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Kejriwal exposes 'watergate'
Chill returns to city
Two more succumb to H1N1
3 bombshells found in Naraina
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Kejriwal exposes 'watergate'
New Delhi, February 16 His party has demanded that an FIR be lodged along with an independent probe in the matter involving giving out contracts to foreign companies. Calling for a CAG audit, lawyer Prashant Bushan said it is the contracts given to private companies that have led to more corruption and an increase in the water tariff. Kejriwal pointed out irregularities in the accounts of Sonia Vihar plant in which he said the DJB has fudged the production figures as the quantum of water supplied for treatment and water output are too close to be believed. Based on information received under RTIs, the DJB has inflated production figures and internal report of the water body shows that the Sonia Vihar plant never produced more than 95 MGD of water while the replies to RTI from the DJB shows it as 140 MGD for June 2011. Similarly, he said there are documents to attest that the Rs 519-crore Malviya Nagar project was given to the French company called Degremont to reduce non-revenue water (NRW) from 67.42 per cent to 15 per cent, but even here the figures were inflated. As the result of this, the financial burden being transferred to each consumer comes roughly to Rs 1,500 per month, he said. "In 2005, the Delhi government claimed an NRW of 50 per cent and since then pipelines worth crores have been replaced but what was the outcome. All this clearly shows that Delhi's water production is artificially inflated to project bogus NRW and then bogus contracts are being given out to mitigate the NRW," remarked the anti-graft activist. The papers released by them further raised doubts in the Nangloi project in which another French company Veolia has been given contract at Rs 14.99 lakh KL water. The firm which is supposed to treat water, look after billing and distribution network in the area and in exchange will be provided raw water and free electricity. In an obvious response, the DJB has rejected the allegations terming them totally false and politically motivated.
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Chill returns to city
New Delhi, February 16 Showers last night continued till late afternoon today in Delhi and neighbouring cities. The non-stop showers and the chilly winds dragged the maximum temperature to eight degrees below the normal today, and settled at 16.1 degree Celsius. Though the minimum temperature rose by three degrees above normal and settled at 13.7 degree
Celsius. "Rainfall of 15.4 mm was recorded in Delhi till 8.30 this morning. Another 3.2 mm of rainfall was recorded from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm. Humidity levels remained between a high of 98 per cent and a low of 79 per cent," said an official from the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). "More rains are in store for the city tomorrow. The skies are likely to remain cloudy and light rains will continue tonight and tomorrow as well," he added. The maximum and minimum temperatures tomorrow are likely to oscillate between a maximum and minimum of 19 and 13 degree Celsius respectively. The rains today led to hours of traffic jams on the city roads besides areas like Outer Ring Road, Ashram Chowk, Akshardam Road, Mahilpaur Border, Punjabi Bagh, Jhandewalan, Azad Market and Dilshad Garden. |
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Two more succumb to H1N1
New Delhi, February 16 "We have received the report of the deaths, one man (83) at RML Hospital and the other from Action Balaji Hospital where a woman (52) died due to the flu," said Dr Cahran Singh, H1N1 nodal officer. |
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3 bombshells found in Naraina
New Delhi, February 16 The police received a call stating that some fight had broken out in the area. When the PCR van reached the spot, they found that no such incident had occurred. One of the police officials then noticed three boxes lying on the spot. One of them was broken, so he tried to see what was in it, and found a live bombshell in it. The bomb disposal squad was called to defuse the exlosives. They declared that these bombshells belonged to the Indian Army, and called the Army officials, who checked and shifted the explosives to a spot outside Delhi where they would be defused, said the police. |
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