Grief outpours across nation as rape victim dies

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REGD.NO.JK-71/12-14
RNI No. 28547/1992
daily
Excelsior
Vol No. 48
No. 363
JAMMU, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2012
12+4 (Magazine) = 16 Pages
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Police invokes murder charges against accused
Woman gang-raped in Mendhar
JAMMU, Dec 29: While the flames of Delhi gang-rape case
have not yet doused in the country, yet another case of gang-rape
took place in a village near Mendhar in district Poonch late last
evening.
The victim is 35 year-old poor, hapless and ailing widow,
who was returning home to Kalaban village after Medical examination at Sub-District Hospital Mendhar. As the woman boarded off a Tata Sumo at around 5.30 pm on the road side near Takia
Ziarat and started moving towards her village (Kalaban) on foot,
three youth started chasing her. It was chilling cold and the dusk
had started. She sensed trouble and started moving fast.
The three local youth also started running fast and then
caught hold of the hapless and lone-woman at an isolated place
and committed sexual assault repeatedly on her. The poorwoman raised alarm but she was gagged and there was no one to
listen to her screams. The culprits then left the ailing victim in
cold and escaped. She kept lying there for some time and mustering courage, then she started moving and reached a near-by
(Contd on page 7 Col 1)
Excelsior Correspondent
Bike seized for IED suspicion
Fight for Justice: People adopt different forms of protests against gang-rape of 23 year old girl at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Saturday. (UNI)
SINGAPORE/NEW
DELHI, Dec 29:
After battling for life for
13 days, the 23-year-old Delhi
girl, who was gang-raped in a
bus, died in Singapore early
this morning leading to a
massive outpouring of grief
across India as she was hailed
as “daughter of the nation”.
The girl, who was admitted to the well-known multiorgan transplant facility
Mount Elizabeth Hospital
here on Thursday morning in
an extremely critical condition, breathed her last at 4:45
am (2:15 am IST). She was
earlier
treated
at
the
Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi.
Six suspects involved in the
rape and brutal assault on her
would now be tried for murder
charges, which involves death
penalty in rarest of rare cases.
The body was ferried to
Delhi in a chartered Air India
plane AIC-380A that took off
around 12:30 am local time
(10:00 pm IST), Indian High
Commission officials said.
The mortal remains may be
taken straight to her home town
of Ballia in Uttar Pradesh in
keeping with the family’s wishes for a private funeral tomorrow morning.
“We are very sad to report
that the patient passed away
peacefully at 4.45am on 29 Dec
2012 (Singapore time),” the
hospital’s Chief Executive
Officer Dr Kelvin Loh said in a
statement.
“Her family and officials
from the High Commission of
India were by her side. The
Mount Elizabeth Hospital team
of doctors, nurses and staff join
her family in mourning her
loss,” the statement said.
As an outraged nation
empathised with the gangrape victim, peace marches
and candle light vigil were
taken out across India while
heart of New Delhi — India
Gate and Raisina Hill — was
shut down for protesters.
Death for rapists and
stringent laws to deal with
aggravated sexual assault
were a common demand by
the women and men across
India who identified themselves with the victim and the
family.
President
Pranab
Mukherjee, Vice President
Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister
Dr Manmohan Singh, Congress
chief Sonia Gandhi, and a host
of political leaders condoled the
death of the girl and hailed the
brave fight the victim put up
against the bestial elements
who assaulted her.
Delhi Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit, who had earlier came under attack for not
connecting with the protesters
last week, was booed and
heckled when she went to
Jantar Mantar to show solidarity with a big crowd of
mourners.
Indian High Commissioner
T C A Raghavan told reporters
that the family was yet to
decide on the plans for the last
rites back home. The family has
requested that their privacy be
respected in their hour of grief,
he said.
He said the girl fought a
brave battle till the end and that
the final few hours was a trying
time for the girl’s family. They
bore the entire process with a
great deal of fortitude and
courage, he said.
President Mukherjee led
India in mourning the death of
the girl and described her as the
“brave daughter of India” and
that all steps to bring the perpetrators of this “ghastly crime”
to justice should be taken.
“She was a brave and courageous girl who fought till the
very last minute for her dignity
and her life. She is a true hero
and symbolises the best in
Indian youth and women...The
nation will mourn the passing
of this brave daughter of India,”
the President said in his condolence message.
Prime
Minister
Singh
expressed the hope that the
entire political class and civil
society will set aside narrow
sectional interests and agenda
to make India a demonstrably
safer place to live in.
The Congress President
said the fight of nation’s
“beloved daughter” will not go
in vain, promising “swift and
fitting punishment” to perpetrators as well as stringent laws for
women protection.
In New Delhi, police
invoked murder charges against
the six men allegedly involved
in the gang-rape and said it will
5 flights cancelled, pilgrim killed
Despite lapse of 5 months, Govt
sleeping over HC’s directions
Heavy snowfall in Valley, NH reopened
Mohinder Verma
JAMMU,
Dec
29:
Notwithstanding the fact that
corruption has engulfed the
society like wildfire and is considered as mother of all evils,
the State Government is sleeping over the directions of the
High Court regarding conferring powers on all the courts
of Additional District Judges
across the State under
Prevention of Corruption Act
to deal with this menace expeditiously.
The Srinagar Wing of the
High Court in a case titled
Mohammad Amin Beigh Versus
State and Others had on July 9,
2012 directed the State through
Chief Secretary to take immedi-
ate steps for conferring powers
on all the Courts of Additional
District Judges in the State
excepting that of Srinagar and
Jammu
districts,
under
Prevention of Corruption Act,
2006.
These directions were issued
on the ground that on one side
the corruption is continuously
increasing and on the other side
there is huge pendency of such
cases because only two
Principles Courts and two
Additional Courts are dealing
with the cases of corruption in
the State.
In the detailed order, the
High Court had also mentioned
that the State is under constitutional obligation to provide corruption free society and in order
to attain such goal the State is
duty bound to create more courts
for exclusively dealing with the
offences punishable under the
2006.
Following the directions of
the High Court, the Law
Department wrote to Finance,
General Administration and
Home Departments seeking
their comments before implementation of the directions of far
reaching consequences, official
sources told EXCELSIOR,
adding “even the Registrar
General of the High Court was
approached on the ground that
proper concurrence was required
from the High Court to confer
powers on all the Courts of
Legal hurdles, funds delay
doubling of Jammu-Pathankot track
Nishikant Khajuria
JAMMU, Dec 29: Legal
hurdles and shortage of funds
are refraining the Railway
authorities to set a deadline
for completion of the doubling
of
Jammu-PathankotJalandhar track even as 90
percent of the task has been
accomplished and construction work on three major
bridges has also initiated after
clearance of the court and subsequent calling of fresh tenders.
Completion of much delayed
three major railway bridges on
Ravi, Ujh and Basantar rivers is
likely to take place more than
two years provided no further
brakes are put up by legal hurdles and shortage of funds, highly placed authoritative sources
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JAMMU
Partially cloudy sky.
TEMPERATURE
Max:
16.0 Degree C
Min:
9.4 Degree C
RELATIVE HUMIDITY
Highest:
92.0 per cent
Lowest:
72.0 per cent
Sunset on Sunday:
05.36 p.m.
Sunrise on Monday:
07.33 a.m.
KASHMIR
Generally cloudy sky.
TEMPERATURE
Max:
3.1 Degree C
Min:
0.8 Degree C
RELATIVE HUMIDITY
Highest:
97.0 per cent
Lowest:
94.0 per cent
told the Excelsior.
Besides, sources added,
work on a canal crossing and an
overhead bridge on National
Highway near Kunjwani are also
likely to be finished by the time
these three bridges are completed.
Pertinent to mention that
work on Ujh bridge got delayed
because of a court stay following some controversy over allotment of the tenders while the
bridges on Ravi and Basantar
were sanctioned during the
process of doubling of the lane.
Rs 700 crore mega project
of doubling of the JammuPathankot-Jalandhar track was
started around a decade ago
under the Prime Minister’s
Reconstruction plan. The plan
was conceived in 1997-98 and
the work started in 2002. The
work was started in different
stretches and most of the challenges posed to engineering
were overcome. The Northern
Railway had earlier set a deadline of December 2011 for completion of doubling of the track,
which is aimed at improving the
rail services between Punjab,
Sharma said that five Srinagar
bound flights could not take off
from Jammu airport today in
view of heavy snow fall and poor
SRINAGAR/JAMMU Dec
visibility conditions at Srinagar
29: Parts of Kashmir valley
experienced fresh snowfall
today disrupting the air and surface traffic to the Valley, while
the authorities issued fresh avalanche warning in North
Kashmir as a pilgrim died due
to shooting stone on Mata
Vaishnodevi track near AdhKunwari.
The heavy snowfall in Jawahar
Tunnel area and Patnitop along the
Jammu-Srinagar
National
Highway and Bhimber Gali area
on Jammu- Poonch road, forced
the authorities to close the
Highway for traffic in the morning
but it was resumed in the afternoon
after snow clearance.
Poor visibility at the Srinagar
International Airport disrupted air
—Excelsior/Gulzar Habib
traffic in the morning but it was
resumed in the afternoon. Two Villagers walk during snowfall at Shopian-Jammu National
flights of Spicejet, one flight each Highway in South Kashmir on Saturday.
of Go Air, Jet Airways and Army
airport. He said a total of five at Jammu airport. A total of 11
chartered plane was cancelled due
flights including one each of flights could operate from here
to the poor visibility but late in the
Spicejet, Jetlite, Go Air and two today while Air Mantra flight
afternoon several fights landed
flights of Air India could not between Chandigarh and
and took off from the airport.
operate between Jammu(Contd on page 7 Col 3)
SP Airport Jammu Ashok
Army, BSF create 3 lines of
security to tackle intrusions in fog
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Dec 29: Army
and Border Security Force
(BSF) have put in a place a
three tier security apparatus
along the Line of Control
(LoC) and International
Border (IB) in Jammu sector
to ensure that the militants,
who were badly frustrated by
sitting at launching pads on
Pakistan side for a long time,
didn’t manage to infiltrate
into this side taking cover of
dense fog and other adverse
weather conditions, which
have engulfed entire Jammu
region and would persist for at
least one more month.
Official sources told the
Excelsior that Army and BSF
have created three lines of security along the LoC and IB to
make it sure that even if the mil-
Mirwaiz for Indo-Pak dialogue
SRINAGAR, Dec 29: Chairman moderate faction of Hurriyat
Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today said that proposals and
formulas put forward for the solution of Kashmir issue should be
discussed on table by India and Pakistan along with Kashmiris so
that some solution is found to the Kashmir issue.
"Over the years many prospective solutions, formulas and suggestions have come forward vis-à-vis Kashmir issue and its solution. There is no harm in discussing these but the condition is that
people of Kashmir are taken on board. The four point formula as
put forward by former Pakistan President General Parvez
Musharraf can also guide us and this too can be discussed," said
Mirwaiz while addressing a press conference here today.
He exuded confidence that dialogue between India and
Pakistan would help in breaking the ice on Kashmir issue. He
stressed upon the need for inclusion of Kashmiri leadership in the
talks adding that aspirations of people should be given top most
priority.
"Distance and differences between the two neighbouring countries can be narrowed by permitting people to move to both the sides
Srinagar. All the flights were freely and have people to people dialogue. Softening of borders
delayed due to fog and bad
weather. Indigo flight which has
its schedule arrival timing 9.30
am, landed at around 11.15 am
Conferring powers on Addl Distt Judges to deal with corruption cases
Fayaz Bukhari/
Gopal Sharma
JAMMU, Dec 29: Police today seized a motor-cycle lying
abandoned at Chowki Chowra on Akhnoor-Sunderbani road in
Rajouri district after sniffer dogs of Army hovered around it for
quite sometime on the suspicion of explosive object in it.
SSP Rajouri Mubassir Latifi said a motor cycle No. 9643 was
parked near the main road at Chowki Chowra under the jurisdiction of Sunderbani police station when sniffer dogs of a Road
Opening Party (ROP) of Army stood around it for few minutes
indicating that it might be containing explosive material.
Soon a word spread that the motor-cycle was fitted with an
IED. Traffic on the road was stopped.
A Bomb Disposal Squad later confirmed that no explosive
material had been tied around the bike.
However, Mr Latifi said, the bike belonging to Pushpinder
Kumar of Ghag, Sunderbani has been seized for further investigations.
Traffic was restored on the road after the seizure of motorcycle.
Curfew lifted from Pulwama
SRINAGAR, Dec 29: Curfew like restrictions that were
imposed in Pulwama and its adjoining areas yesterday were lifted
this evening while both the moderate and hardline Hurriyat
Conference factions called for strike on Monday against security
forces firing in which 8 people were injured in Pulwama.
Deputy Commissioner Pulwama, Shafat Noor, told Excelsior
that curfew like restrictions that were imposed yesterday were lifted this evening after the improvement in the situation. "We are
monitoring the situation and if it continues to be normal there will
be no further restrictions tomorrow", he added.
The DC said that 2300 students appeared in the examination in
Pulwama town and shops in certain areas were also open.
However, some youth appeared in Muran and Rajpora Chowks and
pelted stones on police and CRPF. Police chased them away by
charging batons on them and firing tear gas shells. However, the
youth re-grouped and intermittent clashes continued for few hours.
Meanwhile, moderate Hurriyat Conference has called for a
7 killed, 50 hurt in Pak blast
ISLAMABAD, Dec 29:
At least seven persons were killed and nearly 50 others injured
when a powerful explosion ripped through a bus a short distance
from the Pakistan Army chief’s official residence in the southern
port city of Karachi today.
The bus had just left a terminal near the Cantonment Railway
Station when the bomb went off, witnesses and police officials
said.
The incident occurred at a spot located less than a kilometre
from Army House, the Army chief’s official residence when he visits Karachi.
TV news channels reported Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez
Kayani was in Karachi and had stayed at Army House last night.
Officials at Jinnah Hospital said they had received seven bodies, including one which was in pieces, and 48 injured people.
Eight of the wounded were in a serious condition.
Women and children were among the injured, they said.
Witnesses said they had seen body parts lying at the site.
One man told reporters a young boy was torn in two by the
explosion.
Criminal held with pistol
A BSF jawan maintains vigil near fencing amid dense fog
along IB in Jammu.
—Excelsior/Rakesh
itants managed to breach one perate to sneak into this side
line, they were captured or killed from LoC and IB in Jammu secat second or third line.
tor and would make determined
“Three tier security appara- attempts to enter into this side
tus followed the reports that taking cover of thick fog’’, they
nearly 300 militants were des(Contd on page 7 Col 3)
JAMMU, Dec 29: City police today arrested a criminal and
recovered a country made pistol from his possession.
The criminal has been identified as Sandeep Singh alias Happy
son of Jagdish Singh R/o Ganga Nagar, Bantalab.
Police said the accused was riding on a motor cycle at
Vivekanand Chowk this evening when police signaled him to stop.
He tried to escape but was chased away and captured.
Police recovered one country made pistol from the possession
of accused. A case has been registered against him at City police
station for further investigations.
Police parties headed by SHO City Inspector Bishnesh Kumar
made the arrest under the supervision of SP City (North) Jatinder
Singh Johar and SDPO North Kulbir Handa.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2012 (PAGE 2)
OBITUARIES
CREMATION
With profound grief and sorrow we
regret to inform the sad demise of our
beloved Sh. Bansi Lal Sharma S/o
Lt.
Sh.
Parmanand
Sharma
Residence of H.No. 85,Lane No. 27,
Rajpura Mangotrian, Jammu.
Funeral will take place at Shakti
Nagar, (Shanti Ghat) on 30 Dec. 2012
at 12 Noon.
Grief Stricken
Sh. Bansi Lal Sharma
Smt. Krishna Devi- Wife
Rajni & Rajesh Jamwal- Daughter-in-Law & Son
Mrs. Anju & Mr. Dharam Pal Soodan- Daughter & Son-in-Law
Mrs. Bindu & Rajeev Sharma- Daughter & Son-in-Law
Grand Children: Sharun, Shriya, Shinal, Sneha, Bhabya, Shiny
& Rudhar
M/S Jamwal Enterprises, Rajpura Mangotrian
Mob.: 9419124564, 9858129179
CREMATION
DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU
TENTH DAY
CHOUBARSI
We inform that Choubarsi of our beloved & revered Smt. Sheela
Devi Ji will be performed on Monday 31st December, 2012 at our
residence Vidhya Niwas, Patoli Brahmana, Akhnoor Road, Jammu.
Sej : 12 Noon
Preeti Bhoj : 1 pm to 5 pm
Remembered By :
Vidhya Ram Sharma -Husband
Subash Sharma, Sarpanch -Son
Jaipal Sharma, SHO Nowabad -Son
Dheeraj, Hardith, Akshat, Aryaman -Grand Children
9419198634, 9419185333
Smt. Sheela Devi Ji
Tenth Day/ Kriya/ Rasam Pagri
GRIEF STRICKEN
Koul, Trakroo Pariwar
Ph:- 09596630124, 09990011911, 09469371026
CREMATION
With profound grief and sorrow we inform the sad
demise of our beloved Sh. Jai Dev Singh Jamwal S/o
Late Capt. Pritam Singh Jamwal R/o House No - 112
Mohalla Naraina Kachi Chowni Jammu on 29th Dec.
2012.
Cremation shall take place at Jogi Gate Cremation
Ground Jammu at 1.00 pm on 30th of December.
Smt. Kamal Kanta Bargotra -Wife
Smt. Rukmani Devi W/o Late Sh. Amarnath Sharma -Mother-in-Law
Daughter-in-Law’s & Sons
Smt. Nanni & Sh. Rajan Bargotra
Smt. Disha W/o Late Sh. Raman Bargotra
Smt. Anita & Sh. Rajeev Bargotra
Smt. Monika & Sh. Ranjay Bargotra
Late Sh. Dhan Raj Bargotra
Daughter & Son-in-Law
Ex. MLA & MLC
Smt. Renu & Sh. Parmod Goswami
Sister & Brother-in-Law
Sister-in-Laws & Brother-in-Laws
Smt. Chanchal & Prof. Nilamber Dev Sharma
Smt. Kamlesh W/o Late Sh. Desh Bandhu Sharma
Smt. Anita & Sh. Hemant Magotra -Nephew
Smt. Darshana W/o Late Sh. Krishan Lal Sharma
Bhabies & Brothers
Dr. Kuldeep Sharma -Brother-in-Law
Smt. Susheela & Sh. Upinder Nath Bargotra
Smt. Santosh & Sh. Vijay Sharma
Smt. Chander Kanta & Sh. Mohan Lal Bargotra
Smt. Shubh W/o Late Sh. Ashok Sharma
Dr. Madalsa & Dr. R.N. Bargotra
Smt. Ramni & Sh. Mohinder Sharma
Smt. Aarti & Sh. Ajay Bargotra -Daughter-in-Law & Nephew
Grief Stricken
Sh. Jai Dev Singh Jamwal
Contact No : 9796480445, 9419888945
Tenth Day/ Kriya/ Uthala
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform the sad
demise of our beloved Sh. Kailash Choudhary (Retd
from Agro Industries (Chief Mechanic) S/o Late Ch.
Durga Dass Saini R/o 233/B, Jeevan Nagar Opp.
Industrial Estate Digiana, Jammu. Tenth Day will be performed on 31-12-2012 Monday at 10 AM at our residence. Kriya will be performed on 3-01-2013 Thursday at
our residence at 12:00 Noon. Uthala will be performed
on 4-01-2013 Friday 3:00 PM at our residence.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt. Swarna Devi -Wife
Son’s
Sanjeev Choudhary : M.No:- 9906122886, 9086139681
Rohit Saini : M.No:- 9858211154
Daughter and Son-in-Law
Smt. Jyoti & Sh. Manish Gupta
& All Saini Family
Kailash Choudhary
(1943-2012)
With profound grief & sorrow, we inform the
sad demise of our beloved mother Smt.
Janak Rani Khashu W/o Lt. Sh. Jai Lal
Khashu originally resident of Batyar Ali Kadal
Srinagar (Kashmir), presently at H.No. 7,
Vasant Enclave, Trilokpur Road, Gole-Gujral
Jammu.
Tenth Day will be performed on 31-12-2012 at
9:00 a.m. Muthi Ghat near Directorate of
Education, Jammu.
OBITUARY
demise of our beloved Sh. Hans Raj Sharma (Ex.
General Manager, Super Bazar, Jammu) S/o Lt. Sh.
Pitamber Nath on 22nd December 2012.
TENTH DAY will be performed on 31st December
2012 (Monday) at 11 a.m. and Kirya on Ist January
2013 (Tuesday) at our residence H. No. 63 Ward No.
10, Mill Area R.S. Pura.
UTHALA will be held on 2nd January 2013
(Wednesday) at 4 p.m. at Vaid Deherie, Mill Area,
Ward No. 10, R.S. Pura.
BHOG & ANTIM ARDAS
With profound grief & sorrow we inform that
S. Lachhman Singh Ji S/o Sh. Late Duni Chand Ji R/o
Simbal More Basti Gobind Pura (R.S.Pura) left for heavenly abode on 22-12-2012. Remaining Programme to
attand is as under
Arambh Sri Akhand Path Sahib on 28-12-2012 at
home Basti Gobind Pura 9.30 AM.
Bhog Sri Akhand Path Sahib on 30-12-2012 at 9:30
AM at our residence.
Kirtan & Antim Ardas at Gurudawara Basti Gobind
Pura (Simbal Mode) from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM followed by Guru Ka Langer at Gurudwara Sahib
Sdn. Jai Kour -Wife
Daughter-in-law & Sons
Sdn. Narinder Kour W/o S. Dalip Singh (G.Q)
Sdn. Kamaljit Kour W/o S. Sukhdev Singh
Sdn. Amarjit Kour W/o S. Ranjeet Singh
S. Harbans Singh - Son
Daughter & Son-in-laws
Sdn. Narinder Kour W/o Late S. Saroop Singh
Sdn. Jaswant Kour W/o S. Jagjit Singh
SMT. SHANTI GUPTA
Sons and Daughter-in-laws
Dr. K.B. Gupta & Mrs Punam Gupta
Mr Vijay Gupta & Mrs Prem Gupta
Mr Ashok Gupta & Mrs Rita Gupta
Daughter and Son-in-law
Mrs Kanchan Gupta & Mr Vinod Gupta
Grand Children:
Dr. Rishabh & Dr Shavi, Dr Rajat & Dr. Deepika, Mr Ritesh & Mrs Rashi, Ashok &
Shweta, CA Rahul Gupta, Rashmi, Nitin, Ankur, Dr. Virender, Dr. Veena & Dr Sunny
Mob: 9419213231, 9858221637
Mob: 9419304889, 9419183132, 9018343064
Son & Daughter-in-law
S. Satinder Singh (Billu) & Smt. Nirmaljeet Kour
S. Jagjeet Singh Risam (Jagga)-Brother
S. Dara Singh Risam (Advocate)-Brother
Smt. Amarjeet Kour-Sister-in-law
S. J.D. Singh-Grand Son
Miss Komal Singh-Grand Daughter
SH SARDARI LAL
GUPTA
UTHALA
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gekjh ek¡ !!!
Gurbachan Kour -Daughter
Grand Sons & Grand Daughters
Harneet Singh, Parvinder Singh, Simranjit
Singh, Gurpreet Kour W/o S. Manvinder
Singh, Gurneet Kour
Ph.No. 9419193777, 9419106369,
9796235599
Obituary/ Condolence
With profound grief and sorrow we inform the
sad demise of our beloved mother Karamyogi
Smt Somawati Bhat, wife of Sh Soom Nath
Bhat, R/o Bongund Verinag, (Ang) Kashmir, at
present, Patoli Brahmana, who passed on
December 26, 2012. She was a great soul who
beckoned our lives.
Tenth Day Kriya will be performed on January
4, 2013 (Friday) at 8:30 am at Muthi Ghat near
Directorate of School Education, Jammu.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Daughters and Sons-in-Law:
Smt Phoola and Sh Rattan Lal Koul
Smt Santosha and Sh Chaman Lal Bhat
Smt Daizy and Sh Suresh Kumar Gosani
Grand Sons & Grand daughters-in law
Sh Sanjay Koul and Smt Roma Koul
Sh Manoj Koul and Smt Purnima Koul
Sh Vinod Koul and Smt Dimple
Naveen, Shweta, Shilpa, Shilpy and Amit Bhat.
Uthala of our beloved brother Sh Baij Nath
Gupta S/o Lt Sh Mulkh Raj Gupta of Akhnoor
will be performed at Mahajan Hall Akhnoor on
Date 31-12-2012 time 4.00 PM
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt Kanchan & Lt Sh Pashori Lal Gupta
Smt Anita & Lt Sh Pawan Gupta
Smt Sunita & Sh Vimal Gupta
Dr Rajni & Dr Kamal Gupta
Smt Dolly & Sh Dinesh Gupta
10TH DAY KRIYA
Sh Baij Nath Gupta
Smt Seema & Sh Rajesh Gupta
RESPECTFUL HOMAGE TO
KISHNI KHAROO ON HER TENTH DAY KRIYA
Our beloved Kishni Kharoo W/o Sh K L Kharoo departed for her heavenly abode on 23-12-2012 at 5 am. Her
Tenth Day Kriya will be performed at Akhnoor on
Monday, 31-12-2012 and respectful homage will be paid
to her at our residence H No. 53 A/I Patoli Mangotrian,
Lane No. 1, Opposite J&K Bank ATM, Jammu. Do please
join us to pray to God for her ‘NIRVANA’ ON 31/12/2012
AT 12.30 P.M.
Karamyogi Smt
Somawati Bhat
ARTI & ANIL KHAROO
(Daughter-in-law & Son)
Sheshi & S K Ganju,
(Daughter & Son-in-law)
Co-Sharers in Grief
M L Handoo,
Usha & B N Razdan
Nirmala & S L Zadoo,
Manju & Vivek Handoo,
Neelu & Sanjay Handoo,
Meenakshi & Sunil Raina
Kiran & Manish Razdan
SMT. KISHNI
KHAROO
KAW, HANDOO, BHAT & KAMDASI PARIVARS
Grand Children :
ANURAG, SAKSHI, AKRITI, AKASH, ABHINAV, ANJELLA, DIVYA & VARENYA.
OM PARKASH
SABHARWAL
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SABHARWAL FAMILY
0191-2457502
MOB: 9419129672, 9906384743
BHOG AND ANTIM ARDAS
demise of our beloved mother Sdn. Mohinder Kour
W/o Late S. Damodar Singh R/o Bawli Kanli Bagh
Baramulla presently 121/2 Ekta Vihar Gangyal
expired on 27-12-2012.
Programme
Arambh Shri Akhand Path Sahib at our residence on 03-01-2013 at 9:00 AM.
Bhog Shri Akhand Path Sahib on 05-01-2013 at our
residence 9:30 am at Gurudwara Sahib from 10:00 AM
to 12 Noon after that Guru Ka Langer will be served.
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Sdn. Mohinder Kour
With profound grief and sorrow we inform
the sad demise of our beloved Shri Laju
Ram Gupta S/o Late Kanshi Ram Gupta
R/o H.No. 11 Gali Khillonia, Pacca Danga,
Jammu. Uthala will take place at 4.00 PM
on 31. 12. 2012 (Monday) at Brahaman
Sabha, Parade Ground, Jammu.
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Sons & Daughter-in-laws
Smt. Shashi & Ashok Gupta
Smt. Veena & Vinod Gupta
Shri Laju Ram Gupta
Smt. Anu & Sunil Gupta
Daughters and Son-in-Laws
Smt. Sureshtha & Ashok Gupta (Sanjay Nagar)
Smt. Sunita & Rajesh Gupta (Shastri Nagar)
Smt. Suman & Subhash Gupta (Talab Tillo)
Grand Children :- Sonia, Atul, Neha, Ankush, Prince, Tamana, Taniya,
Sakshi, Mehak, Kanav, Kriti, Raghav, Pratham, Sumit.
M/s Vinod Caterers
Contact:- 94191-90958
10TH DAY
With profound grief and sorrow, we inform
the sad demise of our beloved Romesh
Kumar Gupta S/o Late Labu Ram R/o
191, Street Daruga, Kanak Mandi Jmu.
10th Day will be performed on 30-12-12
Sunday at Mahajan Hall, at 11 A.M.
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Smt Shanti Devi (Mother)
Smt Ramni Gupta (Wife)
Mahak (Daughter)
Kuldeep (Son)
Mobile No. 9469763866
Sh. Romesh Kumar
Gupta
BHOG/ANTIM ARDAS
Smt. Kamlawati Ganjoo
UTHALA
BESEECHERS :-
With profound grief and sorrow, we
inform the sad demise of our
beloved Om Parkash Sabharwal
S/o Late Mehar Singh on 23-122012 R/o H. No. 1800-F Shastri
Nagar, Jammu.
Rasam Pagri/Uthala will be
performed
on
02-01-2013
(Wednesday) at our residence at
2.00 p.m. onwards
UTHALA
SMT. MOHINDER KOUR
Six Months have elapsed since you
physically departed from us but emotionally you are always in our thoughts. You
were an embodiment of nobleness,
sagacity and passion. Your moral values,
disciplined life, affection and generosity
shall always inspire us to move on righteous path. Memories of your unconditional love, humble disposition and selfless service will always be cherished.
We pay our respectful homage and pray
thy Almighty for the eternal peace to your
SANT LATE SHRI
noble soul.
SHAMBOO NATH RAINA
Shadmos/Maasvar of our sant father
Late Shri Shamboo Nath Raina S/o Late Shri Amar Chand Raina
R/o Harman Shopian (Kashmir) will be performed on 30-12-2012
and 31-12-2012 at our residence H. No. 480 Vinayak Nagar Sector2 Muthi, Jammu. We love and miss you Pitaji.
DEEPLY REMEMBERED BY
ALL FAMILY MEMBERS, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS
MOBILE: 9419106054, 9796661631, 9419141999
With profound grief & sorrow, we inform the sad and untimely
demise of our beloved mother Smt. Kamlawati Ganjoo W/o Lt.
Sh. Maheshwar Nath Ganjoo originally resident of Mohalla Jadid
Baramulla, Kashmir presently residing at H.No. 32, Lane No. 22,
Surya Vihar Bohri on 28th December 2012.
The Tenth Day Kriya will be performed at Muthi Ghat Near
Education Board on 06th Jan 2013 at 9:00 a.m.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt. Mohrani Ganjoo - Daughter-in-law
Sons & Daughters-in-law
Sh. M.K. Ganjoo & Smt. Veena Ganjoo
Sh. Rajesh Ganjoo & Smt. Veena Ganjoo
Smt. Nancy & Sh. M.L. Koul - Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt. Usha & Sh. Raj Nath Suri - Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt. Babita & Sh. Vinod Sharma - Daughter & Son-in-law
Mr. Robin Ganjoo - Grand Son
All Grand Children & Great Grand Children
Mob.: 9419119205, 9622228898
RASAM PAGRI/UTHALA
Tajinder Singh -Son
Jatinder Singh -Son
Dalminder Singh -Son
& All Family Members
SHADMOS/MAASVAR
MOBILE : 9419158958, 9796218322
S. Lachhman Singh Ji
BHOG/ANTIM ARDAS
demise of our beloved Smt. Mohinder Kour W/o Late
S. Moti Singh (Retd. SSP Vigilance) on 26-12-2012 at
our residence Extn 4 near Tube Well Sanjay Nagar
Jammu.
Arambh Sri Akhand Path Sahib on 28-12-2012 at 9
a.m. at residence. Bhog Sri Akhand Path Sahib on
30-12-2012 at residence. Kirtan & Antam Ardas at
Gurudawara Singh Sabha Nanak Nagar on 30-122012 from 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. Guru Ka Langer
onwards.
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WITH PROFOUND GRIEF AND SORROW, WE
INFORM THE SAD DEMISE OF OUR BELOVED SH
SARDARI LAL GUPTA S/O LT. SH DEVI DASS KUDYAR (RAM NAGAR WALE) R/O H. NO. 124, WARD-10,
HOSPITAL ROAD, UDHAMPUR
KRIYA WILL BE PERFORMED ON MONDAY 31-122012 AT DEVIKA, UDHAMPUR RASAM PAGRI WILL
BE PERFORMED AT OUR RESIDENCE AT 4 PM.
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SMT LALITA DEVI - WIFE
BROTHER AND BHABI
SMT JEEVAN PRABHA W/O LT SH RAM PAUL GUPTA
SMT SHASHI & DR RAM KUMAR GUPTA
SONS & DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
SMT & SH. PUNEET AND SANDEEP KUMAR GUPTA
SMT & SH NEELU AND AJAY KUMAR GUPTA
MR. RAJINDER KUMAR
DAUGHTER & SON-IN-LAW
SMT AND SH. SEEMA & AJAY KALSOTRA
SISTERS AND BROTHER-IN-LAW
SMT RAM PAVARI W/O LT SH CHUNI LAL KALSOTRA
SMT MOHINI KALSOTRA W/O LT SH VED PARKASH KALSOTRA
SMT KUNT GUPTA W/O LT DR S C GUPTA
GRAND CHILDREN
RUTBI, AKSHIT, ANGEL, ARNAV
Late Sh. Rohit
Kumar Sharma
(Ex-Head Master)
NOBLE SOUL NEVER DIE
KRIYA/RASAM PAGRI
Sh. Hans Raj Sharma
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Vinod Sharma -Son
(Executive Manager Law, J&K Bank)
Reva Sharma-Daughter-in-law
Varun Raj Sharma & Vipul Raj Sharma-Grand Sons
Daughters and Son-in-laws
Smt. Pinki Sharma and Subash Chander
Smt. Rita Sharma and Madhu Sudan
Mob: 97962-15337
Correction
I Hav Mohd. Farooq Unit-3 Jakli
C/o 56 APO on my service record
my son name written Mohd. Ajzz
Khan which is Mohd. Ajaz Khan &
its date of birth is 24-2-2003. Now I
am applying it for correction if any
objection cont. concerned Authority
within 7 days.
18 years have passed since you left us.
Remembered By:
Late Smt. Nirmal Gupta- Wife
Sons & Daughters-in-Law
Sh. Amit Gupta & Smt. Mosmi Gupta
Sh. Gourav Gupta & Smt. Pooja Gupta
Pranav, Akshat- Grand Sons
Q.No. 111/112 Sarwal Colony, Mandir Morh Sh. Surinder Gupta
(Mirpur)
Mob.: 9622113240, 9796240068
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Smt. Janak Rani
Khashu
Khashu’s, (Koul’s), Dhar’s, Bhatt’s &
Kothedar’s Dewani’s
M. Nos :- 9469232768, 9469372125, 9871391533
ATTENTION
If you want to get rid from smoking,
drinking, drugs and depression of
any kind, I am at your services. I
will make you to leave all these for
your good and energetic health.
Please, because health is wealth
and precious.
R Chander
9419912258, Jammu
18th Death Anniversary
TENTH DAY & KIRYA
the sad demise of our beloved Smt. Shanti
Gupta W/o Late Sh. Chuni Lal Gupta R/o
H. No. 309, Street No. 8, Talab Tillo, Jammu
on 22-12-2012.
Tenth Day will be performed on 31-122012 (Monday) at 11.00 a.m. at our residence.
Rasam Pagri/Uthala will be performed on
02-01-2013 (Wednesday) at 4.00 p.m. at
Shiv Temple, Talab Tillo, Chowk, Jammu.
TENTH DAY KRIYA
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REMEMBRANCE
Three years has passed without your presence but not a moment without your unforgetable sweet and smiling face. We miss
you and feel your presence and blessings at
every moment of our life.
We pray to Almighty God give to eternal
peace to your noble soul. Your blessings
only make us move ahead in life.
Deeply Remembered By:
Sharma Family
99 Sarwal Colony, Jammu
Mob.: 9419196340, 9419121487, 9419500003
Brother & Bhabi
Smt Rekha Gupta & Dr Kanwal Kishore Gupta
SON’S AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAWS
G.L. Kuchroo & Ratna Kuchroo
B.L. Kuchroo & Nimmi Kuchroo
Dr. T.K. Kuchroo & Vijaya Kuchroo
Dr. C.N. Kuchroo & Rita Kuchroo
Ramesh Kuchroo & Rekha Kuchroo Late Avtar Kuchroo & Vijay Kuchroo
Shri Mohan Lal
Ashok Kuchroo & Babli Kuchroo
Daleep Kuchroo & Deepa Kuchroo
Kuchroo (Watt)
SON-IN-LAW AND DAUGHTEREr. N.M. Vishin & Nirmal Vishin
GRAND SONS-IN-LAW AND GRAND DAUGHTERS
Vidyut Kak & Kavita Kak
Vikas Munshi & Areena Munshi
Diwakar Kachroo & Prachi Kachroo
Puneet Kaul & Ruchi Kaul
Manas Chaturvedi & Nymphia Chaturvedi
GRAND SONS AND GRAND DAUGHTER-IN-LAWS
Kowshik Kuchroo & Rosy Kuchroo
Kashyap Kuchroo & Soni Kuchroo
Akshar Kuchroo & Rashee Kuchroo
GRAND CHILDREN- Ankush, Pallavi, Nikhil
GREAT GRAND CHILDREN- Aahan, Prava, Ghaa, Pranav, Zoova, Gia, Zayyan and
Samast Parivar of Kuchroo’s (Watt), Raina’s (Baramulla), Vishin’s, Kalloo’s, Khosa’s, Kaul’s, Raina’s, Munshi’s,
Kak’s Talib’s, Kachroo’s, Shah’s and Chaturvedi’s.
Mobile No: 9796490360 & 9419115521
All Grand Children
0191-2554825, M.No:- 9419605949, 9419283173
Smt. Sarla Devi -Wife
Sons & Daughter-in-laws
Mr. Tarun Jamwal & Mrs. Renu Jamwal
Mr. Arun Jamwal & Mrs. Isha Jamwal
Daughter & Son-in-law
Mrs. Neetu Jamwal & Romesh Jamwal
M/S BABU RAM SHIV KUMAR,
AKHNOOR
M-9419198316 (R)
01924-242285, (Shop) 252371
Our beloved Shri Mohan Lal Kuchroo (Watt) S/o
Late Sudershan Kuchroo left for heavenly abode on
23.12.2012 at 7/5 Sarswati Vihar, Bohri, Jammu.
His 10th Day Kriya will be performed on
01.01.2013 (Tuesday) at Muthi Ghat Near Director
School Education, Jammu at 10.00 a.m.
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GRIEF STRICKEN
Shri Makhan Lal
Koul
Veena Gupta
TENTH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief & sorrow, we inform the sad demise of our
beloved Shri. Dhan Raj Bargotra (Ex. MLA & MLC) S/o Late
Sh. Ram Lal Bargotra R/o H.No: 3, Rama Lane, Hari Nagar,
Talab Tillo Road Jammu on 22nd Dec. 2012.
Tenth Day will be performed on 31-12-2012 at 11 A.M at our residence. Kriya will be performed on 1-1-2013 at 12 Noon at our
residence. Rasam Pagri shall be performed on 2-1-2013 at 4
PM at Brahman Sabha, Parade ground Jammu.
With profound grief and sorrow we
inform the sad demise of our beloved
Shri Makhan Lal Koul S/o Lt Shri Nand
Lal Koul original resident of Batapora
Sopore at present H.No 144-H, Sec- I
Durga Nagar Jammu.
Cremation will take place on
30.12.2012 at 12.00 hrs at Cremation
ground, Bantalab, Jammu.
the sad demise of our beloved SMT. VEENA
GUPTA W/o Sh Shiv Kumar Gupta R/o Ward
No. 5 Jiya Pota Mohalla Akhnoor on 21-122012. TENTH DAY will be
performed on Sunday, 30-12-2012 at Mahajan
Hall, Akhnoor at 12 noon.
IN GRIEF
Sh. Shiv Kumar Gupta -Husband
Mother and Father in law
Smt Sheela Devi & Shri Babu Ram Gupta
Bhabhi & Brother in laws
Smt Seema & Shri Yash Pal Gupta
Smt Kiran & Shri Darshan Lal Gupta
Smt Sunita Gupta W/o late Shri Parshotam Gupta
Sister in laws & Brother in laws
Smt Rani & Sh Ramesh Mahajan (Pathankot)
Smt Neelam & Sh Satish Gupta
Smt Chander Prabha & Sh Rajesh Gupta
Saket & Akshat -Sons
Shruti -Daughter
the sad demise of our beloved Smt. Surjoo
Devi W/o Late Hans Raj Magotra R/o
Village Nagrota (Kallar) Udhampur. Uthala
will take place on 31-12-12 at Nagrota
(Bowli) at 11.00 am near Industrial Estate
Dhar Road Udhampur.
Grief Stricken
Bharat Bhushan Magotra
Smt. Surjoo Devi
Rajinder Kumar Magotra
Jyoti Parkash Magotra
Mob : 96221-99631
With profound grief & sorrow we inform that
S. Jaspal Singh S/o Late S. Jawala Singh R/o
H.No 292, Sec-06, St-14 Nanak Nagar left for
heavenly abode on 25-12-12.
Remaining Programme to attend is as under
Arambh Sri Akhand Path Sahib on 29-12-12
at our residence 9:30 AM
Bhog Sri Akhand Path Sahib on 31-12-12 at
9:30 AM at our residence
Antim Ardas at Gurudwara Sant Pura Danda
Nanak Nagar from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Sdn. Updesh Kour (Wife)
S. Harpreet Singh (Son)
Gurdeep Kour (Daughter)
Tejinder Singh (Brother)
And All Family.
S. Jaspal Singh
Contact No:- 9086193937, 9596964340
See more Obituaries on page 4
& more Classifieds on page 8
Soz asks Hurriyat to resume
dialogue with Centre
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board members inspecting development work enroute shrine on
Saturday.
Shrine Board members visit Katra, Bhawan;
inspect infrastructure development
JAMMU, Dec 29 : At the
instance of Governor N N
Vohra, who is also the Chairman
of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi
Shrine Board, the Board
Members had a day long tour of
Katra, Bhawan and the Yatra
track and inspected various
infrastructure
development
activities and facilities being
provided to the pilgrims.
The Board team comprised
of E. Sreedharan, Sudha Murty,
Dr. S. S. Bloeria, Dr. Ashok
Bhan and H. L. Maini, Navin K.
Choudhary, Chief Executive
officer, Mandeep K. Bhandari,
Additional CEO and senior
Board Officers accompanied the
visiting team and apprised them
about a large number of activities/development works undertaken by the Board.
After paying obeisance at the
Holy Cave in the early morning,
the team inspected the re-modeling work undertaken in the outer
cave area, including enlargement of the Atka area, replacement of worn out marble tiles,
construction of new counting
hall and modification of the
queue system. The Board members inspected the exit route,
which has recently been completed, and hoped that this will
not only help decongest the
Bhawan area but will also be of
significant help from the point
of view of disaster management.
The Board members took
stock of several projects like
construction of Parvati Bhawan,
pony shed at Bhawan and retiling work of the track. They
emphasized that the retiling
work in particular on the stretch
from Bhawan to Bhairon Ghati
be completed expeditiously to
smoothen movement of pilgrims. They also suggested to
establish a veterinary centre for
the benefit of ponies next to the
under construction pony shed.
The Board took stock of
ongoing renovation and construction of toilet blocks on
modern lines. They expressed
happiness over the quality of
renovated toilets and hoped that
adequate number of toilet blocks
would be renovated/constructed
at the earliest in view of everincreasing Yatra.
The Board team inspected
the entire stretch of dedicated
mule track which has been constructed at a fast pace on the
instructions of the Chairman.
On arrival at Katra in the
afternoon, the Board members
first inspected the under-construction sports stadium. While
noting that the physical work at
the stadium would be ready in
next 3-4 months, the Board
members endorsed the directions of the Chairman that a suit-
able policy be framed and necessary steps taken to ensure the
best utilization of this facility.
Thereafter, the Board members visited Kakriyal where they
reviewed the progress of construction of the Shri Mata
Vaishno Devi Institute of
Medical Excellence. While
expressing satisfaction that the
main building is nearing completion, they desired that the
upcoming Doctors' Hostel,
Nurses Hostel, Guest House and
other infrastructure be completed
at the earliest in order to ensure
that Hospital is made functional
in 2013, for which necessary
steps have been taken to find
suitable and experienced partner.
Finally, the Board members
visited Shri Mata Vaishno Devi
University and were received by
Prof. R. N. K. Bamezai, Vice
Chancellor, Roop Avtar Kaur,
Registrar, SMVDU and other
senior functionaries of the
University. The Vice Chancellor
gave a detailed presentation on
the progress made by the
University since its inception
and other details regarding infrastructure development in the
University. They advised the VC
and senior functionaries of the
University to continuously strive
for academic excellence and
focus on placement of students
in the continually evolving job
market.
Killing of two surrendered militants
Prosecution failure leads
to acquittal of 2 accused
JAMMU, Dec 29: Principal
Sessions Judge, Kathua, M K
Hanjura today acquitted two
accused allegedly involved in
the killing of two surrendered
militants as prosecution utterly
failed to prove the case.
According to the prosecution
case, on November 7, 2002
Mushtaq Ahmad and Gul Mohd
along with Hizbul Mujahideen
outfit terrorist Mohd Farooq
barged into the house of Ishrat
Qamer and Ashraf Qamer at
Deher-Deol, Billawar and shot
them dead with AK-47 rifles as
the (deceased) had deserted HM
and surrendered before the security forces.
A case for offences under
Section 120-B/302/34 RPC and
7/25 Arms Act was registered at
Police Station Billawar. One of
the assailants namely Mohd
Farooq was later killed by a fellow terrorist.
After the completion of the
investigation charge sheet was
presented against the accused in
the court of JMIC Billawar,
which committed the case to
court of Principal Sessions
Judge. The accused were
charged with the offences and
the prosecution evidence was
closed on October 11, 2012. The
statements of the accused were
recorded on October 17, 2012.
After hearing the counsel for
the accused and Public
Prosecutor, Principal Sessions
Judge observed, “in the juristic
consideration about the use of
firm arms, it is stated that if a
bullet or fired cartridge is available, the work of investigation
is, apparently, not so difficult as
in a case where neither the
crime bullet is available nor the
fired cartridge. In the event of
the availability of the crime bullet or the fired cartridge a security of these becomes absolutely
necessary”.
“What kind of gun the witners was holding with which he
fired the shots is not known.
Therefore, the connection, if any
the cartridges fired from that
gun had with the injuries sustained by the deceased has neither been noticed nor worked
out”, the Court said, adding “it
casts a serious doubt on the
veracity of the prosecution
case”.
“The investigating officers
have been examined as witnesses and none amongst them have
come forward to state how and
by whom the links of the
accused were traced out with the
commission of the crime. They
have simply tried to pass the
buck on to others. They have not
worked in tandem”, the Court
said, adding “the prosecution
witnesses have stated that the
accused were not known to
them. The investigating officer
who conducted the investigation
of the case first in point of time
has stated that he could not
unravel the mystery of killing
the deceased till such time he
was posted as SHO Billawar and
his successor has stated that his
predecessor in office was the
person who connected them
with the crime”.
Stating that prosecution has
utterly failed to connect the
accused with the commission of
crime, who have been languishing in the jail for the last more
than six years by now, the
Principal Sessions Judge acquitted the accused of the charges
leveled against them and directed that they should be released
from the custody.
Congress, NC responsible for
apathy of refugees: BJP
JAMMU, Dec 29: BJP MP,
Avinash Rai Khanna along with
the State president of the Party
Jugal Kishore Sharma today distributed relief material among
500 poor families of West
Pakistani refugees at Swankha
Morh-Vijaypur.
Expressing his serious concern over the human rights violation of West Pakistan refugees
in the State, Mr Khanna said,
"If late Inder Kumar Gujral and
Manmohan Singh who had
migrated from West Pakistan and
settled in Delhi could become
the Prime Ministers of the country’ then why the West Pakistan
refugees in J & K are deprived of
their rights since independence’’.
The West Pakistani refugees in
J&K are the worst victims of
human rights violation as they
have no right to live, to seek education and employment, own
land and right to exercise their
franchise in the State Assembly
and Panchayat elections, he
added.
He said 1.5 lac West Pakistan
refugees living along Indo-Pak
border in R S Pura and
Suchetgarh, Bishnah, Samba,
Hiranagar and Akhnoor constituencies are living in subhuman conditions without basic
amenities and no body is caring
for them. He said former Chief
Minister of the State, Sheikh
Mohammed Abdullah had promised for rehabilitation of the West
Pakistan refugees but betrayed
them and even the successive
Governments in the State failed
to provide justice to them.
Speaking on the occasion,
BJP State president Jugal
Kishore Sharma accused the
Congress and the NC of harboring communal outlook on the
rehabilitation of refugees from
West Pakistan, who have settled
in Jammu since 1947. He said
Congress and NC are responsible
for the apathy of refugees in the
State. He said these refugees
have been debarred from the permanent citizenship due to the
vested interests of the political
leaders especially of Congress
and NC.
Among the other prominent
leaders who were present at
relief distribution function were
Ravinder Raina, Dr. Tahir
Choudhary, Vikram Randhawa,
Janak Bharti and Shashi Pal
Vaid.
SRINAGAR,
Dec
29:
Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh
Congress Committee (PCC)
President, Professor Saif-ud-Din
Soz today asked the Hurriyat
Conference to restart the dialogue process with the
Government of India for a long
lasting and peaceful solution to
the Jammu and Kashmir issue.
Talking to media persons on
the sidelines of a function here
at the JKPCC headquarters, Prof
Soz said that Prime Minister, Dr.
Manmohan Singh has already
shown his willingness to talk to
people who abjure violence and
are ready to find a peaceful solution to the Kashmir issue. He
said that dialogue alone can
solve vexed issues and problems
like the Kashmir issue.
"Now that the Hurriyat leaders have returned from Pakistan
they should enter into a dialogue
at the highest level. Since they
have talked to Prime Minister in
the past it would be very good if
they restart this stalled process.
This would come as a relief to
the people and hopefully some
breakthrough is made vis-à-vis
Kashmir issue," said Prof Soz.
Referring to the empowerment of Panchayats in the State,
Prof Soz said that the issue has
already been discussed by
Congress with its coalition partner National Conference. He
said both the coalition partners
have agreed for amending the
existing Panchayati Raj Act of
the State.
"The Congress has already
projected its demand regarding
the empowerment of Panchayats
in the State. The Coordination
Committee
of
CongressNational Conference would
meet soon and discuss the proposed amendments in the
Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati
Raj Act. National Conference
has also agreed to our demand
and decks have been cleared for
the amendments," said Prof Soz.
He said that he is in constant
touch with Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah, adding that CM is
also in favour of making the
amendments to the Panchayati
Raj Act of the State. He said that
Block Development Council
(BDC) elections are in the
pipeline and would be held
soon.
Prof Soz pitched for severe
punishment to the rapists and
said that it is for the policy makers to decide about the nature of
punishment. He said the people
of India have become civilized
and they would not allow occurrence of rape incidents in future.
Prof Soz pitched for the
reopening
of
SialkoteSuchetgarh, Kargil-Skardu and
other routes linking the State
with Pakistan occupied Kashmir
(PoK). He said there is huge
potential for cross border
tourism, adding that people from
the State should also be allowed
to visit the religious places and
shrines located in PoK.
"I met the Prime Minister
yesterday and raised the issue of
cross border travel with him. I
also wrote a letter to External
Affairs
Minister,
Salman
Khurshid and also raised this
issue with him. Many important
places of worship including gurdwaras are located in PoK and
people should be allowed to
visit them," said Prof Soz.
Political Advisor to Chief Minister, Devender Singh Rana addressing gathering at Udhampur
on Saturday.
‘NC for justice to all’
Panthers B team of PDP: Rana
UDHAMPUR, Dec 29:
Political Advisor to the Chief
Minister Devender Singh Rana
said that Panthers is the B team of
PDP, adding they (Panthers) conspired alongwith the PDP to bring
down the Ghulam Nabi Azad
Government in 2008 by orchestrating the circumstances which
led to the Amarnath land row and
later when they felt the heat of the
public outrage they jumped into
communal bandwagon and
worked overtime to flair up communal passions, thereby proving
their credentials of opportunistic
power hungry politics.
Rana, who was addressing a
largely attended public meeting
here today said that Panthers
voted for the PDP candidates
Altaf Bukhari in Rajya Sabha
elections and Bharat Gupta in
MLC elections exposing their
real face which has always given
edge to material personal considerations over the welfare of the
people of the State.
He said in the coming March
Legislative Council elections
also they (Panthers) will again
Tom Tom before the PDP and
will vote in their favour, sacrific-
Candle march, condolence meets organised
to mourn death of Delhi gang-rape victim
JAMMU, Dec 29: Death of
Delhi gang-rape victim prompted
peaceful protests and sharp reactions from political leaders and
activists, with people from all
walks of life joining in candle
marches and condolence meets
here today.
Expressing their outrage over
Delhi bus gang rape victim’s
death in Mount Elizabeth
Hospital at Singapore early this
morning, the protestors carrying
placards and shouting slogans for
death penalty to the accused took
out candle marches to condole
the death of the 23-year-old Para
medical student, who was gang
raped and brutally assaulted in a
moving bus in national capital
New Delhi, two weeks back.
Activists
of
People
Democratic Party took out a candle march at Kachi Chawni, in
which people also took part.
Terming the death of the victim
as shame for the country, the protestors were demanding stringent
action against the culprits.
Bhartiya Chaitanya Party
activists and residents of Greater
Kailash, Muthi, Nanak Nagar,
Sainik Colony and other areas
took out a candle march from
Greater Kailash to Marble
Market to mourn the death of
gang rape victim. The protestors
were demanding death penalty to
the accused persons and also
demanded constitution of special
law and courts to deal with rape
cases.
Candle light march was
organised here by Shiv Sena and
Dogra Front for the gang-rape
victim. The march started from
Parade ground and proceeded to
City Chowk. In a condolence
message, the protesters said the
death of the young woman
should prompt the framing of
new and strong laws and also
demanded death penalty for the
accused.
Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarti
Parishad led by Sehdev Singh
district president Reasi took out a
candle march from Chowk
Chabutra to Bus Stand Reasi to
mourn the death of the 23-yearold Delhi gang rape victim. The
protestors were demanding stringent action against those behind
such heinous crime.
Bar Association Jammu
(BAJ) in a condolence meeting
presided by its President Senior
Advocate BS Slathia, condoled
the tragic death of the Delhi gang
rape victim. BS Slathia urged the
administration to be more vigilant against those elements, who
are out to trample the dignity of
women with such inhuman barbarism. He exhorted the State and
the Central Government to formulate stringent laws against
those found involved in heinous
crime of rape.
Chief Patron of National
Panthers Party Prof Bhim Singh
in a statement expressed shock
over the death of the budding
daughter of India, who was gang
raped and brutally assaulted at
New Delhi. He demanded to perform her last rites with national
honour and also national memorial postal stamp to be released in
her honour. Prof Singh also
demanded completion of trial
without delay.
Awami National Conference
(ANC) condoled the death of the
Delhi gang rape victim. Vice
president Muzaffar Shah said that
it would be a true homage to her
if the emotions and energies of
the youth generated by the brutal
assault on gang rape victim
should be channelized into a constructive course of action. He
hoped that Government would
not leave her death to go in vain.
J&K Children’s Welfare
Society held a meeting under the
chairmanship of its president
Gurdeep Singh Sasan and
mourned over the death of the
Delhi gang rape victim. Gurdeep
Singh Sasan said that the time
has come to deal sternly with
rapists and to make provisions in
law to give death penalty to the
rapists by hanging in public.
Kashmir Sikh Sangat (KSS)
also condoled the sad demise of
the Delhi gang rape victim. Dr
Dhanwant Singh, Chairman and
Manjit Singh, president condemned the role of the Delhi
police and Union Government
for mishandling the case. They
said that unless steps are taken to
serve stringent punishment to
culprits the problem could not be
solved.
Chairman, SOS International,
Rajeev Chuni has expressed his
deep shock over the death of
Delhi gang rape victim at
Singapore after struggling for life
for more than 13 days. He urged
the people of India not to forget
the agony and pain of the rape
victim and press the Government
for evolving a foolproof mechanism so that such like incidents
are not repeated again.
Mahila Patanjali Yog Samiti
held a condolence meeting to
mourn the death of Delhi gang
rape victim. The Samiti demanded strict action against the
accused persons.
In district Reasi, Asha workers and Youth Brigade Welfare
Forum today took out a peaceful
protest march to condole the
death of the Delhi gang rape victim. The protestors were
demanding death penalty to the
accused persons.
JAMMU, Dec 29: The work
on two proposed prestigious
health institutions for mother
and child care at Bemina,
Srinagar will begin shortly.
These two health institutions
have already been sanctioned by
the Government.
The two hospitals will be
constructed at Bemina, Srinagar
over a land of 60 kanals which is
a prime centrally located place,
for the convenience of the
patients. The maternity hospital will be funded by Central
Government whereas the construction of the children hospital
will be taken up with State's
resources. The Maternity hospital will be constructed at an
approved outlay of Rs. 50 crore
whileas the children hospital
will cost about Rs. 60 crore.
Both these hospitals will be
inter connected and have several common facilities for the
convenience of the patients. The
building plan for both these hospitals was finalised at a meeting
of officers and engineers held
here today under the chairmanship
of
Commissioner/
Secretary, Health and Medical
Education, Manoj Kumar
Dwivedi.
The design and other parameters of the proposed hospitals
were discussed at length and
experts of Hospital Services
Consultancy
Corporation
(HSCC), suggested some modifications, which were incorporated in the plan. The meeting
gave its nod to start the work on
these two projects immediately.
Mr. Dwivedi urged the
experts to closely monitor the
work on these projects on regular basis to ensure judicious use
of funds and quality standards.
He said that the HSCC will be
involved in all future health
projects to ensure building of
quality infrastructure.
He said that construction of
these new health institutions
was need of the hour to provide
adequate medicare facilities to
the mothers and new born children. He said keeping in view
this urgency, the Chief Minister,
Omar Abdullah had announced
corrections.
Welcoming the new entrant
Parlad Singh, former VicePresident Municipal Council,
Udhampur and his hundreds of
supporters into the party fold
who joined National Conference
after resigning from the Panthers
Party, Rana said National
Conference is a cadre based party
based on principled politics and
anybody who joins the party has
to adhere to its principles in letter
and
spirit
and
conduct
himself/herself within the framework and discipline of the party
and hoped that Parlad will work
tirelessly to strengthen the party
in the district.
Political Advisor said Omar
Abdullah has a vision of equitable development of all regions
and sub-regions of the state and
National Conference will fight
for the same.
Addressing the gathering
Rattan Lal Gupta Provincial
President National Conference
said that National Conference is
an epitome of brotherhood, secularism and communal harmony
among the people of the state and
will not allow any divisive forces
to create disharmony or disturb
the secular fabric of the State.
Those who were present in
the meeting included Ch
Mohammad Shafi, Advocate,
Rajesh Gupta, Advocate, Kair
Singh, Subash Kudyar, Vijay
Khajuria, Bharat Bhushan
Advocate, Sunil Verma, Lal
Chand Musafir, Capt. Balbir, Om
Parkash, Raj Kapoor, Sajjad
Shaheen, Madhi Verma, Govind,
Ramparshotam, Gian Singh, Ch.
Iqbal and others.
Minister for Tourism & Culture, Nawang Rigzin Jora evincing keen interest in paintings of Sat Pal Deol at Kala Kendra on
Saturday.
Sat Pal Deol’s creative
canvasses on show
JAMMU, Dec 29: Sat Pal
Deol’s three-day exhibition of
more than 40 canvases and drawings that opened at the Kala
Kendra, here today, deserves
appreciation for being a creative
statement marked with originally
and innovation.
Inaugurated by Nawang
Rigzin Jora, Minister for Tourism
& Culture, the exhibition—in
contrast to the run of the mill
shows of hobbyists and Sunday
painters mostly comprising of
copy work done in realistic
idiom—emerges as symphony of
subtle forms and images that
emanate from artist’s meditative
response to his surroundings.
A true heir to the school of
abstraction, which boasts of
acclaimed Jammu artists like late
Vijay Gupta, Vijay Saraf, Rakesh
Kumar et al, Sat Pal Deol is one
of the few creative painters and
setting up of a maternity as well master colorist in the State who is
as paediatrics hospital in almost regularly exhibiting his
Srinagar. The Government subsequently started working on
the project on the land identified
at Bemina Bye Pass. The soil
testing and ground work has
already been completed for
these projects.
These hospitals will cater to
the healthcare needs of mothers
and children exclusively. The
PWD(R&B), which is the executing agency, has been given
the target to complete the hospitals within two years.
After the meeting, the Chief
Architect and experts also visited the proposed site of hospital
at Gandhi Nagar, Jammu.
Those present on the occasion included Chief Architect,
HSCC, Sanjiv Sood, Mission
Director, NRHM, Dr. Yashpal
Sharma, Principals GMC,
Kashmir, Jammu, Dr. Rafiq
Ahmed, Dr. Aniece Choudhary,
Chief
Engineers
(R&B),
Kashmir and Jammu, Mushtaq
Ahmed Lone, S. T. Mustafa and
Consultants associated with the
Project.
HSCC to oversee upcoming health
institutions: Dwivedi
ing all the ideological politics
they so loudly proclaim and boast
of. He said Panthers change
colours like chameleons for personal gains.
He said democracy has
empowered the people of the
country to exercise their franchise and elect their leaders who
in turn are there to serve the
cause of the people because the
democracy makes the people
masters of the destiny of the
elected representatives and as
such people must join hands
together and raise their voice for
justice and National Conference
will support any and every voice
that yearns for justice. He said
those who are unleashing a reign
of terror will not be allowed to
bully the people and urged the
people to give them a befitting
reply in 2014 polls.
Rana
said
National
Conference has always stood for
the justice to the common man
and will continue to fight for the
same without any consideration
for caste, creed, religion or ethnicity. "We will fight all the
forces like Panthers, PDP and the
BJP who indulge in divisive politics for their petty political gains
sacrificing the interest of the state
and its people at the alter of personal vested interests", he added.
He said Udhampur is 'Devak
Nagri' which has produced stalwarts like Moti Lal Baigda, Lala
Shiv Charan Gupta, Balak Ram
and Pt. Chuni Lal Khajuria but
over a period of time deterioration has started and a new bread
of politicians has emerged who
have put self above service and
time has come to make political
latest works.
One of the highlights of the
exhibition held in collaboration
with Cultural Academy is that
along with his canvases done in
acrylic, Sat Pal Deol has also displayed early drawings to give an
idea to the general public about
his process of visualization.
Complimenting upon the
high quality of Sat Pal Deol’s
artistic creations, Rigzin Jora,
said that creativity in any form
deserves appreciation. He
described art and artists as precious
assets
and
said
Government was committed to
encourage local talent and help it
to achieve excellence.
Those present on the occasion included well-known artists
like Rajendra Tiku, T S Batra,
Arvind Gupta, Milan Sharma, K
K Gandhi and Savita Bakshi,
Additional Secretary, Cultural
Academy, Saujanya Sharma,
Executive Director, Mubarak
Mandi Heritage Society and
Kala Kendra.
Non camp migrants
hold meeting
JAMMU, Dec 29: Non
Camp Migrant Organization in
its meeting here today under the
leadership of O N Koul discussed the PM’s Rehabilitation
package for Kashmiri migrants.
As per a release, Nana Ji
Dembi president of the
Association said the Relief and
Rehabilitation Commissioner R
K Pandita has given assurance
that every migrant putting up in
rented accommodation will be
accompanied in Jagti township.
JTC warns
agitation
JAMMU, Dec 29: A meeting of JTC which was held
under the leadership of S L
Pandita expressed concern over
the long curtailment of power in
Jagti township.
The meeting said snapping
of 16 -hour power supply in the
Jagti township especially total
black out in night hours has
generated a feeling of insecurity
among camp inmates.
Even the power supply is
disconnected to streetlights,
hospital and other essential
services in the camp.
The meeting also accused
the Government of its failure in
enhancement of cash relief and
decided to observe Jagti bandh
on January 8 in protest against
the
callousness
of
the
Government
towards
the
inmates of the township.
He urged the Government to
take early steps in this regard.
H N Jatu president AIKPC
and Member Apex Committee
appealed the State and Central
Governments to take the cognizance of the problems being
faced by the migrants putting up
in rented accommodations in
view of the price rise.
The meeting said that Dembi
is the only president of the Non
Camp Migrant organization.
Others present in the meeting
included Kashap Tickoo, Ashok
Koul, Kiran Pandita, Manmohan
Ganjoo and Bansi Lal Shalla.
Vivek Express
in Jammu
JAMMU, Dec 29: Vivek
Express train depicting life history of Swami Vivekanand has
reached Jammu Railway Station
and would be here till
December 30 evening for the
visitors.
The train showed life and
history of Swami Vivekanand.
It paid tributes to Swami
Vivekanand.
A large number of people
have visited the train to
acquaint themselves with the
life of Swami Vivekanand, SSP
Railways Shiv Kumar Sharma
said.
He added that special
arrangements have been made
for the people to visit the
Railway Station and see the
train with life and history of
Vivekanand.
CEC’s plea to CM
LEH, Dec 29: In favor of
granting
Special
Duty
Allowance (SDA) to the State
employees posted in Ladakh
region at par with the Central
Government employees, the
CEC, LAHDC, Leh Rigzin
Spalbar in a letter addressed to
the Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah has strongly urged to
have a fresh look for favorable
and early action in this regard.
The letter said that the decision of State Government to
withhold granting Special Duty
Allowance (SDA) to the
employees serving in the most
inhospitable and difficult environs of Ladkah region has been
a great setback and disincentive
to the serving employees as the
Central Government employees
serving in Ladakh region are
Chatta, Raina resign
from Apex Committee
JAMMU, Dec 29: All State
Kashmiri Pandit Conference
(ASKPC) in its meeting here
today held under the chairmanship of H L Chatta expressed its
dismay over the failure of
Government in settling the
demand of relief holders.
The meeting said despite the
agitation launched by relief
holders for last six months the
Government has failed to
enhance the cash relief. It said
the prices have touched the sky
and the relief holders were fac-
Coalgate, CWG tax evasion
probe keep CVC busy
NEW DELHI, Dec 29:
The Central Vigilance
Commission acted on a number of corruption cases and
directed CBI probe in coal
blocks allocation scam and
recovery of about Rs 1,000
crore
tax
evasion
in
Commonwealth Games-related
works this year, besides other
anti-graft measures.
The probity watchdog was
also chosen to head a 10-member global task force to prepare
a knowledge management system for promoting international cooperation in checking
graft and black money.
In its bid to ensure transparency in governance, the
CVC directed rotation of officers handling sensitive posts,
expediting cases of corruption
involving senior government
officials and regulations in
public procurement, a government activity susceptible to
corruption.
It also suggested the government to introduce and
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implement a US-type False
Claims Act to recover losses
from a corrupt government
contractor.
The Commission received
over 25,000 complaints of
financial irregularities and
made recoveries of at least Rs
142 crore after inspecting
works, including public procurement, carried out by different organisations.
The CVC, which went into
alleged irregularities in CWGrelated civic and construction
projects, found tax evasion of
Rs 1,014.60 crore by government departments and private
companies. It slapped notices
for recovery of over Rs 500
crore tax allegedly evaded by
government departments and
private firms while executing
the works.
According to Vigilance
Commissioner R Srikumar, a
multi- jurisdictional inquiry
found evasions of Income Tax,
Service Tax and Value Added
Tax among others.
At least 9,000 publiclyfunded projects were executed
by 37 government departments
and private companies for the
mega sporting event held in
New Delhi between October 314, 2010. The CVC is looking
into 28 cases of alleged irregularities in CWG works.
The CVC, which has
probed crucial cases, including
2G
spectrum allocation scam
and directed CBI inquiry, also
referred alleged irregularities
in coal blocks allocation for
further probe by the investigating agency. The coal blocks
CINEMA
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paid Special Duty Allowance at
the rate of 12.50 % of the basic
pay since September 2008.
"It is sheer irony and injustice that a particular segment of
the employees are compensated
for rendering serving in hostile
conditions of Ladakh and at the
same time another segment is
deprived of the incentives,
bluntly declining their genuine
request", he said.
It is pertinent to mention
here that faced with the
prospects of the foreseeable disadvantages in the difficult work
environs, employees, particularly the non residents posted to the
district tend to manage themselves adjusted elsewhere even
forgoing promotions, resulting
in many key posts lying vacant
for long and resulting in severe
adverse impacts on the program
outputs.
were allocated to private companies between 2006 and
2009.
Besides, a decision to
assign the role of heading the
task force to the probity watchdog was taken recently by
International Association of
Anti-Corruption Authorities,
an independent, non-political
anti-corruption organisation of
more than 300 members
including India, in October.
The project involves development of a centralised user
friendly information handling
system to gather data about
anti-corruption
activities
around the world and process
them into information useful to
all stakeholders. (PTI)
ing it totally difficult to make
their both ends meet.
The meeting said that despite
the promises of Government that
the relief will be enhanced nothing has been done in this regard
till date.
It alleged that the State
Government has failed to plead
the case before Centre as it was
supposed to be resulting in delay
in decision from Centre.
Mr Chatta said in view of the
false promises of Government
with Apex Committee and
migrants he tenders his resignation from the Apex body.
P L Raina another Apex
member also announced his resignation form the apex body.
Real act of honesty
JAMMU, Dec 29: Additional
Secretary to Government, Health
and
Medical
Education
Department
Jatinder Gupta
showed real act
of honesty by
returning
the
wallet of one
Parshotam
Kumar, president of Ranbir
Government Press Employees
Association.
Parshotam Kumar had lost
his wallet containing Rs 9,350,
Driving Licence, PAN card and
Voter identity card during
evening walk near Drug Control
Office, near Patoli.
Jatinder Gupta found the
purse, contacted Parshotam
Kumar and after verification
returned the wallet to latter at
Ranbir Government Press.
Rs 88900 realized from violators
JAMMU, Dec 29: Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC)
Kathua imposed fine of Rs 88,900 on the violators under Food
Safety and Standard Act.
Reports said ADC Kathua imposed fine of Rs 88,900 to the violators under Food Safety and Standard Act in 12 different cases.
Advocate Anuj Bakshi Standing Counsel of Food & Drug
Department appeared before ADC Kathua and presented 12 cases
of violation under Food Safety and Standard Act before him. Food
Safety Officer (FSO) Parole Charanjeev Kumar, FSO Hiranagar
Hans Raj Andotra and FSO Billawar Vijay Sharma were also present during the hearing.
TENTH DAY/KRIYA
With profound grief we inform the sad demise of
our beloved father Sh. Rattan Lal Sharma S/o
Sh. Ram Chand Sharma R/o H.No. 131
Panjthirthi (Andehari Gali) Jammu.
Tenth Day will be performed on Monday 31-122012 at 11 A.M. at Rani Park.
Kriya will be performed on 1 Jan 2013 at our
residence.
Smt. Kanta Sharma- Wife
Bhabies & Brothers
Smt. & Sh. Om Parkash Sharma
Sh. Rattan Lal
Smt. & Sh. Tilak Raj Sharma
Sisters & Brother-in-Laws
Smt. Mohini Mangotra W/o Late Sh. Nanak Chand Magotra
Smt. Madhu and Ramesh Kumar Badyal
Mrs. Kanchan & Sunil Kumar Sharma- Son & Daughter-in-Law
Mrs. Monika and Manav Sharma- Son & Daughter-in-Law
Mrs. Anita and Abishek Sharma- Son & Daughter-in-Law
Mrs. Anita and Mr. Sanjeev Dubey- Daughter & Son-in-Law
Mrs. Seema and Mr. Narotam Sangra- Daughter & Son-in-Law
Mrs. Rajni and Mr. Ravi Kant Khajuria- Daughter & Son-in-Law
Grand Children: Saragay & Priyambada
Sharma
ADH-BARKHI
“NOBLE SOUL NEVER DIES”
Adh Barkhi of our beloved Papa
Ji Sh. Bhag Mal Gupta (M/s B.M
Shawl Wale) Adh Barkhi shall be
performed at our residence H.No.
147, R.N Pura Jammu on Sunday
(30/12/12) at 11 AM.
Deeply Remembered By:Daughters-in-laws & Sons
Sh. Bhag Mal Gupta
Smt Sarla Gupta & Sh. O N Gupta
Smt Tripta Gupta & Sh. Vijay gupta
Smt Veena Gupta & Lt Sh. Saniesh Gupta
Daughters & Son-in-Laws
Smt Prem Lata & Sh. Shanti Lal Gupta
Smt Veena Gupta & Sh. Subhash Chander Gupta
M/s B.M Shawl Emporium -Hari Market (9086066000, 9419186794)
M/s Gupta Film Studio -Satwari
M/s B.M Tailors & Drappers - Partap Garh (9419124381)
OBITUARY
WITH PROFOUND GRIEF AND SORROW, WE REGRET TO INFORM
THE SAD, SUDDEN & UNTIMELY DEMISE OF OUR BELOVED
KARAMYOGNI MOTHER SMT. RANI BHAT (AMA JI) W/O LT. SHRI
SHAM LAL BHAT, ORIGINALLY RESIDENT OF BAGH JOGI LANKER,
RAINAWARI, SGR, (KMR) AND PRESENTLY AT 89-D, POCKET- A2,
MAYUR VIHAR PHASE-III, NEW DELHI, ON THURSDAY, THE 27TH OF
DECEMBER 2012.
GRIEF STRICKEN
GRAND CHILDREN
SUNIL & SAKSHI, AMIT, ANKIT, ISHAN, ADITI, SAMIKSHA & SANDEEP, AMBIKA
CONTACT INFO :- 89-D, POCKET A2, MAYUR VIHAR PHASE-III, NEW DELHI-96
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FIRST DEATH ANNIVERSARY
TENTH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALA
With profound grief and sorrow we inform the you
the sad demise of our beloved Sh. Hakam Singh R/o
Ward No 9, Mahadev, Reasi.
10th Day on Monday 31-12-2012. Kriya/Uthala on
Wednesday 2-1-2013 at Ward No 9, Mahadev, Reasi.
Grief Stricken
Smt. Amri Devi -Wife
Daughters-in-law & Sons
Smt. Pushpa Devi & Sh. Pritam Singh
Smt. Romi Jamwal & Sh. Rashpaul Singh
Daughters & Sons-in-law
Smt. Billo Devi & Sh. Balwant Singh
Smt. Sansar Devi & Sh. Gopal Singh
Sh. Hakam
Smt. Bhagwati Devi & Sh. Dharam Singh
Smt. Lalita Devi & Sh. Kuldeep Singh
Smt. Raksha Devi & Sh. Jalim Singh
Smt. Kamlesh Devi & Sh. Kashmir Singh
Grand Sons & Daughter
Rahuldeep Singh, Mandeep Singh, Vinayak Singh & Arshya Singh
Singh
SMT. RANI BHAT
( AMA JI )
Six long months have passed since you left us. It is too difficult
to put in words the pain and agony that your departure has
caused.
An ideal and the best daughter, wife & mother you have been
you are as pious, kind & caring as anyone could everbe. Your
pure & selfless love filled our lives with happiness. Through
your generosity & patience you have comforted us all.
We miss you a lot. Your presence in our hearts & memories in
our minds provides us solace and a ray of hope in our lives.
May your soul rest in eternal peace.
Sharika Zutshi
K.K. Zutshi
Paras Zutshi
Mrs Veena Tikoo
Zutshi
BARKHI
ANTIM ARDAS
With profound grief and sorrow we inform the sad demise of Sardarni Manjeet
Kour (Baby) W/o S. Hardeep Singh Principal who expired on 26-12-12
Aramb Shri Akhand Path at Vasant Vihar House No. 464-A Ext Trikuta Nagar on
31-12-2012 at 10 AM.
Bhog Akhand Path on 02 Jan 2013 (Wed) at 11 AM
Antim Ardas at Gurdwara Bala Pritam Trikuta Nagar 3 PM at 4:30 PM
GRIEF STRICKEN
S Hardeep Singh, Principal - Husband
S Ajeet Singh -Son
Harleen Kour -Daughter
Sardarni & S Daljeet Singh Sr. Lect Retd Brother -in-law
Sardarni & S Tejinder Singh Inspector JKP ‘’
Sardarni Agya Kour W/o Late Bhai Hardit Singh- Mother (Batotewale)
Sardarni & S. Amolak Singh P&SB
- Brother
Sardarni & S. Swaran Singh PHE
- Brother
Sardarni & S. Talvinder Singh OIC
- Brother
Sardarni & S Amrik Singh
-Brother
Sardarni & S Kuldeep Singh Rtd Master -Brother
In the loving memory of our mother
Sardarni Pritam Kour W/o S. Santokh
Singh Ex-President DGPC, Jammu.
First Death Anniversary will be performed
on 30th Dec 2012, Sunday at our residence
H.No. 13, Near SBI, Santokh Vihar,
Kaluchak Jammu.
Programme: Arambh Shri Akhand Path
Sahib 28th Dec 2012 at 10 AM.
Bhog Shri Akhand Path Sahib: 30 th Dec,
2012 at 10 AM.
Kirtan & Ardas: 10 AM to 12:30 PM
Sardarni Pritam Kour
Guru Ka Langar : 1:00 PM onwards
DEEPLY REMEMBERED BY:
S. Harcharan Singh (Retd D.C Relief) & Sardarni Gurdeep Kour
S. Manjeet Singh & Sardarni Ravinder Kour (Canada)
S. Manraj Singh (SI J&K Police) & Sardarni Kamaljeet Kour (Govt.
Teacher)
M/S Hotel Moti Mahal
Hotel Grace.
REMEMBRANCE
Sardarni Manjit Kour
(BABY)
A Tearful one year has passed, since you left
us on 13 -- Dec - 2011.
We feel your touches of love & presence
every moment. The fragrance of ur love &
care is still alive in our heart. We miss u,
every moment, every time.
BARKHI of our beloved Late Captain Falail
Singh Slathia S/o of Late Capt. Hazara
Singh Slathia will be performed at our resiLate Capt.
dence, 51/11, Vijaypur on 31st Dec 2012.
Falail Singh Slathia
(Monday).
DEEPLY MISSED & REMEBERED BY ;-
SLATHIA FAMILY
9419277660, 9419197184 & 9419127202
REMEMBRANCE
TENTH DAY KRIYA
With profound grief & sorrow we regret to inform the sad
demise of our beloved Karamyogi Sh Sarwanand
Pandita S/o Late Sh Govind Ram Pandita originally resident of Hindu Mohalla Bongam Shopian (Kmr) presently at Lane 21, Block 124, Flat - 23 Jagti Colony Nagrota
Jammu.
Tenth Day Kriya will be performed on 02-01-2013
(Wednesday) at 9 a.m at Muthi Camp Ghat (near
Director School Education) Jammu.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Sh Sarwanand
Pandita
Smt Somawati Pandita - Wife
Sh Chuni Lal Pandita- Brother
Smt Shanta Devi & Sh H N Pandita- Bhabi & Brother
Smt Santosh & Sh M L Bhat - Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt Girja & Sh G L Labroo- Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt Phoola & Sh S N Raina- Daughter & Son-in-law
Smt Veena & Sh Sanjay Raina- Daughter & Son-in-law
Mr Vijay Pandita & Mrs Roma Pandita - Son & Daughter-in-law
Mr Ajay Pandita & Mrs Rashi Pandita - Son & Daughter -in-law
Grand Children :Vicky, Rahul, Vidhi, Janu, Ankush & Akshara
5th years have passed since you left us with
shatered hearts. We miss you.
Smt. Neelam Gupta
Ripu Gupta-Son
Abhilav Gupta-Son
Daughter & Son-in-law
Sunny Gupta & Vanshika Gupta
Tavisha Gupta
Mobile No: 9469260030
BANWARI LAL
GUPTA
CONDOLENCE
Management and Staff of Jammu Cooperative
Wholesale Ltd., Super Bazar Jammu condole
the sad demise of Sh Hans Raj Sharma, Dy.
Registrar Coop. Societies, Jammu who had
served this institution as General Manager from
1985 to 1991. We prayed to almighty to bestow
peace to the departed soul and give courage to
the bereaved family to bear irreparable loss.
Mob : 9697267755, 9796495753, 9018518461
MISS YOU MAAMU
Uthala of our beloved Maamu Sh
Baij Nath Gupta S/o Sh Lt Mulkh Raj
Gupta of Akhnoor will be held at
Mahajan Hall Akhnoor on Date 3112-2012 time 4.00 PM
Remembered By :
Management and Staff Super Bazar, Jammu
Jammu Co-operative Wholesale Limited
Sh Hans Raj Sharma
Super Bazar, Jammu (Tawi) 180 001
GRIEF STRICKEN
Niece
Dr Jyoti, Pooja, Neha, Divya,
Sunakshi, Kamakshi, Meenakshi
Vaishnavi.
Sh Baij Nath Gupta
Nephew
Vishal, Ashish,
Himansh, Omansh
TENTH DAY/KRIYA
the sad demise of our beloved Smt. Ram
Pyari Sharma (Retd Lecturer) W/o Sh.
Bansi Lal Sharma who left for heavenly
abode on 23-12-2012.
Tenth Day will be performed on Tuesday 11-2013 at 11 AM at our residence W.No. 5
House No. 127, Nihal Hotel, Bus Stand
Udhampur and Kriya will be performed at
Devika Ghat on 2-1-2013 Wednesday at 11
A.M.
Smt. Ram Pyari Sharma
Grief Stricken
Sh. Bansi Lal Sharma (Retd. Lect)- Husband
Sh. Sanjay Dubedy and Smt. Nisha- Son & Daughter-in-Law
Sh. Chander Shekher and Smt. Santosh- Son & Daughter-in-Law
Son-in-Law & Daughter
Sh. Shashi Kumar Sharma & Smt. Anupama Sharma
Grand Sons & Daughters: Paras, Rahi, Kirti, Sagun and Krishna
Ph. Nos.: 272171, 9858224020
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Mob.: 9796627226, 9622070122
1. SH. KEWAL KRISHEN BHAT & SMT.USHA BHAT (SON & DAUGHTER-IN-LAW)
2. SH. MAHARAJ KRISHEN BHAT (SBI) & SMT. PINKY BHAT (SON & DAUGHTER-IN-LAW)
3. SH. KULDEEP BHAT & SMT. ANJALI BHAT (SON & DAUGHTER-IN-LAW)
SMT. VEENA GANJOO & SH. TEJ KRISHEN GANJOO (DAUGHTER & SON-IN-LAW)
&
SAMASTH BHAT PARIVAR
Tenth Day Kriya / 13th Day Dharamshant
demise of Smt. Champa Sharma W/o Sh. vidhu
Bushan Sharma R/o Ward No. 4, Mohalla Kama
Khan Poonch on 21-12-2012. Tenth Day will be
performed at Haridwar on 30-12-2012 and 13th
day Dharamshant will be performed at our residence on 02-01-2013 at 11:00 am.
GRIEF STRICKEN
Smt. Soma Devi -Mother-in-law
Sh. Vidhu Bushan Sharma -Husband
Smt. Champa Sharma
Gourav Sharma -Son
Daughters & Sons-in-Laws
Smt. Namrata Sharma & Dharamveer Sharma
Smt. Shaveta Sharma & Anuj Sharma
Deeply Remembered by all SUDAN’S, SASAN’S & ISHER’S
PRAYER MEETING
A Shanti Haven will be performed to pay obeisance to our
beloved Father who left us for
heavenly abode on 13th Dec
2012 in Delhi. Havan will be
performed at 11 am on D.N. Kaila
Monday, 31st Dec at our residence (1-Karan Nagar Extn).
Grief Stricken
Anil Kaila -Son
Anita Bhatia -Daughter
Monica
Varun
Kartik &Aakriti
REMEMBRANCE
On First Death
Anniversary today
(Vahrvar). We pray for
your eternal peace.
Family Members,
Relatives & Friends.
Lt. Hakam
Singh
CONDOLENCE
Retired employees Union Basohli condole the sad demise
of Sh. Sudesh Kumar Prohit, Head Master Retired S/o
Late Sh. Amar Nath Prohit. In a condolence meeting they
prayed to God that the soul of the deceased may lay in rest
in heaven. They also extended condolences to the
bereaved family.
Harnam Singh Billawria, Ved Kapoor, Jagdish Brahmi,
S.K. Chouhan, Ex D.K. Sharma, Capt Dhanter Singh, Ved
Mankotia, Kuldip Bali, Shiv Padha
MOURNING FROM IN-LAWS SIDE
REMEMBRANCE
Sh. Sudesh Kumar
Prohit
Ten years ago on this date day you left us for heavenly abode with your sweet memories which have been with us all these years. You’re your quality of head and heart
human Approach, generosity and broad minded path continous to Guide us at each
and every step of our life.
We pray to almighty God to grant you place in heaven and also bestow upon us the
right guidance to follow your traditions, values and foot steps.
Sh Hirday Nath
Kothidar (Baijan)
Sdr. Kartar Kour (Wife)
Sons and Daugher-in-law
Sd. Pritam Singh - Satinder Kaur
Sd. Surinder Singh- Jatinder Kaur
Sons
Sd. Satpal Singh Arora
Sd Manjeet Singh Arora
(Daughter and son in law)
Sd Bhupinder Singh-Neelam Kaur
Sdr. Sushma Kaur W/o Lt. Amarjeet Singh
(Grand Children)
Gagandeep Singh,
Akashdeep Singh and Baby Pallavi
Resi : 01912564587
OBITUARY
REMEMBRANCE
With deep grief and sorrow, we inform the sad demise of our beloved Sh
Hirday Nath Kothidar (Papa) S/o Late Sh Laxman Joo Kothidar originally resident of Sathu Payeen Barbarshah Srinagar Kashmir at present H.No. 16 Sec2 Govind Nagar Revenue Complex road Talab Tillo Jammu on intervening
night of 28-12-2012 and 29-12-2012.
3RD DEATH ANNIVERSARY
In Grief
Rani Kothidar -Wife
Kishni & R N Kadalbaju -Sister & Brother-in-law
Dulari W/o Late O N Kothidar -Bhabi
Girdhari Lal Kothidar -Brother
Khema & M L Kothidar -Bhahi & Brother
Nimmi & Kishen Ji Bakaya -Daughter & Son-in-law
Girja & Rajaji Kothidar -Son & Daughter-in-law
Sharika & Kakaji Kothidar -Son & Daughter-in-law
Anjali & Naresh Kothidhar -Son & Daughter-in-law
Nirja & Ramesh Dhar -Daughter & Son-in-law
(Kothidar, Kadalbaju, Kaul, Razdan, Bakaya, Kaul)
0191-2506408, 9469224900, 9419104156, 09319044661
(Mahanoori)
CONDOLENCE
We all the members of All Jammu &
Kashmir Kissan Union, Condole the sad
demise of Lt. Hakam Singh R/o Ward No.
9, Mahadev Reasi.
We pray to God that his noble soul be rest
in peace in heaven & may God give
courage to bear this irreparable loss to the
family.
All J&K Kissan Union
With deep grief and sorrow, we inform the sad demise
of our beloved Sh Hirday Nath Kothidar (Baijan) S/o
Late Sh Laxman Joo Kothidar originally resident of
Sathu Payeen Barbarshah Srinagar Kashmir at present H.No. 16 Sec-2 Govind Nagar Revenue Complex
road Talab Tillo Jammu on intervening night of 28-122012 and 29-12-2012.
In Grief
Lalita Kaul W/o Late Sh T N Kaul
Pranna & Mohan Lal Koul
(SAMAST KAUL PARIVAR)
9419187603, 9596851097
Som Nath Raina
S. Inder Singh
Arora
Sub Inder Singh Ji (30-12-2012)
A tearful three year’s have passed since you left us in
deep agony. We feel your presence everywhere every
moment. There are no words to express how much we
miss you. We pay homage with silent tears and always
pray that may God bless your soul with eternal peace.
Sh Hirday Nath
Kothidar (Papa)
S. Gurdev Singh (Son)
S Harvinder Singh (Son)
S. Gurmeet Singh (Son)
Sub. Inder Singh Ji
G&M Deptt to bore tubewells
free of cost: Slathia
JAMMU,
Dec
29:
Underscoring urgent need for
utilizing ground water in a big
way, especially in water scarce
and rain fed areas of the State,
the Minister for Industries and
Commerce, S.S. Slathia today
directed the Geology and
Mining Department to take up
drilling of tubewells also
besides its assigned job of
ground water exploration.
Speaking at a function,
after dedicating about 12000
gallons per hour (GPH) capacity tubewell at Sumwan in district Kathua today, Mr Slathia
called for dovetailing of activities between Public Health
Engineering and Geology and
Mining (G&M) Departments
so that expertise of the available drilling engineers and
skilled man power could be
utilized to bore tubewells for
drinking water in the water
scares areas of the State,
adding
that
the
G&M
Department will conduct free
drilling services for this purpose.
"The G&M Department has
been equipped with most modern and heavy drilling
machines (Rigs), which can
bore beyond 70 meters deep",
Slathia said and asked the
Legislators to approach the
department with their requisition about drilling of tubewells
KHARA satisfied over
arrival of tourists
SRINAGAR,
Dec
29:
Kashmir Hotel and Restaurant
Association (KHARA) has
expressed satisfaction over the
arrival of around two lakh
tourists to Kashmir during
September to November this
year.
In a press release, KHARA
President, Showkat Chowdhary
while hailing the Department of
Tourism for its efforts to attract
tourists to Kashmir even in lean
months of October and
November. Showkat asked the
Government to provide uninterrupted power and water supply
to Gulmarg and Pahalgam during winter months.
"In the past, Kashmir registered minimal tourists' arrivals
during off season. But this year,
about 1.5 lakh tourists visited
Valley during October and
November. This is a good sign
and augurs well for the future of
tourism in Kashmir," said
Showkat. He lauded Director
Tourism Kashmir, Talat Parvaiz
in attracting tourists to the
Valley.
He asked the Government to
provide basic facilities to the
tourists during winter months at
Gulmarg and Pahalgam. He
demanded regular snow clearance of the roads leading to
Gulmarg for the smooth travel
of the visitors.
IDA holds meet regarding
sealing of clinics in Poonch
JAMMU, Dec 29: Indian
Dental Association (IDA) held a
meeting under the chairmanship
of its president Dr Nikhil Dev
Wazir regarding sealing of three
dental clinics in district Poonch.
While speaking, Dr Wazir
said that three dental surgeons,
who are practicing in Poonch
have duly paid their registration
fees of Rs 3000 each to the J&K
State Dental Council, which is
an authority on registering the
dental clinics and establishment.
He said that various teams of
the dental surgeons were selected by the J&K State Dental
Council as inspectors to do
inspections of Dental Clinics
and establishments in the phased
manger, which is still under
process.
Dr Wazir said that president
of J&K State Dental Council has
requested District Magistrate not
to seal the clinics as inspections
and further registration of the
clinics is in process.
“Due to sealing of the Dental
Clinics by the Government
resulted in loss of reputation and
pride of the dental surgeons
without their fault”, he added.
A representation in this
regard has been formulated and
will be soon forwarded to the
Director Health Jammu and
District Magistrate, Poonch, he
added.
in their respective areas to augment drinking water facilities
for the people. The department
will bore such tubewell free of
cost.
Mr. Slathia announced that
the G&M Department is, for
the first time in its history,
poised to surpass its highest
ever target of Rs. 60 crore this
fiscal which is five times more
than the revenue ( Rs. 12 crore)
registered before 4 years when
the present Government took
over.
Responding to the issues
raised by the local public representative, Mr Slathia asked
the
officers
of
G&M
Department to send a team of
officers to visit Ravi Tawi river
in Kathua and stop such mining activities, if any, which do
not conform environment protection guidelines.
Responding to some issues
raised by MP, Ch. Lal singh,
the Minister said that the new
list of BPL families will be formulated shortly on the basis of
latest census data, where in all
the genuine people will be
enlisted.
MP, Ch. Lal Singh demanded
20 more tube well in Sumwan
area, adding that most of the
areas on the tail end of Ravi
Tawi in Kathua do not get adequate water facilities.
The Director,
Farooq
Ahmed informed that the
G&M Department has bored
460 tubewells in the State
including 95 in Jammu
province. He said department
has adequate skilled and professional man power including
50 drilling engineers who are
ready to take up boring of
tubewells across the State on
demand.
Among other, the function
was attended by MLA,
Charnjeet Singh, District
Development Commissioner,
Zahida
Khan,
Managing
Director JKI, Javid Iqbal,
Managing Director, J&K,
SICOP, R.L. Ticko, Managing
Director,
Handloom
Development
Corporation,
M.S. Dua, Director, Handloom
Department, D.R. Sharma,
Director
Industries
and
Commerce, Gulzar Qureshi.,
Secretary J&K,JKBI, S. Ravi
Singh, and MD, JK Minerals,
V.K. Sharma.
Shabir inspects pilgrim
accommodation at Shadera Sharief
RAJOURI, Dec 29: Minister
of State for Power, Forest,
CA&PD and Transport, Shabir
Ahmed Khan today inspected
model village Shadara Sharief
being developed at a cost of Rs
4.52 crore. He also inspected
budgeted accommodation being
constructed at Zairat Shadera
Sharief at a cost of Rs 5 crore for
convenience of pilgrims.
The Minister was apprised
that so far Rs 1.75 crore was
expended on construction of
several components of the
model village, while as Rs 1.82
crore has been incurred so far on
the work on budgeted accommodation for pilgrims. He was
assured by the concerned executing agency that construction
work on these projects would be
completed within stipulated time
frame.
The Minister also visited the
site identified for construction of
steel bridge to connect TRC
with Zairat Sharief. He directed
concerned Engineers for taking
2 convicted in kidnapping,
murder case
JAMMU, Dec 29: Principal
Sessions Judge, Anantnag,
Abdul Rashid Malik today convicted two persons in a kidnapping and murder case and will
announce quantum of punishment on December 31, 2012.
According to the prosecution
case, on June 10, 2003 the victim Mukhtar Ahmad, son of
Nazir Ahmad Khan was kidnapped by two unknown persons
and later his dead body was
recovered from the bank of river
Lidder at Aangmati.
Accordingly a case was registered at Police Station
Anantnag and during postmortem it came to fore that
Mukhtar Ahmad died due to
firearm injuries.
During the course of investigation, it came to fore that on the
fateful day two unknown persons visited the deceased to purchase Alto car and took him to
Mattan for payment.
Later, Pampore Police
informed the Anantnag Police
that they have seized Alto car
under Section 550 of CrPC.
During investigation it came to
fore this vehicle was the same in
which the deceased was kidnapped. In the case, the involve-
JAMMU, Dec 29: Young
Lawyers Association (YLA) deputation led by its president
Advocates Rohan Nanda and
Wahid Kassana met Davender
Singh Rana, Political Advisor to
Chief Minister and apprised him
about various demands of the
young lawyers.
While speaking, Rohan Nanda
urged Davender Singh Rana to
provide interest free loan to the
young lawyers so that they could
maintain their office libraries.
He said that young lawyers
could stand and practice easily if
Government helps them for maintenance of their office and library
initially.
Advocate Wahid Kassana
demanded relaxation in the age for
those lawyers, who have already
applied for the Prosecuting Officer
posts and the same notification has
been withdrawn by the Home
Department and demanded the
posts of POs be re-advertised as
soon as possible.
Davender Singh Rana gave a
patient hearing and assured proper
help to the lawyers, who want to
establish themselves in this profession. He also gave on the spot
directions
to
Director
Entrepreneurship Development
Institute to take measurers to cover
young lawyers in Sher-e-Kashmir
Employment
and
Welfare
Programme for Youths. He also
assured for re-advertisement of
posts of POs after holding talks
with the Home Department.
Among others present were
Advocates Amit Gupta, vice president, Sayed Nadeem Hamdani,
Ravinder Sharma, Wajat Kazmi,
MS Qureshi, Mudassir Zargar, etc.
Lease holders seek distinction between
legal occupants of land, encroachers
JAMMU, Dec 29: Forum of
Lease Holders and Occupants of
Nazool Lands Joint Action
Committee has urged the
Government to make a distinction
between them and the encroachers
while settling cases under Roshni
Act.
Commenting over utter failure
of the Roshni scheme, a meeting
of the Forum was held here today
under the leadership of its chairman Inderjeet Khajuria who said
that the rates fixed for conferring
ownership rights on the lease holders and occupants of government
land in urban areas have been
fixed irrationally.
While the Government conferred ownership rights on the
agricultural lands by charging only
a nominal rate of Rs 100 per kanal,
the rates for urban lands were
fixed at very high ranging up to
Rs 10 lakh to Rs 30 lakh per kanal,
he added.
The illegal occupants of lands
through encroachment in the
recent past have come forward to
get their lands regularized in their
favor by paying the fixed rates
while those who are under possession of land for several decades
under regular lease deed, feel it un
justified to be charged high rates,
the meet observed and demanded
that the rates charged from them
should be at par with those
charged by the JDA from occupants of Government lands in the
25 unauthorized Colonies for regularizing ownership of the lands.
Meeting of the Forum was
attended by S.S.Pathania, S. Gajan
Singh, Iqbal Khullar, Som Nath
Sharma and Sunil Dutta.
JKB Vice-President given
farewell on retirement
JAMMU, Dec 29: To bid
farewell to JK Bank VicePresident Mohd Amin Khan, who
is retiring on December 31, a
function was organized
by
Cluster Office-III, Kashmir
Central.
Zonal Head and Vice
President Kashmir Central were
also present on the occasion. They
appreciated Amin Khan as a dedicated and sincere banker and
termed him role model of fairness
and integrity.
Mehraj-ud-Din of Cluster
Office termed
Mohammad
Amin Khan as a successful
Cluster Head and a great unionist
who always worked for the benefit of employees but at the same
time never compromised on customer satisfaction
ment of Fayaz Ahmad Shah, son
of Ghulam Hassan Shah of
Shopian and Mohammad Syed
Bhat, son of Ghulam Hassan
Bhat R/o Dumarhama was
established and accordingly they
were arrested. After completion
of investigation, challan was
presented in the court of law.
After
hearing
Public
Prosecutor for the State and
counsel for the accused persons,
Principal Sessions Judge,
Anantnag, Abdul Rashid Malik
observed, “in the totality of circumstances, I am of the considered opinion and convinced that
the prosecution has proved
beyond any reasonable doubt
that accused Fayaz Ahamd Shah
and Mohammad Syed Bhat in
furtherance of criminal conspiracy kidnapped the deceased
Mukhtar Ahmad Khan with the
intention to kill him. In furtherance of common intention they
committed his murder”.
With these observations, the
Court convicted the accused for
the commission of offences
under Sections 364, 302 read
with 120-B of RPC. “The matter
now shall come up for hearing
of the accused on the question of
quantum of punishment on
December 31, 2012”, the Court
said.
10,760 paramedic professional
to be trained annually: Azad
NEW DELHI, Dec 29: Since
the launch of National Rural
Health Mission seven years ago
substantial progress has been
made in health sector and over
8,60,000 ASHAs have been
appointed to act as bridge between
the communities and the health
facilities in the villages.
Moreover, a total of 70,000 beds
have been increased in the
Government health institutions for
provision of essential and emergency services.
This was stated by Union
Minister for Health and Family
Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad
while addressing inaugural function of Ashwini Rural Medical
College, Hospital & Research
Centre (ARMCH) at Solapur in
Maharashtra.
Mr Azad said that his Ministry
has taken several steps to improve
health scenario in the country and
nearly 1.6 lakh human resources
such as Specialists, Doctors,
Nurses, ANMs and Para-medics
have been added. "A Mother and
Child Tracking System has been
put in place to reach out to every
pregnant woman and child for
proper
vaccination.
The
Government has launched a
scheme wherein male and female
contraceptives are being delivered
at the doorstep in the high focus
districts of the country by ASHAs
at a nominal cost", he added.
Another scheme has been initiated for the promotion of menstrual hygiene among adolescent
girls of rural areas in the age
group of 10-19 years covering 1.5
crore girls in 152 districts of 20
States, he further said, adding
there has been significant fall in
MMR, IMR and TFR as well as
reduction in new HIV cases by as
much as 57% in the country.
Stating that his Ministry has
been focusing on reforming policies related to medical and paramedical education with a view to
overcome the acute shortage of
human resources in health, Mr
Azad said, "a series of reforms in
medical education were undertaken to increase the human
resources at various levels. These
path-breaking decisions have
brought in positive results, never
seen before in the past six
decades. The availability of
MBBS seats has gone up by nearly 40% and the number of PG
seats by about 80%".
Pandey interacts with industrial
fraternity to boost exports from J&K
YLA highlights demands
up the work at the earliest. He
was apprised that tenders for the
purpose have been already floated and are at award stage.
The Minister also reviewed
the physical and financial status
of several tourism projects being
executed in the area for visiting
tourists. He directed concerned
authorities to redouble their
efforts and accelerate the pace of
work on all ongoing projects for
their timely completion. He also
stressed on the concerned that
the under execution TRCs at
Dhara
Ki
Gali,
Barrot,
Manjakote and hanging garden
at Rajouri should be completed
in time keeping in view the visitors and tourists coming via
Mugal road.
Later, the Minister addressed
a public meeting at Shadara
Sharief. He said to improve electricity facility in the area 6 new
transformers would be installed
in the area. He assured that all
genuine demands and developmental needs would be
redressed in due course.
'Health sector given central position in 12th Plan'
Participants of ‘Save The Girl Child Week’ taking pledge to
work for rights of women and girls in presence of Superintendent
Sarwal hospital Dr Arun Sharma.
Save Girl Child Week
concludes at Sarwal Hospital
JAMMU, Dec 29 : 'Save
The Girl Child Week' for generating awareness among the
masses on the issue of female
feticide, concluded today at
Government Hospital Sarwal
Jammu.
During the week, activities
like seminars, symposiums
and poster making were conducted. With the help of nursing students, a mass awareness
campaign was also launched
for the patients and public visiting the hospital. Students
from various institutes were
sensitized about the importance of girl child and declining sex ratio.
Students from nursing
institutions especially Jammu
College of Nursing and Para
Medical Sciences Channi
Himmat Jammu participated in
the week long programmes.
On the last day the students
took pledge to perform activities and live life as medical
professionals by protecting
girl child not only in relation
to sex selection but throughout
in whatever way the females
are
discriminated
and
harassed. They vowed to fight
always for rights of girls and
women.
Dr Arun Sharma Medical
Superintendent Govt Hospital
Sarwal Jammu addressed the
students and highlighted the
importance of girl child who is
mother of tomorrow. He also
SRINAGAR, Dec 29: One
congratulated all the partici- person died while as six others
pants in organizing the week were injured in different road
long programmes.
accidents across the Kashmir
valley.
Reports said that a Tata
Sumo JK02J/3594 driven by
Ajaz Ahmed Pandit aged 22
years, son of Nazir Ahmad resiRPC and after completion of dent of Zawoora, rammed with
investigation challan was pre- an electric pole at Zawoora
sented in the court of law. In the crossing, resulting in on spot
case, three accused have death of the driver.
A bus JK02F/3517 on way
already been sentenced while as
Jagar Mal was absconding and from Baramulla to Boniyar colproduced in the court on April lided with an Alto car
JK05A/2089 near forest check
1, 2010.
After hearing Advocate B L post Gantmulla, Baramulla,
Kalgotra for the accused where- resulting in injuries to three peras App Ka Qazi for the State, sons including driver of Alto car.
2nd Additional Sessions Judge All the injured has been shifted
observed, "there is absence of to hospital for treatment.
An I-10 car DL2CAE/2208
exceptional circumstances as
such the case does not fall with- on way from Anantnag to
in the ambit of rarest of rare Srinagar collided with a Load
JK03C/3494
at
case". With these observations, Carrier
the Court awarded life impris- Uranhall-Bijbehara, resulting in
injuries to two passengers
onment to the accused.
Court awards life imprisonment
to murder accused
JAMMU, Dec 29: 2nd
Additional Sessions Judge,
Subash Gupta today awarded
life-imprisonment to accused in
murder case after 22 years long
trial.
According to the police
case, on March 7, 1990 one
Jagar Mal alias Jagga, son of
Dewan Chand of Khappar, R S
Pura along with three other
accused shot dead one Channa
Singh, son of Ram Singh in his
field where he was cutting grass
along with his wife.
Accordingly, police registered a case under Section 302
JAMMU, Dec 29: Joint
Secretary, Ministry of Commerce
and Industry, Sudhanshu Pandey
during his visit to J&K reviewed
the performance of the ongoing
projects funded under ASIDE
scheme at Bari Brahmana
Industrial Estate.
Mr. pandey subsequently held
an interactive meeting in the
Udyog Bhawan with the industrial fraternity of Jammu and members of Jammu Chamber of
Commerce and Industry. The
meeting was also participated by
the representatives of exporters
located in Jammu. The officers of
Industries Department also participated in the interactive meet.
Mr. Pandey gave a brief about
the working of the Ministry and
the various schemes implemented through the Ministry which
could be availed by the Industrial
sector in J&K to boost their
exports. He also gave a brief
review of the ASIDE scheme and
the Market Access Initiative
(MAI) scheme wherein various
benefits could be availed by the
State Government and individual
exporters.
The interactive session was
attended by the Commissioner
Secretary
Industries
and
Commerce Department, Director
Handloom, Managing Director
J&K SIDCO, Managing Director,
Handloom
Development
Corporation and Presidents of
Chamber and various Industrial
Associations.
The Joint Secretary gave a
brief resume to the export community about the existing world
trade scenario and informed that
the exporters have to gear up their
performance and statutory
requirements in order to compete
and export to world in view of
WTO regime that various countries are adopting for trade practices.
The exporters took this opportunity to express their difficulties
and requested the Joint Secretary
to extend help in terms of infrastructural requirements, transport
facilities and new avenues for
tapping new markets. Mr. Pandey
informed the business community
particularly to entrepreneurs to
avail the Market Access Initiative
(MAI) scheme of the Ministry to
promote their products internationally and explained that the
scheme has to be either products
specific or country specific.
One killed, 6 injured in accidents
boarding the car. The injured has
been shifted to hospital for treatment.
A Tavera JK18/5266 driven
by Waseem Ahmed Padder, son
of Mohammad Yousuf resident
of Bohgund, Kulgam skidded
off the road at WangundKulgam, resulting in injuries to
the driver of the vehicle. Police
has taken cognizance.
Power shut down
JAMMU, Dec 29: In order
to carry out checking of hot
spots and tightening/ replacing
loose/ worn out jumpers/ droppers of 220/132/33 KV Grid
Station Gladni, the power supply to parts of old Jammu city,
Gandhi Nagar, Nanak Nagar,
Channi Himmat, Narwal, Sainik
Colony etc and adjoining areas
fed from Grid Station Sidhra,
Miran Sahib, Gangyal and twin
districts of Rajouri and Poonch
will be affected on 30-12-2012
from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.
To overcome the shortage of
nurses and ANMs, he said that
Union Health and Family Welfare
Ministry has already sanctioned
269 nursing schools in the last two
years mostly in remote, inaccessible and under-served districts.
With an estimated outlay of Rs
2,030 crore, these institutions will
give an additional 20,000 nurses
annually. To scale up the availability of para-medics through centres
of excellence in para-medical education, a National Institute of
Paramedical Sciences (NIPS) at
Delhi and 8 Regional Institutes
have been sanctioned.
"A total of 10,760 paramedic
professionals are expected to be
trained annually when these institutes of excellence are fully functional", he said, adding "the 12th
Plan has just been finalized by the
National Development Council. It
is a matter of great satisfaction
that health has been given a central position in the 12th Plan and
the outlay for health has gone up
substantially".
Mr Azad said that several new
initiatives have been envisaged
during 12th Plan period which
include strengthening of sub-centres, which are the first port of call
for the community for healthcare
services in the remotest and inaccessible areas by providing additional manpower,
District
Hospitals would be equipped to
become strong hubs for advanced
secondary and multi-speciality
care, to cope with the increasing
load at Government facilities,
20,000 additional beds for mothers and children have been
approved for District Hospitals
and Community Health Centres.
Moreover, there is a proposal to
introduce universal screening for
all children for disease, disability
and deficiency, which would be
followed up by free treatment.
"There is also a proposal to
ensure availability of free generic
medicines to everyone coming to
a Government health facility.
Another area would be the launch
of an urban health initiative to
address health concerns of urban
poor specially those living in the
urban slums", he added.
Retired SRTC workers staging protest demonstration in
Jammu on Saturday.
-Excelsior/ Rakesh
Retired SRTC workers
stage demonstration
JAMMU, Dec 29: Voluntarily
and normally retired employees of
State Road Transport Corporation
(SRTC) held protest demonstration at Exhibition Ground near
Press Club here today.
The employees under the banner of All J&K SRTC Volunteer
Retirement
Employees
Association, assembled near Press
Club at around 11 am today and
held protest demonstration in support of their pending demands.
They were demanding that their
pending wages be cleared without
any delay.
The retired workers under the
leadership of Dev Raj Bali staged
protest for about an hour and then
dispersed. They were shouting slogans against the Transport
Minister, Managing Director and
General Manager of the
Corporation.
They alleged that their pending
126 slabs of COLA were not paid.
They also demanded benefits of
6th Pay Commission.
They alleged that 670
VRS/GHS workers are struggling
since long but the Government
was ignoring their demands. They
sought the intervention of Chief
Minister in this regard.
ABGM named as BGM
in J&K: Poswal
Manch, Akhil Bharatiya Gujjar
Mahasabha, All India Gujjar
JAMMU, Dec 29: After his Mahasabha, Rajasthan Arakshan
expulsion from the State presi- Samiti and Gujjar Welfare Board
dentship of the organisation by besides various other non politiCentral leaders, Akhil Bharatiya
cal organizations.
Gujjar Mahasabha (ABGM)
Poswal
said
ABGM
launched in J&K in 2007 has
struggled for the betterment
of the community since then.
The State unit of ABGM
since then met various
Central Government leaders
including President of India
and Prime Minister and projected their problems before
them.
He reiterated his demand
including implementation of
tribal sub plan in J&K, political reservation in Block
Development
Councils,
Legislative
Council,
Assembly, rehabilitation of
nomads and recruitment of
tribal youth in belt forces.
Ishfaq-ul-Rehman Poswal talkHe also demanded CBI/
ing to reporters at Jammu on CAG probe on the various
Saturday.
-Excelsior/Rakesh schemes and packages sancJ&K, president Ishfaq-ul- tioned for downtrodden section
Rehman re-christened the name of society by Centre since 1991
of the organisation as Bharatiya as not a single person in the
Gujjar Mahasaba (BGM) J&K. State was benefited.
While taking to reporters
here today, Poswal said that the
main objective of creating this
non -political organization is to
highlight the basic issue related
to Jammu and Kashmir Gujjar
KARGIL, Dec 29: No female
community as they differ from foeticide case has so far been
Gujjar community of other detected in the Kargil district.
This came into light during a
States in various aspects.
He said the major issue, penal discussion in connection
which his organization will with the celebration of "Save Girl
highlight is the upliftment of Child Week”, organized by
tribal Gujjars in the State as they Health Department Kargil.
Officers, social workers,
face more problems than the
Gujjars and Bakerwals of other Doctors, Gynecologist and legal
exports took part in the discussion
States.
wherein the Chief Medical
He said that district and
Officer was the chief guest.
block level members of ABGM
Amin Qari (Principle Degree
are with BGM now. The organi- Collage),
Dr Zohra
zation will affiliate to all the (Gynecologist),
Advocate
national and State level organi- Manzoor Hussain, Ghulam
zations working for betterment Ahmed (District Social Welfare
of Gujjar community throughout Officer), Dr, Afzal (Sonographer),
the country. These include Dr Ghulam Mohd (Child specialGujjar Vikas Sangthan, Gujjar ist) were among those present on
Vikas Parisahd, Gujjar Chetna the occasion.
No female foeticide
in Kargil
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2012
daily
An Aam Admi becomes Khaas
Excelsior
Established 1965
Founder Editor S.D. Rohmetra
Suman K. Sharma
t is a sunny Sunday.
Voices of children singing
in unison seep sweetly out
of the top floor of a sprawling
mansion in the posh colony of
Chhanni Himmat. The iron
gate is invitingly open - and
surprise of surprises - there is
no ferocious dog anywhere
near the entrance. The ornate
marble stairs lead up to a spacious hall. On a wall-to-wall
carpet sit boys and girls in neat
rows, some thirty five in all. A
young woman in her twenties
is giving them instructions in
the style of a loving didi and
the young ones listen to her,
their well scrubbed and gleaming faces rapt in attention. At
some distance from the didi
sits cross-legged a portly man
who from his demeanour could
only be the master of the
house. His spectacled wife is
standing among the children,
ready to help should anyone
present need it.
It is a session of baal sanskar. The participants are from
the families of the migrant
workers. The lady instructor is
a volunteer from a nationallevel socio religious organization. The objective is to
impart cultural values to the
children from deprived families, give them actionable
advice on how to improve
their health and grades and
significantly, to see if one or
more of them can be recommended to be sponsored for
financial help in their studies.
After a delectable session of
interactive
tutelage,
the
youngsters are given light
refreshments and sent off to
their homes in good cheer.
The children will come again
next Sunday, bringing with
them more of their peers and
chums.
What has prompted this
Flawed Roshni I
Act
trangely, more often than not, the Government is
caught on wrong foot when making tall claims of
benefits and returns from a reform that seems
controversial from the very beginning. When the Roshni
Act was introduced in 2007, the Government hastened
to claim that this would earn the state a massive revenue to the tune of 25,000 crore rupees. The euphoric
announcement added that this windfall would be invested in power generation scheme and that would alleviate
the problem of power supply deficit. As time passed,
both of these expectations seem to have been frustrated by ground realities. The Roshni scheme has drawn
damp squib, something which the Revenue Minister
accepted in all honesty.
It is one thing to understand the psychology of
human beings and another thing to expect them to
behave as you would like them to. A bare sum of 76
crore rupees has been realized as against 25,000 crore
from the transfer of Government land to persons who
have been in illegal possession of the same. The
amount of Government land in illegal possession but
approved for transfer of ownership rights is 17, 86,000
kanals. Revenue Department received 2, 56,792 applications for vesting possession rights. Ownership rights
have been conferred in respect of 6, 04,662 kanals. This
should have generated revenue to the tune of 316 crore
of rupees but in actuality only 76 crore of rupees could
be realized. Many among those to whom ownership
was transferred have declined to make the payment as
stipulated in the Roshni Act. The fact of the matter is that
there are many flaws in the Act and the defaulters have
taken shelter behind these flaws. The Government
should have studied the clauses of the Act in minute
detail and sought legal opinion so that the snags could
be repaired and provisions amended. Nearly seven
years have passed by since the passing of the Act and
the Government is yet to begin revising the Act and
bringing about revision in clauses that are not clear or
that give the benefit of doubt to the persons in whom
right of ownership is vested.
The situation has become ludicrous. Why the
Government has not been pursing rectification of flawed
provision of the Act is a mystery. But more baffling is the
question that the Government has taken no step for
eviction of illegal possesses of the Government land
once the time for application for regularization of land
has elapsed. There are two categories of illegal possessors of Government land who stand to be evicted. One
is of those who did not make application for regularization and the other is of those who applied but did not
deposit the stipulated amount within time. Both of them
have to be evicted in accordance with the Roshni Act
but the Government has not taken any step towards
their eviction.
Revenue authorities themselves are confused about
various aspects of the Act. For example there is confusion about the girdawari extract (intikhab girdawari). The
Act says that only that land will be considered for regularization whose girdawari has been done. Girdawari is an
important revenue procedure of reconfirming the details
of a particular patch of land, its contours, productivity,
possession etc. Responsible revenue staff is put in
charge of this most important revenue record on which
the entire agrarian and taxation system depends.
Girdawari is conducted by revenue officials twice a year
regularly, once for summer crop called rabi and once for
autumn crop called kharif. This is the most authentic
record of possession of land. But Government banned
girdawari for several years prior to the promulgation of
Roshni Act. As such, the exact status of the Government
land earmarked for ownership rights under Roshni Act
remained unclear and ambiguous. This has given rise to
litigation. The Government has not been able to find a
solution to this problem nor did it consider such an exigency at the time of making the enactment. Thus the
Roshni Act turned into a mess and did not move forward.
According to a statement of the Revenue Minister, the
Government is reported to have approached the Law
Department for making necessary amendment in Roshni
Act so that the hurdles that have appeared are overcome.
Looking in retrospect one feels that the Roshni Act
was passed in a haste and full attention was not mounted on its niceties and allied issues. Meaningless euphoria was exuded on the benefits of the Act to the state
exchequer and the Government was misled. Lastly not
rectifying the fault, whether in the Act or in the implementation part, remains a question which the State
Revenue Department shall have to answer.
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Higher Education Standard
igher education sector in our country has to tackle two main issues; increasing the number of
institutions of higher study, and providing high
level of research study and learning in the universities
so as to compete with any university of international reputation. "Why should our students seek to go to foreign
universities", asked the President in the course of his
convocation address at SRM University in Chennai.
There was a time in olden days when students from
abroad came to Indian universities of Nalanda and
Takhshashila (Taxila) to learn the sciences of those
days. The President subtly remarked that admittedly the
educational and research standard in our universities
had suffered downslide and this needs to be arrested as
early as possible. To be candid and honest, our higher
educational institutions of enormous importance to
research have been suffering from political interference.
Our students have the potential of doing excellent
research and contributing richly towards learning. This
has been proved by our writers, thinkers, engineers and
scientists. Why should have the standard of our universities fallen when far better infrastructure has been
made available and the country is ready to give due
recognition to research of highest standard. It is time
that our universities and prestigious research institu-
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sixty-year old man and his
wife to host such an activity in
their plush residence? He narrates his story in a self-effacing manner, punctuating it
with little laughs and witticisms. "I was born in the
shadow of death," he begins,
"my father having died a
month earlier." His mother, in
her twenties, had been married
hardly a year then. She named
In time, he landed himself a
regular job with a nationalized
bank and got married into a
rich family. With marriage
came ambition. He wanted
now to earn enough so he
could stand on equal terms
with the rich. The family
opened a school. Renting out
shops, it cashed in on the corner location of the house and
made canny transactions to
The gleam of the subtle
joy on the faces of those
three score and five children
in that hall makes his point
clear. Tomorrow, many
of these children would
shed the constraints of
their penury and make
themselves capable of
helping out their less
fortunate brethren.
the newborn 'A-shok' - one
who takes away grief. But it
was rather a sordid life both
for the young widow and her
only son. They had a one-room
quarter in Bakshinagar for residence, weepy widows (theirs
was literally a widows' neighbourhood) for company and a
teacher's salary to thrive on.
The mother, despite her meager income, never stinted in
helping out her needy neighbours, be it in cash, or in kind.
When Ashok grew up, he
started supplementing his
mother's income by joining a
private school as a teacher,
giving tuitions and so forth.
bolster up its finances. The
school flourished; the family
got bigger - it had three strapping children - and the house
got smaller in proportion.
They moved on to Chhanni
Himmat for a much bigger
house. The bank job which
had carried with it the
Damocles' sword of all-India
transferability was increasingly becoming an obstruction to
the furtherance of Ashok's
choice projects at home and he
availed of the bank's scheme
of voluntary retirement. This
gave him time enough vigorously to fulfil his ambition. A
focused man, it did not take
him long to consolidate his
financial position - little wonder that 'tangible' is a
favourite word in his vocabulary. Luck also favoured him.
Both his sons got themselves
good jobs and the daughter an MBA - embarked upon her
own successful business venture.
This July he turned sixty
and sat wondering. He had
had his races. Success had not
eluded him. But where would
he go from here? He might
have forty, twenty, five years
more to go, or even as short a
period as twenty days left to
him. Would he spend this precious time having kitty parties
or splurging hard earned
money in hotels and restaurants? Then it struck him.
Bring a smile to a fellow
human being and you will
have earned yourself a bigger
smile. Distribute happiness
among others and it will return
to you manifolds.
He still
likes to make money, for, as he
says 'money is power to do
things, things I want to do in
my life.' Money for him is not
an end in itself but a means to
achieve an end.
The gleam of the subtle joy
on the faces of those three
score and five children in that
hall makes his point clear.
Tomorrow, many of these children would shed the constraints of their penury and
make themselves capable of
helping out their less fortunate
brethren.
Ashok is an aam admi
turning khas - a happy
metaphor for the middle class.
Let the law makers churn out,
if they find time enough from
their shenanigans, laws for
social welfare and let the
bureaucrats implement those
laws at least on paper; but at
the end of the day it is the
Will 2013 be more affordable
trange paradox ! As jubilant merry-makers will
sit up late tomorrow
night to sip down the welcome
drink hailing the arrival of
2013, for the common man on
street even the most meagre
meal seems unaffordable.
Ironically, as 2012 comes
to a close, the common man is
seen talking less of the New
Year resolutions if any and
more of the sky-rocketing
prices that threaten his very
survival. While several ordinary food commodities record
unprecedented price hike, the
staple item of "Dal'' costs nearly Rs 100 per Kg and wheat
used for preparing "Roti'' costs
equally high which, in other
words, means that proverbial
"Dal- Roti'' has also turned
unaffordable.
And this despite the fact
that all the major political parties of the country are battling
it out amongst themselves to
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salvage the common man from
the scrouge of price rise, that
all the top leaders of the country are working overtime to
retrieve the black money
deposited in foreign banks,
that the corrupt are lodged
inside Tihar jail leaving the
socalled corrupt outside to
giant economic leap under
the stewardship of a Prime
Minister who is hailed as
world's leading economist,
why the common man from
lower social strata is finding
himself incapable of buying
barely two square meals for
himself and his family ?
TALES OF TRAVESTY
DR. JITENDRA SINGH
negotiate with Anna Hazare
over how best a Lok Pal could
rescue the common man from
the ordeal of daily bribes he is
called to offer to gain access
into a civil secretariate as
much as to gain entry into the
holy temple of Tirupathi.
The more foundational
question, however, is that at
a time when the world is
aheading towards a global
economy and India claims to
be in the fore front of this
Mark Twain once quipped,
"economy is too serious a
subject to be left to economist alone''. Do we, in that
case, need to conclude that
the economy of this country
is too serious an issue to be
handled by an "Economist Prime Minister''?
Mahatma Gandhi always
said, what use is freedom or
liberty if it is achieved after
leaving behind a trail of widows,
orphans
and
deceased....however
holy
might be the objective of
such liberty ? In the same
vein, one might ask, what use
is such economic prowess
which cannot ensure a bare
meal for all its subjects ?
And, that indeed would have
been Gandhi's likely lament
had
he been alive and
around today to witness the
plight of a large majority of
hunger-stricken populace of
this country who, according
to Bapu, comprised the real
India.
Strange are the progress
patterns of this developing
world where a certain common
man has his fill and a certain
common man goes to bed
empty stomach. Umapathy's
incessantly unresolved dilemma was thus summed up years
ago by Sahir Ludhianvi
‘‘....Kahin Pyaale Labo-Lab,
Kahin Jaam Khaali Hain !’’
A fire in the belly of the volcano
M.J.Akbar
hock dissipates; pain
lingers; and rage will
extract its due sometime.
On Saturday morning, the 23year-old girl who had been
raped by a criminal gang festering with demons on the
night of 14 December, gave up
her unconscious struggle for
life in a Singapore hospital.
Delhi, and perhaps India,
fell silent. What was left to
say?
What else was left to hear
after we have heard during
this fortnight's public discourse?
The government was
bewildered by the paradox that
finally shredded its moral
roots, if indeed there were any
left. The ruling elite thought
that tokenism was sufficient as
an escape route. Statistics
encouraged such thinking.
This was hardly the first rape
in Delhi; at least 600 have
been reported in 2012 alone.
India forgets a thousand rapes
a day; why should people get
particularly provoked just
because this rape happened on
a rogue bus running with the
support of a deeply corrupt
police system that permitted a
physically and mentally twisted driver to operate because he
had paid police to get his
licence?
The general view was that
a few speeches in Parliament
would be more than enough.
Strangely, the principal faces
of governance, Prime Minister
Manmohan
Singh
and
Congress president Mrs Sonia
Gandhi, did not think that they
needed to read out a few paragraphs churned out by their
speechwriters on that day in
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Parliament. The future of the
Congress, Rahul Gandhi, was
missing from the present. Nor
was he visible on Saturday.
Outside Parliament, it was
a different space. Women lit a
flame of anger that exposed
through the clamour of public
discourse the truth of what
many men in power truly felt.
Visceral hatred born from
other causes can deform men
into rapists by intent. Perhaps
who has just died: that she
"should have been more careful". He also thought that it
was a "minor incident". Will
anything happen to this retarded, obnoxious politician? I
doubt it. Make your guess and
keep checking the newspapers.
We will know soon enough
if this crisis marks the beginning of reform in social justice,
or is merely another chapter of
tears that dries up the next day
The ugliest remark came
from Andhra Pradesh.
This quote is unusual not because
it is rare, but because it is rarely
expressed in public. The chief of the
Andhra Congress is a man called
Botsa Satyanarayana.
the most unbelievable instance
was the case of a former
Marxist minister in Bengal,
Anisur Rahman, taunting the
state's chief minister Mamata
Banerjee in language that cannot be repeated. Leftists have
been sincere guardians of gender equality. They have
demanded the maximum punishment for the gang in Delhi.
We are waiting to see what
punishment they inflict on
their former minister.
The ugliest remark came
from Andhra Pradesh. This
quote is unusual not because it
is rare, but because it is rarely
expressed in public. The chief
of the Andhra Congress is a
man
called
Botsa
Satyanarayana. This is what he
said about the young victim
as life totters on with nothing
learnt. But here is a suggestion
for political parties. Reform
begins at home. They made the
right noises when public
anguish peaked on Saturday,
possibly because they were
afraid of a public backlash.
From Monday they could do
something concrete. Every
political
party,
whether
Congress, BJP, Left or regional, has criminal elements
including those who have
raped. A few of them even rise
to elected level. Could they
begin with action against them?
All leaders prefer fudge to
change. After a week of doing
very little, Mrs Sonia Gandhi
invited six young people in
an effort to calm and reassure
the protestors. This group
was led into her presence by a
minister. A curious thing happened on the way out. All six
refused to identify themselves to media. Newspapers
got their pictures but not their
names. Why? Were they from
a Congress party forum or
from the incensed crowds in
the heart of the capital? It did
not work.
Something fundamental
has changed. The ground has
shifted.
In
December,
2012
changed from yet another ordinary year in a desultory
sequence to a swivel moment
in India's history - when
women, their identity, their
rights, their dignity, became
the central issue before the
nation. It was not just one
more crime, however awful,
that brought young Indians
together. It was a scream of
anguish against widespread,
inhuman and unchecked corruption in every aspect of existence that has turned the citizen into a hapless victim of
kleptocracy, with women suffering the more malicious
wounds of brutalization.
The government has dismissed every public protest
over the past years with contempt. Anna Hazare was a
'fraud'. Arvind Kejriwal was a
'pipsqueak liar'. Ministers competed with each other in becoming more vicious about leaders
of popular anger; they laughed
and threatened, and rewarded
by Mrs Sonia Gandhi and Dr
Singh with better portfolios.
When you are in power,
you never hear the volcano
rumbling in the belly of the
mountain, although fires are
licking at the mouth of the
"Jinhe Naz Hai Hind Par..."
Shiban Khaibri
ahir Ludhianvi, a noted Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist, way back
in 1957 had written:- "Jinhen naz hai Hind par, who kahan hain,
kahan hain, Kahan hain….?" What we desperately watch these
days happening in our country is touching the issue of the need of an
effective leadership, the one which is politically and administratively
responsive, where the security and the welfare of the people are not
held hostage to petty political equations and considerations. While we
boast of our country having been a light house of highest values,
moral, spiritual and ethical; wherefrom the message of peace, and non
violence coupled with learning of high order spread beyond its
boundaries, at the same time, we feel ashamed of the levels of decay
and degeneration we are heading towards, day in and day out. Where
have gone those who boast of being Indians and take pride in Indian
values? Where have those values gone, looking to the veracity and
heterogeneity of the levels of increasing crimes taking place in the
country? We cannot always measure the progress of our society in
terms of economic prosperity, if worth any name. We seem to have
cumulatively regressed instead of having progressed. If economic
prosperity and development were the real criteria, then a lad of just 20
would have not entered a school and shot dead 21 tiny tots a few days
back in an American town.
Does violence against women not continue to take place in homes,
on the streets, in vehicles, in work places etc; whether it is day or
night, peace or conflict in our country which should stir our conscience to do something to effectively contain it? The gruesome incident of rape and predatory committed against an innocent young
woman on Dec 16 in a moving bus in Delhi which was to take her
home safely, is a grotesque face of what are we reduced to and this
face is staring back at those who are elected to rule this country. When
the incident was brought into the notice of the Chief Minister Sheila
Dixit , she is reported to have told the petitioners," Meet the Police
Commissioner." The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh , Vir Bhadar
Singh was asked on 20th instant after Congress won 10 seats more
than the BJP in the Assembly elections as to what was his first priority on assuming office, he said," I , first of all, want to get two long
brooms to cleanse the dirt of the out going government." The Prime
Minister broke his silence after a week and unfortunately took cover
of "I too have three daughters". So had the Home Minister and his
deputy also already said that they too had three daughters each? Is it
not again a crude joke with the Aam Aadmi as VIPs' daughters move
around under fool proof security and protection? The cry is loud and
clear, "Care for others' daughters as well." Is it not a fact that on an
average, there are three policemen for providing "security" for each
VIP, not to speak of VVIPs, while for as many as 784 citizens, there
is one police man? Is police force meant mainly for VIPs and not for
citizens? Can governments ever behave in vengeance against those
who criticize its functioning the way security provided to ex Chief of
our army Gen. V.K.Singh was withdrawn? Why not against the politicians? Let it be percolated down into their minds that joining politics
cannot and should not always be taken as coziest of professions where
honour, dignity, prestige, money, power and police security at the
expense of the common citizen can be an inalienable part of the "joining politics package". Climate in the country is changing though slowly and the writing on the wall needs not only to be read but understood
S
If due to obstinate behavior of the
government in not passing the
Lok Pal bill and the resultant
Lok Pal agitation virtually
failing and disheartening the
people, perhaps the nation,
especially the youth, would
have not plunged into the
type of anger which we are seeing
now against this shameful incident.
in substance as well.
If due to obstinate behavior of the government in not passing the
Lok Pal bill and the resultant Lok Pal agitation virtually failing and
disheartening the people, perhaps the nation, especially the youth,
would have not plunged into the type of anger which we are seeing
now against this shameful incident. Why did the youth face of the
Congress - Rahul Gandhi, whom many "stalwarts "and non stalwarts
in the party want to project as the future Prime Minister of the country, not show solidarity and practical sympathy with the agitating
youth in Delhi and else where? The cry to free police force from the
clutches of the executive has not apparently been heard so far, also
the view that there is too much of political interference in the professional functioning of the police force is not without substance. The
need to go in for effective police reforms and the report on it gathering dust since 1978 is shaking the confidence of the Aam Admi in the
leaders of the country. Though there is also a good number of honest,
able, hard working and sincere leaders in all political parties but how
many accused (if not convicted) of violence against women, extortions , land grabbing, corruption and other crimes are there in our legislatures? Why not a special treatment for political leaders here also in
that, as against "innocent till proved guilty" for common people, there
should be the legal maxim of "guilty till proved innocent" for our
politicians. When our law makers can sit overtime and pass the bill
within a record three days in respect of enhancement of salaries and
allowances, why can't they show similar solidarity in matters of violence against women, female infanticide, rising crime, adulteration in
essential items of daily consumption, corruption and other malaise
affecting our societies and the nation?
Every agitating person almost chants death sentence for rapists,
even advocating for castration but is there a unanimous acceptability
of the proposed punishments and amending or making laws to that
effect? Just a look at what Indian women organizations themselves
say, proves on the contrary. Dozens of such organizations, human
rights groups and even scores of noted social and political activists
from across the country, are strictly opposing death penalty for it
being "neither a deterrent nor an effective or an ethical response to
such acts". They counter the stereotype claim that rape is worst than
death that can happen to a woman. They say that "rape is a tool of
patriarchy, an act of violence and has got nothing to do with morality,
character or behaviour." A general considered view is that there are
enough laws to deal with this type of brutal offence in the country but
they need to be ruthlessly enforced, coupled "with the recognition of
a variety of sexual crimes in a gradation". It is also argued that "as
long as we have a low conviction rate, the severity of the punishment
won't matter; the question of punishment arises only after conviction."
We have been watching post horrendous incidence agitations,
anger and concern of thousands of people, non stop debates and discussions on TV Channels etc; now for the last nearly two weeks with
demands of removing Police Chief of Delhi, hanging the rapists, making rape an offence of rarest of rare category calling for death sentence
and host of other remedial measures and very rightly so. None, however, seems to address the issue from the angle of preventive measures
also, the negative impact of large number of modern movies advocating violence, projecting a woman as an entertaining object coupled
with cheap and obscene dance items exhibiting nudity, eroticism and
vulgarity; the low standard of lyrics and songs etc; all contributing to
fuel the sick mindset of a prospective rapist. Why don't women organizations protest against ads like "two ways of ladki patana"? What are
innuendoes like "patana" mean? Why do we not rue the decay, if not
the demise of moral values in the society which are found missing in
such criminals as their parents and rather their teachers did not bother
to equip them with, so that they could treat a woman as a respectable
soul and not merely an object of satisfying animal lust like a savage
predator? We are turning to be mere hypocrites in celebrating Nov 25
every year in the honour of a woman exactly the way we do on Oct 2
to remember the father of our nation each year but forget to follow
pledges and promises with concrete action. Again in the words of
Sahir;-"Zara mulk ke rahbarun ko bulao…………Kahan hain
muhafiz-e- khudi ke, jinhen naz hai Hind par, Who Kahan hain, kahan
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Mirwaiz for Indo-Pak dialogue
should take place so that
people on either sides of Line of
Control move without hassles
and restrictions," said Mirwaiz.
Describing CBMs as a good
toll for the betterment of both
the countries and a step ahead
for the welfare of the area and
its people, he said that CBMs
can be successful when both
India and Pakistan arrive on a
consensus.
Terming his faction's visit
to Pakistan as successful,
Mirwaiz said that Kashmiris
are not against improved relations between Pakistan and
India adding that this should
not happen at the cost of the
Kashmiri people. He said the
atmosphere has to be made
conducive
for
dialogue
between the two countries
involving Kashmiri leadership.
Curfew lifted from Pulwama
complete strike on Monday
(December 31) against security
force firing in Pulwama and
asked people to protest peacefully demanding withdrawal of
armed forces from towns and
cities and repealing of the
Armed Forces Special Powers
Act (AFSPA).
The hardline Hurriyat
leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani
has asked the Business community, transporters, employees,
shopkeepers and people to
extend their support to the
strike call and make call a success. He said that Monday's
strike in protest against firing in
Pulwama and a token of solidarity with those detainees who
have been awarded the life sentences.
Woman gang-raped in Mendhar
house of one Mohd Sayeed
Qureshi and raised alarm for
help. The family members
came out and found the lady in
very miserable condition and
brought her to their home. The
women of the family took her
inside, provided clothes and lit
fire to provide her warmth as
she was badly shivering with
cold and shock. Moreover, her
health was also not good.
The other people also came
to know about the incident at
around 6.30 pm and they
informed Mendhar police. The
woman identified the accused
and Qureshi's son had also
seen three people moving
towards that track. They were
identified as Tariq Iqbal
(Veterinary Deptt employee),
son of Mehboob Ahmed resident of Kalaban area, Tazeem
Ahmed (driver), son of Abdul
Majid of Kalaban and
Muzaffar, son of Mohd
Khursheed, also from the
same area.
The victim was removed to
Mendhar hospital for Medical
examination by police during
the day today and SHO and
SDPO recorded the statement
of the victim. She was unable
to move and was helped by the
family members. The police
registered a case and started
investigation. The locals were
agitated over the act and they
demanded immediate arrest of
all the accused and strict
action against them.
SDPO Amit Bhasin when
contacted
claimed
that
Medical examination of the
woman got conducted at SDH,
Mendhar. He said one of the
accused, as identified by the
victim has been apprehended.
The police teams were conducting raids to arrest two others. He said medical report has
not been provided by the
Medical officer as yet and the
investigation was in progress.
6 killed, 50 hurt in Pak blast
Several police officials
claimed soon after the incident
that the blast was caused by the
CNG cylinders of the bus.
However, the cleaner of the
bus told the media that the
vehicle ran on diesel and had
no CNG cylinders.
Police
officials
later
acknowledged the incident was
an act of terrorism and that a
bomb had been planted in the
bus.
The explosion hit several
nearby shops, buildings, motorcycles and cars. A fire erupted
in the bus, which was reduced
to a heap of mangled and blackened metal.
Footage on television
showed the bus on fire as a
thick column of smoke rose
into the sky.
No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
Security forces cordoned
off area soon after the explosion. (PTI)
Legal hurdles, funds delay
doubling of Jammu-Pathankot track
Himachal Pradesh and
Jammu and Kashmir.
Even as 90 percent of doubling of the track has been
completed, small stretches of
around six kilometer on Ravi,
Ujh and Basantar rivers
besides canal crossings are
delaying its commissioning.
The upcoming bridge on
Ravi river will have 17 spans of
45 meters while the Ujh and
Basantar bridges will have 27
spans of 24 meters and 12 spans
of 30 meters, respectively.
According to the sources,
after accomplishment of the
work on sub-structures, fabrication of the bridge structures
will be taken up and the entire
process is likely to take more
than two years for completion.
A lot of precautions have to be
taken considering the length
and weight of the bridge structures, which are erected on the
sub-structure
and
spans.
However, sources hastened to
add, it is difficult to set a deadline for commissioning of the
double track owing to no free
flow of funds for the work as
well as some legal hurdles by
the contractors and other concerned parties. Further, the
unprecedented delay is escalating cost of the project, which is
again troublesome for the
Railway authorities, sources
explained.
Despite lapse of 5 months, Govt sleeping
over HC’s directions
Additional District Judges”.
Responding to the communication, the Registrar
General of the High Court
conveyed to the Law
Department, “since it is a
judicial order no clarification
or concurrence is required at
all. As no appeal has been
filed against the order of the
High Court dated July 9,
2012, Government has to
obey the orders”, sources said
quoting Registrar General
having conveyed to the Law
Department.
However, neither General
Administration Department nor
Home Department has so far
furnished comments to the Law
Department as such no progress
could be made towards the
implementation
of
High
Court’s directions, which otherwise have much importance in
arresting the spread of corruption and time bound disposal of
the corruption cases.
“Since the High Court has
itself issued directions about
conferring powers on the
Courts of Additional District
Judges and even expressed
grave concern over the increasing corruption, the State
should not have any hitch in
completing the exercise and
implementing the directions in
totality”, sources said.
“If all the Courts of
Additional District Judges are
conferred powers under the
2006 then there would be
speedy disposal of the cases
and the accused would be taken
to task in a time bound manner”, sources said.
It is pertinent to mention
here that the High Court in
its order dated July 9, 2012
had observed, “the menace of
corruption has corroded the
basic human values. It has
created neo-rich class in the
society. Corrupt people are
parasites, who swell themselves by sucking blood of the
poorest of poor”, adding “the
society gets de-stabilized by
abominable corrupt practices
indulged into by black sheep
in the society”.
“The major portion of the
public funds is siphoned off
into coffers of few corrupt people and this in turn has potential
of breaking down the economic
back bone of the nation. The
corruption is the greatest threat
to the democratic institutions.
The corrupt practices of small
band of people inflict untold
and unbearable miseries on the
poor and down-trodden class of
the society. The corruption if
unchecked will eventually lead
to anarchy in the society”, the
Court had stated while stressing the need for taking some
drastic steps for arresting the
spread of corruption.
be their endeavour to
ensure the “harshest punishment in the book” to the culprits.
“We hope to file the
charge sheet by the 3rd of
January 2013. Section 302 of
IPC, which is the penal section for murder, has been
added
in
the
case,”
Dharmendra
Kumar,
Special Commissioner of
Police (Law and Order),
said.
The autopsy of the victim
was done by a Singaporean
Medical Team and the report
will be made available to
investigators at the earliest.
Meanwhile, Strait Times
reported that the casket hearse
carrying the gang-rape victim
left its Geylang Bahru premises at 8.50 pm local time. Her
body was embalmed at a
funeral parlour in Singapore.
Serious swelling in the
brain resulting from the cardiac arrest she suffered a few
days ago was an “important
cause” that led to the death of
the gang-rape victim who
fought for her life with “great
fortitude and courage”.
Cerebral edema, a condition characterised by excess
accumulation of water in the
intracellular or extracellular
spaces of the brain, proved
fatal in the case of the paramedic student who was airlifted to Singapore on Wednesday
night for specialised treatment.
The young girl suffered a
cardiac arrest on Tuesday
night which caused severe
injuries to her brain as well.
Complications in brain along
with multi-organ failure took
the life of the victim at the
Mount Elizabeth Hospital in
Singapore.
“Brain injury is an important cause for the death. She
suffered a cardiac arrest at
Safdarjung
Hospital
on
Tuesday. This could have
caused the brain injury and
she also suffered from multiorgan failure,” Dr Yatin
Mehta, Chairman Institute of
Critical
Care
and
Anaesthesiology at Medanta
Medicity, said.
He said that in such cases
the death is finally due to cardiac arrest.
Mehta, who was by the
side of the girl in the air
ambulance in which she was
airlifted to Singapore, said
the girl’s blood pressure was
normal and her heart was
pumping blood till last
evening when he had left
Singapore for India.
“Her lungs were infected
slightly yesterday but her
blood pressure was normal,”
he said, adding that she was an
“extremely brave girl” and a
“role model” who fought back
after
suffering
grievous
injuries.
Cerebral edema is a serious
medical condition where there
is way more fluid in the skull
than there should be causing
swelling in brain which compromises its own blood flow.
About the nearly six-hour
journey to Singapore, Dr
Mehta said the victim’s blood
pressure dipped very low for a
few minutes but it was
brought to normal level immediately.
“It was just for a temporary
period. She responded quite
well. In fact, she responded
better than what I was expecting. Till yesterday, her blood
pressure was normal and she
took the treatment very well,”
he said.
Maintaining that the girl
was air-lifted only with an aim
to get best of the treatment for
her, the doctor paid rich tributes to her courage.
“She was an extremely
brave girl. She is a role model
for everyone. She fought
back,” he said and noted that it
was time for action.
“As a society we should
unite and fight against such
crimes. It is not just enough
that people shed artificial tears
and forget. We should work
hard,” he said.
Delhi
Police
today
invoked murder charges
against the six men allegedly
involved in the gang-rape of
the girl in a moving bus after
she died in a Singapore hospital and decided to file the
charge sheet in court on
January 3.
Police said it will be their
endeavour to ensure the
“harshest punishment in the
book” to the culprits.
“We hope to file the charge
sheet by the 3rd of Jan., 2013.
Section 302 of IPC, which is
the penal section for murder,
has been added in the case,”
Dharmendra Kumar, Special
Commissioner of Police (Law
and Order), said.
He said a Special Public
Prosecutor of eminence has
been appointed to conduct the
trial in a Fast Track Court on a
day- to-day basis. “It will be
our endeavour to ensure the
harshest punishment in the
book to the culprits,” he said.
The autopsy of the victim
was done by a Singaporean
Medical Team and the report
will be made available to
investigators at the earliest.
“In this moment of national grief following the loss of a
young and innocent life to a
barbaric crime, we appeal to
members of public to stay
calm and maintain peace.
“We, in Delhi Police, as
citizens of this country are
equally saddened, if not more.
Our sympathy goes out to the
bereaved family,” he said.
Police had initially booked
the six men under Sections
307 (attempt to murder), 201
(destruction of evidence), 365
Heavy snowfall in Valley, NH reopened
Jammu also operated today
after the gap of four days.
The chopper service to Mata
Vaishnodevi from Katra base
camp remained suspended
through out the day today in view
of bad weather. Yatra between
Adh Kunwari and Bhawan also
remained disrupted for a few
hours after one Ravi Tokas (40),
son of Daya Nand Tokas of Delhi
was killed due to minor land
slides and shooting stones
between Himkoti and Adh
Kunwari. Taking precautions, the
authorities stopped yatra for
some time. His body was sent
back to his place at Muneerka in
Delhi after postmortem at Katra
hospital. The mishap took place
at around 11.40 am when he was
returning after performing
'Darshan' to Katra base camp.
Due to fog and inclement
weather, many trains arrived the
winter capital here, around two to
nine hours late from their scheduled arrival. The departure was
also delayed and rescheduled.
Heavy rush of passengers has
been witnessed at the Jammu
Railway Station while many
Kashmir bound stranded passengers were seen taking shelter at
Jammu Bus Stand since last night.
Due to closure of Highway, many
passengers remained stranded
here since yesterday.
The traffic on Jammu Poonch
and Jammu- Mendhar road was
disrupted for more than five
hours due to heavy snowfall at
Bhimber Gali pass today. It could
be resumed at around 2 pm. The
traffic on Mendhar road could be
restored in the evening. Thanna
Mandi-Dera ki Gali-BafliazPoonch road is also closed due to
snowfall. Some link roads in
Bhaderwah, Kishtwar and Doda
have also been closed due to
heavy snowfall but JammuBatote-Doda-Kishtwar highway
was through for traffic, an officials spokesman said.
Meanwhile, with the heavy
snowfall, authorities issued
fresh medium danger ava-
lanche warning for Tangdhar,
Chowkibal, Keran, Machil,
Gurez, Tuleil, Sonamarg, Drass
and higher reaches of Uri and
Gulmarg in North Kashmir for
the next 24 hours. The authorities have asked people living in
these areas to take precautions
and not to venture in avalanche-prone areas.
The snowfall and rain continued till Saturday evening in
Kashmir valley with Gulmarg
experiencing 10 to 12 inches of
fresh snow, Tangmarg 5 to 6
inches, Rafiabad 4 to 6 inches,
Shopian town one feet, Sedav
and Hirpora areas of Shopian
over 2 feet, Keller in Pulwama
over one feet, DH Pora 8 to 10
inches, Aharbal over 2 feet,
Yusmarg, Budgam 2 feet,
Khansahib Budgam over one
feet, Khag Budgam over one feet,
Arizal Budgam around 2 feet,
Nilnag Gogjipatri Budgam two
feet, Pakherpora Budgam over
one feet and Gurez in district
Bandipora 5 to 6 inches.
A spokesman of the
Government said that the department of Mechanical Engineering
swung into action and deployed
their snow clearance machines
for removal of snow from main
roads, including GulmargTangmarg
road,
NarbalTangmarg road, Baba Reshi road,
Rohama-Panzla road, Shopian
town, Shopian-Kulgam road,
Shopian-Zainpora-PinjooraTrenz-Turkwangam
road,
Pulwama-Keller road, PulwamaPakherpora road, Pumai-DH
Pora road, Kulgam-Sehpora road
and Nagam-Pakherpora road.
Inspector General of Police,
Traffic, Muneer Ahmad Khan,
told Excelsior that overnight
heavy snowfall in Jawahar
Tunnel and Patnitop area of
the National highway forced its
closure. He said that Border
Roads Organization (BRO)
started snow clearance operations early in the morning and
the highway was cleared at
around 10 a.m.
The IGP said that stranded
vehicles were cleared from
Banihal towards Srinagar first
and later the Traffic from
Qazigund was moved at around
12 noon up to 3 pm towards
Jammu. He said that as the condition of the highway in Banihal
sector is slippery, no vehicle was
allowed to move towards Jammu
after 3 pm.
Khan said that if the weather
improves the highway will be
open for one-way traffic and the
movement will be from Jammu
to Srinagar tomorrow.
The IGP said that last night
the traffic police cleared over 40
stranded passengers towards
Srinagar during slippery road
condition as they were stranded
in Banihal sector.
Meanwhile, the Director
Meteorological
Department,
Sonam Lotus, said that the
weather has started improving
from this evening. He said that
sky will be cloudy for next few
days but there will be no rain or
snow.
It was coldest day of the season in Srinagar with temperature
plummeting to 3.1 degree Celsius
while the night temperature was
recorded at 0.8 degree Celsius.
The gusty winds were blowing in
the summer capital of the State
interrupted by rains. Majority of
the people preferred to remain
indoors and traffic on the roads
was thin.
Jammu
showed
slight
improvement in day temperature
as it rose to 16 degree Celsius
from 15.8 degree Celsius, while
the night temperature was recorded at 9.4 degree Celsius.
The maximum and minimum
temperatures in Leh were minus
1.6 degree Celsius and minus 9.6
degree Celsius, Kargil minus 3.8
degree Celsius and minus 9.8
degree Celsius, Pahalgam 3.6
degree Celsius and minus 0.7
degree Celsius, while Gulmarg
recorded a low of minus 3.6
degree Celsius.
Army, BSF create 3 lines of security to tackle intrusions in fog
said.
According to sources, one
line of Army has been deployed
ahead of the fencing while second line has been created
behind the fencing. The third
line has been posted close to
general areas on the LoC. The
BSF has also adopted similar
pattern on the International
Border.
Sources said creation of
three lines of security on the
LoC and IB were in addition to
anti-fog apparatus and other
infrastructure installed on the
borders besides strict surveillance being maintained by the
security personnel to thwart
infiltration attempts.
“The militants have definitely come close to LoC and
even IB on some occasions
with a plot to intrude into this
side. However, they haven’t
succeeded. The militants could
make more such intrusion bids
especially in the winter months
of January and February when
the fog and adverse weather
would prevail on the borders’’,
they added.
They admitted that there
had been desperation on part of
nearly 300 militants, who were
camping across LoC and IB on
Pakistan side for past quite
sometime now, to intrude into
this side. The intercepts have
also pointed out the desperation as the militants wanted to
infiltrate but were finding it
difficult to do so, they said.
According to sources,
most of the firing incidents on
the LoC were aimed at infil-
tration of the militants. While
in some incidents, the militants had directly opened firing on the Army to force their
entry into this side, in some
other cases, Pakistan Army
had fired at the troops to give
cover to the infiltrators, they
said.
It may be mentioned here
that dense fog has engulfed
most parts of the LoC and IB
during past few days and
would extend right up to
January end or even in the
start of February, which
would give the militants an
advantage to sneak in but the
alertness displayed by the
security personnel hasn’t
allowed the militants to succeed in their nefarious
designs.
(kidnapping or abducting),
376 (2)(g) (gang-rape), 377
(unnatural offences), 394
(hurting in committing robbery) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
The girl had boarded the
bus, thinking it to be a legitimate public carriage, from
Munirka but was attacked and
gang-raped even as her male
friend accompanying her tried
to protect her. He was also
injured in the incident.
The arrested persons are
driver Ram Singh, his brother
Mukesh, Akshay Thakur,
Pavan and Vinay. The sixth
person apprehended claimed
that he is a minor and police
have sought the court’s permission to get a bone test to
ascertain his age.
Meanwhile, thousands of
people cutting across ages and
social strata today took to the
streets in peaceful marches
and protests across the country
to mourn the death of the gangrape victim whose fate triggered an outpouring of pentup grief and anger.
Hundreds of protesters,
seething in rage and anguish,
demanded capital punishment
for the rape accused while others sought justice.
Mourners, many of them
carrying candles and black
clothes pasted across their
mouths, marched along the
main thoroughfares of Delhi,
Mumbai,
Hyderabad,
Thiruvananthapuram,
Bangalore and several other
parts of the country.
The demonstrations in
Delhi were peaceful, unlike
last weekend, when police had
charged with batons, fired
water cannons and teargas in
clashes with protesters.
In one of the protests in the
national capital, students of
Jawaharlal Nehru University
marched from their campus to
the bus stop in Munirka locality in South Delhi from where
the girl had boarded the bus in
which she was gangraped and
brutally
assaulted
on
December 16 allegedly by six
men.
The students announced
they will hold a night vigil at
the same spot on New Year
Eve demanding strong laws to
punish sexual offenders.
Activists of Left parties
took out a peace march from
Mandi House to Jantar Mantar
led by CPI(M) Politburo
member Brinda Karat who
said there was a need for fixing accountability in order to
prevent recurrence of the incident.
At Jantar Mantar, where
people started gathering since
morning, mourners sat on a
silent protest. Later there were
sloganeering and demands for
immediate punishment for the
rape culprits.
Activist-turned-politician
Arvind Kejriwal and his associates Manish Sisodia and
Kumar Vishwas also joined
the protest along with some of
their supporters with their
mouth tied with black cloth.
Delhi Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit faced public
anger forcing her to beat a
hasty retreat from Jantar
Mantar where she had gone to
join the mourners.
A sizeable area in downtown Delhi was plunged into a
security lockdown with India
Gate and the Raisina Hills a
strict no-go area in the aftermath of the young student’s
death in Singapore, drawing
condemnation from protesters.
“The Government is not
even allowing mourning of the
death. This is insensitivity.
There is complete lock down.
You have the metro stations
shut. You have a road completely blocked. This is undemocratic,” fumed a protester.
Members
of
women
groups, cultural outfits and
civil rights activists joined in
mourning marches in different
parts of Mumbai where
actress-activist Shabana Azmi
walked in a silent protest
march from Juhu beach to
Kaifi Azmi Park and termed
the death of the girl as a “clarion call” to rise against prevention of crimes against
women.
“We cannot let the anger
pass. It will be a greater
betrayal. We have to do some
soul searching”.
It was, however, Congress
chief Sonia Gandhi who articulated the depth of anguish
when she said “as a woman
and mother, I understand the
pain. Her fight will not go in
vain”.
Emotions ran high in parts
of Karnataka following the
death of the Delhi gang-rape
victim with people, particularly women, demanding stringent punishment, including
death penalty, for the perpetrators of the crime.
As the news of the death of
the 23-year-old medical student spread, girls of various
colleges took out a protest
march in Karnataka.
In Bangalore, students of
women colleges were in tears
while expressing their ire over
the rape.
Mourners, who participated in a candle light march in
Mandya, Haveri, Mysore,
Bellary and other places, said
the culprits should be punished in public, while others
advocated capital punishment.
Women’s groups and cultural personalities took out
marches
across
Kerala
demanding severe action
against the rape culprits and
change in existing laws dealing with rape cases to ensure
“maximum punishment” for
culprits.
Supreme Court lawyer
Dayan Krishnan has been
appointed as the special public
prosecutor by city police to
conduct trial in the December
16 gang-rape of a paramedical
student who succumbed to
injuries during wee hours
today at a Singapore hospital.
"It is Dayan Krishnan, an
eminent lawyer...He has volunteered to do it free of cost.
He will be assisted by two juniors," Dharmendra Kumar,
Special Commissioner of
Police (Law and Order), told.
The senior police officer said
the harshest punishment would
be sought against five accused
during the trial after filing the
charge sheet by January 3.
The special prosecutor
would conduct the trial in a
fast track court on day-to-day
basis.
Later talking, Krishnan
said, "I had given my consent
to conduct the trial."
Krishnan has been representing NIA, Delhi Police and
other agencies at various judicial fora in many cases including the Nitish Katara murder
case.
As an outraged nation
empathised with the gangrape
victim, Congress President
Sonia Gandhi today said the
fight of nation’s “beloved
daughter” will not go in vain,
promising “swift and fitting
punishment” to perpetrators as
well as stringent laws for
women protection.
“Her unbounded courage
and her indomitable spirit will
never die and will never be
forgotten...My heart is heavy
with sorrow and anguish for
the young woman, who fought
so bravely against impossible
odds,” she said in her televised tributes.
She recalled that the girl
died in Singapore after battling for nearly two weeks
after the “unspeakably brutal
and bestial assault” on her.
“As a woman and mother, I
understand how you feel. I
appeal you to remain calm and
help strengthen our collective
resolve to fight the menace of
violence against women,”
Gandhi, who is also UPA
chairperson,said in televised
remarks.
In London, a group of 50
NRIs held a candle light vigil
in Central London today,
demanding severe punishment
for the six men allegedly
involved in the gang-rape of
the girl who died in a
Singapore hospital.
NRIs, including teachers
and housewives, gathered at
the Mahatma Gandhi Statue,
Tavistock Square and raised
slogans and held placards
demanding an end to assault
and rape cases in India.
"Band Karo Atyachar, save
our sisters," one of the placards read.
The protest was organised
by Pravasi Bharat, a Londonbased humanitarian organisation working for the welfare
and basic rights of Indians living abroad.
"We as the concerned citizens of India deeply saddened
by hearing the news of the 23year-old medical student who
was brutally gang-raped and
assaulted in Delhi recently.
We are extremely sorry that
she died in Singapore today."
From
the
Tavistock
Square, they marched to the
Indian High Commission in
Adwych and submitted a
memorandum, urging the
Government ot India to introduce strict punishments for
rapists and introduce timebound investigations and Fast
Track courts to deal with sex-
Zardari stops release of Bhutto assassination report
ISLAMABAD, Dec 29:
President Asif Ali Zardari
stopped
Interior
Minister
Rehman Malik from making
public a report on the investigation into the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto,
according to a media report
today.
“Zardari barred Malik from
presenting the report at a meeting
of the Central Executive
Committee of the ruling Pakistan
Ex-Minister
hospitalised
JAMMU, Dec 29: Former
Minister and veteran Congress
leader, Gharu Ram today suffered cardiac arrest while taking
evening walks at his residence.
He fell down in the lawns and
was rushed to Government
Medical College (GMC) hospital by the family members.
Gharu Ram, who represented
Suchetgarh Assembly segment in
2002 and was a Minister, suffered massive heart attack while
taking the evening walk.
He has been admitted in
CCU of the GMC Jammu,
Medical Superintendent, Dr
Manoj Chalotra said.
The Congress leader was
under treatment of Dr Sushil
Sharma, HoD Cardiology.
Doctors said Gharu Ram was
responding to the treatment.
Deputy Chief Minister Tara
Chand and other senior
Congress leaders visited the
GMC Jammu to enquire the
condition of Gharu Ram.
Peoples Party that was held on
Benazir’s fifth death anniversary
on Thursday.
“The move came in the wake
of an increase in differences
between Zardari and Malik,” the
Urdu newspaper Daily Express
quoted its sources as saying.
The president issued instructions to Malik not to make the
report public just hours before
the PPP held a rally outside the
Bhutto family mausoleum at
Garhi Khuda Bux in Sindh on
Thursday.
Malik had earlier told the
media about his intention to
make the report public.
Bhutto was assassinated by a
suicide bomber after addressing
an election rally in Rawalpindi
on December 27, 2007.
The report said Malik wanted
to present the report at the meeting of the PPP’s central executive
committee.
He even suggested that PPP
chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
should launch his political career
by revealing the report, sources
told the daily.
Bilawal, who is expected to
lead the PPP’s campaign for next
year’s general election, formally
launched his political career by
addressing the massive rally at
Garhi Khuda Bux.
Over the past few days,
Malik has met members of the
team. (PTI)
Govt health officer sentenced
to rigorous imprisonment
BANGALORE, Dec 29:
The Special Lokayukta Court
today
convicted
Dr
Chandrashekar, a Government
Health Officer, after finding him
guity of a bribery charge.
He was sentenced to rigorous
imprisonment for eight months
and to pay a fine of Rs 3,000. If
defaulted to pay the amount, he
should undergo further simple
imprisonment for three months.
Under a different section, he
was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a
fine of Rs 5,000 and in default to
pay fine, to undergo further simple
imprisonment for four months.
Both sentence would run concurrently.
M Nagaraju, a city resident,
had filed a complaint on
December three, 2005 to
Bangalore City Lokayukta police
that Chandrashekar, the then
Health
Officer
and
K
Ramanathan, Health Inspector,
Bharathinagar Range, Bruhat
Bangalore Mahanagara Palike,
Bangalore, demanded from him
bribe amount of Rs 8,000 and Rs
2,000, respectively, to transport
garbage in three city wards.
On December three, 2005, a
trap was laid and Chandrashekar
and Ramanathan were caught redhanded while accepting bribe.
After completing the investigation, the Investigating Officer
and Police Inspector M G
Subbarao, filed the charge-sheet
against the accused before the
Special Judge, Prevention of
Corruption Act, Bangalore Urban
District.(PTI)
Fake currency
seized
MUZAFFARPUR, Dec 29:
The Directorate of Revenue
Intelligence (DRI) sleuths today
arrested a smuggler with the Fake
Indian Currency Notes (FICN)
with a face value of Rs four lakh
from Bihar's Muzaffarpur district,
official sources said.
Acting on a tip off, the
sleuths nabbed the smuggler
Ganesh Sahni at Bhagwanpur
chowk and seized the haul of
counterfeit currency notes in the
denomination of Rs 1000 and
Rs 500, the sources said.
A native of Malahi Bazar in
neighbouring East Champaran
district, Sahni had brought the
FICN from Bangladesh enroute
West Bengal to circulate the
fake notes in the local market,
they said. (PTI)
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This is for the information of General Public that
Siromani Gurmat Granthi Ragi Sabha (Regd)
uninamously elected the following persons.
Bhai Kulbeer Singh Ji as a President
Bhai Rashpal Singh Ji as a General Secretary
Bhai Darshan Singh Ji as a Cashier
in a meeting held on 23-12-12.
They will provide their services for next two
years.
Jai Guru Dev
Jai Guru Ravi Dass JI
It is for the information of Sangat
devotees & others that monthly
Satsang shall be held on 30-122012 at 11.30 AM in Shri Guru Ravi
Dass Temple Krishna Nagar
Jammu. Shri Shri 108 Swami
Gurdeep Giri Ji Maharaj will deliver
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Shri Guru Ravi Dass Satsang
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TO
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M/S VIKAS SHARMA (SONU)
CONTRACTOR JAMMU
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION
MOB NO . 9858756568
Jugal Kishore Sharma
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I Phalak Sharma have lost my matriculation
diploma certificate bearing
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Annual 2002. I am applying
for the duplicate one.
Anybody having objection
may convey to J&K BOSE
Jammu within one week.
Phalak Sharma
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Teh & Distt Jammu Phalak Sharma
94191-33397
CONGRATULATIONS
To
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Defence Estates, Northern Command for providing sweeping, cleaning and gardening services to Defence Estates
Complex, located at Narwal Pain, Satwari, Jammu Cantt.
2.
The tender form containing eligibility conditions,
scope of work and terms & conditions can be received on
payment of Rs. 200/- (in cash) from the Office of the
Principal Director, Defence Estates (NC), Jammu Cantt. during working hours (1000 am to 1700 pm) on any working day
from 31.12.2012 to 10.01.2013 (till 1700 hours)
3.
The tenders will be received on 11.01.2013 up to
1500 hours and opened at 1600 hours on the same day in
the presence of bidders.
4.
The terms and conditions can be seen in the office
of Principal Director, Defence Estates, Northern Command,
Narwal Pain, Satwari, Jammu Cantt. and enquiries can also
be made on Telephone No. 0191-2430600.
Date: 18.12.2012
Tele: 0191-2430600
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REGISTRATION ACT-1998 (1941-AD).
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I, Deepak Verma S/o Sh. Krishan Lal R/o Ward No. 9 H.No.
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Jammu, have lost my 10th Class
Diploma which I have passed
under Roll No. 287042 during session 2006. Now I am applying for
the duplicate of the same.
Objection if any may be conveyed
to JK BOSE Rehari Jammu with in
seven days from the pulication of
Deepak Verma
this notice.
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near CM’s Residence,
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Walk in Interview between 10am to
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B.Tech/ B.E/ Diploma Holder/ ITI
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your Biodata with one photo by
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Palace Residency Road opposite
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NEW DELHI, Dec 29:
CBI today filed a charge sheet against former Nalco Chairman
cum Managing Director A K Srivastava for amassing assets worth
Rs two crore which were more than his known sources of income.
In its charge sheet filed before CBI judge Talwant Singh here,
the agency alleged Srivastava has amassed movable and immovable properties which were more than 201 per cent above his
known sources of income.
CBI sources said they have had found assets worth Rs two crore
which Srivastava could not explain from his known sources of
income.
Srivatava, his wife Chandani, middlemen B L Bajaj and Anita
Bajaj were arrested on February 25 after CBI recovered about 10 kg
of gold bricks and jewellery valued at around Rs 2.13 crore besides
Rs 30 lakh in cash from their possession. (PTI)
DIPLOMA IN ELEMENTARY
EDUCATION RESULT (JAMMU
PROVINCE) ANNUAL 2012
(NEW/OLD COURSE)
DIP/J-6999
Dt. 29-12-12
DIP/J-7002/2012
Dated: 29-12-2012
Sd/Chief Education Officer
Jammu
5 outstanding
sportspersons get
Govt jobs
Jammu District Women Hockey Tournament
Coaching Centre outplays APS Miran Sahib
Excelsior Sports Correspondent However, Simran of APS
Akhnoor scored a splendid goal
JAMMU, Dec 29: Coaching in 45th minute to equalize the
Centre Jammu defeated Army score. Then, Neetu of Coaching
Public School (APS) Miran Centre managed to score anothSahib in a close contest by two er goal in 55th minute to make it
goals to one (2-1) in the ongoing (2-1) in favour of her team.
Jammu
District
Hockey Finally, Coaching Centre won
Tournament, being organized by the match by (2-1).
Hockey J&K in collaboration
In another match, APS Rukh
with J&K State Sports Council,
Mutti got walkover against SAI
under the auspices of Hockey
India at KK Hakhu Astroturf XI, which did not turn up.
The match was officiated by
Stadium, here.
Earlier, both the teams JS Reen, Amarjeet Singh and
played defensively for first half Jagjit Singh, while the tournaan hour and it was Gargi ment is being held under the
Chaurasia of Coaching Centre overall supervision of Rumal
general
secretary,
who pelted a superb goal in 35th Singh,
minute of the match to give her Hockey J&K and GS Bakshi,
side a much needed lead. organizing secretary.
Excelsior Sports Correspondent
Chief guest Ashok Khajuria, MLA Jammu East felicitating
Chandeep Singh on Saturday.
Roller skaters felicitated
Excelsior Sports Correspondent the concluding ceremony of the
State Championship at Peerkho,
JAMMU, Dec 29: J&K State here today.
Roller Skating Association felicMLA Jammu East, Ashok
itated the meritorious skaters on Khajuria was the chief guest on
the occasion, who distributed
prizes among the skaters who
shined in speed, inline hockey,
quads hockey and artistic
Directorate of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
events.
(Winter) 105-Karanagar, Ambphalla, P/o Rehari, Jammu.
Chandeep Singh, despite
(Summer) Green Avenue Colony, Sector 2-F, Lane No. 1, Bemina Srinagar.
being handicapped shone in the
Championship and was awarded
Phone/Fax No:- 0194-2494288-2494273 (Srinagar) 0191-2563496-2563606 (Jammu)
a cash prize of Rs 5000 by GS
Sub: Interview for the post of Data Entry Operator on contract basis under SSA in respect of Jammu Division.
Khurmi, president J&K State
NOTICE
Roller Skating Association.
On the basis of written test conducted for the post of Data Entry Operator on contract basis under SSA on 09-12-2012 at Srinagar and Jammu cities the interviews and Practical test
for the short-listed candidates given in Annexure - A shall be conducted on 7th, 8th & 9th January, 2013 at Directorate of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, 105 Karan Nagar Jammu in respect of Jammu
Coach PP Singh presented
Division only. The candidates shall report to Directorate of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, 105 Karan Nagar Jammu on the said date by or before 09:30 a.m. along-with all original documents and
vote of thanks, while prominent
one set of their testimonials duly attested by a gazetted officer. Any candidate who reaches the venue after 11:00 a.m. shall not be considered for interview.
For query if any the candidates may contact this office during office hours.
among others presented on the
Sd/(Yasha Mudgal) IAS
occasion were Sanjeev Gupta,
State Project Director,
Rajesh Gupta, Subash Gupta,
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan,
J&K State, Jammu.
Jatinder Sharma and Jasmeet
No: - Edu/SPD/SSA/17300-05 Dated: 29-12-2012.
Singh.
ANNEXURE-A
LIST OF CANDIDATES SHORTLISTED FOR INTERVIEW & PRACTICAL TEST FROM 7TH TO 9TH JANUARY 2013 AT DIRECTORATE OF SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN J&K, 105
KARAN NAGAR JAMMU FOR THE POST OF DATA ENTRY OPERATORS IN DISTRICTS OF JAMMU DIVISION (On the basis of marks secured in the Written Test conducted by
SSA at Jammu on 9th December 2012)
S. No. NAME
FATHER'S/ HUSBAND'S NAME DOB
ROLL NO OF
DISTRICT APPLIED FOR
Date of Interview
WRITTEN EXAM
1
KIRAN KUMARI
Rawail Singh
03-Jan-99
1559
Jammu
7th Jan 2013
2
MANSI DUGGAL
R.R.Duggal
06-Aug-78
1234
Jammu
7th Jan 2013
3
UPMA KUMARI
Rawail Singh
26-Dec-84
1558
Jammu
7th Jan 2013
4
DEEPAK KUMAR
Krishan lal
01-Jan-79
1047
Jammu
7th Jan 2013
5
SHIKHA MANHAS
Jasbir Singh
18-Jan-85
1211
Jammu
7th Jan 2013
6
SUKHVINDER SINGH
Ujagar Singh
10-Apr-79
3758
Samba
7th Jan 2013
7
JASVINDER SINGH
Malkeet Singh
03-Oct-86
3772
Samba
7th Jan 2013
8
RAKESH KUMAR CHOUDHARY Bachan Singh
18-Apr-80
3961
Samba
7th Jan 2013
9
SHILPY JAMWAL
Kulbir Singh Jamwal
12-Nov-81
3752
Samba
7th Jan 2013
10
DEEPTI SHARMA
Subash Chander Sharma
11-Apr-85
2031
Samba
7th Jan 2013
11
VIKAS RANA
Madan Lal Angu
25-Oct-85
3775
Samba
7th Jan 2013
12
RENU DIGRA
Madan Lal
05-Nov-85
3945
Samba
7th Jan 2013
13
MADHU BALA
Som Nath
29-Jun-86
3843
Samba
7th Jan 2013
14
SUNITA DIGRA
Madan lal
31-Dec-87
3952
Samba
7th Jan 2013
15
RITESH SHRIKUL
T.R.Sharma
05-Oct-88
3732
Samba
7th Jan 2013
16
ASUTOSH KUMAR
Krishan Chand
01-May-85
2522
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
17
RAJANI KUMARI
Gian Chand
22-Aug-80
2217
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
18
AMIT SHARMA
Madan Gopal Sharma
29-Jan-85
2366
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
19
DEEPAK SHARMA
Tirath Ram Sharma
01-Sep-86
2347
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
20
SUNNY DHAR
Rattan Lal Dhar
03-Jun-88
2111
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
21
DHEERAJ PANKAJ
Dwarka Dutt
20-Mar-89
2240
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
22
SWATI SHARMA
Virinder Kumar
07-Aug-88
2038
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
23
RAKHI SAMBYAL
Prem Singh Sambyal
23-Jan-85
2243
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
24
SUNIL KUMAR KHAJURIA
Jagdish Chand
02-Dec-85
2004
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
25
MANAV SHARMA
Lekh Raj
06-Mar-86
2219
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
26
MALLU JASROTIA
Kanwal Singh Jasrotia
21-Jun-86
2069
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
27
KIRTEE SHARMA
Dharam Paul
05-Mar-87
2191
Kathua
7th Jan 2013
28
LALIT KUMAR
Virinder Kumar
16-Dec-80
0098
Doda
7th Jan 2013
29
RAJNESH BHAN
Hari Krishan Bhan
23-Mar-79
0085
Doda
7th Jan 2013
30
PAWAN KUMAK
Om Prakash
15-Mar-83
0047-A
Doda
7th Jan 2013
31
ANKUSH KUMAR
Kewal Krishan
14-Jul-84
0316
Doda
7th Jan 2013
32
NASIK IQBAL
Mohd Iqbal
01-Mar-82
0001
Doda
7th Jan 2013
33
MOHAN SINGH
Karlar Singh
08-Jun-84
0022
Doda
7th Jan 2013
34
ARFA PERVEEN MANGNOO
Abdul Latief Mangnoo
10-Oct-80
0250
Doda
7th Jan 2013
35
SANTOSH KUMAR
Jomphy Lal
04-Mar-81
0048
Doda
7th Jan 2013
36
SANDEEP KUMAR WAZIR
Kailash Wazir
14-Apr-85
0029
Doda
7th Jan 2013
37
SHALLENDER SINGH RANA
Pritam Singh Rana
22-Dec-85
0157
Doda
7th Jan 2013
38
ANKUSH KATOCH
Ravi Chand
05-Mar-89
0064
Doda
7th Jan 2013
39
IMRAN KHAN
Manzoor Hussain Khan
03-Jul-85
0039
Doda
7th Jan 2013
40
MOHD MUDASSER
Ch. Salam Din
12-Dec-86
0222
Doda
7th Jan 2013
41
VAKESH KUMAR
Ragunand
25-Apr-87
0065
Doda
7th Jan 2013
42
RANJEET SINGH
Lekh Raj
10-Jun-87
0115
Doda
7th Jan 2013
43
INTIKHAB SHAFI BUTT
Mohd Shafi Bhat
15-Apr-77
0082
Doda
7th Jan 2013
44
ASHISH DUTT
Lt. Jia Lal Dutt
21-Dec-81
0142
Doda
7th Jan 2013
45
ARSHAD KHURSHEED
Khurshid Ahmed Zargar
04-Apr-79
0009
Doda
7th Jan 2013
46
RAVI KUMAR SHARMA
Satish Sharma
25-May-85
0201
Doda
7th Jan 2013
47
ANJEEL SHARMA
Des Raj Sharma
08-Mar-87
0087
Doda
7th Jan 2013
48
RAMEESA ANJUM
Asgar Ali Malik
01-Jan-91
0318
Doda
7th Jan 2013
49
VISHAL SHARMA
Ved Parkash Sharma
02-Jan-79
3471
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
50
MOHINDER SINGH
Chandu Ram
25-Aug-86
3459
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
51
IMTIYAZ AHMED NAIK
Ghulam Nabi Nayak
14-Oct-88
3509
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
52
AAMIR HAFIZ
Mohd. Hafiz Wani
01-Nov-89
3458
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
53
ZUBAIR QUASIM BALI
Abdul Rshid bali
01-Mar-81
3464
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
54
RAVINDER SINGH
Kartar Singh
15-Jan-84
3479
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
55
PARDEEP KUMAR ATRI
Hem Raj Atri
10-Feb-84
3447
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
56
SHAFIQ AHMED RUNYAL
Ab. Rashid Runwal
07-May-84
3491
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
57
SUDERSHAN KRISHAN LAL
Brij Lal
14-Jul-88
3500
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
58
KULDEEP SINGH SUMBRIA
Bansi Lal
01-Dec-78
3436
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
59
UDHAM SINGH
Bhagat Ram
07-Dec-84
3449
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
60
RANU DEVI
S. S. Thakur
26-Nov-84
3435
Ramban
7th Jan 2013
61
MILAP SINGH
Kashmir Singh
01-Mar-87
3501
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
62
MOHD ATIQ UR REHMAN WANI Gh. Hyder Wani
11-Jan-86
3478
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
63
SAJAD AHMED
Mohd. Yousuf Sheikh
10-Mar-86
3498
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
64
RESHPAL SINGH
Kanshi Ram
03-Oct-74
3419
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
65
RASHED AHMED WANI
Abdul Majed Wani
01-Dec-81
3454
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
66
JATINDER SINGH
Puran Singh
04-Apr-84
3430
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
67
PRAYANKA DEVI
Kuldep Singh
02-Aug-88
3444
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
68
NISAR AHMED NAYAK
G.M. Nayak
05-Nov-81
3418
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
69
RAJESH SHARMA
Ashok Kumar sharma
10-Aug-85
3499
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
70
SHAKEELA BEGUM
Nazir Ahmed
05-Apr-77
3437
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
71
ABDUL QADEER BAALI
Gh. Mohd Bali
02-Dec-83
3482
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
72
TASEEN QOUSER
Gh. Hyder Wani
11-May-84
3476
Ramban
8th Jan 2013
73
ASHISH KUMAR
Late Hari Nath
15-Apr-81
2732
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
74
SAPNA THAKUR
Tek Chand Thakur
20-Oct-86
2731
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
75
ASHUTOSH
Satish kumar
24-Sep-89
2835
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
76
SANJAY KUMAR THAKUR
Tulsi Dass Thakur
03-Feb-88
2714
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
77
JOGINDER SINGH SHAN
Shadi Lal Shan
17-Apr-84
2756
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
78
AJAY KUMAR
Mohan Lal Sen
20-Feb-84
2937
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
79
ROHIT BHANDARI
Romesh Kumar
06-Jun-85
2881
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
80
ESHA CHAUHAN
Shadil Lal Chauhan
05-Feb-86
2760
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
81
GULAB CHAND
Prem Nath
07-Jun-78
2777
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
82
TOOSEEF AHMED SHEIKH
Bashir Ahmad sheikh
29-Sep-87
2909
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
83
KULDEEP KUMAR
Jagdish raj
10-Oct-80
2854
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
84
SUSHMA DEVI
Lt. Hari Lal Sharma
18-Feb-82
2819
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
85
KAMAL KISHORE
Prithvi Nath Sharma
07-Apr-82
2782
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
86
ASIF IQBAL MALIK
Mohd Iqbal Malik
02-Oct-88
2836
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
87
AHMAR NAZIR SHIEKH
Nazir Ahmad Sheikh
28-Feb-90
2799
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
88
ARJUN SINGH
Baisakhi Ram Wazir
12-Jan-80
2706
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
89
SABREENA BANOO AKHOON
Ghulam Hussain Akhoon
07-Jan-84
2929
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
90
AMIT GUPTA
Jagdish Raj Gupta
25-Jan-85
2757
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
91
TANVIR AHAMMAD
Mohd Iqwal shah
26-Jul-85
2907
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
92
ASHISH KUMAR SHARMA
Chuni Lal sharma
24-Feb-83
2783
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
93
NAVEEN SHARMA
Kewal Krishan
02-May-84
2770
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
94
TARAQ HUSSAIN
Ab. Gani Sheikh
01-Jan-88
2908
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
95
SANJAY KUMAR
Feroz Chand
07-Dec-78
2736
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
96
ASHWANI KUMAR
Madan Lal
03-May-87
2728
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
97
ANIL KUMAR
Lt. Swami Raj Bhagat
23-Mar-90
2765
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
98
MASOOD AHAMAD MATTOO
Aziz Mohd Matoo
30-Jun-73
2733
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
99
SANDEEP KUMAR
Sain Dass
05-Mar-80
2888
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
100
GUDI DEVI
Puran Chand
11-Dec-80
2773
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
101
PAWAN KUMAR
Dev Raj
18-Sep-82
2700
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
102
MUDASIR NABI
G.Nabi Mughal
08-Apr-84
2709
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
103
MOHD SALEEM
N.A. Naquib
16-Jan-84
2708
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
104
ARVIND SHAN
Jodh Ram Shan
28-May-87
2774
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
105
SABEHA KOUSAR AKHOON
Gh. Hussain Akhoon
24-Dec-87
2815
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
106
SHAHID HUSSAIN
Hussain Want
17-May-89
2895
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
107
KOSHALYA DEVI
Lakhmi Chand
02-Mar-74
2853
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
108
SHAZADA LATIF KAMAL
Ab Latif Kamal
20-Apr-83
2795
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
109
ARCHANA BHANDARI
Durga Dass
31-Jan-85
2738
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
110
SHIV KUMAR
Vinod Kumar
06-Jan-91
2899
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
111
BONIKA TICKOO
Niranjan Nath
03-Mar-82
2720
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
112
KOSHAL SINGH SHAN
Shadi Lal Shan
24-Dec-87
2745
Kishtwar
8th Jan 2013
113
DARVINDER SINGH
Tarlok Singh
31-Oct-86
3087
Poonch
8th Jan 2013
114
ANIL VERMA
Baldev Raj Verma
20-Sep-78
2982
Poonch
8th Jan 2013
115
PARAMVIR SINGH
Balwant Singh
27-Dec-83
2969
Poonch
8th Jan 2013
116
KOMAL SHANGLOO
Parveen Kumar Shangloo
08-Nov-79
3006
Poonch
8th Jan 2013
117
SHAN ALI JAFRI
Ahmad Shah Jafri
10-Jan-85
3013
Poonch
8th Jan 2013
118
MOHD IQBAL
Gh. Ahmed
08-May-84
2991
Poonch
8th Jan 2013
119
AFTAB AHMED
Faiz Ahmed
28-Feb-80
2966
Poonch
8th Jan 2013
120
KULWINDER SINGH
Col Ajiab Singh
07-Feb-81
2945
Poonch
8th Jan 2013
121
SHAKIL HUSSAIN
Talib Hussain
06-Nov-77
3032
Poonch
9th Jan 2013
122
FAROOQ HUSSAIN
Bagh Hussain
01-Apr-88
3069
Poonch
9th Jan 2013
123
NASREEN AKHTER
Wali Mohd
18-Mar-84
2989
Poonch
9th Jan 2013
124
MOHD IQBAL
Sun Joo
21-Jun-84
2974
Poonch
9th Jan 2013
125
MOHD SAFEER KHAN
Mohd Hafiz Khan
01-Jan-86
3031
Poonch
9th Jan 2013
126
NOVEED ANJUM
Zulafaqar Ahmed
06-Apr-91
2957
Poonch
9th Jan 2013
127
DHANUJ SHARMA
Manmohan Sharma
06-Oct-82
3033
Poonch
9th Jan 2013
128
NAJEEB UL REHMAN
Abdul Rehman
03-Nov-86
3198
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
129
VIVEK SINGH MAHLA
Rachhpal Singh Mahla
27-Feb-87
3220
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
130
SURESH KUMAR
Sukhdev Raj
12-Feb-79
3219
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
131
UMESH KUMAR
Tirath Ram
31-Mar-86
3404
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
132
DEVINDER KUMAR
Madan Lal
09-May-77
3374
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
133
MUSHTAQ AHMED
Mohd. Sharief
01-Apr-87
3197
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
134
MOHD SHAFIQ
Abdul Rashid
05-Feb-78
3289
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
135
ATUL SHARMA
Sansar Chand Sharma
21-Aug-86
3297
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
136
PRATIMA SHARMA
Dogar Nath Sharma
08-Aug-86
3360
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
137
AVNI CHOUDHARY
Bhajan Singh Choudhary
15-Sep-86
3267
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
138
VISHAL SHARMA
Inderjeet Sharma
11-Dec-74
3327
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
139
ANIL KUMAR
Lakhmi Chand
10-Mar-85
3277
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
140
PAVITER SINGH
Kashmir Singh
31-Mar-85
3228
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
141
NATER KUMAR KHAJURIA
Rekhi Ram
18-Apr-82
3216
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
142
ANIL KUMAR
Babu Ram
22-Jul-82
3257
Rajouri
9th Jan 2013
143
ARJUN SINGH
Malook Singh
30-Mar-82
3512
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
144
AMIT KUMAR SHARMA
Rattan Chand
09-Jan-88
3566
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
145
NEETU JAMWAL
Shamsher singh Jamwal
07-Mar-84
3513
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
146
PANKAJ SHARMA
Om Parkash
02-Dec-81
3576
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
147
VIKAS KUMAR SHARMA
Om Parkash
09-Jan-86
3577
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
148
SUDHIR SINGH JAMWAL
Raghubir Singh
28-Oct-82
3529
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
149
NISHA DEVI
Charan Dass
27-Apr-86
3551
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
150
SHWETA PURI
Sukh Dutt Puri
15-Jul-82
3563
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
151
VINEAKSHI SHARMA
Prem Santosh Sharma
01-Mar-83
3543
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
152
AJAY KUMAR
Narayan Dutt
13-Mar-84
3600
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
153
DHIRAJ JAMWAL
Prem Santosh Sharma
29-Jan-82
3544
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
154
JUGGAL KISHORE
Shankar Dass
11-Mar-81
3574
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
155
MUKESH MAGOTRA
Shambu Nath
31-Aug-79
3611
Reasi
9th Jan 2013
156
MOHD IMRAN
Late Mohd. Akbar
24-Nov-85
4155
Udhampur
9th Jan 2013
157
YOGESH POKHETRA
Ashok Kumar Gupta
03-Aug-83
4145
Udhampur
9th Jan 2013
158
SHRIDHU CHANDEL
Padam Dev Singh
26-Aug-93
4383
Udhampur
9th Jan 2013
159
ASHA AKHTAR
Bhag Din
28-Feb-78
4347
Udhampur
9th Jan 2013
160
MUNISH KUMAR
Hans Raj
08-Feb-83
4227
Udhampur
9th Jan 2013
161
MANOJ KUMAR
Ved Parkash
28-Jul-84
4053
Udhampur
9th Jan 2013
162
ROSHI MAHAJAN
Sat Paul Gupta
04-Aug-84
4084
Udhampur
9th Jan 2013
163
MEENAKSHI DEVI
Ravi Dass Gupta
22-Aug-89
3990
Udhampur
9th Jan 2013
164
CHANDER SHEIKHAR
Bansi Lal Sharma
07-Aug-81
3989
Udhampur
9th Jan 2013
165
SANDEEP KUMAR
Madan lal
21-Feb-83
4265
Udhampur
9th Jan 2013
JAMMU, Dec 29: The
State
Government
has
accorded sanction to temporary appointment of 5 outstanding sportspersons of the
State in various departments
against available direct quota
vacancies under SRO-349/98
vide Order No: 1384-GAD of
2012, dated: 27-12-2012.
While Rishu Mahajan,
D/o Ramesh Chander Gupta
has been appointed in
Finance
Department
as
Accounts Assistant, Jugraj
Singh, S/o Daljeet Singh has
been issued the orders of JEGrade-II
in
Power
Development Department.
Pradeep Singh Jamwal,
S/o Kuldeep Singh Jamwal
has got the job of Tech-III in
Power
Development
Department, while Harish
Kumar, S/o Ram Parshad has
been appointed as the
Draftsman in Public Works
Department (PWD)-R&B.
Phalak Sharma, D/o Sham
Lal Sharma has been appointed as Accounts Assistant in
the Finance Department.
Pandit Uma Dutt Sangeet Mahotsav concludes
Nirvana Academy organizes
prize distribution function
Excelsior Sports Correspondent Rudraksh Khuda, Madhav
Mittal, Koustav Sharma, 3rd ;
JAMMU, Dec 29: Nirvana Consolation prizes went to
Academy, a premier Cultural Arnav Puri and Zitin Koul.
Club organised a prize distribu- (Senior) Shreya Mohan, Sankalp
tion function for Pandit Uma Verma, Bhavya Grover, Riya
Dutt Sangeet Mahotsav at KL Bhardwaj, 1st; Yamini Lalotra,
Saigal Hall, here today.
Unmeet Singh, Mehul Yadav,
In the first part of the pro- Ayaan Bushan, 2nd; Ishaan
gramme, Santoor maestro Manga, Prateek Koul, Akhil
Padam Vibushan Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, Aaditya Khajuria,
Sharma paid a visit to the venue Vishal Sagar, 3rd and the consoof and interacted with the partic- lation prizes went to Aditya
ipants of the programme.
Bakshi and Saatwik.
President Nirvana Academy
Classical Singing: Harbans
Hitesh Badyal started the pro- Kaur, Chiranjeev Singh, 2nd.
gramme with a condolence
Light
Singing
(Sub
speech to mourn the death of Junior): Swati Gupta, Raghav
Ravi Sharma, founder member Mahajan, 1st ; Nandini Katyal,
of Pandit Uma Dutt Sangeet Damini Pandita, 2nd ; Toshik
Mahotsav.
Parihar, Aditya Narain, 3rd.
Sudanshu, 1st, Akhil and Ujjwal
Mishra, 2nd .
Group Song (Junior):
Jodhamal
Public
School
(Senior)
1st
prize
KC
International School (Amateur)
1st prize JK Public School
Kunjwani. Group Instrumental
(Junior) 1st Prize Casio Group
Jodhamal
Public
School
(Senior) 1st prize Stempede
Group JMPS.
Day 2: Light Instrumental
(Sub Junior) 1st prize Shivan
Sharma, 2nd prize Shruti
Bhasin, 3rd prize Shivanya
Sharma. (Junior) 1st prize Aryan
Datta, 2nd prize Saday
Samnotra, 3rd prize Archit Jain.
(Senior) 1st prize Aditi Datta,
2nd prize Ritvik Mahajan, 3rd
Street Warriors Club enters
Christmas Cup finals
Excelsior Sports Correspondent while Abitash bagged two. Pankaj
and Sunil also took one wickets
AKHNOOR, Dec 29: A each.
superb half-century by Dilawar
In reply, Singh Challenger
Singh helped Street Warriors Club managed to score 140 runs in 19.2
Akhnoor
outplay
Singh overs, thus lost the match by 36
Challenger Cricket Club by 36 runs. Gourav Kumar (39) and
runs to enter the finals of the Vinod Kumar (26) were the main
Christmas Cup T20 Cricket contributors. For Street Warriors,
Tournament at Government Ubey captured 3 wickets, while
Higher Secondary School Ground, Roshan and Aman bagged 2 wickhere today.
ets each. Deepak claimed one
Earlier, winning the toss and wicket. Dilawar Singh was
batting first, Street Warriors scored adjudged man of the match for his
a decent total of 176 runs in the brilliant knock.
stipulated 20 overs, losing 7 wickThe match was officiated by
ets in the process. Dilawar Singh Vikas Bali and Sunny Kumar as
scored a brilliant half-century (56) umpires, while Rajesh Sharma
runs, studded with 9 fours and one was the scorer.
six, while JB Singh contributed
Meanwhile, Minister for
valuable 36 runs and Raju chipped Health,
Horticulture
and
in with 15 runs. For Singh Floriculture, Sham Lal Sharma
Challenger Club, Rahul Langer visited the venue and witnessed
was the pick of the bowlers, who the match.
claimed 4 important wickets,
Winners posing for a group photograph along with the chief guest during a prize distribution
function organized by Nirvana Academy on Saturday.
This year more than 200 participants took part in 2-day
Sangeet Mahotsav.
Krishan Lal Verma Tabla
Maestro and Shamima Akhtar
Additional Secretary JKAACL
distributed prize among the participants.
Final results:
Day-1, Light instrumental
(sub junior) Janeesh Pal Singh,
1st, Kshitij Sethi, 2nd and Arnav
3rd, Kartik Sanyal and Mian
Mohd Raza, 1st, Prateek Singh
Bedi and Gauri Sharma, 2nd and
Saatvik Sharma and Amrit
Harsh Raj, 3rd; Aadya Sambyal
and Prisha Chandoke, 2nd ;
Bipasha Gupta and Prakhar
Bhist, 3rd.
(Junior) Dharya Chowdhary,
Ananya Mahajan, Gursimar
Singh, 1st; Tushar Vaid, Soham
Ranjan, Kavya Kochar, Naman
Chandoke, 2nd ; Subanshu
Gupta, Anisha Prabhakar,
(Junior): Anikait Hashia,
Ayush Pandita, 1st; Manas
Deep, 2nd ; Shine Sony, 3rd .
(Senior) Nandini Kapoor,
Mrinal Sippy, Ashish Gupta, 1st;
Satyam Bhat, Akhil Sharma, 2nd
; Insha Arora, 3rd.
(Amateur):
Vasundhra
Singh, 1st; Surya Ganjoo, 2nd ;
Meha Gupta, 3rd.
Folk Singing (Junior):
Arya Abrol, Arshpreet Kaur, 1st;
Saerish Akhter, 2nd; Mahinder
Kaur, 3rd. (Senior): Nandini
Kapoor, 1st.
Duet
Song
(Junior):
Vanshika and Shivani, 1st;
Shriya Pandita and Madhavi
Bhat, 2nd ; Ridham Chadwal
and Dipender Deep Bhat, 3rd.
(Senior): Vibhuti Peer and
Shehjaar Koul, 1st; Shriya
Koul and Simran Bhat, 2nd.
(Amateur): Ayaan Bushan
and Dhainya Sharma, 1st. Duet
instrumental:
Arjun
and
prize Harshit (Amateur) 1st
prize Aman Sharma, 2nd prize
Paras Arora. Light Singing
(Junior) 1st prize Kunwar,
Ananaya Salhotra, 2nd prize
Shivain Ghai, Aditya (Senior)
1st prize Arti, Aditi Datta, 2nd
prize Brij Bushan, 3rd prize
Archit Mahajan. (Amateur) 1st
prize Raj Singh Rathore, 2nd
prize Shammi, 3rd prize Amit,
Consolation prize Deepak
Malhotra. Classical Singing
(Junior) 1st prize Rishaan
(Senior) 1st Prize Jaganjot.
Group Song (Junior) 1st prize
Little Millennium School Group
(Senior) 1st prize Android
Legacy group. Group instrumental 1st prize V- Major
Group. Folk Song (Junior) 1st
prize Ananya Salhotra (Senior)
1st prize Bhawana Bharti and
Kamakshi Mahajan. Classical
instrumental (Senior) 1st prize
Aarush Gupta.
Students of KC International School presenting a cultural
item during 6th Annual Day function on Saturday.
KC International holds Annual Day
Excelsior Sports Correspondent is for purpose, which cements
and weaves teachers, students
JAMMU, Dec 29: KC and parents into one big famiInternational School held its 6th ly.
Annual Day in the school premEarlier, the programme startises, here today.
ed with the lighting of traditionRaman Bhalla, Minister for al lamp by the chief guest and
Revenue,
Relief
and other dignitaries, which was folRehabilitation was the chief lowed by a scintillating cultural
guest on the occasion, while IGP programme.
Hemant Kumar Lohia was the
Chaitanya Chowdhary, vice
guest of honour.
chairman of the school presentWinners and runners-up posing for a group photograph along with the chief guest, Sudhanshu
Over 2500 attended the func- ed vote of thanks, while promition, while around 1600 students nent among others present on Pandey, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, GoI and guest of honour Dilbag
-Excelsior/Rakesh
presented a cultural bonanza that the occasion were Vinay Singh, IGP Jammu at Indoor Complex, MA Stadium on Saturday.
enthralled the audience.
Mahajan, Saroj Mahajan, Vishal
School Principal, Herendra Chowdhary,
Dr
Shikha
Chakaiyar presented welcome Chowdhary, Julie Chowdhary
address and said that education and Dr Mulkh Raj Chilana.
34th State Open Table Tennis Championship concludes
Winter Carnival from Jan 19
UDHAMPUR, Dec 29: To discuss the arrangements for two day
Winter Carnival at Patnitop which is
being organized from January 19,
2013, a meeting was held under the
chairmanship of Director Tourism,
Robin Singh, here today.
SSP Udhampur, Ashkoor Wani,
Chief Executive Officer, Patnitop,
Development Authority, Raman
Kesar, Joint Director Planning
Udhampur, Rakesh Jamwal representatives of print and electronic
media, Travel Agencies and members of the Hotel Association
Patnitop were present in the meeting.
Singh stressed the role of media
and other stake holders in promoting the event and attracting tourist to
the carnival .He stressed upon the
Hoteliers to provide special packages to the tourist during the carnival
On the occasion, SSP,
Udhampur, Ashkoor Wani assured
that adequate security arrangements
will be made for the event
Apart from this, Singh stressed
upon the Officers of the Patnitop
Development Authorities to ensure
proper cleanliness of the areas
along with illumination of Patnitop
area, circular road upto Nag
Mandir besides deployment of
Public Conveniences at various
locations.
Sandhu CC outplays Gurdaspur-XI by 23 runs
Excelsior Sports Correspondent aged to score 91 runs in 20 overs
by losing 8 wickets, thus lost the
KATHUA, Dec 29: Sandhu match by 23 runs. Gourav
Cricket Club, Ludhiana defeated Gambhir was declared man of
Gurdaspur XI by 23 runs in a the match for scoring 24 runs
low scoring match of the 3rd and taking one wicket. He was
Police Martyrs Memorial North awarded a cash prize of Rs 1500
Zone T20 Cricket Tournament at and a trophy sponsored by conSports Stadium, here today.
tractor Amarjeet Singh.
Batting first, SCC Ludhiana
The tournament is being
scored 114 runs in the stipulated organized by the Jammu and
overs by losing 5 wickets. Kashmir Police Department to
Gourav Gambhir was the top promote sports in the State and
scorer with 24 runs.
enhance Police-Public relationGurdaspur XI, in reply man- ship.
Abhay, Yatiksha, Divyam, Jhanavi, Sunpreet,
Shreya, Shorya, Dheeraj, Chandpreet win titles
Excelsior Sports Correspondent over Asad Sharma (3-2) by (117, 7-11, 11-7, 7-11, 11-6), while
JAMMU, Dec 29: Scripting in sub junior girls, Jhanvi
wins over their rivals in summit Pandoh prevailed over Shreya
clashes, Abhay Koul, Yatiksha, (3-2) by ( 11-8, 11-7, 7-11, 7-11,
Divyam
Pandoh,
Jhanavi 11-9).
Pandoh, Sunpreet, Shreya,
Sunpreet defeated Divyam
Shorya, Dheeraj and Chandpreet Pandoh (3-1) in junior boys final
won title trophies in the 34th by (11-4, 11-9, 9-11, 11-8),
State Open Table Tennis while in junior girls, Shreya topChampionship, which conclud- pled Jhanvi Pandoh (3-0) by (11ed at Indoor Complex MA 1, 11-5, 11-0).
Stadium, here today.
In youth boys, Shorya won
Sudhanshu Pandey, senior in a close contested final against
vice president J&K Table Tennis Jayesh by (3-2) sets with the
Association and Joint Secretary, scores reading (3-11, 4-11, 11-8,
Ministry of Commerce and 11-9, 14-12).
Industry, Government of India,
Dheeraj won the men's sinwas the chief guest on the occa- gles title by defeating Sandeep
sion, while Dilbag Singh, IGP (3-1) by (6-11, 11-9, 11-1, 11-6),
Jammu was the guest of honour. while in women's singles final,
The chief guest and the guest of Chandpreet trounced Shzar (3-1)
honour distributed prizes among by (14-12, 7-11, 11-9, 11-4) to
the winners and the runner-up lift the title.
peddlers of the championship.
Prominent among others
Earlier, in cadet boys, Abhay present on the occasion were
Koul got better of Ninnad in the Sidharath
Sharma,
Joint
title clash (3-1) by (11-5, 9-11, Secretary J&K State Sports
11-3, 11-9), while cadet girls Council, Ajay Sharma, general
Yatiksha outplayed Bhabya secretary J&K Table Tennis
Rakwal in straight sets by (11-9, association, Sheetal Gandotra,
11-9, 11-9).
general secretary J&K Billiards
In sub junior boys, Divyam and Snooker Association, S
Pandoh scripted a narrow win
Narinder Singh, Sanjay Gupta,
Sunil Sharma, Saleem Bandey,
Rajan Sharma, Satish Gupta
Manager
Indoor
Sports
Complex, Satbir Singh, IP
Singh,
Sanjay
Mahajan,
Manmeet Kour, VB Sadhotra,
MS Baba Chief Sports Officer,
Harinder Mahajan and VK
Magoo.
Team Brain Buddy
holds seminar
JAMMU, Dec 29: Team
Brain Buddy held an impressive
seminar at Narulas, The First
Step School, Trikuta Nagar,
here today.
The seminar focused on
exploring hidden talent of the
students by knowing their
strengths and weaknesses, abilities and limitations, learning
styles and acquiring styles.
Most suitable courses of
studies and profession by scientific method of decoding characteristics of the brain called
Brain
Mapping
through
Dermatoglyphics multiple intelligence and providing a digital
report.
Malik, Rashpal inaugurate
Kissan Mela
JAMMU, Dec 29: An awareness camp-cum-Kissan Mela
was organized by J&K State
Advisory
Board
for
Development of Kissans at
Reasi today.
Minister
for
Higher
Education, Abdul Gani Malik
was the chief guest of the function.
Besides, Rachpal Singh,
Vice Chairman of the State
Advisory
Board
for
Development
of
Kissans,
District
Development
Commissioner,
Reasi,
Superintendent of Police, Reasi,
Ex- MLAs and MLCs, district
officers and people from different walks of the life including
around 1000 farmers participated in the Mela.
All the district offices of
Agriculture,
Horticulture,
Floriculture,
Fisheries,
Sericulture and allied sectors
installed their stalls in the Melacum-awareness camp for exposing the participating farmers to
the latest technologies, agriculture implements, farm machinery and technical knowhow
available with various agriculture related departments.
Abdul Gani Malik stressed
upon the unemployed educated
youth of the district to come forward and take advantage of
schemes like Udaan, Himmat
and Sher-i-Kashmir employment Scheme through J&K
Entrepreneur
Development
Institute(JKEDI). He further
informed the youth that four tier
policy for power generation is
being adopted in the State and
the educated un-employed youth
should come forward to set up
some power generating units to
tap the available water
resources.
Rachpal
Singh,
Vice
Chairman of the Board said that
the Kissan Advisory Board has
been constituted by the
Government to serve as a bridge
between the Government and
the farming community. He
informed the farmers that they
should come forward and take
benefit of the welfare schemes
available in agriculture and
allied department.
On spot instructions were
issued to district officers of agriculture and line departments for
creating awareness about the
welfare schemes at the door step
of the farmers by organizing
awareness camp in every nook
and corner of the district.
Kidnapped
girl recovered,
2 arrested
5 bovines, illicit
liquor seized; 5
gamblers held
POONCH, Dec 29: A kidnapped girl was recovered by
Surankote police today and two
accused persons were also
arrested.
SP Poonch, Shamsheer
Hussain told the Excelsior that
21-year-old Salima, resident of
Bafliaz, who was allegedly kidnapped by two persons including a truck driver, was recovered from Fatehpur area of
Thanna Mandi today. Action
was taken after her father
Shabir, lodged an FIR alleging
that her daughter has been kidnapped.
He said a police party from
Surankote Thana, acting on a
specific information, conducted
a raid at a house and recovered
the girl today. Both the kidnappers namely, Zakir Hussain, son
of Safir Ahmed of Bafliaz and
truck driver Mohd Arif, son of
Mohd Akbar, resident of
Shahdara was also recovered.
The truck has also been seized.
KATHUA, Dec 29: The
police seized a truck loaded
five bovine animals near
Hiranagar while illicit liquor
was recovered during Excise
raids in Basohli and Dayala
Chak area today.
A police spokesman said
that Hiranagar police party
intercepted a truck No. JK14/4636 near Jangi Chak
(Plah Morh) during early
hours today. The driver managed to escape from Naka
while cops seized vehicle
along with animals. A case
was registered in this connection.
Another police party in
Hiranagar
arrested
one
Parveen Gupta of Chhan
Rodian today and recovered
39 nips of J&K Excise liquor
from their possession. One
Bishan Dass of village
Bhoond in Basohli, was also
held under Excise Act and 42
nips of liquor were seized
from him.
Meanwhile Basohli police
arrested five persons under
Gambling Act and recovered
stake money worth Rs 29,050
from their possession. The
locals
informed
SDPO
Basohli, Mohd Rafiq about
the matter and the police party
conducted raid at Govt
Middle School Surjan and
nabbed the accused from the
premises. Those arrested were
identified as Gian Chand,
Bittu, Gulzar Ahmed, Mohd
Shafi and Akhtar Hussain of
the same area. A case was registered against them.
Crime Branch
produces challan
against two accused
JAMMU, Dec 29: Crime
Branch Jammu has produced
challan against two accused
persons namely Abdul Qyoom
and Mohd Abdullah, R/o
Lowang, Bani in Kathua, here
today.
The challan has been produced in case FIR No 08/2011
u/s 420, 465,466,467,468,
471/RPC P/S against the two
for preparing fake and forged
date of birth certificates by way
of fraudulent means.
During the course of investigation, all the records related to
the case have been collected
from various offices and got
compared through FSL. On the
basis of these fake certificates
both these employees have
served for excess period in their
departments, thus causing a loss
to the tune of Rs 10,72,274 to
the State Exchequer. The next
date of hearing has been fixed
on January 3, 2013.
SSMS elects
executive body
JAMMU, Dec 29: Shiv
Shakti Mandir Sanstha (SSMS),
Sector 1, Pamposh Colony,
Janipur elected the executive
body.
AK Saproo was elected as
president, Raveesh Mengi as
vice president, AK Machama as
general secretary, DN Raina as
cashier and MK Rangroo as
secretary cum storekeeper.
Bag lost
JAMMU, Dec 29: Rakesh
Kumar, S/o Pritam Dass of village Lower Hathal, Tehsil
Sunderbani, District Rajouri has
lost the bag containing the documents of the Yamaha motorcycle JK11-9607.
The documents included
Driving Licence, Registration
Certificate (RC), service book
of the bike and key.
An FIR in this regards
stands registered at Police
Station Pir Mitha.
Clerical Association accuses
Govt of betrayal
JAMMU, Dec 29: A joint
meeting of the representatives of
J&K Ladakh All Departments
Clerical Staff Association was
held here today under the chairmanship of Babu Hussain
Malik. State vice president of
the Association
Khurshid
Ahmed Dewani, Madan Sangral,
Dignitaries distributing cheque to a beneficiary at Jammu on Bharat Bushan, Meenakshi
Saturday.
Sharma, Raj Mohammed,
Munsih Sharma, Sewa Ram,
Uday Singh Pathania, Pawan
Kumar, Vikas Sharma, Javed
Ahmed Akhoon, Sanjay Dhar,
Yash Pal, Anil Kesar, Romesh
Koul, Ajay Khajuria, Ashok
Singh informed that the bank Kumar, Jaswant Singh, Chaman
has tailored its various SME Lal and Sham Lal also attended
JAMMU, Dec 29: To make
schemes to suit requirements of
its SME schemes “Customer
all types of customers at attracFriendly", Punjab National Bank
tive interest rates and customers
(PNB) disbursed loans to 75
beneficiaries at a function can avail hassle free loans up to
organized by the bank here Rs 1 crore with any collateral
security.
today.
He further added that bank is
JAMMU, Dec 29 : An
The Retail Lending function
was presided over by Dr MI encouraging women to come urgent meeting of Jammu
Government
Parray,
Director
J&K forward and is charging a con- Kashmir
Association,
Entrepreneurship Development cessional rate of interest with a Pharmacist
Institute who was accompanied flat 10 per cent margin on these Jammu, was held here today
under the chairmanship of its
by Harnek Singh, Assistant schemes.
Dr MI Parrey said that par- president Sushil Soodan and
General Manager, PNB Circle
ticular emphasis is being laid by general
secretary
Vinod
Office Jammu.
On the occasion, loans under the bank with prime objective of Sharma for highlighting the
Self-Employment demands.
different segments of SME like providing
The participants expressed
in Transport, Retail Trade, opportunity for productive,
Artisan, Service Sectors were employment generation activity their views in the meeting and
disbursed.
with financial assistance from raised the demands, which
include elevation of Junior
While speaking, Harnek the bank.
Singh said that the bank has
He assured that JKEDI Pharmacists who have comadopted aggressive and innova- would provide all possible sup- pleted five years of service,
tive strategies to make SME port to the bank in building up DPC of Pharmacist, creation
schemes customer-centric.
of the posts of Block Medical
entrepreneurship.
Officer and District Pharmacy
Officer at district hospitals,
CMO offices and block headquarters,
inclusion
of
Pharmacists categories in
NRHM Scheme, upgradation
and creation of post of
ing in a press conference organ- Anesthesia Technician, ECG
ized by, Rajhwada Lux're, Jammu, Technician,
Theatre
JAMMU, Dec 29: "Putting to here today.
Technician at district hospitals
gallows the culprits of Delhi rape
Prachi Mishra, the reigning and creation of more posts of
would be easy verdict, instead perMiss India 2012, who is on her Pharmacists in new PHCs.
petrators of the heinous crime
Those who attended the
should be made to suffer. It is maiden visit to winter capital in
important to hang the mentality connection with north zone audi- meeting, included, Kamal Jit
that makes every women insecure tion of Pond Femina Miss India, Sawhney, Ajeet Kumar, Jarnail
SRP
Singh,
in the country. There is an urgent urged the young girls of Jammu Choudhary,
need for moral education that must and Kashmir to appear for audition Kulmeet Singh, Jugal Bakshi,
for Ponds Femina Miss India con- Fazal Din, Gastroon Gill,
test 2013.
Parshotam Sharma, Jaswant
She said that being from a Singh, Manjeet Singh, Anil
small city is no hindrance for Khajuria, Vishav Bandhu,
aspiring to become a beauty Rajesh Sharma, Baldev Singh,
queen. Priyanka Chopra was from Bagh Ali, Badri, Ved Paul and
Brailley and Prachi Mishra herself others.
comes from the small town of
Allahabad.
One need not to change to be
one of the winners but "be your
self, don't change your personality
by blindly following anybody, stay
true, stay you, it is not about looks
but all about substance" She said.
JAMMU, Dec 29 : National
Talking about how her life Sikh Front, Jammu Kashmir,
Prachi Mishra Miss India changed after winning a presti- has expressed its deep concern
2012, addressing a press con- gious contest like Miss India, she over increasing number of cases
ference at Jammu on Saturday. said, "one's life changes overnight, of disappearance of women in
-Excelsior/Rakesh and your family feel proud. It is Jammu.
like an ordinary person becoming
President of the Front,
begin from early years of every a princess. You are special to Kulwant Singh Bhatti alleged
male child to treat every women everyone around you".
that despite complains to police
with dignity and respect as given
Taking to Press, Ricky Roshan and local administration, there
to mother and sister ".
of Rajhwada Lux'er, Gandhi was no trace of the victims.
Expressing deep shock over
He also listed the names of
the death of Nirbhaya, the Delhi Nagar, said that the north zone such victims, who were allegedaudition
for
Ponds
Femina
Miss
rape victim, Prachi Mishra, Ponds
ly kidnapped by some antiFemina Miss India 2012, was talk- India 2013, being organized for social elements in R S Pura and
the first time in Jammu, would be
Satwari areas.
held on January 4, 2013.
PNB disburses loans
among 75 beneficiaries
Govt Pharmacists
highlight demands
Gallows for culprits of Delhi rape
would be easy verdict: Miss India 2012
Sikh leader concerned
over disappearance
of women
Man’s body recovered
JAMMU CHEMISTS ASSOCIATION
RAJOURI, Dec 29: Mystery shrouds the death of middleaged Mogla coal mine worker whose body was found lying on
the road side at Metka village this morning.
Some locals found the body lying on the road side and
informed villagers. The locals then informed police about the
matter. The body was shifted to Kalakote hospital for postmortem. The police identified the deceased as Kalu (40), son of
Sunder Dass, resident of Maloorian village.
The police registered a case under Section 174 CrPC and
started investigation. It said no external injuries were found on
the body and cause of death was being ascertained.
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(An Affiliated Unit of J&K Chemists & Druggists Association)
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It is for the information of all the trade members that as per the directions of All
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held at Jammu Club on 23/12/12, the Election of Jammu Chemists Association
for the post of President & Gen. Secy. is scheduled to be held on 3/02/13
(Sunday).
In this regard all trade members & new trade members are requested to update
their membership and enroll themselves with the Association at the Association
office, 2nd floor, K.C Plaza, on or before 7th Jan 2013, in order to be eligible to
participate in the elections.
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the meeting.
The meeting criticized the
Government for backtracking
from the commitment made with
the employees during the meetings on March 10, 2008,
February 19,2009, May 14 ,
2010 and September 15 last year
in which it was promised to fulfill all the pending demands of
the
employees
including
removal of pay anomalies of
clerical cadre but nothing has
been done in this regard till date.
This amounts to betrayal on
the part of the Government, the
meeting said, adding the promises made by the Government
proved totally hollow.
The Association also criticised the Government for giving
step motherly treatment to clerical cadre both salary as well as
promotion wise . It added most
of the junior assistants have
retired on the same post and
nothing was done to remove the
pay anomalies till date.
The meeting urged the
Government to solve these problems without further delay. It
stressed on reorganization of
clerical cadre, regularisation of
daily wagers, enhancement of
retirement age and increase of
Medical Allowance.
Academy celebrates
Dogri Manta Divas
JAMMU, Dec 29: In connection with Dogri Manta
Divas, J&K Academy of Art
Culture and Languages Jammu
organized a Dogri Kahani
Ghosthi at K L Saigal Hall, here
today.
Prominent short story writers, including Dr Om Goswami
and Chattar Pual read out their
latest `Kahanies’ on the occasion. The short story of Dr Lalit
Magotra was read out by Dr
Rattan Lal Basotra, Assistant
Editor of the Academy as the
former had to go out of station
owing to some personal reasons.
Earlier, welcoming the gathering, Additional Secretary of
the Academy, Savita Bakshi
threw light on the struggle of
different NGOs and Dogra writers in getting the Dogri language included in 8th Schedule
of the Indian Constitution.
Proceedings of the function
were conducted by Yash Pal
Nirmal while Ashok Gupta was
the incharge of the programme.
Motor Parts Dealers Association member addressing a meeting at Transport Nagar on Saturday.
MPDA Transport Nagar
discusses demands
JAMMU, Dec 29: Motor
Parts Dealers Association
(MPDA) in its general body
meeting here today held under
the chairmanship of Balbir
Singh Sethi discussed various
issues regarding development of
Transport Nagar.
The issues discussed include
development of roads, sanitation, electricity, water problem
and removal of unclaimed and
unused vehicles parked in the
Transport Nagar for a long time.
A memorandum was also
submitted to Deputy Chief
Minister, Tara Chand turning his
attention towards the worsening
condition of Transport Nagar as
after the establishment of
Transport Nagar no development could take place there.
Accusing the JDA and JMC
of ignoring the area the members of the Association said that
both organisations were blaming
each other.
They appealed the Deputy
Chief Minister to a pay a visit to
Transport Nagar and see the
condition of the inmates there.
Despite giving highest revenue
the Transport Nagar sans basic
amenities, they added.
A copy of memorandum was
also submitted to SDPO East
urging him to get the unclaimed
vehicles removed from the areas
because it can cause security
problem as Republic Day is
approaching near.
Moreover, it was decided
that all other associations and
organizations of Transport
Nagar stand dissolved as
approved earlier by the members
of MPDA in the meeting.
The meeting was also
addressed by Anmol Sethi,
Nishikant Khajuria, Rajinder
Kakkar, Sanjay Dogra and Sham
Gupta.
11,350 students to appear in
UGC-NET exams
SRINAGAR, Dec 29: For the
first time more than 11,000 students are appearing in the UGCNET exams in 40 subjects across
Kashmir valley on Sunday
(December 30).
This year 11,350 students are
appearing in the national level
examination while as last year
6,000 had appeared in the UGCNET examination. The huge presence of students this year is due to
the objective nature of question
papers set up by UGC. The decision was taken so that more students pass the qualifying examination for lecturership.
"Education subject is the main
attraction of the students as 1700
students have opted for this subject
the highest among all other 40 subjects," a Kashmir University official said, adding that in June this
year 400 students qualified the
UGC-NET exams which happened to be around 150 earlier.
If any student qualify the
exams in the top merit he/she is
eligible for JRF NET (junior
research fellowship). If the students are willing to go for JRF
then they are entitled to a monthly
salary of Rs. 18,000 continuously
for the next 5 years till they complete their fellowship.
Congregation
JAMMU, Dec 29: Annual
congregation of Chopra Biradari
is going to be held on January 6,
2013 at Baby Caterers, Rehari
Colony here.
Hawan will start at 8:30 am
followed by Puran Ahuti at 11
am, a Cultural programmme,
honouring outstanding members
of Biradari and Preeti Bhoj.
JAMMU CLUB, JAMMU
Presents
New Year Dhamaka
With blasting DJ and thrilling
performance by
Jeevan Sharma & Party
Worthy Club Members are requested to buy
Entry Coupons latest by 9.00 p.m on 30th December, 2012.
(Raman Samnotra)
Hony. Secretary
Police seize bombs from
CPI(M) office, 10 arrested
HOOGHLY, WB, Dec 29:
Police today seized 60 bombs
and 2 pistols from a zonal committee office of CPI(M) in Hooghly district and arrested 10 party workers.
A team of police raided the
party office at Arambagh in the
morning and seized the bombs,
pistols and also some video clippings which would be examined
later on, police said.
Ten party workers who were
on the spot during the raid were
also taken into custody. As the
news went around in the locality,
people along with Trinamool
Congress activists gheraoed the
office for sometime.(PTI)
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YEAR 2012
A FLASH BACK
After all the year 2012 has also come to an end and once
again another stroke of pen has stood up to preserve the
sweet and sour experiences and soothing and aching spectacles that intermittently happened all along this year, in the
golden letters of the Daily Excelsior.
Prof Javed Mughal
This year opened with a major decision of
our Government regarding the removal of
paramilitary forces from Jammu and Kashmir
and a proposal of the state Govt to the Union
Home Ministry for raising 50 more Police Battalions for deployment in militancy infested
areas across the state. It was followed by the
establishment of three more police stations on
2nd of January 2012 in view of the situation
erupted as a result of inflammatory and
obscene postings on some social networking
sites. On 13th of January the Progress Monitoring Report regarding the implementation of
Reconstruction Plan reported that 31 out of 67
projects sanctioned for the state were completed and rest were also assured to be going
on war footing. This announcement, ofcourse, supplied a healing touch to the masses.
In the month of February on 7th, APHC as
usual gave a call to shut down all business
installations across the valley and strike all other works of organisation and schools. Mr Geelani, this time also, used the same gimmick to
hijack the innocence of Kashmir to feather his
nest and succeeded also since the normal life,
all along the entire Valley, remained paralysed.
Impacted by this outburst of popular ire in the
valley and for a couple of other security reaFrequent Road accidents in the State.
sons, the Chief of Army Staff V. K. Singh visited Northern Command Hqtrs and reviewed
the J&K security situation. During his visit, as
a reaction, the militants killed a sarpach and
an NC worker in Kulgam confirming the security lapses in the Valley. Subsequently, just a
couple of days later, five police cops were
injured in clashes with subversive elements in
Maisuma area of Srinagar as a reaction to the
arrest of Yasin Malik, the Chairman of JKLF.
The ever unfortunate part of Kashmiri destiny
has been their all-time sacrifice for those who
were never serious about their people who put
them on the track to disaster and propelled
them into the abyss of nothingness. As a
soothing shift from this heart-rending atmosphere, the Union Government on 17th of February 2012, approved a grant of INR 499
crores for the upgradation of weaponry to track
down militants and criminals; for the modernisation of Police Training Centers and Police
Stations etc. The MHA approved INR 461
Crores while the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy sanctioned a grant of INR 37.93
Traffic signals make their presence felt in the State.
crores for JKP. The Govt. also de-inducted
three CRPF Battalions and removed CPMFs
bunkars from Srinagar. Although it was a step
to normalise the situation for Kashmiris but as
a matter of fact it added to the deterioration of
the peace and security in the valley since we
did so a little earlier.
The revelation of the Chief Minister of our
state Mr Omar pertaining to loss of 36000 lives
during two decades of upsurge in the valley
leaving 26000 orphans and 8000 widows
behind moved many human into despair. The
point of concern is that this entire bloody dance
happened on the soil termed as the paradise
on earth by Emperor Jehangir "Agar Firdous
Ba-ru-e-Zameen ast: Hamein ast o haemin ast
o haemin ast."
The worst did not end here but went a step
further to let an amount of 121000 crore
Security forces inspecting a tunnel dug by Pak forces.
hawala money be confiscated in Rajouri District on the behest of some anti-national element from behind the bar. This incident left an
indelible stigma on the image of this region
which was known as an abode of peace and
harmony for centuries together. This incident
shattered the very foundation the centuriesold legacy of patriotism of this area. Rajouri
and Zanskar were hit by the outburst of law
and order problem disturbing the areas for
couple of days together. Another rude jolt rendered to the Kashmiri sentiments was the gutting down of the 200 year old shrine in Srinagar on 25th of June 2012. It sent across a galvanic shock through the spine of one and all
irrespective of religions and regions. The
entire Kashmir remained under duress for
quite a long time after this obnoxious incident
Floods wreck havoc in Jammu.
Photos: Daily Excelsior/Rakesh had taken place. This sinister chapter was
On duty: BSF Jawans guarding the Indo-Pak border.
added to the history of this state and equally
heart-rending was the catastrophe which
claimed more than 100 devotees at Amarnath
due to the inadequate arrangements for them.
Taking serious note of this situation, the
Hon’ble Supreme Court gave detailed judgement for future management of the yatra and
the widening of route to the Shrine.
Worst ever incident in the annals of J&K
Police History took place when, on 15th of
June 2012, a sleuth of Intelligence personnel
was detained for having links with the militants.
This black-happening left a question mark on
the sanctity and integrity of our defence mechanism. Just a fortnight later, the CM gave a
nod to PRA which had had been hanging fire
for the last over three years and directed the
Home Department to put it on the departmental website. Another mind boggling and eyeopening secret came out in the open when, a
tunnel from POK side into Indian Territory was
discovered by BSF in forward village Chechwal in Rajpura area along the IB in Samba sector by the Indian BSF. This episode left an
question mark on our image and compelled us
to revise our strategy. The BSF decided to
approach ISRO to measure the length of the
tunnel. Defence Minister A.K. Antony viewed
the matter seriously and impressed upon Indian Army to rejuvenate itself. One day prior to
Independence Day, The UMHA sounded high
alert in J&K Airports in response to the report
of intelligence that 14 militants of LET were
plotting to hijack an aircraft to get their accomplices released from the Indian prisons. This
was the year of traffic accidents. A good number of people lost their lives in road accidents.
High flow of tourists was another highlight of
the year. Several high profile personalities
including President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice
President Hamid Ansari and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi visited the State.
The entire year 2012 witnessed the continual
firing from Pakistan especially in Samba sector.
On 28th August 2012, a massive operation
was launched by the SFs in the Wullar Lake
and in adjoining areas. Apart from it, Security
Forces unearthed a militant hideout and
seized a cache of arms and ammunition from
Kishtwar. On Independence Day, Mr Umar
Abdullah assured the people of J&K of considerable downfall in the graph of militancy
with the mention of 370 incidents in 2010, 190
in 2011 & 90 in 2012. The President Pranab
Mukherji remained on three-day tour in J&K
state from 26th September 2012. Mr. Rahul
Gandhi was on two-day visit to J&K along with
India's bigwigs like Rattan Tata & Kumar Mangalam Birla. Nearly 900 Sarpanchs resigned
at different spells of time under the threat of
militants in Kashmir as admitted by the CM on
18th of September 2012 but their resignations
were not entertained. Union Minister for New
and Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah,
in the month of September 2012, welcoming
the willingness expressed by the APHC-M
chairman Mirwaiz Omar Farooq for resuming
stalled dialogue process with the Centre,
snubbed APHC-G led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani by saying that the Centre will not beg of
them for talks. But it cut no ice with the Mr Geelani. The matter of grave concern which threatened the very democratic temperament of this
country is that the CM of J&K out-rightly rejected the implementation of 73rd and 74th
amendments of Indian Constitution empowering Panchayats in the State. Somewhere at
the end of November a UMHA report said that
as many as 90 Pakistani infiltrators had managed to enter India through the Indo-Pak border in year 2012 (till November 20). The report
further said that 63 Pakistani infiltrators had
already entered into India in 2011, 94 Pakistani
infiltrated into India in 2010 and 69 in 2009
through the Indo-Pak border. The Year 2012
furled its wings with last flap of election of four
MLCs in all over the state in coalition partnership of NC-Congress and all the four seats with
two-two partnership were bagged by the coalition.
Paramilitary soldiers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
removing bunkers near the Palladium cinema in Srinagar .
Protest against LPG shortage.
Watch and ward staff of the legislative assembly arrest a person who entered the legislative assembly complex and demanded implementation of employment policy in the State.
Mission Kashmir: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi
along with Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
and top corporate leaders poses for a photograph outside the
convocation complex at University of Kashmir in Srinagar
Panchayati Power: Female Panches waiting in a long queue
to cast their vote for the four legislative Council seats under
Panchayat quota.
A view of the gutted shrine of Dastageer Sahib at Khanyar.
Photos: Amin War/Daily Excelsior
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2012 (PAGE-2)
THIS WEEK FOR YOU
DEC 30 2012 — JAN 05, 2013
1. ARIES
7. LIBRA
The new year will commence on a very busy
note. Job and business related commitments, meetings, projects, etc.
will keep you engrossed and consequently you may not have
enough time for your family. This
may affect your family life. In order
to avoid such a situation, you need
to prioritise your time and manage it
effectively, advises Ganesha, or else you may
end up in a soup. Saturn squares Mars, the Lord
of your sign, which signifies that some health
issues may pop up this week. Love life will remain
unchanged. Be prepared, especially at the end of
this week, to receive some bad news involving a
relative or a friend.
You shouldn't aim too high this week on the
career front as your confidence is
likely to be low. Your family life will
keep you busy throughout the
week. There is a strong possibility
that you may get embroiled in a
heated argument, discussion or
debate with your family members, predicts Ganesha. This is all related to the power
struggles at the domestic front and due to the fact
that Sun and Mercury are squaring up to your
sign. You should also remain careful on the
health front, as there is a strong possibility of a
physical injury or a muscle-pull, says Ganesha.
2. TAURUS
You should remain extra cautious
this week if you are in a partnership business as there is a strong
possibility of disputes and differences arising. The same can be
said about your personal life too. If
you are embroiled in a court case or a legal matter then you should press for an out of court settlement to avoid losses. Financially, you will face
a bumpy ride as Jupiter is retrograde in Gemini.
Regarding your love life, Ganesha says it would
be dull and uninteresting at the beginning of the
week. However, by the end of the week, it will
become blissful and interesting.
3. GEMINI
Communication, your forte, will be the
highlight of this week, says
Ganesha. With each passing day of
the week, communications of all
types will keep you busy. Also, there
is a lot of public relations activity on
the cards. In your professional life, you
will strive to achieve your set goals and targets. If
you are single, you may find the love of your life
soon. Cupid is likely to smile on you during the
week and you may remain engrossed in the
thoughts of your beloved. You are advised not to
hold back your emotions, but confide your deepest
feelings to your sweetheart.
4. CANCER
Students need to remain alert about their studies this week. This is because you
will be less inclined to learn new
things, which may harm your
studies. The only option for you
is to work harder and concentrate,
advises
Ganesha.
Financially, this week will turn out to
be average. If in business, then you will have a
hard time fulfilling your commitments. If you are
suffering from any health issue, then you may
take some more time to recover. This period is
likely to be stressful for your love life. Those
who are in the process of undergoing an
arranged marriage may face some delays.
5. LEO
You will be travelling to various places this week
for business purposes and consequently you will
not spend enough time at home.
However, this is going to be beneficial for you, says Ganesha.
Staying at home may disturb you
as domestic issues may keep you
dull, tensed and unhappy. The best
way to channelise your high energy
levels into some constructive purpose is to spend
more time working. On the business front, you will
reap the benefits of your hard work. However, you
will strive for more success. Those who are in a
job will have an uneventful week. Avoid friction
with your superiors.
6. VIRGO
You are famous for your organisational skills.
However, no matter how organised
you may be, you will have to make
some last minute changes in your
meticulously drawn up schedule.
This may not be to your liking, but
the positive offshoot is that the
changes, such as going to an
unscheduled party, will put you in high
spirits. Travel is likely if you are in business,
says Ganesha. If these business trips happen
before Thursday, they will yield beneficial
results, otherwise not. You may also have to
host some guests during the weekend. And to
entertain them you will make preparations in
advance.
8. SCORPIO
This week, you are burdened with too many
responsibilities, and unless you prioritise, you will not be able to do justice to any of them. If you focus
fully on them, you will gain clarity
and know how much time to allot to
each activity, says Ganesha. On the
personal front, your communication skills
may help you sort out conflicts and build a more
harmonious environment. Try to start afresh and
get rid of all the negative emotions before you talk
to your beloved or life partner. Also, those of you
who are married should be careful not to let petty
matters disturb your marital life.
9. SAGITTARIUS
The first week of the new year is going to be crucial
for your finances, feels Ganesha. You will realise the
value of money, and may decide to start
saving. However, this is going to be
difficult for you since you are a
spendthrift. You may approach financial experts for advise in this regard,
and to find out about investment
options. Also, this week you will focus
more on the way you look and will spend considerable time grooming yourself. This week also will see
you spending some time in solitude, deeply thinking
about the higher aspects of life, which could make
you feel inclined towards spirituality.
10. CAPRICORN
This week, your soaring confidence levels and
enthusiasm will make you dynamic and
vastly confident about yourself. This
will pump you up with the required
energy to complete all pending
projects and tasks well within the
deadlines. You should, however,
remain careful about your finances
since Mars is transiting through Aquarius, the
house of finance for your sign. You shouldn't take
impulsive decisions regarding your finances, as
these matters will keep you tensed and busy
throughout the week. You will gain in popularity
amongst people around you but don't get
involved with anyone, as this is not the right time
to start a new relationship.
11. AQUARIUS
You are likely to aim for instant results
this week and this surely is going to
make you impatient. Moreover, your
confidence is likely to cross the fine
line that separates it from overconfidence, which is more than likely to
adversely affect your progress, warns
Ganesha. You also need to be alert and extremely active, and are unlikely to find any time to relax
or unwind. This fast paced life will make you
exhausted and will sap all your energy.
Unfortunately, there is no respite from it in the near
future. Hence, you should be prepared for an
action packed week ahead.
12. PISCES
You will begin the year on a positive note and your hard
work will start yielding favourable results.
You will meet new people, especially
females, who belong to the elite society. And, you are likely to remain the centre of attraction everywhere you go.
However, you will have to be careful
about your health as your immune system
is likely to be weak. You will have to guard against diseases but there is no need to press the panic button,
says Ganesha. You should not over-indulge in eating,
as this may also adversely affect your health.
Dalrymple, Rushdie top authors’ reading list in 2012
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When leading authors like
Aravind Adiga, Jeet Thayil and
Amit Chaudhuri were not writing in
2012, they were reading a lot – be
it works of Naresh Fernandes,
William Dalrymple or Anjali
Joseph.
Mumbai-based journalist Fernandes’ book “Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The Story of Bombay’s Jazz Age” topped the
reading list of both 2008 Booker Prize
winner Adiga and this year’s Bookernominated writer Thayil.
Dalrymple himself liked reading
Pankaj Mishra’s “From the Ruins of
Empire”, Monisha Rajesh’s “Around
India in 80 Trains”, Salman Rushdie’s
“Joseph Anton”, Kate Boo’s “Beyond
the Beautiful Forever” and John
Zubrzycki’s “The Mysterious Mr
Jacob”.
According to Adiga, “Taj Mahal
Foxtrot” is a “loving and scholarly tribute to India’s pioneering jazz musicians, and the city that they lived and
worked in”. Two other books he liked
were Mustansir Dalvi’s new translation of the poetry of Iqbal – “Taking
Issue and Allah’s Answer” and
Gopalakrishna Pai’s Kannada novel
“Swapna Saraswata”.
“Dalvi’s translation introduces
Iqbal to a new generation of Indian
readers. Well written and superbly
researched, ‘Swapna Saraswata’ is
the story of how Goa’s Saraswat community spread across south India
after being forced to leave their homeland during Portuguese rule. It has
gone into several reprints in Karnataka, and will be a hit across India if it
finds a good translator,” Adiga told
PTI.
Asked about his top reads during
the year, Thayil’s list went thus: “Taj
Mahal Foxtrot”, “Righteous Republic”
by Ananya Vajpeyi, “Return of a King”
by Dalrymple, “Dom Moraes: Selected Poems” (edited by Ranjit
Hoskote), “The Wildings” by Nilanjana Roy, and “Drifting House” by Krys
Lee.
Chaudhuri named Joseph’s
“Another Country”, Palash Mehrotra’s
“The Butterfly Generation” and Anand
Thakore’s “Elephant Bathing” as his
top reads.
“’Another Country’ is a brief, poetic novel about the attrition caused by,
and the inadvertent but radiant surplus gained from, aimless drift. Its
subtlety and skill, and the instinct for
beauty that marked Joseph’s first novel, confirm her unusual and immense
talent. ‘The Butterfly Generation’ is a
collection of musings on the young of
the ‘new India’, and the writing is terse
and - having originated as journalism
- written at considerable speed.
“But it would be a pity if readers
didn’t pause to notice Mehrotra’s
great humour and insight, and his
visionary impulse - the impulse of one
who’s aware of inhabiting a cusp in a
country’s history, and is caught
between studying and merging with
the effervescent, amoral landscape
he’s describing.
Thakore’s second book of
poems, ‘Elephant Bathing’, is hugely
pleasurable for its formal accomplishment, its wry cosmopolitanism, and
for the poised way it carries, and is
animated by, the painful stamp of
human personality,” writer-academic
Chaudhuri told.
Diplomat Vikas Swarup, whose
novel “Q&A” was adapted into the
Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”, liked reading “Sweet Tooth” by
Ian McEwan, “Steve Jobs” by Walter
Isaacson and “The Emperor of All
Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee,
which is “not just a biography of cancer but a literary mystery about the
excitement and thrill of scientific discovery”.
Anita Nair, the author of “The Better Man”, “Ladies Coupe”, “Mistress”
and “Lessons in Forgetting” listed
“The Slap” by Christos Tsiolkas, “The
Invention of Everything Else” by
Samantha Hunt and “The Book of
Barbosa” by Duartes Barbosa as her
top three reads for the year.
Jahnavi Barua, whose novel
“Rebirth” was nominated for the 2012
Commonwealth Prize and Man Asian
Booker Prize in 2011, liked Sri Lankan
author Shehan Karunatilaka’s multiple-award winning “Chinaman: The
Legend of Pradeep Mathew”, Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole’s
“Open City” and Janice Pariat’s collection of stories “Boats on Land”.
Jerry Pinto, writer of “Em and the
Big Hoom”, enjoyed Eunice de Souza
and Melanie Silgardo’s voluminous
and brave collection of poems –
“These My Words: The Penguin Book
of Indian Poetry”.
“It was lovely to see, within one set
of covers, voices from all four corners
of the subcontinent and from all stra-
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Thriller fiction writer Ashwin
Sanghi liked “Joseph Anton: A Memoir” by Salman Rushdie, “Return of a
King: The Battle for Afghanistan” by
Dalrymple and Brian Weiss’ “Miracles
Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past Life Memories”.
Delhi-based German author
Roswitha Joshi enjoyed reading “Lucknow Boy” by Vinod Mehta, “Durbar”
by Tavleen Singh and “Get to the Top”
by Suhel Seth.
“All of them are very informative
and written in a spunky style, spiced
up by personal anecdotes that not
only say a lot about events and the
personalities involved in them but the
authors and their mental make-up as
well. After my recent trip to Egypt I
cannot put down a book called ‘River
God’ written by Wilbur Smith, which
had been lying for ages unread in a
shelf because I could not gel with an
over 600 pages long story set in
ancient Egypt,” she says.
State Sports Spectacle 2012
J&K succeeds in crafting space on country's sports map
Rajesh Dhar
Though the major part of the year 2012 witnessed mixed fortunes
for sports in Jammu and Kashmir, in the latter half of the year, the
sportspersons of the State succeeded in carving a niche and crafting space on the sports map of India by giving some splendid performances in their respective disciplines to keep State flag high at
the National scene. Moreover, the year witnessed development and
renovation of sports infrastructure in the State to help budding
sportspersons polish and fine-tune their skill. The highlight of the
year, apart from successful organization of the Kashmir and Jammu
Ace gymnast Pawandeep Kour created history by break-
Gymnastics ing National record and winning 6 gold medals in sub junior National Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship held in
Punjab in the current year, while gutsy Mitali claimed 3 gold
and 3 silver in the senior National event. Moreover, J&K's
Karamjyot Singh and Ravia Verma participated in Asian
Aerobic Gymnastics Championship held in Indonesia in
October 2012, while Seema Mehra and SP Singh (coach) were part of the
Indian team that participated in World Cup held at Kufstein in Austria. The
contribution of the Gymnastics coaches like Krupalli Singh, SP Singh, Manisha and others is worth appreciation.
Despite the fact that the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) is in trauma from last nine months because
of the alleged multi-crore scam, the State cricketers showed outstanding temperament, class and grit and gave some splendid individual
performances as also the team performances in this season. While,
talented Parvez Rasool, promising Ramdayal and gutsy Ian Dev
Singh displayed superb show at the Ranji trophy level, the youngsters
Shubam Khajuria, Umar Nazir, Paras Sharma, Ahmed Banday and Sidharth Magotra with their outstanding performances helped Jammu and
Kashmir to qualify for the knock-out stage in Cooch Behar Under-19 Boys
Cricket Tournament.
Circket
Handball
J&K won sub junior and mini gold in National Championships
held at Srinagar and also claimed gold in North Zone Handball Championship held in Himachal Pradesh. Moreover, handballers
Neeraj Singh and Nitan Sharma represented India in IHF Challenge
Trophy South and Central Asia held in Nepal, while Nitan Sharma also
represented the Country in International Pattle Cup held in Sweden.
Vivek Khajuria and Dev Raj were the coaches of Indian women team which
bagged gold in IHF Challenge Trophy. The organization of historic InternaPlayers in action during a Ranji Trophy Group-C match between J&K and Himachal tional Olympic Committee (IOC) Technical Course in Jammu under the techPradesh at GGM Science College Hostel Ground in Jammu.
-Excelsior/Rakesh nical supervision of Khalid Hamouda of Egypt and under the overall supervision of Dr SM Bali, Secretary General, Handball Federation of India was
Premier Leagues and sending cricketers for advanced training to the highlight of the year in this discipline.
hone their skill and talent, was holding of soccer extravaganzas in
the State by inviting two premier soccer clubs of the Country nameTennis Ball Cricket Jammu and Kashmir claimed twin gold in the
Under-19 boys and girls Tennis Ball Cricket
ly Mohun Bagan and Mohamedan Sporting Club to play few friendas part of 58th National School Games, organized by the Departly matches against the footballers of Jammu and Kashmir. What was
ment of Youth Services and Sports in Jammu recently. J&K boys defeatmore pleasing was that J&K team displayed superb performance
ed
MP in the boys summit clash, while girls outclassed Jharkhand in
against both these sides, which apart from encouraging the budding
the title clash. Hinan Nazir and Meenaz blossomed in this tournament.
footballers, delighted the huge number of spectators. The constitution of Sports Councils in 10 districts of the State by the Minister for
The year 2012 witnessed ace shuttlers like P Kashyap
Sports, RS Chib, was also a step forward in enhancing the standard
Badminton
and likes playing in Jammu and Kashmir while repof sports in Jammu and Kashmir. The organization of around 10
resenting
their respective States in the mega National Level
National Level events in the State during the current year was also
Badminton
event hosted by J&K in Srinagar.
in right direction towards sports promotion.
Winners of Wushu Championship posing for group photpgraph alongwith the dignitaries
in Jammu.
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Apart from winning bulk of medals at the National Level
with 10 in Federation Cup, 5 in Junior Wushu Championship
and 16 in National School Games, J&K's Bhanu Pratap Singh and
Nitin Sharma represented India in the 6th World Wushu Championship held at Macau and 5th World Traditional Wushu Championship
held at Huangshan in China. Inspector Kuldeep Handoo National
Wushu Coach of India was coach of India in Asian Wushu Championship, wherein India bagged 10 medals. He also represented India in 4th
Pars Cup at Zanjan in Iran, where India got 5 medals, with 2 silver and 3
bronze. Handoo also attended International Referee and Judging Course
during the current year.
Six kick-boxers namely Arun Singh Charak, Pawan
Kickboxing Singh,
Rajinder Singh, Raj Narania Singh, Jagvinder
Singh and Bhanu Pratap Singh represented India in the Asian
Kick-Boxing Championship held at Pune recently. Moreover,
the State kick-boxing team won 17 medals in open India KickBoxing Championship, bagged 12 medals in 17th Sub Junior
National Kick-Boxing Championship and claimed 16 medals in
18th Senior and 17th Junior National Kick-Boxing Championship
during the year 2012.
Promising judoka Shikha Bhau's medal at the national
Judo
scene was the only bright spot in the discipline of judo in
the current year, while the performance graph in the disciplines
of hockey, chess, football, softball, korfball, taekwondo, table tennis, fencing, skating and other games remained almost
unchanged during the year, however the disciplines of wrestling
and kabaddi witnessed holding of International and National Level events in the State during the year.
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CULTURAL CALENDER 2012: IS JAMMU REALLY ROCKING
Lalit Gupta
2012, being the second consecutive year of comparative peace in Jammu and
Kashmir, which paved way for revamping of-democratic institutions, economic sector, tourism industry- a surge in cultural sector was also expected
Instead on ground the cultural scenario, barring few new ventures supported
and funded by the Centre, was virtually a replay of a regular set of activities that
define practice of 'culture' in winter capital, the regional metropolis, which yet has
to shed its peripheral image.
The case of traditional arts in our multi-ethnic society-where old practices and
customs along with entire body of cultural expressions are fast vanishing due to
onslaught of modernity-is one such area, which requires immediate measures for
their preservation.
As far as creative arts and other contemporary cultural expressions are concernedThese due to their essential innovative nature, and often a take on existing philosophical and aesthetic systems-have never been found to be flourishing under state
patronage. The State, if it is an enlightened one, can only contribute as a facilitator by ensuring a favorable climate for free expression along with building suitable
cultural sites museums, art galleries, open air and proscenium theatre and public
spaces, where expressions of creative individuals can become shared experiences
of the society.
The sarkari version of culture spurned of by institutions like State Cultural Academy seems to be bereft of any new ideas. Reduced to as another government
department due usurping its constitutional autonomy by politicians and listless functioning lacking vision, it urgently needs direction of main governing body, the general council, for accountability, and revamping of activities.
Under such conditions the pursuit of meaningful artistic expressions and cultural contributions in different fields this year, again goes to select creative individuals and a very few NGOs, who fired by the calling of heart and mandate have made
mark through sheer determination and hard work.
Before talking about the achievers of this year let us pay homage to those departed individuals who dedicated entire life for creative pursuits. These include Virendra Kumar and Raj Singh,the versatile theatre actors, veteran musician Pandit
Raj Narayan and Dogri writer, Bal Krishan Bhora..
Awards: Moti Lal Kemmu, senior theatre playwright and personality, was honoured with Padamshree award for his overall contribution to the field of theatre.
Prof Ved Kumari Ghai, the eminent Sanskrit scholar, was conferred Maharaja
Gulab Singh Award, for her pivotal contributions in the fields of literature, culture
and social service. Bansi Lal Bhora, Dogri writer was awarded Sahitya Akademi
Award for creative writing posthumously for his book 'Tim Tim Tare'. Shashi Pathania was awarded Sahitya Akedami Award for Translation, while Yash Raina, got
Sahitya Akedami's Yuva Purushakar. Dr Jatinder Udhampuri was conferred State
award for best translation by J&K Cultural Academy.
Padma Sachdev, Dogri Poetess was honored by Varda University Library by marking a table on her name.
FILMS- The regional cinema got a shot in arm
with release of 'Reet' in Dogri. Produced, directed
and acted by Pankaj Khajuria, the locally made
'Reet', which had run of eight weeks, was very well
received by audience who loved to watch a film in
mother tongue.
Other film with local theme released in
Jammu,'Gul Gulshan, Gulfam', produced by Jawahar Lal Razdan, written by Indu Razdan, directed by
Sarfraz Alvi, in Dogri-Kashmiri. 'Geetiyaan', Dogri
film in making, directed by local talented Rahul Sharma, to be released in 2013, is again an eagerly awaited film.
Prof Ved Kumari Ghai
ROCK MUSIC-The zeal and passion of the handful of community of young musicians has made Rock
music as part of Jammu's contemporary tradition.
Rock Fests held in city to celebrate world music and
opening with Dogri rock was a notable chapter in
local contemporary music scene. The credit for this
goes to Direction Indicative Society for Harmonious
Advancement (DISHA) and Sumeet Sharma collective. Some of active rock groups in Jammu are
Mythya, Nissi The Groups of Band, Roving Sikhs.
The lead guitarist in town are Sohail Mushtaq, Rohit
Singh Bhau and Gagandeep Singh. Vikas Bawa,
Paulson Micheal are bass players. The drummers
include Dr Thakar Naveen Kotwal, Jhon Victor, Happy and Vishal Raghuvansh Rex and known vocalists
are Babber, Garrison Micheal and Rajdeep Singh.
Padma Sachdeva
YOUNG ACHIEVERS
TV: Sonia Kaur, with her role in popular serial
'Anamika' telecast from Sony TV, has finally made
her place in highly competitive industry. For the local
theatre actor who had bagged best actor award in
Jammu theatre festival, the big break in TV industry
has come after she her roles in Imagine TV's 'Rahul
Ka Swayamvar' and Life OK's 'Savdhaan India'.
Aarya Dharm Chand Kumar, is another local
young talent who has made his mark in TV serials.
A student of Air Force school, Jammu, he started his
carrier with first TV show in Punjabi 'Saada School'
on Alpha Punjabi. After that he has acted in various
roles in serials like Armanon ka Balidaan, Aarakshan,
Chandragupta Maurya, Chittod Ki Rani Padmini Ka
Johur, Dharam Veer, Hawan, Prithviraj Chauhan and
Moti Lal Kemmu
Sarvagunn Sampanna.
Mohit Raina, the Kashmiri Pandit young man,
born in Talb Tillo, is another model turned actor whom
is enjoying immense TV fan following for his role as
Lord Shiva in TV series, Devon Ke Dev - Mahadev,
shown on entertainment channel Life OK.
Talent Hunt Shows
Growing number of talent hunt shows telecast
from satellite channels have caught up the imagination of millions of small screen viewers. Parents of
children with some talent in dancing and singing are
eagerly supporting their children to participate in
such shows.
Indu Bala from the remote village, Noori Hanga
of Bhadarwah, made to the competition stage of 'Indian Idol', the music talent show of a private satellite
channel
Dr Jitendra Udhampuri
Mihir Gujral, young dancing talent from Rehari
Colony, stood 32nd in Dance India Dance 's Little
Master, mega audition held at Mumbai. Son of Ashu
and Manish Gujral and student of dance Instructor,
Sunil in Unique Dancing Institute, Mihir is also acting in Hindi film 'Ehsas' and got offer for another Bollywood film 'Twinkle, The Shining Star'.
Sushant Sathu, the prodigious violinist,
impressed stalwarts at Haribhallava Sangeet Sammelan, Jallandhar, to bag first position in non-percussion event in junior category recently. A student
of class 7th, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Gandhi Nagar,
Jammu, he is a disciple of local violin maestro Bahadhur Singh.
ICCR: THE NEW CULTURAL ADDRESS: Cultural scene of Jammu got a boost with opening of
Jammu Regional Office of Indian Council for CulturProf Lalit Magotra
al Relations (ICCR), New Delhi. Inaugurated by its
President Dr. Karan Singh, and headed by Balwant
Thkaur, well-known theatre personality, ICCR,
under its Horizon series, every fortnight showcases
best of local talent in performing arts. It has already
hosted two international performances by a folk
dance group from Zambia (Africa) and Laos, ICCR
also hosted local cultural troupes to Central Asian
countries like Kirgizstan and Kazakhastan.
KALA KENDRA: PRIME CULTURAL SPACE,
VICTIM OF APATHY
Failure of State government in giving due place
to creative arts, the Kala Kendra, conceived as an
exclusive space for Visual Arts, stands as an
orphaned institution without any funds to even maintain the building that was touted as a tourists attraction. To add insult to injury, the Kendra has been
Balwant Thakur
reduced to a popular venue for holding trade fairs
and haats, on the pretext to generate revenue for
making payment of gardeners and to pay for fused
bulbs in the galleries etc.
CULTURAL ACADEMY:
Khalid Bashir, new secretary of Academy,
immediately after taking over, was able to address
some of issues including across the board enhancement of Academy's remunerations, which was welcomed by writers, artists and performers of the State.
Academy's activity calendar for 2012 was a standard
fare. It included festivals of folk dances, Gojri folk
music fest, All India Urdu Mushaira, and poetic symposia featuring local poets., classical vocal, dance
and light music recitals, Sham-e-Ghazal and Sufi
music concerts and recital of Rabindra Sangeet.
Khalid Hussain
Academy's Best book awards for writers of State's nine schedule languages
were given to Prof Lalit Magotra, Gulam Nabi Khayal, Mohammad Mansha Khaki,
Bashir Akhtar, Nawang Gyatso, Mir Hyder Nadeem, Baljit Singh, Khalid Bashir
Ahmed. Dr Agnishekhar, Hindi 'declined the award in protest. The weeklong All
J&K Writers' Camp, representing nine languages of State, was held at Mansar in
April. The participants were Raja Nazar Boniyari, Dr Lalit Gupta, Ali Akbar Khan
Shaheen, Aruna Sharma, Virendra Kesar, Nirmal Vinod, Sabar Mirza, Manshoor
Banihali and Nawang Tsering.
Three monographs on life and works of Prof Shiv Nirmohi, Dev Dass and late
Durga Dass, penned down by Prakash Premi, late Ashok Jerath and Sita Ram
Sapolia, commissioned by Academy's were released.
Held at Kala Kendra, the Gujjar Heritage Exhibition, showcasing the ethnographic profile of nomadic Gujjars through objects and artefacts, could be labeled
as one of the best exhibitions organized by Academy in this year. One only wishes that such thoughtful ventures should be held in future.
DOGRI SANSTHA
Other than usual fortnightly 'kavi' and 'kahani ghosthis', Sanstha organized programs like seminar on Yuva Lekhan, at Barwal, children Dogri debate competition
of 12 schools on environment, at Marh, poetic symposium at Ramnagar, seminar
on women writing at Palampur, . Continuing its role in providing platform to Dogri
writers, the Sanstha released new books such as Santosh Sangra's Kali Ganga,
Hun Ao Abla Naein, Kungal Kular, P L Parihar, Shabad Shabad Sarmarth, B L Bhora's Chanani Chetain Di, Prof Lalit Magotra's Hello Maya. Sanstha's publications
were Pitamber Nath's Bhagali (Bhiyali), four issues of Nami Chetna, and books for
syllabus of Dogri BA Part I, II.
Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, organized 'Kavi Sandhi' with Santosh Khajuria,
Jammu's senior poetess, and Katha Sandhi with Shiv Mehta, significant contemporary Dogri short storywriter, 'Meet the Author' with ND Jamwal, Dhayan Singh, .
Under its 'Through My Window', program, lives and works of Padamshree Ramah
Shashtri and Dogri poet Kishan Samilpuri's were brought in focus.Akademi also
published number of translations in Dogri by authors like Gian Singh, Chhatarpal,
Yash Raina, Krishan Prem, Om Goswami. Akademi also held translation workshops
from Sindhi to Dogri, Kashmir to Dogri, Dogri to Konkani, Rajasthani to Dogri and
Dogri to Rajasthani.
Some of the notable books released in different languages were 'Gujjar Tribe of
Jammu & Kashmir by Dr Javaid Rahi', Khalid Hussain's Urdu short stories 'Satisar Ka Suraj', Rattan Basotra's Dogri book 'Parakh Parchol' and Shailendra Singh's
latest Dogri novel 'Sewadhani".
But literary activity in languages like Punjabi, Hindi, Pahari, Gojari, were low key
while good many number of literary events in Urdu they were mostly restricted to
Department of Urdu, University of Jammu. The NGO working for the cause of different languages chose to maintain a low key.
The good news for Punjabi fraternity was linked to Khalid Hussain, the wellknown local Punjabi and Urdu writer, was felicitated by Punjabi University, Patiala
and also made a visiting fellow to Department of Punjabi, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. Nami Dogri Sanstha is another NGO, which is promoting art and
culture in the region.
Along with The Art Foundation. It organized programs like Kavi Goshtis, Special Lecture by S.S.Anand ''Lehar'', Bhaint -cum-Devotional Song Competition,
released books by Mohan Dogra ''Preet Lari'' and Maa Sheran Wali, ''Dogri Bhasha
Te Vyakaran'' by Yash Paul ''Nirmal'' and ''Meri Rachna Mere Geet'' by Rakesh Sharma ''Sarkar'', Audio CD ''Yagya Karte Raho'' by S.S.Anand ''Lehar'' and some verses of Khwaza Dil Mohammed, VCD ''Mane Diye Meharmaan'' sung by Kamal Klotra & Rita Mehra and music by Surinder Singh Manhas, felicitated Dr Sunita Sharma of Udhampur for Ph.D in Music on the topic ''Analytical Study of Traditional Music
related to Duggar Culture' and celebrated Dogri Bhasha Mannta Divas.
JAMMU DOORDARSHAN:
Series of the live programs highlighting different aspects and life and works of
eminent Dogri writers and poets like Dinu Bhai Pant, Ramnath Shashtri, Kehri Singh
Madhukar, Tara Smailpuri's and Ved Pal Deep by well known contemporary writers was highly appreciated.
RADIO: Radio Kashmir Jammu's list of public outreach programs this year
included Sham-e-Ghazal, in connection with 63rd Republic Day celebrations,
Radio-Utsav and Regional Folk & Light Music concert to mark the mark All India
Broadcasting Day celebrations.
THEATRE: Jammu's theatre scene got a boost when in testimony to fact that
Jammu has emerged as a platform for free expression and social comment without any fear of gun or any form of oppression, EKTA-Ensemble Kashmir Theatre
Akademi, Srinagar, under the initiative of Bhawani Bashir Yasir, organized a nine
day festival of Kashmiri plays here.A Kashmiri play 'Premanth vs Premanth' was
staged by migrant veteran as well as young artistes.
Cultural Academy's major theatre event, the annual drama festival 2011, which
could not be held due to lack of fund flowed well into 2012. It started from March
17, 2012, with participation of twelve theatre groups from different areas of the district with plays in different languages like Dogri, Punjabi Urdu and Hindi. One of the
notable performances of the year was K L Siagal by Pierrot's Troupe from Mumbai
with noted Hindi film character actor Tom Alter as one of cast.
Jammu's known theatre group Natrang's calendar full of Sunday performances held at its Studio, outside productions on invitation along with participation in
major festivals of the country. Amateur Theatre Group, organized in collaboration
with National School of Drama, New Delhi (NSD), a five
week long theatre workshop 'Actor Prepares', that was
conducted by Ifra Kak. It concluded with performance
of 'Do Kouri Ka Khel', the Hindustani adaptation by Parimal Dutt's of Three-Penny Opera which was again
designed and directed by Ifra Kak. ATG, also held number of performances of plays in other parts of the country.
Samooh Theatre, led by Dr Sudhir Mahaajan, and
assisted by young director Ravinder Shrama, besides
holding of theatre workshops, presented number of
Mihir Gujral
plays in Jammu and rural area. The group as an NGO
working for art and culture also organized seminars on
folk art and music and poetic symposia. Its presentation 'Bawa Jit Mal', the play in verse, written by Dr Gyan
Singh, directed by young Ravinder Sharma, was also
staged outside the State.
Nav Durga Kala Mandir- contributing in their own
humble way in the local theatre scene, the group under
its Friday series is regularly staging plays. Its other ventures include 3-day women theatre festival, nukkad
nataks and series in which only comedy plays were performed in urban and rural areas.
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore: In connection with
Arya Dharam Chand Kumar
150th year birth celebrations of the national poet, series
of programs were organized in Jammu by Cultural Academy and NGO's like Tribal Research Foundation and
Samooh Theatre.
VISUAL ARTS
The contemporary visual art scene of J&K came
under intense discussion during the workshop "Curating Indian Visual Culture: Theory and Practice (with thematic focus on Art in the Context of Conflicts ), Organized by ACUA, IFA, and funded by Sir Jamsetji Tata
Trust.During the workshop, an exhibition of J&K artists
B.L. Bhora
titled "Sites of Plurality", was curated by young art-historian Aditi Kumar Gupta at University of Jammu.
The visual arts scene other than official exhibitions
and camps was marked by individual artists' achievements. These included sculptor Rajendara Tiku's participations in International Sculpture Symposium organized by Kanu Nayak Foundation for Arts, Mumbai,
National level Granite carving camp organised by Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi at Kohzikode, Kerala, International Sculpture Symposium organized by Greater
Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. Suman Gupta, wellknown painter participated in "The Secret Garden"
Shashi Pathania
series of Acrylic and temperas shown by 'Gallery
Espoonsilta' Finland, and India special exhibition at
5th"Beijing International Art Biennale" China.
Bishamber Mehta participated in sculptors' symposia in China while Chander Prakash was invited to
International sculpture symposium in Turkey and
National sculpture camp in Srinagar. Ravinder Jamwal
was invited to national and state level sculptor camps.
Dr Agnishekhar
Harsh Vardhan, Rohit Verma, Milan Sharma, Vikas
Sharma held group show in Mumbai and also participated in number of artist camps.
Cultural Academy, Tourism Department, organized
All India Sculptors Camps in which other than the above
sculptors,participating local artists were Brijpal Anand,
Sukjeet Singh Kukkal particapted. In Academy's All
India Heritage Painters Camp at Mubarak Mandi, the
Jammu artists included K K Gandhi,Vijay Saraf, Rohit
Verma. K K Gandhi in recent years has been active in
collaborating with various bodies to organize artist
camps in the State. The local artist in Leh camp were
Ifra Kak
Bhushan Kesar, Harshvardhan, Mohd. Akram Khan.
Jammu artists who attended Academy's Young
Painters' Camp included Manoj Chopra, Insha Manzoor,
Sahil Sharma, R P Singh, Sunil Dutt, Hirday Kant,
Narinder K Bhagat, Lovesh Sharma.
Maiden painting exhibition of Srijan Samooh, a newly formed group of 10 painters of different age groups
and backgrounds, was a show by those members of civil society who have kept their passion of art alive.
Painters & Sculptors camp at Bag-e-Bahu. Organized by Aspiring Artists Group (AAG) was held in memory of Gobind Kaur, the well known sculptor of the State.
Sushant Sathu
The participants included Gokul Dembi, Ravinder Singh
Jamwal, Amrik Singh Namdhari, Jang S Verman and
young visual artists like Sudhir Kamal, Arjinder Kumar,
Naresh, Chander Shekhar, Jasleen Singh, Varun
Kumar, Narinder Kumar, Chemat Dorjey, Amarjeet
Singh, Aneesh Tiku and Parveen. Other solo shows held
were Kanav Gupta's 'Naily', Juicy Sharma, the young
prodigy and by Megha Kundal.
FILM FESTIVALS
Under NGO's initiative of Jammu Art & Film Circle
and in collaboration with University of Jammu, organized a two-day film festival to show acclaimed national
and international short and documentary films to Jammuites and also another one-day film festival at Govt.
Women College, Jammu.
Jammu's cultural scene in 2012 was a mixed affair
in which along with sarkari parade of programs, the individual achievements in various creative fields emerged
as the silver lining. Especially number of talented local
young persons daring to explore new horizons made
their existence felt at national scene.
Chander Paraksh
Edaily
xcelsior
MAGAZINE
BOLLYWOOD BUZZ
Chasing the stars
As the calendar reaches its fag end, Supriyo Hazra moves through the different corners
of the year to check out the performance of Bollywood stars in the past 12 months
Aamir Khan: Mr. perfectionist Aamir Khan made his highly impressive
small screen debut with his TV show Satyamev Jayate. Highlighting various
social issues ranging from honour killing to child abuse, the show not only
attracted ordinary viewers but even politicians. Aamir even met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the plight of manual scavengers who engage
in cleaning human waste. He had spotlighted the problems of manual scavengers in an episode of the show. Before meeting the Prime Minister, Aamir
had also met a parliamentary panel to discuss medical problems plaguing
India that were highlighted in one of the episodes of the television show. On
the big screen, Aamir’s act as tough cop , Surjan Singh Shekhawat, in his
much awaited release ‘Taalash’ succeeded in gaining accolades though the
film is on Milkha Singh where Farhaan is portraying the character of the former Indian athlete. Though, Indian 70 mm missed Farhan’s acting in the year
he co-produced Aamir Khan starrer ‘Talaash’ .
Farah Khan: Choreographer-turned- filmmaker Farah Khan finally
appeared in front of the camera as she made her debut as an actress in director Bela Bhansali Sehgal’s ‘Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi’. However, the film
met with a dull response at the box-office.
Hrithik Roshan: Hrithik gave Bollywood its first major hit of the year as
his ‘Agneepath’ did not fail to thrill and entertain his fans. Released on the
Republic Day, it opened with a staggering amount of Rs 23 crores over the
weekend. The Hrithik Roshan-Priyanka Chopra starrer remake of the 1990
Saif Ali Khan: Saif perhaps went through the saddest year in his life as
he lost his father Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi in 2011. The death of the legendary
Indian cricketer made him formally assume the title of 10th Nawab of Pataudi. His next film will be a 2012 release- Agent Vinod. Love of his life Kareena
Kapoor also stars in the film. Well the good news is that finally he got married
to Kareena this year.
Salman Khan: Sallu again rocked the big screen with his releases like Ek
Tha Tiger and he returned as Chulbul Pandey in Dabangg2 opposite Sonakshi while speculations over his marriage plans continue. The stylish Bollywood star passed through some tough phases in real life due to health reasons. The actor continued to dodge questions on his marriage. Asked on a
film evoked mixed response from reviewers and viewers.
Alia Bhatt: Veteran filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt’s daughter Alia Bhatt was one
cute student in director Karan Johar’s ‘Student of the Year’ as the actress
made her debut in the tinsel town quite successfully. From dancing to the tunes
of ‘disco deewane’ to romancing his co-stars Sidharth Malhotra and Varun
Dhawan in ‘Ishq wala Love’, Alia surely promised to show more reflections of
her talent in the upcoming years.
Arjun Kapoor: Filmmaker Boney Kapoor’s son made his debut opposite
Parineeti Chopra in the romantic tale- ‘Ishaqzaade’. Both the actors made an
impressive mark in the world of Bollywood with their debut film and convinced
Indian audience of getting ready to witness stronger performances ahead.
Abhay Deol: If it is Abhay Deol then his fans can always be assured that
he has something new to offer. The talented actor and a favourite of the
crossover genre once again showed his strong acting skills in director Dibakar
Banerjee’s political thriller 'Shanghai'. However, his ‘Chakravyuh’ failed to
impress both critics and viewers.
Abhishek Bachchan: One can say junior Bachchan had an average 2012
as far as the success of his films are concerned. Beginning the year with action
thriller Players, Bachchan finally tasted moderate success with his ‘Bol
Bachchan’. While ‘Players’ tumbled down like nine pins, his comic avatar in
‘Bol Bachchan’ was successful in pulling some crowds towards theatres.
Akshay Kumar: With five releases this year, Akki was surely one of the
kings in B-town in 2012. Akshay made good impact on the box office as his
films like Housefull 2, Rowdy Rathore, OMG: Oh My God! gained accolades
from his fans besides doing good business this year. His last release of the
year, Khiladi 786 is reportedly making impressive business. Coupled with
southern beauty Asin, the original Khiladi of Bollywood still has the potential
to draw his followers to the theatres. However, his attempts to capture the
hearts of India movie buffs as space scientist Agastya in ‘Joker’ crashed badly.
Amitabh Bachchan: The same old sounds of the hooter, claps and some
moment of excitement were back as Big B hosted the sixth season of popular TV show Kaun Banega Crorepati (also called KBC 6).On the silver screen,
he was seen making a special appearance in director Gauri Shinde’s English
Vinglish. The superstar, however, mesmerised Bengalis along with the rest of
the country as he sang Rabindranath Tagore’s creation ‘‘Ekla Cholo Re’ for
director Sujoy Ghosh’s ‘Kahaani’. In his personal life, Bachchan’s health
remained the matter of concern as he spent nearly two weeks in a Mumbai
hospital and underwent an abdominal surgery.
Anil Kapoor: While he was the talk of the town in 2011 after sharing the
screen space with Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise in the ‘Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol’, the actor re mained mostly invisible this year. The only
film where Anil Kapoor was seen in 2012 was ‘Tezz’ and sadly it failed to draw
the attentions of his fans.
Arjun Rampal: Arjun Rampal and Kareena Kapoor’s hot scene in Madhur
Bhandarkar’s much hyped film ‘Heroine’ grabbed too many eye balls this year.
The film earned mixed response at the box office but it received negative
reviews from film critics. The handsome model turned actor’s other major
releases of the year- Chakravyuh and Ajab Gazabb Love, stumbled miserably.
Asin: Whether it is Aamir Khan or Akshay Kumar, Asin always pairs with the
best in the business. In 2012, the southern beauty joined Akshay Kumar in the
laugh-riot named ‘Housefull 2 and then again in Khiladi 786. She was also seen
joining Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan in another fun-filled merry-go-round
‘Bol Bachchan’. Asin played the perfect icing in the comic cakes.
Anushka Sharma: Anushka is slowly emerging as the next big thing in the
tinsel town. The pretty-faced girl once again paired with Bollywood superstar
Shah Rukh Khan in late filmmaker Yash Chopra’s last creation- ‘Jab Tak Hai
Jaan’. Along with Katrina Kaif, the film was one big release of the year and
Anushka played her part well to make her audience utter only one word for
her- ‘Wow’.
Bipasha Basu: Well, the bong beauty was seen scaring her fans in Vikram
Bhatt horror thriller 'Raaz 3'. Bipasha, who was a part of the first film of the
Raaz series, made a comeback to it after opting out of the second film. Biapasha’s scary avatar as Shanaya Shekhar in the film gained appreciations
from her fans. She was also seen pairing with R Madhavan in ‘Jodi Breakers’
and shared screen space with Abhishek Bachchan and Neil Nitin Mukesh in
multi-starrer ‘Players’. Both the films, however, chocked at the box office.
Deepika Padukone: Deepika’s bikini sequence in her last released film
Cocktail became the talk of the town earlier in the year. The hot-bodied actor
grabbed some eyeballs as she played the ‘bold and beautiful’ Veronica in the
film. Both her fans and critics gave positive response to Deepika for her performance though the film was trashed by one and all.
Emraan Hashmi: The ‘Murder’ actor gained appreciations from his fans
and critics for his performance in filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee’s political thriller
‘Shanghai’ this year. However, Hashmi continued his long connection with
thrillers with the other two releases in the year- ‘Raaz 3’, Jannat 2 and ‘Rush’.
While, ‘Raaz 3’ and ‘Jannat 2 ‘ drew some crowds towards theatres, his Rush
totally failed.
Esha Deol: Hema Malini’s eldest daughter tied the nuptial knot with businessman Bharat Takhtani this year.
Farhaan Akhtar: The happening guy of Bollywood Farhan Akhtar remained
mostly busy with the shooting of his upcoming film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. The
Bollywood film of the same name made a gigantic collection of around Rs 107
crores at the Box Office in just eleven days since it hit the silver screen on
Jan 26.
Imran Khan: After giving ‘boldness’ a new meaning with his performance
in ‘Delhi Belly’ in 2011, Imran was seen romancing Bollywood beauty Kareena
Kapoor onscreen. The romantic comedy Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu emerged as a
moderate box-office success.
Irrfan Khan: The thinking actor of B-town had an eventful 2012 as his Hollywood appearances caught the attentions of India movie buffs. He was seen
playing ‘Dr. Rajit Ratha’ in super hero film ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’. His
another international project ‘Life of Pi ‘ has already captivated the attention
of global audience. In Bollywood, Irrfan, played a notorious bandit in ‘Paan
Singh Tomar’. The film impressed the audience with fresh story and interesting settings.
Jacqueline Feranandes: The pretty-faced diva from Sri Lanka joined
Akshay Kumar and John Abraham in the laugh-riot ‘Housefull 2’ that managed
to make good business at the box office.
Kareena Kapoor: Bebo finally tied the knots with Saif Ali Khan. However, she tasted limited success in reel life as her films like ’Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu’
,‘Agent Vinod’, ‘Heroine’ failed to reach the expected height of success. Her
much anticipated film of the year, ‘Heroine’, tasted failure. Kareena’s ghost
act in ‘Talaash’ received appreciations as she portrayed the character of a
prostitute named Rosie quite brilliantly in the film. Coupled with Aamir Khan
and Rani Mukherjee, the film received good attentions from movie buffs.
Katrina Kaif: Katrina maintained her numero-uno position in 2012 with fans
still going gaga over her beauty and fashion statement. Her item song for the
film ‘Agneepath’ swept the country like wildfire. She was seen pairing opposite
the two Khans of Bollywood, Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, in ‘Ek Tha
Tiger’ and ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’ as both the films made impressive business and
helped the gorgeous actress maintain her dominance in B-town.
Karishma Kapoor: Karishma made her comeback in the world of films
with her ‘Dangerous Ishhq’. But keeping in mind the negative reviews it
received, the actress will surely love to forget the film as fast as possible.
Manoj Bajpayee: Away from the club of 100-crore heroes, Manoj has surely created a place of his own in glitzy world of Bollywood. 2012 surely witnessed his strong performance in as many as three films- ‘Chittagong’, ‘Gangs
of Wasseypur’ and ‘Chakravyuh’. His fans will surely hope to see him deliver
equally mightier roles in 2013.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui: Consistency can be the only word that suits actor
Nawazuddin Siddiqui who delivered one powerful performance on-screen after
the other in 2012. ‘Kahaani’, ’Talaash’, ‘Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1’ and
‘Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2’, Nawazuddin forced movie buffs to love him
every time he appeared on the silver screen this year. He is the new exciting
actor on the block.
Prateik Babbar: More than film it was Prateik and his love story that caught
the attention of the media this year. It was speculated that the actor was busy
romancing co-actor Amy Jackson. However, the Jodi soon split and both decided to take separate ways. Pertinently, Amy and Prateik’s reel love story also
failed to impress India as their Ekk Deewana Tha had a lukewarm reception
at the box office.
Priyanka Chopra: After winning hearts with her acting skills, Piggy Chops
unveiled her debut single, "In My City", in September. It gained commercial
success in India. In the reel world, she roared with her performance as her
‘Agneepath’ and ‘Barfi’ reached new altars of success. Barfi, where she played
the character of an autistic girl, bagged the nomination as India's entry at the
Oscar in the foreign film category. But it was finally unable to qualify for the
best foreign language film category at the 85th Academy Awards.
Ranbir Kapoor: After playing a heart-broken rockstar in Imtiaz Ali’s ‘Rockstar’ last year, Ranbir captivated his fans by playing the role of a deaf-mute
man in Barfi!. The film bagged the nomination as India's entry at the Oscar in
the foreign film category. However, the film finally failed to qualify for the best
foreign language film category at the 85th Academy Awards.
Riteish Deshmukh: Riteish passed through several ups and downs in his
life this year. The actor received a jolt in his life when his father and former
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh passed away in 2012. However, Riteish earlier in the year tied the nuptial knot with charming actress
Genelia D’ Souza after secretly dating each other for nine long years. In the
reel life, Riteish continued to score hits as allhis films released this year, including ‘Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum’ and ‘Housefull 2’, performed well at thebox
office.
Rani Mukerji: Rani’s fans surely expected something special from her in
2012 but all their hopes were shattered when her ‘Aiyyaa’ turned out to be
one of the biggest disappointments of the year. However, her ‘Talaash’ with
Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor did find some place in the hearts of her followers.
Rekha: After sizzling the big screen with her strong performance, Rekha
started a new innings in her life as she took oath as Rajya Sabha MP. Rekha
made her first appearance in Parliament during the Budget session as she
took oath as a Rajya Sabha member on May 15.The voting for the Vice-Presidential election this year was the first time when she exercised their ballots
as MP of the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Former Indian President
Pratibha Patil had approved the names of Rekha and cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar for nominated seats in the Rajya Sabha earlier this year.
TV show about his marriage, he said in his Dabangg style, that will it will follow only after Jodhpur and Mumbai courts announce their verdicts on the
blackbuck and vehicle mishap cases against him.
Sanjay Dutt: Sanjay started the year with a bang as he scared his fans as
the dreaded villain Kacha Cheena opposite Hrithik Roshan in ‘Agneepath’.
His performance in Son of Sardaar also drew appreciations. However, his
charishma failed to sail ‘Department’ out of rough water.
Shah Rukh Khan:After four long years, SRK finally laughed aloud and danced
merrily in Kolkata’s Eden Garden as his Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated
Chennai Super Kings in the final match to win the fifth edition of Indian Premier
League under the captaincy of Gautam Gambhir. In the world of films, he was
seen romancing two lovely ladies, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma, in late filmmaker Yash Chopra’s ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’. Box Office India declared the film a "hit"
in India and a "blockbuster" overseas. However, Yash Raj Films and independent trade analysts called the film a "worldwide blockbuster".
Shahid Kapoor: Shahid had an unexpected slide at the Box Office as his
only release of the year-Teri Meri Kahaani- disappeared fast from theatres
and public minds.
Shilpa Shetty: The original ‘item girl’ of Bollywood, Shilpa Shetty, gave
birth to a baby boy at a Mumbai hospital this year. The gorgeous actress had
tied knots with London-based businessman Raj Kundra in 2009.
Sonam Kapoor: Sonam hardly made an impression in the minds of her
fans this year as her ‘Players’ failed to play big shots in the Box Office.
Sushmita Sen: Sush remained busy with her ‘I Am She – Miss Universe
India’ project this year and remained completely invisible from the big screen.
Hopefully, the former Miss Universe will make a comeback on the silver screen
in the coming year.
Sridevi: Ending her long disappearance from Bollywood, Sridevi made a
comeback with English Vinglish. The film revolved around housewife Shashi
Godbole, played by Sridevi, who enrolled in an English language course during a visit to New York so that she could escape the humiliation at home from
family for her poor English language skills. Sridevi’s performance did not fail
to draw her fans attentions as the film was quite successful in dragging movie
buffs towards theaters.
Tusshar Kapoor: Tusshar may have tasted success with his adult comedy flick ‘Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum’ but his other release of the year ‘Chaar
Din Ki Chandni’ failed to make a mark on Indian audience.
Vidya Balan: Vidya continued to reign as the supreme ‘queen’ of Bollywood with her ‘Kahaani’ forcing Indian audience to fall in love with the actress
once again. Vidya as the pregnant protagonist in director Sujoy Ghosh’s thriller
charmed, captivated and mesmerised her fans over and over again. The film
resulted in renewed interest in Kolkata as a filming location, and the character of contract killer Bob Biswas (played by Bengali actor Saswata Chatterjee) became an internet phenomenon in India. Adding one more feather to her
crown, Balan also clinched the Best Actress award for her notable performance in the film of previous year 'The Dirty Picture'. In the personal front, she
tied the nuptial knots with UTV Motion Pictures head Siddharth Roy Kapur in
December.
Yami Gautam: Her pretty face and Bengali act did not go unnoticed as she
made her Bollywood debut with ‘Vicky Donor’ this year. After commencing her
career in the world of glamour with a bang, the actress is surely promising to
deliver more stronger performances in the upcoming years.
Rest In Peace:
Yash Chopra: The King of Romance is no more. He died this October at
a Mumbai hospital after spending a week in hospital coping with dengue fever.
He was 80 when the end came. Chopra, who was born on Sept 27, 1932, had
announced his retirement from directing this year on his 80th birthday. His last
directorial venture was SRK-starrer Jab Tak Hai Jaan. Chopra had made his
directorial debut with 'Dhool Ka Phool' in 1959, a melodrama about illegitimacy and followed it with the hard-hitting social drama 'Dharmputra' (1961).
Chopra has charmed Indian audience with films like 'Daag', 'Joshila', 'Silsila',
'Dil To Pagal Hai', 'Veer-Zaara'.
Rajesh Khanna: India’s first Bollywood superstar, Rajesh Khanna, whose
popularity touched the sky in the early 1970s after he scripted a history of
unbroken hits for years, died in July this year at the age of 69.
Dara Singh: India's iconic wrestler turned actor Dara Singh, who entertained audience with his acting skills and brawn for over nearly five decades
and played the Hanuman in epic teleserial Ramayanan died in July. He was
84.
AK Hangal: Veteran Bollywood actor AK Hangal, who had worked in more
than 200 films, died in Mumbai this year. He was 95 year old when death came.
Jaspal Bhatti: Actor and political satirist Jaspal Bhatti, who had Indian
idiot box viewers in splits during the 1990s with his shows like ‘Flop Show’
and ‘Ulta Pulta’, died in October 2012 in a road accident. He was 57.
Achala Sachdev: Actor Achala Sachdev, who was well-known for playing
roles of mother and grandmother in Hindi films, died at the age of 91 in Pune
after suffering from various ailments
Ravi Shankar: Indian musician and sitar exponent Pandit Ravi Shankar
passed away at age 92 at a San Diego hospital in United States in December, leaving behind countless mourners from every walks of life and a musical legacy that he built over a lifetime of dedication to the plucked string instrument and international collaborations, including the Beatles.

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