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Postman to collect traffic violation fine
Ration items missing at
Fair Price Shops
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Staple Indian diet not good for pregnant women
Breast-feeding must for newborn: Mayor
Councillors clash in House meeting
Land worth Rs 100 cr under encroachment
CM has a mandi welfare plan
Woman advocate commits suicide
Jewellery, cash worth lakhs
looted from two houses
Gang of robbers smashed
Youth stabbed to death
BJP condemns rise in milk price
Duplicate tea packets seized
‘Exclude creamy layer from quota purview’
Jalan gives management tips
to IMI students
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Postman to collect traffic violation fine
New Delhi, August 1 The postmen would now be authorised to collect the compounding amount at the doorstep. The postman shall issue a proper receipt on account of amount realised by him. The violator has to pay normal money order commission and an additional amount of Rs 5, as service charges for providing collection facility at doorstep. The violator should paste the counterfoil of the notice on the money order form at space earmarked for communication and retain the original copy of notice and receipt given by the postmen. The system is hassle free as there is no interaction between the traffic law violator and the traffic police personnel who are recording the violations. The processing is carried out through indigenously developed application software which fetches ownership details from the master database and interfaces with the violation details and subsequently, prints out the notice. The notices are served swiftly to the violators. The violators have two options available with them, either to pay the compounding amount or opt for appearing in the court. One can easily get to know the notices pending against a vehicle through SMS at 9811452220 from mobile phone. |
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Ration items missing at
Fair Price Shops
New Delhi, August 1 He said this in response to a question asked by this correspondent when about 200 residents of Sultanpuri area demonstrated in protest against lackluster attitude of the authorities concerned that did not take action against the shopkeepers who did not supply ration items at Fair Price Shops. Ration cardholders of Sultanpuri, Vikaspuri and Mangolpuri, Pashchim Vihar and Narayna have not been given ration items for the last three months. When they tried to seek information about grain through RTI, the applications were not accepted. Shopkeepers reportedly had threatened the complainants with dire consequences. Gulshan, one of the demonstrators, said that she had not been given grain for the last three months. When she asked the shopkeeper, he said that grain was not being supplied from depots. The grain sold from the Fair Price Shops is not of good quality. Most of the ration cardholders belong to the weaker section of society. The government had policy that these people would be given grain on subsidized rates. "But forget the subsidized rates. Even grain is not available on FPS at normal rates," she said. Shakuntla said that if people insisted to find out the reason of not getting their share of grain, they were misbehaved and threatened by the shopkeepers. Grain sold from the shops was not good for eating sometimes. One of the demonstrators brought rice to show its quality to the Food Supply Commissioner. After seeing the rice, the commissioner ordered to raid the shop concerned in Sultanpuri. Additional Commissioner-cum-Additional Secretary D. P. Dwivedi said that vigilance team had been rushed to raid the shop. One of the demonstrators had also been sent along with the team to identify the shop and shopkeeper. Sources in the department said that most of the shops had been allotted to the political activists and their aim was to get the political benefit, not to serve the area people. |
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Prostitution racket busted,
six arrested
New Delhi, August 1 According to police, an information was received yesterday about a prostitution racket in Lajpat Nagar-II. The accused also provided 'in house facility' on charging extra payment. The police team contacted the racket leader Nagina for girls. The lady pimp Nagina agreed to supply two girls after paying Rs 3,000 per girl and Rs 500 extra for room. A deal was clinched in Rs 7,000 for two foreign girls and room. As per the deal, girls were to reach Lajpat Nagar Central Market near a showroom. The police team laid the trap near the showroom. The Uzbek girls allegedly arrived at the given time and asked the decoy customers to go to her flat at E-15, Lajpat Nagar-II. After being paid Rs 7,000, Farida offered five Uzbek national girls to choose from. The raiding party, waiting outside the flat, immediately came in action and apprehended five Uzbek national girls and pimp Farida. However, the main leader Nagina, with whom the deal was struck, could not be arrested. The police allegedly recovered Rs 7000 from the alleged pimp. Accordingly, they were arrested under I.T.P. Act. As none of them could produce any valid document for their stay in Delhi, the Uzbek girls were also booked under the 14 Foreigner Act.
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Staple Indian diet not good for pregnant women
New Delhi, August 1 An article published in the Journal of Nutrition, May 2007, says that phytic acid (derived from phytates) is widely present in cereal grains and legume seeds usually found in the staple Indian diet. It binds iron strongly in the gastrointestinal tract and thus decreases the absorption of even the most bioavailable iron compounds to very low levels. To combat iron-deficient anaemia, the need of the hour is a miracle like sodium feredetate that makes phytic acid ineffective thereby helping in better and increased absorption of iron taken either from the diet or supplements. Medical experts here too believe that poor iron content of Indian food or lack of routine iron supplementation or even impaired absorption due to presence of phytates in the Indian staple diet may be the primary cause of anaemia during pregnancy.
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Breast-feeding must for newborn: Mayor
New Delhi, August 1 Dr V. K. Monga, chairman, Medical Relief and Public Health Committee of MCD, senior officers of health department were present at the function. Later, the Mayor also inaugurated World Breast-Feeding Week function being organised at Mrs Girdhar Lal Maternetiy Hospital at Kamla Market. The Mayor also called upon the medical and para-medical staff deployed at major hospitals, dispensaries and maternity and child welfare centres to create public awareness amongst mothers to exclusively adopt breast-feeding to their infants. The mothers of newly born child must be trained as to how to breast-feed their babies by the doctors. Dr Monga said that MCD was observing World Breast-Feeding Week with the main aim of sensitising the expecting mothers about the importance of breast-feeding. All the 160 maternity and child welfare centres and municipal medical institutions will be organising various community programmes, competitions, interactive sessions and field activities in their respective areas so as to create public awareness amongst ladies to adopt breast-feeding. He said that the newly born babies should be breast-fed by mothers since it was the natural food for infants. "If this practice is adopted in large scale, then infant mortality can be reduced considerably. It will also reduce incidents of malnutrition, diarrhea and growth disorders amongst infants," he said. At Mrs. Girdhar Lal Maternity Hospital, Dr Monga announced that this hospital would be expanded and developed. |
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Councillors clash in House meeting
Faridabad, August 1 The atmosphere got so surcharged that the police had to be called in to deal with any exigency arising out of the ugly situation in the House. Although the police did not enter the House, it waited outside. The situation was apparently getting out of control and panic-button was pressed by the administration when the opposing councillors called up theirs goons outside the House after the meeting was over. When the councillors did come out of the meeting, their goons targeted the rival councillors. Some were alleged to have hidden arms under their clothes. Incidentally, this was the first meeting after the new commissioner of the Municipal Corporation, R.K.Khular, took charge. The acrimony among the councillors is considered to have its roots in the past, when a councillor Mahender Bhadana, alleged to be marginalised during the tenure of the preceding commissioner, Mehatab Singh Sehrawat, made it known that it was his day under the new dispensation and was forthright with his views on almost all points of the 40 items listed for discussions in the meeting. He was opposed by Kailash Baisla, who was alleged to be having a major say in the meetings during the tenure of Mehatab Singh Sehrawat. The water was muddied when another councillor Rajender Chaprana openly sided with Bhadana. This got the goat of the Baisla with some others showing signs of restiveness on partisan lines. According to many, had it not been the deft handling of the situation by the police outside the House, things could have taken an ugly turn, going by the mood of the musclemen of the councillors waiting outside the House. There was another thorny issue, which defied resolution of the meeting despite the intervention by the commissioner of the corporation. Khullar had wanted that any work done in the wards would get reimbursement only when a three-member committee consisting of residents of the concerned area expressed satisfaction at the quality of the work. While this was opposed by the majority of the councillors, Mahender Singh Bhadana was the lone man who came out in support of the proposal. A majority of the councillors are opposed to the committee of residents as they feel that it was encroachment on their rights and casting reflections on their integrity by the Commissioner. They said that they could agree to audit by the administrative officers, but not by the residents. The suggestion by Khullar that the formation of the committees was optional on the part of the councillors was rejected by them. One of the major items on agenda which was given favourable consideration by the House was for closure of all illegal meat shops run in public in Ballabgarh.
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Land worth Rs 100 cr under encroachment
Noida, August 1 Noida Authority officers confirm that between 400 and 500 hectare of Noida land is under illegal possession and so far the Authority's anti-encroachment drives had been targeting small and footpath shopkeepers or squatters only. Significantly, Noida police is also among the parties which have encroached on Noida land illegally. Noida Authority officers, it appears, have been avoiding action against the big land sharks. According to sources, the official price of the land as per Noida Authority rates is Rs 20 lakh per acre. Thus the encroached land is at least worth Rs 100 crore. According to Noida Addl. CEO Y.K. Behl and District Magistrate Raja Molly, all arrangements have been completed for dispossessing the land sharks of the encroached land. Only a nod from SSP is being awaited that the needed police force will be made available for getting the public land freed from the big encroachers in Noida.
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CM has a mandi welfare plan
New Delhi, August 1 Inaugurating a two-day interactive orientation seminar on 'Agricultural Market', which was jointly organized recently by the Delhi Agricultural Marketing Board and Amity School of Rural Development. Revenue and Development Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan, Azadpur Mandi Council (APMC) chairman Brahm Singh Yadav, vice-chairman Dr. R.D. Srivastava, chairman of Amity Group Ashok Chauhan and chairmen of various mandis. The Chief Mminister announced that the APMC was establishing modernized fruit and vegetable mandi in the Tikri Khampur area in North-West Delhi in an area of 225 acres. The issue of land acquisition will be taken up with the DDA. The APMC is also upgrading the grain market in Narela.
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Woman advocate commits suicide
Noida, August 1 Poly Roy, 34, was living in B-190 Kendriya Vihar Pocket-2 with her mother, two brothers and two sisters in Sector-82. The police have not recovered any suicide note. Roy was practising as an advocate in Delhi High Court three years ago and was being treated for depression for past one year. Poly had not come out of her room till noon yesterday. When her mother Kalyani peeped in from a window, she was shocked to find her body hanging with a plastic rope from the ceiling fan. Soon her brother rushed back from his office and broke the room door. Police who brought Poly's body down also recovered a stool from the room on which deceased had stood to put the rope around the fan. Family members told the police that she had stopped her practice three years ago and had been hunting for a job ever since. Recently her father, Anant Roy and a sister had died. Poly was in great shock at these deaths and had been depressed since then. Her tension further increased as she could not get a suitable job. She had taken this extreme step out of depression, the family said.
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Jewellery, cash worth lakhs
looted from two houses
Noida, August 1 In last two days, six houses had been broken into. In two houses in Kailash Dham Apartments in Sector-50, the intruders had decamped with gold jewellery, cash and valuables worth lakhs. When BPO official Suman Rai returned home yesterday evening from his office, he found his flat door lock open. The intruders had ransacked the house and decamped with valuables and goods worth lakhs. Sector-49 police is investigating the housebreak. In House No. 304 in block 11 of the same apartment, thieves had attempted a loot but an interlock on the door saved it. Earlier on Monday also, locks of three other houses had been broken by intruders. But here again interlocks had saved the houses. |
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Gang of robbers smashed
New Delhi, August 1 According to the police, an information was received yesterday that some robbers, who are involved in many cases previously, would assemble in the jungle behind NCERT bus stand to plan a robbery in a house in Qutub View Apartment. In the dark hours, 5 persons assembled at the given place. They were allegedly planning to commit robbery in a flat in Qutub View Apartment. All the four persons were apprehended, while they were allegedly planning to commit in the flat. However, one of them, Raju, managed to escape from the spot. On search, 2 button actuated knives were allegedly recovered one each from the possession of Shyam and Ajay. One packet of red chilli was also recovered from Mahavir and one nylon rope was recovered from the possession of Sonu. |
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Youth stabbed to death
New Delhi, August 1 |
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BJP condemns rise in milk price
New Delhi, August 1 It is to be noted that the price of milk has been increased by Rupee one per litre. Now, the price of full cream milk is Rs 23 per litre. This is the third increase in the price of milk during the last eleven months. The increase of the price of milk by the government dairies will also have affect on all other milk products. Dr Harsh Vardhan said that it was the first time that Urad Dal was being sold at the rate of Rs 75 per kg. |
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Duplicate tea packets seized
New Delhi, August 1 On July 30, the police got an information about a person being engaged in sale and packaging of duplicate tea. A raid was conducted at H.No.478 old 30 Block, Trilok Puri and a huge quantity of tea packets kept in the factory were recovered. The tea was allegedly packed in duplicate wrappers. According to the police, the accused Sonhanlal Gupta has allegedly confessed that the contents of the packets are not original. He was apprehended by the raiding team and a total of 7,128 packets containing 50 grams, 100 grams and 250 grams of duplicate tea were recovered. One packing machine has also been ceased. |
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‘Exclude creamy layer from quota purview’
New Delhi, August 1 Vijay Prakash, general secretary of the coordination committee, said the Central and state governments should ensure that reservation benefits in government jobs and educational institutes percolated down to those who deserved it most and in accordance with the Constitution of India. |
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Jalan gives management tips
to IMI students
New Delhi, August 1 Dr Jalan is a renowned economist and has been governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1997 to 2003. At present, he is a distinguished Member of Parliament. Dr C.S. Venkata Ratnam, director, IMI said, "We are both privileged and delighted to have in our midst today such an eminent personality as Dr Jalan as well as our esteemed chairman R P Goenka who has always provided unstinting support for the development of our institute." Dr Jalan said, "The difference between Management of Corporate and Management of the Economy is same as the difference between micro and macro economics." He discussed this issue from two perspectives-domestic and external. The talk demonstrated the importance of recognizing the inherent trade-offs in any situation, whether for a company or for an economy. Governors of RBI have often been vexed by the present and real tradeoff between growth and inflation. Policies that promote growth often have inflationary effect. "For the industrialist, growth is more important but for the buyer prices matter more," he stated the challenge is to balance the two often conflicting objectives. He highlighted the importance of bringing down the revenue deficit, which is a constituent of the overall fiscal deficit of the government. He emphasized the challenges of financial sector development and the crucial role charted for financial and other regulatory agencies: "There is a thin line between regulation and control," he stressed. Dr Jalan also took up other issues including management challenge in infrastructure public distribution system, public health, and education and monetary policies. On external issues like globalization of the world, he said, "Globalisation attracts increasing interest and importance in contemporary world affairs. It also inspires passionate supporters and critics. These in depth reports explore different facets of the complex, evolving phenomenon of globalization." Dr Jalan concluded with an idea covered in depth in his recent book "India's Politics: A View from the Backbench". There are three pillars of the government, namely the judiciary, bureaucracy, and Parliament; today, the importance of politics has grown in micro and macro economics of the country due to emergence of the coalition era of governments has increased significantly. Emergence of small parties, their switching support and the increasing role of regional parties has only added to the uncertainty in Indian politics. Managing the economy in such circumstances becomes more challenging and difficult. |
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