Stadium’s construction cost rose from Rs 6.84 cr to Rs 25 cr in 14 years
Raipur, January 27, 2011
After waiting for over a decade, the Raipurians will finally have their own fully-facilitated indoor stadium ready to host sporting events when Chief Minister Raman Singh will inaugurate it in presence of Urban Administration Minister Rajesh Munat, PWD Minister Brijmohan Agrawal and leader of Opposition at state Assembly Ravindra Choubey on February 3, 2011. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak announced the inauguration date of the indoor stadium while interacting with the media persons on Thursday.
To make occasion memorable, the RMC along with AF track Events and Promotion would organise a three-day dance competition for youths from January 30 to February 1 at Shaheed Smarak Bhawan. The competition would have different categories like - group, solo, duet and classical.
The top three winners of the competition would receive Rs 21000, Rs 15000 and Rs 11000 cash prize respectively during the inauguration ceremony of the indoor stadium.
“The fully air conditioned indoor stadium with 5000-seart capacity has been constructed at Sports Complex Budhapara at the cost of Rs 25 crore that included all the sporting facilities inside the stadium as well as beautification and development in the outer part,” informed Nayak.
Initially, the stadium’s cost was Rs 6.84 crore and the proposal was approved first on September 30, 1996 during former Mayor Balbeer Singh Juneja’s tenure.
The contract to build the stadium was given to PD Agrawal in June 11, 1996 who commenced the project on March 31, 1998. The construction works halted several times from 1998 to December 2003 and then completely stopped.
Later, the Urban Administration department approved Rs 21.62 crore for the stadium in 2006. After this, the contractor started the project again in August 2008.
On inauguration of new civic headquarters, Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak said the date would be announced later. “We are planning to invite AICC president Sonia Gandhi to inaugurate the new building, but she has hectic schedule in the coming days owing to which we could not get confirmation of her arrival. As soon as she will give her approval for inauguration ceremony of new civic HO, we would announce the date,” Nayak said.
Over 100 municipal employees suspended
Raipur, January 27, 2011
The civic Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary has suspended over hundred municipal employees with an immediate effect for not attending the training programme for enumerators and supervisors of census 2011 without giving informing their senior authorities. In this connection, Choudhary issued necessary directives to Deputy Commissioner Krishna Kumar Dubey on Thursday. The training programme was organised for the second phase of the Census that would be held from February 9 to 28, 2011, informed Choudhary.
Call general body in 10 days: BJP corporators
Raipur, January 27, 2011
The BJP corporators have demanded from civic Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary to call general body meeting within ten days. Submitting a memorandum to Choudhary in this connection, the BJP corporators led by their leader Subhash Tiwari said that Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak was deliberately stalling the general body meeting owing to which several proposals pertaining to city’s development were pending.
Zonal flying squads constituted to prevent encroachments
Raipur, January 27, 2011
The municipal corporation has constituted zonal flying squads to prevent increasing encroachments in the city. The RMC Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary has asked all the zone commissioners to commence anti-encroachment campaign in their areas and impose heavy fine on those who reoccupy the same space after sometime. In this connection, the zone 1 flying squad led by zone commissioner BR Agrawal and Assistant Engineer zonal Town Planning office Vijay Singh Thakur removed 30 encroachments from either side of Railway overbridge at Khamtarai area on Thursday.
Mayor demands rehab for squatters near rail tracks
Raipur, January 27, 2011
Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak has demanded from South East Central Railway (SECR) to rehabilitate the squatters dwelling on the lands besides rail tracks in the capital city. She said the best rehabilitation package for such people would be Sukhi Grih Prakalp Yojana (SGPY) that was launched by Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata Municipal Corporation. In this connection, Nayak met SECR’s DRM Binayak P Swain on Thursday and informed him that shanty dwellers near rail tracks were leading abject life in the absence of basic facilities and their conditions aggravate during rains when their areas get submerge.
Swain assured that he and other Railway engineers would conduct spot inspection of Veerangana Avanti Bai Lodhi ward, WRS region and Jagriti Nagar (Raman Mandir ward) along with RMC’s zone 1 & 2 engineers and local corporators either on coming on coming or following Sunday.
Both Nayak and Swain agreed that eviction would not be done forcibly in any of the areas and first the SECR and civic officials would evolve consensus before commencing any rehabilitation plan. For this, the Railway officials would first identify the lands occupied by the squatters near rail tracks and then prepare a detail project report (DPR) to implement in all the areas.
Briefing about some of the specific problems of the slum areas besides tracks in Jagriti Nagar, Nayak said the residents live in unhygienic conditions as they lack sulabh toilet and the construction of the drain in the locality was stopped before completion. Besides, the culvert on Vishakhapatnam track requires revamping and widening, Railway’s approval required for road concretisation and construction of Aanganbadi centre for impoverished children in the area.
The SGPY is aimed to provide better life to the slum dwellers who wish to vacate the lands they occupy besides the rail tracks. According to scheme, the Railways along with Union Urban development Department would construct flats with one room, kitchen and toilet for the squatters. These flats would be provided free-of-cost to these people.
Under the scheme, only the listed shanty dwellers would get flats and not the encroachers who had recently occupied the Railway land.
Cong announces poll campaign committee for Sanjari-Balod
Raipur, January 27, 2011
The state Congress has announced 45-member election campaign committee for Sanjari-Balod Assembly constituency by-election slated to be held on February 14, 2011.
According to information, a majority of the members in the committee are supporters of AICC treasurer Motilal Vora, PCC president Dhanendra Sahu and Leader of the Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Ravindra Choubey.
The committee comprises of eight legislators and two mayors – Tamradhwaj Sahu, Badruddin Quraishi, Bhajan Singh Nirankari, Pratima Chandrakar, Shivraj Singh Usare, Gurmukh Singh Hora, Ambika Markam, Lekhram Sahu, Rajnandgaon Municipal Corporation Mayor Naresh Dakalia and Bhilai Municipal Corporation Mayor Nirmala Yadav.
The other members are - Ghanaram Sahu, Arun Vora, Kishan Khandelwal, Ramesh Rathore, Harshad Mehta, Arvind Netam, Devvrat Singh, Pradeep Choubey, Fulodevi Netam, ganga Thakur Potai, Bupesh Baghel, Domendra Bhedia, Kishanlal Kurre, Dhanesh Patila, Uday Mudliyar, Madhav Singh Dhruv, Somprakash Giri, Chandrahas Sahu, Shiv Netam, Manturam Pawar, Shyama Dhruva, Oni Mahilang, Anita Kumeti, Bhola Ram Sahu, Rajendra Arora, Jeevan Lal Verma, Ayyub Khan, Amin Memon, Kalpana Deshmukh, Santosh Pandey, Devendra Yadav, RN Pandey, Digvijay Kridutt and Manak Darpatti.
Vora to arrive today
Raipur, January 27, 2011
The senior Congress leader and AICC treasurer Motilal Vora will arrive in the state capital morning by regular flight from New Delhi at 7:30 am on Friday. Vora will leave for his hometown Durg at 8:30 am and would return to Raipur at 6 pm. He would leave for national capital at 8.45 pm through Raipur-New Delhi flight.
BJP Minority Morcha meeting today
Raipur, January 27, 2011
An emergency meting of BJP Minority Morcha (BJPMM) would be convened at Ekatma Parisar at 5 pm on Friday. The morcha’s district president Abdul Hafeez informed that the meeting would be specially attended by BJPMM state president Mirza Ejaz Baig and BJP district president Ashok Pandey.
Sharma hoists tricolour at Congress Bhawan
Raipur, January 27, 2011
The PCC working president Satyanarayan Sharma hoisted national flag at Congress Bhawan on the occasion of Republic Day on January 26. The flag hoisting programme was attended by legislators Amitesh Shukla and Kuldeep Juneja, Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak, DCC president Inderchand Dhariwal, vice president Madan Lal Taleda, general secretary Dr Niranjan Haritwal, Seva Dal’s state organiser Ashok Raj Ahuja, Pradesh Mahila Congress working president Kalpana Patel and others.
Bhansali hoists national flag at Ekatma Parisar
Raipur, January 27, 2011
The legislator and Rajasthan BJP treasurer Kailash Bhansali hoisted the tricolour at Ekatma Parisar on Republic Day on January 26. Bhansali gave his best wishes to the people of Chhattisgarh on the occasion. The flag hoisting programme was attended by chairman of National Mineral Development Corporation Gaurishankar Agrawal, BJP district president Ashok Pandey, RDA chairman Sunil Soni, vice chairmen Prafulla Vishwakarma and Ratan Daga, Ashok Bajaj, Suryakant Rathore, Channi Verma and others.
BJYM hoisted tricolour symbolically at Lal chowk
Raipur, January 27, 2011
The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) hoisted national flag by symbolically making Srinagar’s Lal chowk (Jammu & Kashmir) in different part of the city on Republic Day on January 26. The morcha’s state general secretary Ashish Agrawal and district president Sanju Narayan Singh hoisted the tricolour in front of Pt Ravishankar Shukla (RSU) gate at Amanaka on January 26 morning in presence of organisation’s all mandal workers.
On the occasion, Agrawal and Singh said that the BJYM would continue its movement against the Union government for forcibly stopping its Rashtriya Ekta Yatra. “Every Indian has right to hoist the national flag in any part of the country. By stopping our yatra in the midway, the Congress-led UPA government’s anti-national policies have been exposed,” the duo said.
Later all the mandal incharges hoisted the flag in their respective regions in presence of the workers by symbolically making Lal chowk.
The BJP workers present at varsity gate programme were – BJP state vice president Sachchidanand Upasne, BJYM divisional convenor Rajesh Pandey, leader of BJP corporators at RMC Subhash Tiwari and others.
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