Priority Sector Lending: First Six Month Report
Against a target of providing Rs 2820.91 crore credit to 207941 eligible individuals across J&K in 2010-11under the priority sector lending, the banking sector...
Forest Encroachments
Jammu and Kashmir regions have encroached upon 9482 hectors and 4877.62 hectors of land respectively. Since2005-06, the Forest Ministry has retrieved 64.30 hectors and...
2009 Snippets
COSTLIEST POLICE STATION
Batamaloo police station is going to be the costliest station ever constructed by the cash-rich JKP. To be set up on five...
Transformers
Come winter and the power transformers will be in huge demand. Owing to the voltage fluctuations and massive load for lighting and heating, the...
Seed Capital Fund Scheme
Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Policy for Youth (SKEWPY) was announced as ruling coalition’s flagship plan to manage unemployment by encouraging youth to become entrepreneurs....
PMRP: Seven Years After
When Dr Manmohan Singh announced Prime Ministers’ Reconstruction Plan in November 2004, it envisaged projects worth Rs 24,025.55 crores.
Now it costs a whopping Rs...
Democracy Costs, You Know?
Elections, as they say, are the first step towards the democracy. Once elected, they may or may not deliver but the system has to...
A Chronology of Inaction
The government has made it clear that it wants punishment for the personnel that kill innocents. Various investigations – magisterial and judicial – were...
Census 2011: joint family is past
The district level data that the Census Organization released last week offers new insights over the way we live in J&K and the state...
Banks In Business: A Half Year Review
After three tumultuous summers, banks operating across J&K are up and kicking. In the six months ending September 2011, their deposits – mostly CASA,...
J&K Bank: Uninterrupted Growth Story
The growth at J&K Bank remains to be uninterrupted. Even though Kashmir is passing through a crisis since June, the bank registered a net...
The Government’s Armies
J&K government is the employer of the last resorts in the state that is suffering from comparatively high unemployment rate and lack of a...
Zooming In On Kashmir
The Ministry of Home Affairs commissions a major survey of Kashmir to gauge the Kashmiri’s bent of mind when it comes to politics, media,...
Information One Can Use
The autumn session of the state legislature was planned brief. But whatever time it had, it was devoured by the crises that were not...
Where does government money come from?
Kashmir Life offers a plain arithmetic of where from the state government mobilizes the huge amount that it spends a year. Countries have their...
