New Delhi, November 7
A blueprint has been prepared by Delhi BJP of its campaigning strategy in view of the assembly polls, focusing on youths, RWAs, traders, social and digital media. Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay said that a meeting to discuss the strategy has been scheduled on November 11 wherein office-bearers of all the district units will be present.

The party is also planning to use live media according to which LCD screens will be placed in restaurants, malls, coffee shops and other public places.

"We have asked our morchas to be active ahead of the elections. To reach out to people, the party will approach RWAs, traders, unorganised sectors, FM radio, colleges, universities and coffee shops," Upadhyay said.

"In these elections, the BJP will give ads on FM radio and apprise the people of the work done by the Narendra Modi government and municipal corporations and also expose AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal for leaving people in the lurch," said another party leader.

The Delhi BJP president said the party will also revamp its website where we will appeal to people to vote for us.

New Delhi, November 7
Reviewing the cleanliness campaign, Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung today asked the secretaries to take ownership of the campaign in order to make it a success. "You must take ownership of the cleanliness drive to make it successful," Jung said as he held a stock-taking meeting of all the departments.

The Chief Secretary shared his own inspection reports of VAT and Excise offices, as also his visit to Om Vihar and Chanakya Place.

The Secretary of Urban Development briefed the LG about the cleanliness drive, administration of oath, special inspections carried out and spoke about the plans to involve industry associations, NGOs and others in the sanitation drive to be undertaken.

Officials of East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) are observing a zero garbage hour, when no garbage shall be found in the dhallaos. In their areas, also repairs have been carried out in 23 community toilets. The EDMC is also inducting 70 more auto-tippers and 30 more trucks to increase its capacity to collect garbage and the North Delhi Municipal Corporation have marked out 78 hotspots where garbage collection is more critical.

Repairs have been carried out on 850 sq km of roads, 48 dhallaos, 173 urinals, 69 community toilets.

Officials of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation informed about the increase in garbage collection by 200 metric tonnes, as also about action being initiated against safai karmacharis not found on duty. They have also initiated action against hoardings and have lodged 140 FIRs against violators.

Delhi Metro officials have initiated a drive around construction sites and marked out 155 critical toilets which will be monitored closely. They also identified 27 critical stations which require upgraded toilet facilities. They are also generating awareness about cleanliness through passenger information display system and posters.

The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) has identified critical places which require installation of mobile toilets, including bio-toilets while the Delhi Jal Board gave a report on the inspections carried out as also complaints attended to in relation to sewer overflow.

New Delhi, November 7
Tunnelling work on the over 1440m -long Shalimar Bagh-Azadpur underground stretch has been completed as part of the Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor of Phase III network of the Delhi Metro, a senior DMRC official today said.

The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) which started the process on this line on January 9 completed the tunnelling of the 1448.40 m-long Azadpur to Shalimar Bagh stretch today with a breakthrough at Shalimar Bagh construction site, according to DMRC Executive Director (Corporate Communications) Anuj Dayal.

The tunnel is at 18 m depth at Azadpur and 16m at Shalimar Bagh.

"Six cross-passages have been made on this stretch at a depth of 30 m and tunnelling for the other tunnel of 1443.50 m is also expected to be completed within a fortnight," Dayal said.

While carrying out construction for this stretch, DMRC built 20 m underneath the existing Northern Railways' Ambala track near Azadpur.

"Approximately 80 trains run per day through this main railway line and the metro construction was done without hampering the railway traffic for even a single day," he said.

This section is a part of 59 km-long Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar corridor of Phase III network that consists of about 14 km of underground lines. — PTI

New Delhi, November 7
Over 40,000 complaints in the form of messages were received by the anti-corruption WhatsApp helpline of Delhi Police's vigilance department since its launch in August, and has led to cases booked against nine policemen on the basis of "genuine" complaints.

According to the data compiled by the department, it has received 40,477 messages on its helpline so far and registered six cases on the basis of "genuine" complaints while six other cases are being probed.

"A total of nine policemen of the rank of constable to sub-inspector and a home guard have been booked in six cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Vigilance) Sindhu Pillai.

The vigilance department had started its two new anti-corruption helpline numbers -- 1064 and 9910641064-- a WhatsApp helpline, on August 6.

Other than this, the vigilance unit has received around 500 written complaints this year, of which, 227 are currently under inquiry.

"Three police officials, including an Assistant Sub-Inspector have been arrested this year under charges of corruption while 39 police officials have been suspended for alleged corrupt practices.

"The unit has registered a total of 23 cases this year till November 2 against policemen for allegedly taking bribe," said a senior police official.

Out of these 23, nine complaints have been received against traffic policemen, of which four cases has been registered. — PTI 

New Delhi, November 7
Keeping in view the safety of women, the Delhi Police will take action against roadside vendors for serving food to people drinking inside their cars outside the dhabas and will also scrutinise the beat officers of the area and other officials, including the SHO. People can send photographs and videos of such dhabas to the police helpline- 991064164.

The people who are getting drunk inside their cars are putting their own lives at risk as well as those of others on road. "Scenes of dhabas serving food to such people can be seen around residential colonies. Women are afraid of moving near such dhabas," said a senior police officer of the Vigilance Branch.

The Vigilance Branch had recently received a complaint from a man who claimed that there is a liquor shop near his house. The complainant claimed that people can be seen drinking outside the shop and getting inebriated from evening onwards. The Vigilance Branch took action against the police officers under whose jurisdiction such incidents were taking place.

According to the Vigilance Branch, three police officers, including an assistant sub-inspector were "arrested" under charges of corruption this year. On the other hand, 39 police officers were suspended for alleged corrupt practises this year. The branch had received about 500 complaints of corruption against police officers this year. Out of these many complaints, 227 complaints are under inquiry.

The department had also registered 23 cases against police officers, including nine against the traffic police, for allegedly being involved in corruption.