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Srinagar, Jan 16: Governor NN Vohra would Saturday review the ongoing reha-bilitation program for flood affected people in Kashmir which has taken a hit owing to the political impasses in the State.

A senior official in Raj Bhavan said Vohra would arrive in Srinagar tomorrow to review the implementation of relief and rehabilitation work being carried out in different flood-hit districts.

“He (Vohra) will first meet flood-affected people, shop-keepers and traders and listen to their grievances during his two-hour meeting scheduled at SKICC,” the offi-cial said.

Vohra would then chair a meeting of officers from dif-ferent departments who are associated with the reha-bilitation program and seek complete details from them about the program and its status at different levels.

While Srinagar was worst hit in the floods that hit Kashmir on September 7 last year, many districts of south and north Kashmir also came under the deluge. The flood, considered to be worst in the century, caused massive damage to private and public property.

The rehabilitation of the flood victims was severely hit as assembly elections were announced in Novem-ber, a month after the flood.

Amid winter season in Kashmir, the problems of the affected people got com-pounded after the Assembly elections results threw up a fractured mandate with no political party able to cobble the numbers to form the gov-ernment.

The Governor’s rule was imposed in J&K on January 8

after Omar Abdullah stepped down as the care-taker Chief Minister of the State.

The Raj Bhawan official said the Governor took the decision (to hold the review

meeting) after several MLAs of affected constituencies called on him, seeking his intervention for speeding up the rehabilitation program.

Former J&K Chief Minis-ter and National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah Thursday hit out at New Delhi for “holding up” Rs 44,000-crore relief package for flood victims of Kashmir.

“Dear Govt Of India now that you are directly ruling J&K can you please tell us why package for flood vic-tims relief is being held up?” Omar wrote on the micro-blogging site Twitter on Thursday.

Last October, the then government led by Omar had submitted a proposal of Rs 44000 crore to Govern-ment of India for providing financial assistance to the f lood victims. New Delhi however raised “queries” on the proposal and sought com-plete details from the State. Though there has been no forward movement on the proposal, the State Govern-ment sanctioned Rs 75000 for fully damaged houses and Rs 3800 for partially damaged structures as interim relief. Allegations of nepotism and corruption, however, sur-faced during the relief dis-tribution process.

The State government has said Kashmir suffered a loss of Rs one lakh crore (one tril-lion) to the private and public property in Kashmir, due to the September deluge. As per the government estimates, at least 2.40 lakh structures including residential houses got damaged.

On their request, the Gov-ernor, according to an offi-cial, shall also meet some Srinagar-based organiza-tions involved in the reha-bilitation process.

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Jammu, Jan 16: With just three weeks left for the elec-tions to four Rajya Sabha seats in Jammu and Kash-mir, the major political par-ties in the state are yet to nominate their candidates.

Sources said following the announcement of bien-nial elections for Rajya Sabha seats—scheduled to be held on February 7—a number of aspirants have started hectic lobbying to get the nominations by their political parties. How-ever, the parties are yet to take a final call.

Sources said ambiguity prevails over the selection of nominees as the political parties are presently busy in shaping up alliances to score the maximum seats.

Election officials say on January 21, three separate notifications will be issued for elections to four Rajya Sabha seats and each elect-ed MLA in the 87-member House is entitled to cast three votes.

Sources said going by the strength of MLAs of each party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—with 28 and

25 members, respectively—are sure to win one seat each out of total four. “But if National Conference with 15 seats and Congress with 12 seats along with indepen-dents come together, there are chances that Congress and NC may too win the remaining two seats,” they said.

When contacted, PDP’s chief spokesman Naeem Akhtar said his party was yet to finalize the nomi-nees. “The decision in this regard will be taken by the Political Affairs Commit-tee (PAC) which is meeting soon to deliberate, among other issues, on the upcom-ing RS polls and govern-ment formation in the State,” he said.

BJP’s J&K in-charge Avinash Rai Khanna said the party has not finalized its nominees so far “but the central leadership is doing it soon.”

“After the consent of state unit, party’s parlia-mentary board will take call on JK Rajya Sabha can-didates,” he said, adding, “So far no proposal of names has been sent to the central leadership.”

Pertinently, the six-year tenure of all four Rajya Sabha MPs from Jammu and Kashmir—Ghulam Nabi Azad, Prof Saif-u-Din Soz, G N Ratanpuri and Muhammad Shafi will end in February.

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Jammu, Jan 16: J&K Governor NN Vohra Friday held meetings with Chief Secretary Iqbal Khanday and Principal Secretary, Planning and Development, BR Shama, here to review state’s development scenario and public service delivery by govern-ment departments.

An official spokesman said during his review meeting with Governor at Raj Bhawan, Khanday informed him that all the administrative secretaries have been directed to take time-bound action on ma�ers of public interest in departments under their charge and bring about visible improvement in public ser-vice delivery.

“The Governor asked the Chief Secretary to advise all the Administrative Secretaries to identify the action to be taken to timely address prioritized important issues, the progress of which would be closely reviewed by the Chief Secretary. The Governor also discussed the to-date status of flood relief mea-sures,” the spokesman said.

With Sharma, the spokesman said, the Governor discussed “pressing issues relating to Annual Plan 2014-15 and the broad approach which could be practically followed for formulating the Annual Plan 2015-16.”

“Sharma also briefed the Governor on the present status of various schemes which are aimed at the reconstruction of flood damaged assets under the PM’s Package for Floods. He informed that an amount of Rs. 234.96 crore had already been released to various affected Departments. The Governor urged him to closely monitor the implementation of all the restoration projects,” the spokesman said.

The Governor shall be visiting Srinagar on Saturday to review the flood relief measures there.

JK floods: Governor to review rehabilitation todaySRINAGAR VISIT | To meet a�ected people, chair high-level meeting

Vohra reviews development, plan formulationHolds meetings with Khanday, Sharma

Mercury dips across KashmirKargil shivers at minus 11Srinagar, Jan 16: The bone-chilling cold returned as the night temperature plunged below the freezing point across Kashmir divi-sion after a brief respite owing to the rains in plains and snowfall in high alti-tude areas early this week.

The night temperature fell below the freezing point across the Valley after the four-day respite owing to cloud cover, a spokesman of the MeT office said.

He said Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, registered a dip of nearly three degrees in the night temperature which settled at minus 2.3 degrees after remaining above the freezing point for the past four nights. Yester-day, the city had recorded a low of 0.5 degree Celsius.

Kargil in frontier region of Ladakh was the coldest recorded place in the state with a low of minus 11.0 degree Celsius - down by nearly one degree.

He said Leh town, also in Ladakh region, recorded a minimum of minus 10.0 degree Celsius against the previous night's minus 8.3 degree Celsius.

The famous ski resort of Gulmarg, the star attraction for tourists during winters, was the coldest recorded

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