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J&K STATE HAJ COMMITTEEB ait-ul-Hujaj (Haj House) B emina, Srinagar

P r e S S r e l e a S eThe contents of Press Release issued by Haj Committee of India, Mumbai are hereby

published for information of all selected pilgrims of Haj 2013.As per the information received from C.G.I., Jeddah, large scale demolitions took place

near Haram sharif in the areas which were traditionally occupied by the Indian Pilgrims. Hence only 40,000 Green accommodation units are available in Makkah Mukarramah for the Pilgrims of Haj-2013. However, around 52,000 selected Pilgrims have opted for Green Category accommodation. In view of the shortage of accommodation units in Green Category, the HCoI needs to down-grade nearly 12,000 Pilgrims from Green to aziziya Category as per Clause 20.2 of the Guidelines for Haj-2013.

This office is already receiving applications for down-gradation from some selected Pilgrims (who opted for Green Category accommodation) from all over the country. Hence it is decided to give an opportunity to all the selected Pilgrims (who opted for Green Category) to send their applications for down-gradation of Category writing their cover number, name, address, if they so desire, by fax or email on or before 14.06.2013. The applicants may also send their applications for down-gradation to their respective State / U.T. Haj Committees. THe Fax nuMBerS and eMaIl are aS under: E.Mail ID : ceo@hajcommittee.com, gqa.hcoi@yahoo.com Fax Number : 022-22630461, 022-22620920IMPorTanT noTe:

If excess applications are received for down gradation than required, then requests will be considered only to the extent of shortfall of Green category units. If less applications are received for down gradation than required, then the HCOI will conduct draw of lots as per clause 20.2 of Guidelines for Haj 2013. The pilgrims are advised to pay the balance Haj amount after re-checking their final accommodation category and pay as per the Category allotted and not as per the category opted by them.DIPK:2923 Sd/-

(Dr. S. Shakir Hussain) IRS.,Chief Executive Officer

Stock Market Volatility

Workshop on Commodity Futures Market at KU today

Srinagar, June 7: Department of Business and Financial Studies, Uni-versity of Kashmir in collaboration with Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd and Forward Markets Commission is organizing a 2-day workshop for Capacity Building Programme on Commodity Futures Market from Saturday. Head, Department of Business and Financial Studies, Prof. Mohiu-ud-Din Sangmi, said that organizing such workshops is the need of the hour. “We at department always strive to provide quality education to our students. Inviting experts from various fields is a regular feature of the department,” Prof Sangmi said. The workshop will be held at University of Kashmir. Chairman, Forward Markets Commission, Ramesh Abhishek, who will be the Chief Guest will deliberate on recent developments in the Commodity Markets – Issues and Challenges. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, C. K. Mishra, will be the guest of Honour and will deliver a talk on How SMEs can benefit by hedging in Commodity futures market. MD & CEO, Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd, Shreekant Javalgekar, will be the present on the occasion and will provide an overview of commodity markets and benefits of the derivatives. Over 250 participants have registered themselves with the Place-ment Cell of the department. Besides, dignitaries from outside, Prof. Shabir A Bhat, Dean Man-agement and Commerce would deliver lecture on need for Industry – Academic linkages and the benefits for the regional development.

Workshop on Civil Services held RBI to intervene: D Subbarao

Hyderabad, June 6: Amid rupee crossing the 57 mark against US dollar, the Reserve Bank today said it is not targeting any exchange rate but will intervene in the forex markets only to curb volatility and prevent dis-ruption of macroeconomic stability. "In India, the RBI does not target any exchange rate. We intervene in the foreign exchange market only to manage the volatility and to manage the disruption to the macro economic situation," RBI Governor D Subbarao said. He was delivering a lec-ture organised here by Insti-tute of Public Enterprise. Subbarao said: "The important point is that we have to be internally sure that when we enter market we are credible because for a central bank failed defence of exchange rate can be quite

detrimental. "When you have down-ward pressure on the rupee as I said you have to shell your dollars. And a fair defence of the exchange rate can be worse than no defence." The rupee weakened below 57 to the dollar today to approach a record low hit about a year ago. It was trading at 57.06/07 to the dollar. The Indian currency had hit record low of 57.32 against a dollar in June last year. On the widening Cur-rent Account Deficit, Sub-barao said there are three concerns about India's CAD. These are quantum of CAD, quality of CAD and financing the CAD. The increase in the deficit above the sustainable levels year-on-year is certainly going to add the pressure, he said.

Chimney Mela begins at Big Boss

Kulgam admin wakes up to farmland conversion

Gk NewS Network

Kulgam, June 7: Deputy Commissioner, Jahangir Mir has directed the revenue officers to activate their field staff to curb land conversions in the length and breadth of the district. He called for roping in all the PRIs, Lambardars and Chowkidars to sensitize the public in general regard-ing the repercussions of unplanned land conversions for the society as a whole. Chairing a meeting of Tehsildars and Naib Teh-sildars here on Thursday afternoon, the Deputy Com-missioner highlighted the need to observe High Court directions in letter and spirit, an official statement said. He also called for ensur-ing strict implementation of Section 133 of Land Revenue Act to protect common land and grazing land from any kind of encroachment. “Any

negligence in this regard will be seriously viewed”, he cau-tioned. Jahangir also reviewed other land management mat-ters and asked for sticking to preparation of new Girdawari and Jamabandi registers as per the dour(schedule) sub-mitted by each Tehsildar. He called for periodic inspection of the revenue records under the custody of Patwaris so that the func-tioning of these ground level functionaries is monitored. Earlier, in a separate PNC meeting, the Deputy Commissioner fixed rate of land compensation in respect of six road projects making the stamp duty rates as benchmark. He directed the collec-tor to ensure disbursement of the compensation among the rightful claimants in the shortest possible time so that the execution of the projects in taken up in right earnest.

Srinagar, June 7: To encour-age more and more youth of the State to choose Civil Ser-vices as a career option and help them to achieve success in cracking the prestigious competitive tests, Chief Sec-retary Muhammad Iqbal Khanday Friday said that the government is laying strong edifice for enthusiastic stu-dents to go for national level examinations after obtaining proper coaching and guid-ance from the experts of the state as well as other parts of the country. Khandey was addressing a gathering of students, aca-demicians, administrators after inaugurating a one day orientation program at SKICC for aspirants of All India Services (IAS,IPS,IFS etc) organized by ASCENT GROUP, an umbrella orga-nization for human capi-tal development in J&K at SKICC.

The seminar-cum-work-shop titled “How to Cope with the Changes in the Pat-tern of Civil Services (UPSC) Examination?”, saw a large number of enthusiastic boys and girls participating and interacting with academi-cians and experts as well as icons from J&K who have already cracked Civil Ser-vices including Civil Ser-vice Topper Dr Shah Faisal besides others. A social enterprise, ASCENT Group, was set up by former civil servant, Muhammad Shafi Pandit, who is the first Muslim from J&K State to join IAS in 1969 followed by Chief Secretary Muhammad Iqbal Khanday who joined the service in 1978. Appreciating the initia-tive Chief Secretary termed the effort put in by ASCENT Group as effective and bear-ing fruit.

Aloha distributes prizes among GAT 2012 qualifiers

Srinagar, June 6: M/s Big Boss has launched USHA Chimney Mela at its show-room at Residency Road, here. Latest models of chim-

neys and hobs for kitchens are on display at the mela. The company is also show-casing latest models of hobs with FDD fitted in all burner.

Gk NewS Network

Srinagar, June 7: Aloha J&K today organised Gener-al Ability Test (GAT) - 2012 prize distribution ceremony in the auditorium of S P Col-lege, here. The institute awarded laptop valuing Rs 21000 and cash prizes of Rs 5000 and Rs 4000 among the students from class 5th to 10th, who had secured first three positions in each class in the three phased competitive exami-nation of ALOHA General Ability Test 2012. The three phases test, Prelims, Mains and Person-

ality, was held on 02-9-2012, 16-12-2012 and 13/14-3-2013 respectively. Besides, five consolation prizes each of Rs 500 were given to 4th to 8th rank hold-ers in each class. An Aloha handout said that 15 winners of Aloha State Level Competition (SLC )-2012 who participated in the National level Compe-tition (NLC) held at Chenai on Dec 29 and 30, 2012 and out of whom 9 students qualified as champions and winners were also felicitated for their excellent performance. The role of the Heads of Institutions/ Principals who

actively cooperated in GAT activities was lauded and were awarded certificate of excellence. The function was pre-sided over by the chief guest Muhammad Rafi, Advisor to Education Department, J&K. On this occasion Mubashir Aslam Wafai, Managing Director Aloha J&K said: “ALOHA J&K is frontrunner in bringing about around development in children through various ALOHA courses.” “Sensing its social respon-sibility ALOHA J&K initiated General Ability Test(GAT) series among 5th to 10th class students in 2009-10.

Workshop on professionalism in social service held

Gk NewS Network

Srinagar, June 7: Account-ability, professionalism and putting in place the insti-tutional mechanism was stressed during a daylong Workshop organized by J&K Yateem Foundation here on Friday. The speakers called for arresting the trend of per-sonality cult within orga-nizations which proves det-rimental to the real public interest. The Workshop was attended by District Repre-sentatives, (DRs) Programme Executives (PEs) and staffers of J&K Yateem Foundation. In his presentation on “ Need of Professionalism”

Shoaib Afra Khan, Project Manager ActionAid, Kash-mir deliberated upon the urgent need to incorporate positive and healthy proce-dures s while executing the social service work.

Patron JKYF Er. Syed Abdul Hamid enjoined upon the volunteers and the administrators to work in with vigour and enthusiasm accordance with The Qur’an and Sunnah.

AmAr Singh CollegeInternatIonal ConferenCe

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The inaugural function of the two day International Conference on “Regional Development, Sustainability and Socio-Economic Development in Jammu & Kashmir” was held at Amar Singh College Srinagar on 5th June 2013. The Chief Guest on this occasion was Hon’ble Minister for Higher Education, Jenab Muhammad Akbar Lone, the Guest of Honour was H. E Shaida Muhammad Abdali, Ambassador Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Chairperson of the function was Vice Chancellor University of Kashmir. The inaugural function was also attended by Prof. Bupinder Zutshi, Secretary, Initiative for Social change and Action, New Delhi (ISCA) and Principal Secretary to Higher Education Mr. K. B. Agarwal. The key note address was given by an eminent social scientist Prof. P. M. Kurlarni. The function was also attended by senior functionaries of University and Colleges, in addition to 130 local and outside participants. The Chief Guest Jenab Muhammad Akbar Lone, highlighted the historical and culture relations between Afghanistan & India. He appreciated the role of teaching community in maintaining the standards of education even during worst situations in the past. The Hon’ble Minister also advised the participants and delegates of the conference to help policy makers by giving concrete recommendation on the development of the region in general and the State of Jammu & Kashmir in particular. H. E Mr. Shaida Muhammad Abdali also spoke on the occasion and expressed his keen desire to strengthen the bond between two countries. The other speakers were Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice Chancellor, University of Kashmir and Prof. Bupinder Zutshi. The function concluded with the Vote of thanks posed by Prof. Fouzia Fatima. This was followed by a plenary session and four technical sessions, in which 52 paper were read and the participant and paper presenters were involved in academic discussions. All the paper presented in the conference will be published in the form of a book within two months.

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Tele/Fax: 0194-2433760, 2433590, 2437647 (Srinagar): 0191-2479371, 2470102 (Jammu) Website: http://www.jakbopee.org, Email: administrator@jakbopee.org

For attention of all applicants appearing in Diploma Polytechnic entrance examination on 09th June 2013, at Srinagar and Jammu.

Note: The candidates are required to reach the venue of the examination centres by the Reporting Time (i.e. 09:25 A.M). They are also required to carry with them any one of the below mentioned Photo ID Proofs in original, besides the Admit Card issued by BoPEE.Photo ID Proofs: Election ID Card/Adhar Card, Pan Card, Driving License, Photo ID issued by concerned college, Passport.The candidates are also required to go through the below mentioned guidelines carefully: Mobile Phones, Pagers, Bluetooth Devices, and Cameras, Calculators or any

other communication/electronic devices are not allowed inside the premises of all Examination Centres. Any candidate found carrying these devices in the Examination Centre, his/her candidature will be cancelled including ban for future examination/selection.

Moreover, any candidate who has submitted wrong information/incomplete documents/ provisional certificates will not be allowed to appear in the examination and will also be disqualified when ever such information is detected.

No: BoPEE/Adm-01/598-605 Sd/- Secretary, Dated: 06-06-2013 J&K BoPEE

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