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304 'Red' Category Industries Operating In J&K GoI Says 93 Environment Clearances Given To Various Projects In The State Under EIA Notification 2006 Observer News Service

SRINAGAR: At least 304 red cat-egory industries are operating in the ecologically fragile Jam-mu and Kashmir, government of India informed the parliament on Friday.

Responding to a question by National Conference par-liamentarian and former high court Judge Hasnain Masoodi, Minister Of State, Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ba-bul Supriyo also said that ‘no advisory’ to the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) to refrain from giving any further consent to set up any cement factory in Khrew-Khonmoh area in Pul-wama district.

“As per the information pro-vided by the J&K State Pollution Control Board,304 red category industries are operating in the State of J&K,” he said.

Normally, industries falling under 'Red' category will not be

permitted in ecologically fragile or sensitive areas. Interestingly, industries like integrated auto-mobile manufacturing, airports and commercial air strips, and milk & dairy products are in-cluded in the 'Red' category.

He said The Ministry of En-vironment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) and State Level Impact Assessment Au-thority of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) have accorded 93Environ-ment Clearances to various proj-ects in the State of Jammu and Kashmir under the provisions of Environment Impact Assess-ment (EIA) Notification, 2006.

The minister also responded in negative to a question on wheth-er the Ministry proposes to have a study on the air pollution levels of Khrew-Khonmoh area having more than twenty cement facto-ries and limestone mines.

“No such study is under con-sideration at present.However, J&K State Pollution More On P8

PDP Leader’s PSO Shot Dead, Rifle Snatched Observer News Service

SRINAGAR: Personal Secu-rity Officer (PSO) posted with PDP leader Sajad Mufti, cousin brother of former Chief Min-ister and PDP President Me-hbooba Mufti, was shot dead by suspected militants after Friday prayers in Baba Mohal-la area of Bijbehara in south Kashmir's Anantnag district.

Reports said that suspected militants fired upon the po-liceman namely Farooq Ah-mad Mir resident of Khiram, Anantnag soon after he came out from the mosque after performing Friday prayers.

He was immediately shifted to Sub-District hospital Bijebe-hara where doctors declared him brought dead.

Medical superintendent SDH Bejbhera Dr. Showkat said that the policeman re-ceived bullet wound in his chest and was brought dead to the hospital.

A police officer confirmed the incident and said that one AK-47 has been also snatched by the militant from the slain cop. Soon after the incident, whole area was cordoned off to nab the attackers, he said.

Meanwhile, a police spokes-man in a statement said that to pay homage and respect, a wreath laying ceremony was held for the slain at District Police Lines Anantnag.

“Senior police officers in-cluding IGP Kashmir, DIG SKR, SSP Anantnag and other offi-cers from CAPF More On P8

‘Defamatory’ TOI Report Enrages Kashmir JournalistsKEG To Take Legal Recourse Over The ReportObserver News Service

SRINAGAR: Various media bodies in Srinagar have taken a strong exception to a news report published in ‘The Times of India’ which casts aspersions on the Kashmir based journal-ists and Kashmir Editors Guild

(KEG) has even decided to take legal recourse over the report.

KEG has termed the TOI re-port “malicious, propagandistic, motivated and defamatory”.

“The TOI report has raised points questioning the integrity of the members associated with KEG and the Kashmir Press Club (KPC), terming them as a cre-ation of ISI and ‘Jehadi Journal-ists’”, KEG statement said.

Notably, KPC conducted its first elections last week where-in a managing body was elected through an overwhelming par-ticipation of journalists work-ing in Kashmir and the entire exercise was appreciated by all quarters in the state. The edi-tor’s body felt perturbed over the consequences of such a ‘life threatening’ piece of reportage published by TOI. More On P8

Govt Formulating Policy For KPs Rehabilitation: Governor Along With Union Minister Flags off New JKSRTC Electric Buses In Srinagar

Army Chief Visits DrassReviews ‘Operational Preparedness’SRINAGAR: Army Chief, Gen-eral Bipin Rawat, visited Drass sector on Friday and reviewed operational preparedness in the Sector, a defence ministry spokesman said.

“During the visit, he was briefed by the General Of-ficer Commanding, 'Fire & Fury' Corps on the prevailing situation and operational pre-paredness in the More On P8

ACB Books XEn For ‘Siphoning Off’ Rs 2 Cr Observer News service

SRINAGAR: The Anti Corrup-tion Bureau on Friday filed an FIR against Executive Engineer, PWD Kargil and Zanskar Bodh Raj Bha-gat and other officials for alleg-edly siphoning off more than Rs. 2 Crores of government money on account of various works.

“On the outcome of preliminary enquiry conducted by this Bureau

on the allegations that Bodh Raj Bhagat, Executive Engineer, PWD Kargil and Zanskar in league with Des Raj Bhagat, Deputy Secretary, PWD (R&B), Department has si-phoned of more than Rs.2 Crores of Govt. Money on account of con-struction of Pidmo Bridge, Chumo-gumpa Sani Road Phutktal Road and concrete abutments, it has surfaced that there were numer-ous procedural More On P8

Observer News Service

SRINAGAR: Governor Satya Pal Malik on Friday said the Gov-ernment is in the process of formulating a policy for reha-bilitation of Kashmiri Pandits.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function at SKICC to mark the launch of electric buses in Srinagar, Malik said: “A policy is being formulated and more details will emerge soon.”

The Governor also said that the hoteliers and houseboat owners were dumping sewage into Dal Lake. “Their licences will be cancelled if they don’t install Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs), ” he said.

Earlier the Governor and Arvind Ganpat Sawant, Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, flagged off new JKSRTC Electric Buses in Srinagar here at SKICC. A to-tal of 20 E-Buses will ply on dif-

ferent routes in Srinagar.Kewal Kumar Sharma and

K Skandan-Advisors to Gover-nor; Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon, Principal Secretary, Transport, Animal, Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries Department; Pravin Agrawal, Joint Secretary, De-partment of Heavy Industry,

Union Ministry of Heavy Indus-tries and Public Enterprises; Prof. Nazeer Ahmed, Vice-Chancellor, SKUAST Kashmir; Baseer Khan, Divisional Com-missioner, Kashmir; Alok Ku-mar, IGP Traffic J&K; Dr. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, Deputy Com-missioner Srinagar More On P8

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Jadhav To GetConsular Access NEW DELHI: After ICJ orders to Pakistan to grant consular access to death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav, Islamabad on Friday declared that he will be granted the right to get in touch with diplomats and of-ficials from India. “Pursuant to the decision of the ICJ, Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav has been informed of his rights under Article 36, Para-graph 1 (b) of the Vienna Con-vention on Consular Relations. As a responsible

Mirwaiz Asks GoI To Revisit K-Policy SRINAGAR: Hurriyat Confer-ence (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said that government of India should shun the approach of force towards Kashmir and instead deal with the “dispute in a political man-ner” to resolve the issue. Addressing the Friday congrega-tional gathering at the historic Jamia Masjid, Mirwaiz said that GoI’s policies like the issue of highway ban, that is causing tremendous problems for people on a daily basis and is leading to a humanitarian situation is a totally anti people and anti Kashmir move causing

Lok Sabha Clears Bill On NHRC ConstitutionNEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Friday passed The Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill 2019 by voice vote.The Bill expedites the process of appointment of chairperson and members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and provides for, among others, including the chairpersons of the National Commission for Back-ward Classes, the National Com-mission for the Protection of Child Rights and the Chief Commission-er for Persons with Disabilities as members of the NHRC.In his reply in the

2 Killed In Accident SRINAGAR: Two men were killed Friday when their motorcycle was hit by a truck in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.Bharat Bhushan, 27, and Gurlal Singh, 28, both residents of Haryana, were travelling on the motorcycle when they were hit by the truck coming from the op-posite direction at Gund on the Srinagar-Leh Highway, a police official said. (full report on p5)

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Court Seeks ‘Photographic’ Evidence Regarding Removal Of Toilets On Jhelum BanksSRINAGAR: The J&K high court on Friday asked officials to place before it “photographic evidence” of toilets removed on either sides of river Jhelum.The direction followed after the PHE counsel submitted that all the toilets and latrines situated on river banks have been demolished. The Court has also directed that the new toilets be constructed at a “feasible location.”

“The respondents have given the details of some of the public toilets in a tabulation form which are on the banks of River Jehlum, which according to the respondents have been demolished. This tabula-tion, however, does not give the number of toilets which were in existence; how many remain to be demolished and also the status of malba (debris),” the court said, adding, More On P8

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SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has di-rected Department of Tour-ism undertake an exercise of

mapping of the location and name of all the houseboats on its website.

A division bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rashid Ali Dar More On P8