Government Initiatives August 15-21, 2021
For Transparency
In a move to improve transparency and accountability in the governance system, Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha launched the PROOF (an acronym for Photographic...
Government Initiatives
Policy For Film Shooting
Jammu and Kashmir now has a first-ever film policy, which was unveiled last week by the government in order to make...
Two Years Later
The second anniversary of the reading down of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir indicated clearly that people and politics living on either...
Government Initiatives August 1 – 7, 2021
Rs 2386 Cr Budget For Education, Sports
Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha e-inaugurated and laid the e-foundation of sports infrastructure projects worth Rs 18.10 crore funded...
Government Initiatives July 25-31, 2021
Investing In Power
Seven new power infrastructure projects worth Rs 10.11 crore were inaugurated in Kashmir to further augment the power supply ahead of the...
Elusive Statehood
The centre is currently prioritizing the achievement of its ideological and strategic objectives in Kashmir before restoring the statehood, possibly a truncated one writes...
Government Initiatives July 18 – 24, 2021
Premature Retirement
After amending Article 226 (2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Regulations, authorities have ordered a fresh review of its employees'...
Government Initiatives July 11-17, 2021
Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Bilal Ahmad Khan, a post-graduate from Sheikhpora (Anantnag) started a fish farm in his native village in 2007 with assistance from the Fisheries...
Government Initiatives July 4-10, 2021
The Employment Generation
Amid growing protests by graduates over the class fourth job posts being reserved for 10+2 candidates only, Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta...
Darbar Move: An Obituary
Jammu and not Srinagar should mourn the demise of the darbar move, writes Haseeb A Drabu, asserting that the undoing of half capital status...
Those 689 Days
Between the candle march on the night of August 4, 2019, and the meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 24, 2021, Kashmir...
Government Initiatives June 20 – June 26, 2021
Added Accountability
Jammu and Kashmir Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) has asked the contractor of the Parimpora-Soibugh road to complete the project within stipulated time or...
The Security Tool
Rakesh Pandita’s killing has prompted police to bar the movement of the politicians and the protected persons without security clearance. Political parties see the...
Government Initiatives
Combating Covid19
Lt Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) 500-bedded Covid Hospital at Khonmoh, Srinagar. It was completed in 17...
An Unusual Exit
BVR Subrahmanyam was the chosen officer to spearhead the process of recreating ‘Naya Kashmir’ after the reading down of Article 370 and bifurcation of...