New Delhi ‘Sewage-free drains in 3 yrs’

After inspecting the Interceptor Sewer Project of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) at Kakrola Mode in west Delhi, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday said major drains are expected to be sewage pollution free within three years, which is a major steps towards cleaning theYamuna.

"This project will also provide sewage facilities to many rural villages, unauthorised colonies and JJ clusters," Dikshit said.    

The project is a major initiative of the DJB to tackle issues of untreated sewage being dumped into the Yamuna. 

The interceptor sewer is being laid along the three major drains — Najafgarh, supplementary drain and the Shahdara drain — which account for 75 per cent of sewage polluting the Yamuna. 

with thanks : Hindustan Times : LINK 

MOCK POLL on 28th July : 8am to 4pm

A MOCK POLL will be held on 28th July in Delhi East District at various places. A few of the Mock Poll Centres are at : 

Rajkiya Sarvodaya Ball Vidyalay, Geeta Colony : You can contact Mrs Meera Sabharwal & Mr Vijay Kochar..

Vivekanand Mahila College, Vivek Vihar : You can contact Mr Vinod Kumar, RWA Anand Vihar as well Mr Vinod Kumar, RWA Jhilmil in this regard.

Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya, Karkari road, Vishwas nagar : You can contact Mr Saini, Mr L M Sharma or Mr Dhigan.

Centres are also at Mayur Vihar, Trilok puri, Laxmi nagar etc. Plz go there, make a poll & give your most valued suggestions on the machines & system.

Thanks

B S Vohra

East Delhi RWAs Joint Front

( A Federation of RWAs )

DTL slams BSES Yamuna's poor infrastructure

Delhi Government-run transmission utility Delhi Transco Ltd (DTL) on Monday charged BSES Yamuna Power Ltd (BYPL) with not improving its infrastructure to cope up with rising power demand, saying various areas in the city have been facing outages due to breakdown of the distribution network of the company.

The DTL said although it has invested a lot to strengthen the major transmission network in the city, the failure of BYPL to upgrade the distribution system often leads to local faults resulting in long outages.

Various areas, where BYPL supply power, have been facing power cuts for upto six to seven hours primarily due to breakdown of the distribution network when the demand goes up.

Often the distribution network fails to hold the increasing load and it breaks down.

BYPL CEO Ramesh Narayanan, however, refuted the charges saying DTL’s transmission infrastructure in East and Central Delhi was very weak because of which power supply has been affected.

‘The central and east Delhi areas are very vulnerable and DTL will have to improve its network in these areas,’ he said reacting to DTL’s charges. Unhappy with performance of power distribution companies, chief minister Sheila Dikshit last week had directed them to improve their infrastructure and submit weekly report to the government about their operations.

DTL public relations officer Rishiraj said transmission capacity in central Delhi is more than double of the distribution capacity.

Similarly, he said East Delhi, the transmission capacity in east Delhi is 1,730 MVA as against distribution capacity of 1,477 MVA.

with thanks : Millennium Post : LINK : for detailed news.

Delhi Disaster Management Network

Delhi is on the verge of a big DISASTER. It may be an Earth quake, Fire, Building collapse, Flooding or any other Natural / unnatural calamities. May i request you all, to join us on Facebook, in, "DELHI DISASTER MANAGEMENT NETWORK". Please invite your friends too, to make it, the biggest force, to come out & serve in case of any such incident. Please click this LINK.

Kargil Day !

What happened to 8 wealthiest people in the world?

In 1923, eight of the wealthiest people in the world met. Their combined wealth, estimated, exceeded the wealth of the government of the United States.These men knew how to make a living and accumulate wealth.

 25 years later.

1. President of the largest steel company, Charles Schwab, died bankrupt.
2. President of the largest gas company, Howard Hubson, went insane.
3. One of the greatest commodity traders, Arthur Cutton, died insolvent.
4. President of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, was sent to jail.
5. A member of the President’s Cabinet, Albert Fall, was pardoned from jail.
6. The greatest “bear” on Wall Street, Jessie Livermore, committed suicide.
7. President of the world’s greatest monopoly, Ivar Krueger, committed suicide.
8. President, Bank of International Settlement, Leon Fraser, committed suicide.

They forgot to make a life! Just made Money!

 

 Thanks : Mr Watwani.

DERC to introduce new power tariff system i.e. Time of Day (TOD) metering

In a major reform initiative, Delhi's power regulator DERC has decided to introduce a new system under which tariff will be charged according to electricity consumption in peak and off peak hours. 

The proposed mechanism -- aimed at encouraging consumers to limit their power consumption in peak hours -- will be introduced on a pilot basis, officials in Delhi Regulatory Electricity Commission said. 

The system, known as Time of Day (TOD) metering, is also expected to discourage commercial users from consuming more power during peak hours and result in minimising load shedding in residential areas when the demand goes up substantially. 

"An appropriate system of incentives to promote consumption of power in off peak hours and levying of surcharge to discourage peak hour consumption is expected to reduce power purchase cost," the DERC had said while announcing hike in tariff last month. 

If implemented Delhi will be the first state in the country to have such a metering system, which, experts said, would benefit everybody including the consumers. 

The power distribution companies often have to procure additional power from the market at very high cost to meet the demand at the peak hours from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM. 

with thanks : Business Standard : LINK : for detailed news.

An Educational Train Journey for Delhi University's NSS & NCC Girl Students

Please see face Book page Gyanodaya DU Educational Trip

Meeting with Committee of Experts on New DMC Act

Today, we had a meeting with Mr K Dharamrajan, Chairman, Committee of Experts on New DMC Act. The meeting was held at Delhi Sachivalay and almost 35 RWA persons were present there, alongwith representatives of URJA & the team mates of the above said committee.

Various Topics ( AS BELOW ) related to RWAs, Bhagidari scheme as well RWC formation were discussed & duly noted by the Chairman. We hope that all the valid suggestions will be incorporated in the new DMC Act.   

With best regards,

B S Vohra,
East Delhi RWAs Joint Front
( A Federation of RWAs )
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Privatisation of Water Tanks by DJB : CCN News : B S Vohra

WATERLOO

with thanks : Hindustan Times