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Central funds needed in case of vertical growth of city: Lovely
DMRC to make 14 curves on Hazrat Nizamuddin-Shiv Vihar corridor
Two Maharashtra bizmen held for cheating IFCI
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Driving licence racket busted, two arrested
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Central funds needed in case of vertical growth of city: Lovely
New Delhi, June 16 As Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath has been pitching for allowing high-rise buildings in Delhi in order to accommodate the growing population, Delhi Urban Development Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said basic services like drainage, water supply and power distribution network will have to be strengthened, if vertical expansion in the city is allowed. "We absolutely have no problem with vertical expansion of Delhi. But when the approval is given to high-rises, we will have to strengthen the existing infrastructure like sewage network, water distribution system and power transmission. The Centre will have to provide the Delhi Government with funds," said Lovely. Vertical growth will also address the problem of shortage of housing in the city and insisted that sincere efforts must be made to ensure the optimum use of land resources, he said. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was understood to have reservations about the proposal. She had said that availability of power and water should be factored in before allowing high-rises. The Urban Development Ministry is currently in the process of reviewing the Master Plan of Delhi-2021 and is expected to finalise a number of amendments soon like allowing high-rises and increasing the existing floor area ratio (total floor area of a building to the plot area). "We must ensure optimum use of scarce land resources. I think vertical growth will address the problem of housing shortage also," added Lovely.
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DMRC to make 14 curves on Hazrat Nizamuddin-Shiv Vihar corridor
New Delhi, June 16 Due to the uneven twists and turns in this 25-km elevated corridor, the Delhi Metro is being forced to construct as many as 14 curves on this stretch that passes through very congested areas like Trilokpuri, Kalyanwas, Vinod Nagar, I.P. Extension, Anand Vihar, Karkarduma, Welcome, Seelampur, Jaffrabad and Maujpur. "Curves of less than 300 m of radius are considered 'sharp curves' in urban rail construction," said senior DMRC official. The work of building sharp curves requires a great deal of engineering skills and several factors have to be kept in mind while designing special segments and spans at the concerned turn and juncture. "The DMRC has to form dedicated beds in its casting yard for special segments. The segments are then constructed according to the already defined 'radius of curvature' and then put on the viaduct," said the official. Further, cantilever piers and portals (supports) have to be constructed at appropriate places to provide smooth transition for the curves, wherever required, to take care of the shifted alignment due to curvature, he said. The Hazrat Nizamuddin-Shiv Vihar corridor is a part of the 59-km-long Mukundpur-Shiv Vihar corridor of phase III covering 40 Metro stations. In 2010, the DMRC had constructed sharpest broad gauge curve on its elevated section in Gurgaon near IFFCO Chowk with a radius of 282.05 m between pier No. 125 and 137 in phase II.
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Two Maharashtra bizmen held for cheating IFCI
New Delhi, June 16 The businessmen were identified as Ashok Kumar Rathi, Director of M/S Maven Industries Limited of Nagpur and Vijay B. Shethia of Mumbai. According to the police, the EOW had registered a complaint against the accused in August last year on the basis of a complaint submitted by Tapabarata Mohitra, senior associate vice-president, IFCI, who reported to the police that Rathi had approached the IFCI for grant of domestic factoring facility. Rathi had said that he would supply soya refined oil to M/s Jayesh Oil Trade Private Limited and need working capital. The police said that the IFCI disbursed Rs 5 crore in favour of Rathi's company under the factoring facility. The company had also claimed that it had transported soya refined oil through various trucks. However, during investigation, bills of Jayesh Oil Trade Pvt. Ltd. and numbers of trucks were found fake. The directors of alleged companies were asked to join enquiry along with complete documents, but they did not cooperate with the police. The investigations said that the directors of the alleged companies had falsified company's accounts with intent to defraud the IFCI by making false entries and submitting them to the IFCI for obtaining the loan. At the time when the case was registered, Rathi's factory was got sealed by UCO Bank for default on some other loan. He, thereafter, absconded and shifted his residence. However, the accused were arrested by the EOW.
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Feeling haunted, EC set to cleanse list of ghost voters
Syed Ali Ahmed Tribune News Service
New Delhi, June 16 According to statistics after the summary revision of rolls during January, Delhi has 1.23 crore voters of whom 68.5 lakh are men, 54 lakh women and over 300 lakh transgenders. Yet the bigger challenge was to detect and delete some 13 lakh voters from the list, who were either dead or no longer resided in Delhi. And the Chief Election Officer (CEO), Vijay Dev is confident that the task will be complete before it is time for people to exercise their franchise. Simultaneously, efforts will be on to include the names of people who have turned major with the focus on those who reside in villages, the homeless and service voters. Speaking to The Tribune, the CEO said that the election department detected and deleted the names of 13 lakh voters who were not alive or did not reside here. Yet the daunting task is to detect lakhs of people who reside in the neighbouring areas of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana but continue to be enlisted as voters in Delhi. According to the record available with the department, there are some 1.60 lakh voters, living on the Haryana border, who have their votes in Delhi as well as in Faridabad, Gurgaon, Sonepat, Jhajjar and Rohtak. In the areas on the eastern border such as Ghaziabad, Noida, Meerut and Bulandshahr, the department has identified 40,000 people who are registered as voters in Delhi as also the state they reside in now. The CEO said that having votes in more than one constituency or state is illegal. It is people's responsibility to get their vote deleted from one place. Sections 17 and 18 of the Representation of People Act 1950 say that votes cannot be registered in more than one constituency. Even in the same constituency, it cannot be registered more than once. Getting the vote registered in more than one constituency and more than once in the same constituency is an offence that has a punishment of one year imprisonment with a fine. On the direction of the Election Commission of India, the three states--Delhi, Haryana and UP- held a meeting with the CEO of Delhi to find out the way to clean the list. The department concerned also noticed 1.57 lakh duplicate photo identity cards. The CEO said Delhi had 93,000 voters earlier in the age group of 18-19 years that is 0.6 per cent of the total registered voters which was far too below. According to the ratio of population, voters in this age group should be around three per cent of the total electorates. Now after a drive, it has gone up to 2.4 per cent. Interestingly, the electoral list which had just 62 homeless people on it earlier has 6,500 people now.
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Driving licence racket busted, two arrested
New Delhi, June 16 The police recovered 21 fake licences, 31 stamps of several state transport authorities, holographic stickers, one laptop, scanner-cum-printer, lamination and cutter machines from their possession. The police received information on June 14 that Babu Ram and his associates were indulging in supplying driving licences and birth certificates of different states and transport authorities, who would come at T-point, Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar. The police had sent a decoy customer to Babu Ram and asked him for a driving licence. Babu Ram struck the deal of making the licence for Rs 2,000 and took his photograph and asked him to wait for some time. After about one hour, he returned and handed over the licence to the decoy customer. On finalization of the deal, Babu Ram was apprehended by the police. |
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