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Policy

Administrative Apathy

While there are set rules for promotion of KAS officers in J&K, the ambiguity over the elevation of KPS officers has marred the career...

Reforms In Limbo

Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry is the oldest trade body being run with an outdated constitution. The recent elections that brought a new...

Legislating conversion

After years of crying hoarse over the arbitrary conversion of land use, the government finally came out with a bill but the lawmaker’s burnt...

Perpetuating Confusion

Appointed at the peak of 2010 unrest by the Home Ministry, three interlocutors were mandated to “to identify the political contours of a solution...

Permitting prying

The Union Cabinet’s approval of NATGRID has again raised fears of intrusion into citizens’ privacy in the absence of any privacy laws in the...

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...

Umeed To Empower?

 Umeed: a GOI funded flagship project to empower women in conflict ridden Kashmir, was launched by Congress scion Rahul Gandhi amidst media glare in...

Old Taxes Return

In the forward-looking GST regime, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has revived an abolished tax that is expected to be collected for the last...

Missing Moneybags

State and the central governments would massively invest in incentives to the manufacturing sector, a process that GST has interrupted. As the policymakers insist...