Schools, Colleges to Remain Closed in J&K
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MONDAY, August 02, 2021 22, Zil Hajj, 1442 34th Year of publication Published from Srinagar | Jammu RNI No: 48956/88 Vol: 34 No. 210 Pages: 14 (10+4 Kashmir Ink pullout) Rs. 5.00 GreaterKashmir.com, GreaterKashmir.net, GreaterKashmir.news epaper.GreaterKashmir.com Jammu & Kashmir C VID19 Expansion Plan C VIDWATCH Active Positive Srinagar Airport to Jammu 467 Schools, colleges to Kashmir 744 get 10 new x-ray counters Recovered & Discharged Upgradation work to begin in March next year: Director Airport Jammu 119195 remain closed in J&K Kashmir 196822 SAQIB MALIK Night curfew 145 fresh cases, 1 Deaths Srinagar, Aug 1: As part of continues to be its expansion plan, ten new Jammu Covid 2nd wave proved death in J&K 2143 x-ray checking counters will in force GK NEWS NETWORK Kashmir be constructed at the entry 2236 3 times more lethal gate of the Srinagar Inter- SHUCHISMITA Srinagar, Aug 1: J&K national Airport next year, ZEHRU NISSA considered to reported 145 new Covid-19 Airport officials said. COLUMN ONE Jammu, Aug 1: All schools have started cases and one death due This will take the total and higher educational Srinagar, Aug No variation from begin- to coronavirus in the last number of x-ray counters at institutions, including 1: The Covid19 in age profi le ning of April 24-hours. the entry gate to 16, which is Apni Party not coaching centres, will con- Second Wave of 1st and 2nd 2021 upto July As per the details shared likely to save travel time of B-team of BJP: Altaf tinue to remain closed for that is at its wave victims 2021, as many by the health department, passengers. onsite or in-person teaching, tailend cur- as 2337 people currently there are 1211 Director, AAI, Srinagar Bukhari till further orders, in J&K. rently in J&K have lost life. active cases in J&K. The Airport, Santosh Dhoke said Says NC and PDP actually However, the educa- has claimed In the recent- health department officials at present there are 6 x-ray Over 80% benefi ted from BJP tional institutions are more victims most four stated that the decline in counters functional at the permitted to seek personal in four months deaths in months, thus, active cases is an encourag- See Srinagar...on Pg-06 PRESS TRUST OF INDIA attendance of limited vacci- than the First above 50 the number See 145 fresh...on Pg-06 nated staff for administra- Wave did in years’ age of victims of Srinagar, Aug tive purposes. the entire year SARS-CoV2 has group in both 1: The Jammu The order in this con- it ensued for. surpassed the India records and Kashmir nection was issued on However, in waves total number Search operation intensifi ed in Honzar village Apni Party, a new Sunday by the Chief Sec- terms of the of victims in 12 single-day rise of entrant to the retary A K Mehta, who is age groups it claimed as months that preceded. 19 missing remain untraceable in Kishtwar political arena also the chairperson State victims, there is minor Additional Chief 41,831 new cases, of the union ter- Executive Committee variation only. Secretary to J&K Gov- SYED AMJAD SHAH ing difficult because the and Kashmir Police, NGOs ritory, is not a (SEC) of J&K Department Between March 2020 ernment, Health and 541 deaths huge boulders and debris and locals were working in "B-team" of the BJP or the of Disaster Management, to March 2021, officially Medical Education, Atal Jammu, Aug 1: 19 missing could not be removed using perfect coordination. But the "King's party" as described by Relief, Rehabilitation and considered the period of Dulloo said that the new New Delhi, Aug 1: India persons continued to remain human resources only. bodies were not traceable. political rivals like the National Reconstruction. the First Wave, as many strains of the virus that saw a single-day rise of untraceable in Honzar vil- “This was the reason; we “The machines cannot reach Conference and the PDP but The direction came a as 2011 people died due affected J&K were seen to 41,831 new COVID-19 lage in Kishtwar, even on the had engaged sniffer dogs in here being a hilly village. an outfi t which has no history day after the Lieutenant to SARS-CoV2 infection, be “more transmissible”. cases, taking the tally to fifth day on Sunday though the rescue operation. How- Neither there is road con- of being a dynasty, its chief Governor Manoj Sinha, in data compiled by Health “Although in terms of 3,16,55,824, while the cumu- the searches were intensified ever, five days have passed nectivity nor have we any Altaf Bukhari said on Sunday. a meeting with the Covid and Medical Education causing severe disease, lative vaccine doses admin- with the help of sniffer dogs. but we have not been able to mobile phone communica- "In fact, when the words Task Force, Deputy Com- Department of J&K Gov- the new strains were not istered in the country has The officials, who were trace any of the missing per- tion,” he said while express- like King's party and B-team missioners and District ernment reveals. In the as much of a concern but crossed 47 crore, according monitoring the rescue opera- sons,” said the official. ing helplessness vis-a-vis the were coined, I simply laughed. SSPs on July 31 to review Second Wave, officially See Covid 2nd...on Pg-06 to Union Health Ministry tion, told Greater Kashmir The official said that situation there. The National Conference See Schools...on Pg-06 See India records...on Pg-06 that the things were becom- NDRF, SDRF and Jammu See Search...on Pg-06 enjoyed power with the BJP from 1999 and the PDP had an alliance with the BJP post 2014 assembly polls and my party has been given such Completion of languishing projects names. In other words, they See Apni Party...on Pg-06 CASO in Rajouri JKIDFC to seek additional village a er IED recovery Rs 250 cr loan from J&K Bank SUMIT BHARGAV MUKEET AKMALI Development Corpora- the Board was informed tion (HUDCO) and State that till such time HUDCO Rajouri, Aug 1: Security Srinagar, Aug 1: The Bank of India (SBI) partic- finalizes its offer of pro- forces on Sunday conducted Jammu and Kashmir ipated. The HUDCO was viding loan of Rs 1000 Cr, a Cordon and Search Opera- administration has found L1 (Lowest bid) and the JKIDFC may approach tion in Bathuni village located decided to borrow an an offer was extended to J&K Bank for providing near Rajouri town. additional loan of Rs 250 HUDCO for providing a additional loan as per the Intensive searches were Cr from J&K Bank as an loan of Rs 1000 Cr. Howev- requirements of the Cor- conducted consecutively earlier floated Expres- er, HUDCO had certain poration so that till EoI for the second day following sion of Interest (EoI) observations and to is finalized, payment to recovery of an Improvised by J&K Infrastruc- resolve such obser- the languishing projects Explosive Device (IED) from ture Development vations, meetings is made unhindered,” it the area on Saturday morning. Finance Corpora- at the level of specifies. Officials said, “A joint tion Limited seek- CMD and Execu- “It was decided by the Cordon and Search Opera- ing Rs 1000 Cr has tive Directors were Board to approach J&K tion (CASO) was launched by yet to materialize. held a number of times," Bank for an additional army and police on Saturday The J&K govern- reads a note of 14th Board loan facility of Rs 250 Cr morning during which the ment has incorporated of Directors meeting of and to fix the interest rate forces recovered an Impro- Jammu and Kashmir JKIDFC chaired by the @ 7.9 percent or lower. vised Explosive Device that Infrastructure Develop- Chief Secretary Arun The Board has given con- was kept under a culvert in ment Finance Corpora- Kumar Mehta. sent to the raising of a Bathuni village along Jam- tion (JKIDFC) Limited to “Further all the loan of an amount of Rs mu-Rajouri-Poonch National raise funds for languish- required information 250 Cr from J&K bank," Highway. The IED was later ing projects in the Union asked by the HUDCO reads a note of meeting. on destroyed through a con- Territory. has been provided. The As per the officials, trolled explosion by the bomb “JKIDFC on December HUDCO has informed that the delay in finalizing the disposal squad of Jammu and 4 had floated EoI in which they are in the finaliza- loan facility by HUDCO Kashmir Police along with the two financial institutions tion of the loan to be pro- has held-up the release of experts of the army.” i.e., Housing and Urban vided to the JKIDFC. But See JKIDFC...on Pg-06 See CASO in...on Pg-06 SRINAGAR JAMMU HIGHWAY STATUS Rs 2300 cr power bills From both sides pending with govt deptts, In view of Covid private hospitals in Kashmir lockdown, MUKEET AKMALI As per the reply, the crore KPDCL on account advertisements department of Public of electricity bills, as per can also be Srinagar, Aug 1: Several Health Engineering owes a RTI reply. booked online in government departments Rs 1081 crore, Tourism The RTI application Greater Kashmir and universities, and Rs 34 crore, Public Works filed by M M Shuja, social and Kashmir Uzma. many private health- Rs 16 crore, Housing activist, had sought care establishments and Urban Develop- details of outstanding The bookings can in Kashmir owe a ment Rs 106 crore, amounts payable to the be made on whopping Rs 2300 Home Rs 206 crore, KPDCL by different hos- crore to Kashmir and Irrigation and pitals of the Kashmir [email protected] Power Develop- Flood Control Rs Valley on account of [email protected] ment Corporation 415 crore.