Raipur, September 24, 2010
The municipal corporation on Friday issued a directive that all the mutton markets would have to keep their shops close on
Saturday on the occasion of Kshamavani Parv. The Urban Administration and Development department has clearly instructed the
butchers and mutton shopkeepers that slaughtering of animals and selling of meat within the municipal limits would remain prohibited on Kshamavani Parv. The officials warned that the RMC would take stern action against those who would flout directives besides imposing heavy fine
on them. The civic administration has asked all the zonal sanitary inspectors to keep an eye on the mutton shops.
Tribute programme
Raipur, September 24, 2010
The RMC will pay floral tribute to the pioneer of integral humanism Pt Deendayal Upadhyay on the occasion of his birth anniversary on Saturday (September 25) in a programme organised before his statue at Telebandha near police station. The acting Mayor Manoj Kandoi has appealed to municipal Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava, leader of BJP corporators Subhash Tiwari, Mayor-in-Council (MiC) members, corporators, Aldermen and citizens to attend the tribute programme in large number.
FLIP SIDE
Does India deserve to host CWG?
Top players from most of the commonwealth nations are one-by-one opting out from the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2010 because of security and hygienic reasons. This is major setback not only for India as a host, but also for all sporting events that have now become a lucrative mode of earning and grabbing plenty of endorsements in the backdrop of doping, match fixing and an assortment of other blemishes.
However, the Centre believes that the international players are scared of the Delhi conditions because media has projected its negative image to the world. Although it admits in repressed voice that some of its top organising officials too are accountable for reprehensible conditions of games village.
In fact, the Centre is more afraid of the foreign media as compared to Indian media. The reason – the Centre know ‘corruption in CWG’ will always be preferable headline for India media than hygiene, but the foreign media would certainly embrace the other factors prominently that are directly linked with the health of the players.
Unfortunately, despite of being conversant with the flaws in preparations and knowing that the responsibility of CWG is in wrong hands (IOC chairman and chief of organising committee Suresh Kalmadi and his aides), the Government of India was ascertained that everything would be okay in the end. Ironically, it did not dare to surmise about the anticlimax before the commencement of the games, although it was pellucidly informed by the media beforehand.
The Centre’s rhetoric that India would provide world class infrastructure and facilities to the players during CWG was disrobed within first few weeks of preparations, but it remained unruffled by the deluge of embarrassing reports about below par constructions and irregularities in games village. However, it was agonised when an under-construction foot overbridge collapsed just on the main venue of the games village followed by ceiling collapse inside at the Jawahar Lal Nehru stadium complex.
Suddenly, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decided to come into picture and he abruptly convened a high-level significant meeting (just ten days prior to the games!) sidelining Kalmadi. The meeting concluded necessitating rapid implementation of international standards in the facilities (and infrastructure?) and pruning Kalmadi’s job profile. But when the Centre was so sure about Kalmadi’s inability and propensity towards irregularities then why it did not alienate him before the CWG prep came to practical footing? And when it had sniffed corruption, why it spared the guilty officials?
The Union government again became uncommunicative when its Sports Minister MS Gill uttered untimely inappropriate words over abject conditions of the games village that in spite of hiccups, god would help the country in successfully hosting the games. Well said Mr Minister, why be proactive when god is there to do everything for you. Gill is the minister who gives impish smiles even after snubbing the coaches of the internationally acclaimed medal-winning players. Nonetheless, the Centre considers him as an apt minister for the department.
Perhaps, both Gill and Kalmadi think that when the Indian players are accustomed of ill-facilitated sporting conditions sans hygiene, why they should bother for the international players. Maybe, the duo and even the Centre do not hold high regards for sports whether games are being played in a hi-tech stadium or a boggy playground, but for foreign players, the sporting career flourishes even after retirement. They are aware that the long and sustained career depends on better sporting environment and hence they emphasise on standardised facilities and hygiene.
Of course, the performance of the players affects in adverse conditions as their concentration deviates from the goal when they get embroiled in dealing unsolicited wearisome issues. However, neither the Centre was earlier excited about the participation of international players, nor it is now shocked when some of them have decided not to be the part of CWG 2010. Rather, the government simply (or desperately?) hopes that no more controversial cloud form over the CWG till it concludes. Is India hosting the games for prestige or it merely wants to win applause from the rest of the world that it had done a great job? Interpretation will differ from citizens to critics.
24 file nominations for state YC president post
Raipur, September 24, 2010
About 24 candidates have filed nomination papers for coveted post of Youth Congress (YC) president. These contestants are delegates who have been elected recently from their respective legislative Assembly areas. The YC’s PRO Jai Shankar Pathak and LRO Ganesh Langote on Friday informed that nine candidates from Raipur district have filed nominations to secure berth in the working committee of prestigious Raipur Lok Sabha constituency.
The elections for working committees at Lok Sabha and state levels would be held on September 27 and the results would be announced on the same day during the party state convention. The Assembly level polls concluded on September 22 and the delegates aspiring to contest LS and state level polls got two days to file nomination from September 23. But, since the Assembly level polls of Bilaspur district was pending, the election committee extended the last date to submit forms at PRO office in Congress Bhawan at Raipur till Friday (September 24).
With filing of nomination papers, the leaders of different camps in the party have now started wooing delegates to support their projected candidates. At legislative Assembly level polls, former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi’s camp claims that it had an edge over contestants fielded by PCC Working President and Korba Parliamentarian Charandas Mahant, AICC treasurer Motilal Vora and senior party leader Vidya Charan Shukla.
On Friday, rumours disseminated that Jogi had projected new face Uttam Vasudev from Marwahi (Bilaspur) for YC president post when his son reached Congress Bhawan along with the contestant. However, later Amit clarified that neither he nor his father had named any single candidate for YC president. Rather, he said, he had suggested nine names from different parts of the state for the coveted post. From Mahant’s camp, Deepak Mishra is said to be the frontrunner while Chouleshwar Chandrakar’s name has surfaced from Shukla’s camp.
Recounting of Raipur North & West today
Raipur, September 24, 2010
The recounting of Raipur North and West legislative Assembly areas would be done at 3 pm in Congress Bhawan on Saturday. The observer from Foundation for Advanced Management of Elections (FAME) AK Majumdar will be present during the recounting. The YC’s PRO Jai Shankar Pathak informed that the election committee nodded for recounting after some of aspirants from both the constituencies demanded for it raising doubts over counting. The polls for both the constituencies were held on September 21.
Govt hikes DA by 8%
Raipur, September 24, 2010
The state government on Friday announced to hike the dearness allowance (DA) of its officials and employees by eight percent. The decision was taken by Chief Minister Raman Singh after he held a meeting with Chief Secretary P Joy Oommen and Principal Secretary Finance Department Ajay Singh at Mantralaya. Over two lakhs of government servants will get 35 percent DA with the new hike while the government would have to endure an additional burden of Rs 200 crore. Singh has asked the officials to release an additional installment of 8% DA along with October’s salary as gift to the officials and employees on the occasion of Dussehra, Rajyotsav and Diwali.
The municipal corporation on Friday issued a directive that all the mutton markets would have to keep their shops close on
Saturday on the occasion of Kshamavani Parv. The Urban Administration and Development department has clearly instructed the
butchers and mutton shopkeepers that slaughtering of animals and selling of meat within the municipal limits would remain prohibited on Kshamavani Parv. The officials warned that the RMC would take stern action against those who would flout directives besides imposing heavy fine
on them. The civic administration has asked all the zonal sanitary inspectors to keep an eye on the mutton shops.
Tribute programme
Raipur, September 24, 2010
The RMC will pay floral tribute to the pioneer of integral humanism Pt Deendayal Upadhyay on the occasion of his birth anniversary on Saturday (September 25) in a programme organised before his statue at Telebandha near police station. The acting Mayor Manoj Kandoi has appealed to municipal Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava, leader of BJP corporators Subhash Tiwari, Mayor-in-Council (MiC) members, corporators, Aldermen and citizens to attend the tribute programme in large number.
FLIP SIDE
Does India deserve to host CWG?
Top players from most of the commonwealth nations are one-by-one opting out from the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2010 because of security and hygienic reasons. This is major setback not only for India as a host, but also for all sporting events that have now become a lucrative mode of earning and grabbing plenty of endorsements in the backdrop of doping, match fixing and an assortment of other blemishes.
However, the Centre believes that the international players are scared of the Delhi conditions because media has projected its negative image to the world. Although it admits in repressed voice that some of its top organising officials too are accountable for reprehensible conditions of games village.
In fact, the Centre is more afraid of the foreign media as compared to Indian media. The reason – the Centre know ‘corruption in CWG’ will always be preferable headline for India media than hygiene, but the foreign media would certainly embrace the other factors prominently that are directly linked with the health of the players.
Unfortunately, despite of being conversant with the flaws in preparations and knowing that the responsibility of CWG is in wrong hands (IOC chairman and chief of organising committee Suresh Kalmadi and his aides), the Government of India was ascertained that everything would be okay in the end. Ironically, it did not dare to surmise about the anticlimax before the commencement of the games, although it was pellucidly informed by the media beforehand.
The Centre’s rhetoric that India would provide world class infrastructure and facilities to the players during CWG was disrobed within first few weeks of preparations, but it remained unruffled by the deluge of embarrassing reports about below par constructions and irregularities in games village. However, it was agonised when an under-construction foot overbridge collapsed just on the main venue of the games village followed by ceiling collapse inside at the Jawahar Lal Nehru stadium complex.
Suddenly, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decided to come into picture and he abruptly convened a high-level significant meeting (just ten days prior to the games!) sidelining Kalmadi. The meeting concluded necessitating rapid implementation of international standards in the facilities (and infrastructure?) and pruning Kalmadi’s job profile. But when the Centre was so sure about Kalmadi’s inability and propensity towards irregularities then why it did not alienate him before the CWG prep came to practical footing? And when it had sniffed corruption, why it spared the guilty officials?
The Union government again became uncommunicative when its Sports Minister MS Gill uttered untimely inappropriate words over abject conditions of the games village that in spite of hiccups, god would help the country in successfully hosting the games. Well said Mr Minister, why be proactive when god is there to do everything for you. Gill is the minister who gives impish smiles even after snubbing the coaches of the internationally acclaimed medal-winning players. Nonetheless, the Centre considers him as an apt minister for the department.
Perhaps, both Gill and Kalmadi think that when the Indian players are accustomed of ill-facilitated sporting conditions sans hygiene, why they should bother for the international players. Maybe, the duo and even the Centre do not hold high regards for sports whether games are being played in a hi-tech stadium or a boggy playground, but for foreign players, the sporting career flourishes even after retirement. They are aware that the long and sustained career depends on better sporting environment and hence they emphasise on standardised facilities and hygiene.
Of course, the performance of the players affects in adverse conditions as their concentration deviates from the goal when they get embroiled in dealing unsolicited wearisome issues. However, neither the Centre was earlier excited about the participation of international players, nor it is now shocked when some of them have decided not to be the part of CWG 2010. Rather, the government simply (or desperately?) hopes that no more controversial cloud form over the CWG till it concludes. Is India hosting the games for prestige or it merely wants to win applause from the rest of the world that it had done a great job? Interpretation will differ from citizens to critics.
24 file nominations for state YC president post
Raipur, September 24, 2010
About 24 candidates have filed nomination papers for coveted post of Youth Congress (YC) president. These contestants are delegates who have been elected recently from their respective legislative Assembly areas. The YC’s PRO Jai Shankar Pathak and LRO Ganesh Langote on Friday informed that nine candidates from Raipur district have filed nominations to secure berth in the working committee of prestigious Raipur Lok Sabha constituency.
The elections for working committees at Lok Sabha and state levels would be held on September 27 and the results would be announced on the same day during the party state convention. The Assembly level polls concluded on September 22 and the delegates aspiring to contest LS and state level polls got two days to file nomination from September 23. But, since the Assembly level polls of Bilaspur district was pending, the election committee extended the last date to submit forms at PRO office in Congress Bhawan at Raipur till Friday (September 24).
With filing of nomination papers, the leaders of different camps in the party have now started wooing delegates to support their projected candidates. At legislative Assembly level polls, former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi’s camp claims that it had an edge over contestants fielded by PCC Working President and Korba Parliamentarian Charandas Mahant, AICC treasurer Motilal Vora and senior party leader Vidya Charan Shukla.
On Friday, rumours disseminated that Jogi had projected new face Uttam Vasudev from Marwahi (Bilaspur) for YC president post when his son reached Congress Bhawan along with the contestant. However, later Amit clarified that neither he nor his father had named any single candidate for YC president. Rather, he said, he had suggested nine names from different parts of the state for the coveted post. From Mahant’s camp, Deepak Mishra is said to be the frontrunner while Chouleshwar Chandrakar’s name has surfaced from Shukla’s camp.
Recounting of Raipur North & West today
Raipur, September 24, 2010
The recounting of Raipur North and West legislative Assembly areas would be done at 3 pm in Congress Bhawan on Saturday. The observer from Foundation for Advanced Management of Elections (FAME) AK Majumdar will be present during the recounting. The YC’s PRO Jai Shankar Pathak informed that the election committee nodded for recounting after some of aspirants from both the constituencies demanded for it raising doubts over counting. The polls for both the constituencies were held on September 21.
Govt hikes DA by 8%
Raipur, September 24, 2010
The state government on Friday announced to hike the dearness allowance (DA) of its officials and employees by eight percent. The decision was taken by Chief Minister Raman Singh after he held a meeting with Chief Secretary P Joy Oommen and Principal Secretary Finance Department Ajay Singh at Mantralaya. Over two lakhs of government servants will get 35 percent DA with the new hike while the government would have to endure an additional burden of Rs 200 crore. Singh has asked the officials to release an additional installment of 8% DA along with October’s salary as gift to the officials and employees on the occasion of Dussehra, Rajyotsav and Diwali.
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