Tourism promotion in Jammu

19/10/2019
Tourism plays a vital role in the economic development of a country. Tourism is the second largest foreign exchange earner in India. The tourism industry employs a large number of people, both skilled and unskilled. It promotes national integration and international brotherhood. India has fascinated people from all over the world with her secularism and her culture. There are historical monuments, beaches, places of religious interests, hill resorts, etc. that attract tourists. Every region is ...

Furnishing Action Taken Notes

18/10/2019
The Finance Department on June 9, 1997 issued instructions to all the departments of the State Government to intimate to Public Accounts Committee/ Committee of Public Undertakings, the action taken or proposed to be taken on the Audit Paragraphs featuring in the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India irrespective of the fact whether these are taken up for discussion or not. However, there is no end to the dilly-dallying approach on the part of most of the Government department...

Worsening air quality

17/10/2019
Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particles, and biological molecules are introduced into the Earth's atmosphere. Air pollution in India is a serious issue, ranking higher than smoking, high blood pressure, child and maternal malnutrition, and risk factors for diabetes. At least 140 million people breathe air 10 times or more over the WHO safe limit and 13 of the world's 20 cities with the highest annual levels of air pollution are in India...

Letter to Editor

17/10/2019
Sir, It is humble and hand folded request to all the citizens of the country in general and honourable Judges, lawyers, scientists, educationist, intellectuals, philosophers, psychologist, doctors, engineers, religious teachers, Panches, Sarpanches, Corporators, MLCs, MLAs, MPs, Prime Minister, Ministers, Chief Ministers, Governors, Advisors, Vice Chancellors, Professors, Teachers, KAS, KPS, IAS, IPS, IFS officers, Businessmen, Farmers, Film Stars, Players, Army persons, CAPF persons, Ex-ser...

Illegal mining activity continues

16/10/2019
The mafia dealing with the ‘grey-gold’ has turned so influential that it has not only managed to continue the minor mineral activity in rivers and nallahs, but also forced some officials at the helm of affairs to stall the process of assessment of royalty dues against the ‘bidders’ on account of consuming of minor mineral. Despite scrapping of `illegal contract’ through open tenders granted to a ‘few favourites’ for the river blocks by the Governor’s Administration in entire Jammu and Kashmir d...

Levying Environment Compensation

15/10/2019
Environmental pollution is one of the most serious problems facing humanity and other life forms on our planet today. Environmental pollution is defined as “the contamination of the physical and biological components of the earth/atmosphere system to such an extent that normal environmental processes are adversely affected.” Pollutants can be naturally occurring substances or energies, but they are considered contaminants when in excess of natural levels. Any use of natural resources at a rate ...

Digitization of Civil Secretariat record

14/10/2019
Finally, Governor's Administration has shown some seriousness towards much-needed digitization of Civil Secretariat record by sanctioning an amount of Rs 10 crore and fixing deadline of December 2021 for the completion of the project. Moreover, Jammu and Kashmir e-Governance Agency (JaKeGA) has been directed to furnish monthly progress report both financial as well as physical to the Information Technology Department for placement before the Chief Secretary. JOURNEY LINE has earlier highlighted...

History headline: Mirage-2000 to Rafale, the story in between

14/10/2019
IN NOVEMBER 1980, a few of us were assembled under the leadership of then Air Commodore Prithi Singh, an experienced test pilot, and given some papers to study. These were about the Mirage-2000. We were to evaluate the aircraft in France as a possible counter to Pakistan’s F-16. At the time, we did not have any aircraft that could directly take on an F-16 in air. Soviets were far more secretive and offered the MIG-23MF which was no match against the highly manoeuvrable F-16. The MIG-29 was stil...

Dissent is a Gandhian virtue, It is not sedition

14/10/2019
It’s clear what India thinks of Mahatma Gandhi. Officially, we revere him. It’s another matter we honour his memory more in the breach than in the observance. But what would Gandhi make of us? No one bothered to ask when we marked his sesquicentennial. But I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ve embarrassed him. Indeed, at times, he might even want to disown us. The way we use the sedition law (Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code) is a perfect illustration. As far back as March 18, 1922, writing in...

Nowhere in sight

13/10/2019
You can say, your eyes betray you, every time you try to do something differently. It is no wonder why, that the eyes are said to be the open windows to the soul of a person. Let your eyes change someone's life by donating eyes. One eye donation can make two blind people see. Contrary to this, inaugurated over two months back, the state-of-the-art Eye Bank at Government Medical College Jammu, dedicated to restoring sight to the corneal blind, is still not operational. Eye Bank was inaugurated o...