2015 | Page 52 of 206 | Kashmir POST

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…

Police issue traffic schedule for Kargil road

November 14, 2015 Editor

The Traffic Police today issued a new schedule for the commuters in view of the bad condition of the Sonamarg-Drass road around the Zojila axis. In a statement issued here today, the Superintendent of Police (SP), Traffic (Kashmir-Rural), said the traffic from Drass to Sonamarg would be allowed on odd days (Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday) while traffic from Sonamarg to Drass would be allowed on even days (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) of the week. The SP further said, for the traffic moving from Drass to Sonamarg, the cut-off time…

Kashmir Inc hits out at ruling PDP

November 14, 2015 Editor

Accusing the ruling Peoples Democratic Party of “using flood victims as bait to come to power” in J&K, Kashmir’s top business and trade organizations on Friday said that Rs 2000 crore earmarked for rehabilitation of flood affected people is “a mockery and an insult to people who lost their lives and livelihood in the worst-ever deluge.” The Valley-based business community accused the PDP of using flood rehabilitation as an “excuse to forge alliance with BJP to serve their interest, while letting the people suffer.” President of Kashmir Chamber of Commerce…

Absence of Winter Secretariat in Kashmir shocking : NC

November 14, 2015 Editor

National Conference on Friday strongly condemned the failure of the PDP-BJP Government to have in place a roster of rotational presence of Ministers in Kashmir during the winters as per the established norm of ‘Winter Secretariat’ arrangement that has been in place since a long time. NC Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani said this move was unprecedented and was a brazen proof of the PDP-BJP Government’s step-motherly attitude towards Kashmir. “It was an established practice during the tenure of the previous Government that a ‘Winter Secretariat’ was established in Srinagar…