Srinagar: The government Friday granted sanction to the constitution of a Logistic Coordination Committee, aimed for integrated development of logistic sector, in Jammu and Kashmir.

According to the Government Order No: 361-JK (GAD) of 2021 dated: 23.04.2021 in this regard, Principal Secretary to the Government, Industries and Commerce Department will act as Chairman with Principal Secretary to the Government, Agriculture Production & Farmers Welfare Department; Principal Secretary to the Government, Public Works (R&B) Department, Commissioner/Secretary to the Government, Transport Department, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Director, Industries and Commerce, Kashmir, Director, Industries and Commerce, Jammu and (a) Representative of Logistic Division of Ministry of Commerce, Government of India to act as members of the constituted Committee.

The Committee is mandated to finalize the Union territory Logistic Policy and Logistic Plans besides to facilitate Ease of Cargo Movement via Green Channels, develop the Transport Nagar for promotion of logistic services and to develop the Logistic and Warehousing hubs and Dry Ports.

It is further ordered that Director, Industries and Commerce, Jammu shall set up a logistic cell under her Chairpersonship which shall liaise with the Logistic Division of the Ministry of Commerce, GoI. The cell, as per the order, shall prepare a draft ‘Integrated Union territory Logistic Plan’ for submission to the Logistic Coordination Committee for consideration. (GNS)

Asks officers to regularly review execution of projects

Jammu:  Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, today exhorted upon the officers to regularly review execution of Tourism projects under Prime Minister’s Development Package, SWADESH and address bottlenecks, if any, to ensure timely completion of these projects.

He issued these directions during a meeting held here to review the pace and progress of “Mantalai-Sudhmahadev-Patnitop and Gulmarg-Baramulla-Kupwara-Leh” projects being executed by NPCC and NBCC respectively.

Secretary Tourism, Sarmad Hafeez, gave a detailed presentation about the status of projects being carried out by the executing agencies.

Regarding the Mantalai-Sudhmahadev-Patnitop project, Advisor directed the NPCC to work in double shifts and complete the project by 31st May.

Advisor was informed by NPCC, that out of 22 components of the project, 12 have been completed.

He directed the Deputy Commissioner Udhampur to take periodical review after every 10 days of each component and monitor the pace and progress of the projects. He also directed the NPCC to clear all the irregularities in coordination with the district administration.

Baseer further directed the Director Tourism, Jammu, to visit all the sites taken up by NPCC for monitoring and review.

Regarding the projects being executed by NBCC, Advisor was informed  that majority of the projects are advancing as per already set timelines and are at different stages of completion. Besides, the lagging projects are also being assiduously pursued by the concerned officers to ensure their smooth implementation.

It was given out that out of 30 projects, 10 projects already stand completed while the rest 6 are expected to be completed by June 2021.

While fixing timelines for the rest of the projects, Baseer directed that the projects at Drung, Mayheen and Rafiabad should be completed and handed over to the concerned by the end of May, 2021 while as the projects of Babareshi, Handwara and Khadimiyan should be handed over by the end of June, 2021.

He was further informed that work on Gulmarg convocation complex has been alloted and will take about 12 months for completion.

Fake appointment orders

Jammu: Crime Branch Jammu produced charge-sheet against accused Brighu Nandan Sharma S/O late Vijay Sharma R/o Nanak Nagar Jammu; Sagar Kumar S/O Raj Kumar R/O Chak Jaralian, Tehsil- Bishnah (now expired) and Pallav Gupta S/O Romesh Chander Gupta, R/O H.No. 12, Lane No. 27, Rajpura, Jammu in case FIR No.09/2020 419, 420, 465, 468, 471, 120-B IPC P/S Crime Branch Jammu for their involvement in hatching criminal conspiracy in fabricating fake appointment orders for the post of Junior Engineers in Power Development Department against Sports Quota by way of impersonation. Charge-sheet has been produced before the Ld. Special Judge in Court of Passenger Tax, Jammu for judicial determination.

“A written communication was received at Crime Hqrs. J&K, Jammu from Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir General Administration Department wherein Riaz Ahmed Wani, Deputy Secretary to Govt. had requested for investigation in fake appointment orders for the post of Junior Engineer under Sports quota in Power Development Department. The communication referred Chief Engineer (Transmission) Jammu and Kashmir Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (JKPTCL) Jammu letter, seeking confirmation/ genuineness in respect of above contentious Govt. Order No. 611-GAD of 2017 dated 18.05.2017 and Govt. order No. 708 GAD of 2018 dated 26.04.2018 purported to have been issued by the General Administration Department,  turned out to be fake, as the actual orders on verification were found pertaining to the nomination of members of the J&K State Advisory Board for development of Gujjar & Bakerwals and compassionate appointment of Altaf Ahmed Ganai S/o Late Abdul Ahad Ganai Ex-Chowkidar R/o Khag, Tehsil -Khag, District -Budgam under SRO 43 of 1994 dated 22.04.1994,” a spokesman of Crime Branch said.

On receipt of the communication and verification report, the instant criminal case was registered in Crime Branch Jammu for in-depth investigation.

“During the course of investigation, the scrutiny of fake appointment orders was carried out and documentary, oral, scientific, circumstantial and other material evidence was collected. In order to establish the authorship of these fake appointment orders, the Specimen Signatures / Hand writings of the prime accused Brighu Nandan Sharma who had supplied these orders to victim/ accused were taken before Executive Magistrate 1st Class Jammu and sent to Director FSL Jammu for expert opinion, which further established offences against the accused. It has also surfaced during investigation that accused Brighu Nandan Sharma is a notorious criminal who is also involved in case FIR No. 10/2020 P/S Crime Branch Jammu for fabricating another fake appointment order,” the spokesman said.

Srinagar: Dozens of far-flung and remote villages — including border towns of Machil, Karnah, Tanghdar and Gurez — remained cutoff for the second successive day from rest of the valley on Friday after roads leading to these areas were closed due to incessant rain and snowfall on Thursday.

“Traffic remained suspended to border towns of Machil, Kernah and Tanghdar, besides dozens of other far-flung and remote areas for the second successive day as a precautionary measure following intermittent snowfall and incessant rain since Wednesday night,” an official of Police Control Room (PCR), Kupwara, told UNI over the phone.

He said Z gali, which connects the border town of Machil with tehsil and district headquarter in Kupwara, received about a foot of fresh snowfall during the last 48 hours. “Kupwara-Karnah road remained closed as a precautionary measure following intermittent heavy rain since late Wednesday,” he said.

He said traffic on Kupwara-Keran road was suspended on Tuesday morning due to a landslide following incessant rain. “Road clearance operation on Kupwar-Machil and Kupwara-Keran roads will start after the improvement in the weather condition,” he added.

An official of Police Control Room (PCR) from Bandipora told UNI that traffic remained suspended to the border town of Gurez and adjoining areas for the second day due to a landslide, triggered by incessant rain. “Razdan pass and adjoining areas on Bandipora-Gurez road received heavy rain, resulting in a landslide at Chak-Nalla area, following which the traffic was suspended as a precautionary measure on Thursday,” he said.

He said the road clearance operation will be launched once the weather improves as the area is avalanche prone.

Traffic on the Bandipora-Gurez road had resumed on Wednesday after remaining closed for four days due to snowfall on April 17.

By: Tasaduq Hussain

Leh: Amid the steep rise in COVID-19 cases in the Union Territory of Ladakh, the overall recovery rate has declined by nine per cent in the past nine days, reducing the graph from 92 to 83 per cent.

The figures available reveal that the recovery rate of Ladakh region has dropped by 9 per cent between 13 to 22 April in the ensuing month with Leh dropping by 10 percent while Kargil by 2 per cent only.

The figures reveal that of the total 8859 positive cases in Leh 7987 people had recovered from the virus taking the recovery rate to 91 per cent on April 13 while Kargil on the same day had 2101 recovered cases of the total 2211 patients with 96 per cent recovery rate. However, the overall recovery rate was 92 per cent (10088 recovered patients).

It reveals that the region on April 13 had a total of 851 active positive cases of which 785 were in Leh and 66 in Kargil while 131 had died of the virus.

“The recovery rate started to reduce since April 14 when the actual graph came down to 90 per cent and Leh dropped by 3 per cent, taking it down to 88 per cent only while Kargil managed to maintain the recovery rate by 95 per cent,” the figures reveal.

“With a regular spike in the cases, the region continued to witness a dip in the recovery rate with the overall rate coming down to 83 per cent only while Kargil has 94 per cent but Leh continues to witness a drop in the recovery rate and rise in positive cases having a total of 81 per cent recovery rate as on April 22,” the figures reveal.

The figures revealed that a total of 10761 positive patients have recovered in the region maintaining the toll at 83 per cent in the entire region. (KNO)