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JMC amends its tender, creates confusion for contractors BY TAHIR MUSHTAQ GNS JAMMU,July 24: While establishment of modern slaughterhouse at Jagti has been facing constant delay, Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has amended its tender notice which could further create confusion among the contractors bidding for the project. JMC has issued tender on April 4, but today corporation has amended the tender notice and has  incorporated new terms and conditions for the construction of slaughterhouse.  The total project cost is Rs 20 crore, off which for the first phase, Rs 1.53 crore have been released by Central Government while another Rs 1.50 crore have been released by state government, but so far the groundwork has not been started mainly because, corporation delayed the issuance of  tenders. At present the slaughter houses run from residential localities of Dogra hall and Gujjar Nagar. The two slaughterhouses, constructed in 1947 in these two residential colonies, are

GNS Srinagar JULY 24: Three persons, including a policeman, were killed and two injured in separate road accidents in Kashmir Valley on Monday, police said.   A speeding three-wheeler hit constable Abdul Majeed Tantray, a resident of Handwara, at Soura on the outskirts of the city injuring him critically.  The constable was rushed to nearby SKIMS Hospital where he succumbed to injuries, police said.    A tractor rolled down into a gorge near Ourigund village in Pulwama district killing its driver Abdul Hamid Dar, they said.   Two persons, travelling on the tractor, were injured, police said. Burhan-u-Din, a 17-year-old boy, was killed when he lost control of his motorcycle and rammed it into a wall of a house in Noorbagh locality in Sopore, some 55-km from here.

GNS SRINAGAR JULY 24: Marred by the constant protests in parts of Jammu and Kashmir over long and unscheduled power cuts, state government today said it plans to generate about 3,000 MW power during the 12th Five Year Plan in the state. "Government is exploring all possibilities to tap the vast hydle power potential of the state. About 3,000 MGW of power will be generated in the state in 12th Five Year Plan," Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather said today.

GNS JAMMU JULY 24:  On the motivation of Imtiyaz Shan, PDP Zone President, Gool-Arnas Shri Abdul Majid Sheikh of Judda (Arnas) along with many of his supporters joined PDP while leaving Ambhedkar National Congress. He along with his supports joined before S Tarlok Singh Bajwa, Vice President PDP in PDP Office Gandhi Nagar, Jammu. On this occasion Mr Ved Mahajan welcome them in the Party Fold. While speaking on the occasion Mr. Abdul Majid Sheikh  said that we have realised that PDP is the only Party under the banner of Jenab Mufti Mohd Sayed & Mtr Mehmooba Mufti who can solve the problems of the general masses in the State. He said that we will whole heartly support the policies & programmes of the PDP. The meeting was also addressed by Chatter Singh Saini, H S Sodhi, Bushan Lal Dogra, Rajinder Manhas, Imtiyaz Shan,  Varinder Singh Sonu, Vimal Sharma, Rafiq Choudhary, Ashok Bhat and many others.

GNS JAMMU  July 24 ::  Terming mere frustration of NC by  linking issue of  argument  between MLC Murtaza Khan and  Vijaya Bakaya MLC in a  with Kashmiri Pandit community PDP  Migrant cell president Ashok Bhat said that NC is playing dirty  politics.  This is not a question of community but was a case where  an act of  impropriety of an individual member was pointed out. Even  otherwise Bakaya is not a symbol of KP community. Bhat said that NC leaders  instead of going through the facts are  playing tactics to hide their failures and misdoings which is  making  the people of the state suffer badly. Bhat said that it had been already cleared by PDP leader that   it was just an argument  which happens in these kinds of meetings between  two honourable members of the  House and  was on record saying that  the issue of propriety of a member was raised  by Muratza Khan which  led to an argument. Our take on this account is that the issue  does not  merit any deb