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Govt salutes people for
maintaining calm and restraint
Attempts to vitiate the
atmosphere will not be allowed
Protecting people’s life
and property prime concern of the Govt: Rather
SRINAGAR, JUNE 29: Saluting people for maintaining calm and
restrain despite unbearable tragedy and grief that has befallen due to gutting
of revered shrine of Peer Dastgeeer, (RA) at Khanyar, Srinagar, the Minister
for Finance and Ladakh Affairs, Mr. Abdul Rahim today said that a time bound
Action Plan to recreate the shrine which will be a grand architectural marvel
on war footing.
Speaking at a press conference at Banquet Hall, Srinagar, this
afternoon, Mr. Rather said Chief Minister, Mr. Omar Abdullah has already issued
orders for preparing an Action Plan to recreate the shrine of Peer Dastgeer
akin to its original design and architecture, which will be finalized in
consultation with the all stakeholders and the Sajada Nisheen of the Shrine Syed
Khalid Hassan Geelani. he said it was matter of great satisfaction that all the
Tabarukat are safe and intact, which were displayed by the Sajada Nisheen of
the Shrine himself before the media and people.
Flanked by the Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Mr.
Taj Mohi-ud-Din and Minister for Science and Technology, Aga Syed Ruhulla, the
Finance Minister cautioned the people about the machination of some element who
try to put the people in trouble by creating law and order situation. Citing
the incident at Gundi Hussi Bhat, Mr. Rather said nobody will be allowed to
disturb the peace adding that it was the prime duty of the government to save
the lives and property of the people. He said people are fed up with violence
and are yearning for peace and tranquillity.
Mr. Rather said “right now our priority is recreating the shrine
and restoring its pristine glory which needs peace and tranquillity”.
Mr. Rather said the government equally shares the grief and mourning
of the people due to this tragedy adding that the digital videography of the
entire shrine complex and its interiors is available with the government and
will be used in recreating the shrine as per its original design and form as
soon as possible.
Mr. Rather also announced that the 2nd part of the proposed Action Plan regarding protection and
preservation of the other shrine of the state will also be prepared by the
experts on war footing basis.
Mr. Rather solicited cooperation of civil society in bringing out
truth about this fire incident and called upon the media to also contribute in
this regard. He said media has a key role to play in this hour of agony and
despair. He appealed the media to come upto the expectations of the people in
keeping peace and harmony in the state so that disruptive elements do not get
any chance to vitiate the atmosphere. He said an FIR has already been
registered in the case and media and the members of civil society are also
welcome to provide inputs which could facilitate the meaningful, investigations
being conducted by the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir.
Mr. Taj Mohi-ud-Din and Aga Ruhulla also spoke on the occasion and
saluted the people of the state for maintaining peace and harmony despite
unbearable loss and agony due to gutting of the revered shrine.
Group of children visits
Assembly Complex
Interacts with Speaker
SRINAGAR, JUNE 29: A Group
of 28 Children belonging to Gurez and far-flung areas of the Border, who was on
a tour outside the State, led by MLA, Gurez Mr. Nazir Ahmad Gurezi visited
Assembly Complex here today where they met the Speaker J&K Assembly,
Mohammad Akbar Lone and interacted with him.
The visiting group while
expressing their experiences individually told the Speaker that it is the first
time they have interacted with the other contemporaries outside the J&K
State and it will be memorable visits of their lives.
After going through the J&K
Assembly Complex, the children shown keen interest in the political affairs and
tried to understand the functioning of the Assembly. On the occasion, the
Speaker lauded the role of the management for conducting such tours of the
children of the border areas and said these tours shall also be conducted in
the future so that the children get acquainted with the other part of the
country and hoped that these rural based children may achieve their goals.
The tour of the children was conducted by 15 Maharata Light
Infantry.
CME helps professionals to
learn through refresher courses, online programs: DDG, IMCR
SRINAGAR, JUNE 29:
Association of Community Ophthalmologist of India (ACOIN) & Kashmir
Ophthalmologist Society (KOS) in collaboration with International Society of
Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgeons (ISMSICS) and Vision 2020: The Right to
Sight India today organized 2-day ACOIN IVth National Continuing Medical
Education (CME) Session-2012 on ‘Glaucoma in Kashmir Valley’ at Government Medical
College, Srinagar in which over 150 participants are taking part.
Deputy Director General
(DDG), Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi Dr. R S Dhaliwal
was the chief guest on occasion.
Speaking on the occasion,
Dr. Dhaliwal said that ICMR is the apex body in the country which deals with
the health related areas and promotion of biomedical researches. He said it was
set-up with the specific objectives for sponsoring and coordinating medical
research in the country.
Referring to CME, Dr. Dhaliwal
said that it helps medical professionals in maintaining competency and learn
about new and developing areas of their field from experts through refresher
courses, publications, online programmes, audio video and live events as well.
Stressing the need for
sensitizing the general masses about Glucoma, the DDG said Glucoma is an eye
disease which is the main cause of permanent blindness, adding that it can be
prevented and treated if diagnosed timely. He lauded
the role of Associations particularly KOS for bringing the disease Glucoma at
fore front by conducting camps at Harwan in Srinagar, Sumbal in Bandipora and
Chadoora in Budgam districts of Valley.
Exhorting upon the medical
professionals, Dr. Dhaliwal said that they have to prepare projects to know the
reasons of this eye diseases and devise innovate measures for their
effective medicare.
Describing the conclave an
important scientific meeting of the professionals, Principal, Government
Medical College, Srinagar Prof. Rafiq Pampori said that deliberations during
the sessions would be beneficial for the participants in up-dating their
knowledge.
Chairman& Founder
President of International Society of Manual Small Cataract Surgeons Dr.
Amulaya Sahu and General Secretary, Association of Community Ophthalmologist of
India, Dr. Swapan K Samantha speaking on the occasion highlighted the
activities of their respective organizations and suggested measures in dealing
with the diseases of eyes.
In his welcome address,
President, Kashmir Ophthalmologist Society & Head of Ophthalmologist
department, GMC, Srinagar Dr. Manzoor Qadir Keng underlined the aim for
organizing the CME Session in the Valley. It would
be useful for making strategy and action plan for eye care in the valley, he
added.
Among others, General
Secretary, Kashmir Ophthalmologist Society Dr. Sajjad, prominent
Ophthalmologists, faculty members and scholars were present on the occasion.
Chairman Power Grid Corporation of India, other
top brass meets Governor
SRINAGAR, JUNE 29 – Mr. R. N. Nayak, Chairman and Managing
Director, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. called on Mr. N. N. Vohra,
Governor Jammu and Kashmir, at Raj Bhavan here this evening.
Mr. Nayak was accompanied
by a high level team of the Corporation comprising Mr. I. S. Jha, Director
Projects, Corporate Office, Gurgaon; Mr. S. C. Singh, Executive Director,
Northern Region-II, Jammu; and Mr. S. K. Sharma, General Manager (Projects),
Northern Region-II, Jammu.
During the meeting,
Mr. Nayak briefed the Governor about the todate position regarding the
establishment of various important power grids by the Corporation in Jammu,
Kashmir and Ladakh regions for the transmission of power supply to different
areas of the State. The Governor particularly referred to the urgent need for
the implementation of Srinagar-Kargil-Leh power transmission line.
The Governor stressed his
concern about the delays in the completion of the various power grid projects
and the laying of transmission lines and urged their completion without any
further delay.
Inculcate
moral values among the children: Mir asks
parents, teachers
SRINAGAR, JUNE 29: Minister
for Agriculture, Mr Ghulam Hassan Mir impressed upon the parents, teachers to
inculcate moral values among the children to ensure development of a sound
society. He said
our nation is known for the virtues of morality adding that there should be no
compromise on it.
The Minister said
this while speaking at the
valedictory function of the “ National Integration & Peace Camp” organized by Union
Ministry of Youth
Affairs & Sports and National Youth Project, New Delhi in collaboration of
Department of Youth Services and Sports J&K
here this afternoon.
The Minster said that
Indian is known by morality not by violence adding that the youth have to play
a crucial role to make India globally a powerful on the basis of morality not
on the basis of atomic capability. He said
that our country is emerging as a great economic power but some countries in
the world did not like it. He called upon the energetic youth to work for the
national integration for grater cause adding that organizing of such youth
camps would lead our youth towards this direction.
Asking the youth to adopt
the philosophy of Gandhian
non violence, Mr. Mir said that non
violence has a huge scope for resolving the issues globally which the father of
the Nation has proved it practically during freedom movement of the
nation. He said that there could be idelogical differences among the
communities and states, but all the issues could be resolved through dialogue
and reconciliation. He said ‘we shall have to build the capacity of
accommodation and tolerance to listen each other’s ideas as it is the only way
for resolving issues and living coherence and amity.
Asking the organizers to
hold such youth camps among the states frequently Mr Mir said this would
provide a platform to them to share their ideas with each other. He said the
youths who participated in the camp are the ambassadors of their respective
states and will take the message of peace, brotherhood and hospitality about
the J&K state on their return to their homes.
On the occasion the
delegates of various states praised the hospitality of the people Kashmir and
said during our stay in Kashmir from last six days we could see nothing adverse
as being shown by some electronic channles and print media outside the state.
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