Dargah-Malla Bagh road in a shambles

No doubt we have the modern facilities like internet, mobile phones, international airport etc. but unfortunately we are still backward because we don’t have proper roads. An example is the the Buchpora-Malla Bagh-Dargah road. The road is an important link between Bachpora and Hazratbal Shrine or More

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PSC’s flawed selection criteria

Teachers are being respected by everybody for their dedication. But when it comes to the Public Service Commission’s criterion of selecting lecturers, there is no weight-age for the teaching experience. Mostly, the postgraduate teaching faculty working in secondary or higher secondary schools teach the More

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Shortage of essential commodities

At a time when the Central Government is planning to open more Public Distribution System outlets to curb the rising prices of essential commodities, the Government depots in the State are facing ration shortage. This has led to inconvenience among consumers particularly in rural areas. The poor people More

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No SBI ATM in Bandipora

It is quite sad to observe that the newly created districts in Jammu and Kashmir lack the basic facilities. One of the severe problems we are witnessing in Bandipora is lack of the State Bank of India automated teller machine (ATM). There are to J&K Bank ATM’s in the main Bandipora market. But they More

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Appeal to Chairman J&K Bank

This refers to contractual posts which the Jammu and Kashmir Bank advertised recently through various newspapers. The maximum age-limit has been kept as 30 years against the government announced age limit of 37 years. Because of this age bar many youth won’t be able to apply for the posts will not be More

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CIC Ganderbal awaits Govt attention

This refers to the Community Information Centre in Kangan. For residents, this CIC is the only source of getting information on various issues like examination results, study material, grievances etc. Bu unfortunately the Centre remains open for just two days a week. There are some vacant posts of CIC More

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JA selections: issue placement orders now

The Service Selection Recruitment Board issued the provisional selection list of the Junior Assistants [state-cadre] on 25-11-09 in Greater Kashmir and some other papers. The list included the Jr. Assitants selected in departments like General Administration, Technical Education, Public Works department More

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Appeal to BSNL authorities

This refers to the wireless broadband service provided by the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited—the BSNL EVDO. We customers pay a monthly rental of Rs.650 for the service. But we get a maximum speed of 115.2 kbps against the 1mbps speed as promised by the company. This is completely unacceptable and unfair More

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Appeal to PSC authorities

This refers to the callous attitude of the Public Service Commission. In case of the interview for post of the lecturers in Chemistry (10+2), the PSC authorities again didn’t follow the 1:3 ratio-rule, according to which for every post, three candidates should have been interviewed. In this case, for More

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