Katra (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], January 2 (ANI): Divisional Commissioner Jammu Raghav Langer, probing Mata Vaishno Devi stampede incident that claimed the lives of 12 pilgrims on Saturday, has issued a public notice stating that those desiring to submit any evidence or facts may appear before the enquiry committee either online or in-person by January 5.

Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 19 (ANI): Power sector reforms are inevitable, as the Centre has directed the administration to ensure the same, said Divisional Commissioner Jammu Raghav Langer on Sunday, even as the Power Development Dept (PDD) employees went on an indefinite strike.

Jammu Dec 19 PTI The army has been deployed to restore essential services hit by the ongoing strike of electricity department personnel here officials said SundayThey said the deployment was made following a request by the administrationIn a communication addressed to the army Jammu Divisional Commissioner Raghav Langer said that due to the strike by electricity department personnel essential services have been severely affected in Jammu regionWe would like to hereby requisition the Indian army to assist in the restoration of the essential services by provisioning manpower to main critical electricity stations and water supply sources Langer saidThe army acted swiftly and deployed its troops at main critical electricity stations and water supply sources to restore supply the officials said Several areas of Jammu and Kashmir witnessed electricity outages as linemen to senior engineers begin their indefinite strike on Saturday against the governments privatisation move and failure of two-round talks During the night-hours there was a blackout in nearly 50 per cent of areas across JK PTI TAS TIR TIR

Jammu Nov 21 PTI A senior government official in Jammu has called for an ambitious project to arrest the dumping of undesirable effluents into Tawi river during a review meeting held on the progress of various ongoing sewerage network projects and new plants proposed for the city Jammu Divisional Commissioner Raghav Langer directed the agencies to categorise their targets with respect to number of households effluent volume and nallahs streams to be tapped after seeking a detailed stage-wise progress on each individual portion of the citys sewerage network officials said on Sunday The officials said Langer expressed concern over the dumping of undesirable city effluents into Tawi river and asked the agencies concerned to design the ambitious project to check the hazard at the earliest and set separate targets on the project for its right and left banks The meeting was informed that roughly 40 per cent of the projected number of households and its population on the right bank of the river has been linked with sewerage lines and the projects for saturating the rest of the population are under preparation the officials said They said a total of 293 kilometres of sewerage network has been laid on the right bank in parts of Jammu East and Jammu West areas Zone III while a total of 55000 households have been tapped till date under the ongoing projects There are a total of 13 nallahs draining into the river on the right bank and the departmental officials apprised the Divisional Commissioner that about Rs 500 crore shall be required to fully tap them and create a complete network to fully cover all households on the right bank of the city the officials said They said NBCC was reprimanded for not being able to complete the balance 1850 household connections under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission JNNURM or languishing sector schemes and deadline of January 15 2022 was set for the same The officials said work on a sewerage scheme costing Rs 51 crore is under progress through the Urban Environmental Engineering Department UEED on the left bank of Tawi in which five nallahs are to be tapped Work on a four million litres per day MLD sewage treatment plant is complete while another sewerage network is progressing at a very slow pace the officials said The UEED was directed by the Divisional Commissioner to invoke a penalty clause on the contractor and get work executed at the risk and cost of the defaulting contractor they said PTI TAS HDA

Doda (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], October 28 (ANI): Following a disastrous bus accident in Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir where at least eight people were killed, Indian Air Force (IAF) MI 17 started the evacuation operation on Thursday.

Jammu Sep 23 PTI Taking note of several fake social media accounts being operated on his name Jammu Divisional Commissioner Raghav Langer has asked the cyber police to take action against the people behind them According to officials some of these fake accounts are operational on Twitter and Facebook The divisional commissioner has appealed to the general public not to pay attention to these and not to fall prey to any of the tactics adopted by these fake account holders Langer has made it clear that he has no accounts on Facebook or Twitter PTI AB SMN SMN