daily Follow us: Daily Excelsior JAMMU, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2020 REGD. NO. JK-71/18-20 Vol No. 56 14 Pages ` 5.00 ExcelsiorRNI No. 28547/65 No. 353 All flights from UK ‘Working to provide world class health facilities’ suspended; Govt alert, says Vardhan LG, Union Minister lay foundation NEW DELHI, Dec 21: The Government is fully alert and there is no need to panic, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said today amid concerns stone of Rs 160 cr ESIC hospital over the emergence of a new Coronavirus strain in the UK. Excelsior Correspondent care infrastructure in J&K. “We The Union Health Ministry are working to provide world class SRINAGAR, Dec 21: health facilities at affordable has called an urgent meeting of its Lieutenant Governor, Manoj prices to the people of UT. My aim Joint Monitoring Group today to Sinha and Union Minister of is to strengthen the preventive, pri- discuss the new strain, which has State (Independent Charge) for mary and secondary health care led to a surge in the infection rate Labour and Employment, ecosystem in J&K”, he asserted. in the UK. Santosh Kumar Gangwar today Sinha said that the facilities in "The Government is fully laid the foundation stone of 100- the hospital would be on the lines alert about everything. If you ask bedded ESIC (Employees’ State of those available in the hospital in me, there is no reason to panic the Insurance Corporation) Ahmedabad, and there is no cap (Contd on page 13 Col 3) Hospital at SIDCO Industrial placed on the expenses during the Complex, Ompora, Budgam. treatment, so that needy people are Court orders framing The hospital being constructed benefitted. at a cost of Rs 160 crore would be "A time limit of two years has of charges against equipped with modern healthcare been set for completing this hospi- Aasiya Andrabi facilities and will have OPD, IPD, tal in Ompora with 23 Specialties. Army soldiers patrol the LoC in Poonch district. —Excelsior/Rahi Kapoor ICU, Wards, Diagnostic I want this hospital and the expan- NEW DELHI, Dec 21: *Watch video on LG Manoj Sinha, Union Minister Santosh Gangwar and NC sion of ‘Bari Brahmana’ hospital Management of Shiv Khori, Sukrala Devi, Bala Sundari shrines www.excelsiornews.com president Dr Farooq Abdullah at foundation stone laying cere- to be completed in the next one A Delhi court today ordered mony of ESIC hospital at Budgam on Monday. and a half years so that health framing of charges against Laboratories, Operation Theater, facilities like Delhi-Mumbai can Kashmiri separatist Aasiya Andrabi Advisor to Lt Governor; BVR Director, SIDCO; Ghulam Disaster management facilities, in Subrahmanyam, Chief Mohammad Dar, Executive be provided to the beneficiaries in Govt least interested in establishment and her two associates for allegedly addition to an independent sub- J&K," he added. waging war against India, sedition Secretary; Apurva Chandra, Director, JKEDI; Shahbaz station. Surgery and Psychiatric Secretary, Union Ministry of Ahmad Mirza, Deputy He observed that there has and conspiracy to commit acts of departments would be established Labour and Employment; Commissioner, Budgam; work- been a new wave of development of full-fledged Boards terror in the country. in which specialist doctors and Anuradha Prasad, Director ers; students and eminent citi- across Jammu and Kashmir. "I am The case relates to allegedly ties concerning the shrines and in establish full-fledged Boards but well trained staff will be made General ESIC; Saurabh Bhagat, zens of the area were present on constantly meeting people, com- waging war against the country the adjoining areas. till date no serious attention has available round the clock. Commissioner/Secretary to the the occasion. municating, and every person talks *No step initiated with support from Pakistan, These Boards are comprised of been paid towards this vital Among others, Farooq Government, Labour and Speaking on the occasion, the about new opportunities, progress, including terror entities there. Divisional Commissioner aspect despite the fact that Sub- Abdullah, Member of Employment Department J&K; Lt Governor termed the occasion social and economic advance- even after Special Judge Parveen Singh (Chairperson), Deputy Section 3 of Section 13 of these Parliament; Farooq Khan, Mohammad Harun, Managing as yet another step to boost health- ordered putting Andrabi and her (Contd on page 13 Col 5) amendments in Commissioner Reasi (Vice- two Acts clearly state that no associates -- Sofi Fehmeeda and Chairperson in respect of Shiv business of the Boards shall be Nahida Nasreen -- on trial for vari- Violence plan foiled in Poonch, 500 lathis, 2 vehicles seized; FIR lodged Acts by MHA Khori Shrine) and Deputy transacted at any meeting unless ous offences punishable under IPC Commissioner Kathua (Vice- at least seven members are pres- (Contd on page 13 Col 5) Chairperson in respect of Shri ent, official sources told Counting today for 280 DDC seats; Mohinder Verma Mata Sukrala Devi and Shri Mata EXCELSIOR. Bala Sundari Shrines), Chief "Even otherwise the official Advisor nominated JAMMU, Dec 21: In a testi- Executive Officer of Shri Mata members have not convened any PSUs' Chairman mony of non-serious approach Vaishnodevi Shrine Board or his meeting of these two Boards dur- results to start pouring in by evening towards three highly revered nominee (Member) and Director ing the past quite long time to Excelsior Correspondent religious places of Jammu Tourism Jammu (Member). deliberate on the issues con- Sanjeev Pargal Fate of around 2178 candi- in anticipation of violence during region, the Government has Moreover, there is provision fronting these three revered JAMMU, Dec 21: Advisor In- dates including many bigwigs like the counting as large scale violent failed to establish full-fledged for nomination of two persons, shrines", they disclosed, adding charge of Industries & Commerce JAMMU, Dec 21: Ahead of former Ministers, MP, legislators, incidents were reported during Boards for better administra- who in the opinion of the "informal discussion, if any, taken Department has been nominated the counting for 280 seats of the kin of prominent politicians and polling in Mendhar and Mankote tion, management and gover- Government have distinguished place doesn't carry any importance as Chairman of various District Development Council senior leaders of many political where re-poll had to be ordered in nance of Shri Shiv Khori Shrine themselves in the service of Hindu especially in the light of the provi- Corporations, Boards and PSUs. (DDC) elections in Jammu and parties will be decided when some booths. in Reasi district and Shri Mata religion or culture; one woman, sions of the Acts". An order in this regard was Kashmir tomorrow, Poonch counting for all 280 territorial District Magistrate Poonch Sukrala Devi and Shri Mata who in the opinion of the In the month of April this issued today, according to which, police foiled a major plot by constituencies-140 each in Jammu Rahul Yadav has already imposed Bala Sundari Shrines in Kathua Government has distinguished year, the Union Ministry of Advisor In-charge of Industries & many candidates and their sup- and Kashmir divisions-will be prohibitory orders under Section district. herself in the service of Hindu reli- Home Affairs had carried out Commerce Department is porters to trigger large scale taken up at the respective district 144 RPC in Poonch town during As per the Jammu and gion or culture or social work amendments in these two Acts Chairman of the Board of Directors violence at the counting centre headquarters for the first-ever counting at the district headquar- Kashmir Shri Shiv Khori Shrine especially in regard to advance- through Jammu and Kashmir of J&K Industries Ltd, J&K Khadi by seizing over 500 lathis, bats, District Development Council ters tomorrow for all 14 seats. Act, 2008 and Shri Mata Sukrala ment of women and two persons Reorganization (Adaptation of and Village Industries Board, J&K hockeys and other such items (DDC) elections at 9 am tomor- The hockeys, bats, lathis etc Devi and Shri Mata Bala Sundari who have distinguished them- State Laws) Order in order to Handloom and Handicrafts from the vehicles which were row. were seized from the vehicles of Shrine Act, 2013, the administra- selves in the administration, legal pave the way for nomination of Corporation, J&K Small Scale heading from Mendhar, Results will be available at the supporters of NC candidate tion, management and governance affairs, financial matters and jour- non-J&K residents as non-offi- Industries Development Mankote and Surankote to http://ceojk.nic.in. Zeeshan Rana of Mendhar son of these shrines and shrine fund nalism etc. cial members of these two Corporation (SICOP), J&K Poonch. Police have seized Police sources told the of former NC MLA Javed Rana, vest in the respective Boards. Following completion of Shrine Boards. Minerals Ltd, J&K Industrial seven vehicles so far, arrested Excelsior that Poonch Police sub- Shahnawaz Choudhary, These Boards are supposed to pro- tenure of earlier non-official These amendments were not Development Corporation two persons, and lodged FIR A cop shows lathis seized in jected to checking all vehicles Congress rebel and Independent vide all the facilities for the con- members several years back the aimed at debaring the personalities (SIDCO) and J&K Cements Ltd. against all the accused at Poonch on Monday night. heading towards Poonch from candidate from Surankote, venience of the pilgrims and Government was