Monday December 14, 2020 11NOTICE

I, Mr. Umesh Pandel S/o Sh.Badri Prasad Pandel R/oManahari-3, Makawanpur,Province No. - 03, Nepal present-ly residing at H.no. 1808-FShastri Nagar, Jammu is applyingto the Secretary Government ofIndia, Ministry of Home Affairs forNaturalization.Objection if any person whoknows any reason whyNaturalization should not begranted to me should sent a writ-ten signed statement of the factorto the Secretary, Govt. of India,Ministry of Home Affairs NewDelhi within 14 days.

NOTICEI, Arun Kumar Sharma,S/o Chhanak RamSharma and KantaSharma, R/o House No 3,Shiv Nagar, Miran Sahib,Tehsil R S Pura, DistrictJammu have lost myMarklists and Diplomas of10th Class (SessionAnnual 1996) and 12thclass (session Annual1998) regular. Now I amapplying for duplicates ofthe same. Objection if anymay be conveyed toCBSE within 7 days.

NOTICEI, Subam Manhas S/oBalkar Singh R/o V.P.OSarore Teh. Bishnah,Distt. Jammu have pur-chased a vehicle bearingRegistration No. JK21B-0084 from ChoudharyMohd Din S/o Lt Bagh DinR/o Dera SmailpurMohalla Pharian Samba.Now I am applying fortransfer of vehicle on myname. Objection if any-body may be conveyed tothe concerned authoritieswithin seven days.

NOTICEI, Daljeet Singh S/oS.Naranjan Singh R/oHouse no.55, Sector no12, Guru Nanak NagarJammu have lost RC ofmy vehicle Royal Enfield(Model 2003) bearingRegistration No. JK02U -0335. Now I am applyingfor duplicate of the same. Objection if any may beconveyed to RTO Jammuwithin seven days.

NOTICEI, Kewal Krishan S/o ShivRam R/o Bhawani Presentaddress Thathi Rajal TehsilNowshera District Rajouri(J&K) has purchased vehiclebearing Registration No.JK11D-0344 from RakeshKumar S/o Mulkh Raj R/oRajal Thathi Rajal TehsilNowshera District Rajouri(J&K). I have applied fortransfer of vehicle on myname. Objection if any bodymay be conveyed to the con-cerned authorities withinseven days after publicationof this notice.

FARGATIWe, Vijay Kumar S/o Dev RajR/o H.no. 230 Mohalla Bazari(Pathankote) A/P H.no. 46Dogra Hall, Jammu and SmtVeena Kumari W/o Sh VijayKumar R/o H.no. 46 DograHall, Jammu do hereby givefargati to our son namelyAvinash and disinherit himfrom all moveable andimmovable property throughSub Registrar Jammu Khasvide GR No. A-3705075 dt.08-12-2020. Any person hav-ing any dealing with him willdo so on their own risk andresponsibility in future.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: All J&K ChristianSabha (AJKCS) has organ-ized inter-religion conferenceon the inter-religious unity,where the representativefrom all religions has joinedthe conference.

Cooperative, constructiveand positive interaction washeld between the people ofdifferent religious tradition,spirituality, humanisticbeliefs at individual and insti-tutional levels and steptowards the communal unityby discussing four points likereligious perceptive aboutother religions, barriersbetween inter religion unity,participation in other religion

tradition and festivals, standunite with other religions inthe hard times.

Narinder Singh, TejinderPal Singh, Ranjeet Singh,Mohd Jasarat, Qari TariqSahab, Qari Akram Sahab,R.K Kalsotra, R.D Thappa,

F.C Sattia, Ajit Bajala, JoseVadekkel, Mathew Thomas,Stalin Raj, Prince and Polouswere present in the confer-ence.

Conference was concludedwith short message of love,peace, humanity and unity on

the occasion of Christmas byBishop Ivan Periera (BishopJammu Srinagar Diocese)with Christmas Cake cuttingproceeded with Chief Guest,Deepak Digra SP South andGuest of Honour, ChandanDatta Chairman Kotli ColonyWelfare Trust along with allreligious representatives.

Bishop Ivan appreciatedthe initiative of Sabha tospread the message of com-munal harmony and brother-hood.

"These type of programmesare much needed in today'stime to spread message ofsecularism and to strong themother land," he said.

Chandan Datta said for a

stronger nation, unity andbrotherhood, is crux for thenew modern developed India.

"Secularism is the main pil-lar and beauty of this Nationwhich we have to maintainand obey as our duty," hesaid.

Ashu Peter Mattoo-President of Christian Sabhaextended greetings ofChristmas to all religious rep-resentative and guests alongwith Sunny Khokhar -GenSecretary, Tony Mattoo,Rohit Rockes, Rafiq, VickyBhatti, Harun Sandhu, Pt.Raju Kumar, Vikram Paul,Tariq, John, Sebastian,Ketan, Boney Kumar,Emanuel and Arun.

AJKCS holds inter-religion conference

AJKCS members along with others during conference.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Freedom FighterMemorial Association(FFMA) on Sunday paidtributes to those who laiddown their lives in the 2001Parliament attack, in a func-tion held at Dogra ShauryaSthall, Amphalla, here.

The programme wasorganized under the guid-ance of Ved Gandotra,Chairman of theAssociation.

On the occasion, Prof. S.SBalwal was the Chief Guest,who said that the countrywill never forget the coward-ly attack on our Parliament.

"We recall the valour andsacrifice of those who losttheir lives protecting ourParliament," he said, adding"A grateful nation will forev-er be indebted for theirsupreme sacrifice."

On December 13, 2001,five heavily-armed terrorists

belonging to terror outfitLashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) andJaish-e-Mohammed (JeM),stormed the Parliamentcomplex in New Delhi andopened fire indiscriminately.

Around 14 people, mostlysecurity forces and one civil-ian, were killed in this inci-dent.

Rajiv Mahajan, ViceChairman said, "We willnever forget the cowardlyattack on our Parliament onthis day in 2001. We recallthe valour and sacrifice ofthose who lost their lives pro-tecting our Parliament. TheNation will always be indebt-ed to them."

R.C Puri, President;Karnail Chand, GeneralSecretary; Brij Mehra,Gajan Singh, R.R Raina,Pritam Sharma, Prof. S.PSharma, Gudu and ParbhatKapahi paid floral tributesto the victims of Parliamentattack.

FFMA pays tributes to victimsof 2001 Parliament attack

FFMA members paying tributes Parliament attack victims.

STATE TIMES NEWSPOONCH: PowerDevelopment Department(PDD) inspection teamheaded by Er. Jagmeet Singhon Saturday visited QaziMohra, Gundi, Kankote andremoved heater boiler andillegal connections. He saidthat people use water boilersin water tanks and drumsdue to which load on receiv-ing station increases andpeople suffers unscheduled

power cuts. He requestedconsumers to remove heating

loads so that unscheduledpower cuts will be ignored.

PDD removes illegal connections

PDD employees after removing illegal connections.

STATE TIMES NEWSNEW DELHI: Delhi record-ed 1,984 fresh COVID-19cases on Sunday whichpushed the infection tally to6.07 lakh, while the deathtoll crossed the 10,000 markwith 33 new fatalities.

These fresh cases came outof 72,335 tests conducted theprevious day, including35,611 RT-PCR tests,according to the latest bul-letin issued by the Delhihealth department.

The case positivity rate onSunday stood at 2.74 percent, authorities said. It was4.96 per cent on December 3,4.78 per cent on December 4,4.2 per cent on December 5,3.68 per cent on December 6and 3.15 per cent onDecember 7.

However, on December 8the positivity rate rose to4.23 per cent, falling to 3.42per cent on December 9 and2.46 per cent on December10. It had risen to 3.33 percent again on December 11

and fell to 2.64 per cent onDecember 12.

Delhi Health MinisterSatyendar Jain on Saturdayasserted that the positivityrate has been below 5 percent for 11 days.

Thirty-three more fatalitieswere recorded in a day, push-ing the toll in the nationalcapital to 10,014, the bul-letin said.

On September 21, as manyas 32 deaths and 2,548 caseswere recorded. The highestsingle-day spike of 8,593cases was reported onNovember 11.

The tally of active cases onSunday dropped to 16,785from 17,373 the previousday. The bulletin stated thatthe total number of cases hasclimbed to 6,07,454, whilethe recovery rate stood atover 95 per cent.

The number of contain-ment zones in Delhi droppedto 6,388 on Saturday from6,451 on Friday.

According to the Sunday

bulletin, out of the total18,807 beds in COVID hos-pitals, 14,361 are vacant.

It said that 64 beds inCOVID care centres areoccupied by people underquarantine, including trav-ellers who have returned byVande Bharat Mission andbubble flights.

The Delhi government hassignificantly ramped up test-ing in the past few weeks,with the count on severaltimes crossing the 60,000-mark. On Saturday, 35,611RT-PCR tests and 36,724rapid antigen tests were con-ducted, the bulletin said.

The number of tests doneper million, as on Saturdaywas over 3.8 lakh while thetotal number of tests stood atover 72 lakh.

COVID-19: Delhi records 1,984 fresh cases; death toll crosses 10,000 mark

STATE TIMES NEWSNEW DELHI: The railwayshas begun identifying offi-cers who will form the min-istry's cyber security team aspart of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's directive toevery government depart-ment to pick personnel withtechnical aptitudes and trainthem in cyber security sothat online breaches are con-tained.

The Railway Board, in adirective to all general man-agers, has said that theworking of Indian Railwayshas been increasingly shift-ing to ICT platform.

Therefore, it has becomenecessary to secure the ICTinfrastructure in order tosafeguard critical informa-tion. It has been observedthat, in recent times, analarming increase has beenseen in the number of

breaches/attempted breachesto ICT infrastructure of GovtOrganisations. TheGovernment of India, at thehighest level, is also seized ofthe need for adequately andappropriately securing theICT infrastructure.

It has, therefore, beendecided that certain strengthof officials from eachRailway Unit with aptitudein ICT hardware, software,networking and compliancesmay be identified for formingthe group for that Unit, tobegin with. This group wouldwork under the overall super-vision of the nominatedCISO (chief informationsecurity officer) of theRailway Unit, the order stat-ed.

The prime minister duringa presentation on theNational Cyber SecurityStrategy 2020 on September

1 this year had directed that"every ministry has some per-sonnel with technical apti-tudes. These are to be identi-fied and trained in CyberSecurity Courses within sixmonths. These should thenform the cyber securitynucleus of that Ministry.

In recent times, the rail-ways has had to deal with aslew of cases in which illegalapplications were used tobook tickets, bypassing therailway firewall. While manysuch gangs have been bustedby the RPF, newer technolo-gy automatically replacethose that have been busted.

Recently, a meeting wasconvened by the Secretary(Security) in the CabinetSecretariat to firm up theroad-map for implementa-tion of the prime minister'sdirective, the order from theRailway Board stated.

Railways to identify officers with technical aptitudefor training as online troubleshooters

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Vidya Bharti PoorvChhatr Parishad J&K, theState Unit of Vidya BhartiAkhil Bhartiya Poorv ChhatrParishad, the largest alumniof world, held its PrantSammelan in BhauraoDevras auditorium of BVMAmphalla Jammu on Sunday.Des Raj Sharma, GeneralSecretary Vidya Bharti(North zone) was the ChiefGuest and main Speaker onthe occasion. Other digni-taries present during theSammelan included HarshKumar Sanyojak Sewa &Prashikshan Vidya BhartiKurukshetra, Ved BhushanSharma President BSSJK,Hari Bhushan GeneralSecretary, Satish MittalTreasurer, Pradip KumarSangthan Mantri VidyaBharti J&K and SunitKumar Raina CooperatorJMC.

The programme startedwith Saraswati Vandana andintroduction of Chief Gustand other dignitaries. Thewelcome address was present-ed by Samir Saproo OfficeSecretary BSSJK after

which Prant Sanyojak,Sudeep Sharma highlightedaims and objectives of PoorvChhatr Parishad. Heinformed participants thatParishad is the largestAlumni association workingwith a mission of 'My SchoolMy Pride' having membershipof 3,81,000 and providingeducation, healthcare, andfinancial assistance to needybesides developing schoolinfrastructure and humanresource. He further said thatthere are almost 10,000members in UTs of J&K &Ladakh working in variouspublic & private sectors.

Pradip Kumar, SangthanMantri Vidya Bharti present-ed details of Vidya Bhartischools in Ladakh and J&KUTs. "Bhartiya ShikshaSamiti J&K (Regd) is theState Unit of Vidya Bhartiwhich is running 36 schools inUTs of Jammu & Kashmirand Ladakh. Most of theschools are located in remoteareas like Kishtwar, Doda,Leh & Kargil. At presentmore than 9,000 students arestudying in these schoolsunder guidance of 600 teach-ers, who are working withdedication and commitmentfor providing quality educa-

tion based on our rich cultur-al, heritage & as per curricu-lum devised by UT and cen-tral government," he said,adding, "Vidya Bharti AkhilBhartiya Shiksha Sansthanis the largest non-governmen-tal Organisation in the field ofeducation running more than12,000 educational institu-tions along with 13,000 non-formal educational institu-tions, in which 32 lakh stu-dents are studying underguidance of 1.5 lakh teachersacross the country."

On the occasion, some ex-students/ Poorv Chhatrshared their experiences dur-

ing study in BVM schools,which included SimranjeetSingh Dua (SeniorJournalist), Vinay Sharma(working in corporate sector),Johni Kumar (Ex-studentBVM Kishtwar), ManikBhasin (Ex-student BVMRamban), Dr SushantBhasin (Ex-student BVMDashmesh Nagar), Nidhi(Ex-student BVMAmphalla), Raghu Mahajan(Ex-student BVM Hiranagarand presently a SoftwareEngineer).

A quiz programme based onculture and traditions wasalso organised for ex-studentswhich was highly appreciatedby one and all. The Poorvchhatra Parishad also hon-oured Principals of theirschools on the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion,Des Raj Sharma said thatVidya Bharti is playing aleading role in field of educa-tion and organising suchactivities across the countryto make aware PoorvChhatras regarding their roleand responsibility in develop-ment of society in general andtheir schools in particular. He

further said that VidyaBharti works on principle ofone school one family, inwhich students their parents,Poorv Chhatr and membersof SMC and society worktogether. He appreciatedPoorv Chhatr Parishad ofJ&K UT for holding theSammelan and appealed to allPoorv Chhatras to enrollmore and more students inthe group besides helpingtheir respective schools,teachers and principals,thereby developing respectiveschool as Model School ofarea.

Others present on the occa-sion included PradeepTripathi Prant Nirikshak, DrNaresh Sharma SecretarySMC BVM, Puneet Mahajan,Ram Sewak Sharma,Pradeep Singh, ReenaRajput, Renu SharmaPrincipals and Poorv ChhatrsDaljeet Singh, Ajit Singh,Lokesh Sharma, VinaySharma, Kuldeep Parihar,Yashwant Parihar, Vipin Sen,Rajan Sen and RohitSharma. The programme cul-minated with recitation ofVande Matram.

Vidya Bharti Poorv Chhatr Parishad J&K holds Prant Sammelan

Participants posing for a photograph with dignitaries.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: In ongoing develop-ment work for four-lanning ofJammu-Akhnoor highway, SPSingla company is construct-ing flyover on Akhnoor roadfrom Canal road to Muthi.Despite heavy traffic on thestretch, the company is exe-cuting work expeditiously andkeeps on repairing the premis-es from time to time as pertheir regular practice so thatcommuters may not face anyinconvenience. It was statedby an official spokesperson of

the company in a press state-ment issued on Sunday.

The spokesperson furtherstated about 3-4 days ago, thecompany has done a thoroughrepair of road with laying alayer of bituminous concreteto keep it traffic worthy.Moreover, the construction offlyover is also going on fabu-lous speed, with day & nightworking, he added. The localsand traffic police have laudedthe company for its regularsincere efforts for convenienceof commuters and residents.

'Development worksgoing on expeditiously at

Jammu-Akhnoor road'

Black-topping work going on at Jammu-Akhnoor road.

STATE TIMES NEWSSRINAGAR: Apni Party pres-ident Syed Mohammad AltafBukhari on Sunday said thathis party is desirous of realempowerment of the people inJammu and Kashmir throughrestoration of Statehood.

Bukhari was addressing theParty's campaign conventionfor DDC elections at GundMashar-Lolab in districtKupwara.

He was flanked by ApniParty Senior Vice PresidentGhulam Hassan Mir, DistrictPresident Kupwara RajaManzoor, Party's contestingcandidate from Rajwar AbdulRashid Bhat, Party's contest-ing candidate from SogamBlock Abdul Rahim Wani,party leaders advocate JavedMir and Bilal Arif.

"Turning J&K State into aUnion Territory has completelydisempowered its people. The

political philosophy thatformed the edifice of the ApniParty's agenda encompassesthe true empowerment of peo-ple through restoration ofStatehood and legal safeguardsfor their land and jobs," theApni Party president reiterat-ed.

He said the political empow-erment of the people goesthrough the route of socio-eco-nomic development. "In orderto address the alienationamong people, the Statehoodshould be restored to J&K withdignity and honour. The ApniParty is committed to strive forthis goal along with theDomicile Laws for protectionof land and jobs," Bukhariadded.

Stressing on the massive par-ticipation in DDC elections, hesaid the district level councilswill provide an opportunity tothe people to get directly

involved in their local affairsthrough proposal and action.

The Apni Party Presidentalso exhorted on the need forstrengthening of democraticset-up in Jammu and Kashmir,particularly at the grassrootslevel. He underlined the signifi-cance of a much needed changein the approach of governancethat can be brought in, afterthe successful completion of theongoing District DevelopmentCouncil (DDC) elections.

"Besides focusing on otherdevelopmental parameters, Iam sure that if elected, ourparty will usher in a new era ofquality education, betterhealthcare infrastructure, bet-ter roads, smooth supply ofdrinking water and electricityand augmentation of tourisminfrastructure across the LolabValley," Bukhari pledged.

Laying emphasis on the mas-sive participation in the forth-

coming DDC elections in thearea, the Apni Party presidentappealed to the people toensure that they make theirsuccessful candidates account-able for their polls promises.

"We were used to reposingfaith and blind trust in thepolitical parties whose leaderswould surface among peopleonly during the election times.But the times have changedand those political partiesshould understand that theycan no more hoodwink the peo-ple through their hollow anddeceptive slogans," Bukhariremarked.

Addressing the convention,Party senior vice presidentGhulam Hassan Mir appealedto the people not to get swayedby the political gimmicks of theparties who have always triedto exploit the political senti-ments of the people.

"Our Party's agenda is

absolutely realistic. The ApniParty is committed not toindulge in the politics of pre-tense or deceit. People shouldgive a chance to the Apni Partycandidates to prove themselvesand then decide accordingly,"he added.

Mir said that Jammu andKashmir is in dire need of anelected government but simul-taneously, the people shouldnot leave this chance ofstrengthening the grassrootslevel democracy. "DDC elec-tions are purely meant for theholistic development at theground level wherein the peoplewill get directly involved in pol-icy planning and executing thework projects," Mir observed.

The campaign meeting wasalso addressed by other seniorleaders who appealed to thepeople to vote for Party's con-testing candidate Abdul RahimWani in DDC elections.

Apni Party wants real empowerment of people in J&K through restoration of Statehood: Bukhari