Greater Kashmir

SRINAGAR | July 03, 2014, Thursday

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PM visit: Security
intensified in J&K
Massive
deployment
around
venues on
Modi itinerary

it was intensified on Wednesday.
“It is a security measure
and it would be intensified
further as July 4 comes nearer
when PM is scheduled to arrive
here,” said a police official.
“Kashmir is witnessing
security hassles with forces
reviving the practice of roadside frisking of commuters.
This is not something new. We
are now habitual of it whenever
any VIP arrives here,” said Arif
Bashir, a local from Dalgate.
Besides personnel from Special Protection Group (SPG)
who arrived from New Delhi,
a good number of paramilitary and state police personnel would be deployed at the
venues including Raj Bhavan
and Uri, where the Prime Minister is scheduled to visit.
As per programme, the
Prime Minister will inaugu-

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rate 25-km-long Katra-Udhampur rail track and dedicate
it to devotees visiting Mata
Vaishnodevi Shrine.
He will later inaugurate 240
MW Uri II hydro electric power
project in Baramulla district.
Reports said surprise
checks are also being carried out by police, Army
and CRPF on vehicles entering various towns including Baramulla, Kupwara,
Sopore and Handwara.
An official said that while
more nakas have been erected
on city roads, senior police
officials are monitoring the
frisking operations.
“Senior police officials
have directed cops to ensure
that people face minimal
inconvenience when stopped
for checks,” said a senior
police official.

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Government defers recommendation
on appointment of Dev Com Works

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Srinagar, July 2: Security
has been beefed up across
Jammu and Kashmir ahead
of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s visit on July 4.
Police and Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF) personnel
have set up check points and
could be seen frisking commuters and checking vehicles at
several places, mostly around
Budshah Chowk, Residency
Road, Ghanta Ghar, Bakshi
Stadium and other areas in
Srinagar. Police and CRPF personnel were deployed at various other localities including
Sonwar, Parimpora, Bemina,
Panthachowk, Soura, Nishat,
Nigeen and Zakura.
“Police and CRPF personnel are being deployed
in strength in the city and
along the Srinagar-Baramulla-Uri road to ensure that
Modi’s visit passes off peacefully,” said an official.
In Khrew area of South
Kashmir’s Pulwama district,
police and para-military
forces were keeping record
about commuters and vehicles plying on road.
Checking of vehicles and commuters began on Tuesday while

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Srinagar, July 2: The JK
government’s Establishmentcum-Selection Committee has
deferred the proposal to finalize recommendation for the
appointment of Development
Commissioner Works in Roads
& Buildings department and
fixation of seniority of Kashmir

Administrative Service officers.
Highly placed sources in the
State administration revealed
to Greater Kashmir that the
panel which met here this
morning under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Muhammad Iqbal Khanday failed to
finalize the recommendation
for appointment of Development Commissioner Works.

According to sources, the R&B
had submitted the names of three
Chief Engineers- Bimal Tikoo,
Tahsin Mustafa and Sheikh
Abdul Hamid - for the post.
“The panel couldn’t take a final
call for the appointment as Annual
Performance Reports (APRs) and
some other documents of the officials were not on record,” they said.
Another proposal for fixing

seniority of Kashmir Administrative Service officers was also
deferred as the panel sought
more details from the General
Administration Department.
Pertinently, the non-fixation
of seniority of 2001-batch KAS
officers has triggered widespread resentment among the
cadre who accuse the government of demoralizing them.