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Health Minister chairs meeting on cholera
Sheila opens CNG station at Metcalfe House
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Higher pay scale sought for senior secy teachers
Three poachers held
LG touts third-party quality assurance for public
Firm fined Rs 2 lakh for power theft
Now, malaria stalks Noida
Plea to allow people to keep a cow each at home
Reshuffle in MCD
Protest against Nanavati panel report on Aug 14
False case: HC notice to CBI
Road blocked to protest murder of disabled person
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Health Minister chairs meeting on cholera
New Delhi, August 10 He said this after chairing a meeting on “Water and Vector-Borne Diseases” here, which was attended by senior officials of the Health Department, the Delhi Jal Board and the New Delhi Municipal Council and those from the Directorate of National Vector-Borne Diseases Control Programme. Last week, 58 cases of cholera were reported in the Capital out of which 37 cases were from Delhi, 10 from Uttar Pradesh, three from Haryana and one from other places, Dr Shastri said. He instructed the health officials to speed up efforts to minimise the number of cholera cases even as in the reported week 42,95,078 cholera tablets and 23,386 ORS had been distributed in the city. The Delhi Health Minister said last week 37 cases of malaria were reported in the Capital out of which 11 were from Delhi, 12 from Uttar Pradesh, five from Haryana and nine from other states. In the reported week, 4,87,279 blood slides were collected and 54,33,009 houses were sprayed. As many as 47,24,528 houses were inspected for domestic breeding, out of which 8,433 cases were found positive for breeding. During anti-malaria operations, 14,648 legal notices were issued and 4,598 cases were launched for prosecution. Underlining the need for awareness among people about the dangers of mosquito breeding in their houses and premises, Dr Shastri said all possible preventive measures for prevention of malaria cases should be adopted so that mosquito breeding may be eliminated. The minister also instructed the officials to speed up the process of fogging, collecting blood slides and spraying in all effected
areas of the Capital. He also directed the officials concerned to issue legal notices and challans to the owners of buildings for non-compliance of anti-larval measures.
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Sheila opens CNG station at Metcalfe House
New Delhi, August 10 IGL. which has successfully created the compressed natural gas and piped natural gas infrastructure in Delhi, which caters to more than one lakh vehicles and supplies piped gas to more than 30,000 houses along with various small and large commercials, today reached another milestone in its journey of creation of successful CNG infrastructure of Delhi. Indraprastha Gas Limited, incorporated in 1998, was required to create 80 CNG stations with a compression capacity of 16.11 lakh kg/day to meet the CNG demand for the entire fleet of public transport in Delhi. It has now gone ahead and put up 135 CNG dispensing facilities, including eight mega CNG stations, effectively covering the length and breadth of the NCT of Delhi. The compression capacity as a result of this expansion now stands at 17.5 lakh kg/day with an average sale of 8.34 lakh kg/day. These expansion plans are in keeping with the expected notification from Delhi Government mandating CNG as a fuel for light goods vehicles (LGVs) plying in the NCT of Delhi. The Chief Minister assured the Delhi Government would keep providing full support to IGL in its endeavor to make Delhi the most modern Capital in the world by making CNG and PNG available to all its citizens.
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Domestic servants confess to IRS officer’s murder
Gurgaon, August 10 According to district police chief Hanif Qureshi, the two domestic servants, who were nabbed in the wee hours today, have confessed to the crime. Biswas had hired a domestic servant, Biswajeet, from an agency, Amit Domestic, based at Chittaranjan Park in Delhi. He was to leave tomorrow for his native state, West Bengal. As he was leaving, the agency provided another domestic, Gautam, as a replacement. Gautam was sent to the residence of Biswas on August 2, a day before the fatal attack on Sharwani. According to the police, as per the confessions of the two Gautam had answered back to Alok Biswas and protested against taking care of the couple’s two pet dogs. Mr Biswas had allegedly abused him verbally. Gautam is reported to have told the police that since Mr Biswas behaved with him in an insulting way he conspired with Biswajeet to kill the couple to avenge himself. The couple continued with their routine on the fatal day. The two attacked them while they were asleep at about 2 am. They left Mr Biswas for dead. They later dragged the two of them in the bathroom and left them there. While the two used a statue to hit Sharwani on the head an iron rod was used on Mr
Biswas. The two had put the two pet dogs on tether in the compound outside. The statue and the iron rod stained with blood have been recovered from the house. They slept for three hours after the crime in the house to avoid suspicion. Also, they were sure they would not get a vehicle to leave the area at that hour. They left at 5 am and went to a residence at Chittaranjan Park, near the agency office. Gautam had allegedly being staying on rent there. They reported back to the owner of the agency, Mr Nitai Das, the same day to tell him that they had quit the job at Biswas’ place. The two had taken away Rs 2,000 from the house. Gautam had also planned to go to West Bengal along with Biswajeet, who was in any case scheduled to go. In a twist to the tale, a person posing as a fakir robbed the two of Rs 2,000 they had taken from Biswas residence while they were on way to Chittaranjan Park after committing the crime. Mr Biswas had revealed to the police yesterday that the details of his domestic servants were lying in a drawer. The police learned the address of the agency from the papers, leading to the exact identities of the two accused and their arrests. The DSP, Mr Kulwinder Singh, who has been heading the investigation, said Mr Biswas is not even aware that his wife has died. In fact, he cannot recall events prior to August
2. He told about the papers relating to his domestic servants only when the police continued mentioning about them to him yesterday. The reason for the amnesia is probably the impact of the attack on his head. When asked why Nitai Das did not react when news of the death was widely circulated the police said he was trying to get in touch with the couple on telephone at their residence. The agency wanted to know why the domestic servants had quit their job. But no one answered the telephone at the residence.
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Higher pay scale sought for senior secy teachers
Faridabad, August 10 There were several government secondary schools in the district and many of these had been facing shortage of teachers, especially the subject expert staff. This had a direct impact on the result of the matric and plus two results of various schools each year with the pass percentage being quite low in comparison to the schools affiliated to the CBSE or those run privately. According to reports, a large number of teachers of government schools in the district had moved their applications directly or indirectly for a transfer to a school or place of their choice. Though some of the cases may be genuine, it is learnt that several applications had been backed by political approach. Several schools had teachers for those subjects for which there was no student or the strength was very thin. At some schools, the non-specialists taught some of the subjects, leading to all kind of problems for the students as well as the staff.
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Three poachers held
Ghaziabad, August 10 The arrested poachers have been identified as Shyam, Hansha and Chintu. Besides, these smugglers of animal skins are also believed to have their links in Meerut. The interrogation of poachers was on, he said. The police are particularly hopeful of getting some leads during the interrogation of Shyam who belongs to Aligarh and is known to be working for a number of poachers. The Sahibabad police had nabbed Shyam, Hanshu and Chintu from Kanha Upvan near Karhera on Sunday night. The leopard’s skin had been valued at Rs 80,000 and was to be sold to one Lala. The arrested threesome were waiting for Lala near Kanha Upvan situated at Karhera when the police team nabbed them. The police inspector said the UP and Uttaranchal police would shortly launch a campaign for recovering skins of prohibited species of wild animals from poachers in a number of districts in both the states. The Allahabad police had also recently recovered seven skins of leopards, he said.
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LG touts third-party quality assurance for public
New Delhi, August 10 ‘’It is time to adopt third-party quality assurance to ensure quality services and put a check on malpractices,’’ the LG said at a meeting on ‘Third Party Quality Assurance’ on works and projects of the Delhi Government being executed by various agencies of the state government and the Delhi Development Authority. The Lt-Governor suggested that quality testing should be made broad-based by having more than one agency on board for getting a wider choice of testing facilities. He asked the departments to upgrade in-house services and bring in new methodologies for quality testing. Representatives of various government departments also gave a detailed presentation on quality control procedures followed by them. The Lt-Governor suggested the Chief Vigilance Officers of all departments concerned should sit together and take stock of the various quality control measures adopted by them and evolve a uniform approach of quality assurance testing besides having standardised testing rates. The meeting was attended by the Principal Secretary, PWD, Mr P M Singh, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi Commissioner, Mr Rakesh Mehta, the Transport Commissioner, Mr V. S. Madan, the Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation Managing Director, Mr Jalaj Shrivastava, the Chief Engineer, Irrigation and Flood Control and the CVOs of these departments.
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Firm fined Rs 2 lakh for power theft
Noida, August 10 The company, RS Packwell, operating in an under-construction building at D-225 Sector-63, had been stealing power for the last 2 months in connivance with staff of UP Power Corporation (UPCC), its Chief GM BB Singh said. He added that he has called for a report from the vigilance team as some departmental staff’s involvement is suspected. Mr Singh has also ordered an inquiry into the whole matter by a Divisional Engineer level officer so that a report can be submitted to top officers in Meerut and Lucknow. It may be added that theft of power is one of the main causes of power shortage and power cuts in the area, as indeed, elsewhere.
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Now, malaria stalks Noida
Noida, August 10 At least 75 patients reported in the OPD of government hospital where malaria was detected. Most of these patients are from Nithari and Harola area. Apart from the district hospital, malaria patients have also reported in private hospitals. The quacks are also having a profitable time with a large number of malaria patients under their treatment. The pathology department in the district hospital is sending a report to the office of the Director, Health Services, UP. Government hospital sources said at least 12 malaria patients, on an average, were reporting daily. Some of the malaria positive patients are being sent home with medicines as there is scarcity of beds in the district hospital. Though the district hospital officials refuted the spread of malaria, senior physician A. K. Dhawan said during the monsoon months the spread of malaria was likely. Stagnant water during rains, humidity and green foliage promoted the growth of mosquitoes and spread of malaria, he said.
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Plea to allow people to keep a cow each at home
New Delhi, August 10 This is for the citizens who are interested and have space enough for keeping a cow. People’s religious sentiments are attached with this animal as they worship cows. This direction has been given following a discussion in the Standing Committee where the members appealed that citizens of Delhi should be allowed to keep a cow in their residential premises if they wanted to. The members argued about the Supreme Court’s directive to remove the unauthorised dairies from the rural areas. A dairy is a commercial venture. Having one cow at home for personal purpose is not a commercial venture and it should be allowed. Explaining the court’s order, the Municipal Commissioner agreed to appeal before the apex court to allow the citizens of the Capital to have one cow at their homes. He said the veterinary department of the corporation had started removing the dairies following the court’s directive. “We are removing those dairies whose owners have not applied for a plot of dairy at Baprola near Najafgarh.” Baprola dairy form is also being developed after the court’s directive, the Municipal Commissioner said.
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Reshuffle in MCD
New Delhi, August 10 Mr Raj Mohan Singh, who was posted as Municipal Secretary, has been transferred as Additional Commissioner of Labour and Headquarters. A few months ago, the CBI had raided his residential premises and the case was in the courts. Following the raid, he was suspended from the corporation’s services and demoted as a Deputy Commissioner. Later, he was reinstated as Municipal Secretary. Now Mr Raj Mohan Singh has been promoted as Additional Commissioner. Mr H. B. Sharma, who worked as Additional Commissioner, Labour, and Headquarters, has been transferred as Municipal Secretary. Besides, Mr Ashok Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Shahdara North Zone, whose residential premises was raided by the CBI, has been transferred to Shahdara South
Zone. — TNS
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Protest against Nanavati panel report on Aug 14
New Delhi, August 10 Party president Manjit Singh said, “Culprits like Shastri, Sajjan, Bhagat and Tytler should be booked under Section 302, IPC”. Announcing the details of the protest march, he said
Tytler should resign with immediate effect. The report was a “cruel joke on the community that lost more than 4,000 innocent people in the riots in 1984”, Singh
said. — TNS
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False case: HC notice to CBI
New Delhi, August 10 Mr Justice R. S. Sodhi asked the respondents, which also included ACP Rajbir Singh (Special Cell), to file their replies to the petition filed by Surinder Kaur and Manjit Singh by August 24, the next date of hearing. The petitioners’ counsel, Mr Rakesh Tiku, alleged the ACP and some other policemen ransacked the house in Mansarovar Garden locality of the petitioners and manhandled the members of the family on July 30. Later, the police foisted a false case on
them. — TNS
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Road blocked to protest murder of disabled person
Ghaziabad, August 10 While the people of the locality were demanding compensation for the family of the deceased a sub-inspector made an uncharitable comment which provoked the crowd. After the station officer, Loni, assured the people that action would be taken against the SI and efforts made for getting compensation to the family of the dead, people dispersed. Twentyfive-year-old Shahid, son of Birbal, was going home on his cycle after making some purchases from the market when a rashly driven truck crushed him under its wheels.
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