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Mob burns vehicles as biker injured
in police checking
Municipal schools short
of over 5,500 teachers
Bikers perform stunts near India Gate
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Time-bound service delivery comes to nought
Not many visitors at fair even on Sunday
Another Metro station
for Nehru Place
Déjà vu: Waterlogged roads, bane of city life
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Mob burns vehicles as biker injured
in police checking
New Delhi, September 2 The mob also set vehicles on fire and raised slogans. Twenty people, including policemen, were injured in the incident. The police had to resort to lathicharge and teargas to control the mob and bring the situation under control. According to the police, it had put barricades and was conducting a routine checking in Mayur Vihar Phase-3. During the checking, the cops signalled a man riding a motorcycle to halt, but he did not do so. When he tried to speed past the barricade, the cops hit his motorcycle with a stick. It resulted in his falling off the motorcycle and sustaining injuries. Seeing the man getting injured, the residents in the area created scenes and set the vehicles, including three buses, one truck, one car and three bikes on fire. A fire tender was rushed to the spot to douse the fire at 7.00 pm. The injured man has been admitted to the Lal Bahadur Shastri hospital. According to the doctors, he is critical, but out of danger. |
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Municipal schools short
of over 5,500 teachers
New Delhi, September 2 Of the three corporations, the schools under the North Delhi Municipal Corporation have the maximum vacancies of 1,971. The East Delhi Municipal Corporation schools have the second highest vacancies of 1,958 while there are 1,639 vacancies in the schools under the South Delhi Municipal Corporation. The erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was trifurcated in April this year. Before the trifurcation, the MCD had filled 3,848 posts of teachers between 2009-10 and 2011-12. Still, 5,568 posts are vacant. In 2009-10, the unified MCD filled 719 posts while the next year, 1,821 vacancies were filled. In 2011-12, 1,308 teachers were hired. Similarly, the New Delhi Municipal Council, which is responsible for the maintenance of the VVIP areas in the city, has 142 vacant posts of teachers. When asked about the vacancies, officials claim that steps have been taken to fill the vacant posts through the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board. |
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Bikers perform stunts near India Gate
New Delhi, September 2 A senior police official said that they are aware of traffic norms being flouted by motorcyclists during weekends, and claimed that the law has been made stringent to deal with them. The official, however, claimed that no such incident was reported late on Saturday. "We take action to catch the culprits such stunts are performed," the official said. According to some commuters, the motorcyclists flouted all the traffic norms. "Apart from driving at hazardous speed and zigzagging, most of them were not wearing helmets," said Abhinav Surana, a commuter. Normally, barricades are placed at strategic locations and motorcyclists are booked under section 184 of the Motor Vehicles Act. The registration certificates of the motorcycles are also confiscated, and the drivers are told to appear in court, said the official. |
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Time-bound service delivery comes to nought
New Delhi, September 2 If this is the status of the national capital, imagine what happens in the rest of the country, said activists here while urging for an early passage of the Grievance Redressal Bill which came for discussion during the Parliamentary Standing Committee this week. It was during the public camps where several such instances, indicating a failure of the time-bound delivery system that the Delhi government has assured the citizens several times, were revealed, said National Federation for Women Indian general secretary Annie Raja. "Over 90 per cent of people's grievances are still pending in Delhi not to speak of the scenario in other states given the absence of the Grievance Redressal Bill, which is stuck in the parliamentary tussle," said Raja. These instances first came to notice during the public camps held in December 2011 at Takia Kale Khan, Malviya Nagar, Sunder Nagar and Trilokpuri when over 4,000 complaints were received and the matter was forwarded to the departments concerned of the city authorities. This even as the Delhi (Right of Citizens to Time-Bound Delivery of Services) Act 2011 being in place and the law mandating a time-bound action within 40 days. There have been many such instances. One Prem, associated with Satark Nagrik Sangathan, said that his ration had been stopped for eight months, apparently because of the breakdown of computer while Amit from Pardarshita of New Seemapuri lamented the fact that he had been waiting for a birth certificate for the last eight months. "Even though many states have the law on ground, nothing is happening. The success of the endeavour will depend on the common man having access to an effective grievance redress system mandated by the law," asserted social activists of the National Campaign for People's Right to Information. This is not all for even when it comes to the city's civic agencies, leave aside the VVIP and the VIP areas. A round of the colonies even in South Delhi will serve an eye opener of the work carried out by various city authorities, pointed out a resident of Lajpat Nagar while referring to poor road maintenance in the Okhla area that has failed to draw the attention of the authorities despite many complaints. Interestingly, Member of Parliament Sandeep Dikshit recently said, "Having a bill is easier, but the implementation is the problem. The centrally enacted legislations do not reflect the aspirations of the states at times. It is easy to legislate but difficult to make it happen without the support of the key stakeholders, in this case the state governments." |
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Not many visitors at fair even on Sunday
New Delhi, September 2 "It is just the second day today. Hopefully, book lovers will come in larger numbers in the coming days," said an organiser. Meanwhile, among the few who made it to the fest, some hoped to get hold of some prize-winning works to add to their collection. One such book enthusiast Sunita Misra, who had come with her husband and children from Noida, was seen looking for works of American author and playwright Denis Johnson known for his award- winning novel Train Dreams.
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Another Metro station
for Nehru Place
New Delhi, September 2 Nehru Place, which houses one of India's largest IT markets, already has a Metro station on the Central Secretariat-Badarpur corridor . The new station will be built on the Janakpuri West-Botanical Garden corridor. The station, which will be underground, will be constructed on the Outer Ring Road, opposite Paras Cinema. It will have five entry and exit points. — TNS |
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Déjà vu: Waterlogged roads, bane of city life
This is a perennial problem and the city fathers seek an easy explanation out of the mess-multiplicity of authorities. However, for the denizens of Delhi, the end result is an irritating wade through ankle-to-knee deep water at places on their way to work or home. This year is no different except that last week, the Delhi High Court decided it was time to step in and directed the Chief Secretary to constitute a committee consisting of the officials of Public Works Department, three municipal corporations, New Delhi Municipal Committee, Cantonment Board, Irrigation and Delhi Jal Board. While sources in the government said the committee is yet to be set up, it is expected to be in place since the court is expected to hear about the formation of the panel this week. Spokesman of the civic bodies, Yogender Singh Mann said that they maintain the roads of inside colonies. "Keeping in view the waterlogging, the civic bodies do the job of de-silting drains throughout the year. We have control rooms in each zone. Pumps are installed at the places where waterlogging takes place. Whenever we get a complaint about it, our men immediately reach the spot to clear it." He said that roads of more than 60 ft width are under the jurisdiction of the Delhi government. Waterlogging near several flyovers is checked by the Delhi government and the DDA. While Delhi PWD Minister Rajkumar Chauhan said that such roads came under the city government in June only and due to paucity of time, all the drains could not be de-silted before the monsoon. He said the city government maintains roads measuring 12,500 km while the MCD is responsible for the upkeep of roads measuring 20,000 km. Even if the big roads have been taken over by the city government, the majority of the roads and drains are still under the civic bodies. "Instead of mud-slinging, we should work sincerely to get rid of the problem of waterlogging," Chauhan said. Mukesh Gole, the leader of the opposition in North Delhi Municipal Corporation, said that the corporation does not have enough staff to carry out de-silting of drains with just two workers in each ward to maintain the roads measuring between 15 and 20 km. A senior official in a municipal town planning department said besides the multiple authorities, insincere approach of the agencies for de-silting the drains, lack of coordination, citizens' approach, unplanned and haphazard development are the main reasons for the problem. In July when the court sought an action taken report from the municipalities, they said all the drains in narrow roads were cleaned, but when it rained, some areas like Govindpuri and Tughlakabad Extension reported waterlogging and the similar reports came from the areas like Jangpura, Ashram Chowk, Sarai Julena, Okhla More, Ring Road near Nizamuddin Bridge, Model Town, Brittania Chowk, etc where the roads were under the PWD, the official said. Constructing drains is the job of experts. Much area of Delhi is unauthorized. No proper drainage system exists in these areas, the official said, adding that the government should identify the spots where waterlogging occurs and ask experts to come up with solutions. Even the court has suggested that engineers should be drafted to look into the problem. Till then the rains remain both a boon and a bane. |
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A mob of around 100 people caused a ruckus in the Mayur Vihar area of east Delhi on Sunday evening after a biker was injured during a routine checking by the police.
Sources said that the high drama was witnessed in the area for around four hours
The 18th edition of the Delhi Book Fair, which opened yesterday, did not see many visitors today despite it being a Sunday.
Publishers here are holding the wet weather responsible for the low turnout, with intermittent showers drenching many parts of the Capital in the day. Some stall owners have also attributed the lack of enthusiasm to the fact that nowadays people prefer to purchase books online. However, there are many who expect the footfall to go up gradually.
New Delhi, September 2