Kashmir: A School Report
Jammu and Kashmir’s education overhaul reveals mixed results. While funding has increased and infrastructure has improved, learning outcomes remain uneven. Key schemes lag, and...
Kashmir: Waiting For the Finance Commission
By October, the 16th Finance Commission is expected to submit its recommendations to the Government of India on how financial resources should be distributed...
Kashmir: An Urban Overhaul
Jammu and Kashmir’s Housing and Urban Development Department is undergoing a major reorganisation aimed at cost-cutting and efficiency, but critics warn of weakened public...
Kashmir: The Tech Trouble
Days following Operation Sindoor witnessed the first cyber war. Jammu and Kashmir government, which spent more than Rs 300 crore and emerged as one...
Kashmir: An Urban Policy Uproar
As part of the continued interventions in the laws and rules regulating the land resource in Jammu Kashmir, the government proposed sweeping amendments to...
Enemy Agents Act Returns?
The government has indicated that the people aiding and abetting the militants will be tried under the harsher Enemy Agents Act, report Babra Wani...
NEP’s Flip Side
Currently in vogue, the ambitious and modern NEP-2020 has a huge flip side too, reports Aiman Fayaz
In 2022, the government implemented a new education policy...
Virtual Jammu Kashmir
To be implemented within five years, the Digital Vision has the ambitious plan of laying a dedicated optical fibre network across Jammu and Kashmir...
The Lease Row
Over the years, the successive governments skipped extending the lease of innumerable land parcels as a result of which hundreds of properties in hospitality...
The Reservation Riddle
With the reservation arithmetic being reworked in Jammu and Kashmir, more than half of the admissions in professional courses, government jobs and promotions will...
Remodelling Universities
A draft bill is making sweeping changes in the system of managing the universities in Jammu and Kashmir, reports Yawar Hussain
The newly formulated Jammu and...
Old Taxes Return
In the forward-looking GST regime, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has revived an abolished tax that is expected to be collected for the last...
Understanding The Proposal
With its proposals triggering a lot of heat and dust in Jammu and Kashmir, the Delimitation Commission is expecting an extension. Khalid Bashir Gura...
Dubai Details
The liberal industrial policy has led to the acceptance of around Rs 50K crore investment proposals in less than a year, of which Rs...
Consumed Careers
Successive governments have mindlessly “hired” people on an ad-hoc, provisional and temporary basis. They keep the government’s service delivery show going on at almost...
