RMC hopeful, plans to widen 87 roads
Raipur, October 14, 2010
In spite of various measures taken by the municipal corporation and the Traffic Police, the headstrong motorists are continuously violating traffic rules. To check this trend and with an objective to infuse traffic sense among the motorists, the RMC has made zebra crossings, stop lines and parking lanes at 25 road intersections that record heaviest traffic. In addition, it is further planning to widen and beautify 87 roads across the capital to ensure the smooth flow of traffic.
The civic Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary hopes that the measures taken by the municipal would indeed produce anticipated results in the coming days and there would be less traffic bottlenecks on main arterial during peak hours.
Notably, the Traffic Police have posed stern face towards the norm violating motorists for the past couple of months and are urging them to stop their vehicles at stop line on road intersection during red signals. Still, the people in haste either stop their vehicles on the zebra crossing or even go ahead few meters unless the cop rebukes them. Similarly, the spaces for left turn at intersections never remain empty as the motorists occupy them during red signals.
The 25 roads where zebra crossings, stop lines and parking lanes have been made are at –Bharat Mata School chowk, Gurudwara and Hirapur road near overbridge (all in Tatibandh), Kota road Mahoba Bazar, Amanaka, National Institute of Technology (NIT) chowk and Science College chowk, Geeta Nagar chowk, near Anupam garden at GE road (way to Dagania road), Choubey colony junction, Vivekanand Ashram chowk, Amapara chowk, Rajbhawan road, Devendra chowk, Ambedkar hospital chowk, Medical College chowk, Tatya Para chowk, old bus stand chowk, Bombay Market chowk, Shastri chowk, Collectorate chowk, Gandhi-Nehru Udyan chowk, Raja Talab road near church and Shankar Nagar chowk.
The RMC is taking traffic improvement measures on recommendations of Gurgaon-based RITES limited (a consultation agency having expertise in urban solutions).
Choudhary informed that the RMC would soon remove encroachments and demolish the boundary walls obstructing traffic around Shastri chowk to smoothen the turnings at the intersection.
Beautify gardens, road medians: Choudhary
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The municipal Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary has directed the officials to beautify the gardens and road medians of the city before commencement of Rajyotsav 2010. His instructions came while he was inspecting the Dr BR Ambedkar garden at Sector-2 Bajaj Colony and Azad chowk garden on Thursday. He asked officials install lights in both the gardens besides cleaning lawns and laying grass. He further asked to repair the fountain at Dr BR Ambedkar garden and restart it before October 26, 2010. Similarly, Choudhary said the road medians of the city should be painted.
Zone 3 sanitary workers get dress, ID cards
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava on Thursday distributed dresses, jackets and identity cards (ID cards) to the sanitary workers of zone 3 and Shankar Nagar zone office. Shrivastava asked the cleaning workers to discharge their responsibility honestly and keep the city clean. On the occasion, zone 3 Commissioner Manoranjan Sarkar, Civil Lines corporator Ashok Manwani and ex-corporator Kali Mata ward Dr Pramod Sahu.
Two sulabh toilets dedicated to public
Raipur, October 14, 2010
Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak dedicated two sulabh toilets to the public in two different wards on Thursday. One of the sulabh toilets has been constructed near Kota bazar in Shaheed Manmohan Singh Bakshi ward. The capacity of this toilet is 15 seats and it has been built at the cost of Rs 9.30 lakh. Another sulabh toilet with 26-seater capacity has been constructed at the cost of Rs 11 lakh.
Anamika Sahu assumes zone 5 president office
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The newly elected president of zone 5 Anamika Sahu assumed the office on Thursday in presence of Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak, MiC members Purnprakash Jha, Anwar Hussein, Pramod Dubey, Mrityunjay Dubey, corporator Meenal Choubey and zonal staffers. Earlier, Sudhir Mukherjee ward corporator Sahu was MiC member and president of Women and Child Development department, but when she failed to perform, the Mayor replaced her with Rani Satish Jain (corporator Sadar Bazar ward) during MiC reshuffle.
Suspended Health Director’s fate to be decided on Oct 20
Colour Doppler scam
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The state government will take decision on the application of suspended Health Director Dr Pramod Singh on October 20, 2010. Singh was suspended on his alleged involvement in irregularities in the department including Colour Doppler scam on December 2009. Denying all the charges against him, Singh had recently sent an application to the Health Secretary Vikassheel claiming himself innocent. Considering Singh’s plea, the Health Secretary had fixed October 20 to take decision on his fate.
Besides Colour Doppler scam, CBI had registered a case against Singh on the charges of forgery, embezzlement and criminal conspiracy.
Singh, who was absconding since November 5, 2009 prior to his suspension, is allegedly involved in purchase of substandard equipments including expensive Colour Doppler and ICCU multi-para monitors that were supplied to Ambedkar hospital. These equipments stopped within 12 months of their purchase.
The government later found that the Health Department had selected one Chennai-based company Trivitorn to supply medical equipments by purchasing them from Japanese manufacturers. However, the equipments were not supplied by Trivitorn but instead a fake company on the same name having links with local firm Chhattisgarh Surgical supplied substandard equipments by purchasing them from China.
60 APL cards distributed
Raipur, October 14, 2010
RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava on Thursday distributed 60 APL cards (white coloured) to the residents of Jawahar Nagar (Pt Jawaharlal Nehru ward) in presence of local corporator Bharti Avtar Bagal. On the occasion, Shrivastava said government aimed to eradicate the problem of malnutrition across the state owing to which is providing rice at the rate of Re 1 and Rs 2 per kg through ration shops to the citizens belonging to the impoverished section.
Health check-up camp organised
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The doctors and students of Maharana Pratap Homeopathy College organised a day-long free-of-cost health check-up camp in Jawahar Nagar on Thursday. On the occasion, they also distributed medicines to the residents to prevent occurrence of various seasonal diseases including swine flu and eye flu. The municipal Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava and local corporator Bharti Avtar Bagal who were invited in the health camp to distribute medicines appreciated the initiative taken by the college to create awareness among citizens about the contagious diseases.
Gaurav Path II & III projects to begin soon: Choudhary
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The municipal Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary has informed that the state government’s ambitious projects - Gaurav Path II from Fafadih chowk to Mova and Gaurav Path III from GE road Amapara to Telghani Naka chowk via Agrasen chowk would soon be commenced. “We have already developed Gaurav Path I from Nagar Ghadi chowk to Telebandha and soon the beautification works on GE road from Azad chowk to Tatibandh chowk would be commenced,” he added.
Raipur, October 14, 2010
In spite of various measures taken by the municipal corporation and the Traffic Police, the headstrong motorists are continuously violating traffic rules. To check this trend and with an objective to infuse traffic sense among the motorists, the RMC has made zebra crossings, stop lines and parking lanes at 25 road intersections that record heaviest traffic. In addition, it is further planning to widen and beautify 87 roads across the capital to ensure the smooth flow of traffic.
The civic Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary hopes that the measures taken by the municipal would indeed produce anticipated results in the coming days and there would be less traffic bottlenecks on main arterial during peak hours.
Notably, the Traffic Police have posed stern face towards the norm violating motorists for the past couple of months and are urging them to stop their vehicles at stop line on road intersection during red signals. Still, the people in haste either stop their vehicles on the zebra crossing or even go ahead few meters unless the cop rebukes them. Similarly, the spaces for left turn at intersections never remain empty as the motorists occupy them during red signals.
The 25 roads where zebra crossings, stop lines and parking lanes have been made are at –Bharat Mata School chowk, Gurudwara and Hirapur road near overbridge (all in Tatibandh), Kota road Mahoba Bazar, Amanaka, National Institute of Technology (NIT) chowk and Science College chowk, Geeta Nagar chowk, near Anupam garden at GE road (way to Dagania road), Choubey colony junction, Vivekanand Ashram chowk, Amapara chowk, Rajbhawan road, Devendra chowk, Ambedkar hospital chowk, Medical College chowk, Tatya Para chowk, old bus stand chowk, Bombay Market chowk, Shastri chowk, Collectorate chowk, Gandhi-Nehru Udyan chowk, Raja Talab road near church and Shankar Nagar chowk.
The RMC is taking traffic improvement measures on recommendations of Gurgaon-based RITES limited (a consultation agency having expertise in urban solutions).
Choudhary informed that the RMC would soon remove encroachments and demolish the boundary walls obstructing traffic around Shastri chowk to smoothen the turnings at the intersection.
Beautify gardens, road medians: Choudhary
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The municipal Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary has directed the officials to beautify the gardens and road medians of the city before commencement of Rajyotsav 2010. His instructions came while he was inspecting the Dr BR Ambedkar garden at Sector-2 Bajaj Colony and Azad chowk garden on Thursday. He asked officials install lights in both the gardens besides cleaning lawns and laying grass. He further asked to repair the fountain at Dr BR Ambedkar garden and restart it before October 26, 2010. Similarly, Choudhary said the road medians of the city should be painted.
Zone 3 sanitary workers get dress, ID cards
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava on Thursday distributed dresses, jackets and identity cards (ID cards) to the sanitary workers of zone 3 and Shankar Nagar zone office. Shrivastava asked the cleaning workers to discharge their responsibility honestly and keep the city clean. On the occasion, zone 3 Commissioner Manoranjan Sarkar, Civil Lines corporator Ashok Manwani and ex-corporator Kali Mata ward Dr Pramod Sahu.
Two sulabh toilets dedicated to public
Raipur, October 14, 2010
Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak dedicated two sulabh toilets to the public in two different wards on Thursday. One of the sulabh toilets has been constructed near Kota bazar in Shaheed Manmohan Singh Bakshi ward. The capacity of this toilet is 15 seats and it has been built at the cost of Rs 9.30 lakh. Another sulabh toilet with 26-seater capacity has been constructed at the cost of Rs 11 lakh.
Anamika Sahu assumes zone 5 president office
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The newly elected president of zone 5 Anamika Sahu assumed the office on Thursday in presence of Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak, MiC members Purnprakash Jha, Anwar Hussein, Pramod Dubey, Mrityunjay Dubey, corporator Meenal Choubey and zonal staffers. Earlier, Sudhir Mukherjee ward corporator Sahu was MiC member and president of Women and Child Development department, but when she failed to perform, the Mayor replaced her with Rani Satish Jain (corporator Sadar Bazar ward) during MiC reshuffle.
Suspended Health Director’s fate to be decided on Oct 20
Colour Doppler scam
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The state government will take decision on the application of suspended Health Director Dr Pramod Singh on October 20, 2010. Singh was suspended on his alleged involvement in irregularities in the department including Colour Doppler scam on December 2009. Denying all the charges against him, Singh had recently sent an application to the Health Secretary Vikassheel claiming himself innocent. Considering Singh’s plea, the Health Secretary had fixed October 20 to take decision on his fate.
Besides Colour Doppler scam, CBI had registered a case against Singh on the charges of forgery, embezzlement and criminal conspiracy.
Singh, who was absconding since November 5, 2009 prior to his suspension, is allegedly involved in purchase of substandard equipments including expensive Colour Doppler and ICCU multi-para monitors that were supplied to Ambedkar hospital. These equipments stopped within 12 months of their purchase.
The government later found that the Health Department had selected one Chennai-based company Trivitorn to supply medical equipments by purchasing them from Japanese manufacturers. However, the equipments were not supplied by Trivitorn but instead a fake company on the same name having links with local firm Chhattisgarh Surgical supplied substandard equipments by purchasing them from China.
60 APL cards distributed
Raipur, October 14, 2010
RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava on Thursday distributed 60 APL cards (white coloured) to the residents of Jawahar Nagar (Pt Jawaharlal Nehru ward) in presence of local corporator Bharti Avtar Bagal. On the occasion, Shrivastava said government aimed to eradicate the problem of malnutrition across the state owing to which is providing rice at the rate of Re 1 and Rs 2 per kg through ration shops to the citizens belonging to the impoverished section.
Health check-up camp organised
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The doctors and students of Maharana Pratap Homeopathy College organised a day-long free-of-cost health check-up camp in Jawahar Nagar on Thursday. On the occasion, they also distributed medicines to the residents to prevent occurrence of various seasonal diseases including swine flu and eye flu. The municipal Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava and local corporator Bharti Avtar Bagal who were invited in the health camp to distribute medicines appreciated the initiative taken by the college to create awareness among citizens about the contagious diseases.
Gaurav Path II & III projects to begin soon: Choudhary
Raipur, October 14, 2010
The municipal Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary has informed that the state government’s ambitious projects - Gaurav Path II from Fafadih chowk to Mova and Gaurav Path III from GE road Amapara to Telghani Naka chowk via Agrasen chowk would soon be commenced. “We have already developed Gaurav Path I from Nagar Ghadi chowk to Telebandha and soon the beautification works on GE road from Azad chowk to Tatibandh chowk would be commenced,” he added.
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