Utilisation certificates, audit accounts not submitted SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government has been asked to discontinue grants to autonomous departments which have been lax in following financial rules meant for preventing frauds. According to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India’s report tabled in Parliament last month, a number of departments have failed […]
Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir PK Pole has asked the Wakf Board to fine violators of Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPS) during prayers in mosques in the holy month of Ramazan. The month of fasting starts in Kashmir from Wednesday during which mass gatherings happen in mosques for all the five prayers in a day. The […]
SRINAGAR: The government has eased the process for registration in GoI’s flagship health insurance scheme that offers up to Rs 5 lakh cover to a patient admitted to any healthcare institute in Jammu and Kashmir. The scheme is Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY), the earlier SEHAT which was reintroduced in December […]
SRINAGAR: The Legal Metrology Department which ensures uniform standards for weighing and measurement has been found to be sitting over reforms that could have made its functioning better. As per the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG’s) report, the department has performed poorly due to the non-utilisation of sanctioned money for up-gradation of its infrastructure. “The […]
SRINAGAR: Six years have passed since the 2014 floods ravaged Kashmir Valley, but scores of affected are yet to get the relief money the JK Government had promised them. According to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report, tabled in Parliament last month, an amount of Rs 5.48 crore meant for 2014 flood victims remains […]
Negative financial growth in last 5 years, no target achieved, no customer survey done SRINAGAR: The infusion of capital into the J&K Government-run State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) has not arrested losses the company has been making over the years. According to the Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) report which was tabled in Parliament recently, the […]
Srinagar: The J&K Government-owned Power Development Corporation has been found to be bleeding losses as a result of failure of completion of several projects in Jammu and Kashmir. According to the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), the J&K State Power Development Corporation (J&KSPDC) has suffered a loss of Rs 1.92 crore as a […]
PDP’s Khursheed Alam, Peerzada Mansoor, NC’s Basharat Bukhari join PC Srinagar: Only the Parliament of India or the Supreme Court can restore the abrogated article 370, nothing else, Chairman of Peoples Conference (PC) Sajad Lone said on Monday. Sajad was speaking to the media at his VIP residence at Church Lane where two PDP leaders […]
Srinagar: The Government of India (GoI) has released figures that show how much the Kashmir economy suffered in the past three years, two of which passed under consecutive lockdowns. This is for the first time the central government has released figures showing the health of Jammu and Kashmir’s economy. According to the Union Ministry of […]
Srinagar: The government of J&K has admitted that illegal constructions in Kashmir Valley have come up due to carelessness and negligence of the field staff entrusted with checking and preventing the same. In a circular issued by the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUDD), it is said that it has been brought to the notice […]