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Even after 5 years, 32,000 JU pass-outs await degrees
Now, get hassle-free service at passport office
State athletes end medal drought at national senior level
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Modern post offices at Banihal, Ramban dedicated to people
NMC for appointing members of 7th Pay Commission
PDP told to explain role in 2008 Amarnath land row issue
Summer camp concludes at MV International School
JKP XI script emphatic win in T20 tourney
Long power cuts force residents to block
road
Miran Sahib residents block RS Pura Satwari road, in Jammu on Tuesday. Photo: Inderjeet Singh
ICDS staff may go on indefinite strike from tomorrow
Baramulla-1 clinch KPL trophy
Showers bring respite from scorching heat
Senior Cong leader visits quake-affected areas
CM reviews progress of ongoing projects
Demanding regularisation of services, PDD daily wagers hold protest
PDD daily wagers stage a protest in Reasi on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph
Snag hits phone services
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Even after 5 years, 32,000 JU pass-outs await degrees
Jammu, June 11 This information was provided by the Public Information Officer (PIO), University of Jammu, in response to an application filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by a Jammu-based activist, Raman Sharma. The university calendar states that “the degree certificates to the candidates passing the degree and post degree examinations in various faculties signed by the controller of examinations and the Vice-Chancellor shall be awarded at the university or college convocation in accordance with the provisions of the Statutes relating to the convocation”. “As convocation is not held every year, hence the university after one year, after the declaration of result, issues graduation and postgraduation degrees of regular as well as candidates of distance mode to their respective colleges, departments or institutions,” the PIO said. He said over 1,100 students from Government College for Women, Parade, who passed out in 2009, had not been issued degrees. “The total number of students from the college who have not been issued degrees for the session 2007-08 are 519 and 2008-09 are 422,” he said. Raman Sharma said it was unfortunate that the university, which owns an ISO status, could be so careless and tardy in its action that it had not issued degrees to 32,000 candidates for the last five to six years. He said when the matter of pending degrees was brought to the notice of the Vice-Chancellor’s Secretariat, the senior officials there immediately issued orders to the department concerned to clear the backlog without any further delay. “The institutions are awarding online degrees to students, but in our state the people at the helm of affairs are still lagging behind,” Sharma said, adding that he had also apprised Governor NN Vohra, who is also the Chancellor of the university, about the issues and had sought direction from him in this regard. Casual affair
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Now, get hassle-free service at passport office
Jammu, June 11 People have to seek appointment online via the website www.passportindia.gov.in and then, have to take printout of the form filled and visit the PSK on the date
given online. The cooperation of the staff has reached optimum level. When a person reaches PSK Jammu with the application form and requisite documents, the office staff guides him through different stages. This has become possible due to the efforts of passport officer Rajinder Gupta, who overhauled the system and gave a new lease of life to the passport office - a place people earlier used to avoid visiting. But after the new system was put in place, important persons like the Chief Justice of J&K High Court, J&K Chief Secretary and many big personalities have visited the PSK and applied for passport like a common man. “At PSK Jammu, everybody is treated equally. We try to ensure hassle-free service and due respect is given to every person applying for a passport,” said Rajinder Gupta. Earlier, agents used to sit outside the passport office and took money from the people to fill the form. But now, all this is a thing of the past and no mediators are needed between the people and staff. “Now, no mediator can make a fool of the people in the name of providing quick appointments. Appointments are sought online and the date and time are allotted during the submission of form on our website,” Gupta added. Applying for passport has become just a six-step matter starting from the submission of form online and reaching PSK Jammu on the date and time; generation of coupon number from counter 1 after providing all requisite documents; clicking of picture on the next counter where fee has to be submitted and fingerprints given; verification of documents and form on B1 or B2 counters; checking of form on C1 counter; and then submission of form on the counter near the exit gate before leaving the office. Senior citizens are given preference and PSK staff accompanies them to every counter till the exit gate. PSK Jammu is introducing with more changes to make the system attractive and is just a click way from visa providers all over the world. “We are planning to bring in L-stream passports under which the particulars of a person will be stored in image form on the passport. It will not be visible to the passport holder but will just be a click away from visa-issuing countries,” Gupta said. Another welcome change that will be introduced soon is the online submission of fee. It can be done through credit or debit cards at the time of online submission of application. Those who don’t have these cards could get a challan from the post office and have to write its number on the application form. Apart from issuing passports, PSK Jammu is also issuing Line of Control (LoC) permits to people travelling to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir via Poonch. |
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State athletes end medal drought at national senior level
Jammu, June 11 A nine-member team, including Amrish Sharma, Vipan Kumar, Chandan Singh, Sunil Lal, Dilip Kumar, Riyaz Ahmad, Imtiyaz Ahmad, Ravi Singh and Gurpreet Singh, participated in the championship. Six athletes were from
J&K Police. The four sportspersons who formed the medal-winning team were Amrish Sharma, Vipan Kumar, Dilip Kumar and Imtiyaz Ahmad. Out of these four, three belonged to the
state police. Sharat, who is also the J&K Police athletics coach, expressed satisfaction over the performance of the team. He said that the athletes could perform better in the future if they get access to all the necessary infrastructural facilities to hone their skills further. “Keeping in mind the infrastructure we have in the state, our athletes have done a commendable job,” said an elated Sharat. “Though the team has bagged medals at the North Zone-level in various categories, this is for the first time that our athletes have won a medal at the all-India level in the senior category,” he claimed. “Before the championship, a 15-day coaching camp was held at MA Stadium under my supervision. Even though the athletes prepared for the event with the limited infrastructure available, I was pretty confident that they would do well,” said a beaming coach. “There is no dearth of talented athletes in the state. The only thing they need is that the authorities concerned should provide them with every possible facility so that they can compete at higher levels and bring more laurels to the state as well as their respective departments,” Sharat Chander Singh said. Meanwhile, Kerala bagged 11 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze to win
its seventh consecutive National Senior Athletic Championship. |
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Modern post offices at Banihal, Ramban dedicated to people
Batote, June 11 “I wish even the people of remote villages in the state get their mail within two days,” he said. “After modernising the post offices of Jammu and Srinagar cities, the post offices of district and tehsil headquarters are being modernised now,” he said. “In the next three years, the government will be spending Rs 4,900 crore in making all the 1,55,554 post offices in the country as post office savings banks through computerisation and infrastructural development besides setting up ATMs in most of the district headquarters by the next year as its pre-requisite,” he added. He said since April this year, e-post had almost replaced the telegraph service and a full page text could be e-posted to any part of the country by evening or the next day only for Rs 10. He said within the next fortnight the Western Union service would be made available here. He sanctioned Rs 2 lakh for the beautification of lawn, premises and other developments at the Batote Post Office. He was accompanied by Jagdeep Gupta, Director, Postal Services, J&K, SA Parray, assistant chief accounts officer, J&K, and VK Chowdhary, Superintendent of Post Offices, Udhampur, Prof SS Bhalwal, Principal, Degree College, Ramban, and Dr RK Kesar, CEO, Patnitop Development Authority. |
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NMC for appointing members of 7th Pay Commission
Jammu, June 11 He said the Pay Commission was in a larger
interest of government employees. Shastri recalled that it was under the leadership of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the last pay panel was set up in 2005. He requested that the decision of constituting a Pay Commission should be taken on priority. He said the setting up of new Pay Commission was in larger interest of government employees as well as for employees of the Central Government. “50 per cent of DA
should be forthwith merged into the basic pay and pension,” he said, adding that “20 per cent of interim relief should
be sanctioned as early as possible in the favour of Central/state Government employees and pensioners.” NMC president also insisted on the time-bound implementation of policy for regularisation of daily wagers who had completed seven years of service in March 2012, monthly emoluments of daily wagers should be raised to Rs 10,000 per month, enhancing medical allowance from Rs 300 to Rs 1,000, release of salary of motivators, their immediate regularisation and removal of all pay anomalies in SRO 93. Others who addressed the gathering included Rajan Babu Khajuria, Sham Lal Sharma, Raghu Pal, Yog Raj, Surinder Kumar, Sukhdev Singh, Bhupinder Singh, Mohan Lal Sharma, Com Barkat Ram, Subash Sharma, Karan Singh, Madan Lal Bhagat, Janto Ram, Bishan Dass, Vijay Kumar, Bachan Lal, Sunil Kochhar, Rakesh Padha and Anil Singh Slathia. |
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PDP told to explain role in 2008 Amarnath land row issue
Jammu, June 11 “The PDP should explain its role in the circumstances leading to the Amarnath land row agitation rather than indulging in frivolous and baseless rhetoric after six days of silence in a bid to evade the core issue raised by me,” he said. “They need to explain what transpired during the PDP-BJP meetings in New Delhi, facilitated by the Jammu-based BJP leader,” Rana said. He alleged that the Amarnath land agitation was a conspiracy hatched by the PDP and the BJP to divide the state and dislodge the Ghulam Nabi Azad government in a failed bid to capture power. He said a PDP MLC in Poonch had been following the footsteps of his chief, Mehbooba Mufti, by showering praises on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. “The MLC is going around and promising to the people that if the PDP comes to power, it will convert Jammu and Kashmir to Modi’s Gujarat,” Rana said. “J&K is not Gujarat and communalism will not be allowed to spread its tentacles in the state,”
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Summer camp concludes at MV International School
Jammu, June 11 The function began with a prayer followed by the inauguration of summer camp by head girl Divya Manhas. A magic show by Gurpreet Singh enthralled the audience. The highlight of the programme was the slide show prepared by the students giving detailed information about the contribution of the guest visitors, Col
(Retd) Ajay Malhotra; career counsellor Parwinder Singh Sethi, photojournalist Anand Sharma, divisonal fire officer SC Verma, yoga instructor Deepak, Dr SA Rathar and DySP Atul Sharma. A visual show titled “Glimpses of Summer Camp” focusing on all day-to-day activities in the field of pottery, science, English Language development, art and craft, maths games, cooking, yoga, sports and computers also provided wholesome infotainment to the audience. Speedball player of the school Sakshi Thapa was also present on the occasion. Chairman of the school Hira Lal Abrol, chairperson Savita Abrol, director Gaurav Abrol along with his wife Akriti were also present. The chairman appreciated the students and the teachers for the fine show and assured that the management of all possible help. |
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JKP XI script emphatic win in T20 tourney
Jammu, June 11 Earlier, batting first, Star Cricket Club could manage a meagre total of 100 runs in the stipulated 20 overs losing eight wickets in the process. Harry was the top scorer with 20 runs that came off 30 balls, including one boundary. Skipper Kamal Sharma and IP Singh contributed 14 and 13 runs, respectively with two hits to the fence each. For JKP XI, Sunil was the pick of the bowlers with three wickets while RK Bhat and Rajesh Gill claimed two wickets each. Iqbal chipped in with one wicket. JKP XI, in reply, rode on a brilliant opening partnership of 50 runs between Rajesh Gill and Shamsher Singh that helped the team to overhaul the required target in 11.5 overs by losing just four wickets. Gill top scored with an unbeaten 40 runs off 39 balls studded with five boundaries while Shamsher contributed quick fire 34 runs off just 17 balls with the help of fours and a six. Pawan took two wickets for Star while Kamal Sharma and Shukal shared a wicket apiece. Rajesh Gill of JKP XI was adjudged man of the match. The match was officiated by Sadiq Hussain Malik and Vijay Dogra as umpires while Ajay Sharma was the scorer. Dr Karan Nayyar is the official physiotherapist while Harsh Nayyar is the organising secretary of the tournament. — TNS
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Long power cuts force residents to block
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Jammu, June 11 Local residents alleged that they had been facing long unscheduled power cuts for many weeks now, but the concerned department was not taking their demands seriously. The protesters said that long power cuts during late hours were giving sleepless nights to the residents. They urged Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to mitigate their problems. They warned to intensify their protest in case the government failed to solve the problem and alleged discrimination against the Jammu region. Later, some officers of the Power Development Department and the police pacified the protesters at Satwari and assured them that their demands would be met soon. Residential localities like Paloura, Gandhi Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Channi, Parade, Kachi Chawni, Janipur, Roop Nagar and Bari-Brahman are worst-affected by long power cuts. “Fluctuation in voltage is another major concern. Many of our electronic gadgets are not working properly. People having ACs are not using those,” said Suman, a lecturer. With sweltering conditions in Jammu and no respite in sight from power cuts, tough times lie ahead for residents. |
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ICDS staff may go on indefinite strike from tomorrow
Srinagar, June 11 “We have decided to meet at Lal Chowk on Thursday and will then take a decision on the strike,” she added. Thousands of employees of the ICDS scheme in the state are without salary from the past six months and the state government claims that the salary of these employees comes from the Union Government and it was a delay on their part. Shafi, however, said the state government was only blaming the Centre for the non-payment of salary. “The government is not interested to mitigate our problems. The salary files have to be submitted to the Central Government, but state officials have delayed the whole process,” she said. |
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Baramulla-1 clinch KPL trophy
Baramulla, June 11 The sports lovers thanked the Army for organising the tournament and hoped that such tournaments would be held in future as well to promote the sporting talent. A total of eight teams took part in the tournament which included three teams from Baramulla, two from Uri and one each from Rampur, Naugam and Lachhipura. In all, 17 matches were played in the tournament, which was based on a league match format from May 5 to June 11. A closing ceremony was organised after the match. Chief guest General Officer Commanding, Dagger division, assured the locals that the Army would always support them in all their future
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Showers bring respite from scorching heat
Jammu, June 11 However, the day began on with hot and humid conditions followed by frequent power cuts which had compounded miseries of a common man. Several areas of the city went without power for sometime in the evening. But much to the joy of citizens, the heavens opened up towards evening. The citizens along with small children were seen dancing in the showers. Further, the rain also brought down the temperature to 33 degree celsius. The sudden rain, which brought down the temperature, also caught many off-guard as many people were struck at bus stops and other places to cover themselves from showers. The rainfall had brought a pleasant change in the atmosphere much in contrast to the scorching heat that citizens were facing from the last few days. |
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Senior Cong leader visits quake-affected areas
Jammu, June 11 He visited the affected areas of the district including Doda, Thathri, Kahra, and took stock of the damage. Addressing the gathering at Thathri, Kahra and Doda, Charak assured the people that he would submit the detailed report to the Congress president and would request her for directing the authorities concerned to take necessary steps for providing relief to the affected people. He urged the state government to assess the damage caused by earthquake shocks after May 15 and also to ensure that proper arrangements were made for the safety and security of people. |
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CM reviews progress of ongoing projects
Srinagar, June 11 In power-point presentations made by various secretaries, the Chief Minister was briefed about the status of various projects including the LD Hospital additional block, Maternity Hospital,
Bemina, construction of two sarais at SKIMS Soura, Tourist City Centre and renovation of Tagore Hall and Tehzeeb Mahal among others. |
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Demanding regularisation of services, PDD daily wagers hold protest
Katra, June 11 The leaders of the PDD daily wagers urged the protesters to halt work by observing a complete tool-down strike to pressurise the state government and the department concerned to fulfil their demands. The protesters alleged that the government was indifferent towards their demands and this was demoralising the daily wagers. |
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Residents of Miran Sahab and adjoining areas today blocked Jammu-RS Pura highway for more than two hours to protest against power cuts in the area.
Hundreds of protesters blamed government officials of ignoring the region during the summer months while they themselves enjoy the cool climate of Kashmir Valley as a result of the durbar move.
Katra, June 11
This has even helped the staff who attend and guide people in a proper way without any confusion.