Raipur, July 23, 2010
The residents of Devendra Nagar sector-4 (Rani Laxmi Bai ward) are facing acute water crisis for the past fifteen days. The residents informed that the water being supplied through municipal taps do not come in full force. In addition, the water supplied is dirty and not potable.
The local resident Pradeep Kumar Jain wrote a letter to Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak in this connection and requested her to quickly solve the problem of water crisis in his area.
Jain and the other residents had repeatedly informed about the problem to the local corporator and president of RMC’s Town Planning and Building Permission department Jaggu Singh Thakur, but his reciprocations were confined to mere assurances.
Jain said the residents timely pay their water and property taxes to the municipal and expect from it to at least make provision of the basic facilities including waters. He urged from Nayak to ensure that the Devendra Nagar sector-4 residents get sufficient water fro their daily use.
Jain said the major reason for less force of water from municipal taps was illegal practice of connecting suction pumps directly to the pipeline. He suggested that water theft cases could be checked if the power supply in the area would be discontinued during periods when water is being supplied.
Renewal, verification of ration cards till July 31
Raipur, July 23, 2010
State government has intensified the renewal and verification of ration cards of the BPL families dwelling in urban areas under Public Distribution System (PDS) and has announced that the procedures would be continued till July 31, 2010. Earlier, the government had fixed about one month period for renewal and verification of ration cards from June 16 to July 16. Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Minister Punnulal Mohle has directed the officials to minutely verify the ration cards and to ensure that eligible families should get the benefit of PDS.
The department’s Principal Secretary VK Dhand informed the minister that 4,78,194 ration cards had been submitted by far of the total 6,38,431 cards issued in the urban areas. Still, more than 1.60 lakh BPL families had not submitted their cards.
Mohle has appealed to these families to quickly submit their cards for verification and said the delay could result in cancellation of cards. Dhand informed that the government’s exchequer would inflate by Rs 135 crore every month if such an amount of cards would get cancelled.
The department will commence card verification of rural areas after completing the process in urban areas. The verification teams of each district will submit the final list of verified cards to the respective Collectors on August 2, 2010. The names of the eligible candidates would then be made public through fair price shops.
The claims and objections of the enlisted families would be dealt by Sub-Division Officer (Revenue) by August 20, 2010. This will be followed by deletion of names of the cardholders who had not submitted their cards or have been declared ineligible from the database of the official website. The final renewed list would then again be made public through fair price shops on August 27, 2010.
Dhand further informed that the department had received 1,09,864 ration cards from the urban areas of Raipur district as against the total 1,51,542 cards issued to the beneficiaries.
In Mahasamund district, 16,779 cards have been submitted of the total 21,909 issued ones, Dhamtari – 15,045 out of 17,015, Durg – 1.30 lakh out of 1.70 lakh, Rajnandgaon – 38,956 out of 52,442 and Kabeerdham – 8669 out of 11,562.
Similarly, the department has received 54,000 cards out of 69,000, Korba – 28,965 out of 42,000, Janjgir-Champa – 19,565 out of 24,488, Raigarh – 17,212 out of 22,493 and Koria – 14,000 out of 19,852.
The cards submitted from the urban areas of naxal-hit areas are – Kanker – 2744 out of 4151, Jagdalpur – 14,677 out of 22,104 and Dantewada – 7718 out of 9866.
Govt to open libraries in over 45,000 schools
Raipur, July 23, 2010
State government will open libraries in 45,849 primary and middle schools in 2010-11 under its Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. The officials of Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission informed that the books would be provided to the schools considering the interest of the students. The government has approved Rs 9.74 crore to purchase books for primary schools and Rs 13.44 crore for middle schools. The officials informed that the books worth Rs 3000 would be available in each primary school and Rs 10,000 in each middle school.
RMC employees stop their protest against bulk transfers
Raipur, July 23, 2010
The municipal employees have stopped their protest against the bulk transfers of RMC staff after holding high-level on Friday. The president of Raipur Nagar Palik Nigam Karmachari Mahasangh (RNPNKM) Harendra Kumar Sahu and general secretary Surendra Dubey informed that the union’s plan to go on mass leave on Saturday had also been postponed. Notably, the civic employees had tied black bands at work on Thursday to protest against the bulk transfers and with their demand of quick provision of VIth payscale. The In this regard, the RNPNKM delegation has also submitted a memorandum to the civic Commissioner.
Govt to improve city’s drainage system
Raipur, July 23, 2010
State government will improve the city’s drainage system by linking the drains to the old canals and nullahs flowing in and around it. In this regard, Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak and civic Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary gave a memorandum to Water Resources Minister Hemchand Yadav on Thursday. The minister assured the duo that soon the drains would be linked with the canals and nullahs. The duo informed the minister that the drainage system of the capital had completely been disrupted due to unorganised setup. The fourlane project at Ring Road No 1 which is 3-4 feet high from ground level has also affected the drainage system from Tatibandh to Telebandha, they said.
Shrivastava solves land dispute
Raipur, July 23, 2010
RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava on Friday solved a land dispute in Kukri Para (Subhash Nagar) that was hampering the road construction work in the area. When Shrivastava learnt from the local residents that the road construction stopped because one of the residents whose land was acquired by municipal for the project was dissatisfied by the compensation package announced for the affected ones, he asked the particular person to give an application pertaining to his demand. Shrivastava directed the officials to complete all the development works in the area within given timeframe. Shrivastava was accompanied by local corporator Sarita Verma and zone-6 Commissioner Harendra Sahu.
893 S’karmi posts, 404 new schools approved
Raipur, July 23, 2010
Under its Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan the State government will open 404 schools and create 893 posts of Shikshakarmis in 2010-11. The officials of Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission informed that the approved schools include 170 Gyan Jyoti Vidyalayas, 149 new primary schools and 85 middle schools. For this, grade II and III posts of Shikshakarmis have been approved. Besides, 187 additional posts of grade III Shikshakarmis has been approved for Gyan Jyoti Vidyalayas.
State records 361.7 mm average rains
Raipur, July 23, 2010
The average rainfall in the state in the current monsoon season from June 1 to July 21 is 361.7 mm. Jagdalpur (Bastar) has recorded 576.6 mm rain which is the highest average rainfall of the season in any district of the state. The average rainfall in other districts is – Raipur – 303.9 mm, Mahasamund – 400.3 mm, Raigarh – 333.8 mm, Koria – 242.2 mm, Sarguja – 212.9 mm, Jashpur – 229 mm, Janjgir-Champa – 341.8 mm, Korba – 427.7 mm, Bilaspur – 344 mm, Kabeerdham (Kawardha) – 280.5 mm, Rajnandgaon – 384.4 mm, Durg – 398.3 mm, Dhamtari – 410.4 mm, Kanker – 376.2 mm, Narayanpur – 350.4 mm, Dantewada (South Bastar) – 430.9 mm and Bijapur – 465.4 mm.
BJP to Mayor: Where is RMC using tax revenue?
Raipur, July 23, 2010
The BJP corporators have asked from the Congress-led RMC to provide information about its expenditures, especially the revenue collected through various municipal taxes. “The mayor always say that the civic body lack fund but now its high time that she should make the RMC’s expenditures public,” they said on Friday during their ongoing ward-wise dharna against the municipal corporation for not commencing any development works in their wards.
Staging dharna at Khoobchand Baghel ward on Friday, the leader of BJP corporators Subhash Tiwari and deputy leader Prafulla Vishwakarma said the mayor had failed to provide the basic facilities road, water, electricity and sanitation to the Raipurians. They also ridiculed the RMC’s nullah cleaning campaign that was launched before rainy season and said a couple of showers in the city had exposed the municipal’s sanitation policy.
The further said took a dig at the RMC for not taking proactive action in several low lying and slum areas where reports of contagious diseases like diarrhoea and cholera outbreak had surfaced recently after heavy rains.
The BJP corporators Sarita Verma, Meenal Choubey, Vijeta Yadav and Pushpa Tiwari said it was unfortunate that the mayor was even ignoring the wards led by women corporators.
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