Govt extends ration card validity by one year
Jammu: Minister for Food Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA), Choudhary Zulfkar Ali Thursday informed the Legislative Council that the government has decided to extend the validity of existing ration cards, expiring next month, by one year. Winding up discussion on the working of the department under his control allowed by the Chairman in […]
Rs 7.01 cr tourism project proposed for Panchari: Priya Sethi
Jammu: Minister of State for Tourism, Priya Sethi informed the House that Union Tourism Ministry has sanctioned a project for development of tourist facilities at Panchari costing Rs.7.01 crore under PMDP. Replying to a question by legislator Dina Nath Bhagat, the Minister said that the drinking water and electricity to Patnitop, Kud, Sudmahadev and Mantali […]
Attracting youth to agri activities through incentives: Minister
Jammu: Minister for Agriculture Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura Thursday informed the House that the government has proposed various cluster-based initiatives for development of vegetables, apiculture, mushroom cultivation and spices for enhancing the farmers’ income. Replying to a question of Mohammad Muzaffar Parray, the Minister said the government is implementing various centrally and state sponsored schemes […]
Regularization policy for casual, other workers notified: Minister
Jammu: Minister of State for Finance Ajay Nanda Thursday informed the House that the government has notified the policy (vide SRO 520 dated 21-12-2017) for regularization of workers of various categories including daily rated workers and casual labourers working in different departments. Replying to clubbed questions the Minister informed that 1,00,501 workers have been enrolled […]
40714 SHLs, 1957 SSLs distributed in past 2 yrs: Minister
Jammu: Minister for Science and Technology Sajad Gani Lone Thursday informed the House that the government has distributed 40,714 solar home lights (SHLs) and 1,957 solar street lights (SSLs) in last two years. Replying to a question of Firdous Ahmad Tak, the Minister said that 600 solar street lights were distributed in Gurez, Bandipora in […]
Minister tables annual reports
Jammu: Minister of State for Industries and Commerce Asiea Naqash Thursday tabled in Legislative Council, the 27th Annual Report of Jammu and Kashmir Small Scale Industries Development Corporation Ltd for the year 2002-2003, 37th Annual Report of Jammu and Kashmir State Minerals Ltd for the year 1999-97 and 27thAnnual Report of Jammu and Kashmir […]
Dry ports: A welcome step
Srinagar: The government on Wednesday announced to setup dry port facility in the twin cities of Jammu and Srinagar. The development has come at a time when a high-level delegation of the Dubai Ports Group led by its Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem paid a visit to Jammu and met the Chief Minister […]
Pani is IG Kashmir
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Government Thursday appointed senior IPS officer SP Pani as Inspector General of Police Kashmir range. Pani was appointed as the new police chief of Kashmir after the State cabinet approved his promotion as IGP alongwith two other officers. Earlier, Muneer Ahmad Khan who was holding the charge of IGP Kashmir range, […]
Cabinet approves promotions of IPS, IFS Officers
JAMMU: The Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti accorded sanction to the promotion of IPS officers of 2000 batch of J&K Cadre viz S P Pani, Basant Kumar Rath and Shri Gh. Hassan Bhat to the Super Time Scale-(ii)-IGP-Level 14 in the Pay Matrix, with effect from 01.01.2018. Cabinet accorded sanction to the promotion […]
Cabinet approves promotions of IAS Officers
JAMMU: The Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti accorded sanction to the promotion of IAS officers of 2005 batch viz M Raju, Manzoor Ahmad Lone and Bashir Ahmad Bhat to the Selection Grade of IAS w.e.f 01.01.2018 and IAS officers of 2014 batch viz Doifode Sagar Dattatray, Rahul Yadav and Owais Ahmad to the […]
