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SC stays CBI probe into Noida
MCD dithers on buying sweaters for
schoolkids
Power scenario in Gurgaon under scanner
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Jaish career agent arrested
Preparations on for second phase of Yamuna Action Plan
DDA fined Rs 1 lakh for not giving flat possession
IG’s gunner beaten up by drunk students
Dayawati Modi Award for
Criminals rule the roost in GB Nagar
Woman jumps to death from 10th floor in Noida
Presentation about Games security made before LG
Dozen dengue cases reported every day
Youth at integration camp to clean Yamuna
German educationists to visit DPS R. K. Puram
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SC stays CBI probe into Noida plot allotments
New Delhi, November 11 Admitting a Special Leave Petition (SLP) of New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida) against the High Court’s October 4 order, the apex court also directed the UP Government not to go ahead with any fresh allotment of plots in Gautam Budh Nagar area, popularly known as Noida. This was for the second time that the allotment of plots by Noida had landed in controversy. Earlier, during the tenure of former UP Chief Secretary Neera Yadav as head of Noida, there were serious allegations of corruption against her in the allotments, which are also being probed by the CBI. The apex court last month had ordered shifting of Neera Yadav from the post of Chief Secretary pending CBI probe into the earlier allotments. The High Court had directed the CBI to find out the persons and government officials responsible for “manipulating” the allotment of the plots for residential purposes in which some undeserving persons were also beneficiaries. The apex court was informed that in all 625 plots were auctioned on July 2, which was challenged in the High Court by an NGO, Manav Seva Samiti and one Deepak Sharma for lack of transparency and impartial allotment. The petitioners in the High Court had alleged that the plots were allotted to persons whose names were “taken out fraudulently” for the draw of lots by using the questionable “computer aided method” by an agency known as UP DESCO engaged for the purpose. The Noida also challenged the High Court order for making serious observations against its officials, UP DESCO and the state government. Since the UP Government had set up a high-powered committee under the chairmanship of its Agriculture Principal Secretary G B Patanaik with Varanasi Development Authority Vice-Chairman Himanshu Kumar as a member to oversee the further allotments, the High Court had granted permission to it to have fresh draw of lots. Tata Consultancy Service and Uttar Pradesh Development System Corporation, which were also the beneficiaries in a list strictly reserved for residential purpose to the general category of persons, were made respondents in the case before the High Court. As the counsel for the state government said that the allotments of plots in question had been cancelled, the apex court accepted its plea for staying the High Court order till the SLP was decided by it. The state government had said that the committee under Patnaik was set up with a view to keep the officials of Noida out of the fresh allotment process. But the apex court was not convinced with its argument and said till further order, there would be no fresh allotment.
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MCD dithers on buying sweaters for
schoolkids
New Delhi, November 11 A total number of 3.82 lakh sweaters were required to be purchased for which Rs 3.77 crore had been sanctioned by the central government. It was unfortunate that the process of purchasing these sweaters had not started as yet, Mr Subhash Arya said. He said that a majority of the students of MCD primary schools belonged to the lower strata of society. They did not have proper clothes to protect themselves from the chilling winter in the month of December and January. Mr Arya threatened to launch a movement against the Congress-ruled corporation if the students were not provided sweaters in the first week of December. He said that this was not the first case when the Congress-ruled corporation failed to provide sweaters to the poor children. Earlier the MCD had failed to provide shoes, socks and uniforms. A total of 9.5 lakh students study in MCD schools for whom the administration had to purchase two sets of shoes. A few months back the Standing Committee approved a proposal to purchase shoes amounting to Rs 7.20 crore but no work order had so far been issued, Mr Arya said. He further said that when the Congress came to power in the MCD, it claimed classes running in tents would be replaced by porta cabins but 238 classes were still being run in tents or in veranda of schools. The students sit on mats as desks are not available. Tenders to purchase 1.50 lakh desks were invited in the year 2002 but work order was given after two years where the actual demand of desks was 2.40 lakh. At present, one lakh additional desks were required for classes being run in ports cabins. He said that during the last two years the MCD had failed to spend Rs 110 crore under Plan Head and Rs 200 crore under Non-Plan Head meant for primary education. The corporation had sent back this amount to the central government. If sweaters, uniforms, shoes and socks were purchased this year, the money allocated for this purpose would again be sent back to the central government.
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Power scenario in Gurgaon under scanner
Gurgaon, November 11 During an interactive session with representatives from the industry, he said the concept of Gurgaon as “no power cut zone” was utopian. There can not be such a zone in reality as power cuts will be there in view of the present shortage in the domestic generation of power. Also, even if the state purchases power from others sources, including from outside the state to meet the demand, there were unforeseen snags in the northern grid. However, he was optimistic that supply of power would be better after the state finished the various power generation projects in the pipeline. He lamented that the builders in Gurgaon do not leave sufficient space in the premises to set up 132 KV power sub-stations. He also pointed out that large number consumers have been using more than the sanctioned load, which often lead to the tripping of the transformers. He also clarified that the private builders would have to pay for setting up of the power infrastructure in the colonies and the HVPNL is responsible for their maintenance only after the infrastructure is formally handed over to it. Of course, the laying of the infrastructure is done under the inspection of the HVPNL for which it collects charges. The statement of Mr Das assumes significance as often the residents in private colonies do not know whom to put forth their grievances. The HUDA, the concerned private builders and the local power authorities pass the buck on the issue. The Managing Director of Dhakhini Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd (DHVPNL), Mr Vajinder Kumar, said that the Nigam has started a scheme of paying 10 per cent of the sum recovered to the persons who tip off the authority regarding power theft. Moreover, the names of the whistle blower is kept secret, he added. The NCCI expressed concern over frequent power cuts in Gurgaon and regretted that the augmentation of sub-stations and transmission lines have not been commensurate with the growth of load demand in Gurgaon during the past five years. It expressed the urgent need for setting up of 220 KV Ring main system around Gurgaon as also the erection of 400 KV sub-stations to counter the load demand.
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Jaish career agent arrested
New Delhi, November 11 Abdul Bakhi was wanted by the police for the Ayodhya case and many other cases. Today he was coming from Calcutta to Delhi through Porvanchal Express that reached New Delhi Railway station at 8.45 am. After reaching the railway station he started moving to the exit gate but somehow he got the intuition that the police party was chasing him. He immediately turned back and tried to enter from the entrance gate when the sleuths nabbed him. Joint Commissioner of Police, Special Cell, Karnal Singh said that they have recovered some important documents that suggest his links with the Jaish-E-Mohammed and also his involvement as a career. He said that the accused came to Delhi to take two persons to Calcutta who were residing in a hotel in the walled city. Police said that after the killing of Ghazi Baba, the accused took the daughter and his wife and cross over to Bangladesh. Similarly, he also helped one Mahmood to cross over to Bangladesh, who was living in the area of Mehrauli. Mahmood was doing English speaking course from an institute in Vasant Vihar. “This is the first time when we have nabbed a person who is working as a career agent for the terrorist outfit. It is new modus operandi that have come into the knowledge of the police,” said Karnal Singh. He further said that earlier, the terrorists were to travel through Pakistan border to India but now they have started coming from Bangladesh too. During interrogation, the accused said that the he got instruction from Bangladesh to take the two persons to there.
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Preparations on for second phase of
Faridabad, November 11 The first phase of the project included the laying of 23.60 kms long sewer line, construction of three water treatment plants, low cost sanitation, replacement of pumps, disinfecting pilot plant, laboratory facility to test samples in Faridabad and Palwal towns. The other districts in Haryana involved in the project include Yamunanagar (Jagadhari), Karnal, Panipat, Sonepat and Gurgaon. As per the details, the second phase of the YAP will augment the sewage treatment facilities in the six original towns (lying on the bank of Yamuna) and 18 additional towns of Haryana as well as to provide a common effluent treatment plant for industrial effluent at Panipat. A pre-feasibility report of Rs 349.35 crore has been submitted to Union Government and the Japanese bank. It is proposed to provide additional interception and diversion of the sewer works at a cost of about Rs 34.50 crore in six main towns, institutional capacity building of Public Health Department and municipal staff and preparation of detailed project reports for the phase –II. According to the details available from the authorities concerned the total estimated expenditure of these proposals have been put around Rs 62.50 crore while the scope of work to be taken up in this phase could cost an additional Rs 9.27 crore. It may be recalled that this industrial city touches the Yamuna river for about 80 kms from the Delhi border. Pollution through the sewage and industrial effluent, which was still being released in this river, continues to be the prime reason for the pollution of the Yamuna. According to reports, a number of industrial units continue to flout the norms and discard their effluent either in sewers or allowing it to flow out in the open. Mr Shailander Singh of the Punarjagaran Sanstha, a voluntary body, claimed that the so called plan to clean the Yamuna river had failed to achieve the target, as the project itself had been wrongly prepared and implemented. He said the government should think twice before releasing funds for such a scheme. The authorities, meanwhile, have sought to the widespread participation of the NGO’s in the second phase.
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DDA fined Rs 1 lakh for not giving flat possession
New Delhi, November 11 “We cannot find escape from the conclusion that the appellant (DDA) was guilty of inexcusable and grossest kind of deficiency in service and there was delay of more than three years in completing the construction and handing over the possession of the flat,” said Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission president, Mr Justice J. D. Kapoor. Disposing the appeal preferred by the DDA against the order of the District Consumer Forum, the commission said, “Compensation is inclusive of damages and the cost of litigation as the respondent (consumer) was deprived of the benefits and fruits of the flat for more than three years and retaining of deferred payments unauthorisedly.” One Digvijay Parashara, in the year 1988, under the Self-Finance Scheme of the DDA had applied for the allotment of a flat in the Vasant Kunj area of South Delhi on the estimated cost of Rs 3,39,600, which was to be paid in five instalments. Parashara, after not receiving the possession of his house, in 1994 approached the District Forum for redressal of his grievances, demanding interest on the advance payments made by him and conversion of the flat from leasehold to freehold. The District Forum asked the DDA to pay separate interest on the instalments at the rates of 18 per cent for the period of delay apart from the damages of Rs 5000. The commission, while deciding the appeal, asked the DDA to pay a fixed amount of Rs 1 lakh as compensation.
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IG’s gunner beaten up by drunk students
Noida, November 11 The students have enrolled for the BBA courses in Amity. According to police, a gunner of an IG police from Himachal, Mohinder Kumar Singh, was going home. He was allegedly stopped by the drunk students and insulted. When he objected to their behaviour, he was thoroughly beaten up by Abhishek, Taran Tarun, Nitesh and Ravi. Later, the gunner reported the incident to his boss IG, R.K. Singh who is in the Prime Minister’s security. R.K. Singh got in touch with the SSP Noida. A team of Sector-39 police then picked up the students from a house in Sector-40. They were sent to jail for assault, waylaying, etc. Later in the evening, a senior officer of Noida authority is understood to have contacted a Circle Officer, Noida police and tried to get the students freed, but in vain. The students of some of these prestigious institutes like Amity are known to have created quite a nuisance. They keep bullying the residents of the surrounding localities especially when it comes to parking their vehicles. The local police tend to look the other way, knowing that they come from the influential families.
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Dayawati Modi Award for Tyeb Mehta
New Delhi, November 11 Mehta, who finds his name amongst the list of the most celebrated Indian artists across the world, created a record by fetching the highest ever price given to a contemporary Indian work of art for his painting “Mahishasura” at the Christie’s auction in New York recently. The 80-year-old painter has participated in various prestigious national and international shows. Being a pure artist, Tyeb’s themes portray a dark outlook of life, which he forces us to confront. His lines represent his thinking – very strong and committed. An intellectual and reticent painter, Tyeb does very few canvases in a year, often rejecting many drafts of the same image. Tyeb Mehta was strongly influenced by the Progressive Artists Group, formed by F N Souza in Mumbai, which sought to voice the trials of post-independence India. Announcing the details for this year’s award, Mr Satish Kumar Modi, President of Dayawati Modi Foundation, said, “Tyeb Mehta’s artistic vision and creative expression have enhanced the repertory of Indian art besides continuing to inspire the younger generation of artists. The Dayawati Modi Award is being awarded to him this year in recognition of his outstanding genius.” Among the recipients of this award are Amitabh Bachchan, Mother Teresa, Satish Gujral, Pandit Jasraj, Asha Bhosle and Pandit Ravi Shankar. The award, comprising a cash prize of Rs. 2.51 lakh, a silver shield and scroll of honour, will be presented to Tyeb Mehta at a ceremony in New Delhi on November 17, which is also the birth anniversary of Dayawati Modi. The award, instituted by the Dayawati Modi Foundation for Art, Culture and Education in the memory of late Dayawati Modi, wife of late Rai Bahadur Gujar Mal Modi, founder of the Modi Group, is among the highest cash awards in the country in the field of art, culture and education.
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Criminals rule the roost in GB Nagar
Noida, November 11 In the Chi Fi sector of Greater Noida, four armed miscreants had put gun on the temples of two hardware suppliers and deprived them of Rs 10,000 each, their golden bracelets, wristwatches and mobile phones. The criminals then snatched their bike and sped away, leaving their own bike on the spot. The police rushed to the spot, but could not trace the culprits. While the incidents of theft are quite common in Greater Noida, daylight loots have created a panic all over. To cover up their inaction, police have termed this loot as a theft. In village Ronija under Rabupura police station, criminals assaulted a farmer’s family and decamped with goods worth lakhs along with two tractors. The family was beaten up and pushed into a room which was locked from outside. Even the women were also beaten up and harassed. Somehow one villager informed the police of the dacoity. Police from four police stations were requisitioned with the CO camping in the village in view of panic in the whole area. Earlier, some criminals killed a man who tried to dissuade them from committing a dacoity. Narain Singh lives on his farm on the outskirts of the village Ronija with his family. Half-a-dozen armed dacoits had descended on Narain Singh’s house. They demanded house keys at the point of gun. When Narain’s sons Promode and Raj Kumar resisted the intruders, the whole family was badly beaten up with the butts of gun and batons. Then they were all huddled into a room which was locked from outside. Criminals had decamped with Rs 70,000, two mobile phones, two tractors, paddy worth lakhs and valuable. The police have registered a case against six criminals on a complaint filed by Raj Kumar.
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Woman jumps to death from 10th floor in Noida
Noida, November 11 A suicide note written in pencil has been recovered by the police from the body. The police are now trying to identify the deceased from this note. According to police, the old woman was seen writing on a paper with pencil on the 8th floor stairs of Kartik Kunj on Thursday morning. Security guard Ramesh Pal and others had seen the woman writing on a paper with a pencil in the staircase. Thinking that she was one of the residents of the apartment building, they did not ask her any question. But after sometime, a thud was heard as something had fallen at the back of apartment. Security guards found her to be the same woman they had seen in the staircase. The police have taken the body into possession and are interrogating the security guards. According to SO Anil Pratap Singh, the woman has mentioned her name as Savita in the suicide note and that she was going to commit suicide. A telephone number written by the deceased on the note is not responding. The security guards said they had never seen the deceased in the apartment building earlier.
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Presentation about Games security made before LG
New Delhi, November 11 Mr Joshi directed the participants to evolve security plans after taking into account local features, viz. stadia location, Games Village and overall traffic flow. Various parameters of the security set-up were also discussed at the levels of planning and implementation. It was also decided to send a delegation of police officers to Melbourne to study security features there so that they could evolve a comprehensive security plan. The Director-General, CWG, Mr Srivastava, apprised Mr Joshi that the first of the four workshops on security comprising of central police organisations and the Delhi Police had just concluded successfully. The need to have a unified command centre for making arrangements for the Games was also highlighted at the meeting.—TNS
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Dozen dengue cases reported every day
New Delhi, November 11 Of them, 570 are from Delhi while the others are from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. They were under treatment in various hospitals in the Capital. A senior official of the Health Department of the MCD said that proper arrangement had been made to control the deadly fever but it is still spreading. The dengue fever causes of the bite of aedes mosquito. They breed in clean water. The citizens have been informed about the precaution to be taken to control the breeding of aedes mosquitoes but they do no take care, the official claimed. The MCD has constituted teams of health officials to check the mosquito breeding in residential as well as commercial areas. They challan the house owners if aedes mosquito breeding is recovered. But to challan house owners is not a solution. The citizens should take precaution. Have the citizens followed the guidelines given by the health department of the MCD, the deadly fever would have been controlled. There should be no water in water containers as aedes mosquito breed in clean water, the official said.
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Youth at integration camp to clean Yamuna
New Delhi, November 11 The camp has been organised by Dr. S. N. Subba Rao, Director, National Youth Project, in collaboration with the Delhi Government which would conclude on November 15. The camp is aimed at instilling the spirit of community manual work among the youth. As many as 1800 youngsters have taken up the work of cleaning of river Yamuna at Wazirabad Bridge, Kudasia Ghat and ITO Bridge-Hathi Ghat on the west bank and Garhi Mandu Pontoon Bridge, Geeta Colony Pontoon Bridge and a site opposite Bank Enclave on the east bank of the Yamuna. The dedicated young persons are concentrating on cleaning the river daily for two hours everyday. This exercise was being taken up in consultation with the Environment Department of the Delhi Government.
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German educationists to visit DPS R. K. Puram
New Delhi, November 11 The exchange programme will commence from November 13 and conclude on November 19. The official delegation comprises Dr M. Ruep, School President of the Education Department of Stuttgart, accompanied by Mr M. Merker, Mr F. Stasch, Mr N. Ruhl, Mr B Tromel Kuhnert, Mr D. Dekrell and Mr R. Steiner. Nine German students are also part of this exchange programme between DPS R. K. Puram and Germany. A special programme to welcome the guests will be organised on November 14.—TNS
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