CONVERSION AND PARKING CHARGES - MCD will not take cheque payments

New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday said that it was not accepting conversion and parking charges payments in the form of cheques as a majority of them were being dishonoured.

Said an MCD official: ‘‘We are not accepting conversion and parking charges payments in the form of cheques as many of the cheques tend to bounce. We are also facing a similar problem with regard to cheque payments made for property tax, advertisement payments etc.’’ Meanwhile, Congress councillor captain Khavinder Singh said instead of sealing an entire building — which is the present practice — MCD should seal floor wise after ascertaining which floors have made payments and which have not. MCD’s standing committee said they would make required amendments in its present policy.

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DERC to implement power supply code soon

NEW DELHI: After holding discussions with stakeholders on Wednesday, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission says it will implement the Delhi Electricity Supply Code and Performance Standards Regulations-2009 within a month.

The draft regulation proposes to hike the penalties that can be levied on power discoms for deficiency in service apart from streamlining other service issues. “We received the feedback from consumers at the public hearing that was conducted on Wednesday and after sifting through the suggestions and incorporating what is relevant, we will notify the implementation of the regulations,” said a senior DERC official on Wednesday.

In the proposed draft, the Commission wants power discoms that fail to meet the laid down performance rules for various services to pay suo motu a prescribed compensation for each deficiency.

The regulations aim at empowering consumer against unfair practices and tardy services by the distribution companies.

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With thanks : The Hindu

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Haryana to release more water for Delhi

NEW DELHI: Haryana has agreed to release more water for Delhi after the level at Wazirabad pond fell from 674.5 feet to 672.8 feet on Tuesday.

To prevent a huge shortfall in supply, Haryana will release more water from Wednesday, said Delhi Jal Board officials.

Officials were, however, quick to point out that the water supply in the city is still “normal” despite the dip in the Wazirabad pond level.

“There has been a dip in the supply of raw water from Haryana. The State's water needs have gone up because of the agricultural needs at this time of the year, but Delhi has notified them (Haryana) about the dip in the pond level and they have agreed to do the needful,” said an official.

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Road freight zoom by up to 8 pct on diesel price hike

It is reported that truck rentals have surged 6% to 8% while retail freight is up by 12% to 15% after a hike in diesel prices by INR 2.58 per liter ex Delhi and INR 3 per liter ex Mumbai & Chennai was announced in the Budget proposal last week.

For a nine-tonne payload between Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi, rentals rose to INR 46,000 per trip as on March 3 from INR 42700 per trip as on February 4 a rise of 7.73%for Delhi-Nagpur-Delhi INR 43,400 from INR 40,200, a rise of 7.96% for Delhi to Kolkata to Delhi INR 44,800 from INR 41,500, a rise of 7.95%, Delhi to Guwahati-Delhi INR 82,000 from INR 77,200 a rise of 6.22%.

According to a compilation made by the Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training, a non government organization associated with the transport sector, the rise of 6% to 8% in truck rentals is at a higher side compared with the weighted impact of the diesel hike of 3.5% to 4.5%.

Mr SP Singh senior fellow and coordination of the foundation, said that “This disproportionate and concerted hike across the country has come against the backdrop of the booming transport freight market, as manufacturing and import-export trade is growing at double digits and it has improved the cargo offering by 10% to 12% in last four to five months.”

Mr Singh further added that truck rentals had already gone up cumulatively by 14% to 16% during October 2009-January 2010 even without the rise in diesel price. He added that “This hike was a cushion to absorb the diesel price rise of INR 2.58 per liter ex Delhi and INR 3 per liter ex Mumbai and Chennai. However, the market forces are in favour of the truck transport industry due to oversupply of cargo and the manufacturing sector willing to pay higher freight due to increased prices of their products.”

(Sourced from Business Standard)

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Prostate Disease awareness programme : RWA Priyadarshini Vihar

The Priyadarshini Vihar RWA is organizing a lecture by Dr Anil Goyal, Sr. Urologist and Convener of Delhi Urological Society to make the people, above 40 years of age, aware about the Prostatic Disease, on Sunday, 14th March 2010, 9:00 am to 10:00 amat A-138 Priyadarshini Vihar. Dr Goyal wlll take questions from the audience after his presentation. In addition to residents of Priyadarshini Vihar, residents of neighbouring colonies - East End Enclave, Gyan Kunj, and Bank Enclave have also been invited to attend the lecture and be benefitted.

Ram Gupta

General Secretary

Priyadarshini Vihar RWA

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RWA is watching civic poll candidates

Resident Welfare Associations (RWA) to broadcast info on corrupt and criminal politicians contesting civic polls.

Those contesting the Bangalore civic polls, beware! The Resident Welfare Associations across the city have (RWA) has decided to scrutinise all candidates.

RWAs that are active than ever in polls this time have evolved their own strategies to elect a better council.

Besides exploring an option to contest polls, residents will play watchdog as they will dig out and circulate minute details pertaining to each contestant in fray in their respective residential areas, for the first time.

One goal

"It's not going to be easy for poll aspirants this time," said S Viswanath, member, Spartacus residents association, Jaynagar. "We are gearing up to ensure that polls this time will make a difference at least in wards, where RWAs are active."

With the election notification coming out on Monday, more than hundred resident welfare associations, who had earlier restricted themselves to voting, have pulled their socks for other roles too. Residents welfare associations, who met on Sunday after the State Election Commission's say on polls, have set their agenda for BBMP polls scheduled on March 28.

Several RWAs, in Koramangla, HSR Layout, Jaynagar , Bhanashankari and FORWARD (Federation of Resident Welfare Associations of Ward) in Bellandur, have kept an option of contesting open polls.

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DERC Hearing on Supply Code and Performance Standards

To
The Secretary
DERC, Viniyamak Bhawan,
C-Block, Shivalik, Malviya Nagar,
New Delhi-110017

Subject: Non-compliance of Guaranteed Standards of Performance by BYPL

Dear Sir,

There is no compliance of Guaranteed Standards of Performance by BYPL particularly in VISHWAS NAGAR area of East Delhi. The Discom never ever compensated any of the affected consumers in case of its failure to meet Guaranteed Standards of Performance as per the Delhi Electricity Supply Code and Performance Standards Regulations.

Kindly have a look at the functioning of BSES Yamuna Power Ltd regarding Power Supply and maintenance in Vishwas Nagar in the last one month. The following is the record of Power Cuts /Load Shedding in the area :


Date Timings of Power Cut Complaint No. made to BSES Call Centre Complaint made to others
31-01-10 11 am to 2 pm 689
08-02-10 7:30 pm to 10 am on 9-2-10
09-02-10 7:30 pm on 8-2-10 to 10 am
11-02-10 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm 1334 & 1364 428 oim (PGC, GNCTD)

12-02-10 10 am to 9 pm 386 CEO & CM office
13-02-10 9 am to 12 noon
15-02-10 10 am to 12 noon 469
16-02-10 11 am to 5 pm
17-02-10 3 pm to 6:15 pm
18-02-10 4 pm to 6 pm & 7:15 pm to 8 pm
23-02-10 10 am to 11 am
26-02-10 5 pm to 6:30 pm
01-03-10 12 noon to 1 pm & 2:30 pm to 4 pm 369
08-03-10 3 pm to 4 pm
09-03-10 4 pm to 5 pm & 5:30 to 6 pm

The BSES Customer Care Centres are of no use, hours after making the complaint they don’t have any status about the area. The officers of BYPL like DGM(O&M), Asst VP(O&M), VP(O&M) and BYPL CEO office are personally connected many times about the problem /situation but of no help from them also.

The public/ RWA is never ever informed of any power cut or load shedding in Advance by way of Press releases or letter or mail or by phone, so that they may get mentally prepared for the trouble/ nuisance by Discom.
This is the sample of maintenance and system up gradation /modernization by BSES and for all these types of services, BSES is asking for Tariff Revision?

Yours sincerely


(LALIT MOHAN SHARMA)
General Secretary

Delhi is India's best city to live in: CII Report

NEW DELHI: Delhi is the best Indian city to live in, while steel city Jamshedpur ranks lowest in the Liveability Index 2010 prepared jointly by CII and Institute for Competitiveness.

Country's financial capital Mumbai comes second in the list of 37 cities mapped in the list, prepared on parameters like living standard, socio-cultural environment, education, medical standards and recreational possibilities among others.

Delhi comes on top in education, safety and economic environment; second in housing options, socio-cultural political environment; but medical standards remains the Achilles heel where the national capital finds 17th place.

"In overall quality of life, Delhi outscores on Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune and Gurgaon, which take up respective ranks second to ninth," the report said, adding that Faridabad, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Patna, Visakhapatnam and Jamshedpur are the last six ranked cities on overall quality of life.

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DERC HEARING ON 10TH MARCH 2010

Those who submitted written submissions i think have been called for personal hearings. I have been called on 10th march 2010 at 10.30am and second session will begin around 2.30Pm.
I will submit what transpired in hearing, the moment i am back home.

KK GHEI
A-78 Madhuvan new delhi 110092

The stray dog menace in F Block, Krishna nagar

Residents of F Block, Krishna nagar are facing the problem of stray dogs, roaming in the locality. In the nights they bark so loudly that you can not even sleep. In the morning hours, when school kids are out on the road for catching the buses, these stray dogs in dozens, create a lot of problem, by barking and chasing bikes & scooters as well morning walkers & school goers.

We request to Dr. V K Monga, councillor of this area, to please look into the matter at the earliest. We will upload a video soon.

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Prostate Disease awareness programme : KNWS

Prostate Disease awareness programme is an awareness compaign launched by Urological Society of India. Dr. Narmada Prasad Gupta, HOD, AIIMS Urological Dept., is the President of the society. Krishna nagar welfare society arranged a Lecture for Educating the General public about this disease, in which Dr. Anil Goyal, explained in depth about the symptoms & impact of the prostatic problem.

The most common problem being faced by men above 40 is the enlargement of Prostate gland. It is being said that 17% of males above 50 years & 35% of males above 70 years have prostatic symptoms. The symptoms include Freequent urination especially at nights, No control on urination, Less than normal flow of urine or weak urinary stream, Terminal dribbling, etc. It can be controlled by medicines or by an operation normally known as Gadood operation. If not treated on time, it can turn into CA Prostate i.e. Prostate cancer, which is the fourth most common cancer all over the world. Therefore, everyone who has symptoms of prostatic problem must immediately contact a Urologist.

Another Lecture by Dr. Anil Goyal is being arranged by the RWABhagidari Blog for educating the public about this disease & a camp for routine check up is also being organised very soon. Details of the lecture will be intimated through this blog as well by posters.

You can also contact us if you wish to attend the lecture & the camp. You can mail us on our E mail ID : rwabhagidari@yahoo.in

B S Vohra
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