Emphasising the importance of preserving and maintaining the aesthetic environmental grandeur of the fragile Himalayan region during the Amarnath yatra, Governor NN Vohra today called for effective measures to ensure zero discharge of pollutants into Lidder and Sindh rivers.

Srinagar: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is all set to scrap an MoU signed in 2007 between the JK Power Development Corporation (JKPDC), which is executing the Baglihar power project, and an international consultancy firm.

Amid dark clouds of economic meltdown, commercial cultivation of flower is booming in the Jammu region, with women taking the lead.

Women in the region are opting for floriculture rather than traditional crops.

A large number of women have set up floriculture businesses of their own in the
past few months.

Mid-Day Meal Scheme

The National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education commonly called the Mid-Day Meal Scheme is being impeded in the absence of any effective mechanism initiated by the Department of School Education.

Jammu: The National Highway NH1A that had been envisaged to be an all-weather freeway between Jammu-Srinagar by 2010 under the North-South Corridor Connectivity Project has missed its deadline.

A blanket ban has been imposed on the cutting of chinars in the valley. DC, Kashmir, Masaud Samoon stated this in view of the complaints from ecologists, environmentalists, NGOs and the media. The DC said chinar was the heritage of the valley unparallel in beauty, strength and size amongst the trees of Kashmir.

The Comptroller and Auditor General in its latest report has said that for the last three years the Jammu & Kashmir Government has been feeding school children lesser quantity of cooked meal thereby defeating the objective of the mid-day meal scheme.

MIR EHSAN
SRINAGAR