November 14, 2015 | Kashmir POST

Govt teacher suspended for taking tuitions

November 14, 2015 Editor

Taking serious note of violation of blanket ban on imparting private tuitions by government teachers, Chief Education officer, Rajouri, C Altaf Hussain today raided some private institutions here and placed an erring official under suspension. Gulbatan Singh, a government middle school teacher at Kardinoo in the Baljaralan Education Zone, was found teaching students in SR College. Director, School Education, Jammu, vide order No DSEJ/Gen/ 32642-43 dt26/10/15, has banned the private tuitions by the government teachers and has directed all the Chief Education Officers concerned to implement the order in latter…

Lake officials booked on High Court orders

November 14, 2015 Editor

The Vigilance Organisation Kashmir today said it had registered a case against the officials of the Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA). Pursuant to the Jammu and Kashmir High Court order dated October 28, the Vigilance Organisation Kashmir today registered a case under FIR No. 48/2015 u/s 5(1)(d) r/w 5(2) of the J&K Prevention of Corruption Act and section 109, 120-B, 188 RPC against the officials of Lakes and Waterways Development Authority, Srinagar, the organisation said in statement. The High Court had observed that various constructions had been illegally raised…

Kupwara residents line up for verification

November 14, 2015 Editor

Saves them from intimidation during visit outside state A large number of Kupwara residents intending to visit Punjab and other states, mostly in connection with shawl business, are facing inconvenience due to verification of their antecedents by the local police. People waiting in long queues for getting their verification reports from police stations concerned has become the norm for past over a week. Local residents said there was no formal directive from the authorities to get verification, but they were obtaining it to avoid intimidation by the police and others…

Poor patients suffer as govt docs run private hospitals, clinics

November 14, 2015 Editor

Business of medicine responsible for health care mess, rising corruption: DAK Voicing concern over government doctors running private hospitals, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that it is the main reason for dismal record of health care standards in government-run hospitals. Dismayed over allowing of full time government doctors to run private establishments, President DAK Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan in a statement issued here said that poor patients suffer the consequences. “Public hospitals are the only places where poor can still seek health care at no or minimal cost,” DAK President said.…

Jammu gets Rs 2000 Cr more than Kashmir from PM’s package

November 14, 2015 Editor

NC, Congress, PDF demand equitable development The Jammu region has got Rs 2000 crore more funds from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s package than Kashmir. While giving the break-up of the package, the government said that Rs 1000 crore each have been allotted for IIM and IIT which are being constructed in Jammu. The government said that Rs 1000 Crore has been allotted to IIM Jammu, Rs 1000 Crore for IIT Jammu, Rs 2000 Crore for AIIMS, and for Smart City Rs 250 Crore. For Kashmir, Rs 2000 Crore has…

Kashmiriyat, Jamhuriyat, Insaniat

November 14, 2015 Editor

Zafar Choudhary On the early morning of November 16, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed will be in Goa presenting a ‘special address’ at an ‘India Ideas Conclave’ on the much talked about but little understood subject of ‘Kashmiriyat, Jamhuriyat, Insaniat’. The conclave is host¬ed by India Foundation, a newly emerged powerful think tank run mainly by BJP members, including Ministers, and ideologues. Past its sell by date long ago, the ‘Kashmiriyat, Jamhuriyat, Insaniat’ slogan was coined in bits and pieces between 2000 and 2002 by the BJP veteran Atal Behari…

Modi looked at Kashmir purely through the prism of a financial package

November 14, 2015 Editor

In the morning Indian prime minister, in a most demeaning fashion announced the so-called financial package, worth of… Hold on; is this package really of any worth? That evening only, a budding career, movingly a handsome boy got mercilessly massacred. A distinguished person of Kashmiri civil society in a most befitting manner expressed his anguish on Facebook; “a boy repaid rather in advance, the debt worth 80,000 crore, May Allah bless his soul”. Indeed Allah shall bestow him the highest place; this is the promise of Almighty for the sacred…

Mehbooba for power distribution upgrade

November 14, 2015 Editor

Member of Parliament and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti today directed officials of the Power Development Department (PDD) to provide hassle-free electricity to people during winter. She was chairing the district electricity committee meeting to review the progress of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY) in the south Kashmir districts of Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian. Mehbooba said with the advent of winter, PDD officials should beef up their technical staff and men and machinery to reach out to the people with better services. She called for judicious use of…

Kashmir reeling under darkness with the inauguration of BagliharII

November 14, 2015 Editor

PDD resorting to frequent power cuts, electricity playing hide-n-seek We’re following last year’s power curtailment schedule: Official Less than a week after Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the 450 MWs Baglihar-II power project, Valley is groping under darkness with the Power Development Department (PDD) resorting to more than 8-9 hour daily power cuts. The PDD has not notified any power curtailment schedule and is resorting to unscheduled power cuts. The department has not abided by the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) directions asking government to improve power supply by working…