Oct 15, 2013 ... Akhand Jyoti Committee for organising the Yatra every year to the Holy Cave.
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Harshdev moots Board for the Shrine STATE TIMES NEWS
RAMNAGAR: Former Minister and MLA, Ramnagar has advocated for bringing the revered Cave Shrine of Mata Pingla Devi under the administration of the Board for its holistic development. Addressing public at the concluding day of the Yatra to the Holy Cave Shrine at Ramnagar here this evening on the occasion of the 27th Navratra Festival, Harshdev promised of strenuous efforts for bringing the shrine under the management of a Board, the one similar on the pattern of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Ji. He proposed presentation of the private member Bills during the forthcoming Assembly session for bringing the Shrine under the Board as also for its inclusion in the Tourism Map of Jammu and Kashmir. Applauding the role of the
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Akhand Jyoti Committee for organising the Yatra every year to the Holy Cave Shrine without seeking any assistance either from the State Government or from any corporate entity, Singh said that the growing pilgrim rush to the Shrine of Mata Pingla Devi Ji rightly deserves for initiation of measures for regulating the Yatra in a visionary manner. He said that the inclusion of this Shrine under the management of the Board would help in further projecting the picturesque Ramnagar as another tourist destination to the visitors, who now prefer virgin pockets instead of the congested tourist places that are losing their delight and sheen because of the ever surging rush there. Singh said that the Akhand Jyoti Committee, which was conceptualised by social activist O.P Jandial has already done a com-
mendable task in meticulously organising the Yatra to the Cave Shrine every year besides affording all facilities to devotees thronging here during Navratas. He said that the committee has been further boosting the morale of the public spirited functionaries and philanthropists by recognising their services. Harshdev presented the O.P Jandial Sadhbhavana Puraskar to J and K Samaj Kalyan Kendra, an organisation espousing the cause of deaf and dumb in the State. The award carried a citation and undisclosed cash prize. The prestious Akhand Jyoti Samman during the 27th Navratra Festival was bagged this year by yet another social organisation namely, Shiv Lok Trust. Speaking on the occasion, Organiser Akhand Jyoti Committee, Ramnagar
Vinay Jandial informed that this year during the Navratras over 72,000 devotees from within and outside the State performed Darshans at the Holy Cave Shrine to invoke the divine blessings of the deity. He said that the committee this year has selected 50 meritorious students from district for honouring them of their initiatives in various fields. Earlier, the Chief Guest Harshdev presented Dance Competition awards also among the competitors. The first prize in the competition was bagged by Salooni Thakur, while the second prize was clinched by Vabhya Mahajan. The third prize went to Anju. Others who spoke on the occasion include Rampaul Choudhary, Sanjeev Jandial, Papu Verma, Paras Ram Khjauria, Manoj Kumar and Pinda Gupta.
48 bovines rescued, 3 held OUR CORRESPONDENT
POONCH: Police rescued 48 bovines on Monday from the clutches of four smugglers who were transporting them by foot towards Valley. According to a report, Surankote Police led by DSP Javeed Ahmed Mir on an information laid a Naka at Braimgala and intercepted four persons smuggling 48 bovines towards Valley without permission. Three of them identified as Mushtaq Ahmed son of Sainauulah, Mohd Shabir son of Mohd Nazir and Abdul Gani son of Admed Din all residents of Bonikhet were arrested on the spot while other Zuber Ahmad son of Abdul Gani managed to escape from the spot. A case FIR No 176/2013 under section 188 RPC was registered in the Police Station Surankote against the arrested accused persons and hunt for escapied one is on. The Naka was laid under the supervision of SP Poonch Shamsheer Hussain.
Govt machinery works by pick & choose manner to gag voices: Saroori STATE TIMES NEWS
KISHTWAR: Former Congress Minister and MLA Inderwal G.M Saroori has warned vested interest against gagging whistleblowers alleged that some so called politicians who are agents of some vested interest are employing undemocratic technique to gag the voice of true representatives of public. "So much so they even harass the business community to make them stay away from business and if they don't succumb use government machinery to implicate them falsely and want to become business tycoons" he said. He added that similarly same modus operandi is adopted to gag leaders irrespective of parties. Vested interest people engage such agents to harass and give impression
CEO pays surprise visit to Debate, cultural programme, Mushaira organised schools, finds irregularities STATE TIMES NEWS
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UDHAMPUR: Chief Education Officer (CEO) Udhanpur Balbir Singh on Monday paid surprise visit to many schools under Zone Tikri, Jib and Udhampur and found many irregularities. According to a report, during CEO's visit to Govt High School Jakhar,(Udhampur) he found that In-charge HM Rita Sharma, Master Sundershan Gupta, Master Jyoti Kachroo, Teacher Kusam Lata and Teacher Om Parkesh were absent, their pay have been kept withheld and ZEO Udhampur was directed to charge-sheet all the absentees. In MS Dagar, CEO found that only 23 enrollment was
there in the school and he directed to increase the roll. At PS Manmall Zone Tikri, CEO found that there were only three students enrolled, CEO warned the ReTs to increase the roll otherwise there services will be terminated. In MS Jib staff strength was 13 and students enrollment was less, CEO also directed to increase the roll. In High School Malhar all the staff members were present except one teacher Chanchal who had gone for handing over charge for long. CEO directed HM to call back teacher at once for further duty and also directed HM to get repair the electricity wiring of the school immediately so that any untoward incidents may not happen.
Seminar on organic farming OUR CORRESPONDENT
BHADARWAH: To promote organic farming , Morarka Foundation in collaboration with Agriculture Department of Jammu and Kashmir organised a seminar here at Bhadarwah on the topic Centrally Sponsored Schemes on adoption and certification of organic farming in which hundreds of progressive farmers of the area participated and also expressed their views. Project Officer Morarka Foundation Mukesh Choudhary who was Chief guest on the occasion said as per MOU and work order we have covered 726 hectares agricultural land in this
scheme . He informed that foundation has established 60 vermin compost units and are providing 10 kg free of cost earth worms to farmers for establishing units of vermni compost . He informed that Morarka Foundation has registered 990 farmers in 10 Gram Panchayats of whole Bhadarwah and has covered crops like Rajmas , Maize ,paddy , wheat, mustered etc in this project . S.R Sharma Sarpanch Neota Panchayat , Hari Lal Manhas , Satish Kumar Sarpanch Bheja Panchayat said farmers are getting benefits from the projects organised by Morarka Foundation of organic farming .
DODA: To create awareness among the people especially student community regarding precautions and measures to deal with any natural or manmade disasters, District Information Centre, Doda on Monday organised a debate competition on the topic 'Disaster Management' in the premises of Himalyan Nehru Academy Middle School Pranoo Doda. Headmaster Government High School Pranoo Gurdev Singh was the Chief Guest on the occasion while Principal Himalyan Nehru Academy Middle School Pranoo Satish Kumar and Numberdar Pranoo Abdul Khalid were also present on the occasion. In all 13 students of dif-
Winners of the contest along with organisers at Doda. ferent classes of the school participated in the debate competition and impressed upon the need for formulation and strict implementation of State as well District Disaster Management Plan to minimise the loss of life
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RAJOURI: Department of Information Technology and Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) organised a two days workshop on 'Information Security and Cyber Forensics' in association with Cyber Cure Solution Private limited, Delhi. The focus of the workshop was to abreast students with the latest developments in the security domain. Technical Manager, Atul Ojha was the Resource Person for the workshop.
Various practical sessions on Ethical Hacking: Legal or Illegal, Emails Exploitation, OS Hacking, Virus Writing, WWW Attacks, Network Attacks, Software Reverse Engineering and Mobile Hacking were conducted. Workshop was attended by 39 students from various departments of the university. Principal College of Engineering and Technology, Prof. Mohammad Asger appreciated the efforts of Cybercure in conducting the workshop. He further emphasised the need for conducting such workshop in future as Information Technology is a
Modified scooters and wheel chairs being provided to veterans by army.
RAJOURI/MANJAKOTE: The General Officer Commanding, White Knight Corps felicitated the nineteen veterans and Veer Naris, hailing from Jammu, Poonch and Rajouri Districts, in a colourful cere-
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mony organised by the army, under the aegis of the Counter Insurgency Force (Romeo) at Manjakote, on Monday. On this momentous occasion, twelve modified scooters and three wheel chairs were presented to different-
ly- abled veterans. In addition, cheques of Rs 1 lakh each were presented to four Veer Naris as financial assistance. During the ceremony, General Officer Commanding, Counter Insurgency Force (Romeo), Commander, Sector
Rashtriya Rifles, Secretaries, Zila Sainik Welfare Board, Rajouri and Poonch were present. While interacting with all the beneficiaries and recipients, GOC, White Knight Corps assured full support of the armed forces in all their endeavours and also appreciated the efforts of all veterans during their service and Veer Naris, whose husbands made the supreme sacrifice in the service of nation. Ex Sepoy Ravi Kumar and Rekha Devi, who received modified scooter and cheque of Rs 1 Lakh respectively said that they are indebted to the army for the support and assistance in ameliorating their financial condition.
Cong leader apprised of people's problems OUR CORRESPONDENT
UDHAMPUR: Senior Congress leader and PCC Member Ashwani Khajuria toured Panchayat Badali Rakh and was apprised the problems being faced by the residents. The village Sarpanch Gurbakash Singh, Ex-serviceman Girdhari Lal and Ramzan Ahmed apprised the leader that in 1962 village school was upgraded to middle standard but till date has not been upgraded to 10th standard, there is no hand pump in the village, no medical dispensary , no animal husbandry dispensary , poor matador
Congress leader and PCC member along with locals. service from Moraha Morh to Badali Rakh, etc. Ashwani Khajuria listened to their woes and assured them that every effort will be made to mitigate the problems. Mohd Ramzan, Moti Ram, Balbir Chand,
Bishan Dass, Ashok Kumar, Subash Chander, Sunny, Kartar Chand, Pawan Kumar, Parshotam Kumar, Manjoor Hussain, Girdhari Lal and Yaquoob were present on the occasion.
rapidly changing field. Head, Department of Information Technology and Engineering, Malik Mubasher Hassan laid strong focus on students to learn about the new attack vectors and their countermeasures. Workshop Coordinator, Manmeet Singh warned the students against the misuse of security tools and expressed faith that they should learn these things for purely defensive and development purposes only. Auqib Hamid, Irfan Hamid and Divya Sharma were the student coordinators for the workshop.
NGO concerned over frequent traffic jams OUR CORRESPONDENT
UDHAMPUR: In a meeting, NGO - 'Jiyo Aur Jeene do' highlighted the problem of traffic jams which are observed daily on the National Highway. The member of NGO Shankaar Singh highlighted various problems arising due to the jam. He said that there is only one road available from Udhampur to Batote which is in very poor condition. "Sometimes even two wheelers face problems and are not able to move through the road. This is also one of the cause of jam that is observed daily" he said. Speaking in the meeting, the Chairman of NGO Tariq Shah said that this traffic jam is a big problem being faced by people daily on this road. This all is due to the negligence of GREF Deptt. Shah assured all the members present in the meeting that the NGO will definitely work on this issue. He also appealed to the GREF to find some solution to this problem. Manik, Yakoob,Tarun ,Mehboob, Shakuntala Devi ,Prema Devi, Ejaz, Ravi and Koshalya Devi were present in the meeting.
Saroori interacted with devotees and the management of the Dargah Sharief and took stock of the facilities available for devotees and Zaireen at the shrine complex. He also urged district administration of Kishtwar to ensure availability of essential things especially availability of water supply at the designated places, uninterrupted power supply and adequate supply of ration to the general people during the coming festival. Saroori also directed the police to make proper security arrangements around the Eid-Gah and Jamia Masjid during the celebration of EID festival and to ensure adequate deployment at sensitive points. "We don't want repetition of 9/8 communal clash at Kishtwar" he cautioned.
Unidentified body recovered OUR CORRESPONDENT
SAMBA: An unidentified body was recovered by Vijaypur Police on Monday morning from a pond which is situated at village Jakh of Vijaypur of district Samba near JammuPathankot National Highway. As per police sources, the villagers saw that a human body on the top of water level in the pond and informed Vijaypur Police. SHO Vijaypur Iqbal Choudhary along with police party reached the spot and took the body into custody and sent to GMC Jammu mortuary for the identification. As per police the deceased was unknown and about 24-25 years old. Vijaypur Police has registered the case in this connection for further inquiry and investigation under section 174 CrPC initiated.
Public Safety Act imposed
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SAMBA: District Magistrate (DM), Samba, R.K Varma in exercise of powers conferred upon him under Section 8 of Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), 1978, ordered to detain Rakesh Singh alias Villa son of Ranbir Singh resident of Village Rahya, Tehsil and Distt Samba for maximum period in the District Jail Jammu. On the basis of dossiers prepared by police, the District Magistrate has imposed PSA on Rakesh Singh and issued order for his detention to prevent him to act in any manner prejudicial and detrimental to the maintenance of tranquility and public order.
ADDC inspects developmental projects
BGSBU organises workshop on Information Security and Cyber Forensics
Army felicitates veterans, Veer Naris
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and property during any such eventuality whether natural or manmade. Muskan Naaz of 6th class, Mohd. Aamir of 5th class and Tousib Hussain of 8th class were adjudged as first, second and third
respectively in the debate competition. Later on artists and poets of District Information Centre Doda presented a colourful cultural programme and a Mushaira which was highly appreciated by the audience. Artists presented their songs in Bhadarwahi, Kashmiri, Urdu and Siraji which kept the audience spell bound. The poets recited their compositions in Urdu, Kashmiri and Bhadarwahi and exhibited the rich cultural and poetic diverse heritage of the region. While culminating the programme prizes were distributed by the Chief Guest among the winners and consolation prizes among the participants of the debate competition on the occasion.
to prove themselves right. They want to distract the attention of public from their failure to address the public issues he said adding that they are great failures and when exposed before public they will face music in coming elections. "Such harassment they employed on me also but they are exposed and will not let such elements to exploit us. Those who amassed huge wealth and are opening new business ventures with their political mentors behind. Enough is enough now such elements shall be taught lesson in public and tackled legally" he said. Meanwhile Saroori who is on personal visit to Rajouri District for two days paid obeisance at Shahdara Sharief and prayed for peace, progress, prosperity of the State and wellbeing of the people.
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UDHAMPUR: To assess the pace of progress on different developmental projects being executed by Rural Development Department under MGNREGA and MLA Constituency Development Fund, the Additional District Development Commissioner (ADDC) Udhampur, Ajay Singh Jamwal inspected different developmental works falling in Panchayat Sayal Jatta, Krimachi and Dabraih on Monday. During his tour the ADDC visited various Panchayats and inspected ongoing con-
struction and gave necessary instructions to the engineers of the executing agency that there is no compromise with the quality of the construction works. He urged upon the concerned officers to speed up the construction work and ensure completion of work within stipulated time. Jamwal also made interaction with the concerned local of the Panchayats and took stock of problems being faced by the people during his tour. He assured the people all possible help would be provided by the administra-
tion for the redressal of their genuine problems. Later, the ADDC also inspected health sub center and various government schools which include Govt. Primary and Higher Secondary School Sayal Jatta where he stressed for ensuring punctuality and quality of mid day meal being served to the pupil. He also visited Angarwadi center, Syal Jatta which was found closed, thereafter the ADDC took necessary action and asked the concerned to explain their position in this matter.
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