Saroori grieved over death of Army Soldier from Dhar Drabshalla

Kishtwar, May 10: - Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee Vice President, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori on Tuesday expressed grief over the death of Army soldier in Kupwara, Sepoy Kishori Lal from Dhar khori in Saroor area of district Kishtwar.

Army soldier, Sepoy, Kishori Lal, slipped and fell into a deep nallah at Machhal Sector in frontier Kupwara district. "Conveying his heart-felt sympathies to the bereaved family and prayed for peace to the departed soul,” said Saroori.

Prestigious Kishtwar-Sinthan road to be made open for vehicular movement on 11th May: Saroori

“7.83 crores Kishtwar-Sinthan tourism project is under execution; called upon the Tourism department to work with vigorous for completing the project”

Kishtwar, May 08: - The National highway Kishtwar-Sinthan road will be made open on 11th of this month for the traffic, this was informed by Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Inderwal, G. M. Saroori today.

During the tour people thanked Vice President J&K PCC, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori, who has been pivotal in pushing the Singhpora-Vailoo tunnel, Kishtwar-Sinthan Tourism Project, Kishtwar-Sinthan project and other projects through.

Saroori said after opening of Kishtwar-Sinthan road it will make shortest road link connectivity between the people of twin hilly and far-flung districts of Doda and Kishtwar with summer capital Srinagar. He said that since Doda-Batote road has been declared unsafe for vehicular movements after a several stretches washed away near Assar, Ragi Nalla, daily landslides and laid stress to connect both Doda and Kishtwar districts with the rest of the world by way of opening of Kishtwar-Sinthan road.

“It is the need of the hour that this route connecting Doda and Kisthwar with the rest of the world will be open on 11th of May,” said Saroori.

Saroori said that with the opening of this road, there will be a huge flow of local as well as foreign tourists to both these districts as both these routes are attractive for tourists. “We can give boost to the tourism pilgrimage also as numbers of religious places of different religions are located in these two districts as number of Pilgrims could not visit those religious places due to poor connectivity,” said Saroori.

He said that various proactive measures have been taken up to explore the immense tourism potential of the far off areas in the Sub-Division Chatroo as such Rupees 7.83 crores Kishtwar-Sinthan in which Yatra Sarai, Huts, parks and allied infrastructure is under execution. He called upon the Tourism department to work with vigorous and dedication to ensure the execution of ongoing projects well in time and projects taken in hand on completion would change the socio-economic profiles of the people of Chatroo.

Saroori also said that the dream project of Sub-Division Chatroo in particular and Kishtwar and Doda in general “Chatroo-Singhpora-Vailoo” tunnel is in advance stage and said that this is his priority to construct Singhpora-Vailoo tunnel in the next few years. The ambitious project to bore a tunnel between Vailoo in South Kashmir and Singhpora in Chatroo Kishtwar, once completed, will revolutionise road connectivity between the Kashmir Valley and the Doda region of Jammu.

PCC leaders participated in protest march in New Delhi

A high level team of legislators and senior party functionaries of J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) joined AICC President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul in a protest march in New Delhi.

“The march was organized by AICC to lodge a protest against the anti Congress campaign launched by BJP besides the anti-people policies of the NDA Government towards the people of the Country.”
The protest march started from Janter Manter New Delhi, on this occasion PCC senior leaders said, 

“Congress party under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi is strong enough and will continue to fight against the wrong policies of NDA Government, and the Party (Congress) won’t allow BJP to harm the democratic set up in the country by destabilizing the elected State Governments.”

“BJP in order to settle political scores with the Congress party, destabilized the Congress Governments in Uttrakhand and Arunachal by using money power, which is very unfortunate, shameful and undemocratic act on the part of BJP leadership.”

Congress Party while having never indulged in such type of political vendetta, always strengthened non Congress Governments and ensured overall development of the states and people, statement quoting added.

Prominent among those Ghulam Ahmed Mir, Sham Lal Sharma, Nawang Rigzin Jora, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori, Haji Abdul Rashid, Jugal Kishore Sharma, Ghulam Nabi Monga, Usman Majid, Gulzar Ahmed Wani, Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, Chowdhary Akram, Krishan Chander, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Salman Nizami, Zahid Hussain Jan, Pawan Raina, Nadeem Shreef, Mushtaq Ahmed Hap, Youth congress leaders and others participated in the protest.

Saroori visits accident site at Karara took stock of the rescue operation

“Streamline Traffic management and strictly needs to enforce it”

Thathri, May 06: - Vice President JKPCC and MLA Inderwal G. M Saroori today directed the Doda district administration to intensify the rescue operation for searching the bodies of persons who went missing when their tipper skidded off the road and rolled into the river Chenab on Wednesday.

Saroori inspected the site of the accident at Karara and took stock of the rescue operation. MLA Inderwal was accompanied by SDM Thathri Abdul Qayoom Mir beside others senior officers.

He stressed to district administrations of Doda and Kishtwar for taking measures for improvising the traffic system on the Batote-Kishtwar (Sinthan) road and other minor link roads to minimize the recurrence of road accidents. He urged to cheek overloading in buses, operationalzing the Disaster Management at district level, phasing out of outdated passenger vehicles and induction of additional SRTC buses in districts.

Saroori stressed to streamline the Traffic management in the district and strictly needs to enforce traffic regulation norms adding that screening test about proficiency skill of drivers and vehicle efficacy running on various roads in the districts should be ensured at all cost. He asked the district administrations to initiate verification of driving licenses of drivers forthwith and take stern action against erring persons.

The Congress lawmaker also directed for generating mass awareness drive regarding various road safety measures which need to be adopted while driving in hilly areas so that precious human lives are saved.

Later Saroori also expressed grief over the damage to property of Mohd Qasim Chouhan, son of Karam Din in fire incident at Chatroo in Kishtwar district. Expressing sympathy with the victim, Saroori assured every possible help. He also directed the district and sub-division administrations to carry out relief and rehabilitation measures for the fire incidents.

He also expressed deep grief over the sad demises of Ghulam Nabi Keen father of Zakir Hussain Keen resident of Patnazi Bunjwah and Zoona Begum Wife of late Abdul Rashid Wani resident of Trankhal.

MLA Inderwal expressed solidarity with the bereaved family conveyed his sympathy and described late Ghulam Nabi Keen as pious and down to earth social activist who throughout his life tirelessly worked for the betterment and uplift of the down trodden sections of the society. He remembered the Zoona Begum the departed soul as a noble lady who lived a pious life.

Saroori prayed to the Almighty Allah for blessing peace to the departed souls beside a place for them in heaven. He also prayed to Almighty Allah to give strength to the family members of the deceased to bear irreparable loss.

Saroori reviews developmental activities of sub-division Thathri

Distributed regularization order among 14 ReT teachers

Thathri, May 05: - Member of Legislative Assembly from Inderwal, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori today chaired a meeting of the officers in the Dak Bungalow Thathri and took sector wise development review of various works being executed in sub-division Thathri.

SDM Thathri Abdul Qayoom Mir, Executive Engineers R&B and PHE, flood & control, Tehsildar Thathri, Phagsoo and Kahara, BDO Thathri and Kahara, HOD Agriculture, Horticulture, BMO Thathri, ZEO Thathri and Drabshalla, AEE PMGSY and R&B, Naib Tehsildars, TSO Thathri and Kahara, storekeepers besides all other staffs from other departments attended the meeting.

Saroori reviewed the working of all developmental sectors and flagship programmes in the area. Special focus was given to the performance of different departments under the schemes, viz., IAY, MGNREGA, DRDA, RMSA, SSA, NRLM, R&B, town sanitation, agriculture, horticulture and PMGSY schemes.

He also reviewed implementation of other public welfare schemes/programme like PHE schemes, electrification of left out habitations, monthly ration supply to the public in remote areas, construction work of departmental buildings of Education, Health, under NABARD funds in the sub-division Thathri. The MLA, however, highlighted the need for improvement in their performance and asked the Officers to enhance their performance.

Saroori called upon the implementing agencies to accelerate complete the ongoing schemes in a time bound manner considering the limited working season in the area with special attention on PMGSY, roads rural sanitation programme, MGNREGA, works BRGF plan for the blocks, IAY beneficiaries coverage made in the Thathri and Kahara blocks, Swatch bharat and repairment of khuls and water supply schemes. He also underscored the need for judicious use of funds with schedule time of completion for ensuring early benefit to the targeted habitations.

He also directed the Executive Engineer R&B for issuing the tenders for black topping on Thathri-Badanoo road, Chariya-Kandothe road, Jangalwar-Phagsoo road, Thathri-Kilhotran and circular road Thathri besides removing of slips and constructing r-walls & drains wherever it is required. A team was also constituted headed by Tehsildar Kahara Ghulam Nabi Malik for submitting the report over the less width of Kahara-Tanta road than the prescribed norms and to demarcate the land acquired for the road and asses the causes for any such diversion from norms so that the responsibilities could be fixed. He also said that Rs 3 crores have been sanctioned for Goila-Trankhle road under NABARD sector and Rs 2 crores for construction of 36 mtr span motorable Steel bridge over Tanta Nallah besides this Saroori directed R&B department to handover the Thathri-Kathawa road to PMGSY department to which the PMGSY will construct the said road which has been sanctioned under PMGSY phase 10th.

Saroori also asked SDM Thathri to constitute a team to enquire about the non-distribution of ration and Kerosene oil in Tehsil Kahara besides this he asked the Horticulture department for the opening of Seed stores at Malanoo, Bathri and Cheera areas. He impressed upon the officers of PDD department to take all necessary steps to prevent frequent damages to the distribution system and transformers and for immediate replacement of the transformers to avoid unnecessary inconvenience to the people.

Meanwhile, G. M Saroori also took note of the ongoing correction in ration cards in the sub-division Thathri of district Doda. Earlier, heads of the departments briefed the MLA Inderwal about the physical and financial achievements under various flagship programmes in the area.

Saroori also visited Primary health centre Thathri to take stock of functioning of the institute

Later Saroori also distributed regularization orders among 14 ReT teachers of Thathri Education Zone. Also Mr. Saroori visited Phagsoo the residence of late Mohd Sharief Malik, Irshad Ahmed, Hajira Begum to personally express condolences to their families. MLA Inderwal said that no words were enough to console the bereaved families as the loss was enormous and irreparable. He expressed solidarity with the bereaved families and prayed for eternal peace to the departed souls.

Congress leaders paid tributes to Abdul Subhan Kichloo and Ghulam Qadir Tappal

Held public meeting at Chariya Thathri; met with newly nominated members of district ST cell Kishtwar

Kishtwar, May 04: - Vice President JKPCC and MLA Inderwal Ghulam Mohammad Saroori today paid tributes to two veteran Congress leaders from Kishtwar Late Abdul Subhan Kichloo and late Ghulam Qadir Tappal at MLA Inderwal’s residence of Kishtwar.

On the occasion, senior Congress leaders remembered Abdul Subhan Kichloo and Ghulam Qadir Tappal as a true mass leaders and stalwarts who always worked for strengthening the party. They also paid floral tributes to the late veteran Congress leaders.

The speakers including Haji Ghulam Mohd Kohli, Haji Ghulam Qadir Sheikh, Bidya Lal Sharma, Chowdhary Issaq, Ghulam Mohd Sheikh, Som Nath, Noor Hussain Ahanger, Mohd Sultan, Firdous Mingnoo, Mohd Iqbal Keen, Ghulam Hussain Shah, Hens Raj, Abdul Majeed Bichoo, Mohd Aslam Saroori, Abdul Wahid, Altaf Hussain Malik, Mohinder Singh Parihar, Mushtaq Ahmed Hap, Waseem Saroori, Satish Kumar, Ravi Kumar Shan, Surjeet Singh Badyal, Bashir Ahmed, Ali Mohd Mir, Ali Mohd Naik, Haji Noor Din, Ghulam Nabi, Ghulam Nabi, Abdul Rashid, Abdul Rashid Sheikh, Captain Jagdish Raj, family members including Ghulam Haider Kichloo, Tazeem Ahmed Kichloo, Bashir Ahmed Mingnoo, Zakir Hussain Tappal, Tahir Hussain Tappal, party leaders and workers narrated their share of experience with Abdul Subhan Kichloo and Ghulam Qadir Tappal.

In his keynote address, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori threw light on the life of Abdul Subhan Kichloo and Ghulam Qadir Tappal and appraised the gathering with the efforts of the Kichloo and Tappal, which they made to make Congress successful on all fronts in Kishtwar

In the end, vote of thanks was given by Ghulam Mohd Saroori.

Earlier Saroori has stressed that his priority as MLA was to work for solution of public problems and he was committed to deliver the goods. He made this assurance while addressing a public rally in village at Chariya area of sub-division Thathri.

People on the occasion demanded up gradation of middle school chariya to high school, installation of hand pump at Chariya, construction of road from Kandoth to Inderala and handing over of RDD roads to R&B including Kandoth to Inderala, Pernote to Shout

Saroori also inspected the road which has been constructed under conversion plan of about 8 lakhs from Kandoth to Pernote and said other developmental works would start very soon. He reiterated that serving people was his mission of life and he would leave no stone unturned for the same. He also assured the public of Chariya that their genuine demands would be addressed on top priority.

Prominent among those Asgar Hussain Khangi, Chaman Lal, Vimal Singh Manhas, O. P Bhagat, Surjeect Singh, Tilak Raj Kotwal, Raj Kumar, Naseeb Chand, Amar Nath, Om Raj Bhagat, Bihari Lal, Girdari Lal, Budhi Singh and others.

Later Vice President J&K Congress ST cell Ghulam Mohammad Kohli also met with Vice President JKPCC and MLA Inderwal, G. M Saroori today evening and discussed latest political and organizational affairs of the area. Vice president JKPCC ST cell along with the team of newly appointed office bearers and held meeting with Mr. Saroori and briefed about the organizational affairs and activities of the party in the district Kishtwar, Doda after he (Kohli) took over as PCC St cell Vice President.

The delegation comprises of Chowdhary Qassam Chairman St cell Kishtwar, Ch. Noor Din and Haji Noor Mohd vice Chairmans, Ghulam Mohd Masoodi General secretary, Ch. Noor Din Joint Secretary, Ch. Issaq, Ch. Jeelani, Ch. Kaloo, Abdul Wahid, Ch. Bashir Ahmed, Ch. Ismaiel, Ch. Abdullah, Ch. Mohd Abdullah, Ghulam Hussain, Shokat Ali, are secretaries of Congress district cell Kishtwar.

JKPCC condole demise of Dr. Romesh Chander

Jammu, May 03: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee has deeply mourned the sad demise of veteran Congress leader and former Minister Dr. Romesh Chander

In a joint Statement by President JKPCC Ghulam Ahmed Mir, Senior Congress leaders including Sham Lal Sharma, G. M Saroori, Tara Chand, Raman Bhalla, Taj Mouhiuddin, Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, Haji Abdul Rashid Dar, Ravinder Sharma, Chowdhary Mohd Akram, Ghulam Nabi Monga, Mohd Amin Bhat, Gulzar Ahmed Wani, Aijaz Ahmed Khan, Mumtaz Ahmed, Vikar Rasool Wani, Mohammed Sharief Niaz, Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma, Abdul Majid Wani, Pranav Shagotra, Hilal Shah, Salman Nizami, Amir Rasool, Mehboob Mustafa, Shabir Ahmed Khan and all rank and file of the Party Congressmen deeply mourned the sad demise of veteran Congress leader Dr. Romesh Chander.

The Congress leaders said “in Romesh Chander’s demise J&K has lost a seasoned politician. The void his demise has created in the political scene of the State is hard to fill.

"He was full of political wisdom and in his death we have lost a great visionary leader who tirelessly struggled for raising the issues of the weaker sections of the society," Congress leaders said.

The senior Congress leaders recalled Dr. Romesh Chander immense contribution as a former Minster. They said the deceased will be always remembered for his political acumen, organizational skills and services he rendered for the needy, during the decades long political career.

JKPCC leaders conveyed their heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved family and prayed for the everlasting peace of the deceased soul. Dr. Romesh Chander passed away in New Delhi hospital today after brief illness.