DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014 (PAGE 9)

Arunachal, J&K integral MEA seeks report on Saradhas terror link

parts of India: Swaraj
NEW DELHI, Oct 15:

Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh with the children from J&K on a Bharat Darshan tour,
organised by the BSF under the National Integration Plan, in New Delhi.

40 school children from

J&K meet Home Minister
NEW DELHI, Oct 15:
A group of 40 school children brought here by the BSF
from interior areas of Jammu
and Kashmir today called on
Union Home Minister Rajnath
Singh.
During the event held at
Singh's North Block office, the
Home Minister asked the children to share the beauty and
diversified culture of India and
help the country grow strong in

a unified manner.
The children, including 20
girls, hail from the Jammu
region of the State and are in the
age group of 13-17, a Border
Security
Force
(BSF)
spokesman said.
They will be taken to various
cities and places of historical
importance during the 'Bharat
Darshan' tour and will return to
the State of October 18.
The BSF is deployed in J&K
for border guarding duties. (PTI)

One dies, another injured as truck rolls down

Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Oct 15: One person died and another injured
when a truck rolled down in deep gorge near Samroli on the
National Highway, here today.
The accident took place when driver of the truck, bearing registration number UP15AT-4100-, lost control over the vehicle,
which rolled down into deep gorge. Police rushed to the spot and
shifted the injured driver and cleaner to District Hospital
Udhampur where doctors declared one of them as brought dead.
The deceased was identified as Surender Singh (45) son of
Dalar Singh of Uttar Pradesh. Condition of the injured, identified
as Gurmit Singh (35) son of Sawarn Singh of Uttar Pradesh, was
also stated to be critical.

LoC trade resumes

after 3 weeks of
suspension
POONCH, Oct 15:
The
Cross-Loc
trade
between two side of Jammu
and Kashmir and Pakistan
Occupied Kashmir (PoK) was
resumed today after three
weeks of suspension as goods
worth Rs 1.17 crores were
traded.
The cross-LoC trade was
resumed after three weeks of
suspensions along ChakanDa-Bagh crossing point in
Poonch district today, District
officials said today.
As many as nine trucked
carrying chilli and black
cumin worth Rs 5,493,750
went to PoK from traders of
Jammu and Kashmir, while 9
trucks carrying pomegranate
and dry dates worth Rs
6,265,000 reached Poonch
Trade Facilitation Centre
(TFC)
Chakan-Da-Bagh
from traders of PoK, they
said.
Last time LoC trade took
place on September 23. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, Oct 15:

Arunachal Pradesh and
Jammu and Kashmir are "integral and inalienable" parts of
India and this has been clearly
conveyed to China, including at
the highest level, External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj has
said.
Swaraj, in a letter to Congress
MP Mullappally Ramachandran,
appreciated his concern over distribution of controversial maps
by China to its military.
Ramachandran had raised the
issue in Lok Sabha on July 22. He
had pointed out that China was
trying to reinforce its claim over
Arunachal Pradesh by distributing "controversial updated maps"
to its military and wanted to know
whether the matter was highlighted during the recent deliberations
with Chinese leaders.
"China disputes the international boundary between India

and China. In the eastern sector,

China claims approximately
90,000 sq kms of Indian territory
in the state of Arunachal
Pradesh,"
Swaraj
told
Ramachandran in the letter.
Besides, Indian territory
under the occupation of China in
Jammu and Kashmir is approximately 38,000 sq kms. In addition, under the so called ChinaPakistan "boundary agreement"
signed between China and
Pakistan on March 2,1963,
Pakistan illegally ceded 5,180 sq
kms of Indian territory in
Pakistan occupied Kashmir to
China, she said.
"The fact that Arunachal
Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir
are integral and inalienable parts
of India has been clearly conveyed to the Chinese side on several occasions, including at the
highest level," Swaraj said in the
letter. (PTI)

NCP announces first list of

candidates for Assembly polls
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 15: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has
announced the first list of partys contesting candidates for the
forthcoming Assembly elections in the State.
The candidates from Jammu province are; Gourav Kapoor, NCP
youth president from Gandhi Nagar constituency, Sandeep Singh
Manhas, State gen secy NCP from Marh constituency, Bhajan Lal
Totura (SC) from Chamb, Bodh Raj Salaria (SC) from Ramban
and Bhori Singh from Bhaderwah while the candidates from
Kashmir province are; Prof Ghulam Mohd Paul from Chadoora,
Saifullah Khan from Kupwara, Mohd Shafi Naz from Gulmarg, Dr
Showkat Ahmed from Batmaloo and Er Gaffar Dar from Kulgam.
The second list of the candidates is under preparation and will
be released shortly, said NCP president and former Minister
Thakur Randhir Singh while talking to media persons, here today.

The External Affairs Ministry

has sought from CBI details of its
probe into Saradha chit fund scam
after reports of the scam money
being allegedly pumped into
Bangladesh for terror activities
surfaced.
Top officials said CBI has
been asked to submit its report
whether any such issue has
cropped up during its probe.
CBI sources, however, clarified that so far they have not
encountered any such instance of
funds being transferred to any terror group including Jamaat-eIslami but the probe is still on and
nothing conclusive can be said as
of now.
They said MEA could be
interested in the issue because of
the news reports which are getting
published in India as well as in
Bangladesh.
"We are not aware of all this

international terror linkages. No

such indication has surfaced in our
probe so far. We have not looked
into that aspect. We will inform
MEA about it," said an official.
The sources said they have got
some of the money trail on the
basis of which action is being
taken by the agency but complete
details of investments and fund
transfers etc still being looked into.
The CBI sources further said
the probe has met a stumbling
block because the account books
of the group have been "purposefully" removed from the offices of
Saradha taking excuse of the mob
attack on its offices after news of
scam broke out.
Political parties including
CPI(M) and BJP have asked the
Government to look into the
alleged diversion of Saradha scam
money to terror groups based in
Bangladesh.
"We feel the reports that
Saradha funds were siphoned off

to Bangladesh need to be looked

into by the Ministry of Home
Affairs. It is a matter of grave
security concern and it needs to be
seen who are behind it," senior
CPI(M)leader Sujan Chakraborty
had said in a rally in West Bengal.
BJP's West Bengal president
Rahul Sinha had also requested
Union Home Minister Rajnath
Singh to order a probe into reports
claiming funds of Saradha ponzi
scheme scam has been used to
fund terror in Bangladesh against
India.
CBI has registered four FIRs
against Saradha Group in the chit
fund scam. The Supreme Court
had handed over the Saradha chit
fund scam probe to CBI.
The agency has formed a
Special Investigating Team (SIT)
headed by Joint Director Rajiv
Singh also probe the role of some
officials of Securities Exchange
Board of India (SEBI) and RBI.
(PTI)

J&K Electrical Employees hold annual convention

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 15: Annual
convention of J&K Electrical
Employees
and
Workers
Provincial body Jammu province
was organized here today under
the leadership of its chairman
Qazi G M Tantry, M K Tickoo,
chief advisor, Krishan Singh
Jamwal, provincial president and
B R Sharma senior vice president.
Addressing the convention,
Mr Tantry demanded release of
DA installments on the pattern of
Central Government employees.
He said the employees are
passing hard days during the present crisis created due to devastating rains and floods in the State in
which most of the people have

been rendered homeless and

whose property was also damaged.
In his address Tickoo stressed
on unity among the working class
to face the challenges ahead. He
also appealed the employees to
dedicate their mandatory services
to the public in mitigating their
sufferings and restoration of
power supply in this hour of crisis.
He also appealed the
Government to issue early order
for implementation of SRO -59
which has not been implemented
in respect of Jammu and employees working in PDD. This discrimination should end once for
all, he added.
K S Jamwal took the authori-

ties to task especially the DPC

members for depriving the
employees of their promotion
rights by putting illogical barriers
for calling Vigilance clearance for
the promotion of Class four
employees. This indicates that
delaying tactics in promotions are
being adopted by the authorities,
he added.
He said promotion of class
fourth employees will pave way
for absorption of PDL/TDLs in
regular cadre.
Ajay Anand, vice president,
Mohamed Ashraf , district president, Doda, Mohammed Farooq
district
secretary,
Doda,
Mohammed Rafiq Bhatti, district
president Ramban and other
attended the meeting.