Raipur, January 29, 2011
The state executive meeting of BJP Minority Morcha (BJPMM) will be convened at Ekatma Parisar on Sunday. The morcha’s national president Tanveer Ahmed will be the specially invited guest in the meeting. Ahmed reached state capital from New Delhi on Saturday night.
In this connection, the morcha’s state general secretary Akram Quraishi had convened a meeting of the office-bearers at party office on Saturday. On the occasion, the BJP vice president Sachchidanand Upasne and the BJPMM state president Mirza Ejaz Baig gave significant guidance to the morcha’s office-bearers. The morcha’s former president Rustam Singh Bhati was also present in the meeting. The other BJPMM workers who attended the meeting were – morcha’s vice presidents - Salim Memon and Kadar Bhai, secretaries – Najma Azim, Amjad Ali, Shabnam Taj, Rajju Memon, Firoz Gandhi, office secretary Sajid Pathan, treasurers Dr Mehruddin Mirza and Sabir Bhai, etc.
RMC to seal shops if licence fee not paid till Jan 31
Will also impose fivefold penalty on shopkeepers
Raipur, January 29, 2011
The civic Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary has once again urged from the shopkeepers having their establishments within RMC’s periphery to pay their licence fee be January 31, 2011. “Now, the shopkeepers will have last two days to submit the licence fee of their shops and after that the RMC would not only start sealing the shops but would also impose five times fine on the non-payers,” warned Choudhary on Saturday.
“For convenience of the shopkeepers, the RMC is organising collection camps from 9 am to 5 pm in all the eight zones where they can pay their licence fee,” Choudhary added. He said that the camps would remain open on Sunday and all the zone commissioners had been instructed to ensure that the Revenue staff should be present to collect licence fee.
Choudhary has further asked the zone commissioners to enlist the shopkeepers who would not pay licence fee so that appropriate action could be taken against them from February 1, 2011. He informed that the municipal corporation had fixed the licence fee for different categories for current financial year according to rules.
According to revised licence fee, the rice and dal mill owners would now have to pay Rs 3175 as against the previous fee of Rs 2500. Similarly, the municipal will charge Rs 1250 from oil and poha (flattened rice) mills (earlier it was Rs 1000), Rs 500 from flour and saw mills as well as from tea depots and Rs 200 from soda, bakery and confectionary shop owners.
The licence fee for lodges would be according to their bed-capacity. The lodges with 15 beds would have to pay Rs 1250, from 15 beds to 30 beds - Rs 2500 and above 30 beds - Rs 3125.
Among hotels and restaurants, the licence fee for air conditioner (AC) food zones would be Rs 3750 and non AC eating joints would be Rs 1250.
Among business establishments providing health services, the RMC has hiked the licence fee by 30 percent and now the nursing homes, medical research centres, drug shops and maternity centres would have to pay from Rs 2500 top Rs 22500.
The licence fee for grocery shop owners have been hiked from Rs 200 to Rs 2500 while the foreign liquor shops would have to pay Rs 18750 and country liquor shops – Rs 12500.
Choudhary informed that the municipal’s licence fee list broadly comprised of business units pertaining to food, medical service and manufacturing units including industries producing dangerous and inflammable products.
All religion prayer on Gandhi’s death anniversary today
Raipur, January 29, 2011
The municipal corporation will organise an all religion prayer to observe the death anniversary of Mahatama Gandhi before his statue at the Town Hall premises at 10 am on Sunday.
The president of RMC’s Culture department Jagdish Ahuja informed that a tribute programme would also be organised in the Town Hall on Sunday during which Kabirpanthi Bharti brothers and Madan Singh Chouhan will present bhajans and patriotic songs.
Besides, the followers of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Budhdhist and Jain religions would also read their religions scriptures to remember Gandhi. At 11 am, the guests and citizens would pay silent homage for two minutes to Gandhi and all the martyrs who had sacrificed their life for the nation.
Considering Gandhi’s death anniversary, the municipal corporation on has issued a directive on Saturday that all the mutton shops will remain close on Sunday on the occasion of Gandhi’s death anniversary. The RMC’s deputy commissioner (health) Rakesh Jaiswal informed that the Urban Administration and Development department had given clear instructions to the civic administration to prohibit slaughtering of animals and selling of meat on January 30 (Sunday).
Jaiswal has warned the mutton shop owners to keep their shops closed to avoid punitive action. He has further instructed all the zonal sanitary inspectors to keep an eye on the mutton shops on Sunday and impose heavy fine on those who would keep their shops open besides taking strong legal action against them.
Ahuja has urged Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak, RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava, leader of BJP corporators Subhash Tiwari, Mayor-in-Council (MiC) members, corporators and citizens to attend the tribute programme at large number.
RMC to establish readymade public toilets in marketplaces
Raipur, January 29, 2011
The municipal corporation will establish readymade public toilets in busy marketplaces of the city. For this, the RMC will soon prepare a detailed project report (DPR). “This is a new and convenient concept and the most apt one for the markets of out city,” said Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak who learnt about it during the Municipalika 2011 that concluded in Bangalore on Saturday.
Nayak informed that among different exhibitions, the concept of readymade public toilet and readymade multi-level parking lot with lift appealed her. She said about 750 mayors and civic commissioners participated in the three-day Municipalika 2011 that commenced on January 27, 2011.
The mayors not only discussed over public participation in the planning and development of the municipal corporations, but also tried to figure out methods to develop ‘organised and moving city’.
The mayors also discussed over the Centrally-sponsored Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and felt that the urban bodies needed to comprehend it fully so that the project commenced under it may not stop before completion.
Nayak said the Municipalika 2011 was one and only event in the country that was dedicated to elaborate urban development and municipal solutions.
The trade show performed as a perfect spot to accumulate the information regarding urban infrastructure development, regulation and enforcement, to evaluate the prospects and perils faced by the relevant field and to construct the effective plans and solutions for future growth, she said.
Similarly, the expo cum conference served as an ideal interactive hub for government policy makers, mayors and municipal commissioners, corporate executives, urban stakeholders, professionals and industry experts, and international agency representatives, she added.
It rather brought together a huge number of exhibitors who displayed their latest products, technologies, equipments, machineries and services for municipals and governments as well as for regions like water supply, sanitation, sewerage, waste management, transportation, traffic, fire safety and security, environment, e-governance, etc, she said.
The profile of exhibits at Municipalika 2011 comprised - water supply treatment & distribution machinery & equipment, water extraction, macro water management, water conservation, rain water harvesting, desalination, water consultancy, pumps, valves, compressors & fittings, collection treatment, storage, transportation and disposal of municipal, industrial, hazardous and bio-medical waste, waste recycling, waste-to-energy, assets and facility management, conservancy, public hygiene & sanitation, environmental protection & pollution control measuring equipment & systems, mass rapid and multi-modal transport, bus & rail systems, building, construction & infrastructure development, etc.
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