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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…

Two students booked for raising pro-Pak slogans in Rajouri

October 31, 2015 Editor

Two students of a government school were booked for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan and anti-India slogans in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. “Around eight students of a particular community studying at Government Higher Secondary School in Sialsoi village raised pro-Pakistan and anti-India slogans after they came out of their classes after an exam yesterday,” a police officer said. He said that a group of around 50 persons reached the school today morning and forced the closure of the school authority. However, on the intervention of the police, the school functioned…

Classes being held under tents at overcrowded school in Rajouri

October 5, 2015 Editor

The lack of infrastructure and a dilapidated school building has not only affected students’ studies, but it has also put the lives of almost 650 children at risk in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri region. The Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Rajouri district’s Thanna Mandi village has just four rooms to accommodate the 650 students. At times the classes are shifted to make-shift tents, which do not stand torrid weather conditions. “In this school poor children from far off villages come to study. To study in tents is still fine…

Water supply hit as PHE workers protest

September 18, 2015 Editor

As daily wagers, casual workers and ITI-trained workers of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department have been on a protest for the past nine days, residents of Rajouri town and adjoining areas today said they were facing hardships as they were not getting regular water supply. The protesting workers have been demanding regularisation of workers who have completed seven or more years in service, timely and regular payment of their wages and enhancement in their daily wages. The PHE employees raised slogans against the Chief Engineer and Minister for PHE,…

Two houses damaged, six water mills washed away in flood in Rajouri district

August 10, 2015 Editor

Two houses were damaged and six water mills washed away in flash-floods triggered by heavy rains in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. Due to heavy rains, there were floods and mudslides in Bhella rivulet yesterday in the Bella-Lakhi belt of Rajouri, district officials said. Due to which, mud houses of two persons in Khwas were fully damaged due to a landslide, they said, adding, six water mills constructed in the Bhella rivulet in the area were also washed away in the flash floods. Huge chunks of agricultural land with…

Jawan, VDC member arrested for firing in Rajouri

July 30, 2015 Editor

An Army jawan and a Village Defence Committee (VDC) member were arrested for firing shots, triggering panic and terror among the people in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. The duo were arrested for firing and creating panic and terror among the people in Targie area of Kotranka belt of the district last night, Darhal police station SHO Kuldeep Raj said today. The duo — Territorial Army jawan Liyaqat Ali and VDC member Tariq — told police that they fired in view of suspicious movement of two armed persons, but…