DJB Survey To Check Quality Of Its Service

As part of its self-assessment procedure, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has decided to conduct a door-to-door survey of households in Delhi to determine the quality of four basic services being provided by it-- water supply, drainage, solid waste management and sewerage.

The survey, which might take one year for completion, will be outsourced to a private company.

According to DJB officials, the process of inviting tenders for the survey will be completed in the next one month. The officials said that collecting data from the residents might take more than six months.

"The data will then be analysed and a colony-wise report will be prepared," said a senior official of the DJB.

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With thanks : Source : The Tribune

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Property Tax Target Missed, Civic Agency Looks At Course Correction

After failing to meet its property tax target for the fourth time in a row, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is in the process of identifying and correcting the errors that lead to loss of revenue.

While the civic body has admitted it received tax from less than 30 per cent property owners in the Capital, the agency officials claim lack of database is a major shortcoming.

According to sources, the MCD has no available record of the tax payers, except for that of around 3 lakh people who paid their taxes online this year.

Also on the list of problem areas is lack of manpower. Despite the digitalisation of all property tax records and the creation of a database of eligible property tax payers being planned, officials feel they have not been able to make headway as the department is grossly "understaffed".

The MCD is now mulling a series of corrective measures.

The Property Tax department has begun the digitalisation of the manual tax returns filed in 2009-10. This will enable the department to develop a database of at least the 9.73 lakh tax payers who have paid their taxes this year.

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With thanks : Source : IndianExpress

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Massive Power Cuts But Hikes No One Can Avoid

Amid Heat Wave, Long Power Cuts in west, South Delhi

Long power cuts are back.

South and West Delhi areas suffered four to six hours of outages between Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon -- at a time when north India was engulfed by a record-breaking heat wave.

In Dwarka, there was black- out in some areas between mid- night and 5 a.m. while some other areas went without power from 5.30 a.m. onwards.

"We could not sleep all night," said Priya Pathaniya, an MNC executive in Dwarka's Sector 10. "Delhi's power companies are back to their old tricks."

BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd, the biggest discom in whose areas the powercuts occurred, said a power supply line of Delhi Transco tripped due to some "technical constraints".

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With thanks : source : Hindustan Times

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Baisakhi Greetings!!

AGENDA FOR BLOGGERS MEET IN APRIL

I submit that on 30th april i will be out of country for almost ten days. If possible, proposed meeting mentioned above could be held before said date so that i benefit from valuable advice of friends regarding our day to day problems.
Since inception of this blog, vohra ji has done marvellous job to connect several RWAS and social groups. If approved..agenda could include the following;
1. sharing of info regarding names , designation and other details of our associated members .
2. Traffic problems and solutions appearing in this blog.
3.CRIMES under various police stations and system to monitor at least murder cases till decision in courts.
4. ENCROACHMENTS ON PUBLIC PASSAGES.
5. What efforts we can make to show better face of delhi.

kk ghei

NO ONE IN MTNL CARING ABOUT LONG PENDING GRIEVANCE

MOST URGENT PLEASE

Shri Rajiv Goel

Sr. Vice President (RA)

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd

Room No. 705-706, 7th Floor,

Mahanagar Doorsanchar Bhawan,

Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg,

New Delhi-110002

Tel: 23235727

Fax: 23236314

Email: svpraco@bol.net.in April 14, 2010

Dear Sir,

Enclosed herewith is my letters regarding long pending complaint regarding no network/signals on my Mobile Dolphin No.9868130983. The letter is self-explanatory. Most surprising thing in your customer care system is that the complaints lodged on four different days at 1503 get automatically okayed by your Technical Wing. The feed back by them is passed on by them to 1503 and the complaint is treated as 'attended to' though actually nothing is done and the complainant suffers for long periods. Copies of the complaints mailed to Sr. Officers of MTNL including GM's Office could not be of any help. Bill for last month has been received and customer, Mrs. Surinder Kaur Oberoi, has no escape but is expected to make payment within the due date.

You are requested to kindly have the matter looked into. Actually the complaint of not receiving calls and not being able to make calls is pending for over two weeks but formal complaint with 1503 was made on April 2, 2010 and thereafter several complaints have been lodged on line. All this has been of no avail as till date, i.e., April 14, 2010 this long pending complaint remains unattended and the reasons have also not been conveyed for all these days.

Thanking you and awaiting quickest possible action from your office,

Yours truly,

TPS OBEROI, VICE-PRESIDENT, WELFARE ASSOCIATION G BLOCK HARI NAGAR (Regd.No.S-9571), WZ-208. ST.NO.15, G BLOCK, HARI NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110058, Tel. 25530483, 9015152976, E mail : wagblockharinagar@gmail.com

Discom turns to crime, pulled up

New Delhi, April 13 -- If you have been paying your electricity bills regularly and yet find power company officials at your doorstep for inspection of meter, beware.

Discom BSES Rajdhani (BRPL) has just been found guilty of falsely implicating a South Delhi consumer after framing up a power theft case.

The capital's power regulator has fined BRPL Rs 1 lakh for the criminal act and also for destroying evidence and deliberately harassing the consumer.

Besides, one of the company's area managers have been imposed with a personal penalty of Rs 5,000, to be deducted from his salary while the customer will get Rs 20,000 as compensation.

The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission directed BRPL to instruct its employees to "desist from doing any illegal, unwarranted action" and be careful during inspections.

Vasant Kunj resident Suresh Sharam, who won the battle against the city's biggest discom that services 70% of Delhi, said incidents like this were rampant.

"The confidence with which they framed the case step by step was proof enough that they are used to doing this," he said.

He said one fine day last year, a team of discom officials reached his house and demanded to inspect the electricity meter saying they had enough information to prove that Sharma was stealing electricity. The inspection happened in the absence of Sharma or any adult member of the family, as is the law.

Sharma's minor son stood watching as the officials tore out the meter, hit it with hammer and rods to plant some marks of "tampering" and then claimed that the meter was tampered, Sharma told the electricity commission.

"They basically wanted me to cough up money," Sharma, an MNC executive, said.

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Implementing Project Jeevan Soon, Pay Your Water, Power Bill On Cellphone

More than a year after offering citizen-centric services through its portal called Jeevan, the Delhi government is set to step into the next leg of the project: accessibility through mobile phones.

The government is now looking at integrating the 73 services offered through Jeevan with mobile phones.

To begin with, citizens will be given cellphone updates on the status of their applications related to Employees' Provident Fund (EPF).

"Once the application is put in through the centre, an applicant will be given regular updates on its status, the various channels that it goes through, and the date on which the PF cheque would arrive," A K Singla, project head for Jeevan, said.

The service on cellphones would be in place by next month, Singla said.

Besides the usual services of paying water, electricity and BSNL phone bills, the service related to accepting EPF forms is one of the new services added to the existing system. These included applications related to the Bed and Breakfast scheme, payment of bills of IGL pipedgas connections and matters related to the Drug Comptroller's office.

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With thanks : source : IndianExpress

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Surprise Test For Delhi Motorists

And you thought you know all the rules of traffic just because you hold a driving licence! The road ahead is full of bumps for Delhiites to whom breaking traffic rules has become second nature.

The Capital's residents holding valid driving licences registered in the state will be in for a surprise check of their knowledge about traffic laws and driving rules in the coming days.

After endless challans , traffic- awareness initiatives and advertisements, the Delhi Traffic Police recently came up with the idea to correct -- hopefully -- the common flaw with city motorists: little knowledge about traffic rules.

Every few days, a draw of sorts of motor vehicle licence holders will be conducted.

Whoever's name is picked, he or she will be called in for a surprise test.

In the test, the licence holders will have to answer some of the most basic questions related to the Motor Vehicle Act and other road safety laws, his or her general awareness about the traffic laws while driving and possible reaction to different traffic scenarios.

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With thanks : Source : MailToday
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Fix Time Limit For Response Under RTI

Chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has advised the chief vigilance commissioner to fix time limits for getting responses from departments whose officials are being investigated by it.

"CVC may consider fixing time limits for responses by various departments to whom complaints are referred for investigation and report," Habibullah said in his order.

Habibullah offered the "advice" to Pratyush Sinha, chief vigilance commissioner, under section 25 (5) of the RTI Act "so as to bring the exercise of the functions of the CVC into greater conformity with the spirit of the RTI Act".

The CIC was hearing the plea of Anjani Bhushan who had sought to know from CVC the details of inquiries conducted against an employee of United India Insurance, but could not get them as the probe was still going on at the time of filing the application.

With thanks : Times of India

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