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AAP ticket hopefuls protest ‘raw deal’
1.5 lakh fill in forms for names on voters' list
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Saurav backs 'Vote for Child Rights'
NDMC offers vocational courses to women
Kamala Market likely to make way for high-rise complex
RSS is anti-women, says DPCC chief
Gyanodaya Express to go live on community radio
Dikshit to leave for Kerala today
Nigerian-run job racket busted
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AAP ticket hopefuls protest ‘raw deal’
New Delhi, March 9 When asked, AAP leaders said, "The whole fuss is being created just to grab media attention and it is by a handful of people who have been vying for tickets. This won't impact the party's work as the party has kept its entire functioning transparent." The protest happened this morning before the former Delhi Chief Minister started his journey to Mathura where he addressed a rally later during the day. The AAP also rubbished news reports published in a section of the media that its party convenor Arvind Kejriwal had accepted Z category of security when he was the Chief Minister of Delhi. Taking exception to the news reports on the security issue, the party called it 'misleading' and something done at the "at the behest of Ministry of Home Affairs and Delhi Police who the party said "have been changing their stand consistently on the issue according to their convenience". AAP leaders condemned saying that Arvind Kejriwal has consistently refused to accept any Z security, yet some newspapers and TV channels run stories allegedly to twist facts to spark controversies just to divert attention from the pro-people issues being raised by the party leadership. Kejriwal's written statements have been in public domain as well as with the police brass, AAP stated while demanding that the newspaper concerned which claimed that Arvind Kejriwal accepted Z category of security should put in public domain the letter of acceptance to substantiate its claim. "The real intention behind this motivated campaign appears to be highly suspect. By giving credence to unsubstantiated news reports, the MHA and Delhi Police only appear to be encouraging unwanted elements to take advantage of the situation at this delicate point when the Lok Sabha election campaign is under way," said the AAP. The party urged volunteers and the public to ignore such campaigns and continue to focus on the real issues of "corruption, communalism, dynastic politics and criminalisation" during the coming elections. |
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1.5 lakh fill in forms for names on voters' list
New Delhi, March 9 Break-up of the forms in districts is as follows: New Delhi 15,970, Northeast 15,062, South 17,904, West 14,305, Northwest 22,000, East 22,039 and Central Delhi 9,866, an official said. He said the camps were held to facilitate the people to get their names registered on the voters' list as during the assembly elections thousands of people could not get their names registered. They had election photo identity cards, but they could not exercise their franchise. |
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Saurav backs 'Vote for Child Rights'
New Delhi, March 9 The Vote for Child Rights is a nationwide election advocacy campaign which calls for the need to give emphasis to child rights in the political parties' electoral agenda and their manifestos ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. In this regard, CRY has been meeting politicians from all the major national political parties to garner their support and pledge to pay heed to child right issues. As part of the campaign launched yesterday, CRY had unveiled the Child Rights manifesto that urges all political parties to give top priority to children and commit to changing the children's condition in our country. Ganguly said, "Children are entrusted with the future of the nation and the greatest gift we can bequeath to a child is provide them with all the means to realize their potential. Without education, good health and physical strength, children will not be able to lead truly happy lives. The strength of a nation depends on the strength of its children." A father for the past 12 years, he spoke of the need to safeguard the future of all children in India. Dwelling upon his personal experiences as a father, the Prince of Kolkata expressed belief in the importance of children being able to reach their full potential and was ecstatic to champion the cause of child rights. CEO of CRY Puja Marwaha stated, "This campaign aims to urge politicians to put children first and the general public to vote for a party that does so.” |
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NDMC offers vocational courses to women
New Delhi, March 9 Shrivastava said that training facility is available for sewing, embroidery, needle work, stenography (English and Hindi), dress designing, textile designing and hair dressing at the Women Technical Institute run at Netaji Nagar in South Delhi. The NDMC-run institute also offers courses to women of computer operator and programme assistant, cookery, as well as catering and home management. Each of these courses is for the duration of one year. Music and dance classes are also held at the institute. Shrivastava said that anyone in the age group of 14 to 40 years can get admission. One should have passed at least Class VII to get admission for cutting and sewing lessons. Only school passouts can take stenography and computer-related courses. There is no fee for these courses barring the one for music and dance, where too the fee is nominal-- between Rs 60 and Rs 100 a month, said Shrivastava. He said that the NDMC is also running 50 craft centres in the entire NDMC area where women are trained in art and craft, cutting and tailoring and embroidery. Any woman can walk in throughout the year for training and there is no test for admission. The fees structure for these courses is also very nominal - Rs 30 per month for embroidery and Rs 20 for other courses. The NDMC is also running a daytime school for girls and women dropouts at Kidwai Nagar in South Delhi. Any woman up to the age of 35 years can apply throughout the year. The school provides free education up to Class 10. There are no fees and even text books are provided free of charge. |
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Kamala Market likely to make way for high-rise complex
New Delhi, March 9 "Commercial spaces like Kamala Market and Ghaffar Market, only couple of storey high and built years ago, have now grown decrepit and are occupying space. By replacing them with modern commercial complexes we seek to utilise the space as well as increase the revenues for the civic body," said NDMC Standing Committee Chairman Mohan
Bhardwaj. Built in the 1950s and named after the wife of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Kamala Market now faces an uncertain future. The old market, inaugurated by the first President Rajendra
Prasad, with its now-faded clock-tower, located next to the New Delhi railway station is part of the city's immediate post-colonial heritage. "As part of the budget for this year, we looked into ways of augmenting our revenues and these old markets, among others, we thought could become sources of revenues," Bhardwaj
said. Ghaffar Market, located in central Delhi's Karol Bagh and also built in the 1950s, and famous for its 'dubious' electronic goods too is most likely to make way for a high-rise complex, the Corporation said. Built with a cost of Rs 5.3
lakh, it was once Delhi's spacious market but is now largely crowded owing to increasing population and vehicular traffic and parking problems. But shopkeepers at Kamala Market are not so happy at the prospect of losing "one of the oldest markets in the city" after Independence. "You can look at the condition here, decaying walls, the clock-tower that doesn't work, and people urinating around its premises, it is awful. And, instead of dismantling it, why can't they just restore it as a heritage market? It will also bring revenues from tourism," a shopkeeper
said. NDMC officials when inquired about preserving its heritage value said, "parts of it could be preserved". "Well, if it was inaugurated by the first President, and has some history attached to, like the clock-tower, then it (clock-tower) could be preserved and taken inside a quadrangle, meshing with the new complex, thus marrying history with development," NDMC Public Relations Officer Yogendra Singh Mann
said. — PTI |
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Fateh Diwas held in memory of Baba Baghel Singh
New Delhi, March 9 Addressing the congregation at the Samagam, the Akal Takhat chief had appealed to the Sikh community to join the Fateh Diwas procession to demonstrate the power of Khalsa. The DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK said the Fateh Diwas was organised in memory of Baba Baghel Singh who had conquered Delhi during the reign of Mughal King Shah Alam in March 1783 and unfurled a Nishan Sahib at Red Fort. He said that Baba had conquered Delhi on March 11, 1783 that was known as "Fateh Diwas" in the history of Sikh community. This function has been organised for the first time, DSGMC spokesman Parminder Singh said. The procession began from Tis Hazari to Red Fort via Fatehpuri and Gurdwara Sheeshganj Sahib. It consisted of Nihangs on horses and elephants. The DSGMC spokesman said that this is being done to acknowledge the good work done by Baba Baghel Singh for the community and to give information of Sikh history to the youth of the community. Baba left Delhi with a condition that the administration of the Mughal King would identify the historic places of seven Gurdwaras--Sheesh Ganj Sahib, Rakab Ganj Sahib, Bangla Sahib, Nanak Piao, Moti Bagh Sahjib, Majnu Ka Tila and Gurdwara Mata Sundry, the spokesman said. |
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RSS is anti-women, says DPCC chief
New Delhi, March 9 Pointing at Narendra Modi's tea party with women yesterday, Arvinder Singh said the Sangh's mask Narendra Modi should clear Sangh's stand on women. Addressing a large gathering at the third "Pol Khol Abhiyaan" of the Congress against the AAP and the BJP at Badarpur in the South Delhi parliamentary constituency, Arvinder said that people of Delhi are fed up with the lies of the BJP and the AAP and they are now waiting to teach these parties a bitter lesson. The AAP and the BJP had promised to give 50 and 30 per cent concession in the power tariff rates by making false promises. People of Delhi cannot be fooled and misled forever, he said. |
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Gyanodaya Express to go live on community radio
New Delhi, March 9 This time a team of seven students from the DU community radio, will also travel in the train and updates about the journey whose theme "Urbanisation Now 8: Then" would offer an assessment of the urbanisation models of various Indian cities. The educational train will be flagged off from Delhi Safdarjung Railway Station on March 11. Around 57 projects from various colleges of the University of Delhi have been selected for display. Each project will comprise 12-15 students accompanied by a mentor and the train will be provided with the Internet connection and library for students. |
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Dikshit to leave for Kerala today
New Delhi, March 9 Dikshit is scheduled to leave for Trivandrum on Monday. Other former ministers, DPCC president Arvinder Singh, Haroon Yusuf and Dr Ashok Walia who are believed to have belonged to the Ajay Maken group have no plan to attend the oath-taking ceremony, Congress party sources said. During her last tenure from 2008-2013 Dikshit had taken all the important departments from Dr Walia and gave them to
Chauhan. |
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Nigerian-run job racket busted
New Delhi, March 9 The gang especially targeted people living in southern part of the country as they were under the impression the victims will not come searching for them in Delhi or approach police. The Delhi Police had received around 300 complaints of this nature from across the country acting on which an FIR was registered at Crime Branch Police Station in August this
year. — PTI |
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