Discoms for conservation

If you paint the exterior of your house, especially the rooftop, white and put sun-control film on the glasses of your windows, your home will need up to 20% less air-conditioning than it does now. Tips and tricks like these will go to 27 lakh power consumers across the city from power distributors BSES Yamuna and BSES Rajdhani, which launched the "My Cool Ideas" campaign on Tuesday.

The campaign has invited ideas from residents, students, professionals — essentially everyone who is a power consumer — to conserve electricity through innovative ways and beat the heat.

Consumers of the two discoms supplying in majority of Delhi have been invited to participate and contribute ideas to the company’s website,www.bsesdelhi.com.

In addition to that, the discoms, are also using all their public awareness tools like the Synergy newsletters attached to electricity bills, SMSes, RWA forums etc to engage people in this campaign.

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Councillors reject wards' public panel

To promote greater public participation in the decision-making process of the MCD, in March this year, the then mayor PR Sawhney had announced that the civic agency will set up a resident wards committee (RWC) in each of the 272 wards of the city. Through these committees, resident welfare associations (RWAs) will be able to have a say in the policies being made by the councillors.

However, when the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) held a meeting on Tuesday with municipal councillors, most of them rejected the idea saying it will lead to more problems.

Headed by present mayor Rajni Abbi, the meeting was attended by about 30-odd councillors. They said that each ward has a dozen RWAs and if the scheme is implemented, each RWA will demand work only in their area and there will be disputes between them.

Sawhney's idea was that the RWC will be constituted by involving a representative from each RWA within a ward and will be chaired by the ward municipal councillor.

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An Open Letter

An Open Letter (to whom they may concern and the authorities at the helm of affairs, right from Hon’ble Lt. Governor and Hon’ble Chief Minister of NCT of Delhi)

            We highly appreciate and acclaim the efforts being made at the top level by holding ‘video conferencing’ and having ‘bhagidari’ scheme, e-governance etc. etc. These are all, of course, get wide publicity through the media! But what is the situation at the ground level! This is worth probing into! Kindly also appreciate and help to resolve the problems. They are innumerable which have been ventilated through various communications and channels to the authorities concerned but no avail. Hence we are expressing over here with expectation that ‘some positive action’ will be taken in the right direction to resolve the problems on a time-bound programme basis. 

            Why we are in the age and time of e-governance the authorities concerned do not give publicity to their e-mail addresses, besides the help lines etc. which are hardly attended to and even attended, there ends the matter!  We have been repeatedly requesting and pleading with the authorities concerned only two minor things and these too are not attended to or complied with!  Can you make them alive to the situation and respond to the various complaints made?  We request them first to acknowledge all communications received by them and second to reply within a time limit and in case of difficulty to appreciate the problem better, give a call to the signatory to meet them in person to understand the problem in proper perspective and answer them at the spot what they propose to do!  Are we asking for more? Be yourself be the judge!!  Herein we are only highlighting and confining to the problems of the Anand Vihar Society which is one of the two biggest cooperative residential housing societies in East Delhi.

            Let’s go department-wise so that there is clarity and direct the grievances to the authorities concerned to respond within a time-limit and give us a target date by which the works required to be carried out will be completed.

• DJB: Water pipelines were laid over 3 decades back and they are getting corroded and warrant replacement;
• With the increase in population the gauge of the water pipe lines which may be replaced warrant a wider gauge
• The sewer lines too, which were laid over three decades back warrant replacement with a wider gauge to meet the requirements. Meanwhile, a thorough mechanized cleaning of the sewer lines is urgently needed to avoid blockade.
• Timings of supply of water to be publicized for information of all residents.
• OHT, which has become redundant and obsolete should be replaced with UGR at the same location.
• Billing system to be streamlined and simplified replacing the existing one.

• MCD: Inner roads and service lanes are in a very bad shape and they are required to be re-carpetted at the earliest.

• The entire storm water drains warrant thorough cleaning up and malba to be removed soon thereafter.
• The drains to be covered with appropriate size of concrete slabs where they are exposed to the sky.
• Kitchen gardens to be demolished to make space for parking of vehicles which has become a menace
• Builders to be warned not to block the roads with construction materials and malba which are required to be stacked properly and removed periodically.
• We appreciate the efforts being made by the local sanitary staff in maintaining cleanliness of the colony to a large extent despite mounting garbage!

• BSES: Switch boxes at the appropriate places should be fixed on the street light poles to save electricity which will be taken care of by volunteers in the Society

• CFL bulbs to be made available at subsidized rates to the residents or at cost price which could save electricity.
• We highly appreciate the sincere Herculean efforts being made by the BSES in maintaining/repairing and attending to complaints promptly!

• DDA: No attention is being paid to one portion of the District Park (Anand Vihar side)  facing the railway line for cleanliness, planting, watering, repair of the boundary walls etc.

• The walk-path requires repair/smoothening and avoid obstructions.
• A tree which had fallen a few months required to be removed.
• Provision of mast-light is urgently required for the benefit of senior citizens etc. who use the walking path in the nights as well.
• A few more concrete benches are required on this portion, indicated above, for the benefit of senior citizens

• Railway: The entire portion of land belonging to the Northern Railway at Anand Vihar railway station, Delhi Division, warrant through cleaning, lighting, sineage with display of timings of trains passing through this halt station and a clear path to reach the Anand Vihar terminal from this Anand Vihar suburban station.  Frequent ticket checking is required to be made and eliminate unauthorized loading of commercial goods from this station to Ghaziabad etc.

T.K. Balu

Hony. Secretary

Railway Board Employees’ Cooperative Housing Society Ltd.

Anand Vihar, Delhi-92.

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22.5.2011 Sunday

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RWC - more details

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Submitted by : Sh. D K Gupta ji

Problems of EWS RESIDENTS WELFARE ASSOCIATION, Rohini

Dear Sir/Madam

Let me take this opportunity to introduce me as General Secretary, "C-BLOCK EWS RESIDENTS WELFARE ASSOCIATION" Sector-5, Rohini, Delhi-110085. I would like to draw your attention towards the many hardships being faced by the residents of our area which are briefly mentioned hereunder:

1.The roads in the colony are in real bad shape with lots of pot holes and dug up at number of places.
2.There is no control of fast and rash vehicular traffic ( Speed Breakers Suggested on roads ).
3.Parks are in worst state with no one from MCD to take care of.
4.There is no bus shelter at the Sector-5 Bus Stop situated on the main road dividing Sector-5 and Sector-6 near Mount Abu School.
5.Dust Bins ( Dhallans ) as the MCD calls them are not properly handled. The garbage remains scattered on the road outside Dhallan which is an easy source of dreaded diseases.
6.The Fair Price Shops in the area do not distribute ration to the card holders and are manipulating supplies in connivance of the concerned Food and Supply Officers.

Hope someone from the concerned departments shall take notice of our plight and do the needful .

Regards

Virender Mohan Kapur

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Airtel Landline number not working for over Three Weeks now ?

It looks like a joke that you need 72 hours to respond, when my phone is non-functional for over three weeks now, and the complaint number and interaction number have already been provided to you.  Why can't such cases be dealt on priority basis?  Please provide your mobile number so that I could explain my plight to you personally.

 

Regards.

 

Mrs. Vineeta Gupta

8/7 Punjabi Bagh Extension

Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd. (BSE)

Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd. (BSE), has been conducting Investor Awareness Programmes (IAPs) in different states all over the country. These awareness programmes are sponsored by the Investor Protection Fund of the BSE.

Last financial year BSE- North Zone had organised 90 such IAP's across North India to provide awareness to the general public about the Stock Market. 

The main objective of the IAP is to create awareness amongst the investors and the prospective investors about the Capital Market and the safeguards that they need to follow while dealing in stock market.  These programs are purely for awareness and has NO SALES OBJECTIVE WHAT SO EVER.

The programme is normally of about two hours duration and covers different aspects of Stock market activities including Do’s and Don’ts for the Investors, Trading & Settlement, Risk Management followed by an interactive - session. During the programme, we also distribute to the participants, educative material about the capital markets.

We would like to conduct such programme for your esteemed organisation and request for your permission to do so.

If you kindly approve the above, please let us know the date and time convenient to you for conducting the aforesaid programme at your Organisation.

 

Regards

Harbinder Singh Sokhi

Delhi Regional Office 

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