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Jammu, May 24: Accus-ing the BJP of duplicity and double standards, Jammu Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh today said while on one hand saffron leaders are hailing the award conferred upon Major Leetul Gagoi, but on the contrary, their own government had refused to withdraw the FIR against the brave-heart.

Singh demanded that FIR registered against Major Leetul Gagoi be withdrawn otherwise a massive agitation in Jammu will be launched.

While addressing press conference here today, Singh regretted that despite the country wide applause and appreciation for Major Gagoi for his act of valour, the BJP-PDP Government had reg-istered an FIR against the national hero at the behest of anti-nationals and other sepa-ratist forces.

He regretted that even the most convincing reasoning given by the army officer for using the ring leader of stone pelters as human shield went unheeded with BJP partnered government announcing to

proceed with the investiga-tions and trial of the national hero.

Singh warned to initiate a movement against the pres-ent dispensation if the FIR was not withdrawn immedi-ately.

Singh said that there was a complete mis-match between BJP’s slogans and actions. He said that while the Army Chief deserved kudos for hon-ouring Gagoi, the BJP needed a countrywide condemnation for its deceptive slogans given only to hoodwink the gullible masses.

Flaying the central and state government for their appeasement policy on Kash-mir, Singh regretted that while the brave-hearts were being humiliated, humbled and harassed, the separatists

and anti-nationals were being pampered and placated.

The separatists and anti-nationals enjoy all hospital-ity of government ranging from free fuel, government vehicles and accommodation besides ‘z” plus security thus assuring them VVIP treat-ment for their anti-national conduct.

Cautioning the BJP part-nered government to stop promoting the agenda of sepa-ratists for power sake, Singh warned to launch a massive agitation in Jammu in case the FIR against Major Gagoi was not withdrawn.

Parshotam Parihar, state secretary, Panthers Trade Union, and Mushtaq Ahmed, youth leader were also present during the press conference.

Withdraw FIR against Major Gagoi or face agitation: Harsh warns govt GK news networK

Kathua, May 24: To enthuse vigor in the working of State Information Commission (SIC), Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, today chaired a Round Table Conference on ‘Underscoring the Impor-tance of Right to Information (RTI) Act’ here today.

The CIC said that one of the objectives of holding the Round Table Conference was to reduce the gap between the infor-mation provider and the information seeker. Several issues were raised and discussed during the conference which was held with First Appellate Authori-ties (FAAs), Public Information Officers (PIOs) and RTI activists.

He said that the essence of the Act is to ensure greater transparency, account-ability and corruption free governance. “RTI Act is not merely a provision but a potent tool to strengthen democracy and promote good governance,” he said.

CIC maintained that Suo Moto dis-closure of information under section 4 needs to be followed in letter and spirit

by all public authorities.He emphasized the need to use RTI

and J&K Public Services Guarantee Act for expediting and monitoring develop-ment works in the far flung areas.

He appealed to the activists to use the RTI Act for legitimate purposes only so that no undue pressure is put on the PIOs and public authorities.

He appealed to the PIOs and FAAs to comply with the provisions of J&K RTI Act, 2009, and called for timely response in providing information so that the alle-

gations of delay or concealment of infor-mation are no longer made by anyone.

Stressing on sustained mass aware-ness at grass root level, the CIC directed DC Kathua to educate all stakeholders on the importance of the Act by launching mass media campaigns in this regard.

Several case studies were also dis-cussed to give detailed understanding regarding various provisions of the Act.

Later, the CIC also interacted with the RTI activists of the district.

Round Table ConfeRenCe on RTI aCT

RTI an imperative tool to ensure transparency: CIC

JKPSCC hails initiatives of Edu ministerJammu, May 24: J&K Pri-vate Schools Coordination Committee (JKPSCC) today hailed the initiatives taken by minister for education, Altaf Bukhari for betterment of education in the state.

As per press release, Swami Parmanand Saraswa-ti chairman JKPSCC hailed minister for education, Altaf Bukhari for exempting pri-vate school from the ambit of external evaluation for classes 5th to 7th and 9th.

JKPSCC also discussed various issues include sub-mission of affidavit by the principals for the registra-tion of students of class 9th, streamlining the admis-sion process for class 11th , no separate arrangement for the school representa-tives for deposition of fee by J&KBOSE etc. in a meeting held under at New Nation Higher Secondary School, Tali Morh, Miran Sahib.

The representatives of various districts, tehsils including R.S. Pura , Bish-nah , Udhampur, Akhnoor, Samba , Kathua were present in the meeting. GKNN

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Udhampur, May 24: District Development Commissioner (DDC), Niraj Kumar, today chaired a meeting to finalize arrangements for the three day Sudh Mahadev Mela which is scheduled to commence from June 8.

The DDC directed Executive Engineer, PDD, and Executive Engineer, PHE, to ensure unin-terrupted power and water sup-plies during the mela. He said that special focus should be on maintaining cleanliness at and around mela site.

The DDC also directed EO, MC, to make the venue ‘poly-thene free’ zone and install suf-ficient number of dustbins at the venue.

He nominated Tehsildar Chenani as the Mela Officer

to ensure coordination among various departments.

For providing medicare to the visitors, the CMO was asked to depute a team of doc-tors along with an ambulance to the venue.

The meeting also discussed in detail several other arrange-ments like setting up of depart-mental stalls, provision of fire tenders, lighting arrange-ments, advertisement and pub-licity of the event, provision of mobile toilets and deployment of additional buses for the visitors.

The concerned departments were directed to ensure that all arrangements are put in place well in time.

The DDC asked all depart-ments to work in close coordi-nation for the smooth conduct of the historic mela.

Sudh Mahadev Mela fRoM June 8District Administration finalizes arrangements

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Jammu, May 24: Three days workshop on “Automation & Networking of Libraries of College/Universities” was today inaugurated at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Univer-sity (SMVDU).

The workshop is being organised in association with National Informatics Centre (NIC), Ministry of Electron-ics Information Technology Government of India.

The e-Granthalaya work-shop is a flagship program of NIC, Government of India, to familiarize and train library professionals in the field of networking and automation with the aid of open source e-Granthalayaversion4.0software.

On this occasion, chief guest, Prof. D. Mukhoupd-

haye, Dean Facility of Man-agement, stressed upon mod-ernization of library with the objective to make them user-friendly and productive cen-ters for knowledge resource management.

Ram Kumar Matoria, Technical Director, NIC and key resource person of this workshop briefed about the different phases of the e-Gran-thalaya 4.0 software success and explained the relevance of the software in the IT domi-nated world.

The other resource person, Ravi Baarna, Research Scien-tist D, NIC, described the effec-tive use of this open source software for enhancement in automation and networking process to be adopted at the ground level.

Dr. Yugal Khajuria, Dean of Students, highlighted

his experiences as student, researcher, and faculty mem-bers on the use of library resources.

Dr. V. K. Tripathi, Head Department of Philoso-phy, also conveyed his best wishes. Faculty In-charge, Central Library, Dr. Supran K. Sharma welcomed the dig-nitaries, resource persons and participants of the work-shop.

Dr. Sharma emphasized on 3 Cs of the library - Calm, Comfort and Contribution. He also described the dif-ferent facilities available in the Central Library SMVDU including availability of more than 43000 Books and 6000 online journals, member-ship through eShodhSindhu, DELNET, eShodhganga, Indian Academy of Sciences etc.

National level workshop on e-Granthalaya begins at SMVDU

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Samba, May 24:District Development Commission-er, Sheetal Nanda today chaired the District Level Review Committee (DLRC) meet to review the progress of banks in key areas relat-ing to deposits, advances and priority sector lend-ing for the quarter ending March 2017.

Lead Bank Manager, Satish Sharma apprised the meeting that CD ratio of district was 44.39% and 673 awareness programmes were organized by banks during the last financial year

Speaking on the occasion, Nanda asked the concerned departments to ascertain and resolve the bottlenecks

in approval of loan cases by banks to ensure that the beneficiaries fully avail the benefits of government schemes.

She also directed GM DIC to register eligible cases under ‘Stand up India’ scheme and facilitate bank loans to them.

Reviewing progress under Prime Minister’s Social Security Schemes, DDC asked banks to make customers aware about renewal of the insurance policies and to keep suf-ficient funds available in their bank accounts for auto debit of premium. She asked banks to tap potential of educational and housing loans, besides, providing more credit facilities to self help groups.

DDC chairs DLRC meetAsks banks to focus on small scale loans

PTTI Vijaypur installs water cooler under CAPGK news networK

Vijaypur, May 24: Police Technical Training Insti-tute (PTTI) Vijaypur orga-nized a function under Civic Action Programme (CAP) at Government High School Rajinder Pura and installed a water cooler with water purifier for the children

Ashok Kumar SSP prin-cipal PTTI Vijaypur was the chief guest on the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion water cooler and water puri-fier was provided to ensure pure and drinking water for the students of the schools.

Among others Vijay Kumar SP vice principal, Mukesh Kumar Dy.SP Admn, Surinder Kumar Dy.SP Outdoor, Ram Singh Jamwal Dy.SP R&D/Tech, Brij Paul Singh Sarpanch Halqa, Hemanshu Sunil Prosecuting Officer, Inspec-tor Reserve Rajesh Rana, Ramesh Kataria and vari-ous others were present on the occasion.

Girl cadets excel in NCC camp NagrotaGK news networK

Nagrota, May 24: Girl NCC cadets excelled in Combine Annual Traning Camp held at Nagrotra.

As per the statement, the camp was organized by 2 J&K Girls Battalion NCC at Jammu from 22 May 2017.

The camp imparts all types of training includ-ing drill, firing, map read-ing, field crafts and battle drill.

The basic idea is to incul-cate a sense of unity and discipline in camps. There are 600 cadets mix of boys and girls hailing not only from Jammu, but also Leh, Srinagar, Poonch and Bhad-erwah.

The most striking and encouraging site is to see girl’s cadets in the camp who are in age group from 13 to 16 years.

These girl cadets are super excited to do weapon training as this is the first time they got to handle a real weapon i.e .22 rifle which for them will be a life time experience.

Jammu, May 24: Dogra Sadar Sabha (DSS) condemned Man-chester terror attack and also hailed India’s surgical strike-II on Pakistan.

As per press release, a meet-ing of the core group of DSS and AJCSF was convened by Dr. Neel Kanth Dogra Officiating President at the Dogra Bhawan in the Dogra Sadar Sabha Com-plex.

The meeting started with a note of condemnation for the dastardly terror attack in Man-chester and expressed grief over the loss of 22 innocent lives wising early recovery to the 59 injured.

Officiating president said that the terror in any form anywhere in the world has to be denounced and crushed with strong measures; and we stand firmly with the people of United Kingdom in this hour of crisis.

The meeting took serious note of the deteriorating law and order conditions in south Kashmir where alien National Songs were sung in an orga-nized way at a sports event with local authorities remain-ing mute spectators.

Col Dr Virendra K Sahi, VrC explained the details of Army’s retaliation on the LoC on nights 9/10 and 21/22 of May 2017. Appreciating the valour, grit and guts of own troops,

he stood by the firm resolve of strong punitive action against any enemy misadventures and advocated that the time has come for taking strong correc-tive measures to control the situation in the Valley as well.

Members also took seri-ous note of the declaration of the Hizbul Mujahidin face Zakir Musa, disassociating from self styled Hurriyat leaders and warning them against their hidden “political aims”.

The meeting expressed great concern about the alarm-ing situation that has arisen after the reported recent sus-pected infiltration of terrorists in Kathua sector and the high alert announced in Kathua and Samba. At the end, the meeting unanimously resolved that all the members of DSS and AJCSF must do everything possible to ensure that the voices of dis-cord are not allowed to disturb the communal harmony, peace and mutual love and respect between the communities in the Jammu province.

Officiating President also called upon the government, DG Police and all the secu-rity agencies to neutralize the reported infiltrators at the ear-liest and ensure that no harm is done to the peace loving secu-lar population of the Jammu Division. GKNN

DSS, AJCSF condemn Manchester terror attack, hail surgical strike-II

Jammu, May 24: Gandhi Global Fam-ily (GGF) Vice President, Padmashri S P Varma returned Jammu after hav-ing various interaction programmes with the people of four major cities of England; Leicester, London, Bir-mingham and Hayes.

As per a press note, he promoted Gandhian ideology by interacting with the heads of De Montfort Uni-versity, Square Mile Team, Sun Mark Company, Sant Nirankari Mission and particularly the people of J&K origin.

On his arrival at Leicester city in England, he was given a traditional welcome by the staff members of the university. He spent four days at DMU’s campus in Leicester.

His visit follows the special

meeting with the Vice Chancellor, teaching young people about Ma-hatma Gandhi’s life, different faiths and promoting diversity and inclu-sion.

During his stay, Varma was given a tour of Leicester’s Belgrave road where the famous statue of Ma-hatma Gandhi is installed. He also interacted with the students of the university in implementing UN Sus-tainable Development Goals.

A special dinner was hosted in his honour by the Vice Chancellor of the university, where he interacted with the dignitaries of the city.

During his discussion, he pro-posed Peace Learning Centre, Peace Curriculum and special scholar-ships for the youth of J&K. He even

suggested opening special schools for the orphans of the region.

In Birmingham, a quick visit to Guru Nanak Gurudwara was ar-ranged by the locals where he inter-acted by the Sikh and Punjabi com-munity of the area.

In London, he met India’s fa-mous businessman, Raminder Singh Ranger. Both discussed about the ongoing projects of Gandhi Global Family.

S P Varma also presented GGF souvenirs and Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography to Young Gandhian, Deepak Singh Jindal, Sam Wright, Mark Charlton, Mick Metthew, Vikram Dogra, Dr Angela O’Sullivn, Sally, Usman Choudhary, S Darpan Singh and Tamanha Jamwal. GKNN

GGF Vice President promotes Gandhian ideology in England

Jammu, May 24: Jammu Kashmir National Panther Party (JKNPP) has warned the education department to adjust teachers otherwise party would launch an agita-tion for seeking justice for teachers of Jammu region.

Led by its state president Balwant Singh Mankotia, panther party workers lodged a strong protest dharna against the state government and gherao the office of Di-rector School Education Jammu at Muthi on Wednesday.

Addressing the protestors, Mankotia criticized the government and education department for its callous attitude towards the teachers of 2014 batch.

He said a total of 1183 teachers were promoted and granted masters grade to them but unfortunately, after the passage of three years, these teachers have not been adjusted to suitable posts.

He said only Jammu people are being harassed on the name of degrees from outside the state while no one ever dare to verify the degrees in Kashmir.

Mankotia warns the education department and de-manded early adjustment of teachers otherwise depart-

ment will face the brunt of people of Jammu region.Panther party leaders Shanker Chib, Partap Singh,

Mohinder Singh, Dilawar Khan, Satbir Singh, Anil Rakwal, Aditya Hans and others were present on this occasion. GKNN

JKNPP demands adjustment of teachers, warns of agitation