ADC chairs meeting of Law Enforcement agencies
Directs to ensure availability, distribution of quality pesticides, fertilizers
KULGAM: Additional Development Commissioner (ADC) Kulgam, Showkat Ahmad Rather Friday chaired a meeting of officers of enforcement agencies at the mini-secretariat, here. During the meeting, the ADC instructed the regulating agencies to conduct regular checking and lift samples to plug supply of spurious fertilizers and pesticides in the district. He directed the concerned officers to […]
ETO Anantnag holds awareness camp
ANANTNAG: To prevent illicit cultivation of Poppy/Bhang, a team of Excise officials of Excise Range Anantnag-Pulwama-Shopian-Kulgam has carried out an awareness campaign involving religious heads/Imams in Kokernag Tehsil of Anantnag district of Excise Range South Kashmir. The Awareness focused on involving the religious heads with the purpose to create massive awareness generation, preventive education and […]
‘World Wetland Day’ commemorates at Hygam
SRINAGAR: To the Week of World Wetland Day (WWD) which is celebrated on 2nd of February every year, an inaugural function was organized by the Department of Wildlife Protection J&K Government, Wetlands Division Kashmir at Hygam Wetland Conservation Reserve a famous Wetland of Jammu & Kashmir. On the occasion, Regional Wildlife Warden, Kashmir Region, Rashid […]
FSD conducts special drive on sanitation at Pulwama
PULWAMA: On the directions of Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, a special drive was conducted by the Food Safety Department (FSD) Pulwama to check the sanitation, hygiene of Butcher and Chicken shops and also check the quality of meat and meat products available. During the drive, Six Butcher shops were found violating Sanitation and Hygiene requirements under […]
Major push to infrastructure, development in JK
21 major projects under PMDP completed, 100% electrification under Saubhagya achieved
JAMMU: Central Government’s unstinting support in accelerating the pace of development in Jammu and Kashmir has resulted in the transformation of Union Territory on all fronts. The transformation in every sector has brought economic enabling the UT to march towards a golden future as the government is making every effort to ensure that benefits of […]
Official directs installation of signages on retrieved Govt land

SRINAGAR: Commissioner Secretary, Revenue, Vijay Bidhuri, on Friday conducted a surprise visit of Chatterhama area in Tehsil North of Srinagar district to inspect retrieved land of over 350 kanal during an anti encroachment drive launched last month by the district administration. Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad accompanied the Commissioner Secretary during the visit. Commissioner […]
DC reviews functioning of Revenue department : Directs to retrieve encroached land on war footing basis
BANDIPORA: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Bandipora, Dr Owais Ahmad Friday chaired a meeting of officers to take stock of working and performance of the Revenue department. The meeting held threadbare discussion regarding various issues pertaining to the Revenue department including digitization of land records, measures for removal of encroachments on state and Kahcharai land, status of […]
Sale of unregistered insecticides stopped
SRINAGAR: The Enforcement Wing of Agriculture Department Kashmir Friday inspected various dealers of district Pulwama/Anantnag and stopped the sale of 22,940 liters of unregistered Tree Spray Oil (TSO)/ Horticulture Mineral Oil (HMO) under various sections of Insecticides Act 1968. In this regard Director Agriculture Kashmir, Chowdhary Mohammad Iqbal who is also Controller Insecticides impressed upon […]
Chersoo Awantipora residents rue lack of basic facilities
Pulwama: The residents of Kutpora Chersoo village in Awantipora hamlet of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district are up in arms against the administration as according to them the area has been completely neglected by the successive governments. The residents of the area said that they have no proper road connectivity despite that it is just one […]
Budget 2022-23: A step towards boosting infrastructure, economy for JK

JAMMU: The Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday presented the Budget for the Financial Year 2022-23 in the Parliament. The budget seeks to lay the foundation and give a blueprint to steer the economy over the AMRIT KAAL of the next 25 years – from India at 75 to India at 100. Its fundamental […]