SRINAGAR: The Governor, N. N. Vohra, today said that Jammu and Kashmir has vast potential in agriculture, horticulture, floriculture and fruit processing industry to generate large scale economic and employment opportunities.

JAMMU: Director School Education Gulzar Ahmed Qureshi today asked the Education Department functionaries to concentrate on improvement of education standards at elementary level to attain better results at the higher levels of schooling.

He observed that the result percentage of 10th and 12th classes can show significant improvement only by making sound educational base of students at the eleme

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RAJOURI: Residents of Solaki village and adjoining hamlets staged protest demonstration on Kalakote-Rajouri road and disrupted movement of traffic for about an hour today.

They were protesting against shortage of water in the area.

JAMMU: Expressing serious concern over deplorable condition of sewerage system in the city and outskirts, People's Democratic Party (PDP) today said that pre-monsoon showers have exposed tall claims of the Jammu Municipal Corporation and Urban Development Department.

In a joint statement issued here today, senior PDP leaders pointed out crores of rupees have been spent to improve sewerage syste

SRINAGAR: A high level meeting was held here today under the chairmanship of Revenue Minister, Raman Bhalla to review the progress of land acquisition and removal of impediments in respect of construction of roads in Ramban district under various schemes including National Highway 1-A, roads being constructed under PMGSY, BRO and Railways.

The meeting was attended by Financial Commissioner Reve

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JAMMU: Divisional Commissioner Jammu Dr. Pawan Kotwal today inspected main PHE pumping stations across Jammu city and inquired about the quantity of water being supplied from each station. Deputy Commissioner Jammu Sanjeev Verma, senior PHE, PDD functionaries, besides other officials accompanied the Divisional Commissioner.

SRINAGAR: The Governor, N. N. Vohra, who is the Chairman of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, today visited Baltal, Panjtarni and Nunwan Camps and reviewed the arrangements made for this year’s Shri Amarnathji Yatra, which is scheduled to commence on June 29, from Baltal and Nunwan base camps.

SRINAGAR: The Governor, N. N. Vohra, has called for engendering very close coordination between the research and extension agencies to effectively transfer new techniques and know how from lab to land to make Jammu and Kashmir fully self-reliant in agriculture and all the allied sectors within the next 3-4 years and even start exporting certain agriculture produce items.