Empower panchayats
Barring a patch in remote Zansakar, the Panchayat elections are over. Now every village of the state has its representative and a stake in...
18 Years, Waiting
A villager donated his piece of land for the construction of Panchayat Ghar when he was 30. He was promised a job. For all...
It is Red Hot
As controversies trigger a lot of heat and dust, the unionist political camp is suddenly hyperactive. While Chief Minister makes his problematic “relative” to...
Suraya The Sarpanch
Nazir Ahmad RatherAfter getting elected from her village LalporaTangmarg as a Sarpanch, 28-year-old Suraya Rather is busy these days getting things done for her...
A MATTER OF SURVIVAL
The cancellation of the block development council (BDC) elections after being notified last week was yet another reminder of the grim state of governance...
A Stillborn Initiative
Panchayats were touted to be a vaunted zenith of a democratic initiative. While the first of the three tiers of Panchayat election is still...
11 sq km of change
In this remote, election-bound hamlet on the LoC, an engineer turned actor is the face of a young, aspiring Kashmir. Peerzada Ashiq reports.Diesel jeans....
AN EMERGING SYSTEM
By the middle of November, J&K will have block development councils in place and with this the second tier of Panchayat Raj system will...
OVERWHELMING VOTE
Ongoing panchayat polls have seen heavy voter turnout. Different people have different reasons to contest and participate but will it trigger a change. P...
Panchayat Gamble?
Amid trade hope that 2018 summer will break the slump triggered by 2014 floods and the 2016 unrest, the ruling BJPDP coalition has announced...
A hands down win
The LUTF faced a rout after in Hill Council elections, and Congress romped home with a thumping majority as NC stayed out. Ilham Hassan...
The Poll Migrants
Elected to the basic tyre of village development in an abysmally low participated election, most of the new lords and ladies of village politics...
The Last Lot?
Jammu Kashmir history’s most financially empowered Panchayat, elected in a challenging situation in 2018 amid boycott and threats, is completing its term in early...
A stumbling block
Re-organization of J&K into 22 districts left the block levels unchanged. With Community Development blocks getting more importance in wake of thrust on specific...
Decimal Divide
Municipal elections have offered decimal statistics of democracy currently in vogue in Kashmir. The black and white map offers a clear view of the...
