was declared the man of the series and Sohail was adjudged the best batsman of the tournament. Pawan Singh of the Jammu University was declared the best bowler. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was the chief guest on the occasion, who gave away trophies to the winning and the runner-up teams. Earlier, Jammu University Vice-Chancellor Prof Mohan Paul Singh Ishar, in his welcome address, said it was an honour for the university to host the sporting event. Principal District and Sessions Judge Jang Bahadur Singh, ADGP K Rajendra, JKCA chairman Mohammad Aslam Goni and Jammu IGP Dilbagh Singh were among those present on the occasion. The University of Kashmir team’s Parvez Bassey was adjudged the man of the match, Samiullah was declared the man of the series and Sohail was adjudged the best batsman of the tournament. Pawan Singh of the Jammu University was declared the best bowler.
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FNCC win T20 tourney
Jammu, December 3 Earlier, the RSCC won the toss and elected to bat first. They accumulated 74 runs in the allotted 20 overs, a score which was secured by the FNCC in just 7 overs with all their wickets intact. Mohammad Asgar Hussain of the winning team was declared the man of the match and Imtiyaz Batak was adjudged the man of the series. Senior Congress leader and Inderwal MLA Ghulam Mohammad Saroori was the chief guest, who awarded the cash prize of Rs 10,000 to the winning team and Rs 8,000 to the runner-up team. Medals and trophies were also distributed among the players of the participating teams.
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Sahil to face Anish in TT finals
Jammu, December 3 Earlier in the semifinals, Sahil toppled Ambresh while Anish beat Lokinder. In the men’s section, Ankit will face Rohit for the title. Earlier in the semifinals, Ankit beat Tarun whereas Rohit Paul defeated Sunny. In junior girls’ finals, Purvi overcame the challenge of Akshima by 2-1 sets. District Social Welfare Officer Yash Paul Sharma was the chief guest. District Table Tennis Association president Sunil Sharma, general secretary Vinod Baru and other members of the association were also present on the occasion. The matches were officiated by Sanjeev Kumar, Tarun Magotra, Vikrant and Ankit. — TNS
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Kathua Club win hockey tourney
Jammu, December 3 The Kathua Club dominated the proceedings from the word go as the forwards made decisive moves in the first half and then maintained the momentum till the end. Poonch District Development Commissioner Ajeet Kumar Sahu was the chief guest, who gave away the trophies to the winning and the runner-up teams. Speaking on the occasion, Sahu appreciated the efforts of the organisers for conducting the tournament and giving a platform to the players. Poonch SP Shamsher Hussain, who was the guest of honour, congratulated the organising committee and assured full support of the department for organising similar championships in future. The final match was officiated by Narinder Singh, Harmik Singh, Ruchika Sharma, Amarjeet Singh, Ramanjot Singh and Kulwant Singh.
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