Thursday April 26, 20184 DISTRICTS

STATE TIMES NEWS UDHAMPUR: A delegation of NPPleaders under the leadership of formerMLA and State President BalwantSingh Mankotia on Wednesday called oninterlocutor Dineshwar Sharma at TaraNiwas and highlighted the plight ofSaddal villagers who faced disastrousnatural calamity in 2014 when 40 peo-ple of the village buried alive under thedebris.

During meeting with interlocutorDineshwar Sharma at Udhampur,Mankotia informed that after the pas-sage of four years, people of this villagedidn't receive any financial assistancefrom the government but on the otherhand government is providing assis-tance of Rs 6 lacks and numeration ofRs 4,000 per month to the surrenderedmilitants.

He also Demanded CBI inquiry inRasana case to seek justice for Kathuacase. He also demanded complete com-pensation for the land acquired by thearmy from the formers of Udhampurdistrict and asked to provide opportuni-ty in employement in army at mediumlevel.

He further demanded the facilities forthe Jammu migrations living inUdhampur at par with the KashmiriPandit migrants. Sukhdev Singh,

,Sudesh Sharma, Jagdev Jagga,Amarnath Mehra, Sunil Gudda,Rampal Bhagat, Balbir Singh, PawanGupta, Gulshan Kesar, Naresh Kumar,Sanjay Sharma, Kunj Lal, Amit Kumaralso accompanied the delegation.

A deputation of Lok Vikas Dal (LVD)led by President Vikram Singh Slathiaalso met Dineshwar Sharma andappraised him about the discriminationwith Jammu region. Slathia apprisedSharma that people of Jammu regionare facing discrimination in case ofrecruitment, posting as well as transferprocess and selection for various posts.He also demanded that Rasana rapeand murder case should be handedoverto CBI, in order to grab the real collars.

Issue of illegal stay of Rohingyas washighlighted by Slathia.

While deputation of AssociatedChamber of Commerce and IndustriesUdhampur led by president RaviMalguria and Gen. Secy. Vinod Guptaapprised Sharma that public ofUdhampur including traders, business-men, contractors, unemployed andunderemployed youth ,casual workers,contractual lecturers bearing the bruntof discrimination by the Kashmir cen-tric leadership over a long period in allspheres including employment, alloca-tion of funds, development schemes,tourism promotion, power, health andallied sectors. They also demanded thatprivate light motor vehicle especially

cars shall be exempted to pay toll tax attoll plaza. They also demanded deporta-tion of Rohingyas and CBI enquiryRasana case. Another deputation ofCongress party led by Ashok Guptaappraised interlocutor that the presentGovt. is an unholy alliance of two partiesof different ideology which failed on allthe fronts. He said that the discrimina-tion with Jammu region has reachedthe peaks, Govt proved failure in provid-ing jobs to the youth and redressing thelaw and order in the State.

While NC deputation led by WomanWing District President Rama Guptaappraised the Sharma that people ofBasant Garh are reeling underimmense shortage of basic amenities.

Various deputations call on Dineshwar Demand CBI inquiry in Rassana case, deportation of Rohingyas

Deputations of JKNPP and LVD calling on interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma at Udhampur.

STATE TIMES NEWS BHADARWAH: Thoughthere was some respite duringthe last 48 hours from theunseasonal snowfall and coldwave but heavy showerslashed Bhadarwah regionagain on Wednesday after-noon bringing back thefamous chill.

Chenab region in generaland Bhadarwah Valley in par-ticular has been witnessingtorrential rains and unseason-al snowfall since quite a longtime now. In fact, the monthof April has been quite cold forthe entire region with rainsbeing on the higher sidethroughout.

This year, Chenab regionrecorded way more rains inApril as compared to what itusually does. The region hasalready surpassed its monthlyaverage rains.

The downpour, which start-ed in later half of the after-noon, was accompanied bythunder and lightning.

After experiencing extremecold wave conditions due to

unseasonal snowfall in thehills of Chenab Valley in mostpart of the month of April,people were expecting apleasent change in weather asduring last two days, sunfinally came out of the cloudsafter long hiatus.

"Traditionally inBhadarwah we stop usingBukhari (fire place) fromBaisakhi (13 April) but dueto extended cold wave, wewere compelled to continue

with it until yesterday. Asfinally after feeling somewarmth of spring in last twodays, we were planning towind it up today, but due toheavy down pour and coldwinds we are again sitting infront of fire place," saidHatish Kumari of SeriBazaar Bhadarwah.

According to forecast weath-er will remain wet for another24 hours in the region and willimprove from Friday.

Chill knocks again as squally winds,torrential rains lash Bhadarwah

Rains lash Bhadarwah on Wednesday.(Pic by Raja Rehber Jamal)

STATE TIMES NEWS NOWSHERA: Taking for-ward the observation of 29thRoad Safety Week to Sub-divisional Level, the MotorVehicle Department Rajouriorganised a mega medical-cum-awareness camp atNowshera. DC NowsheraSachin Dev Singh, ASPMaster Popsy, ARTO NeerajSharma, BMO Nowshera,Officers from Sub-divisionaladministration and teams ofdoctors were present on theoccasion. Detailed discus-sions were held with drivers,conductors and representa-tives of trade unions aboutvarious aspects of road safetyand traffic rules besides

responsibilities of driverswhile driving on roads.Speakers including Addl DCNowshera, ASP and ARTOinteracted with them.

On the sidelines of theawareness camp a medicalcamp was also held in whichmore than 190 drivers andconductors were examined foreye sight, sugar level, colourblindness etc. Free helmetswere also distributed amongthe two wheelers.

Social Worker VinodSharma, Youth Activist andPresident Students UnionRishiv Sharma, PanditNarinder,Sanjeev Dutta(President Tata MagicUnion),Babu Ram

Choudhary (Manager BusStand) also spoke on the occa-sion.

BBHHAADDAARRWWAAHH:: On thethird day of 'Road SafetyWeek', Motor VehicleDepartment (MVD) Dodaorganised an awareness pro-gramme cum Medical camp atAdditional DistrictBhadarwah on Wednesday.

The programme on thetheme 'Sadak SurakshaJeevan Raksha' was organ-ised under the supervision ofARTO Doda Zubair Ahmedat New Bus Stand KotliBhadarwah, where TehsildarBhadarwah Masood Ahmedwas the chief guest andSDPO Brijesh Sharma wasthe guest of honour.

Speaking on the occasion,Tehsildar Bhadarwah MasoodAhmed advised the partici-pants to avoid over speeding,racing, drunken driving use ofmobile phone while driving,wrong overtaking and under-age driving to stop loss of pre-cious human lives and askedparticipants to take all neces-sary measures as well as fol-low the traffic rules for enjoy-ing safe driving and healthylife.

ARTO Doda Zubair Ahmedstressed upon all the atten-dees particularly driver com-munity to undergo regularmedical checkups to ensurethe fitness of their body andmind for safe transportationof the passengers. SDPOBrijesh Sharma stressedupon the youth to wear hel-met and seat belt while driv-ing two-wheeler or four-wheel-er to avoid fatal injuries.

Later, during Medical camp,a team from SDHBhadarwah comprising Dr

Rahat Goni Medical Officer,Sanjay Kumar EyeTechnician and para-medicalstaff examine the people espe-cially drivers community and

provide them medicines freeof cost. Besides officials ofMVD Doda and staff fromSDH Bhadarwah, a largenumber of driver communityand general public alsoattended the road safety weekprogramme.

RRAAMMBBAANN:: Motor VehiclesDepartment in collaborationwith health departmentorganised an awareness pro-gramme, group discussion aswell as medical checkup campfor drivers and conductors atbus stand Ramban on the 3rd

day of Road Safety Week. The programme was held by

the Department under thesupervision of AssistantRegional Transport Officer

(ARTO) while Deputy ChiefMedical Officer, Dy. SPTraffic, MVD Inspectors andother concerned officials werepresent on this occasion.

A group discussion sessionwas also organized on theoccasion between drivers, con-ductors and officers in whichdiscussions were held betweenboth sides to raise awarenessabout traffic norms. Duringthe medical camp medicalexperts examined more than100 drivers and conductors bychecking their blood pressure,sugar level, eye sight andother medical aspects.

SSAAMMBBAA:: Motor VehiclesDepartment today organiseda free eye checkup andMedical Camp forCommercial Drivers in collab-oration with HealthDepartment at New BusStand Samba. The team ofdoctors from HealthDepartment under the super-vision of Dr Rajni Gupta con-ducted the medical checkup,eye test, others and providedfree medicines to the driversand conductors of theCommercial vehicles. The slo-gans and road sign pamphletswere also distributed to the

Drivers. The ARTO advisedCommercial Drivers to gettheir vehicles mechanically fit.He also advised them to followtraffic rules for their ownsafety and adopt safety meas-ures to reduce the accidents tosave precious lives. CMOSamba Rajinder Samyal,ARTO Romesh KumarSamotra, DeputySuperintendent of PoliceTraffic Behari Lal Bhardwaj,Motor Vehicle InspectorMadan lal, President Youthfor Society Samba RahulSambyal, President Mini busworkers union Samba AshokSingh and prominent citizenswere also present on the occa-

sion.PPOOOONNCCHH:: In continuation

to celebration of 29th RoadSafety Week, Motor VehiclesDepartment distributed pam-phlets among the road usersto aware them about theTraffic rules. Abdul Raheem,ARTO Poonch also distrib-uted the chocolates to appre-ciated the safer road userbehaviour among the road.Ins. Er. Zahoor of MVD,Ayaz Mughal ChairmanAwake India, Ashtsham ulHaq SI Trafic, others trafficOfficials, Sarfaraz Ahmed ofSir Sayeed Mission and othervolunteers were also presenton the occasions.

Medical camps for drivers mark day-3 of Road Safety Week

ASP Master Popsy speaking during the camp at Nowshera.

Pamphlets being distributed to bike riders at Poonch.

Dignitaries during the programme at Samba.

Police recovers missinggirl, reunites with familySTATE TIMES NEWS

KISHTWAR: Police on Wednesday recovered a girl whosemissing report was registered in Police Station Dachhan andre-united with her family after completing all the legal formal-ities.

According to police, on April 20, 20108, Police StationDachhan received a missing report that one Kavita Devi(name changed) resident of Sunder Dachhan is missing andwhereabouts of her are known. Police parties intensified thesearches and on April 24, located the girl near Dangdaro busstop where she was waiting to escape towards Kishtwar cladin Bhurka in order to conceal her identity. The police aftercompleting the legal formalities handed over the missing girlto her mother and paternal uncles.

Quilt shop gutted STATE TIMES NEWS

DODA: A quilt shop was completed gutted in divesting firethat broke out in it near Chief Agriculture Office NagriCircular Road Doda on Wednesday morning.

As per reports, oneshop belonging toSharief Mansoori sonof Ali Mansoor ofBihar who was run-ning quilt business inDoda since manyyears, caught fire inwhich all the mer-chandise got completed gutted. The shop gutted was mainlyof old clothes, cotton and handmade quilts which costs worthmore than lakh of rupees.

However, locals of the area particularly youth helped indousing the fire with the help of Fire and Emergency Depttand Doda Police and prevented it to spread to others shopsand houses.

In this fire incident no loss of life was reported, however sonof shop owner got minor injured who was later shifted to DHDoda for treatment. As per prime fascia of this case, electricshort circuit is said to be the cause of fire.

Minor gangraped, one accused arrestedSTATE TIMES NEWS

POONCH: A 14-year-old girl student of ninth class wasallegedly kidnapped and raped by two persons in Poonch dis-trict, a senior Police officer said.

The victim was returning to her home when two persons,identified as Azhar Mehmood, son of Barkat Hussain andschool teacher Mohd Rafeeq, son of Abdullah, allegedly kid-napped the minor and then raped her, as per the officialreports.

The Poonch Police arrested accused Azhar Mehmood andproduced him before the Court while hunt is on to arrest theother accused. The court has granted seven days policeremand to Azhar Mehmood for investigation.

According to the reports, the duo had also threatened thegirl to not reveal about the incident to anyone. However, thegirl did inform her family about it, who then filed a policecomplaint against the accused.

STATE TIMES NEWS POONCH: DistrictDevelopment CommissionerMohammad Aijaz Asad onWednesday reviewed the sta-tus of ongoing developmentalworks being executed in pur-suance of directions issued byChief Minister during herPublic Outreach Programmeheld on March 5, 2018, in thedistrict.

The meeting was attendedby ADDC, ACR, CPO, ChiefEducation Officer, ChiefMedical Officer, ChiefHorticulture Officer, ChiefAgriculture Officer,Executive Engineers of R&B,PHE, PDD PWD and irriga-tion, District Social WelfareOfficer and other district offi-cer.

It was informed during themeeting that more that 351issues of various natures werebrought to the notice of ChiefMinister which includesdevelopmental works, prepa-

ration of DPR for variousprojects/upgradation ofhealth and educational insti-tutions, augmentation ofwater and electricity supplysystem, upgradation of roadsinfrastructure, infrastructurein rural areas and promotionof tourism in the district.

The CMO informed theDDC that his departmenthas provided ambulance forvillage Guntaria and alsoidentified land in Poonch for

Nursing College besides sub-mission of proposal forupgradation of sub-centre toPHC at village Jhullas. Hefurther informed that adetailed proposal for bloodbank for Sub-DistrictHospital Mendhar is underpreparation and shall be sub-mitted with governmentbesides proposal for upgrada-tion of sub centre Jhullas andposting of adequate staff invarious health institutions

across the district. He alsoput forth a demand made forthree Bullet proof ambu-lances, one for each con-stituency in the district.

The other departments alsomade detailed presentationon status of ongoing works onCM commitments andassured the DDC that theworks will be completed with-in stipulated time.

In the meeting, DDC alsoheld point wise review of deci-sions taken in previous boardmeeting and asked the offi-cers to implement the pend-ing decisions in letter andspirit well before the nextboard meeting.

The DDC directed the con-cerned officers to put in con-certed efforts and gear uptheir men and machinery fortime bound completion of allongoing projects. He askedthe officers to submit actiontaken reports to his office onweekly basis.

DDC for timely implementation of CM’s commitments

DDC Mohammad Aijaz Asad chairing a meeting at Poonch.

STATE TIMES NEWS MENDHAR: A meeting ofrevenue officers of Sub DivisionMendhar was convened atTehsil Complex Mendhar toreview the progress underDigital India Land RecordsModernisation Programme(DILRMP). Meeting waschaired by Regional DirectorSurvey and Land Records PeerPanchal Syed Shokat HussainKazmi and was attended bySub Divisional MagistrateMendhar Dr Mohd Tanveeralong with Tehsildars/NaibTehsildars of Sub DivisionMendhar.

SDM Mendhar gave a briefaccount with regards to main-tenance and updation of rev-enue records in the SubDivision. He assured that histeam of revenue officers willmake all possible efforts fortimely completion of revenuerecords prerequisite under

DILRMP. Tehsildars Balakote,Mendhar and Mankote alsogave details of updation andmaintenance of revenuerecords in their respectivetehsils.

Speaking on the occasion theRegional Director stressedupon the need of timely comple-tion of revenue records so thatthe project can be successfullyimplemented on time. He alsoappreciated the team of rev-enue officers/ officials for theirhard work in completion ofmaximum number ofJamabandi in a very short spanof time and hoped that with thesame zeal and dedication rest ofJamabandis will also be writtenwithin the time frame. At thesame time he also advised theTehsildars to get the writtenJamabandis scrutinized againso that at later stage thedepartment be saved from anysort of problem in future.

Progress of land recorddigitalisation reviewed

STATE TIMES NEWS RAJOURI: RashtriyaPanchayat Raj Diwas (NationalLocal Self-Government day)was observed in Rajouri underthe three week long GramSwaraj Abhiyan. The day isobserved all over India on 24thof April, 2018 to strengthen thePanchayat Raj institutions ofthe country through which the

public participate in the devel-opmental process.

To celebrate the day special,programmes were organisedorganised in 8 eight border vil-lages of Nowshera Sub-divisionunder the Gram SwarajAbhiyan-Special central inter-vention for achieving hundredpercent saturation under 7 cen-trally sponsored schemes.

Main function was held at

Hanjana Thakra in which ateam comprising of TasneemMajjid Ganai (IAS) and VineshPachnanda undersecretary toGOI, representative from GOIand Nodal officers for GSAimplementation in the districtparticipated and observed theactivities being carried out. Theprogramme was successfullyconducted under supervision ofBlock Development Officer

Nowshera Surinder Singh whocoordinated with line depart-ments in its conduct. He alsomade a detailed presentationabout Rashtriya panchayati RajDiwas and its importance inpanchayats in strengtheningPanchayats.

The Departments includingHealth and Family Welfare,Revenue, PDD, PHE, SocialWelfare, FCS & CA andEducation participated in thecamp and on spot services wereprovided to the beneficiarieswhich included caste andincome certificates by revenue,subsidised LED bulbs by PDDand free LPG connections byFCS & CA. Awareness wasgiven to the participants aboutsocial welfare schemes, insur-ance schemes of banks andother targeted schemes underthe Abhiyan and on the spotregistration under theseschemes were also made.

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Rashtriya Panchayat Raj Diwas observed

A resource person speaking during the programme.

STATE TIMES NEWS R S PURA: Under CivicAction Programme, JKAP14th Bn provided water cooleralong with water tank andwater purifier in Govt GirlsHigh School Simbal Camp, RS Pura.

Commandant JKAP 14thBn Rajnesh Pran Sharma(SSP) along with Sanjay

Sharma (SP) along with offi-cers and officials of battalioninaugurated the water coolerin presence of villageSarpanch, Panch, school man-agement and students. Theprominent persons of the areaappreciated the role of J&KPolice for this goodwill gestureand selecting this school forproviding such facilities.

JKAP 14th Bn installs watercooler in GGHS Simbal Camp

Commandant JKAP 14th Bn Rajnesh Pran Sharma (SSP)inaugurating water cooler at the school premises.