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Staff shortage mars functioning of JU’s sports dept
State govt yet to act tough against sale of acid
Hilal steers Simula Bulls to victory
Kashmiri Hindus seek action against land mafia
J-K police to host golf tourney
Number of school dropouts on the decline, courtesy SSA
Traditional Basmati gains ground in African countries
State gymnasts to attend national coaching camp
Lok Manch remembers Munshi Premchand
Street play enthrals audience
Rashtriya Rifles to celebrate 19th Raising Day today
Functioning of Red Cross reviewed
NGO organises eye camp
Army organises veterinary camp in Kishtwar
Nomads and villagers being educated at an Army veterinary camp at Keshwan in Kishtwar on Wednesday. About 3,200 cattle and bovines of the Gujjar and Bakerwal families were examined at the camp.
Photo: RK Kichlu J&K to host 4 Ranji Trophy matches Camp for food business operators Workshop on fire measures concludes Bear injures man in south Kashmir Ensure ration supply to all, CPM to admn
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City disaster management only on paper
Jammu, July 31 Officials said the corporation had been in a deep slumber ever since 2005 when a devastating earthquake struck the region. After the quake, the government had announced that all buildings would be assessed to prevent threat to life and property in case of major calamity. Thousands of people live in congested localities in the old city area. Further, illegal construction has been going on in most of the areas in old Jammu. One can understand the peril while passing through the Gujjar Nagar bridge, Panjtirthi, Jain Bazaar, Pir Mitha and Lakhdata Bazaar. People have constructed three-storey buildings without bothering about the strength and quality of the plinth. “The government only talks about disaster preparation, but even basic preparations have not been made in case a natural calamity strikes. It is dangerous for the people to live here and carry out business activities,” said an official. As per the Municipal Act, the dismantling of buildings that have been declared unsafe by the civic body is a disciplinary and obligatory function of the municipal body. However, in Jammu, the action has been rarely taken, despite hundreds of such structures dotting the temple city. Joint Commissioner of the Jammu Municipal Corporation Kapil Sharma said, “We have ordered engineering wing to carry out a survey. So far, we don’t have any data about unsafe building, but the exercise has been started.” Sharma said action would be taken against the illegal structures. However, a senior official said there was nothing the government could do as shifting them was nearly impossible. It would involve shifting lakhs of people who are living for centuries in the area, he said. “Illegal construction can lead to a major catastrophe anytime. Houses are built on hillocks and have weak foundation. There can be heavy damage in case earthquake or heavy rainfall struck the city,” said a local resident. Mushrooming illegal structures
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Staff shortage mars functioning of JU’s sports dept
Jammu, July 31 This was stated by Prof Dhian S Bhau, Director, Directorate of Sports and Physical Education, in an interview with The Tribune. While expressing concern over the prevailing scenario, Prof Bhau said if the authorities would not initiate any concrete measures, then it would be extremely difficult to run the affairs in absence of adequate staff. "Ever since I took over the reins of the department in 2009 when Prof Varun Sahni was the Vice-Chancellor, till now I have made various recommendations to the authorities concerned for strengthening both faculty and the administration, but unfortunately no action has been taken so far," claimed Prof Bhau. "As far as the requirement of faculty to run two professional courses (BPEd and MPEd) in a smooth manner, the department needs a minimum of five teachers. Not only that, the general functioning of the department too is adversely affected because of recent resignation and retirements. To run the administration, there is actual requirement of two Deputy Directors, two Assistant Directors, two PTI Campuses, two Sports Supervisors and two Sports Assistants. The department has made repeated requests to the authorities to give extension to the retiring employees till the final arrangement is made, but in vain," Director maintained. "We need at least 10 coaches in different disciplines to impart coaching to the sportspersons of the varsity to further hone their skills, but we have a strength of only three coaches for disciplines of Cricket, Table Tennis and Football. In fact, we have to prioritise the disciplines for which the recruitment of coaches is needed. The disciplines are athletics, hockey, wrestling, kabaddi, kho-kho, badminton, gymnastics, lawn tennis and boxing," he said. "Both BPEd and MPEd are professional and 100 job-oriented courses, but it seems as if the authorities are least bothered about the requirements of the department. So many students of the varsity after completing their course from the department were recently recruited as Physical Education Teachers (PETs) in the Department of Youth Services and Sports (DYSS) but we are still struggling to run the course as well as administration due to staff shortage," Prof Bhau added. "The inter-collegiate competitions are about to commence shortly and it is going to be a huge challenge for the department to conduct them smoothly and the reason is best known. The competitions are a permanent feature because the teams for various inter-varsity competitions are to be selected on the basis of their performance in this crucial annual sporting event," he said.
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State govt yet to act tough against sale of acid
Jammu, July 31 Presently, there are no strict laws against the sale of acid in Jammu even after the Supreme Court banned the over-the-counter sale of acid at retail stores in the market across the country. The state government should take immediate steps in this regard so acid attacks do not occur. Acid attack is an extreme form of violence that harms victims both physically and psychologically. An incident was reported from RS Pura last year, wherein a discontented Special Police Officer Sanjeev Kumar had thrown acid on a girl, Ruman Lata, because she had refused his immoral advances. Talking to The Tribune, Ruman said, “I was just 17 years old when the incident took place. It was a nightmare for me and my family. I had rejected the marriage proposal of the and in anger and frustration he threw acid on my face. That incident has changed my entire life. I suffered severe burn injuries on my face and arm in the attack. I had requested the state government to restrict the sale of acid as soon as possible, so that the other girls do not suffer as I did.” As per the order passed by the apex court, the acid buyers will now have to show their identity proofs, telephone number and residential proof. Besides, they will have to mention whether they were purchasing it for household use or for some other meaningful purpose. Talking to The Tribune, Deputy Commissioner Ajit Sahu said, “We are yet to get directions from the state government in this regard. This law is yet to be implemented in the state and whenever we will get guidelines regarding the restriction on sale of acid from the government, we will then act upon it.” There are no strict laws against the sale of acid in Jammu even after the Supreme Court banned the over-the-counter sale of acid at retail stores in the market across the country. |
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Hilal steers Simula Bulls to victory
Jammu, July 31 Earlier, winning the toss and batting first, Simula Bulls posted a decent total of 160 runs in the stipulated 20 overs, losing four wickets in the process. Hardeep Singh played a brilliant innings of 58 runs off 50 balls while Dhruv Mahajan and Yasir Ali contributed 41 and 39 runs, respectively. For Khazir Royals, Arshid Sheikh, Jaleel Bhat, Manzoor Ilahi and Vijay Dogra claimed one wicket each. In reply, Khazir Royals suffered a jolt early in their innings, as the opening bowling duo of Hilal Rather and Amandeep Singh made early inroads dismissing three batsmen in quick succession with scoreboard reading 30. However, the pair of Sajad Sofi and Imran Haroon played with caution and at one stage, the team looked all set to overhaul the target. But the dismissal of Sofi at a crucial juncture swung the game in favour of Simula Bulls. Sofi made 55 off 34 deliveries while Haroon scored 29 runs off 27 balls. For Simula Bulls, Sameer Khajuria and Hardeep Singh took three wickets each, while Hilal Rather and Amandeep bagged two and one wicket, respectively. Needing just 5 runs for last 6 balls with 2 wickets in hand, Amandeep Singh bowled the last over with immaculate line and length, conceding just 2 runs to seal a thrilling win for his team. Hardeep Singh was adjudged HDFC man of the match, while Adil Khalil got the award for TCI maximum sixes. The match was officiated by BCCI panel umpires Amit Bansal and Harbinder Singh. Dheraj and Mohsin maintained the scoreboard. Score Card
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Kashmiri Hindus seek action against land mafia
Jammu, July 31 Addressing a meeting, JTC president Shadi Lal Pandita expressed concern over the attitude of the Central and state governments for ignoring community, which was forced to leave their homes by armed terrorists. “Land belonging to several temples across the Valley have been encroached by the land mafia and many Pandit families have lost their land due to fraud in revenue records. The Centre should ask J&K to take action against such people,” said
Pandita. He also demanded immediate steps be taken to implement the Prime
Minister’s employment package in letter and spirit by filling the remaining posts affording employment opportunities to educated youth. “Our basic issue is restoring power, water supply to Jagti camp, which have been denied the basic amenities by the government and its civic agencies. Till now 40-beded hospital and sports ground has not been thrown open for the people,” he said. He said the committee had been struggling for restoring all basic amenities to this community living in the camp, but it was unfortunate that the representatives of these committees had been ignored for attending the Parliamentary Standing Committee meeting. The committee has also demanded rehabilitation of the Kashmiri Pandits in three districts, Anantnag, Srinagar and Baramulla, by bringing up three satellite townships one each in every districts. |
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J-K police to host golf tourney
Jammu, July 31 Addressing the meeting, Prasad disclosed that 100 players, representing 26 states and Central Police Organisations of the country would participate in a three-day long event. He added that J&K was hosting the national event for the third time. Earlier, the tournament was held in Srinagar in 2002 and 2005 respectively.
DGP said the 11th All-India Police Golf Championship held in 2007 in Punjab was lifted by the team of
JKP. He said the organisation had been hosting various national sports events in different disciplines including All-India Police Football Championship, All-India Police Wrestling Cluster and National Athletic Meet. To ensure arrangements for the tournament, various committees were constituted, lodging and boarding arrangements for the guest players were discussed in the meeting. It was decided that convenient accommodation would be provided to the visiting players and the management. The DGP stressed upon the officers to work in close coordination and utilise previous experiences for making the event a success. Earlier, ADGP (Armed), SM
Sahai, who is the organising secretary for the event, through a power point presentation apprised the high level meeting about the details and the required arrangements for the tournament. He also sought suggestions from the participants to put in place the arrangements in a befitting manner. |
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Number of school dropouts on the decline, courtesy SSA
Katra, July 31 The SSA is being implemented in partnership with the state governments to cover the entire country and address the needs of 192 million children. The programme aims at opening new schools in those areas that do not have schooling facilities and strengthening the existing school infrastructure through the provision of additional classrooms, toilets, drinking water and maintenance grant. The District Information and Public Relations Officer, Reasi, Parvinder Kour, said to improve the infrastructure in schools, more additional classrooms had been sanctioned and about 230 drinking water projects had been approved. Steps had also been taken to construct over 150 toilets in schools, so that students could have access to proper sanitation, she added. ‘School chale hum’
The Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan aims at opening new schools in those areas that do not have schooling facilities and strengthening the existing infrastructure through the provision of additional classrooms, toilets, drinking water and maintenance grant. |
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Traditional Basmati gains ground in African countries
Jammu, July 31 JP Sharma, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, highlighted the objectives of the workshop and stressed for the preservation of traditional Basmati while Ajay Koul, Director Research, informed the house about the establishment of quality bio-technology laboratory for genetic improvement of Basmati rice. Ritesh Sharma, a senior scientist at the BEDF, stressed upon organising farmers awareness programmes for judicious use of chemicals and added that pesticide residues in Basmati rice have created problems in its export. He also informed that Basmati would soon get the geographical indicator labelling. Majority of the speakers on the occasion were of the view that traditional Basmati had a good market in Europe, Gulf, Malaysia and African countries and there was a need for the formation of the Basmati Growers Association and support from the state government to promote the Basmati export from the state. For increasing the production of Basmati, it was recommended that agronomic practices should be strictly adhered to by the growers. The use of insecticide and fungicide for the control of pest in Basmati should be discouraged and extremely toxic pesticides having red label should never be used. |
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State gymnasts to attend national coaching camp
Jammu, July 31 Arjuna Awardee Krupali Singh, gymnastics coach, will conduct the camp. The camp will conclude on September 29. After the conclusion of the camp, the respective coaches will have to recommend the names of core probable for the succeeding camps towards the preparation for the Commonwealth Games. In rhythmic gymnastics, the selected gymnasts included Prabhjot Bajwa of Punjab, Mitali of Jammu and Kashmir, Madhura Tambe of
Maharashtra, Anita Ramol of Uttarakhand, Sweksha of Madhya Pradesh, Palak Kour of Jammu and Kashmir, Nishtha Shah of
Maharashtra, Disha Nidre of Maharashtra, Mridul Gupta of Jammu and Kashmir and Aditi of
Maharashtra. Krupali Singh of Jammu and Kashmir and Neetu Bala of Punjab will be the coaches. |
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Lok Manch remembers Munshi Premchand
Jammu, July 31 Dean, Academic Affairs, Prof Neelam Saraf, was the chief guest on the occasion. Kumar Kishan Sharma, convener of the Lok Manch welcomed the chief guest and other dignitaries. The Director of Centre for Professional Studies in Urdu, Prof Shohab Inayat Malik, highlighted the contributions of Prem Chand to literature. Jatinder Shrivastava, a poet and critic, delivered the key note address and said Prem Chand was the first Hindi and Urdu writer who advocated the rights of women in husband's property. "He supported the Bills regarding re-marriage of widows and strongly favoured girl education. Prem Chand considered the independence useless if it does not provide rights to farmers and labourers," added Shrivastava. |
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Street play enthrals audience
Jammu, July 31 Dr Renu Gupta, Director, MIER, Dr Annie
Koul, HoD, BEd wing, along with the faculty and students, saw the play. Lucky Gupta, actor and director, Rangloke Theatre, was the resource person of the show that has been staged in more than 22 states of the country. The play portrayed the tribulations and hardships being faced by the students belonging to the marginalised sections of society. It also paid tributes to the selfless services rendered by the teaching community. The play left an indelible impact on the audience. Dr Annie Koul extended gratitude to the resource person on the behalf of the students, staff and management of the institution. She also lauded the performance of Lucky Gupta as highly sensitive and soul stirring. Dr Renu Gupta hoped that such inspirational performances would be staged in future as well for sensitising the students towards the cause of education. |
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Rashtriya Rifles to celebrate 19th Raising Day today
Srinagar, July 31 "The battalions is celebrating its Raising Day on the completion of 19 glorious years in the service of the nation, under the aegis of Counter Insurgency Force (CIF) (Kilo), with full
fervour," an Army official said. "Various dignitaries from the Army, civil administration, civil society and prominent public personalities are participating in the event," he added. The battalion was raised on August 1,1994, and the battalion was deployed in the remote and inaccessible areas of Surankote in Poonch district as a part of the CIF (Romeo). "Over the years, the battalion has distinguished itself by conducting spectacular surgical operations and managed to establish peace and tranquility by an intimate connect with the Awam (locals). |
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Functioning of Red Cross reviewed
Kathua, July 31 During the discussions staff strengthening and increase in the number of volunteers for the Red Cross Society, Kathua was taken up. Issues like opening of Jan Oshidi shop at District Hospital Kathua, revenue collection and identification of land for construction of the Red Cross Bhawan were also discussed. Chairman, the Red Cross Society, Kathua was also authorised to purchase an ambulance for the society. ACR Kathua, SP Rukwal was also present on the occasion. General Secretary, the IRCS also discussed various issues related to functioning of the Red Cross Society, Samba with District Development Commissioner, Samba, R K Varma. |
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NGO organises eye camp
Jammu, July 31 It is for the first time that a follow up check up clinic was arranged after the main check up in which about 148 persons were treated for different ailments related to eyes. On the occasion, Atul Goel, Jammu SSP and YV Sharma, president Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Jammu, were the chief guest and guest
of honour. While inaugurating the follow up clinic they lauded and appreciated the role of Pahal and the services rendered to the patients by the team of doctors headed by Dr Satish K Gupta and by Deepak Medical Hall. Prominent members among those from Pahal present on the occasion include vice-president Neeru Mahajan, general secretary Sanjay Gupta and secretary Jyoti
Mittal. |
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Army organises veterinary camp in Kishtwar
Batote, July 31 About 3,200 cattle and bovines of the Gujjar and Bakerwal families of Keshwan, Saranwan, Thakrai, Anjol, Hydar, Tibba and Kontwara were examined and treated by the local veterinarians of the Kishtwar district. Free medicines were distributed among the villagers for their 1,723 sheep, 369 goats, 434 oxen, 445 cows,126 buffaloes, 30 horses and 73 donkeys or mules. In his inaugural address, the Second-In-Command of the RR battalion while giving a brief resume of the welfare activities
taken by the Army reiterated that the livestock rearing and the poultry were the mainstay of our economy, especially in the rural areas. |
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A veterinary awareness camp (VAC) was organised by the Rashtriya Rifles under the Operation
Sadbhavna(OS) at Nagrina Village of Keshwan area in Kishtwar district today. About 3,200 cattle and bovines of the Gujjar and Bakerwal families of
Keshwan, Saranwan, Thakrai, Anjol, Hydar, Tibba and Kontwara were examined and treated by the local veterinarians of the Kishtwar district.
(JMC) organised an awareness camp at Trikuta Nagar for food business operators.
Shopkeepers and other traders dealing with the sale of food items were present on the occasion.
Food safety officer Dr Vinod Sharma directed the traders to get their licences/registrations checked from the office of the health officer.
The food business operators assured the authorities that irregularities would be removed within a short span of time.
— TNS
