Greater Kashmir SRINAGAR | July 24, 2014, Thursday STATE Today Yesterday’s 31.0 ° 32.9° Min 21.8° Sunset Sunrise Thursday 7:40 Friday 5:38 TEMPERATURE Partly cloudy sky. Max ‘I thought it was the end’: Injured boy recounts being hit Srinagar, July 23: Ehsan Wani, 14, was watching a game of volleyball on Sunday when a bullet pierced his chest near his home at Dhahran in south Kashmir’s Islamabad (Anantnag) district. “It was as if a big, sharp nail was punched through my heart,” the boy recounted on Wednesday at Sri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital here. “I thought it was the end. As I just lay there, blood was dripping down.” On July 20, when the entire district, including Dhahran, was simmering with antiIsrael demonstrations, Ehsan and a few of his friends were sitting near a makeshift volleyball field, talking and watching the game. The time was 7: 40 pm and Iftar was just few minutes away, Ehsan said. “The bullets came from the other side through a long line of trees,” he said. “One just pierced me and I collapsed.” A 9th standard student at Hanfia School Dialgam, Ehsan said he and his friends were talking about summer vacations near the volleyball field. “The main road was far away from where the volleyball game was going and where we were sitting,” he said, in a weak voice. “The bullets came though trees towards us and one that hit me had first hit a tree.” After he was hit, few locals took Ehsan to Yesterday’s 30.0 ° Moderate rain/ thundershower. a local hospital on a motorbike, from where he was shifted to district’s main hospital. The wound was deep, so doctors referred him to SMHS Hospital here. Dr Nazir Chaudhary, SMHS’s Medical Superintendent, said Ehsan’s wound was deep but stated the boy was out of danger. Ehsan, who wants to be an engineer, said he had no knowledge about what was happening on July 20 in the district. “I was later told that there were largescale protests and a CRPF vehicle had turned turtle in the main chowk of our village,” he said. “Then the forces had come all the way from main market near to where we were sitting and others playing. But I don’t understand why I was fired at.” Relatives of Ehsan said CRPF that day fired indiscriminately. “Yes, it was CRPF which opened the indiscriminate fire,” said one elderly relative. “They were on a killing rampage. Their bullets didn’t even spare our son.” Ehsan’s mother, Waheeda, said her world was shattered when she heard her son was hit. “I couldn’t believe it,” she said, sitting beside Ehsan on the hospital bed. “When somebody called us, our world was shattered.” Ehsan is the lone son of his parents and has two sisters. “I still think the bullets are raining,” he said. “The scene terrifies me even now.” 3000 posts vacant in GMC associated hospitals SHABIR IBN YUSUF Srinagar, July 23: Notwithstanding the tall claims of the government to ensure quality medicare delivery system in J&K, the problem of shortage of staff continues to cast a shadow on health sector in entire state. The reason being that the government has failed to fill thousands of posts lying vacant across the state health institutions for over a decade now. Officials said that vacant posts have been referred to the recruiting agencies. The data available with Health Department said that hospitals associated with Government Medical Colleges of Jammu and Srinagar are having around 3000 posts vacant that include around 2500 in non-gazetted and 450 in gazetted category. The data reveals that institutions under Directorates of Health Services Kashmir and Jammu have 4186 vacant posts in the two categories. IQBAL MEMORIAL TRUST’S GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS IQBAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT Laloo Sheshgaribagh Hyderpora Sgr. (www.iitm-edu.net) ATTENTION NEW ADMISSION TO BCA & BBA The following students have been selected by University of Kashmir for admission in BCA & BBA Courses in this Institution. The said students are advised to complete admission formalities by or before 24th of July, 2014 upto 4.00PM. 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The data reveals that ISM Department has around 40 vacant posts in non-gazetted and 10 in gazetted cadre while as Drug and Food Control Organization has more than 80 vacant posts in non-gazetted and 19 in gazetted cadre. The official said that shortfall of staff at health institutions has stressed out the nurses and other ancillary staff as they have to cope with about 20 times more patients against the number fixed under national norms. The official disclosed that as per the Medical Council of India (MCI) norms, there should be one nurse per seven beds, but in JK hospitals one nurse has to attend to the entire ward which has cast adverse affect on patient care. He said that the increasing shortage of staff in hospitals is because no fresh recruitment of nurses and other paramedical staff has been made in the state for the past over a decade. Srinagar, July 23: Expressing deep concern at the financial crisis facing the state, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday said the Omar Abdullah government is pushing Jammu & Kashmir into a virtual financial emergency through its inefficient governance and politically motivated commitments. Responding to the newspaper reports, party leader and noted economist Haseeb Drabu said in a statement the market borrowing of rupees 300 crores by the state government reflects not just liquidity deficit but an acute fiscal crisis. He said: “It is a mismatch between revenues and expenditures; revenue inflows have been delayed even as committed expenditures have been made. This mismatch has been aggravated by unfunded liabilities of around Rs 8,000 crores that have been created by pre-election freebies.” He said while market borrowings are a part of the state finances, these are to be used for financing capital expenditure and building assets. The problem with these borrowing is that it is being used to defray current expenditures like salaries and pensions and that too on the non-plan account. “This is surest route to a debt trap,” Drabu said. Giving reasons of the prevailing financial crisis, he said the real reason why the liquidity crisis has become binding is because of the institutional change which this government made: replacing J&K Bank by RBI as the lender of last resort for the state government. “Earlier J&K Bank would bridge this gap on call through the overdraft facility. Now, with the RBI as the banker, the state doesn’t have such a mechanism to meet mismatches,” he added. Drabu said if the situation continues like this, the present liquidity problem will graduate into a solvency crisis which can result in a financial emergency. This would be yet another inglorious first of this government he said, even as the state government doesn’t have money to pay salaries and pensions on time, not to speak of advance payment ahead of the festival season, it is adding to its liabilities. Urging the government to immediately release salaries, pension, GP fund and other dues to the employees and pensioners ahead of the festivals, Drabu said this government has failed even to follow the tradition of releasing salary and pension in advance of such occasions. He said there are reports of even regular employees of not being able to get salaries on time. The army of casuals, daily wagers and seasonal laborers this government has engaged on fake orders are not able to get even their standard token ‘Eid gift’ now which they were paid in lieu of their wages to perpetuate the fraud played with them in the name of employment, added Drabu. “Pensioners are suffering as their arrears and gratuity and even the sixth pay commission arrears have not been paid for the current year,” he said. Drabu said developmental works have come to a grinding halt as the government according to media report owes more than one thousand crore to the contractors and suppliers. He said while the chief minister has claimed to empty the already empty treasury on the ‘people’s welfare’ even the old age and destitute pension has been stopped by this government. In contrast, the chief minister and his team are announcing schemes and projects, new institutions with an eye on the next elections in the belief that they would continue to befool the people as the National Conference has historically been doing in the state, Drabu said.