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Defuse Border tension: Madan
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VIJAYPUR:
Veteran
Congress leader and former
Minister and MP Madan Lal
Sharma while campaigning
for Congress Candidate
Vijaypur
Assembly
Constituency S. Manjeet
Singh Ex. Minister at Jhang,
Chak Babrola, Swankha
Morh Channi appealed to the
Government of India to
defuse tension on LoC and
IB permanently . He condemned the firing incident
and militants attack at Arnia
sector in which innocent civilians and army jawans lost
their lives. He said that border inhabitants either on IB
or on LoC are living under
fear and stray incidents of
firing are still continuing
making life of people difficult
and miserable.
He asked the Prime
Minister to shun rigidity and
One nomination
filed from Bani
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KATHUA: After the issue
of notification for elections for all five Assembly
segments
of
Kathua
District, one candidate
Lal Chand (Independent)
on Thursday filed his
nomination
from 63Bani
Assembly
Constituency.
Whereas
nomination
forms were issued to the
intending
candidates.
Seven nomination forms
were issued from the
office of Returning Officer
67- Hiranagar, one from
the office of 64- Basohli
and one form was issued
from the Office of
Returning Officer of 65Kathua
Assembly
Segment during the day.
DISTRICTS
Friday z November 28, 2014
Veteran Congress leader Madan Lal Sharma addressing a
gathering at Vijaypur.
start
discussion
with Inhabitants and allotment of
Pakistan and bound them plots to them in safer places
not to fire this side so that on top priority.
border inhabitants have safe
Sharma said that BJP is a
and sound life. Sharma said party with double standard ,
that the life and property of what they commit before the
border inhabitants is facing elections do not fulfill on
uncertainty.
He
also attaining power, continuous
demanded insurance cover to tension on the border ,marthe life, property, crop and ginalised communities still
cattle of the border deprived are the live exam-
ples. He said that BJP
Government at Central level
is not serious on resolving the
long pending issues of
refugees .
Terming
Congress
Candidate S. Manjit Singh
as a leader with clean image
and priority to work for poor
and needy, he appealed to the
people of Vijaypur Assembly
Constituency to press hand
button on EVM machines on
14th December to make him
victorious .
S. Manjit Singh Ex.
Minister also appealed to the
people of Vijaypur to cast
their precious vote in his
favour .
Prominent among others
spoke on the occasion include
Dr. Sat Paul, Rtd.Col.
Swaran Singh, Pama, Dr.
Pankaj Mohan, Chander
Shekher
and
Deepak
Sharma, Rtd. ZEO.
Vote for Modi, vote for development: Khajuria
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UDHAMPUR:
Pawan
Khajuria BJP Candidate
conducted meetings and
campaign in urban areas and
rural areas of the segment.
During his visits people
assured him full support
which increasing the morale
of the workers and public in
general.
Khajuria commenced election campaign from village
Bali
(Jaloda),
Tarota
Dabbar, Tirshi Panchyat
Ghar, Narore, Gandala, Vikas
Palace (Tirloke Mandir)
Sukki Karlai, Dhar Gaddian
and addressed series of meetings in a single day.
He met more than thousand people and appealed to
them to vote BJP to support
Modi since Modi is a ray of
hope for common people and
has vision of good governance
Mentally
unsound person
goes missing
Pitiable condition of college
forces students to protest
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JAMMU:
A
mentally
unsound person admitted in
Mental Hospital Ambphala
went missing from the hospital on 25th November,
2014.
The man identified as Sat
Paul alias Bittu resident of
Satura Tehsil Hiranagar,
district Kathua left the hospital at 10:00 PM and did
not return.
Anyone coming across this
person or knowing his
whereabouts, may inform at
Mob
9858269440
or
9697118974.
Students stage sit-on to mark protest against college authorities at Basohli.
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BASOHLI: The students of
Govt.
Degree
College,
Basohli boycotted their classes and came on the roads in
order to protest against the
pitiable condition of the college both academically and in
matter of the infrastructure.
The students came on the
roads shouting slogans
against the local administration for unheeding the prob-
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BJP candidate Pawan Khajuria speaking in a function.
and rich development of the
country even at international
level.
While addressing said this
is the right opportunity to
vote BJP to bring massive
change in the State and to get
rid of dynastic rule.
Khajuria appealed the people to give befitted defeat to
the ruling dispensation and
apprised the people for
schemes launched by Modi
such as 'Jan Dhan Yojana',
'Swach Abhiyan'. Prominent
among those who accompanied Khajuria were Roshan
Lal Gupta, Veer Singh,
Subhash Gupta, Akshy
Kumar, Jagish Kumar,
Dharam Paul, Neeraj Paul
and Manoj Gupta.
R S PURA: Punjab National
Bank organised a mega
awareness camp at village
Khuttian near R.S Pura
which was chaired by G.S
Gandhoke Field General
Manager heading PNB in
the entire HP and J and K
State.
The camp was attended by
over 300 farmers inhabiting
village Khuttian and the surrounding villages including
the
Sarpanchs
and
Panchayat members. The
farmers were apprised of the
benefits of the PMJDY
accounts and during the
course of the proceedings,
certain misgivings regarding
PNB officials during awareness camp at R S Pura.
view of their very visible keen
interest in getting to know
the fine details of the scheme.
Gandhoke FGM had a very
interactive session with the
farmers and also told them
that the Financial Inclusion
Cong candidate listens
to people’s grievances
Pawan launching website
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SAMBA: Candidate of
Indian National Congress
Party
for
Samba
Constituency, Subash Bhagat
on Thursday visited village
Samlah of Samba District,
held a public meeting and
took stock of the grievances of
the local populace.
A large number of people
gathered in the meeting at village Samlah who listened to
the problems being faced by
the people.
Speaking on the occasion,
Subash highlighted the
achievements of the Congress
Party. He urged upon the
people to strengthen the
hands voting for Congress
candidate in the upcoming
State elections.
Various local Congress
leaders also spoke on the
occasion.
Vinod Kumar
District youth president
samba,Sandeep
Sharma
,Rakesh Kumar,Sonu Kumar
and Shubam Bhagat also
spoke on the occasion.
POUNI: Former KAS officer
and Independent candidate
from Reasi Constituency
Saraf Singh Naag while
addressing the villagers of
seven Panchayats at Ransoo,
said that this extreme west
corner of district Reasi has
been totally neglected for its
development. He deplored
the bad condition of
approach road to Shiv Khori
- the Holy Cave of Bhagvan
Shiv where 15 to 20 lakh pil-
grims visit every year, saying
it is totally damaged and has
become almost un-motorable.
The vehicles are parked at
distant places in the fields.
He further said that
though the Shiv Khori
Shrine Board is existing but
no activities are visible and
its employees are also waiting for the facilities at par
with the Shri Mata Vaishno
Devi Shrine Board.
Sarpanchs of Sangar,
Kotla, Teode and Alya dis-
Importance of micro-organism
highlighted in seminar on biodiversity
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AKHNOOR : Govt. High
School Kotli Tanda organised a
seminar on biodiversity conservation which was sponsored by
WWF India, University of
Jammu, under the environment awareness campaign.
In the programme twelve students
participated
and
expressed their views on the
importance of biodiversity conservation. The programme
was hosted by Ram Rattan, a
senior Mathematics Master of
the School who highlighted the
need of conservation of biodiversity.
Teacher Kewal Krishna, also
threw light on the importance
of trees and other microorgan-
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isms in our life. The function
was chaired by the Head
Master of the Institution
Nazneen Akhtar, who also enumerated the need to conserve
biodiversity and encouraged
the students not to degrade the
environment which may lead to
environmental
imbalance.
Balwinder Kumar, an associate
member of the programme also
spoke on the occasion. At the
end of the programme students were given awards by the
Head Master of the Institution
for their participation. Payal
Sharma, a student of class
10th bagged first position.
Rubina Kausar and Sahil
Sharma were given second and
third prize respectively.
KATHUA: A team of the legal
Metrology
Department
Kathua headed by the
Assistant Controller Legal
Metrology Kathua
Ajay
Verma and comprising of the
Inspector Legal Metrology
Kathua, Vicky Sharma and
Inspector Legal Metrology
Dayalachack
Devi
Lakhanpuria conducted intensive checking of various business establishments especially
provision stores,
Karayna
shops, sweet and bakery shops
, procurement dealers, Bartan
stores, woolen hosieries, Veg
and meat sellers, cement dealers, Mini flour mills, gas agencies at Industrial Area,
Bhagthali Road, Rajbagh,
Patel Nagar, Kathua, Palli,
Thanoon, Bani, ChannTanda,
ChannChago,
Pathwal,
Dayalachack , Koota Morh,
Dollian, Slalpur, Hiranagar,
and adjoining areas in the
month of November 2014.
During Inspection, 25
traders were booked for violation of various provisions of J
and K Weights and Measures
Enforcement Act 1997and
Package Commodities Rules
and 28 Challans of the booked
traders were compounded and
a penalty of Rs 26,800 was
imposed on the erring traders .
The Department also
booked one gas agency for violation of various provisions of J
and K Weights and Measures
Act 1997 and on the assurance
of the dealer of the gas agency
not to repeat the same fault,
the case was compounded for
Rs 5, 000 by the Assistant
Controller Legal Metrology
Kathua . Department directed
all the traders to use only verified weights and measures for
business transactions and display
MRP, PKD, Net
Contents and complete address
and consumer care number on
the commodities to be sold in
package form.
The department has also
warned the traders to desist
from using unfair trade practices to cheat the innocent
consumers and also appealed
to the consumers to remain
vigilant while purchasing the
commodities.
Employees cast votes through postal ballot
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POONCH: Ahead of their
deployment for election duty
in different Assembly segments of the district, 564
employees cast their votes
through postal ballot for
which
the
respective
Returning Officers have
setup facilitation centres.
The postal ballot voting is
being held with effect from
27th to 29th of November,
2014 after which the deployment of staff for normal
polling scheduled for 2nd
December would begin.
Employees who are specifically assigned any official
work in connection with
elections on the day of poll
and unable to vote at normal
polling station had to apply
for the postal ballot facility.
These include police personnel, DEO/ROs/AROs and
their Staff, Control Room
Staff, Videographers/Staff
of EEM Teams/ ZOs/SOs,
Drivers/Cleaners etc.
As many as 111 employees
cast
their
votes
in
Surankote, 235 in Mendhar
and 218 in Poonch Haveli
on the first day.
Independent candidate Pawan Gupta speaking to people.
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UDHAMPUR:
The
Independent
Candidate
from Udhampur Assembly
Constituency Pawan Gupta
is launching his website
and vision document promising transparency and
accountability
in
his
regime.
He said that the website
shall reduce the communication gap. He also promised an ambitious revamp
of the constituency, He told
that Udhampur holds huge
potential for development
to promote which right
intentions is required.
He thanked the people for
their immense love and support and promised to rise up
to people's expectations, if
elected. He toured Chak
More, Krimchi, Pandav
mandir, Khambli, Sourap,
Chinor, Siniote Orra, Chak,
Jib
Ashram,
Garhi,
Barrian, Pine Villa, Sallen
Talab and Sabzi Mandi in a
day and said that he won't
stop till justice is delivered.
DS Group joins Love Care
Foundation for rehabilitation work
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Election duty employees in queue to cast vote in Poonch.
would only be complete after
they avail the credit facility
from our bank.
Later Gandhoke attended
the centenary celebrations of
Branch Office Shalamar Road
Jammu which was opened the
same day in 1914 being the
second branch opened in J
and K State after the branch
office Amira Kadal Srinagar
opened in 1905.
The occasions were also
graced by M.L Mir DGM
Circle Head J and K Circle,
B.M Fazili AGM Circle
Office J and K, Sunil Khosa
Chief Manager Circle Office
J and K and S.S Chib
District
Coordinator
Jammu.
the overdraft facility of
Rs.5,000, accidental insurance of Rs.1lakh and life
insurance of Rs.30,000 were
also addressed.
The response of the participants was very proactive in
closed that no assessment
has been carried out for the
losses they suffered during
last rains and flash floods
and the sufferers are still
waiting for relief. They
resented that the sitting
MLA and MLC who are duly
equipped
with
the
Constituency Development
Funds (CDF) also failed to
take care of the people. They
highlighted that they are
being confronted to the
extreme problem of electric
power, drinking water,
ration, kerosene oil etc.
Among in favour of Saraf
Singh Naag, the Independent
candidate thanked the people
for warm response to his
campaign. He asked them to
use each and every vote of the
area on 2nd December, 2014
so that he is declared victorious with thumping majority.
He assured them that unlike
the earlier leaders, they
would find him always standing by their side.
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difficulties they have been
facing since 2005 when the
college started functioning at
Basohli.
The studemts said that
there are only two permanent
posts in the college one of the
college principal and the
other of the Chowkidar,
besides whole teaching staff
is engaged on the contractual
basis who attend the classes
only once in a blue moon.
PNB organises awareness on PM's Jan Dhan Yojna
‘Shiv Khori Shrine Board—a neglected LMD imposes Rs 26,800 as penalty
religious institution’
Independent candidate Saraf Singh Naag addressing a
public gathering at Reasi.
lems of the college which has
been suffering due to shortage of permanent teaching
faculty, lack of basic amenities like potable water, electricity, laboratory facilities,
library, sports and games.
The agitating students
protested in front of the
SDM Court and Police
Station Basohli and a group
of the student leaders
apprised them regarding the
UDHAMPUR: DS Group
has joined hands with Love
Care Foundation to provide
relief to the flood affected
people in Jammu and
Kashmir. The Foundation
has adopted the Panjar village situated in a remote
area of Udhampur District,
which was totally washed
away by a landslide during
the heavy rains. The entire
village was wiped out and the
people alive lost everything
they had. To provide relief to
the victims Love Care
Foundation alongwith DS
Group have taken on the
responsibility of building 56
hutments for these survivors
to help them keep warm and
covered during the approaching winter season, This
would give shelter to about
121 families who are without
a roof and facing very difficult times.
DS Group upholds philanthropy at the core of its values, and as a committed corporate
citizen
regards
Corporate
Social
Responsibility as an integral
part of its business objectives. Bhavna Sood, Sr. VP
Corporate Communications
and PR DS Group said, "DS
Group is happy to support
Love Care Foundation in this
relief work because we firmly
believe that like business,
care too, does not have any
boundaries to work". A committee comprising of the
members of the affected families and the Panchayat representatives,
has
been
formed to ensure and monitor the progress of the construction. The community is
also actively involved in the
programme, thereby ensuring that the quality of construction is not compromised.
Bhushan Steel and Power
and Cogentrix have also
extended their support for
this project.
Voter awareness held by Senior Citizens Welfare Forum Bishnah hungers for dynamic, effective representation: Bhagat
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KATRA: General house meeting of Senior
Citizens Welfare Forum Katra was held here
on Thursday which was chaired by President
of the Forum Shiv Kumar Sharma who is also
President J and K Indian Style Wrestling
Association.
Besides discussing various general grievances faced by senior citizens of Katra town,
the main stress was given to educate society to
cast their votes positively on 2nd of December
2014, the date of polling in Reasi Constituency.
Noted poet of locality and Secretary of the
Forum, Mohan Lal Sharma recited a Dogri
poem on vote casting awareness amongst the
society.
Shiv appealed to young generation to make
full use of their right to strengthen democracy
by casting vote.
Puran Chand Gupta and Sunder Dass
Sharma retired lecturers also shared their
experiences.
Vote of thanks was presented by Vice
President of the Forum, Sukhdev Singh.
Prominent members present on the occasion
were Om Parkash Magotra (Treasurer), Sham
Lal Paroch, Ajit Lal Sharma, Sunder Dass
Sharma, Mubarik Singh, Pandit Gopal
Krishan (all Executive Members), Babu Ram
Sharma, Paras Ram Sharma, Shubh Datt
Puri, Vinod Kumar, Shanker Lal, Pushap
Singh, Munshi Ram Verma, Sansar Chand,
Hari Krishan Sanmotra, Ishar Dass Sharma,
Lekh Raj and Karnail Singh Jambal.
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BISHNAH: Reiterating commitment of
his party to formulate a comprehensive
policy for the all-round growth, uplift of
the far flung areas and vowing to represent the genuine aspirations of Bishnah
in every forum, PDP candidate for the
constituency F.C Bhagat on Thursday
said the injustice meted out to the area
due to lack of genuine representation will
be undone by highlighting various issues
and pursuing the agenda of inclusive
development.
"PDP have chalked out an agenda for
Bishnah, which will be accomplished
within specific time frame", Bhagat said
while addressing an election meeting at
different
villages
in
Bishnah
Constituency adding the constituency in
hungry for dynamic and effective representation.
On the occasion various participants along with their supporters reposed their trust in
the party and Bhagat, saying
the common mass is convinced
that the area will get its right
place in the socio-economic profile of the State with right representation.
Bhagat said he will ensure Bishnah
gets special dispensation for its development. Despite being in the close vicinity
of the capital city, the area has not got
the exposure it ought to have, he said,
adding that he will make a big push to
transform it into a model constituency.
He said multi-faceted activities
in the constituency will open up
vistas of opportunities for the
youth, the skilled and unskilled
work force and different other
segments of the society. He
sought cooperation of all in this
gigantic effort and appealed to
vote for PDP.
Others who were present includes
Chatter Singh Saini (Distt. President
PDP), S.P Charak (State President
Kissan cell), Yashpal Bhagat( Sr. Leader
PDP), Bhagwan Dass (Sarpanch) and
Pritam Singh (Sarpanch).