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Power tariff hike revoked
Delhi safer than New York:
Study
DDA to hold draw
on Monday
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AAP promises
50% cut in
power tariff
Women
entrepreneurs
honoured
25 jhuggis gutted
in Mayapuri
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Power tariff hike revoked
New Delhi, November 14 "It has now been brought to the notice of the Commission that various generators, including NTPC, have provided only part of the information regarding pricing of fuel and billing of power generated at their stations. Additional information has been called for which will have a direct bearing on the PPAC claims (by the discoms)," said DERC chairperson PD Sudhakar. The DERC last night had announced re-introduction of the PPAC surcharge to effect an increase of tariff by up to 7 per cent from Saturday. The BJP, Congress and the AAP had slammed the DERC for raising the tariff, demanding an immediate rollback, but the DERC today claimed that the decision to withdraw the hike was not due to criticism from the parties. Sudhakar said additional information on cost of producing of power from coal and gas-based power generating stations has been sought and a fresh decision on tariff will be taken within two weeks after examining the details. Last night, the DERC had hiked the tariff by 7 per cent for consumers of BSES Yamuna Power and was fixed at 4.5 percent for BSES Rajdhani. The hike for consumers
of Tata Power Delhi Distribution
Ltd was 2.5 per
cent.
He said the DERC had
increased the tariff provisionally
and now it felt
that the detail costing of
the generating stations
should have been analysed
before hiking the rates.
"We will take a decision
on PPAC within next two
weeks," said Sudhakar.
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Delhi safer than New York:
Study
New Delhi, November 14 However, Delhi scores
well in having a very low
level of violent crime
measured by the murder
rate, homicides per 100,000
people, lower than that of
New York and Istanbul.
The study was discussed
at the 13th Urban Age conference
organized by
Alfred Herrhausen Society,
the international forum of
Deutsche Bank and London
School of Economics
and Political Science.
It was attended by over
60 experts and policymakers
from 22 cities from 10
countries spanning across
five continents, who gathered
in Delhi to explore the
links between urban governance
and the future
development of cities. The
conference was organised
in partnership with
National Institute of
Urban affairs with the
theme of 'Governing
Urban futures'.
Delhi like other cities in
rapidly growing economies
has a high level of income
inequality which is measured
by the GINI Index,
the lower the value the
greater the level of social
equality, the higher the
value the greater the
inequality.
While London has an
index of 0.36 and Berlin
0.29, Delhi has a relatively
high figure of 0.6, yet lower
than Lagos at 0.64 and
many other African and
Latin American cities.
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New Delhi, November 14 "The draw of lots for the 'DDA Housing Scheme 2014' would be held on November 17 at 11:30 am. The date was decided after conducting a series of dry runs to check our preparedness for the same," a senior DDA official said. DDA for the first time would also be "webcasting live" the entire draw on the Internet with a dedicated URL for the same. "We have created a dedicated website (www.Ddadrawlive.In) for the draw, and instead of directly webcasting through a YouTube channel, we later decided to create a separate window for the event altogether, where online user can see the proceedings live," DDA's Director (Systems) V S Tomar said. He said online users must visit this site directly as no link has been provided through the official DDA website, to preclude any chance of crashing of the home site. The first dry run was held by the housing authority on November 10. C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), which had conducted the draw for DDA's last housing scheme in 2010, has been roped in this time again for the event. —PTI
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EDMC launches
helpline for
teachers
New Delhi, November 14 "With this initiative, teachers would have access to the helpline number and engage with a team of experts and subject matter specialists, who would assist them with the everyday challenges that they face in classrooms," said a senior EDMC official. Through the helpline, teachers would also be exposed to a plethora of subject matter and pedagogical resources, which would equip them to be more professional and competent educators. The EDMC directly runs 390 primary schools in the East Delhi area, which cater to more than 2,24,000 children, taught by around 5,600 teachers. The EDMC had signed an MoU with TMF to develop a model In-Service Teacher Education Institute (ITEI) in a PPP mode, earlier in April 2013. In the past 18 months, the institute has trained more than 900 teachers and 220 principals, and the helpline for teachers would be a part of the institute. K. Vijayan, EDMC Director (Education) said, "Since its inception, ITEI has been working very well. Many teachers attended the training and the feedback we got from the teachers was very encouraging. We will try to reach out to more and more teachers to join the institute."
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AAP promises
50% cut in
power tariff
New Delhi, November 14 AAP chief spokesperson Yogendra Yadav said the electricity surcharge has been withdrawn under pressure from his party. Also hitting out at the Delhi administration, AAP leaders said once the AAP government is voted to power, the electricity tariffs will again be slashed by half.
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New Delhi, November 14 Some of the entrepreneurs honoured included Laila Tyabji-designer, writer and founder and chairperson of Dastkar; Ritu Beri-fashion designer; Ritu Dalmia-chef and restaurateur; Kiran Chopra-founder chairperson of Varisth Nagrik Kesari Club and director Punjab Kesari; Sunita Godara-Asian Marathon champion; Rina Dhaka- fashion designer; Sneh Gangal-Kangra style of painting; Anju Singh and Saheen Anjum. — TNS
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