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Govt makes special arrangements
Fly-by-night finance co dupes people
4 gangsters nabbed, weapons seized
Polluting units in Noida under scanner
Maintenance of roads neglected due to paucity of fund
Stress on role of citizens in management of solid waste
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Role of consultants in beautification drive
Cost of construction shoots up
Panchayat members take oath in Faridabad
DELHI IN PARLIAMENT
PG programme through virtual classrooms
By 2020, mental illness will be the greatest killer: Expert
Vasundhara and Hapur sector rates hiked
Jail term for killing peacock
Mashelkar honoured
Bharati Vidyapeeth accorded deemed university status
Traffic disruption in Chandni Chowk
Regularise shops in residential areas: Arya
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Govt makes special arrangements for
New Delhi, May 4 Dr J. N. Banvarikar, Head of MCD’s hospital administration, said nine of the 51 persons, who have contracted the brain fever, have died in various hospitals. The toll is nine till 9 a.m. today, said Dr Banvarikar. There have been no children among those who succumbed to the highly infectious disease, he added. At a meeting of officials of the Director General of Health Services and the MCD, it was decided
to vaccinate those medical staff attending to the meningococcemia patients. The doctors and the nurses form a high-risk group and we have issued instructions that all of them should be given preventive vaccines, said Dr Banvarikar. The relatives and others who come in contact with the meningitis patients will be given preventive medicine, he added. In the MCD hospitals, the medical staff will get the ‘universal protective gear’ like masks and gloves. After the DGHS-MCD meeting, it was decided to keep 30 beds separately for meningitis patients in each MCD-run hospitals– ten beds each for male, female and children, Dr Banvarikar said. The Chief Minister, Mrs Sheila Dikshit, chaired a high-level meeting yesterday, after the arrival of patients infected with the disease showed an upward trend in city hospitals. According to the Delhi Health Minister, Mr Yoganand Shastri, most of the meningitis cases have been reported in Azadpur and Nimri Colony in north-west Delhi. Meningitis patients have been admitted to Apollo Hospital, Lok Nayak Hospital, Hindu Rao Hospital, Kalavati Sharan Hospital and Guru Tegbahadur Hospital. The Delhi Medical Association (DMA) today opened a helpline for meningitis cases. The numbers are 9811090206 (DMA president Dr K. K. Aggarwal), 20050140 (Dr Girish Tyagi, honorary secretary), 9810118256 (Dr V. K. Monga) and 9312273922 (Dr Ajay Rohatgi). “The large number of cases are a matter of concern,” said Dr Aggarwal, “but there is no reason why the situation will not be under control.”
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Fly-by-night finance co dupes people of crores
Ghaziabad, May 4 The fly-by-night-operators have put padlocks on the premises on Tuesday. Surinder Kumar Thapar, a retired railway official and a resident of Mohalla Bhood Bharat Nagar in Vijay Nagar, in a written complaint to the Kotwali police station had brought forth the whole fraud. Besides, Anand
Mahchanda, one tent house owner, Deepak Kumar, Sudershan Sweets owner and many others had also lodged their complaints with the police. Kanishka Finance Co, the fraud finance company, had involved about a thousand clients in three different committees (chit funds). The finance company had promised to return their money doubled in four years. Additionally, there was an attraction of a lucky draw in between. Interestingly, when all the subscribers’ deposits had matured, the finance company officials had asked for some more time to pay them all. Then suddenly they flew by night locking the premises. Surinder Kumar Thapar said he had lost Rs 4 lakh, an optician has lost Rs 2 lakh, an attaché case dealer in Lajpat Nagar, Vijay Bagga and owner of Katara Mill, Delhi, had also lost equal amounts. The SO of Kotwali police station, C. P. Singh, said police are making inquiries about the ramification of the fraud and are also raiding different places to nab the tricksters.
Mystery death in district jail
A criminal lodged in District Jail,
Dasna, has died in mysterious circumstances. He was rushed to district hospital where he reportedly was brought
dead. Kamarru Din, 21, a resident of Khora Colony, under Indirapuram police station was lodged in district jail since February 5, 2004 under the Gangster Act. He was arraigned in loot and theft cases, the police said. The jail official had taken Kamarru Din to district hospital at 7 pm yesterday. Dr Sanjay Shankar, at the emergency ward, had examined him and declared him brought dead. Nobody was able to say as to how the young criminal had died in the district prison. The police have, however, sent the body for autopsy and the report will possibly throw light on the mystery.
— OC
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4 gangsters nabbed, weapons seized
New Delhi, May 4 The accused arrested have been identified as Mahesh
Verma, resident of Gandhi Nagar, Nafisul Huq, resident of Sitapur,
Mohammad Yusuf, resident of Mandawali and Aftab Alam, resident of
Shakarpur. Acting on a tip-off that a gang headed by Mahesh and Nafisul
would assemble near CNG petrol pump at National Highway-24 to commit
robbery, the police laid a trap and nabbed the suspects. During
interrogation, the accused persons told the police that they were
planning to commit robbery in a wine shop in Kalyanpuri area. They also
confessed that Mahesh Verma, who is the mastermind, committed a burglary
in 2003 in Krishna Nagar and later had differences with this associate,
Mange Ram Sharma, alias Sharmaji, who was also involved in several cases
of murder and robbery. After the altercation with Sharmaji, Mahesh and
his brother Raju strangulated him and disposed his body in Loni area.
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Polluting units in Noida under scanner
Noida, May 4 About 150 pollution producing units have been identified in Noida and Greater Noida. Some of these units have installed modern equipment for control of pollution as per board’s norms. The pollution control board has, however, now decided to implement the pollution control measures in units or take strict action against such units. The board is, however, understood to have sent notices to three major offending units to take remedial steps. Within three months all polluting units will be able to install modern pollution control mechanism, says the Regional Officer of the Pollution Control Board, Mr R. K. Singh. It may be mentioned that Noida and Greater Noida have always been projected as the pollution free area where no polluting units are allowed. There are large numbers of polluting factories in Noida Phase I. A few polluting units functioning under the very nose of the Noida Authority opposite its office in Sector-6, including a paper mill in the vicinity. The air and noise being produced by these units in Sector 6 throws an open challenge to pollution control board’s very existence. Besides, the atmosphere in Noida is considerably polluted by vehicles especially those run on diesel like tempos, tractors and private buses. But there is hardly any mechanism to punish or control them. Mr. R.K. Singh is sure that Noidaites will not be seeing clouds of dense and dark smoke in Noida atmosphere in three months time. “Hopefully, the Noida sky will look much cleaner by August 2005,” he adds.
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Maintenance of roads neglected due to paucity of fund
New Delhi, May 4 Sources said that the corporation had a provision of Rs 95 crore in the budget for repairing of the roads but due to lack of sufficient finances it could not be done. The money left over from the last year’s budget is being used for this purpose but that is not sufficient for the maintenance of all MCD roads. Hardly 30 per cent of the roads will be repaired with this money. An official of the Engineering Department said that if the roads were not repaired before the monsoon season, there would be flood like situation in the MCD areas. According to sources, the money was to be spent from the plan head. Due to the less than expected collection of property tax, which is a major source of the total revenue of the corporation, the MCD could not spend the money from the plan head for this purpose. The road repairing work was earlier undertaken by Divisional offices, but they were directed in April last year that no tender for the road repairing would be invited by the Divisional offices. It has now become centralised. In 2004-2005 tenders were invited for the purpose but work had not been started. The corporation has been left with a handsome amount of last year’s money, which is now being used but are still inadequate for the huge repairs required. The Engineer–in–Chief, Mr R.K. Meena, however, recently issued a circular announcing that road repairing work was again being transferred to zonal offices following directions of the court.
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Stress on role of citizens in management of solid waste
New Delhi, May 4 Over 400 representatives from nearly 50 such associations participated in the workshop held recently. Mr S. K. Garg, MOH, NDMC, addressing the gathering on the occasion urged the members of the associations to come forward in the management of solid waste, which is a critical and unending problem. He said the role of every individual in this field is of prime importance. He further said that the NDMC intends to bring transparency in its work culture. He also appraised the gathering of the facilities being provided by civic body in its 14-sanitry circles for removal of garbage. The civic body has provided dustbins and also constructed garbage stations with segregation facility so that biodegradable and non-biodegradable garbage can be segregated at the initial stage itself. Besides facility of door-to-door garbage collection in 52 colonies, arrangements have been made for night sweeping in sensitive areas and crowded markets. To ensure proper monitoring and redressal of grievances, 14 Zonal officers have also been deputed in the circles. The Zonal officer of Jor Bagh area stressed upon the active cooperation of RWAs in the management of solid waste, and said that individuals can contribute to the making of this experiment a success.
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Role of consultants in beautification drive
New Delhi, May 4 A proposal, which was tabled before the Cabinet, was cleared for appointing consultants for land-scaping and street- scaping road stretches ranging from 1 to 5-km around eight prominent areas in the city. The consultants would be required to suggest ways for overall improvement in aesthetics, especially on aspects like streetlighting, street furniture, bus shelters and footpaths. The areas chosen were: about 2-km stretch around ISBT on the Ring Road in North Delhi, 4 to 5-km stretch around Dhaula Kuan in South Delhi, about 2-km stretch between ITO and Delhi Gate in Central Delhi, about 2- km stretch around Gole Market in Central Delhi, about 1-km stretch on the Baba Kharak Singh Marg in Central Delhi, about 1-km stretch around Janpath again in Central Delhi.
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Cost of construction shoots up
New Delhi, May 4 The reason for the sharp hike is the increase in the price of building material like bricks, cement, steel, timber, sand and fitting and fixture items. Increase in labour wages, rise in the cost of fuel and shortage of raw material have also to some extent contributed to the increased cost of construction in the Capital where as it is land is sold at a premium. According to reports, among essential building items, the cost of steel has gone up by 56 per cent in the year 2004-05 as against the one prevailing in 2001-02.
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Panchayat members take oath in Faridabad
Faridabad, May 4 About 45 sarpanches, 27 members of the Panchayat Samiti and 472 panches of the Faridabad block were administered the oath by the Deputy Commissioner at the MCF auditorium here this morning. The members of the Panchayat Samiti, sarpanches and panches of the Ballabhgarh block underwent similar exercise at the Government Girls Secondary School building at Ballabhgarh town. The function here was also presided over by the Deputy Commissioner. This block has 65 sarpanches and 665 panches. The elected representatives of the panchayat bodies of Palwal, Hodal and Hassanpur blocks were administered the oath at Palwal and Hodal towns.
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Delhi to get additional power from central agencies
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 4 “Besides the allocation of 280 MW from the unallocated quota of Central Generating Stations during the peak period for the summer to Delhi by the Government of India, Delhi Transco Limited has also made arrangements for adequate availability of power to meet the summer demand,” said PM Sayeed. The measures include maximization of generation from Delhi’s power plants, purchase of 100 MW from the Eastern region, 80 MW to 440 MW from Himachal Pradesh state Electricity Board and 50 per cent of 330 MW from the Himachal Government’s share in Nathpa Jkukri Hydro Electric project on a bilateral basis, he said. MCD: The MCD has said it has received no complaints about any organisations giving maintenance rights of its community halls forcing people to buy their business services for using the facilities. Minister of State for Home S. Raghypathy told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that the MCD had allotted certain community halls to Resident Welfare Associations/NGOs and third parties as part of a scheme that aims at ensuring their maintenance in user-friendly conditions. “The MCD has reported that no complaint about people being compelled to avail of other services has been registered with them,” said Raghypathy.
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PG programme through virtual classrooms
New Delhi, May 4 The partnership harbingers a major breakthrough in distance learning in the country. As per the tripartite arrangement, XIMB will offer one-year Postgraduate Certificate Programme in Business Management (PCPBM), using Reliance’s platform. In due course, management development and customized training programmes for enterprises will be added. These virtual classrooms will be as good as the real ones except that the students will participate from Webwords, using the latest, most powerful and most flexible technology available. Unlike satellite-based technology, this medium offers real-time, multi-way audio and visual presence of the professor and the students.
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By 2020, mental illness will be the greatest killer: Expert
New Delhi, May 4 Eminent professionals from this field were present during the inaugural function to discuss the ever-growing problems related to neurosciences and behavioural sciences. Delivering the inaugural address, the Additional Director General, Health Services, Government of India, Dr R. K. Srivastava, remarked that mental health is being given considerable importance in the field of medical science. Designed to bring considerable revolution in the treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of mental illness in the country, he called for the full implementation of the various laws and regulations in this field. In developing countries like India, we need to change our mindset regarding those suffering mental sickness, he said. He emphasised that the government had laid down the Mental Health Act 2003, in which several issues including modernization of mental healthcare and the need to create awareness about mentally sick person were highlighted. The number of mentally sick persons have increased considerably and there is a need to open more training centres, appoint paramedics and psychiatrists in this sector, he said. Dr Srivastava added that in recent years, therapeutic strategies for the mentally ill persons has not been innovatively used by psychologists and psychiatrists. Rehabilitation strategies have to be often worked out and implemented at individual level. The discovery of neurological and psycho-neurological issues in mental health and the many neurocognitive rehabilitative methods used while treating mental and neurological disorders, including those suffering from strokes, need to be brought to the forefront so that others learn from these innovations. The people who suffer from mental disorders would also benefit from these new innovations, said Dr Srivastava. Dr Deepak Raheja, director, ‘The Hope Foundation’, said that till recently mental disorder was considered to be a result of some curse or witchcraft. However, with constant progress in the psychopathic sciences, people are going in for medical advises for the treatment of mental disorder. Dr Raheja cautioned that with urbanisation and people coming under stress, the mental healthcare needs to be modernised. By the year 2020, mental illness will be the greatest killer, Dr Raheja said. He blamed the current work environment for the increasing number of psycho cases.
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Vasundhara and Hapur sector rates hiked
Ghaziabad, May 4 The UP Avas Vikas Parishad had increased its rates in Vasundhra recently. Now district administration has also followed suit by increasing its sector rates. Sector rates in Hapur’s Ambedkar Nagar and Sanjay Vihar areas are also increased. Land rates in Indirapuram and Vasundhra have gone up steeply of late. Now, all registries of Vasundhra properties will be done as per new rates where residential sector rates have been hiked from Rs 2,000 to Rs 2,500 per sq mt, while the increase in commercial sectors will be from Rs 4,500 to Rs 6,000 per sq. mt. Some hikes in rates in Hapur have also been noticed, Pawar said. The sector rates in Ambedkar Nagar and Sanjay Vihar have also been increased from Rs 1,500 to Rs 4,000 for both these colonies. The commercial rates here have been fixed little higher. The rates of residential sectors 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, in Vasundhra have been hiked from Rs 6,500 to Rs 8,500 and for sectors 2b, 2c, 4p, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 & 18 from Rs 7,600 to Rs 10,000 while rates for commercial sectors 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 in Vasundhra have been
hiked from Rs 12,500 to 18,000. For 2b, 2c, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 182 the rates from Rs 18,000 have been increased to Rs 24,000 per sq mt.
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Faridabad, May 4 According to reports, the accused persons, identified as Asroo and Ruddar, had been caught red handed by the residents of Kishorpur village on June 1, 1999, after someone had reported that the accused along with some persons had been engaged poaching of the national bird. — TNS
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Mashelkar honoured
Dr R. A. A. Mashelkar, Director General, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), has been elected Foreign Associate of US National Academy of Sciences at its annual general meeting on May 3 in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research in polymer science and engineering.
Election to the Academy is considered as one of the highest honours that can be accorded to any scientist or engineer.
— TNS
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Bharati Vidyapeeth accorded deemed university status
New Delhi, May 4 With this, the 19 institutes run by the Bharati Vidyapeeth have come under the ambit of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University. The various courses offered include both professional and non-professional disciplines like Medicine, Dentistry, Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, Engineering, Pharmacy (degree and diploma), Architecture, Management, Nursing, Law, Social Work, Hotel Management and Catering Technology (degree and diploma), Environmental Sciences, Arts, Science, Commerce and Fine Arts. Established in 1964 in Pune by Dr Patangraoji Kadam, Bharati Vidyapeeth and the parent body of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University figures among the largest educational networks in the country. All the 149 institutions impart education in different fields and streams ranging from primary to post- graduate levels.
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Traffic disruption in Chandni Chowk
New Delhi, May 4 However, the local residents came to the rescue of the motorists, who helped to clear the mess on the road and end the chaos. However, when the traffic police was contacted, they were unaware of the traffic chaos in the area.
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Regularise shops in residential areas: Arya
New Delhi, May 4 In the early years of the post-Partition period, there were few commercial areas, and those who became refugees took to these small-time businesses to support themselves. He highlighted the area of Rajouri Garden where A, F, G, H and J Blocks have become commercial areas. He further said that a resolution had been placed before the corporation, which would be discussed in the Standing Committee. He said that in the last meeting the Standing Committee had recommended that in the Master Plan 2021 markets constructed on roads with 18 metres width should be regularised. He said that markets being run on roadside having width of 30 feet or more should be regularised by demarcating the land as mixed-use area and should be included in the Master Plan 2021. Meanwhile, in another function, Mr Arya handed over a cheque of Rs 10, 000 towards the marriage of a widow in Rajouri Garden area. The cheque amount was provided by the corporation.
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