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FRIDAY 04 April | 2014 | 03 Jamadi-Ul-Thani 1435 AH | PAGES 12 | VOL NO: 4 | ISSUE NO: 93 | RS: 2/- (AIR SURCHARGE FOR JAMMU /DELHI/LEH 50 Paisa)Pen For Justice Largely Circulated, No. 1 Bilingual Daily of J&Khttp://www.zabarwantimes.com

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18th PGRP inaugurated at SKIMS

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The campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections is going in full swing andevery small or large political party is organizing rallies, road shows and meetings in the entire country. How-ever, it is unfortunate that the leaders in the largest democracy of the world are stooping sometimes so low that it looks as if they are not fighting theelections but have personal scores to settle with each other. It is very cheap of them when they indulge in person-al attacks, character assassinations and use unparliamentarly language

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5 structures damaged in fire

Srinagar, Apr 3: The 18th Postgradu-ate Research Presentation organized by Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery was inaugurated to-day at SKIMS auditorium.According to a statement issued to KNS, director SKIMS Showkat Zargar paid tribute to Dr. Shiekh Jalal Ex-director on the occasion and in-formed that his family has announced an annual cash award of Rs.10000 in his memoirto the student selected for

PDD daily wagers appeal to CM

ECI visits J&K, reviews election preparedness

Attempts to divide Kashmir unacceptable:

Geelani tells Basit

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Jammu, Apr 3: Chief Election Commis-sioner of India V.S. Sampath on Thurs-day said that the commission is looking into complaints on violation of code of conduct filed by different political par-ties from the state.

Talking to reporters in Jammu, Sam-path who was accompanied by Election Commissioner Dr. Nasim Zaidi and Deputy Election Commissioner Vinod Zutshi directed the political parties to

strictly abide by the guidelines set by the Election Commission. He said any vio-lation of the code of conduct will not be taken easily by the election commission.

Asked about the complaint against Na-tional Conference leader and minister Sakina Itoo whose video

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Commission looking into complaints from different political parties: SampathAbide by code of conduct strictly: CEC asks political parties

Srinagar, Apr 3: Huriyat Conference Chairman Syed Ali Geelani while cautioning Pakistan not to take any step on Kash-mir resolution with India in haste, Thursday while holding detailing meet with Pak high commis-sioner to India Abdul Ba-sit said that any solution aimed at dividing Kash-mir will be unacceptable.According to the reports

received by Kashmir News Service (KNS), Geelani expressed seri-ous concern over what he called ‘inconsistent’ pol-icy of Pakistan on Kash-mir. He added that there must be no haste adopt-ed by Pakistan in resolv-ing Kashmir as the same will be disastrous for the cause. “The important thing is the steadfastness See Basit On Page 11..

Expresses concern over Pakistan’s ‘inconsistent’ policy on Kashmir

Srinagar, Apr 3 (KNS): Speaking to workers at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan in Jammu, National Conference Additional General Secretary Dr. Sheikh Mustafa Kamal has said that PDP was inherently and ideo-logically opposed to J&K's Prosperity and Economic Growth. The party has a permanent agenda to desta-bilize the State and sabotage elected governments to create chaos in the State. The party's history - espe-cially its role in sparking the 2008 land row agitation for political gains, is a tragic story of mischief-mon-gering and negative politics.

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PDP opposed to J&K's Prosperity, Growth: Kamal

PDP on-board with BJP to harm Article 370

Hiranagar-Kathua,Apr 3 : Kicking off the sec-ond leg of his campaign, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghu-lam Nabi Azad, who is also Congress candidate for Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha seat, today, con-ducted a whirlwind road-show in the border areas of Hiranagar and Kathua assembly segments.According to a statement issued to KNS, Azad par-ticipated in about 50 Road Shows organized jointly by Congress and NC lead-ers and workers of this border belt and interacted with cross sections of the people. Accompanied by

his wife Shamima Azad, Azad and his son Saddaam Nabi Azad were attired in Dogra turbans with peo-

ple garlanding them and raising slogans in favour of Azad See Azad On Page 11..

Whirlwind road-shows all along border areas of KathuaCongress synonym of Development, Secularism & National integration: Azad

Rajouri, Apr 3: Saying that National Conference is con-scious and aware of the de-mands of the people of the Rajouri and Poonch area and commitments made in the party manifesto of 2008, Chief Minister Omar Abdul-lah on Thursday pledged to fulfil all the promises in-cluding that of giving Paha-ris their due right without affecting the reservation already provided to the Scheduled Tribes.According to a statement is-sued to KNS, while address-ing largely attended public meetings at Mendhar and Rajouri, the Chief Minister said the State’s Coalition

Government was looking up to the Union Government to take care of the interests of the Paharis but since that could not happen for some reason, the party will ful-fill the commitments it has made in the manifesto to

the Paharis before the end of Coalition Government’s present term.The Chief Minister, who is also Working President of National Conference, cau-tioned the people against the conspiracy being hatched by BJP to polarize the at-mosphere in the Country for paving the way to grab power and destabilize the harmony and brotherhood. He said PDP is an active partner of BJP in Jammu and Kashmir and has fielded its candidates to help Na-rinder Modi and his Party tactically.Drawing parallels between

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Paharis to get their right without affecting reservation provided to STs: Omar

‘BJP out to polarize society for power grab’‘PDP its partner in Jammu and Kashmir’‘Rahul fittest person to lead the Country’

Srinagar, Apr 3 : Accusing the National Conference for creating wedges between people of the state and rest of the country by keeping the

nation always in dark about the actual ground realities prevailing in Kashmir and aspirations of people, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Moham-mad Sayeed Thursday said in order to usher

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NC’s power games responsible for Kashmir, Delhi trust deficit: Mufti

Srinagar, April 03: An army soldier, who was arrested on Tuesday by police on charges of running a fake currency racket, allegedly committed suicide in police custody in this capital here on Thursday.Official sources told GNS that Muneer Ahmad Manhas, son of Nazir Ahmad Manhas of Kamalkote Uri, a soldier of Territorial Army 161 battalion was arrested by a police team from Ram Munshi Bagh from his respective unit on Tues-day evening. Muneer, who was currently posted with army's intelligence wing, was brought to Srinagar's Ram Munshi Bagh police station where a senior police official last eve-ning grilled him for his alleged hand in running a fake curren-cy racked. This morning, the solider was found dead in the lockup."Muneer, the prime accused in the fake currency racket was found hanging inside the Police Station Ram Munshi Bagh. He had used a pair of socks to hang

himself by tying them with one another," a police spokesman said. "The deceased was working in Territorial Army", the spokes-man added.The spokesman said that Te-hsildar Srinagar has started inquest proceedings in this re-gard. He said that the Principal Medical College has constitut-ed a team of doctors for con-ducting post-mortem in pres-ence of Magistrate.A senior police official told GNS that police team from Ram Munshi Bagh was inves-tigating a fake currency under FIR No. 29/2014 under sec-tion 489 ABC, 420 RPC subse-quently they picked up the TA jawan for further investigation."Besides Muneer, police had also arrested a travel agent from Dalgate in this regard," the official said.However, the family refuted the police version alleging that Muneer was killed by cops in custody.

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TA trooper 'commits suicide' in police custody, family

alleges murder

Srinagar, Apr 3 : The police today filed charge sheet against former minister and congress leader Shabir Ahmad Khan, in a moles-tation complaint lodged by a fe-male doctor against him.The court has accepted the charge sheet and issued notices to DIG Jammu and DIG Rajouri-Poonch

ranges. The charge sheet has been filed under section 509 (show-ing any gesture, word, or action in order to outrage modesty of a woman) and 354 (using criminal force to outrage the modesty of woman) of RPC.Pertinently, on February 8, the Chief Judicial

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Police files charge sheet against Shabir Khan

Court asks DIGs to cause his appearance

Srinagar, April 3: Hotel Industry of Kashmir Thursday alleged that differ-ent agencies are on prowl to crush this industry in Kashmir with a view to uplift it in other parts outside Kash-mir. Kashmir Hotel and Restaurant Association (KHARA), Kashmir Ho-tel and Restaurant Owners Federa-tion (KHAROF) and Pahalgam Hotel and Restaurant Owners Association (PHAROA) while organizing a joint press conference in Srinagar alleged that some hidden hands are hell bent to crush Hotel industry of Kashmir. KHARA president Showkat Chow-

dhary said that Hotel Industry of Kashmir is passing through one of the most difficult times in its history. Its troubles started with certain events that took place from the last week of September, 2013. He said that despite adhering to the guidelines of Pollution Control Board the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) last year ordered suspension of Commercial activities of hotels at Gulmarg followed by Pahalgam and Srinagar. “Our industry not only as stake-holders in tourism but as con-

scious citizens of the State are deeply concerned about the preservation of environment, protection of ecology and safeguard of water bodies in all its forms. As such hotels make use of conventional and universally accept-ed method of treatment of its effluent through Septic tanks and Soakage pits which was approved by PCB,” he said adding that the Pollution Control Board, however, disregarding its own laid down guidelines of 2011 ordered the installation of sewage treatment plants (STP’S) in

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‘Agencies’ hell bent to crush Hotel Industry of Kashmir

Sopore, April 3, CNS: In absence of Station House Officer, a police Head Constable al-legedly detained a youth illegally for three consecutive days and tortured him physi-cally and mentally. The said police consta-

ble has been attached while according to the victim Head Consta-

ble did it all to grab LCD TV from him. Reports said with the transfer of the SHO police station Bomai Sopore, HC Mu-hammad Sadiq was given

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In absence of SHO, cop detained and tortured youth for three days

Illegal detention

Srinagar, Apr 3: Five structures including a candle factory was damaged in three separate fire incidents across the valley.According to a police statement issued to KNS, fire broke out in the residential house of Abdul Ahad Deka son of Assadullah Deka at Dessu Daksum, Anantnag, resulting in complete damage to the house. Fire was brought under control with the help of fire tenders and police.Meanwhile, fire broke out in the residential house of Mohammad Dar son of Abdul Rehman Dar res-ident of Lahipora Aloosa Bandip-ora, resulting in complete damage to the house. Fire was brought under control by

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Srinagar, Apr 3: “We are thankful to honourable CM of Jammu and Kashmir state Jinab Omar Abdul-lah for taking initiative to promote the PDD daily wagers into class 4th vacancies,” reads a statement issued to KNS.It added that because no govern-ment has ever even tried to take any step to promote these poor sections of society. “The problem is now that finance department is not releasing the 10% matching share of the NPS since promo-tion for which these people have been debited forcibly, so that the concern DDO's can release the pending last 6 month salary of these promotees for which their families are suffering in these hard days.”The daily wagers have requested the chief

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Srinagar, Apr 3 : The Chief Election Commission of India has imposed a complete ban on smoking inside all Polling booths throughout the Coun-try. Instructions to this effect were issued by the Election Commission of India in its Handbook

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ECI bans smoking inside polling stations

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Result Notification (P.G. Entrance Test-2014) No.01. It is notified for the information of all concerned that the candidates bearing Entrance Test Roll Nos. given below, under courses, viz. Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Bio-resources, Botany and Clinical Biochemistry in the Faculty of Biological Sciences, for the Session 2014, have been provisionally selected (in open and reserved categories), purely on the basis of merit, subject to the production of all relevant original documents, for verification. The candidates shall submit an affidavit sworn in before a 1st Class Magistrate to the effect that: (1.) he/she is neither on the rolls of any Institution nor employed in any Govt./Semi Govt. Department and (2.) the candidates have not migrated from this University and are not enrolled with any other course in this University or any other University/Institution. The candidates who have obtained qualifying degree from Universities/Institutions other than the University of Kashmir shall obtain clearance from the Academic Section of this University before grant of their admission to a programme. The provisionally selected candidates can download the Admission Form from official website of the University of Kashmir www.kashmiruniversity.net and approach concerned Head/ Co-ordinator of concerned Department along with original certificates for completing the required admission formalities by or before 10th April 2014 (4:00 p.m.), failing which their right to admission shall be forfeited and the resultant vacancy (ies) shall be filled up from among the waiting list. Those of the candidates who, on the basis of merit (available on the University website), feel that they have admission prospects in these departments, in their own interest, shall report in the office of the Dean Faculty of Biological Sciences on 12th April 2014 at 10:00 a.m. Candidates shall note that admission for resultant vacancies shall be granted on the basis of counseling among the present candidates and a candidate who fails to report for counseling shall not be considered for selection even if having higher merit than the candidate/s selected against a vacancy and attends counseling. Biochemistry: a) OpenMerit: 330063; 330394; 330380; 330303; 330169; 330349; 330345; 330198; 330060; 330014; 330097; 330053; 330031; 330158; 330581; 330322.b) Categories: (RBA): 330312; 330506; 330582. (ST/SC): 330320; 330377. (CGB): 330232 (WUP): 330318.(Sports): 330134 (PHC): 330267 (CDP): 330247.(SN): 330092.

Biotechnology: a) Open Merit: 340028;340138;340088;340234;340078;340059;340193;340150; 340144 . B) Categories: (RBA) 340158. (WUP) 340153. (SN) 340001:

Bio-resources : a) OpenMerit: 370068; 370092; 370065; 370017;370010; 370139; 370097; 370137; 370142; 370127; 370028. b) Categories: (RBA): 370058. (ST/SC): 370075.(Sports):370138.(WUP):370080.(NCC):370051(SN)370076

Botany: a) OpenMerit: 350431; 350440; 350358; 350472; 350383; 351028; 350628; 350007; 350165; 351162; 350400; 350036; 350365; 350181; 351049; 351124; 350528; 350298; 350427; 350314; 350402; 350833; 350454; 351589.b) Categories: (RBA):351024;350464;351170;351166;351000.(ST/SC):351048;350388;351359. (WUP):351022 (PHC): 351137 (OSJ): 351255. (CDP): 351526. (Sports): 351385.(CGB):350405;350217. (NCC): 351007.(SN):350252

Clinical Biochemistry: a) OpenMerit: 360206; 360180; 360317; 360232; 360231; 360283; 360040; 360235; 360293; 360071; 360016; 360292; 360346; 360006; 360060; 360111, 360168.b) Categories: (RBA):360004; 360119; 360137. (ST/SC): 360072; 360223.(WUP): 360065. (CDP): 360335.(Sports):360314. (CGB):360147.(SN): 360083.

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for Presiding Officers. Chapter IX Section 7.0 of the Handbook has directed all the Polling Officer to en-sure that No smoking is allowed inside their polling stations. Chapter XXXIV Section 18 further instructs that neither the Polling Officer nor the Polling agents are allowed to smoke inside the Polling Station. Re-cently, Chief Electoral Officer J&K Umang Narula had issued instructions to make all polling stations in J&K, no smoking zones. (KNS)

showing ‘religious exploitation’ went viral on social networking sites, Sampath said that the commission takes due cognizance of the complaints received by it. He said the Commission is looking into all the com-plaints filed by different political parties and anything can be said only after going through these complaints properly. Sampath also informed that the commission has al-ready directed the administration to see to the com-plaints of poor conditions of roads across the region. Earlier the Commission started their visit with the meeting with the representatives of recognized nation-al and state political parties.The Commission held a series of meetings with the Chief Secretary, Director General of Police, Special DGP and Home Commissioner. CEO, J&K, Umang Narula accompanied the ECI during the meetings. The Commission also held a detailed meeting with the Returning Officers/DEOs and SSPs regarding the election preparedness and obtained the necessary feedback from the viz-a-viz election preparedness and other related issues. (KNS)

for the sustenance of the ongoing resistance movement of Kashmir and the internal stability of Pakistan.” The senior separatist also took a jibe on the recent statement of Shehar Yar Khan, stressing that Kash-mir’s leadership will not accept any dictation from India and Pakistan over any ‘readymade’ solution on Kashmir issue.

According to a statement issued to KNS, stating that PDP's refusal to acknowledge the developmental needs and demands of our State is primarily because of the party's hunger for power and its destructive motto to create disturbances and instability unfortu-nately in a State that has already witnessed decades of turmoil and violence. While PDP came into existence in 1999, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has been involved in some of the most serious machinations against the integrity, unity and autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir since his very inception into politics.

and Congress party. The women folk present in num-ber of road shows in the border belt greeted Shamima Azad and pledged to canvass door to door to seek ev-ery vote in the name of Azad.During his day long road shows that concluded late in the evening, Ghulam Nabi Azad described Con-gress party as “synonym to development, secularism and national integrity.” He highlighted that “130 year old Congress party has played great role in freedom struggle. Thousands of workers and leaders sacrificed their lives, remained jailed till we got Independence. After Independence, it was Congress that scripted the future of the country and advanced towards the path of development”. “Development in any sphere cannot be done over night but the consistent and committed efforts of Congress has brought India on the world map, which is now one among the leading nation of the world,” he pointed out.While interacting with the people at numerous border villages including Ghagwal, Sanoora, Rajpura, Lala Chack, Sherpur, Jaandi and Hirnagar Town, Ghulam Nabi Azad said that he was aware of hardship being faced by the border residents who always bear brunt of shelling from across the border. “I am aware of the pain and agony of the inhabitants of border areas be-cause I am in constant touch with the people of this belt”, he said and reminded the gathering that in the month of December last year he had visited this bor-der belt when there was unprovoked firing was started from the across the border.“After our visit to the border areas, we had brought problems of the border residents to the notice of Prime Minister, Defence Minister and Home Minister. The issue was discussed that whenever there is loss of human life in militancy related incident, the family members are provided with one government job and ex-gratia relief upto Rs 6 lakh. But in case there is loss of life due to firing from Pakistani Army at border, the relief is just Rs 1 Lakh,” he said and informed the peo-ple that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh immedi-ately constituted three Committees to solve problems of the border residents.“But before the said committees could present their recommendations to mitigate the woes of the border people, there was implementation of Model Code of Conduct and no further action could be taken,” in-formed Mr Azad and further hoped that “immediately of Model Code of Conduct, the problems of the people would be resolved on priority basis. He assured the people that after lifting of the Model Code of Conduct all the genuine and just demands of the border resi-dents would be accepted.While addressing the road shows at Chakara More, Mathra Chack, Sanji Morh, Banyari, Kot Punnu, Mu-kandpur Camp, Chadwal, Chann Arrorian, HamirPur and Rajbagh, Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad fur-ther said that he is also aware that no compensation has been paid to those border residents whose land have been acquired for Defence purposes. He said that issues of compensation of land to the farmers, whose land, situated beyond the fencing would also be solved.Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad while as-suring the people that all their problems would be

solved on priority, said that committees constituted by the government have also recommended special recruitment drive in border areas for recruitment of border youth in the security forces.Mentioning towards decision of his ministry to open Medical College at Kathua, Mr. Azad said that this decision has been taken due to problems being faced by the residents of Kathua and particularly the people living all along border belts of the district.Flanked by Congress Minister of State for Coopera-tives, Dr Manohar Lal Sharma, former Minister and sitting NC, MLA, Surjeet Singh Slathia, MLC, Subash Gupta, former Congress Minister, Gulchain Singh Charak, former Congress MLA Girdhari Lal Chalotra, Ghulam Nabi Azad took a dig at BJP for its false pro-paganda against Congress and described it as just an attempt to hoodwink the innocent people. He high-lighted that “Congress is the only party which has ini-tiated tremendous development works in all spheres. There was a time, when after Independence, our country did not have enough food grains to cater the people. But now with the people oriented policies of Congress, our country is in a position to export food-grains to several other countries of the world”. (KNS)

Narinder Modi and Rahul Gandhi, Omar Abdullah, who is also Working President of National Conference, said that the dictatorial behaviour and venomous ap-proach towards Muslims and other communities of BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate makes him unfit to lead a Country of pluralistic ethos while the clean and transparent image of Rahul Gandhi representing all the sections of the society is the fittest person to lead India. He said the Country is at the cross road of making a choice between a dictator with commu-nal ideology like Mr. Modi and a secular democratic young person Rahul Gandhi with a clear mission and determination to lead the Country sincerely.Omar Abdullah reiterated that Narinder Modi who did not show a courtesy to express sorry for the kill-ings of large number of innocents in Gujarat and cate-gorically denied wearing of a cap presented to him by Muslims does not qualify for being the Prime Minister of the country.He said that BJP and PDP has close understanding to tactically divide the voters by flaring up regional and religious issues and dividing society on creed, caste and other considerations.“It is amply clear that despite knowing that its can-didate will not survive in the election fray, PDP in Poonch-Jammu Parliamentary Constituency has pur-posely and tactfully fielded an inhabitant of Poonch area to attempt at dividing the votes and help BJP”, he said adding that BJP and PDP are in fact two faces of the same coin nurturing the politics of hatred and communalizing the atmosphere. He said people of the State are fully aware of this kind of politics and have always foiled such designs in the past and will defeat these again and again.The Working President National Conference said that people should clearly know that Parliamentary Elec-tions are completely different than the State Assem-bly Elections. “While the former are aimed at form-ing the government at the Centre to run the affairs of the Country, the later are regarding electing the State Government. Presently we have to elect the Parlia-ment and the Prime Minister of the Country, as such, our all attention should be to elect such a government as would be of representative character and equally beneficial and caring for the people of all sections of the society and all areas of the Country”, he said ask-ing the people not to get astrayed by those who want to mislead them by confusing the purposes of the two elections.Omar Abdullah said that when the time of State As-sembly Elections will arrive the Coalition Government will come before the people and present their perfor-mance record to them area-wise and region-wise.The Chief Minister asked the people to vote in large numbers in favour of National Conference and Con-gress candidates and said that every vote cast in fa-vour of NC-Congress would strengthen secular demo-cratic forces and thwart the attempts of the communal forces to be at the helm of affairs. He said that it will be most unfortunate for India if a person like Narind-er Modi would be at the seat of power. “As such, every citizen having faith in democracy, secularism, broth-erhood, amity, equitable and inclusive development should vote against him and in favour of young and dynamic leader Rahul Gandhi”, he added.The Working President National Conference referred to the tremendous support provided by UPA Govern-ment to the State in its efforts to carry forward ho-listic and inclusive development and achieve peace and development goals. He also mentioned the efforts put in place by Congress Vice President Rahul Gand-hi to help Jammu and Kashmir make new strides in employment generation, women’s development and amelioration of weaker sections of the society in par-ticular and the development of the entire State in gen-eral.Omar Abdullah said that in Rahul Gandhi Jammu and Kashmir has found its great friend who is always at beck and call of the State and renders full support to it to overcome difficulties and march towards prosper-ity.Omar Abdullah also mentioned the achievements of NC-Congress Coalition Government in the State and said that by enacting Legislations like Public Services Guarantee Act and Right to Information Act not only service delivery of important public services have been made time bound but people have been empow-ered to question the government for its omissions and commissions. He also mentioned the holding of Panchayat Elections, transferring of powers to these institutions, establishment of new Autonomous Insti-tutions and strengthening the existing ones to bring transparency, crub corruption and give good-gover-nance.The Working President National Conference asked the people to remain united and defeat the elements who attempt at disturbing age-old amity and brother-hood in the State just for power politics. He also made people aware of the false propaganda let loose by PDP against NC-Congress coalition government and said that thriving on falsehood and propaganda has re-mained the trait of both BJP and PDP.The election rallies were addressed by Minister for Planning and Development, Ajay Sadhotra, Provincial

President NC, Jammu, Davender Singh Rana, Legis-lators Javid Rana, Jahangir Mir, Rachpal Singh, Dr. Shahnaz Ganai, Shabir Ahmed Khan, senior National Conference and Congress leaders Ch Talib Hussain, Mirza Abdul Rasheed, Nisar Ahmad Khan, Moham-mad Aslam Khan Murtaza Khan, Kuldeep Verma, Brij Mohan, Gurdeep Singh Sasan, Peer Mazher Ali Shah, Ch. Zafferullah, Abdul Majid Khan, , Ch Liaqat Ali, Bashir Ahmed Wani, Shafayat Khan, Rahim Daad, Wali Daad and others. (KNS)

in the lasting peace and stability in Kashmir there is need of serious efforts at various levels both within and outside the state and the PDP is going to the national level to involve the parliament and people outside it to build a broad-based consensus on the core political issue.According to a statement issued to KNS, while ad-dressing various roadside meetings in Pahalgam seg-ment of Anantanag constituency, Mufti said the NC leadership has always misused the mandate it used to get for power and thus not acting as ambassadors of people to make the country aware about the problems in Kashmir and Kashmir problem, which is respon-sible that we have failed to make any reasonable forward movement to find solution to our problems. MLA Rafi Ahmad Mir, Zone President Gh Mohiudin Rather besides others were also accompanying PDP patron during his visit to these areas.He said had NC acted seriously and helped to bridge gaps between New Delhi and Kashmir, situation would have been different today, but instead it made power its only choice and went on to do historical blunders and sold the interests of the state and its resources.

"He (Muneer) didn't commit suicide. He had no rea-son to do so.Suicide is committed by the men who are depressed or unhappy with life. He was mentally and financially fit," Shabir Ahmad, a close relative said."It is a murder. Police has killed him in custody and passed off his killing as a simple suicide case. We don't trust police version," he added. (GNS)

Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar had issued a non bail able arrest warrant against Khan, former minister of state for health after being accused of molesting a lady doc-tor. Police station Shaheed Gunj had registered FIR against Khan bearing number 9 of 2014 under sections 354/509 RPC in the matter.A day after the High Court granted relief to him, on February 13, Khan had appeared before police station Shaheed Ganj here. The High Court had asked the po-lice to release Khan on a personal surety bond once he presents himself before the police. Khan furnished a personal bond of Rs 25,000, after the high court yes-terday said if police arrest him, he should be bailed out after furnishing a personal bond. The court is sched-uled to hear the matter on May 6. (KNS)

charge of the police station for three days till the new SHO’s joining. During this time, the said Constable al-legedly misused his position and arrested a 26 years old youth Farhad Fayaz Bhat and interrogated him for the three days on the pretext he had stolen an LCD TV. “I had not stolen it but produced documents about the product, yet the Head Constable beat me blue and black and I repeatedly lost my conscience in police lock up,” Farhad told CNS adding that for the three consec-utive days and nights the said constable tortured him. He alleged that said cop before his arrest had direct-ed him to give his LCD to him. Farhad Bhat is presently admitted in Sub District Hospital for treatment under MRD number268. His father Fayaz Ahmed Bhat told CNS that his son was released only after the intervention of SDPO Sopore. “Every part of the body of my son is bruised and he was tortured in absence of the SHO. The new SHO after seeing the condition of my son in lock up took the head constable to task and reprimanded him,” he said. Station House Officer Bomai, Muhammad Shafi told CNS that Farhad was called to police station in connection with burglary case. “He was released af-ter we found that he was innocent,” he said adding that no FIR had been lodged against the youth.

hotels having at least 20 rooms without considering the efficacy of such plants in a cold place like Kashmir. He said that a recent report of Comptroller and Auditor General has cast shadow on the efficacy of STP’S in cold regions of the Country. “The Valley has also been singled out for discrimination in comparison to the guidelines existing in other parts of the Coun-try like Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Goa, Assam, North-East States. If law has to be implemented then it should be implemented in uniformity but different yardsticks are applied for Kashmir,” he said.

fire tenders and locals.In another incident, fire erupted at Miyan Shah Sahib Rainawari last evening. In this incident, a candle factory belonging Wasim Ahmed Bhat son of Mohammad Bhat resident of Meyin Shah Sahab and two adjacent shops of Tanveer Ahmed Bhat damaged completely. Fire was brought under control with the help of fire tenders and locals of the area. (KNS)

minister to direct the finance department to release the 10% matching share so that salary of these people can be released to an earliest within the month of march & liability is not carried to next year. “Result-ing of non-releasing of 10% matching share, the fam-ilies of these promotees suffer more. We will be more thankful of your highness if 10% matching share is released at an earliest.” (KNS)

Srinagar, Apr 3 : The 18th Postgraduate Research Presentation organized by Department of Cardiovas-cular and Thoracic Sur-gery was inaugurated today at SKIMS auditorium.According to a statement issued to KNS, director SKIMS Showkat Zargar paid tribute to Dr. Shiekh Jalal Ex-director on the oc-casion and informed that his family has announced an annual cash award of Rs.10000 in his memoirto the student selected for best research presentation at PGRP.Dr. Zargar welcomed the chief guest Vice Chancellor Jamia Hamdard New Delhi, Dr. G. N Qazi, guest of hon-our Dr. Shahida Mir Ex-pric-ipal GMC, Srinagar and complimented Department of CVTS for organizing the event. He said PGRP is unique to Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sci-ences, conceived by former Director SKIMS, Prof. Syed Zahoor Ahmad, where all medical post-graduates and postdoctoral scholars, who have completed their

dissertations / research thesis present their work. He stressed on research saying is key in medical field and new innovations are bring forth through re-search in medical science which is changing rapidly. He informed SKIMS has spent 40 lakhs on research activities and will enhance the same to one crore con-sidering the importance of research.Dr. G. N Qazi, Vice chan-cellor Jamia Hamdard New Delhi who was chef guest on the occasion lauded Dr. Showkat Zargar for his leadership qualities and appreciate students from SKIMS serving in his insti-tute for talent and poten-tial. Dr. Shahida Mir guest of honour on the occasion stressed for that system-ic improvement and said that there should be post-graduate research com-mittee to handle and sort out the student grievances and postgraduate research workshop/exchange pro-gram need to be organized to have better research culture.

18th PGRP inaugurated at SKIMS

SRINAGAR | FRIDAY, APRIL | 04 | 2014Daily ZABARWAN TIMES NEWS

Take a break from your routine, Libra. You might feel like you’re leading an army into battle as you strive for new adven-tures and conquer new realms. Make sure you take a bit of time out today to stop and let your troops rest. You deserve a little rest yourself. Use this moment of stillness to form your plan of attack so you’re sure about how to proceed.

The key for you is to minimize your daily drama as much as possible, Scorpio. You may not realize how much you cripple your-self by the way you exaggerate every aspect of your life. Try not to give so much of your attention to things that really don’t matter much. Petty jealousy and gossip about other people’s lives are es-pecially irrelevant in your world.

Be careful of advertising yourself as someone who is so strong and mentally competent that you’re capable of handling every-thing, Sagittarius. Take note that the strongest mule on the trail usually ends up carrying the most weight. Your emotions are more sensitive than you may think, and certainly more than you demonstrate to others. Be honest about the way you feel and not just the way you think.

Things should flow well for you today with very little ef-fort on your part, Capricorn. Take note that if any quarrel arises, it’s an indication that the person you’re arguing with isn’t nec-essarily the right person to deal with or confide in. Emotional issues are likely to be the hardest ones to overcome, but this shouldn’t be a problem for you. You have the ability to work through these like a pro.

This is meant to be a nice, relaxing day, so treat it as such, Aquarius. There’s no need for you to plan any great strategy at this time. Try to take it easy and not indulge in any unnecessary stress. This is your time to enjoy the moment. Don’t tax your mind by overanalyzing everything that comes your way. Go with the flow and have a great time regardless of what you end up doing.

Your sensual nature is heightened, Pisces, and you’ll find yourself engaged in tender moments and languid peacefulness in the company of others. Soothe your soul by letting yourself slip into situations that give you the emotional freedom to do or say whatever comes to mind. Life should be like a love poem written by a great master. Accept the good energy that comes your way.

Your sixth sense is right on target, Virgo, so trust your instincts today. You’re likely to connect with someone in a wonderful partnership that will help you foster the very plan you want to develop now. Stay close to those things that resonate strongly with your morals. The answer is in front of you; you don’t have to search too far afield in order to find it.

Allow your eager and restless nature to express itself in ways other than through the spoken word, Aries. Show someone that you care through your gentle touch or a big bear hug. Hold on a little bit more tightly than you might normally. There’s an unspo-ken understanding that comes when you communicate through nothing but pure silence. Work on developing this kind of connec-tion with those closest to you.

This is a terrific day for you, Taurus. You should find that your relationships, especially with men, go exceptionally well. Your tender and extremely sensitive nature is finally being recognized as the treasure chest it is. There are many times in which this type of personality is seen as weak, yet today is one of those times in which you’re given the full credit you deserve.

A selfish attitude on your part won’t be tolerated today, re-gardless of the circumstances, Gemini. Don’t make it worse for yourself by pretending that you don’t notice others’ hurt feelings. People are likely to be extra sensitive today, so be careful about trying to impose your will on someone who really wants nothing more than an ear to talk to and a shoulder to cry on.

You could find the hardest person to face is you, Cancer. You tend toward introspection, and you may find yourself shrinking into self-recrimination. You could analyze the important people in your life and yet fail to address the one you really need to look at – you. As you continually strive for perfection, give yourself proper credit. Do something nice for yourself today.

Take advantage of the creative energy in the air today, Leo. Keep your hands moving and your imagination flowing toward something fun and artistic. If you begin to doubt your work, you may fall down a spiral of creative blockage. Don’t get into the habit of constantly judging the quality or outcome of your work. Give yourself free rein to open up and explore whatever comes to mind.

VADODARA: Madhusudan Mistry, the Congress candidate against Naren-dra Modi here, who was arrested for covering Modi’s posters, has been re-leased on bail.

The Congress leader was held after he tried to paste his posters on the ban-ners of BJP’s prime ministerial candi-date.

Earlier, the city police had detained Mistry and other party workers when they tried to cover BJP banners at adver-tisement kiosks in Dandiya Bazaar area.

“Mistry and other Congress workers have been detained after they tried to paste his posters on an advertisement kiosk installed on electricity poll on road dividers,” Vadodara DCP Dipankar Trivedi said.

Narendra Rawat, the earlier Congress candidate from Vadodara whose candidature was withdrawn after BJP declared that their prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi will fight from this Lok Sabha seat, and leader of opposition in Vado-

dara Municipal Corporation (VMC)’s Chandrakant Kastur were also de-tained along with Mistry and other party workers. Narendra Rawat, the earlier Congress candidate from Vadodara whose candidature was withdrawn after BJP declared that their prime ministerial nominee Na-rendra Modi will fight from this Lok Sabha seat, and leader of opposition in Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC)’s Chandrakant Kastur were also detained along with Mistry and other party workers.

“Mistry or any other Congress leader has not taken any permission for the programme,” said Trivedi, adding that further course of action will be decided after looking into the videography of the incident.

“Mistry tried to climb on one pole of road divider for pasting his poster over Narendra Modi’s poster, but he was prevented by the police,” a Congress worker said.

“Police also took away his ladder

which was used to replace Modi’s post-er,” he said further.

Congress workers shouted slogans against Modi and BJP party and alleged that he (Modi) was responsible for not allowing their party candidate to put up his posters.

Talking to PTI, Mistry alleged that police and district administration were acting in a partisan manner and pre-vented putting up of his posters at ad-vertisements kiosks on city roads.

Mistry also said that when a police-man came to him, he demanded his identity card but the cop refused to show it.

Earlier, Mistry along with other Con-gress workers sat on a dharna at city Congress office in Dandiya Bazar area of Vadodara city.

Women workers of the party also alleged that they were beaten up by police and in the scuffle their “mangal-sutras” were looted and their bangles were broken when they were being detained.

JAMMU, APRIL 03: Mr. Rakesh Kumar Gupta, 1986 batch IAS Officer of J&K Cadre, today, took over the charge as Princi-pal Secretary to Governor.

Prior to this posting, Mr. Gupta was working in the capac-ity of Additional Secretary with Union Public Service Com-mission, New Delhi. He has taken over the charge from Mr. Navin K. Choudhary, who has been posted as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence.

Two days training programme concludes

UDHAMPUR, APRIL- 03- A two days training programme for the polling personnel to be deployed in the parliamentary election 2014 was concluded at Government Higher Second-ary School Ramnagar. The polling personnel including Pre-siding Officers and Polling Officers were imparted training through Power point presentation and clips on poll process.

Polling personnel were also trained on Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) through Master trainers. A total of 700 em-ployees were given intensive training to make the poll suc-cessful on April 17, 2014.The training programme was con-ducted under the chairmanship of Sub Divisional Magistrate Dudu- Basantgarh, Mr. Deep Raj who is also Assistant Return-ing Officer (ARO) 62-Ramnagar.

R.K Gupta takes over as Principal Secretary to Governor

Madhusudan Mistry, arrested for covering Modi’s posters in Vadodara, gets bail

Narendra Modi on Thursday brought Robert Vadra in the line of fire on controversial land deals, asking Rahul Gandhi whether his brother-in-law would be asked to act as ‘chowkidar’ (watchman) to guard peoples’ land.

Addressing election rallies in Kurukshetra, Ghaziabad and Gur-gaon, Modi raised the pitch against Rahul and also Sonia Gandhi, who he accused of resorting to “rabid communalism” by appealing to Muslim leaders to ensure their votes are not split and sought Elec-tion Commission’s action in this regard.

Taking a dig at Rahul in Kuruk-shetra in Haryana, Modi said “she-hzade” has been talking about the need for all countrymen to act as ‘chowkidar’ over its resources and asked if his brother in law (Vadra) would also be one of those keeping guard.

Vadra, who has drawn fire over his controversial land deals in Haryana and Rajasthan, has denied any wrongdoing.

Modi asserted that new laws would be framed to bring back

black money stashed abroad if BJP comes to power while warning that those who have “looted” the country, no matter how powerful, would not be spared.

Against the backdrop of So-nia Gandhi’s meeting with Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari where he said she had ap-pealed to Muslims to vote en bloc for her party, Modi said, “Congress is sensing defeat. So now, their slo-gan has shifted from secularism to rabid communalism.

“What she said yesterday... I appeal to the Election Commis-sion... Asking for votes on the ba-sis of communalism is against the rules of Election Commission as the polls have been announced,” he said.

Modi was addressing another public meeting in support of BJP candidates from Indirapuram in UP’s Ghaziabad district on the out-skirts of the national capital.

“24 hours have passed and the news has already appeared in the media. Why is EC not taking suo motu action in this regard?” he

asked. In Jammu, Chief Election Com-

missioner V S Sampath said the Election Commission will take cognisance if it receives a com-plaint on the issue.

Modi also sought votes for the candidate from neighbour-ing Gautam Budh Nagar avoiding the jinxed town of Noida, where there is a popular belief that leaders who visit the town lose their positions.

On Wednesday, Sonia rejected the BJP charge that she was play-ing politics of communalism say-ing they were not in the habit and game of polarizing elections.

“Sonia has made the mistake of trying to mislead and divide the nation. People will never forgive this kind of politics. For Congress, secularism is religion first but for us it is India first,” he said.

Modi said for his party, secular-ism is to unite and develop while the Congress tradition was to di-vide and rule.

“For Congress secularism is an election slogan. For us every com-munity is ours. For Congress secu-

larism is vote bank politics, for BJP, development is national agenda. For Congress, it is a political weap-on, for us it an article of faith,” he said.

Modi appealed to the voters to give at least 300 seats to the saf-fron party to pave way for a strong, stable and progressive govern-ment at the Centre.

“People should send more than 300 BJP members to the Lok Sabha plus extra members of the allies,” he told the gathering in Kurukshetra while seeking their support for BJP candidate Raj Ku-mar Saini.

“This government at Delhi (at Centre) is certain to go...entire country knows this government will go,” he said.

“They (Congress people) are scared what will happen on May 16 and what will be their place af-ter May 16 (when poll results will be out),” he said.

Modi raked up the issue of government’s alleged support for meat export and said he foresaw a “huge danger” for village economy

as farmers were selling their cattle to meat exporters.

“We want green revolution and white revolution but the Congress is worried about ‘pink revolution’... If there is no rain in a season, the village economy will be ruined in the absence of cattle. Non-vegetar-ians have to shell out more money due to the UPA’s obsession with meat export,” he said.

Accusing Congress of working to ensure that the BJP-led NDA does not reach the majority mark as its own “defeat” is certain, he said Uttar Pradesh will have a big say in the next government forma-tion and urged people to see BJP gets a massive victory in the state.

“Congress does not want a government which could probe its black deeds. Don’t you want a strong government which exposes all bad things they have done,” Modi said.

“I want to ask him (Rahul) that those who looted coal, those who are facing charges of looting this resource, whose hands have got blackened.., will they too be your chowkidar”.

Modi brings Robert Vadra in the line of fire; attacks Sonia, Rahul

Election training programme for Anantnag notified Women Conference organized under SVEEP ANANTNAG, APRIL 03: Election training programme for employees of district Anantnag

for conduct of smooth Lok Sabha elections have been notified.According to District Election Officer Anantnag, the personnel deployed for polling shall

be imparted training at Town Hall Anantnag by Tehsildar Anantnag on April 05, April 06 & April 07, 2014 while Tehsildar Shangus shall impart training to employees at Town Hall Achabal on April 06 & April 07, 2014. Similarly training shall be provided at Town Hall Dooru, Aishmuqam and Bijbehara by Tehsildar Dooru, Pahalgam & Bijbehara on April 06 and April 07, 2014.

Randomization cum training schedule of polling personnel in Shopian district notified

SHOPIAN, APRIL 03: According to District Election Officer, Shopian the Ist, 2nd and 3rd phase of randomization of polling personnel would be held on April 5, April 12 and April 21, 2014respectively. The Ist phase of training of Presiding Officers and Polling Officers would be held on April 09, 2014 while the 2nd and 3rd phase would be held on April 10, 2014.

The trainings of the polling personnel after 2nd randomization would be held on April 15 and April 16, 2014, while the final round of trainings after 3rd randomization would be imparted on April 22 and April 23, 2014.

The District Election Officer further said that the Ist randomization of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) would be held on April 12, 2014 and 2nd on April 18, 2014 at the District Informatics Centre, Shopian.

It is pertinent to mention that during the first round of training as many as 3000 officials were imparted necessary training regarding various facets of electioneering and conduct of fair, transparent and smooth elections.

REASI, APRIL 03-A one day women conference was organized at Reasi under Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation campaign Jashn-e-Jamhuriat which is progress-ing in its final phase for Lok Sabha elections. More than 500 women rep-resentatives drawn from all the vil-lages of district and female teachers of Education Department attended the conference.

The women electoral aware-ness campaign was inaugurated by Assistant Commissioner Development Joginder Singh Rai and Chief Education Officer Ashok Kumar Sanyal accompa-nied by senior officers of the depart-ment.

During the conference a de-tailed roadmap was finalized for great-er women’s participation in the district and ensuring 100 percent distribution of photo voter slips at household level. A special campaign was launched by the district administration in Decem-

ber for electoral literacy of women and their greater participation.

In 2009 Lok Sabha elections only 33% turnout was registered in re-spect of female voters in three assem-bly constituencies. Keeping in view the low turnout district administra-tion has set up 302 female electoral facilitation counters in the district and more than 14000 females have been registered as voters during SVEEP campaign.

Master Trainers imparted train-ing regarding use of Electronic Voting Machines and poll day arrangements were discussed by sector officers. Management of election process at polling booth level and continuous campaign at village level was also dis-cussed threadbare.

Village Women ambassadors have been pressed into action for enhanced female participation and 30 polling stations have been identified for spe-cific interventions.

Expenditure Observer visits BudgamConvenes meeting related election expenditure

BUDGAM, APRIL 03: Observer for Expenditure, Dr. Khumkar Mahesh Suresh today visited the Budgam district and briefed the officials con-cerned with monitoring of election expenditure about various details of account keeping. He urged for moni-toring of expenditure being incurred by the contesting candidates during Lok Sabha Elections-2014 election campaign and asked the concerned officials to liaise with the banks in the district.Various financial infor-mation gathering mechanisms were discussed by Expenditure Observer with the Chief Accounts Officer, who has been designated as Nodal Officer to monitor election related expenditure which shall be incurred by various Political Parties and con-testing candidates.

Among others, the meeting was attended by senior officers of district administration, Tehsildars, mem-bers of Media Certification Commit-tee and Senior Police officers.

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar, Friday 04 April 2014

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Be parliamentary to make it to

parliament

The campaigning for the Lok Sabha elec-tions is going in full swing and every small or large polit-

ical party is organizing rallies, road shows and meetings in the entire country. However, it is unfortunate that the lead-ers in the largest democracy of the world are stooping some-times so low that it looks as if they are not fighting the elec-tions but have personal scores to settle with each other. It is very cheap of them when they indulge in personal attacks, character assassinations and use unparliamentarly lan-guage against each other. We in this country are teaching the parliamentary way of be-having to the whole world but when such unfortunate things happen in our campaigning; it does not look dignified and civilized. The political leaders are no doubt contesting the elections against each other but they are not each other's enemies who are bent upon to harm the prestige and pris-tine of their opponents. In fact when they are fighting the parliament elections, the way of fighting should also be par-liamentarian so that the whole world makes our way of elec-tions as their model and cites the examples of India Democ-racy. It is unfortunate that be-sides scathing attacks on each other's personal life some leaders are even polarizing and communalizing the coun-try and in this way doing the worst disservice to the nation. India is a country which hous-es hundreds of religious and ethnic groups with thousands of languages and dialects and living in different regions and areas, hence every caution has to be maintained to see that no action of these leaders harms the social fabric of the country and does not create problems for the unity and integrity of the nation. It is therefore, obligato-ry for every politician and the candidates that they do not in-dulge in any action which is not conducive to the interests of the country. India is a democratic country and its constitution is secular in character. There is no discrimination on the basis of caste, creed or religion, hence every citizen has his duty to protect the country from any-thing which will create hatred and ill will.

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar, Saturday 15 March 2014

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Education-Magic wand to progress

and prosperity

The progress and prosperity of any nation can be measured only on one yard-stick, as to how many citizens have excess to quality ed-ucational facilities. The off rule,

Might is Right, Aristocrats rule the Nations, are now obsolete. The developed countries paid heed to education in the initial stage and now they are harvesting the fruits of those initiatives by way of dictating their terms on developing and under developed countries. The citizens are leading comfortable life with all the basic necessities fulfilled. They don’t have to live under open sky or stand in que for hours together to fetch one bucket of water or ration at concessional rates. Their children don’t have to lose eye sight while studying in dim lights. Talk of any comfort; they are bestowed with in comparison to the people of the third world who have to live from hand to mouth, where poverty is their destiny. It is all because of least priority given to education sector that these countries could not harness their resources and compete with the developed nations. They miss the condi-tion in India. We too woke late to the need of the hour in giving emphasis on education. The words of Former President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam keep on echoing when he one said “coming generation will not remem-ber you as to how many temples, mosques or churches you built, but will remember you as to how many school you built”. His golden words speak of his vast experience and practical approach. But despite various schemes and initiatives launched by Central Government, country still lags behind in the field of education. Due to poverty most of our children go to government run school to seek education. Except Kerala almost in tall the states the literacy rate is below expectations. There could be various reasons for this. The way politics has plagued this sector is beyond one’s imagination and almost killing the fu-ture of the country. The state of Jammu & Kashmir is no excep-tion. Here the people are being duped with the slogans of freedom, justice, progress and what not for the last so many years. But it was education sector which was made sacrificial lamb at the first instance. Schools, colleges, libraries were set ablaze. Day today calls of strike, civil curfew, and curfew made the life out of gear. The future of the students was darkened. With the establishment of popular government some initiative with the financial assistance by central government were taken to build or repair school college buildings but the situation still is pitiable. Even now nearly 5000 government schools are without their own buildings. School buildings are in delipated condition. May schools are with-out roof top, without doors and with broken window panes. There is no proper sitting ar-rangement what to talk of other civic ame-nities like heating system during chilly days of harsh winter, drinking water or toilet fa-cilities. Even teacher are not properly trained. There are certain schools were students are without teaching staff but some schools with more teachers but less students due to inef-fective transfer policy and rampant corrup-tion. The concept of Rehbar-e-Taleem may be ideal on paper but practically it has failed to deliver goods as it is a means for back door entries. What kind of quality education can be expected from a teacher with nominal honorar-ium? Moreover when such teachers are regula-rised they get themselves transferred to towns or cities with political pressure or money power leaving students to their fate.Now time has come when Government and the people have to take education sector seriously. Government should take bold steps by adopting public private partnership for spreading edu-cation to every nook and corner of the state to channelize the talent and intelligence of t he children of the state and also in calculate a sense of accountability in teaching communi-ty which is possible only when there is good governance.

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar, Tuesday 04 March 2014

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Education-Magic wand to progress

and prosperity

The progress and prosperity of any nation can be measured only on one yard-stick, as to how many citizens

have excess to quality educational facilities. The off rule, Might is Right, Aristocrats rule the Nations, are now obsolete. The de-veloped countries paid heed to education in the initial stage and now they are har-vesting the fruits of those initiatives by way of dictating their terms on developing and under developed countries. The citizens are leading comfortable life with all the basic necessities fulfilled. They don’t have to live under open sky or stand in que for hours together to fetch one bucket of wa-ter or ration at concessional rates. Their children don’t have to lose eye sight while studying in dim lights. Talk of any comfort; they are bestowed with in comparison to the people of the third world who have to live from hand to mouth, where poverty is their destiny. It is all because of least priority given to education sector that these coun-tries could not harness their resources and compete with the developed nations. They miss the condition in India. We too woke late to the need of the hour in giving em-phasis on education. The words of Former President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam keep on echoing when he one said “com-ing generation will not remember you as to how many temples, mosques or churches you built, but will remember you as to how many school you built”. His golden words speak of his vast experience and practical approach. But despite various schemes and initiatives launched by Central Govern-ment, country still lags behind in the field of education. Due to poverty most of our children go to government run school to seek education. Except Kerala almost in tall the states the literacy rate is below expec-tations. There could be various reasons for this. The way politics has plagued this sec-tor is beyond one’s imagination and almost killing the future of the country. The state of Jammu & Kashmir is no exception. Here the people are being duped with the slo-gans of freedom, justice, progress and what not for the last so many years. But it was ed-ucation sector which was made sacrificial lamb at the first instance. Schools, colleges, libraries were set ablaze. Day today calls of strike, civil curfew, and curfew made the life out of gear. The future of the students was darkened. With the establishment of pop-ular government some initiative with the financial assistance by central government were taken to build or repair school college buildings but the situation still is pitiable. Even now nearly 5000 government schools are without their own buildings. School buildings are in delipated condition. May schools are without roof top, without doors and with broken window panes. There is no proper sitting arrangement what to talk of other civic amenities like heating system during chilly days of harsh winter, drink-ing water or toilet facilities. Even teacher are not properly trained. There are certain schools were students are without teaching staff but some schools with more teachers but less students due to ineffective transfer policy and rampant corruption. The con-cept of Rehbar-e-Taleem may be ideal on paper but practically it has failed to deliver goods as it is a means for back door entries. What kind of quality education can be ex-pected from a teacher with nominal hono-rarium? Moreover when such teachers are regularised they get themselves transferred to towns or cities with political pressure or money power leaving students to their fate.Now time has come when Government and the people have to take education sector seriously. Government should take bold steps by adopting public private part-nership for spreading education to every nook and corner of the state to channelize the talent and intelligence of t he children of the state and also in calculate a sense of accountability in teaching community which is possible only when there is good governance.

Daily Zabarwan TimesEDITORIAL/ OPINIONEDITORIAL/ OPINIONDaily Zabarwan TimesSrinagar,Sunday 16 February 2014

Prevention of Drug Addiction

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Kejriwal -Small man big designs

AThe resignation of Arvind Kejri-wal and his forty eight days stint consisting high drama in which he claimed to climb the sky with-out stairs has exposed the over ambitiousness of a middle rung former Govt. officer who wanted to erode even the constitution of India to fulfil his political expan-sionism. From the very begin-ning it looked crystal clear that Kejriwal without much political knowhow wanted to conquer the Mount Everest even without ven-turing out of his home. His day dreaming, his unfulfilled promis-es to the people of Delhi, his mis-calculations and aspirations with which he tried to befool the peo-ple suddenly vanished in air. His promise to supply the free water up to 900 litres to every home, electricity supply on half of the rate and Jan Lokpal bill were all flues. Above all his style of func-tioning like an anarchist and the way he approached to deal with different issues was nothing but immature senseless and direc-tionless. Infact he was trying to create a kind of anarchy and constitutional crisis which could destroy the very basis of the dem-ocratic set-up. His blunt lies, his allegations against everybody including the high dignitaries re-portedly without any basis clear-ly show that he has no priority and targets except to derive max-imum mileage out of minimum. As per constitution experts he thinks that he can overrule the constitution according to his will and whims and he thinks himself to be the only honest man in the county. His behaviour and the at-tempts he made to disrespect the constitution of India and also to erode the laid principles of law where simply unbearable as no society in the world can tolerate such attempts. As he could not fulfil his promises, he wanted a way eject, which he got through his Jan Lokpal Bill whose con-troversial introduction in Delhi Assembly was unconstitutional as any Bill in the central list can be introduced and passed but not before the permission of Ministry of Home Affairs is sort. As he was acting in an anchorist and dicta-torial style, he thought he is above law and can do anything he likes. The Indian democracy is the larg-est in the world hence deep root-ed. Arvind Kejriwal did not avail the opportunity he got to prove his metal. He thought by quitting he will gain the sympathies of the people of India but forgot that he has in the process exposed him-self before the masses and is in danger of losing whatever he had achieved so far. It is very easy to sit on ‘Dharnas’ and criticize oth-ers but it is not so easy to trans-late one’s whims unless one goes through the established system of norms and is honest in the ap-proach.

lcoholism and drug abuse is a pysco-social-medical problem re-quiring a holistic approach – from prevention and early detection to effective intervention, rehabilita-tion and social integration. The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is the nodal Min-istry for drug demand reduction. It coordinates and monitors all aspects of drug abuse prevention which include assessment of the extent of the problem, preventive action, treatment and rehabilita-tion of addicts, dissemination of information and public education. The Ministry provides communi-ty-based services for the identifi-cation, treatment and rehabilita-tion of addicts through voluntary organizations. In order to recog-nize the efforts, and, encourage excellence in the Prevention of Al-coholism and Substance (Drugs) Abuse and rehabilitation of its victims, awards will be presented, every year, for the most effective or outstanding services as individ-uals as well as institutions in the prevention of abuse of:- (a) Alcohol;(b) Narcotic Drugs;(c) Psychotropic Substances;(d) Other Addictive Substances (Except tobacco and its products)e.g. cough syrups, correction fluid,

etc.The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment has been imple-menting the Scheme of Preven-tion of Alcoholism and Substance (Drug) Abuse since 1985-86. The Scheme, which was re-vised twice in 1994 and 1999, at present provides financial support to NGOs and employers mainly for creating Awareness and Pre-ventive Education, Drug Aware-ness and CounsellingCentres (CCs), Treatment- Cum- Rehabil-itation Centres (TC), Workplace Prevention Programme (WPP), De-addiction Camps (ACDC), NGO forum for Drug Abuse Pre-vention Innovative Interventions etc. Apart from this, the Ministry takes up awareness gen-eration programme every year dis-seminating information, education and communication (IEC) mate-rials, organizing programmes in schools and community, holding exhibitions and publishing news-letters and journals. At present there are about 41 CCs and 401 TCs are function-ing with the support of the minis-try in the country. Besides, a large number of NGO’s are involved in this endeavour, Ministry of social Justice and Em-

powerment notified in December last year a scheme of National Awards for Outstanding Services in the field of Prevention of Al-coholism and Substance (Drug) Abuse, in order to recognize the efforts and encourage excellence in the field of prevention of sub-stance abuse and rehabilitation of its victims. The Scheme is applicable to in-stitutions and individuals working in this field. Under the scheme, awards will be presented every year to the most effective or out-standing services rendered as in-dividuals as well as institutions in the prevention of abuse of alcohol; narcotic drugs; psychotropic sub-stances and other addictive sub-stances. The awards are presented ev-ery year, on the 26th June, which has been declared by the United Nations as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking and are given in ten different categories to institutions and individuals. I. Institutional Category (i) Best Integrated Rehabilitation Centre for Addicts (IRCA) for providing rehabilitation services to alcoholics and drug users (ii) Best Regional Resource and Training Centre (RRTC) provid-

ing exemplary contribution in the field of prevention of addiction. (iii) Best Panchayati Raj or Mu-nicipal Body working for preven-tion of alcoholism and substance (drug) abuse. (iv) Best Educational Institution doing outstanding work in aware-ness generation and prevention of alcoholism and substance (drug) abuse. (v) Best Non-Profit Institution, other than Serial Number (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above, with out-standing contribution in the field of Prevention of Alcoholism and Substance (Drug) Abuse. (vi) Best Research or Innova-tion. (vii) Best Awareness Campaign. II. Individual Category(viii) Outstanding individual achievement by a professional. (ix) Outstanding individual achievement by a non- profes-sional. (x) Former Addict, who has done outstanding work in the field of awareness generation or de-addic-tion or rehabilitation.The institution of these National Awards is indeed a manifestation of Government’s commitment to address the issues and take effec-tive steps against alcohol and drug abuse.

Building not just Roads but Nation

ransport system is considered as the life line of any nation. Road Infrastructure, because of its easy accessibility, flexibility in oper-ation, door to door service and reliability occupies a dominant position in the transportation system. It is vital for unleashing economic growth and is a crit-ical component of all inclusive growth. In the last few decades, Road transport in India has regis-tered tremendous growth and has become the most preferred mode of transport. The share of road transport in carrying the passen-gers and goods is more than 80% and 60% of the total passenger and freight movement respec-tively. Road Network India has huge network of roads totalling about 46.90 lakh km. The road density in India at present is nearly 1.43 km per sq. km of area which compares favourably with many countries. Responsibility of development of this network rests with the Central Government, State Gov-ernments and local Government. National Highways (NH), having total length of 82,803 km, con-stitutes less than 2% of the total road network. However, these are the main arteries carrying more than 40% of the total road traffic. Development of NHs is the responsibility of the Central Government.Good and efficient transport infrastructure is an essential pre-requisite for the economic growth of a nation. It has been the endeavor of the Government to provide speedy, safe and effi-cient road transport network. It is recognized that modernisation of infrastructure is the key to at-tain higher GDP. India’s Trans-port sector as a whole contributes about 5.5% to the GDP, with road transport contributing the lion’s share. India has emerged as one of the fastest growing economy in the world. According to ex-perts, India could unleash its full potential, provided, it improves the infrastructure facilities, which are at present not sufficient to meet the growing demand of the economy. To address emerging demand by catching up with the economic and social growth of the country, a massive Road de-velopment programme has been

taken up in the country.NHDP The National Highways Devel-opment Project (NHDP) is the flagship programme, for devel-opment of less developed areas, dedicated regional programmes like the Special Accelerated Road Development Programme for the North-East (SARDP-NE) and the Special Programme for the Left Wing Extremism affected areas have also been taken up. Now, there are plans for building up Expressways in the Country. Three projects i.e. Eastern Pe-ripheral Expressway in National Capital Region, Delhi - Meerut Expressway and Mumbai – Va-dodra Expressway covering about 650 km are targeted during the current financial year. Plan-ning for Bengaluru – Chennai and Delhi – Jaipur Expressways are also in advance stages. All these Expressways will be fully access controlled roads on green field alignment. To meet with the mas-sive requirement of funds, inno-vative means of financing and financing strategies which inter alia include cess on fuel, private sector participation including for-eign investment, borrowing from the market as well as budgetary support have been adopted. A major step was to attract foreign as well as domestic investments through Public Private Partner-ship (PPP). Involving the private sector would lead to increasing efficiency with the help of using modern technology. The private sector has more flexible pro-curement and decision-making procedures and therefore, it can speed up implementation efforts. Allowing private sector to raise capital/funds has paved the way for the Government to use its scarce resources efficiently and effectively. Several new materi-als of road construction are also emerging that would need to be encouraged depending upon their cost effectiveness. For development of National Highways in the Country in the 12 five year plan targets to invest Rs 1,44,769 crores from bud-getary support, Rs 64,834 crores from IEBR and Rs 1,87,995 crores from private sector partic-ipation. Launched in 1998, the NHDP

program represents the largest road construction project ever undertaken to boost the develop-ment of the National Highways in the country. The program is aimed at the development of about 50,000 km of National Highways. Golden Quadrilateral which provides four-lane con-nectivity between four metros, is complete, while the North-South-East-West (NSEW) corridor is about to be completed. Four lan-ing and six laning is underway at many places and progressing at brisk pace, despite the hurdles in land acquisition, obtaining en-vironment and forest clearances, high cost debt etc,. So far work on more than 21,000 km have been completed and in about 12,350 km works are in progress. Other flagship regional programmes which includes SARDP-NE and roads in LWE affected areas cov-ers development of about 12,000 km of roads out of which work has already been completed in about 3800 kms.Mode of Projects The emphasis has been to take up progressively more and more infrastructure projects through private sector participa-tion on BOT (Toll) basis so that more public funds are available for social sectors such as Health, Education, etc. However, it would not be practically possible to take up development of the majority of the highway stretches on BOT (Toll) mode. This has re-flected in the recent trends of bid-ding when in majority of roads projects we could not get the fa-vourable response. Accordingly, recently, Ministry has decided to take up road projects as turnkey Engineering Procurement Con-struction (EPC) contracts basis which would help to reduce con-struction time and is expected to improve quality of work as well. Also, in this system the objective to garner private sector efficiency is retained and the private entre-preneurs are free to use new tech-nology to speed up their worksNew InitiativesE-Tolling The experience on present tolling system is associ-ated with congestion and delays at toll plazas. To overcome this, Government has decided adop-tion of Electronic Toll Collec-tion (ETC) system across Na-

tional Highways in India, which would enable toll to be collected electronically from vehicles at toll plazas while the vehicle is in motion. Pilot projects have already been taken up in this re-gard which will pave way for nation-wide interoperable ETC at all the toll plazas on National Highways by 2014.New Materials Besides financ-ing, such a mammoth develop-ment programme requires huge amount of natural resources. As such conservation of the material is area of concern for all. There is a need to save scarce physical resource like aggregates, sand, earth, cement, bitumen, etc. looking to huge programme of construction of highways in the country. On the other hand, the Nation is facing problem of the disposal & storage of industrial waste like fly-ash, copper slag, marble slurry, etc. Efforts are on in utilizing these waste materials in construction of roads through complete/partial replacement of conventional materials. Cashless Treatment of accident Victims (A Road Safety initiative) India has the dubious distinction of having maximum number of fatali-ties on roads. During the year 2011, there were around 5 lakh road acci-dents resulting in the deaths of over 1.42 lakh people. Each day, nearly 390 people die on our roads. In In-dia more than half of road accident victims are in the age group 20-65 years. The loss of the main bread earner and head of household due to death or disability can be cata-strophic, leading to lower living standards and poverty, in addition to the human cost of bereavement. This is an unacceptable price to pay for mobility. The Ministry has already taken up multi-pronged strategy in his regard. The latest milestone in this area is a Pilot Project for “implementation of cashless medical treatment to the accident victims” for the first 48 hours. Under this scheme accident victims will be provided free treat-ment during this period as a result immediate relief can be provided to the accident victim, which will go a long way in reducing fatalities on our road.Completion of programmes al-ready taken up is expected to go a long way in contributing towards building the Nation.

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