Prime Minister’s Employment Package
Pandit migrants feel at home in Valley
Archit Watts
Tribune News Service
Jammu, April 22
As many as 1,179 displaced Kashmiri Pandit youth, who have been recruited to various state government departments in the Valley under the Prime Minister’s Employment Package for Kashmiri Migrants, are getting a good response from people there.
“Earlier, we feared that the people in the Valley would not tolerate us. But after we joined duty there, we realised that they were just like us as they helped us to adjust there,” said Meenakshi, a government teacher at Pulwama district.
Meenakshi, who had recently come here to meet her family, said, “The good response of the Valley residents was totally unexpected. With a change in mindset, they are no longer willing to fall prey to the designs of separatist leaders”.
Besides Meenakshi, many others, who were recruited as teachers, assistant engineers and junior engineers to various departments, were treated well by the Valley people. Another government teacher, Naveen Ganjoo, posted at Anantnag district, said, “I joined duty in the Valley three months ago and have not encountered any untoward incident. The people in the Valley are treating us like their brothers”.
He added that, “Initially, we found it a little difficult to get settled in Kashmir, but now things are quite well. Fundamentalism and communalism are fading there, as everyone wants peace”.
With the overwhelming response of the Valley people towards the Kashmiri Pandit migrants, who are being rehabilitated there, Vinod Koul, Commissioner, Relief and Rehabilitation (Migrants), said, “The Prime Minister’s Employment Package for the Kashmiri people has been successful, as 1,179 persons have joined duty in the Valley from December 2010 to January this year”.
He added, “Rehabilitation is a continuous process and the state government has been trying its best to provide maximum facilities to the migrants”.
Koul said at present they had provided transit accommodations to the fresh appointees. “Of 1,179 persons, about 950 are staying at the transit camps on a sharing basis and the remaining are living outside with their old neighbours or at rented accommodations”.
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Experts for early harvesting of horticulture crops
Experts for early harvesting of horticulture crops
Archit Watts
Tribune News Service
Chatha (Jammu), April 22
With the possibility of rains in the next few days, the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Jammu, has advised the fruit growers in the region to immediately harvest their horticulture crops like ber, papaya and loquat.
“Fruit growers are advised to harvest ber, loquat and papaya fruits in order to avoid the loss due to possibility of rains,” said a senior scientist, Agrometeorology Department, SKUAST. He added, “Weather is changing every day and the day temperature is lesser than the required, so the fruit growers should harvest their produce, otherwise they will have to suffer huge losses.” He further said during a survey conducted in Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Reasi and Udhampur districts, they found that ber, papaya and loquat were almost ripen and ready to harvest.
“Delay in this exercise at this time can increase the worries of the fruit growers,” he opined. About the growing mango crop, he said the recent rainfall on April 17 and 18 had caused maximum loss to the mango crop. “Mango crop is under the flowering stage and the rain at this stage has infected the crop,” said the expert.
He advised that the mango growers should remove malformed infected twinges from mango orchards, which would save them from further losses. The grape growers have also suffered losses due to the rainfall and if it occurred again, the entire fruit crop would be destroyed, the experts maintained. Even the Meteorology Department in its recent advisory report has forecasted that they were expecting rains in next few days.
Terming it the effect of the western disturbance, weathermen have forecasted that there would be rainfall in the next two-three days, the farming community should immediately make arrangements to save the crops.
Archit Watts
Tribune News Service
Chatha (Jammu), April 22
With the possibility of rains in the next few days, the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Jammu, has advised the fruit growers in the region to immediately harvest their horticulture crops like ber, papaya and loquat.
“Fruit growers are advised to harvest ber, loquat and papaya fruits in order to avoid the loss due to possibility of rains,” said a senior scientist, Agrometeorology Department, SKUAST. He added, “Weather is changing every day and the day temperature is lesser than the required, so the fruit growers should harvest their produce, otherwise they will have to suffer huge losses.” He further said during a survey conducted in Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Reasi and Udhampur districts, they found that ber, papaya and loquat were almost ripen and ready to harvest.
“Delay in this exercise at this time can increase the worries of the fruit growers,” he opined. About the growing mango crop, he said the recent rainfall on April 17 and 18 had caused maximum loss to the mango crop. “Mango crop is under the flowering stage and the rain at this stage has infected the crop,” said the expert.
He advised that the mango growers should remove malformed infected twinges from mango orchards, which would save them from further losses. The grape growers have also suffered losses due to the rainfall and if it occurred again, the entire fruit crop would be destroyed, the experts maintained. Even the Meteorology Department in its recent advisory report has forecasted that they were expecting rains in next few days.
Terming it the effect of the western disturbance, weathermen have forecasted that there would be rainfall in the next two-three days, the farming community should immediately make arrangements to save the crops.
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