CM takes review meeting of drinking water arrangements
Raipur, April 17, 2010
The government will constitute a committee of experts that will find out reasons of lowering ground water table in the state. The government will take necessary action on the basis of the committee’s report, said Chief Minister Raman Singh while taking review meeting of the officials on drinking water arrangements in the state at his residential office on Saturday noon.
Singh emphasised on popular water conservation techniques like rain harvesting. He said the water table can also be increased by conservation of ponds.
He sanctioned Rs 25 crore to Revenue and Disaster Management Department to provide ample drinking water the 50 most water-hit development blocks. He further directed officials that the ponds of water scarce villages should be filled by releasing water from reservoirs through the irrigation canals.
He advised that instead of digging hand pumps in the hilltop areas where ground water table had not fallen, sufficient water could be provided to the local residents by constructing jalkunds (low-cost rainwater harvesting structure). Considering the local conditions, the jalkunds can also be constructed in other districts, he said.
In the meeting, the officials informed Singh that the capital was also facing water crisis owing to which as against 2.15 Thousand Million Cubic feet (TMC) reserved water for Raipur Municipal Corporation, about 2.39 TMC water had been released and an additional 1 TMC would be given very soon.
The review meeting was attended by PHE Minister Kedar Kashyap, Chief Secretary P Joy Oommen, Water Resources Department Secretary CK Khetan, PHE Secretary Dinesh Shrivastava, Secretary Revenue and Disaster Management Department Sunil Kujur, CM Joint secretary Subodh Kumar Singh and senior officials of other departments.
Amolak Singh Bhatia threatened to stop dharna against liquor shop: Farishta
Raipur, April 17, 2010
The liquor contractor Amolak Singh Bhatia has given us threat calls to stop protesting against his liquor shop which he wanted to open besides Meena Lodge near Evergreen Chowk. The Shastri Bazar Futkar Vyapari Mahasangh (SBFVM) member and an auto deal shop owner Pappu Farishta has leveled these allegations against Bhatia and further charged that the liquor contractor had also tried to create pressure on the protesters through political leaders from BJP as well as Congress parties. The SBFVM continued their dharna on the 16th day on Saturday and gave a memorandum to Governor Shekhar Dutt requesting him to forbid reopening of liquor shop in the area.
“After receiving prior notice from the RMC to vacate his liquor shop based at Vijeta Complex, Bhatia tried to open the shop in the new edifice besides Meena Lodge on April 2, but the SBFVM thwarted his efforts,’ Farishta said.
He informed that Bhatia had taken the new shop on rent from the owner Rajkumar Gajiyani. Bhatia is paying over Rs 1.25 lakh per month to the shop owner and he had also given six months advance, he added.
The shopkeepers near Shastri Bazar say they want peace in the area and do not disturbance owing to drunkards who throng the liquor shops in the evening hours.
In the memorandum to the Governor, the shopkeepers said their area contain biggest vegetable market of the city and was surrounded by temple, mosques, mazars, school, madarsa, etc. They also quoted Section 63 of Excise Act, 1960 that said the liquor shop cannot be opened within 50 meter range of schools, religious places, hospitals and public markets.
Building besides Meena Lodge illegal!
Raipur, April 17, 2010
The auto deal shop owner Pappu Farishta has alleged that the construction of the two-storeyed building besides Meena Lodge near Evergreen Chowk that had been taken on rent by the liquor contractor Amolak Singh Bhatia to shift his liquor shop was illegal and the RMC’s Zone 7 office had served notice to its owners some three days back.
“The owner of the building is one Rajkumar Gajiyani who had constructed shops in the basement of the edifice against the municipal permission,” Farishta said. He informed that Gajiyani purchased land from Sayed Azhar Jabbar (spouse of area’s ex-corporator Rehana Jabbar) but the land had not yet been transferred on his name.
The local corporator Sunil Bandre also confirmed that some parts of the edifice were constructed illegally. “Gajiyani claims that he had taken permission to construct shop in the basement of the building, but the RMC cannot nod for such constructions. I, too, had complained regarding this to the municipal but no action has been taken so far,” Bandre said.
The corporator further informed that since the land was still on the name of Sayed Azhar Jabbar, Gajiyani obtained permission to construct building on the particular land mentioning Jabbar’s name.
When contacted, RMC’s Zone 7 Commissioner Hemant Sharma also accepted that the edifice had some illegal constructions and the municipal would certainly take action against the owner.
Raipur, April 17, 2010
The government will constitute a committee of experts that will find out reasons of lowering ground water table in the state. The government will take necessary action on the basis of the committee’s report, said Chief Minister Raman Singh while taking review meeting of the officials on drinking water arrangements in the state at his residential office on Saturday noon.
Singh emphasised on popular water conservation techniques like rain harvesting. He said the water table can also be increased by conservation of ponds.
He sanctioned Rs 25 crore to Revenue and Disaster Management Department to provide ample drinking water the 50 most water-hit development blocks. He further directed officials that the ponds of water scarce villages should be filled by releasing water from reservoirs through the irrigation canals.
He advised that instead of digging hand pumps in the hilltop areas where ground water table had not fallen, sufficient water could be provided to the local residents by constructing jalkunds (low-cost rainwater harvesting structure). Considering the local conditions, the jalkunds can also be constructed in other districts, he said.
In the meeting, the officials informed Singh that the capital was also facing water crisis owing to which as against 2.15 Thousand Million Cubic feet (TMC) reserved water for Raipur Municipal Corporation, about 2.39 TMC water had been released and an additional 1 TMC would be given very soon.
The review meeting was attended by PHE Minister Kedar Kashyap, Chief Secretary P Joy Oommen, Water Resources Department Secretary CK Khetan, PHE Secretary Dinesh Shrivastava, Secretary Revenue and Disaster Management Department Sunil Kujur, CM Joint secretary Subodh Kumar Singh and senior officials of other departments.
Amolak Singh Bhatia threatened to stop dharna against liquor shop: Farishta
Raipur, April 17, 2010
The liquor contractor Amolak Singh Bhatia has given us threat calls to stop protesting against his liquor shop which he wanted to open besides Meena Lodge near Evergreen Chowk. The Shastri Bazar Futkar Vyapari Mahasangh (SBFVM) member and an auto deal shop owner Pappu Farishta has leveled these allegations against Bhatia and further charged that the liquor contractor had also tried to create pressure on the protesters through political leaders from BJP as well as Congress parties. The SBFVM continued their dharna on the 16th day on Saturday and gave a memorandum to Governor Shekhar Dutt requesting him to forbid reopening of liquor shop in the area.
“After receiving prior notice from the RMC to vacate his liquor shop based at Vijeta Complex, Bhatia tried to open the shop in the new edifice besides Meena Lodge on April 2, but the SBFVM thwarted his efforts,’ Farishta said.
He informed that Bhatia had taken the new shop on rent from the owner Rajkumar Gajiyani. Bhatia is paying over Rs 1.25 lakh per month to the shop owner and he had also given six months advance, he added.
The shopkeepers near Shastri Bazar say they want peace in the area and do not disturbance owing to drunkards who throng the liquor shops in the evening hours.
In the memorandum to the Governor, the shopkeepers said their area contain biggest vegetable market of the city and was surrounded by temple, mosques, mazars, school, madarsa, etc. They also quoted Section 63 of Excise Act, 1960 that said the liquor shop cannot be opened within 50 meter range of schools, religious places, hospitals and public markets.
Building besides Meena Lodge illegal!
Raipur, April 17, 2010
The auto deal shop owner Pappu Farishta has alleged that the construction of the two-storeyed building besides Meena Lodge near Evergreen Chowk that had been taken on rent by the liquor contractor Amolak Singh Bhatia to shift his liquor shop was illegal and the RMC’s Zone 7 office had served notice to its owners some three days back.
“The owner of the building is one Rajkumar Gajiyani who had constructed shops in the basement of the edifice against the municipal permission,” Farishta said. He informed that Gajiyani purchased land from Sayed Azhar Jabbar (spouse of area’s ex-corporator Rehana Jabbar) but the land had not yet been transferred on his name.
The local corporator Sunil Bandre also confirmed that some parts of the edifice were constructed illegally. “Gajiyani claims that he had taken permission to construct shop in the basement of the building, but the RMC cannot nod for such constructions. I, too, had complained regarding this to the municipal but no action has been taken so far,” Bandre said.
The corporator further informed that since the land was still on the name of Sayed Azhar Jabbar, Gajiyani obtained permission to construct building on the particular land mentioning Jabbar’s name.
When contacted, RMC’s Zone 7 Commissioner Hemant Sharma also accepted that the edifice had some illegal constructions and the municipal would certainly take action against the owner.
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