Nitesh Sangral

Nitesh Sangral JAMMU, July 9: The lift irrigation schemes that irrigate 22.83 thousand hectare of cultivable land in the state have been executed in an unplanned manner and are lingering on for more than 20 years in many cases. The irrigation potential created has not been fully utilised, adversely affecting the contribution of the lift irrigation schemes. The construction work and maintenance of these schemes is vested with the state Irrigation and Flood Control Department. As per official records, the schemes irrigate 7 per cent of the cultivable land in the state. Scrutiny revealed that the department concerned did not frame any perspective plan with regard to the construction work under these schemes. Various schemes were taken up without setting priorities and as a result a number of schemes remained incomplete despite being under construction for the past between 20 and 26 years. For providing irrigation facilities to 32 villages with a command cultivable area of 12...

Nitesh Sangral JAMMU, July 5: The recent chaos which the city witnessed due to the heavy influx of the unregistered Amarnath yatris has exposed the poor measures taken by the administration to deal with the yatra. For whole three days, there was total disarray in the city and along the national highway, which saw long traffic jams due to the stopping of the vehicles by the police to stop the unregistered pilgrims towards Kashmir. Sources said that it seems there is no coordination between various agencies who have been entrusted to run the yatra smoothly in the state. The state government and SASB have earlier claimed to provide the pilgrims each and every possible requirement but the ground zero situation seems to be different from what it is claimed. Even the city traders are not providing their guests the friendliness behavior as they are engaged in taking money from out of the state pilgrims. It is pertinent to mention here that before the commencement of the yatra the g...

Nitesh Sangral Jammu, July 4: With lull in the rainfall, administration today allowed pilgrim towards Amarnath cave shrine from Pahalgam and Baltal after remaining suspended for two days due to inclement weather. Officials said that nearly 20,000 pilgrims left the base camp in Kashmir to offer prayers at the high Himalayan cave shrine. Meanwhile yatra also resumed from the Jammu base camp as a fresh batch of 6,564 pilgrims left for the cave shrine from here. With Monday’s batch, as many as 15,311 pilgrims have left Bhagwati nagar base camp for their onward journey to Amarnath cave shrine Official sources said that so far 91,504 pilgrims have visited the 3,880 metre high cave shrine to pay obeisance to the naturally formed ice lingam considered to be the edifice of lord Shiva. Taking tough measures against the unregistered Yatris, administration continued to scan the vehicle moving towards Kashmir valley on highway. Officials said clear directions have been passed to the police...

Nitesh Sangral JAMMU, July 2: The recently surfacing of sex racket involving orphan girls has once again brought in focus the plight of the poor girls in the state, who are lured in sex trade. One such case busted about a fortnight ago with the arrest of a woman from Janipura on the disclosure of a minor girl whom she was alleged to have forced into prostitution, depicts the deep roots of the sex mafia, in which high and mighty are involved. It is pertinent to mention here that the racket was being run by Santosh Kumari wife of Vijay Kumar resident of Durga Nagar. Police has arrested her along with some other people involved in the racket. Sources said that there are hundreds of girls who are being lured by some unscrupulous elements with promise of jobs in city and are being pushed in the sex trade. “Problem lies in the fact that some of the politicians and influential people are involved in the racket which makes investigation slow”, said police officials. Sources said tha...

Nitesh Sangral JAMMU, July 1: Recently Jammu University authorities had apprehended two agents for selling readymade Affidavits to the admission seekers and handed them over to police, but the administration of Government MAM College is doing exactly opposite job. The agents nabbed by JU guard were sitting outside the campus, but in MAM College affidavits are being sold inside the college building. The persons arrested by police on the complaint of JU authorities had been booked by Gandhi Nagar police under Section 420. But, the Principal of MAM College didn’t learn any lesson and went a step ahead by authorizing the Affidavit sellers to carry on their business inside the college building. Interestingly, the rate of Affidavit has been fixed at Rs 45 and the same could be easily had at the rate of Rs 30 or 35 from outside. Some of the college teachers, on the condition of anonymity, disclosed that it was a wrong practice and institution had no role in facilitating Affidavits to th...

Nitesh Sangral JAMMU, June 27: In yet another case of how our society is heading towards moral ruin, a recent case of sexual exploitation of B.ed girl has again exposed the vulnerability of our sisters and daughters. Though the accused have been arrested by the police while he was fleeing towards Kashmir, but it raises lot of question about the moral degradation of our society, which has long tradition of ‘Guru-Shiysha’ concept. Sources said that it could be a tip of the ice berg as there are number of people who are exploiting the innocent girls. However the concern is how to stop this menace which is like a curse on our society. A college student said that at times girls face mental harassment in shape of comments, sudden touch or lewd gestures from the teachers, but it is mostly ignored. Few days back, a teacher of a private college was arrested for allegedly making an obscene MMS of a student in mountainous Kishtwar district. 'The teacher identified as Tariq Qayoo...

Nitesh Sangral 6/26/2011 10:00:39 PM JAMMU, June 26: On the International Day against ‘Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking’, number of organisation organized awareness programmes and camp at district and state level. With Jammu and Kashmir falling in high risk catogery, it assumes significance as in recent past government is making every effort debar youth from taking to the drugs. Pertinently, the history of that day The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) leads the international campaign aimed at raising awareness of the major problem that illicit drugs represent to society and especially to young people. The goal of the campaign, which runs from 2007 to 2009, is to inspire people and mobilize support for drug control. In connection with this day few days ago the Department of Student Welfare (DSW), University of Jammu, organized an Exhibition of posters making through which the department aware the students and general public about the side effect of using drugs...

Nitesh Sangral JAMMU, June 24: As few days are left for the start of annual Amarnath yatra administration has put in special arrangements for the smooth conduct of the yatra. Administration is giving final touches to its arrangements. Sources said that additional men and machinery have been put in place so that yatra which will officially start from June 28, is conducted in peaceful manner. Arrangements like food supplies and essential facilities like medical camps have been set up, where medicines and doctors will be made available to the pilgrims. Also, availability of electricity and water is arranged and in case of any disaster, arrangements like fire fighting for disaster management have been given special attention. Meanwhile administration is giving final touches to the security arrangement for the Yatra right from Lakhanpur to Shri Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir to ensure that there is no untoward incident. The security forces would man dominates positions at th...