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Changes in Master Plan to boost MCD’s coffers
MCD drive sparing the ‘big fish’: V P Singh
Noida to develop new industrial sectors
Jamia programme to check polio in UP
Daily wager may not be retained even after 240
days: HC
New body may be formed to procure power
Rape accused beaten to death in Ghaziabad
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Angioplasty saves life of heart patient
Man jailed for 6 months for harassing wife
Two held after police encounter
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Changes in Master Plan to boost MCD’s coffers
New Delhi, September 10 According to the notification of the Amendments made in the Master Plan, which are expected to benefit around 2.5 lakh properties, the premises under mixed use will be required to pay a one-time registration charge to the concerned local body, the MCD in this case. Such commercial establishments will also be liable to pay for mixed-use charges every year to the MCD. The conversion rates as well as the mixed-use charges, which have been worked out by the DDA, are likely to be notified by the Union Urban Development Ministry early next week, sources said. They said the conversion charges are likely to range from Rs 300 per square feet to Rs 500 per square feet, depending on the category of colony. The mixed-use charges, to be paid before June 30 every year with respect to the previous assessment year, will be calculated as 20 per cent of the registration charges, the sources said. In addition to other penal action prescribed under the relevant Act, properties found to be under mixed use without registration or in violation of the terms of the notification will be liable to pay a penalty amounting to ten times the annual conversion charges to the MCD. Property owners will
also have to seek sanction and pay applicable fee to the MCD in case they wish to effect any modifications in their properties. The MCD had set a target of around Rs 14,000 crore as property tax collection in the fiscal year 2005-06. However, it managed to garner only around Rs 750 crore, giving rise to concerns of inadequate revenue earnings. Meanwhile, former Chief Minister of Delhi, Mr Madan Lal Khurana, today said that he would meet Union Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy to forward the suggestions given by traders’ associations regarding the new Master Plan of Delhi. He alleged that Bhartiya Janata Party and its leader Jagmohan were responsible for “destroying” the Capital. “The NDA Government had plans to constitute Delhi Development Board. But it had flopped due to Jagmohan and the then Urban Development Minister Ananth Kumar. Had it been constituted, Tajinder Khanna Committee would have not been appointed,” he claimed. |
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MCD drive sparing the ‘big fish’: V P Singh
New Delhi, September 10 Addressing a public rally organised in the Capital
by Delhi Pradesh Nationalist Congress Party to launch ‘Delhi Bachao Abhiyan’, Mr Singh criticised the government for its “failure to take remedial measures to prevent the ongoing sealing and demolitions”. He alleged that the ongoing drive was sparing ‘big fish’. “Unemployed youths are running grocery and other shops in their houses. If these are closed, lakhs of youths will be unemployed”, he said. Speaking on the occasion, CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan said the sealing and demolition drive had led to a state of panic and unrest in Delhi. “Houses and shops of the poor are being demolished while the houses of the rich and swanky malls are being spared,” Mr Bardhan claimed. He also criticised the government for giving a free hand to private power companies which were fleecing people through inflated bills and fast running meters. “What is worse is that these companies are turning a deaf ear to the pleas of the consumers. The Delhi Government is watching the entire situation as a mute spectator,” he said. Mr V. P. Singh also released a charter of demands including immediate end to sealing and demolition drive, regularisation of unauthorised colonies, abolition of house tax in villages and ownership right to residents of re-settlement colonies. |
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Noida to develop new industrial sectors
Noida, September 10 The plan is being given finishing touches to acquire 1800 acres for the new industrial sector in the next one and a half months. Among the villages from where the land is being acquired are Chhijarsi-100 acres; Prathla Khanjurpur-150 acres; Garhi Chokhandi-200 acres; Yakubpur-200 acres; Sathyana-500 acres; Chotpur-100 acres; Raipur Khadar-30 acres and Badoli Bengar-550 acres. The whole of this land will be acquired within one and a half months, according to the Noida Authority sources. Action under Clause 4 and Clause 6 of Noida Authority Act will be completed within one month. In the next 15 days, Noida Authority is likely to take possession of the acquired land. The whole area is proposed to be brought under industrial development. Some part of the newly developed area will be allotted to service and subsidiary industries connected with the main industries. The highlight of the new industrial area will be that it will be completely free from the flaws left while developing industrial sectors in Phase-I, Phase-II, and Phase-III. Besides, wide roads and vast green stretches will be the other features of the new area. There is a constant traffic jam on Udhyog Marg from Gole Chakkar to Jhundpura in Noida. Sectors, 8, 9, and 10 are full of jhuggi clutches. Similarly in Phase-II, transportation is a big problem. There is no public transport facility to transport industrial workers to their place of duty. Design of roads and drains have also left much to be desired in industrial sectors. Though development is all right in Phase-III, there is hardly any facility for service industries. Now Noida Authority plans to build wide roads with drains of special design. There will be sufficient space for service sectors like banks, post offices, reservation centres, shops selling essential goods. Roads will be so built that unloading and loading of industrial goods and raw material will be done smoothly and will not pose any problem.
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Jamia programme to check polio in UP
New Delhi, September 10 Jamia has been working on this front in the districts of Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Baghpat, JP Nagar, Bijnore, Moradabad, and Rampur. The university has devised a multi-faceted strategy and at the national level, it worked towards creating an enabling environment. It has collected appeals from national bodies belonging to various sects, advocating the need for Muslims to remove misconceptions and has appealed to them to immunise their children. At the local level, the block-level extenders of the Jamia Millia Islamia have organized hundreds of sensitization and planning meetings with Madrasa teachers, imams, religious leaders, Unani practitioners, teachers and lawyers. The university has specially designed an advocacy booklet elucidating the importance of health in the context of Islam and had it printed in both Urdu and Hindi. This booklet has quoted verses from the Quran and Hadith advocating the importance of health in Islam. People from Jamia working on this programme feel that this booklet has proved quite beneficial in convincing the public and is being used extensively in other areas also. In order to reach out to influential people amongst the target group scientifically, Jamia Millia Islamia has also been mapping local Islamic and Muslim institutions, individuals and educational set-ups in their regions of influence. This database, containing more than 400 institutions and individual influencers, provides the starting point of identifying partner organizations at the local level. This heavy intervention on the part of Jamia has reportedly produced significant results. Communities are now mobilized and engaged in constructive dialogue. Provision of basic health care facilities and initiation of channels of communication has resulted in psychological changes in the mindset of the community. A degree of openness and trust amongst the marginalized has been built up resulting in people taking a proactive approach towards community programmes. Further, the university averages a conversion rate of 80% of the overt refusals cases into vaccinated children. The Muslim children yet to be vaccinated even once have gone down from 5% to 0% between 2002 to 2004. As the recent data shows, the number of Muslim children receiving more than 10 doses of the OPV has gone up from 52% in 2004 to 67% in 2005.
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Daily wager may not be retained even after
New Delhi, September 10 Setting aside an order of the Industrial Tribunal to regularise and reinstate a worker who wilfully abstained from duties, Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra said, “Regularisation of temporary/casual or daily wagers cannot be directed if the initial entry itself is not against any sanctioned vacancy, as the question of regularising the incumbent on such a non-existing vacancy would never survive for consideration.” Justice Dhingra allowed the Delhi Government’s appeal against the labour court’s order of May 2003 for regularisation and reinstatement with back wages of Shyam Babu, a daily wage labourer who was working for the Flood Control and Drainage Department. The department had filed the appeal against the court order. Babu had moved the court alleging that he was terminated from service in August 1984 after he raised the issue of his regularisation. He had worked as a daily wager in the department since 1982. According to Babu, he had issued the notice for regularisation through the union in March 1984 and his services were terminated in August the same year. Under the Industrial Disputes Act, a person who works for a period of 240 days becomes eligible for regularisation. However, the government contended that Babu, after issuing the notice, willfully abstained from duty during June and July of 1984, but his services were never terminated. The High Court was not convinced with Babu’s claim of being terminated from service in August 1984. It pointed out that he was allowed to work for three months with the department and the management did not stop him from working even after he had raised the issue of regularisation. Rejecting his claim that he was marked absent for the months of June and July in 1984, Justice Dhingra noted that the employer was a government department and as such, the officials were not going to gain anything personally or financially by marking Babu absent. Moreover, the court pointed out that Babu had never raised the issue of being prevented from working with the Labour Inspector. The reason given by the labour court that not giving notice to the workman to call him back for work amounted to termination “is illogical,” Justice Dhingra observed.
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New body may be formed to procure power
New Delhi, September 10 As per the agreement signed five years back at the time of privatisation of the power sector in the Capital, Transco is supposed to trade in power only till 2007, after which fresh arrangements will have to be made for procuring electricity for the city. Senior officials of the distribution companies are unanimous on floating a special body for the explicit purpose of procuring power, which they think would be the most viable option as the tariffs have to be kept at par with all categories of consumers. “If discoms go ahead and arrange for power on their own, then the tariff rates might differ for different areas of the Capital, which is not feasible,” a senior official explained. On the possibility of extending the agreement, Transco Director, Mr S R Sethi, has reportedly said, “We had been given five years time and it is not feasible for us to procure power any more as we buy electricity at higher rates from outside and provide it to discoms at lower rates so that consumers are not burdened.” Mr Sethi said that the Lt Governor B L Joshi had sent an intimation to the concerned authorities to this effect. “We would not like to continue procuring power for the Capital, but limit ourselves to its transmission,” he has said. In this new arrangement, Transco would limit itself to supplying infrastructure for transmission of power and impose wheeling charges for it on the
discoms. According to discom sources, some states have already set up such bodies and their models and success rate have been examined. |
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Rape accused beaten to death in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, September 10 The body of the youth Brijender, 35, was found lying in the street. Kotwali police have registered a case in which four persons have been named. According to SO of Ghaziabad city Kotwali, Brijender was living alone as his wife along with their kids had gone to her father’s house in Barpure village of Dadri. Brijender kidnapped the young girl from her house and later raped her in his own house at gunpoint, said the police inspector. When the victim’s family came to know of it, they thrashed Brijender and left him seriously injured on the street. Later Brijender succumbed to his injuries, added the inspector. The rape victim has also filed a report with the police who have sent her for a medical examination. However, Brijender’s relatives said that there was a romantic angle to the kidnap case. Brijender’s brother-in-law Mange Ram has filed a murder report, naming four persons. Police have not been able to arrest the culprits so far.
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Exhibition to commemorate Satyagraha by Mahatma Gandhi Ravi Bhatia Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 10 In the evening on the same day, the Samiti will host a musical tribute to the Father of the Nation. The tribute will be offered by none other than the noted classical singer, Shubha Mudgal. The highlight of the day, of course, would be the inauguration of the Peace Gong which has been jointly gifted to the Samiti by the Multi-cultural Society of Indonesia and the World Peace Gong Committee as a mark of reverence for Mahatma Gandhi on the historic occasion. ‘Best of French Cinema’Every Friday till September 29, the auditorium at the Alliance Francaise De Delhi in Lodhi Estate here will come alive with the screening of some of the selected films under the “Best of French Cinema made in 2004”. The Festival of Films, which was inaugurated last month, has been jointly organized by the Embassy of France here and the Alliance Francaise De Delhi. Expo on History of Polish Arms in Art The Anant Art Gallery here is holding an exhibition of the recent works of artists Vineet Kacker and Yushi Ito from September 10 to 28. From September 9 to 17, the Art Gallery (Annexe) at the India International Centre here is presenting a unique exhibition of History of Polish Arms in Art. The exhibition has been organized on the occasion of Polish Days in India and Polish Army Day. Musical album to be launched Music Today and the Ambassador Hotel here are organising a special function to launch musical album, “Violin from the Heart” by Dr. L. Subramaniam at the Terrace Suite Hall of the hotel on September 11. Royalty Management Programme Music artistes now have a reason to celebrate.
Saregama, which is often described as a pioneer in the country’s music industry, has now introduced a Royalty Management Programme to ensure that artistes are paid regularly and that records of sales are maintained in the most transparent manner. Payment and sales have for long been the bane of music artistes often leading to disputes and court cases bringing disrepute to both the art as well as the artiste. Saregama’s Royalty Management Programme allows artistes and the recording company complete access to all details pertaining to sales. Get ready for a laugh riot! NATWA—a Delhi Theatre Company which astounded the Delhi Theatre scene last year through its maiden production of OTHELLO and later through successful staging of Ho Rahega Kuch Na Kuch and Night Song, now promises the audiences a laugh riot, this September!! RAAT
BAAKI, a farcical comedy, is an adaptation of ‘Black Comedy’ (where dark is light and nothing is as it seems), an acclaimed 1960s farce from the pen of Peter Shaffer, who also wrote the famous plays ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus’. The play is adapted and directed for NATWA by Chittaranjan
Tripathy, whose comic-satire ‘Taj Mahal Ka Tender’ of NSD Repertory is running to full houses since 1998. Chittaranjan Tripathy’s contemporary Hindi adaptation of this social farce sets the action in a three-tenant house in a lower-middle class colony of Delhi, during an electrical blackout. The darkness, of course, exists only for the people onstage, since everything that happens after the electricity has gone, in the world of theatre, is performed under the glare of the spotlight. Chittaranjan Tripathy’s adaptation and direction not only retains but further builds on all the social issues scripted by Peter Shaffer. NATWA Theatre Society has been created by some eminent theatre persons and highly dedicated set of people from the corporate world under the guidance f Prof Mohan
Maharishi, till recently the Dean of Punjab University, Chandigarh. The primary objective of this group is to “professionalise” the theatre scene in the Capital and generate employment opportunities for trained actors and other theatre professionals. |
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18 lakh children given polio drops
New Delhi, September 10 Around 30,000 workers and employees of the Health Department administered the polio drops to children in as many as 7,500 booths installed in various parts of the city. The stalls were stationed at railway stations, ISBTs, public places, including Appu Ghar, major temples, Metro stations, Millennium Park, Zoo and outlets of McDonalds. State Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit launched the 64th round of Pulse Polio Campaign in Delhi yesterday when she administered anti-polio drops to children at a function at her residence. A door-to-door weeklong survey would also be conducted under search and immunisation phase of the campaign. Around 17,000 workers in 8600 teams would visit different colonies including slum and JJ clusters to search for left over cases and administer polio drops to those
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Angioplasty saves life of heart patient
Faridabad, September 10 According to Dr S.S. Bansal, Director, Metro Institute, this had been one of the rare cases of heart attacks when all other three arteries of the patient had been completely blocked. Though in this case a bypass surgery was required, but due to heart attack and the poor functioning of the heart, the doctors decided to do the angioplasty with stenting of the left main artery. He said this saved the life of the patient who had been admitted to the institute on September 4 with a complaint of chest pain, burning and breathlessness. The tests showed that there was 50 per cent stenosis in the left main artery with 100 per cent blockade in other three other arteries. He was kept on Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (a life-saving device) and angioplasty. The patient has been discharged. |
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Man jailed for 6 months for harassing wife
New Delhi, September 10 Giving credence to the ‘dying declaration’ of Rahisa that her husband Shahid used to beat her without any provocation, a Fast Track Court convicted him and awarded the jail term under Section 498A (subjecting woman to cruelty) of the IPC. Shahid’s mother Wahidan, accused of setting Rahisa on fire after pouring kerosene over her, died in Tihar Jail during the course of trial. Two co-accused in the case, nieces of Shahid, who allegedly helped Wahidan in the crime, are facing trial in a juvenile court. The victim had died of burns nearly a month after the incident, the prosecution said. The court absolved Shahid of the murder charges due to his absence from the scene of the crime when it occurred.
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Two held after police encounter
Gurgaon, September 10 The two youths, residents of Begumpur Khatola, have been injured after an encounter and admitted to local Civil Hospital. Both of them are said to be brothers. The CIA staff was informed that two youths were coming from Jaipur to commit crime in Gurgaon. When challenged, they opened fire on the police team. Several rounds of fire were alleged to be exchanged from both sides. The youths were on a motorcycle which did not have a number plate. The police are still investigating. — TNS |
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