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Vol No. 51 No. 35 JAMMU, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015 REGD.NO.JK-71/15-17 12 Pages ` 3.50 ExcelsiorRNI No. 28547/1992 Anil Goswami resigns, Airport expansion: Governor writes to DM for vacation of Army land Goyal new Home Secy Nishikant Khajuria Airport, from 6700 feet to 8000 Government has already accord- feet towards the river Tawi end. ed sanction to the transfer of NEW DELHI, Feb 4: Government. He turned 60 The continuance of JAMMU, Feb 4: Taking Even as the State Irrigation and Flood Control last month and would have Goswami became untenable cognizance of the unprecedent- Union Anil Government has already Department land measuring 58 continued till June 30. after he had admitted to Home ed delay on part of Army in handed over 138 kanals and kanals and 8 marlas on the left Goswami was tonight shown The exit of Goswami came Minister that he giving possession of the land at the door in the wake of the con- 12 marlas of forest land at side of main Ranbir canal at RD on a day of hectic activities fol- had spoken to CBI officials Satwari for extension of the Sunjwan to the Army in lieu of 26465M in village Rakh Raipur troversy over his alleged lowing media reports that he before they arrested Sinh in Jammu Airport, Governor N attempt to stall the arrest of the Defence land at Satwari, for the rehabilitation purpose. had tried to prevent CBI officers Kolkata on Saturday. N Vohra, has sought interven- the Army authorities are According to the sources, Saradha scam accused Matang from carrying out Sinh's arrest PTI had reported on Sunday tion of the Defence Minister to Sinh, a former Congress delaying the handing over on the Army authorities are on Saturday. that CBI was miffed with the ensure early handing over of some pretexts. The Army has demanding that before getting Minister at the Centre. This is the second instance interference by Goswami in the the land to State Government Rural Development so far handed over only 20 the possession of Satwari land of the removal of a top bureau- arrest of Sinh. The agency had and Airport Authority of kanals of Defence land to the and razing of its temporary Secretary L C Goyal, a 1979- submitted a report to the PMO on (AAI). batch IAS officer of Kerala State Government/AAI, structures there for runway the issue about Goswami and a The Governor has shot a let- despite repeated reminders expansion, the State cadre, was named as Joint Director level officer of CBI. ter to the Defence Minister Goswami's successor by the and a series of meetings in this Government should first raise Rajnath Singh who had Manohar Parikar seeking the regard, sources said. utilities on the alternate land at Appointments Committee of returned to the capital yesterday latter's urgent intervention to the Cabinet for a period of two The Ministry of Defence had Sunjwan. Even as the State talked to Goswami who admit- ensure against there being any granted formal permission for Government has kept a budget years from the date of taking ted to have called up CBI offi- further delay in handing over charge, according to a late the expansion of Jammu Airport of Rs 58 cr for the purpose and cials probing the Saradha scam the remaining Defence land at in 2013 after the then Chief already released Rs seven crores night official announcement. in connection with Sinh's arrest. Satwari for the extension of After he was asked to resign, Minister Omar Abdullah per- for raising the structures besides The Minister immediately Jammu Airport, said a Raj sonally took up the matter with initiation of tendering process Goswami, a 1978-batch IAS Bhavan spokesperson. briefed Prime Minister the Union Government. for the same by the State PWD, A combination photo shows still images taken from an ama- officer of Jammu and Kashmir In his letter, the Governor Narendra Modi on the issue Besides spreading out of the the Army authorities are teur video shot by a motorist of a TransAsia Airways plane cadre, made a request for volun- has particularly mentioned that last night. Today he called runway to make it proper for adamant on not handing over cartwheeling over a motorway soon after the turboprop ATR 72- tary retirement with immediate any delay in the completion of Goswami for a discussion fol- landing and taking off for all the Satwari land thus delaying 600 aircraft took off in New Taipei City on Wednesday. (UNI). effect by waiving the notice L C Goyal the Airport runway expansion lowed by a meeting with CBI types of aircraft, the Airport much needed expansion of the News on Page 9. period which was accepted by may result in avoidable acci- crat in a week after Foreign Director Anil Sinha. expansion project includes mod- Airport runway, sources the Government. dent, the spokesperson added. Secretary Sujatha Singh's ser- Both the officials maintained ification of Terminal building, explained. "Consequent upon approval Pertinent to mention that the J&K Gymnasts create history vices were curtailed last silence on their separate meet- which will be expended from When contacted, Director of the request, the term of Army is required to handover Excelsior Sports Correspondent Wednesday after she refused to ings with the Home Minister. three sides for approximate area Airport Authority of India, Goswami as Home Secretary 136 kanals and 8 marlas of resign from the post. While Goswami was said to have of 6500 sq meters increasing JAMMU, Feb 4: Ace gymnasts of the State namely Mitali will stand curtailed with imme- Defence land at Satwari to the Jammu, Suresh Kumar told there were no allegations of been close to Matang Sinh, a total area of the Terminal the Excelsior that getting pos- Dogra, Palak Kour, Mridul Gupta and Pawandeep Kour displayed diate effect," according to the impropriety against her, the controversial politician from State Government for its even- extraordinary skill to beat the best in the announcement. tual transfer to the Airports Building to 14500 sq meters session of the land, the work * Pic on Page 10 Government is said to have been Assam who was a Minister of with raised Pax capacity from on runway expansion would Country and clinch rhythmic gymnastics team Goswami was appointed as unhappy with her leadership of State for Home in PV Narasimha Authority of India to facilitate gold in the ongoing 35th National Games, being held at Home Secretary in 2013 dur- the very long pending extension 360 to 720. take at least a year for comple- the Ministry. Rao’s Government. (PTI) For the expansion, the State tion. Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. ing the tenure of UPA of the existing runway at Jammu The silver medal in this event was bagged by Maharashtra, All parties to issue whip while the bronze medal went to Punjab. NH re-opens, air traffic resumes to Srinagar The State team created history by winning first ever gold in gymnastics team event at the National scene. PDP may shift * Avalanche threat increases (Contd on page 10 Col 4) Fayaz Bukhari Organization (BRO) pressed its The IGP said that traffic will And in Srinagar and other Locals hurl Kangris, police fires in air men and machinery into service be allowed to ply from Jammu parts of Kashmir valley, the Sun Excelsior Correspondent 2 votes to BJP SRINAGAR, Feb 4: With early in the morning and cleared to Srinagar tomorrow. came out in the afternoon and Sanjeev Pargal PDP, BJP, NC and Congress improvement in weather, the snow. "However, they have to follow brought respite to the people SRINAGAR, Feb 4:Police and Army had to call off the cordon have so far not elected the Jammu-Srinagar National The IGP said that at 8.30 am the cut off time for crossing from the cold wave conditions. and search operation in South Kashmir's Shopian district today JAMMU, Feb 4: As this Leaders of their Legislature Highway today re-opened for the National Highway was Nagrota and Udhampur", he and resorted to aerial firing after people protested against detain- (Contd on page 9 Col 3) will be first open ballot elec- Parties even after about one traffic and air traffic also thrown open for one-way traffic added. ing of youth by police during the operation. tion for Rajya Sabha in and half months of declara- resumed to Srinagar but the from Srinagar to Jammu. He Reports said that 62 of the Army and Police Jammu and Kashmir, the tion of Assembly election threat of avalanches has said that around 1900 trucks and cordoned off village Harman in Shopian last night and early in the Returning Officer (RO) has results. increased in the hills of the over 1600 Light Motor Vehicles morning started searches. The operation was launched after a tip called upon all four political Returning Officer for Rajya State. were allowed to ply on the high- off to the security forces about presence of a group of militants parties and seven candidates, Sabha elections, Mohammad After three days of freak way. He said that majority of inside the village. who were in race for four seats Ramzan has asked all seven weather and snowfall, the these vehicles have crossed the Police detained three youth including Arshad Ahmad Wagay going to polls on February 7, candidates, who were in the fray weather improved today and the Patnitop and are on their way to son of Mohammad Ahsan Wagay, a local barber, for questioning to nominate their representa- for four seats, to designate their air traffic to Srinagar airport that Jammu. about the presence of militants inside the village. This irked the tives to check the votes of representatives to serve as remained disrupted yesterday Khan said that since the (Contd on page 9 Col 3) party MLAs before being cast Election Agents, to check the was resumed. All the flights highway in Jawahar Tunnel in the ballot boxes even as the votes of MLAs as this will be an landed at Srinagar airport and area was slippery, first the Pak again opens firing on IB political parties were in the open ballot election. The last the yesterday's backlog was also Light Motor Vehicles were Excelsior Correspondent process of issuing whip to Lok Sabha elections in January cleared. allowed to ply on the highway their MLAs to cast vote in 2009 was held through secret IGP Traffic, Muneer Ahmad and it was followed by the JAMMU, Feb 4: After lull of few days, the Pakistani Rangers favour of the party candi- ballot in which BJP state presi- Khan told Excelsior that around empty Heavy Motor Vehicles again violated ceasefire and resorted to firing on forward Indian dates. dent and Lok Sabha member, 3.5 feet snow had accumulated and later loaded trucks were positions along the International Border (IB) in Samba and RS A vehicle moves in snow filled road at Zawoora in Shopian Official sources told the Jugal Kishore Sharma, then a on either side of the Jawahar allowed to ply on the highway Pura sectors but there were no casualties or damage. on Wednesday. -Excelsior/Younis Khaliq Excelsior that all four political MLA, had cross voted in favour Tunnel and Border Roads Official sources said the Rangers first opened firing with parties-PDP, BJP, NC and of NC leader Dr Farooq Centre issues directive to all Secretaries Heavy Machine Guns (HMGs) at Nawa Pind and Abdullian for- Congress, which have fielded Abdullah while a National ward posts and villages in RS Pura sector at 1.55 pm today. The seven candidates for four seats Panthers Party (NPP) MLA had firing lasted few minutes. of Rajya Sabha, were likely to also voted for the alliance candi- Pakistan’s Thatti post opposite Nawa Pind was involved in the issue a whip a day before the date. After 30 years, top bureaucrats visit firing, they said. elections to their party MLAs, Later, in March 2011 (Contd on page 9 Col 3) who comprised Electoral Legislative Council elections, College for the elections, to cast seven BJP MLAs including then towns, where they started their career Haul of bullet-proof jackets, ammunition vote in favour of the party can- Legislature Party leader Prof over the years. Centre to spend some time in months after the Prime Minister Excelsior Correspondent didates on February 7. Neeraj Rohmetra Chaman Lal Gupta had cross On January 22, this year these places and on their met Secretaries of all Ministries "The defiance of party whip, JAMMU, Feb 4: Two persons, including a former Army man, voted in favour of National JAMMU, Feb 4: After 30 Madhav Lal, Secretary, Ministry return submit a report on the and Departments and suggested which can be reported by repre- were arrested today and huge quantity of bullet proof jackets, Conference-Congress candi- years of service, two top IAS of Micro Small and Medium ground situation and recom- that they must visit the place of sentatives of the candidates or head-gears and ammunition of INSAS rifle seized from them. dates and were expelled by the officials of the State, who are Enterprises visited Bhaderwah, mend steps to improve infras- their first posting for a couple of political parties appointed by On a tip-off, a joint operation was launched by police and a party. Later, they were taken serving as Secretaries with the where he had served as SDM tructure", sources asserted. days as this would help them them for checking votes of the team of Military Intelligence in Narwal and Bari Brahamana areas back but denied re-nomination Government of India (GoI), during his first posting and on Sources said, "ahead of the provide several new policymak- MLAs, would lead to disqualifi- here, reports said. in the Assembly elections. went down the memory lane February 1, Union Home visit of these Secretaries, the ing insights. cation of the MLA from the They arrested one ex-serviceman from Narwal and one civilian After the cross-voting, the and inspected the pace of Secretary, Anil Goswami, who ground level officials had also There are 93 Secretaries at Assembly as per the Anti- from Bari Brahamana. The arrested persons have been identified then Government had intro- development in the small resigned from the services prepared a report on the prob- the Centre and all have been Defection Law of Jammu and as Vijay Kumar, ex-serviceman of 24 Punjab Rifles and civilian duced and passed legislation in towns, where they started today, visited Reasi, where he lems that have been prevalent in directed to visit places, where Kashmir,'' sources said. Satpal Verma. the House for open ballot sys- their career as bureaucrats. had served as SDM. the areas, since the last 30 they served several years ago. They pointed out that the At least 17 bullet-proof jackets, 10 INSAS rifle magazine and tem for both Rajya Sabha and The visit is part of a first-of- Official sources said, "while years". "The prime objective is to Leader of Legislature Party 87 bullet proof patkas were seized from the two persons, who were Legislative Council elections, its-kind initiative of the Madhav Lal served as SDM The exercise is part of the make a ground assessment of was generally authorized to working as scrap dealers. which had already been imple- Narendra Modi-led BJP Bhaderwah from August 4, PM Modi's initiative for the overall development in these issue whip to the party MLAs (Contd on page 9 Col 1) mented in other States. Government, wherein all 1979 to April 24, 1982, his improving the Government's areas over the past 30 years and for voting in favour of the Sources said in determined Secretary-level officers have counterpart Mr Goswami was efficiency. The directive was also to review as to how the party or alliance candidates. HC seeks info on deaths of flood rescuers bid to capture all four Rajya been directed to visit districts of SDM Reasi from October 1, issued by the Department of Central schemes are being However, since all four parties Excelsior Correspondent Sabha seats from Jammu and their first posting and make an 1981 to December 1, 1983." Personnel and Training (DoPT) implemented in States and rec- have not elected Leaders of Kashmir, the PDP could shift assessment on the progress "Both the bureaucrats in the first week of January, this ommend changes required to their Legislature Parties, their SRINAGAR, Feb 4: Jammu and Kashmir High Court today its two votes to the BJP in these places have made, so far have been directed by the year. The directive comes two State presidents would be (Contd on page 9 Col 1) sought information from the Government about those persons who Notification No. 3 on which died rescuing the people in last year's devastating floods. authorized to issue the whip to election is being held for two party MLAs for voting. It may Union Power Ministry gets work started on project The Division Bench comprising Justice MH Attar and Justice J seats, if required, as some of R Kotwal while hearing advocate G A Lone in a public interest be mentioned here that all the Independents would be four major political parties- with regard to rehabilitation of flood victims directed counsel for (Contd on page 9 Col 1) Finally, J&K on path of getting alternate the State, Mushtaq Chashoo (AAG), to provide information to the Court with regard to those persons who died during rescuing the Internet Edition: www.dailyexcelsior.com people. E-Paper: http://epaper.dailyexcelsior.com connectivity with Northern Power Grid "Mr Chashoo learned AAG, to provide information to the court facebook.com/dailyexcelsior whether any person has died in the aforesaid circumstances. Details be provided about such persons and compensation, if any, paid to twitter.com/dailyexcelsior1 *Electricity reliability, industrial promotion to get boost the claimants or kith and kin of such persons", the bench directed. Mohinder Verma Mughal Road has begun more via Mughal Road to M/s Sterlite improve considerably in entire (Contd on page 9 Col 1) INSIDE WEATHER than two years after Northern Company by way of tariff based State in general and Rajouri- ) * Mansarovar pilgrimage ...Page 6 JAMMU : JAMMU, Feb 4: In a Region Power Committee gave bidding. Poonch belt in particular", Mainly clear sky. major development for power 9 CEOs, others transferred * Gulmarg net connectivity nod to the project in its meeting "The company has started sources said, adding "at present TEMPERATURE potential rich but power Excelsior Correspondent Max: 22.0 Degree C held in November 2012. the work on the project from Rajouri-Poonch is having net- ) Nadda, Jitendra release API Min: 6.4 Degree C starved Jammu and Kashmir, This was the long pending Jallandhar and will complete the work of 132 KV transmission JAMMU, Feb 4: Affecting a reshuffle, the State Government textbook of Medicine ...Page 3 RELATIVE HUMIDITY the work on the project aimed demand of Jammu and Kashmir project within a period of three line but following completion of today ordered transfers and postings of nine Chief Education RH-I (Morning): 83.0 per cent at providing alternate con- as at present the State is con- years provided J&K this project the twin border dis- Officer/equivalent level officers in the School Education ) Governor reviews disbursement RH-II (Evening): 52.0 per cent nectivity to the State with the Sunset on Thursday: 06.08 p.m. nected with the Northern Grid Government extends all neces- tricts would be able to have 220 Department. of relief under PMNRF ...Page 3 Sunrise on Friday: 07.23 a.m. Northern Grid has finally only through Kishenpur-Moga sary support to the company", KV power stations like the one Joginder Kumar Sudan has been transferred from SIE Jammu KASHMIR: begun. With the completion of transmission line. Because of sources said. which is being constructed at and posted as Incharge CEO Jammu vice Tarsem Lal Mulniwasi, ) NDMA team to reach Ladakh Mainly clear sky. this prestigious project, the only one connectivity, the State In response to a question, Siot". who has been transferred and posted as Incharge Principal DIET TEMPERATURE power reliability in the State on Feb 8 ...Page 5 Max: 9.0 Degree C witnesses total darkness in case they said that with the comple- Moreover with this alter- Poonch, against an available vacancy. will improve considerably and of any fault in the line. tion of this project a complete nate line, Kashmir valley will Mohammad Latief Wani, Incharge Principal DIET Sopore, is ) Police foils JPUF march Min: 1.2 Degree C RELATIVE HUMIDITY give required impetus to the Official sources told ring of 400 KV line with two not plunge into complete transferred and posted as Incharge CEO Pulwama vice Farooq for Jammu CM ...Page 5 RH-I (Morning): 93.0 per cent industrial promotion. EXCELSIOR that Union separate links with the Northern darkness in case of any fault Ahmad Dar, who has been transferred and posted as Incharge CEO RH-II (Evening): 55.0 per cent The work on the project--- ) Corruption- free world is LEH: TEMPERATURE Ministry of Power has given the Grid would be in place for in Kishenpur-Wagoora trans- Srinagar against an available vacancy. Mr Wani will also hold the Max: 1.2 Degree C Jallandhar-Jammu-Srinagar 400 task of laying Jallandhar- whole of the State. mission line, which at present additional charge of Principal DIET Pulwama. greatest challenge: ICC ...Page 10 Min: -10.8 Degree C KV power transmission line via Jammu-Srinagar 400 KV line "The power reliability would (Contd on page 9 Col 3) (Contd on page 9 Col 3)