Delhi police biggest human rights violator, says NHRC

The Delhi police is the biggest culprit among all government organisations in the Capital facing allegations of human rights (HR) violations. Its record might have seen some improvement in more serious categories of HR violations like custodial death, fake encounters and false implications, but the common man continues to be at the receiving end of its high-handedness and insensitive attitude, a figure compiled by the National Human Rights Commission says. 

The statistics of all Delhi-specific complaints the NHRC received in the past three years shows that the numbers stood at 6210, 5433 and 5228 in years 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10, respectively, marking a constant decline. However, what did not decline is the Delhi police’s share in the complaints the NHRC got from the public and authorities too in certain cases. 

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Road tax up, vehicles to be costlier

Your dream vehicle is set to get costlier, as the Delhi cabinet today gave its nod to a hike in road tax. 

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said two-wheelers costing up to Rs 25,000 would continue to be charged at the rate of 2 per cent as earlier. 

However, two-wheelers costing between Rs 25,000 and Rs 40,000 will be charged at the rate of 4 per cent instead of the earlier 2 per cent. Two-wheelers costing more than Rs 40,000 will now invite tax at the rate of 6 per cent.

In the cars section, cars costing up to Rs 6 lakh will be charged at 4 per cent instead of the earlier 2 per cent, while those costing from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 10 lakh will invite road tax of 7 per cent. Cars costing more than Rs 10 lakh would be charged 10 per cent.  

All cars costing over Rs 6 lakh till now invited 4 per cent road tax. 

When asked what led to this sudden hike, the Chief Minister said this would go a long way in restricting purchase of luxury cars and discourage use of private vehicles. 

The new rate will come into force after the issue of a notification, she said. 

The Capital has no scope of expansion and has limited road length. With the registration of around 1,000 new vehicles every day, the city is increasingly witnessing long traffic jams. There are around 60 lakh vehicles in Delhi, the Chief Minister said.  

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Power rates likely to go down

The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) is likely to announce the power tariff for 2010-11 this week. It will also submit the statutory advice on the tariff order to the Delhi government in a few days before going public with the new rates. 

 

The DERC has already written a letter to the Delhi government stating that the new tariff order needed to be announced immediately. 

According to sources, the new order might bring some respite to consumers as the DERC is said to have reduced the rates. 

After the Delhi government came to know that the commission was preparing to slash rates by 20 per cent, it directed the DERC on May 4 to maintain the power tariff to the last year’s level.

The independent power regulator had sought the solicitor general of India’s opinion to clear the controversy triggered after the government directed the commission not to go public with its new tariff till the issues raised by the private power distribution companies were examined.

Though the solicitor general advocated in the DERC’s favour, the members of the commission have decided to make the announcements this week.

The discoms had opposed the move on the grounds that they were running into deficit as they were buying costly power from other states to meet the demands of the Capital. While on the other hand, the DERC had reportedly taken the stand that the discoms were having healthy profits and their cost of buying power would substantially come down once Delhi became power surplus before the Commonwealth Games.

Highest power demand in 50 yrs

Delhi today met its highest-ever power demand at 4581 MW in more than 50 years. The earlier record of peak demand was 4408 MW on July 8, 2009. 

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Techies find new project : Beg to fix leaking sewerage

GURGAON : These days, if you take the Rajiv Nagar road, you are likely to see four handsomely dressed boys “begging” for Rs 10 from passers-by.

The four boys are software engineers working for a multinational information technology company.They need this money to get an overflowing sewerage manhole repaired in Sanjay Gram, where they live. The four boys have been living in this locality since July 2008 in a rented accommodation.

“This manhole has been overflowing for the past 10 days and nearly 500-meters of the Rajiv Nagar road leading to our locality, Sanjay Gram, has become non-motorable. When we asked the RWA, they couldn’t help us for want of money,” said Sailesh Jha (27), a software engineer with Aricent Technologies.

“We do not expect a favourable nod from the civic authorities. Therefore, we decided to beg for the money and get the line repaired from the collection,” said Jha.

 

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Paint your house, pay for it : MCD

If your house falls on any road that leads to a Commonwealth Games venue, the MCD wants your house repaired and painted. Here’s the catch: You get it repaired, you pay for it. 

And just in case people don’t comply, the civic body is likely to make the renovations mandatory.

Residents of Defence Colony, Lajpat Nagar, East of Kailash, Bhogal, Karol Bagh, Chandni Chowk have already received such letters from the MCD.

“We had a meeting in April wherein the government asked us to motivate the residents to take up façade improvement of their houses and buildings. In many cases, it was recommended that the whitewash of buildings also be carried out. I have informed all the deputy commissioners to hold meetings and encourage the residents,” said MCD commissioner K.S. Mehra. The MCD’s central zone, where most of the CWG venues are located held a meeting to this effect on May 8.

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Kaal - A short story

A man dies and goes to heaven....he says to Lord Almighty.....you never gave any notice that i was going to die so i didnt prepare or pray .

God said so I did....first I weakened your eyesight...you got specks...now operation to get your eyesight corrected.

Then I made your hair go white to remind you...you dyed your hair.

Then I made your legs shaky....you ate multivitamins.

Then I made your teeth fall...you got a denture made forgetting that all these were reminders...

The man was speechless.

Cost overruns for CWG 2010

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IMD Plans To Offer Weather Updates On Mobile Phones

The India Meteorological Department (IMD), the country s official weather forecaster, plans to offer updates on tem- perature and rainfall and warn- ings about disturbances in weather on mobile phones.

It has invited bids from tele- com companies and service or- ganizations to put the service in place nationwide, assistant di- rector general A.K. Bhatnagar said.

There is a lot of data that is already available on our web- site, but given IMD s mission of invigorating its weather dissem- ination services, this is a key ini- tiative of ours to send out data to a large mass of people, he said.

Some private weather fore- casters, such as Skymet, already offer customized weather analy- sis and predictions on mobile phones, but they rely on data and analyses from foreign weather agencies.

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Discom Didn't Buy Tools We Paid For ?

Power consumers in Delhi, who have paid crores of rupees for electricity supply, may not get the kind of service they are expecting. A new audit indicates that the city's largest power supplier may not have installed some of the equipment that it claims to have bought.

Auditors have found that equipment installed at the BSES Rajdhani Power Limited's (BRPL) supply bases do not match details of the machinery the company claims exists on site. For instance, in January, auditors inspected 45 of the company's 990 kilovolt-ampere distribution transformers and found that particulars on none of them matched with what it had submitted for probe.

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आर डब्लू ऐ , डी-१ ब्लाक , न्यू कोंडली

सर्वप्रथम  मंगलोर में हुए विमान दुर्घटना में मारे गए सभी यात्रियों को न्यू कोंडली आर डब्लू ऐ की और से श्रधासुमन.

महोदय  हमारे छेत्र  में एक भी सफाई कर्मचारी न होने से छेत्र में काफी मात्रा में गंदगी हो गई है. सभी पार्क  बुरी हालत में है. नालियां हमेशा जाम रहती है. गलियों की भी हालत ठीक नहीं है. बारिश के मोसम में स्थिथि ख़राब हो सकती है. कृप्या हमारी सहायता करें.  

हमारे  डी-१ ब्लाक में दिल्ली भागीदारी वाले बोर्ड जो कुछ गलियों में लगने थे कुछ  काफी पहले लग चुके थे पर एक-दो बोर्ड बिना लगे ही छोड़ रखे है जिस बारे में ठेकेदार से बोलने पर भी ये नहीं लगे.

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Telephonic counselling for school kids

Dear Friends,

Snehi an NGO based in South Delhi is starting telephonic counselling from 20th May onwards, timings would be morning 10AM to 6PM in the evening.The helpline would be for ten days.Snehi offers free psycho-social support and counselling .For help Students and parents can call at 011-65978181.

Mrs Ranju Minhas

volunteer counsellor