DAILY EXCELSIOR, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2013 (PAGE 5) Omar inaugurates CS stresses on field visits by Secretaries Governor urges scientists to work Jourian Grid Station Excelsior Correspondent Meanwhile, Chief Secretary State. He was informed that all that the circular instructions Excelsior Correspondent also received brief from the offices across the State have issued in this regard by the , Oct 1: Chief Secretaries on the working in reported normal attendance Government must be religiously JAMMU, Oct 1: Chief Secretary, Iqbal Khandey today Secretariat, Divisional, District today and business as usual. adhered to and status report sub- towards second green revolution Minister, Omar Abdullah today chaired the periodic meeting of and other offices across the Chief Secretary reiterated mitted to him on a daily basis. Excelsior Correspondent Governor noted that one of these Talat Ahmad, Vice Chancellor, inaugurated 20 MVA 132/33 the Committee of Secretaries to relates to earthquakes and University, gave details KV Grid Station at Jourian, a review the status of various SRINAGAR, Oct 1: referred to the recurring tremors of the initiatives being taken by border area in Jammu distirct. administrative matters and func- Governor N. N. Vohra today which had been taking place in the University for the promotion He described the commission- tioning of departments. called upon the scientists and Doda, and Ramban dis- of teaching and research activities ing of the grid station yet anoth- Besides reviewing the status researchers to rededicate their tricts in the past several months. at this institution. er milestone in upgrading and of RFD, SMS based Monitoring, efforts for effective application of Another problem highlighted by Prof. K. I. Andrabi, Chief improving the system of trans- Catch up and Recruitment Rules scientific knowledge and techno- the Governor was about the Convener of the Science mission and distribution of elec- and other matters, the Chief logical innovations to address the emerging challenges of global Congress, gave details about the tricity in the State. Secretary stressed upon the challenges facing the State and warming and climate change and various working sessions of the The Chief Minister was Secretaries to conduct tours the country and securing rapid its serious impact on agriculture, event. accompanied by Deputy Chief throughout the State to inspect and sustained all round progress horticulture, fisheries, forests, Prof. Zafar Ahmad Reshi, Minister, Tara Chand, Minister by themselves the functioning of to promote the welfare of the peo- animal and sheep husbandry and Registrar, Kashmir University, for PHE, Sham Lal Sharma and their respective departments in ple at large. allied sectors. He suggested to the presented a vote of thanks. Minister of State for Power, the field. He said regular, on the The Governor was addressing participating scientists in the Dr. A. R. Trag, Vice Viqar Rasool. spot field visits by the the inaugural session of the 3-day Regional Science Congress and Chancellor, Islamic University of The grid station and the 29 Secretaries will certainly Regional Science Congress and the 9th JK Science Congress to Science and Technology, kilometres long transmission improve the overall functioning 9th JK Science Congress on the also focus their deliberations for Awantipore; Prof. I. A. Hamal, line on double circuit towers of the departments including theme of "Innovations and identifying viable solutions for Vice Chancellor, Baba Ghulam have involved an expenditure of public service delivery. Advances in Science and meeting these challenges. Shah Badshah University, over Rs. 22.71 crore. It will help Technology" at the Kashmir On the need for achieving the ; Deans, Heads of to meet the growing demand of University here today. These two second green revolution for Departments, Faculty members, and upgrade the quality of joint Science Congresses have enhancing agri-productivity, the research scholars and delegates of power in the border areas of been organized by the Kashmir Governor suggested the useful- the Science Congress were , Jourian, Kaleeth, University in collaboration with ness of a group of scientists from among those present on this occa- Jogma, Pallanwala, Sohal, Bulli the Indian Science Congress the two Farm Universities and sion. Gulaba and other areas. Association; Department of other varsities of J&K being set Science and Technology, up so that they can start working Government of ; J&K State towards this objective. NC-Cong should clarify stand Council for Science and Feroz Ahmad Khan, Minister Technology and the J&K of State for Science and on AFSPA: Dr Jitendra Academy of Sciences. Technology, dwelt on the initia- Referring to India's founda- tives being taken by the State Excelsior Correspondent tive Kashmir-centric politics tional contribution to varied are- Government for the promotion of which becomes more and more nas of science centuries ago, the science and technology in J&K. JAMMU, Oct 1: BJP acute as the election time draws Governor called upon the acade- He observed that organizing of National Executive Member & closer and closer. mia, research institutions, policy Regional Science Congress and J&K chief spokesperson, Dr Dr Jitendra Singh explained makers and the Governmental the 9th JK Science Congress Jitendra Singh has asked the that AFSPA offers a protective functionaries working in the field would go a long way in promot- National Conference (NC)- mechanism to security forces to to operate in close collaboration ing scientific temper in the State. Congress Government to clarify defend themselves against a ter- to harvest the benefits of Prof. R. C. Sobti, General its stand on the Armed Forces ror attack and also confers cer- advancements made in the realm President, Indian Science Special Powers Act (AFSPA) tain special powers to them to of science and technology for the Congress Association, spoke and come out unambiguously as apprehend a terrorist on the run. welfare, progress and prosperity extensively about the establish- to whether, in the wake of a Ridiculing the suggestion for of humanity. ment, evolution, history and series of terror attacks in last few "partial" revocation of AFSPA, Observing that J&K has its activities of the Association. days, do the members of the he said this is a strategically fal- own particular problems, the In his welcome address, Prof. Coalition Ministry still continue lacious proposition. For exam- to endorse their Chief Minister's ple, the areas that resultantly obsessive demand for what he donot come under the purview of ReZs threaten strike for regularization describes as "partial" revocation AFSPA are likely to be used by Excelsior Correspondent etc. but till date their future is lying of AFSPA from districts like terrorists and their sponsors to in dark as Government is treating Samba, Jammu and Srinagar recoup and re-launch operations, JAMMU, Oct 1: Asking the them as bonded labourers,” the which have repeatedly been the he elaborated. Politically also, an State Government to regularize JKATA president said. targets of these attacks. action of this nature is fraught the Rehbar-e-Ziraats, who have Expressing anguish on alleged In a statement issued here with ramifications since "partial" completed seven years of continu- negligent attitude of the State today he said, the Congress Party revocation of AFSPA from some ous service in one go, the Jammu Government towards regulariza- owes an explanation on another areas or districts may trigger a and Kashmir Agriculture tion of Rehbar-e-Ziraat, JKATA account also because its minis- chain reaction of politically Technocrats Association has provincial president Vinod Sharma ters have been publicly support- motivated demands for similar threatened State wide protest alleged that only verbal assurance ing continuance of AFSPA but "partial" revocation of AFSPA demonstrations if the demand is were being made for the amend- maintaining a convenient silence from other areas as well, he not conceded. ment of Cabinet decisions. He when they sit in Cabinet meet- added. “Govt is neither considering stressed that the regularization ings with the Chief Minister. Another issue deserving cog- year of passing nor one time must be batch wise to ensure that Dr Jitendra Singh said, the nizance is the situation evolving absorption as regularization policy overage Rehbar-e-Ziraats may not events of last one week have evi- in India's neighbourhood, said dently exposed that the demand Dr Jitendra Singh and explained, for Rehbar-e-Ziraat, who are serv- suffer. for revocation of AFSPAis based it would be risky to ignore the ing the Department of Agriculture The JKATA leaders warned to less on the strategic understand- prospect of Pak sponsored re- for the last seven years,” said Dr resume their strike if the ing of the prevailing scenario engineering of terrorism in J&K Surinder Radotra, president of Government does not amend the and more on the expediency to following the withdrawal of US JKATA while addressing a press Cabinet decision immediately in seek one-upmanship in competi- from Afghanistan next year. conference, here today. the favour of Rehber-e-Ziraat for He alleged that the their batch wise regularization. Government was creating confu- “Series of protests will be organ- ADM imposes Rs 9 lakh fine on defaulters sion on Rehbar policy regulariza- ized throughout the State and the Excelsior Correspondent leading with extraneous matter by tion and treating them adhoc and Government will be responsible the Test lab. contractual employees. Under for the same,” said Dr Radotra and SAMBA, Oct 1: Under the The prosecution was repre- Rehbar policy, regularization is reminded that the National Food Safety and Standard Act, sented by Raj Kumar Gupta, Food made on completion of five years Conference had promised regular- R.K Shavan, ADM, Samba, has Safety Officer and representative whereas the Government is not ization of ReZ even in its election imposed a penality of Rs.9 lakh in from Ravi Food Pvt. Ltd. taking any decision on the ReZ, manifesto (Vision Document two cases pertaining to misbrand- Hyderabad and Fill Industries Ltd. who are serving in the department 2008). ed and mislabeled food articles, SIDCO appeared before the adju- tested by the NABL lab. cating officer, R.K Shavan ADM. for the last more than 7 years and JKATA vice-president Maneet As per the prosecution the After hearing both the parties the are still waiting for their regulariza- Singh, general secretary Dr Rajiv samples of food boiled confec- adjucating officer decided the tion, Mr Radotra lamented. Singh Chib and district presidents tionery were lifted from one matter imposing heavy penality of “Rehbar-e-Ziraats are perform- Dr Joginder Singh, Shakeel Qazi, Tarsem Lal S/o Om Parkash R/o Rs.4 lakh in the case of Ravi Food ing all day to day Panchayat activ- Sumeet Dutta, Mehboob Ali , which was manufac- Pvt. Ltd. and Rs.5 lakhs in case of ities such as making Kissan Credit Malik, Shuhail Aniz, Anil Gupta, tured by Ravi Fruit Pvt. Ltd. Fruit Fill Industries Ltd. with the Cards, promoting cropping sys- Sanjay Puri, Dr Imram Ahmed, Dr Madhuban Colony, Katedan direction to deposit the amount tem, awareness on Centrally spon- Sikander Singh and Dr Hyderabad, the samples were within 5 days. sored schemes, mushroom devel- Abhimanyu Mahajan were also found misleading and misbranded. The adjusting officer has fur- opment, survey of Panchayat halqa present in the press conference. Similarly, the "fruit fill guava ther directed the manufactures to drink" manufactured by M/s Fill recall their products of this lot Naib Tehsildar, Girdawar among 3 suspended Industries Ltd. SIDCO Electronic immediately from the market and Excelsior Correspondent Deputy Commissioner for their Complex Rangreth Srinagar has make the consumers aware about failure to protect the Government also been found misbranded, mis- the same. JAMMU, Oct 1: Deputy land from encroachment. Commissioner Jammu, Ajeet “Despite being aware of Kumar Sahu today placed Naib the encroachment on 10 kanal Tehsildar, Girdawar and Patwari and 6 marlas of Government under suspension for dereliction of land at village Narwal Pain, duty. these officials didn’t take action According to the official order, against the encroachers”, the Naib Tehsildar Satwar Manjit order said, adding “the land has Singh, Girdawar Bagh Ali and been retrieved from the Patwari Mohd Shafiq have been encroachers and delinquent placed under suspension by the officials taken to task”. urges Centre to procecute Omar Abdullah Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 1: Prof Bhim Singh, chief patron of National Panthers Party and member of National Integration Council, has urged the Union Home Minister and the Prime Minister of India to act fast to ensure that the security of the State is kept intact and integrity of India is maintained. In a statement he pointed out that Omar Abdullah has become a security risk for the country which is evident from the latest declaration of the J&K Chief Minister that State never merged with the Indian Union and therefore he claims that J&K is not integral part of India. This statement, Prof Singh said, is violation of his oath of alle- giance he has taken to defend, uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India. Omar Abdullah's statement infringed Section 3 of the Constitution of J&K read with Article 1 of the Constitution of India as Section 3 of J&K Constitution mandates that J&K is and shall remain an integral part of India. Article 1 of the Constitution of India defines the territori- al sovereignty of India which includes entire State of J&K as it existed under the rule of Maharaja Hari Singh in 1947 when J&K was invad- ed by forces from side. The Panthers Party Supremo accused Omar Abdullah of launching malicious propaganda and hate speeches against India and the Indian Army for which he deserves to be prosecuted and tried as Pt Jawaharlal Nehru had to do vis-à-vis Sheikh Mohd Abdullah in 1953 though Nehru and Sheikh were great friends. He reminded Dr that Nehru had to put in jail and try him for years for sedition because nation was more important than the person- al friendship. Prof Bhim Singh also lauded the role of the legislators of the JKNPP inside the Legislative Assembly and the Council. They are the gems and pride of the coming generations and deserve congrats from all.