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Vol No. 50 No. 146 JAMMU, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014 REGD.NO.JK-71/12-14 16 Pages ` 3.50 RNI No. 28547/1992

President Pranab Mukherjee,Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister pose for a photograph with the members of the new Cabinet during the swearing in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New on Monday.(UNI) In first address to nation, PM promises glorious future for Modi sworn-in as PM, heads 45 members Ministry

NEW DELHI, May 26: Modi also exchanged greet- ings with the outgoing PM. Marking the beginning of a *Swaraj, Maneka, Smriti among 7 women get Ministerial berths Shortly later, it was all disorder new era in Indian politics, Prasad, and Harsh Congress President Minister Tarun Gogoi and Kumarmangalam Birla, Sashi swearing-in ceremony, Modi as the gathered crowd sought to Narendra Modi was today Vardhan were among those who Council of Ministers , Rahul Chief Minister Ruia, Gautam Adani and V N shook hands with all the heads greet the new PM that led to sworn in Prime Minister at the were sworn in as Cabinet Prime Minister: Narendra Modi Gandhi, senior BJP Bhupinder Singh Hooda were Dhoot, film stars Salman of Governments from abroad pushing around. head of a 45-member coalition Ministers. Cabinet Ministers: leaders L K Advani, present at the ceremony. Khan along with his father No children of The other BJP MPs, who Government after the elec- (LJP), 1. Murli , Rajnath may get Salim Khan, Vivek Oberoi, were sworn in as Cabinet tions threw the first (Akali 2. outgoing Speaker Dharmendra and Anupam BJP leaders Ministers were Gopinath Government with absolute Dal), () 3. Meira Kumar, former Home, Jaitley Kher, lyricist Javed Akhtar Munde, Sadanand Gowda, majority in 30 years. and 4. M Presidents Abdul were present along with a in Modi team , Najma 63-year-old Modi, the first (TDP) were those from allied 5. Kalam, Pratibha Patil Finance clutch saffron-robed seers Heptullah, the lone Muslim leader to get a landslide majori- parties who took the oath today. 6. D V Sadananda Gowda were among those who including Pejawar Mutt chief , May 26: face, , ty for BJP on its own, became Dignitaries from politics, 7. attended the ceremony. NEW DELHI, May 26: Vishwendra Teertha Swamy. Former Finance Minister , the 15th Prime Minister in a vir- industry, cinema and religion, 8. Najma A Heptulla Differences during Till late tonight there was Cricketing great Sunil Yashwant Sinha’s son Jayant and Thawar Chand Ghelot. tual 'coronation' ceremony in the capped by leaders of SAARC 9. Gopinathrao Munde elections melted away no official word on the portfo- Gavaskar was also present. and Chief Former Army chief Gen V forecourt of the Rashtrapati nations including Pakistan 10. Ramvilas Paswan before protocol as lios of the newly appointed Sri Lankan President Minister ’s son K Singh was inducted into the Bhawan before a 3000-strong Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, 11. Kalraj Mishra opponents including Ministers of the Narendra Modi Mahinda Rajapakse, whose effi- Abhishek are among over half a Council of Ministers as gathering, the largest audience watched Modi take the oath of 12. , Cabinet but the talk was that gy was burnt some kms away in dozen children of BJP leaders Minister of State with inde- at the swearing in of new office and secrecy in . 13. Ananthkumar his son and UP Chief Rajnath Singh was being made the morning, Afghan President who could not find place in the pendent charge along with Government. Vice President Hamid 14. Minister Akhilesh the Home Minister while Arun Hamid Karzai and Mauritius Narendra Modi-led Council of nine others. They are Rao Rajnath Singh, Sushma Ansari, outgoing Prime Minister 15. Ashok Gajapathi Raju Yadav, J&K Chief (Contd on page 6 Col 5) President Naveen Chandra (Contd on page 6 Col 5) Inderjit Singh, Santosh Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, M , his 16. Anant Geete Minister Omar Ramgoolam were the other for- Kumar Gangwar, Shripad Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari, Ministerial colleagues P 17. Harsimrat Kaur Badal Abdullah, Chief Top industry figures like eign dignitaries present at the after the President took a group Naik, , Uma Bharti, Maneka Gandhi, Chidambaram, , 18. Narendra Singh Tomar Minister Jitan Ram Mukesh Ambani and his fami- ceremony. photograph with the new , , Ravi Shankar and Pallam Raju, (Contd on page 6 Col 1) Manjhi, Chief ly, his brother Anil, At the end of the 90-minute Council of Ministers. (Contd on page 6 Col 1) Will push development agenda of State: Dr Jitendra Finally, Speaker sets up Panels on 14 killed in train accident SANT KABIR NAGAR (UP), May 26: J&K gets representation At least 14 passengers were killed and 95 injured when a Delhi- Gorakhpur express train today derailed and rammed into a stationary Shrines Bill, Health Institutions freight train near a railway station here, with officials saying that the Sanjeev Pargal a total of 15 members—10 from to be held in August in death toll may rise to 40. in Modi's Cabinet the Assembly and five from the Srinagar, the summer capital Six bogies of the Gorakhpur-bound Gorakhdham Express train Legislative Council. of the State. Jammu and JAMMU, May 26: Exactly (Contd on page 6 Col 3) Neeraj Rohmetra my utmost to deliver the mandate duties are assigned to me". a week after the Excelsior car- The Assembly members in Kashmir is scheduled to have given to me by the electorate of Dr Singh, who is presently ried a report on extraordinary the JSC, nominated today by the Assembly elections in Modi-Sharif talks today JAMMU, May 26: Giving the State". also a member of the BJP National delay in constitution of Joint Speaker, included Surjit Singh November-December this due representation to Jammu Expressing his gratitude to Executive had played a historic Select Committee (JSC) on Slathia and Rashpal Singh (both year. NEW DELHI, May 26: and Kashmir in his the people of State in general role in 2008 Amarnath Land row NC), MY Tarigami (CPM), Mubarak Gul also ‘The Kashmiri Hindu Shrines Arriving here with a "message of peace", Pakistan Prime Minister Government, Prime Minister agitation and was also a member Mohammad Sharief Niaz and announced nine members House and Religious Places Nawaz Sharif today said that he intends to pick up the threads with Narendra Modi today inducted of the Core Committee of the Indu Pawar (Congress), Abdul Committee headed by former (Management and India's new leader Narendra Modi from where he and then Prime senior Bharatiya Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti. He Rehman Veeri (PDP), Yashpal Minister and National Regulation) Bill and House Minister left off in 1999. (BJP) leader and Member of has been an active participant in Kundal (NPP), Prof Gharu Conference MLA Dr Mustafa Committee on alleged dis- Sharif arrived here from Lahore where he said he was going to (MP), Dr Jitendra panel discussions on several news crimination in sanction- Bhagat (BJP) and Charanjit Kamaal to look into alleged dis- (Contd on page 6 Col 1) Singh in his Council of channels of national repute and is ing/opening of Health Singh (Independent). crimination in sanction- Ministers. also national TV panellist of BJP Institutions (Sub Health Council Chairman Amrit ing/opening of Health Dr Singh has been made and the Chief Spokesperson of the Centres) in Jammu and Malhotra has already nominated Institutions in the State. Omar wishes very best to Modi Minister of State with party for this border State. Kashmir, Legislative five members to the JSC, who The House Committee com- NEW DELHI, May 26: Independent charge and the port- Interestingly, Dr Singh is Assembly Speaker Mubarak included Khalid Najeeb prised Nasir Aslam Wani and folio is likely to be given to him also renowned Diabetologist of Gul today announced consti- Suhrawardhy and Bashir Ahmad Javaid Ahmed Dar (both NC), Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today tomorrow. International repute and had tution of both the Panels. Shah Veeri (both NC), B R Tsetan Namgayal wished "the very best" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his The information about his served as Chairman of the Official sources told the Kundal and Sham Lal Bhagat (Independent), Rafi Ahmed Mir team and hoped that they will hand over a better India to their suc- induction into the Council of National Scientific Committee Excelsior that the Speaker has (both Congress) and Yash and Nizzam-ud-Din Bhat (both cessors when the time comes. Ministers was shared by the Prime and BJP workers in particular, of Diabetes (RSSDI 2013). appointed Minister for Law, Sharma (PDP). PDP), Ashok Kumar Bhagat "For what it's worth, I wish Team Modi the very best as they Minister designate in his brief he said, "I along with my fellow Besides, he has so far contribut- Justice and Parliamentary The Speaker has directed (Congress), Bharat Bhushan embark on a journey to govern India for the next five years," meeting with Dr Singh, at 9.00 colleagues --- Jugal Kishore ed over five thousand published Affairs Mir Saifullah as the Committee to submit its (BJP) and Engineer Sheikh Omar, who attended Modi's swearing-in ceremony, wrote on AM today morning at (MP from Jammu) and articles in the press including a Chairman of the Joint Select report to the House during Abdul Rashid (Independent). (Contd on page 6 Col 1) Bhawan in New Delhi. Thupstan Chewang (MP from widely syndicate column "Tales Committee on Kashmiri Hindu next session of the Assembly, The Speaker has directed the Famous Diabetologist, Dr Ladakh region) would highlight of Travesty", which was pub- Shrines Bill, which would have which would be last session of House Committee to submit its Singh defeated the Congress stal- all grievances of the electorate (Contd on page 6 Col 1) present Assembly and is likely (Contd on page 6 Col 3) wart and former Union Health and would endeavour to high- Minister, from light all issue like that of West 57 colleges, 3 Universities don’t fulfill accreditation criteria the Udhampur seat by Pak refugees, problems of vio- a margin of 60,976 votes. Mr lence-infested areas, VDC mem- Singh, who contested his first bers, Kashmiri Pandits and HRD Ministry finds numerous deficiencies, political battle polled 4, 87,369 other issue confronting the votes, while as Mr Azad got State", adding, "we will jointly 4,26,393 votes. try to push through the develop- gaps in Higher Education Plan of J&K Elated over his induction, Dr mental agenda of the State". Jitendra Singh, who hailed from a Asked what portfolio will be far-flung village of the Doda dis- granted to him, he quipped, "with *Vacancies responsible for high student-teacher ratio trict while talking to EXCEL- all humility, I would like to state Mohinder Verma of Higher Education in the commitment of the has been provided by the State SIOR from New Delhi said, "It is that I am here to serve the people Ministry of Human Resource Government”. for 98 Government colleges out a big responsibility and I shall try of country and will do whatever JAMMU, May 26: At a and Development during the About the vacancy of fac- of which only 21 have received Internet Edition: www.dailyexcelsior.com time when much thrust is appraisal of the Jammu and ulty positions in the colleges, accreditation grade”, adding “57 being given on drastic action Kashmir State Higher Education the Ministry has observed, colleges have been established E-Paper: http://epaper.dailyexcelsior.com to reform higher education Plan has observed that the “there was no justification by 2006 or before hence com- INSIDE WEATHER system in every nook and cor- expenditure on higher education behind allowing large number pleting the six year benchmark ner of the country to raise the as a percentage of Gross State of positions to remain vacant but don’t fulfill the accreditation  * Mired Ring Roads project ....Page 8 JAMMU : quality of education, the Domestic Product (GSDP) dur- as there is no ban on recruit- criteria”, adding “these institu- Mainly clear sky. * Closing down Yuva-vani Union Human Resource ing the years 2010-11, 2011-12 ments in the State”, adding tions should be taken up on pri-  Jammu ropeway TEMPERATURE Max: 37.2 Degree C Development Ministry has and 2012-13 was Rs 390.51 “currently, the State’s student ority basis by the State for agreement signed, Min: 22.6 Degree C detected numerous deficien- work to start soon ...Page 3 crore (0.685%), Rs 518.31 crore teacher ratio is high (36:1) but accreditation”. RELATIVE HUMIDITY cies and gaps in the Higher (0.786%) and Rs 510.59 crore no timeline/plan of action has “Similarly, three out of five  BJP celebrates swearing Highest: 34.0 per cent Education Plan of Jammu and (0.671%) respectively. been specified to fill vacant State Universities don’t fulfill in of Modi, induction Lowest: 24.0 per cent Kashmir. These shortcomings of Dr Singh in Ministry ...Page 3 Sunset on Tuesday: 07.31 p.m. “With regard to the commit- positions”. the accreditation criteria and have clearly indicated that  Pak violates Sunrise on Wednesday: 05.27 a.m. ment to raise its expenditure on Stating that filling of faculty the State needs to submit SRINAGAR: ceasefire on those at the helm of affairs in higher education, the State has vacancies was linked with action plan/timeline according Mainly clear sky. Higher Education LoC, IB ...Page 5 TEMPERATURE informed that the matter has bringing down student-teacher to which it proposes to  Disaster risk Max: 26.9 Degree C Department of the State are been placed before State ratio, the Ministry stressed that obtain/apply for their accredi- education must Min: 9.2 Degree C most insensitive towards the Planning and Development all steps should be initiated to tation”, the Ministry said. for schools: Sham ...Page 5 RELATIVE HUMIDITY necessity of carrying out Department”, sources said quot- bring the ratio to the prescribed Pointing towards the State  Ashinder becomes Highest: 65.0 per cent essential reforms in this vital ing the Ministry’s observation, level of 20:1 and later to 15:1. Higher Education Council, Lowest: 44.0 per cent sector. chairman selection committee; LEH : TEMPERATURE adding “the Ministry has noted As far as accreditation which was first constituted vide Kalra heads media, Max: 21.1 Degree C Official sources told that expenditure was not raised reforms, the Ministry, according Government Order No. 363-HE Micky finance ...Page 14 Min: 8.4 Degree C EXCELSIOR that Department despite the fact that this was a to the sources, said, “the data (Contd on page 6 Col 1)