SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2015 (PAGE 10)
DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU
Speaker, Zulfkar review supply
position of essential commodities
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Minister for Animal and Sheep Husbandry Sajad Gani Lone
chairing a meeting at Srinagar on Friday.
Enormous scope for setting up world
class sheep farms in J&K: Sajad
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SRINAGAR, May 22:
Minister for Animal and Sheep
Husbandry, Sajad Gani Lone
today said that there is a huge
scope of setting up world class
sheep rearing farms in the State
with the institutional support and
involvement of private players in
the state.
The Minister said this while
chairing a meeting of officers of
Sheep Husbandry Department
convened to review the functioning of the department and status
of the works.
The Minister said that the
setting-up of Sheep rearing
farms would go a long way in
increasing the mutton production, besides generating employment opportunities to the unemployed youth especially in rural
areas. He also underscored the
need for adopting long term and
short term measures for giving
boost to the sector.
Emphasizing the need of fod-
der management, Sajad said that
it is the need of the hour to
exploit the vast un-utilized pastures by converting them into
permanent fodder producing
pastures.
Stressing upon the officers
for launching awareness campaign to educate people about
schemes in vogue for the welfare
of people dealing with this sector, the Minister said this will
help in the promotion of sheep
and sheep products in the State
in a big way.
Earlier,
Commission
Secretary, Sheep Husbandry
Satesh Nehru briefed the
Minister about the functioning of
the department, besides progress
and achievements registered by
the Department.
Director, Sheep Husbandry,
Kashmir Dr K K Sharma, Joint
Director
Extension
Dr
Mohammad Sharief, Deputy
Directors and senior officers of
Sheep Husbandry Department
were present on the occasion.
Narco smuggler held
with poppy straw
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JAMMU, May 22: Talab
Tillo police today arrested a narcotic smuggler along with 1.750
grams of poppy straw.
As per police sources, on
specific information, police
team from Talab Tillo police
post laid a naka and intercepted
a pedestrian carrying bag on
suspicious grounds.
During checking, police
recovered 1.750 grams of poppy
straw from the bag and arrested
the narcotic smuggler.
The accused has been identified as Sajan Kumar, son of
Shinder Pal of Nawashehar,
Punjab.
A case under Section 8/15
NDPS Act has been registered at
police post Talab Tillo and
investigation started.
Police team led by Incharge
police post Talab Tillo SI Sumit
Sharma made the arrest under
the supervision of SDPO West
Sandeep Choudhary, SP City
Shiv Kumar Singh Chouhan and
SSP Jammu Uttam Chand.
JAMMU, May 22: Speaker
Legislative Assembly Kavinder
Gupta and Minister for
Consumer Affairs and Public
Distribution (CA&PD) & Tribal
Affairs Ch. Zulfkar Ali today
reviewed the supply position of
essential commodities like Rice,
Atta, etc in a meeting with officers of CAPD Department.
Minister of State for
Education Priya Sethi, MLC
Romesh Arora, MLC Charanjeet
Singh and MLA Jammu West
Sat Sharma were also present in
the meeting.
A detailed review of the
stocks and supply position of
Atta, Rice, Wheat, Sugar,
Kerosene Oil and LPG in
Jammu province was held during the meeting.
Kavinder Gupta exhorted
upon officers of CAPD to ensure
availability of essential commodities and their timely distribution to the consmuers. He
further asked them to ensure that
the rationees get the commodities strictly as per scale and price
fixed by the Government.
Clarifying the rumor regarding discontinuation of 10 Kg
Atta Bags in Jammu city,
Zulfkar assured that supply of
10 Kg Atta Bags will continue.
He also directed the Assistant
Directors to ensure that the
Red Cross organizes medical camp
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JAMMU, May 22: To provide proper health check-up to
the poor and needy people of far
flung areas of Jammu Division,
Indian Red Cross Society
(IRCS), Region Jammu organized a medical check-up camp at
Village Dori Dagair in Block
Khara of District Jammu.
During the camp more than
200 patients suffering from different ailments were examined
by a team of doctors namely Dr
Rohini Bhan, Medical Officer,
Red Cross Dispensary, Dr
Priyanka
Parihar
(BDS),
Interns--Mukhtar Hussain and
Mudasir Bashir. They were
assisted by Kuldeep Bhat,
Senior Opthalmic Assistant,
Sohan Lal, Pharmacist and
Sangita Devi, FMPHW. Free
Medicines were also provided to
the needy patients.
Prominent among those
present on the occasion included
Madan Lal Sharma, ex-chairman, Village Dori Dagair and
Mangat Ram Sharma.
The camp was organized
under the supervision of RC
Puri.
Balwant Gargi's famous
play 'Chakku' staged
REASI, May 22: Sangam
Theatre Group staged Balwant
Gargi's famous play "Chakku"
here today.
On the occasion, BS Sharma,
senior citizen and Chairman STG
was the chief guest while
Romesh Sharma ZEO presided
over the programme. The play
was directed by M Akram Khan
and was well received by the
audience.
The play opens at a sea shore
where a young man is shown in a
frustrated way. He had come to
Mumbai to become a hero but
after a tiring struggle gets nothing, now afraid of what people
will say if he goes back, he
decides to end his life in the
waves of the sea. When he was
about to jump, an old lady stops
him and motivates him to live,
this sympathy generates a feeling
of love in his heart for the lady
who appeared double of his age.
He asserts that he was never
attracted to the young girls as
they sans experience and are very
strange in their ways, and he
longs for emotional love which
he may get from the lady of the
ripe age only.
On this statements the lady
removed her false disguise as she
was an actress and appeared
before him as a beautiful young
OFFICE OF THE
DISTRICT MAGISTRATE
Whereas, due to large presence of Industry in
the District at both Industrial Estates i.e Bari
Brahmana and Samba, a sizeable number of
employees coming from outside the District are
staying either in the premises of the Industrial Units
or in private accommodation on rent;
Whereas, it has been observed that number of
seasonal agricultural labourers coming from outside the District and staying in the District is also
substantial;
In addition, presence of domestic help from outside the District engaged by the local residents has
also been noted;
Whereas for the reasons of overall security of
the public and also especially in view of ensuing
Amarnath Yatra it is required that the particulars of
all those from outside the District are recorded and
verified by the security agencies;
It is therefore hereby enjoined upon all
Industrialists/ local population in whose premises
people from outside the District are staying or will
stay to get the particulars of all such people registered with the local police stations without fail.
girl, which she actually was and
admits that his non materialistic
thoughts have kindred love for
him in her heart, but to her surprise, he was turned off as soon
as she unveiled her beauty and he
starts negating her. As he was of
the opinion that he will get only
worldly love from a young girl,
which was not his quest. The girl
gets offended and leaves him to
save her real lover who was
annoyed to see her with that
young man in a lonely beach.
Frustrated, he tries to end his life
again but this time he was saved
by the mother of the same girl.
He proposes her, which she could
not resist even knowingly that he
is of the age of her son, as his
words were so touching.
But the moment she knows
he had tried the same with her
daughter, her heart was again
turned to practicality and she
along with her daughter scold
him badly.
The artist who acted in the
play were Madhu Suria as
'Mother', Pankaj as 'Father',
Sachdev as 'Young Man', Rekha
as 'Actress', and Manoj as
'Lover'. The set was executed by
Arvind Goswami. Makeup was
done by Arun Verma, play back
singing was done by Romesh
Parwana and music was scored
by Sushil and Sunil Gill.
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Speaker Legislative Assembly Kavinder Gupta during visit to
his constituency on Friday.
Swachh Bharat Mission a
collective responsibility: Kavinder
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JAMMU, May 22: Speaker
Legislative Assembly and MLA
from
Gandhi
Nagar
Constituency, Kavinder Gupta
today toured the rural belt of his
constituency and interacted with
people.
The Speaker was accompanied by SDM, South, Shahid
Mehmood; BDO, Satwari,
Shafqat; X-En, PWD, Abdullah;
X-En, PHE, Ashok Sharma; XEn, PDD, Arvind Chibber; XEn, I&FC, Anil Sharma and
other field staff of these departments.
The Speaker convened various public grievances camps at
these places to take first hand
appraisal of the problems and
demands of the people and also
to make them aware about the
various welfare programs being
run by the Government so that
they can avail maximum benefit.
People of the area apprised
the Speaker about various problems being faced by them which
included lack of transport facility, scarcity of drinking water,
unhygienic surroundings and
projected some demands for
installation of electric poles,
A scene from the play ‘Chakku’ staged by Sangam Theatre establishment of medical faciliGroup at Reasi.
ties, and macadamization of
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A dentist examining a patient during a medical camp at village Dori Dagair in district Jammu.
ration depots remain open for
extra hours for the convenience
of the consumers.
Zulfkar also said that the
directions have been given to
ensure that the dealers at all
depots install and use Digital
Weighing Scales and asked concerned officers to take strict
action against those dealers who
have not installed the same yet.
He also directed authorities to
ensure every ration dealer and
fair price shop display the signboards.
To ensure greater transparency and upkeeping of record,
Zulfkar directed for expediting
the computerization and digitization process underway in the
CAPD.
Mrs. Priya Sethi suggested
for installation of suggestion
box outside every ration depots
so that the consumers can place
their suggestions and complaints
in the box. Zulfkar while
responding
directed
the
Assistant Directors CAPD to
ensure that suggestion boxes are
installed.
Earlier, Choudhary Zulfkar
Ali inspected CAPD godowns at
Ware House in order to check
the stock position and quality of
the food grains available.
The Minister was accompanied by Director CAPD G. S.
Chib and other senior officers of
CAPD.
Sukhnandan reviews water
supply scenario in Samba, Kathua
Sd/Sheetal Nanda, IAS
District Magistrate davp 35101/11/0005/1516
Sd/Assistant Registrar
roads.
While addressing the people,
Speaker said that unhygienic
surroundings always self created, and this needs introspection,
"Swachh Bharat Mission" is the
flagship program of the
Government of India and State
Government is extending every
possible help to make it a success, but for that everyone of us
have to contribute as it becomes
our collective responsibility to
keep our surroundings neat and
clean".
Responding to the other
problems, Speaker said that
macadamization of roads has
already been started with an estimated expenditure of around Rs
40 crore. for the Gandhi Nagar
Constituency and it will be completed by the month of June.
On the issue of transportation, Gupta took a dig on the
previous NC-Congress regime
and said that he is aware of the
fact that these areas lack transport facility from a long time
and nothing has been done due
to the unpretentious attitude of
the previous Government. Gupta
told them that he has already
taken up the matter with the
Transport Minister and the facility will be provided to them very
soon.
ESIC organizes awareness
seminar at CTM
Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA,
May
22:
Employees’ State Insurance
Corporation (ESIC) today organized an awareness seminar here at
Chenab Textile Mills (CTM).
The function was presided
over by KC Sharma, executive
president. CTM Deputy Director,
Sindo Ram, gave an overview of
various provisions of benefits
available in the ESI Scheme. He
also apprised the audience about
certain changes made in the
scheme particularly pertaining to
super specialty treatment.
Stakeholders,
however,
expressed their deep concern on
certain changes made in the provisions of the scheme which are
against the interest of the ESI
beneficiaries and demanded roll
back of the same.
The stakeholders also showed
resentment on non-starting of
ESIC
Model
Dispensary
(MDDC) in the second shift to
enable at least 12 hours dispensary services in Kathua. They also
complained that there is no availability of diagnostic/pathological
test facility in MDDC for the last
about three years. of its functioning nor was there any tie-up made
in lieu thereof and the patients are
mostly being made to travel long
distance to ESIC Model Hospital,
Jammu for even these primary
tests.
Regional Director, ESIC,
Arvind Kumar, gave an overview
of the facilities and plans for
Kathua area such as starting of
ambulance services since last
year, provision of adequate medicine in ESI Dispensary, getting
approval of Regional Board for
an ESI Hospital for KathuaSamba cluster, steps for special
repairs and modernization of ESI
Dispensary building through
CPWD etc.
Regarding running of two ESI
Dispensaries in two shifts he stated that the matter has been taken
up with the ESIC Hospital
authorities under whom the
MDDC functions. He also added
that he would take up the issue of
referrals to local tie-up hospitals
by State ESI Dispensary.
Another awareness seminar
was held in KC Residency at
Katra where over 45 stakeholders
were given presentation about the
ESI Scheme and latest changes
therein by Dr Om Prakash, State
Medical Commissioner and Sunil
K Mehto, Deputy Director.
Kunal
Kumar,
Branch
Manager, ESIC Srinagar, organized awareness seminar at
AEGIS, Rangreth, Srinagar
among the stakeholders of
Rangreth Industrial Area.
JAMMU, May 22: Minister
for PHE, Irrigation and Flood
Control Sukhnandan Kumar
today conducted a surprise visit
of Kathua and Samba districts
for an on the spot inspection of
water supply scenario in these
areas.
During the tour, people of
these areas told the Minister that
there was a need to take immediate steps to overcome the water
scarcity problem.
During the visit, the Minister
directed the officers and
Engineers of PHE, Irrigation &
Flood Control Department to
gear up their field functionaries
and expedite the pace of work
on all WSSs, pump stations and
other irrigation projects so that
people of these areas don't face
any inconvenience in the current
Students appearing in campus placement drive at Govt
Polytechnic Jammu.
Campus placement drive
held at Govt Polytechnic
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JAMMU, May 22: One
week campus placement drive
was conducted at Government
Polytechnic Jammu to provide
the employment opportunities
to the final semester and passout
polytechnic students of Jammu
division.
The companies, which participated in the drive, included
UFLEX Pvt
Ltd Unit-II,
SIDCO Industrial Complex Bari
Brahmana, Mahindra and
Mahindra (Swaraj Division,
Mohali), Ericsson India Pvt Ltd,
Sahaj-e Village Pvt Ltd,
Multicare Services Pvt Ltd,
Rooman Technologies Pvt Ltd
and Indian Institute of Skill
Development (IISD).
Eleven candidates from
Mechanical, Electrical and
Instrumentation branch were
selected by Uflex Pvt Ltd as
Junior Engineer Trainees at the
salary of Rs 10,000/- per month.
Mahindra
and
Mahindra
(Swaraj Division Mohali),
selected 35 candidates of
Mechanical and Automobile.
The elected students are placed
at Mohali Plant of Mahindra
and Mahindra as Diploma
Apprenticeship Trainer and will
be paid Rs 8500/- stipend during the training.
The Sahaj-e Village Ltd
selected six students at the
package of Rs 1.2 lacs per
annum during the training as
CCE, Back- end office operation and Promoters. Prithvi
Singh was the resource person
from Sahaj-e Village who conducted the drive.
Multicare Services Pvt Ltd
selected 15 students for three
month training at Mumbai and
Forest Guards learn
skills of fire fighting
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JAMMU, May 22: A five day
training session on fire fighting,
survival and rescue and first aid
was conducted in Forest Guards
Training School, Doomi by the
Civil Defence Organization,
Jammu.
The experts from the Civil
Defence organization conducted
practical demonstrations in the
training centre for the Forest
guards who are the frontline staff
in remote areas of Forest
Department and are the first to
encounter any field eventuality.
In order to enable them to help
themselves and the other people
in remote areas during crisis situations, this training program was
conducted in Forest Guards
Training School Doomi campus
under the supervision of Deputy
Controller Civil Defence Tajinder
Kour and Deputy Divisional
Warden, Jammu Alok Nanda,
Disaster management expert
(Presidents Medal awardee).
Speaking on valedictory function, Rakesh Abrol Principal of
the training center laid emphasis
on the importance of this training
and described it as beneficial not
only for the protection of Forests
and Forest staff but for the society
as a whole.
He extended thanks to the
team of Civil Defence and gratitude for the authorities of the Civil
Defence, Jammu for sparing their
staff and for arranging equipments and experts for this training.
summer season.
The Minister directed the
officers to ensure that necessary
steps are taken at an earliest for
providing safe drinking water to
the people. He also reaffirmed
the commitment of the
Government to provide the requisite facilities to the people.
Earlier, the Minister inspected the water supply scenario in
the Sapwal village at Samba
where he directed the Executive
Engineer, PHE to cover two un
covered habitations so that the
people get requisite water facilities. He also directed the PDD to
upgrade the 63KV transformer
to 100KV for smooth functioning of the water supply schemes.
Among others, Executive
Engineer, PHE Division Samba
and various officers of the
Department accompanied the
Minister.
davp 55101/14/0004/1516
will be paid the stipend as per
the norms of Udaan Scheme
and after training they will be
placed as Assistant Manager
with minimum salary of Rs
15000/- .
The Ericsson India Pvt Ltd
selected 21 students of
Electrical and Electronics
Branch. Nineteen candidates
from Computer Sciences,
Information Technology and
Electronics branch got selected
for Rooman Technologies. In
the drive of IISD, 80 candidates
appeared in the interview and
26 of them were selected for
training.
Er Arun Bangotra, Principal
Government
Polytechnic
Jammu impressed upon the students to participate in the various placement drives with full
enthusiasm and make full use of
their professional & technical
skills for employability to various organizations.
2 injured as tractor
turns turtle
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REASI, May 22: Two persons were injured when a tractor turned turtle at Sherbadh,
near Katra, here this evening.
The injured, identified as
Sunil Kumar, son of Hans Raj
of Kanjli and Ram Paul, son of
Bishan Dass of Agar Jittoo,
were shifted to Katra hospital
where doctors referred them to
GMC Hospital Jammu.
The tractor, bearing registration number JK02EA-9559,
was loaded with iron rods. The
accident took place after the
drive lost control on the tractor,
which turned turtle on the road.