GNS RAJOURI

J&K MONITOR GNS JAMMU:  The Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information came into being in the state in its present form in the year 2009 and there is no dearth of success stories of the Right to information users/activists where they have been able to get the information for self use and for the public interest but even then when we compare the number of female RTI applicants with males in J & K it is almost nil. Recently the state government released the data of total number of RTI applications received by Public Information Officers of different departments of the state government. Official version of the government says Just 7000 Right to Information applications have been filed by the citizens in all since March 2010, whereas we are the population of more than 12 million people. Most of these RTI applications are submitted by male-citizens and unfortunately female folk remained very lethargic in tendering RTI applications. Most of the Public information officers ...

J&K MONITOR  GNS JAMMU:  Dr. Monisha Kapoor is the first woman from J&K to qualify fo r super specialization in Plastic Surgery. A Post Graduate of Jammu Medical College (2008), she has been awarded MCH in Plastic and Maxilofacial Surgery from Safdarjang Government Hospital, Delhi in November 2011. From her early childhood she was attracted by challenges that required precision. An alumni of Presentation Convent School Jammu, where she had her schooling, Monisha stood at 1st Rank in the all J&K Entrance Test conducted by Board of Professional Education J&K in MBBS Course in the year 1996. Dr. Monisha qualified for M.S. (ENT) course in the Maharashtra Combined Entrance Test in 2003-2004 and joined Nagpur Medical College. Her crusade for professional   focusing did not end there, she appeared in the Entrance test conducted by BOPE J&K for PG course and qualified to earn admission in M. S. General Surgery. After spending one year i...

By; Muneeb Raja       A recent news column grabbed my attention. On the occasion of a launch of an NGO a veteran social activist Mr.Tak who has closely worked with orphans and widows was quoted as saying 'decades-old conflict has made thousands of children orphans and women widows, while a huge number of women are living a life of half-widows in Kashmir.'He said the point of concern is that most of the orphanages and NGOs have become money minting machines. Castigating the government for the lack of proper orphanage policy, Tak claimed that widows go to army camps to earn livelihood. This statement raised a few questions in my mind. The main question is about callous attitude of government towards implementing a strong policy towards orphans and widows and the role of NGO'S in shaping up the future of the sufferers and the less fortunate children and women.  As true to any other conflict zone the sudden increase in the number of orphans and widows with the ...

GNS RAJOURI, Dec (PTI): BJP  demanded setting up of a commission of inquiry to probe the alleged suicide of an Indian Reserve Police constable at the residence of a police official here. "We are demanding commission of inquiry into the suicide of IRP constable ShahidHussain at DSP Daljeet Singh's residence in Sainik colony in Jammu," state BJP secretary Vibodh Gupta said. Demanding time-bound inquiry by the commission, he said, "The death is mysterious and Hussain's family has already termed it murder." Police driver Hussain had allegedly committed suicide on Saturday.

GNS JAMMU, Dec :  Infamous Editor of State Times, Raj Daluja alias Raji, who was a petty worker at a wine shop at Gandhi Nagar in 1975-76 for a meager sum of ` 700 a month, today has a long list of assets, most of which have been encroached upon, captured illegally and forcibly from business competitors or managed with the patronage of some disgruntled officials and businessmen, whom he blackmailed by getting them photographed. Fourteen wine shops, two liquor depots and a bottling plant are just a tip of iceberg as Raji’s assets ranged from a showroom at Trikuta Nagar to a huge list of buildings, most of which have come up on encroached land. The liquor vendor has not even spared the pious field of education and was running educational institutions at two places, cheating the people that one of them located at Panjtirthi was affiliated to CBSE. Raji had been running several business concerns including wine shops on his own name and the name of his family members including Devinde...