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VOL 7, ISSUE NO. 13 & KASHMIR SATURDAY JANUARY 13, 2018 DAILY 8 PAGE Re. 1/- IInnssiiddee We Are Not a Weak Nation, Says Army Chief Govt orders placement of Information BNewi pDelihin, Ja nR 12a : wAackntow leodginng th eC sush- iPankistan h'ass s ufAferegd agre rweeaponss hass inicroeasedn. atha vBe too loork dat wehat r we Army Chief General Bipin pension of military aid to three to four times more than Speaking during a press require to fight the future Officers as ADs Rawat on Friday said that Pakistan by the US, General we did. Pakistan is sending conference in New Delhi, wars. We have to get systems JAMMU, JANUARUY is ready to take on any Rawat averred it was prema - messages regularly to return General Rawat pointed that that are best suited for our 12: The government today aggressive manoeuvre by ture to talk how much of an to ceasefire. We are ready, threat of use of unconven - requirements,” he added. ordered placement of two China. Rawat acknowledged impact it would have on but we will continue till we tional warfare by ‘non-state’ ‘China Exerting Pressure, Information Officers namely that confrontation with actors has increased.”The But We’re Dealing With it’ Ms Shakeela Shawl and Mr Chinese soldiers has threat of the use of CBRN Responding to the a ques - Lohri Greetings To All Our Readers Bhagwan Dass Sharma as increased on its border. (Chemical, biological, radio - tion concerning border In-charge Assistant Directors Emphasising that India logical and nuclear) weapons issues with China, General Governor, CM, Dy CM greets people in their own pay and grade, should focus on its northern is becoming a reality, particu - Rawat admitted that Beijing on Lohri, Makar Sankranti with charge allowance as borders, Rawat said China is larly from the non-state was flexing its muscles, but JAMMU, JANUARY 12 Minister said in a multicul - admissible under rules. a powerful country but India actors,” the Army chief said assured that Indian forces are : Governor N. N. Vohra, has tural and multilingual State Consequent to their is not a weak nation. without naming the terror well prepared to respond to extended warm greetings to like Jammu & Kashmir such placement, Ms Shakeela “The time had come for groups operating from any escalation. the people on the auspicious occasions bring people closer Shawl has been posted as In- India to shift focus to its Pakistan. “Yes, China is exerting occasions of Lohri and and also bring joy and happi - charge Assistant Director in northern border. The country General Rawat expressed pressure. We are dealing with Makar Sankranti. In his mes - ness to the society. the office of Joint Director is capable of handling the hope that Indian agencies it. Yes we should try that it is sage of greetings, the Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Information Kashmir while China’s assertiveness. China such as the Defence Research not escalated. We will not Governor observed that these Minister Dr Nirmal Singh Mr Bhagwan Dass Sharma, is a powerful country but we and Development allow our territory to intrud - two festivals are a tribute to has extended warm greetings has been posted Incharge are not a weak nation,” the Organisation (DRDO) are ed. Troops are earmarked, the bounties of nature and to the people on the auspi - Assistant Director Army chief said. prepared to tackle such should a situation arise our herald a change in Winter cious occasion of Lohri. (Publication) in the Commenting on recent Pakistan, India and the see decrease in ceasefire vio - threats. troops are ready to cater,” moving towards Spring. In his message, Dr Singh Directorate of Information. developments in US-Pakistan extended neighborhood. lation,” he added. “I am sure that DRDO’s General Rawat said. Governor prayed for the said that festivals are an Govt appointed Parvaiz relations, Rawat emphasized Rawat, commenting on Meanwhile, Highlighting long term perspective plan in China and India were well-being and happiness of important component of our the US cannot expect from increased incidents of cease - the ever rising threat percep - conjunction and integrated engaged in a 73-day tense the people and wished that composite cultural heritage Khateeb as Technical Member India to do its job in the fire violations across the Line tion and security concerns in perspective plan of the serv - standoff at Doklam in the these festivals would bring and tradition which strength - region. “It would be too pre - of Control, said Cavalry the wake of continued hostil - ices must have encompassed Sikkim sector which ended lasting peace and prosperity en bonds of harmony and in JKGST Appellate Tribunal mature to start saying that Fighting Vehicles (CFV) ity by neighbouring nations, the development of mitiga - on August 28 last year. On to the State. brotherhood. Dr Singh hoped JAMMU, JANUARY 12 everything is going to be have been increased to Army Chief General Bipin tion of technologies against Doklam, China has been Meanwhile, Chief that the people of State : The government today hunky-dory. Let’s not expect destroy Pakistan posts that Rawat on Friday said that such CBRN threats,” he said. asserting that the area which Minister, Mehbooba Mufti would celebrate this festival appointed Mr. Parvaiz Iqbal US to do what we are expect - support infiltration. threat of use of chemical, “We need modern was also been claimed by has greeted people on the with love, affection, splender Khateeb, a Technical ed to do,” said Rawat. “The casualties which biological and nuclear weapons and technology. We Bhutan belonged to it. occasion of Lohri.The Chief and religious fervor. Member (State) in the Jammu and Kashmir Goods and SKIMS Governing Body ratifies J&K terror funding case : NIA to file Services Tax Appellate Tribunal, Constituted vide suspension of three faculty SC Judges Will Resolve Differences, Says chargesheet against accused next week SRO 447 dated 23.10-2017, members, attachment of Director New Delhi : The National arrested seven of them - Aftab for the period of five years Investigating Agency (NIA) Hilali Shah alias Shahid-ul- JAMMU, JANUARY 12 : ing Prof. Omar Javed Shah, NewA Dtelhtio, Jarn n12:e Foyur sGen -ene* Srenaiorl ju d:g eTs oof thpe S uDpreeme veiorl juodgpes pmointed onut itncs luded: (a) w.e.f 01.03.2018 or until he ior judges of the Supreme Court Court held a press conference at Not assigning cases to appropriate will file a chargesheet against , Ayaz Akbar Khandey, attains the age of sixty five The Governing Body of the Head, Department of Surgical all accused in connection with Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bitta SKIMS today ratified the Gastroenterology with the today took on the functioning of the residence of Justice J. benches, (b) A PIL seeking Judge years, whichever is earlier. the apex court alleging irregulari - Chelameswar accepting that the BM Loya’s mysterious death was the alleged cross-border fund - Karate, Nayeem Khan, Altaf Order to this effect was issued action taken against three fac - charge of the Director and Ex ing of terror groups active in Ahmad Shah, Raja ulty members for indulging in Officio, Secretary to ties and the Chief Justice of India move was highly unusual. assigned to court no. 10 and not to by the General Administration (CJI) for being unresponsive to “It (press conference) is an any of the first four benches. the Kashmir Valley next Mehrajuddin Kalwal and Department today. private practice and directed Government till further orders. their requests. The unprecedented extraordinary event in the history * The judges claimed that they week. Bashir Ahmad Bhat alias Peer SKIMS to institute a full- The Governing Body also move at a joint news conference of the judiciary and more particu - had sent a seven-page letter to the According to IANS, the Saifullah - on charges of crim - Income Tax Slab For 2018- fledged inquiry in terms of the decided to constitute a small by the four top judges brought tur - larly in this nation, even for this CJI but have not received a NIA said this as a court inal conspiracy and waging relevant rules. management Committee to be moil in the Supreme Court leaving institution (Supreme Court). It is response to it. extended till January 18 the war against India. 19: Will Arun Jaitley The meeting was chaired set up by SKIMS which shall the judiciary and observers with no pleasure that we have been “We collectively tried to per - judicial custody of seven Altaf Ahmad Shah is the C M Increase Tax Exemption by Chief Minister, Mehbooba meet periodically to monitor stunned. The judges included compelled to do this…We are left suade the CJI that certain things Kashmiri separatists and a son-in-law of hardline C M Y B Mufti here today, who is also the functioning of the Institute Justice J Chelameswar, the second with no choice but to address the aren’t in order so take remedial businessman. Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah y B Limit or Reduce Tax Rate? chairperson of the Governing and recommend measures as senior judge after the Chief Justice nation,” said Judge Chelameswar. measures but unfortunately our During the in-camera pro - Geelani, who advocates Body. would be required to improve of India. * The judges alleged that there efforts failed,” said Justice ceedings in the case, the NIA Jammu and Kashmir's merger New Delhi, Jan 12 : Addressing the meeting, its overall functioning. Speaking to the media, the were irregularities within the Chelameswar. reportedly informed with Pakistan. Union Finance Minister the Chief Minister said Those who attended the judges released an undated letter in working of the top court and the * When the judges were asked which they had admitted that the CBI not being responsive to the if the CJI should be removed, one Additional Sessions Judge Islam is a close aide of Arun Jaitley will present the SKIMS is a premier health meeting of the Governing Tarun Sherawat that the final moderate Hurriyat leader Union Budget 2018-19 on Chief Justice Dipak Misra was the requests that have been made sev - of them said, “Let the nation institute of the State and no Body included Minister for master of the roster but this was eral times. decide on his impeachment.” report in the case will be filed . February 1. Ahead of the effort to either demean its rep - Health & Medical Education, “not a recognition of any superior * Unless this institution is pre - * The government sources said next week. Khandey is the spokesperson presentation of the Budget utation or compromise the Bali Baghat; Minister for authority, legal or factual of the served, the “democracy will not that the judges should resolve the "The investigation of the for the Geelani-led Hurriyat. 2018, speculations are rife quality of service to patients Finance, Dr. Haseeb Drabu; Chief Justice over his colleagues”. survive” in this country. issues as the faith of the people in case is at concluding stage Businessman Zahoor that the government may would be allowed. Minister of State for Health & The judges – Justices Ranjan Unfortunately, Chelameswar said, the judiciary is at stake. and the evidence on record is Ahmad Shah Watali, accused increase the income tax slabs The Governing Body also Medical Education, Asiea Gogoi, Kurian Joseph, Madan B. the efforts have failed in convinc - * The Congress party took to being summed up," NIA said. of acting as a conduit for from a minimum of Rs 2.5 ratified the decision of the Naqash; Chief Secretary, B. B. Lokur and Justice Chelameswar – ing the Chief Justice of India to social media and said, “We are During the hearing, the channelling funds for sepa - lakh per annum to Rs 3 lakh. Government relieving Prof. A Vyas; Principal Secretary to also alleged that the Supreme take steps to protect this institu - very concerned to hear 4 judges of agency also pleaded to the ratists and terror activities in FM Arun Jaitley may also G Ahangar of his duties and Chief Minister, Rohit Kansal; Court administration was “not in tion. the Supreme Court expressed con - court to extend the judicial the Kashmir Valley, was reduce the tax rate for indi - directing him to report to the Principal Secretary, Health & order”. “And all four of us are con - cerns about the functioning of the custody of the eight accused arrested on August 17 last viduals earning annual GAD. It also authorised the Medical Education, Dr. Pawan On the allegations and differ - vinced that democracy is at stake Supreme Court. for another seven days, which year. He was allegedly col - Chairperson of the Governing Kotwal; Prof. Omar Javed ences within the judiciary, and many things have happened in #DemocracyInDanger.” was granted by the court, via lecting funds from Pakistan income between Rs 2.5 lakh Attorney General (AG) KK recent past,” he said. The press conference of the and Rs 5 lakh. Body (Chief Minister) to order Shah, Director, SKIMS; Venugopal told ANI, “Today’s * On being asked about the senior Supreme Court judges video conferencing. and banned terrorist organisa - It is speculated that the appropriate enquiry into the Principals of GMC, , press conference could have been “less than desirable have happened comes in the wake of a controver - The eight have been tions and transferring the government might increase issues related to lack of super - Jammu and SKIMS Medical avoided, but the Supreme Court in the last few months” is a refer - sial order by CJI Dipak Misra, charged with allegedly receiv - same to Hurriyat leaders. the tax exemption limit from vision and control by Prof. A G College, Srinagar; Prof. M S judges are all statesman with vast ence of seeking a probe into the passed in November. The order ing funds from Pakistan to Watali is known to be friends Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 3 lakh. This Ahangar over the recent Khuroo, Prof. Khursheed Iqbal experience and knowledge, and I suspicious death of Special CBI declared that the Chief Justice “is sponsor terror activities and with Pakistani leaders as well might be done to counterbal - months. and Prof Altaf Ramzan(all am sure by tomorrow, the entire Judge Brijgopal Loya, Justice the master of the roster” having stone-pelting in Jammu and as separatists, besides leading ance rising inflation. Last The Governing Body also members of the Governing issue would be resolved.” Gogoi said, “Yes.” exclusive power to decide which Kashmir. politicians in Kashmir, the year, ahead of the Budget, ratified the decision of entrust - Body). TOP DEVELOPMENTS * The main issues that the sen - case will go to which judge. On July 24, 2017, the NIA NIA said. reports emerged that the gov - ernment would increase the Points Raised by Supreme Court Judges Need ISRO Launches Its 100th Satellite With 30 Others in One go on PSLV-C40 tax exemption limit from Rs to be Addressed, Says Rahul Gandhi 2.5 lakh to Rs 4 lakh. Sriharikota, Jan 12 : The nano satellite each from India on board PSLV-C40 is about coastal land use and regula - However, no such announce - New Delhi, Jan 12 : the Supreme Court.” ter” but this was “not a recogni - Indian Space Research with three micro and 25 1,323 kg. tion, utility management like ment was made by Arun Congress President Rahul Earlier in the day, in an tion of any superior authority, Organisation (ISRO) on nanosatellites from six coun - The 28 International cus - road network monitoring, Jaitley. Gandhi on Friday said that unprecedented move, the four legal or factual, of the chief jus - Friday launched its tomer satellites have water distribution, creation of In Budget 2017-18, Arun ‘unprecedented’ points which senior-most judges in the tice over his colleagues”. 100th satellite along been launched as land use maps, change detec - Jaitley had proposed a reduc - were raised by the honourable Supreme Court burst out in the “Administration of the with 30 others in a sin - part of the commer - tion to bring out geographical judges need to be looked into open and accused Chief Justice Supreme Court is not in order. gle mission. The satel - cial arrangements and manmade features and tion of 5 per cent in income carefully. Addressing media on Dipak Misra of not strictly Many things less than desirable tax rate for individuals with lites were launched between Antrix various other Land the implications of the four sen - adhering to the rules in assign - have happened in the last few from the first launch Corporation Limited Information System (LIS) as income ranging between Rs ior judges of the Supreme Court ing cases to appropriate bench - months. We owe a responsibility 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh. He had pad of the Satish (Antrix), a well as Geographical publicly attacking Chief Justice es, which they said could create to the institution and the nation. Dhawan Space Centre Government of India Information System (GIS) also announced surcharge of Dipak Misra, Gandhi said that “doubts” about the integrity of We tried to collectively per - at Sriharikota at 9.29 company under applications. 10 per cent for those whose all citizens who love the idea of the top court. suade the chief justice that cer - am. On its 42nd mis - Department of Space ISRO had earlier said that annual income is Rs 50 lakh justice are looking at this issue Speaking to the media at the tain things are not in order and and it should be addressed. residence of Justice J remedial measures are neces - sion, ISRO’s trusted (DOS), the commer - it was “back in the game” to Rs 1 crore. The 15 per cent workhorse ‘PSLV-C40’ cial arm of ISRO and with the launch as this was surcharge on Rs 1 crore or Talking to reporters at his Chelameswar, the judges said sary. Unfortunately, our efforts residence, Rahul also demanded the Supreme Court administra - have failed in convincing the is carrying the weather the International cus - the first Polar Satellite more was not touched in the observation ‘Cartosat-2’ tries — Canada, Finland, tomers, said ISRO. Launch Vehicle (PSLV) mis - Budget for the financial year proper investigation into the tion was “not in order” and Chief Justice of India to take mysterious death of Special CBI released an undated letter they steps to protect this institution,” series satellite and 30 co-pas - France, Korea, the United The imagery sent by satel - sion after the unsuccessful 2017-18. Judge BH Loya. He said, wrote to Justice Misra in which Justice Chelameswar said at the sengers. Kingdom and United States lite will be useful for carto - launch of the navigation “Justice Loya’s case must be they conceded that the Chief hurriedly called press confer - The co-passenger satel - of America. The total weight graphic applications, urban satellite IRNSS-1H in August looked at by highest levels of Justice was the “master of ros - ence. lites consist of one micro and of all the 31 satellites carried and rural applications, 2017.

ComFputOer SR ervices Laptop Services Mehbooba underscores role of public representatives in redressing State’s issues BSNL Broadband JAMMU, JANUARY 12 : ward and play their role in get - She hoped that people from Pakistan saying that it is to more than nine thousand even jobs for their social inclu - Pan Card Strongly advocating dialogue ting Jammu& Kashmir out of different shades of opinion Jammu & Kashmir which youth”, she informed the sion and integration. She Passport to sort out issues, Chief uncertainties and bloodshed. would join the consultation bears the brunt of hostility House. informed the House that these Minister, Mehbooba Mufti “For how long shall we be see - process initiated by Mr. between the two neighbouring Mehbooba Mufti said the persons would be given spe - Contact :- today underscored the role of ing the dead bodies of our Sharma and it moves ahead countries. “we have to go back aim of granting amnesty to cial training in collaboration Rohit: public representatives in youth. The cycle has to end with positivity. She said the to the era of Vajpayee ji who them is to help these youth with a local institution so that Mob. 9419626826 redressing issues of the State and for that everyone has to mandate given to him is clear opened a new chapter of trust come back in the social net - they don’t have to depend on and getting it out of difficul - play its role,” she said in her and categorical. “He has been and friendship in which the work of the society and start anybody for rest of their life. ties. appeal. She said she was not appointed to carry forward the Pak leadership vowed not to their lives afresh. Mehbooba Mufti said to Replying to the discussion happy while saying that 14 dialogue process in the State in allow any anti Indian activity Mehbooba Mufti said she empower people at grass root on Motion of Thanks on thousand individual and com - a sustained manner”, she on their soil”, she said in her has asked the Police to ensure levels, her Government Jai Baba Kali Veer Ji Governor’s Address in the munity bunkers are being con - added. speech. that the local boys who have intends to hold elections to Legislative Council today, the structed for the border people Pitching strongly for re- On the steps taken by her joined militant ranks are panchayats and urban local Chief Minister said the role of because she wished the same opening all historic routes in Government, the Chief helped to come back to their bodies and put in place a three MANOJ KUMAR & CO. public representatives is very money could have been used the State, the Chief Minister Minister said in a major deci - families and friends. “It’s my tier governance apparatus in Fruit & Vegetable crucial in getting Jammu & for building schools, hospitals said given its strategic local, sion aimed at their social inte - endeavour to bring them back the State. Kashmir ahead on the road of and other community assets if Jammu & Kashmir can gration, her Government, and see no harassment to The Chief Minister said a any Government in recent Commission Agents development, peace and there was no shelling on the become a gateway to Central immediately after taking over, them. Many have come back large number of welfare times. She said it was satisfy - progress. She appreciated the borders. Asia. “We can’t change histo - started the process of with - and we are encouraging even schemes were launched by her ing to note that these workers Specialist In : Potato, Onion concern of every section of Terming dialogue as the ry. But let us use our geogra - drawal of cases against the the parents of these youth in Government but could not be won’t have to go from pillar to political opinion in this regard. only way ahead, the Chief phy to write a new history”, youth from 2008 onwards. making efforts”, she told the highlighted because political post now onwards for releas - Shop No. 69, Sabji Mandi Mehbooba Mufti said the Minister said appointment of she told the House while mak - “Immediately after taking over House. scenario always dominates the ing their remunerations. “We need of the hour is to get the Mr. Dineshwar Sharma, with ing a case for opening of more we started the process but it The Chief Minister said the scene in the State and the have given them an hon - Narwal, Jammu. State out of the vicious cycle the rank of Cabinet Secretary, routes across LoC. got disrupted due the unrest of pellet victims whose vision got country. She said regularising ourable position, dignity and of violence. She appealed all as interlocutor last year was a The Chief Minister also 2016. But now we have with - impaired during the unfortu - the services of 60 thousand security though they were Ph. 2475446, 94191-93836 shades of opinion in the State major decision to undertake stressed on the need for dia - drawn the cases against youth nate turmoil of 2016 were daily wagers was the largest engaged by previous regimes”, and the Country to come for - sustained dialogue in the State. logue between India and from 2008 to 2017 amounting given financial assistance and public welfare step taken by the Chief Minister said.

C M C M Y B Y B TRUTH PREVAIL 2 SPECIAL JAMMU SATURDAY JANUARY 13, 2018 LC Proceedings-Question Hour

154 road projects worth Rs 620.19 cr under execution Several members participate in general discussion on Budget in LA in Doda constituency : Naeem Akhter JAMMU, JANUARY 12 in budget proposals and said focus’ to cover the remaining trained under RBA category, ‘DPR for Chenani--Sinthan-Khannabal highway being formulated’ : Several members today that the Government has sectors/sections. to have to do work in their JAMMU, JANUARY 12 informed that the preparation Raj, Abdul Haq Khan today issue. took part in General announced refund on SGST He asked of focused respective areas for at least : Minister for Works (Roads of DPR for the informed the Legislative 17 new Degree Colleges Discussion on Budget 2018- value edit but it should be on measures for employment for fifteen years, so that the & Buildings), Naeem Akhter Sudhmahadev-Goha tunnel Assembly that Government to be established in uncov - 19 in Legislative Assembly refund on invoice. generation, agriculture sec - benefit of government spend - today informed the will also be awarded by the has issued an order authoriz - ered areas: Altaf Bukhari and expressed their opinions, Nawang Rigzin Jora tor, capacity building, power ing in training these doctors Legislative Assembly that NHIDCL shortly as the ing the legislators to utilize Minister for Higher suggestions and concerns on while taking part in the dis - sector among others. is extended to common peo - 154 road projects involving a financial bids stand opened. an amount of Rs 20 lakh out Education, Syed Mohammad the Budget proposals. cussion expressed concern He said that proposal of ple. cost of Rs. 620.19 crore Replying to the supple - of their Constituency Altaf Bukhari today Initiating the discussion, over the negative portrayal of Rs 200 crore under Further, he said that there taken up under CRF and mentary Questions by Raja Development Funds (CDF) informed the Legislative MLA Raja Manzoor hailed Kashmir in prime time NABARD for taking up is a huge potential for renew - PMGSY schemes are at dif - Manzoor, G M Saroori, for clearing the past liability Assembly that the State several initiatives introduced debates and said that it has major Water Supply Schemes al energy in Ramnagar ferent stages of completion in Neelam Langeh, Mubarak of BPL houses on IAY pat - Cabinet has recently in the Budget including the badly affected the tourism of in next year is not sufficient Constituency which needs to Doda constituency. Gul, A R Rather and Daleep tern during the current finan - approved the opening of 17 decision of implementing 7th the state. to cater the demand. He be explored to mitigate the Replying to a question by Parihar, the Minister said that cial year. new Degree Colleges in the Pay Commission recommen - He observed that there has pleaded for manpower audit, power crisis in the area. He Shakti Raj Parihar in the government is paying He said by virtue of the State. The locations for set - dations, release of 1 percent been decline in the overall setting up of industrial units also pleaded for infrastruc - House, the Minister informed focused attention to upgrade Government Order, if there is ting up of these newly sanc - DA to the employees, aboli - contrition of GDP from in rural areas and adequate ture development at Mansar that the Government has the road infrastructure in no liability on account of tioned colleges are being tion of toll tax at lower Primary sectors including funds for development of and Suruinsar. started the process for formu - every nook and corner of the IAY exists, the legislators can worked out by the Munda and Heerpur, waiving agriculture as it has wit - infrastructure in key sectors. Hakeem Mohammad lation of Detailed Project State and efforts have been channelize the CDF funds Government and priority is off the interest and penalty on nessed downfall in past and Rana said that enhance - Yasin said that the Finance Report (DPR) for Chenani- stepped up for expeditious with the maximum ceiling of being given to the uncovered power arrears by industrial - no mention has been made ment in wages for unskilled Minister deserves apprecia - City witnesses impressive Lohri festival Kishtwar-Sinthan Pass- completion of all on-going Rs. 20 lakh from the financial areas and keeping in view the ists, hoteliers and tourist about the growth of agricul - labours is a good step but it tion for presenting the peo - Khannabal (New Highway- projects. He assured the year 2017-18 as per the latest availability of land, feasibili - resort owners besides other ture in the state. should be increased up to Rs ple-friendly Budget includ - Team Jammu takes initiative to counter cultural aggression on new initiatives. He asked the government 350 as was given by the New ing implementation of 7th Jammu, January 12 : In Route of the procession event to revive the old tradi - sion by the successive demo - 244). Members to address their rules and laid down guide - ty of demand with the suffi - He said the work of 2- concerns with regard to the lines of the scheme. cient number of feeding high - Raja Manzoor congratu - to come up with strong initia - Delhi Government. Pay Commission, making its efforts to revive the disap - was especially decorated tion when erstwhile Dogra cratic elected government of lated the Finance Minister for tives dealing with the con - Further, he said that the unmarried daughters eligible pearing Dogra cultural ethos, with buntings, flowers and rulers used to celebrate Lohri State after 1947. “We are fac - lane road project with paved speedy execution of various The Minister was replying er secondary schools in the shoulders has been entrusted schemes underway in their to a Question by Mian Altaf area. Replying to a Question making procedures simple cern of growing unemploy - new Financial Expenditure to receive pension and vari - Team Jammu today organ - banners. Various shopkeeper in similar way by taking out a ing identity crisis. It is high and easy for release of GPF ment in the state in future. He System for Budget alloca - ous other initiatives in the ized impressive Lohri pro - associations, from Mubarak procession from Mubarak time for Dogra to wake up to the National Highway constituencies. in the House. by Advocate Mohammad Infrastructure Development Legislators authorized Ch. Mohammad Akram, Yousuf Bhat, the Minister payments to the pensioners also appreciated the govern - tions introduced with the last education sector including cession to educate the Mandi to Raghunath Bazar Mandi. Memory of Maharaja otherwise Dogra culture and and the employees and for ment for implementation of budget to streamline depart - assistance to the students in younger generation about age ethos would be a history”, he Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL) to utilize CDF for clearing Hakeem Mohammad Yasin, elaborated that Government by the Union Ministry of liabilities: Haq Khan Yawar Dillawar Mir and G M intends to start the academic coming up with a proposal to 7th Pay Commission recom - mental spending, has not higher education. old traditions of Jammu warned and added that aim of create corpus of Rs 12000 mendations for the employ - achieved efficiency yet and He also urged the govern - region. today’s event is to educate Road Transport & Highways. Minister for Rural Saroori raised their supple - activities in these colleges as The Minister further Development and Panchayati mentary questions on the soon as possible. crore for GPF payments in ees. asked for giving more direc - ment to revive the As Jammu region is fac - younger generation about our the future. Shah Mohammad tion to administration func - Unemployment Allowance ing cultural aggression due to cultural festivals like Lohri. Mohammad Shafi Uri Tantray said that the budget tionaries for attaining its Scheme for the youth in the anti-Dogra policies being While interacting with while taking part in the dis - is a sincere and honest effort objectives of the initiative. state. propagated by ruling class youth, chairman Team 96 GDCs functional in JK : Altaf Bukhari cussion said the Finance to bring the economy back on Rana complimented the He urged the Finance since 1947, Team Jammu has Jammu, Zorawar Singh Minister has not mentioned a right track and appreciated Finance Minister for the Minister for defining guide - taken this initiative with the Jamwal especially appealed to get Degree College soon about the progress and the Finance Minister for an employee welfare measures lines for utilized of funds involvement of youth, elder - to the people to encourage JAMMU, JANUARY 12 said college was issued in people living in higher con - exclusively devised and achievements of the commit - innovative fiscal exercise. He introduced in the Budget, and from various sources used in ly and prominent people and their wards in speaking : Minister for Education, 1968. He further informed tours of Kashmir Valley, largely rolled out for creation ments and targets set in the congratulated the govern - for showing interest in uplift - conversion like that of CDF representatives from all sec - mother tongue Dogri lan - Syed Mohammad Altaf that because of issues related parts of Jammu and Ladakh of facilities and assets under previous budget. Observing ment for taking various wel - ing the state’s official lan - with MGNREGA, to check tions of the society. guage and also educate them Bukhari, today informed the to compensation, the process during extreme winter season PM’s Development package, that this year the government fare measures including med - guage Urdu and also urged misuse of these funds. The Lohri procession about the Dogra history and House that 96 Government has been delayed and said where the PHE pipe lines get Swadesh Darshan and has mentioned only the horti - ical insurance policy for the him to take steps to recruit Asgar Ali Karbalai urged started from historical its contribution towards Degree Colleges (GDCs) are that the Higher Education blocked due to freezing. PRASAD schemes” she told culture industry in the budg - weaker sections. Urdu teachers in the state as the government to ensure Mubarak Mandi complex- had set up stalls of water, ’s time was developing erstwhile J&K functioning in the state, out Department is closely moni - Replying to a question of the House adding that the et, he urged the government He said that the enhance - promised earlier. funds allocation is in correla - seat of erstwhile Dogra rulers juice, fruits and dry fruits to refreshed in the mind of eld - state that once had its territo - of which 69 colleges are toring the case. legislator Saif-Ud-Din Bhat, roadmap is in tandem with to include agriculture also in ment in wages of un-skilled He also asked for Finance tion with respective require - and culminated at the world welcome the participants erly people of the walled city ry upto Gilgit, Baltistan, functioning from their own The Minister said that the the Minister informed that the state government’s focus their priority sector while labour is too meagre and Department’s intervention ments of the areas besides, famous Shri Raghunath who were beating dhols and when Lohri procession Balochistan as well as upto campuses while as the con - government would do justice new pipe network has been on promotion of Tourism in framing various welfare pleaded for enhancement of and support to the Social improved infrastructure of Temple before passing singing traditional Dogri passed through their locali - Tibet. struction work on 10 colleges to the land owners and con - laid deep enough to avoid the state. She said that Rs schemes as majority of the the same up to Rs 500. He welfare department to schools in Kargil and for through different routes of songs. People welcomed the ties. Zorawar Singh also has been completed during struct the college on the same freezing during winter. 51.15 crore has been allocat - people are directly or indi - underscored the need for tak - remove bottlenecks being upgrading the status of these the city including Chowk procession including Nat Interacting with the peo - thanked Randhir Raipuria the current financial year. land, he added. Giving details, the ed to various development rectly dependent on the agri - ing measures for the welfare observed in timely dispersal schools. He demanded for Chabutra, Jain Bazar, Link Manch artists performing ple, chairman of the Team group for making big and tra - Replying to a question of Replying to a supplemen - Minister informed that 2,576 authorities for execution of culture sector in the state. of the people living in border of widow pensions. establishment of a Medical Road, Purani Mandi, Center Dhandiya at several places Jammu Zorawar Singh ditional Chajjaas that marked legislator Ghulam Nabi tary question of legislator deep drilled hand pumps works under PMDP and Legislator Rajesh Gupta areas including district R S Pathania appreciated College in Ladakh region and Basic School Road, Super by showering flower petals. Jamwal said that culture and the special feature of the pro - Monga, the Minister Sofi Yousuf related to the have been installed in the allied Centrally Sponsored praised the Government . He also pleaded for the Government’s proposals for creating a special finan - Bazaar Market and City Team Jammu today ethos of Dogras were under cession and was also widely informed that the construc - construction of Degree state during the last three schemes. especially the Finance special incentives for the vic - for various welfare initiatives cial provision so as to pro - Chowk. organized this historical threat due to cultural aggres - liked by the people. tion work of 20 Degree Colleges in Pahalgam, the years. The government has Rolling out the circuit Minister for presenting a pro- tims of cross boarder including medi-claim policy mote and encourage the Colleges is underway out of Minister assured that the also approved a Draught Plan wise allocations, she said Rs people budget and said the it shelling. for Journalist as mentioned in Apricot industry in the J&K Got First place in 7th Senior National Championship which four are targeted to be government would construct to drill 20 high yield tube 19.56 crore have been sanc - is aimed to put back the Legislator demanded cre - the Budget presented by FM region. completed by the end of the college in Pahalgam well/Production wells in tioned for Mantalai- state’s economy back on the ation of avenues for setting in Legislative Assembly but Further, he said Kargil has of Lagori in Karnataka, Proud Moment: Vikram Singh March, 2018. The state gov - soon. water scarce areas, he added. Sudhmahadev-Patnitop track as it was derailed owing up of industrial units in requested for a similar initia - a huge potential for tourism ernment has recently Replying to a supplemen - Replying to a supplemen - Circuit, Rs 19.38 crore for to situation in past 3 decades. Poonch district so that the tive for Lawyers as well. especially cultural and reli - approved the opening of 17 tary question raised by legis - tary question related to tak - - - Terming the budget pro - educated unemployed youth He thanked the govern - gious tourism and urged gov - new degree colleges in the lator Khursheed Alam relat - ing legislators into considera - - Leh Circuit, Rs posals as growth oriented, of the area gets job opportu - ment for implementation of ernment to take steps to boost state, he added. ing construction of Degree tion while distributing hand 19.28 crore each for Rajesh Gupta further said nities benefited. 7th Pay Commission recom - tourism in the region, besides Replying to a supplemen - College in the vicinity of pumps, the Minister said the Phalgam-Dacsum – Ranjit that every section of the soci - He also highlighted the mendations in the state but promoting various important tary question related to func - Gandhi Memorial College in hand pumps are only Sagar Dam Circuit and ety has been taken into con - issues of Homeguards and pleaded for enhancement of landmarks as special ‘areas tioning of colleges from Srinagar, the Minister said installed in areas where PHE -- sideration in the budget. He pleaded for giving due con - wages in favour of SPO’s. He of interest’ for tourists. makeshift accommodations, that the government is con - pipes are not installed. Circuit and Rs 37.51 Crore also hailed the government sideration for their regular - also demanded for establish - He also urged government the Minister said the creation structing the college to pro - Meanwhile, Chairman for Swadesh Darshan for for announcing incentives to ization. ment of rest room near the to allocate funds for boosting of infrastructure takes place vide quality education to the Legislative Council, Haji Himalyan Circuit. the officers and officials While taking part in the premises of the Civil solar energy sector as Ladakh from time to time to provide students and informed that Anayat Ali asked the con - The Minister further posted in far-flung areas of discussion, legislator Secretariat for the security has a huge potential of quality education to the stu - seven rooms of the college cerned Minister to take the informed that Rs 47.25 Crore the state. Devender Singh Rana identi - personal deployed with the exploiting the solar energy. dents. would be completed by the legislators into consideration have been allocated in lieu of He thanked the fied some of the shortcom - legislators. He also demanded a wavier He further informed that end of March, 2018 and new while distributing the hand Tourists assets destroyed in Government for various ings in the proposed budget He recommended for a on KCC loans for farmers in the government has appoint - subjects would also be intro - pumps for addressing the the September 2014 floods. reformative measures taken and suggested ‘areas of policy mandating Doctors Kargil division. ed 1,000 lecturers in the last duced, besides making it part concern of the people relat - She also informed the one year and is going to fill of Cluster University’s pro - ing to provision of safe House that the work on first additional vacancy of 1,000 gram. drinking water to them. stage of Patnitop Gondola lecturers in the coming time. Hand pumps provide Legislators, Showkat project is apace and is likely Members raise issues of public importance in LC He assured that from now water in higher reaches Hussain Ganai and Pradeep to be completed by the end of JAMMU, JANUARY 12 of press. in Bhaderwah area. He urged replenishment of Natural onwards, the government during winters: Sham Sharma also raised supple - this year. : Members of Upper House He urged the J&K the concerned Ministry to sources and renovation of the Jammu : Today on 12th of About 19 states through out would start the academic cur - Choudhary mentary questions related to Ms Priya Sethi said that raised various issues of pub - Government to take serious take steps to redress the prob - Water Supply Schemes. January Vikram Singh India participated & Vikram riculum in colleges only after Minister for PHE, the main question. government’s focus is to lic importance here today. notice of the development as lem by deploying adequate Legislator G L Raina Bhadwal PDP Youth Leader Singh said it is matter of their infrastructure is com - Irrigation and Flood Control, 78.72 lakh tourists visit - project Jammu region as an As the House met for it can be a setback to the passenger vehicles on differ - urged the Government to today welcomed the players of proud that Team J&K got first pleted, he noted. Sham Lal Choudhary today ed JK till Nov 2017: Priya independent and preferred today’s business, Legislator state’s tourism industry. ent routes of the area. take steps to help the people #Lagori Association of J&K rank in overall championship With regard to the con - informed the upper House Sethi tourist destination. Ajat Shatru Singh expressed Legislator Naresh Kumar Surinder Kumar in the process of linkage of who came back after partici - while the host state got sec - struction of Degree College that the government has Jammu, Jan 12: The “Keeping in tandem with concern over US advisory to Gupta drew the attention of Choudhary demanded aug - services with Aadhar card as pating in 7th senior National ond place & Chattisgarh stood in Baramulla, the Minister installed Deep Machine Minister of State for the focus of the State its citizens against visiting the government towards mentation of water supply in they are facing problem in Lagori Championship held at 3rd in the championship. informed that the acquisition Drilled Hand Pumps across Tourism, Ms. Priya Sethi Government on promotion of J&K as reported in a section shortage of transport facility Nowshera area. He called for this regard. Karnataka from 5th of January General Sect of Langori of land measuring 143 the state to provide uninter - today informed the tourism in the State and to to 7th of January 2018. Association of J&K Dr Seema Kanals and 14 Marlas for the rupted water supply to the Legislative Council that promote Jammu as a separate Team Lagori J&K returned Pawan Manhas & Coach PS Jammu and Kashmir wit - destination in particular pro - with flying colours by clinch - Manhas congratulated the nessed footfall of 78.72 Lakh grammes, circuits have been ing 9 Gold Medals in target players & appreciated the per - tourists till November last exclusively devised and JAZMaMUn, JsANkUAaRYr 1 2 stuTdhe setudnentst hsaili nwg froim tnJ&eK, sLsegi slLatiCve Cpourncoil cabeoute hodw thien issgues s of pub - Lagori team event & stood formance in the champi - CREMATION year and added that the state largely rolled out for imple - : A group of students from far-off areas of the Kargil Haji Anayat Ali welcomed lic importance are raised by first in the championship. onship. With profound grief and sorrow, we government has devised mentation of creation of today witnessed the district have come here for the students in the House. He the Legislators in the House exclusive circuits for devel - assets/implementation under proceedings of the first time to witness the busi - hoped that students will learn and Government response to regret to inform the sad demise of our opment of potential tourist Prime Minister’s Legislative Council. ness of the House. Chairman, many new things and know the same. beloved Shri Bansi Lal Gupta S/o destinations in the state to Development Package, Late Shri Amar Nath Gupta R/o attract maximum number of Swadesh Darshan and H.No. 81/1 Chand Nagar, Below visitors to the state. PRASAD Schdemes in par - Gumat, Jammu. The Minister was replying ticular” the Minister asserted. Chairman announces best legislator award for CREMATION will take place at to separate questions of She said that Prime JOGI GATE on 13th January, 2018 at Ashok Khajuria and Naresh Minister’s Development JAMMU, JANUARY 1M2 aKhnajuhriaa hasve, bDeenr s eSlechted ehandn higahlzigh, tiKng hthe aissjueus inria Naresh Gupta has been 11:30 AM. Kumar Gupta. Package also include devel - : Chairman, J&K Legislative for the best legislator award better way, while as Ashok selected for preparing mean - GRIEF STRICKEN : SHRI BANSI LAL GUPTA Giving details of tourist opment of tourist facilities at Council Haji Anayat Ali for the year 2016, while as Khajuria has been selected ingful matter in chronologi - Smt. Santosh Gupta - Editor-in-Chief arrivals, she said around Jhajjar Kotli, Panchari, today announced the name of Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo, for raising the issues of pub - cal order for legislation. The Wife Nav Jammu - (Group of Newspapers). 11.61 lakh tourists visited Siard Baba , Sidhra six members of Legislative Surinder Kumar Choudhary lic importance of his area. Chairman complemented the Sh. Mohit Gupta & Smt. Meha Gupta Kashmir Valley, 2.59 lakh Golf Course, Tata Pani Council selected to be con - and Naresh Kumar Gupta for Similarly, Sajjad Ahmad legislators for their achieve - Son & Daughter-in-Law paid obeisance at Shri Rajouri, Qilla Dantitop, ferred with best legislator the year 2017. Zaffar Kichloo has been selected for ment. He hoped that they Amrnath, 61.88 lakh at Loran/Jallian Park. She said award on the recommenda - Iqbal Manhas has been raising the issues of his area would continue to enlighten Smt. Bimla Devi w/o Lt. Sh. Lakshmi Dayal Gupta Shri Mata Vaishno Devi and work at all these places is in Mother-in-Law tions of Award Committee. selected for having experi - and advocating for their the House with their rich 2.63 lakh visited Ladakh dur - progress as part of the The three members name - ence in legislation. Dr. redressal. Surinder Kumar experience and highlight the Smt. Sunita Gupta & Sh. Arun Gupta ing last year. “Jammu-Rajouri-Shopian- Sister & Brother-in-Law ly Zaffar Iqbal Manhas, Dr Shahnaz Ganai has been Choudhary for raising the issues of public importance Listing the details about Pulwama Circuit.” Shehnaz Ganai and Ashok selected for eloquent speech issues vociferously, while as in better way in future also. Smt. Jyoti Gupta & Sh. Sanjay Mahajan tourism promotion projects, She said that the facilities Daughter & Son-in-Law she said these have been under this circuit for Jammu Smt. Sheetal Gupta & Lt. Sh. Ajay Mahajan taken up under major region are iconic suspension Daughter & Son-in-Law Tourism circuits like bridge at Jhajjar Kotli, eco Integrated development of log huts, tourist cafeterias, Smt. Pooja Gupta & Sh. Sameer Kochhar HJoArMtMicU, uJAlNtUuArReY 1d2 epSptecti aolistrs gDeav noffiicseres tsoo k traTeicnhnicnal g Dpirrecotogr rNaICmmqueesti oon/anns wHero sersstioNn ewat s Daughter & Son-in-Law Tourist facilities along water sports, etc. Mantalai-Sudhmahadev- Responding to the supple - : A training programme on part. Horti. Net Hyderabad. also conducted wherein clari - Mrs. Tania Mahajan & Mr. Anmol Mahajan Patnitop Circuit, - mentary questions by Ajat HortNet was organized at The training was imparted A detailed emphasis was fication with respect to vari - Niece & Son-in-Law Phalgam-Dacsum – Ranjit Shatru Singh, Sham Lal Horticulture complex, Talab by Senior Technical Director laid for online registration of ous issues were sought by the Mr. Anshu Mahajan (Adv.) & Mrs. Ankita Mahajan Sagar Dam Circuit, Jammu Bhagat and Vibodh Gupta, Tillo, Jammu in which partic - and national project director Farmers for availing incen - trainee officers. Nephew & Daughter-in-Law –Rajouri-Shopian- Pulwama the Minister said that the ipants drawn from all the dis - Horticulture Mission com - tives under various flagship Earlier, Director Grand Children :- Circuit and Gulmarg- government is creating best tricts of the Jammu including puterization Rakesh Vardan schemes of Govt. of India Horticulture welcomed the Shivia, Shivam & Ishaan Baramulla- Kupwara- Leh amenities at all the potential Chief Horticulture Officers, Ministry of Electronics and including disbursement of officers and stressed upon the (M) 94191-11208, ® 0191-2547948. Circuit. tourist destinations in the District Horticulture information technology incentive through DBT. departmental officers to take “Circuits have been State. Officers, Subject Matter Govt. of India and Arif Ali On the occasion, a healthy benefit of the training course. TRUTH PREVAIL 3 NEWS JAMMU SATURDAY JANUARY 13, 2018 Dr Jitendra Singh chairs DISHA meeting at Katra CJAMMM Uc, JoANmUARpY 1l2 im2017e byn thte rsesp ebctivee csom t- LCTh e lMeLCgs chiosenl aas betst oKrusma r cChhooudhsarye n and : Chief Minister, Mehbooba mittee. The Chief Minister legislators are Zaffar Iqbal Naresh Kumar Gupta for the Asks officers to expedite work on dev projects Mufti today congratulated made these remarks during Manhas, Dr. Shehnaz Ganai year 2017. Earlier, Chairman, KATRA, JANUARY 12 ious centrally sponsored ing the bottlenecks in func - concerned officers to gear up the members of Legislative the reply of discussion on and Ashok Khajuria for the Haji Anayat Ali announced : Union Minister of State for schemes. tioning of KV School, Wind their men and machinery to Council who were chosen as Motion of Thanks on the year 2016, while as, Sajjad the decision of the committee Development of North Dr. Jitendra Singh asked Power Project at Bidda and meet the work requirements best legislators for 2016 and Governor Address. Ahmad Kichloo, Surinder for choosing best legislators. Eastern Region and PMO, Dr SE PMGSY to expedite the four and two lane road proj - thus satiating people’s aspira - Jitendra Singh today said that works on roads- Dhandali to ects in the district. He said all tions. implementation of welfare schemes ensures Jan Chief Secretary reviews progress of immunization Sampark at ground level and connects the people of every programme Indradhanush region. JAMMU, JANUARY 12 routine immunisation pro - week. Subsequent rounds, launching vigorous and This, he said while chair - : Chief Secretary B B Vyas gramme. The special drive each lasting one week were wider publicity campaigns ing the meeting of District on Friday chaired a meeting focuses on improving immu - conducted from 7th of regarding the mission in Development Coordination of the State Steering nization coverage in select November-2017, 7th of schools, sports events and and Monitoring Committee Committee for Immunization (DISHA) at Katra here today. to review the status of imple - Jitendra Singh asked the mentation of Intensified DDC to evolve an effective Mission Indradhanush to mechanism for regular moni - ensure that no child suffers toring and follow up of all from any vaccine-preventa - ongoing development works. ble disease. He also exhorted upon them Principal Secretary, to hold periodic review meet - Health, IGP, Jammu, DG ings with all the stake holders Youth Services & Sports, to meet the purpose behind Mission Director ICDS, launch of these projects Kanthan, Arnas to Chillad, formalities need to be com - Ajay Nanda projected J&K, Director School envisaging improvement in Nishat More to Surman, pleted in time bound manner. various issues pertaining to Education, Jammu, Director living standards of people. Gundi Nalla to Kanota, Health department was up-gradation of roads, elec - Family Welfare, MCH & Minister of State for Pouni Nalla to Prankote, asked to fill up all vacant tricity supply, health, educa - Immunization, J&K, Mission Finance and Planning Ajay Sungri to Bago Dass, posts under National health tion, construction of view - Director NHM, J&K, Nanda, Deputy Chasana to Bagan Kote, Mission and health sector on points along national high - Director Health Services, Commissioner Reasi Kalaban to Tulli, Tharal to priority. He stressed upon way, water supply and other Jammu, Surveillance Prasanna Ramaswamy G, Shikari, Jij to Prankote and officers to submit UCs all basic amenities in the con - Medical Officer, WHO and ADC Babu Ram, Mission various other road projects projects of central govern - stituency besides asking the other senior officers attended districts and cities to ensure December and 7th of through radio, doordarshan Director NHM, Chief running at various stages. ments. concerned departments to the meeting. full immunization to more January-2018. and print media. Engineers, Executive The officers were In the meeting some take requisite steps for an Intensified Mission than 90% by December Chief Secretary stressed Chief Secretary called Engineers, nominated mem - instructed to lay foundation issues were also raised which early redressal of the same. Indradhanush (IMI) was 2018. In J&K, on sustained effort to ensure upon DCs to deepen the bers and various other district stones of road projects and include establishment of The Union Minister asked launched by Prime Minister was identified to conduct this that targets are met and all efforts of immunization in officers were present in the complete the same on war garbage management plant at the officers to prioritize the in October-2017 from special drive and till date children between 0-2 age their districts in order to meeting. footing. He said land and for - Katra, up-gradation of redressal of issues related to Gujarat. The purpose of this over 9400 children have been group are immunized. He reduce maternal and child The members reviewed est related issues need to be schools, new degree college basic amenities so that the programme is to reach each vaccinated in addition to over said focus should also be on mortality further by inter- the physical and financial resolved on priority. for district, amusement park people may not suffer on this and every child under two 820 pregnant ladies immu - covering children of floating departmental coordination, progress of various schemes Instructions were also passed at Katra, widening of account. years of age and all those nized against Tetanus. First population including action-based review mecha - and development projects of for early completion of water Bhambala to Ransoo road. Senior leaders Kuldeep pregnant women who have round of IMI was started here nomads, labourers and nism and intensified monitor - education, roads, buildings, supply schemes and ensure Emphasizing on optimum Raj Dubey, Pardeep Singh, been left uncovered under the in October and lasted for one employees. He stressed on ing. NRHM, SSA, Health, Rural their functioning. utilization of available Sheel Mangotra and other Development, PMGSY and Further instructions were resources, the Union prominent citizens from Bali releases Calendar Supply of safe drinking water to people other departments under var - passed to officers for resolv - Minister exhorted upon the Katra were also present. Sunil Sharma inaugurates of health department Govt’s priority : Sham Choudhary Commandant Gen HG,CD & SDRF J&K blood donation camp JAMMU, JANUARY 12 Inspects Boria filtration plant at Rajouri : Minister for Health & JAMMU, JANUARY 12 sincere efforts in making full immediately so that the visits South and North Kashmir Medical Education, Bali SRINAGAR, JANUARY Commandant was accompa - morale. RAJOURI, JANUARY 12 Bhagat has released the 2018 : Minister for PHE, Irrigation use of available resources. He wastage of water can be 12 : Commandant General nied by SSP Director Two such courses were and Flood Control, Sham Lal also exhorted upon the offi - checked and people get clean : Minister of State for Transport Calendar of Health HG/CD & SDRF J&K Dilbag Homeguard Kashmir Javid recently conducted by High and Revenue, Mr. Sunil Kumar Department in presence of Choudhary today visited cers to maintain cleanliness in drinking water. Singh today reviewed the Hassan Bhat, Commandant Altitude Warfare School of Public Health Engineering and around the area of water Chief Engineer PHE Sharma today inaugurated a Minister of State for Health ongoing training and rescue SDRF-1st Bn Srinagar Bashir Army at Gulmarg wherein 50 blood donation camp at District & Medical Education, Ms. (PHE) pumping station Boria preparedness programmes in Ahmed Sofi, and, SO to SDRF personnel were trained Complex to take stock of its Hospital Rajouri. The camp was Asiea Naqash here today. South and North Kashmir. Commandant General in Mountain Rescue. organized by Sewa Bharti The Calendar that depicts functioning after some techni - The aim of training is to HG/CD & SDRF J&K Suneel The officers and other Rajouri to mark the National the special activities and cal snag was reported there. build the capacity of SDRF Raj SSP. ranks of SDRF were compli - achievements of the health During the visit,Minister Youth Day. Speaking on the department has been personnel to deal with various The SDRF team which mented for good work and occasion, the Minister lauded applauding the efforts and kinds of disasters and to help participated in rescue, casual - were urged to involve them - designed by the Directorate quick action taken by the offi - the role of the organization in of Health Services, Kashmir the public in need. ty evacuation operation at selves in all trainings to serving the mankind by organiz - cers and other staff of the During his visit to training Sadhna Pass was awarded enable them to perform their under the supervision of department in restoration of ing the blood donation camp Director Health, Dr. Saleem- programmes held at Kupwara Rs10000 with commendation duties more effectively and and saving precious human the machinery and supply of and Baramulla the certificate to boost their professionally. ur-Rehman. The Minister water .He instructed the sen - lives. He said more such camps congratulated the Director should be organized and people Health Services, Kashmir and ior officers to take adequate safety measures so that no should be motivated to con - those associated in bringing tribute in this noble cause. Mr. out this special Calendar. such incident happens in Ansari flaggs off cycling expedition future and be in state of readi - JAMMU, JANUARY 12 minster lauded the cyclist and the state by ensuring modern Nikhil Gupta, General Secretary Principal Secretary Health : Minster for Youth Services exhorted them to be the mes - sports infrastructure and pro - Sewa Bharti Rajouri also spoke & Medical Education, Dr. ness to deal with the situa - tion. treatment plants so that clean Ashok Gandotra, and Sports and Technical sengers of the state and carry viding them an appropriate on the occasion. Later the Pawan Kotwal, Directors Minister met various deputa - Health Services, Minister reiterated com - water is supplied to the peo - Superintending Engineer A.S Education, Imran Raza the message of peace, broth - platform to give necessary Kashmir/Jammu, Dr. Saleem- mitment of the Government ple. Wazir, Executive Engineers Ansari today flagged off a erhood and significance of exposure at national and tions which apprised him ur-Rehman, Dr. Gurjeet towards providing safe drink - Minister further asked Ajay Sharma, J.P Singh and group of twelve cyclists hail - regarding their problems per - Singh Soodan and other offi - ing water to the people and them to detect leakages in other concerned officers were ing from J&K and other states taining to proper transportation cers of the Health directed them to put in their water pipes and repair them also present on the occasion. on a cycling expedition to facilities responding to which Department were also present Kanyakumari . Minister assured necessary on the occasion. The event has been organ - steps to redress their grievances. Div Com reviews modalities for relocation ised by the Eco-Riders Club Depot Manager JKSRTC and cyclists were hosted by DIPR condoles demise Anantnag flags off bus of Bunker at Palladium Cinema J&K sports Council. SRINAGAR, JANU - from CRPF, VC SDA, Joint He directed the DC These cyclists shall spread service to Ajmer awareness across the nation of B L Gupta ANANTNAG, JANU - ARY 12 : Divisional Commissioner SMC and Srinagar to identify alternate JAMMU, JANUARY 4 : Commissioner Kashmir other officials. locations for the bunker and regarding the need and signif - ARY 12 : A bus carrying 45 icance of environment protec - The Information Department pilgrims was flagged off by Baseer Ahmad Khan today The Div Com said that in consultation with the con - has condoled the demise of B reviewed the modalities for following the demand from cerned officials the final tion. environment protection International level. Depot Manager JKSRTC IG Jammu Dr. S.D Singh, throughout the country. Vice Chairman Sports L Gupta, Editor Nav Jammu. Anantnag for a fifteen-day removal of security bunker at local shopkeepers and in tune location should be finalized. A condolence meeting, the Palladium cinema located with the requirement for The DIG CRPF said that Vice Chairman Sports “Our state has unparalleled Council Jammu Ranjeet tour to Ajmer and other Council Jammu Ranjeet sports talent among youth Kalra informed that this chaired by Director places. The pilgrims will be in during a meet - smooth movement of people once the alternate feasible Information, Muneer ul ing. The meeting was attend - and aesthetics of the area, the location is provided, the Kalra, Chief Sports Officer which needs to be recognized cycling expedition is based taken to Ajmer, Delhi, Haji Ab Kayoom and other and encouraged,” he added. on three themes-save the Islam, was convened at the Sarhand, Fatehpur Sikri, Agra ed by Deputy Commissioner bunker needs to be relocated bunker will be removed in Directorate of Information Srinagar, DIG JKP, DIG’s to some other place. the interest of general public. officers were also present on The Minister reiterated environment, peace and and Jaipur said the Manager. the occasion. that government is committed brotherhood and Beti Bachao today which was attended by Speaking on the occasion, to promote sports culture in Beti Padhao. all the officers and officials of the Directorate. The meeting prayed for Upcoming Panchayat Elections An Opportunity eternal peace to the departed Altaf Bukhari congratulates Class XII soul expressed solidarity with JamTmuo : TDuescrrinbin g Thwroeng s Tcoimdmietted Ibny thTe hthee 3i3r pe rFcenat rveseorvautionr in-Suhlteraior mpolit icLal amol tives are the bereaved family. grass-root level democratic present coalition government Panchayats”, he added. needed to be isolated. “This students on their results According to family his institutions pivotal for trans - . He referred to the amend - Sh Sharma said that can be done by maintaining SRINAGAR, JANUARY Farooq Ahmad Shah has also Durdana Masoodi (ARTS cremation will take place at formation of rural areas in ment in the Panchayati Raj Congress believes in people unity”, he said, adding that 12 : Minister for Education, congratulated the successful STREAM) and Iqra Rashid 11.30 am at Jogi Gate crema - terms of development, Congress party has offered Syed Muhammad Altaf students and appreciated the (HOME SCIENCE) of tion ground on 13th January. Sr. Vice President J&K numerous sacrifices in main - Bukhari congratulated stu - teachers and the Heads of the Government Girls Higher PCC and Former minister Sh taining secular character of dents who received their Institutions. While appreciat - Secondary School Kothibagh Speaker extends Lohri Sham Lal exhorted the cadre State & Country . Class XII examination results ing the students and teachers; for being among the toppers to gear up for upcoming He urged party workers to on Thursday. he said strict action will be in 12th class Examination. greetings to people Panchayat elections. further intensify their mass Appreciating the officers taken against those teachers This year in 12th class JAMMU, JANUARY 12 “Massive participation of contact drive and reach out to of the Education Department whose results are unsatisfac - Examination, a total of 55163 : Speaker J&K Legislative youth and women is impera - the people. for their commendable per - tory. students had appeared out of Assembly, Kavinder Gupta tive for ensuring their effec - Speaking on the occasion formances, he said the decla - Minister for Education, which number of Girl stu - On the auspicious occasion tive involvement in decision Shahnawaz Choudhary ration of result in a short peri - Syed Muhammad Altaf dents were 29331 and number of Lohri festival and Makar making at local levels,” General Secretary JKPCC od of time and brilliant suc - Bukhari, Secretary Education, of Boy students were 25832. Sankranti, extended greetings Sham said while addressing said that Conducting indirect cess of the students in the Farooq Ahmad Shah and The pass percentage of Girls to people of the State. Congress delegates meeting elections and centralizing recent 12th class result is due Director School Education, was 64% and the pass per - Conveying wishes, the at Akhnoor. Panchayats will lead to to the collective efforts of the Kashmir Dr G.N Itoo congrat - centage of Boy students was Speaker expressed hope that He exuded confidence weakening of the institution. different sections of the ulated both the students of 59%. The overall pass per - this auspicious occasion will that the sagacious voters Instead of strengthening the Department. Government Girls Higher centage of the students further add to peace, progress would elect dedicated and institution, the Government Secretary Education Secondary School, Baramulla remained 61%. and prosperity in the state. public spirited representa - Act 1989 mainly to have being real fountain head of has disturbed the basic values tives who would change the indirect election of power and therefore success of democracy. The previous rural scenario by their inno - Sarpanchs and said this will of the party in the upcoming Government had tried to vative ideas. The develop - weaken the system and give elections would go a long strengthen the Panchayati ment of rural areas and rise to manipulations. He way in realizing this cher - Raj in the State by passing ZuRAlJfOkURaI, rJA lNaUAyRsY foTuhe ndMinaistteri ownhil e ststorucntione o f omorsq Mue oand sqtheuse eins,t iEtutiiodns gpraomhote improvement of civic ameni - said Jammu and Kashmir had ished agenda. He said the the Bill in the Assembly as 12 : Minister for Food, Civil expressing his overwhelming eidgah. He asserted upon the social solidarity, community ties in urban and semi-urban an indigenous Panchyati Raj basic level democratic insti - per the provisions of 73rd Supplies and Consumer happiness to see the long management committee to cohesion and enhance social areas assume significance in System that empowered peo - tutions can prove as useful amendment. But, the PDP- Affairs and Tribal Affairs pending demand of people initiate the construction work relations. He further said that view of the population explo - ple to actively participate in engines of change, if the BJP Government instead of Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali today getting fulfilled compliment - at the earliest. these institutions provide a sion and growing needs of the process of planning, exe - elected representatives work implementing it, has further said Islam stands for peace, platform for collective pray - populace, he added. cuting and monitoring of with a sense of devotion and diluted even the old State communal harmony and ing and they need to be main - “Notwithstanding the development at village lev - missionary zeal. Panchayati Raj Act and have brotherhood. tained and looked after. spirit of Panchayati Raj els. “We are passing through a imposed indirect elections in He said this while speak - While offering his Friday System having been trampled “We will restore back the difficult phase as elements Panchayats. This will give ing in a grand function after prayers at the site for Eidgah, by the PDP-BJP dispensation spirit of the Panchayat Raj inimical to secular ethos of rise to horse trading only. He laying foundation stone for Zulfkar prayed for well- by amending the Panchayat Act, as per urges and aspira - the country have got centre- said they have decided to go mosque and Eidgah here at being and prosperity of the Raj Act 1989,Sham lal said tions of the people, once we stage”, he said and hoped that among the people and aware Koteranka. state and asked people to that Congress believes come with a clear mandate their machinations to divide them about the undemocratic Addressing the gathering make a collective resolve to Panchayats as engine of and undo the wrong with the people on the basis of steps taken by the on the occasion, the Minister fight the evil and social ills at political empowerment of the two-thirds majority”, he region and religion will be Government. emphasized that Muslims all levels. people at large and develop - added. defeated by further strength - He further said that BJP- have been enjoined by God Also present on the occa - ment of rural areas as per He further asked the cadre ening bonds of amity and PDP Govt cheated the basic to serve mankind and pro - sion were Deputy local aspirations”, to further intensify their mass brotherhood. of democratic system instead mote goodness. Commissioner Dr. Shahid Sh Sharma said the ensu - contact, fan out in their areas Sham Lal said politics of empowering Panchayats. He added that Islam Iqbal Choudhary, EXNs ing elections will give new and seek massive participa - based on hate and suspicion The Government even teaches us that Muslims must Nisar Khan and Munshi dimension to political dis - tion of voters in the upcom - is detrimental to secular fab - ignored State’s own always be ready to serve ed the painstaking efforts of While highlighting the Khan, tehsildar Mohammad course in the State with polit - ing democratic exercise. ric of the country and the Panchayati Raj Act and start - mankind and have love and district and sub-divisional importance of mosque and Rafiq, AD FCS & CAs ically sagacious people sig - “Women must come for - state and those exploiting ed eroding democratic sys - kindness for all of God’s cre - administration for making eidgah as socio-religious Javaid Iqbal and BDO Imtiaz naling a change to undo the ward hugely and benefit from religious sentiments for their tem at the grass root level. ation. available the land for con - institutions, he asserted that Ahmad. TRUTH PREVAIL 4 EDITORIAL/ARTICAL JAMMU SATURDAY JANUARY 13, 2018 Weird climate and weak leadership WHY THE BUDGET JUST It is sad that leaders President Trump’s be expected to lead to developing countries across the world sarcastic comment an increase in extreme are the most vulnerable GOT A LITTLE HARDER remain insensitive to through the well-estab - precipitation when to these extreme EDITORIAL Recent Gross transactions, used data the huge risks from cli - lished erudition of his other factors do not impacts of climate Domestic Product analytics to track large mate change faced by tweet can easily be change. change, but, unfortu - growth estimates have deposits in banned cur - the weak and the poor. demolished with a very The IPCC in the nately, they also lack Pressing problem put the Finance Ministry rency notes, promoted There are major equity simple scientific expla - Special Report referred the capacity and infra - in a tight spot. Balancing Aadhaar-linking of bank Under siege for possible breach and leak - considerations in the nation. With increase to the above concluded structure to be able to shorter-term economic accounts and so forth. age of Aadhaar data, one of the world’s current reality of cli - in surface temperature that since 1950, it is withstand them. imperatives and longer- It also saw a merit in mate change on land and bodies of very likely that there In very simple largest mines of information, and its kneejerk term goals has just the speedy roll out of the The world has seen a water, there is an has been an overall terms, a cyclone in reaction in stifling the media that reported it, become a little more GST, which is aimed at series of extreme increase in evapora - decrease in the number Bangladesh causes the Unique Identification Authority of India’s challenging as the simplifying the tax sys - events in recent tion. This results in of cold days and nights, much greater havoc General Election looms tem and also fixing one (UIDAI) issuance of a virtual security layer months, with three suc - much heavier quanti - and an overall increase than a hurricane with large major avenue for the cre - or ID to protect privacy and entitlement cessive hurricanes hit - ties of water being held in the number of warm the same intensity India’s Gross ation of black money. ting the Caribbean and in the atmosphere in days and nights at the which hits the state of seemed like a late though sane response. The Domestic Product (GDP) However, the roll out North American the form of clouds. global scale, that is, for Florida. That part of new ID works pretty much like an OTP on is estimated to grow at of a single tax system region; unprecedented When it rains or snows, land areas with suffi - the US, which receives your bank cards, allowing a peephole into 6.5 per cent during the nationwide is bound to forest fires in therefore, the quantity cient data. There is evi - several hurricanes, just financial year 2017-18 as have some problems. only that much data as is required by the serv - California; and now of precipitation is sub - dence of the likelihood as Bangladesh is sub - per data released by the What matters the most is ice provider, and not the original numbered parts of Europe and the stantially higher than of such changes having jected to a large num - Central Statistical how speedily the issues code that would reveal a compendium of east coast of the US in would have been the occurred at the conti - ber of cyclones, has Organisation (CSO). being faced in GST the grip of a severe case if there was no nental scale in North extremely reliable and every citizen’s way of life. The problem with This growth is, perhaps, implementation are tack - cold wave. warming of the earth’s America, Europe and timely early warning Aadhaar seeding and linking is that it strings the lowest in the last four led. Frequent reviews It is no surprise that surface. Australia. systems, and it is not together data silos of each individual and years. and adaptations of the US President Donald J In other words, if we There is also a uncommon to see large As soon as the growth system by the GST coun - reconstructs a social and economic identity Trump, the high priest go back to pre-industri - warming trend in daily numbers of people just estimates were released, cil is a proof of how log that can be exploited by aggressive mar - of climate sceptics and al times, when the temperature extremes nailing boards of wood leaders from the quickly the body has someone who is sur - quantity of carbon in much of Asia. Very on their windows and keters and power corporations. Worse, you Opposition were quick to been fine-tuning the sys - prisingly immune to dioxide in the atmos - reliable climate mod - escaping to safer areas are profiled for big brotherly vigilance, which seize the moment: tem and will continue scientific knowledge, phere was around 280 els, which are validated away from Florida. doesn’t make you exactly free in a democrat - Congress President tweaking it in near future tweeted, “In the East, it parts per million (ppm) on the basis of past Such a possibility does Rahul Gandhi accused too. ic society. could be the COLD - and not in excess of records of climate, not exist in the Government of However, there is one Assuming that the Aadhaar database itself EST New Year’s Eve 400 ppm as is the case project substantial Bangladesh, and the “ignoring economic wis - lesser known and little is safe, the correlation with several domains on record. Perhaps we today, temperatures warming in tempera - risk to life and property dom” and dealing a “cat - appreciated effect that could use a little bit of would have been ture extremes by the is, therefore, substan - subjects it to misuse or abuse. So while the astrophic” blow to these twin structural that good old Global lower. Consequently, end of the 21st century. tially higher. virtual ID and limited KYC usage is the first India’s growth. reforms have unleashed. Warming that our the extent of evapora - It is virtually certain Another aspect of filter, we need to ensure that data is complete - Senior Congress It has jolted the people country, but not other tion would also have that increases in the human induced climate leader P Chidambaram out of their usual thought ly secured. Privacy protection does not mean countries, was going to been lower. The bliz - frequency and magni - change and its impacts remarked that the worst processes. In some ways, that data shouldn’t be collected, stored or pay TRILLIONS OF zards which have cur - tude of warm days and in the form of higher fears of an imminent eco - it has changed the way DOLLARS to protect rently hit the eastern nights and decreases in frequency and intensity used. Nobody doubts the percolatory effects nomic slowdown have people and businessmen against. Bundle up!”. parts of North America the cold days and of extreme events is the of a data pool to ensure efficient delivery of come true. Such reac - view their business, con - It was in 2011 that and parts of Europe nights will occur possibility of the same services and a guarantee of benefits to the tions do not surprise as duct and practice the the Intergovernmental have occurred on through the 21st centu - location being subject - leaders from the same. intended. But there should be an equally Panel on Climate account of extreme ry at the global scale. ed to two or more dis - Opposition have all What had once meticulous counter mechanism to ensure that Change (IPCC) precipitation. This is mostly linked to similar extreme occur - along been critical of the become widely accepted the data cannot be used for any purpose other brought out a special The fact that this has mean changes in tem - rences. Union Government’s two business practice in our report on Managing the come in the form of peratures, although The same place, than those that have been approved and are major structural reforms: society — paying and Risks of Extreme snow, and with much changes in temperature therefore, could suffer completely tamper-proofed, even from han - Demonetisation and the accepting bribe, transact - Events and Disasters to lower temperatures can variability can play an from drought condi - dlers. There should be an in-built authorisa - roll out of the Goods and ing in black money, Advance Climate also be explained by important role in some tions during some peri - Services Tax (GST) last evading taxes and laun - tion schematics and legalisation of data pro - Change Adaptation the fact that warming is regions. It is very likely od of a year and then year. dering money — the twin tection. (SREX). Climate taking place across the that the length, fre - heavy precipitation While Opposition reforms have forced the change must be under - globe and this has a quency, and/or intensi - during another period Even with the first phase filters in place, a leaders are cautioning the people to rethink on the stood as not merely an major impact on the ty of warm spells or in the same year. This lot of the old data could still be floating in a Government about dark way they conduct their increase in temperature movement of air from heat waves (defined would compound the set-up that is rife with vulnerabilities and no clouds hovering over businesses. but a major disruption one region to the other. with respect to present problem of steady India’s economic space, As a result, the people codified specifications. The right to privacy of the climate system, The current cold spell regional climate) will water supply and stor - the Government is seeing are beginning to realise should not be seen as a rebellious assertion which has been rela - in North America and increase over most land age. California has just a silver lining in those that it is far better to do but about individual safety. Firewallling sys - tively stable for almost Europe is the result of areas. suffered from a tragic dark clouds. Indeed, vice clean business, to earn a million years. cold air moving from For a set of plausible mudslide, which is the tems have not yet been able to stave off chairman of the with dignity and respect, Some have the Arctic region emission scenarios of result of extreme pre - threats from malware and hackers. So it is Government’s think- and to live with confi - described the current southwards, which the future a one-in-20 cipitation and recent doubly incumbent upon the establishment to tank, NITI Aayog, Rajiv dence than to bribe one’s era as anthropocene, would normally not year annual hottest day loosening of soil with Kumar, was quick to way and live in constant arrest and contain porosity. At the same time since human activities have happened with is likely to become a trees having burnt point out an upward fear. They are beginning the Government must also try to dissolve are now the major the stability of air cur - one-in-two year annual down due to prolonged movement in quarterly to realise that it is far bet - determinant of the geo - rents in the Arctic extreme by the end of forest fires, aided by public perception of Aadhaar as a tyrant com - growth rates, indicating a ter to play by the rules logical, ecological and region. the 21st century in dry weather and high pliance to the state and an oppressive tool for pickup in India’s eco - than to cut corners. climatic conditions of Of course, any sin - most regions, except in temperatures. the poorest. There have been reports about nomic activity, which This psychological this planet. Thomas L gle extrem e weather the high l atitudes of the It is sad that leaders promises a robust growth effect has the potential to how the non-existence of Aadhaar cost people Friedman, the distin - event cannot be attrib - Northern Hemisphere across the world in 2018-19. play out in terms of both lives with a hospital refusing to admit guished columnist of uted to human induced where it is likely to remain so insensitive Similarly, the agricul - robust and cleaner eco - patients who couldn’t produce a card or the the New York Times, climate change, become a one-in-five to the huge risks from tural Ministry was quick nomic growth over medi - rightly refers to global because there are sev - year annual extreme. climate change faced homeless who were refused entry to a shelter to cite reasons why agri - um to longer period. warming as “global eral other factors which There are major by the weak and the in the absence of one. Worst, ration card hold - cultural growth is expect - However, to realise this weirding”. Essentially, can account for equity considerations poor and their own ers unlinked to Aadhaar card had to let go of ed to be higher than what potential, the what he is trying to extreme weather condi - in the current reality of children and grandchil - the CSO put in its esti - Government will need to their supplies. UIDAI must ensure that the convey is the fact that tions. However, the climate change and dren wherever they mates. constantly educate the idea of inclusion doesn’t compromise those globally, the climate is increase in atmospheric projections for the would be on this plan - Both, demonetisation people of the several becoming weird. moisture content would future. Typically, et. still excluded from basic parameters of life. and the GST have been advantages of clean busi - two major structural ness, conduct and prac - reforms of the Modi tices. Government. It would be Social media cam - India’s bored, portents are ominous naïve to expect these paigns similar to what Culture, condoms, have always had. iate if their freedom is at becoming fragile. The Karnataka Government to authorities are absolutely reforms to not lead to any we’ve seen in other con - misogyny... We are sailing Back in May ‘68, the stake. The sentiment to be young are constantly being perform at a new year’s fine with Bollywood short-term economic texts, such as making dangerously on an authori - above slogan reflected the free to make one’s choices judged on the basis of their bash as the authorities heroes urging people to eat costs in terms of eco - India open defecation tarian swell that may end disenchantment of the is the same irrespective of performance both academ - feared a law and order pan masala for instant suc - nomic growth, job cre - free or waging war up singeing us all and pro - young as they openly went country, religion, caste or ically as well as profes - problem in the State in the cess during these hours. ation and credit uptake, against tuberculosis need voke a youth revolt a la’ anti-establishment and put culture. sionally. Add to this the wake of threats of agitation Such a display of even as the reforms to be designed for pro - France 40 years ago forth their demands that Boredom at times constant cultural hammer - by some radical groups. hypocrisy is possible only promise huge medium to moting business norms No re-plastering, the were neither outrageous becomes a powerful cata - ing and moral policing and These fringe elements in a cultured country like long-term gains. and preferences for structure is broken’, is a nor unjust. What they were lyst for revolt. It was a ‘no you have a brigade of dis - were, of course, “merely” India. If the effect of demon - cleaner conduct. slogan from the May 1968 asking was probably the action-no fun’ sentiment gruntled and angry youth trying to protect the “cul - India seems poised for a etisation is viewed nar - Such messaging will revolt in France that basic tenet of freedom: ‘Be among young men and that is ready to explode at ture” of the State. dictatorship of the people rowly, in terms of the also reassure the public echoes the sentiments of what you want to be and women that paved way for the slightest provocation. According to them, watch - with heft on the ground in extent to which it could of the Government’s today’s Indian youth in let others do the same.’ the student agitation in Today, India is fast ing the actor groove to the near future, wherein flush out illicit currency anti-corruption resolve, many ways. This is The youth back then was France. What began as a becoming a country where raunchy Bollywood num - citizens will probably have from the system, it will which as some fear, may because presently India simply reacting to the simple revolt 40 years ago personal freedoms are per - bers will corrupt young to live their lives according surely appear to be an get compromised in the identifies more with intol - ‘daddy knows best’ atti - in France engulfed the ceived to be gravely com - minds. And moral policing to a rule-book devised by utter failure. But this is run-up to the next erance and radicalism and tude that had always set whole nation and shook promised. The list of does not stop at that. The the not-so-friendly neigh - not a correct view. General Election in less with inclusiveness and the dos and don’ts list for the very framework of restrictions and bans is South Delhi civic body bourhood goon. The recent Demonetisation is 2019. geniality. The nation the younger generation till society and politics. The becoming incredibly long. recently proposed a ban on controversy surrounding expected to have far As for now, the lower- though seemingly a melt - then. With globalization coincidental occurrence of When the Uttar Pradesh display of non-vegetarian the release of Bollywood reaching ramifications. than-expected growth ing pot of cultures is actu - attaining its early form in the workers’ strike for Government constitutes an foods by restaurants and flickPadmavati is probably The fact that almost estimates of the CSO has ally burdened with cultural the 1970s, the May ‘68 higher wages magnified Anti-Romeo Squad to put eateries as it hurts the sen - the last nail in the coffin. It the entire quantum of put the Finance Ministry differences and ideological events in France also set the agitation many fold a curb on so-called promis - timents of vegetarians. In a can’t get more dictatorial banned currency notes folks in a tight spot. As clashes from within and the stage for irrevocable and in the end, the French cuity among the youth, multicultural, liberal coun - than this when even cre - managed to find its way they give final touches to these are possibly just changes in societies and government had to accede there is no pushback to try like India, these are ativity and freedom of back into the banking the next Union Budget, waiting to explode like in the mind-sets of people. to all the demands. Had the stop this blatant breach of outrageous moves. Of expression are being system indicated that they have an arduous the France of 1968-69. The 1968 revolution of two events not coincided people’s fundamental right course, if restrictions are curbed by self-proclaimed people outsmarted the task of balancing multi - Forty years on, the social France was a trendsetter in with each other, none of to freedom. If only the sys - the norm today across protectors of culture Government. This fact ple objectives of sustain - and political upheaval that its own right. A stark them would probably have tem had paid more atten - political dispensations and protesting about a film not only surprised the ing consumption, shook France is still fresh reminder of the strength of acquired the enormity that tion to other problems that seemingly with the support before it is released. Bigots Government but also encouraging private in people’s’ memory and the youth and how it could they attained at that time. plague the lives of young of those who elect them, of all description should some experts. It became investment, energising not without a valid reason. bring the whole nation to a With a feeble education people in modern times... how can condoms be left remember that the nation’s clear that the success of agriculture, giving stimu - A non-threatening move - standstill. The movement system to rely on and little even strolling in a park behind? A country set to young are not just the demonetisation lay in the lus to exports and much ment that started with stu - brought to the fore the fact enthusiasm in the job with friends, especially if become the most populous backbone of the economy follow-up measures. more. And all of this at a dents seeking sexual free - that it is impossible to sup - arena, the Indian youth of of the opposite gender, is one in the world by 2022 is but also the torch-bearers To this end, the time when the fiscal situ - dom eventually took press the aspirations of the today is also a bored and looked upon with suspi - still apparently embar - of our culture. They look Government didn’t shy ation of the country is everyone in its fold and young generation for long. fatigued lot. Even the once cion now. That is the sad rassed to watch a condom forward to living free, with away from taking those tight and political imper - became a classic example World over, they yearn strong societal threads of reality. Sunny Leone was advertisement on TV from an open mind and in a pro - measures: It gave a atives of General of the power that the youth for liberty and would retal - India are increasingly not allowed by the 6 am till 10 pm. But the gressive environment. If strong push to digital Election looms large. TRUTH PREVAIL 5 ENTERTAINMENT/HEALTH JAMMU, SATUR DAY, JANUARY 13, 2018

Priyanka Chopra is ruling While her fashion outings in Priyanka Chopra’hsea rtsw in thie nEastt aned Wres t wardrobe goes fromthe pfasat yeabrs h avte boeen lidke rab in three years as well and we adore her for a treat for sore eyes, the it. This ‘desi girl’ is proba - recent one definitely gets a bly the most successful thumbs down from us. actress of Bollywood in the Priyanka Chopra will West and her fan following continue to hit the streets of increases with each passing NYC till she finishes shoot - day. On days when she isn’t ing Quantico’s season 3 and taking us on a virtual tour of we hope she doesn’t opt for her life in NYC, she’s busy anything as terrible as this. making some stylish The next season of her appearances that are hard to American thriller show will ignore. From being a premiere on April 26 and casuchic chick to a red car - it’s high time she returns to pet darling, PeeCee’s fash - kick some a$$ on small ion choices have always screen. been a hot topic of discus - Time to rejoice for all sion and applauded by fash - Priyanka Chopra fans! For ion pundits all over the anyone and everyone who world. She loves to go bold were eagerly waiting to see and hates anything that’s too PeeCee back in her action safe. Her style statements avatar, the wait seems to be often reflect her personality finally over. The new or and her choices. From rather third season of Armani to Prabal Gurung, is Priyanka’s American popu - there a brand not embraced lar TV show, Quantico will by her? She rules our best premiere on April 26 and dressed list most times and the makers promise to keep it’s often a delight to see her you on the edge of your seat shine in her fashion picks. with their new season. But as they say, ‘Not every - Priyanka has been shooting day is a good day’, even continuously for the new PeeCee has her own share season of her action drama of bad days. There are times since the last couple of when even she commits a months and her on the set fashion blunder and stuns us pictures have intrigued us for a moment (in a bad way) enough already. So, there is Priyanka Chopra’s recent no dilemma that the next winter outing in New York season will be grander and could be mind boggling for thrilling than before. Also, her fans but it’s nothing less we are bursting with excite - than a disaster for fashion ment to see Alex Parrish connoisseurs like us. From kick some a$$ in her new what we know, New York is season. currently freezing with -1 The third season of degree temperature and we ABC’s Quantico will start would expect Priyanka to from where the season 2 put on as many layers of ended. While ABC had kept However, Alex is forced to lies ahead for this team clothes as possible. But the story line of the new abandon this idyllic exis - when they agree to work guess her hotness does help season under wrap till date, tence when Ryan persuades together as an elite black- her escape all the chill. they recently released a syn - her to help him rescue ops task force. Interesting, Dressed in a black t-shirt opsis and the official star Shelby from a notorious right? This clears the air with matching leather jacket cast of the same. And going international arms dealer around Priyanka shooting in and ripped jeans, Priyanka by what we read, the plot known only as The Widow, Italy for few episodes and was definitely not dressed has just intensified than who is holding her hostage then shifting her base to for a winter morning. before with the entry of a – and in exchange for her New York like every year. Though the actress was more ruthless enemy. As per release she demands some - The official star cast of the busy soaking some sun with the synopsis revealed, “It’s thing that only Alex can series is Priyanka Chopra as her Quantico gang but the been three years since provide. Ryan and Alex Alex Parrish, Jake temperature can’t really be American hero Alex Parrish recruit Owen and Harry to McLaughlin as Ryan Booth, ignored. Priyanka’s recent has had to navigate the dan - help rescue their friend and Johanna Braddy as Shelby disastrous outings are gerous waters of the Central defeat the villain. To help Wyatt, Russell Tovey as alarming since she isn’t Intelligence Agency and put the cause, Owen brings in Harry Doyle, Alan Powell someone who takes fashion her life on the line for her former agent Jocelyn Turner as Mike McQuigg, with so casually. She means busi - country. She has been living (Marlee Matlin), who has Marlee Matlin as Jocelyn ness and we hate to see her a peaceful, anonymous life her own dark past with The Turner and Blair commit such blunders. somewhere in Italy. Widow. A whole new future Underwood as Owen Hall.

New graphene-based sensor device can Obese people more likely to suffer from save babies' health Paracetamol in pregnancy may LONDON: Scientists disability after joint surgery have developed new wear - with the Hospital for Special able graphene-based sensor delay daughters' language skills Surgery in New York City device which can detect NEW YORK: who wasn’t involved in the heart and breathing abnor - Women who consume study. malities in babies as well acetaminophen -- also “So, the point is, joint sur - improve life-threatening known as paracetamol gery is still helpful whether conditions such as sleep and widely used to patients are obese or not, but apnoea in adults. reduce a high fever or it shows that we need to do The sensor, developed by relieve pain -- during something for them more physicists at the University early pregnancy are six than just replace their joint,” of Sussex, is shaped like a times more likely to see Parks said in a phone inter - flexible rubber tube filled delay in their daughters' view. with a solution of water, oil language skills, warns a “One of the things that we and particles graphene and is new study. do here at HSS, and that I the most sensitive liquid- Acetaminophen is the hope is becoming more based devices to have ever active ingredient in prevalent nationally, is we been developed. Tylenol and hundreds of work collaboratively with our The sensors -- two-dimen - over-the-counter and medical colleagues to try to sional material made from prescription medicines. address obesity,” he said. carbon atoms that is strong, The maternal intake of It’s also important for flexible and conductive. acetaminophen saw a PHILADELPHIA: ure of weight relative to patients to become involved "We have created a sensor reduction in the intelli - People who undergo joint height - of 30 or above at the in their own health care, that has the potential to dras - gence quotient level surgery, such as joint replace - time of their surgery. Parks added. tically improve early detec - along with increasing ments for arthritis, are more Before surgery and during “Whether you go to your tion of life-threatening language delay, defined likely to become dependent the following two years, par - primary care doctor, whether symptoms such as sleep as the use of lesser than in the years following sur - ticipants were asked if they you go to a nutritionist, apnoea or cardiac arrhyth - 50 words, by the kids. gery if they are obese, had any physical, mental, whether you go next door to a mia, where constant moni - The communication researchers say. emotional or memory prob - center for weight loss that’s toring with conventional delay affected boys at Further research is needed lems that affected their activ - medical or whether you go to equipment is challenging the same time, but was Shanna Swan, Professor Psychiatry, examined Both the number of to know why this happens ities of daily living. These our center for weight loss outside of the hospital envi - more prevelant among at the Icahn School of 754 women, who were in tablets and concentration and how to prevent it, the activities could include that’s surgical, the point is, ronment," said Alan Dalton, the girls, the study Medicine at Mount Sinai eight-13 weeks of preg - in urine were associated study team writes in British things like getting out of bed, become involved in your Professor at the University of showed. "Given the in New York, US. nancy. Researchers with a significant Journal of Anaesthesia. toileting, bathing and eating. health and do something to Sussex. prevalence of prenatal "It's important for us asked participants to increase in language “I think there’s been a lot Needing help for any of these lose weight to make yourself When a channel or tube acetaminophen use and to look at language report the number of delay in girls, with a of research on mortality and a tasks was labeled as a a better candidate because holding the liquid is the importance of lan - development because it acetaminophen tablets slight decrease in boys. lot of research on complica - dependence disability. that has implications on your stretched, even by a small guage development, our has shown to be predic - they had taken between Previous studies have tions, but not too much on About 22 percent of partic - surgical outcome, your risk, amount, the conductivity of findings, if replicated, tive of other neurodevel - conception and enroll - found that the over expo - how people actually get back ipants reported new or wors - and this study shows that it the liquid changes. suggest that pregnant opmental problems in ment, and tested the sure to the pain relieving to how they perform at ening dependence approxi - has a long-term outcome on This means that the respi - women should limit their children," Swan added. acetaminophen concen - drug during pregnancy home,” lead author Dr. mately two years after their your dependence and your ration rates and pulses of use of this analgesic dur - The study, published tration in their urine at also damages the fertility Timothy Gaulton told surgery - including more than ability to be independent and people wearing the device ing pregnancy," said in the journal European enrollment. of the daughters. Reuters Health. one in four obese patients and your mobility,” he said. can be tracked easily. “That was a part of the rea - one in five non-obese son that we wanted to look at patients. Researchers calcu - the outcome, and in general lated that obese joint surgery obese patients,” said Gaulton, patients had a 35 percent of the Perelman School of higher risk of dependence Women live longer than men - Here's the secret Medicine at the University of after surgery compared to NEW YORK: Women born girls are more likely Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. non-obese patients. are biologically stronger to survive than newborn Duke University in It’s important for potential “We weren’t surprised by than men and hence tend boys. However, even Durham, US. joint surgery patients to know the association between obe - that in some circumstances, sity and outcomes, but I think to outlive their male coun - when mortality was very In the study, published because of their age, weight we were surprised that the terparts, finds a study high for both sexes, in the journal Proceedings or preoperative functional percentage of patients who challenging the pre-con - women still lived longer of the National Academy dependence, they may be at had a new disability after sur - ceived notion that the than men by six months to of Sciences, the team ana - higher risk of getting worse gery was so high. It wasn’t female sex is weaker. almost four years on aver - lyzed mortality data going after surgery, he said in a just obese patients, I think it telephone interview. was elderly patients in gener - The findings showed age, This advantage in back roughly 250 years “It’s something that needs al,” Gauton said. that women do not just women may be largely for people whose lives to be considered both for the Physicians may need to outlive men in normal due to biological factors were cut short by famine, patient and for the surgeon pay a little more attention to, times, but they are also such as genetics or hor - disease or other misfor - when they make this decision and maybe counsel, not just more likely to survive mones, especially estro - tunes. about moving forward with obese patients but elderly getting a joint surgery,” he patients in general. “They even in the worst of cir - gens, which enhances the The data spanned seven said. come in for surgery and an cumstances such as body's immune defenses populations in which the The researchers studied expectation of getting better. famines and epidemics. against infectious disease, life expectancy for one or 2,519 adults over age 61 who That might not always be the Women's increased life the researchers explained. both sexes was a dismal had joint surgery for arthritis. case,” he said. expectancy is because "Our results add another 20 years or less and found About two-thirds of partici - It is important to note that pants had joint replacements. improvement was seen for they tend to have a sur - piece to the puzzle of gen - that newborn girls are And 45 percent were obese, most obese and non-obese vival advantage in infancy der differences in sur - hardier than newborn meaning they had a body participants, said Dr. Michael rather than adulthood. In vival," said researchers boys due biological fac - mass index (BMI) - a meas - Parks, an orthopedic surgeon times of adversity, new - led by Virginia Zarulli, tors. TRUTH PREVAIL 6 SPORTS/BUSINESS JAMMU, SATUR DAY, JANUARY 13, 2018 Copa Del Rey: Lionel Messi Puts on Masterclass Premier League: Alexis Sanchez Future For Watching Philippe Coutinho Auckland Classic: Juan Martin Del Potro Lionel Messi put on a mas - Dembele did have time to terclass in front of new set up the fifth goal of the Uncertain, Says Arsene Wenger recruit Philippe Coutinho as night three minutes from the side travel to Bournemouth Juan DMaortinw denl Psotr oD coan - vid Ferrer To Reach Final on Sunday, said Sanchez Barcelona trounced Celta end when his corner was Vigo 5-0 Thursday to ease headed home from close tinued his fine form after he would only be allowed to reached his third final in his leave if they could get a new into the Copa del Rey quar - range by an unmarked Ivan ter-finals 6-1 on aggregate. Rakitic. last four tournaments. He signing over the line. defeated David Ferrer in "Of course I want a quick Coutinho, dressed in a "It's luxury to have Leo in black shirt dotted with white the side, he's the best in his - straight sets to set up an resolution," he told reporters Auckland Classic decider at Arsenal's north London stars, was in the stands at the tory. We always look for Camp Nou for the first time each other to score goals and against Robert Bautista Agut training base. on Friday. Del Potro, the 2009 "Is he (Sanchez) replace - since his 160 million-euro today we have done it twice," ($192 million) move from said Alba. US Open champion and able in the way that we find Auckland winner, beat Ferrer exactly the same player? Liverpool. Earlier Thursday, It didn't take long for the Espanyol overturned a 2-1 6-4, 6-4 to continue his strong Certainly not, but there's form from the end of last sea - always a way to find a differ - Brazilian star to appreciate loss in the first leg to defeat the playing riches on show Levante 2-0 with Leo son, which included victory in ent balance. Stockholm and losing the "Alexis is an exceptional on the pitch. Baptistao and Gerard "The first half was extraor - Moreno on target either side Basel final to Roger Federer. football player, he's a world- The Argentine world number class player and if that hap - dinary," said Barca coach of half-time. Ernesto Valverde. Sevilla also progressed 12 now goes into the final his knees at the end. "The end generally shorter as they pens (and he leaves) we have against 2016 Auckland cham - was unbelievable when I saw slugged it out from the base - Arsene Wenger said Friday £20 million offer as they seek to find a different balance in Level at 1-1 after the first with a 2-1 win at home to leg, the three-time defending second-tier Cadiz for a 4-1 pion Bautista Agut, who came the ball in I went crazy, I was line. there is nothing 'concrete' on to bolster their forward the team." from behind in an epic a battle so happy." After del Potro raced Alexis Sanchez's future options and deny their bitter Theo Walcott is another champions were 4-0 up by aggregate. half-time. Wissam Ben Yedder, after against Dutchman Robin The pair battled for nearly through the first set, Ferrer despite reported interest from rivals. Arsenal player poised to Haase featuring three tie- three hours, in a match high - held break points when lead - both Manchester clubs but When asked if United leave this month, with Messi grabbed the opening 31 minutes, and Joaquin two goals in the 13th and Correa in the 54th minute, breaks. After nearly three lighted by long rallies mixing ing 2-1 and 4-3 in the second stated he will only be sold were interested in signing the Everton manager Sam hours on court, the classic powerful drives into the cor - set as the Argentinian, seeded this month if Arsenal can player, Wenger said: "noth - Allardyce revealing on 15th minutes, both finished were on target for Vincenzo with a sublime first touch Montella's team. encounter was settled by a ners with cross-court floaters. 12th in the Australian Open find a replacement. Sanchez, ing is really concrete at the Friday that they are hopeful Bautista Agut lob that landed Every weapon in their next week, struggled with his out of contract at the end of moment". of sealing a permanent deal. with his left foot, both creat - On Wednesday, Real ed by Jordi Alba. Madrid laboured to a 2-2 on the line,ending 6-7 (7/9), 7- armoury was on display, with first serve. But both times Del the season, is expected to Questioned as to whether Wenger said he does not 6 (7/3), 7-6 (7/5). Haase even switching his rac - Potro was able to rely on his leave the north London club there was any truth in the want the 28-year-old to Messi then returned the draw with Numancia to favour by setting up Alba to progress to the quarter-finals "Unfortunately the match can - quet from the right to left hand running forehand to save him - during the transfer window rumour, the Arsenal manager leave, but conceded he can - not have two winners and I'm to reach shots swinging away self and at 4-4 he broke the with young Bordeaux for - was coy. "You conclude not guarantee the forward score past the hapless Sergio 5-2 on aggregate. Alvarez in the Celta goal In a much-changed side, so happy I won," said the down the backhand side. Del Spaniard before successfully ward Malcom linked with a that," he said. "You could say playing time and an unlikely relieved Spaniard, who sank to Potro and Ferrer's rallies were serving for the match. move to the Emirates. Pep that at the moment... it's not route into Gareth Southgate's before Luis Suarez made it 4- Lucas Vazquez scored both Guardiola's bid to buy that I don't want to inform England squad for the World 0 on the night after 30 min - of Real's goals after the 11th Sanchez collapsed at the end you, I don't want to give you Cup. utes when the Uruguayan and 59th minutes. of the summer transfer win - wrong information and at the "Sam Allardyce has made burst through the defence. But on both occasions, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, On A Cricket Break, dow and City were widely moment I must say nothing is that statement but Theo The tie petered out in the their modest visitors fought expected to make another decided one way or the Walcott is here," Wenger second half but French inter - back thanks to a brace from national Ousmane Dembele Guillermo on the stroke of Attends Ziva's First Annual Day move for Chile forward. But other." added. Former India captain Jose Mourinho's United have Wenger admitted a bidding "I have a good relationship showed why Barcelona paid half-time and then after 82 105 million euros for him minutes. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is reportedly thrown their hat war could help Arsenal but with Theo and I don't want doing what he loves to do into the ring, bidding around said that was not the current him to be frustrated or lose last year when he dribbled Numancia ended the game past three defenders from the with 10 men after captain most -- spend time with his £25 million ($34 million, 28 situation. an opportunity to go to the family. This time it wasn't an million euros) to trump City's The Arsenal boss, whose World Cup." halfway line before being Dani Calvo was red-carded denied by a desperate tackle. in the dying moments. ordinary outing for the talis - manic cricketer, as he attended his dearest daughter Ziva's annual school function. Ziva, who is already Internet's dar - ling with her Instagram videos Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Ton Up Karun Nair Helps Karnataka Beat Tamil Nadu and pictures, yet again stole Riding on Karun Nair's overs. No other Karnataka score at one stage. fine century and a brilliant batsman except for Nair Nair was among his vic - the limelight and sent social bowling display from Pravin could cross the 20-run mark. tims as he ran through the media into a frenzy with her Dubey, Karnataka ended Nair, during his innings, hit lower order to finish with 5 cute princess attire. In various Tamil Nadu's winning streak eight fours and as many for 30. Twitter videos and pictures with a 78-run win in the Syed sixes. Tamil Nadu was in early which are doing rounds, Ziva Mushtaq Ali Trophy South The only significant part - trouble during the chase, los - can be seen sporting a pink hair. A couple of Twitter and once again be seen donning Zone T20 tournament on nership was the one between ing opener Abhinav Mukund princess-like dress with a Instagram Dhoni fan accounts the famous yellow jersey Friday. While Karun Nair Nair and R Samarth for the (1) and the prolific Dinesh crown on her head. too uploaded pictures of Ziva's when he represents the scored 111, leggie Pravin third wicket, which yield 83 Karthik (0), who had scored While Dhoni was with Ziva school function where it Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Dubey scalped four wickets. runs. The centurion kept three successive fifties, to a attending the school function, seems, she enacted the role of in the season 11 of the Indian Nair's knock helped his team going despite the team losing run-out in the first two overs. one such video shows the a princess. Premier League (IPL). CSK post a competitive total of wickets at regular intervals. Despite a 48-run partner - wicket-keeper batsman inter - However, Dhoni, who is not retained the services of Dhoni, 179 for 9 in 20 overs after Rookie slinger Athisayaraj ship between MS acting with other kids as well. on national duty, will be join - Suresh Raina and Ravindra being sent in to bat by Tamil Davidson with a five-wicket Washington Sundar (34) and Dhoni, who pulled out of Syed ing the Indian cricket in South Jadeja. Dhoni was the man at Nadu skipper Vijay Shankar. haul played a huge role in Shankar (20), things went Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament, Africa for the limited-over the helm of affairs when CSK In reply, Tamil Nadu were restricting Karnataka to 179 downhill for Tamil Nadu was seen donning a sleek cricket starting from February were IPL champions in subse - bowled out for 101 in 16.3 after they looked set for a big after they were separated. black jacket and had spiked 1. Apart from this, Dhoni will quent seasons in 2010. Foreign Airlines Allowed To Invest Single Brand Retail, Construction Up To 49% In Air India Middle Class Can Hope For A Big Tax Relief In Budget 2018-19, Says Report NEW DELHI: The Get Big FDI Push: 10st ayPingo afilonat tons taxpayers' country's middle class can money. Air India has a total hope for a big relief in debt of about Rs. 48,877 Budget for financial year crore at the end of March 2018-19, which will also 2017, of which about Rs. be the last regular Budget 17,360 crore were aircraft of the NDA government, loans and Rs. 31,517 crore The Cabinet today allowed Transport, Tourism and as the finance ministry is were working capital loans. foreign airlines to invest up to Culture recently concluded contemplating to hike the Currently, a group of 49 per cent in national carrier that the government should personal tax exemption ministers is in the process Air India under the approval review its decision to priva - limit and tweak the tax of finalising the contours route. This move is expected tise or disinvest Air India and slabs, according to unchanged but gave a which has been pegged at for the proposed strategic to expedite Air India's divest - explore the possibility of "an sources. marginal relief to small 3.2 per cent of the GDP stake sale in the national ment process. A group of alternative to disinvestment ministers is in the process of of our national carrier which The proposal before the taxpayers by reducing the for 2017-18. carrier and expression of finalising the contours for the is our national pride". ministry is to hike the tax rate from 10 per cent to 5 The government recent - interest is likely to be invit - proposed strategic stake sale A Press Trust of India exemption limit from the per cent. This was for ly raised borrowing target ed from bidders soon. in the national carrier and report, citing sources, had existing Rs. 2.5 lakh per individuals having an by additional Rs. 50,000 Among other decisions expression of interest is likely earlier said that the expres - annum to at least Rs. 3 annual income between crore for the current fiscal today, the Cabinet clarified to be invited from bidders sion of interest for Air India's The Cabinet today liber - automatic route with lakh if not 5 lakh, they Rs. 2.5 lakh and Rs. 5 year to meet the shortfall. that real-estate broking soon. Debt-laden Air India is disinvestment is likely to be alised FDI or foreign direct respect to single brand retail said. lakh. According to industry service does not amount to staying afloat on taxpayers' issued by the government this investment in key sectors trading will quicken the Besides, the tinkering In the next Budget to be body Ficci, there is a like - real estate business and is money. month, possibly on January including allowing 100 per FDI clearance process as no of tax slabs is also being unveiled on February 1, lihood that demonetisa - therefore, eligible for 100 Last year, the Cabinet 25. cent FDI under automatic prior government approval Committee on Economic Air India has a total debt of actively considered by the the government could tion effects may linger on per cent FDI under auto - route in single brand retail would be required. We Affairs (CCEA) gave its in- about Rs. 48,877 crore at the ministry to give a sub - lower the tax rate by 10 for some more months matic route. trading. It also allowed for - expect that FDI in single principle nod for the strategic end of March 2017, of which stantial relief to the mid - per cent on income and hence there is a need The Cabinet also decided eign airlines to invest up to brand retail trading sector disinvestment of the airline. about Rs. 17,360 crore were dle-income group, espe - between Rs. 5 lakh and to further boost demand to allow foreign institution - 49 per cent under approval will now gain further Under a turnaround plan aircraft loans and Rs. 31,517 cially the salaried class, to Rs. 10 lakh, levy a 20 per and therefore, the govern - al investors (FIIs)/foreign approved by the previous crore were working capital route in national carrier Air momentum due to the help them tide over the cent rate for those with ment should consider portfolio investors (FPIs) to UPA regime, Air India is to loans. The airline is expected India. This move is expect - process not being subject to impact of retail inflation, income between Rs. 10 revision of income tax invest in power exchanges receive up to Rs. 30,231 crore to report a net loss of Rs. ed to expedite the divest - regulatory scrutiny and which has started to inch lakh and Rs. 20 lakh and slabs, by raising the through primary market as from the government subject 3,579 crore for 2017-18, as ment process for Air India. approval process," said up. 30 per cent for income income level on which well. Earlier, FII/FPI pur - to meeting certain perform - per budget estimates project - It is also likely to benefit Rabindra Jhunjhunwala, ance thresholds. ed for 2017-18 from a provi - In the last Budget, beyond Rs. 20 lakh. peak tax rate would trig - chases were restricted to big foreign single-brand partner at law firm Khaitan However, a Parliamentary sional net loss of Rs. 3,643 Finance Minister Arun At present, there is no ger. secondary market only. retailers such as IKEA. 100 & Co. The relaxation of Standing Committee on crore for 2016-17. Jaitley left the tax slabs tax slab for income "This would improve per cent FDI in construction norms for foreign airline between Rs. 10 lakh and purchasing power and development via automatic investment in Air India is Rs. 20 lakh. create additional demand. route was also cleared. The subjected to certain condi - 100% FDI In Single Brand Retail To "Considering the steep For individual taxpayers, decision was taken during tions. The government said rise in cost of living due 30 per cent tax rate should the Cabinet meeting chaired that foreign investment in to inflation, it is suggested be applicable only if the by Prime Minister Narendra Air India including that of Boost Demand For Retail Space that basic limit for income is above Rs. 20 NEW DELHI: The govern - Modi. Measures taken by foreign Airline (s) shall not ment's decision to grant 100 exemption and other lakh. Additionally, inter - the government have result - exceed 49 per cent either per cent FDI for single brand income slabs should be est rates should be low - ed in increased FDI inflows directly or indirectly and retail would boost demand for enhanced to give benefit ered to enable affordable into the country. In the "substantial ownership and retail space from foreign to low income group. The finance for conducting financial year 2016-17, a effective control of Air brands looking to set up stores income trigger for peak business operation and total of $60.08 billion was India shall continue to be in India, according to property rate in other countries is expansion," it said. received in FDI - which is vested in Indian National". developers and consultants. significantly higher," Among other things, an all-time high. According to the current "Allowing 100 per cent FDI industry chamber CII the chambers have sug - 10 Things To Know FDI policy, foreign airlines in single brand retail trading is (Confederation of Indian gested reintroduction of sure to boost the demand for About Key FDI Decisions are allowed to invest under retail spaces in the country," Industry) said in its pre- the standard deduction for Today: government approval route Pacific group Executive Budget memorandum to salaried employees to at Currently, FDI up to 49 in Indian companies operat - Director Abhishek Bansal said. the finance ministry. least Rs. 1 lakh to ease the per cent is permitted under ing scheduled and non- Stating that commercial Although the industry tax burden, keeping in automatic route in single scheduled air transport properties have been in chambers want the gov - mind the rate of inflation brand retail but beyond that services, up to the limit of demand from last few years, he ernment to reduce the and purchasing power of limit, government nod is 49 per cent of their paid-up said the demand would further peak tax slab to 25 per the salaried individual, required. capital. But the provision increase as lot of foreign play - cent, it is unlikely that the which is dependent on The government said that was not applicable to Air ers would like to open up ministry will agree to that salary available for dis - direct stores in the country or the decision to liberalise India. look forward to handing out due to pressure on fiscal bursement. FDI norms would help pro - Last year, the Cabinet franchises to deserving play - step in providing quantum a prolonged period of slow - Indian retail sector is pegged at deficit. Standard deduction, vide ease of doing business Committee on Economic ers. growth to retail sector. down in the retail sector over Rs. 1 trillion by 2020 at an esti - The subdued indirect which was available to and also lead to larger FDI Affairs (CCEA) gave its in- Pankaj Renjhen, Managing "The timing for this the last few years, we saw mated CAGR of 15 per cent, tax collection following the salaried individuals on inflows contributing to principle nod for the strate - Director, Retail, JLL India, announcement is significant as strong comeback with devel - Renjhen said, adding that this the rollout of Goods and their taxable income, was growth of investment, gic disinvestment of Air said the government's decision the retail sector is poised to opers and investors betting move would be a strong cata - Services Tax from July 1 abolished with effect income and employment. India. to grant 100 per cent FDI for receive significant real estate high on the sector," he added. lyst for the sector to reach and last year has put pressure from assessment year "The approval through Debt-laden Air India is single brand retail is a major supply in the near future. After As per industry estimates, exceed its potential in India. on the fiscal deficit, 2006-07. NATIONAL/STATE TRUTH PREVAIL 7 JAMMU, SATUR DAY, JANUARY 13, 2018 Swami Vivekananda is maker of BJP giving due recognition to Sikh community contributions: Varinderjit Singh JAMMUm: Bharatiyoa Jandata ern India: Yudcounhtry avhead,i thrat's wShy weheretas hvote oi f thanks was JAMMU: Members from Yuva Morcha (BJYM) led by youths are selected to be presented by Jammu District Sikh Community led by BJP its State President Dr. Suresh inspired first by the ideas and President BJYM Hari Om Senior leader and State Ajay Magotra in presence of ideals of the Swami Sharma. BJP leaders Bharat Incharge All Cells S. BJP State Vice-President Vivekananda to shape their Bhushan Sharma, Govind Varinderjit Singh held a press Yudhvir Sethi and BJP State future in positive way, he Sareen and Dr. Pardeep conference in which he threw Secretary & State Prabhari added. Mahotra, BJYM State Vice- light upon important issues BJYM Sanjay Baru celebrated Dr. Suresh Ajay Magotra President Karan Sharma, and decisions concerning to the birthday of Swami said that every year BJYM BJYM State General Secretary Sikh Community. Vivekananda on 12th of activists celebrate the National Vikas Choudhary, Jeet Angral, Photo by Bikas January as the National Youth youth Day with great enthusi - Er. Lalit Raina, Sunny While talking to Media Day (Yuva Diwas) with full asm as it is the great way to Sangotra, Sanjay Sharma, Hari persons, Varinderjit Singh Kavinder Gupta and MLC Red Fort on 11 March 1783 enthusiasm by garlanding and Photo by Bikas wake up the eternal energy of Om Sharma, Ashish Sharma, threw light on the major Charanjit Singh Khalsa who and said that their statues showering flowering petals on son who always believed in job to others as successful the youths as well as their big Manish Gupta, Atul Bakshi, issues concerning to the Sikh gave 25 Lakh rupees towards should be established at the his statue while remembering youth power to nourish culture entrepreneurs. efforts to make the country Shodhya Sharma, Vikas community and said that pre - Guru Nanak Mission hospi - public place so that justice his preaching at Swami of country and carry advance - Sanjay Baru while address - developed. Philosophies, Sharma, Luvdeep Pathania, vious successive govern - tal. Varinderjit Singh also could be done to their contri - Vivekeananda Chowk, Jammu. ment required by country to be ing said that the PM Modi is teachings and ideas of the Karanveer Chopra, Raghav ments have only exploited apprised the media persons butions for the Nation. Yudhvir Sethi while terming developed. He said that PM working on the vision of Swami Vivekananda are the Gupta, Amrish Sharma, minority community that he has written a letter to Kulwant Singh Bhatti, Modi has termed Swami ji as Swami Vivekananda to make the Swami Vivekananda as great cultural and traditional Jatinder salathia, Gaurav although history has been maker of modern India said his ideal for numerous India as Vishav Guru. He assets of India and the youth Balgotra, Varun Sharma, PM Modi in which he has Gurdyal Singh Bali, that in order to inspire youths schemes he has launched for prompted all the youths to need to follow their footsteps Nikhil Sharma, Prajwal flooded with incidences of elaborated about S. Vagal Malvinder Singh, Gurdeep of country towards philosophy welfare of youth like Skill pledge for working sincerely into the everyday life for the Jasrotia, Mahadev Singh, exemplary valour and pride Singh, S. Jassa Singh Singh Bali, Harpal Singh of Swami Vivekananda, his India and emphasized that towards the betterment of the greater goal of life, he said. Sanchit, Prajwal Mahajan and during the sacrifices made by Alhuwalia, S. Jassa Singh Bali, Inderjeet Kour and oth - birthday is commemorated as youth of Nation should be society and the Nation. Youths BJYM State General others were among the promi - community in the times of Ramgaria who uprooted the ers were among the promi - National Youth Day. Swami empowered so that in place of are the most important part of Secretary Tarun Sharma car - nent persons present on the distraught, foreign invasions Mughals from India and nent persons present in the Vivekananda was a great per - looking jobs they must provide the country who leads the ried the stage proceedings occasion. and other events in war and unfurled the Kesri flag on Press Conference. peace. Varinderjit Singh said that Salaries to grow by 10% and organisations continue to increase Youth gets his separated thumb Corporation provides rupees 1 the Sikh community has been viewed as peculiarly opti - headcount- Mercer's All Industries Total Remuneration Survey reattached successfully lakh as loan for small unit mistic and respected commu - NEW DELHI: Hat-trick ball home. PANCHKULA: A which are well equipped for JAMMU: The Jammu nity in whole world, who hero Iain Hume guided Things were going well crushed right-hand thumb of such a major reconstructive and Kashmir Scheduled always take the lead in social Kerala Blasters FC to a 3-1 Kerala Blasters but in the a youngman has successfully surgery. Castes, Scheduled Tribes, & causes with love for those in victory over Delhi Dynamos 40th minute Dimtiri reattached with the hand by After incident , the family in the Hero Indian Super Berbatov had to come off due Backward Classes distress on the principles of League at Jawaharlal Nehru to what looked like a ham - Dr. Himanshu Paul, plastic of right-handed Parkash was Saint Soldier Guru Gobind and reconstructive surgeon at worried as they feared that Development Corporation Stadium in Delhi on string injury. And Just before Singh ji and setting an exam - Alchemist Hospital recently. how he would he manage Limited, is making sincere Wednesday. half time, Pritam Kotal lev - The thump was crushed without thumb. efforts to reach the families ple of how a person must The win, only their second eled the scores for the home while installing a heavy Now the thumb has com - of the reserved categories incorporate the feeling of in nine matches, takes Kerala side. The right back was two spots up to sixth position unmarked at the far post machine and got separate pletely been healed and with a motive of providing donating instead of seeking from the world. The contribu - on the ISL points table. For from a Romeo Fernandes from the hand. Parkash could move his financial assistance to the tions from the community Delhi Dynamos, it was free kick and he rose to guide According to Dr. thumb well. He is now well unemployed males and another night to forget at the ball past the Kerala goal - Himanshu Paul, 27-yr old rehabilitated and is back to being given due recognition females from amongst them their home ground as they keeper. Parkash (name changed) his working condition. by BJP, he added. continued to languish at the Both teams went into the who is an electrician by Meanwhile specific con - for establishing income gen - Varinderjit Singh further Photo by Ajay bottom of the table. break locked 1-1. After the occupation rushed to sideration for replantation of erating units as per their said that the Sikh community Hume struck first in the restart, Delhi Dynamos Alchemist hospital with the thumb includes bony fix - capability and expertise. Development Corporation District Office near to their is today feeling thankful to first session to give his team showed more impetus going heavy bleeding from hand as ation through the MCP and This was stated by the gets funds from the union place of residence in Jammu, the leadership of Central the lead, only for Pritam forward. Lallianzuala his thumb was totally sepa - IP joints. It uses microvascu - Corporation Vice- government through differ - Kashmir or Ladakh. Government being headed by Kotal to equalise just before Chhangte put in a few good rated. His bone was fixed by lar technique and microvas - Chairperson, Balbir Ram ent Apex Corporations with Managing Director, Prime Minister Narendra half time. In the second ses - balls into the box for the K wiring. Neurovascular cular sutures for completion sion, Hume struck form as he Delhi forwards to take Rattan, while handing over each of them working exclu - Ravinder Kumar Pandita, on Modi for the approval of repair was done using of the arterial and venous including the history of Char completed his hat-trick with advantage of. But it was Microvascular Technique anastomoses besides use of Payment Authority sively for a particular com - this occasion, stressed upon goals in the 78th and 83rd Hume who gave his side the Letter(PAL) of loan amount - munity like Scheduled the loanee to make proper Sahibzaada of Shri Gobind minute. lead again in the 77th minute. under microscope. Thumb immediate tendon and nerve Singh Ji in NCERT School ing to rupees one lakh to a Castes, Scheduled Tribes, use of the money availed by David James, who took After taking the balll from a has been re-attached and repair for avulsion injuries. Books from next session. He arterial inflow and venous The majority of thumb Scheduled Caste unem - over as the head coach of throw in, Hume charged into Backward Classes, him as financial assistance also thanked J&K BJP espe - outflow restored by repairing amputations occur because Kerala after Rene the box taking on defenders ployed youth, Jeet Lal of Physically Disables, those and said that monthly instal - cially State President Sat Meulensteen p before slotting the ball past all digital arteries, digital the thumb is relatively Sanjay Nagar,Jammu, along from national level notified ment should be repaid to the veins, nerves and tendons unprotected by the other dig - Sharma and State General arted ways with club, saw the Delhi keeper. with Managing Director Minorities and Safai Corporatio regularly. Secretary (Org.) Ashok Kaul his side open the scoring Ten minutes before full sequentially, said Dr Paul its, avulsion amputation are early in the game, thanks to a time, Hume settle the tie with adding the procedure is con - relatively common, such as Ravinder Kumar Pandita, Karamcharis. He also asked Jeet Lal to for providing 51 lakh rupees Divisional Manager Gulam The state government motivate the unemployed to Jammu University to neat finish from Hume. In a third on the night. A Mark sidered to be a challenging in waterskiing and rodeo the 12th minute of the game, Sifneos through ball put one requiring utmost surgical injuries. Interestingly the Qadir Khatana and Jammu also contributes towards it. people of his community to establish Shri Guru Gobind after some good work by Hume through on goal, and skills and advanced technical thumb contributes 40% to District Manager Joginder The procedure and related avail benefits of the welfare Singh ji Chair. He also Courage Pekuson down the the Canadian international knowhow. the overall function of the Paul Atri, at Head Office, formalities are common for schemes of the Corporation thanked Speaker J&K left where he got past Pritam lifted the ball over the There are very few plastic hand, remarked Dr Jammu. Balbir Ram Rattan each category and the aspi - and earn livelihood in a dig - Legislative Assembly & Kotal to get inside the box, onrushing keeper to com - surgery centres in India Himanshu. said that J&K SCs, STs, BCs rants can apply through the nified way. MLA Gandhi Nagar Hume was on hand to slot the plete his hat-trick. Vodafone partners Trend Micro to launch Cloud based Budget announced by the Financed Minister is anti Jammu/Farmers: Neeraj JAMMU: Neeraj Gupta the heaps of garbage here NEW DELHI: Veondafdone-pwohitnelistti nSg, deisck uencrryiptioyn Saund iiOtSe m foboiler p lbatfourmss.i Int eEsnstereprs ises and SMB cus - Zonal President JKNPP and there. Gupta said that Super Shield is a complete Proactive monitoring fea - lets customers manage their tomers that are looking for along with his supporters this Budget is against the end-point security suite that tures including Behaviour users and licenses online, flexible security deployment and party workers held a wishes and welfare of protects critical business data Monitoring, Ransomware grant and revoke access, and options. Our endpoint securi - massive protest against the Jammu. The BJP and PDP from a multitude of threats protection, Web and file rep - generate reports and dash - ty offering will greatly help anti Jammu Budget Govt had cheated the including malware attacks, utation monitoring boards. achieve that. It would offer a announced by the Finance Jammu people. However ransom ware, spyware, Backed by Trend Micro's Anil Philip, Senior Vice multi-dimensional advanced Minister Hasib Drabu at this time they have added phishing websites and data Global Threat Protection President, Vodafone threat protection, and consol - Tpt. Nagar Narwal Jammu. one another feather of dis - thefts etc. Super Shield is Network, and advanced Business Services said, idated view across all layers They shout slogans against crimination with Jammu in equipped with advanced Machine Learning "With businesses getting of security and all deploy - the Govt. and its anti- their Cap by keeping silence enterprise grade features Available on the Vodafone exponentially digital and ment models." Jammu Budget. He said that over this totally anti Jammu including USB port block - Cloud Store with Vodafone's online, data and information Vodafone Super Shield is the Govt has totally neglect - Budget. He said that the ing, URL filtering and full dedicated Onboarding and security is of critical impor - available on its completely ed Jammu people in its BJP M.L.A.'s has no words disk encryption on Windows. Cloud SupportUsers of tance. Vodafone Super online automated market - budget. Photo by Ajay to speak about the develop - Backed by Trend Micro's Vodafone Super Shield can Shield is designed to make place Vodafone CloudStore They had not announced ment of Jammu. They don't Cloud based Global Smart receive updates real-time on enterprise grade data security (www.cloud.vodafone.in) at any policy for unemployed group. Even then the Govt. demanding money from have time to make policy Protection Network, it proac - the cloud platform, thus in a simple, affordable and an affordable price of Rs. 99 youths of the Jammu and has not even considered this Centre then instead of for the employment, educa - tively identifies and blocks eliminating the need for worry free way." per user per month or Rs. Kashmir they had not matter. The Budget is not spending the money in the tion, health of the common new and existing threats servers or complex IT infra - Nilesh Jain, Country 999 per user for 12 months. announced any policy about speaking about the new pol - development works the man in Jammu. before they impact the structure to manage the Manager India & SAARC, Customers can buy it online regularization of contractual icy for development of Govt. is announcing the They have surrendered devices. deployment. Its admin man - Trend Micro commented on and opt for simple, flexible lecturers. MNREGA health projects in Jammu. amnesty for the Kashmiri themselves for the lust of Double Bracket: Vodafone agement feature is accessible the partnership, "With ever- payment options and manage employees, NHM employ - No policy for farmers and houseboat owners. power before the Kashmiri Super Shield anytime, anywhere from the growing security risks and a their users and licenses ees. PDD employees, P.H.E. border residents of Jammu. There is nothing in the Rulers. He was accompa - Cloud based end-point URL-based admin console. complex IT environment, it online. Vodafone also employees etc. He said that The 19 houseboat owners budget about the policy of nied by Jagdish Singh security across devices - Super Shield is designed is important to find a flexi - extends dedicated Account the unemployment rate of have been awarded by a controlling the traffic. No Baryal Zonal Vice Windows, Macs, Servers, to protect devices across ble, customizable, easy-to- management, Relationship persons between 18-29 yrs huge amount of (Rs.147.23 policy/provision for the President, SuratLal, Android and iOS platforms and devices manage solution suitable for management and Cloud of age in the state is 24.6% crore) in the budget for their other development works in Joginder Singh, Inderjeet Enterprise grade features including Windows PCs, businesses. We are glad to Support infrastructure that which is higher than the rehabilitation. It is not pos - Jammu. The budget didn't Sharma, Rajesh Raina, including Port Blocking, MacBooks, Windows partner and collaborate with helps with onboarding and national unemployment rate sible for us to understand if speak about how we will Kewel Krishan, Kuldeep URL blacklisting and Servers as well as Android Vodafone in helping secure in-life support. of 13.2% in the same age the Govt. is bearing loss and make Jammu a smart city by Singh Etc Honda Cars India introduces special CLAT 2018 to be conducted 3 tips to make your home on May 13; No Age Limit ready for Pongal J.D. Power 2017 India: Volkswagen Polo ranks highest in editions of City, Amaze and WR-V Notified Yet JAMMU: With the onset SECRET GARDEN: NEW DELHI: Honda WR-V Edge Edition offers CHANDIGARH: The of the festive season, you are Decoration items used during Initial Quality Study in Premium Compact segment Cars India (HCIL), leading new value to the customers Common Law Admission at your best to host friends Pongal are usually 'green'. 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These organized by The National decorate your home for a arcane sticks, banana leaves, of special editions of three of duction of these editions, Mr. warm and happy welcome. mango leaves, etc. While you Volkswagen continues products for the Indian included Features/ University of Advanced to score highly across market."Commenting Controls/ Displays, its models Honda City, Jnaneswar Sen, Sr. Vice Legal Studies (NUALS), Pongal, the harvest festival, live in bustling streets and Honda Amaze and Honda President, Marketing & Kochi for admission to under marks the auspicious begin - high-rise buildings, there is segments with the on the results, Steffen Audio/Entertainment/N ning of Uttarayan - sun's jour - always that desire for a Secret WR-V. These special edi - Sales, Honda Cars India Ltd graduate and post-graduate Volkswagen Polo Knapp, Director, avigation, Seats, ney northwards. It is an occa - Garden. A contemporary look retaining its highest Volkswagen Passenger HVAC, Vehicle Interior tions include Honda City said, "We are extremely programmes in Law in 19 law universities in India. sion for offering thanks to with a seamless transition rank for 2017 in the Cars said, "Volkswagen & 20th Anniversary Edition, delighted to introduce the The online application nature, for celebrating the life between the indoor and out - Premium Compact seg - has always been syn - Engine/Transmission. Honda Amaze Pride Edition special editions for City, process for CLAT 2018 has cycles that give us grain. door areas defines this theme. 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Chairman, Aryans College of you tips from the Nerolac apply them boldly in the Dr. Andreas Lauermann, building and promoting purchased their vehicle years of the model in the "The Honda City com - Law, Rajpura near Colour Guide that will make room, completing nature's President and Managing this, basis the voice of from November 2016 Chandigarh said that last year your house the talk of town. drama. Director, Volkswagen the customer. J.D. through July 2017. 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Rich in strong year as no age limit has been Volkswagen India, as and we take great pride able in the top 'ZX' variant. 20th Anniversary edition of prescribed for both UG and vibrant, celebratory feel. colours and natural woods, NI, NeOelamT GuIpCta WE /o Late Sunlit Bliss is a palette for the the palette has verdant greens Polo has once again in retaining the highest The Amaze Pride Edition Honda City embodies our PG this year and interest of Shri Jagmohan Gupta R/o more traditional homes. Light and aquatic blues for a lush topped the J.D. Power ranking for Polo in H.No. 271, Last Morh Sarwal comes equipped with a host appreciation and gratitude to students towards legal educa - tion has also been increased. is the most sought after quali - home. Large plants and Initial Quality Study in 2017. We would like to Jammu have applied for of new features, including an our customers who have pro - CLAT 2018 Eligibility ty in a home. The creamy strong colours are natural the Premium Compact humbly thank all our transfer of lease hold rights of advanced infotainment sys - vided us with tremendous Criteria: For under-graduate colours of yellow, sun-baked accents in décor that bring Segment. Along with customers who rated shop NO. 26 in Vegetable tem, which increases the pre - support for the past 20 years, programme (five year orange, arresting red and terra abundant lushness into the the success of the Polo, both the Polo and the Market Narwal Jammu. Integrated Law Degree), an cotta fill your rooms with home. Combined with sand Anybody having any objec - miumness of the interiors. It and we look forward to their warmth. Light up your space and whitewashed accents the the Vento has witnessed Vento and for their con - applicant must be a pass in good ranking." He fur - tinued trust in the tion may approach Chief is offered in the 'S(O)' variant support for years to come," with warm yellow lights to colours set the mood for Executive APMC Narwal 10+2 or equivalent examina - ther added, "The result brand." of the model. The Honda he added. tion with a minimum. enhance this palette. instant relaxation. Jammu within 10 days. TRUTH PREVAIL STATE JAMMU, SATUR DAY, JANUARY 13, 2018 8 CII welcome Govt's budget proposals, will heave the AJKLTF hails Fin Minister, DyCM launches "Diya Gas" economy of the State TP CORRESPONDENT highlights demands JAMMU, JAN. 12: TP CORRESPONDENT The pick and choose in post of Chief Education Confederation of Indian JAMMU, JAN. 12: All recent transfers are made in Officers at district level operations in J&K life of common man easy and Industry (CII) today wel - Jammu Kashmir & Ladakh violation of much talked remains over burden with convenient with on call LPG comed the budget proposals Teachers Federation aft. To about transfer policy author - both administrative and aca - delivery system which is first by terming it as growth orient - Akhil Bhartiya Rashtryia ized at helm of affairs only demic activities. The creation of its type in Jammu and ed and people friendly, which Shikshak Mahasangh well accommodated nears and of additional post of chief Kashmir. has catered to every section of come the announcement made dears of ministers and bureau - education officer in the While highlighting the the society. He also men - by the Hon'able Finance crats by making pick and District will not only reduce achievements of "Diya Gas", tioned that the welfare budget, Minister Haseeb Drabu with choose where as dedicated but the burden but the department CEO Sandeep Sheron said, which was presented in the reference to implementation helpless Teachers/Masters and will function smoothly. Fill all "Our schemes are designed State Legislature yesterday, of 7th pay commission for its lecturers who are working for the vacant posts of keeping in mind the welfare has the potential of catapult - employees from April 1st so many years in far flung masters/lecturers/principles/Z of the common man". ing the growth indices of the 2018 and 1%Dearness areas miles away from their onal Education Officers/Chief Besides providing employ - state by ensuring holistic and Allowance [DA] for homes have get frustrated by Education Officers in the ment to the youth of the State, sustained economic growth. Government employees from this policy. Unfortunately the state. we also aim to setup bottling Every section of the society July 1, 2017. The 14.27 per - transfer norms never followed Removal of pay anomaly plant here in the State of be it industrialists, horticultur - cent hike in the Basic Pay, properly and there are many of Master Grades: - The con - Jammu & Kashmir. ists, employees, journalists raising minimum pay is a wel - loop holes in the existing stitution of pay committee to JK Handa, Senior have been given due attention comed step taken by the Govt. transfer policy in the depart - recommend the revised pay Business Manager, Diya Gas by taking care of their needs The reduction of age from 33 ment. The wrong implementa - structure for the state govern - Bottling Plant Ltd said, "We and aspirations in the budget. years to 20 years for qualify - tion of transfer policy has led ment employees and recom - are seeing a greater future of These types of budgets are ing service for full pension, to the seemingly shortage of mend the various pay anom - expansion in the state and this presented by the governments pension in favor of un married teachers at same places and alies in different departments is one of the biggest emerging in the canvassing year but the daughters of employees, heap up them at many places. and to address them during Photo by Ajay market as far as demand of government has presented it increase in personal It is an admit fact that this the course of implementation TP CORRESPONDENT Also present on the occa - of Jammu & Kashmir- house - LPG is concerned. We are well before that with the Accidental Insurance , consti - irrational distribution of staff of 7th pay revision are the JAMMU, JAN. 12: sion were Sandeep Sheron, holds for getting high quality happy to announce that with - motive of implementing it in tution of Pay committee are is one of the main problem welcome steps. There is pay Deputy Chief Minister, Dr. CEO, JK Handa, Senior LPG at their doorstep, conve - in a week from today, we will to so that the people of the the welcome steps taken by facing the school education anomaly in the pay scales of Nirmal Singh and Minister of Business Manager, niently and without any has - be on ground". state get benefited from it. the State Government in department that hinders its teachers in the state as per the State (Tourism) Priya Sethi Charanjeet Singh Khalsa, sle. Nirmal Singh also Janveer Singh, Authorised CII appreciate favors of employees in J&K. growth and efficiency. That comprising other states of the today launched Diya Gas MLC J&K Legislative thanked "Diya Gas Bottling Channel Partner while Government's proposal to All Jammu Kashmir & for academic excellence the country and also not fixed as Bottling Plant Ltd. operations Council, Janveer Singh, Plant Ltd" for choosing expressing his gratitude treat hotels and resorts at par Ladakh Teachers Federation transfer should be made per the recommendation of in the state of Jammu & Authorised Channel Partner Jammu and Kashmir as part said," We are thankful to with the industries for pay - aft. To Akhil Bhartiya according to the subject need the 6th pay Commission in the Kashmir. This will provide and Master Franchise, J&K of their pan India Expansion. "Diya Gas" for showing faith ment of power tariff and have Rashtryia Shikshak basis. The powers should be state of J&K. The Sixth Pay hassle free and on time LPG along with other dignitaries. He also said that Companies in us and our team will left no to pay the same power tariff Mahasangh also hail Hon'able given to both Joint Directors Commission recommenda - access to domestic and com - Speaking on the occasion, which from India and pro - stone unturned to live upto as is applicable to the Education Minister Altaf and Chief Education Officers tions were required to be mercial users in the State. the Deputy Chief Minister moting "Made in India" cam - the expectations of Company Industries. Abolition of toll on Bukhari for restoring honor at Distt. level in matter of implemented uniformly The operations were said that with start of "Diya paign needs to be highlighted as well as common masses. all non-commercial, private and dignity of the teaching transfers of all cadres throughout the state. In launched by the Deputy Chief Gas" operations in the state, at a higher level/ We are also thankful to State light motor vehicles, on community in the state."We Teachers, Masters and schools where it is imple - Minister along with the in line with creating on time Mos Priya Sethi hailed the government for extending export of all types of fruits hail efforts of Sayeed Altaf Lecturers to reduce the burden mented, number of anomalies Minister of State (Tourism) at access to LPG across the efforts of Master Franchise their support throughout. " produced within the State is Bukhari for focusing on the from Directorate. remained unaddressed such as a function organized at country, has come as a Janveer Singh for taking up He further added that another welcomes step. academics without playing Release of salary of the junior teachers is getting Radisson Blu, Jammu. moment of pride for the state this initiative of making the Company has setup its office Confederation of Indian any politics on the issues per - SSA/RMSA Teachers: A higher salary than senior "J.S. Gas Agency" in Jammu Industry (CII) has always taining to education depart - teacher is being deprived of teacher. This is very important at Bahu Plaza for providing taken initiatives in J & K for ment. These decisions will his salaries for months and due to the fact that in the pres - better services to its cus - facilitating sustainable growth help in improving the quality then to expect wonders from ence of these anomalies, Jan cautions people against diversionary tomers. in the State. education. The steps taken by him is an unfortunate thing. teachers will not get accurate the Education department for To make provision for the fixation of their salaries. politics of PDP-BJP Jugal chaired BSNL improvement in academic release of salary to Before implementation of 7th side and eradication of cor - SSA/RMSA Teachers Pay Commission in the state Says Govt has failed on all fronts TAC meeting ruption are highly commend - /Masters. remove this anomaly in favor said it has nothing to show - able". DPC of all cadres in the of teachers' fraternity in the case as achievement during We expresses gratitude to school Education Department state. the past three years. The Education Minister Altaf :- As per the figures furnished The Ministry of Education coalition ministers, he said, Bukhari for initiating speedy by the government, around in J&K must ensure that all have mastered in running disposal of pending issues of 3878 posts of teachers, 3326 the recommendations of the paper tigers but they must teachers community wherein posts of masters and 2042 7th Pay Commission must be realize that they cannot hood - to extend the benefits of SRO posts of Lecturers are vacant implemented uniformly as per wink the public opinion any 43 to RET Teachers, in the department. Moreover all states of Union of India. more. The coalition govern - Adjustment of Teachers as there are 3026 posts of ret There are several anomalies in ment is totally exposed before Masters pending since 2014. teachers, 156 posts of pay scales and service condi - the people, as the wheels of Now we sought immediate Headmasters, hundreds posts tions of the teachers working development have altogether release of DPC which is not of ZEOs and Principals vacant in the state. halted, he said, adding the held due to the delay of in the school education Uniform pay scale policy work culture in the adminis - adjustment for three years. department. Keeping this in needs to be implemented in tration across the state has Transparent/rational trans - the interest of the Teachers the state on the principle of Photo by Ajay received a huge dent. Ajaz Jan Photo by Bikas fer policy:- AJKLTF/ABRSM and students make fresh DPC equal salary of equal work. regretted that except for TP CORRESPONDENT efficiently for expansion of demands that a in the department on regular Fix it as per this- [1]. TP CORRESPONDENT at Poonch Mandi area of increasing CD fund of the JAMMU, JAN. 12: Youth Poonch this afternoon. JAMMU, JAN. 12: Jugal the BSNL connections and to transparent/rational transfer basis and fill all these vacant Trained Graduate Teacher legislators and hiking their Kishore Sharma Member of improve the facilities by their policy should be framed and posts in the state without fur - (TGT) Rs. 9,300 - Rs. 34,800 National Conference Jan said the state in gener - salaries, the coalition govern - Provincial President Mr Ajaz al and border areas in particu - Parliament BJP Lok Sabha feedback. Moreover he added implemented transparently to ther delay and provisions (Basic) plus Rs. 4,600 Grade ment has done nothing for Jammu-Poonch & Chairman that the BSNL is the largest make the system work effi - should be made for PG pay. Revised pay band under Jan on Friday cautioned peo - lar have suffered as a conse - people. He said promises ple against diversionary tac - quence of developmental BSNL Telephone Advisory service provider all over the ciently. Lack of proper imple - Teachers/Masters to promote 7th pay comm Rs. 29,900 - made with the employees and Committee, Jammu along India and it is the duty to take mentation of present transfer them as lecturers on time Rs. 1,04,400 (Basic) along tics of PDP-BJP coalition to inertia of the present dispen - other categories of workers hide its failures on gover - sation, which has nothing to with Shamsher Singh Manhas care about the mobile tower policy created the frustration bound basis of their services with grade pay of Rs. 13,800 engaged across the state have Member of Parliament Rajya signals provided to the border among the teachers as well as and abolish "additional Post Graduate Teachers nance, administrative and offer to the people other than not been fulfilled. Speaking developmental fronts and indulging in rhetoric and Sabha Chaired Telephone area people. He also discussed RRET Teachers those who are charges culture" in the depart - (PGT) Rs. 9300-34800 with on the occasion, several Advisory Committee meeting the upcoming projects pro - serving in far flung areas of ment in the interest of the Grade Pay 4800 Revised pay referred to one after another mere propaganda. He particu - National Conference func - controversy being generated larly referred to the tall claims at BSNL office Bahu Plaza posals and installation of new the state since long and they teaching as well as student band under7th pay comm. Rs. tionaries highlighted the Jammu. mobile towers in Jammu. have lost all hopes and get community in the state. 29,900 - Rs. 1,04,400 (Basic) to whip up passions. about development in Poonch problems faced by the people. "Engineering divide among and said the ground zero Jugal Kishore Sharma Shamsher Singh Manhas frustrated due to favoritism in Creation of new posts at along with grade pay of Rs. The speakers made a men - Member of Parliament dis - Member of Parliament Rajya the department. District level: The single 14,400 people is a tested tool of the reflects quite contrast of what tion of non-performance of insensitive coalition and this the government says. cussed the issues regarding Sabha Co-Chairman TAC the government and referred the poor service of BSNL and BSNL said that BSNL is the City witnesses impressive Lohri festival is needed to be fought by The former MLA lambast - how the people of several vil - maintaining unity at all lev - ed the coalition government directed the staff to work hard first Mobile as well landline lages including Dunugham to improve the service among service provider and people els", Mr Jan said while for failing in fulfilling the collected funds on their own addressing a public meeting promises during elections and the people. He said that mos have dear faith on them. The Team Jammu takes initiative to counter and resumed works on vital of the people now a days are staff members should work road projects after concerned switching to the private com - hard to come up with the departments failed to do so panies which is the matter of issues raised by the public and cultural aggression on Dogras HAPPY LOHRI & MAKAR during the past three years. great cause and put a serious should maintain best deals to TP CORRESPONDENT SANKRANTI Prominent those who note over it. The service team. JAMMU, JAN. 12: In its spoke are Harcharan singh should be better and satisfac - P Vinodchandaran GMTD efforts to revive the disap - TO Khalsa, Baghussain Rathore, tory and should content the BSNL Jammu thanked pearing Dogra cultural ethos, Sarfraz khan Rathore, Abdul customer is the main motto. Member of Parliament for Team Jammu today organized ALL JAMMUTIES Ahad Bhat, Abdul Ahad He also put a check to the providing his valuable support impressive Lohri procession Kamrate, Akram Lone, Ishaq progress report of the officers to the BSNL team and assured to educate the younger gener - Khan, Mashooq Khan, Ch and said that soon a meeting that he will put his best deeds ation about age old traditions Sofi Queem, Azad Chowan, will also scheduled which will to improve the BSNL service of Jammu region. Usaf Khatana, Akbar Parray, involve all the concerned staff in future. As Jammu region is facing Zahoor Khan, Surjan Singh, and departments whomsoever O.P Jhangid DGM pan - cultural aggression due to Bashir Naiq, Haji Shafi required to cope up with all ning, Kulbhushan Sharma sarpanch, Hamid Malik, Wali anti-Dogra policies being the issues regarding poor sig - DGM City, Randhir Singh propagated by ruling class Mohd Tantary, Khalil Lone, nal and call drop as per com - DGM technical with their since 1947, Team Jammu has Farooq Ahmed, Haji Sheer plaints of the people. Member wing staff and Vinay Saraf Photo by Bikas Baaz, Gulla Bhatt, Sai of Parliament urged to the TAC member also present at taken this initiative with the Rashid, Ismail Bhatt. staff to interact with the public the occasion. involvement of youth, elderly and prominent people and the walled city when Lohri representatives from all sec - procession passed through tions of the society. their localities. The Lohri procession start - Interacting with the peo - ed from historical Mubarak ple, chairman of the Team Mandi complex-seat of erst - Jammu Zorawar Singh while Dogra rulers and culmi - Jamwal said that culture and nated at the world famous ethos of Dogras were under Shri Raghunath Temple threat due to cultural aggres - before passing through differ - sion by the successive demo - ent routes of the city including cratic elected government of Chowk Chabutra, Jain Bazar, State after 1947. "We are fac - Link Road, Purani Mandi, ing identity crisis. It is high Center Basic School Road, time for Dogra to wake up Super Bazaar Market and City otherwise Dogra culture and Chowk. Route of the proces - ethos would be a history", he sion was especially decorated warned and added that aim of with buntings, flowers and today's event is to educate banners. Various shopkeeper younger generation about our Anil Khullar associations, from Mubarak cultural festivals like Lohri. Mandi to Raghunath Bazar While interacting with From Jammu had set up stalls of water, youth, chairman Team juice, fruits and dry fruits to Jammu, Zorawar Singh welcome the participants who Jamwal especially appealed to Editor, Printer, Publisher & Owner : were beating dhols and the people to encourage their Pooja Gupta singing traditional Dogri wards in speaking mother Executive Editor : Manoj Kumar, 94191-93836 (Mob.) songs. People welcomed the tongue Dogri language and procession including Nat also educate them about the Bureau Chief : Vijay Chandel (Delhi), Manch artists performing Dogra history and its contri - Add:- A-43 Pocket 3-DDA Flats Bindapur Uttam Nagar Dhandiya at several places by bution towards developing New Delhi, 98101-96251 (Mob.) showering flower petals. erstwhile J&K state that once Team Jammu today organ - had its territory upto Gilgit, Printed at : M/S G K Offset Printing Press, Roop Nagar, Jammu. ized this historical event to Baltistan, Balochistan as well Published at F-668, Bharat Nagar, Rehari Colony, Jammu. revive the old tradition when as upto Tibet. Tele./Fax 0191-2520911 erstwhile Dogra rulers used to Zorawar Singh also celebrate Lohri in similar way thanked Randhir Raipuria E-mail: [email protected] by taking out a procession group for making big and tra - *Responsible for the selection of News under the PRB Act from Mubarak Mandi. ditional Chajjaas that marked all the disputes are subject to the execulsive jurisdiction of Memory of Maharaja Hari the special feature of the pro - Singh's time was refreshed in cession and was also widely competent Courts and Fourms in Jammu and Kashmir. the mind of elderly people of liked by the people.