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Agencies asked to finish work on verifying unauthorised colonies
Controversy over new MCD headquarters building
Faridabad may find place on Delhi metro map
Noida law and order situation grim
Greater Noida residents gherao power company chief
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Drainage system ready for rains, claim agencies
Boy kidnapped from Kota rescued, one held
JNU introduces new programme for students from overseas
Zila Parishad to focus on rural development
Executive Engineer held by CBI while accepting bribe
One
held for trader’s murder
Woman kills self due to dowry harassment
Cable operators told not to hike tariff
City school
de-recognised
CNG price hiked by Rs 1.20 per kg
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Agencies asked to finish work on verifying unauthorised colonies
New Delhi, June 28 PWD Minister Dr A K Walia today held a review meeting with Principal Secretary, Urban Development O P Kelkar, representatives of DDA, MCD, Environment and Forest departments. Also, officials of DJB and Deputy Commissioners of nine districts were present during the meeting. As the verification process is yet to be completed, Dr Walia asked the concerned agencies to verify the status of unauthorized colonies to enable the State government to submit a detailed report to Union Ministry of Urban Development. After the meeting, Dr Walia said that around 800 unauthorized colonies have already been verified and the rest would be verified before July 15. Earlier the concerned agencies were asked to complete the process by end of June. The Delhi Jal Board has almost completed the verification process of these colonies in order to provide infrastructure facilities and area of alignment of water and sewer lines. The Minister also asked the DDA Vice Chairman to personally supervise the verification process of colonies coming under the jurisdiction of DDA. Further, the MCD has been directed to speed up the identification of colonies as per the status shown in the aerial survey.
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Controversy over new MCD headquarters building
New Delhi, June 28 He said that the original proposed height of the building was 28 storeys, which was approved by
the department in 1990. “Now, when the construction has started, it is being opposed for reasons better known to authorities concerned,” he says. The urban development secretary has said that the height of the civic centre should be 14 storeys in conformity with other buildings. The Municipal Commissioner, however, said that this argument was baseless. The NDMC has been given permission to construct 18 storeyed buildings and a number of other buildings in Connaught Place have even more height. He also said that the Northern Railway has plans to construct 30 storeyed building at the New Delhi Railway station, but so far no objection has been raised by the Urban Development department of the Delhi Government. The Metro Rail has constructed a number of buildings, including technology park, without taking clearance from the Urban Development department but no action has been taken against the Metro Rail. As far as traffic congestion is concerned, the corporation has made traffic management plan for the area in question, he said. He further said that technically, the department cannot restrict the height of the building because in the new Master Plan, there is no restriction for the height of commercial buildings. Secondly, the Malaysia based company has rich experience in constructing high rise buildings in Colombo, Sri Lanka and other places. The civic centre will be a unique building in itself. Its total site area is 46, 702 square metre. Besides MCD headquarters, it will house commercial offices, space for cultural activities, restaurants, banquet halls etc. Parking arrangement for government and private vehicles will also be there in the civic centre premises.
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Faridabad may find place on Delhi metro map
New Delhi, June 28 The Managing Director of the DMRC, Mr E. Sreedharan, told The Tribune today that Haryana Chief
Minister B.S. Hooda had evinced keen interest in linking Faridabad to the Capital with a metro rail link. In a recent communication to the Haryana Government, the DMRC indicated the cost, amounting to Rs 75 lakh, for preparing a DPR for the Delhi-Faridabad metro link. The exact details of link will only be known after the DPR, which can take anything between six months to one year after it gets a green signal from the
Haryana Government, gets completed. Besides being a successful model that other cities want to replicate, the DMRC has been providing consultancy services at a much lower cost than countries like Germany, Britain and Japan. It is now on the verge of establishing a separate wing to expand its consultancy services and making it even more self-sufficient. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) Chief Public Relations Officer Anuj Dayal said the DMRC had already submitted DPRs for Bangalore and Hyderabad. In fact, the Bangalore metro plan was at an advanced stage with tenders already having been floated. The plan for a 23-km line between Kalamassery and Tripunithura in Kochi has also been submitted. Besides this, it has also submitted DPRs for Noida and Gurgaon metro links. The DMRC is also preparing plans for metros in Chenni, Kolkota, Hyderabad and Mumbai. The Noida Metro plan has a 7-km line between New Ashok Nagar and Sector-32 and the Gurgaon Metro plan two lines – one between Qutab Minar and the
Gurgaon Border, measuring 9.02 km, and another between the Gurgoan border and Sushant Lok, measuring 7.05 km. The Ghaziabad metro plan has a 12.5-km line between Dilshad Garden and Rajnagar. The 33-km Bangalore metro plan to decongest the city has an 18.1- km Corridor no.1 between East and West and a 14.9-km Corridor no.2 between North and South parts of the city. The 38.5-km Hyderabad metro plan also includes two corridors – a one covering Miyapur , Osmania Medical College and Chaitanya Puri, measuring 25.57 km, and the second covering Secunderabad , Charminar and Falaknuma, measuring 12.48 km. Munbai, which already has a very strong local rail network in place, will have a 60.8-km metro with three corridors: the Colaba Backbay, Mahim, Bandra and Charkop Corridor no.1, the Varsova, Andheri and Ghatkopar Corridor no. 2 and the Bandra , Mankhurd Corridor No.3. The Chennai metro will include partially underground and elevated stretches. Of the 31.5 km Airport–Guindy–Anna Salai–Spencers– Central Station–Broadway–Thiruvottiyur High Road line, 8.4 km is underground and the remaining length elevated. The 13.5-km Ponnamallai High Road–EVR Periyar Salai–Anna Nagar–Egmore –Central-Fort–Beach/Harbour is fully elevated. Kolkata has an 18.65- km east to west Corridor plan for Kolkata Metro between Das Nagar and Salt Lake, Sector5. Meanwhile, Mr Sreedharan commissioned a new metro traction sub-station that will supply power to the under ground stretch. The sub-station has been completed in the record time of eight months. It will get 66 kv input supply from the Gas Turbine Power station at Indraprastha through 5-km long cables along Ring Road and Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg. The sub-station can be centrally controlled from the Metro Occupational Control Centre at Shastri Park.
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Noida law and order situation grim
Noida, June 28 Equally ironically, the IGP, Meerut Zone, Vipin Sharma, was reportedly instructing the city cops how to tackle crime in the area the same day. In the first incident, Ashok Chadda, a Pepsi dealer was deprived of Rs 4.36 lakh kept in his car from near the DPS crossing. This happened after a Maruti car hit him from the rear, and then blocked his way in the front. When he stopped, three men alighted from that car and walked up to him. Chadda thought they wanted to talk to him about the accident, but one of them proceeded to snatch his car keys to open the central lock and threw chilli powder into
his eyes. The other two, meanwhile, opened the door of his car and took out a bag containing the money, before speeding away. The sensational incident created a traffic jam at the busy crossing for sometime. Later, at about 1.30 p.m., RK Sood of HCL who had drawn Rs.2.76 lakh from ICICI Bank in Sector 18, was deprived of the amount by four criminals on motor bikes who snatched the money while Sood
was walking towards his Zen car. Incidentally, there are two police posts in the area and sector 18 market is equipped with 16 closed circuit cameras installed by Noida authority. Normally, the entire sequence of the incident could have been recorded by the cameras, providing some clue to the criminals’ identity, but they were not working at the time due to a power cut, said Circle Officer
SR Yadav. Noida traders and businessmen have been shocked by such brazen acts of looting in broad daylight, and warned the police that they will be forced to start an agitation if the city’s law and order situation does not improve. Only on June 21, it may be recalled, every police station in Noida was provided with lap top computers and digital cameras,
but it remains to be seen whether they prove useful in tackling crime in
the city.
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Greater Noida residents gherao power company chief
Greater Noida, June 28 He was gheraoed when he was about to leave after a meeting with NDPL officials. The residents, led by President of Noida RSWS Federaation Sushil Agarwal and Secretary PS Jain, acquainted Mr Sinha with the dismal power supply scenario in the city and demanded to know how his company proposed to remedy the situation. They told Mr. Sinha that in Greater Noida, there was no shortage of power availability and infrastructure. It also contributed sizable revenue in power, and power losses in the city were only 12 per cent. Despite these facts, Greater Noida residents had to face prolonged power cuts? It was pointed out that 33 KV sub-stations in residential sectors and industrial sectors were mostly in bad shape, since the Corporation was not maintaining them properly. The wiring in residential sectors, slums and villages was also in poor state. Mr. Sinha promised to look into the matter.
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Drainage system ready for rains, claim agencies
New Delhi, June 28 Civic authorities come in for severe criticism every time it rains in Delhi because even a slight drizzle leaves parts of the city inundated with overflowing drains and choked waterholes. The MCD has budget of Rs 253.2 million this year for desilting the drains. Private contractors have been given the work of desilting 1, 098 drains while the sanitation department was cleaning up 112 drains. According to officials, the MCD had identified 108 low lying areas where rain water was found stagnant. The corporation will install pumps to clear water from these spots. Water on clearing the drains had started in March, but got delayed due to non-availability of labourers and vehicles.
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Boy kidnapped from Kota rescued, one held
New Delhi, June 28 The other two kidnappers, Rahul (36) and Sanjeev Sharma (22), could not be nabbed. According to the police, the boy Vaibhav Aggarwal (15), a resident of Mumbai, was staying in Kota to get IIT coaching from Bansal Institute in Kota, Rajasthan. On June 16, Jai Kumar, Rahul and Sanjeev approached Vaibhav on the pretext of taking some guidance regarding coaching for IIT. During the meeting, they offered him a cold drink laced with drugs, and kidnapped him after he fell unconscious. A case was registered in Kota, Rajasthan. Delhi Police was also informed about the incident. The police said that the accused had demanded Rs 3 crore as ransom from the boy’s parents. This was asked to be delivered to a restaurant in UP, where a joint team of Rajasthan police, Delhi Police, UP police and STF of UP police laid a trap for the criminals. The boy’s parents were instructed to leave the money in a Maruti car standing in the parking of the restaurant. As soon as they did so, a man approached the car and was apprehended by the police. During sustained interrogation, he disclosed that he and his associates had kept Vaibhav captive at Flat number 4, GDA officers flat, Patel Nagar I, Ghaziabad. The police raided the flat and rescued the kidnapped child from there. The police have initiated an inquiry about the flat’s owner and how the kidnappers managed to get its possession.
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JNU introduces new programme for students from overseas
New Delhi, June 28 The decision to assess these casual students, is not just an attempt to evaluate them, but also aims at enhancing the prestige of the
University abroad. “These students can take back the evaluation officially given by the University and this in turn will also strengthen JNU’s image abroad,” said Dr S Chandrasekaran, Coordinator Evaluation. Students who came to JNU for a year-long programme or even for research were not given a certificate of evaluation. “They were assessed, the teachers could give their remarks, but this assessment did not have the University’s seal,” explained Dr Chandrasekaran. As per the new programme, which these foreign students can opt for, they will take back a certificate indicating their performance, which will be recognised by their respective Universities. Incidentally, these students don’t necessarily have to opt for the new system. “ It is not a mandatory programme. Those who want to get certificates of evaluation can enroll others can continue like before,” said Dr S Chandrasekaran. “These casual students come for a year, some of them come to audit programmes and others come to gather research material. We will now give them the option to enroll in the Supervisory Study programme, which we have started because there was demand for it.” “We have signed MoUs with many Universities in Korea, Australia and some European ones; then there is a programme with the University of Ludgwig in Germany where a students has to spend a year in JNU…as per the new programme students can now opt for one or two semesters in JNU,” he added. Students can pick up different courses from different packages, but will have to choose a minimum of two from one package. “ If a student chooses just one semester programme, he can opt for either all four courses from one package or two courses from one and two from another or two courses and a dissertation”, explained Dr Chandrasekaran. For students choosing to stay for two semesters, the options include one year of four courses and one year of dissertation. “These students will be allowed to complete all the four courses in one year and devote the next year to dissertation”, he said. The new programme will be conducted jointly by the School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies, School of Social Sciences and School of International Relations.
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Zila Parishad to focus on rural development
Gurgaon, June 28 The overwhelming view in the meeting was that the body should focus on rural development of the district. Also, a need was expressed for the body to play a pro-active role to eradicate social evils like dowry and pre-natal sex determination which led to extirpation of foetus. The body expressed concern over the pending arrears due to it as rentals of its shops given on rent in Panchayat Bhawans. The other issue which came up for discussion was the large scale encroachments on land and properties of the
Zila Parishad. The body constituted its committees relating to various areas under its jurisdiction. An elected member of the body said that as it was the first meeting controversial issues were not avoided by the elected members.
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Executive Engineer held by CBI while
New Delhi, June 28 The CBI arrested O. P. Rai, posted in North Zone, for allegedly demanding and accepting the bribe money from the complainant for clearing his pending bills, CBI spokesman said. The contractor had lodged a written complaint with the CBI against the official. He has been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act. After preliminary interrogation, he was produced before the designated court for remand.
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One
held for trader’s murder
New Delhi, June 28 The accused has been identified as Davender Chawla (25), a resident of Hansi, Haryana. The police claimed to have recovered one country made pistol of .315 bore and one Maruti car from his possession. Police said that the accused was an active member of Satish Leela gang and was involved in 9 criminal cases. All the cases were registered in
Hisar, Bhiwani and Jind districts of Haryana. He joined the gang in 2000. The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested the accused from Saraswati Vihar area in North West district. The police got the information that the accused was coming to the area to commit some crime, and are investigating into the same.
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Woman kills self due to dowry harassment
Faridabad, June 28 She was reportedly frustrated over the alleged victimization and harassment by her in-laws over dowry. The victim identified as
Sangeeta, wife of one Subhash, had been married on February 12 this year. She hailed from Ghaziabad district in
U.P. According to the complaint lodged by her kin, Sangeeta was being harassed for more dowry since the day she had been married. They claimed that the her-in-laws had been demanding some other items like a car etc which led her to commit suicide. The police have booked a case under the Dowry Act against 6 members of the
family. — TNS
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Cable operators told not to hike tariff
Noida, June 28 Cable operators, it is learnt, had sought permission from District Magistrate Santosh Kumar Yadav to hike their rates, who asked his deputy to sort out the issue in a joint meeting with RWAs, cable operators and entertainment tax officials. The Addl. DM ruled that cable operators cannot increase the tariff for those clients who want to see the old channels, while those desiring to see new pay channels could be charged more. Entertainment tax authorities have also told the cable operators that they cannot hike their rates as per their whims and fancies. Presently, cable subscribers pay Rs 150 in rural areas and Rs 250 in urban areas of the city.
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City school
de-recognised
New Delhi, June 28 The orders were passed after the DoE found irregularity in the payment of salary to a teacher who is currently on deputation to another school. But the School’s principal, Mr S S Minhas, is hopeful that the order will be revoked and the school will stand recognised. “The teacher who is currently on deputation to another schools is also an elected member of the Gurdwara Committee. Since she is drawing her entire salary from our school, the DoE wanted the Gurdwara Committee to pay part of her salary, because it is on their instruction that she has been deputed elsewhere,” explained Minhas. “We had conveyed the DoE’s instruction to the Committee, but since the President of the DSGMC was out of the country, no decision could be taken,” he added. And while the DSGMC kept mulling on the issue, the Principal in the meantime got the letter de-recognising the school. “We are hopeful that the decision will be reversed and since the DSGMC President and our Chairman are pursuing the matter the result will be in the best interest of the school”, added Minhas.
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CNG price hiked by Rs 1.20 per kg
New Delhi, June 28 “Price of CNG will be raised from July 1, the day natural gas prices are to be hiked,” Indraprastha Gas Ltd Managing Director A K De said here today. A kg of CNG in Delhi presently costs Rs 16.88. From July 1 it will cost around Rs 18.08 per kg from July
1. — TNS
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As many as 1,432 unauthorised colonies which had submitted applications for regularization to the Ministry of Urban Development have been sent for verification and the process is expected to be completed before July 15.