Release the scholarship of 4,000 JK students under PMSS: Saroori

Urged Modi, Simriti Irani, Azad, Omar, Soz to intervene in this matter to save the career of the students

Srinagar, August 08: - Senior Congress Leader and MLA Inderwal, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori today urged Prime Minister of India Narinder Singh Modi and Union HRD Minister Simriti Irani to intervene in the non-payment of scholarship to 4,000 students from J&K who got admission under the Prime Minister's special scholarship scheme (PMSS).

"He has urged Prime Minister kindly intervene in the matter and ask the HRD Ministry to ensure proper implementation of the scheme", Saroori said in a statement. "Government of India has devised a scheme to provide scholarships to 5,000 students from Jammu and Kashmir every year but during last financial year Government of India's Human Resource Development (HRD) has placed 9, 000 J&K students under different institutes in the country under PMSSS scheme, but out of 9,000 students only 5,000 students got the scholarship through HRD remaining 4,000 JK students who had cleared their first and second semesters did not receive the scholarships so far.

As the MHRD has not released the sanctioned amount, colleges are forcing the aggrieved students to either deposit fee or leave college. It is as such requested that Ministry of Human Resource Development may take the call and release the withheld fees for all such students as per the stated policy so as to save career of thousands of Jammu and Kashmir students. He has urged them to look into the matter so that eligible students do not give up their studies outside the state,” Saroori said.

“Due to withholding of PMSSS to these students, the parents in an effort to save the career of their children are applying for loans on higher interest rates while some of them have sold their ancestral properties. Unilaterally with-holding of PMSSS has forced most of these students to leave their studies midway and return to their home”, Saroori said and adding that J&K students have telephonically informed or met me and have told me (Saroori) that their parents sent them for Engineer, Hotel Management, nursing, Bachelor’s degree and others courses under PMSSS but the course otherwise was unaffordable for them. However, the scheme has proved a damp squib and the students have forced to rethink on continuing their studies as they have no source of income to pay the college fee. Even many have returned home with a deep sense of frustration.

Saroori demanded that scheme to be open-ended with no cap on the number of students benefited from the scheme so that the career of students is not jeopardized. He has also requested J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Opposition Rajya Sabha Leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, Rajya Sabha MP and President JKPCC Saif-Ud-Din Soz to use their good offices for getting the scholarship released for the remaining 4,000 JK students.

Saroori felicitates winners of Devi Gol cricket Tournament

Youngsters Nali XI drubs Challenger Misla XI to lift trophy

Bunjwah (Kishtwar), August 07: Devi Gol-Bunjwah Cricket Tournament concluded at Devi Gol, here. The Tournament was organized Zakir Hussain Keen, which invoked immense interest amongst the sports lovers of Bunjwah and adjoining areas with a large number of people specially youth thronging to witness the two weeks long Tournament in which 14 teams participated.

The final match of the Tournament was played between Challenger Misla XI and Youngsters Nali XI, wherein Youngsters Nali XI lifted winner’s trophy by defeating Challenger Misla Club by 6 wickets.

Earlier, Challenger Misla XI won the toss and elected to bat and made 125 runs in 15 over’s. Chasing the target Youngsters Nali XI chased down the target in the last over and won the match by a 6 wickets. Akhtar Hussain was adjudged as man of the match for his brilliant inning. Vicky Kumar bagged man of the series award and Joginder Kumar bagged best bowler, Riyaz Ahmed Zargar best fielder of the tournament. The match was officiated by Shahid Khan and Imran Khan. The proceedings of the programme were conducted by Farooq Ahmed Akhoon, Mohd Iqbal Keen.

Senior Congress Leader and MLA Inderwal, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori, who was Chief Guest in the final match and at the prize giving ceremony, gave away the winners and runners up trophies. He complimented all the participating teams in the tournament, saying the game of cricket imbibes spirit of camaraderie among the youngsters. “That is why cricket is being called as gentleman’s game”, he said adding that young lads playing cricket in streets have made big at the national and international level.

Mr. Saroori appreciated efforts of organisers in promoting cricket in hilly areas. He hoped that holding of such events would promote cricket among youngsters and inspire them to make their presence felt at the State and national level.

Later Saroori also exchange various thoughts with youths of Bunjwah and stressed that the youth should make every effort to carry the benefits of democracy to the poor and those who stand at the margins of the society and said that focused attention is being given to explore and show case the serene beauty of Devi Gol Bunjwah.

Earlier, Mohammad Iqbal Keen presented welcome address and highlighted the demands pertaining to sports infrastructure in Bunjwah and presented the vote of thanks. The prominent among those Khalid Hussain Sheikh, Farooq Ahmed Want, Abid Hussain, Chowdhary Misroo, Diva Chand, Liyakat Ali, Shokat Ali, Shamas Din Butt, Ratan Lal, Pritam Chand, Lehar Singh, Abdul Kabir Keen, Chowdhary Mohd Shafi, Mohd Israeil, Nand Lal, Hari Lal, Balwant Raj, Hens Raj, Mohd Amin Khan, Haj Ghulam Nabi Butt, Ghulam Mohd, Ghulam Hassan Sheikh, Jaffar Hussain, Yuraj, Roshan Lal, Krishan Lal, Mohd Shabir, Noor Hussain Tak, Abdul Rahim, Haji Mouhiuddin, Ghulam Mohd Masoodi, Roshan Lal, Man Singh, Somi Raj, Molvi Mohd Shafi Keen, Choudhary Qasam Din Kasana, Hafiz Israeil, Haji Hassam Din,Sarpanchs, Panchs and cricket lovers were also present on the occasion.

Saroori announced IAY house out of his CDF to affected families

House gutted in Fire incident at Deller Chatroo

Chatroo, August 06: - A three story residential house gutted into ashes at village Deller, 3 Kilometers from tehsil headquarter of Chatroo when a Fire broke out at a residential complex owned by Ghulam Mohammad S/o Mohammad Akbar Reshi and his sons Mohammad Iqbal and Bashir Ahmed.

According to the reports, the owner of the house informed locals villagers after noticing the flames coming out of the house immediately rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control but not before the house was completely gutted into ashes. The cause of fire is yet not known.

On receiving information Senior Congress Leader and local Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the area Ghulam Mohammad Saroori rush to the spot and interacted with the fire victims and assured them that the government will take all possible steps for their rehabilitation. He also directed the Tehsildar Chatroo Ghulam Nabi Malik to prepare a comprehensive report about the extent of damage so that adequate compensation can be provided to them.

Saroori also announced Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) house out of his constituency development funds (CDF) to the affected families.

Later he also inspected 3Km long Deller pain to Deller Bala road which is being constructed by PMGSY department at an estimate cost of 3.5 crores. Saroori reiterated the commitment to raise the socioeconomic status of the rural people as well as road connectivity, electricity, education, health and drinking water are among the priority sectors in every nook and corner along with developmental infrastructure in the Inderwal constituency.

“Calling upon to ensure completion of the works taken up in Chatroo area by Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), in time bound manner, Saroori asked the department to adopt double shift system for all the projects to accrue more results in minimum time, so that the desired goals could be achieved of prosperous and developed constituency.

Prominent among those Sarpanches, Panches, local Congress Leaders and officers of various departments from Tehsil Chatroo accompanied Saroori during the said tour.

Demands of considering left out areas of Sarthal and Thakrie for new units of Tehsil in the list of new administrative units

Several join Congress party in Inderwal Constituency

Sarthal (Kishtwar), August 05: - Senior Congress Leader from Inderwal and Sarpanch Karool C, Mohammad Aslam Saroori today exhorted the people to support Ghulam Mohammad Saroori as an effective means for service to the people of Inderwal constituency.

While addressing the newly entrants at Ghan Sarthal, Sarpanch Aslam Saroori explained his perception saying that Ghulam Mohammad Saroori had become a source of inspiration to the people of Chenab Valley and stage is now come at which people want to express their support to the Congress party and many social and political activists will come forward to join the ranks of the Congress Party in the days to come.

Aslam Saroori assured the people that MLA Inderwal G. M. Saroori would perform the duty of serving the best interests of the people and he will never talk about goals that cannot be achieved. He assured the people of Ghan Sarthal that he (Mohd Aslam Saroori) had requested G.M. Saroori to take up pending developmental issues of Sarthal with J&K Government. He appealed to people to strengthen Congress Party in the best possible way in the days to come.

The newly joined workers from various politically parties including Jevan Lal, Hari Ram, Dev Raj, Joti Ram, Girdari Lal, Krishan Chand, Pritam Singh and others and others attributed the reasons of their joining the Congress to their disenchantment with the performance and policies of PDP, NC and BJP. They added that they are impressed with the performance, spirit of public service and the immaculate character of Mr Saroori.

People of the Sarthal have also hailed MLA Inderwal G M Saroori for giving Sarthal as RDD status and has requested demands of considering left out areas of Sarthal and Thakrie for new units of Tehsil in the list of new administrative units as government has already set up a committee of experts headed by Financial commissioner. They requested the MLA Inderwal that their genuine demand may be taken with the government for early redressal.

Saroori chairs CPU of JKPCC held; directed JKPCC to complete the mettling/shingling of Bunjwah-Dunadi road

SRINAGAR, AUGUST 05: Work is apace on 63 different Road and Bridge projects in Kashmir division under R &B sector at an estimated cost of Rs. 442.08 crore, of this Rs.198.20 crore have been spent on the execution of these works up to the end of June 2014.
 

This information was given out in the meeting of the Committee on Public Undertakings of Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC) held here today under the chairmanship of Legislator Mr. Ghulam Mohammad Saroori.

The other Members of Legislative Assembly, Dr Mustafa Kamal , Mr. Abdul Rehman Veeri, Mr. Nizam-ud-Din Bhat, Mr. Charan Jeet Singh, Mr. Ajaz Ahmad Jan, Mr. Muhammad Yaseen Shah and Member Legislative Council Mr. Asgar Hussain were also present on the occasion.

The meeting discussed threadbare various issues relating to the proper implementation of the schemes undertaken by the JKPCC.

The Committee reviewed the pace of work on Ganpath Bridge across river Chenab at Doda, which is under execution since November 2006.The Bridge is likely to be completed in March 2016 at an estimated cost of Rs. 35.71 crore out of which Rs. 13.63 crore have been incurred on the execution of the bridge upto June 2014. Committee directed JKPCC to complete the mettling/shingling of Bunjwah-Dunadi road before 31^st of August beside speed up Kuriya-Keshwan road. Chairman directed JKPCC department to immediately release Rs 50 Lakhs for Loopa Bridge situated on Thathri-Kilhotran road.

Earlier, the concerned MLAs enquired about the status of works being executed in their constituencies.

Giving details of the work, the MD JKPCC informed the meeting that there are six projects under different stages of execution at Bandipora District which include Degree College at Sonawari and Gurez besides Polytechnic College at Bandipora.

Speaking on the occasion Mr. Saroori stressed upon the concern officers that all the projects should be completed within the stipulated time frame so that benefits of the projects could percolate to the target population. 

He also underscored the need that the projects undertaken for execution should not be thrown half way for want of funds or any other formality.

Among others the meeting was attended by MD, JKPCC P L Bhushan, Director (F) R&B Mr. I A Wani, Director Finance JKPCC Dr. S K Sen, General Managers and Deputy General Managers of JKPCC and other concerned officers.

Priority is given to the health care, safe drinking water & power supply in far flung areas: Saroori

People of Kuchal and Sarthal apprised Saroori about the problems being confronted to them

Kishtwar, August 04: - Around 30 workers of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) National Conference (NC) including Mohd Shafi Raina, Mohd SkinderRaina, Ghulam Mohd, Farooq Ahmed Wani, Lassa Raina, Manssor Ahmed, Mohd Iqbal, Mohd Yaseen, Ashiq Hussain, Ghulam Rasool, and others joined the Indian National Congress (INC) at impressive function here on Monday in presence of Senior Congress Leader and MLA Inderwal Ghulam Mohammad Saroori at Kuchal and Sarthal, district Kishtwar.

Describing there joining Congress as returning home, PDP, BJP, NC workers reposed faith in the policy, programme of Congress the vision and ability of its leadership. They said the visionary leadership of dynamic leader G M Saroori has given new dimension to the policy of Congress to achieve the goal of Naya and Khushal Chenab Valley (Erstwhile Doda district) and political stability and prosperity in the region.

Welcoming the new entrants into party fold Saroori expressed hope that newly joined worker would work with enthusiasm and asked them to strengthen the party beside work for the betterment of Kuchal, Sarthal and district Kishtwar. "The results of recently-held bypolls in Uttarakhand shows that falsehood spread by BJP is getting exposed and Congress will re-emerge victorious in the upcoming Assembly polls," Saroori said.

En-route to Kuchal and Sarthal, various deputations and individuals called on the MLA Saroori and apprised him about the problems being confronted to them. The locals projected various demands which include electricity for un-electrified villages, better drinking water facility, staff for schools, solar lights, up gradation of school, early payment of MGNREGA job card holders and early completion of Kuchal & other uncompleted roads. Responding to the demands Saroori issued on-the-spot directions to the officers accompanied to him, for attending to them on priority and their early redressal. Saroori said priority is also given to the health care, supply of safe drinking water and power supply to hamlets and villages uncovered till date so that the people living in these areas are provided with basic amenities. He directed Tehsil Supply Officer Chatroo for ensuring adequate supply of ration in Sigdi, Kuchal, Passarkote, Mugalmaidan, Chatroo, Chingam, Dadpeth, Tagood, Durbeel and other adjoining areas for the convenience of the people of the area.

During his visit, Saroori also took stock of various developmental works under execution in the Sarthal and Kuchal area. He directed the concerned executing agencies for judicious use of funds and time bound completion of these projects so that people will avail maximum.

People of the area thank Mr. Saroori for improving socio-economic status of the people. They demanded for fulfillment of pending issues of the area on at an earliest. Prominent among those Ghulam Qadir Tappal, Abdul Rashid, Kalyan Din, Ch Lal Din, Gh Nabi Mir, Tariq Wani, Mohd Ibrahim Sheikh, Mohd Salim Ganie, Abdul Gani Malik, Mohd Aslam Saroori, Mohd Iqhlak Dev, Choudhary Baji, Choudhary Ibrahim, Ved Raj, Molvi Ali beside officers of various departments and people in large number were present on the occasion.

Saroori inspected construction of road at Saroor

Visited to the residences who recently passed away

Tatani (Kishtwar), August 03: - To ensure timely completion of ongoing road projects in the Inderwal constituency MLA Inderwal, G M Saroori today visited Saroor area of district Kishtwar and inspected ongoing construction work of Chalasu-Tatani road, taken up under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) scheme at an estimated cost of Rs 8.44 crore.

“Interacting with the engineers, Saroori asked them to speed up the land acquisition, required for the purpose, and ensure that project is completed well in time,” MLA Inderwal said. Mr. Saroori was informed that Rs 3 crore have been expended on the project so far and is expected to be completed ahead of its schedule.

Underling need for applying double shift methods, Saroori asked the engineers to accelerate work on other projects as well, taken up in the area, in view of the limited working season. He asked the engineers to ensure constant monitoring on all the projects to avoid delay in completion besides checking the usage of qualitative material as per specifications. “There would be no compromise on quality of work,” Saroori said.

He directed JKPCC department to complete the surveys of 4.96 crore Tatani-Sharoute road via Bimalnag and 15 crore Tatani-Bangar road project which UPA II sanctioned under CRF which was the long pending demand of the area.

Seeking people’s cooperation in implementing the developmental programmes, Saroori said projects taken in hand on completion would change the socio- economic profile of the people of the area. He said the existing public facilities would be improved further besides creating and providing basic facilities for those who are without such facilities in the Inderwal constituency.

Saroori also visited the residence of many deceased to personally console the death of Abdul Wahid Zargar resident of Bugrana, Munshi Ram resident of Dugga, Soni Begum resident of Gujjar Basti Neju, Abdul Latief resident of Lass, Abdul Hameed resident of Tatani Saroor and Irshad Ahmed Wani from Sheri Chatroo who passed away few days ago.

Mr. Saroori stayed with the bereaved families and expressed his sympathy and solidarity with them, consoled the family members and prayed to the Almighty Allah for eternal peace to the departed souls. He also prayed to Almighty Allah to give strength to the family members of the deceased to bear irreparable loss. At Sheri Chatroo Saroori announces Rs one lakh out of his CDF for construction of bathroom.

Later many hardcore worker of ruling National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party from Tanta and Sarthal area including Mohd Ramzan, Mohd Ashraf Mir, Fareed Ahmed, Gulshan Ahmed, Abdul Kabir, Atta Mohd and others joins Congress party in presence of Mr. Saroori at his residence Kishtwar.

Prominent among those Senior Congress Leader Mustaq Ahmed Hap, Sarpanches of the area including Akhtar Hussain Tatani, Firdous Ahmed (Zahid), Bashir Ahmed Hajam, Ved Prakash, Local Congress Leaders Master Sharief, Mohd Abdullah, Mohd Sultan Malik, Hari Ram, Ashok Kumar, Jagdeesh Raj, Ghulam Nabi, Mohd Issaq, Altaf Hussain Malik, Mohd Amin Naik, Bashir Malik, Bidya Lal, Santosh Kumar, officers of various departments beside people in large accompanied Mr. Saroori during the said tour.