Author: Golden Yug

Daily commuting staff cars between Jammu-Katra and even upto Kathua despite having official accommodation at Katra with free electricity, batmen and cooks Few commuting between Udhampur-Katra without Board’s approval Absence of financial controls and Financial Controller himself misusing official position and commuting official vehicle between Jammu-Katra No travelling allowance to Shrine Board’s staff GY CORRESPONDENT jammu, aug 03 If one study instructions issued from time to time for use of staff car in the Central Government and State Government including PSUs and other autonomous statutory organizations, there are SOPs. Whereas in Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board such provisions of…

Enforcement Inspectors Jasbir Singh and Ram Khajuria were transferred after allowing two dozen unauthorized constructions in their respective wards when they deserved to be punished suitably instead of mere transferring them from one ward to another The conditions on transfer of Enforcement Inspectors have never been implemented by Enforcement staff, for example the first condition that the Enforcement Inspectors and I/C Enforcement Inspectors shall conduct extensive checking in the allotted wards and make proper detailed list of ongoing constructions in their respective area of jurisdiction. Had it been so, no one would have dared to undertake unauthorized constructions in Zonal…

Owner already facing Housing Board warning of termination of lease deed for converting residential plot into commercial and the same got published in print media vide DIP/J-4094-P/19 Dated 4-1-2020 and plot No. 21/4 Channi Himmat was at serial No. 116 accused of making land use change from residential to commercial by running full-fledged Bakery from residential house dismantling compound wall towards front side without any parking facility and whosoever visiting this Bakery parks vehicle on main road causing serious traffic jams in the area Owner wrongly replied to Housing Board notice that he has started Bakery from residential House, keeping…

Prolonged wait for elective surgeries in Govt hospitals many a times turn into emergencies and the patient has to go to private hospitals where cost needs no mention On one hand unemployment among Doctors is burgeoning and other hand, vacancies are too glaring to be ignored. The routine scuffle between Doctors and attendants is also fallout of shortage of staff As per RTI disclosure, in Kashmir division, out of total sanctioned strength of 1467 Medical Officers, 1395 are in place and 72 are vacant. In Jammu division, sanctioned strength of Medical Officers is 1390, 726 are in position and 664…

Khokha Wallas who were allotted shops in PWD Rehabilitation Complex haven’t deposited Rs 2.40 lacs of total Rs 4.80 lacs till date when there was condition that if the total amount is not paid within fifteen days , they can’t have possession of shops An outstanding rent of Rs 71800 in case of Khokha Wallas is still pending for the year up to March 2023 and likewise rent of shopkeepers on ground floor is also pending in lacs besides Rs 500 as monthly rent which was to be revised @ 15% after a spell of every three years hasn’t been…

Khokha Wallas who were allotted shops in PWD Rehabilitation Complex haven’t deposited Rs 2.40 lacs of total Rs 4.80 lacs till date when there was condition that if the total amount is not paid within fifteen days , they can’t have possession of shops An outstanding rent of Rs 71800 in case of Khokha Wallas is still pending for the year up to March 2023 and likewise rent of shopkeepers on ground floor is also pending in lacs besides Rs 500 as monthly rent which was to be revised @ 15% after a spell of every three years hasn’t been…

Enforcement Officer Anil Kashyap and Jasbir Singh visited site but didn’t report violations after striking handsome deal with owner to extend unfair help to owner to continue commercial construction on residential plot against approved site plan Commissioner JMC should order an enquiry into this as to how owner managed to raise commercial hall on ground floor without maintaining setbacks and also when at present construction of first floor is going on, why JMC so far hasn’t served any BOCA notice to owner As per approved drawing of residential construction, the owner was duty bound to construct two bed rooms one…

Owner against approved site plan constructed basement 1200 sqft and two shops on it instead of Stilt parking, Ist floor 1440 sqft making 20% violations and also not maintain setbacks Rear 26 ft. Side-1, 12 ft and shape of plot also changed at site as it was not as per approved drawing, constructed basement by covering hundred percent area without observing setbacks Owner being a retiree as Superintending Engineer managed a report from private Geo-Globe Consultants Soil and Material Testing Laboratory dated 5-5-2019 that whatever minor deviations has been done on the guidance of structural Engineer citing loose soil of…

JMC enforcement did nothing despite the fact that locals strongly opposed and also brought same in kind notice of JMC higher authorities Photographs of commercial construction circulated on Whatsapp numbers of Commissioner JMC, Secretary JMC besides also to Enforcement Inspector deputed in Ward-69 but till evening no action was taken against owner Surprisingly despite bringing same into kind notice of local Corporator Gurmeet Kour Randhawa, she too didn’t do anything to stop this commercial construction on existing shop without maintain setbacks GY CORRESPONDENT jammu, jul 03 Jammu Municipal Corporation has extended long rope to its enforcement staff which instead of…

Building Section of JMC during verification of building permission on direction of High Court reported that no building permission was granted in favour of owner at 29-A Extension Gandhi Nagar Jammu in Ward-20 which raises question mark as with whose permission this violated structure reached 2nd floor without JMC permission Owner without JMC permission bifurcated residential plot into two parts and constructed ground and first floor by covering left side measuring nearly 12 ft measuring 12×50 Sqft by fixing the glass in front side and also fixed racks on the walls on ground floor and first floor and also raising…