Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday greeted the doctors on the “Doctors day” and expressed gratitude to them for their selfless service towards humanity.
The Lieutenant Governor greeted the doctors on the day and expressed gratitude to men and women for their selfless service towards humanity in this unique profession through a tweet.
“On Doctors Day, my greetings to all doctors. I express my gratitude to men and women, selflessly serving humanity through this unique profession & transforming the lives of millions. Lieutenant Governor in a tweet said.
Meanwhile, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on “doctors day” demanded setting up of a medical university in Kashmir.
“Medical university in Kashmir is the need of the hour” said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan.
Dr Hassan said Jammu and Kashmir (JK) has dozens of medical institutions, including medical, dental and paramedical colleges, which are currently affiliated to Kashmir and Jammu universities. The two universities are already overburdened with the affairs of their own academic institutions and find it hard to cater to the needs of thousands of medical and paramedical students.
“In absence of medical university, medical students suffer immensely as examination results and awarding of degrees often get delayed,” he said.
The DAK President said medical university would give new direction to the medical curriculum that would change the health care scenario in J&K.
“The varsity would provide competent caring physicians through quality undergraduate and postgraduate training that would shape the future of the health care in the region,” he said adding “the quality of nurses and paramedics would also improve through outstanding education that would produce a paradigm change in patient care.”
“The university would provide an environment that is conducive for research which would bring us on the scientific map of the world,” said Dr Nisar.
“It would serve as an international magnet and will attract high quality professionals across the globe to practice, teach and research in an academic medical environment,” he said.
LG Sinha greets doctors on “doctors day”, DAK demand setting up of University
Ramgarh residents unite in protest against PDD department
Residents of Ramgarh town in Samba district staged a protest against the PDD department as the electricity remains suspended in the region for a long time.
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Some of the protestors said that they only get power supply for three hours in a day and it’s been nearly two months since they are getting irregular electricity .
Moreover , people said that it’s unfair to pay high electricity bills when there are unprecedented power crisis .
Power outage is also leading to water crisis. Fifteen days have passed but till now there is no water supply in the region. Agriculture is primarily getting affected with this situation on the ground.
The protestors have warned that if their demands will go unheard they will intensify their protest which can even lead to blocking the national highway.
Jammu: Naib Tehsildar arrested for taking Rs 1.50 lakh bribe
The sleuths of the Anti Corruption Bureau on Friday trapped and arrested a revenue official for demanding and accepting the bribe from the complainant for issuing a land document.
The team also seized cash from the house of a tout of the revenue official.
The ACB spokesman said that Naib Tehsildar Ashok Sharma has been arrested for demanding Rs 25 lakh and accepting a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh for issuing fard document.
Rs 9 lakh was also seized from the tout Raman Gupta of Akhnoor, Jammu
“A complaint was received against Ashok Sharma and his associates for demanding a bribe for issuing fard,” said the spokesman.
He said that the complainant alleged that he had applied for issuance of fard in respect of land in the name of his wife situated at Mawa Karora, Sungal Morh, Akhnoor before then patwari Halqa Akhnoor Khas namely Ravinder Bhagat. It was alleged that after filing the application, the patwari Ravinder Bhagat and Naib Tehsildar, Ashok Sharma who were at that time posted in the area, approached the complainant through their tout and demanded a bribe of Rs 30 lakh.
Both of them contacted the complainant and on negotiation the amount was settled at Rs 25 lakh, he said adding, “thereafter, both the revenue officials were transferred but the bribe was still being demanded by Naib Tehsildar.”
It was also alleged that the fard was prepared as the complainant had received the soft copy through whatsapp from one Chiku Gupta, who was the buyer of the land, as the copy was sent to him by the tout.
The original copy of fard, which was stated to be retained by the Naib Tehsildar was not being provided to the complainant as he was demanding the bribe money of Rs 25 lakhs.
The Naib Tehsildar demanded to pay the amount of bribe in parts, though he will provide the fard only after getting the full amount, he said as per the complainant adding that he further alleged that he has been asked by the Naib Tehsildar to bring at least ₹1.50 lakh.
“On this the complainant approached ACB for appropriate action against the officials following which a case was registered and investigation started,” he said and added that a trap was laid during which the accused, presently posted at Gharota, was caught red handed while demanding and accepting the bribe from the complainant.
He was arrested on the spot by the ACB team.
The bribe money was also recovered from his possession in presence of independent witnesses while searches were also conducted in the residential houses of all the accused persons and Rs 9 lakh was seized from the residence of a tout Raman Gupta.
Fresh Weather Update of Jammu and Kashmir: Check Here
The Meteorological (MeT) department on Friday forecast mainly dry weather in Kashmir and moderate rain in Jammu division during the next 24 hours.
“Light to moderate rain is likely to occur in Jammu division while partly cloudy weather with light rain at one or two places is expected in Kashmir division during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said.
Srinagar registered 23.6 degrees Celsius, Pahalgam 17.2 and Gulmarg 14 as the minimum temperature this morning.
In Ladakh region, Drass clocked 12.5 degrees, Leh 15.5 and 17.6 as the minimum temperature.
Jammu recorded 24.1 degrees, Katra 22, Batote 18.5, Banihal A20 and Bhaderwah 20.8 as the minimum temperature.
19-year-old girl dies of rabies a month after being bitten by neighbour’s dog
A college student succumbed to rabies infection despite taking necessary vaccination at Mankara in north Kerala district , police said.
The 19-year-old woman, identified as Sreelekshmi, was bitten by her nieghbour’s dog and she took all necessary vaccinations as prescribed by the doctors soon after that, the police said quoting her relatives.
She had reportedly suffered the bite while going to college on May 30.
The woman did not show any symptoms in the initial days.
When she had started showing symptoms of rabies infection a few days ago, she was first rushed to a private hospital here and then to Thrissur Government Medical College with high fever.
She died at the hospital early today.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Veena George directed the state Health Director to carry out a probe and submit a report on the incident.
A detailed probe would be carried out after forming a rapid response team under the district surveillance officer here, an official statement said.
3 Amarnath pilgrims injured in accident on Jammu-Srinagar highway
Three pilgrims to the Amarnath cave shrine were injured when their vehicle skidded off the Jammu-Srinagar national highway and turned turtle in Ramban district on Friday morning, officials said.
The tempo-traveller, which was carrying pilgrims to Kashmir from Jammu, met with the accident near the Sherbibi area in Banihal, they said.
Kundan Kumar (59) from Uttar Pradesh, Vivek (10) and Anita Gupta (49) from Chhattisgarh were undergoing treatment in Banihal hospital, the officials said.
They were to visit the cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas on July 3.
Commercial LPG cylinder prices slashed. Check latest rates
Oil marketing companies have reduced the price of 19kg commercial LPG by Rs 198. It will come into effect from July 1.
With the latest reduction, a 19-kg commercial Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder in Delhi will now cost Rs 2021.
It will provide some relief to restaurants, eateries, tea stalls and others which constitute the largest user segment of the 19 kg cylinders.
Last month on June 1, the price of 19 kg commercial LPG cylinders was Rs 2219 in Delhi.
Earlier, in the first week of May, the price of an 19 kg LPG cylinder was hiked by Rs 50. On May 1, the price of a 19-kilogram commercial LPG cylinder was increased by Rs 102.50, to Rs 2355.50.
In April and March also, the prices of 19 kg commercial LPG have been increased by Rs 250 and Rs 105 per cylinder.
LPG Cylinder rate is revised monthly for all the states and union territories in India.
JK Police issues promotion order of 121 ASIs
A total of 121 Assistant Sub-Inspectors of Executive Police were promoted to the rank of Sub-Inspectors .
A statement of J&K Police issued here said that the Jammu and Kashmir Police Headquarters issued the promotion order after a Departmental Promotion Committee was convened under the chairmanship of the Director-General of Police Dilbag Singh following thorough scrutiny of service records.
Singh felicitated the promoted officers and their families and expressed hope that the promotion would serve as an inspiration for the officials to perform their duties with enhanced dedication and zeal.
Check Latest Traffic Update on J&K National Highway
Traffic plying smoothly on Jammu-Srinagar NHW, Mughal road through for vehicular movement. However, Srinagar -Sonamarg-Gumri road closed for vehicular movement in view of maintenance and repair of Zoji La axis, traffic police tweet.
EC to publish finalised J&K voters’ list on October 31
The Election Commission will publish the finalised electoral rolls of Jammu and Kashmir on October 31, the union territory’s first voters’ list after the boundaries of assembly seats were redrawn in the delimitation exercise.
In a letter to the chief electoral officer of Jammu and Kashmir, the poll panel has given a timeline to complete various activities before the final publication of the electoral rolls on October 31.
Officials said the voters’ list will keep getting updated as there are four cut-off dates in a year now when those turning 18 can enrol themselves as voters.
Earlier, those turning 18 on or before the first day of the year, could apply to become voters on January 1. Now, those turning 18 on or before January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 can apply to become voters.
As per existing policy, the revision of electoral rolls with reference to January 1 of the coming year as the qualifying date is carried out in later part of each year in all states and union territories so that the final publication of the electoral rolls could be made in the first week of January of the succeeding year.
However, due to various reasons, the annual revision of electoral rolls could not be undertaken in Jammu and Kashmir after special summary revision, 2019.
In the meantime, an exercise to redraw the boundaries of constituencies in the UT was in progress and the finally delimitated segments were notified by the Delimitation Commission on May 5 this year.
As the revision of electoral rolls was not conducted for the last three years in Jammu and Kashmir, new eligible electors could not get themselves registered in the electoral rolls, the letter noted.
” … in order to update electoral roll on the basis of newly delimitated constituencies, so that all newly eligible young electors can have the opportunity to get themselves enrolled, the exercise of Special Summary Revision with reference to the next qualifying date is required to be undertaken without further delay,” the letter said.
The electoral roll revision needs to be carried out before the first assembly election is conducted in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Setting in motion the process of holding assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, the Election Commission had earlier this month initiated the revision of electoral rolls following the delimitation exercise in the union territory and the draft rolls will be prepared by August 31.
According to the timeline, integrated draft electoral roll will be published on September 1. The entire month of September has been kept for filing claims and objections which are to be disposed of by October 15.