Make busy roads one-way: Cong

Raipur, May 11, 2010

The District Congress Committee (DCC) has demanded from the district administration to make the busy roads of the city one-way considering the increasing traffic pressure in the morning and evening hours. “Usually, the road traffic completely disrupts from 5 pm to 9 pm and the motorists stuck in frequent jams,” said the DCC president Inderchand Dhariwal. He said the traffic bottlenecks mostly occur in Sadar Bazar, Malviya Road, MG Road, Fafadih, Station chowk and Gudhiyari. “People park their vehicles haphazardly in these commercial places due to which even the pedestrians face problem in adopting these routes,” he added. Dhariwal said the only method to improve the traffic system was to make the busy roads one-way and to provide parking space in different parts of the city so that the people may not park their vehicles on road.


Mistakes in applications

Raipur, May 11, 2010

The Panchayat and Rural Development department has informed that the applications of Shikshakarmi candidates carrying mistakes in educational qualification and subject columns would be corrected. The department has sent a circular in this regard to all the CEOs of Zila and Janpad panchayats. The officials informed that the mistakes would be corrected during the scrutiny of the documents of the Shikshakarmis. They, however, clarified that there would not be any correction in the numbers obtained by the candidates.


74 new girls’ hostels

Raipur, May 11, 2010

State government will open 74 new hostels for the girls belonging to SC & ST categories, other backward class, minority communities and BPL (below poverty line) families. The state government had sent a proposal in this regard to the Union Human Resources Development Ministry that has given its approval. Each hostel will have hundred seats. According to proposal, the hostels would be opened in the premises of Kasturba Gandhi girls’ schools. However, if those schools would not have ample space then the hostels would be opened in the premises of the proposed model schools in the relevant blocks. These hostels would accommodate students from class IX to XII. The officials from Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission’s state project office informed that the directive to commence the approved hostels has been issued. The hostels will be opened in 13 districts that are – Bastar – 12, Narayanpur – 2, Dantewada – 7, Bijapur – 4, Korba – 5, Bilaspur – 10, one each in Durg and Janjgir-Champa, three each in Jashpur, Kawardha and Koria, Raigarh – 2 and Sarguja – 15.


Launch dense drive to check contagious diseases: Mayor

Raipur, May 11, 2010

Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak has once again directed the RMC officials to launch dense campaign in all the 70 wards to prevent occurrence of contagious diseases like jaundice and diarrhoea in summer and upcoming rainy season. “The communicable diseases cannot be checked with short-term and irregular campaigns and the Health department should make a proper plan so that none of the areas in the capital become disease-prone in summer and rainy season,” she said on Tuesday to all the Zonal Health officials and representatives Raipur Medical College and as well as other relevant departments like Public Health Engineering, Malaria, Women and Child Development were present.
Notably, Nayak as well as the RMC Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary had given instructions to the officials in this regard recently, but in vain.
Nayak said Kalibadi Isolation Centre would be the Control Room. “The people suffering from any contagious disease can instantly contact with the Control Room in-charge over the phone number 2227754 at any time,” she said.
She further directed officials to disinfect all the public and private wells in every ward using bleaching powder twice a week. Similarly, Water Works department will be responsible to disinfect the bore wells and hand pumps through bleaching powder, she added.
Nayak also asked the department’s officials to collect the sample of water from different locations on regular basis and to test them in laboratories. The officials were asked to prepare a comprehensive report of their works and to submit it to the Health department through Executive Engineer of Water Works department.
Considering water crisis in some wards, she asked the officials to prepare a list of such localities and to ply more tankers according to demand.
To ensure that the people get fresh food and vegetables, she instructed that all the health and sanitation staffers would have to frequently check the quality of eatables being sold at vegetable market, hotels, restaurants, ice-cream and juice centres, bakeries and chicken and mutton shops. For this, the officials should also conduct sudden inspections in their respective zones amid 10 am to 12 pm and 3.30-5.30 pm, she added. The officials have also been instructed to take samples of food materials and test them in the laboratories.
The officials must ensure that the stocks of medicines in municipal dispensaries and hospitals including Kalibadi Isolation Centre are filled in advance, Nayak said. The RMC will also organise health camps in the disease-prone areas, especially in slums and low lying regions. The municipal will also provide a mobile medical facility for emergency cases.
She said all the drains and nullahs should be cleaned by engaging special sanitation gangs and fogging should be done in each ward.
The RMC will launch anti-larva campaign under which it will release gambusia (mosquitofish) in ponds. The RMC health officials will reach each house to collect the blood slides of malaria patients for which each Aanganbadi centre has been made depot and Aanganbadi workers will be depot holders.