13Greater Kashmir SRINAGAR | May 1, 2016, Sunday

SKUAST-K to revive rice variety Zag in Tangdhar

KVK Ganderbal holds awareness campSrinagar, Apr 30: KVK Gan-derbal (SKUAST-Kashmir) organized an awareness-cum-animal clinical camp for tribal livestock holders of Yarmukam and adjoining areas.

The program was held to celebrate World Veterinary Day in collaboration with FVSc & AH SKUAST-K along with a team of scientists led by Head, KVK-Ganderbal, Shamim Simnani.

During the program, on-spot diagnosis, treatment and subsequent medication were distributed among the participating animal holders, a statement said.

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Srinagar, Apr 30: In a welcome initiative, SKUAST-K has decided to revive the heritage rice variety Zag in Tangdhar in district Kupwara.

In this regard, a university team led by Dr G A Parray, Associate Director Research, MRCFC, Khudwani, officers of agriculture department recently launched a 2-day “Par-ticipatory Seed Pro-duction of High Yield-ing Varieties” and “Revival of Zag Rice of Kash-mir Himalayas” in Tangdhar, a statement here said.

Raja Manzoor local MLA and large number of farmers of the area were present. An interface of the

scientists-farmers was also held on the occasion.

“The traditional Zag variety (Lal Chawal) was losing its area in Tangdhar and was becoming extinct.

On the directives of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Nazeer Ahmed an effort

was initiated to revive the heritage rice variety ZAG rice in this area,” the state-ment said.

“15q seed of high yield-ing varieties and pure seed of Zag were distributed

among farmers for up-scaling the produc-tion. One compact block of 200 kanals

of land in the Agri-culture Zone Gabar

of Tangdhar was brought under this participatory seed pro-

duction programme,” it said.

Dr Parray speak-ing during the inter-

face highlighted the role played by the uni-versity scien-

tists towards rice research and in address-ing the problems faced by farming community of the valley.

Nayyar Electrodes bags national awardSrinagar, Apr 30: Nayyar Elec-trodes Pvt Ltd, Sidco industrial complex, Bari Brahmana, has received “national award of best entrepreneur.”

The award was presented to the company at a function organized by J&K Sidco and COSIDICI. Minister for Indus-tries and Commerce Chander Prakash Ganga was the chief guest on the occasion.

The minister gave away the award to Kuldeep Singh Nayyar, MD and Jaidip Singh Nayyar, Director, Nayyar Electrodes in presence of Amit Sharma MD Sidco, a statement here said. Nayyar Electrodes “is an estab-lished brand in welding elec-trodes, SPARC and Weldwell.”

JK Bank commissions business unit, ATM in HaridwarSrinagar, Apr 30: Expand-ing its footprints at important places outside the state, J&K Bank inaugurated state-of-the-art Business Unit at Haridwar in Uttarakhand. An ATM was also commissioned on the occasion.

Executive President Vagish Chander Sharma inaugurated the bank’s 860th business unit in pres-ence of Zonal Head North (Delhi) Rakesh Gandotra, Vice Presidents Farooq Ahmad Rather, Rajini Saraf in a simple function attended by leading busi-nessmen and along with an impressive gathering of locals, the bank in a state-ment said.

Speaking on the occasion, Executive President said, “Although people of Harid-

war wished to have a branch of J&K Bank since long but we feel privileged to be associated with this holy city of Haridwar by commissioning the busi-ness unit and ATM here.”

Enunciating the bank’s philosophy of serving-the-peo-ple as the greatest individual and institutional virtue he assured the people of Harid-war of better products and

services besides best custom-er service.

Earlier, Zonal Head North (Delhi) during his welcome address apprised the par-ticipants about the business

operations of the bank and its tailor-made schemes for diverse customer needs.

He urged the people to avail maximum benefit of bank’s customer friendly products especially the latest technology based products like Debit and Credit Cards, e banking, Mobile Banking etc.

Vice President Rajini Saraf concluded the func-

tion with vote of thanks.Meanwhile, the bank inau-

gurated two Cash Depositing Machines (CDMs) in Kashmir (North) at Business units T P Baramulla and N C Sopore.

JKEDI disburses Rs 66 crore to 2178 beneficiaries

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Pampore, Apr 30: The Jammu and Kashmir Entre-preneurship Development Institute (JKEDI) has dis-bursed over Rs 66 crore to 2178 youth for establishment of micro enterprises in the state.

The money has been disbursed under Term Loan Scheme of National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC) being implement-ed by JKEDI since 2011, a JKEDI handout here said.

“The youth trained by JKEDI under self employ-

ment component of Himayat scheme form a major number of the cases disbursed so far. After training the youth are provided financial linkage by the institute.

“In the first two years of implementation of Himayat, JKEDI has trained 4046 can-didates for entrepreneur-ship under the scheme, out of which 1746 candidates have been provided finan-cial linkage under Term Loan scheme of National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC), New Delhi.

“An amount of Rs 46.26 crore has been sanctioned

in favour of 1746 trained candidates (Himayat), out of which Rs 34.12 crore has been disbursed so far in favour of 1073candidates from all parts of the State, enabling them to earn a dig-nified livelihood.

“The trained candidates have been provided financial networking through Term Loan Scheme of NMDFC being implemented by the institute since 2011.

“The remaining amount of more than Rs 32 crore has been disbursed by the insti-tute directly under Term Loan Scheme of NMDFC to 1105 beneficiaries.

Financial business to top Govt agenda in ParliamentNew Delhi, Apr 30: Financial business will dominate the government's agenda in Par-liament from Monday while seven bills have already been passed in the first week.

The coming week will wit-ness discussions on demands for grants. Only 10 days of the session remain, which comes to an end on May 13, while working of eight Ministries is still to be discussed

"Discussion on Demands for Grants and working of identified ministries besides consideration and pass-ing of the Appropriation and Finance Bill in respect of the General Budget for 2016-17 constitute the main agenda for the second week of the second Budget ses-sion of Parliament beginning Monday," an official statement said

In the Lok Sabha, discus-sion on Demand for Grants of the Ministry of Social Justice will resume before the same is voted upon

The Lower House is still to do the same in respect of the Ministries of Civil Aviation and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation before Demands for Grants of other ministries are guillotined

Thereafter, the Appro-priation (No.2) Bill, 2016 and The Finance Bill,2016 will be taken up for consideration and passing

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PRESS NOTEMaintaining its endeavor to reach out the far-flung and tribal areas of the district for mitigation of their problems with the objective of the socio-economic upliftment of the community, KVK-Ganderbal organized “Awareness- cum- Animal Clinical Camp” at Yarmukam and its adjoining areas on 28-04-2016. The programme was organized as a part of World Veterinary Day celebrations in collaboration with F.V.Sc & A.H, SKUAST-K. A team of experts comprising of KVK scientists and expert scientists from different divisions of Veterinary faculty lead by Programme Coordinator/ Head KVK-Ganderbal sensitized and apprised the tribal cattle holders regarding the cause and management strategies of various nutritional, metabolic and infectious diseases viz. FMD, diarrhea, deworming, repeat breeding and infertility. The experts conducted on spot disease diagnosis, treatment and medication to ailing animals. During the programme the participants were also made aware of the various precautionary measures to prevent the outbreak of several epidemic diseases for the coming months especially during the migration of animals to higher pastures. Free medicine, mineral mixture and antibiotics worth Rs. 10,000/= was distributed among the cattle holders. Besides a very enthusiastic and friendly interactive session between the scientists and the community was also held at the end of programme during which the local representatives, Mr. G. M. Rather, N. A. Chechi and Mr. Dil Parzair Awan hailed the efforts of the KVK for providing the service at the doorstep and timely conduct of the camp.

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