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Delhi hospitals to go online
Liberals march on DU campus |
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JNUSU condemns vandalisation
Centre to revamp primary education
Marketing summit held
Waste management plant to be set up
Gender budgeting discussed
Walia inspects new power plants
ESIC to start medical education
Kritva fest opens
Fashion show held
Rally throws traffic out of gear
Razia Khatun’s murder solved
95 kg of opium seized
2 held for supplying underweight
cylinders
Five held for dacoity, theft
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Delhi hospitals to go online
New Delhi, February 26 Dikshit appreciated the dedicated, committed and professional initiatives of doctors. “Government doctors are equally capable and more competent than private doctors,” she said. “On many occasions, patients go to the government hospitals for better treatment after facing disappointment from private hospitals.” She also added that Delhi was the health capital of the country and people from other states and even abroad come here for expert advice and treatment. “Delhi Government took many initiatives by opening new peripheral hospitals, upgradation of the existing hospitals, augmentation of services by making use of latest technological advancement in medicare system to bring about qualitative improvement in the functioning of the hospitals,” she said. MAMC has now completed 50 years of its existence and this period has witnessed immense growth and development. “This institution has emerged as a mega unit encompassing one of the largest and most prestigious medical colleges of the country. It houses Delhi’s biggest hospital, super-specialty hospital, Delhi’s first dental college, and eye centre, a trauma centre and a specialised pediatric hospital,” she added. Health minister, Yoganand Shastri also appreciated the services of doctors and their commitment towards society and devotion towards their profession. “Government is committed to provide most modern medical facilities to every citizen of the Capital,” he said. He informed that Delhi government was going to set up new hospitals at Kokiwala Bagh, Ashok Vihar, Burari, Hastsal, Sarita Vihar, Baprola, Keshav Puram and Molarband. “The government has also proposed to add 140 ambulances this year,” he said.
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Liberals march on DU campus
New Delhi, February 26 The march began at the Vivekananda statue and covered the entire North campus. On reaching the VC’s office their memo was received by Dean, Nayanjot
Lahiri. Student Maya John said that, “we presented our key demands which include firstly, legal and police action against the ABVP activists who vandalized the history department and HOD’s office. This demand was accepted and three ABVP activists have been arrested and five are absconding.” The other demands include action against ABVP president Vikas Dahiya and others behind the act, a proctorial committee to examine the conduct of police personnel near the history department when the episode of violence took place. The liberal democrats also have plans of scheduling a solidarity meeting on February 28 outside the VC office. On the same day the academic council is also meeting. Meanwhile, DUTA has come out in support of the liberal democrat protest informing in a terse note that, “we condemn the assault on the head of the history department of DU by a group of students.” They further add that, “it is shocking to observe that some elements are unwilling to tolerate critical assessment of existing literature, stories and plays on mythology. It is widely known that the Ramayana has hundreds of versions and
A.K. Ramanujan had collected some of these versions.” SAHMAT informs that the ABVP students act has “shocked the entire academic community” and “it has to be noted that the article objected to by the ABVP was included in the reading materials two years ago and the raising of the issue only now seems prima facie motivated to lend a communal colour to the issue.” |
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JNUSU condemns vandalisation
New Delhi, February 26 “This was the latest addition in the long list of such attacks by the ABVP. Whether it was the attack on Professor Sabbarwal in Ujjain, vandalising the Bhandarkar institute in Pune, acts of vandalism in Baroda art college or attacks on SAR Geelani,” said Sandeep, president JNUSU. The “ABVP and its assorted vandal brigade needs no excuse to engage in acts of violence and destroy the democratic fabric of our country.” “Students have never seen the ABVP working or struggling for student rights or issues, but in desperate attempt to keep their fascist agenda afloat, the ABVP routinely indulges in fascist performances,” said JNUSU in a press release. The JNUSU has also congratulated the students and teachers of Delhi University, who took out a massive protest demonstration on Tuesday.
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Centre to revamp primary education
New Delhi, February 26 The National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) has made some efforts in this direction. The exercise carried out under National Curriculum Framework (NCF) has made a significant shift in school education towards constructive paradigm for teaching and learning. Suitable modifications have been made in development of textbooks, classroom transaction and students’ assessment. New syllabi have been developed on the recommendations of NCF-2005 and Focus Group papers on different subjects. The new textbooks are child-friendly. The content is child-centered. It would provide space to the child to explore knowledge. It would encourage children to move from rote to creative learning. The curriculum articulated in NCF-2005 provides profound implication for creative thinking related to assessment or evaluation of children. Keeping this in view, the NCERT has developed a source book for assessment at the primary level and it is being tried in selected states across the country.
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Marketing summit held
New Delhi, February 26 BIMTECH’s 2nd Indian Marketing Summit (IMS) provided a platform from where India’s business leaders, decision-makers from government, corporate practitioners, donor agencies, NGOs, senior managers and academicians discussed and shared insights and experiences on key issues of national interest. The summit included a number of sessions on specific sub-themes related to this overall theme. These were: the reality of mass market; impediments to address the real problems at the base of the socio-economic strata; innovation in marketing strategies and appropriate technological interventions to improve the quality of life. Inclusive Marketing is of great relevance to any economy which has to maintain a uniformity in its growth, characterized by development at all levels of society. “Inclusive Marketing will require identifying key stakeholders and developing a vision ensuring better tomorrow for the masses through capacity building,” said Rama Bijapurkar, market strategy consultant. Speaking at the event, Pradeep Kashyap, CEO, MART and chief mentor of the summit said, “Inclusive Marketing looks at the poor as both producer and consumer. In India there are 650 million people who survive on the income which is less than US$ 1 per day. Comprising 30% of India’s market, this section of the population is viewed as a bin for obsolete products. And here comes the responsibility of the corporate sector which looks at this section as a potential rural market.”
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Waste management plant to be set up
Faridabad, February 26 The civic body said that the project would be set up on Gurgaon-Palli road within eight months. The construction work is expected to start in March. The MCF will provide Rs 26 crore to a private firm for setting up the plant. It will also provide more than 50 acres of land to the firm on 50 years’ lease. The firm will operate and manage the plant. It will be responsible for clearing up solid waste disposal from the city. After the lease period, the firm will hand over the utility and infrastructure to the MCF. According to the MCF, the plant will have the capacity to treat over 600 tonnes of solid waste. The need for such a plant was long felt because of the huge amount of waste generated in the city. The expanding city population proves to be a tough call for civic authorities to deal with the growing heap of garbage. |
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Gender budgeting discussed
New Delhi, February 26 “The government should not treat gender budget as another buzz word. Unless gender issues are seen as being integral to the planning of all developmental schemes, efforts towards achieving gender equality cannot be achieved” said Ranjana Kumari, president, WPC. While detailing the aspects of gender budgeting and its impact on women, the WPC distributed a ‘gender audit of union budget 2007-08’. The audit reveals that though there was more financial allocation and coverage under different ministries for women in the last year’s budget, there is a need to overcome limitations of current budget in crucial areas affecting women. “In the previous budget, only Rs 5 crore was allocated under social security for unorganised sector. This is highly disappointing in a situation where 94 per cent of women workers in India are in the unorganised sector,” said Vibhuti Patel, vice-president, WPC. “More financial allocation is needed for social security and empowerment of women.” |
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Walia inspects new power plants
New Delhi, February 26 The ministry has declared that the stone laying ceremony of the 1500-megawatt power plant based at Bawana would be organised very soon. It would pave way for speedy completion of power plant. Its first 250-megawatt turbine would be commissioned on February 25, 2010 whereas the entire plant would be functional in October 2010. “The city government is keen to increase the availability of power in Delhi,” said Walia. “The discoms have been told to ensure adequate power to meet supply during the ensuing peak summer season.” The ministry exhorted the agencies concerned to initiate actual work for 750 megawatt gas-based Bamnauli Power plant for which possession of land has been received. This plant would be commissioned in October 2011 though its first turbine would be functional in May 2011.
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ESIC to start medical education
New Delhi, February 26 Oscar Fernandes, minister of state for labour and employment, made the announcement while speaking on the occasion of the ESIC Foundation Day. The minister also called upon the officers of the corporation to be ready to undertake the social security services to be provided to the workers of the unorganised sector. Prabhat Chaturvedi, director general of ESI, congratulated the staff and officers of the corporation and asked them to make the services better for the working class of the nation insured under the ESI scheme. ESI Corporation was celebrating its 56th Foundation Day. |
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Kritva fest opens
New Delhi, February 26 Dr. C.S. Venkata Ratnam, director, IMI, said: “The events like these festivals should be a part of the campus activities as students get to learn a lot by organizing and participating in these events.” He added by congratulating the IMI students, “Since IMI’s USP lies in serious teaching and learning, it is quite commendable that the students have organized every activity of Kritva’ 08 on their own.” Sudarshan Banerjee, the chief guest for Kritva’08- (managing director of IMB advisory and former CEO of Kodak, Amway Corp, Hutch Essar Telecome and Dalmia Consumer) talked about the essence of being methodical and mad at the same time. He said: “I am delighted to be at Kritva’08. There should be more idea-selling programmes on the campus, where you get an opportunity to explore the unexplored.” He added that one should never lose sense of humour, while learning or being anywhere in the process”. Some of the activities were: Self-Pygmalion- Here students tried to match up to their own expectations. They were given a management case study to solve, and they set their own projected scores on various defined parameters. The team with the least deviation in the projected and the actual scores won. Pandemonium- The teams acted as the HR department of an organization with described organizational values, and a well-defined problem facing the organization for which the department has to come up with a solution, keeping the budget and other considerations in mind. The Big Fight- The teams for both the motions would be pitted against each other. Each team was given a time to defend their point of view and then for a question put up by the judges. Thereafter there was an open-house with the audience. Stock Game- Here the teams had to open a Demat account, a minimum amount of seed capital was provided on the basis of which they had to do trading in three weeks time which would be either delivery based or intra day online trading on the BSE and NSE terminal. Apart from these, there were musical performances by the amateaur bands from various colleges.
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Fashion show held
New Delhi, February 26 The event provided a platform to the third year students of Amity School of Fashion Technology to display their innovative designs. Students presented themes of eclectic styling, salad days and thread to fabric, as they walked on ramp wearing motley of fabrics and designs. The presentation was a perfect riot of colors and hues. Aseem Chauhan, additional president, RBEF lauded the creations of budding designers. He said that they had a lot of potential and if guided well they could become big names in fashion industry. He remarked that students of fashion technology are the most creative as they visualised an idea and, later, gave shape to their imagination. Some of the costumes designed by students were also exhibited for sale. Amity School of Fashion Technology started in September 2004 as part of Amity University. The institute is running an undergraduate programme in Fashion Design & Technology. The course is designed to lay a strong foundation for students and enable them to pursue a career in fashion designing. In coming years, the institute is planning to launch diploma courses in fashion designing, fashion merchandising and textile designing. |
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Rally throws traffic out of gear
New Delhi, February 26 With most of the key roads in and around the sprawling Ram Lila Maidan in the heart of the city having been closed, traffic on most of the roads came to a crawl. The situation was worse on the busy Vikas Marg which connects East Delhi to the centre of the city. It took commuters more than an hour to cross the ITO Bridge in the morning rush hours. The spill effect of the traffic was felt in the Central and New Delhi districts as well. Harried traffic policemen struggled to restore some semblance of order on the roads for hours. Motorists caught in traffic jams were unanimous in criticizing the authorities for allowing political parties to hold rallies in the heart of the city on normal working days. “Why cannot the authorities ask the political parties to hold their rallies in open spaces in Noida or Greater Noida? Why does the public have to suffer because of these rallies?” asked an angry commuter. This was the second day that commuters were caught up in traffic jams in the Capital. |
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Razia Khatun’s murder solved
New Delhi, February 26 Mushraf Hussain, 38, is the prime suspect. Razia Khatun lived with him. Shamshad Alam, Mohammad Sabir, Mohammad Jawed killed the girl on his instructions. On February 19, the PCR had received an information about a cylinder blast at C 1/24, Pratap Garden, Bindapur that had led to fire. When fire brigade officials reached the spot, they found that the fire had been doused. They found a female dead body aged between 19 to 20 years. Her name was reported to be Razia Khatun. She was lying on bed with burn injuries. But, the fire officials found no evidence of LPG cylinder blast. The postmortem report revealed that hemorrhage subsequent to cut throat injury was the cause of death. A team led by IPS officer Parmaditya investigated the matter. Mushraf who claimed to be the deceased’s uncle was suspected. He revealed that he along with his three associates had planned and committed the crime. He further disclosed that six years ago he came in contact with Babita, a resident of Hazari Bagh (Jharkhand). He developed an illicit relationship with her and began to live with Babita and her two daughters — Razia and Bhanu at Dal Mandi Chowk, Banaras. During his stay there he developed an illicit relationship with Razia. He told her that he would marry her, if she came to Delhi with him. Musharaf already has a wife and two children in Bihar. Mushraf Hussain used to introduce the deceased as her niece. But Razia often insisted him for marriage. This often led to conflict and he decided to get rid off her. On the day of incident, Mohd Sabir entered the premises of C-1/24 Partap Garden, Bindapur and found Razia alone in the house. She was cooking in the kitchen. Mohammad Sabir dragged Razia to the bed room, adjoining the kitchen, where Shamshad Alam slit her throat with a butcher knife. Later, Sabir poured petrol over Razia’s body and set it on fire. |
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95 kg of opium seized
New Delhi, February 26 According to Alok Kumar, DCP, Special Cell, information was received that a gang of drug traffickers active in the Capital is receiving the consignments of poppy (opium) and distributing the drugs to its clients. Sources were deployed and surveillance was mounted to apprehend the gangsters. On February 23, specific information was received in the Special Cell that a huge consignment of poppy straw (opium) would change hands in the evening on Ring Road, near Gurdwara Majnu Ka Tilla. A trap was laid at the spot. At about 5.30 pm, a car having registration No. DL-6CB-5048 was spotted. Driven by Balsa, it was coming from Wazirabad side. The car stopped on Ring Road near the Gurdwara and after about 5 minutes, a person later identified as Ravinder came on foot from ISBT side. Balsa also came out of the car and after a brief talk, both went to the rear of the car. Balsa opened the hatch back of the car with the keys and took out two gunny bags and handed them over to Ravinder. Police team immediately apprehended both of them. Four gunny bags of poppy straw (opium) were recovered from their possession which when weighed came to 95.5 kgs. A case under NDPS was registered at PS Special Cell. Lodhi Colony, New Delhi. Both the accused were subjected to sustained interrogation in which Bashir Ahmed disclosed that he came from J&K and initially he worked as a driver but later on he drove buses on contract. During this period, he came to know that some drivers and conductors consumed opium. Bashir got in touch with Ravinder and Shahid and through them got to know one Pappu, who supplied opium to the drivers. To earn fast money and realising great profit in this trade, Bashir Ahmed, Pappu, Ravi and Shahid formed a gang in 2007 and since then almost every third day they were procuring opium from Gwalior, MP, and then they sold it to drivers, conductors of roadways staff and other prospective clients with huge profit. They procured opium for Rs 500-700 per kg and after mixing impurities such as floor husk, they were selling it with high profit.
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2 held for supplying underweight
cylinders
New Delhi, February 26 Mukesh Sharma of Laxmi Nagar had lodged a complaint at the Shakarpur police station about the matter. He said that he had booked an LPG cylinder from Shubh Laxmi Gas Agency, A-138/3, Vikas Marg here. He alleged that Ajay Kumar delivered a cylinder weighing 26.5 kg instead of 30.5 kg. During the course of investigation, Ajay revealed that Sukhmal Chand used to fill LPG from cylinders that he brought to deliver to customers. A raid was conducted at his residence. |
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Delhi government hospitals will soon be online so that availability of beds could be known to facilitate admission of patients.
