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27 anti-flood projects cleared
DSGMC: 3,000 pilgrims evacuated from U’khand
Helpline for flood victims’ kin launched
DMRC inaugurates Universal Resource Locator
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Breakdown in Noida segment causes outages in E. Delhi
Tolerance is the need of the hour: Vice Prez
Fake currency syndicate busted
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27 anti-flood projects cleared
New Delhi, June 24 Delhi Irrigation and Flood Control Minister A.K. Walia today held a meeting to discuss the matter. Dr. Walia informed that the government will carry out construction of access roads and bridges amounting to Rs 40.25 crore, improvement of major drains amounting to Rs 5.03 crore, small drainages Rs 4.97 crore, strengthening of embankment to the tune of Rs 1.37 crore, river protection works for avoiding erosion at a cost of Rs 3.95 crore and protection of the government land alongside drains amounting to Rs 6.52 crore. Dr. Walia said that the government will construct 11 bridges on its various drains at different locations. The major works include the construction of parallel bridge along the existing ASI protected Mughal Bridge across old course of Najafgarh drain constructed during 1351-1388 AD. At present, it is in deteriorated condition and not serving its purpose. "We observed that a number of colonies have developed adjoining the Wazaribad Bridge. Keeping in view the necessity of providing accessibility to lakhs of residents in these colonies, we will construct double-lane steel-girder bridge across old course of Najafgarh drain at a cost of Rs 5 crore to provide relief to the residents of surrounding areas by providing connectively to them from Wazirabad to Outer Ring Road and Wazirabad road," he said. The state government will also carry out demolition and reconstruction of four bridges at Bawana drain at a cost of Rs 2.56 crore. He said that the improvement of phirni road from Bawana Road to Knajhawala Qutubgarh at Kanjahwala village is under progress. It will bypass traffic from Kanjhawala-Qutubgarh side to Bawana-Kanjhawala side. The proposed bridges will facilitate the commuters of the area. Dr. Walia further added that a bridge will be constructed downstream G.T. Road Bridge near Budhpur village. Presently, the villagers have to cross Bawana drain to reach the cremation ground as there is no permanent structure on approach of cremation ground. |
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DSGMC: 3,000 pilgrims evacuated from U’khand
New Delhi, June 24 The DSGMC is serving langar (community kitchen) to the victims at Gaucher, Joshi Math, Gobind Ghat and Rishikesh. On the insistence of the Army, the DSGMC also opened langars at Badrinath. The langars are being provided for the almost past one week. Speaking to the media here today, Manjit Singh GK, who is back after three-day tour to the ill-fated areas to supervise rescue operations, said that so far the DSGMC has distributed 70 tons of material in 15 trucks and six aeroplans, which include food, juices, other eatables, rations, blankets, medicines, slippers and other articles of utility for usages of those stranded in the higher reaches of Uttarakhand. Most of them are pilgrims to Hemkunt Sahib, Badrinath and Kedarnath. "For the past one week, we have pressed in service 50 buses and 110 Toyota Innovas and Tata Sumos to bring back pilgrims who were dropped at Rishikesh to different destinations like in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Amritsar and other places in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh," GK said. "We are also providing monetary help to the victims whosoever is approaching us, and we would not stop our rescue operation until everyone reaches home safe," GK added. He said that the DSGMC had brought down Guru Granth Sahib birs from Gobind Ghat to safe places and installed them at different
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Helpline for flood victims’ kin launched
New Delhi, June 24 For the purpose, a team of officials of the Delhi Government will be deputed to Dehradun in order to keep close contact with the Government of Uttarakhand and their control room. The Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit stated that the legislators would contribute Rs 10 lakh from their MLA fund in addition to their one-month salary in CM's relief fund. The inmates of Tihar Jail also collected Rs10 lakh as their contribution in the CM relief fund. The amount collected by the inmates is meant for utilization as relief to the flood victims in Uttarakhand. |
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DMRC inaugurates Universal Resource Locator
New Delhi, June 24 This new dedicated link provides detailed information regarding the institute and the training programmes being offered. Besides, it also gives an insight into the faculty of the institute and other facilities being provided like classrooms, canteen, hostel, gym, library, computer lab, simulators, computer based training, etc. Through this, other organizations can also have a glimpse of DMRC's state-of-the-art training institute and can collaborate with the DMRC in training their professionals in various aspects like knowledge-based and skill-based training or attitude-based training for their candidates. "The institute is equipped with all modern facilities with most advanced simulators to impart customized training on almost all aspects of operations and maintenance of rail-based urban transportation system. The institute has also been given ISO certification for design, development and delivery of training programmes," said a spokesperson for the DMRC. |
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Police gets 370 more PCR vans
New Delhi, June 24 Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde flagged off 100 vehicles, which are fitted with global positioning system and mobile phones to enhance their efficiency. The PCR vehicles are Toyota Innovas that were flagged off from India Gate at 11 am. With the induction of the 370 vehicles, the total strength of the PCR vehicles has reached 1,000, but about 60 are still condemned. There is also a lack of drivers and gunmen and the police are trying to meet the demands from its units. Shinde said the number of PCR vans has been increased as they act as first responders when a victim approaches the police. "The new vehicles will hopefully reduce the response time of eight to 10 minutes, but this will also depend on police officials' efficiency. But we also need to acknowledge that law and order can not be taken care of by policing alone; we need public awareness at all levels," he said. Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar at the venue said the vans will be used to patrol vulnerable locations in the city, which are frequented by women. These will also be deployed outside girls' schools and colleges at the opening and closing times, he added. Kumar said 426 criminals were caught red-handed by the PCR teams in 2012, including 28 robbers, 103 snatchers, 18 bootleggers and 120 vehicle thieves. |
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Breakdown in Noida segment causes outages in E. Delhi
New Delhi, June 24 This is constraining the flow of electricity to Ghazipur Grid, which in turn feeds electricity to Patparganj, Ghazipur and the Mayur Vihar areas of BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL). This has been sporadically affecting power supply in parts of east Delhi for the last few days. "The initial attempts to repair the transmission line have proved unsuccessful. Another attempt was made today, to repair the line," said a senior BYPL official. He said that DTL had loaned 220 KV "jointing kits" and "cable spools" to UPPCL for fixing this issue. It was expected that UPPCL will be able to restore the 220 KV line in a couple of days. But this did not happen. In order to minimize the impact of this transmission constraint, BYPL continues to divert power from other sources, to the extent possible. The impact of the transmission constraint gets magnified, especially during the peak hours, and it gets difficult to back feed the entire area. "BYPL is doing its best to back feed these areas to the fullest extent possible. BYPL has resorted to some rotational loadshedding in a few pockets of Ghazipur, Patparganj and Mayur Vihar during the intervening period," said the official. |
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Tolerance is the need of the hour: Vice Prez
New Delhi, June 24 He said that while working on such subjects the significance should be given on two ideas - diversity versus uniformity and tolerance. The book reflected these ideas that focused on significance of inter-civilization dialogue for global peace. The book has covered turbulence in West Asia, Central Asia, North and Central Africa and terrorism. He said that prime focus of the book is to inform people that even though "We are different countries, we are all independent." The book is significant because for the first time several diplomats of different countries have written about the crucial global concern for peaceful co-existence, understanding of diversity, multi-culture and building strong ties to overcome cultural and civilization conflicts, he said. |
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Fake currency syndicate busted
New Delhi, June 24 The Special Cell of the Delhi Police has allegedly recovered FICN to the tune of Rs 16 lakh during their operation in which they apprehended the accused. The police said that the FICN originates from Pakistan and is pumped into the Indian economy from Bangladesh, where an Indian national, Shah Jahan, is allegedly handling the network. The accused are identified as Gopal Laxman (35), Dinesh Gorasava (35) and Anand Tarapa (32) of Maharashtra and Muhammad Babar Sheikh of West Bengal. Investigators said that Sheikh was allegedly handling the racket in the border district of Malda in West Bengal. Members of the syndicate from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana would regularly to collect consignments from Malda. |
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