16 Greater KashmirSrinagar | March 6, 2017, Monday

SOCIAL WELFARE COMMITTEE

MUMINABAD LANE NO.1 BATAMALOO BY-PASS SRINAGAR.

LETTER OF ThAnKS TO DIvISIOnAL COMMISSIOnER KAShMIR

We, the inhabitants of Mominabad (Lane 1 & 2), Muslimabad (Lane 1, 2 & 3) and Tengpora Bypass Srinagar are highly obliged to the Hon'ble Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Mr. Baseer Ahmad Khan for his magnanimity, deliverance, sincere efforts and attitude, who listened to our miseries patiently and called the concerned higher authorities of Sewerage and Drainage Department in his office chamber and issued directions to them to resume and complete the prestigious sewer line connecting all the lanes within shortest possible time. We are also thankful to Superintending Engineer Drainage Circle (SMC) Srinagar, Executive Engineer Sewerage and Drainage Division II (SMC) Srinagar, Executive Engineer City Drainage Mechanical Division (SMC) Srinagar & Assistant Executive Engineer Sewerage and Drainage Sub Division Doodganga/South along with their field staff and contractors who proved their mettle and worked round the clock to adhere to the directions in letter and spirit. By virtue of their dedication our long pending demand got met/fulfilled and the drainage scheme is functional as on date. The efforts taken by all these dignitaries is being hailed and will be remembered by all in the vicinity.Our special thanks to Divisional Commissioner Kashmir once again.

SD/-PRESIDENT

OFFICE OF ThE ELECTIOn COMMISSIOn J&K FUnDS ORGAnIZATIOn KAShMIR

ELEcTION 2017

cIRcULARThe Election Commission for the J&K Funds Organization Kashmir has decided to hold election for the post of President on 11/04/2017 from 11 AM to 1 PM. In this connection forms will be available with Mr. Nisar Hakeem (Examiner)/Ab Ahad Shah (Sr. Compiler) JD office from 07.03.2017 to 12.03.2017.

> Last date of filling the form 15/03/2017> Date of scrutiny 18/03/2017> Date of withdrawal of form 20/03/2017> Campaigning up to 09/04/2017> Date of casting votes 11/04/2017

Sd/- FAROOQ SALEEM BANDAYFOR ELEcTION cOMMISSION

J&K FUND ORGANIZATION KASHMIR

Government of Jammu & Kashmir office of the superintendinG enGineer

electric planninG and desiGn circle, srinaGar lottery BuildinG, Behind civil secretariat, srinaGar, J&K

EXTENSION NOTIcE-VIReference: NIT No. EPDC/e-NIT-18/PLG of 2016, Dated: 25-10-2016

Due to response, due date of above mentioned e-NIT is hereby extended as follow:

S.No

Description of Equipment Qty.

Last Date for downloading of

NIT Document and Submission of e-Tenders

Last date for submission of hard copies of

bids

Online Commercial and Technical

e-Tender opening date

1.

Design, Manufacturing, Testing at Manufacture’s works and Supply of 132 kV Capacitor Voltage Transformers (CVTs) & 33 kv Potential Transformers (PTs)

55 No.

Extended up-to 15.03.2017(02.00 PM)

17.03.2017(04:00 PM)

Extended up to 18.03.2017(2:00 PM)

All other terms and conditions as contained in the NIT shall remain the same.

Sd/- Superintending EngineerDIPK-12453 Electric P&D circle, SrinagarM

-006

OFFICE OF ThE ExECUTIvE EnGInEER J&K STATE InDUSTRIAL DEvELOpMEnT CORpORATIOn LTD.

construction Division 2nd Haft chinar complex, Sgr.E- Tendering INVITING TENDER Notice

NIT NO.-SIDcO/cONSTT/Div./2nd /E-Tendering No (32) at I/c Khunmoh /IGc Lassipora Pul. Dt.:- 28 - 02 -2017.

corrigendum Dated: 02-03-2017cORRIGENDUM

Please read the details of below mentioned work as for NIT No. mentioned above:

S. No Name of the work Est. cost in lacs

Cost of tender documents (Rs)

E/M (Rs) Time of comple.

Class of contract

Opening Authority

1. Providing/laying of G.I Pipe (B-Class) for extension water supply at I/C Khunmoh (SIDCO)

9.98 1000/= 19960/= 20 days Civ i l / Sanitary C,D

Executive Engineer

Instead of following detailsS. No

Name of the work Est. cost in lacs

Cost of tender document s (Rs)

E/M (Rs) Time of comple.

Class of contract

Opening Authority

1. Providing/laying of G. I Pipe (B-Class) for extension water supply at I/C Khunmoh (SIDCO)

7.63 1000/= 15260/= 20 days Civil/ Sanitary C, D

Executive Engineer

Note: All other terms and conditions will remain unchanged.

Sd/ Executive Engineer NB: 3151 construction Division 2nd

A/S

ShER-E-KAShMIR UnIvERSITy OF AGRICULTURAL SCIEnCES & TEChnOLOGy OF KAShMIR

Estates Wing, Shalimar Campus - 190 025NIT NO. (23) of 2016 dated: 01.03.2017

For and on behalf of Vice-Chancellor SKUAST(K), sealed tenders each affixed with revenue stamps of Rs. 5/- are invited from eligible Civil contractors whose cards are valid up to 31-03-2017 registered with state PWD, CPWD, Railways and other state/central Govt. departments for the following work:

S. No

Name of the work Estimated cost (lakhs)

Earnest Money (Rs.)

class of contract

cost of T/Doc.

Time of comple.

01 Repairs/Renovation of Adm. Block at KVK Bandipora (Potshai)

2.50 5000/- D 200/- 10 days

Main campus Shalimar02 Repairs/Renovation of Lab/Office Block

(A-Wing) at main campus Shalimar5.50 11000/- C & D 250/- 10 days

03 Canal protection work near Division of Agri. Engineering

3.00 6000/- D 300/- 10 days

04 Repairs/Renovation of Central Library 3.10 6400/- D 300/- 10 days

1. Each tender appended with requisite CDR pledged to Deputy Comptroller, Estates and addressed to Estates Officer, SKUAST-Kashmir shall reach the said office by or before 11.03.2017 (3.00 p.m.) by registered post only.

2. Detailed Tender document can be had on application from the office of the undersigned on all working days up to 10.03.2017 against document fee in the shape of Payment Order/Demand Draft favouring Deputy Comptroller, Estates.

3. You can also view detailed tender document on our university website www.skuastkashmir.ac.in.

4. Further information can be had from the office of the undersigned.

DIPK: 3152 Estates Officer/chief Engineer

A/S

hIGh COURT OF J&KAT JAMMU

(Office of the Registrar General) SHORT TERM TENDER NOTIcE

Quotations are invited from the Registered Publishers/Suppliers for supply of books for High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Subordinate Judiciary as per the list available on the official website of the Hon'ble High Court of J&K, i.e. www.jkhighcourt.nic.in, indicating the price and rebate/discount to be offered on each item. Quotations should reach the office of the undersigned at Jammu, on or before the 13th of March 2017 by 2 P.M. These shall be opened in presence of the representatives of the bidders on the 14th day of March 2017 at 2 P.M. in the office Chamber of the undersigned. The quotations should be accompanied with CDR/FDR of any Nationalized Bank for an amount of Rs. 50,000/- pledged to the undersigned.By order.

DIPK: 3155 Registrar General

A/S

Government fails to tap solar power available potential

Mukeet AkMAli

Srinagar, Mar 5: Despite Jammu and Kashmir having a potential to generate 111 Gigawatts (1GW = 1000 Mega Watt) of solar energy, the slackness of the government towards the generation of alternative source of power in the State can be gauged by the fact that JK harness less than 1 percent of its esti-mated available solar power potential in the Himalayan State.

Official data, accessed by Greater Kashmir reveals that the National Insti-tute of Solar Energy has put the total potential of solar power of Jammu and Kashmir at 111 Gigawatts (1,11,000MWs), stating that the if all efforts are put in place to tap the potential of solar energy, JK will be leading solar power gener-ating state in the Country in future.

However, as per officials, despite the natural huge potential of solar energy, the JK generate meagre 0.40 Million Units (MU) in 2016-17 courtesy non-seriousness of the state government and lack of support from support from the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

As per the year-wise fig-ures about generation of solar energy, J&K could not generate even single unit of solar energy during 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16. Howev-er, during the current year the generation up to ending September was only 0.40 Million Units (MU), which is less than one percent avail-able potential of the State.

F u r t h e r o f f i c i a l s informed that years back,

the Government of India and J&K government have signed an MOU for the development of two mega solar power proj-ects in the Ladakh region of the State (2500 MW in Kargil and 5000 MW in Leh).

However, these two mega projects have not taken off thus further affecting the prospects of JK to harness solar energy

“It is a fact that solar power potential in the State is 111GW as accessed by National Institute of Solar Energy. The State Govern-ment proposed to harness 5000 MW in Leh and 2500 MW in Kargil, for which an MOU was signed with Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India. How-ever, because of the pro-hibitively expensive cost of evacuation of power from Ladakh, the harnessing of solar power on a large scale in Ladakh is possible only after suitable and cost effec-tive arrangements for evacu-ation of power from there are

made,” said a senior official of Science and Technology department.

He said that government has already taken up the matter for setting up evacu-ation infrastructure with the Government of India. “Presently, it is planned to set-up pilot solar-power proj-ects of 5 MW each in Leh and Kargil districts. These proj-ects shall be set-up by Leh Renewable Energy Develop-ment Authority and Kargil Renewable Energy Develop-ment Authority. Apart from this, 254 MW Solar Power is proposed to be harnessed by JAKEDA separately.

Most of the energy gen-erated in these solar parks would be evacuated to the Northern Grid through the presently under construction Leh- Srinagar transmission line.

To mention, the State Government has devised an incentive package for private power producers including permission to private play-ers to set up solar, hydel, wind and thermal projects of any size in the State, tax holi-day for power generation and distribution companies, easy availability of cheap loans, reduction of custom duty for the import of equipments, a favourable debt equity ratio and making competitive bid-ding mandatory.

New Delhi, Mar 5: Admit-ting to an instance of attempt to misuse biometrics data, the Unique Identification Author-ity of India (UIDAI) on Sunday said that the information on individuals enrolled by it is safe and secure.

This clarification by the UIDAI, which administers the Aadhaar project, comes in the wake of recent reports of breach in the security of Aad-haar data, which were misused for creating parallel databases.

"It is an isolated case of an employee working with a bank's Business Correspon-dent's company making an attempt to misuse his own biometrics which was detect-ed by UIDAI internal secu-rity system and subsequently actions under the Aadhaar Act have been initiated," the Electronics and IT Ministry (MeitY) said in a statement here.

"With regard to misinfor-mation appearing in vari-ous print and social media during the last few days, alleg-ing breach of Aadhaar data, misuse of biometrics, breach of privacy, and creation of paral-lel databases, etcetera, UIDAI said it has carefully gone into these reports and would like to emphasise that there has been no breach to UIDAI database of Aadhaar and personal data of individuals held by UIDAI is fully safe and secure," it said.

"Any unauthorised capture of iris or fingerprints or stor-age or replay of biometrics or their misuse is a criminal offence under the Aadhaar Act," it added.

According to the ministry, the UIDAI uses one of world's most advanced encryption technologies in transmission and storage of data.

"As a result, during the last seven years, there has been no report of breach or leak of residents' data out of UIDAI," it said.

"UIDAI is continuously updating its security param-eters and looking at the new threats in cyber space. It has decided to have registered devices for capturing biomet-rics data and further that such biometrics will be encrypted at the point of capture itself," it added.

Meanwhile, in a move to promote digital transactions post-demonetisation, the gov-ernment on Friday said it has asked banks to provide mobile banking facility to all custom-ers by the end of the current fiscal on March 31.

"Ministry issues advisory to banks to enable mobile seed-ing, Aadhaar seeding of bank accounts along with enable-ment of Mobile Banking for all its savings bank customers on a campaign mode by 31st March 2017," the MeitY said.

IANS

Aadhaar data fully safe, secure: UIDAI

HDFC Bank launches chatbot Eva for customer services

New Delhi, Mar 5: HDFC Bank today announced the launch of an electronic virtual assistant (EVA), an artificial intelligence-driven chatbot, for customer services.

Eva is India's first AI-based banking chatbot and can answer millions of customer queries across multiple chan-nels instantly, HDFC Bank said in a statement.

Eva can assimilate knowl-edge from thousands of sources and provide answers in simple language in less than 0.4 seconds, it said.

"Within the first few days of its launch, Eva has answered over 1 lakh queries from thou-sands of customers from 17 countries across the globe," it claimed.

With the launch of Eva, it said, bank's customers can get information on its products and services instantaneously and it also becomes smarter as it learns through its customer interactions. Going forward, Eva would be able to handle real banking transactions as well, which would enable HDFC Bank to offer the true power of conversational banking to its customers, it added. PTI

New Delhi, Mar 5: Finance Min-istry has agreed in-principle to allow public sector banks to offer stock options to their employees from next fiscal -- a move aimed at retaining experi-enced hands with better incen-tives.

According to sources, Employee Stock Option plans (ESOPs) could be given by those banks which have not only earned substantial profit but also made remarkable improve-ment in managing NPAs.

It will help motivate employ-ees to work towards strengthen-ing the financial status of their banks so that their share value rises, sources said.

Although the Finance Min-istry has given in-principle nod, the finer details are being worked out like what percent-age of profit can be earmarked for ESOPs, sources said, adding, this is based on the suggestion of Banks Board Bureau (BBB).

One of the proposals is to issue shares equivalent to a certain percentage of banks' net profit to employees which is being examined.

For large banks, the ESOPs could be as much as 5 per cent of profit after tax while for the smaller ones, it could be about 3 per cent but no decision has been taken yet, sources said.

Apart from ESOPs, bonuses and other performance-linked packages are also being dis-cussed as suggested by BBB, sources added.

ESOPs are common in the private sector, where compa-nies offer stocks to reward and retain key and top-performing employees.

Since the employees stand to benefit from any appreciation in stock price, ESOPs also help in aligning the interests of the employees with those of share-holders.

Earlier in January, BBB chief Vinod Rai had said the com-pensation package across the board of public sector banks needs to be improved.

"Maybe we are not able to do much with the fixed part of compensation package but vari-able part we are hopeful that in the next financial year we will be able to introduce a far more attractive package which will have bonuses, ESOPs and other performance linked incentives as part of the package," he had said.

It can be monetary or non-monetary benefits to make it more attractive for professionals to enter public sector banking space, he had said.

Last year, the then RBI Gover-nor Raghuram Rajan also made a case for offering ESOPs to bank staff.

"With public sector banks' shares trading at such low levels, a small allocation to employees today may be a strong source of motivation, and can be a large source of wealth as performance improves," Rajan had said. PTI

Finmin gives in-principle nod to ESOPs by PSU banks

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