Nitesh Sangral

Crores spent on 'makeshift project' reduced to just a 'white elephant' 10/21/2015 Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report   Jammu, Oct 21: Even as menace of drug addiction has been spreading rapidly amongst the youth of the state, the only Centre for Drug De-addiction in Psychiatry Hospital Jammu has been struggling to keep itself afloat for last 7 years despite spending of crores of the government exchequer, owing to indifferent attitude of Ministry for Health and Medical Education Department Jammu and Kashmir toward the centre.  Notwithstanding the tall claims of State Government that a number of steps are being taken to save youth from falling prey to drugs, the lone de-addiction centre in Jammu city at Government Psychiatry Hospital Reshamgarh, Jammu has been defunct since inauguration. Sources in the GMC Hospital Jammu informed Early Times that Centre for Drug De- addiction had been established to cure the drug addicted people, in premises of GMC...

  10/21/2015 Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report   Jammu, Oct 20: The critical patient care system came to stand still today at premier health institute of the region-Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Jammu due to power failure, courtesy mismanagement at the part of the administration of the hospital. According to hospital sources the patients and attendants along with doctors on duty were forced to spend hours without light as two supply lines got destroyed due to short circuit and power backup completely got shattered at GMCH Jammu on Tuesday. Ironically the costly generators too failed to come to the rescue of the situation in the critical hours as the 'white elephants ' installed there reported to be non-functional due to the want of the fuel which was reportedly out of stock. Sources at GMC hospital Jammu informed Early Times that power failure at GMCH Jammu created panic in the some parts of premier health institute viz. ICU, Emerge...

 10/20/2015  Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report  Jammu, Oct 19: Alleging a conspiracy in online i.e. e-tendering for drug supply, All Medical Traders from within and outside the State said in order to favour only 'blue eyed traders' the Jammu and Kashmir Medical Supply Corporation (JKMSC) Ltd has closed the tendering process despite their repeated requests that the internet services were down. "Keeping in view of serious situation of State and poor networking i.e. speed of internet net and the ground situation across the State following the death of a youth- a victim of Udhampur petrol bomb attack, the All Medical Traders have requested to the administration of JKMSC to extend the date of online tender. Some traders seeking anonymity informed Early Times that though they requested to extend date of tendering as many of them failed to fill tender online because of poor speed of internet in the State but officials denied their request to extend date. The...

Battery Operated Vehicles turn into junk at Patnitop 10/19/2015 Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report   Jammu, Oct 18: Squandering irresponsibly Rs 27.38 lakh of the tax payers' money, two Battery Operated Vehicles procured by Patnitop Development Authority on the pretext of promoting tourism have been lying unused. Bhagat Singh Force, an organization that filed an RTI, alleged that two Battery powered Road Vehicles were purchased from M/S Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), a Govt. of India Undertaking in June 2004, to curb Environmental pollution and promote eco-friendly tourism, after a proposal was placed in the 2nd meeting of Patnitop Development Authority under the Chairmanship of then Chief Minister. Accusing then ARTO Udhampur for delaying use of these vehicles, Patnitop Development Authority replied in RTI that, the delay in the initial running of these vehicles was due to the fact that ARTO Udhampur, when approached, did not register these ve...