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DDA to finalise Master Plan 2021 today
Commonwealth games 2010 21 govt officials to be booked for land scams
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Bank officials threatened to give Rs 5 lakh
Admission procedure at GGSIPU to start from Jan 1 ‘Develop malls at DTC bus depots’
Ghalib’s
anniversary celebrations begin Trader bodies support petroleum strike Child
labourer sold after being rescued FIR by BSES as misleading pamphlets distributed New plan will ensure quality education to all: UGC
Haryana releasing 600 cusecs of water’ Fake unit unearthed, one held
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DDA to finalise Master Plan 2021 today
New Delhi, December 28 The CAIT has demanded inclusion of regularisation of all business establishments that existed as on December 31, 2005. Meanwhile, Mr K. J. Rao, member of the monitoring committee, clarified to the CAIT that traders belonging to wholesale category of trade would register themselves in retail shop form and should click ‘others category’ and after inserting nature of their business should also write wholesale. He added that such traders would have to obtain registration after paying only Rs 500 as registration charges. The trade leaders today said that in the recent concluded session of Parliament, the Urban Development Minister, Mr Jaipal Reddy assured them that Master Plan 2021would take care of their problems arising out of sealing. But, they added, having seen the development related to the proposed MPD, it seemed that sealing drive would continue and that they would not get any relief from the drive. Areas like the Walled City, Karol Bagh etc, are having predominant use of commercial nature where as the MPD-2021 has laid down predominant use as residential, the traders claim. As a consequence of another provision mentioned in the draft that in Chandni Chowk and other areas, only single-storey buildings would be given status of commercial activities, thousands of units set up on upper floors in these areas would be uprooted, they pointed out. They further said that besides, there was no scheme for rehabilitating the traders whose premises were sealed or likely to be sealed, by allocating alternate sites. Meanwhile, Mr Jaipal Reddy today met a delegation of traders, led by CAIT. In the meeting the union minister said that in the past one year, trading activities in the Capital were badly hit by sealing and demolition drives causing various problems to traders. He said that both he and his deputy, Mr Ajay Maken, had discussed the gravity of problems concerning the community and assured the traders that suitable steps would be taken to include remedial measures in MPD 2021. “Delhi is the largest distribution centre of trade in the country and all efforts will be made to protect its centuries’ old distributive character,” the minister said. |
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Master Plan will ruin Delhi: BJP New Delhi, December 28 He demanded that an open meeting of the representatives of the people, resident organisations, villages and unauthorised colonies from the Capital should be convened where they could put up their demands. The BJP leader said that these demands should be incorporated in the Master Plan and then, it should be implemented. He alleged that with the connivance of the Congress governments at the Centre and Delhi, stern provisions had been included in the Master Plan to trigger the migration by almost more than 50 per cent of the people of Delhi. He said that the new Master Plan in its present form should not be implemented in any condition. “The Union Urban Development Ministry has hatched a conspiracy to benefit the government officers, employees and Congress leaders. Under this plan it will be difficult for the people to live in villages, unauthorised colonies and resettlement colonies. The people will have to face acute unemployment. The high fees prescribed for the regularisation of colonies etc. cannot be paid by any one,” he alleged. |
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Commonwealth
games 2010 New Delhi, December 28 He assured the committee members that all the development works in connection with the Games would be carried out before time. However, outer Delhi MP, Mr Sajjan Kumar, urged the Union Urban Development Ministry to discuss the issues related to Commonwealth Games in detail at the next meeting. A number of crucial issues in this connection were left to be discussed, he said. Mr Jagdish Tytler requested Mr Reddy to encourage service sectors like Information Technology in Delhi to provide new job avenues to young intellectuals. He said that Tourism and Hotel Industry might also be taken up in Delhi to provide more job opportunities to future generations. Assuring the committee members, Mr Reddy said that service sector should be encouraged and projected and added that the issue was under consideration of the ministry. “The ministry would look into creating scope for the Information Technology sector,” he said. Rajya Sabha member Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi urged the minister that heritage buildings should be given a new look, which would be an attraction for foreign tourists and would be a source of revenue for the government. |
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21 govt officials to be booked for land scams
Ghaziabad, December 28 This decision has been taken by the administration on the report of senior IAS officer, T George Joseph, former member of the UP Revenue Board, who had probed land scams by Moti Goel and others. Action may range from filing an FIR to the dismissal of the officials involved in land scams or who might have helped the land mafia perpetuate the crime against the state. UP Housing Secretary Amit Mohan Prasad ordered the District Magistrate to take action against the then Dadri SDMs Mange Ram Dhiman, P.K. Yadav and Tulsi Ram. Action would also be taken against Pragna Officers Khazan Singh, Nawab Ali, Ram Lakhan Singh (currently in jail), Mahavir Singh, P.K. Agarwal, S.K. Oujha, Yash Kumar Gupta, and Lal Dhar. Tehsildars Rajesh Kumar Srivastava, Bhagwati Prasad Sharma and C.L. Kaushal, Naib Tehsildar Rajiv Upadhya, Land Consolidation Officer A.K. Singh and Santosh Kumar are also included in the list. The administration is also trying to locate all tainted officers and employees who are currently posted outside the district. |
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Bank officials threatened to give Rs 5 lakh Gurgaon, December 28 The Senior Superintendent of Police disclosed that a person called up Mr Madhava, the branch manager of Karnataka Bank, Sector 14 branch at about 11 am on his mobile phone and asked him to hand over the cash to him. Mr Madhava reportedly told the caller that he had taken off from the bank and was in Mangalore, Karnataka, for the last seven days. The same caller after sometime rang up the landline number of the branch and threatened Mr Kiran M Gumaje, senior manager of the branch, to hand over Rs 5 lakh to them or face dire consequences. The bank officials took the calls casually. But just after sometime, the bank again received the call, reportedly in the same voice. The caller asked the receiver whether they had decided how to hand over the cash. The bank officials received around five calls till around 1 pm demanding the same amount. Afterwards, the bank officials took the matter seriously and informed the police about the call. The Senior Superintendent of Police told ‘The Tribune’ that all calls had been made from a public phone located in a congested market in the city. The police had lodged the FIR under Sections 384 and 506 IPC against the unknown culprits and started investigation. No arrest has been made till late in the evening. |
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Admission procedure at GGSIPU to start from Jan 1 New Delhi, December 28 At a press conference, the Vice-Chancellor also released three brochures that were specially devised by the university for admission to various academic programmes through CET: Admission Brochure-I (Professional Programmes); Admission Brochure–II (Engineering Programmes); Admission Brochure-III (MBBS Programme). This year, the university plans to conduct some 20 CETs for admission to over 35 programmes. The first CET will be held on May 7, 2007 and the last one will be conducted on May 20, 2007. Admission to various courses of GGSIPU is done on the basis of performance in the Common Entrance Tests (CET) conducted by the university. Prof. Aggarwal said that the university was willing to fund the education of students facing financial difficulties after examining their academic record for merit. He said, “Any student who secures admission in our university on the basis of merit, but finds it difficult to continue with his education, due to financial constraints, can even avail a full-fee waiver, provided his family income is not more than Rs 5000 per annum.” Further, the university’s management has earmarked 10 per cent of the student’s welfare fund to help deserving students facing financial problems. Further, the university has also started several new courses in the 2006 academic session. Prominent among these are: MBA (Real Estate), M.Tech (Engineering Physics), MSc in Orthotics and Prosthetics, Post Graduate Diploma in Disaster Preparedness and Rehabilitation, MBA (Insurance and Banking), LLM, and MBA (Software Enterprise Management). |
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‘Develop malls at DTC bus depots’ New Delhi, December 28 In a proposal to Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), the chamber has suggested that with the setting up of such malls and commercial complexes in some of the 34 DTC depots, it can earn a revenue of Rs 300 crore per annum by way of rent, advertisement, parking and other sources without losing its ownership stake in them. “Traders and small businessmen are unable to afford shops in high cost malls and providing them shops at lower rate, would be ideal solution to boost their trading activities,” Assocham president, Mr Anil K Agarwal, said. The least that both the Delhi Government and the DTC should do to convert these barren and spacious depots into large commercial activities is to lease out a few of them to prospective bidders by floating ‘open tenders’ to put up malls and commercial complexes through public-private partnership. The terms and conditions for the tenders, should be transparent enough so that these attract a large number of bidders and capital, both domestic and overseas, that are prepared to construct the low-cost malls understanding their corporate-social responsibility. The DTC has 34 big depots based in Vasant Vihar, Kalkaji, Sarojini Nagar, Sriniwaspuri, Sukhdev Vihar, Ambedkar Nagar Depot, Rohini (I, II and III), Subhash Place, Wazirpur, Hari Nagar (I, II and III), Mayapuri, Naryana, Dilshad Garden, Yamuna Vihar, Inderprastha, Noida, Seemapuri, Gazipur, East Vinod Nagar, Nand Nagari, G T Karnal Road, Hasan, Bawana Depot, Dichaon Kalan Depot, Nangloi Depot, Peera Garhi Depot and Kesho Pur Depot etc. Some of these depots are well located in and around the NCR region and will be ideally suited for shopping malls and commercial complexes. According to Assocham analysis, if 40 shops of various sizes are created in one single mall, all DTC depots could conveniently have over 1,300 shops. In case, DTC charges a mere Rs 30,000 per shop as rent, it could get a revenue of Rs 1.2 crore per month per mall from estimated 40 shops. Currently the rent of shops in Delhi ranges from Rs 50,000-Rs 4 lakh per month. Additional revenues of around Rs 140 crore can be generated by DTC through advertisements, parking charges provided well-known advertisement agencies are hired to allocate advertisement spaces to end-users. Thousands of people who lost their jobs because of the sealing drive would certainly get direct and indirect employment opportunities in these DTC malls, Assocham claimed. |
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Ghalib’s anniversary celebrations begin
New Delhi, December 28
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Trader bodies support petroleum strike
Noida, December 28
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labourer sold after being rescued New Delhi, December 28 The ‘Bachpan Bachao Andolan’ (BBA), the NGO involved in the operation, said one of the children, Sanoj Majhi, working in one of the ‘zari’ units had been sold by the employer. His father Gorakh Majhi, who had come to take him back hearing the news of the rescue operation, had to return empty-handed. The police, however, did not register an FIR in this connection. BBA chairman Kailash Satyarthi claimed that they had lodged a complaint yesterday itself with the police in this regard after the child’s father revealed that his child was not to be found. The police said that investigations were on to confirm the allegation. “Sale of children was rampant among such units. When parents start nagging the factory owners, the child workers are sent to other factories after exchanging money,” he added. The police, however, denied that any complaint was lodged with them. The children, mostly hailing from Bihar, were rescued with the help of the NGO yesterday on the complaint of some parents, a senior police officer said. Aged between 8-14 years, the children had been working for the past two years without any wages in three ‘zari’ (embroidery) units in Bhajanpura’s Subhash Vihar area. They are being kept at a rehabilitation centre from where they would be repatriated to their homes. |
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FIR by BSES as misleading pamphlets distributed New Delhi, December 28 The pamphlets with the words ‘Kushkhabari’ (Good News) prominently printed on them informed prospective customers about a scheme supposedly introduced by the BYPL - valid from December 1 to February 28, 2007 for services like securing a new connection without any supporting documents, settlement of dues of the existing meters, load enhancement, settlement of theft bills, etc. Investigations into the case revealed that the misleading and illegal pamphlets in question have been distributed by some mischievous elements in the vicinity of Trilok Puri. BSES has lodged an FIR at the Mayur Vihar Police Station. |
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New plan will ensure quality education to all: UGC New Delhi, December 28 “Everyone, who deserve and desire, should get higher education. The focus of higher education during the 11th plan will be inclusiveness which aims to ensure that students from all sections including the poor and the minorities get quality education,” he said while interacting with academicians from Delhi University here. “We have schemes to help girls, poor, SC/ST students to get fellowships. We have recently started new fellowships for students in central universities,” he said. Besides, universities will be encouraged to develop courses in a manner to promote values of secularism, multiculturalism, scientific temper etc, he said. Mr Thorat lamented the poor enrollment ratio in higher education in the age group of 18 to 23 years. “Presently, 10 per cent of people in the age group of 18 to 23 years are in the stream of higher education. This ratio is very poor and has to be increased,” he said, adding that the ratio was only one per cent in the 1960s. Earlier, the Chairman of Bharati College, Mr Naresh Kumar, raised issues like lack of infrastructure and necessity of more colleges in the national Capital to cater to the need of students here. Chairman of Bhaskaracharya College, Mr Tom Vaddakan, said that their college would double the intake from the next academic session. |
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‘Haryana releasing 600 cusecs of water’ New Delhi, December 28 Refuting the Delhi Government’s claim that Haryana has reduced the water supply, he alleged that instead, it was Delhi which was diverting water from Wazirabad Treatment Plant to ‘unauthorised’ pumping stations like Sonia Vihar in ‘a clandestine’ manner. He said that all efforts by Haryana to have joint supervision of the water lifted had been resisted by Delhi. “Even a pumping station like Sangam which normally should not lift water from Yamuna, at times lifts water in very large quantities,” he alleged. He claimed that Haryana had been trying to meet the drinking water needs of Delhi by giving them water much in excess of its share in Yamuna even at the cost of its own important towns.
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Fake unit unearthed, one held
New Delhi, December 28 The search operation at the unit was conducted by the District Investigation Cell, Delhi Police. Accused Rakesh Kumar, owner and operator of the facility at Gali Pahron Wali, has been arrested. The accused was produced before Tis Hazari Court and has been sent to judicial custody. During the raid, over 6,000 fake bottles, 12 kgs of Dabur Amla Hair Oil bottles’ caps, 180 litres of oil ready for filling in were seized — TNS
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Student held for sending obscene SMS
Noida, December 28
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Slight rise in minimum temperature
New Delhi, December 28 The minimum temperature rose almost by a degree today, recording 9.9 degree Celsius and there was no fog in the morning in complete contrast to yesterday. The Met office, however, said that cold conditions were likely to persist for the next few days.—TNS |
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