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About sixty artisans of the country were yesterday honored by Presi-dent of India at Vigyan Bhavan New Delhi which included some crafts-man from Jammu and Kashmir also. These national awards were given to the people who made their name and excelled in their contributions for the development of handicrafts, han-dlooms and other traditional crafts. In fact the awards are given every year to encourage and honor the peo-ple from different parts of country who make their presence felt because of their vast contribution.

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Gurezi takes stock of developmental needs,people’s problems in Tehsil Gurez Mamata ‘extremely hurt’ with

Pal’s remarks, says TrinamoolIndians stranded in Iraq: Govt appeals media

organizations to exercise restraint

Budgam, July 1: A man died trying to save two drowning school kids in Wahabpora area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. Police sources told CNS that two school kids from Govern-ment Middle School Garand Budgam jumped into trench lo-cated near a brick kiln at Wa-habpora to beat the summer heat. A local Muhammd Ashraf son of Muhammad Kazim rushed towards the well after one of the kids watching them sought help from the man to rescue his drowning friends. “Ashraf res-cued both the kids but died him-self after the rope that he used to save the children cut off and he slipped into the well,” police said. (CNS)

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Srinagar, July 1 : The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has issued bailable warrants against Dep-uty Commissioner Kupwara for violating court orders. Pronounc-ing the direction, Justice Ali Mu-hammad Magray directed the IGP Kashmir to execute the warrants and secure the presence of Dep-uty Commissioner Itrat Hussain Rafique. The warrant was issued after Rafique failed to implement court orders directing not to interfere in the peaceful posses-sion of a piece of land by the land owners in Kupwara. However, the Deputy Commissioner failed to file a compliance report or implement orders in letter and spirit.“Neither compliance filed nor any-body appeared on behalf of Deputy Commissioner leaving no option but to secure the

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HC issues warrant against DC Kupwara

Srinagar, July 1 : Not-ed economist and well known intellectual, Dr. Haseeb A Drabu today joined People’s Demo-cratic Party (PDP). Ac-cording to a spokesman of the party he wrote a letter to party president Mehbooba Mufti about his desire for joining the PDP. Giving the context of his joining the politi-cal fray, Drabu wrote, “I want to leave the perch of punditry and slug it out in noise and chaos of politics. I have earlier had the occasion to work with and for the people of J&K. Not only was it pro-fessionally an absolute privilege but also person-ally it was by a long way most satisfying. I want to participate and, to the extent that I can, contrib-ute, to this overall change by working within aegis of the PDP. I do hope you will provide me the op-portunity to do so”.While welcoming the en-try of Drabu into the PDP the party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said he had ably assisted the state in its post 2002 eco-nomic reconstruction and financial restructur-ing. He said Drabu had played an important

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Haseeb Drabu joines PDP

Repeated rehotics regarding Kashmir issue, employment

take front stageSrinagar, July 1 : With the elections for the state assem-bly scheduled to be held by the end of this year, the po-litical parties in the state are busy in giving final touches to their respective manifes-tos.According to the KNS re-ports, almost all the main-stream political parties here have promised employment to youth with the pledge to resolve Kashmir issue ‘am-icably’. Reports have also informed that the parties have talked about remedial measures for the electricity crises with the detailed de-liberation upon NHPC and its future ties with the state.Revocation of AFSPA has also been talked in detail with some political parties

promising to create an at-mosphere wherein AFSPA is not needed by the security agencies in the state.The pledge for developing all the three regions of the state has also been deliberated upon with the equal share of funds distribution assured.Autonomy, Self Rule and Development are the three prime agendas in the mani-festos of the political parties here.In the recent past, Election Commission of India (ECI) asked all political parties in Jammu and Kashmir to sub-mit their manifestoes so that they are examined and ana-lyzed in light of Model Code of Conduct (MCC). Accord-ing to KNS correspondent, in this regard, all political par-ties in the state confirmed that they received letters from deputy chief electoral officer Jammu and Kashmir requesting them to submit their manifestoes within two days positively

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Political Parties busy in finalizing election

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Sagar for speedy completion of RD projects

Directs early completion of

Panchayat Bhawan, RETCSrinagar, July 1 : Minister for Ru-ral Development and Panchayati Raj, Mr. Ali Mohammad Sagar today asked the officers to ensure speedy completion of various projects un-dertaken to augment the infrastructural capacities of the de-partment.The Minister was addressing officers during a review meeting convened to discuss the sta-tus of implementa-tion of Panchayat Bhawan-cum-Con-ference Hall being constructed with an estimated cost of Rs. 9.24 crore at Srinagar, Rural Extension Training Centre (RETC) being constructed at Chadoora with an estimated cost of Rs. 12.10 crore

and Sarai for devotees at Tujjar Sharief Sopore at an estimated cost of Rs. 2.54 crore.The meeting was attended by Secretary Rural Development, Sheikh Mushtaq Ahmed, Direc-tor Rural Development, Kash-mir, Mir Altaf Ahmed, MD JK-PCC, Mr. T.R. Bhagat, Director Finance, RDD, Mr. K. S. Jamwal

and other senior offi-cers. Mr. Sagar asked for speedy completion of the Panchayat Bha-wan-Cum-Conference Hall as it would go a long way in augment-ing infrastructural ca-pacities of the depart-ment and would also serve as focal point for holding conferences and other related activ-ities. He also called for early completion of the RETC being construct-

ing at Chadoora maintaining that it would go a long way in honing the technical skills and knowhow of

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Srinagar, July 1: Since 90’s there has been a considerable decrease in violence across Jammu & Kashmir. This year 89 persons including 20 civilians were killed in different militancy related in-cidents so far. In different mili-tancy related incidents in June this year, 13 persons were killed in Kashmir Valley. The deceased included 7 militants, 5 civilians and one Army soldier. So far in the first half of the current year, 89 persons have become the prey of bullets which included 45 militants, 20 civilians, 17 Army personnel and 7 personnel from Jammu and Kash-mir Police. Besides these killings, 9 Indian Army soldiers lost their lives in two different fratricidal incidents. Over all in the first six months of year 2014, 33 Govern-ment Forces personnel have died out of which 26 are Army soldiers. The highest number of casual-ties were reported in April this year which was 21 followed by 18 in February, 14 in May, 13 each in March and June and 8 in January.The decline has been due to many reasons which include the less in-

terest shown by youth in taking arms and fighting a war which has not yielded any fruits so far during the last over 25 years. In addition to this, their changing aptitude towards professional courses, incentives offered by the state and central Govt. and some bright opportunities to achieve a successful future have also helped in minimising the violence. Thought there have been some fail-ures on the governmental side in providing better employment op-portunities to youth, still they have opted for peaceful means of achiev-ing their ambitions. In addition to this some atrocities here and there exploited by vested interests have also not had much impact on the new recruitment in the militant ranks. Thought the previous central Govt. announced several measures for the welfare of youth in J&K but hardly any promises were met which could have affected peace measures in the state, but it can be attributed to the wisdom of the youth who instead of going to be misled and misguid-ed preferred positive way. The change in militancy graph and the declining

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related incidents89 persons including 20 civilians

killed in the first half of 2014

Ramban, July 1 : Sidelining the false campaign of propagandists, Chief Minis-ter, Omar Abdullah who is also Working President National Conference Tuesday said that the opponents will not be able to erase the historic role National Con-ference (NC) has played all along even during challenging times to uphold the people’s cause and seek political and economic stability for Jammu and Kash-mir.“It was the National Conference in the past and it is the National Conference at present which is lucidly and confidently clear about the political addressing of Kashmir imbroglio, creating necessary thaw in Indo-Pak relations and making the ‘table’ only means to settle all is-sues”, he said adding that friendly In-do-Pak relations has been the bench-mark of the National Conference’s political discourse and it will continue to be the centre pillar in NC’s political viewpoint.According to a statement issued to KNS, addressing Party Workers’ conventions at Neel, Kasti-garh, Razgarh and Ukral in Banihal and Ramban Assembly Constituencies today, Omar Abdullah asserted that NC will continue its march to achieving the goal of political and eco-nomic stability in the State.The National Con-ference Working President said that

it was he who as the Chief Minister of the State highlighted the importance of resolution of political issues of Jammu and Kashmir politically and told the Prime Minister and Union Government that Kashmir issue cannot be settled by economic measures. He said it was also he who repeatedly and vehemently highlighted that Jammu and Kashmir cannot be equated with other States of India like those of Gujarat, Maharash-tra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, etc. “I told at all forums that the relation between the State and the Country is unique and special and we have to strengthen this bond by strengthening the special status of Jammu and Kashmir granted by the

Constitution of India”, he added.Omar Abdullah said that Na-

tional Conference is not mere a party formulated to rule the State but it is a “programme”, a “campaign” and a “move-

ment” to seek peace and polit-ical stability in the State and

to strive for empowerment, economic welfare and pros-

perity of the common people irrespective of any consideration.“NC has witnessed many vicissitudes in its over 80 years of political struggle, our workers and leader-ship have suffered a lot and faced differ-ent challenges

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Omar challenges opponents

Says muscle power cannot browbeat NC

Srinagar, July 1: Peoples Dem-ocratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday said bad governance has pushed respectable citizens into vir-tual destitution as is evident from demonstrations all over the state to press demands even for basic amenities. Ac-cording to a statement issued to KNS, while addressing var-ious meetings in Devsar con-stituency of Kulgam district she said apart from its politi-cal agenda PDP will focus on improving the quality of life for the citizens of the state. She was accompanied by the dep-uty speaker of the legislative assembly, Mohammad Sar-taj Madni on her tour which took her to Larmgangi pora, Palpora, Akran,Kailam,Zan-galpora,Deevsar,Sopat,Brag-a m , G u n d i p o r a , C h o o g -am,Khargund, Churat, Kund,Y k pora,Chakibadwan-i,Panzat,Wanpora,Drayan,Bo-nigam,Vessu, Nipora, Furrah, and Bumthan villages. Mehbooba said she is pained by the frequent sight of the people mostly ladies holding

dharnas and demonstrations for even drinking water in many places. She said if this could be the case in a state so much rich in the water re-sources nobody other than the National Conference and Con-gress, who have been in power ever since independence can be blamed for such dehuman-

izing conditions. The PDP chief said in spite of huge investment in the devel-opment schemes very little seems to be changing for the people who have to face im-mense difficulties in getting power, water, rations, health-care and education. Women still have to fetch water from distant sources

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Srinagar, July 1 : Bhar-tiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to prepare a big stage in Kashmir valley as the part has initiated a thorough campaign-ing in the region for the forthcoming polls for the assembly.The details received by KNS informed that the top BJP leadership will arrive in valley in the month of August and the poll strategy with its state unit shall be threadbare discussed.Sources privy to this de-velopment told KNS that the BJP high command has this time decided to concentrate more on val-ley as the Jammu now is being considered as the bastion for the party. It during the recently held LS polls swept all two seats of the region. Sourc-es have stated further that BJP has directed his

senior cadre that during the campaigning for the LA polls, a major chunk of the ministers, one by one must visit valley to support the party candi-dates in the region. Un-confirmed reports have also suggested that the party is eying at least two to three seats during the assembly elections in val-ley with the party thrust-ing more in the areas of North and central Kash-mir. Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi on June 30 met BJP general secretar-ies and discussed organ-isational matters as also measures to strengthen the party ahead of assem-bly elections in some key states.Modi spent over an hour with the ten party gen-eral secretaries seeking suggestions from them on improving

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Coming Assembly ElectionsNational BJP leaders to boost morale of

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Srinagar, July 1: “The department for which my father laid his life has left us in lurch. We have been living from hand to mouth from past over a decade no official from Jammu and Kash-mir police department bothered to pursue our case that was made under SRO-43,” this is what the little daughter of slain Head Constable Mushtaq Ahmed Wani said during a protest in Press Enclave Srinagar. Mushtaq Ahmed Wani was working in Jammu and Kashmir Police De-partment. In 2002, un-identified gunmen shot him dead while he was proceeding towards po-lice station Shaheed Ganj where he had been de-puted. The slain cop was survived by his wife and

three little daughters. “At the time of death of my father we three sis-ters were not qualifying for the compassionate job under SRO-43 as none of us had attained the age above 12 years,” Subby Akhtar who is now 19 years old told CNS adding that no official from JKP department understand their problems and they are living a wretched life. Shareefa Bano, the wife of slain cop said that she wandered from pillar to post to get a compas-sionate job for one of her daughters, but all her at-tempts proved futile. “I gave up as every official directed me to visit this or that Officer’s office,” sharifa Banoo said add-ing that from past over a decade she and

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Slain cop’s family lives in starvation Srinagar, July 01: Over

100 kilometers long Sri-n a g a r - M u z a f f a r a b a d highway will have a bet-ter look, thanks to some additional works by Bea-con authorities to spruce it up ahead of Prime Min-ister of India, Narendra Modi’s first to Jammu and Kashmir on ensuing Friday.Official sources told GNS that while the Beacon authorities have already patched up plethora of potholes which result due to snow and wintry conditions every year, macadamization of few stretches have also been completed along the high-way.Besides, they said, repair works also have been al-most completed on par-apet walls, painting all along the highway which about 115 kilometers from Srinagar to Kaman post

near Line of control.The Beacon authori-ties, they said, are about to complete work road stretch from Salamabad to Kamanpost.On his maiden visit to Valley on July 4, Prime Minister will inaugurate the 240 megawatt Uri II hydel project on the LoC in Uri besides attending a high-level security meet-ing at 15 Corps headquar-ters. As part of his visit to the state, Modi is scheduled to first reach Jammu and inaugurate the 25-km Ud-hampur-Katra railway line on Friday.Pertinently, former Con-gress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was scheduled to inaugurate the power project but the programme was deferred due to a technical issues.The 240 MW

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Large scale transfers in police expectedSrinagar, July 1 : The state cabi-net is scheduled to meet under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at civil secretar-iat here today. The meeting will take place at 4: 30 PM.A minister in the cabinet con-firmed to KNS that the agenda besides is likely to include some transfers in the police depart-ment. The minister said that there is directive form the election com-mission of India not to transfer deputy commissioners as they are busy with finalizing electoral rolls in their respective districts. (KNS)

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trend should help the state in going ahead provided the elements inimical to peace do not play spoil spot.

and difficulties in different periods, but our motto has never changed and will never change”, he said adding that outcomes of elections have never derailed this party from its basic agenda of building ‘Naya Kash-mir’ based on justice and equality. “Our struggle in this regard will continue whether in power or out-side”, he said and added that present conversion of anti-NC elements in an amalgamation, is yet another attempt of disgruntled elements to keep NC away from power and fish in the troubled waters.Omar Abdullah said that NC is not the creation of any ‘Agency’ its dictation, its command and its strength is the common people of Jammu and Kashmir. “Our Headquarter is the people of the State and we take only their dictation and command”, he said main-taining that power has never been the goal of Nation-al Conference. He said NC is not like other parties who change their minds and views with the changing winds to grab power.The Working President National Conference said that NC is the fortress of common people of all shades and its strength lies in the faith and support of people from grass roots. While referring to the induction of some elements with charges of corruption in the PDP party fold and allotting them tickets to contest forthcoming Assembly Elections, he said that this clearly explains volumes about the agenda and approach of PDP vis-a-vis governance. He asked the people to seek informa-tion about conducts of these persons under Right to Information Act, it will be amply known to you how much charges of corruption and misconduct are pend-ing against them. “If such persons God forbid, come to power what would be the condition of the State”, he asked.“We cannot be browbeaten by money and mussel power. We have withstood successfully all such chal-lenges in the past and will do it again in future”, he said and referred to the conspiracy under which the elected Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah in 1953 and elected Chief Minister Dr. Farooq Abdul-lah in 1984 were removed. He also referred to the sac-rifices and hardships faced by thousands of National Conference workers during the militancy and said that like in past the National Conference will again surpass the difficulties and onslaughts and emerge as victorious as ever. He expressed confidence that the people across the State would read between the lines and scuttle the conspiracy being hatched against them and the State.“You have to rise to the occasion and teach a befitting lesson to the power hungry politicians who have sold the honour and rights of the people in the past and are out to do so now to satisfy their lust to be in power”, he told the National Conference workers asking them to remind the people of the sincere service NC and its leadership has always rendered to them all across the State equating it with the worship.Referring to the historic and path braking decisions taken by his government during the last over five years on peace and development fronts, to empower people, bring transparency and make public service delivery a time bound duty of the administration, Omar Abdullah said that these glaring achievements cannot be played down by the propaganda of power greedy elements as these are documented and historic memorabilia. “You cannot belittle the stupendous achievements of the government made to give common masses the power to scan every function of the government and be legally empowered to receive public services in a time bound manner”, he told to the detractors of Na-tional Conference adding that his government has transformed the governance concept by making com-mon man master of the situation.Omar Abdullah said that people are witness to the holding of Panchayat Elections in the State by the coalition government after a long period of over 30 years despite the apprehensions and fears speculated by those who are now attempting to hoodwink people and divert their attention from the services rendered by the government to them on all fronts. He also men-tioned the historic decision of his government with regard to establishment of hundreds of new Adminis-trative Units all across the State to enhance the access of people to the administration for redressal of griev-ances and implementation of development schemes.“It were we, who enacted Public Services Guaran-tee Act (PSGA) making as many as 80 services legal-ly bound to be delivered in fixed time limits as also making provision in the Act to impose fine of Rs. 5000 on the official who delays or fails in giving the partic-ular services to the person seeking that service”, he said adding that various leaders in the Country are still struggling to have a similar kind of Act at the Central level. He said that his government also con-stituted State Right to Information Commission, State Vigilance Commission, Re-constituted Accountabili-ty Commission, introduced Third Party Independent Monitoring of development projects, e-tendering of works and e-procurement of material for government projects giving a new meaning to the transparency and monitoring systems.“We have strengthened institutions and empowered the people to catch hold the corrupt elements, unearth misconduct and expose financial and other irregular-ities bringing the culprits before the law without any involvement of government machinery”, he said and added that people will remember my government for this innovation for a very long time when they will be harvesting the fruits of these decisions.Omar Abdullah also referred to the new direction giv-en to power sector by his government and said that the initiatives taken to make the State self-reliance in power generation is yet another historic gift given by the coalition government to the people of the State. “This measure will not only help to provide 24x7 pow-er supply to the people in the State but make Jammu and Kashmir financial so healthy that it would fund its developmental projects from its own kitty. He said as against setting up of 750 MW capacity power proj-ects in the State from 1947 to 2008 including that of 450 MW Baglihar-I, launched in Dr. Farooq’s regime, his government has started power projects with a capaci-ty of about 1600 MWs in just five years.Provincial President Jammu National Conference, Davender Singh Rana, Former Legislator Dr. Chaman Lal and NC local leader Sajjad Shaheen also addressed the conventions. During the conventions scores of workers and prominent people of these areas joined the National Conference reposing full faith in the par-ty and its leadership. (KNS)

role in all major economic initiatives like the PM’s reconstruction programme, ADB financing and estab-lishment of ERA.He said the entry of professionals like Drabu into PDP indicates the positive impact this party has made among the intelligentia in the state. He said politics provides the best instrument to serve people and bring change in their lives, as established by the PDP in its brief tenure in power. Drabu has been associated with Mufti Mohammad Sayeed since 2003 when as the Chief Minister, Mufti appointed him as the Economic Adviser to the government of J&K with the rank of a minister of state.

so that these are examined and forwarded to ECI by June 20.The ECI has decided that all manifestoes of political parties released during elections are to be examined and analyzed in the light of part VIII of Model Code of Conduct. This has been intimated by Jayasree M. G Director ECI New Delhi vide his letter number 590/Manifestoes/Trg./2014 dated June 5, 2014.The ECI has said that whenever manifestoes are re-leased, the chief electoral officers shall be responsible to procure all such manifestoes and also send their authentic copies to ECI within maximum three days of their release.CEOs have been asked to send comments, analysis in the light of part VIII of MCC within maximum seven days of the release of a manifesto. The CEOs have been further asked to send the hard and soft copies of man-ifestoes released by all political parties in their states and their analysis and comments in light of Part VIII latest by June 20, sources said. (KNS)

and virtually fight for survival. She said the state has been deliberately projected as a begging bowl because the parties in power have time and gain sold out its interests for their own political survival. PDP, she said, would reverse this impression and try to establish a model welfare state where people would get what they deserve as a matter of right like members of a dignified society.Mehbooba said J&K is rich in water resources, minerals, horticulture, agriculture and tourism but there has been a complete absence of a policy to harness these resources for the benefit of the people. She said PDP’s agenda is to develop the right kind of human resource that does not have to hanker after seasonal or daily rated employ-ment, for which they are being politically exploit-ed and then not being able to even receive their wages. She said establishment of a knowledge society and skilled workforce alone can help the state in tapping its resource base and create jobs for its highly talented young population who are otherwise mired in frustration and hopelessness. Mehbooba said the government has been holiday-ing while the people are left to their fate. She said the farming community has suffered immense losses due to inclement weather conditions which have resulted in heavy damage to apple and other fruits. Similarly, the hailstorm in many areas has left crops devastated but the government agencies have been unable to intervene either in disease control or loss assessment.Mehbooba said the people are facing immense problems due to lack of ration at many places and the landless families both in rural and ur-ban areas have to suffer more because of the gov-ernment’s callousness. She said her party has brought this problem to the notice of Central gov-ernment recently, and told the concerned minis-ter, Ram Vilas Paswan, that due to scaling down of ration quota to consumers in J&K numerous fam-ilies have been pushed to starvation in many areas. Senior Party leader and deputy speaker of legislative assembly, Mohammad Sartaj Madni was also present on the occasion. (KNS)

governance and strengthening the party. This was Modi’s first meet of such nature after he took charge as Prime Minister. Reports maintained that Prime Minister also asked the party leaders to prepare for assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Maha-rashtra and Haryana Jharkhand and Bihar. (KNS)

her three daughters are surviving on a meager pen-sion of Rs 4,000 per month. Scores of family members of slain policemen have been hoping to get a compassionate job under SRO-43. “I was just 8 when my father lost his life in Poonch Surnakot during an encounter in October 10, 2000. At that time, a file was made wherein it was recorded that on attaining the required age, I will be provided job under the SRO-43, but nothing happened and I am still jobless,” Javid Ahmed Shah said. (CNS)

power project constructed by the HCC has already been handed over to the NHPC. (GNS)

various schemes being implemented by the depart-ment to the officials / officers being trained there.The Minister also called for completing the leftover work on the Sarai being constructed by the depart-ment at Tujar Sharief Sopore for the convenience of devotees coming to pay their obeisance at the revered shrine. He was told that it would be completed by 20th July, 2014. (KNS)

presence of respondent Deputy Commissioner by coercive method,” observed the court orders while hearing the contempt petition filed by Nazeer Ahmad and others against Itrat Rafique. The court has issued bailable warrants in the amount of Rs 20,000 and directed the IG Kashmir to execute the warrant and secure the presence of the deputy commissioner on next hearing on July 7. (KNS)

Srinagar, July 1 : Peoples Dem-ocratic Party (PDP) leader Say-eed Najeeb Naqui, along with his workers in Uri have suspended party work following the nomina-tion of Raja Aijaz Ali the former IGP Crime as the party candidate for upcoming assembly elections from Uri constituency. Talking to KNS, Naqui said that he has decided to suspend the party work till the PDP leadership ad-dresses their grievances. “There was party commitment with me that in case of my joining, I will be

given party mandate to contest the upcoming assembly elections from Uri. But Raja Aijaz Ali who is a non voter in terms of his affiliation with the PDP has been bestowed with the party mandate just a day after his joining. This is strange,” Naqui remarked.He said that he can go to any extent if the party does not take him into confidence and address his griev-ances. “Sofar I have not been con-tacted by my party leadership and I am waiting for their call till I take a final decision whether to support

Raja Aijaz Ali or not in the upcom-ing assembly elections,” he added.Naqui said that he had worked tirelessly to establish his party’s base in Uri and the recently con-cluded Lok Sabah elections is a testimony to the fact that whatever vote PDP got from Uri was because of his efforts. “What is the contri-bution of Raja Aijaz Ali. I worked very hard and now I am collecting party cards from my workers and will hand over the same to the par-ty leadership if they don’t deliver justice,” he added. (KNS)

PDP faces revolt in Uri

Najeeb up in arms against Raja’s candidature

Srinagar, July 01: Jam-mu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday launched a massive hunt and in-tensified the searches across Srinagar after a former National Confer-ence minister’s car, ‘gift-ed to him by chief minis-ter Omar Abdullah’, was stolen, officials said on Tuesday. The official said police have sounded an alert and communicated a message to all the district and tehsil headquar-ters across the Kash-mir division following the theft of a vehicle belonged to Khursheed Ahmad Mir, a former minister in NC regime, who later contested un-successfully in 2002 on a PDP ticket. The car a ‘Maruti Esteem’ (white colour bearing registra-tion number JK04-0111 was parked outside his residence at J-51 Govt Quarters Jawahar Nagar Srinagar when it was sto-

len.Mir hails from frontier village of Harri in Kup-wara and presently re-sides in Jawaha Nagar, officials said.“From today morning police had established more check points in ev-ery entry and exit points of the city,” sources said.While confirming the theft, a senior police of-ficial said: We have reg-istered a case under FIR no. 46/2014 under section 379 RPC in this regard and we have launched searches to nab the car lifters.Meanwhile, sources said that vehicle was gifted to Mir by Omar Abdullah in 2000.The Esteem car Model 1996, chasis no. 0185947 and engine no. 0181312 was transferred in the name of Khursheed on 26-11-2002, a senior offi-cer at Assistant Regional Transport office Budgam told GNS. (GNS)

New Delhi, Jul 1: The government has ap-pealed to media orga-nizations to exercise restraint and show sensi-tivity in reporting about conditions of Indian na-tionals stranded in strife-torn Iraq.External Affairs Minis-try spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said the approach of media is en-

dangering the lives of the nurses stuck in Tikrit and those who are held hostage. He said bombings and fighting took place near the hospital where the nurses are strand-ed but they remain unharmed. He said the nurses have taken shel-ter in the basement of the hospital.

Dr mushtaq expresses heartfelt condolences to the family members of Dr Mohammad Youf Osmani & prays for the departed soul, be-sides my condolences goes Dr. Bashir Veeri & all his dear ones, and I pray to almighty to give them strength to bear this irreparable loss.75 year old doctor by profession but a versatile poet and a writer Dr. M. Yousuf Osmani expired at Lilavati Hospital Mumbai, remaning in ICU for a month. Belonging to scholar’s family his father was Yaqub Osmani contemporary Philos-opher of Bab-i-Urdu Abdul Haq. Osmani family is very well known and highly regarded in liter-ary circles of Daccan erstwhile Hyderabad State. Yousuf Osmani has contributed during life time for promotion of Urdu in India especially in Dec-can & Mahrashtra. ,,,,”Zindagi Humay Maut Ab Toa Seelay May De De ,,,,,,Hum Bachatay Rahay Ta Umer Jo Izzat Teri,,,Yousuf Osmani”. Among several books...Aaeenay...Khudkalami....were big hits and earned fame in Urdu circle.

Dr. Mushtaq grieved, expresses sympathies

with MLC Dr. Bashir Veeri

Car ‘gifted’ by CM to former colleague stolen; police launch searches

SW

It is hereby stated that my daughter's Date of Birth in school records is wrongly en-tered as 2/3/2013, but her correct Date of Birth 2/3/1999. Now I want it to be corrected. If any person has any objection/objections in this re-gard may please submit the same within seven days of publication of this notice. No objection will be entertained after the due date.Farooq Ahmad GanieF/O Nasreena FarooqR/O Chadoora

Correction in DOB

Srinagar, July 1, CNS: A group of brokers who according to traders frequently roam in and around Clock Tower area of Lal Chowk Srinagar Tuesday thrashed a teen driver mercilessly after the victim foiled the attempts of these touts to exploit some tourists. Eyewitnesses told CNS that few tourists alighted from an Innova vehicle (JK01J-9566) driven by a teen near Clock Tower Lal Chowk. A group of brokers tried to persuade these tourists to visit their respec-tive hotels with a view to charge handsome amount from them. A shopkeeper present on the spot told CNS that the teen driver asked these brokers not to annoy their guests (tourists) and tried to stop them from follow-ing those tourists. “This thing they could not digest and all of a sudden these brokers pounced on the teen driver and ruthlessly beat him up. The incident attracted the attention of passersby and before they could caught hold of them, they fled from the spot,” he said. Another trader said that it is irony that a group of goons almost killed a youth in broad day light while at a place where police remains alert round the clock, not a single policeman was spotted. Reports said that it was only after people tried to take the victim to the hospital, some police personnel visited the spot to inquire about the matter. A police official told CNS that a case has been registered in this regard and hunt has been launched to nab the assailants. (CNS)

Tourist harassment

Brokers ruthlessly beat a driver

Udhampur, July 01: Northern Army Com-mander, Lt Gen DS Hoo-da hoisted the National Flag within Udhampur Cantonment in Jammu region, a senior de-fence official in a state-ment issued to GNS said on Tuesday.He said that the flag hoisted by Lt Gen DS Hooda, GOC-in-C Northern Command measuring 30 ft x 20 ft on a 100 ft mast, atop a prominent hill feature within Udhampur Can-tonment.“The National Flag, “Tiranga” is a pow-erful symbol of our struggle for indepen-dence and National unity. It has also been

a source of inspiration for countless Indians”, the official said, adding that the flag fluttering at a vantage point is visible from a distance not only to garrison troops but also to the civilian population and the tourists passing through the station as Udhampur is the gate-way to the Kashmir valley. The view of national flag from a distance is bound to instill a sense of pride and con-fidence amongst all. The flag stands illu-minated at night be-fitting the glory and prestige associated with the symbol, the of-ficial added. (GNS)

Gen Hooda hoists National Flag in

Udhampur

Indians stranded in Iraq: Govt appeals

media organizations to exercise restraint

Daily ZABARWAN TIMES NEWS SRINAGAR | WEDNESDAY 02. 07 .2014

NEW DELHI: The Su-preme Court on Tuesday granted bail to Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tej-pal in a sexual assault case.

Tejpal was arrested in Goa after a woman col-league accused him of sexually assaulting her in a hotel in November 2013.

The apex court bench of Justice HL Dattu and Justice SA Bobde, granting bail to Tejpal, gave liberty to the Goa government to approach the court in case of any attempt by Tejpal to infringe the witnesses. The court has directed Tejpal to surrender his passport to the trial court if he has not done this.

The Supreme Court ear-lier extended his interim bail in the case till July 1. The apex court also asked trial court to complete the trial expeditiously, prefer-ably within eight months from today. On May 19, the apex court granted Tejpal three weeks’ interim bail so that he could carry out the last rites and other rituals of his mother. Tejpal was arrested in Goa after a woman colleague accused him of sexually assault-ing her in a hotel there in November last year. Tejpal was charged Feb 18 with rape, sexual harassment and outraging the modes-ty of his colleague.Sexual

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Tanvir Sadiq meets people, ensures im-mediate redressalSRINAGAR, JULY 01: The Political

Secretary to Chief Minister, Tanvir Sadiq, Monday listed measures and packages, this government has put in place to give boost to horticulture and ameliorate the lot of a large chunk of population associated with this im-portant activity in the state.

Speaking to a deputation from Pulwama, Tanvir said that horticul-ture is responsible for generating sub-stantial livelihood for the people and strengthening of economy. He said this sector offers great promises for investors to invest. He urged upon the educated youth to venture upon in this sector under MSME programme for which package of incentives are available.

As many as 74 deputations from all

across the state and concerning vari-ous organisations and associations besides scores of individuals met the Political secretary to Chief Minis-ter and, presented memoranda and sought his intervention in redressal of their grievances.

Deputations from Ramban,

Basholi, Banihal, Qazigund, Wathu-ra, Bandipora, Rajpora, Baramulla, Achabal, Kothar, Anantnag, Srinagar, Budgam, Ganderbal, Kulgam, Sopore, Kupwara comprising various Unions, Associations and Auqaf Committees met Tanvir and highlighted their grievances.

RANCHI: A CBI court on Tuesday rejected RJD chief Lalu Yadav plea to to quash the trial of three cases against him in connection with the multi-million rupee fodder scam.

The former Bihar chief minister said he has already been convicted and sentenced in one of the fodder scam cases. The other three cases are of similar nature so the trial should be quashed. The CBI opposed the plea on the ground that crores of rupees have been siphoned off from the treasury and that the three cases against him differed from each other. The for-mer chief minister was convicted and jailed for four years in a fodder scam case last year. He is currently out on bail.

Saroori chairs PUC meetSRINAGAR, JULY 01- A meeting of the Committee on Pub-

lic Undertakings (PUC) of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative As-sembly was held under the Chairmanship of MLA Mr. G. M. Saroori here today.

Legislators, Dr. Mustafa Kamal, Mr. A R. Veeri, Mr. Moham-mad Yasin Shah, Mr. Nizamu-Din Bhat, Mr. Charnajit Singh, Prof. Gharu Ram Bhagat and Mrs. Rani Bloreia attended the meeting and stressed upon the officers of Power Develop-ment Department (PDD) to gear up their field functionar-ies and speed up the pace of work on all works taken under RGGVY and complete them in a stipulated time frame. The Committee also stressed for early repairs and renovation of damaged transformers.

MUMBAI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has completed its probe in the multi-crore Adarsh Society scam with the agency filing a second supplementary charge sheet in a special CBI court last month.

The agency is also pre-paring a Self Content Note (SCN) of the flat owners who were found ineligible to buy a flat in the society which will soon be handed over to the Maharashtra government.

“The charge sheet is filed against five accused, including one member and four financiers,” a CBI offi-cial said on Tuesday.

One of the society members died, hence he was not named in the charge sheet, said the of-ficial.The charge sheet, filed last month, names

former MLA Mukundrao Mankar, Landscape Real-tors Private Limited (LRPL), Sanjay Kondwar and Gopal Kondwar (both directors of LRPL) and UK-based NRI

Sharad Madan.The flat of a Lieutenant Colonel-rank personnel was allegedly fi-nanced by Madan but since he is no more, the agency has named only Madan in

the charge sheet.LRPL was a shell com-

pany floated with a sole aim of allegedly financing ‘benami’ flat in Adarsh, the official said.

“LRPL gave a loan of Rs 62 lakhs to Mankar,” he alleged. According to the charge sheet, LRPL received money from other five to six shell companies.

Sexual assault case: SC grants bail to Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal

Deputations, individuals visit CM’s Private office

CBI court rejects Lalu’s plea to quash fodder scam trial

Adarsh: CBI files 2nd supplementary chargesheet

Says developmental programme of Gurez

need based, area specific

GUREZ, JULY 01: Minister of State for Animal Sheep Husband-ry, Mr. Nazir Ahmad Gurezi today visited various areas of Tehsil Gurez, including Kilshay, Budo-gam, Thathri, Check, Rufji, Gurjri and Budooaab villages and took stock of people’s problems, be-sides developmental needs.

The Minister also inspected various ongoing developmental works in these areas and asked the officers to work with dedica-tion and complete the fixed tar-gets well in time.

Several deputations met the Minister during his visit and ap-prised him about their individual and collective problems.

The main demands raised by

the locals included repairs and renovation of lanes, drains and construction of protection bunds.

The Minister gave a patient hearing and assured them that their genuine demands will be looked into. Many issues were solved by the Minister on the spot by directing the concerned au-thorities to redress the problem

immediately.Mr. Gurezi announced that the

Solar lanterns will be provided to the deserving families of Gajri vil-lages within a week’s time.

Addressing a series of gather-ings enroute, work carried by the present regime in the area has some elements, Mr. Gurezi said that the fact is that irrespective of

political or other considerations a mass developmental programme is under implementation in Gurez inconsonance with the aspira-tions and needs of all areas of Gurez Sub Division.

The Minister said that the Government, under the dynamic leadership of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, has taken various his-

torical decisions, including the creation of administrative units to fast track development and ex-tend governance to the doorsteps of the people living in far off areas.

He said that the government has strived hard to meet the commitments made by the Chief Minister with the people and maximum of these have been fulfilled. He said to overcome the problem of unemployment, the Government has launched innovative employment gener-ating schemes including UMEED and SKEWPY which have to pro-duced optimum results on the ground.

Referring to the developmen-tal works under execution in the area, the Minister said that the construction work on various mi-cro and macro welfare projects in apace and on completion of these schemes it would go a long way to help in improving the socio-eco-nomic conditions of the people living in these areas.

Gurezi takes stock of developmental needs, people’s problems in Tehsil Gurez

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee is ‘extremely hurt’ with the remarks made by MP Tapas Paul and directed the party to take appropriate action against him, Tri-namool Congress Secretary General Partha Chatterjee said in Kolkata on Tuesday.

“We do not endorse the statement in any manner and instead we con-demn it. The party had sought writ-ten explanation from the MP in this regard,” Mr. Chatterjee told journalist in the State Assembly. Meanwhile, the MP’s wife, Nandini Paul apolo-gized for her husband’s conduct.

“He should not have lost his tem-per. I apologize for his conduct,” Ms. Paul said.The West Bengal Assembly witnessed noisy scenes on the MP’s remark where he had threatened to unleash “rapists on the supporters of Communist Party of India (Marxist).” The recording which is about two weeks old was telecast by certain

television channels on Monday. Mr. Paul also threatened saying that he may “shoot the CPI (M) cadres with his gun” if they “harass” his party col-leagues.

Congress legislator Asit Mitra

sought an adjournment motion on the issue in the House on Tuesday. The motion was disallowed by the Speaker Biman Banerjee follow-ing which the Congress legislators

walked out in protest.Commenting on Mr. Paul’s com-

ments Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly Surjya Kanta Mishra said that such a comment by the actor turned politician would have been censured by the censor board even if it was made in a film.

Dr. Mishra said that a dozen of FIR would be registered against the MP across the State including one com-plaint at the place in Nadia district where he made such comments.

On whether police will lodge any complaint against Mr Paul, Mr Chat-terjee evaded any direct answer.

“Yesterday you (journalists) asked what the party will do in this regard. Now you are asking what the police will do,” Mr. Chatterjee said adding that he is only clarifying party’s stand in this matter.The Minister pointed out that even the CPI(M) leaders had made derogatory comments directed at Ms Banerjee and said that they will “drag her by pulling her hair”.

Mamata ‘extremely hurt’ with Pal’s remarks, says Trinamool SRINAGAR, JULY 01: A meeting of the Committee on Envi-

ronment of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly was held under the Chairmanship of MLA Aga Syed Ruhullah here today.Legislators, Dr. Mustafa Kamal, Mr.Bharat Bushan, Mr. Moham-mad Ashraf Ganai, Mr. Javid Ahmad Dar and Mr. Nasir Aslam Wani attended the meeting and gave their valuable suggestions for conservation and protection of water bodies of the State.Vice Chairman, LAWDA Shafat Noor briefed the Committee about the measures taken by the authority in conservation and protection of water bodies. He informed that 5 Sewerage .He also informed that most of Nigeen is clear now.Commissioner Secretary, Hous-ing and Urban Development, Chairman Pollution Control Board, Chief Wildlife Warden, Director Local Bodies, Kashmir, Commis-sioner, Srinagar Municipal Corporation, Srinagar, Director Envi-ronment and Remote Sensing and other officers of LAWDA, SMC, Local Bodies, Wildlife, Environment and Assembly Secretariat were present in the meeting.

New Iraqi parliament ends session without progress

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s new parliament ended its first session after failing to make any progress in choosing the country’s new leader-ship, including a prime minister. Acting speaker Mahdi al-Hafidh called off Tuesday’s proceedings after less than two hours after most of the 328-member legislature’s Sunnis and Kurdish law-makers did not return after a short break.

Env Committee holds meet

Consider making some plans for a vacation or short getaway, Libra. Looking forward to something fun can make even the tough-est of days far easier to handle. You’ll be amazed how much you can manage when there’s an end in plain sight. Your entire attitude can lighten. So take the bull by the horns and create an incentive for yourself. Do something special to reward the hard work you do day after day.

Don’t judge someone if he or she has a different lifestyle than what you consider to be OK, Scorpio. You probably lean toward the traditional, yet not everyone feels this way about re-lationships, working, or lifestyle. While it may seem impossible to understand and even frighten you, try not to be too harsh on those you deem odd. You’d be better off using that energy to keep your own life on track.

Friends seeking advice or a shoulder to cry on could be plentiful today, Sagittarius. You’re one of best people to give them the support and care they need. Just be sure that you don’t give so much to others that you don’t have anything left for yourself. True friendship is about sharing and the exchange of problems and help. Running yourself down will leave you in a place where you aren’t going to be much help to anyone.

Getting through today shouldn’t pose too big a problem for you, Capricorn. You may feel a huge second wind that can give you the drive and determination to see your chores and projects through. Make some plans for this evening, such as getting to-gether with friends or taking in an event that really intrigues you. Until then, go about your tasks bit by bit. You’ll get things finished before you know it.

Working within boundaries and restrictions could really get to you today, Aquarius. Yours is an independent spirit and your best achievements are often born of doing things your own way. Yet like it or not, we all have to follow guidelines and rules. Do your best to follow suit and finish what needs to be done. Afterward, you may find more freedom to act independently without consequences. Exercise patience and diligence as needed today.

Chances are that you’ll feel upbeat and positive today, Pisces. Consider sharing this energy with those around you who are feel-ing less than content. Your attitude can have a profound effect on friends, partners, spouses, and children. Even neighbors and ex-tended family can pick up on your spirit without you even real-izing it. Share your optimism with everyone you can today. If you see someone hurt or angry.

Feeling the effects of today’s energies, Virgo? Take heart if this is the case, because the end of the tunnel isn’t as far away as it seems. Do your best to take things one step at a time and see about making some plans for a little fun this evening. Get together with friends or take in a movie. Help yourself feel better by staying busy and focused and follow up with some recreation. Before you know it, the aspect will pass and you’ll be back to normal.

Don’t discount your ability to be extremely resourceful if you need to be, Aries. If you don’t have everything you need or all of the required information, take time to think. Who can you ask? What places can you access? Who might know where you can find what you need? Rather than panic because the pieces aren’t all there, instead make a list of contacts and go for it. Trust in yourself.

Try not to let today’s blues get you down, Taurus. While it’s true that some days can seem to drag on, the busier you are the faster time will pass. Get down to finishing any work still before you and then make plans for tonight. If there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, not only will things seem to speed up but you’ll feel better knowing it’s coming.

Dare to be different, Gemini. It can be so easy to fall into a drill. Sleeping at the same time, eating at the same time, wearing the same style, and going about work the same way day after day. Be-fore you know it, you feel like you’re in a rut. The only way to get away from this is to make a decision to break free by doing some-thing unique. Try a new haircut. Wear colors that are unusual for you. If the need is there, consider a new career. Pursue expansion.

If your lifestyle is considerably different than that of others, re-sist feeling self-conscience about it today, Cancer. Try to remember that you chose the life you have for specific reasons. Even if you’ve come to a point where you’re considering a change, there’s no need to feel badly, ashamed, or embarrassed about where you are now. Everyone has to make his or her own way. If this conforms to the norm, that’s fine. If it doesn’t, that’s fine, too.

An enhanced feeling of determination could motivate you today, Leo. Finish the things that aren’t complete and make some plans for this evening. Don’t hesitate to take on something that feels compli-cated or big. Chances are you’ll be able to handle most anything and it will feel great when it’s finished. Enjoy your day by making the most of opportunity.

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar, Wednesday 02 July 2014

Disclaimer : The contents and comments appearing in any article published in this paper are purely the personal opinion of the writer

Bridle fake traders, save

Kashmiri Handicrafts

About sixty artisans of the country were yesterday honored by President of India at Vigyan Bhavan

New Delhi which included some craftsman from Jammu and Kashmir also. These national awards were given to the people who made their name and ex-celled in their contributions for the development of handicrafts, handlooms and other traditional crafts. In fact the awards are giv-en every year to encourage and honor the people from different parts of country who make their presence felt because of their vast contribution. This is a good step towards preservation and development of countrys” tradi-tional crafts which have earned a name for us throughout the world. Whether a shawl or a car-pet from Kashmir, chickenkari of Uttar Pradesh, or hand wo-ven articles of Assam, Andhra Pradesh or for that matter any part of the country, we are and should be proud of our handi-crafts and hand woven art piec-es. It is said that Hitler present-ed a shawl from Kashmir to his beloved , thus indicating the pre-ciousness of Kashmiri art .How-ever, it is unfortunate that on one hand ,we are trying our best to keep our traditional art intact and do everything to develop it but on the other hand there are people who in the name of trade and business are bent upon to destroy the image of Kashmiri Arts and Crafts, .It is shocking to see that substandard shawls from Amritsar are being sold in the name of Kashmiri Shawls not only outside the state but within the valley particularly at tourist places. Not only this ,ex-uberant prices are charged for this substandard material and tourists are being cheated and betrayed. The more shocking is the attitude of the authorities who are not only behaving as si-lent spectators but at times even shielding these fraudulent and unscrupulous elements who for the sake of some money are dam-aging the image of Kashmiris and their handicrafts. Even po-lice particularly, tourist police are not coming down heavily on these people who roam fear-lessly around the tourist places. If the things continue unabated like this , the time is not far away when nobody will buy Kashmiri art pieces and when our tradi-tional handicrafts which earned the country millions of foreign exchange will lose their pres-tige and pristine glory .

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it’s all that

matters.

Qoute of the day

Audrey Hepburn

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar, Wednesday 25 June 2014

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No government, no administration- every-

thing in shambles

It is now more than six months that any developmen-tal activity as such has taken place in the valley. The de-pleted roads, lanes, by-lanes

are a testimony to this stand still situation. What a pity that only three or four days back some men and machines appeared on Sri-nagar-Anantnag National High-way , but gain vanished in thick air leaving this national highway in its pathetic condition adding to the woes of daily commuters and tourists. Perhaps authorities have gone in hibernation, the construc-tion agency has deserted this wid-ening four lane project. The pol-iticians in power have mentally conceded the defeat after they got their share of booty. It is not only this project, total standstill in the developmental field can be seen anywhere in the valley. It is the month of June and after this there are barely 4 months of working season left in the valley. If nothing is done till date, nothing should be expected in the coming months which will be mostly consumed in the state assembly electioneering. With that the financial year will end benefiting only corrupt offi-cials and politicians leaving com-mon people high and dry. It is re-ally agonizing to see people facing all odds of life, braving hurdle after hurdle in their day-today life. The politicians at the helm of affairs are taking sadistic pleasure out of it, one cannot understand whom to approach and ask for mitigation of the problems faced by the common people. The ministers are making hay while the sun shines, the bu-reaucrats have become vultures to complete the fleecing of Aam Admi. When one goes in the field, there is no presence of any author-ity which could come to the rescue of the needy. Take the example of present paddy season, which is ending by the 3rd shocking that several areas are without water for irrigation due to the negli-gence of revenue, irrigation, pow-er development and other related departments. The work of de-silt-ing of Nallahs, Kohls and brooks has been started just a few days back or has not started at all, thus frustrating the farming communi-ty who are wondering as to when they will get water to irrigate their fields and start paddy plantation. The health care is in shambles, the education department has touched all time low, the agriculture and horticulture departments do noth-ing week of June, but it is except supplying spurious fertilizers chemicals and seeds. The water works has become rotten and ob-solete supplying the contaminated water and causing a gradual kill of consumers. What to do when the rulers get ruled by their greed and ill desires.

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to

achieve that beauty.”

Qoute of the day

Maya Angelou

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar, Friday 07 March 2014

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Be passionate, they are young and deserve leniency

Cricket has become a very pop-ular game across the world and this game offers name,

fame and a lot of money not only to the players but to various boards, ad-vertising agencies and hundreds of stake holders connected directly or indirectly with this game. Once con-sidered a gentleman’s game, cricket is now engulfed with lot of contro-versies including betting, fixing and other negative things. It is not a sin to like or dislike a player or a team but it is the way that one expresses his sen-timents connected with his likings. Once chief election commissioner of India M.S.Gill who later became a cabinet minister and held sports portfolio was interviewed on a TV channel were he openly said that he is a big fan of Pakistani cricket team. It does not attracted any ill will against the country and cannot be treated as treason or a hate act against the coun-try, but if you celebrate the victory of Pakistani cricket team over India and raise slogans it definitely can be treated as a hate act and will amount a punishment. The J&K chief Minis-ter Omer Abdullah has said that the act of Kashmiri students is not a kind of treason but has justified their pun-ishment by the university authorities. The question arises as to why should these students instead of putting their abilities to study and achieve new heights indulge in such acts. Definite-ly they are in Meerut where the uni-versity has provided them an oppor-tunity to study different courses and where most of the students belong to other parts of India who will neces-sarily get hurt when somebody raises slogans against their team or country. The Kashmiri students should have known that they are availing all the facilities provided by Govt. of India and the government of the country where they live and make their car-rier. It is unfortunate that they are swayed by emotions without caring for the emotions of others and are in-dulging in such acts which could fur-ther complicate their future and cre-ate many more problems. By doing so they have also put their parents in lot of inconvenience as everybody is not affluent and does not have enough money to spend on the education of their wards. There are people who barrow the money or sell the proper-ty for the education of their children. It is the duty of the children to respect the hard work and toil of their parents who do everything for their educa-tion. They should refrain from doing such acts. As they are young hence the university authorities should take a passionate view and should now give them one more chance and should not spoil their career. The UP govt. should also keep their young age in view and withdraw the cases against them, particularly the case of treason. As they are young, the govt. of Utter Pradesh and the University instead of coming heavily on them and proving harsh, should instead be polite and lenient on them.

Drinking Water Facility for Villages

Five crore people living in over one lakh habitations in villages in our country do not have access to safe drinking water even today.

According to official figures twenty two per cent rural families have to walk for at least half a kilometer or more to fetch water (mostly it is the women who have to bear the burden). The percentage of such families is the maximum in Mani-pur, Tripura, Odisha, Meghalaya, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh. Fifteen per cent of households in villages depend on uncovered wells and other unimproved sources like rivers, springs, ponds for drinking water. Also eighty five per cent of all drinking water resources in villages are based on underground sources of water and in many of these areas water is contaminat-ed. Only 30.80 percent of the rural population has access to tap water. In fact there are only four states which have been able to bring fifty per cent or more of the rural areas under piped water supply. Many of the states are yet to fully comply with the Supreme Court order on supply of potable water in government schools. The latest available data shows that less than the 44 per cent government schools in villages have drinking water fa-cility.During the national consultation in Delhi held recently on the prog-ress of national rural drinking water programmers and related issues , it was revealed that in spite of this unsatisfactory sce-nario with regard potable water availability in villages many of the states have failed to fully utilize the funds allocated by the centre under the various heads of NRD-WP.To achieve the objective of provid-ing drinking water facilities to all the villages, the Government is bringing about a major paradigm shift in the National Rural Drink-ing Water Programme in the XIIth

Five Year plan period. In the back-drop of over extraction of ground water in most parts of the country, the emphasis is to shift away from ground water to surface water. The focus would be on piped water sup-ply and minimizing the use of hand pumps. The target is to ensure indi-vidual household connections to at least 35 per cent of the population in villages by 2017 against only 13 per cent today.In order to encourage the villagers to take water connections, the Gov-ernment is roping in Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA). A recent order said the ASHAs will get an incentive of 75 rupees for motivating each of the fami-lies in villages to take individual household tap connection. The states can use the money from the support funds allocated to states under the NRDWP.The norm of 40 litres of water per capita per day( LPCD) in villages was set way back in 1972 but now under the 12th five year plan , it is being increased from 40 to 55 li-tres .In the 12th plan the target is to cover at least half of the popu-lation to get 55 LPCD water with-in in their house hold premises or within 100 meter radius. Once the states are able to increase the per capita availability of drinking water, it will help in bridging the gap to some extent between urban areas and rural areas. Under NRD-WP, States have the flexibility to fix their own supply norms. The Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister Bharatsinh Solanki has urged the states to aim at 55 LPCD , this he says will enable higher level of household connections and reduce the burden on women and girls in fetching water from hand pumps and public taps as well as reducing risk of contamination.Quality of drinking water avail-ability is a major concern in villag-es many parts of the country are af-fected by contamination of arsenic and fluoride, which are considered

the most hazardous in terms of their effect on health. In the budget proposals for 2013-14 Rs 1,400 crore will be provided for the setting-up water purification plants as there are still 2,000 arsenic and 12,000 fluoride affected rural habitations in the country. Then there are contaminants like iron, salinity uranium and pesticides. The cen-tre is assisting States affected with Chemical contamination of drink-ing water, and those States which have cases of Japanese and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome through a provision under the NRDWP by allocating 5% of the NRDWP funds for Improving the quality of drink-ing waterGiven the growing importance of water quality issues, under the 12th plan dedicated funding will be provided to States with quality af-fected habitations, over and above the normal NRDWP allocation to the State. Highest priority will be given to arsenic and fluoride affected habitations. Part of the funding would also be made avail-able to tackle bacteriological con-tamination in the priority districts with high incidence of Japanese and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome as identified by the Ministry of Health and Family WelfareUnfortunately many of the states like Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Kerala, and Uttara-khand & Tripura are yet to submit proposals to get the benefit from 5% Water Quality earmarked fund.World over lack of drinking water and sanitation facilities account for over nine per cent of the dis-eases and more than six per cent of deaths. In our country where more than half the population resorts to open defecation, the situation is worse. It is in this scenario that ma-jor emphasis in the 12th plan is strengthening convergence be-tween rural drinking water supply and rural sanitation by taking up

villages covered with piped water supply to get Open Defecation Free status priority and vice versa.The 12th plan draft document says that all government schools and anganwadis in government or community buildings will be pro-vided with water supply for drink-ing and for toilets as per relevant quality norms by convergence of NRDWP for existing schools and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and for new schools set up under SSA. For private schools this will be en-forced the right to education provi-sions. All community toilets built with public funds and maintained for public use will be provided with running water supply under NRD-WP. Care will be taken to ensure that minimum distance is main-tained between the toilet systems and water sources, to alleviate the problem of nitrate contamination.A part of NRDWP outlay will be set aside for integrated Habitat Improvement Projects to provide housing, water and sanitation fa-cilities in rural areas at par with urban areas.Participation of the beneficiaries especially women in drink water supply schemes is also proposed.In another initiative Solar pow-ered pumps will be provided for implementation in remote, small habitations and those with irreg-ular power supply by converging subsidy available under Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.Waste water treatment and recy-cling will also be an integral part of every water supply plan or project.India is fast becoming a water stressed country and over and above everything else there is need to generate awareness about pro-tecting drinking water sources from contamination, regular testing of drinking water sources, conserving rainwater in tanks and ponds, water recharge and water saving devices so that everyone in the country is able to get the basic facility of drink-ing water.

Measures to Check Cheating of investors by Unscrupulous Companies

heating of investors by unscrupulous compa-nies takes many forms, such as: ‘vanishing’ after raising money through public offers; il-legal collection of deposits in violation of Sec-tion 58A of the Companies Act, 1956; floating sham ‘Collective Investment Schemes (CIS)’ in violation of SEBI Act; collecting money from public by posing as ‘Non-Banking Fi-nancial Companies (NBFCs) in violation of RBI Act; and resorting to ‘Ponzy’ or money circulation schemes under the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has tak-en action against ‘vanishing companies’ which have raised funds through initial public offer but thereafter are not trace-able. The Ministry has also taken action against certain companies which have failed to repay deposits to public violat-ing Section 58A of the Companies Act, 1956. Complaints of cheating by companies - which promised high rates of interests to investors, have been received against 87 companies. In these cases Inspection under Section 209A/ Investigation un-der Section 234 of the Companies Act, 1956 has been ordered. Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) also looked into the affairs of 669 companies whose operations were in violation of SEBI (Collective Investment Schemes) Regulations, 1999. The amount collected by these companies was about Rs 7,435 crore. Out of these companies, 75 have been wound up and the money refunded to the investors. A total of 552 compa-nies were prosecuted; convictions have been secured in 124 cases. RBI also regulates deposits / investments of the public with Non- banking Finance Companies (NBFC) that are registered with RBI. Complaints received against companies posing as NBFC’s and Unin-corporated bodies indulging in cheating

/ fraud are forwarded by RBI to the Eco-nomic Offenses Wing of the State Police for investigation and further action. There are certain companies which have floated fraudulent investment deposits mobilizing schemes (also called ponzi schemes) under various guises and are liable for action under the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Ban-ning) Act, 1978. This Act is administered by Ministry of Finance (Department of Financial Services) through the State Governments.The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has constituted a Steering Committee to de-velop a “Fraud Prediction Model” aimed at generating alerts for prevention of fraud and malfeasance. It is also pro-posed to revamp the existing Market Research & Analysis Unit (MRAU) in the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to enable it to function as an intel-ligence unit. Giving a fillip to the early establishment of a state-of-art Forensic Lab within the premises of SFIO in the national capital; and the development of a Comprehensive Early Warning System (EWS) for detection of corporate fraud and malfeasance at the earliest, three important MoUs have been signed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. These MoUs are: Between Director, SFIO ( which func-tions under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs) and Director, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technol-ogy (NIELIT), a scientific organization under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology; Between Joint Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Director, Finan-cial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND), an agen-cy under the Ministry of Finance; andDirector, SFIO and Director, FIU-IND. As per the Memorandum, NIELIT will set up a state-of-art Forensic Lab within

the premises of SFIO - with a total outlay of Rs. 3.80 Crore on a turnkey basis, to be completed in two phases. The MoUs signed with FIU-IND will lead to better and faster exchange of information be-tween the three Government entities. FIU has been playing a pivotal role in the collection and dissemination of informa-tion on suspicious banking transactions under the Prevention of Money Launder-ing Act, 2002. FIU-IND has been helping both the Ministry and SFIO from time to time by supplying information on sus-picious banking transactions. Having access to banking information as well as expertise of FIU, the MoU will help SFIO in conducting its investigation in a more effective manner. These initiatives will facilitate development of a comprehen-sive EWS for detection of fraud and mal-feasance at the earliest. The concerned regulatory agencies of the Central Government have adopted different measures aimed at sensitiz-ing the public of the need to be cautious while making investments into schemes, etc. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs conducts Investor Awareness Programs (IAP’s) for making the public aware of the various instruments of investments available to them. Similarly, RBI is-sues notice in newspapers regularly to caution the public against the design of entities in collection of deposits illegal-ly. Editors of Newspapers are also sen-sitized to exercise caution for accepting advertisements pertaining to acceptance of deposits by un-incorporated bodies. Presently, RBI is in the process of under-taking a comprehensive campaign aimed at alerting the public against falling prey to the Ponzy schemes and other monetary mal-prac-tices. SEBI also conducts Investor Awareness Programs in cities / towns across the country and has recently launched publicity cam-paigns through electronic and print media.

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