2017, a Relatively Calm Year for J&K
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RNI NO: JKENG/2015/62397 PRICE RS.3/- (AIR SURCHARGE FOR DELHI, JAMMU & LADAKH 50/- PAISA) STATE | 3 INTERSTATE | 5 BUSINESS | 7 SPORTS | 8 ABDUL HAQ, CHOWDHARY ZULFKAR 8 MLAS, INCLUDING 5 FROM PARTY, RESIGN GOVT BREACHES 2017-18 FISCAL DEFICIT POLLARD SKIPS NZ TWENTY20S FOR INAUGURATE 50 PUBLIC UTILITY ASSETS IN TO JOIN BJP ALLY TARGET IN NOVEMBER PERSONAL REASONS PDP-BJP coordination 2017, a relatively calm committee to meet today Govt functioning, Budget session, this year’s year for J&K performance on agenda, says Madni SRINAGAR: After a tumultuous Initially, the Election Commission Srinagar, Dec 29 (KNS): The coordination and agendas of the present regime. 2016, Kashmir witnessed a relative- pushed back the date for polling by a committee of the PDP and BJP coalition part- Madni added that the coming budget ses- ly calm year but there were many month but later cancelled the election ners are expected to meet on Saturday and sion and government priorities are also on issues, including the legal challenge altogether. discuss various issues relating to the function- agenda of the scheduled meet. in the Supreme Court to Article 35-A It was for the first time since 1991 ing of the government in Jammu and Kashmir. It was informed further that ahead of the of the Constitution pertaining to spe- that an election could not be con- The PDP vice president Sartaj Madni told coming budget session, the coordination com- cial residency laws of Jammu and ducted in Kashmir due to violence Kashmir News Service (KNS) that the coor- mittee of the ruling alliance in the state will Kashmir, that hogged national head- and apprehension of it spreading to dination committee is scheduled to meet on meet on Saturday under the chairmanship of lines. entire valley. Saturday wherein it will discuss the function- Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh. However, one of the biggest stories While the 1991 Lok Sabha polls ing of the PDP-BJP coalition in Jammu and Reports inform that besides government’s emanating from Kashmir in 2017 was were not held in entire Jammu and Kashmir along with the major achievements See Meet....Pg 02 the cancellation of by-poll to the An- Kashmir due to eruption of militancy, antnag Lok Sabha seat — vacated by the Anantnag bypoll had to be can- Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in celled due to threat to law and order April last year — in view of widespread by stone-pelting people. TEACHER POSTS ARE FILLED ON Kashmir violence during polling for Srinagar The National Investigating Agen- Lok Sabha seat by-election which left Such were the apprehensions of made a comeback to the Lok Sabha, cy (NIA) stepped in to investigate the BASIS OF VACANCY POSITION IN Tourism Sector nine persons dead and scores others trouble around elections that au- defeating PDP candidate Nazir Ahmad phenomenon of stone-pelting, espe- injured. thorities snapped Internet facilities Khan by over 10,000 votes — a huge cially as the youth were hampering EACH DISTRICT: EDU DEPTT in Doldrums As the street protests of 2016 had a day before the polling on 9 April for margin considering that only 88,951 the anti-militancy operations, after Srinagar, Dec 29: Kashmir not fully died down even in the spring the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat. votes were cast. senior separatist leader Nayeem Khan Refutes media report and tourism are more often of 2017, the PDP-BJP coalition gov- By the time polling ended, eight A day after the polling for Srinagar, admitted on camera that they were Jammu, Dec 29: The Government today refuted a news viewed as synonymous terms. ernment was not keen on holding the persons were dead — with another Tassaduq Hussain Mufti, brother of receiving funds to keep the Kashmir report that appeared in some sections of the media regard- Kashmir is rich with scenic by-elections so soon. However, Elec- succumbing few days later. Only Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, asked pot boiling. ing referral of posts of Teacher by the School Education natural beauty that has no tion Commission went ahead with seven per cent voters turned up to the Election Commission to postpone Khan, several other separatist Department for selection of suitable candidates under other analogy in the world. the process of polls. exercise their franchise. the elections for Anantnag Lok Sab- leaders and few businessmen were direct recruitment quota to the Services Selection Board It is rightly called ‘paradise The results were disastrous on National Conference patriarch ha seat till the situation in the valley arrested by the NIA which found them See Teacher....Pg 02 on earth’. almost all fronts. Farooq Abdullah, who lost in 2014, improved. See Calm....Pg 02 This great scenic attribute has made Kashmir world fa- mous for its tourism potential. Tourism industry is tradition- Parliament’s declaration over Triple Dr Drabu reviews expenditure, liability ally considered as the back- bone of Kashmir`s economy. With the growth in tourism Talaq in one-go is criminal offence: Soz position of key departments industry other related sectors Says Parliament shows Muslim Personal Law Board in poor light 42% capex budget released upto Nov 2017 compared to 28% for corresponding period of previous fiscal like handicrafts, hotel indus- Srinagar, Dec 29: Senior had been functioning arbi- try, tour and travel agencies, Congress leader and former trarily and totally undemo- Jammu, Dec 29: Minister retail trade market, and flo- union minister, Prof. Saifud- cratically all these years, for Finance, Labour & Em- riculture boost up. Thus, the din Soz Friday said that Par- leaving the victim Muslim ployment, Dr Haseeb Drabu overall economy grows. But liament’s declaration over women to fend for themselves has stressed the need for keep- this year tourism industry did Triple Talaq in one-go is in courts, miserably and help- ing liabilities under check and not pick up due to turbulent criminal offence, stating that lessly.” to ensure that the projects situations and often uphea- the All India Muslim Per- “Now that the parliament are taken up in consonance veals. sonal Law Board must do a has declared ‘Triple Divorce with the resource allocations The past of tourism in- serious thinking on its future. in one-go’ as criminal offence, to avoid unwarranted fiscal dustry of Kashmir has been According to the statement the Board must do a serious liabilities. very magnificent. But due to issued to KNS, Soz said that thinking on its future,” he said. This was stated by the the disturbance in the region "I am one of those persons He said that the Board Finance Minister while chair- ments. Naveen K Choudhary, Prin- Rohit Kansal, Administrative for more than two and half who tried to show utmost years, although I had serious must set its house in order by ing a meeting to discuss the The meeting was attend- cipal Secretary Higher Educa- Secretar ies and senior of ficers decades now, the tourism respect to All India Muslim reservations on the function- proving its representative expenditure and liability po- ed by Chief Secretary B B Vyas, tion Asgar Samoon, Principal of Finance and concerned industry has been badly Personal Law Board all these ing of the Board. The Board See Soz....Pg 02 sition of various key depart- Principal Secretary Finance Secretary to Chief Minister See Drabu....Pg 02 See Tourism....Pg 02 Illegal sale of LPG Sharia is supreme than everything: Er Rasheed Days after Panchayat polls should be held under cylinders continues Condemns Dr Farooq, Beigh’s silence in Parliament unabated in Baramulla, Dec 29: Urging Muslim orga- regularization, Panchayat Election Commission only: Monga Anantnag District nization to raise their voice against the bill casual labours Srinagar, Dec 29: While welcoming the passed by Indian parliament banning triple Government's decision to hold Panchayat Sameer Kashmiri Talak, MLA Langate, Engineer Abdul Rasheed welcome move elections from February 15, Jammu and Kash- Anantnag, Dec 29: the il- has condemned the criminal silence of Farooq ‘Hope Govt will fulfill its assurances’ mir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) legal refilling of liquefied Abdullah and Muzaffar Beigh over this seri- Srinagar, Dec 29: Welcom- Vice President and MLC G N Monga today petroleum gas (LPG) is turn- ous issue in the parliament. ing the regularization process said the Panchayat polls should be held under ing out to be a highly profitable While interacting with people from dif- initiated by the government, Panchayat Election Commission only. business in the Anantnag ferent sections of society at Bandi (Uri) today, the Jammu and Kashmir Ca- In a statement issued to KNS, he said, District and those involved Er Rasheed as per the statement issued to sual/Daily wagers Forum "Past experiences shows how this government in the illegal trade mint huge KNS said that not only Muslims but followers (JKCDF) Friday hoped that disempowered Panchayati Raj Institutions profit. The activity increases of any religion will never allow interference due respect and protection to women than the state government will in the state. If the Government is sincere this during winters in Kashmir, in its religious affairs.