Setting up Terror Monitoring Group

20/04/2019
Intensifying crackdown on terror financing and related activities in Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) today set up an eight-member Multi Disciplinary Terror Monitoring Group, which has been mandated to take coordinated action in all cases related to funding of terrorism. The Group comprised various investigating agencies including Jammu and Kashmir Police, Intelligence Bureau, Central Bureau of Investigations, National Investigating Agency, Central Board of Direct Tax...

Avoiding the recommendations

19/04/2019
Government took serious note of the departments deliberately avoiding the recommendations of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Crime Branch for sanctioning of prosecution and instituting of Regular Departmental Action (RDA) against the delinquent officers and issued explicit directions for prompt action as per the provisions of Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1956. The investigating agencies-Anti-Corruption Bureau and Crime Branch recommend either...

No records about enactment of PSA

18/04/2019
Shocking it may sound but it is a fact that State Government doesn’t have the files containing records about enactment of Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act in 1978, which otherwise is considered as a vital tool to tighten noose around those indulging in anti-national activities. The revelation in this regard was made by none else than the State Home Department before the State Information Commission (SIC) during the proceedings under 2nd Appeal filed by the applicant, who was aggrieved over d...

Violation of SOPs

17/04/2019
Magisterial enquiry into crash of rescue trolley of Jammu Ropeway Project has held glaring violation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) responsible for the tragedy which claimed two lives and rendered four others seriously injured early this year. However, no action has been taken on the findings. A total of six technical and non-technical persons were carrying out some work near Mahamaya Park Terminal Station on January 20, 2019 when rescue trolley crashed all of a sudden leading to death...

Hurdles in much-hyped project

16/04/2019
Announced over two and half years back by the Union Agriculture Minister, the much-hyped Saffron Park at Kishtwar has remained on papers only due to inordinate delay in completion of formalities by the officers of the Agriculture Production Department of the State Government. Moreover, no time-frame can still be specified for any headway in this regard as even Detailed Project Report (DPR) has yet not been forwarded to the Union Government for approval. The proposal about establishment of Saffr...

No new specific time-frame

15/04/2019
National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCCL), a Government of India Enterprise, has failed to meet the deadline for up-gradation of Maulana Azad Stadium Jammu under Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP). Moreover, no new specific time-frame has been fixed for completion of the project either by the executing agency or Jammu and Kashmir State Sports Council. The project titled Renovation, Up-gradation and Development of Sports Facilities at Maulana Azad Stadium, Jammu was san...

The second religious tract

14/04/2019
The Pakistan Government has approved a proposal to establish a corridor that will allow Hindu pilgrims from India to visit Sharda Peeth, an ancient Hindu temple and cultural site in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The Sharda Peeth corridor, when opened, will be the second religious tract after Kartarpur corridor in Pakistan-controlled territory that will connect the two neighbouring nations. India had already sent a proposal to Pakistan to open the temple corridor, the Express Tribune reported quoti...