Government Initiatives February 1-6, 2021
BUILDING SMART CAPITALS
Stressing on timely completion of the Smart City Projects in twin capitals of Jammu & Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha passed specific...
Government Initiatives January 24-30, 2021
POWERING THE POWER SECTOR
As the winter wreaked havoc, the power scenario in the valley was comparatively better, this time. Continuing the efforts to put...
Government Initiatives January 24-30, 2021
Parliamentarians In Kashmir
Finally, the members of the parliament of India were permitted to have 3-day Kashmir visit to review the status of the highways...
Government Initiatives January 17-23, 2021
Bamboo Development
In order to harness the unexplored potential of the bamboo sector in Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Ministry of DoNER through North...
Developmental Democracy?
The Naya Kashmir of the twenty-first century is “by the corporation, of the corporation, and for the corporations", writes Haseeb A Drabu
After decisively changing...
DDC’s Dozen Questions
In Kashmir, every solution triggers new queries. While the BJP government devised a new system within the democratic set-up to address the representation issues...
Law of The Jungle
Demolition of numerous “illegal” seasonal hutments of the nomadic tribes across Kashmir and Jammu by the authorities has triggered an outcry in Kashmir and...
Land, Brick & Mortar
The immediate fallout of dismantling the protective provisions in August 2019 is that outside entrepreneurs have become an intermediary between the government and the...
Trekking For 2G
Not far away from the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector, students climb to a hilltop to catch the low-speed mobile signal to...
Land Unlocked
The new land laws promulgated by the central government for Jammu and Kashmir have triggered a new wave of insecurity, reports Umar Mukhtar
On October 26,...
Tales From Towns
Unlike Back to Village programme that saw reasonable participation of people, ‘My Town, My Pride’ was struggling to draw crowds, reports Khalid Bashir Gura
On...
Deeper Designs
After dismembering the Jammu and Kashmir state and downgrading it to twin Union Territories, the focus of reorganising is now the third tier of...
Roshni’s Load Shedding
The High Court verdict on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) brought forth the serious crises the 2001 Roshni Scheme had. While the new set...
Paying For Possession
The Ministry of Home Affairs has delegated the authority to impose and collect the property tax on urban and suburban areas and people are...
Village Vaunts?
As more than 4000 officers moved out of their offices to interact with the residents in the periphery of Jammu and Kashmir as part...