Raipur, June 09, 2010
The BJP’s state unit president Ramsewak Paikra is likely to announce his new team after the party’s two-day national executive meet in Patna that would commence from June 12, 2010. Paikra’s team was awaited for almost a month since he took over as the State BJP president on May 10, 2010.
Although, Paikra started discussing with the party’s senior leaders about the prospective candidates for the state executive body immediately after he assumed the office, but party sources informed that he would first evolve consensus over the composition of the new body before finalising the list. Paikra has also discussed over few names with the national leadership.
Besides the state executive body, the party will announce the names of four district presidents including the one for Raipur district as the candidates could not be finalised earlier because of discord between the party workers on few names.
Sources informed that on June 10 and 11, Paikra would meet some of the specific leaders who did not get berth in the state government’s corporations and boards. These leaders are likely to be inducted in the state unit, they said. Later Paikra will again meet with the senior leaders including Chief Minister Raman Singh and make a final list of the candidates who would part of his new team.
Sources did not deny the reports that Paikra would try to constitute a balanced team in which he would give fair bit of opportunity to the women sticking to the party’s policy to create 33 percent posts for them. He will also ensure that representatives from all the districts would be inducted in his team. The state unit will also announce the presidents of party’s different wings and cells for which a number of claimants have already emerged.
The BJP’s state unit president Ramsewak Paikra is likely to announce his new team after the party’s two-day national executive meet in Patna that would commence from June 12, 2010. Paikra’s team was awaited for almost a month since he took over as the State BJP president on May 10, 2010.
Although, Paikra started discussing with the party’s senior leaders about the prospective candidates for the state executive body immediately after he assumed the office, but party sources informed that he would first evolve consensus over the composition of the new body before finalising the list. Paikra has also discussed over few names with the national leadership.
Besides the state executive body, the party will announce the names of four district presidents including the one for Raipur district as the candidates could not be finalised earlier because of discord between the party workers on few names.
Sources informed that on June 10 and 11, Paikra would meet some of the specific leaders who did not get berth in the state government’s corporations and boards. These leaders are likely to be inducted in the state unit, they said. Later Paikra will again meet with the senior leaders including Chief Minister Raman Singh and make a final list of the candidates who would part of his new team.
Sources did not deny the reports that Paikra would try to constitute a balanced team in which he would give fair bit of opportunity to the women sticking to the party’s policy to create 33 percent posts for them. He will also ensure that representatives from all the districts would be inducted in his team. The state unit will also announce the presidents of party’s different wings and cells for which a number of claimants have already emerged.
Party workers welcome Sai, Kidwai
Raipur, June 09, 2010
After being elected as Rajya Sabha members for second consecutive time, BJP’s senior leader Nandkumar Sai and AICC general secretary Mohsina Kidwai received warm welcome by their party workers on Thursday.
Earlier, Sai and Kidwai reached Vidhan Sabha separately along with their party members to obtain the election certificate from Assembly Secretary Devendra Verma.
Both Sai and Kidwai expressed their gratitude towards their parties for giving them opportunity again and assured that they would continue to raise the issues of Chhattisgarh in Rajya Sabha and would demand more funds for the development of the state.
The DCC (City) organised felicitation ceremony to greet Kidwai at Congress Bhawan in presence of PCC president Dhanendra Sahu, leader of Opposition in VS Ravindra Choubey, PCC working president and Lok Sabha MP Charandas Mahant, senior party leader Vidya Charan Shukla and other senior leaders.
While addressing to the party workers, she said Congress needed only unity, but not anyone’s blood or sweat to regain its strength in the state. She said all factions and camps in the party divide workers and such cults should be discouraged. The basic mantra to win the next Assembly and general elections is united effort for which every Congress worker has to coordinate with each other, she added.
Kidwai said since she was born in Banda district (Bundelkhand area) which was close to Chhattisgarh region she always felt connected with the tribal-rich state. She promised her party workers to raise voice for the state at Centre whenever required.
On the other hand, the BJP’s state unit president Ramsewak Paikra, state’s Organisational general secretary Rampratap Singh, general secretary Shivratan Sharma, Urban Administration and Development Minister Rajesh Munat, Forest Minister Vikram Usendi, Industries Minister Dayaldas Baghel, MLA Narayan Chandel and other party leaders greeted Sai at Vidhan Sabha premises after he get election certificate.
Later, the BJP workers welcomed Sai at party office Ekatma Parisar. Sai was also greeted by the BJP workers at other locations in the city at Shankar Nagar, near Gandhi Udyan, at Saksharta chowk, Jaistambh chowk and Fafadih chowk.
How to make city clean with encroachments all over?
Raipur, June 09, 2010
Have you ever thought why the ten-year-old capital city Raipur is still known as one of the dirtiest capitals of the country? You would say the apathetic attitude of the civic authorities and lack of public awareness towards sanitation dragged Raipur at the bottom of the list of most sought-after cities to live. But unfortunately, none attempts to see the flip side of the city’s poor sanitation saga. The capital wore a filthy-look for about three decades because a majority of nullahs in the heart of the city have been encroached for several years either for residential or business purpose and the municipal officials could never dare to remove them either because they buckled down before the political pressure or because they shut their eyes when their palms were greased.
Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak, who launched the nullah cleaning drive for the first time in the history of the city and engaged poclain and 3d machines to take out thick-layered garbage (even about 3-4 feet in some nullahs), said the RMC’s entire efforts would prove to be a big fiasco if people would not remove their encroachments over nullahs voluntarily.
“We are here to serve people. We are trying to provide all the basic civic facilities to the Raipurians, but the dream of proper drainage and sanitation could only come to practical reality when people will cooperate with us and politicians would stop interfering into the matters that are directly linked to the masses like cleanliness, water, etc,” Nayak said.
To show how encroachers are creating hurdles in cleanliness works, Nayak invited the media persons on city sanitation tour on Thursday that commenced from her residence behind Nalghar chowk to all the areas of the capital where nullahs flow. In about four-hour long sanitation tour, Nayak asked the media persons analyse the capital’s pathetic conditions in their own way and sought support of common people, politicians and the fourth estate of democracy in the municipal’s campaign to make the city clean and green.
The journey began from old bus stand area where the about 100 meter nullah flows through Ganeshram Nagar and Baanstal area. The RMC has removed few encroachments from the nullah and has cleaned the open parts but more than three quarters of the nullah has been encroached by the residents and businessmen. Ironically, these illegal occupants claim that they had obtained patta of the encroached space. The narrow street besides PCC working president Satyanaraya Sharma’s residence has row of houses that are constructed over the nullah.
Similarly, a number of shops like Baghbani, Shakti Beej Bhandar and others have done encroachment over the nullah in Baanstal. At the triangle in Baanstal, an entire yellow building, whose ground floor has a shop named – Shri Balaji Mobile Galaxy, has been constructed illegally over the nullah.
On way to Amardeep talkies road, an electronic shop – Sethi Enterprises and Navrang Phataka Bhandar on either sides of the roads have also been illicitly constructed over the nullah.
At Malviya Road, a shop named – Kishor Boot House has been raised over the nullah that flows behind while the adjacent shop – Madrasi Hotel use the nullah as litter bin and dump all its stale food stuffs and other garbage on daily basis. The municipal’s sanitation gang has recently cleaned this nullah, but shopkeepers and business establishments in the ambience have not stopped throwing litter in it.
At Rajatalab, the RMC used poclain and 3d machine to clean the Arman nullah that was not cleaned for the past twenty years. The sanitation gang took out more than 300 trucks garbage from this nullah. When asked, the residents close to the nullah informed that the ground floor of their houses usually remained submerged during rains due to overflowing nullah in the past. They hoped that the cleaning of nullah would improve the conditions this year and they would not have to incur huge losses.
At Indrawati colony, Arman nullah was being used as a garbage dump by the local residents and consequently the area had become flood-prone during rains. This nullah shrinks at New Shanti Nagar area from Chandni Chowk where encroachment starts. Encroachments over nullah are ubiquitous in Sector-2 Shankar Nagar and consequently the nearby slum areas like Gandhi Nagar and Kali Nagar remain submerged during heavy showers.
At VIP Road, the RMC has constructed kuchcha nullah to save slum areas besides Anupam Nagar and Mova from inundation. This nullah terminates at Chhokra nullah. Nayak informed that the she had requested from the state government to give approval to concretise the kuchcha nullah for convenience of the local residents.
The nullah flowing through Devendra Nagar has also been encroached by several residents and hampering cleanliness works.
The nullah flowing at WRS colony near DRM office was stuck for several years. The waste water of over two quarters of the city terminates in this nullah through other nullahs. During rainy season, this nullah would become violent due to overflowing water and cause submergence of all the nearby bastis. More than 200 trucks garbage has been taken out from this nullah so far. The RMC wants to concretise it for which the state government has already sanctioned Rs 2.5 crore, but the Railways had not given NOC (No Objection Certificate) by far. Nayak informed that the land on either sides of the nullah is being used for farming. “We have given proposal to the Railways to give these large tracts of lands which are spawning in about 24 acres of are to construct pucca houses for poor under Basic Service for urban Poor (BSUP) scheme, but it wants market rate of the land which is very high,” said Nayak.
At Station Road near Satkar Hotel, the nullah had been encroached by several residents and shopkeepers. The RMC has asked them to vacate the land voluntarily, but they have ignored its instructions.
Similarly, the nullah flowing through Amapara area near Mangalam Hotel has been cleaned by the municipal recently, but the nearby residents are still throwing polythene waste and other garbage in it.
RMC has marked 166 flood-prone areas in the capital of which 50 remain submerged during rains. But Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak thinks the municipal’s nullah cleaning drive in the summer would certainly improve situation in the flood-prone areas. “We will keep a close eye on all the fifty areas that become worst-affected due to rains. If these areas would not submerge in this rainy season, then we would give incentives to the zonal officials,” Nayak said. She informed that Zonal Health Officer would get Rs 5000 and Zonal Sanitation Inspector would receive Rs 2500 as incentive.
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