Volunteers offer helping hand, prepare protection kits for medicos
Pulwama: With the rising cases of Covid-19 being reported in Jammu and Kashmir and medicos facing shortage of protection kits including , volunteers of a charitable society in Bijbehara in south Kashmir have started making gowns that will be distributed among doctors and paramedical staff in the district. Chairperson of the society Nuzhat Sultan said […]
IPRPs in JKRLM without wages from last 10 months
Pulwama: The Internal Professional Resource Persons (IPRP’s) who are working under poverty reduction programme under Jammu and Kashmir Rural Livelihood Mission (JKRLM) are without salaries from the last 10 months. The resource persons said that the administration is not caring for them and letting them suffer for month’s altogether. Notably, the IPRP’s are contributing to […]
Coronovirus lockdown likely to hit horticulture sector
August clampdown, snowfall had earlier created havoc, say growers
Pulwama: The coronavirus spread is creating ripples on the economic front and Kashmir’s horticulture Industry is likely to fall victim to the deadly virus as growers predict heavy losses in the coming months. “The horticulture Industry in Kashmir valley was yet to come to terms following the August 5 clampdown and the untimely snowfall. We […]
Different salaries for same grade posts in Samagra, allege employees
Pulwama: Resentment is brewing among the various employees of Samagra scheme as according to them different salaries are paid to employees despite working on grade posts. Contractual employees of the Samagra scheme including Assistant Engineers, Assistant Programmers, Junior Engineers, Auditors, DEOs , Computer Assistant and Orderlies have alleged that there is discrimination over salary of […]
South Kashmir residents decry power shortage
Pulwama: Even though the spring season has made its presence felt in Kashmir, people across south Kashmir resent the government’s move of providing power supply according to the winter schedule. Locals from Pulwama town and it’s adjacent areas said that their area is getting power supply as per the winter schedule which was announced and […]
Lone staffer at District library Kulgam fails to attract readers
Kulgam: District Library located in the heart of Kulgam town lacks all basic facilities and authorities have failed to provide facilities for the readers. Readers and visitors to this library complained that the library lacks latest books on varied subjects. Besides, no proper reading room has been made available for those who wish to get […]
Authorities fail to repair damaged water pipeline in Kulgam village
Kulgam: The residents of Nowbugh village in far flung Kund belt of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Thursday expressed their resentment against the Public Health Engineering department (PHE) division Qazigund for failing to repair the water supply pipeline in the area. Locals said that water supply pipeline was laid in the area twenty years back […]
Residents in Khrew village decry lack of basic facilities.
Pulwama: Residents of Satpukhran village in Khrew belt of Pampore area in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district are up in arms against the authorities. The villagers allege lack of basic facilities in the village. Locals said that they have been neglected by the district administration and basic facilities like roads, vital bridges and electricity have not […]
Pulwama villages demand safe potable water
Pulwama: The inhabitants of Zahid Bagh, Darbagh, Rakh and its adjacent areas in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district have accused the Public Health Engineering department of supplying contaminated water to them. In absence of filtration plant, authorities are providing us water directly from a local canal which is contaminated, they said adding that many people have […]