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Mission cleanliness: Chief Secy, senior officers take pledge
Let DUSU, parties face music for defacing city: RWAs
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Bank manager found dead
Traffic diversions for Dasehra
Cloudy Dasehra likely
Copper scrap worth Rs 1 cr seized
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Mission cleanliness: Chief Secy, senior officers take pledge
New Delhi, October 2 Just after the PM administered pledge, the Chief Secretary initiated the cleanliness drive in all floors at Delhi Secretariat along with the team of officers. He inspected all the floors of Delhi Secretariat where the offices of General Administration Department, Vigilance, Finance, Planning, Environment, etc. are located. He also inspected the corridors, toilets in various floors and instructed the staff to keep them clean. Spolia instructed the officials to make the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan a regular programme of cleanliness. Besides various departments, 2,700 students of government schools participated in the programme organized at the India Gate. A special midday meal was arranged for them on this occasion by the Directorate which also organized painting and slogan writing competitions. In all the hospitals and dispensaries, doctors and other staff took a pledge to maintain cleanliness. After administering the oath, the heads of different hospitals identified areas where the cleanliness drive will be taken up. The officers and staffs themselves cleaned the corridors, desks, computers and office equipment. AAP to keep tabs on cleanliness drive
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which had chosen the broom as its party symbol, said that the next part of the cleanliness campaign will be to monitor it. In the next phase, the AAP will soon announce its plan of effectively monitoring the cleanliness drive and how the civic agencies can be made accountable for performing their primary duty. Led by party's national convenor and former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who took up the cleaning of a choked drain at BR Camp in New Delhi, early in the day, the AAP volunteers across the country participated in the drive. DU VC sweeps campus
Like other parts of the Capital, Delhi University echoed with the sanitation pledge and witnessed sights of students and faculty and non-teaching staff sweeping lanes and corners of the varsity campuses this morning as part of the Narender Modi government's "Swachh Bharat Mission". Launching the cleanliness drive at Gandhi Bhawan by sweeping the campus himself, DU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dinesh Singh exhorted students to take up the task of cleanliness themselves instead of depending on the civic workers. JNU 'pledge for rights'
The JNU Students' Union joined by teachers and sanitation workers today read out a parallel pledge to register their resentment against the Narendra Modi government and called for a dignified living and rights of sanitation workers. The JNUSU organised a 'Pledge for Rights' programme today, even as the Modi government launched the 'Swacch Bharat' drive. The programme underlined the need to address the plight of workers engaged in sanitation work and around hundred sanitation workers along with several students and teachers who participated in the parallel protest were seen with black bands tied around their arms. "We pledge to organise ourselves for a just society and expose the myth of 'good governance' and ''Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan'. We ask for ourselves our rights and dues and pledge not to be fooled by false promises," they said while resolving to fight against the contractualisation of labour, which leads to inhuman working conditions and corruption. "Why is it that the people considered 'lower' in the caste hierarchy are forced to do works considered 'unclean' by others for generations? For the Prime Minister, it may be a 'spiritual experience' but we all know that this indignity has been forced upon us," pointed JNUSU vice president Anant Prakash Narayan. According to Abha Arya, JNUSU Councillor, the need of the hour is to understand the social dynamics behind the social inequity and humiliating arrangement. "We must fight against it. No 'Swacch Bharat' can be achieved without talking about sanitation workers and their hardships especially in the backdrop of contract system," said Abha. Nirankari activists clean various places
Showing a sense of responsibility towards habitat and environment, thousand of devotees of Nirankari sect today participated in the 'Clean India' drive. Devotees numbering about 3,000, belonging to all branches of Sant Nirankari Mission, participated in the campaign. M.Venkaiah Naidu, Union Minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs had written a letter to Baba Hardev Singh, illustrating the noble objective of the 'Clean India' mission. The devotees carried out the campaign at Red Fort, ISBT, Metro stations, Anand Vihar, Ambedkar Hospital, IBHS Hospital and Dilshad Garden. |
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Let DUSU, parties face music for defacing city: RWAs
New Delhi, October 2 They called for strict enforcement of the Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act 2007, which has seen hardly any prosecution under it even as it is considered the strongest legislation among all the municipal corporations in the country with penalty of up to Rs 50,000 or up to one year jail or both. According to Col Shivraj, president of Munirka Vihar RWA in South Delhi, both the civic authorities and police officials "turn a blind eye accusing each other for inaction". "Most of the posters in the Capital have the images, names and ballot numbers of candidates of both the student unions and political parties. Onus lies on the civic authority and police officials who can arrest and penalise them directly. They must ensure that action is taken against them," he stressed. Delhi Resident's Forum convener VK Arora, said, "It is common to see defaced walls, Metro pillars and street furniture with posters of contestants in the DUSU elections or during normal times, mostly by AAP. They remain for months and the authorities don't take action." Demanding action against the political parties and student unions, VN Bali of RWA Federation, East Delhi, asserted, "This is the time when we should force MPs, MLAs and the coucillors to ensure that their areas are clean and poster-free."
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Bank manager found dead
New Delhi, October 2 Her husband claims that she committed suicide by hanging, while her family members allege foul play and blames her husband and in-laws. No suicide note has been recovered from the house, according to the police. The deceased has been identified as Kanika, who stayed with her 28-year-old husband Nitin at R K Puram Sector 6. Kanika worked with the Punjab National Bank's Bhikaji Cama Place branch, while Nitin works with Reserve Bank of India as an Assistant General Manager. The couple were married in February 2012 and have a one-year-old son. According to the police, the incident was reported when Kanika's parents made a call to the police control room early on Thursday. "Nitin claims that he had a heated argument with Kanika late on Wednesday after which Kanika locked herself in a room," said a police officer. Nitin kept knocking on the door on Thursday morning, but received no response from Kanika. He then informed Kanika's parents and managed to break open the door. "He found Kanika hanging from a ceiling fan," the officer added. Crime and forensic teams inspected the house and did not find any suicide note. In their statement to the police, Kanika's parents claim that she was harassed by Nitin and his family over petty issues since the marriage. "Kanika was not allowed to visit her paternal home," a source said. The police have questioned Nitin and his family members, but have not arrested anyone over the allegations. Kanika's post-mortem was conducted at AIIMS and because she died within seven years of her marriage, a sub-divisional magistrate enquiry has begun.
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Traffic diversions for Dasehra
New Delhi, October 2 According to the traffic police, there will be immersion of idols of Goddess Durga on October 3 and 4. Some of the immersion points in Delhi will be Soor Ghat, Shamshan Ghat opposite Soor Ghat, Geeta Ghat, Kudesiya Ghat and Kalindi Kunj. The Joint Durga Pooja procession Committee would take out a procession for the immersion of the idols from 1.30 pm on October 4 from Kali Bari Mandir, Mandir Marg with vehicles to Kudesia Ghat, Yamuna River near ISBT via Mandir Marg, Peshwa Road, Gole Market, Bhai Veer Singh Marg, GPO New Delhi, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Connaught circus, Minto Road, D.D.U. Marg, B.S.Z. Marg, Delhi Gate, J.L.N Marg, Ring Road, ISBT-Kashmere Gate, Chandgi Ram Akhara, Majnu Ka Tila and end at Geeta Ghat, Yamuna River. The police in an advisory said that traffic coming from Wazirabad side will be diverted towards Burari Chowk on Outer Ring Road. The traffic coming from Burari side will be diverted towards Wazirabad Road. No vehicle will be allowed towards Chandgi Ram Akhara on Ring Road from ISBT and traffic shall be diverted towards Boulevard road for onward journey to Barafkhana Chowk. On giving instructions to the public, Anil Shukla, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) said, "The commuters going to New Delhi Railway Station, Old Delhi Railway Station, Nizamuddin Railway Station and ISBT should leave in advance and have sufficient time to accommodate possible delay in routes; avail public transport to help decongestion of roads; avoid roadside parking as it causes hindrance to normal flow of traffic and use Delhi Metro." Meanwhile, Dussehra will be celebrated across Delhi on October 3. Some of the main venues where Dussehra would be celebrated by burning effigies of Ravana, Kumbhkaran and Meghnad, are at Ram Lila Maidan, Red Fort Ground, Sultan Puri, Subash Maidan and Shalimar Bagh. "There shall be restrictions on movement of general traffic on Netaji Subhash Marg, Nishad Raj Marg, New Darya Ganj Road, J.L.N. Marg and Turkman Gate," said Shukla.
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Cloudy Dasehra likely
New Delhi, October 2 "The sky would be partly cloudy Friday," said an official of the India Meteorological Department. The maximum and minimum temperatures would be around 37 and 25 degrees Celsius respectively. Thursday's minimum temperature settled two notches above the season's average at 24.6 degrees C.
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Copper scrap worth Rs 1 cr seized
New Delhi, October 2 The man has been identified as Vinod, who is a resident of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police had apprehended him from north-east Delhi's Nand Nagri locality on September 28. Twenty-two thousand kilograms of copper scrap worth Rs 1 crore has been recovered by the police. On September 24, a truck containing 26,000 kilograms of copper scrap was allegedly intercepted by a gang of dacoits near the Chandgi Ram Akhara in Civil Lines, according to the police. "The dacoits were in a Maruti Swift car. Two of them took the truck and the remaining four abducted the driver and the helper in the car and threw them out at Panipat," said Ashok Chand, Addl Commissioner of Police. |
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