STATE TIMES NEWS JAMMU: NetballAssociation of Jammu andKashmir on Wednesday gavea final call for the desirousplayers to report to trials forthe participation in the forth-coming 36th Senior NationalNetball Championship (Menand Women) to be held inKoramangla IndoorStadium, Bengaluru,Karnataka from March 23 to26, 2019.

"The final call for trialsshall take place at VedMandir Ground, Amphallahere on March 7, 2019," thehandout issued by the associ-

ation said.Players desirous of taking

part in the aforesaid champi-onship were asked to report

to Mohin Gupta (mobile No.9149652101) at 3:00 PM forthe trials at the aforesaidvenue.

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STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Advisor to Governor, K VijayKumar, on Wednesday chaired a meetingto discuss the modalities for raising addi-tional company of 129 Infantry Battalion(TA) Ecological, based at Samba andfunctioning in conjunction with StateForest Department for undertakingEcological Restoration Tasks in the State.

The meeting was attended byCommissioner Secretary Forests M KDwivedi, PCCF J&K Suresh Chugh, CCFJammu Sameer Bharti, CommandingOfficer 129 Infantry BN Col NanduKumar, Special Secretary (Technical)Forest K Ramesh Kumar, Director SainikWelfare Board J&K and other senior offi-cers of the Forest Department.

A detailed presentation was made at themeeting highlighting the role of theBattalion in carrying out various activitiesassigned to it including afforestation activ-ities, ward and watch duties of the project,soil and water conservation, management

and development of natural resources,water table restoration, upbringing offlora and fauna and spreading massawareness on ecological aspects.

Details of total area covered under plan-tation and number of plantation donesince the raising of 129 Inf BN was alsogiven during the presentation. Besides,physical and financial achievements regis-tered by the battalion were also discussedin detail.

It was said that under various plantationprojects including Rui Watershed Project,Bahu Jindra Project, CAMPA, BahuPurmandal Project and the Bani BasohliProject, a total of 5211 hectares of areawas taken up and around 42.10 lakh treeswere planted till date by the troops of thebattalion. The meeting held threadbarediscussions on the requirement of raisingadditional company of the battalion, itsfinancial implications and arrangingsource of funds for the purpose. It was feltthat there is an urgent need of increasing

the manpower of the battalion to take upadditional tasks within the timeline set bythe state Forest Department and to takeon other additional areas for afforestationrelated activities.

The proposed company along with thepresently existing company would betasked for the eco-restoration in theremote fringes, ranging from the fragileareas of Jammu region to varying forestterrains, the meeting was informed.

It was also given out that the raising ofone additional company, would not onlyhelp in carrying out assigned tasks withease and effectiveness but also help theBattalion to reach out to the far-flung andfragile areas, besides generating substan-tial opportunities of re-employment andrehabilitation to a large number of Ex-ser-vicemen in the state.

The DFO Ecological Task Force (ETF)also made a detailed presentation regard-ing overall activities of the BasohliDivision and the achievements made sincethe project area was shifted to Ravi-catch-ment Basohli one and a half year back.

The Advisor Kumar said that the pro-posed expansion of its areas of workingthrough augmentation of physical andfinancial resources, the matter of raisingof additional company shall be taken upwith Ministry of Environment and Forest(MOEF), GoI requesting them to providefunding for the purpose.

STATE TIMES NEWS JAMMU: All JammuKashmir PanchayatConference (AJKPC) repre-senting Sarpanchs andPanchs of all the three divi-sions of the State demandedto to defer Assembly elec-tions in the State for sometime as the situation for con-ducting these elections is notconducive.

In a statement issued hereon Wednesday, Anil Sharma,State President of AJKPCappealed to the ChiefElection Commissioner ofIndia to withhold the assem-bly elections till the time sit-uation at grassroots level sta-bilizes.

The AJKPC leader has alsoquestioned the over-enthusi-asm of most of the politicalparties demanding simulta-neous elections to Lok Sabhaand State legislature, saying

where was their enthusiasmat the time of Panchayat andMunicipal polls held lastyear.

Sharma came down heavilyon Kashmir-based partiesadvocating simultaneouselections for the reason thatthese parties boycottedPanchayat elections in thestate citing law-and-ordersituation.

"While there is no changein the ground realities andnow these parties are quiteamusingly ready to contestassembly elections. With con-tinuous ceasefire violationsfrom across the border in thestate, there cannot be freeand fair elections till the timeborder belts are peaceful,"Sharma said.

The AJKPC leader feltthat unless and until thePanchayats are fully empow-ered and elections to Block

and District Level bodies areheld, there should be noassembly polls in the state.

"Installation of new assem-bly would seriously hamperthe empowerment of ruralmasses as most of the politi-cal powers in the state arenot in favour of politicaldecentralization to the grassroot level," he said.

Sharma warned that anyattempt to force assemblyelections in the state wouldmean undermining therecently held Panchayat elec-tions in the state. "Such a sit-uation would not be accept-able to the masses and wouldlead to further alienation ofpeople. The governmentshould first go for fullempowerment of Panchayatsby holding block and districtlevel elections to constitutethree-tier Panchayati Rajsystem in the state," he said.

STATE TIMES NEWS JAMMU: DivisionalCommissioner, JammuSanjeev Verma onWednesday took an exten-sive tour of various bordervillages of Sub-Division,Marh to inspect the con-struction of bunkers alongInternational Border.

He was accompanied byAdditional DeputyCommissioner, JammuRashpal Singh, SDM Marh,Tariq Hussain Naik andother officers of Revenue

and R&B Department.During his tour, he visited

the villages of Deorey,Nappu, Kalyanpur,Kanachak, Dub Ditta toinspect the progress ofunder construction, individ-ual and communitybunkers.

He gave on spot directionsto R&B Department tospeed up the work on thesebunkers and ensure thecompletion of all types ofbunkers in a time boundmanner so that the general

public living in border vil-lages feels safe and secure.

The Div Com also inter-acted with the general pub-lic of these villages andassured them of their safety,well-being and security ofthe property of the peopleliving in the border villages.

Later the DivisionalCommissioner, Jammu con-vened a meeting in the officeof Sub-DivisionalMagistrate, Marh whereofficials of different depart-ments participated. Hedirected all theDepartments/ SectoralHeads to work in coordina-tion and synergy for thewelfare of the people livingin the border villages.

He asked SDM, Marh toregularly monitor the workand progress of construc-tion of bunkers. He alsodirected BDO, Marh to for-mulate plan for properdrainage and sanitation indifferent villages.

STATE TIMES NEWS JAMMU: Furthering themission of bringing HigherEducation at the doorstepsof the people, PrincipalSecretary Health andMedical Education AtulDulloo, on Wednesday laidthe foundation stone ofGovernment Degree CollegeKunjwani.

The college campus is beingbuilt on 35 Kanals of landprovided by JammuDevelopment Authority. Thecollege is going to be built asa vertical structure occupy-ing less of the ground space.

Many of the people who hadgathered at this occasionthanked the Government formeeting their long pending

demand.On the occasion, Principal

Secretary assured the peoplethat the campus would comeup in a record time.

Deputy Commissioner

Jammu Ramesh Kumar, SPCity South Vinay Kumar andother officials from JDA,PWD and local administra-tion were present on theoccasion.

STATE TIMES NEWSGANDERBAL: DistrictDevelopment CommissionerHashmat Ali Khan onWednesday handed over reg-ularization orders to severalRehbar-e-Taleem teachersregularized after successfulcompletion of qualifyingperiod in District

Ganderbal.Out of 750 ReT teachers

engaged, 183 appointmentorders as teacher grade 2ndwere given in phase I.

ADDC, CEO, Dy CEO,concerned ZEOs and otherofficials of the departmentwere also present on theoccasion.

STATE TIMES NEWS JAMMU: A deputation ofSarpanchs and Panchs of dif-ferent parts of the State onWednesday called on Advisorto Governor, K Skandan andbrought to his notice variousissues confronting them in thefunctioning of Panchayats .

They demanded provision ofsecurity for PRI members andsanction of Rs 20 lakhPanchyat Development Fundto each Panchayat.

The Advisor gave a patienthearing to the demands putforth adding the same wouldbe examined sympathetically.

STATE TIMES NEWSSRINAGAR: Advisor toGovernor, Khurshid AhmedGanai, on Wednesday askedthe Food Corporation ofIndia (FCI) and OilCompanies to ensure ade-quate storage and supplies inKashmir Valley.

He inspected FCI GodownLethpora and inspectedstock and supply position offood grains there. Heinspected bottling plant ofHPCL and enquired aboutthe stock position there.

HPCL Area Managerinformed the Advisor that itsPampore facility has stock of80,000 LPG gas cylindersand 150 fuel tankers are onway from Jammu toSrinagar.

The advisor stressed on theofficials to maintain ade-

quate supplies at theGodowns to meet thedemand during exigencyarising out of the road block-ade.

He also asked the IOC andBP to stock adequate quanti-ty of LGP so that consumersdon't face any inconvenience

Meanwhile, Ganai gavestrict instructions to FCIofficials to maintain ade-quate stock in the valley sothat people don't face anyinconvenience.

He said that Traffic andNational Highway authori-ties have already been direct-ed to facilitate smooth move-ment of supply trucks.

The advisor was accompa-nied by Director, FCS&CA,Muhammad Qasim Wani,Deputy Director PeerzadaZahoor and other officials.

Cluster Universityannounces change

in exam centresSTATE TIMES NEWS

SRINAGAR: ClusterUniversity Srinagar onWednesday announced achange in test centres for thestudents scheduled to appearin Common Aptitude Test onMarch 7.

A varsity spokesman, in astatement, said the examcentre of students bearingroll numbers from 196297 to196608 has been shiftedfrom Govt Girls HigherSecondary School Kothibaghto Gandhi Memorial College,Srinagar.

He said the test centre ofstudents bearing roll num-bers 195751 to 196038 hasalso been changed from GovtGirls Higher Secondaryschool Kothibagh to GovtHigher Secondary schoolBaghi-Dilawar Khan.

He said the candidates aredirected to report to the newallotted centres an hourbefore the commencement ofthe exam.

"Information regardingshifting of centres has alsobeen communicated to theconcerned candidatesthrough SMS on their regis-tered numbers," he said.

Advisor Kumar discusses modalities forraising addl company of Ecological Bn

AJKPC demands to deferAssembly elections

Divisional Commissioner, Jammu Sanjeev Verma inspectingconstruction of bunkers along International Border.

Advisor to Governor, K Skandan along with a deputation of Sarpanchs and Panchs at Jammu.

Advisor to Governor, K Vijay Kumar chairing a meeting.

Principal Secretary Health and Medical Education, Atul Dulloo laying foundation stone of GDC at Kunjwani.

Advisor Ganai asks FCI, Oil Cos toensure adequate supply to valley

DDC hands over regularisationorders to ReT teachers

Sarpanch, Panch deputationcalls on Advisor Skandan

Div Com inspects constructionof bunkers along IB

Foundation stone of DegreeCollege Kunjwani laid

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: The Departmentof Computer Science andIT and Directorate ofQuality Assurance,University of Jammuorganised two-day nationalconference on 'EmergingTrends in QualityAssurance andEnhancement in SoftwareDevelopment' in theDepartment of ComputerScience and IT.

Prof Manoj Dhar, ViceChancellor, University ofJammu in his inauguraladdress highlighted theexisting status, challengesand implications of DataScience in the world andfor the Indian profession-als in particular. He saidthat human genome proj-ect was followed by manyother sequencing projects,which led to explosion ofdata on DNA sequencingor protein sequencing.

Prof Lalit Sen Sharma,Head, Department ofComputer Science & ITapprised the delegatesabout the different aca-demic and research activi-ties being taken up by thedepartment. He gave a

brief glimpse about thejourney of the departmentfrom inception to the pres-ent scenario.

Prof Dharminder Kumar,former Dean Engineeringand Chairman, CSE GuruJambeshwar TechnicalUniversity, Hisar talkedabout the different qualityparameters and challengesbeing faced in higher edu-cation.

He focused on the themeof the conference whereinhe emphasized upon theneed of serious research inthe field of software devel-opment.

Prof Vibhakar Mansotra,Dean, MathematicalSciences encouraged thedepartment to keep organ-izing such types of aca-demic activities in the

department in near futureto give exposure to stu-dents & scholars of thedepartment.

Dr. Meenakshi Kilam,Director, Directorate ofInternal QualityAssurance, and Registrar,University of Jammuassured the departmentfor all types of support innear future for organizingsuch type of activities.

Among others who werepresent include ProfPawanesh Abrol, OrganizingSecretary, Prof LalitMangotra, Prof G.SSambyal, Prof VinodSharma, Heads of variousdepartments, Dr SureshRao, Jasbir Singh, DrShubhnandan, Dr JatinderManhas, Amit Sharma andSaurabh Shastri.

Conference on Emerging Trends inQuality Assurance commences at JU

Vice Chancellor speaking at the Programme.

STATE TIMES NEWSKUPWARA: DIG NKR,Mohammad Suleimanreviewed security scenarioand preparedness of upcom-ing general elections here onWednesday.

Chairing a security reviewmeeting at DPO Kupwara,the DIG exhorted upon theofficers to work with addedzeal and zest besides priori-tising redressal of grievancesreported at respective PoliceStations, in a professionalmanner.

Later, DIG Suleiman visit-ed District Police LinesKupwara and held interac-tion with officials and

Jawans. He gave a patientlistening to the grievancesput forth by Jawans. TheDIG redressed some griev-ances on the spot and assuredJawans that remaining issues

would be sorted out shortly.The DIG was accompanied

by SSP Kupwara, ASPKupwara, DySP Hqrs andother senior officers of thedistrict.

DIG reviews security scenario

DIG NKR, Mohammad Suleiman during visit to District Police Line at Kupwara.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Acharya DrRavikant Sharma has beenpresented Jyotish MaharishiAward by the All IndiaNavyug AstrologersFederation during its 9thInternational AstrologicalMahasammelan held atConstitution Club of India,New Delhi recently.

"Dr Ravikant has beenawarded for his meritoriouscontribution in the field ofAstrology," the citationreads.

Hails from Jammu, DrRavikant has earned a namein the field of Astrology andhas already been presentedwith similar awards at theNational level.

Dr Ravikant gets JyotishMaharishi Award

Acharya Dr Ravikant Sharma receiving Jyotish MaharishiAward in a function at New Delhi.

Advisor Kumar to meet people at Jammu today

STATE TIMES NEWS JAMMU: Advisor to Governor, K Vijay Kumar will be holdinghis weekly public hearing programme at Jammu on March 07(Thursday). Public delegations, deputations, organizationsand individuals are hereby advised to meet Advisor Kumar onMarch 07 to project their issues, register their grievances atConvention Center, Jammu from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM.

STATE TIMES NEWS JAMMU: PrincipalSecretary Health andMedical EducationDepartment Atal Dullooand Mission DirectorNational Health Mission,J&K, Bhupinder Kumarexpressed grief and sorrowover the demise ofAssociate ProgrammeManager Athar Ali Mir.

Condolence meetingswere held on Wednesday atCivil Secretariat, Jammuand State Health Society,Nagrota wherein officials

and officers of NHM con-doled the demise.

A two-minute silence wasobserved to pay tribute tothe departed soul and for-bearance to the bereavedfamily to bear thisirreparable loss.

Mission Director whilespeaking on the occasionhighlighted the valuablecontributions made by theofficer in the implementa-tion of various importantschemes under the mis-sion.

Demise of Associate ProgrammeManager NHM condoled

Police Public Mela on March 17STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: The 31st Police Public Mela is scheduled to beheld at Jammu on March 17 (Sunday) at Police Paradeand Advanced Trainings Ground, Jammu. This was stat-ed by Director General of Police (DGP), J&K DilbagSingh.

Final trials for Netball players today

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Complying withthe court directions, thePolice Station Women Cell,Gandhi Nagar, Jammu hasregistered a case againstfour persons for domesticviolence and demand ofdowry.

As per details, on com-plaint of one Neena Rani,wife of BhanupartapSingh, resident of lowerBarnai Jammu, PoliceStation Women Cell,Gandhi Nagar has regis-tered FIR (6/19) underSections 498-A,109,506,406 and 323 RPC againstBhanupartap Singh(Husband), Kanta Devi(Mother-in law), UrjaSingh (Sister-in-law) andNeetu Singh (Sister-inlaw).

Giving details, NeenaRani alleged that soonafter her marriage, she wasrepeatedly tortured by her

husband, namelyBhanupartap Singh, son ofShubchitan Singh alongwith her mother-in-law andsister-in-laws by raisingdemands for dowry andnumerous other issues. Shealleged that her husband,on directions of her in-laws, often beat her onminor issues.

Neena further allegedthat the situation deterio-rated when she delivered agirl-child. She alleged thatshe was subjected to men-tal harassment and traumaby her husband and in-lawswithout caring for the new-born baby.

The complainant furtheralleged that she was oftenkept confined in a roomwithout food and water andwas not allowed to meeteven with her parents. Thevictim Neena Rani furtheralleged that one day shewas thrown out of the

house by her husband andin-laws along with theinfant.

Neena further revealed inher complaint that as herin-laws, especially sister-in-law Urja Singh has'influence' in Police depart-ment earlier her complaintwas not registered at locallevel, forcing her toapproach higher authori-ties and Court for justice.

SHO Women's Cell ArtiThakur said, "The com-plainant Neena hadapproached Women's Cellearlier before my joining asSHO. So I was not aware ofthe matter. As in the mean-while Neena had approachedthe court and the courtdirected us to register thecase."

"On Neena's complaint,FIR has been registeredagainst the four accused andthe investigation has beenstarted," SHO added.

Husband, in-laws booked fordomestic violence