07Greater Kashmir SRINAGAR | March 7, 2017, Tuesday

`9.58 crore released for payment of advertisement bills; Cumulative releases during current fiscal touch `26.41 crore

Army soldier ends life Jammu, Mar 6: A 35-year-old army sol-dier shot himself to death with his ser-vice weapon while on duty along the Line of Control in Jammu’s Poonch dis-trict , in the second instance of a trooper

Maiden ‘Youth Social Action Projects Expo’ concludes in Muzaffarabad

Muzaffarabad, Mar 6: Youth from all divi-sions of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK), selected through a rigorous process, showcased their projects here. The showcas-ing event was organized by Center for Peace, Development and Reforms in collaboration with the British Council.

People from all walks of life were pres-ent on the occasion who appreciated the efforts of young community leaders who had come up with social action projects for the improvement of living standard in their respective constituencies. Most proj-ects were of entrepreneurial nature ranging from ideas like rehabilitation of heritage building to spreading awareness about voting rights etc.

While talking to the youth in panel dis-cussion held before the showcasing, the Youth Minister Chaudary Muhammad Saeed announced that his ministry is very much interested in financing and support-ing new ideas of income generation and cul-tural renaissance presented by the youth. He appreciated young people for their efforts and asked them to support him in his current endeavor of increasing the youth budget.

Chaudary Muhammad Saeed who chaired the panel discussion session, focused on the need to strengthen and sustain such efforts so that these kinds of activities become a key component of larger societal narrative and discourse. He appreciated the organizers for this event who agreed with his viewpoint.

The Executive Director CPDR, Ershad Mahmud pressed upon key issues that

youth in PaK is currently facing, claiming he stated that their efforts at the civil society level aren’t enough to counter problems like unemployment, lack of quality education and exposure to jobs and wider political and social circles. So it is the responsibility of the incumbent Government to provide sup-port and safety to civil society organizations working in this regard.

Malik Waseem and Umair Tamim from the British Council spoke at length on the hard work that was put into these social action projects and appreciated youth for their commitment. Umair expressed her delight over the creative showcasing and shared new ideas with young leaders on how to market and project their ideas in a more appealing way.

Dr. Waqas Ali, Director Programmes, stated that the young people of PaK have huge potential to develop the region if pro-vided necessary skills and resources. He urged the Government to develop liaison with the civil society organizations to improve accountability and ensure good governance.

Upon conclusion, the activity became a family gathering event where people from all walks of life came and showed up and demonstrated great interest in social action projects. People were of the opinion that these kinds of activities must be held in open so that whole city can participate. Such events are very necessary to generate a pluralistic and action oriented progressive discourse in the society, they said.

In Tune With CM’s Commitment, DIPR To Clear All Past Liabilities Of Newspapers, Periodicals: Dr ShahidGK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 6: In tune with the Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti’s commitment with the representatives of various Edi-tors’ Forums, the Directorate of Informa-tion today released Rs 9.58 crore to the Joint Director Information Kashmir and Jammu for payment of advertisement bills of the newspapers and periodicals including clearance of previous liabilities.

With the fresh releases, the cumu-lative funds released by the Director-ate of Information during the current fiscal on account of advertisement budget have touched Rs 26.41crore.

“We are expecting additional funds to the tune of Rs 2.52 crore from the Finance Department under advertise-ment budget for this fiscal to enable us clear both the past liabilities and the cur-rent year’s bills so that the Department can enter the next financial year with zero liability,” Director Information, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary said. He added that around Rs 1 crore was also released to District Information Offices for vari-ous media-related activities.

The Director Information said that the Department has expedited payment of advertisement bills keeping in with the commitment of the Chief Minister made in this regard during her meet-ings with the representatives of vari-ous Editors’ Forums. “We are thankful to the Chief Minister, the Finance Min-

ister and the Financial Commissioner/Secretary to Government Information Department for their unflinching sup-port in this regard,” Dr Shahid said.

He said the Department is already in the process of putting in place a plan of action for the next fiscal to ensure release of payment on account of advertisement bills to the newspapers and periodicals on monthly basis. “As the Government has already released 50% of allotted budget for the financial year 2017-18, it should enable the Department to make pay-ments to newspapers/periodicals regu-larly in the next fiscal,” he said.

Pertinently, the liabilities on account of official advertisements had piled up since 2012 and accumulated to the tune of around Rs 12 crore due to various reasons, including discrepant advertise-ment distribution which was non-com-mensurate with the available resources.

In Kashmir division, the issue of liabilities assumed a peculiar dimen-sion especially because of the devastat-ing floods of September-2014, as almost all the records of the office of the Joint Director Information Kashmir includ-ing the advertisement bills of the news-papers and periodicals were destroyed in the deluge. In a time-consuming process, the Department had to take up a fresh exercise to get duplicate bills from the newspapers and periodicals and process the same afresh for release of payment.

Pertinently, the representatives of

various Editors ‘forums in the State had recently raised the issue of clear-ance of advertisement liabilities with the Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, Finance Minister, Dr Haseeb Drabu, Financial Commissioner Information, B B Vyas, Director Information, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary and other con-cerned pressing for early release of pay-ment on account of the liabilities to the concerned newspapers and periodicals.

The Editors’ bodies had also called for putting in place an apt mechanism for classification of approved newspa-pers and periodicals as per Section-3 and Section-3.1 of the Advertisement Policy-2016 for transparent and judi-cious distribution of government advertisements among these publica-tions. “We had a series of meetings with the Editors’ bodies recently, where the need for rationalising advertisement distribution by the Information Department was repeat-edly stressed so that all the empanelled newspapers and periodicals get their due share of advertisements on merits of each publication in a judicious and transparent manner,” said Dr Shahid who recently took a detailed review meeting in this regard in the office of Joint Director Information Kashmir.

“We are trying our best to ensure that the newspapers and periodicals are not put to any inconvenience on account of release of advertisements and payment of

advertisement bills,” Dr Shahid said and added that various tangible initiatives have been taken of late to ensure utmost transparency in distribution of advertise-ments and regular release of payments to the newspapers and periodicals.

He said the Department has already asked all the empanelled newspapers and periodicals to provide updated details including latest circulation figures for updating the records and facilitating their classification as per the guidelines laid down in the Advertisement Policy-2016. He said the information is being collected to set defined criteria for classification of newspapers/periodicals for alloca-tion of advertisements. “Unfortunately, there was no such mechanism in place in the Department earlier,” he said and added that 368 newspapers and periodi-cals, including 201 in Jammu and 167 in Kashmir, are presently empanelled with the Department of Information for release of official advertisements and under the new criteria-based classification all these publications would get assured advertise-ments as per entitlement.

The Department has an annual advertisement budget of around Rs 30 crore which is expected to go up to Rs 45 crore during the next fiscal, following a sizeable 50% hike in the advertisement rates for newspapers and periodicals announced by the Chief Minister on the floor of the house during the Budget Session of the State Legislature.

committing suicide on the border during the past nine days.

Roshan Singh, a Sepoy of the Rastriya Rifles, committed suicide by shooting him-self while on duty along the Line of Control (LoC) in Krishnagati belt in Poonch district yesterday, a senior Army officer said here.

Singh, who hails from Punjab, had joined the army 14 years ago. Police have registered a case and started investigation.

The army has also ordered a Court of Inquiry into the case, the officer said. This is the second instance of a security per-sonnel committing suicide on the border

in Poonch district in the past nine days.On February 25, Border Security Force

(BSF) Constable Pramodh Kumar, who was guarding a forward post along the LoC in Poonch district, committed sui-cide by shooting himself with his service rifle. PTI

OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL

GOVT. HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOLKHANSAHIB

Miss Madiha Assad D/o: Late Nageena Shafi, deceased Master R/O: Lalpora Beerwah.

Sub: Final Show cause notice.Reference-I: Un- authorized absence of Miss Madiha Assad,

Lab. Bearer Hr. Sec. School Khansahib vide No: HSS/M/124, Dated: 26/11/2016 working on deployment basis at HSS Magam.

Reference-II: Un- authorized absence of Miss Madiha Assad, Lab. Bearer Hr. Sec. School Khansahib vide No: GHSS/M/128, Dated: 24/12/2016 working on deployment basis at HSS Magam.

Reference-Ill: Un- authorized absence of Miss Madiha Assad, Lab. Bearer Hr. Sec. School Khansahib vide No: GHSS/M/135, Dated: 15/02/2016 working on deployment basis at GGHSS Magam.

Whereas, You, Miss Madiha Assad D/o: Late Nageena Shafi, deceased Master R/O: Lalpora Beerwah ware appointed as Laboratory Bearer on compassionate grounds in terms of SRO-43 of 99 against the available post in the pay scale of 4440-7440 with grade pay 1300 as already mentioned in detail in previous notice dated: 11-12-2016 absented yourself from the duty w. e. from 1-11-2016 for which you were served an official notice by the Principal GGHSS Magam vide his No. GHSS/M/130, Dated: 03-12-016 to resume your duty but you failed to do so.Whereas under reference No.1 undersigned served you notice vide No: HSS/Ksb/468(A), Dated: 8-12-2016 for resuming your duties which got published in two leading daily newspapers of Valley viz. Daily Kashmir Uzma in its edition dated: 11-12-2016 & Daily Srinagar Times in its edition dated: 12-12-2016 for information of the concerned as well as for its wide publicity by the information Department, besides copies of which were also served to you but you again failed to resume your duty.Whereas under reference no. II, the undersigned again served you a notice vide No. GHS/Ksb/483, Dated: 03-01-2013 for resuming your duty which got published in two leading daily newspapers of Valley viz. Daily Kashmir Uzma in its edition dated: 06-02-2017 & Daily News Point in its edition dated: 06-02-2017 for information of the concerned as well as for its wide publicity by the information Department, besides copies of which were also served to you but you again failed to resume your duty.Whereas under reference No. III, as mentioned above you have again unauthorisedly absented yourself from your duty and didn't report back to principal GGHSS Magam till date.Now, therefore through the medium of this final notice it is hereby enjoined upon you to resume your duties immediately. Your reply should reach this office within a period of ten days from the date of issuance of this notice for publication in the print media failing which it will be presumed that you have nothing to say in this regard and action as warranted as mentioned in J&K CSR rules will be taken against you and matter will be forwarded to the higher ups for final disposal.DIPK: 12417 Sd/ Principal

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GOVERNMENT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR

OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER DEPARTMENT OF FLORICULTURE KASHMIR SRINAGAR

Notice Inviting Fresh TendersFresh-E-tender NIT No: e-24 of 2016-17 Dated: 01.03.2017

For and on behalf of the Governor, J&K State, e-tenders (In single cover system) are invited on item rate basis from approved and eligible Contractors registered with J&K State Govt., CPWD, Railways and other State/Central Governments Contractors for the following works:-S. No

Name of Work Est. Cost (Rs. In lacs)

Cost of T/Doc. (In Rs.)

E/Money ( I n Rs)

Time of Comple.

Class of Contr.

Date & Time of Opgn. of Tenders.

Major Head of Account

1 Construction of Proposed Food Court at Pratap Park (New Kashmir Park) Srinagar

98.00 1600/- 196000/- 90 days AAY class 10.3.2017 at 11 AM 4406-Co

2. Constt. Of 06 seated lava-tory Block at Polo Ground Park Sgr.

29.00 900/- 58000/- 45 days AAY & BEE 10.3.2017 at 11 AM 4406-Co

3. Repairs Renovation of librarian’s office at Polo Ground Park at Sgr. (Balance portion)

10.40 600/- 20800/- 30 Days BEE/CEE/DEE 10/3/2017 at 11 AM 4406-Co

Position of AAA/TS: Under Submission Position of Funds: Demanded

1. The Bidding documents Consisting of qualifying information, eligibility criteria, specifications, Drawings, bill of quantities (B.O.Q), Set of terms and conditions of contract and other details can be seen/downloaded from the departmental website www.jktenders.gov.in as per schedule of dates given below:-

1 Date of Issue of Tender Notice 02.03.2017 06.00 PM2 Document downloading Start Date. 03.03.2017 From 2.00 PM3 Document Downloading End Date. 08.03.2017 upto 4.00 PM4 Bid submission Start Date. 03.03.2017 From 03.00 PM5 Bid Submission End Date. 08.03.2017 upto 4.00 PM6 Deadline for receiving the Hard Copy (Original DD & EMD, and OID ) in the office

of the undersigned as well as in Directorate Office Emporium Garden, Srinagar.09.03.2017 upto 4.00 PM

7 Date & time of opening of Bids (Online) 10.03.2017 at 11.00 AM2. All other terms and conditions shall remain same as are laid down in the original

e-tender NIT No. e-20 of 2016-17 dated: 9.2.2017 issued under endorsement No. EE/FD/1797-1805 dated: 9/2/2017.

DIPK-12433 SD/- Executive Engineer

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF TOWN PLANNERTOWN PLANNING ORGANIZATION KASHMIR HABITAT CENTRE

NH BYPASS, BEMINA SRINAGAR - 190018Sub: Appointment of “Draftsman Architecture” Divisional Cadre Kashmir. Ref: Secretary Services Selection Board, Jammu’s letter No. SSB/Secy/Sel/

2017/215-21 dated. 06.01.2017 & in response to Housing & Urban Dev. Department letter No. HUD/TPO/01/2016 dated. 01.02.2017.

Order No. 13 CTPK of 2017Dated: 3/3/2017

As recommended by Secretary Services Selection Board, Jammu’s letter No SSB/Secy/Sel/2017/215-21 dated. 06.01.2017 & in response to Housing & Urban Dev. Department letter no. HUD/TPO/01/2016 dated. 01.02.2017, sanction is hereby accorded to the appointment on temporary basis of the following candidates as “Draftsman Architecture” in Town Planning Organization, Kashmir in the pay scale of Rs. PB:2; 9300-34800+ G. Pay of Rs. 4200.

S. No Name of the candidate Parentage AddressOPEN MERIT1. Sumaira Hakak Ali Mohd. Hakak Karan Nagar Srinagar2. Gowhar Hussain Ganie Abdul Salam Ganie Pranigan Doru AnantnagRBA, CATEGORY1 Aijaz Ahmad Bhat Gh. Ahmad Bhat Sholipora, Budgam

The appointee shall be allowed to join on production of following certificates/documents in Original. 1. Academic/Technical qualification Certificates. 2. Date of Birth Certificate. 3. Permanent Residence Certificate. 4. Category Certificate in respect of RBA, candidates from the concerned authority. 5. No Loan Certificate from concerned DIC, DECC and KVIB under self- employment scheme. 6. Health fitness certificate from concerned Chief Medical Officer. 7. Two (2) passport size photographs duly attested by Gazetted Officer. The appointee shall report to the office of the Chief Town Planner, TPO, Kashmir, Habitat Centre, NHW, Bypass, Bemina, Srinagar within a period of 21 days from the publication of this selection list, failing which their appointment shall be cancelled.The Appointment of candidates shall be subject to following conditions:1. Each candidate shall give an undertaking in the shape of an affidavit duly attest by 1st Class Judicial

Magistrate to the effect that in case of any adverse report his/her character and antecedents is received from Police/CID J&K or other concerned agency, he/she shall have no right or claim for his/her appointment and his/her appointment as such shall be deemed to have been cancelled abinitio.

2. In case any certificate/documents of the appointee are proved fake/fictitious/ not genuine, his/her appointment shall be cancelled abinitio and criminal proceedings against such candidates(s) shall be initiated under law.

The appointees shall remain on probation for a period of two years and confirmation whereof shall be issued only after their satisfactory performance.

DIPK-12436 SD/- Chief Town PlannerTown Planning Organization Kashmir

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