Kashmir Despatch News

Baramulla, May 08 : Government forces on Wednesday launched a cordon and search operation in North Kashmir’s Baramulla village.

Reports reaching Kashmir Despatch said a joint team of Army’s 52 RR, 46 RR, 53 BN CRPF and SOG Baramulla launched search operation in Gohan village of Baramulla.

Reports said a joint team of forces conducted house to house search operation in the area and sealed all entry and exit points.

A police officer also confirmed this cordon and search operation to Kashmir Despatch and said following inputs about presence of some militants in the area search operation was launched.

Searches in the area was on when last reports came in.

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Keran, May 08 : Three persons including a driver of the vehicle in which they were travelling in fell into deep george in north Kashmir’s Kupwara on Tuesday evening.

Reports reaching Kashmir Despatch said that a vehicle (Tiago) bearing registration number JK09B 3731 was on way to Keran from Kralpora when driver of the vehicle lost control on his speed and vehicle skidded off the road and fell down into deep george at Farkin Top near Water Point.

In the mishap three persons including driver of the vehicle were injured and were later shifted to 186 M H Drugmulla through Army ambulance for special treatment reports added.

A police official also confirmed the incident and identified all injured as Abdul Hameed Beigh (35) son of Mohamed Jamal Beigh , Mohamed Aslam Wani (32) son of Shabir Ahmed Wani and Naseer Ahmed (35) Son of Ghulam Hassan all residents of Dardson Kralpora. Officer further said that the condition of all injured is said to be stable.

Srinagar, May 7: A government gunman, who was “evading” arrest from last 23 years in connection with the killing of seven members of a family, was on Tuesday arrested by police.

“A police party of police station Sumbal led by SHO under the supervision of SDPO Sumbal arrested the person namely Wali Mohammad Mir son of Mohammad Maqsood Mir of Saderkoot Bala Bandipora,” a police official said in a statement.

He was involved in a case FIR no. 125/1996 u/s 302, 307, 325, 341 RPC 7/27 arms Act of P/S Sumbal, the official said.

“The accused Wali Mohammad Mir was evading his arrest from last 23 years and accused was arrested from village Barwala Kangan.”

The accused is involved in the brutal murder of seven persons—five men and two women and injuring to other five persons of village Saderkoot Bala. “Several warrants were issued by the court District and Sessions Judge Bandipora but the accused hid himself at some unknown location till now.”

On October 5, 1996, seven members of three families in Sadderkote-Bala, Bandipora, were killed by government gunmen (Ikhwanis).

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SRINAGAR, May 7: Chief Engineer Public Health Engineering (PHE) Kashmir, Tuesday said that geotagging of all water supply schemes will be done in the current year.

The step was taken to monitor projects completed or being implemented under the Central National Rural Drinking Water Programme, aimed at providing potable drinking water to the people in the rural areas.

 “We have already started the process. I am hopeful that we will complete geo-tagging of all central sponsored schemes in the current year,” CE PHE Kashmir, Engineer Abdul Wahid said.

He said that geo-tagging of assets is being made mandatory from the year 2017-18 of all possible components of the piped water supply schemes such as source; water treatment plant; storage tanks; stand posts and major nodes in conveying pipe network etc.

Though Geotagging, a process to add geographical identification such as latitude and longitude with photograph to give the location-specific information online, was started by the PHE department, but still most of the schemes have been left without this process.

 “If it could be done in a time bound manner, it will be a major step to study the impact of schemes and monitor the funds sanctioned by the Centre in the past one decade,” said one of the government officials.

Sources said that following criticism over poor implementation and utilization of funds under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme, the Central government had directed Jammu and Kashmir to go for geotagging and create an online database of all water supply schemes executed since 2009.

Sources said that most of the centrally funded schemes have been marred by nepotism, corruption and delays in completing projects under the successive governments in the state.

Sources said that in most of the water supply schemes in the state, there are no monitoring to understand the flow of funds and transparency in the system.

As per the Census 2011, J&K has a rural population of 91.8 lakh, who lives in 15,958 habitations. The total requirement of water is 147.72 Million Gallon Daily (MGD) but the installed capacity is only 92.13 MGD, leaving a deficit of 55.59 MGD. This was expected to be met under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme, but not much has been achieved.

It is to mention here that the work on over 2000 water supply schemes is under implementation but most have been stopped due to lack of funding.

The number of incomplete and defunct water supply schemes continue to increase due to lack of funding and depletion of resources in the state.

An official document of ministry of drinking water and sanitation reveals that there are 2,004 piped water supply (PWS) schemes under various stages of implementation in the state.

Out of these, 786 are multi-village PWS, 507 are single village PWS, and 711 tube wells, hand pumps. However, work has been either been stopped or going at slow pace in 1,600 water supply schemes for want of funding, an official of Public Health Engineering Department, said. (KNS)

Bandipora,07 May. An absconder wanted by Police was arrested after evading arrest from last 23 years ,after strenuous efforts of Bandipora Police.

Acting on a tip-off about the presence of the accused person at the specified location on the directions of SSP Bandipora,Sh Rahul Malik-IPS .
A Police party of PS- Sumbal led by SHO-PS Sumbal under the supervision of SDPO- Sumbal arrested the person namely Wali Mohammad Mir S/o Mohammad Maqsood Mir R/o Saderkoot Bala Bandipora.He was involved in case FIR no. 125/1996 u/s 302, 307, 325, 341 RPC 7/27 arms Act of P/S Sumbal.
The accused Wali Mohammad Mir was evading his arrest from last 23 years, the accused was arrested from village Barwala Kangan.

The accused is involved in the murder of seven persons (05 men &02 women) and injuring to other 05 persons of village Saderkoot Bala, brutelly murdered by the accused in their houses.Several warrants were issued by the hon’ble court District & Sessions Judge Bandipora, but the accused hided him self at some unknown location till now.

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Kupwara, May 7 : Despite tall claims of the state education department to provide better facilities to government-run schools, Government Boys Middle School Dedikote in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district still lacks basic amenities and infrastructure.

The school has only four rooms – two for teaching eight classes and two for the office and lab. This speaks volumes about the standard of education in government-run schools.

“We are facing accommodation crunch here and are unable to provide proper facilities to the students enrolled here,” a teacher at the school told news agency.

“How can we teach 8 classes in just two rooms that too simultaneously? This has created chaos and confusion in the school,” he added.

Another teacher said it is difficult to teach four classes simultaneously.

“We approached everyone in the administration. We are doing our best to get all the required facilities here so that the students do not suffer,” he said.

Mehaan Majeed, a class 8 student, said the school lacks the latest infrastructure with regard to education.

“We are facing immense hardships due to space crunch and lack of facilities. We don’t even have a proper lighting system and in the absence of electricity, teachers using mobile light to teach us. Several officers visited here but nothing was done,” she said.

The school headmaster Ghulam Nabi said the students’ studies suffer a lot due to lack of infrastructure. “They (students) get disturbed here in one of the rooms where three to four classes are accommodated during rains. Sometimes we give classes in the open,” he said.

The headmaster said despite repeated reminders to higher authorities, no attention was paid towards the school.

In the past, we have arranged several meetings with parents of the students and asked them to provide land for the building of this school but nobody bothered, the headmaster told news agency, adding that one among the parents earlier agreed to provide the land but he too changed his mind. (GNS)