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SRINAGAR | May 07, 2013, Wednesday citypageeditor@greaterkashmir.com

SAVE A PRECIOUS LIFEMy 8 (eight) years old son is suffering from severe heart ailment since 2006. He was referred from SKIMS Soura to AIMS New Delhi in 2006. The first heart surgery (shunt) was performed in February 2007 under O.P.D. Card No. 23192/06 and C.T.V.S No. 53220 and the 2nd central shunt was implanted in October-2012 under O.P.D. Card no. 23192/06 and C.T.V.S No. 53220. Now doctors have advised for 3rd heart surgery, which is scheduled in the year 2014. My income is very low and it is now difficult to bear the expenses. I am requesting to general public to help me for saving the life of my son. Allah will reward you for that. People can deposit their donation in J&K Bank Branch Office Agro High Tech Chankhan Sopore.

A/C No. 0309040100008317Contact No: 8713946382

Zebra crossings go mirage!Black and White stripes offer risky walk

JCRB FLYOVER

SHRC concerned over Solina accident

Truck mows down man at KhayamPeople seek extension in no-entry hours

Garbage dumping near Doodh Ganga canal irks AAP

RULES ARE FOR FOOLS, POLICE EXCUSED!

Tulip Garden Closed

Florence hospital performs ‘ Whipple Procedure’Srinagar, May 6: Florence Hospital Chana Pora has suc-cessfully performed a “Whip-ple Procedure” for treatment to “pancreatic head cancer with portal vein involve-ment.” A hospital handout said the female patient was “operated upon and Whipple Procedure was done along with portal vein reconstruction.” “Portal vein involvement is usually considered as inoperable by most centers but Dr Mir Samiullaha is trained in such procedures from King’s College Hospi-tal London. First time this surgery was performed in private sector in Flor-ence hospital In J&K,” the handout claimed.

KU to host workshop on Himalayan biodiversity

This is sheer case of bluffing people through fake devel-opment which benefits none except those who execute the work and is a typical case of human rights violation.”

SKUASTKASHMIR

MAIN C AMPUS, SHALIMAR, SRINAGAR Subject: Written Test for the posts of Accounts Assistant Reference: Advertisement Notice No. 10 of 2013 dated 17.12.2013

N O T I C EIt is notified for information of all concerned that the Written Test (Objective Type) for the

posts of Accounts Assistant advertised for direct recruitment by selection vide Advt. Notice No. 10 of 2013 dated 17.12.2013 shall be conducted on May 25, 2014 at 10 a.m.

Admit Cards indicating Roll No/details of the Centre etc shall be dispatched to the candidates separately.

The Admit Cards to be issued will be provisional Eligibility of successful candidate(s) w.r.t determining the age as per DoB, Qualification etc will be subject to verification after conduct of Test. Any candidate if found not meeting the requirement of the post as per Advertisement Notice will not be called for interview. Therefore mere issuance of Admit Card and successfully qualifying the Test does not entitle the candidate(s) to be called for interview and/or selected for the post.

The provisional Admit Card can also be downloaded by the candidates from SKUAST-K website www.skuastkashmir.ac.in after 8th May, 2014. Objection if any should be reported within 07 days from the date of issue of this notice.

For further information if any please visit Registrar, SKUAST-K, Shalimar, Srinagar at 2461271, on any working day during office hours.

Sd/-Deputy Registrar (Estt)

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GOVERNMENT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIROFFICE OF THE

EXECUTIVE ENGINEER (R&B) CONSTRUCTION DIVISION NO.IIND, SRINAGAR

A P P E A LThe old timber Mehjoor Nagar Bridge has been

declared unsafe by PWD (R&B) Department for all types of vehicular traffic. Hence appeal is made to general public that no vehicle shall ply over the said bridge. Warning signage has already been put in place on the bridge and PWD (R&B) Department shall not own any responsibility for the repercussions.DIPK-305 Sd/-

Executive Engineer004

JAMMU AND KASHMIR STATE FINANCIAL CORPORATION

Large Branch Office, Srinagar.

GENERAL NOTICEThe transport Loanees who had deposited

token money for settlement of their Loan accounts under one time settlement scheme (OTSS-10) and have failed to deposit the rest of the amount up to the cut out date are advised to attend this office within 10 days from the publication of this notice, failing which the Corporation will be constrained to take legal action against the borrowers and the guarantors which will also include.

1) Publishing of photographs of borrowers/guarantors

2) Action under the provisions of the SFC’s Act3) Taking over of mortgaged assests under Section

‘29’ of SFC Act. and/or filling of recovery suit under Section’31’ of the SFC Act.

NB: 91 Sd/-Manager, (Transport).

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GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, May 6: The annual facelift undertaken for Durbar reopening this year offers apparent mirage with Roads and Building(R&B) department introducing zebra crossings where pedestrians could not cross roads but could certainly get knocked down by speeding vehicles. The plush MA Road is a glittering exam-ple of the new “facelift” avatar. Here not single but double zebra crossing stripes have been beautifully marked on the two lanes. But crossing the road is almost impossible as iron fence walls the central verge. Syed Mudasir of Pulwama said he had a narrow escape while trying to cross the road. “I was heading towards Womens College on the other end but on reaching the middle of the road, I found there was no way to proceed. Did I not rush back, some speeding vehicle could have knocked me down,” he said while pointing towards the fast fading zebra crossing. There’s also a zebra crossing outside Civil Secretariat, painted afresh. Observers said it has more of aesthetic value than util-ity for pedestrians. At this spot crossing the road is almost a hit-and-trial where getting knocked down by vehicle cannot be ruled out. Traffic comes in from all the four sides and any one aspiring to cross the road does it on personal risk. A lawyer at High Court said such fake pedestrian crossings amount to deceit with

people and human right abuse. “This is sheer case of bluffing people through fake develop-ment which benefits none except those who execute the work. This is a typical case of human rights violation,” the lawyer said. A senior R&B official said the painting of pedestrian crossings was on and lacunae if any would be removed soon. “If people

face inconvenience anywhere in crossing the main road at zebra crossings, we will remove the impediments,” the R&B official told Greater Kashmir adding “the develop-ment was yet to be finalized.” Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Shailendra Kumar said the matter would be looked into on priority.

ZEBRA CROSSING A zebra crossing is a type of pedestrian crossing used in many places around the world. Its distinguishing fea-ture is alternating dark and light stripes on the road sur-face, from which it derives its name. A zebra crossing typi-cally gives extra rights of way to pedestrians. After isolated experiments, the zebra crossing was first used at 1000 sites in the UK in 1949 in its original form of alternating strips of blue and yellow, and a 1951 measure introduced them into law. In the United Kingdom the crossing is marked with Beli-sha beacons, flashing amber globes on black and white posts on each side of the road, named after Leslie Hore-Beli-sha, the Minister of Transport, who introduced them in 1934. The crossings were originally marked by beacons and par-allel rows of studs, and the stripes were added for visibil-ity some 15 years later.

(Source Agencies)

At a time when 2-way traffic has been banned on Solina Road, a police Gypsy escorting some VIP, in violation of norms drives on the wrong side, risking

life and property of people. Some days back a woman died on this busy road when a bike she was riding pillion on was hit by a tipper coming from opposite direction. People say wrong side driving by VIPs is turning vogue on this route. Traffic police constables posted in the area say police escort of VIP vehicles doesn’t honor their directives on safe-driving; (Bottom) Like-wise in violation of one-way traffic directives on Residency Road, police vehicles not only drive on the wrong side but are allowed to park at will and wish for shopping (Citizen Journalist Barak Khan)

Shoots notices to Govt agencies, construction company

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, May 6: Taking serious note of recent death of a woman in road accident near construc-tion site of Jehangir Chowk Ram Bagh(JCRB) flyover in Solina, the State Human Rights Commis-sion Tuesday shot notices to Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation, Traffic Police and Project Manager M/S Simplex

Infrastructures Private Limited. The acting Chairman SHRC, Rafiq Fida has directed them to submit their respective reports in the matter. The commission has also asked Abdul Rehman Malik husband of deceased woman Aisha Begum of Haripora, Budgam to appear before the Commission on May 26 and file correct statement of facts in the matter. The SHRC observed: “A complaint was received through e-mail inviting attention of the Commis-sion towards an accident which has taken place at Solina on 28.04.2014 and has even been carried by the daily newspaper Greater Kashmir in its edition dated 29.04.2014.” “The complainant has alleged negligence and mismanagement at the hands of Traffic Police and M/S Simplex Infrastructures Pvt Limited, Srinagar who have been given the project to construct flyover.

The accident is reported to have taken place between a motor bike and a van of Srinagar Municipal Corpo-ration which has caused injuries to Aisha Begum... The complaint is supported with the photographs depicting the scene of occurrence, ill-fated bike and people protesting,” Fida said. “Another complaint was received through e-mail against the management of M/S Simplex Infra-structures Pvt Ltd alleging therein that the company has put to manual job under aged boys as laborers and the living condition of the workforce of the company is more than worse and pathetic who are being kept in tin sheds without providing basic facilities and forced to suffer a great deal of inconvenience espe-cially during chilly winter season of Kashmir, which amounts to violation of the child rights and human rights of their workforce,” SHRC said. “The complaint is supported with a representa-tion addressed to Chief Engineer, Simplex Infrastruc-tures, Srinagar regarding violation of human rights by M/S Simplex Infrastructures under child labor. The contents of all these complainants and represen-tation make out a case of human rights violations at the hands of Traffic Department and M/S Simplex Infrastructures Pvt Ltd Srinagar,” SHRC observed.

A complaint was received through e-mail inviting attention of the Commission towards an accident which has taken place at Solina on 28.04.2014 and has even been carried by the daily newspaper Greater Kash-mir in its edition dated 29.04.2014.”

The complaint is supported with a rep-resentation… regarding violation of human rights by M/S Simplex Infra-structures under child labor.”

Srinagar, May 6: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has expressed serious concern over the garbage dumping on the banks of Dood Ganga canal near Bagh-e-Mehtab railway bridge. AAP leader Dr Raja Muzaf-far Bhat, in a party handout said the garbage is being dumped near the canal from last many months and this has caused serious problems not only in Bagh-e-Mehtab area but in adjoining localities of Mochwa and Gul-zarpora as well. He said that people especial-ly children cannot walk through

the area as there are dozens of dogs near the garbage dumpers. “We hope that

Commissioner SMC will take action against the concerned

Ward Officer for allowing usage of waterbody for dumping of waste material. If these officials do it what kind of environmen-tal education they will give to people living around Srinagar City,” Dr Bhat added.

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, May 6: A Nigeen man was mowed down by a s p e e d i n g truck in K h a y a m area of old City last eve-ning, police and reports said.

“A truck bearing registra-tion number JK13A/0663 hit and injured a pedestrian Nazir Ahmad Beigh son of Ali Muhammad resi-dent of Nigeen at Khayam Chowk, in the jurisdiction of Police Station Khanyar, Srinagar, resulting in his on spot death. Police has reg-istered a case in this regard,” a police handout said.

Locals said the incident hap-pened at around 9:00 PM last eve-ning when the Beigh, a salesman at a Kashmir arts showroom was on way to Khanyar. SP north Tahir Salim Khan said the accused driver Muham-mad Amin Mir son of Muham-mad Yousuf Mir of Khanmoh was arrested and the truck seized. He said the body of deceased was handed over to his kins for last rites. Meanwhile the locals have appealed the authorities to extend no-entry timings for movement of heavy vehicles into the City. “At 8:30 PM there’s huge rush of general vehicles and tour-ist cabs. Given the rush, move-ment of heavy vehicles should be restricted further as they drive recklessly,” the concerned said.

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 6: The Depart-ment of Botany, Kashmir Uni-versity is organizing a Science Academies’ Lecture Workshop on “Himalayan Biodiversity and Bio-resources: Mapping, Utiliza-tion and Conservation” from May 8, 2014. “The 3-day workshop is

being jointly sponsored by all the three national science academies including Indian Academy of Sci-ences, Bangalore, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, and National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad,” a handout said. “The workshop is coordinated by Dr Manzoor A Shah with HOD Botany as Chairman of the Orga-nizing Committee,” it added.

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 6: With Tulip Bloom-2014 over, the Tulip Garden at Siraj Bagh will remain closed

for the general public from May 7. An official handout said the communication in this regard has been issued by Director Floricul-ture.

MUBASHIR KHAN/GK