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City to get a new, exclusive power plant
Sheila under fire for short winter session
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7 cops sacked in the case of missing junk dealers
CGHS scam: HC asks CBI to expedite probe, not spare anyone
HC directs status quo in Escorts Hospital case
Counselling of HIV positive patients on slow track
Schools move court against DDA
Row over ad hoc appointments in DU college
NCR industrial bodies to join hands
Magsaysay winner launches water literacy campaign
Noidaites laud steps to stop child marriages
Capital continues to shiver
DBA protests against entry of foreign lawyers
Two acquitted after trial spanning over two decades
Government employee shoots youth
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City to get a new, exclusive power plant
New Delhi, December 15 Delhi Government will shortly be signing an MoU with the Union Power Ministry for setting up a power plant dedicated to fulfilling the electricity requirements of the Capital, Ms Dikshit, who completed two years of her second consecutive term as Chief Minister, told a press conference. “Power Minister Haroon Yusuf and the Chief Secretary have managed to work out an agreement with the Government of India for setting up a dedicated plant for Delhi,” she said. Ms Dikshit, flanked by her cabinet of ministers, informed that the power plant would start functioning in the next two to three years’ time. The Chief Minister, however, added that the government’s plans for setting up Pragati II power plant had hit a roadblock as there was not enough gas available for it. Referring to the opposition to electronic meters by RWAs, Ms Dikshit said the government’s stand was ratified by the courts as well as by the certifying authorities BIS and ISI. About the recent power crisis in Delhi, she said the Capital was not even getting its allocated amount of power. On the water front, she said she was still hopeful of getting water for the Capital’s Sonia Vihar treatment plant even as she attacked the UP government for its dilly-dallying on the issue of giving water for the plant. “Chief Secretaries of Delhi and UP and the Government of India are talking regularly to find a solution. But UP is coming up with a new excuse everyday,” Ms Dikshit said, remarking that the Capital was “disappointed” and “let down” by the attitude of the neighbouring state on the issue. She noted that the water treatment plant was built after getting assurance from the Centre and the UP government that it would be supplied water from the Tehri power project. Dikshit added that the Capital spent Rs 3 crore in building a bridge near Muzaffarnagar so that water could be brought to the Capital for the Sonia Vihar plant. “We even sought the intervention of the Prime Minister, after which Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav wrote to us that we will get water. Every time we meet, he says, yes, we will give water. But that does not seem to be happening,” she complained. Declaring that her government was not suffering from a ‘seven-year itch’, Ms Dikshit said the Capital was poised to become a world class city in the next two to three years. “We do not suffer from a seven-year itch... we are not taking it easy. The government has many schemes on the drawing board, whose benefits will become visible in the next two to three years’ time,” she said. Dikshit said Delhi had three “golden opportunities” to emerge as a world class city – India’s booming economy, the Commonwealth Games to be held here in 2010 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission launched recently by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh.
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Sheila under fire for short winter session
New Delhi, December 15 Upset over the decision to have a five-day winter session, MLAs cutting across party lines led by the Speaker, Prem Singh were unanimous that the sessions have been reduced considerably. Compared with other state assemblies, which work from 50 to 100 days in a year, Delhi Assembly would not even have 25 sittings this year. Expressing concern Prem Singh today said there is a need to provide MLAs more time to highlight the problems faced by people in their constituencies. This year the Delhi Assembly had a three-day monsoon session and a 16-day Budget Session. The Sixth (winter) Session of Delhi Assembly, from December 19 through 23, would have 435 questions, five short duration discussions and three private member bills and resolutions. Issues to be debated through short duration discussions are regularisation of unauthorised colonies, Sonia Vihar Water Treatment Plant; electronic power meters, law and order situation and corruption in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Issues
to be highlighted through private members bills and resolutions are role
of discoms and farmers whose lands had been acquired. The Assembly
Secretariat had so far not received notice of any Government bill.
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Dikshit says she is ‘satisfied’ with ministers
New Delhi, December 15 “I am satisfied with my ministers,” Ms Dikshit said in response to a
query on whether she was unhappy with some of her cabinet members. The question was put to her in the context of speculation that the Chief Minister planning a reshuffle of her council of ministers and her reported letters of dissatisfaction to some of her ministers. As
for her reported letter to Industries Minister Mangat Ram Singhal in
which she was quoted as having enquired about the legal status of a ‘dal
mill’ owned by the latter, Ms Dikshit said, “I don’t know where
you (media) got the letter. I did not write any such letter”. She, however, added that official notes are always sent among the cabinet members. Ms
Dikshit also parried a question on whether any of her ministers were “worrying”,
saying in lighter vein, “Did they worry you? Nobody bothers me”. —
TNS
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7 cops sacked in the case of missing junk dealers
Greater Noida, December 15 All the policemen had been suspended earlier. Four other cops who had become prosecution witnesses will be punished for remaining absent without permission for a long time. Three young junk dealers Aasif, Merherban and Arshad of Nai Abadi, Dadri, had come to Greater Noida on October 26, 2004 for picking up some junk. They were handed over to the Kasna police by private security guards who suspected them to be thieves. The then SO of Kasna police station had reportedly beaten them up savagely, as a result of which one of the youths had succumbed to his injuries. To cover up the matter, the other two were allegedly killed by the cops and their bodies disposed of. The families of the victims had been coming to Kasna police station in search of their wards, but got no clues. On March 6, 2005 on SSP Piyush Mordia’s order, a case was registered in Kasna police station under Sections 364, 342, 330, 201, 120b and 34 against SO Alok Sharma and other policemen Ram Sanehi Mishra, Ravi Dutt Tyagi, Safdar Khan, Sanjay Singh, Satya Prakash, Karam Veer Singh, Pervinder, Netra Pal, Jai Veer Singh and Kumar Pal. The SSP had suspended 11 policemen, including the SO. The state government entrusted the inquiry of this case to the CBCID on March 22, 2005 while the accused had absconded. The CBCID reportedly found irrefutable evidence of the murder of three youths during inquiry, but the bodies of the victims could not be found. After about two months, a chargesheet on SO Alok Sharma and six others was presented in a court. Sharma had obtained a stay from the High Court to ward off his arrest. In the meantime, the National Minority Commission counselled the state government that the families who had lost their breadwinner must be provided with suitable compensation and the case taken to its logical conclusion. GB Nagar SSP, Piyush Mordia said all the seven policemen, including SO Alok Sharma have been dismissed from service on being found guilty in a departmental inquiry.
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CGHS scam: HC asks CBI to expedite probe, not spare anyone
New Delhi, December 15 A division bench of Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Rekha Sharma said, “‘The CBI to take action against the government officials who were involved in the whole scam.” “Malafide intention could not be tolerated, how big the officer may be,” said the bench while directing the CBI to expedite the probe and submit the report by January 9, the next date of hearing. “The CBI will not be complacent with regard to 135 societies. The main beneficiaries had been those societies, which were allotted land due to change in policy by the DDA,” the court said. Thousands of crores of rupees had gone into the hands of private builders instead of the public exchequer, the bench said. The Judges asked DDA counsel to assist the court in submitting the file and photocopies of the relevant documents on change of policy at DDA so as to fix the onus on the officials who were behind the nexus, the court asked. CBI Counsel Harish Gulati submitted that the agency had already registered 60 Preliminary Enquiries (PEs) and would be filing 39 more in this month after completing preliminary investigation. The agency had examined more than 3,000 people during the probe to unearth the truth, he added. When the amicus curie said the CBI was not nabbing the persons who were named by accused Gokul Agrawal in his confession, Mr Gulati said the agency was verifying the facts. “The CBI could not arrest anybody on the statement of one accused. We are verifying the veracity of the statement,” Mr Gulati said. He said the agency would submit a reply to the application of Agrawal on his arrest on Monday. Talking about the probe, CBI Counsel Harish Gulati said, “We do not want to disclose anything at this stage. We are very careful in our investigation.” Hearing the petition of Yogi Raj Group Housing Societies, the court observed that the objective of cooperative movement was defeated due to the nexus between corrupt officials and the builders. “It is the element of profit making in view of difference of market value of land and the value on which land is allotted to the societies, has resulted in the nexus of builders and officials to reap gain by unholy alliance,” the order said.
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HC directs status quo in Escorts Hospital case
New Delhi, December 15 Justice Anil Kumar asked the respondents to file their replies by January 19 on the issue of a contempt petition filed by Industrialist Anil Nanda for issuance of cheques worth Rs five crore to the Income Tax Department in violation of the court order and appointment of a receiver to manage the finances of the hospital. The Court had served the notice on EHIRC, its Managing Director Shivender Mohan Singh and Financial Controller O P Verma on the petition of Anil Nanda. All the respondents were present during the hearing. “The respondents have deliberately and wilfully violated the order of September 30, 2005 in which the court had directed the Escorts Hospital to maintain status quo,” said the petition filed by counsel P K Bansal for Anil Nanda and his company Goetze (India) Ltd. Escorts chief Rajan Nanda had allegedly sold the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre to the Fortis Group for Rs 595 crore. The DDA had issued notice to the Escorts on the sale of the land as it was allotted at a concessional rate for establishing a charitable hospital. The Court had directed Mr Nanda to
maintain status quo and not transfer its ownership till the matter was decided. “There is prima facie evidence that some alleged violation has been perpetuated in the deal,” the Judge had said. Mr Nanda’s estranged brother Anil Nanda, in the petition, alleged that the hospital was being sold, violating all rules and regulations as it was established as a charitable institute. “Late H P Nanda, the founder of Escorts Group of Companies, had conceived the idea of setting up a charitable institute of world fame, to help the weaker sections of society and to create a medical infrastructure for the citizens of India. It is with this vision that EHIRC-Delhi was formed as a charitable society,” the petition said. It was reported in various media that the Escorts, which was holding 80 per cent of the shares in the hospital, was seeking to divest its shareholding to Fortis Group for about Rs 600 crore, the petition said. The petition sought the direction of the court for a permanent injunction from transferring the hospital to another private company.
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Counselling of HIV positive patients on slow track
Faridabad, December 15 At least 25 persons who had donated blood this year in the district have reportedly been found positive. There are estimated to be several hundred sex workers in the district. Though the district health authorities do not disclose the exact number of persons who had been in grip of the disease citing instructions from the headquarters at Chandigarh, the work of carrying out the awareness campaign and providing health checkup facilities and further counselling to the affected persons has been divided between the office of the District Red Cross and the Chief Medical Officer (CMO). A joint rally had been taken out by these agencies on December 1 on the occasion of World Aids Day in which several hundred schoolchildren and volunteers of NGOs took part. On the other hand, there seems to be no proper coordination or communication between these bodies about the total figure of HIV positive cases or persons taking medicines from various hospitals. According to sources, while as many as 25 persons who had donated blood had been found positive it is not known how the affected persons had been covered under the counselling and rehabilitation programme, though it is learnt that counselling had been given to 42 persons in the past few months in the district. According to the District Red Cross Society, which also functions as the district unit of the AIDS Control Society, regular counselling was being done for sex workers and other persons who were HIV positive. Reportedly, 256 sex workers had been identified so far. They were being supplied condoms and other awareness material regularly besides various activities like organising dance drama and folk programmes to tell the people about the menace of the disease and the means to check its spread. It is reported that families of some of the affected individuals were being given financial help besides providing them guidance and helping them get medicines from various sources. The medicines, which were quite costly, were being mainly given by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The society has also prepared a report regarding the drive and has submitted it to headquarters at Chandigarh recently.
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Jamia goes to polls to elect student body
New Delhi, December 15 Polling took place today under high security with both the Delhi Police and Jamia’s private security out in full force. Polling was enthusiastic, with a 70% turn-out, as 4,550 students voted out of a registered total of 6,730 voters. The maximum polling was reported from the Polythechnic, followed by Faculty of Social Sciences (75 %) and Education (65 %). No violent or untoward incidents were reported and the day passed peacefully despite the fact that Jamia has a past track record for turmoil. Polling went on from 9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. and was marked by long lines of eager voters outside the 17 polling booths spread across Jamia’s campus. Over 200 of the university’s personal security, the proctor’s bulls and election officers (Jamia academic staff) manned the 17 polling booths, which were equipped with metal detectors. Counting began after 2.00 p.m. and results are expected late at night. The university has set aside 70 of their staffers to serve as election officers for counting. Today’s election has been a very emotional election for most students of Jamia. Scores of banners and slogans line the university walls advertising different candidates. Group of female students followed a single male student loudly singing slogans and marching to caste their vote, while here and there male students stood in twos handing out mailers to all passing groups canvassing till the last moment despite the fact that campaigning stopped on Tuesday afternoon. University canteens were the site of last minute canvassing and free lunch parties provided by various contestants. Not to be outdone, police personnel lounged in the university parks picnicking with their lunch packs and smiling benignly at the hoards of excited students. Undoubtedly, campus life has come to a complete excited stand-still as election fever peaked over the past few days. Ravi Rai, a student enrolled in an MPhil course is vocal. “Elections have happened in Jamia after eight years and the entire university is out in full force to vote. This is a very emotional issue for us as we have been given back a basic right to express ourselves democratically after a long time. At last students in Jamia have a voice and the polling today has been very peaceful and very good, he said.” Nadia, another student from Jamia says, “look around you the campus looks like a walking circus. They were not supposed to use posters and banners but look…Past few days classes have also got affected as election fever peaked but still it is a good thing that elections have been held and there has been no trouble. We are finally looking democratically correct and not a deprived trouble-prone university. Though I do have my doubts on how long we will stay out of trouble.” A group of boys sipping tea at the canteen all say at once, “this election, it is a big thing for us today and a very good thing. We are satisfied that we finally have a union again which will voice our demands and take up our problems with the administration.” Khalid out-shouts the other students in the group and declares, “DU has a union, JNU has a union, everybody has a union, why should Jamia stay behind? Today is a very big day for us, finally we have had polling on campus and yes, we have ensured that it stays peaceful.”
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Schools move court against DDA
New Delhi, December 15 A division bench of Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Rekha Sharma directed the DDA to file its reply to the petition by December 19, the next date of hearing. When the counsel appearing for a school prayed for a stay on the execution of the order, the bench said the authorities would not take possession of the land so soon. Yesterday, the DDA, the land owning authority, cancelled the land lease of Bal Bharti School, Rukmani Devi Public School (Pitampura), Pinnacle School (Panchsheel Enclave) and Gyan Bharti Education Society (Naraina Vihar) for not admitting even one percent of poor students in their school in violation of the norms governing their land lease agreements with DDA. As per the rules, the schools which got land at concessional rates were to provide free education to 25 per cent students from the weaker sections of the society. The High Court had earlier asked the Delhi government to constitute a committee comprising eminent educationists, sociologists and psychologists to look into the matter of providing 20-30 percent freeship to poor students in private schools, who have availed government land at a concessional rate. On September 13, the High Court had issued a stern warning to 106 private unaided public schools established on government land to provide 20 percent seats to poor students. The Court had said it would order the closure of the schools which did not adhere to the High Court order pronounced in January 2004. The DDA and L & D Department had allotted land at a cocesssional rate to 361 schools and according to the lease agreement, the institutions should reserve at least 20-25 per cent seats for poor students. Had the schools adhered to the norms set by the land allotting agencies, at least 1.5 lakh poor students would have been studying in these institutions under freeship quota, said Counsel Agrawal, appearing for Social Jurist, an NGO. In an order in January 2004, the High Court had directed Delhi government to strictly implement the rule by setting aside at least 25 percent of the total strength of the public schools for the poor students.
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Row over ad hoc appointments in DU college
New Delhi, December 15 Seven people have been appointment in the college against permanent vacancies in the ‘D’ Category. The appointments have been made in blatant disregard of rules, even as the University authorities are tight-lipped. On November 14, 2005, the college principal, Dr K. P. Bhatt, sent out an official order indicating that seven people who were serving as class D category employees on ad-hoc basis have been regularised with immediate effect. “Out of these seven, only one appointment is legitimate. The UGC has made it clear that no regular appointments will be made in the D category unless the candidates belong to the reserved quota. And in this list of seven only one candidate belongs to the reserved quota, the rest are from general category,” sources said. Alleging that the chosen candidates have been appointed following the intervention of the college chairman and a member of the karamchari union, sources said, “there are class IV employees who have been working on ad hoc basis for the last 10 years and above. If anyone should have been regularised, it is them.” On October 18, 2005, the UGC sent out a notification that reads, “the ban on creation of posts/filling vacancies imposed by the Government of India are not applicable to posts reserved for SC/ST/OBCs vacant for one year or more to the extent necessary for maintaining the reservation quota, taking into account filled up general quota posts. In case a college would like to fill up the posts under the above categories, necessary details may be sent.” The note clarifies that appointments against these posts will be made against contract basis after getting the UGC’s approval if the candidates belong to the general category. The fact that some employees have been working as ad hoc for more than 10 years too has come in for sharp criticism. “As per the rules ad hoc recruitment can be made or continued up to a maximum of six months. But here people have been made to work for 14 years with no relief in sight,” sources point out. The tendency to extend the ad hoc appointment beyond the stipulated six months has also evoked disapproval from the UGC. In a note to the college on November 23, 2005, the UGC has mentioned “…it has been observed that some of the Delhi colleges have been appointing teachers on ad hoc/temporary contract basis for a longer period i.e. for more than six months resulting in undue litigation and the courts ordering for confirmation of such teachers.”
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NCR industrial bodies to join hands
Gurgaon, December 15 The declaration of common intent on the part of the associations was made during an “Entrepreneurs’ Meet”, organised here by the Chamber of Industries (Udyog Vihar) headed by Col.R.P. Dhawan. The participants include representatives of Haryana unit of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Gurgaon Industrial Association (GIA), NCR Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI), Haryana Laghu Udyog and Faridabad Small Scale Industries and Chamber of Industries. Speaking on the occasion, various association leaders, including president of Haryana unit of CII, Mr Jayanat Davar, expressed reservations on the existence of a large number of associations as it weakened the combined and organised voice of the industry in the state. According to Col. Dhawan, the ‘Meet’ was contemplated as an entrepreneur-specific event, aimed at creating a platform for a closer interaction between them and the associations. Mr Davar, who was the Chief Guest on the occasion, criticised the business ethics being followed by some owners of industrial units. He made it clear that it would be difficult to question the government’s policies if the entrepreneurs did not follow ethical practices. However, he assured the associations and entrepreneurs that the CII would stand for their rights. He lauded the government for taking several welfare policy measures, including framing of a labour policy. The participants were overwhelmingly in favour of the government enunciating a transparent policy on the Change of Land (CLU) front. The speakers were of the view that the lack of transparency led to corrupt practices in the department. While Mr Davar agreed that there was problem, he said that the government was taking small progressive steps to make the CLU policy transparent and reasonable. The president of the GIA, Mr V.P.Bajaj said that the entrepreneurs would have to launch a sustained struggle to press the government on the issue. He also made a reference to the External Development Charge (EDC) saying that the struggle to make the government accountable must continue. The president of Faridabad Small Scale Industries, Mr Rajeev Chawla urged that the captains of industry must also take initiatives to solve some of the problems rather than wait for the government to intervene in small matters. Col.Dhawan lamented that while the industrial sector was contributing to the progress of the state in terms of revenue, the government did not give it proper attention. The general secretary of Chamber of Industries of Udyog Vihar, Col. Raj Singla as well as the state vice-president of Haryana Laghu Udyog, Mr J.N. Mangla called for more such ‘meets’ in future.
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Magsaysay winner launches water literacy campaign
Gurgaon, December 15 Mr Singh was here in connection with the launch of the Gurgaon chapter of his organisation, the National Water Brotherhood. The details of the proposed campaign will be announced shortly, he added. Speaking at a function in connection with the launch of the Gurgaon chapter of his organisation, he took a critical view of the national water policy in which water management and control, among others, are proposed to be given to the private sector. This was a preliminary to allow private parties to commercialise the use of natural resources on which the community had inherent rights. He referred to the March 21,2003, speech of the Union Minister for Water Resources in Kyoto(Japan) in which he invited private parties to make investment in the water sector in India. If the Centre was not stopped from its present drift, soon the country would hurtle towards another prolonged spell of neo-colonialism and slavery by countries having imperial tendencies through their surrogates, the multinational companies, he added. He emphasised on the immediate need to revive traditional water bodies and restore community control over them. Adding a sharper edge to the event was the presence of government officials, including the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Gurgaon, Mr S. S. Dalal, on the occasion. Also, a good number of representatives of non-government organisations took part. Mr Dalal also stressed on the necessity of conservation of water in view of the fast depleting underground water in Gurgaon and its thereabouts. The government hydrologist, Gurgaon Division, Mr V. S. Vashist, while dwelling on the scarcity of water cautioned on the increasing crisis as consumption of the natural resource was presently double the amount that entered the earth (conserved) through rain water. On an average, the water table in Gurgaon district as a whole was shrinking about one feet per year. This calls for drastic remedial measures like implementation of various water harvesting schemes and judicious use of the natural resources. Referring to the cropping pattern in Gurgaon district, he lamented that although it had not been traditionally conducive to water intensive paddy and wheat crops, the farmers nonetheless were taking recourse to them. Consequently, further strain was being brought to bear upon the water table.
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Noidaites laud steps to stop child marriages
Greater Noida, December 15 However, this is not the first time that marriages of minor girls were arranged in this area nor it would be the last time, the villagers say. According to locals, the marriage of many minor girls has been solemnised by their parents. Police also become a mute spectator at such times due to social pressures. A 14-year-old minor was married in May 2003 in a Greater Noida village. Again in December 2003, a Muslim family in Dadri had married off their two minor daughters, aged 12 and 15. In Jarcha area, a similar case had come to light, but the administration intervened to stop this marriage. During January 2004, marriages of minor girls were accomplished in Bisarakh, Dhandhola and Javer, where police did not intervene as the families of both the brides and grooms were quite adamant. In May 2004 too, a minor girl was reportedly married in a Noida village. In September this year, a 16-year-old girl was married in Sadarpur village. Even member of the National Commission for Women, Ms Malini Bhattacharya agrees that unless the parents are made to realise the difficulties faced by the minors after marriage, it will not be possible to root out such cases completely.
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Capital continues to shiver
New Delhi, December 15 The minimum temperature was four degrees below normal and would continue to hover around five degrees, the Meteorological Department said. The low temperature makes it the second coldest day of the season after Monday when the mercury had dipped to 3.1 degrees Celsius, making it the coldest day since December 31, 1999. Cold wave conditions have gripped many parts of north India and cold winds blowing from Rajasthan yesterday have brought in that extra chill in the weather today. Delhi had recorded a minimum temperature of 6.1 degrees Celsius yesterday, which was two degrees below normal, while the maximum was 21.5 degrees.
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DBA protests against entry of foreign lawyers
New Delhi, December 15 “The legal fraternity is dismayed with the attitude of the Indian Government, who without any sufficient reasons, has succumbed to the pressure of MNCs...and allowed foreign lawyers to interfere in the present Indian judicial system,” DBA secretary Sanjeev Nasiar said addressing a demonstration of lawyers at the Tis Hazari court complex. Shouting slogans against the government, they burnt the effigy of Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath and another one symbolising a foreign lawyer. — TNS
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Two acquitted after trial spanning over two decades
New Delhi, December 15 Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Madhu Jain acquitted Ranjeet Kumar Tyagi and Praveen Kumari accused of cheating the public of large sums of money after promising them jobs abroad. The case fell flat after the prosecution was unable to locate the majority of the witnesses. Four other accused in the case died during the course of the trial while another who absconded still remains a ‘proclaimed offender’. “The case was registered in 1984 and during period of 21 years of proceeding, the prosecution has failed to bring home the guilt of the accused,” the court observed acquitting the two. “Moreover, none of the public witness who made the complaints against the accused were examined by the prosecution,” the Magistrate said. While complainant Chaggan Lal failed to show up during the trial, another prime witness S M Suratlal, the manager of the bank where the accused had deposited the money, did not support the prosecution’s case. “Even the link witness who can complete the chain of the evidence has not been examined by the prosecution,” the court said.
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Government employee shoots youth
New Delhi, December 15 Prem Singh, a class IV employee in the Union Finance Ministry, alleged that some persons showered abuses at him and threatened his wife and three children at their Panchkuian Road residence here last night, police said. Twenty three-year-old Roshan, who suffered bullet wounds on his right elbow, died of bleeding later, police said. Singh, who is being interrogated, told the police five persons came to his residence last night and showered abuses and threatened his family.
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