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Guru Harkrishan Public Schools staff yet to get salary
Ragpickers play a big role in keeping cleanliness:
Ilmi
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Govt cracks down on illegal acid sellers
Rs 1 cr exgratia to killed constable’s kin
Bhogal for public opinion against hospital takeover
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Guru Harkrishan Public Schools staff yet to get salary
New Delhi, October 15 According to the sources, teaching and non-teaching staff, except IV Class employees, has not been given salary for August, September and October. Tilak Nagar school has 70 staff members while Fateh Nagar has 110. Teachers of both the schools on condition of anonymity disclosed for non-payment of salary. Giving clarification, chairman of Fateh Nagar school Gurbaksh Singh Montu Shah said till August all payments have been made. The account work for salary for September is ready. The salary documents are just to be signed by DSGMC president Manjit Singh (GK). He was out of the country that was why it was delayed. He has come back from foreign tour. It will be cleared very soon. Chairman of Tilak Nagar school was not available for the comment. Parminder Singh, spokespersons for the DSGMC, said Fateh Nagar school is in loss due to over staff. The earlier committee had made appointment in excess. To accommodate the surplus staff and to cover up the loss, the current DSGMC is planning to open evening shift. As far as Tilak Nagar school is concerned, about 100 children of the 84 anti-Sikh riot victims are enrolled with it and are getting free of cost education. Two hundred 'amritdhari' children are also not paying fee. Admitting the fact of non-payment of salary for the past three months, senior vice-president of the DSGMC Ravinder Singh Khurana said school managements are under financial crisis as it had to pay back wages to all the employees of the schools in which the DSGMC had to sanction Rs 50-Rs 60 crore. The management has started giving salary to the staff members in the schools after the new DSGMC came to power in February 2013 defeating Paramjit Singh Sarna and his party. Giving salary according to the Sixth Pay Commission was one of the issues of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) during the DSGMC election. Khurana said very soon the committee would cover up all the financial crisis and the salary would be delivered timely. It is a temporary issue, he said.
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Ragpickers play a big role in keeping cleanliness:
Ilmi
New Delhi, October 15 AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, who was also invited to the event by Ilmi for holding the campaign in his constituency, preferred to stay away. The other invitee, MP Meenakshi Lekhi, also gave it a miss. Ilmi had extended the invitation to both the leaders through twitter. Commending the work of ragpickers of Delhi, she said besides the sanitation staff, the ragpickers of Delhi play important role in maintaining cleanliness in the city. "Ragpickers and sanitation workers play significant role in the 'swachhta' campaign and therefore, their job needs to be appreciated. We want to honour them as they face a lot of discrimination against them in the society. They should be treated at par with children at schools," said Ilmi. She said she had invited all political parties, including the AAP, to join the drive. "I have asked Arvind and leader of other parties to join the drive since it is not a political event," said Ilmi. She said the Prime Minister's Swachhta Abhiyan is a national and religious programme because cleanliness is vital for every religion and society and is not a campaign of a particular party. Ilmi, who is one of the nine persons included in the team for cleanliness campaign by Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhayay for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, said she will extend her chain of nine persons before Diwali. Upadhayay, who was also present on the occasion, assured to present the social and other problems of the ragpickers before the Central government and to try to introduce social security scheme for them. "The Delhi BJP will start work for providing free medical insurance for these ragpickers under the social security policy of the government," Upadhayay said. AAP hits out at civic bodies
The AAP today hit out at the Municipal Corporations stating that in Delhi the corporations appear to be indulging more in "symbolic and public relation exercises" instead of getting down to the serious work of making Delhi clean. "It has been almost two weeks since the India Clean campaign was launched by the Central government, and the AAP actively participated in it. The campaign has to be a sustained effort and mere symbolic gestures may provide photo opportunities to the VIPs, but will not solve the problem," said a party statement. According to the party, the campaign requires a serious effort to make it a mass movement and the government is still reluctant to address the serious issues concerning the lives of safai karamcharis, who are the real brand ambassadors of this campaign. |
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Govt cracks down on illegal acid sellers
New Delhi, October 15 Secretary (Revenue) Gyanesh Bharti said the officers of the department have inspected 77 premises involved in stocking acid for business where nine cases of violation were registered and a total penalty of Rs 1,61,500 imposed on them. These inspections have been made in compliance of the directions issued by the Supreme Court in the case of Laxmi Vs Union of India, he said. As per the order of the Supreme Court, no seller will be allowed to stock or sell acid without license. |
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Rs 1 cr exgratia to killed constable’s kin
New Delhi, October 15 The incident involved constable Jagbir Singh from the Delhi Police, who was killed on October 13 in the Vijay Vihar area. "Constable Singh's family will be paid Rs 1 crore as compensation," said a statement issued by the LG office. Mourning the loss of the Constable, Jung said, "I pay tribute to the departed soul, who laid down his life while serving our nation. May his family bear the loss with strength and fortitude. " |
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Bhogal for public opinion against hospital takeover
New Delhi, October 15 He will appeal to the community through SMS and social websites. Bhogal said he had taken this decision with a fear that in the fighting of two leaders, the community may lose the land worth thousands crores of rupees. The government may take it back as it was allotted to the committee for the purpose of running a charitable hospital. Building is already completed. If it is delayed, the government may take an action, he said. Kuldip Singh Bhogal said the DDA had allotted the land at a cost of Rs 31 lakh years back. But the erstwhile committee had to pay a fine of Rs 2 crore to the DDA due to some reasons. Addressing a press conference, Kuldip Singh Bhogal said his objection was against giving the hospital to a private company though Baba Harbans Singh had constructed the building of 400-bed charitable hospital in which poor people of all the communities could get treatment free of cost. Former committee president had constituted a trust for executing the hospital to the private company. But court had declared the trust illegal. When asked why at present Manjit Singh (GK)-led committee does not submit an affidavit in the court claiming that property belongs to it because whatever Sarna had done in the past he had done as a president of the DSGMC, senior vice-president of the DSGMC Ravinder Singh Khurana, who was also at the conference, tried to avoid the question saying that Bhogal is part of the DSGMC. The committee advocate also attends the hearing in the court.
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Starting her sanitation campaign in Central Park, Connaught Place, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) founder member Shazia Ilmi today urged ragpickers and sanitation workers to come forward and support the cause for making the capital clean.
