09Greater Kashmir SRINAGAR | November 15, 2015, Sunday

Anantnag family seeks compensation for land, trees under armyConcerned offices pass the buck; Aggrieved seek CM’s intervention

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ROW OVER ADMIT CARD

DSEK intervenes, girl student to appear in missed paper

ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Nov 14: A day after a class 12th student of Baramulla Public School was allegedly barred from appearing in her examination on the pretext of not depositing her dues, the Board of School Examination has decided to conduct the student's missed exam later this week.

On Friday, the parents of a girl student, Hafsa Binti Majid, daughter of Abdul Majid Ganaie of Azad Gunj Baramulla accused the school authorities of not providing her the admit card. The parents said that their daughter missed her exam because they could not deposit her school dues in time.

"I approached the school authorities and requested them to accept Rs 10,000 as the first installment and let my daughter appear in the exam but the authorities did not accept it," said Abdul Majid, father of the student.

"School authorities jeopardized career of my daughter. How can they deny admit card to my daughter merely on the pretext of her pending dues. It is Board which are issuing admit card, therefore by denying her admit card the school authority committed a criminal negligence" added Majeed.

The school authority on the other hand has a different point of view. According to principal, the girl was never denied admit card and it is parents of the student who showed callous attitude towards their ward.

"The carelessness of the parents can be gauged from the fact that they didn't came on their own for the admit card and it was school authority which on the first day of her exam approached parents and requested to collect the admit card,"said Sheikh Mohiudin, principal of the institution.

He said parents of the student didn't submit the fee amounting to Rs 4000. However, we didn't deny her right to appear in the examination.

The row over the alleged denial of admit card, evoked resentment. The director school education Dr Shah Faisal said a decision has been taken that the girl student will appear in her missing paper at the end of the examination.

“We took up the matter with BOSE and it was decided that the girl will appear in her missed paper at the end of her examination,” said director education. "A show cause notice has been issued to the school management over their action. We will listen to their version as well and action will be taken accordingly,”

Minor drowns in KupwaraKupwara, Nov 14: A nine-year-old boy drowned in Khurhama Nallah at Shalagund village in Lolab area of Kupwara district.

Rizwan Ahmad Turk, son of Aashiq Hussain of Kuligam Nad drowned Friday evening when he was returning from a flour mill along with his grandfather and slipped into the Nallah.

His body could not be retrieved till reports last came in.

KU holds seminar on Shah-i-Hamdan (RA)

Journos, docs call for transparent health data

Anantnag parliamentary segment meeting

NC legislators lash out at MehboobaSrinagar, Nov 14: National Conference legislators from South Kashmir on Saturday lashed out at PDP president and Member Parliament for Anantnag, Mehbooba Mufti for holding meetings per-taining to her parliamenta-ry constituency in Srinagar, stating that it indicated Mehbooba’s disconnect with her constituents.

The MLA Pahalgam Altaf Kaloo, MLA Homshalibug Abdul Majeed Larmi, MLC Dr Bashir Ahmad Veeri and MLC Showkat Ahmad Ganai condemned the con-vening of the District Elec-tricity Committee (DEC) meeting to review the prog-ress of Deendayal Upad-hyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) in Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian districts of south Kashmir at SKICC here instead of Anantnag.

“What is the purpose of summoning legislators and concerned officers from Anantnag parliamentary segment to Srinagar? Why is Mehbooba Mufti so petrified at the very thought of visit-ing her own constituency or has she already started behaving like a Chief Min-ister instead of an MP,” the NC legislators said in a joint statement today, adding that “While she is scared of visit-ing her own parliamentary segment, we have to work for the people and have to serve them in our respective areas.”

Rashid for punishment to Gowhar’s killersSrinagar, Nov 14: Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) president and MLA Langate, Engineer Rashid today said police should identify killers of Gowhar Nazir Dar of Zainakote and bring them to book soon.

He was speaking during his visit to slain student’s home where he offered his condolences to the family.

He paid tributes to Gowhar and condemned government for ‘its failure’ to arrest the killers and alleged that security agencies have made life of youth of the locality hell who have been genuinely protesting against the killing.

“Government has to explain if it can ruin the career of hundreds of youth allegedly involved in stone pelting, why it can’t identify the killers of Gowhar and take them to task,” Rashid said.

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 14: A family in south Kash-mir’s Anantnag district is made to roam for pillar to post for full compensation to their 50 kanal land and fruit trees worth Rs 12 lakh under use of Army for the past two decades.

The family of Muhammad Ibrahim Sheikh and his brothers have been approaching the office of Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, District Horticulture Department and Com-mander 2 Sector of Army’s RR seeking com-pensation to their land and fruit trees as per the existing market rates, and also the finan-cial returns for fruit trees coming under Army Camp at Urjoo in Qazigund area.

Documents with Greater Kashmir reveal that the family is paid a little over Rs 3 lakh per-year for 50 kanals of land under Army, whose existing market value is millions of rupees.

In a letter dated 05-08-2011, the Horticul-ture department has furnished its assess-ment statement of trees coming under the alignment of Army Camp at Ujroo, putting it at Rs 12,59,100 in respect of Abdul Karim and Muhammad Ibrahim of Qasba Anantnag. The Horticulture office has also certified that “the orchard area has remained under occupation of army since last 15 to 20 years which has reflected negatively upon the overall status of the fruit trees.”

According to documents, the number of Apple, Pear, Cherry, Almond, Walnut, Apri-cot trees in the land is 927.

In another letter the Additional Deputy Commissioner Anantnag has written to

The Commander, 2 Sector RR at Ujroo that despite lapse of months since the Horticul-ture department made the assessment, the compensation for fruit trees hasn’t been released yet.

In yet another letter, it has been reported that the land comes under Srinagar-Jammu highway expansion. “The land on which the fruit bearing trees does not fall under align-ment of four-laning of highway but is under possession of Army at Ujroo. The Compen-sation of fruit trees was earlier taken up with army authorities who declined the request on the ground that the camp is being shifted due to highway expansion and the army authorities are put to great loss on this count. Afterwards it was agreed by you that compensation amount will be borne by the National Highway Project. You are requested to disburse the payment to ben-eficiaries out of the funds meant for 4-laning of Highway,” a letter dated 20.12.2015 from Additional DC Anantnag to The Project Director NHAI, reads.

The aggrieved family says the DC office and other departments are making them roam from pillar to post for the compen-sation. “All departments are just writing letters on the issue and not releasing the payment in our favour. We want our land to be freed or paid as per existing market rates. We also want full compensation of fruit trees,” they said.

The family has now sought Chief Minis-ter’s intervention. “Mufti Sahib is our last hope in the matter. He should direct the inept DC office to intervene in the matter,” the family members said.

Srinagar, Nov 14: Media persons and doctors Sat-urday stated that health stories without support of research were mislead-ing and stressed that they should not be made public.

In one-day Data Journal-ism Boot Camp organised by Health Analytics India at GMC Srinagar today, experts deliberated upon various hurdles faced by researchers, doctors and journalists in getting the right data and right inter-pretation of data.

The camp also stressed the importance of facts and figures to increase the reliability and accuracy of news.

Dr R M Pandey, Professor and Head, Biostatistics at AIIMS said that journalists have a greater responsibil-ity towards research as they are the link between people and the researcher.

“There is a lot of data out there from various sources such as HMIS, IDSP, CBHI

and WHO but journalists have to know how to inter-pret the data,” Dr Saleem Khan, Head of Department of Social and Preventive Medicine said.

Journalists from various media organisations voiced their inability to have access to data.

Dr Bashir Ahmad Laway, noted endocrinologist at SKIMS Soura called for the need to have information cells in hospitals.

Participants were also given hands on training about data extraction, inter-pretation and presentation tools.

Mark Horvit, executive editor IRE and Paul Myers, BBC internet specialist spoke through weblink on various facets of data jour-nalism.

Dr Kannan Krishnaswa-my from George Institute of Global Health and Rafiq Ahmad Pampori, Principal GMC Srinagar also spoke on the occasion.

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 14: A day-long seminar was held at the University of Kashmir on Saturday to commemorate the 700th birth anniversary of Mir Syed Ali Hamadani (RA), popularly known as Shah-i-Hamdan.

The seminar was jointly organized by the Embassy of Republic of Tajikistan in India, KU’s Centre for Cen-tral Asian Studies (CCAS) and The Kashmir Society led by Khawaja Farooq Renzu.

In his presidential address, Vice-Chancellor of Central University of Kashmir, Prof Mehraj-ud-Din Mir said the teachings of Mir Syed Ali

Hamadani (RA) are based on humanity and need to be fol-lowed in letter and spirit.

He said when the revered Sufi saint arrived in Kash-mir with his companions, he found the place “in darkness and beset with poverty.”

Prof M A Wani, Dean of Academic Affairs at KU, said “The best heritage and legacy of Mir Syed Ali Hama-dani (RA) is his life, his teachings, mission, contri-bution and scholarship. He devoted his life to see Islam being spread among people and also educate them that Islam is a comprehensive code of life and conduct.”

Tajik Ambassador in India, Mirzosharif Jalolov

said the Embassy is ready to help and promote any endeavour aimed at teaching and research about Mir Syed Ali Hamadani (RA).

Earlier, Director CCAS Prof GN Khaki welcomed the participants and delineated aims and objectives of the seminar.

Khawaja Farooq Renzu also spoke on the occasion while Dr Taraek Rather from CCAS conducted proceed-ings of the seminar which was attended by scholars, faculty members and stu-dents of the University.

Six books of Gulshan Pub-lication under patronization of Kashmir Society were released in the seminar.

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