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Over 50% IT in Haryana from Faridabad, Gurgaon
Demolition drive loses steam as politicians feel pinch
Not a year that Sheila Dikshit would care to remember
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An endless wait for admission to a ‘big school’
Vegetable supply in Gurgaon likely to be disrupted
Police rapped for shoddy handling of case
Police in trans-Yamuna areas
get new wireless equipment
Insurance company asked to reimburse claimant
LG reviews fire safety measures
Woman, son get 5-yr RI for stabbing neighbour over water
CGHS scam: Three more FIRs registered
Essay writing competition held
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Over 50% IT in Haryana from Faridabad, Gurgaon
Faridabad, December 27 At an interactive session organised by the Faridabad Small Industries Association (FSIA), senior income tax officials pointed out that nearly 56 per cent of the total income tax collected in Haryana came from Faridabad and Gurgaon districts. It was stated that while the tax collection target in the state during the present financial year was about Rs 2500 crore, the two districts of Faridabad and Gurgaon were expected to contribute Rs 1400 crore. Congratulating the residents of Faridabad and Gurgaon, Mr S. C. Kapil, Income Tax Commissioner, disclosed that the number of income tax payees were likely to increase in these two districts. Welcoming the citizens to approach the department in case of any doubt, he assured that tough measures were being adopted only as a last resort. He said that selection of cases for scrutiny, survey and search were done after intensive study, which were supported by comprehensive procedures under the law. He regretted that just 3.5 per cent of the total population in the country were filing IT returns. This figure needed to be improved so that the development process in the country is not hampered, he added. Ms Rupinder Brar, Additional Income Tax Commissioner, assured that genuine tax payers would not be harassed as surveys done to detect tax evasions were based on great deal of homework. The president of the FSIA, Mr Rajiv Chawla, highlighted the need to spread awareness regarding the benefits of filing income tax returns and its direct relation with the development of the country. He said that with the globalisation process and rising competition a strong economic base was important for the country as a whole. The participants stressed the need for direct and frequent interaction between industrialists and the IT Department. It may be mentioned that there are around 15,000 industrial units in various categories
in this district and a large number of them are located in the non-confirming zone.
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Demolition drive loses steam as politicians
New Delhi, December 27 Sources said that the demolition drive slowed down due to continuing political pressure on the Municipal Commissioner, after he was gheraoed by the Municipal Councilors in his office yesterday. Even as politicians across the spectrum continue to protest against the drive, no action has been taken against properties of politicians found to have encroached upon government land or built structures against building bylaws. A circular of the Municipal Commissioner stated that demolition work would continue in Shahdra south, Shahdra north, Karol Bagh and Sadar- Paharganj Zones on Wednesday and Thursday. According to sources in the MCD, the corporation has to demolish 18,000 unauthorised constructions within a couple of weeks, but at the current speed it would take years to complete the target. Meanwhile, thousands of traders across the Capital observed a bandh today to protest against the ongoing demolition of illegal structures. Commercial markets of Karol Bagh, Sadar Bazar, Chandni Chowk, Connaught Place and other part of the Capital are observing a complete bandh, Confederation of All India Traders, Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said. Only the NDMC areas of the capital have been exempted from the day long strike, he said. The Confederation of All India Traders, Delhi Vyapar Mahasangh, Delhi Trade Sangharsh Morcha, Delhi Rajya Vyapar Sangathan and Federation of Delhi Trade Associations described a Delhi Assembly resolution opposing the demolitions as inadequate.
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Flashback 2005 Ravi Bhatia Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December 27 Paucity of power and water, substantial increase in electricity tariff and political opposition to the High Court directed demolition drive were some of the contentious issues of the year 2005 as chief minister Ms Sheila Dikshit completed seven years of her rule in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. It was obviously not easy going for the chief minister in her second consecutive tenure as some of the decisions did not go down well with her own party men who saw these as unpopular and politically indiscreet which could ultimately affect their future poll prospects. Her detractors in the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee, led by the president, Mr Ram Babu Sharma, remained active and did everything to embarrass her both within and out side the party fora causing considerable concern among the leadership. It is another matter that these very detractors who have been vociferous in their demand to call an end to the demolitions are now on the defensive as their names have been associated with some of the blatant encroachments and illegal constructions that have scarred the face of the Capital and evoked the ire of the judiciary. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s demolition drive against unauthorised structures dominated the political scene in the last two weeks of the year as complaints of fast-running electronic meters and inflated electricity bills had provided ready fuel for the detractors to launch scathing attacks on her earlier. It was apparent that her second year in her second term in power was not exactly turning out to be as smooth as the first one. Early in the year, a major political crisis erupted following her angry walkout from a coordination meeting of the local party unit where she came under attack from party dissidents on the dual issues of power and water supply in March, 2005. The walkout was not looked upon kindly by the party powers that be but Ms Dikshit managed to stay on as the chief minister. However, she was forced to hold regular coordination meetings with the state unit so that the party men could air their grievances in the overall interest of the party. The power tariff hike announced by the government only made matters worse for the chief minister, inviting public ire. A city-wide campaign, with tacit support of some local politicians, was launched by Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs) and other citizens’ groups demanding withdrawal of the ten per cent increase in domestic electricity rates. As citizens’ protests gathered momentum and even Congress MLAs openly opposed the power tariff hike, the government was forced to order a complete rollback in the ten per cent increase in domestic electricity rates. Ms Dikshit also had a tough time trying to convince Delhiites and even her own party men about the accuracy of the electronic meters that replaced the earlier electromagnetic ones. The government undertook a meter-testing drive to remove people’s apprehensions about the electronic meters, but the popular perception remained that the new meters were “fast-running”. However, a High Court judgement giving a clean chit to the electronic meters, came as much needed support for the beleagured chief minister. On the water front, Delhi Government’s proposed 24x7 project for round-the-clock water supply in some parts of the city ran into trouble, with NGOs and activists alleging that the World Bank-funded scheme would lead to water privatization in the Capital and consequent hike in charges. Questions were also raised about the manner in which the consultancy for the project was given to a private firm. The government referred the project to the Planning Commission for its comments. But in the face of intense opposition from all sections, the scheme was put on hold and the loan application to the World Bank for undertaking it withdrawn. The ambitious Sonia Vihar Water Treatment Plant’s long wait for water got longer, with neighbouring Uttar Pradesh unwilling to oblige. The water treatment plant, whose construction was completed last year and which has been proclaimed as being capable of solving Delhi’s acute water problems, is yet to start operations. The end of the year saw a virtual political turmoil in the National Capital territory of Delhi with local politicians, cuttings across traditional party lines, uniting to oppose the demolition drive. The drive was launched in mid-December by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to remove unauthorised constructions following a High Court order. Ironically, a Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting called by the Chief Minister to discuss power and water-related problems ended up expressing concern over the demolitions. The clean-up drive against unauthorised constructions and encroachments took on a political hue as many of such constructions were either directly or indirectly spawned by some local politicians. The issue also rocked the Winter Session of Delhi Assembly with the House unanimously passing a resolution calling for an immediate halt to the demolitions. The Centre also refused to interfere in the court order in a subsequent meeting with the officials of the Delhi Government and the ministry of urban development called specially in view of the hue and cry over the demolitions. Unruly scenes were witnessed in the Assembly, and on the penultimate day of the five day session, the Opposition BJP was ousted from the House amidst pandemonium over the demolition drive. In an apparent damage-control exercise, Delhi Government finally decided that MCD would approach the High Court seeking more time in connection with the clean-up order. Directions were issued to the civic body that to begin with, only those unauthorised structures that are under construction should be pulled down. The chief minister announced that next would be the encroachments on government land while MCD has been asked to formulate a policy on how to deal with the rest of the illegal structures and submit the action plan to the court along with a plea for more time to deal with the problem. The issue was also raised in the meeting of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in the last week of December where many corporators accused the Delhi Government of pursuing a pick-and- choose policy in the demolition drive. It was alleged that while the properties owned by political bigwigs were spared, the bulldozer blades only cut through the “concrete” of lesser mortals.
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An endless wait for admission to a ‘big school’
New Delhi, December 27 After traumatic interviews in 10 schools, the four-year-old has been reduced to a bundle of nerves, all because none of these schools considered her fit for admission. A bright young girl, she chose to answer in Hindi the posers that were hurled at her in school number 1. In school number 2, her parents failed the written test. In school number 3 she was asked to name the cars that her parents owned… Frustrated by their failure at securing admission for their child, the parents have written to the President, the Human Resource Development Minister and many others who they thought could help them. “I am yet to receive an answer from any of them. My daughter asks me everyday when she will go to the ‘big school’ and I have no answer to give. I was given the option of paying money, but I cannot afford that, and there are no connections I can boast of either,” said Ms Gurpreet Wasi, the mother. Recalling the arduous rigmarole that interviews have become, she said “in one school we were told that we should have given answers based on the books written by the head of the organisation that runs the school. It doesn’t matter what our own views on punishment for children were…we should have read his books and quoted him”. With the High Court having already asked schools to refrain from interviewing kids, parents like Wasi are hopeful. But they are also worried that despite the court’s verdict, their child will lose a year. “The verdict will come in January and the interviews are over by November, so the schools have done what they had to…children who have not been able to make it to any schools will have to lose a year”, said Wasi. “Public schools take refuge under ‘school policy’ to justify the selections. But with the court having sought their reply on January 31, they will have to come up with an alternative to interviews,” said Ashok Agarwal of the Social Jurist, an NGO, which has filed the petition seeking a ban on interviews. While parents like Wasi are rooting for draw of lots and distance from home to school, most schools are reluctant to make the switch. “Schools should be allowed to choose the students they have to educate. Draw of lots is an option that is not received well by most. And interviews are basically an interaction between us and the children,” said the Principal of a reputed public school.
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Delhi politicians take a ride on new Metro line
New Delhi, December 27 The 22.8-km route will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on December 30. Ms Dikshit took the 40-minute ride on the Barakhamba Road-Dwarka section, having 22 stations and completed in a record time of 30 months at a cost of around Rs 3000 crore, accompanied by Transport Minister Haroon Yusuf, MP Krishna Tirath and MLAs Ramakant Goswami, Mukesh Sharma and Raman Lamba. Later, talking to media persons after inspecting the line, she said the opening of longest and possibly the busiest line of the Metro this weekend will energise the Capital’s public transport system. Adding that the Metro rail was a fast and modern way of transport that would change the face of the public transport in the Capital, she said the Delhi Government was trying to “synergise” the Metro with other transport infrastructure like flyovers. While 34 flyovers have been built, seven were under-construction and another 12 were in the pipeline. She said it would also have synergy with other modes of mass transport like monorail In itself, Line 3 of the Delhi Metro is unique as trains will travel from the underground stretch to the elevated section on a 378-metre ramp. The track will scale a height of 17.5 m at Raja Garden, which is the highest for Delhi Metro so far, and where the line jumps over an existing flyover. Near this point is Delhi Metro’s highest station, Rajouri Garden, located at a height of 22 metres. This is the also the first Metro line in the country to use steel bridges. Six steel bridges have come up, the highest being at Raja Garden, running 9.67 m above the flyover. While the Barakhamba station is the first underground station to be built with Indian expertise, indigenous expertise has been relied on entirely for Line 3, with the construction on this stretch done entirely by Indian technicians, including quality and safety control, with only viaduct designs given by SYSTRA. Coaches for Line 3 have also been manufactures by Bangalore-based Bharat Earth Movers Limited, unlike the Korean ones on Lines 1 and 2. In the beginning there will be 18 trains on this stretch. Murals depicting stories from the Panchatantra and glazed tiles decorated with Madhubani art and Rajasthani paintings have been installed to decorate the stations. This is also the first Metro stretch to have toilet facility at 22 stations. Parking facility will be available at 14 of its stations. Mrs Dikhsit described the newest addition to the Metro network as an appropriate New Year gift, which the Prime Minister will dedicate to the nation on December 30. The stretch will be thrown open for the public on December 31. Saying that it was the dream of DMRC to open this line before January 2006, Mrs Dikshit said that the DMRC worked against time to get it ready for inauguration on December 30. She, however, dismissed doubts about feeder buses for the Metro rail, saying that all feeder buses will be in place in a minimum of five to six months. The maximum time it could take would be one year, she added. It may be mentioned that DMRC chief E Sreedharan had written to the Delhi Chief Minister, expressing concern that in the absence of feeder buses, the Metro service was not achieving the expected ridership. Hailing the contribution of Mr Sreedharan to the rail network, Ms Dikshit said he was the main guiding force behind the Metro. She said the Metro rail would improve the shopping experience of Delhiites by connecting many of the malls and important market places. “Escalators, overbridges, underbridges are all being planned to join the malls and attention is being given to this,” she added. Asked if luggage would now be allowed in Metro, with the airport going to be connected by the network, Dikshit said it was under consideration, adding that luggage in Metro was being discouraged as it could lead to security Ruling out any move to discontinue Delhi Transport Corporation (DTL) bus service, Ms Dikshit said their frequency could be reduced on routes parallel to that of Metro and other routes beefed up. She added that the current Blueline bus service would gradually be phased out. Talking about High Capacity Buses, the chief minister said its running on experimental basis had been successful and this form of public transport also would be expanded. With Line 3, Phase I of the Metro network is almost complete. The Phase II will be completed in time for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
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Vegetable supply in Gurgaon likely to be disrupted
Gurgaon, December 27 The strike has also affected the vendors in the colonies. The vice-president of the Vegetable and Fruit Traders Association, Mr Arvind Verma, warned of mass arrest if the cases were not withdrawn. The ‘Action Committee’ of the wholesale agents, today decided to disrupt the selling of fruits and vegetables in all parts of the city. It may be recalled that a team from the Vigilance Squad raided the shops of some agents for non-payment of market committee fees last Saturday. As a result, five agents and two employees of the market committee were arrested and criminal cases were registered against them. They were later remanded to judicial custody. However, the fruit agents accused the members of the Vigilance Squad of not disclosing their identities and resorting to “highhandedness”. They submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner, Gurgaon, Mr R.P. Bhardwaj yesterday in this regard. Even though the Sub Divisional Magistrate, Gurgaon, Mr J.S. Sangwan, met the agents, he failed to give any categorical assurance on their demands. The agents are likely to meet the local Congress MLA, Mr Dharamvir Gauba, this evening in this regard.
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Police rapped for shoddy handling of case
New Delhi, December 27 Additional Sessions Judge Narottam Kaushal dismissed all charges against truck-driver Narullah, accused under the Explosive Substances Act, which requires consent of the central government for any trial to proceed under the act. While an FIR was lodged on June 12 this year, and the chargesheet filed on August 8, “not even an application has so far been made seeking requisite sanction,” the court said. Observing that Narullah had no criminal intentions and was “just a cog in the hands of the contractor and sub-contractor”, the court added that “the case against the main contractor and sub-contractor has not been investigated for reasons best known to the Investigating Officer”. Under an agreement with the airport authority, Harcharan Das Gupta sub-contracted Narullah’s services through one Kamal to demolish a hillock inside IGIA. On June 12, 2005, on searching Narullah’s truck before its entry into the airport’s operational area, security officials found a bag under the driver’s seat containing 69 detonators, 10.7 kilograms of urea and a 15 meter-wire length. This material, potentially explosive, was in violation of the contractual agreement for the demolition, under which no explosive material was to be used to level the hillock. In another case, a Delhi court has acquitted a man accused of possessing counterfeit currency notes presuming that he had no knowledge of them being fake. Additional Sessions Judge Indermeet Kaur Kochhar acquitted Ramesh Kumar Aggarwal of all charges observing, “the prosecution has not put any specific questions to the accused in order to find out whether he knew that the notes were counterfeit”. The court accepted the argument of the counsel for the accused that the notes did not appear to be counterfeit by merely looking at them with naked eyes. The court also cast doubts on the prosecution story saying, “the prosecution says it acted on a secret information which mentioned that the accused would be in possession of 11 counterfeit currency notes. It clearly throws doubt as to whether a raid was conducted at all or whether the counterfeit notes were planted”. According to the prosecution, the informer even knew that the accused had 50 currency notes of which he had spent 39, which is highly improbable. Aggarwal, a resident of Begusarai in Bihar was arrested from Parliament Street in central Delhi on June 14, 2003 allegedly on a secret information and in possession of eleven counterfeit notes each of Rs 500 face value.
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Police in trans-Yamuna areas
get new wireless equipment
New Delhi, December 27 According to the DCP (Communication) Mr Naved Mumtaz, with this system, even beat constables will be directly connected to the channels of top cops like the DCP of their respective districts. “The system is based on sophisticated Radio Trunking technique. At present there are three nets in use in the Delhi Police for internal communication – T.M. Net, D.M. Net and District Net. The T.M. Net is used by the officers of the additional DCP and above ranks, D.M. Net is used by the officers of SHO and above ranks and the District Net is usually used by SIs and patrolling officers. It is directly connected to respective police stations. Now Beat Net will be used by common beat constables. The special feature of this system is that there will be an additional channel for this net in all superior communication nets used by the top brass of the district police,” said DCP Mumtaz. He said that the system had been introduced two years back. “Initially, it had been introduced in the North Range and the South Range. Recently, it was extended to New Delhi district. When contacted, the DCP (East) Mr Madhup Tiwari said that so far 59 wireless sets had been received for this purpose which have been distributed in eight police stations. The additional DCP (North-East) Mr Devesh Srivastava informed that they had so far received 56 such sets which have been distributed in different police stations of the district.
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Insurance company asked to reimburse claimant
New Delhi, December 27 “Sleep disorder if not treated early may be life-threatening. The company’s claim that the equipment, ‘Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)’ machine, a life-saving device like the pacemaker, does not come under the purview of the claim is not true,” Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (North), headed by K K Chopra observed. The court ordered the company to pay Rs 56,160 as full reimbursement of the cost of the equipment besides a compensation of Rs 9,000. Rakesh Kumar Juneja, a resident of Tilak Nagar, started having restless nights during which, according to his wife, his sleep was interjected with “loud snoring followed by a period of silence and then a loud gasp as he started breathing again”. The disturbed nights also caused irritability, memory lapses, morning headaches and even acute depression. After consultations with a specialist at Safdarjung Hospital and various tests, he was diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome and recommended nasal CPAP for proper control of his illness. Banking on a one-year medical insurance policy, he had taken a few months before the start of his ailment, Rakesh bought the CPAP device for Rs 56,160 and later applied for a reimbursement. The company, however, refused payment on the ground that sleep disorder was a “chronic phenomenon” and does not develop within months of taking the policy. Again, the CPAP was an “external device”, unlike pacemakers, and could be used by persons other than the insured. Moreover, the company argued that the expense of the device would not be covered in the first year of the policy. Dismissing the company’s contentions, the court held that CPAP machines were in the same category as pacemakers, artificial limbs, etc and their costs covered in the policy. “The device is the only solution to the complainant’s problem and the company is liable to pay him its purchase price,” the court said.
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LG reviews fire safety measures
New Delhi, December 27 Mr Joshi took note of the progress as indicated by the heads of the various departments giving details of the steps taken by them. He also directed the officials to speed up action on the recommendations made by the committee. Mr Joshi desired that action to shift the chemical market and paper market should be taken in a time-bound manner by the DDA and MCD. While appreciating the effort made by Mr Reghunathan in forming a committee to check the godowns keeping hazardous and toxic materials, Mr Joshi said that this work should also be carried out expeditiously. He also instructed that all the schools should organize mock drills to create awareness amongst the students, teachers and should also have facility for adequate water storage for fire fighting. Mr Joshi asked the Fire department to regularly monitor the fire safety measures in restaurants and high-rise buildings and asked them to expedite the work on revising the fire safety norms for cinema halls. He also directed the CEO, DJB to install filler points for water tankers near police posts and construct underground water reservoirs in JJ cluster areas wherever feasible. The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary Mr S. Regunathan, Principal Home Secretary Mr R. Narayanswamy, Municipal Commissioner, Mr Ashok Kumar Nigam, Chairperson NDMC, Ms Sindhushree Khullar, CEO Delhi Jal Board, Mr Arun Mathur, Divisional Commissioner, Mr G. K. Marwah, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Mr Qamar Ahmed, Chief Fire Officer, Mr R. C. Sharma and representatives of DDA and other government agencies.
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Woman, son get 5-yr RI for stabbing neighbour over water
Faridabad, December 27 Additional Sessions Judge S C Rajan convicted the accused for ‘attempt to murder’ and under the Arms Act. The court also slapped a total fine of Rs 6,500 on both the convicts. The accused Shiksha and her son Sanjeev Tayagi were next door neighbours to victims Renu and her husband Mukhtiyar at Hastal village in west Delhi. Shiksha used to fetch water from Renu’s place and on one such occasion, the latter told the accused to stop the practice causing a rift between the two families. Following this, on May 26 last year, Sanjeev waylaid Renu and her minor children while they were on their way to the local market. He proceeded to abuse her in public. Alarmed, she rushed to a nearby phone booth to call the police, but the accused entered the shop and snatched the receiver forcibly from her hand and threatened her to kill if she went ahead with it. Matters did not end there. On the same evening, the convict entered the house of the complainants and attacked Renu with a knife. Even her husband was attacked with a brick by Shiksha when he tried to rescue his wife from the murderous attack . Both accused were arrested the same day.
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CGHS scam: Three more FIRs registered
New Delhi, December 27 The scam relates to alleged fraudulent revival of “defunct” societies by officials of the Registrar of Co-operative Societies (RCS) in collusion with people posing as promoters of the societies. N Diwakar, the then RCS and prime-accused in the scam, has been named in two of the FIRs lodged in connection with Godawari CGHS and Avas Deep CGHS. A third FIR has been registered in connection with Sahyadri CHGS. In a modus operandi that is beginning to look very similar across such “revivals”, Diwakar allegedly arranged for societies’ files to be “reconstructed” at the instance of office-bearers of the society under the pretext that the original file was untraceable. Those accused include Suraj Goel, L P Goswamy, Bhim Singh, Raj Kumar (all office-bearers of societies), Gokul Chand Aggarwal, Ashwani Sharma (who allegedly posed as promoters of societies), U S Bhatnagar, Ram Nath, Ramesh Lal (Inspectors with RCS) A R Goel, S R Goel and Yogi Raj (Assistant Registrars).
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Essay writing competition held
New Delhi, December 27 Students of classes X, XI and XII participated in the competition that saw the participation of schools around Delhi. In the English category, the first prize of Rs 10,000 went to K Savio Devasia from Notre Dame School, while the second prize of Rs 7,500 went to Mrigyanka Ghosh of DPS International. Manya Garg of DPS International and Ruhani Cheema of Mount Carmel won the third prize of 5,000 each. In the Hindi category, the first prize was bagged by Indu Verma of Ravi Shankar Sarvodyaya Vidyalaya, Sakshi Arora of St Anthony’s won the second prize and Isha Jain of DPS Faridabad and Himani Bakshi from St Anthony won the third prize.
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Travel agents held for forgery
New Delhi, December 27 The accused have been identified as Amarjeet (38) and his wife Palwinder Kaur (34), Raj Shekhar (36) and Mubasheer (31), both travel agents.
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Traffic arrangements for Zubin Mehta concert
New Delhi, December 27 The police has requested visitors to cooperate with the traffic police officials posted at the stadium. Police have also said that the vehicle parking at the stadium is strictly for the invitees having designated stickers on their vehicle. — TNS
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Consumer awareness campaign
New Delhi, December 27 Held at Hotel Janpath, the general body meeting of All-India Banking, Telecommunication and Consumer Association decided to organise a ‘Consumer Convention’ in the Capital on the World Consumer Day on March 15, 2006. As a prelude to the convention, a nation-wide consumer awareness campaign has been launched by the
organisation. — TNS
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City basks under clear blue skies
New Delhi, December 27 The operation of flights at the Indira Gandhi International Airport was not affected with runway visibility in the Palam area at 800 meters, airport sources said. While the minimum temperature at 7.5 degree Celsius was normal, the maximum was recorded at 21.8 degree Celsius.
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