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STATE TIMES NEWS DODA/UDHAMPUR: Four minorsamong 30 were injured when aMatador ( mini bus) they were travel-ling in turned turtle near EnfieldShowroom Doda on Thursday while12 got injured when a bus turned tur-tle at Udhampur.

According to reports, a Metadorbearing registration number JK06-1340 was on its way to Assar fromDoda, on reaching near EnfieldShowroom , turned turtle on one sideof the road as driver lost control overit while negotiating sharp curve, caus-ing injuries pt in 30 passengers, threeof them serious.

After getting information, policeteam and locals rushed to the spot andstarted rescue operation.

"All passengers were rescued fromthe vehicle and shifted to DistrictHospital Doda, where from three seri-ously injured including two minorswere referred to GMC Jammu for fur-ther treatment," Police said.

The injured have been identified asTaniya Bali (17)daughter of BansiLal, Muthi Marmat, ImranAhmed(20) son of Bashir Ahmed resi-dent of Bhella, Fozia (5) daughter ofRafi Mohd resident of Doda, ZaitoonaBegum (26) wife of Noor Ahmed resi-dent of Khelleni, Pawan Kumar 40son of Suram Chand, his wife BabitaDevi 30, son Ishan (3) and daughterSukhshan (2) residents of Hud,Hannu Devi (30) wife of Jagdish Raj,Kirna Devi (45) wife Bodh Raj,Suchita Thakur (23) wife of VipanKumar, Amrik Singh (53) Son of DinaNath, Hushyar Singh (48) son ofBodh Raj and Aman Ullah Wani (22)son Bashir Ahmed all residents of

Khelleni, Geeta Devi (45) wife ChurSingh resident of Kathyara, Ram Raj(50) son of Devan Chand resident ofBarshalla, Priya Devi (20) daughterof Angrez Singh Resident of Marsoo,Bar Devi (67) wife of Brij LalResident of Ranka, Rekha Devi (27)daughter of Bodh Raj resident ofParyote, Raj Hussain (44) son ofMohd Abdullah resident of Batote,Naseer Ahmed (35) son of GhulamHussain resident of Sazan, SuramChand (70) son of Neelkanth and hiswife Amar Devi (55) resident ofJangalwar, Jafer Malik (23) son ofGhulam Mohiud Din resident ofKishtwar, Ashok Kumar (20) son ofHari Ram resident of Shiva Hateli,Sehrish Bano (8) daughter of MohdRafi resident of Doda, Devinder

Kumar (45) son Faqir Chand residentof Chanas, Brij Lal (70) son of ChuriSingh resident of Ranka, SaleemJafer (30) son of Rehmatullah resi-dent of Chiralla and Javed Iqbal (33)son of Mohd Ramzan resident ofAssar. Police has registered a casein this regard at Police Station Doda.

Meanwhile, a Bus (JK02U-6771)which was on its way to Udhampurfrom Narore turned turtle near villageGandala as driver of the vehicle lostcontrol over it resulting in 32 passen-gers getting injuries.

After receiving the information, apolice party led by SHO under thesupervision by Dy SP (HQ) KulbirHanda rushed to the spot and shiftedall injured to District HospitalUdhampur. At hospital team of doc-tors under the supervision MS Dr.Vijay Basnotra provided first aid tothe injured. Out of 32, 20 were dis-charged after first aid while 12 wereunder treatment at the hospital. Theywere identified as 38 years Sheela Deviwife of Karan Singh, 56 years BantiDevi wife of Mohan Lal, 58 yearsMohan Lal son of Mir Chand andMadan Lal son of Soma all residents ofvillage Narore, 27 years Vishno Raniwife of Madan Lal resident of Adarshcolony, 52 years Bishan Dass son ofShanker Dass resident of Trishi, 40years Poli Devi wife of Des Raj, 38years Shaeena Devi wife of Sham Lal,33 years Rekha Rani wife of SanjayKumar, 40 years Shashi Devi wife ofSubash Chander all residents of villageGandala, 28 years Rattan Lal son ofKrishan Chand, 60 years ParkshoDevi wife of Sham Lal all residents ofChhakkar. Police has registered a caseand launched the investigation.

Matador, bus turn turtle; 4 minors among 42 injured

Injured beinmg evacuated from the ill-fated matador at Doda.

Villagers demanddegree college

STATE TIMES NEWSDODA: Himalayan SocialWelfare and Anti-Corruption Society,Kalhota held a meetingunder its President FaquirChand Arman in which theparticipants highlightedtheir demands.

Faquir Chand Arman saidthat the people of this areaare suffering because ofundue power cuts andwater scarcity during thisholy month of Ramazan.The society appealed to thedistrict administration toissue suitable instructionsto the concerned depart-ments to ensure un-inter-rupted power supply andregular water supply.

Faquir Chand furtherdemanded that the existingHigher Secondary SchoolGhowa be upgraded asGovernment DegreeCollege as due to non-avail-ability of Degree Collegethe students particularlythe girls students have todiscontinue their furtherstudies. They also demand-ed that Government HighSchool Malhori be upgrad-ed to Highr SecondarySchool.

Prominent among thosepresent included VipinKumar, Uttam Singh,Saroop Singh, SuramChand, Suresh Kumar,Mohd REashid Narwani,Rajinder Singh, RomeshKumar, Asgar Ali, Gh Ali,Sagra Singh, Mohd Iqbaland Sunil Singh.

STATE TIMES NEWS BHADARWAH: Studentsof Government HigherSecondary School Sartingal,Bhadarwah on Thursdaystaged a strong protestagainst the EducationDepartment for their failureto provide adequate infra-structure, teaching staff anddrinking water.

The protest was organisedunder the banner of AkhilBhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad(ABVP) unit Bhadarwah.

According to reports,scores of the studentsassembled outside schoolpremises and tookout aprotest rally to SartingalChowk, where they heldprotest against the govern-ment, EducationDepartment and adminis-tration for their failure toredress their demands forthe last several years.

They simultaneouslyblocked Sartingal link roadconnecting Bhadarwah-Chamba interstate road ,Bhadarwah-Sartingal roadand Sharekhi road atSartingal Chowk for onehour while raising slogans infavour of their demands, dueto which passengers movingtowards Sarthal, Bani,Bhejja, Thanala andSharekhi got stranded.

"360 students are enrolledhere in this institution andonly three rooms are avail-able for them. We are forced

to take our classes in opensky", said AbhimanyuPadha, a protesting student.

"Due to shortage of infra-structure and teachers ourprecious time is being wast-ed. Whenever we met theeducational authorities theyassured us of doing theneedful but they do noth-ing,"said Samreen Ul Nisa,a student of 10th class.

However, the studentshave appealed to the con-cerned authorities to inter-vene in the matter, so thattheir studies don't getaffected.

"On one side the govern-ment is claiming that it willprovide proper education tochildren especially of therural area but on theground, their claim has beenproved false and fake," saidMadhurima Manhas, anoth-er student of the school.

Later, TehsildarBhadarwah Masood Ahmedalong with SHO MuneerKhan reached the spot andmet the protesting students.

After listening to theirdemands, TehsildarBhadarwah Masood Ahmedassured them that theirdemands are genuine andwill be redressed at the ear-liest.

"Due to lack of infrastruc-ture, tents on temporarybasis and desks will be pro-vided at the earliest, besidesproblems regarding worseconditions of staff, toiletsand drinking water will bealso solved within days,"said Tehsildar BhadarwahMasood Ahmed.

After getting assurancefrom the administration,students called off theirprotest and resume theirclasses.

Students protest lack ofinfrastructure, staff

Biker injured in mishap STATE TIMES NEWS

SAMBA: A biker got injured on Thursday when his motorcyclewas hit by a truck near KFC Sarore in district Samba.According to a report, a motorcycle (JK02BE- 3399) on its wayto Jammu from Vijaypur was hit by a truck (JK08E- 4242)near KFC Sarore, resulting in the motorcyclist getting injureies.

After receipt of the information Bari Brahmana Plice reachedthe spot and shifted him to Government Medical College andHospital Jammu for treatment. Identification of motorcyclistwas yet to be ascertained. However police has taken cognisanceof the matter and started investigation.

Lost phone handed over to ownerSTATE TIMES NEWS

SAMBA: Police on Thursday recovered a mobile phone andhanded-over to its owner at Vijaypur. According to a report,acting on the mobile missing complaint lodged on May 1,2018 by Sanjay Kumar son of Vishkarma resident ofSikandra, District Jamui Bihar at present in Gurha MorhVijaypur, police traced the aforesaid mobile with the assis-tance of police technical team of District Police HeadquarterSamba and today handed it over to its owner.

Woman consumes drug undermysterious circumstances

STATE TIMES NEWS SAMBA: A 28 year old lady took overdose of a drug at herhome in village Meen Sarkar Bari Brahmana in districtSamba. She has been identified as 28 years Meenu Devi wifeof Shamsher Singh resident of Meen Sarkar Bari Brahmana.

According a report, , She took overdose of a drug under mys-terious circumstances at her home and on seeing her lyingunconscious her family shifted her to ESIC Hospital BariBrahmana. She was further referred to Government MedicalColege Hospital Jammu for treatment. Police has taken cogni-sance in the matter and started further investigation.

STATE TIMES NEWSNOWSHERA: Theaggrieved people of variousPanchayats under TehsilLamberi who did not receivepayments of works complet-ed during the period from2013 to 2017, held a protestagainst the RuralDevelopment Departmentand locked the office of BDOLamberi on Thursday.

On arrival the BDO heldtalks with the protesting peo-ple, listened to their prob-lems and assured them thatthey will receive the payment

of work done by them. Hetold them that a completedetail of all such works willbe discussed with the officersat district level and rigorous-ly pursued till their payment.On the assurance of BDOthe villagers lifted Dharnaand the office was un-locked.

Prominent among thosepresent on the occasion wereSarpanch Mahender Sudan,Sarpanch Doggar Mal,Vishal Sharma of BJP,Basharat of SC Morcha,Narender Khajuria andSarpanch Arshad Mohd.

People lock BDO office fornon-clearance of payments

People sitting in front of BDO office Nowshera.

STATE TIMES NEWS ARNIA: The residents ofArnia and adjoining areas onThursday held a protestagainst unscheduled powercuts. A large number of peo-ple including women and chil-dren from Suhagpur andArnia assembled near maintown Arnia and blocked theroad heading towardsJammu. To mark protest,shopkeepers also closed downtheir business establishments.

While speaking BharatBhushan Saini said that thereis no power supply inSuhagpur for the last threedays after wind storm uproot-ed poles and the same havenot been restored yet.

Protesters demanded regu-lar power supply and allegedthat the PDD is imposingunscheduled power cuts,which is creating problemsfor them in the ongoing hotand humid weather condi-tions. "We apprised the PDDofficials many times about

the miseries being faced bythem on account of unsched-uled power cuts, but theypaid no heed, which forced usto come on roads", they saidadding that there is dire needof upgradation of existingpower infrastructure. They

warned to intensify theirprotest, if the issue ofunscheduled power cuts is notresolved in two days. RameshSonu Pandit, DavinderManhas, Dhanu, AshwaniKumar and Gharu Ram werealso present.

Suhagpur residents protest againstunscheduled power cuts

Protesters raising slogans against PDD at Arnia.

STATE TIMES NEWS UDHAMPUR: MartyrCapt Tushar MahajanMemorial Trust organiseda free eye camp at villagePathi in Udhampur in col-laboration with RotaryClub Udhampur.

The camp was organisedunder the supervision ofEye and Ent Specialist Dr.Ankur Goel and Dr.Rakesh Sharma . In campbesides locals, people hail-ing from adjoining localityof village Pathi also partic-ipated and got free check-up and medicare facilities

also. A team of doctors exam-

ined more than 234patients ailing from differ-ent eye diseases. It wasdisclosed that team of doc-tors detected 35 cases forcataract surgery.

The surgery of detectedcases will be done by truston June 9th free of cost atRotary Eye HospitalUdhampur.

Chairman of the TrustDev Raj Gupta extendedgratitude towards team ofdoctors and all staff of theRotary Club.

Martyr Capt Tushar MemorialTrust organises eye camp

STATE TIMES NEWSGOOL: For the first timein the history of GoolPrivate SchoolsAssociation organised aNaat Competition onThursday in which thestudents of different pri-vate schools of Zone Goolparticipated. SDPO Gool Mohd AminBhat was the Chief Guestand Principal ofGovernment HigherSecondary School Nana JiTikoo was the Guest ofHonour.

Twenty students fromdifferent private schoolsparticipated in whichUzma Kouser student ofGreen Valley Public

School lifted the firstprize while second andthird prizes were lifted byShehrah Habib of GreenValley Public School andUzma Iqbal of IqbaliaPublic Dharam.

Special invitees of theoccasion were LecturerMaqsood Ahmed Mullah,Abdul Rashid BaigPresident Peace andWelfare Committee Gool,Mohd Shafi Jaral, DistrictVice President Social LifeOrganisation, Members ofPrivate School AssociationTariq Hussain Bali andHafiz-ur-Rehman Zohad.Heads of the adjoiningprivate schools were alsopresent.

Private School Associationorganises Naat Competition

STATE TIMES NEWS RAMBAN: On the directionsof SSP Ramban Mohan Lal,Addl SP Ramban SanjayParihar held a police publicmeeting at Gool, Ramban onThursday.

The meeting was attended bya large number of inhabitantsof the area belonging to differ-

ent professions, localities andage groups.

Participants were welcomedby Dy SP Gool Amin Bhat andwere invited to put forwardtheir genuine issues, pertainingto police administration as wellas other departments so thatappropriate efforts are madefor their amicable solutions.

Most of the participantspraised the proactive approachof Gool Police against the men-ace of drugs and other psy-chotropic substances and alsofor people friendly policing.They also raised some otherimportant issues for communaland social harmony and eradi-cation of social evils.

A patient hearing was givento the issues raised in the meet-ing and all the participantswere assured that their con-cerns will be communicated toconcerned quarters for neces-sary action. They were advisedto be eyes and ears of police andprovide timely actionable infor-mation against anti social/antinational elements. Dy SP Goolwas advised/directed to provid-ed free coaching to the SI aspi-rants of the area.

Police-public meet held

Addl SP Ramban Sanjay Parihar and other police officialsduring police-public meeting at Gool.

STATE TIMES NEWSRAJOURI: The in-servicesecondary level teacherstraining for teaching staff ofSocial Science is going on inDistrict Institute ofEducation and Training(DIET) Rajouri with 37teachers and masters beingtrained in the first phase ofthis training.

The said training capsulewas started two days back inDIET Rajouri and was inau-gurated by Principal, PardeepK Sharma in presence ofother officers of educationdepartment includingTraining Coordinator, JavedQazi, Lecturer, Mohd Asker,

Rahat Jabeen." Training will be organised

upto June 8 and 37 teachersare past of first phase whilemore teachers will be trained

in the next phases " an officialof DIET Rajouri informed.He said that training is goingon under RashtriyaMadhymik Shiksha Abhiyaan.

Teachers training continues in DIET Rajouri

Principal DIET, Pardeep K Sharma inaugurating training.

Administration officials pacifying protesting students.

STATE TIMES NEWS RAJOURI: DistrictMagistrate, Dr Shahid IqbalChoudhary on Thursdayreviewed the plan for crack-down on illegal mining,stringent legal action andregulation of approved scien-tific plan put in place byGeology & MiningDepartment.

SE Hydraulic Rafiq Khan,ACR A Q Mir, ExEn PHENissar Khan, ExEn I&FCSunil Koul, ExEn PHENowshera O P Atri, DistrictMining Officer and otherofficers attended the meet-ing.

The DDC taking seriousnote of unprofessional andunregulated mining in vari-ous river beds and directedthe departments to furnish acomprehensive notificationto ban illegal mining andstringent action instead ofvague notification.

PHE Department fur-nished information that ille-gal mining carried out atSangam, Badhoon, Palma,Darhali, Kallar and other

areas has affected thesources as well as storagewell of the department.Meanwhile, action initiatedby Addl DeputyCommissioner, Nowsherahas resulted in control of ille-gal extraction which is beingstrictly assisted byNowshera PHE Division.

It was decided to establisha central control room in theoffice of DeputyCommissioner to coordinateand take prompt actionagainst persons and organi-sations involved in illegalextraction in notified areas.It also decided to book con-tractors, proprietors of stonecrushers, owners of load car-riers wherever illegal miningin reported in prohibitedzones. The DMO was direct-ed to convene a meeting withall stakeholders and informabout strict penal action incase of any violation.

A joint team of Revenue,Police, Rural Development,PHE, Irrigation and miningdepartments will conducttest inspections to book the

culprits in view of reports ofextraction done beyond thelimit of 3 meters and in pro-hibited areas

It was also decided tolaunch a public awarenesscampaign so that generalpublic can act as whistle-blower in case of any illegalmining noticed in prohibitedareas like flood embank-ment, 50 metres fromperiphery road, 500 Mtrupstream/downstream ofbridges and water reservoirs/ dugwells etc, 20 Mtrupstream/downstream ofwater works and head works,10 Mtr from flood embank-ment. A public helpline willbe established for promptreporting.

Department of Irrigationand Flood Control has beendirected to seize the vehiclesengaged in illegal miningand persons frequentlyinvolved in such cases maybe booked under the strin-gent Public Safety Act inview of serious environmen-tal degradation and safetyhazards created.

DM Rajouri finalises plan forcrackdown on illegal mining

Training onMEDPs conducted

STATE TIMES NEWS NOWSHERA: In collabo-rating with National Bankfor Agriculture and RuralDevelopment (NABARD),CMC Santhom SocialService Society Nowsherainaugurated 13-day train-ing on Micro EnterpriseDevelopment Programmes(MEDPs) for knittingwoolen products for 30members in various villageof Nowshera. On the occa-sion, In-Charge J&KGrameen Bank and J&KBank spoke on the variousschemes of the bank for theuplift of rural people.General Secretary of theSociety, Ann Joe also spokeon the various projectundertaken by the societyfor the empowerment of thewomen through self helpgroups and joint liabilitygroups with the financialassistance of NABARD.

Simple Kumari resident ofBajhnowa and ParveenKumari resident of Dabber-Potha, two motivatedwomen in various incomegeneration programmes willbe resource persons for thetraining programmes.

STATE TIMES NEWS UDHAMPUR: In order toprovide an impetus to employ-ment generation in the region,the army is conducting com-puter course for students inconjunction with NationalCouncil on VocationalTraining (NCVT), atGovernment High School,Bhowani. The course will beconducted from Jun 4 to 25,2018.

A total of 21 students ofBhowani and adjoining areasare attending the course,which will assist in enhancingtheir functional knowledge ofcomputers as well as provide

them a platform to furtherpursue employment avenues inthe field of InformationTechnology. The course aimsat increasing awareness ofInformation Technologyamong students with an effortto bring them at par with theircounterparts in other parts ofthe country. The course cur-riculum includes basics orien-tation and handling of com-puters, Windows 10, MSOffice and ComputerAccountancy. Successful can-didates will be awarded certifi-cate by NCVT, enabling themfor suitable employment infuture.

Army conducts computercourse for students