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STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: A meeting of prin-cipals of Jammu SahodayaSchools was held on Saturdayat RM Public School, here todiscuss the latest CBSE cir-culars with special focus onassessment criteria of classVI-VIII and IX-X.

In the meet, Principals ofHeritage School, DPSKathua, BhargavaPublic School, SpringdalesSchool, JK Public School,Rich Harvest, DoonInternational School, JKPublic School Kathua, DBNAmarvilla Jammu, ModelAcademy, StephansInternational Public School,DPS Udhampur, SOSHerman Gmeiner School,Indian Public School Kathuaand G.D Goenka PublicSchool were present amongothers.

The meet commenced withwelcome address by RavinderKour, Principal of RM PublicSchool, followed by a brief

presentation on the topic'Importance ofComprehensive and InclusiveEducation in the today's soci-ety'.

J.S Dhami, PresidentJammu Sahodaya Complex,presided over the meet.

The main discussion was onthe latest CBSE circulars,with special focus onAssessment criteria status ofclasses VI-VII and IX-X,Regular access of CBSE web-site for the online filling ofclass X, Internal marks and

class XII grades as well asdoubt clearing session per-taining to the latest CBSEcirculars.

The schools also discussedthe status of Sahodaya web-site as well as formulated thetentative Sahodaya ActivityCalendar for 2018-19.

The requisition forms werealso submitted for procure-ment of participation certifi-cate for the same.

The vote of thanks was pre-sented by Rajesh Rathore,PRO, JSSC.

Jammu Sahodaya Schools members during a meeting.

Jammu Sahodaya schools hold meet STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: A placement drivewas conducted for the stu-dents of Electrical Branchof Yogananda College ofEngineering andTechnology (YCET) by'Talent Pull', a renownedcompany looking after theinstallation and commis-sioning of variousmicrowave antennas andworking on latest technolo-gy of 4G-Jio project activi-ties here on the campus.

Among 35 students whoappeared in the selectionprocess, only nine studentsnamely Piyush Bhasin,Amir Najeeb, Umar AliyasNajar, Abhishek Choudhary,Rizvan Bashir Rather,Salman Ali Khan,Mohammad Asad Malik,Sunil Kumar Digra andJunaid Ahmed Hafiz wereselected by the company onannual packaged of Rs.1.8to 2.5 lakh per annum.

The students, rather over-

joyed upon making thedepartment proud, pouredthe credit of their success onto the faculty members forconstantly guiding andmotivating them.

Dr. Arvind Dewangan,Director, Sandeep Malik,Dean and B.R Verma, ChiefCoordinator expressed theirheartiest congratulations

and best wishes to the suc-cessful students and offeredstern motivation to all oth-ers hoping to achieve suc-cess.

Director YCET gave spe-cial mention to the highermanagement Vidhi S.Singh, Chairman JamwalGroup of EducationalInstitutions, Renu Bangroo

Managing Director JamwalGroup of EducationalInstitutions and Shiv DevSingh Jamwal ViceChairman Jamwal Group ofEducational Institutions fortheir endearment towardsmaking better engineersand providing constantopportunities for a betterfuture of the students.

Placement drive held at YCET

Selected students posing with faculty members and company representatives.

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: The BJP, which is inpower in Jammu and Kashmirin alliance with the PDP, todayexpressed concern over "delay" incompletion of various develop-mental projects in Jammu cityand urged the ministers con-cerned to complete these at theearliest.

Virender Gupta, the BJP'sState Spokesperson, said con-struction of an artificial lake,that started in 2008-09, layingof a pathway and setting up ofparks along the banks of theTawi river, need to be started ona war footing to make Jammucity a tourist attraction. TheBahu Fort cable car project,which was planned in 2002,needs to be completed at the ear-liest, he said, and expressed con-cern over the "slow pace" of workon Patnitop ropeway projectwhich was planned in 2007.

It is a matter of great concernthat projects envisaged or start-ed in Jammu region have notbeen completed and some ofthem have been put in cold stor-age, Gupta said.

The project for widening B C

Road in the heart of Jammu cityand constructing flyover over itand in the New Plot-Janipurroad is not expected to start atleast during this dispensation,the BJP leader claimed.

In view of the traffic conges-tion, flyovers, widening of roadbetween Ambphalla and

Janipur, and that between JewalChowk and Talab Tillo are ofmuch need, he said.

Gupta said the projects are ofprime importance and appealedto the ministers and depart-ments concerned to makeutmost efforts so that these arecompleted at the earliest.

In power, BJP concerned over ‘delay’in completion of Jammu projects

Power ShutdownSTATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: According to theChief Engineer, Elect. Maintt& R.E. Wing, Jammu, inorder to carry out some urgentrepair works, the power supplyto Chatha, Parladpur andadjoining areas shall remainaffected on February 18 from10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Similarly, the power supplyto Entire Udhampur,Ramnagar, Chenani, MES,Airforce, Army, DistrictKishtwar and District Dodashall remain affected onFebruary 18 from 8:00 AM to2:00 PM.

Likewise, the power supplyto Wearhouse and its adjoin-ing areas shall remain affectedon February 19 from 8:00 AMto 11:00 PM.

Meanwhile, the power supplyto Narwal Pain, Rani Bagh,Ajit Nagar, Colonel Colony,Satwari, Special BureauSatwari and adjoining areasshall remain affected onFebruary 18 and 20 from10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

STATE TIMES NEWSRAJOURI: A district levelsymposium on 'Promotion ofEthical Values for a PeacefulSociety' was in organised byeducation department underleadership of Chief EducationOfficer Rajouri ChowdharyLal Hussain.

Symposium was organisedin Government Boys HigherSecondary School Rajouri inwhich 15 students from all 15educational zones, who gotfirst position at zonal levelsymposium, took part.

In this district-level sympo-sium, Mohd Nishat fromBoys Higher SecondarySchool Rajouri bagged firstprize and was handed over Rs20,000 while Manshali Duttaof Higher Secondary SchoolSeri got second prize of Rs

15,000 and Madhiatul Zaraof High School Kotli Kalabangot third prize of Rs 12,000.Besides, all the other partici-pants got consolation prize ofone thousand each.

Other education depart-ment officers present on thisoccasion include DIETPrincipal Pardeep Sharma,Degree College ProfessorsIqbal Raina, Dr. NaseemMalik, Boys HigherSecondary School PrincipalAbdul Raouf Dar, MuslimWani.

Programme was judged byPrincipal Higher SecondarySchool Sualsui NeelkanthSharma and HOD DIETRajouri Tanveer Mir . SpecialPublic Awareness Campaignconcludes at Thanna Mandi(Rajouri).

STATE TIMES NEWSNOWSHERA: Former MLCRavinder Sharma blamedthe State Government ofadopting totally arbitraryattitude and favoritism onpolitical considerations inthe creation of the posts ofADCs in different areas,ignoring areas which weremore deserving on all param-eters and merit, which hasresulted into unrest amongstpeople.

In a statement Sharmalashed out at the PDP-BJP

government for adopting anarbitrary approach in totaldisregard to merit or criteriaand without adopting anyfair or transparent proce-dure or mechanism for thecreation of these adminis-trative units, which hascaused large scale resent-ment and unrest in differentparts like Nowshera andSunderbani, while ADC hasbeen setup at Koteranka,besides in Billawar andBasohli etc, which are repre-sented by Ministers in the

government.Sharma questioned that

how can a democratic gov-ernment do it in such anarbitrary manner purely onpolitical considerations leastcaring for the genuinedemands and needs of thepeople, without consideringany reasonable parametersor adopting any fair, trans-parent criteria for the same.The previous governments,in order to extend suchadministrative facilities,have always adopted some

mechanism like setting up ofBilloria Committee, GanaiCommittee and thereafterthe proposals were consid-ered and examined by thecabinet sub-committee butnow only pick and choose forpolitical interest of rulingparties has been the sole cri-teria, for peace mealannouncements, which isquestionable.

The people of Nowsheraare observing indefinitebandh and people ofSunderbani and several

other areas in Rajouri andPoonch have also resorted toprotests and the governmentis totally unmoved and peo-ple have been left to fight fortheir rights.

The government is square-ly responsible for creatingthis chaos and confusion andmess of the situation on thisfront.

He asked the governmentto immediately consider andaccede to the genuinedemands of the agitatingpeople without further delay.

Ravinder slams government for adopting arbitrary attitude

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Natrang on Saturday inauguratedits ten day theatre workshop at its studio the-atre with the lighting of traditional lamp byDirector Natrang Balwant Thakur.

The workshop will include exercisesfocussing on team building, acting skills,understanding different characters, methodacting and personality development games.The main focus of this workshop will be onintensive training and direct contact of actorswith directors. The training will encourageyoung talents who wish to enhance their act-ing, dance and music skills. This workshopwill help freshers to overcome their stagefright, overcome their hesitation and to gainconfidence and develop their personality.

The workshop will be conducted by AarushiThakur Rana who is an Indian origin and UKbased actor and director and being coordinat-ed by Mohammad Yaseen who is a NationalScholarship holder in theatre from Ministryof Culture, Government of India. The partic-ipants who attended the inaugural sessionincluded Shivam Sharma, Iftkhar Mughal,Shivam Dutta, Samarthya Gupta, AyushiPandita, Chetan Choudhary, MeenakshiBHagat, Ashley Mehta, Ashish Thakur,Akash Bhat, Goutam Sharma, Ajay Kumar,Manoj Kumar, Zeeshan Haider, ToyabHussain, Sushant Charak, Rahul Gupta,Sidhant Sathu, Abhi Bargotra, ShivamSingh, Kushal Sharma, Arun Kumar andBrijesh Avtar Sharma.

Natrang's first theatre workshop of 2018 inaugurated

STATE TIMES NEWSKATHUA: Kartar PublicSchool, (CBSE) Barnoti,held a special assembly ses-sion on Saturday to spreadthe message of a society freefrom drugs and addictions.On this occasion, theresource person (anti-drugaddiction cell) Batnam Singhof SGPC, Amritsaraddressed the students of theschool. He advised the stu-dents to keep away from all

kinds of addictions.Centuries earlier, the SikhGurus, namely, Guru NanakDev and Guru Gobind Singhhave warned us against allkinds of intoxicants anddrugs. Awareness leads toprevention. The Chairmanof the School, Er. NirmaljitSingh, thanked the resourceperson for the relevance ofthe message and hoped thatthe students would keepaway from addictions.

Students and faculty members at a symposium.

District-level symposium conducted

STATE TIMES NEWS NEW DELHI: Jammu andKashmir Ex-ServicesLeague (JKESL) in con-junction with the DubcomCreative Pvt Ltd released afirst of its kind documen-tary film 'The Saviour ofKashmir' on the heroic 'lastman last bullet' gallant fightput up by Brig RajinderSingh, MVC (posthumous).

The grand release ceremo-ny was held in the AshokaHall of the prestigious FieldSam Manekshaw Centre inDelhi Cantt. Former Sadar-e Riyasat of J&K Dr KaranSingh presided over thefunction, that was attendedby four former Chiefs ofArmy Staff among a distin-guished galaxy of seniorserving and retired officers,war decorated warriors,family members of BrigRajinder Singh, ladies andprominent citizenry of thenational Capital.

The documentary is based

on the historical lay ofevents and backed by quota-tions and first hand evi-dence from those who livedthrough the grueling experi-ences of the war with theunique strategy of "retreatto victory" after this 108men force of determinedgallant Dogras grossly out-numbered against 6, 000raiders. They caused attri-tion of the enemy, separatedthe raiders from their vehic-ular column in a "masterStroke" and saved the

Kashmir Valley till arrivalof Indian Army re-enforce-ments which was possibleonly after full and finalaccession with the Union ofIndia.

The documentary present-ed more like a feature filmheld the jam packed AshokaHall spell bound, over-whelmed with moving emo-tions that made many eyesmoist. Sumeddha Vermawas at her best as the narra-tor of events and putdesired life to the powerpacked script. The DirectorHamir Pratap SinghParmar deserves equal acco-

lades for a flaw less militarypresentation. The filmingwas a dream project of for-mer MLC from J&K, MajGen Goverdhan SinghJamwal, AVSM, presidentJKESL and the lastGeneral from J&K Stateforces.

The story unfolded theBritish planned invasion ofJammu and Kashmir byPakistan Army with tribalcalled Kabailies/Raiderswhich eventually resulted inswearing off the Jammuprovince of the non-Kashmiri speaking popula-tion due to most untimelyreference to the UN andcease fire when own troopshad gained an upper hand.But for this strategicalblunder, the history of theregion could be differentand no "Kashmir problem"left for the nation to bleedfor and solve.

The documentary film isnow available on 'U' tubeunder the title "BrigRajinder Singh, MVC, thesavior of Kashmir.

KPS aspires for drug free society

A dignitary speaking at a programme.

JKESL members during a progamme.

JKESL releases documentary on Brig Rajinder Singh

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: Twin brother-sis-ter duo, Swapnil andSwapnila,, students of JKPublic School Kunjwani andchildren of Sarmistha andShib Narayan Acharya fromJammu have won this year'sOnline Open PhotographyCompetition organised bythe Indian Army on ArmyDay 2018 under the aegis ofAdditional Director Generalof Public Interface(ADGPI). The theme wasIndian Army-Symbol ofNation Building.

The children received thecertificates and cash prizesfrom Army HQ throughtheir school authorities.Swapnil was awarded a cashprize of Rs 20,000.

Swapnil submitted hisphotograph depicting stu-dents of Army GoodwillPublic School of Drass,which is the 2nd coldestinhabited place in the Worldwhich bagged first prizeafter being judged by thespecial jury in under 15years category.

Swapnil who loves to trav-

el clicked this photographduring his tour in thatarea. The photograph hehad clicked was able to tella story through its composi-tion, lighting, and mostimportantly it's subjectmatter.

That was the reason thatdespite stiff competitionjury adjudged Swapnil'spicture as best one.

His sister Swapnila, aState Level numero uno inNHPC Painting competi-tion also participated inpainting as well as photog-

raphy competition. Her photograph clicked of

NCC cadets won consola-tion prize in the same cate-gory.

Their mother SarmisthaAcharya said, "I am veryhappy with my children'sachievements," adding thatSwapnil is keen in photog-raphy since childhood. Sherevealed though they werefrom a tiny hamlet ofDigsui in Hooghly WestBengal, but are stationed inJammu for many years.

She is of the view that as

civilians if they can con-tribute a minimum for theArmed Forces by projectingtheir hard work and posi-tive image in J&K, it wouldgive immense satisfactionto the family.

Expressing gratitude forthe amazing supportextended by the well wish-ers, Sarmistha Acharyasaid that messages of con-gratulations especiallythose received from seniorArmed forces officialsincluding retired Armychiefs, retired Air chief,retired Army commandersof Northern and WesternCommand and especiallythe present AdjutantGeneral, GOC NorthernCommand and Chief ofStaff Western Commandhas boosted the morale ofboth children.

All of these men of honourwhile expressing joy on therare feat of children , sentthem blessings for successin life. She also disclosedthat children now are confi-dent to achieve greaterheights.

STATE TIMES NEWS JAMMU: On the request ofPresident Chamber ofCommerce and IndustryJammu Rakesh Gupta ,Hakeem Mohammad YaseenShah, PDP MLA, GhulamHassan Mir, Ex- MLA andMohammad YousufTarigami, MLA visitedChamber House onSaturday. Today's invitationto the representatives of

political parties was a part of‘The Way Forward’ move-ment announced by JammuChamber few days back.

The other office bearers ofJCCI present on the occasioninclude Rajesh Gupta, Sr.Vice President, RajeevGupta, Jr. Vice President,Manish Gupta, SecretaryGeneral, Gaurav Gupta,Secretary and Ashu Gupta,Treasurer.

Mother with her talented twins who bagged prizes duringPhoto Competition organised by Army.

Jammu twins win Indian Army open photo competition

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: As a part of providing social upliftment to the studentsresiding in the vicinity of the project, Nimmo Bazgo Power Stationdistributed the winter tuition fees to nine government schools ofthe district, run by Education Committees. The motive of this pro-gramme under NHPC's CSR and SD Scheme was to keep stu-dents engaged in their studies during extreme winter of this regionwhen schools are closed. Head of the Power Station, S. Adhikaridistributed a total amount of Rs 4,75,000 in the form of chequesto the various representatives of the schools who had conductedwinter tuitions. S Adhikari told that to develop the nation it is nec-essary to invest in the students who are future of country and weshall continue this support in the coming years.

Political representatives visit CCI

CCI members posing for a photograph with visiting dignitaries at Jammu on Saturday.

Head of the Power Station, S. Adhikari distributing wintertuition fee to a student.

Nimmo Bazgo Power Stationprovides tuition fee to students

STATE TIMES NEWSJAMMU: A well knownartist of J&KState, K.KGandhi has beeninvited to takepart in theInternational ArtShow beingorganised byJungle KillolFoundation - anInternational Organisation

to be held at Indira GandhiNational Center for Art,

New Delhi fromFebruary 23 to 25,2018.The said show willbe inaugurated byDr. Zoltan Wilhelm,Director ofH u n g a r i a nInformation and

Cultural Center, Ambassy ofHungry New Delhi.

KK Gandhi to attend Int'l Art Show

CS reviews progress of Ring Road ProjectsSTATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: Chief Secretary, B.B Vyas on Saturday chaired a meet-ing here to review the progress of Srinagar, Jammu ring road proj-ects. Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Divisional CommissionerJammu, Director NHAI, J&K, Deputy Commissioner, Jammuwere present in the meeting. Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir,Deputy Commissioners of Budgam, Pulwama, Srinagar,Baramulla, Bandipora and Ganderbal districts participated viavideo conferencing.

CS noted with satisfaction the progress achieved in the landacquisition proceedings in Srinagar ring road project, where mostof the land acquisition proceedings are at its final stages and landis being handed over to the NHAI by next week. In regard toJammu ring road project, it was informed that 90% of the land inJammu for the project has already been handed over to the NHAI.Chief Secretary asked DCs to submit Utilization Certificates (UCs)of the disbursed compensation amount on account of land acquisi-tion to the NHAI so that balance compensation amount is releasedto them. He asked NHAI to ensure that the pending compensationamount on account of land acquisition is released to the DCs imme-diately for timely disbursement to the land owners.