DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2019 (PAGE 9) From page 1 PORTFOLIOS Fresh group of militants enters Around 1730 languishing projects to Shah new Home Minister, Rajnath gets Ravi Shankar Prasad Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of be completed by end of current year Communications; and Minister of Kishtwar from South Kashmir Defence; Nirmala Finance, Jaishankar EAM Electronics and Information Technology. ferent sectors for funding and of Medical Education diately and mountains were which surfaced in Marwah stint....Newer speed of imple- well as Environment, the two port- Harsimrat Kaur Badal Minister of Food Processing Industries. these 1730 projects are going to Department, 79 of Industries folios he had held in the initial Thaawar Chand Gehlot Minister of Social Justice and surrounded to trap the mili- today. The reports were that menting infra projects and cus- be completed by the end of cur- and Commerce, 73 of Rural years of the previous Modi Empowerment. tants. By tonight when the they had sneaked into from tomer satisfaction that is the new rent year, official sources told Development Department, 65 of Government. Dr. Subrahmanyam Minister of External Affairs. reports last came in, the mili- South Kashmir. Indian Railways and new India EXCELSIOR while disclosing Youth Services and Sports and Javadekar invoked the curtail- Jaishankar tants remained untraced. It may be mentioned here that that the PM has charted for us,” that substantial progress has 62 projects of Ladakh Affairs ment of press freedom during the Ramesh Pokhriyal Minister of Human Resource Number of the militants was BJP leader Anil Parihar and his said Piyush Goyal, who retained been made on all these 1730 Department are also in the list the Railways portfolio. Emergency under the Congress ‘Nishank’ Development. believed to be between three to brother Ajit Parihar were gunned Arjun Munda Minister of Tribal Affairs. projects and the same has been of 1730 projects being complet- Sitharaman, who did her rule to assert that media freedom is four, Pathak said, adding it was down by the militants near their Smriti Zubin Irani Minister of Women and Child Development; shared with the Principal ed by end of current year. Masters in Economics from the essence of democracy. believed to be a new group though house late in the evening on and Minister of Textiles. Secretary to Government, The remaining projects belong Jawaharlal Nehru University Speaking to the media after identification of the militants was November 1, 2018 while RSS Dr. Harsh Vardhan Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Finance Department Arun to Tourism Department (6), (JNU) and is an alumnus of taking charge of I and B Ministry, not known immediately. leader Chanderkant Sharma and Minister of Science and Technology; and Kumar Mehta. Horticulture (2), Agriculture (8), London School of Economics, he said the Government not only Injured SPOs have been iden- his PSO Rajinder Kumar were Minister of Earth Sciences. “After detailed analysis of Higher Education (5), Revenue steps into the shoes of Arun Jaitley recognises freedom of press, but tified as Mohammad Iqbal and killed inside the District Hospital Prakash Javadekar Minister of Environment, Forest and progress on these 1730 projects and Animal Husbandry (one who opted out of the new cherishes it. Ashiq Hussain. In view of their Former Uttarakhand Chief Climate Change; and Minister of the Principal Secretary Finance each), Housing and Urban Government on health grounds. Information and Broadcasting. Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal serious condition, they were air- Department has asked the con- Development Department (26), She has a deputy in Anurag Piyush Goyal Minister of Railways; and Minister of ‘Nishank’is the new HRD Minister lifted to Military Hospital, cerned Administrative Secretaries Tribal (6) and Technical Thakur, a first time Minister in the Commerce and Industry. Udhampur. Education Department (13). Modi Government. Both are con- while Bihar ally and Lok Janshakti Dharmendra Pradhan Minister of Petroleum and Natural to fix and share month-wise tar- Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan According to sources, the mil- According to the sources, sidered close to Jaitley. Gas; and Minister of Steel. gets so that close monitoring of remains Consumer Affairs minister. itants involved in the killings of the progress is ensured”, sources the Principal Secretary to The Prime Minister retains the Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minister of Minority Affairs. BJP and RSS leaders in Kishtwar Department of Personnel and The Agriculture Ministry has Pralhad Joshi Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; said, adding “with this people will Government, Finance been allocated to Narendra Singh town on November 1, 2018 and start reaping the benefits of the Department has asked all the Training(DoPT), Atomic Energy Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines. and Space as well as all important Tomar, who also gets the Rural Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey Minister of Skill Development and April 9, 2019 were well within the major initiative of the Governor’s Administrative Secretaries to policy issues and portfolios not Development and Panchayati Raj Entrepreneurship. limits of Kishtwar district but Administration by the end of cur- expedite timely furnishing of were frequently changing their allocated. portfolio. Arvind Ganpat Sawant Minister of Heavy Industries and Public rent year”. payment requests to JKIDFC in Ujjwala-man Dharmendra hideouts in the mountains to avoid Nitin Gadkari, considered one Enterprise. “Had this initiative not been order to complete the approved Pradhan retains his Petroleum their killings. of the best performers during the Giriraj Singh Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying taken by the Governor, the fate of projects in a specified time- portfolio and has also been given and Fisheries. “Police and Army teams were first term of Modi Government for huge number of projects would frame. They have also been charge of the Steel Ministry. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Minister of Jal Shakti. already on the job to track down his expeditious project implemen- have been hanging in balance till asked to timely convey the diffi- tation, continues to be the Minister D V Sadananda Gowda is the the militants,’’ sources said, date”, sources further said while culties in furnishing payment Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Ministers of State (Independent Charge) adding that one of them Haroon for Road Transport and Highways disclosing that these 1730 projects request to the JKIDFC and and was also given charge of the and Narendra Singh Tomar the new Santosh Kumar Gangwar Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Bhat of Doda district, had recent- time-frame for completion of the Ministry of Labour and Employment. IGP Jammu M K Sinha relate to augmenting water and Ministry of Micro, Small and Minister of Agriculture and Rural ly crossed over to South Kashmir languishing projects. Development. Rao Inderjit Singh Minister of State (Independent Charge) enquiring condition of an power supply, improving road Medium Enterprises. from upper reaches of Kishtwar. Holding politicians responsi- Akali Dal leader Harsimrat of the Ministry of Statistics and injured SPO in Military connectivity, upgrading health- Goyal, who presented the Haroon had joined the militancy ble for such a long list of languish- Kaur Badal continues to be the Programme Implementation; and Hospital Udhampur on Friday. care and education facilities. interim budget earlier this year and some time back and was associat- Maximum number of proj- ing projects, sources said, “all Minister of Food Processing Minister of State (Independent Charge) was expected to take over from of the Ministry of Planning. ed with the group, which had exe- Kishtwar on April 9 this year. ects belongs to Public Health those who remained in the power Jaitley, was also given the Industries, Thawar Chand Gehlot is cuted the killings of Parihars and Besides, the militants had in preferred to lay foundation stones the new Minister of Social Justice Shripad Yesso Naik Minister of State (Independent Charge) Engineering and Irrigation and Commerce and Industry portfolio. of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Chanderkant. However, it wasn’t March struck in Kishtwar town of one after another project with- and Empowerment. Flood Control Department However, the Coal Ministry Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and yet clear whether Haroon was and snatched AK rifle of a PSO. Former Diplomat and Union (700) followed by Public Works out making arrangements for nec- has been taken away from him and Homoeopathy (AYUSH); and Minister himself involved in Kishtwar The case of Parihar brothers’ (R&B) Department (300) and essary funds for their comple- given to Prahlad Joshi, a new Minister Hardeep Puri, who lost the elections, got more responsibil- of State in the Ministry of Defence. killings or not. killing has been handed over to Power Development tion”, adding “by doing so they entrant in Modi Government. Dr. Jitendra Singh Minister of State (Independent Charge) ity, as he is the new Minister of Sources said the new group the National Investigation Agency Department (168). A total of 111 have done injustice with the peo- Joshi is also the Minister of of the Ministry of Development of North might have been dispatched by (NIA) while two other terror cases projects of School Education ple as large number of projects Parliamentary Affairs and Mines. State with Independent charge of Eastern Region; Minister of State in the the militant commanders from were being