New Delhi, October 17
The national Capital will soon be able to handle a major grid disturbance such as that brought the city to a standstill for hours together during July this year as Delhi is going to have islanding facilities.

The formalities for the islanding technology, which comes much in line with the Mumbai scheme, have been completed and it may become operational within the next two months, announced Union Power Minister Veerappa Moily while addressing the press along with Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit here today.

The proposed islanding scheme, which envisages isolating Delhi system and continuing to supply power to essential services like Delhi Metro Rail, water treatment load, Indian Railways, hospitals and other critical areas, is much better than the extant such schemes in both Mumbai and Kolkata, stated Dikshit.

She added that the scheme will be upgraded phase-wise and with this coming in place, Delhi can have an uninterrupted power supply.

Moily said that the work for ‘Islanding scheme for Delhi during grid disturbances’ which was to be completed within three months have been accomplished much earlier.

Under the proposed system, whose overall responsibility of operation will lie with Delhi State Load Dispatch Centre, four islands of Delhi’s power system will be created to meet the heavy loads in case of grid troubles. The power network of Delhi is far more complex than the Tata system of Mumbai and CESC system of Kolkata.

Keeping in mind the complexity of the Delhi power network, some additional components like maintaining dual source of supply to essential loads, training of system operators, etc.are proposed to be taken up under this scheme.

New Delhi, October 17
Highlighting the ongoing connection of the DLF and the Congress, BJP MLA Karan Singh Tanwar today levelled allegations on the Delhi government for allotting land to the DLF to build multi-level parking complex at Baba Kharak Singh Marg near Connaught Place.

Tanwar alleged that the land worth billion of rupees was sold to the DLF at a cheap price on lease for 30 years by the Congress.

According to Tanwar, the land was allotted to DLF at Sarojini Nagar and Chanakya Cinema by the then New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) chairman, Parimal Rai.

Demanding a CBI probe into the matter, Tanwar said that in 2007, the NDMC allotted a piece of land at Baba Kharak Singh Place to build a multi-level parking complex.

“The licence was issued to the DLF developers at a cheap rate. It was decided that the DLF would pay Rs 22 lakh per month to the NDMC. Likewise, two more plots were handed over to the DLF at cheap rates,” he said.

“The DLF got the lands at three places by the Congress-led government.It was said by the state government that the parking complex would be world class to get the public appreciation, but the complex is in a pathetic condition. People don’t want to park theircars at the complex as it is not technically fit,” alleged Tanwar.

He further alleged that the DLF has earned billions of rupees by constructing hundreds of shops on the ground and first floors, violating the rules.

“I raised the issue of allotment of land and wrote to the then NDMC chairman. Project worth Rs 220 crore was allotted to the DLF for only Rs 81 crore,” alleged the BJP MLA.

New Delhi, October 17
Delhi police’s Special Cell has claimed to have busted an international drug syndicate with the arrest of six persons, including two Nigerian nationals.

The police said that it has recovered 3.520 kgs of fine quality heroin and 6.200 kgs of hashish worth Rs 8 crore in the international market.

It has also seized eight mobile phones and nine SIM cards allegedly used in drug trafficking, the police said.

Two members of the syndicate were arrested on Friday. They came to Delhi Cantt to deliver the consignment of heroin. They were identified as Anil Pratap Singh Chauhan, (50), a resident of Ghaziabad, UP and Arun Kumar (46), a resident of Paharganj. The police recovered 1.5 kgs of heroin from their possession along with three mobile phones and four SIM cards. A case under the appropriate section of law was registered at PS Special Cell, Lodhi Colony.

During their interrogation, it was revealed that they were part of an international syndicate operating in UP, Haryana and Delhi.

Further interrogation led to the arrest of two Nigerian nationals, namely Alex Emechebe and Alloy Frank Micheal (31). They were arrested yesterday from their residence. Both were residing at Nishant Park, Dwarka Mor, the police said.

“Hashish was neatly concealed in the side covers of 60 books and a parcel was ready to be sent to Canada as disclosed by Zidan and Alex. In the past, they had sent such parcels to various countries. Three mobile phones have also been recovered from them,” said the police.