JAMMU, JUNE 11: TheJammu and Kashmir Gov-ernment has evacuatedabout 1,20,868 JK resi-dents, stranded in otherparts of the country due toCOVID lockdown, viaLakhanpur and throughspecial trains and buses tilldate amid strict observanceof all necessary guidelinesand Standard OperatingProcedures.

As per the official data re-ceived in this regard, the ad-ministrations of Jammuand Kashmir districts havereceived 50 special trains atJammu and Udhampurrailway stations from differ-ent states and UTs, so far,with about 39,413 strandedpassengers while about81,455 persons have beenevacuated by the govern-ment through Lakhanpurtill date.

Therefore, a total of about1,20,868 J&K residentsstranded outside UT havebeen brought back to theUT by the Jammu andKashmir government by 50special trains and a fleet ofbuses through Lakhanpurafter strictly observing allnecessary preventive mea-sures regarding the Virus.

As per the detailed breakup about the figures, about1117 stranded passengershave entered throughLakhanpur from June 10 toJune 11 mornings while 860passengers have reached to-day in the 29th DelhiCOVID special train atJammu. So far, 29 trainshave reached Jammu with atotal of 23,717 stranded pas-sengers belonging to differ-ent districts while 15,696passengers have reachedUdhampur in 21 special

trains, so far.As per the official com-

muniqué, of 81,455 re-turnees evacuated throughLakhanpur till June 11,2020 (morning) included22542 from Punjab; 22841from Himachal Pradesh, 25from Andhra Pradesh, 7507from Delhi, 1464 from Gu-jarat, 3802 from Rajasthan,4775 from Haryana, 162from Chattisgarh, 3834from Uttarakhand, 1143from Maharashtra, 5137from Uttar Pradesh, 70from Odisha, 272 from As-sam and 1321 from MadhyaPradesh, 92 fromDehradun, 1576 fromChandigarh, 698 from Te-lengana, 126 from Kar-nataka, 23 from Tamilnadu,52 from Chennai, 383 fromBihar, 193 from West Ben-gal, 140 from Jharkhand, 3from Nepal.

Govt evacuates 1,20,868 stranded J&K residents; 81,455 via Lakhanpur,

39,413 through special trains

JAMMU, JUNE 11: Ki-ran Singh, President of In-dian Congress Army, hascondoled the demise of se-nior Congress leader MianNazir Ahmad who expired re-cently.

Accomapnied by NareshMaini, President, DistrictInidan Congress Army,

Jammu Urban, and Corpora-tor Gourav Chopra, he todayvisited the family of NazirAhmed. They expressed theirheartfelt condolences withthe bereaved family and saidthat as a Congress leader,Mian Nazir Ahmed had donea lot of work for the welfare ofsociety.

Kirtan condoles demiseof Nazir Ahmed

HIMALAYAN MAIL NEWSJAMMU, JUNE 11

With an aim to resumeeconomic activities amidCOVID-19 pandemic andwith the implementation ofunlockdown 1.0 , DistrictAdministration kishtwarheaded by District Develop-ment Commissioner Kisht-war Rajinder Singh Tarahas allowed for resumptionof 140 permitted develop-mental activities apart fromall MGNREGA works in thedistrict.

As a result of which vari-ous development works arenow going in full swing withengagement of returnee mi-grants and locals after fol-lowing COVID- 19 SOPslike using mask and observ-ing social distancing.

It is pertinent to mentionhere that the list of the per-mitted activities includedthe

of work of surface cut-ting, construction of para-pets and formation of Na-tional highways with mainfocus on kishtwar-Dul- gal-har-sansari road and Mar-gan-Inshan road, construc-tion activity of Govt Degree

College Chatroo and Govtpolytechnic college kisht-war ,various constructionactivities at Dam Site HEPDangduroo and Dool,con-struction and maintenanceof link roads at many placesof district operative underCRF,PWD, R&B andPMGSY etc.

Besides carrying , layingand fitting of G.I. pipes wereundertaken by the engi-neering wing of HydraulicDivision kishtwar underB2V and Languishing pro-gramme on priority bases.

Apart from this the expe-ditious completion of devel-opmental activities in thesnow bound areas likeDachhan, Marwah andWarwan have been ensuredon priority basis as these ar-eas have shorter workingseason.

Although there were var-ious constraints and bottle-necks in restarting these de-velopmental projects liketimely movement of labourand materials but with theprompt and timely facilita-tion of DDC all the activitieswere resumed in the districtand are ongoing in fullswing.

140 permitted development works get pace in Kishtwar

DODA, JUNE 11: National Highways and Infrastruc-ture Development Corporation (NHIDCL), has startedblacktopping work on two major stretches of highway inthe limits of Doda district.

As per the officials of the NHIDCL the blacktopping workhas been started in the district from Assar towards Khaleni& Thathri towards Pul-Doda on war footing for hassle freeplying of traffic.

The officials informed that blacktopping work has beencompleted on 13 KM length from Assar to Khaleni and 5KM from Thathri towards Pul Doda.

Black-topping work started on 2 major stretches in Doda district

HIMALAYAN MAIL NEWSJAMMU, JUNE 11

Under JKSDM Covid-19Lets sKill IT online pro-gram, Nikhil Mehta, leadingFashion Designer of Indiaand owner of the leadingfashion chain “Ashmina”delivered an online talk tothe youth of J&K on em-ployment, entrepreneur-ship and highlighted theavailable opportunities infashion and retail industryat national and interna-tional level.

Earlier on 2nd June,2020, Principal Secretary,School Education Depart-ment and Skill Develop-ment Department, Dr. As-gar Hassan Samoone-launched the secondbatch of JKSDM Covid-19:Let’s sKill IT online pro-gram at Civil Secretariat,Srinagar.

The inaugural session oftoday’s program was at-tended by Director, SkillDevelopment DepartmentSajad Hussain Ganai, Mis-sion Director, J&K Skill De-velopment Mission PeerGhulam Nabi Suhail, Vice

President, Zomato-IndiaMohammad Mutaher andother senior officers ofJKSDM. Around 100 candi-dates with background ofretail, tailoring and beautytherapy sector attended theprogram.

While interacting with thecandidates, Nikhil said, “Ihave a strong connectionwith Kashmir’s art and craftespecially Pashmina. In myrecent fashion show, I haveused designs inspired fromKashmir’s splendid art andstyle.”

Apart from answering therelevant queries of the can-didates, Nikhil also encour-aged youth to avail entre-preneurship opportunitiesand focus on establishingtheir own startups.

Under the Covid-19 spe-cial skill program, JKSDMis providing online trainingto around 1100 candidateson various skills sets suchas cyber security, GST, tai-loring skills (Masks &PPEs), internet web design-ing, front office operationsin hospitality sector, beautymakeup etc.

Candidates includingprofessionals, home mak-

ers, unemployed youth andstudents pursuing profes-sional courses are receivingtraining for these courses inJKSDM affiliated institu-tions namely Amargyan In-stitute of Computer Sci-ences & Technology,Evergreen Computer Insti-tute, Sri Sri Kaushal VikasKendra, Sampark Globaland Zain-ul-abideen Com-puter Training Centre, Na-tional Institute of TechnicalTrainings, Infotech Insti-tute of IT, Wyath Multi-Skills School, Super Com-puter College, GKIETR,Falkan Skill School andGyan Institute of VocationalTrainings. Besides, dailyclass by instructors, the can-didates are also getting anopportunity to interact withreputed industry experts.

Since Covid-19 had closedall closed academic & tech-nical institutions includingskill training centres as suchonline training courseswere initiated by the Mis-sion aimed to make produc-tive use of time of people ofJ&K during current lock-down viz-a-viz impartingskills beneficial to the peo-ple.

Fashion designer Nikhil Mehta’sonline talk with J&K youth

JAMMU, JUNE 11:Webinar session on thetopic “Startup Opportuni-ties for Students - PostCovid-19: A Way towardsAtmanirbhar Bharath” con-ducted by Entrepreneur-ship Development Cell-SMVDU for the youthfuland talented budding busi-

ness graduates of the uni-versity.

The resource person ofthe webinar session, Prof. T.Prasad, Faculty Adviser,‘Center for Student Enter-prises’ and Professor, Na-tional Institute of IndustrialEngineering (NITIE),Mumbai, delivered an in-spiring webinar on the dif-ferent dimensions of entre-preneurship and start-upprospects getting open forthe infant entrepreneurspresent on-going tough situ-ations. It is one of the mostconcerning topics for thestudents who are going tocomplete their degreesamid Covid-19. Prof. Prasadmentioned that the youngminds will have ample ofopportunities as in today’sera of technology, and theyoung generation are muchmore aware of the technicalaspects and practicality andpragmatism of things.

He also explained theemerging opportunities likein agriculture, technology,healthcare, etc. and also en-couraged students to lookfor opportunities in theirproximity as many thingslike fruits, dry fruits, medic-inal plants, food etc are pop-ular in J&K, while differenti-ating between start-up andentrepreneurship.

He also elaborated fourimportant points which a

student should consider be-fore starting any start-up.For the students who wantto go for a job for now, Mr.Prasad suggested that ifthey want to begin anystart-up, they should notfeel restricted by their jobsbut instead take their jobsas an opportunity for learn-ing about business andalongside on the parallelfront start working on theirstart-up.

Earlier Dr Supran KumarSharma, Associate Profes-sor Chief Coordinator , En-trepreneurship Develop-ment Cell- SMVDUmoderated the session andprovided a brief introduc-tion of Prof. Prasad alsoknown as Prof. Mandi andbriefed about different en-trepreneurial activities ini-tiated by Prof. Prasad'steaching methodology of ar-ranging Mandis with thestudents of MBA and otherprograms.

Mr. Prasad also elabo-rated three ways of starting astart-up. He also motivatedthe students who weredoubtful about their start-up ideas, saying “it is youwho make the businessright” and also advised tostart with a very micro ven-ture with a small amount ofinvestment to learn by do-ing and to assess their inter-est and potential.

SMVDU organises Webinar on ‘Startup Opportunities’

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HIMALAYAN MAIL NEWSJAMMU, JUNE 11

Principal Secretary, AgricultureProduction Department, Navin K.Choudhary, today convened an offi-cers meeting to ensure speedy prepa-ration of proposals and projects underrecently announced Pradhan MantriAatma Nirbhar Bharat Scheme.

It was informed that under thescheme, the Government of India hasannounced Rs.1 lakh crore financingfacility for funding Agriculture Infra-structure Projects at farm-gate andaggregation points (Primary Agricul-tural Cooperative Societies, FarmersProducers Organisations, Agricul-ture entrepreneurs, Start-ups, etc).

The Principal Secretary observedthat lack of adequate cold chain andPost Harvest Management Infra-structure in the vicinity of farm-gate iscausing gaps in value chains. Whilefocus has been on short term croploans, the investment in long termagriculture infrastructure has beenneglected, he added.

The Principal Secretary directed allHoDs to identify infrastructure re-quirements in terms of equipments,machinery, structure like cold chains,cold storages, transportation infra-structure etc. which could be coveredunder this scheme for funding.

Choudhary informed that follow-ing the vision of Prime Minister of In-dia, “Vocal for Local with Global out-reach”, the Government of India has

also announced launch of Rs.10,000crore scheme for formalization of Mi-cro Food Enterprises (MFE) to help 2Lakh MFEs. The goal is to providetechnical upgradation to unorga-nized MFE units to attain FSSAI foodstandards, build brands and market-ing, he added.

It was informed that under thescheme, the existing Micro Food En-terprises, Farmer Producer Organi-sations, Self Help Groups and Coop-eratives are to be supported. Thecluster based approach (e.g. Mangoin UP, Kesar in J&K, Bamboo shootsin North-East, Chilli in AndhraPradesh, Tapioca in Tamil Nadu etc.)will be given priority. The expectedoutcome is improved health andsafety standard, integration with retailmarkets, improved income of farm-ers, reaching untapped export mar-kets in view of improved health con-sciousness.

Accordingly, Principal Secretarydirected that identification of varioustypes of MFEs in Agriculture, Horti-culture, Dairy and Poultry sectors tobe covered with identified infrastruc-ture support to make them achieve

the goal under this scheme.It was also decided that the Fish-

eries Department will support in re-moval of critical gaps in Fisheriesvalue chain through private sector.Cage Culture, Seaweed farming, Or-namental Fisheries as well as newfishing vessels, traceability, labora-tory network etc. will be key activi-ties.

Choudhary directedAnimal/Sheep Husbandry Depart-ment to immediately frame proposalto ensure 100% vaccination of cattle,buffalo, sheep, goat and pig popula-tion (total 53 crore animals) for Footand Mouth Diseases (FMD) and forbrucellosis. Animal Husbandry De-partment was also directed to getprepared proposals from private en-trepreneurs to support private in-vestment in Dairy Processing, valueaddition and cattle feed infrastruc-ture.

The Principal Secretary directedthe Agriculture Production Depart-ment to prepare scheme for infra-structure development related to In-tegrated beekeeping DevelopmentCentres, Collection, Marketing and

Storage Centres, Post Harvest andvalue addition facilities etc.

Choudhary informed that under“TOP to TOTAL” scheme OperationGreen has been extended to all Fruitsand Vegetables.

This is an extremely beneficialscheme launched by GoI for J&K.Under this scheme, 50% subsidy ontransportation of Agri/Horti producewill be allowed. Similarly, 50% sub-sidy will be available for storage in-cluding cold storages. This will bene-fit the farmers as they would now findit attractive to keep their perishableproduce in cold storages at half costs,he added.

The Principal Secretary asked theofficers to get the scheme popular-ized and spread awareness about thesame in the farmer’s community.

The meeting was attended by Mr.Ajaz Ahmad Bhat, Director Horticul-ture Kashmir, Mr. Ram Sevak, Direc-tor Horticulture Jammu, Mr. Inder-jeet, Director Agriculture Jammu,Mr. Ajaz Altaf Andrabi, DirectorAgriculture Kashmir, Ms. VivekSharma, Director Animal HusbandryJammu, Ms. Purnima Mittal, DirectorAnimal Husbandry Kashmir, Mr.Imam Din, Director Horticulture(P&M), J&K, Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Di-rector Sheep Husbandry, Jammu,Mr. Shafat Sultan, MD JKHPMC,Mr. Vijay Kumar Upadhaya TechnicalOfficer, APD & other senior func-tionaries of the department. TheKashmir based officers attend themeeting through video conferencing.

Navin holds officers’ meet, discusses preparation forprojects under PM Aatma Nirbhar Bharat scheme

DISTRICT POLICE HEADQUARTERS SAMBA (J&K)

LOOK OUT NOTICEOne person namely Rajat Kumar S/o ChamanLal R/o Rajinder Pura Bagoona Tehsil VijaypurDistrict Samba lodged a report at P/S Vijaypur that his minor sister namely Shivani Devi age 17years has been forcibly kidnapped by Raju R/o Badhori Tehsil Bari Brahmana District Samba on04.6.2020 from village Rajinder Pura Bagoona. On this a case FIR No. 101/2020 U/S 363 IPC 7/8POCSO Act has been registered at P/S Vijaypur. I.O has made best efforts to trace out her but didnot succeed till date.As such, photograph of kidnapped minor girl is being published for information of PoliceEstablishments/General Public so that she could be traced out. The description roll of the kidnappedgirl is as under:-

Name: Shivani DeviAge : 17 yearsD/o ChamanLalR/o RajinderPuraBagoonaTehsil VijaypurDistrict SambaColour FairHeight 5"Dress wearing black salwar and red colour shirtand footwear Nylon Slipper.

DIP/J-1315/20 Dated: 11-06-2020

Any information related to the kidnapped girl t maybe communicated on following contacts:-

1. PCR Samba: 01923-246333, 9622071045.2. SSP Samba's email ID : sspsamba@jkpolice.gov.in3. SHO P/S Vijaypur: 7006550066

Shivani Devi

No: CB/Look/2020/10857-59 Sd/-Dated: 10.06.2020 Sr. Superintendent of Police

Samba.