Traffic ‘terror’ on Srinagar roads

 This refers to the daily traffic mess on Srinagar roads. Every now and then we observe traffic jam in every part of the city. Despite various steps taken to reduce the traffic pressure on the city roads, the traffic department has failed to improve the situation on ground. There is a sort of “traffic More

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Bulbulbagh Lane-3 in a shambles

 We the residents of the lane 3 of Bulbulbagh, Barzalla approached the Roads and Buildings Department Wing, local MLA and even the Deputy Commissioner to lodge our protest as to how and why the roads of only first two lanes of Bulbulbagh inhabited by the bigwigs are time and again repaired and our More

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Let’s have an MLA-House in every constituency

People have expectations from the Government. They vote despite odds and people expect that their grievances will be dealt with and their small and big demands are met by their representatives. But the current system makes it very difficult for the people to contact their elected representative and they More

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Mushrooming of Tuition Centres

 Are we really imparting our youth the education which a decent society should? I am not alone raising this question. The surge in the private tuition centers has created more problems than educating our youth. In fact the use of word “Education” does not justify itself when used with tuition centers More

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Batamaloo Community Hall still incomplete

 Two years back , the Former Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and then MLA Batamaloo, laid the Foundation Stone of a Community Hall in Khadi Mill Complex at Shah Faisal Abad, Batmalloo. The demand was met after a long time. Although the initial work was undertaken but the pace of construction More

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Who’ll protect Ganderbal Chinar Garden?

 The famous Chinar garden at Naranbagh-Dab in Ganderbal is historical. The garden used to be a favourite Tourist destination in the past. It is situated on the banks of river Jhelum and houses 215 Chinar Trees. In the middle of the garden there is the famous Narang Temple attended by thousands of More

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Stop using polythene!

 As all of us know that polythene is dangerous not only for soil and water but it also deteriorates our environment badly. This in turn poses great threat to the life of humans, animals and plants alike. Ecologists and environmentalists have declared it as a poison for the soil and environment. More

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Raising Retirement Age Makes No Sense

 This refers to the demand of government employees of increasing the retirement age to 60 years. Unfortunately, in the absence of a viable industrial economy, the largest employer here continues to be the state government. The issue is further compounded by an ever-increasing load of well qualified More

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Concentrate on quality education

 The aim of primary education is to create awareness. The aim of secondary education is to impart domain knowledge and that of tertiary education is to obtain gainful employment. Perform or perish are the key words in this fast changing world. How to perform effectively, efficiently and intelligently More

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Resume International flight

 This refers to the news “AirIndia Express runs seven flights a week between Amritsar and Dubai and three flights between Amritsar and Abu Dhabi.” The operators can easily extend one flight a week to Srinagar. The so-called operation reasoning is beyond our understanding. Our state government too More

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Improper use of Hospital Development Fund

It was a decade back that the Department of Health came up with a novel idea of generating hospital development fund which could be used for the betterment of the health institutions and up-gradation of the facilities there. In order to generate the fund a mechanism was put in place wherein all patients More

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