Jammu Redefining
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| February 9--February 22, 2014
MEETING MISSILE MAN OF INDIA REMAINED A DISTANT DREAM
FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN OF GOVT RUN SCHOOLS
from famous city private
schools and barely govt
school children were visible
during the inauguration of
the
Children
Science
Congress.
Though
students
of
Kendriya Vidyalaya and
Army school were present in
the pandal but the students
belonging to state govt run
school were no where to be
seen.
The private schools managements had registered
J.R NEWS SERVICE
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N the recently held Indian
Science Congress in
Jammu, Missile Man and
former President Dr APJ
Abdul Kalam motivated thousands of school going children to dream big and inculcate culture of excellence in
their day to day life to realise
their school children and
deployed their school buses
to ferry them to the venue of
the science congress. These
school children also visited
DRDO section in the science
exhibition and posed number
of questions to Dr APJ Abdul
Kalam and Prof Yash Pal but
absence of govt school children exposed the functioning
of the school education
department.
The senior
authorities, embroiled in red
tapism, missed the great
opportunity of introducing the
school children and giving
them the exposure of meeting former President of India.
According to several senior govt school teachers in
the absence of transport
facilities and lack of will on
the part of senior school education department functionaries the school children
missed the opportunity of
attending
the
Children
Science Congress.
their dreams.
The school children who
had assembled there listened to him in rapt attention.
Ironically, meeting most popular President of India
remained a distant dream for
the govt school children.
As per rough estimates the
entire pandal was filled with
thousands of school children
CASH STARVED J&K GOVT SPEND LAVISHLY ON COMFORTS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
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ESPITE announcing austerity
measures the cash starved
state govt of Jammu and
Kashmir is not shying away from
spending lavishly on providing comfort to the members of council of
ministers.
According to the written reply furnished by the Chief Minister on the
floor of the state assembly, "the state
government spent a whopping sum
of Rs 11.21 crores on repair/renovation, furniture and furnishing of
accommodation of council of ministers in Jammu and Srinagar during
the last two years".
According to the details a total sum
of 6.32 crores was spent on renovation of official residences of council of
ministers in 2012-13 while 4.89
crores were spent on similar works in
2011-12 by the state government.
According to the details provided
by the state govt in response to unstarred question of PDP legislator Ch
Zulfikar Ali, "a total sum of Rs 20.72
crores
was
spent
on
the
renovation/repair of accommodation
of council of ministers, TA/DA, telephone bills and state aircraft/helicopters during the last two years".
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