A couple of days ago, the State Government had sacked nearly 44 Public Prosecutors and Assistant Public Prosecutors. Most of these people had been engaged on the recommendations of Ministers, Legislators and other political functionaries, online news reports. In major decision recently, Jammu & Kashmir Government sacked 400 advocates engaged as Standing Counsels with various Government … Read more
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has initiated online measures by setting up a Twitter handle and Facebook page to combat corruption. A police spokesman said Twitter handle @JKACB and Facebook page J&K Anti Corruption Bureau were launched by Director, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Anand Jain. “Social network platforms and instant messaging services, including Twitter handle @JKACB and Facebook … Read more
The Jammu and Kashmir State Administrative Council (SAC) recently has approved the ‘State Health Care Investment Policy-2019’ aimed at promoting private parties and entrepreneurs to set up healthcare infrastructure in the state. The policy is expected to improve accessibility of quality healthcare services to the people, promote establishment of hospital, medical and allied educational infrastructure and establish the state … Read more
The state administration on Friday ordered a complete ban on the use of ‘single-use’ plastics (disposable items) in all offices following reports its adverse impact on health and surrounding environment. With this, there will be no use of disposable cups, glasses, plates, bowls, bottled drinking water for small quantity and other avoidable products in government … Read more
What we are about to tell you might disgust you but that’s a news you can’t ignore. State Government has paved the way for opening of new liquor vends by giving ‘unusual’ relaxation in the new Excise Policy, which has been made applicable from February 26, 2019. Wait a minute! That’s not the news. The … Read more
The State Administrative Council (SAC), which met here under the chairmanship of Governor Satya Pal Malik on Friday, approved a health insurance scheme based on ‘Trust model’ for government employees and pensioners of J&K.After the scrapping of previous medical claim policy, the state administration on December 19 last year constituted a committee of officers headed … Read more
In order to provide a conducive business environment under the Business Reforms Action Plan-2018, the Government has taken a decision to provide services having direct bearing on the business environment in `online mode’ , so that the stake holders can avail such services in a hassle-free manner. Here is a list of departments and the … Read more
The Jammu and Kashmir State Lands (Vesting of Ownership to the Occupants) Act, 2001, popularly known as the Roshni Act was repealed last week, by the State Administrative Council headed by Governor Satya Pal Malik last week. It was done as it had “failed to realise the desired objectives and there were also reports of misuse … Read more
The Governor’s Grievance Cell has been launched to give the citizens of the state a platform to directly address the administration about their issues. Here are is a list of top ten departments of the state with most complaints filed against them: On top, with the most number of complaints registered against it, is the Public … Read more
According to news reports, after stern implementation of biometric attendance systems in most government offices of J&K, employee punctuality and service delivery has improved drastically. For example, according to the General Administration Department, in the Civil Secretariat and some other offices, attendance has jumped from 45% to 80%. GAD reports also suggest that biometric time … Read more
Facing regular complaints against field staff and engineers for not addressing consumers’ complaints, especially regarding the water scarcity, the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department has established 24X7 control rooms at the district level. According to officials, the control rooms had been set up in each division of 10 districts of the Jammu region during the … Read more