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'Big Jammu Run' to save water gets large response
Enthusiasts taking part in the marathon flagged off by PHE Minister Sham Lal Choudhary on Sunday.
„ STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Minister for PHE, Irrigation
and Flood Control Sham Lal Choudhary
on Sunday urged the people to assist the
government in its initiatives of saving
water and keeping the water resources
clean.
"Water conservation without the involvement of masses is not possible", the minister said adding that there is a need that
people start developing water saving
habits and refrain from throwing garbage
in the water bodies. The minister said this
after flagging off 5 km long 'Big Jammu
Run - Run to Save Water' from Gulshan
Ground here this morning. The minister
exhorted the participants of 'Big Jammu
Run' to become leaders of change and
spread the message of saving water in the
society. "We must take a pledge today to
conserve as much water as we can and
guide others to follow," he added. Minister
of State for PHE, I and FC Sayeed
Farooq Ahmed Andrabi, in his address,
said the government is taking one step
after the other for providing safe and clean
drinking water to the people of the State.
Many new Water Supply Schemes are
being established in rural and far-flung
areas of the State at a tremendous pace
for the benefit of common masses, he
added. He further said, "It is the duty of
every citizen to save this scarce natural
resource for future generations."
Child artist of 'Dangal' movie fame Zaira
Wasim, daughter of the soil who played the
childhood role of Geeta Phogat, also insisted on the importance of saving water and
expressed her concern over the fact that
using water injudiciously would lead to a
big crisis soon. Addressing the participants, Zaira said, "I am really excited and
proud to be a part of the BIG Jammu
Run. It is a noble initiative by 92.7 BIG
FM and CCDU, Department of PHE and
Workshop held on environmental issues of J&K
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JAMMU: One day consultation
workshop on "Environmental
Issues of J&K - Need for
Cooperation" was organised by
J&K
ENVIS
Centre,
DEE&RS, in association with
Community College, Central
University of Jammu and
Wildlife Conservation Fund.
Emphasising on the need to
appreciate the true value of
environment in the growth and
development of our country, O.P
Sharma, APCCF/ Director,
EE&RS gave brief introduction
about the programme. Prof.
Ashok Aima VC, Central
University of Jammu was the
patron of this consultation
workshop. Prof. Lokesh Verma,
Academic Coordinator, CUJ
welcomed such initiative and
desired for more of such programmes. He also informed the
audience about future collaboration of Community College,
CUJ with Climate Change
Centre and ENVIS centre J&K
Dignitaries posing for a photograph after the workshop.
for developing curricula for
online courses on Environment
and Climate Change.Majid
Farooq, Scientist/Coordinator
ENVIS, presented a brief
overview of J&K ENVIS and its
role in highlighting the state
environmental issues and mentioned about usefulness of data
and newsletters being uploaded
on ENVIS website.
In the first technical session,
Prof. A.K Koul, Dean
Academics, BGSBU, informed
the participants about the biodiversity concerns and challenges
the State is facing. Dr. Potakkal
George Jose, Scientist, National
Institute of Hydrology spoke
about the glacier recession and
climate change impacts in the
State. Anuradha Gupta,
Scientist, JKSPCB, highlighted the importance of segregation of waste in handling and
management of solid waste disposal in the State.
Humayun Rashid, Scientist,
EE&RS gave a general
overview of Land Use and Land
Cover changes in the State and
its impacts on the environment.
Veteran Scientist Prof. R.D
Gupta highlighted the impacts
of modernisation of agricultural
practices on soils, surface and
groundwater. Dr. Pankaj
Mehta, Assistant Professor
(AP), CUJ and Coordinator,
University Innovation Cell
stressed on the groundwater
quality issues of the Vijaypur
block in Samba District and its
deterioration. Dr. Shweta
Yadav, AP CUJ, discussed
about the menace of air pollution in the State. Nadeem
Qadri, Environmental Lawyer,
Centre for Environment and
Law, in his thought provoking
lecture motivated the audience
about the support that the judiciary can provide for protection
of
environment.
Prof.
Bholanath Sharma (Retired)
and Prof H. S. Sehgal, Dean
Life Sciences, CUJ chaired and
moderated the technical sessions. The programme was cocoordinated by Dr. Shahid
Mushtaq, Dr. Irfan Khursheed
Shah, Dr. Pankaj Mehta and
Gowhar Meraj.
I applaud them for regularly taking an
active interest in the betterment of society.
I am honoured to support the cause".
Pertinently, 'Big Jammu Run - Run to
save Water' was an initiative of
Communication
and
Capacity
Development Unit (CCDU), Department
of PHE, I and FC and supported by Big
92.7 FM. Later, the minister felicitated
the winners of lucky draw including Abdul
Hamid, Shakti Kumar and Tushar
Saroch. The message of 'saving water' was
spread through various scintillating performances viz. Zumba performance by
Shape n Smile and Body Engineers
Fitness Centre, musical show by Tansen
Sangeet Mahavidyalaya, dramatic plays
by Rangyug and students of Jodhamal
Public School. People hailing from all
parts of Jammu besides officers and
jawans of Indian Army, Air Force, Border
Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF), Jammu and
Kashmir Police (JKP), Indian Reserve
Police (IRP), professional athletes,
sportspersons, senior citizens, school and
college students participated in the run.
Commissioner Secretary, PHE, I and FC
Department Sanjeev Verma, IGP, Jammu
Danesh Rana, Secretary, J and K State
Sports Council Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra,
Chief Engineer, PHE Sushil Aima, Chief
Engineer, I and FC Rajiv Gandotra, Chief
Engineer, Ravi-Tawi Irrigation Complex H
C Jerath, Executive Director, CCDU
Rajeev Malhotra, Director Finance PHE/
I and FC, Mahesh Dass, Chief Engineer
PHE Jammu, Sushil Aima, Chief
Engineer I and FC Jammu, R. K.
Gandotra, Superintending Engineer,
PHE Jammu,
K. K. Mangotra and
Cluster Head J and K and Punjab, 92.7
BIG FM, Syed Mujtaba Ali Jaffery and
other staff of PHE, I and FC Department
and 92.7 Big FM were also present.
Modi Govt's decisions shall have long lasting positive effects: BJP
„ STATE TIMES NEWS
SAMBA: The decisions
taken by Modi are of seminal
importance and will leave
lasting positive effect on the
country and its economy.
The demonetisation is a
step which will ensure an
economy without black
money and result in the
unleashing of the full potential of the India. The coalition government in the State
is also not lagging behind in
carrying forward the minimum common development
programme on the basis of
which the BJP entered into
coalition with PDP.
This was stated by BJP
State President and MLA
Sat Sharma while addressing
party's
State
Working
Committee meeting here on
Sunday.
Earlier, floral tributes
were paid to Bharat Mata,
Dr.
Shyama
Prasad
Mookherjee, Pt. Deen Dayal
and Pt. Prem Nath Dogra
besides BJP men who had
expired.
The working committee
members also expressed sympathy towards colleagues
who were bereaved during
the last three months.
MoS PMO Dr. Jitendra
Singh, Deputy CM Dr.
Nirmal Singh, Member
Parliament (Lok Sabha)
Jugal Kishore, MLC Ashok
Khajuria, Cabinet Minister
Chandar Parkash Ganga and
State Vice President Bharat
Bhushan were also present.
Dr. Jitendra Singh tabled
political resolution before the
Working Committee and said
that the resolution enumerates various decisions taken
by the central government
during the last three months
which have been historic and
show the total and complete
commitment of Narendra
Modi to make India a great
nation in the comity of the
world nations.
Notwithstanding Congress
and its cohorts opposition to
the demonetisation and its
efforts to incite the public
against the government and
to rake it up as an anti-people and anti-poor move has
utterly failed which demonstrates that the Indian public
is with Narendra Modi and
fully supports its actions to
curb black money.
Dr. Jitendra Singh came
heavily on Congress and
other parties for trying to
find fault with the rehabilitation package for the refugees
from West Pakistan and
PoJK and demanded that
these parties must inform the
public as to how much relief
had been provided by these
parties when they were in
power since 1947.
The political resolution
was fully endorsed by the
Working Committee after it
was seconded by Cabinet
Minister Chandar Parkash
Ganga.
Dr. Nirmal Singh highlighted the achievements and
the schemes launched by the
State Coalition Government.
He said that clearing the
total chaos and mis-management which had been the
abiding characteristic of the
previous government will
take time. Jugal Kishore
Sharma also highlighted the
large number of welfare
schemes launched by the central government. State
General Secretary (Org.)
Ashok Kaul also spoke on the
occasion.
District President Samba
Jangbir Singh presented the
welcome address and the proceedings were conducted by
State General Secretary
Pawan Khajuria while State
Secretary Sanjay Baru read
the minutes of previous
Working
Committee
Meeting.
N A Laway releases Kashmiri Day-long basic course on 'Pranic Healing' held CS felicitates meritorious students,
Healing. "Pranic Healing is a
poetry book 'Dag'
'No touch, No drug' Therapy. It
lauds welfare initiatives of DBPS
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NAGROTA: 'Dag' a collection of Kashmiri poems written
by Poshker Nath Koul (Bedil) was released by Nazir
Ahmad Laway Member Parliament. The book release
function was organised here at Community Hall in Jagti
Township.
The author of the book is a well known writer, dramatist, poet and actor. His popular works are Laola
Majloon, Kral Koor Shereen Farhad, Hemal Nagrai, etc.
The release of the book 'Dag' was an initiative made by
Pamposh theatre and organized by Dainposh Koul
Publication. Dr. R.L Bhat President SAMPRATI
presided over the meeting. He read the research paper on
the book and discussed various technical aspects. His
critical analysis about the book fetched appreciation of
audience. Prof. O.N Koul academician by profession and
social worker threw some light on the life of Poshker Nath
Koul (Bedil).
Chief Guest Nazir Ahmed Laway also shared his experiences with Bedil as a teacher. He said Bedil was a teacher
par excellence. Pardesi also spoke on the occasion. Raj
Nath Raina presented a Ghazal written by Bedil.
Tejkrishan Sagar presented the vote of thanks.
Police restores
water supply
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SRINAGAR:
Anantnag
Police provided helping hand
in Batapora Larnoo village
of district Anantnag by
restoring the water supply in
the area.
Consequent to chilling cold
and night temperatures below
freezing point, the pipe lines
for water supply remained
blocked for many days, causing severe problems to the villagers. Anantnag Police along
with CRPF reached the village and efforts were made to
restore water supply in the
area and the water supply
was restored.
Participant posing with doctors after receiving certificates.
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JAMMU: Basic course on
'Pranic Healing' was organised
by Master's Healing Hands
Center for Pranic Healing and
Yog Studio, Shastri Nagar, here
on Sunday.
The students of Pranic
Healing attended the course
which was undertaken by Dr
Ritu Baja and Shweta Chopra,
trainers and Follower of Grand
Master Choa Kuk Sui, who is
the founder of Pranic Healing.
Dr Ritu explained the role of
Pranic Healing and how to
implement Pranic Healing in
day to day life, where we come
across so much of stress, anger,
grief, jealous and how one can
protect themselves by these daily
happenings by adopting Pranic
works on all levels--physical,
emotional and mental. We can
heal different ailments of physical body as well as emotional
problems like depression, stress,
phobias by simple techniques of
Pranic Healing", Dr Ritu added.
She stated that it is quite simple to learn and anybody with
two hands and an open mind
can learn this world famous
modality of healing.
Dr Shweta Chopra advised the
people to do Pranic Healing
courses and spread the benefits
of Pranic Healing. In the end,
Dr Jagmeet Kaur, Organiser of
the Course presented vote of
thanks. Among others present
were Dr Suman Thusu, Dr
Anju Gupta, Dr Shasvita Abrol,
Dr Manisha Gupta, Brij and
Shelly Reen.
Natrang stages Chheenk in Sunday Theatre Series
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JAMMU: Chheenk, a play in
Hindi was featured in
Natrang's Sunday Theatre
Series this week. The play has
been written by Dr. Ram
Kumar Verma and directed by
Neeraj Kant. It carried a deeper message which was presented under the thick layer of
humour.
The story revolves around a
middle-aged person who is so
much taken in by myths and
superstitions that he even
dreams of the same while sleeping. In order to prosper, he tries
to avoid all the bad omens and
also deliberately creates the situations which are considered
Artists performing in a play.
auspicious.
very happy as he had a dream
One of the biggest deterrents that God is granting him good
of him is sneezing, Chheenk, luck and prosperity but sudi.e. if someone sneezes, he con- denly his servant sneezes, he
siders it a sign of bad luck and gets red with anger and wants
curses the person who sneezes. to punish the servant for his
One fine day, he wakes up misdeed but his wife intervenes
and tries to make him think
logically. It happens one more
time that he wanted to create a
superficial auspicious situation
so that good luck is showered
on him but suddenly his servant sneezes, while running
after him to punish him, he
hears the sound of another
sneeze by another person, it
adds on to his anger but the
worse sound was the sound of
sneeze by his wife, he gets infuriated but at the end, all his
anger gets blown away when he
himself sneezes.
Natrang actors who acted in
the play include Shivam Singh,
Meenakshi Bhagat, Rajat
Salgotra and Akshit Kaul.
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JAMMU: The Dogra Brahman
Pratinidhi Sabha (DBPS),
Jammu on Sunday organised a
function here to felicitate the
meritorious students, who
excelled in the academic and
other co-curricular activities
during the year 2016.
Chief Secretary, B.R Sharma
was Chief Guest while MLA
Rajesh Gupta and ViceChancellor, University of
Jammu, Prof R.D Sharma
were Guests of Honour on the
occasion. President DBPS, Ved
Prakash Sharma presided over
the function. As many as 229
students from across the
Jammu Division who secured
positions at the State Board
and CBSE exams and brought
laurels for the State were honoured.
Gaurav
Sharma
from
Gurukul Katra, who has unique
achievement of securing three
national level gold medals in different competitions, was also
among those honoured.
The Chief Secretary and other
dignitaries presented mementoes and certificates of merits to
the outstanding students.
The Chief Secretary complimented the DBPS for its
endeavour to encourage the students for their achievements
and said that the initiative will
go a long way in inspiring more
students to excel in their career.
He highlighted the rich contribution of the Sabha for the
development of the society and
mankind, irrespective of caste,
Chief Secretary, B.R. Sharma giving memento to a
meritorious student during a function.
creed and color.
He urged the functionaries of
the Sabha to enlarge their activities for the welfare of the poor
sections of the society. He also
congratulated the students and
their parents for their achievements and wished them for a
better future.
He showered special praise for
the girl students, who outshined
the boys with their outstanding
performance in the 10th and
12th class exams and said that
this is the indication of a vibrant
and prosperous future generation. He also asked the meritorious students to help the fellow
students to do well in their
career. Prof. R.D. Sharma also
congratulated the students for
their achievements and advised
them to maintain good habits,
principles, moral character
which are key to progress and
prosperity. He wished them success in future career.
MLA Rajesh Gupta highlight-
ed the long and rich history of
Dogra Brahman Pratinidh
Sabha and said that the Sabha
has been doing yeoman's job
since past 150 years. Gupta
also assured the Sabha to contribute in its welfare initiatives
and said that he will do whatever possible on his part.
Pt Ved Prakash Sharma also
spoke on the occasion and highlighted the activities of the
Sabha. Earlier, the Sabha also
honoured the dignitaries by
offering them Dogra Turbans
and shawls as a mark of respect.
Prominent among those present on the occasion included,
Commissioner, JMC, Dr
Manmohan Singh, Mana-ging
Director, J and K Medical
Supplies Corporation, Dr
Yashpal Sharma, senior BJP
leader Chander Mohan Sharma, functionaries of the DBPS
and other social organizations,
hundreds of prominent citizens,
parents and students.
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