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Revenue collection goes down
4 held for Bhajanpura robbery
Updating voter lists: Admn to rope in RWAs |
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Dadwal stresses servant verification
Police commissioner Y.S. Dadwal. Tribune photo
Noida Expressway claims 2 more lives
Govt, MCD differ on councillors’ fund cut
3 more swine flu cases reported
Blueprint on Knowledge Commission
CM Sheila Dikshit with Sam Pitroda releases the report in New Delhi on Friday. Tribune photo
Engineering student dies in
mishap
Sheila releases ‘Inside Assembly’
5 held with endangered birds
Constable beaten, robbed
50-yr-old held for raping maid
Village gets ambulance on Rahul’s birthday
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Revenue collection goes down
New Delhi, June 19 The MV tax collection in 2007-2008 was Rs 420.20 crore and Rs 419.12 crore in 2008-2009. The collection of stamp and registration fee was Rs 1318.40 in 2007-2008 and Rs 788 crore this year. An official said that reduction in these heads of revenue showed that people were short of money due to global slowdown. Real estate prices have also come down in Delhi as well as in NCR areas. Earlier, people were running behind builders for flats, now builders are even taking help of SMS services to invite buyers to purchase their flats. The report said that this had resulted in the fiscal deficit of the Delhi government of about Rs 2939.49 crore during 2008-2009 against the fiscal deficit of Rs 2040.8 crore in 2007-2008. The report also said that the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and the Delhi Jal Board are running on heavy losses. Their non-plan deficit increased due to pay revision based on the recommendation of Sixth Pay Commission. The DTC increased its non-plan from Rs 324.25 crore to Rs 550 crore. The DJB also did the same thing. This burden of additional money has come on the government’s exchequer. The analysis of sectorwise growth of the gross state domestic product (GSDP) reveals that the contribution of secondary sector (manufacturing, electricity, gas, water supply and construction) is 20.26 per cent in 2007-2008. The contribution of tertiary sector (trade, hotels, transport, storage, communication, financing, real estate, busines services, public administration and other services) is 79.05 per cent in 2007-2008 against 80.36 per cent in 1999-2000. The report also mentioned that at present Delhi literacy rate is 82 per cent while the national figure is only 65 per cent. The Delhi government is spending about 10 per cent of its total plan allocation on education sector.
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4 held for Bhajanpura robbery
New Delhi, June 19 Four .315 bore pistols, Rs 5 lakh and two motorcycles used in the crime have been recovered from the possession of the accused. Those arrested have been identified as Rakesh Tyagi (29); Harish Gupta, alias Pinto (28); Vinay Bhargawa, alias Yash (31), residents of Brahampuri, and Basant Kumar, alias Kalwa (37), who hails from Khurja in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh. The breakthrough came within three days of the incident that took place early morning on June 15. Baldev Singh, gunman-cum-supervisor of Pam Filling Station in Yamuna Vihar was robbed and shot when he was on his way to deposit Rs 8.45 lakh in Syndicate Bank just across the filling station. According to H.G.S. Dhaliwal, DCP (South), the accused were nabbed on the basis of a tip-off. “They were arrested from the Karbala area in Lodhi Colony around 9 pm when they were planning to rob a petrol pump at Aurbindo Marg,” said Dhaliwal. According to him, except Basant, who has a record of crime, the other three are from middle-class background and carried out the crime to pay loan installments. “Vinay is a dance teacher and Harish owns a sewing machine factory with 25 labourers and deals in garments in Gandhi Nagar Market. He owns around 25 sewing machines. Rakesh is a driver by profession,” said Dhaliwal. According to information, Rakesh, the kingpin of the gang, has an account with Syndicate Bank and tipped his other accomplices about the movement of large cash from Pam Filling Station to Syndicate Bank every Monday. “After the robbery, the accused reached Harish’s factory and divided the booty. As per their disclosure, they robbed only Rs 5.59 lakh from Baldev. About Rs 5 lakh have already been recovered from their houses. The notes bear slips affixed with the stamp of Pam filling Station,” said Dhaliwal. Talking about the antecedents of Basant Kumar, Dhaliwal said that he was a notorious criminal who had been involved in two murders committed in Khurja in 1998 in a bid to rob a jeweller. He had also been to jail in connection with these murders. After his release, he shifted to Brahampuri in Delhi and brought .315 bore pistols from Khurja to commit crimes.
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Updating voter lists: Admn to rope in RWAs
Gurgaon, June 19 Gurgaon deputy commissioner-cum-district electoral officer R. K. Kataria convened a meeting of the RWAs here today to chalk out a plan of action in this regard. The meeting, which was attended by booth-level officers (BLOs) as well as other administrative officials, decided that the district administration would provide copies of voters’ lists to the RWAs concerned, which would, in turn, update and correct these and hand over the revised copies to the BLOs. The deputy commissioner asked the representatives of the RWAs to depute their volunteers at each polling station for the rectification and updating of the electoral rolls. The district authorities would get the RWA’s inclusions and corrections cross-checked and verified and provide them with the requisite forms to get the voters’ names included and/or corrected in the lists. The meeting was further informed that special camps would also be organised for updating and rectification of the voters’ lists, adding that local representatives of political parties had also been invited to play a proactive role in the process. Several local residents and residents’ associations had complained that many voters had been denied a chance to vote in the recent parliamentary elections as their names were missing from the electoral rolls. The residents’ bodies conveyed their concerns to the central as well as state election authorities, following which a meeting with them was recently organised in Chandigarh. Taking cognisance of residents’ complaints, the election authorities directed the district administration to chalk out an action plan and today’s meeting was in pursuance of these directions. At the meeting, the deputy commissioner also directed both assistant returning officers (AROs) concerned to inquire into the allegations of voters’ names missing from the lists. Strict action would be taken against the officials found responsible for the lapse, he added.
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Dadwal stresses servant verification
New Delhi, June 19 Delhi police commissioner Y.S. Dadwal said this while addressing a fortnightly press conference here today. He said in spite of several appeals servant verification in the city stood at 64 per cent. “I am planning to make it mandatory under the Criminal Procedure Code for servants to get themselves registered,” said Dadwal. Emphasising the safety of senior citizens, he said the onus of registration should lie with the employee as well. “If a person is looking for a job in a house why can’t he approach the local police station on his own and present his credentials,” questioned Dadwal. Besides, Dadwal said that during the safe pedestrian drive from June 1 to 15 there has been a fall of 25 per cent in fatal accidents and 18 per cent fall in non-fatal accidents. “During the fortnight, 59 accident deaths were reported compared to 78 from May 16 to 31. The Capital also recorded a drop of 18 per cent in non-fatal accidents,” he said adding that about 53,000 people were challaned during the fortnight. He said the police has planned to carry out special traffic drives in future to curb traffic violations. Dadwal said the Delhi police was busy making comprehensive security arrangements for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games and any conspiracy to disrupt the event would be thwarted. |
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Noida Expressway claims 2 more lives
Greater
Noida, June 19 The accident was similar to the one that took place on this notorious expressway on May 28, killing eight persons. The mishap that took place in May involved five vehicles and most of the victims were killed while trying to rescue the driver of a vehicle that had met with an accident. In yesterday’s incident, Shailender Kumar Singh, was returning home to Greater Noida from Noida around 4 am in his Swift car. He rammed into a punctured canter parked in the middle of the expressway near Jhatta Badoli village. The impact of the collision was reportedly so powerful that both the vehicles were dragged for about 50
metres. A police vehicle rushed Shailender to Sharda Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The canter driver is absconding since the accident.
Brijmohan Duggal, a colleague of Shailender, has filed a report in this regard with the Greater Noida police. Shailender was a resident of Vaishali in
Ghaziabad. In the second accident, a woman named Chameli died after being hit by a car on the expressway. Chameli was working as a gardener working in the green belt of the expressway. She was hit by the car at noon while crossing the expressway. She was rushed to hospital by the police, but succumbed to her injuries. The incidents have once again proved that rash driving and vehicles parked on the expressway are death-traps and needed to be checked as soon as possible. But even tragedy after tragedy seems to be having no affect on the authorities. |
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Govt, MCD differ on councillors’ fund cut
New Delhi, June 19 Standing Committee chairperson Ramkishan Singhal today maintained the MCD would not allow any cut in councillors’ funds “The MCD will not allow the Delhi government’s intrusion. The corporation was formed by an act in Parliament. It is an autonomous body and is not responsible to the Delhi government,” said Singhal. Members of Delhi Assembly had demanded that councillor’s fund be reduced to Rs 50 lakh as no substantial development had taken place at the ward level. Interestingly, the local area development fund of each MLA and MP is also Rs 2 crore. Allocation under the councillor’s fund for local development rose from Rs 35 lakh in 1997 to Rs 2 crore. “It is a unique experiment in development whereby emphasis has been given on ward level development. No other civic body in India has evolved the ward level dynamics,” Singhal said. He justified the Rs 2 crore yearly fund by connecting it to the Sixth Pay Commission. “In order to generate more revenue, we are increasing the net property tax ,” he said.
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3 more swine flu cases reported
New Delhi, June 19 Delhi health secretary J.P. Singh said, “Delhi has reported three new swine flu cases, including one of human-to-human transfer. We now have 12 swine flu cases in various hospitals in the Capital. We are now focusing on containing the spread of secondary infection in the Capital.” “The new positive cases of influenza A, include a nine-year-old boy who returned from the US on June 11, 28-year-old man who travelled from Egypt on June 13 and 66-year-old woman, who contracted the flu from her son, who had tested positive June 17,” stated Singh. Among the fresh cases of flu, the nine-year-old boy is a self-reported case, who came to the hospital after he developed flu-like signs on June 17, and the third case of the 66-year-old woman is a case of human-to-human infection.
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Blueprint on Knowledge Commission
New Delhi, June 19 To take steps towards creating the state-of-the-art knowledge hubs, the state government is also setting up a knowledge city which will allow self-financing institutions to come up, says the blueprint. Under vocational education, the Delhi government has proposed to launch a Delhi skills mission to make concerted and time-bound efforts for skill development.It has also initiated several schemes to expand capacity in VET (Vocational Educational Training). Further, several innovative initiatives of the Delhi government such as ICT applications in school education, Vidyalaya Kalyan Samitis, Building As Learning Aid , YUVA School Life Skills Programme, Chalta Firta School are aimed at improving school education quantitatively and qualitatively.
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Container falls on car, man killed
Gurgaon, June 19 Subodh and his younger brother Pramod were going towards Jaipur in their Honda City car. Soon after they crossed the toll plaza at Kherki Dhaula village, a container loaded on a big truck accidentally fell on their car near Sikkhopur crossing. According to police sources and eyewitnesses, the container fell on the right side of the car and crushed Subodh, who was driving. His brother, Pramod, who was sitting on the passenger seat, had a narrow escape. A case under Sections 279 and 304-A of the IPC for causing death due to rash and negligent driving have has been registered at the Kherli Daula police station. The police has impounded the truck. However, the driver and helper of the truck
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Engineering student dies in
mishap
Faridabad, June 19 The deceased, Aman Preet Singh, a resident of local Dabua Colony, and his friends were coming from Palwal side on a motorcycle when they hit a truck near Good Year crossing on the highway. Aman died on the spot, while his friends, who received serious injuries, have been admitted to Sarvodaya Hospital. According to the police, Aman and his friends were under the influence of liquor. Aman, who was driving the motorcycle, lost control and banged into the truck. The victims were engineering students of an institute in Palwal. The two injured boys are said to be natives of Hissar district.
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Sheila releases ‘Inside Assembly’
New Delhi, June 19 The book carries description of the so-called imbalance between the legislative efforts and administrative rules. Author S.K. Sharma has presented a record of known and unknown facts about the Legislative Assembly of Delhi. He served as secretary, Delhi Vidhan Sabha from 1993 to 2002. The book contains the information about the members of all the four assemblies with their social, educational and economic background. An interesting part of the book is a short article penned by Sheila Dikshit. According to her, “Sharma was instrumental in framing rules and procedures of the functioning of the Legislative Assembly during its early years. The book would prove to be helpful and informative to all present and future legislatives.”
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5 held with endangered birds
New Delhi, June 19 Four hundred and fifty birds have been recovered from their possession. They were caught when they had visited Sarai Kale Khan to strike a deal. An operation to arrest the accused persons was jointly launched by the South East district police and the Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care Centre. The five arrested persons disclosed that they expected to earn anywhere between Rs 25,000 to Rs 30,000 for one bird. |
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Constable beaten, robbed
New Delhi, June 19 According to information, Chand was on his way home after finishing his duty when four men accosted him near Defence Ordinance Factory on Rohtak Road. “The assailants cornered Chand in a secluded area and tried to snatch his money. When Chand resisted, he was beaten by the four men, who then decamped with his mobile phone and money,” said the police. Chand, with broken teeth and face injuries, was rushed to Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital. A case of assault has been lodged against unknown persons. Chand is a resident of E Block in
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50-yr-old held for raping maid
New Delhi, June 19 According to the police, the victim managed to escape from accused Paramjit Singh’s house on Thursday night. The victim, who hails from West Bengal, had got the job through a placement agency three days ago. “The girl in her complaint has alleged that Paramjeet raped her on June 16 and 17. He had threatened her with dire consequences and had held her captive in his house so that she could not approach the police. Yesterday (Thursday) night when Paramjeet went out to bring a gas cylinder, the girl called the owner of the placement agency who took her to the police and filed a complaint,” said a police official. The police took the victim to a nearby government hospital for medical examination, in which rape was confirmed. Singh’s wife has died and he lives with his father who is paralysed, the police said.
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Village gets ambulance on Rahul’s birthday
Sohna (Gurgaon), June 19 A function was also organized by freedom fighter Chiranjeevi Memorial Society and Pt. Lacchi Ram Memorial Society at the civil hospital today. Unveiling the ambulance, the DC even drove it and later had a look inside the hospital. He also interacted with the patients and took feedback about the working of the hospital. He asked the medical officer to check the cleanliness every day. Earlier, Bhardwaj introduced the DC to the problems of their area. |
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