Author: News Desk Kashmir Ahead

Back to Village is the coming together of officers and people and administration and the public. Officers visit villages and sit with the public to understand problems, says Rohit Kansal, Pt. Secretary to government, Information Department. It is a knowledge campaign that has identified 80 schemes in the 35 departments. These are public facing schemes that are the demands of the public. The administration will try to saturate the 80 schemes and make improvements so that the demands of the public are met., said Rohit Kansal Pt. Secretary to government, Information Department. The locals residing in Poonch think that Back…

SRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 07: Representatives of various travel and tour bodies’ today called on the Secretary, Tourism, Sarmad Hafeez here and discussed the obtaining tourism scenario in the UT.Director, Tourism, Kashmir, Fazlul Haseeb, other officers of the Tourism Department and representatives of travel and tour operators were present in the meeting.The representatives put forth different issues and suggestions for tourism promotion with respect to their concerned fields in the Kashmir valley. They thanked the Department for its continued support in promoting the sector by taking several path breaking initiatives.Speaking on the occasion, the Tourism Secretary impressed upon the stakeholders to work…

SRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 08: As the farmers are happy with the bumper saffron crop this year, the GI Certification of Kashmiri Saffron by Geographical Indications Registry would also cease the adulteration of it and will put an end to the marketing of Saffron cultivated in other countries under the garb of being produced in Kashmir.The adulteration of saffron was earlier affecting the economic interests of the farmers associated with this crop. To give a boost to saffron production in Kashmir, J&K Government has launched new initiatives including the introduction of GI Tagging.GI sign is used on products that have a specific…

RAMBAN, NOVEMBER 7: Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and IT, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar today said young Indians must equip themselves with skills in line with the evolving times—in order to stay relevant for employment or/and entrepreneurship opportunities.Skills are passport to prosperity and opportunities. Along with education, it is necessary to possess a future-relevant skill so that it would be easier to remain competitive in the job market or entrepreneurship fields, the Minister said, addressing students and staff members at the Government Polytechnic College, Chanderkote in Ramban district.Stating that it was Prime Minister Shri Narendra…

The Horticulture department’s prime motto is farmers welfare, self employment generation and women empowerment, says Dr. Md. Iqbal Baba, Chief Horticulture Officer, Budgam. We created a water source for the farmers as they did not have the water facility for irrigation, and they needed to sprinkle medicine in the fields. There are two schemes. PMDP- Prime Minister’s Development Package is a centrally sponsored scheme. Around 90,000 farmers get subsidies. Ninety percent is the Centre share and 10 per cent is the State share. They get Rs 81000 as Central share and Rs 9000 as State share. The other scheme is…

JAMMU, NOVEMBER 8: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta chaired a meeting with Administrative Secretaries here to review achievements of the recently concluded Back to Village-4 programme.Dr Mehta congratulated the Secretaries and their respective departments for successful culmination of the programme with most of the set targets achieved.The 35 participating departments were successful in saturation of 54 deliverables set as their respective targets for the programme. The rest of the set 101 deliverables have also been partially achieved, it was informed.Among numerous success stories of the B2V4 programme, readmission of 13977 school dropouts into schools, with quality education assured, stands…

I left my private job and decided to do something else. I saw in the media about mushroom cultivation and that got me interested, says Shazia Jehan, resident of Kulgam district in Jammu & Kashmir. She thought why not start a mushroom unit herself. Shazia contacted the Agriculture Department. She was trained for 10 days where she learnt how to grow mushrooms. After the completion of her training, she was given a mushroom unit. Then she resolved to make this her future and her mushroom business is doing well. Young entrepreneur Shazia has achieved success and is earning her own…

SRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 07: Commercial Floriculture in Jammu and Kashmir is helping the farmers to multiply their profits with the help of Government sponsored schemes and other related interventions.Commercial Floriculture, a specialized form of Horticulture aimed at augmenting the income of Growers and generating employment opportunities involves setting up of Ornamental Nurseries, Aromatic oil crop farming like Lavender, Cut flower production of Rose, Carnation , Gerbera ,Lilium, among others as well as Bulb production of Iris, Daffodils, Dahlia, Lilium, Gladiolus, Peonia, Cyclamen, Ranunculus, etc.Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) like MIDH, RKVY, and ATMA are being implemented for the promotion of the commercial…

Jammu & Kashmir Digital services are in line with the Digital India Mission, says Bilal Ahmad, Tehsilaar of Kulgam. Whatever services were being provided by the Tehsil office, Kulgam will now be provided online from the portal jansugam.jk.gov.in. Domicile Certificate including Dependence Certificate Report, Property Certificate, Unemployment Certificate, Inheritance & other mutations, Income Certificate, Reservation Category Certificate- OSC/OB/RBA/ST/EWS and Legal Heir Certificate being provided in revenue are all being offered online. People can go to the service and portal site:Jansugam.jk.gov.in and request for whatever certificate they want. Previously people used to visit clerks in offices and go from one department…

Till now we are getting free ration as well as we can buy ration through money, say local residents of Poonch in Jammu & Kashmir. We are grateful to the government for giving us free ration. The decision taken by the government to provide free ration during Covid has been continuing, say officials. It has been extended for three more months. Till December people will continue to get free ration. In Poonch, more than sixty thousand and one hundred and eighty four families and their dependents and beneficiaries can benefit from this free ration scheme. Around thirteen thousand and three…