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Kids real brand ambassadors for Save Water drive: Mayor


Raipur, June 03, 2010

Children can play the role of brand ambassadors in the RMC’s Save Water campaign. If they get adequate information about any particular subject, they can diffuse it more effectively in the society. The words of appreciation for children were expressed by Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak while she was watching their lively paintings during a painting competition held on subject – need of water conservation and its solution at Town Hall on Thursday.
The competition was part of the four-day exhibition and training programs (from June 3 to 6) on water conservation and preservation organised under the joint aegis of the RMC and self help group Lok Agrah.
Nayak said the painting competition in which over 200 schoolchildren participated was an apparent indication that even the kids understand the value of water. She said the children had exquisitely blended their comprehension and emotion while using the brush and colours as major tools to inform the society about the significance of water in modern era.
She hoped that the public awareness campaign to save water would foster with children involving in it through their own unique methods like display of paintings, etc.
The paintings of these children would be exhibited on June 4 (from 4-9 pm) and on June 5 and 6 (from 11 am to 9 pm).
On June 5 and 6, the RMC will also organise a special training camp for all its licensee plumbers from 11 am. The training would be imparted by the municipal’s licensee geo-hydrologist.


Illegal printing press, gas godowns demolished

Were constructed in about 1.5 acre encroached land in Tikarapara

Raipur, June 03, 2010

The RMC on Thursday demolished one printing press, one gas godowns and two rooms along with the boundary wall that were being constructed in about 1.5 acre encroached land near Sarjubandha Talab in Tikarapara. The civic officials completed the demolition work in presence of security personnel to avoid any resistance from the illegal occupant.
The municipal Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary informed that the encroacher was one Nawalkishor Agrawal who had taken illegal possession of the government land about a decade ago.
Choudhary informed that earlier the RMC had served notice to Agrawal under Section 322 and 323 of Municipal Act but when he did not complied, the demolition squad removed all the encroachments done by him on the government land.


RMC imposes Rs 10,000 fine on Heritage Hospital

At Devendra Nagar, for throwing burnt medical waste in nullah

Gives it three-day ultimatum to clean nullah at its own cost

Raipur, June 03, 2010

The RMC on Thursday imposed Rs 10,000 fine on Heritage Hospital based at Devendra Nagar for throwing burnt medical waste in the nearby nullah. The RMC has also asked the hospital owner to produce all the original documents including the No Objection Certificate (NOC) he had obtained to operate it in the residential areas. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak has made it evident that stern action would be taken against the hospital owner if he would fail to produce the documents or if the municipal would found any corruption or manipulation in permission.
Nayak hinted that she did not seal the hospital immediately because several patients admitted in it would face problem. 
Nayak inspected the ambience of the Heritage Hospital on Thursday after she received several complaints from the local residents that the hospital administration was violating municipal norms and using the nullah flowing behind its edifice to dump the medical waste. When she inquired from the hospital administration about these allegations, it refused to accept that it was responsible for creating unhygienic conditions in the locality.
However, when Nayak saw that cleaning process of nullah behind the hospital, the sanitation gang showed her broken syringe bottles and half brunt harmful medical waste from the heap of garbage. Irked by hospital’s reckless attitude, Nayak immediately asked the officials to impose fine on it and ask it clean the nullah within three days at its own cost.
She said if the hospital would reiterate its habit in future, the RMC would take legal action against it.
She was also infuriated at the sight of no parking facility at hospital premises. She asked the officials to serve notice to the hospital administration and take action against it.
During her inspecting of Sector-2 area in Devendra Nagar, the residents promised her that each house would give Rs 500 to the RMC as financial help to maintain sanitation in the locality. On the occasion, Nayak assured the residents that the sanitation gang would properly clean the drains and nullah in the area before monsoon by engaging 3D machine and by removing all the encroachments.
Nayak later visited Station Road near Satkar Hotel where she found that the cleaning of nullah was hampered owing to encroachment over it. She directed the Zone-2 Commissioner Santosh Pandey to quickly serve notices to the houses, hotel and other small business units that had illegally done construction over nullah to produce original documents of the land possessed by them and to take appropriate action against the encroachers.


Finance company sealed

Raipur, June 03, 2010

The municipal authorities sealed a private finance company – Basics at Sector-2, Devendra Nagar on Thursday. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak, who was present on the spot, informed that no company or business establishment was allowed to operate for professional profit in the residential area. She had asked the Zone-2 Commissioner Santosh Pandey to examine the documents of the finance company and to probe how it obtained the No Objection Certificate (NOC) to operate its business in the residential area. Nayak had also received various complaints from the local residents that the anti-social elements regularly come to the company’s office owing to which the girls and women feel insecure.


RMC to constitute zonal health teams

To conduct inspection of nursing homes, private hospitals

Raipur, June 03, 2010

Considering large number of nursing homes and private hospitals being operated in residential areas in violation with municipal norms and rising complaints against them for staking the health of residents by throwing medical waste in public places, Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak has asked the municipal’s Health Officer Dr Amrit Chopra to constitute zone-wise health teams of the doctors to conduct inspection of the such establishments and to prepare a comprehensive report on them in eight days.
Nayak said inspection would also be done in the pathology laboratories as well as clinics and dispensaries of private medical practitioners. All the zonal health teams would report to submit their reports to RMC’s Assistant Health Officer Dr Bhagyalaxmi Rao who would be the Probe Officer.
Nayak said the teams would also examine whether all the private medical establishments had paid the permission fee to the municipal or not. She said the RMC would not compromise with the health of the Raipurians and would take stern action against those nursing homes and private hospitals that solely aimed to earn profit from their business and put aside the service factor.
She said the teams would separately enlist the nursing homes that deliberately throw medical waste either in public place or in the nearby drains and nullahs. Further, the teams would inquire which organisations are taking garbage from the nursing homes and private hospitals to dump it in the trenching ground at Sarona.

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