New Delhi, September 24
The BJP has managed to gather people from Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and other states to make its "Mazdoor Mahasangram Rally" successful tomorrow, but many visitors are simply not aware of the issues being raised by the saffron party.

Shakti Singh, who has come from Katni in Bihar, said that he was not aware of the issues. He came to Delhi at the request made by a local BJP leader. "I have come here for fun. A few people of my village live in the city. I will meet them for two-three days before I leave for my home town."

Naseema, a Muslim woman who has come from Mewat in Haryana, said, "Our leader knows why we have come here. Many women from Mewat have been brought to Delhi by a local politician."

There are about 50 Mewati women staying under a tent at Ramlila Grounds.

However, Saraswati from Dewas in Madhya Pradesh, said that she had come here to support the saffron party that is raising the FDI issue.

"Foreigners should not be allowed in our country to trade in retail market," she said.

The Delhi unit chief of the BJP, Vijender Gupta expected one lakh people in the rally.

He said that a large number of people are coming from outside the states by trains. The party has also made arrangements for parking buses around the Ramlila Grounds. By the evening, about 50,000 people had arrived. The party has made arrangements for their food and lodging at the grounds.

The main demands of the BJP are: three per cent of the total GDP be allocated for the welfare of daily wage workers, registration of labourers in unorganised sector, the adhaar number of labourers be included on their registration cards, getting food should be a fundamental right, no FDI in retail market, ESI facility to all the workers, etc.

The rally will be addressed by the national president of the BJP, Nitin Gadkari and other senior leaders like Sushma Swaraj.

New Delhi, September 24
Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath today said that unauthorized colonies in Delhi were the result of bad planning. He was speaking at a workshop "Review of the Master Plan of Delhi 2021", organized by the DDA.

The Union government had brought a Delhi Special Laws to protect the unauthorized colonies in Delhi. "Illegal colonies in the Capital are result of bad planning," he said.

Nath said enforcement agencies alone could not handle problems created by poor planning.

Addressing the people at the workshop, the minister also said there was no scope for lateral expansion in Delhi, and added that the concept of National Capital Region had put a further load on the Capital with people living here, working in NCR or vice versa.

He said that market forces have to be considered while planning for urban areas. The DDA should construct high-rise buildings to give accommodation to the people. If it is not done, slums will come up in the Capital.

Meanwhile, LG Tejinder Khanna, who is chairman of the DDA, said that a survey conducted by the Central Building Research Institute revealed that 70 per cent of buildings on the Yamuna floodplains were structurally unsafe.

He asked the DDA to form a specific unit to deal with this problem.

New Delhi, September 24
Sushil Kumar, who won silver medal in wrestling in 66-kg weight category at Olympic Games 2012, was presented a cheque of Rs 51 lakh jointly by all three municipal corporations during a civic reception held at Talkatora Indoor Stadium today.

Apart from this, one residential property in Sushil's name has been exempted from property tax for the lifetime.

The wrestler had his primary education in municipal primary school from where he got inclined towards wrestling, he said while addressing the public. He advised the students to always respect their parents, teachers and elders. He said that this is one of the important keys to success. He also advised the children to take part in games which can become their career.

Sushil thanked the civic agencies, saying that he had been inclined toward wrestling since childhood and it was the school of the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi which made wrestling his passion and laid the foundation of his career.

He, on the occasion, took the blessings of his primary schoolteacher Vinod Bansal.

President of the Delhi BJP unit Vijender Gupta lauded his contribution and thanked him for making the country proud with his achievements.

The teachers and students of municipal primary schools presented a colourful cultural programme on the theme of sports and its promotion.

New Delhi, September 24
A 24-year-old engineering student from Rajasthan was found dead in a West Delhi locality with the police today investigating whether he met with the tragic end because of a love affair.

Dharmender, who studied in a Jamshedpur college, was found lying dead in a pool of blood in the Punjabi Bagh area last evening, a senior police official said. He had injuries on his chin and hands. The police ruled out robbery as the motive behind the murder as his mobile phone, purse and money were not missing. "Dharmender, a resident of Sikar, Rajasthan, was stabbed several times. We have registered a case of murder and are awaiting the postmortem report," said a senior police official.

New Delhi, September 24
The Delhi police has arrested two persons for allegedly killing a taxi driver who had informed the Chhattisgarh police that the accused had booked the vehicle through fake identity and looked suspicious, the police said today.

The accused, Rajesh Kumar Das and Anil Kumar Sah, hail from Bihar. They were arrested for killing the taxi driver, Shamsher, when they were on their way from Bilaspur to Raipur, Chhattisgarh, on September 12.

The police said that Shamsher, who took the accused in a vehicle from Agra to Bilaspur, was informed by his employer that they had booked the cab using fake identity. The accused had introduced themselves as the staff of Vasant Valley School in Gurgaon. Kumar and Sah had told Satpal Yadav, the owner of Yadav Taxi Service in Vasant Kunj, that they would return by September 9. However, Shamsher didn't return.

New Delhi, September 24
The government is mooting the idea of linking the early childcare under Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) to the school health programme. These services will be provided by trained workers through Anganwadi centres under "School Health Programme Plus".

Making an announcement while addressing the National Consultation on School Health Programme here, the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad today said that the school health programme, currently catering to schoolchildren under the aegis of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), will also target the preschool kids.

"Once the school health progarmme and teams deputed are optimally operational, we intend to include preschool children through Anganwadi centres under "School Health Programme Plus", he said.

In line with the National Curriculum Framework 2005 for school education which spells out the need for integrating adolescent reproductive and sexual health messages into school curriculum, the adolescent health programme and its components- school health programme and menstrual hygiene scheme operational in rural areas--have been picked up as a focus area by the health ministry.

"The adolescent programme targets nearly 13 crore girls and boys. The idea is to promote better health-seeking behaviour of adolescents, a key to bettering the country's health indicators, including mortality, morbidity and population stabilisation. For the programme, 15 states have already positioned dedicated teams for the implementation of school health programme in 2012-13 while the rest have opted to carry it through the existing public health structures," said the minister.

According to many healthcare experts, the implementation of the school health programme is often inadequate. Today's consultation was a follow-up to the workshop, organised by Michael and Susan Dell Foundation earlier this year with an aim to draft a workable framework for school health implementation.

Pointing out at inextricable link between health and better cognitive level, Union Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal stressed the need to reach out to more children through the government's school-based health programmes.