STATE TIMES NEWSTHANNAMANDI: Careercum psychological counselingand placement cell of Govt.Degree College Thannamandiorganised an online ExtensionLecture cum interaction ses-sion on on the topic "Careerafter graduation andEntrepreneurship". The pro-gramme was organised underthe patronage of Principal ofthe College Prof. (Dr.) JavaidAhmed Qazi. Tajinder Singh,Marketing Head, AkaalUniversity, Punjab was theresource person who hastalked about career avenuesafter graduation and entrepre-neurship. He discussed indetail about job opportunitiesin private sector as well as inGovernment sector.

Earlier the programme wasinaugurated by Principal of

the College Prof. (Dr.) JavaidAhmed Qazi who advised thestudents to work hard so as tosecure their placements innational and multinationalcompanies rather than search-ing the jobs in government sec-tor only. Dr. Khalid Rayaz,Head Department ofGeography and coordinatorplacement cell formally well-comed the resource person andother dignitaries besides con-ducting the proceedings of theprogramme. Dr. TajinderSingh, Head Department ofBotany and coordinator careercounseling cell introduced theresource person and Dr. AltafAhmed coordinator psycholog-ical counseling cell presentedthe vote of thanks. Almost allthe faculty members and agood number of studentsattended the online pro-gramee. The prominent whowere present on the occasionwere Prof. Raheela MushtaqConvener IQAC, Dr. NahimUn Nisa, HoD Arabic, Prof.Madasser Majeed HoDIslamic Studies, Dr. Shokit AliHoD Urdu, Prof. Ajaz NazirHoD Physics, Prof.Muhammad Shoket HoDEducation, Dr. Ibrahim LonePTI, Mr. Waqar AhmedLibrarian, Prof. NaveenSharma HoD EnvironmentSciences, Prof. Fatima QaziHoD Political Science, Dr.Wahid Ahmed Qazi.

STATE TIMES NEWSUDHAMPUR: To review thestatus of estimation of variousworks approved under DistrictCapex 2021-22 BDC, DDCand PRIs grants and otherongoing schemes of RDD sec-tor in the District, AdditionalDistrict DevelopmentCommissioner, UdhampurKanta Devi chaired a meetingof Rural DevelopmentDepartment officers. She alsoreviewed the progress of otherRDD schemes like PradhanMantri Awas Yojana (PMAY),Mahatma Gandhi NationalRural Employment GuaranteeAct (MGNREGA), 14th FCand RGSA etc and assessedthe status of convergence planto be taken up with the linedepartments. During the meet-ing, Executive Engineer REWapprised that against the total

of 2323 number of worksunder District Capex Budget,the estimates of 740 have beenchecked technically so far. Heinformed that the estimation ofall the approved works shall becompleted by the mid of July2021. Directions were issued toRDD to work with dedicationand in a transparent mannerto complete the works withinthe stipulated time frameensuring desired quality and

progress of the works in ruralareas. The ADDC exhortedupon the officers to maintaintransparency and accountabili-ty in the execution of all theworks. Among others,Assistant CommissionerDevelopment Udhampur,Mushtaq Chowdhary,Executive Engineer, REWbesides Assistant Engineerswere also present in themeeting.

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STATE TIMES NEWSRAJOURI: DistrictDevelopment CommissionerRajouri, Rajesh K Shavan,who is also the PrincipalCensus Officer todaychaired a meeting with theconcerned officers regardingthe enumeration and surveyof migratory tribal popula-tion of the district, which isstarting from July 1, 2021.

Among the others, ADDC,Pawan Kumar; ADCRajouri, Sachin Dev Singh;CPO, Mohammad Khurshid;ADC Sunderbani, VinodKumar Behnal; ADCNowshera, Sukhdev SinghSambayal; ADC Kalakote,Krishan Lal; ADCKoteranka, Surinder MohanSharma; ACR, TahirMustafa Malik; AC Defence,Saleem Qureshi; DFONowshera, Suresh Manda,DSEO, Bilal Rashid Mir,DSHO Sarfaraz Hussain,CAHO, CAO DRDA

Shabana Azmin, DFONaveed Mirza, DPO RashidKohli, BDO ChandarkantBhagat, Dr. Anum MirzaWomen Welfare Officer,Rakesh Kumar OfficiatingCEO, Tehsildars (All)besides other concerned offi-cers attended the meeting.

The Deputy Commissionersaid that common formatsdevised for the surveyincludes details related tomigration route, family par-ticulars, educational status,health and animal hus-bandry facilities, Livelihoodand skilling requirementamong other parameters.He also informed thatAdditional DistrictDevelopment Commissionerhas been nominated asDistrict Nodal Officer forthe Survey and District Sts.& Evaluation Officer asCoordinating Officer, whoshall also organise Trainingsfor the staff being engaged

and conduct IEC Activities.The Deputy Commissioner

informed that based on thesurvey a range of differentfacilities will be provided bythe department whichinclude transit facilities,livestock services, health-care, education, Livelihoodinitiatives, essential servicesand infrastructure.

The Deputy Commissionerapprised that on completionof family the process of digi-tisation and smart card withcomplete family details willbe initiated. The smartcards will serve multiplepurposes for a range of facil-ities to be extended to thetribal migratory population.

"The Tribal AffairsDepartment will provideassistance to migratorynomadic families under vari-ous schemes and the planalso includes capacity build-ing of the nomadic popula-tion", the Deputy

Commissioner added."Special Tehsil level com-

mittees have been constitut-ed and Tehsildars concernedhave been designated as thenodal officer for enumera-tion and survey of migratorytribal population of the dis-trict. Education, Forest,RDD and Animal and SheepHusbandry Department willassist the RevenueDepartment in the processof collection of required data", the Deputy Commissionerinformed. He also asked theconcerned officers to takefull assistance of the PRImembers in this regard.

The Deputy Commissionersaid that the survey wouldstart from July 1 this yearand special training sessionswould be organised for thestaff engaged in this datacollection process.

The Addl. DistrictDevelopment CommissionerPawan Kumar, who is also

Nodal Officer TribalSurvey* asked the con-cerned officers to put inplace added efforts to ensurethat the whole data collec-tion exercise as per the for-mat is completed by 21st ofJuly so that the same can besubmitted to the higherauthorities for necessaryaction at their end.

District Sts. & EvaluationOfficer, Rajouri BilalRashid, who is also DeputyCensus officer, elaboratedthe Formats during themeeting and the details needto be captured during theSurvey. He also threw lighton the Focus areas, to bekept under considerationduring the Survey and alsosought the detail ofEmployees from ConcernedDepartments who shall workas Enumerators andSupervisor to create a data-base for their Trainings &providing of Logistics.

DDC seeks authentic data for providing vital Smart Cards to nomadic families

STATE TIMES NEWSDODA: DistrictDevelopment CommissionerDoda, Vikas Sharma onTuesday reviewed theprogress on Pradhan MantriGram Sadak Yojana(PMGSY) road projects ofSub division Assar,Bhagwah, Bhaderwah,Doda, Thathri and Gandoh,here at a meeting held in hisoffice Chamber.

The meeting was attendedby Joint Director (CPO)Parshotam Kumar, SEPMGSY, Executive EngineerPMGSY, and AEEs of con-cerned sub divisions.

The District DevelopmentCommissioner was apprisedthat out of 111 ongoing

roads in Doda Division(Subdivision Assar,Bhagwah, Bhaderwah andDoda) 65 roads have beenblacktopped till May end thisyear.

Similarly, in ThathriDivision (SubdivisionThathri and Gandoh) out of63 roads 20 have been black-

topped till March 2021. Itwas also given out that these174 road projects shall bene-fit 238 habitations in the dis-trict.

The DC expressed dismayover slow progress inPMGSY Division Thathriand directed the SE con-cerned to fix the responsibili-

ty of poor performance andtake strict action accordingly.He directed the authorities toset the target of blacktopping25 KM in a fortnight to com-plete the BT work byNovember this year.

Further the DDC directedthe officers to review thepending projects for want ofany clearance from revenueor forest department to com-plete these projects at theearliest.

DDC Doda reviews progress of PMGSY road projects

DDC Doda, Vikas Sharma chairing a meeting.

STATE TIMES NEWSRAMBAN: Property worthlakhs were reduced to ashes inthe devastating fire in whichmore than a dozen residentialhouses were gutted at Hijwa-Mahu area of Tehsil Kharri inBanihal Sub Division ofRamban District on Tuesdaymorning.

According to reports, morethan 13 residential housescame under mysterious blazeat Hijwa area, which is one ofthe far-off area in BanihalSub Division.

Incharge Police Post KharriInspector Zaheer Iqbal saidthat the fire, which started at11:00 AM completelydestroyed 13 residential hous-

es. He said that after getting

information, Army, Police andlocals rushed to the spot andtried to douse the flames, butas of now about 13 residentialhouses got completely gutted

as the structures were madeof dry cedar. No injury orcasualty has been reported inthe incident, while the exactloss could not be ascertainedyet. Police said that FireTenders also reached near the

spot but it's 3 KM from roadand they were unable to dousethe fire.

Later, an Indian Air Force(IAF) helicopter has beenpressed into service in DalLake to facilitate the ongoingfirefighting operationlaunched to put off the mas-sive blaze.

The helicopter was deployednear Char Chinari with'Bambi bucket' attached to itto facilitate the ongoing fire-fighting operation.

When the last reports camein, the fire is under control.DDC Ramban Mussarat-ul-Islam also visited the villageand directed officers to pre-pare the loss.

Fire broke out in Mahu area of Banihal, 13 houses damagedIAF Helicopter with 'Bambi Bucket' deployed to facilitate fire-fighting operation

Fire-engulfed houses in Banihal area.GDC Jindrah holds awarenesscampaign on 'Pradhan Mantri

Ujjwala Yojna' STATE TIMES NEWS

JINDRAH: The NSS unitof Government DegreeCollege (GDC), Jindrah onorganised a door to doorawareness campaign forlocals of Jindrah village inrespect to center sponsoredscheme 'Pradhan MantriUjjwala Yojna' (PMUY)which was launched byPrime Minister of IndiaNarendra Modi on 1 May2016 to distribute LPG con-nections to women of BelowPoverty Line families.

The NSS volunteers ofGDC Jindrah visited thefamilies of village Jindrahwho are below the povertyline and gave them details ofPMUY and how they canavail benefits from thisscheme which aimed at safe-guarding the health ofwomen & children by provid-ing them with a clean cook-ing fuel - LPG, so that theydon't have to compromisetheir health in smokykitchens or wander in unsafeareas collecting firewood.

The campaign was wellorganized by Dr. SunilSharma, ProgrammeOfficer, NSS unit of GDCJindrah under the guidanceof Prof. Rajshree Dhar, thePrincipal of GDC Jindrah.

Today's campaign was pendown by Dr. Seema. TheNSS volunteers actively par-ticipated in the event. Thepeople of the area also gave apatient hearing to the NSSvolunteers as well as clarifiedtheir doubts associated tothe scheme.

STATE TIMES NEWSUDHAMPUR: SeniorCongress leader SumeetMagotra alleged Govt. hadadopted biased attitudetowards Gym and healthclub owners. While address-ing a press conference hesaid while Govt. has openedand gave partial relaxationin many business establish-ments, then why gym andhealth clubs were kept atbay.

Magotra expressed thatGovt has allowed to open and

to initiate business activitiesafter a more than monthlong lockdown but surpris-ingly, didn't allowed gym andhealth clubs to restart theiractivities resulting theirowners are facing hardships.Magotra further said thatGovt has allowed transport,banquet Halls (large publicgathering establishments) torestart their activities butgym and health clubs arestill not allowed to open theirestablishments. He saidowners of gym and healthclubs are reeling underimmense mental agony andfacing business crisis.Magotra warned Govt. ifwithin one week gym andhealth clubs are not allowedto start their ventures thenhe will initiate a protestmarch along with gym own-ers and youths against dicta-torial attitude of the J&KUT.

Magotra seeks re-opening of Gyms & health clubs

Senior Congress leader Sumeet Magotra briefing media.

STATE TIMES NEWSPOONCH: Amritsar SancharProgramme was organised bythe Parbandhak Commitee ofGurdwara Yaadgar BhaiBahadur Singh, DharamsalKharhi Dehri Sahib Poonchjust on actual line of controlnear Chakan da Bagh TradeCentre. Amrit Sanchar ( tobaptise) is an important ritual/event in life of a Sikh to becomeequal irrespective of colour,creed caste, region, religioneconomic position ,and isregarded as Khalsa meanspure to surrender beforealmighty and to serve humani-ty. For the last two years due

to COVID it was not possibleto organise such event .Harcharn Singh KhalsaPresident AISSF while inter-acting said that we have to gofor a long period with COVIDas per the reports of WHO /experts and the important reli-gious rituals are also of sameimportance and have to be per-formed to make our future gen-erations aware about theteachings and qualities of reli-gion to serve humanity . Hestressed upon Sangat to followthe path of religious philosophyand life history of great gurusand great Sikhs to help theneedy and humanity in this

time of Pandemic. He along with his other asso-

ciates of Sikh StudentsFederation, GurdwaraManagement and MissionaryCollege members congratulat-ed the Sangat who becameAmritdahri and member ofKhalsa Panth . Bhai DevinderSingh , Bhai Ravinder Singh,Bhai Gurdev SinghNowshera , Bhai RavinderSingh ,Bhai Jagjeet Singhand Bhai Sukhvinder Singhact as Panj Pyaras andGranthi Singh to performAmrit Sanchar. About 45 per-sons get Amrit and becameAmritdahri.

All the participants weretested for COVID before theevent keeping in view theSOPs and guidelines to avoidany health problem . S HardevSingh Retd Principal andPresident ,S Hazara Singh, SManmohan Singh, S HarbansSingh Sarpanch , S SantokhSingh , Hav Hardev Singh , SHarvinder Singh and otherprominent with Sangat werealso present on occasion toprovide their services to facili-tate the grand function.

Amrit Sanchar programme organisedat Gurdwara Kharhi Dharmsaal

People taking part in a religious programme at Poonch.

ADDC Udhampur Kanta Devi chairing a meeting.

STATE TIMES NEWSSAMBA: To curb the sale ofspurious fertilizers, pesticidesand seeds and in order toenforce the laws and rules invogue as per FCO 1985, Seedact 1966 and Pesticides act1968,Law enforcement wingconducted an extensive drivetoday in district Samba andsome part of Kathua adjoiningto Samba.

At the onset of the drive, theteam of law enforcement func-tionaries headed by DirectorLaw Enforcement, J&K, Dr BK Chandan accompanied byAssistant Director Law

Enforcement, Roshan lalBhagat and Law enforcementInspectors Samba andKathua, Rupinder Bedi andVijay Abrol inspected andchecked of agricultural inputsdealers of Gagwal, Rajbagh,Chadwal, Dayala Chak andSanji more of Kathua district.

The Director lawEnforcement JK directed allthe dealers of agriculturalinputs to display the licencesas well as sale rate and main-tain stock and sale registers ofvarious inputs as mandatedunder different acts and rules.He further stressed upon them

to supply only quality inputs tofarming community aimedtowards doubling of farmers'income as envisioned byHon'ble Prime Minister ofIndia.

Assistant Director LawEnforcement Jammu alongwith team of enforcementinspectors issued on spotinstructions to dealers tostrictly adhere the rules andprocedures in vogue.Inspections notes and warn-ings were also issued to con-cerned dealers in respect ofshortcomings detected on thespots. The Dealers were alsowarned that any body as andwhen found selling spuriousagricultural inputs or foundindulging in hoarding, blackmarketing and over chargingshall be brought to book.

Director Law Enforcement conducts surpriseinspection of Agri Inputs Dealers

Director Law Enforcement, J&K, Dr B K Chandan inspecting an outlet at Samba.

STATE TIMES NEWSSAMBA: Sofia Jangral fromBassi Kalan, Baribrahmana (samba)has published hertwo books named -Baatein Kuch Dil Kiand Jazbaat AurEhsaas Lafzo Mein.

Her these twobooks of poetry werepublished within agap 10 days from notionpress which are available onAmazon and Flipkart. She

has done graduation fromGCW Gandhi Nagar and

M.A., M.Ed. fromDDE JammuUniversity and alsoqualified UGCNETin Education. Shehas been writing forlast 14 years butbecause of her stud-ies she stopped writ-ing in between and

after a long gap she againstarted writing and pub-lished her books.

Books of Sofia Jangral released

STATE TIMES NEWSREASI: GovernmentPolytechnic College Reasitoday organized a Webinar onthe topic "BlockchainTechnology and its applica-tions". The webinar wasattended by the faculty andstudents of the college. Theresource person for the eventwas Sanjay Kumar Sharma,Assistant Professor at Schoolof Computer Science andEngineering (CSE), ShriMata Vaishno Devi University(SMVDU), Katra.

The event was organised inconnection with "New emerg-ing Technologies in the field ofComputer Science and

Information Technology". Thewebinar was organized to cre-ate awareness among the stu-dents about the new emergingtechnologies like BlockchainTechnology and its need in cur-rent digital world.

The programme started withthe welcome address by Er.Vivek Mahajan, Principal ofthe College. In his welcomeaddress, he gave a detailedintroduction of the resourceperson and also advised partic-ipants to take full advantage ofthe knowledge and experienceof the resource person by lis-tening to him carefully.

The resource person, in hispresentation, mainly focused

on the concept of BlockchainTechnology and discussed thevarious terms and conceptsused in this technology. Healso gave a brief introductionof Bitcoin and Etherium blockchains, currently used in digi-tal market. The event was con-ducted under the guidance ofEr. Vivek Mahajan, Principal,Govt. Polytechnic CollegeReasi. At the end of pro-gramme, various questionswere raised by the participantsand were nicely answered bythe resource person. The pro-gramme was concluded withvote of thanks by Er. SanjayKoul, HoD, Govt. PolytechnicCollege Reasi.

Govt Polytechnic College Reasi organises webinar on'Blockchain Technology & its applications'

ADDC Udhampur reviews working of Rural Development Department

GDC Thannamandi organises extension lectureon job opportunities & entrepreneurship

STATE TIMES NEWSKATHUA: Three vital pub-lications highlighting thesocio- economic profile ofKathua district were onTuesday released by DistrictDevelopment Commissioner,Rahul Yadav here at a sim-ple book release functionheld in his office.

The Books released wereDistrict Statistical HandBook, Block StatisticalHand Book and EconomicReview for the year 2018-19.

Additional DeputyCommissioner, Atul Gupta;Chief Planning Officer,Uttam Singh; DistrictStatistics & EvaluationOfficer Kathua, RanjeetThakur and other Staffmembers of DSEO Office,Kathua were present in therelease ceremony.

District Statistics andEvaluation Office Kathua isthe Nodal Agency for collec-tion, compilation and dis-semination of important sta-tistical data in the District.The data contained in thesepublications will serve as animportant tool for theresearchers, Planners,Students and other users intheir respective fields.

After releasing the publi-cations, the DDC hailed theefforts of field functionariesin collection of data andstressed on improvement ofthese publications in futurewith regular updating andwide coverage. "This data isof great importance as it willbe used by all stakeholderslike policy makers, planners,students and researchers"he said.

He also announced that

the publications will bemade available in publicdomain and citizens candownload the same from theOfficial Website of theDistrict Administration,Kathua.

DDC releases 3 publications highlightingsocio-economic profile of Kathua District

DDC Rahul Yadav and others releasing books at Kathua.

National Lok Adalatat Ramban on July 10

STATE TIMES NEWSRAMBAN: As directed byNational Legal ServicesAuthority and Legal ServiceAuthority J&K, a NationalLok Adalat is being held inDistrict Court ComplexRamban on July 10.

The National Lok Adalat isbeing held by District LegalServices Authority Rambanunder the guidance ofPrincipal District & SessionJudge, Haq Nawaz Zargar.

The litigants interested into settle his/her dispute/Casein the said National LokAdalat through conciliationand mediation, shallapproach to the concernedCourt and get fixed his/hercase.

The pre-Lok Adalat ses-sions for settling the disputeefficiently shall be heldbetween the parties fromJuly 2, 2021.