Akshay Azad

Will it promote malice or cooperation between religious communities? Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, June 17: The state government has proposed to introduce Islamic, Vedic and Buddhist studies at Government Higher Secondary Schools' level but experts doubt whether this half-baked exercise will promote malice or cooperation between already divided religious communities. The state government has proposed to create 468 posts of lecturers at Government Higher Secondary Schools level. These posts comprise 356 posts of Islamic Studies including 125 in Jammu and 231 in Kashmir. For Buddhist studies a total of 30 seats are proposed to be created out of which 16 in Jammu and 14 in Kashmir, whereas for Vedic Studies 82 posts for Jammu region alone. A meeting of Finance department was held on 7/6/2018 in which discussions were held regarding the proposed creation of 468 posts of Lecturers at Higher Secondary Schools level. The meeting was attended by Secretary Educa...

781 extra seating arrangements for written test create doubt among aspirants Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, June 15: The seating arrangement for 781 more candidates for the upcoming written exam for the posts of Sub-Inspector in J&K Police (Executive) has created doubts among thousands of aspirants. A total of 16,130 candidates had qualified the Physical Standard Test (PST) whereas the seating arrangements for 16911 candidates have been made by the Police Recruitment Board (PRB) for the written examination scheduled to be held on June 24. The candidates who qualified the PST told Early Times that a total of 8069 and 8061 candidates qualified the test from Jammu and Kashmir province, respectively. A total of 16130 candidates were supposed to appear in the written test, but the PRB has made arrangements for 16911 candidates-8623 in Jammu province and 8288 in Kashmir province. http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=235220 "Making sea...

Government to Regularize Academic Arrangement Lecturers with 10 years of service  Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, June 13: The state government has reportedly decided to regularize all those employees working on academic arrangement basis in Education as well as Health and Medical Education department with 10 years of experience as per SRO-520 of 2018. Though the decision is likely to give much awaited relief to the contractual lecturers working in Health and Medical Education as well as School Education and Higher Education department but it is likely to draw wide criticism from hundreds of highly qualified unemployed youth, as the government has also decided to withdraw all the vacancies, if any, forwarded to the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) for recruitment. Sources informed Early Times that a meeting headed by Chief Secretary was held in his chamber on 4th of June 2018, in his official chamber at 3 PM regarding the regularization o...

Akshay Azad Jammu, June 12: Repeated violations of ceasefire by Pakistan at the villages along the international border in RS Pura sector have not just caused death and destruction but temporarily uprooted many a lives. Many of those who were forced to abandon their homes and hearths had to stay in make shift shelters including schools, temples and government buildings for days together during shelling. One such make shift shelter home was established at RS Pura in the third week of May where I along with lensman Naresh Bhagat spent a night and peep into the life of migrants in a migrant camp. http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=234984 A row of straight grown eucalyptus trees along a footpath separates the playground of Boys Higher Secondary School RS Pura into four equal squares. This school was converted into a Shelter Home by tehsil administration RS Pura for the border residents from Suchetgarh tehsil, who had taken shelter here following intense shelling by Pakistan...