Noida
residents in for a long wait as Ganga jal remains a
distant dream
Noida, June 6
Noidaites seem to be in for a long
wait as far as getting Ganga jal is concerned. Though Noidaites were
slated to get the supply of Ganga water by June 2003 now it seems the
deadline for the completion of the Ganga project, which has already
crossed Rs 121 crore mark, has been shifted to July 2003.The Chief
Project Engineer of the Noida Administration, Mr Yadav Singh, assures
that Noida might start getting mixed Ganga jal after June 30.
LOOKING FOR THE LAST DROP. — Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal |
ESI
services below par
in Haryana
Faridabad, June 6
Though Haryana is one of the top
revenue grosser of the Employee State Insurance funds the health
services provided to the beneficiaries are still below the mark. The
proposal to set up model ESI hospitals in the state is still hanging
fire although such hospitals have been started in many other states.
SPECIAL FOCUS ON
JHAJJAR/BAHADURGARH
With unheard
grouses galore, residents of HUDA colony languish in hell-hole
Jhajjar, June 6
Residents of the Housing Board
Colony of a residential sector in Bahadurgarh are up in arms against the
Haryana Urban Development Authority on account of its apathetic attitude
towards the problems of the residents.
Activists of the Delhi unit of the Nationalist Congress Party holding a dharna in protest against the gruesome murder of the NCP Treasurer of the Chhattisgarh unit. They were demanding the arrest of the Chief Minister of Chattisgarh, Mr Ajit Jogi, and his son at Jantar Mantar in the Capital on Friday.
— Photo by Kamal Singh |
SPEAKING OUT
ON the basis of a draw held in
October 2001, I was allotted one 4 marla plot by the Haryana Urban
Development Authority in Sector 65, Faridabad, at a tentative price of
Rs 1,679 per sq yd.
- Discrimination against engineers?
- Compensation for fire
victims
- Provide water at Railway
station
- Stop Train at Shahdara
- Fighting pollution
- Need for fair selection
- Ending child marriages
- Virtue of Forgiveness
Ganaur
civic body secretary suspended
Sonepat, June 6
The Haryana Government has placed
Mr Naresh Verma, secretary of the Ganaur Municipal Committee, under
suspension pending departmental action against him. According to a
report, the SDM Ganaur, Mr Jeet Singh Mehra, has confirmed the
suspension orders issued by the state government. However, he declined
to give the reason for suspension.
- Free textbooks
- Youth attacked
- ‘Best villages’
- Bhajan Lal to visit Rai
Four injured
in East Delhi cylinder blast
New Delhi, June 6
Four persons were injured, two of
them seriously, when an LPG cylinder exploded in a DDA flat at Jhilmil
Colony in East Delhi this morning. The victims were identified as Yogesh
Mehra (33), his wife Asha Mehra (32), their neighbours Varun (17),
Mridul (17), Murli Kumar, Raj Kumar and Mohan Kumar.
WHAT’S COOKING? Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit taking a dekko at the ‘chapatis’ made by the prisoners after the inauguration of Jail No. 7 at Tihar in the Capital on Friday.
— Photo by Kamal Singh |
NCR BRIEFS
Dairyman
crushed to death
Noida, June 6
Irate people held up traffic at G T
Road Dadri in protest against the death of a dairyman who was crushed
under the wheels of a UP roadways bus opposite Kidwai Nagar.
- Life term for murder
- Two get 10 yrs RI
Youth
killed in sleep
Sonepat, June 6
A youth Satyavan alias Dheelu (26)
was allegedly murdered with sharp-edged weapons by some unidentified
persons while he was asleep in his field at Tharu village about 5 km
form here last night.
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