Daily HELLO JAMMU HELLO JAMMU JAMMU || WEDNESDAY || 01 JULY, 2020 l Vol 8 Issue 153 RNI No. JKENG/2013/53940 Postal Regd. No.: JK-573/17-19 Jammu-Wednesday, 01 July, 2020 PAGES : 12 1 ` 2.00 J&K Police DGP reviews situation along IB, LAC standoff: India, China hold rewards BSF men who shot Pak hexacopter talks at Chushul amid tensions JAMMU, JUN 30: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh flanked by BSF and civil administration officers visited Basantar River bed and reviewed the security scenario while he also rewarded the BSF team who shot arms laden Pakistani hexacopter. BSF spokesman here on Tuesday said that Mr Singh along with N S Jamwal, IG BSF Jammu visited Samba border area specially Basantar river bed to review close coordination between BSF, Police and other civil agencies in view of rainy season. Sanjeev Verma, Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Mukesh Singh, IGP Jammu, Rohit Khajuria, Deputy Commissioner Samba, Ravinder Sharma, representatives from other civil agencies and BSF officers also accompanied them during the visit. DGP J&K Police and other officers supervised the flood protection work in Basanter river and exhorted the farmers for sowing less height crops in Basan- ‘PMGKAY extended till November, 80 crore people to get free ration for 5 more months’: PM Modi NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced the extension of the key central scheme to help the poor during the coronavirus crisis. “PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) will be extended till the end of November in which free ration will be provided to the poor. The extension will cost over Rs 90 thousand crore,” PM Modi said in his address to the nation. The prime minister said that 80 crore people will get free ration for five more months. He also highlighted the work done by the Centre since the lockdown came into force. “Under the PMGKAY, we announced a package of Rs 1.75 lakh crore. In the last three months, Rs 31,000 crore have been deposited in the bank accounts of 20 crore poor families. Also, Rs 18,000 crore deposited in bank accounts of more than nine crore farmers,” PM Modi said. His short address, sixth since the pandemic Contd on P-2 tar river bed as soil is very fertile so that land is not wasted, he added. The spokesman said that the DGP also Contd on P-2 NEW DELHI: Senior Indian and Chinese commanders on Tuesday held a long meeting at Chushul in Ladakh as part of ongoing efforts at the military level to cool heightened border tensions that have soured bilateral ties between the two neighbours, even as the military build-up on both sides of the contested Line of Actual Control (LAC) continues unabated, people familiar with developments said on Tuesday. The talks between the army delegations, led by corps commander-ranked officers, began at around 11am and were still on till the time of filing of this report. There was no official word from the army on the talks. A breakthrough is unlikely at this stage but talks will go on, said one of the persons cited above on the condition of anonymity. This was the third meet- ing between the delegations led by Lieutenant General Harinder Singh, commander of the Lehbased 14 Corps, and Major General Liu Lin, commander of the South Xinjiang military region; and 5 more persons die due to COVID-19, death toll crosses 100-mark in J&K SRINAGAR, JUN 30: The death toll due to COVID19 has risen to 101 in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir with five more persons, including four from the valley and one from Jammu, dying due to the disease on Tuesday. With these deaths, 65 people have lost their lives due to infection in 26 days, and 86 people in 42 day in J&K, where the COVID-19 positive cases have surpassed 7300-mark. Official sources said a 65-year-old Srinagar resident tested positive for COVID-19, hours after he died at SHMS hospital on Tuesday. “The patient, a Advisor Baseer Khan tours Reasi: inspects development works being executed by RDD resident of Qamarwari, was admitted to the hospital on Monday for chest related problem,” they said, adding the patient died on Tuesday morning. They said the swab test of the patient came positive for COVID-19 this afternoon. They said that a 23-yearold patent from Shopian with serious head injury was shifted from SHMS hospital to Chest Disease hospital after he tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. “The health condition of the patient deteriorated and he died on Tuesday afternoon,” they said. They said a 65-year-old Centre asks states to enforce Unlock 2.0 guidelines strictly REASI, JUNE 30: Advisor to Lt Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, today visited Reasi and inspected various works being executed by Rural Development Department in several parts of the district. During the visit, Advisor inspected various works in different panchayats of Panthal and Katra blocks being executed under schemes like MGNREGA, PMAY, Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin, Back to Village and 14th Finance Commission. The inspected works included Water Conservation/Water Harvesting, Rural Connectivity, Shopping Complex and Solid Liquid Waste Management Centre. Advisor laid emphasis on convergence and dove-tailing of various schemes to create durable rural assets in the district. He directed the officers to focus on labour intensive works under MGNREGA for providing livelihood to rural households during the challenging times of COVID-19. During visit to PMAY houses, Advisor inspected the roof top harvesting model, which is under implementation in the district in convergence with MGNREGA, would be used as powerful tool for water conservation and ground water recharge in all inaccessible areas of this hilly district . Advisor, while interacting with members of Contd on P-2 NEW DELHI, JUN 30: Soon after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued the new guidelines for Unlock 2.0 on June 29, the Centre asked states and Union Territories (UTs) to enforce guidelines in letter and spirit. In a letter to Chief Secretary of States and UTs on Monday, the Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said, “I would urged you to ensure compliance of Unlock 2.0 guidelines and direct all authorities concerned for strict implementation”. Further, guidelines issued by MHA and consequent Orders issued by the respective State Government and UT administrations should be widely Contd on P-2 NEW DELHI: India should raise the Tibet issue in bilateral talks with China and make it one of its core issues, Lobsang Sangay, the head of the Tibetan government in exile, on Monday said, amid the Sino-India standoff in eastern Ladakh. Tibet is one of the factors that there is tension between China and India, Sangay said during a webinar organised by the Foreign Correspondents Club. Tibet always acted as a buffer zone between two of the most populous countries of the world—China and India—but after Tibet's occupation that ended, he said. He said it was with the Panchsheel Treaty that China sowed the seeds of betrayal, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) president said. India has paid a huge price after the occupation of Tibet, Sangay said. "China says Tibet is the core issue, India should say the same," he said. "Tibet is very important for China and Tibet is equally important for India. They (China and India) have so many bilateral talks, during those talks, given all these tensions, Indian government should raise the issue of Tibet as well," Sangay said. Contd on P-2 JAMMU, JUNE 30: The five-day long online Professional Development Program on Pre Primary Education being organized under Samagra Shiksha concluded today. The programme was conducted in association with Ampersand Group of Mumbai which is a leading Education Provider in country and abroad. 40 participants attended this unique webinar based programme who are work- ing in different Government Schools of Kashmir. On the onset, Principal Secretary School Education, Dr. Asgar Hassan Samoon congratulated all the participants who successfully completed the week long program with dedication and sincerity. Dr.Samoon expressed gratitude to Ampersand Group and their team who inspite of prevailing conditions managed to organize this program in smooth the second after the brutal clash at Galwan Valley that left 20 Indian and an unconfirmed number of Chinese soldiers dead. The Galwan Valley clash, which took place while a previous disengagement process was on, has created trust deficit between the two sides, said a second person who asked not to be named. The two delegations last met on June 22 when they hammered out a consensus on disengaging from friction points along the disputed border during an 11-hour meeting. The “mutual consensus to disengage” from all Contd on P-2 India's corona tally reaches 5.6 lakh, country to begin with unlock 2 woman from Barzulla in Srinagar, who was tested positive for COVID-19, also died in CD hospital on Tuesday. “The woman, who was on a ventilator, had diabetic and hypertension, besides other ailments,” they said. They said another COVID-19 positive patient, a 52-year-old man from Baramulla, died at S K Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Bemina. “The woman was admitted to the hospital on Saturday with bilateral Pneumonia and other ailments,” they said, adding the patient died of a massive heart attack. Earlier in the day, an 85-year-old woman from Kathua in Jammu died due to COVID-19 in Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu. Ten districts of Jammu have reported 12 fatalities while 89 people have lost their lived due to COVID19 in ten districts of Kashmir. With this, Kathua district in Jammu has registered its first death due to the virus. The death toll has risen to 24 in Srinagar which is the worst affected district in terms of causalities due to COVID-19. The number has swelled to 16 in Baramulla, which stands at number two, followed by Contd on P-2 NEW DELHI, JUN 30: India's contagion tally has reached 5,66,840, after a spike of 18,522 fresh infections in the past 24 hours, Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. Fatalities due to the pandemic have increased to 16,893 across the nation after 418 more people succumbed to the virus spread since Monday. However, there is an improvement witnessed on the recoveries front, and now the count of patients cured and discharged has reached 3,34,822, which is now 1,19,697 more, as compared to the active cases at present. The active cases in Contd on P-2 SRINAGAR, JUN 30: National Conference (NC) on Tuesday expressed concern over allotment of sand mining and mineral extraction contracts to nonresidents of J&K, saying the measure will rob employment opportunities from local youth and affect livelihood of thousands of families. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, NC Members of Parliament Muhammad Akbar Lone and Justice (Retd) Hasnain Masoodi, while expressing concern over the discriminatory measures, said last year the rights for extraction of the minerals was exclusively reserved for local contractors. “Due to the restrictions on the internet, the local contractors couldn’t participate in the on-line bidding process. From contractors to manual sand diggers, laborers to transporters, and scores of other mineral workers who are directly or indirectly associated with the extraction of minerals, all will be in peril because local contractors failed to bid for the contract as the internet was not available to them. Whatever little they earn to manage their household chores comes from the sand mining,” the duo said. The MPs said the educated youth of J&K are already suffering due to shrinking employment opportunities aggravated by measures taken on August 5, last year. “The domicile policy has added to the frustration of JK youth on account of diminishing job avenues,” they said. They said unavailability of a viable private sector and the ruin caused to local hospitality, handicraft and manufacturing sectors post August 5 and successive COVID-19 induced lock down has increased the trepidation of the unemployed youth of J&K. “All the 10 mineral blocks in river Jhelum in Srinagar have gone to outsiders; in north Kashmir’s Baramulla, 26 sand mining contracts out of 38 mineral blocks have gone to outsiders, and in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, of seven mineral blocks, four have been awarded to outsiders in the bidding Contd on P-2 manner. While appreciating the efforts of Samagra Shiksha and Directorate of School Education Kashmir; he stressed that it’s the need of hour to focus more on pre-primary education so as to strengthen the foundation of early childhood and imparting right education at right time in order to generate a learned society. The Principal Secretary also emphasised on Contd on P-2 Mining, mineral extraction contracts going to outsiders will rob employment of locals: NC MPs Raise Tibet issue with China in bilateral 5-Day webinar for Pre Primary Teachers concludes under Samagra Shiksha Focus Pre Primary Education to strengthen foundation of students: Samoon to Teachers talks, Tibetan leader tells India