Raipur, June 24, 2010
The RMC will soon start awareness campaign pertaining to rainwater harvesting in the capital through pamphlets and other modes. The municipal Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary issued a directive in this regard to all the deputy commissioners, zone commissioners and executive engineers during a meeting that held at his office on Thursday.
Choudhary further directed the officials to shot notice to the owners of big edifices including schools, commercial complexes and hospitals apart from government offices to quickly install rainwater harvesting system. Expressing his concern over the falling groundwater table, Choudhary asked the officials to pose stern face towards those who would not follow the instructions and to charge penalty at the rate of Re 1 per square foot if any building owner would not install the rainwater harvesting system within the given timeframe.
He further instructed Deputy Commissioner KK Dubey and GS Kshatriya to prepare a list of property tax payers according to the headcount done under Census 2011.
On rising encroachments in the city, especially on the public places, Choudhary asked the officials to remove all the illegal occupants using 3D machines and engaging ground staff. He said if the municipal lacked resources for demolition works then a proposal to purchase relevant machines and other items should be prepared for approval. He said the demolition squad should regularly inspect the main roads as well as the busy market areas and must quickly remove the encroachments if they receive any complaint from the local residents or shopkeepers.
He directed the zone commissioners to identify open space in their areas for parking lot so that motorists could be encouraged to park their vehicles in the proper place instead of road.
Considering a couple of monsoon showers in the capital, Choudhary asked the officials to launch massive plantation drives to make the city green.
On complaints regarding habit of throwing litter by the passers-by and locals near dharna spot in Shyam talkies, Choudhary said such people should be fined and warned not to reiterate such practices in the future.
Choudhary also expressed his annoyance over the slow pace of construction works of indoor stadium and asked the Executive Engineer (Planning) NS Rathore to complete the project at the earliest. He also instructed Rathore commence outer development works of the outdoor stadium.
Choudhary informed officials that he had sent a proposal to the Commissioner Directorate Urban Administration Department pertaining to development of the capital at the cost of Rs 216.74 crore that include development of the main roads, macadamisation, roadside beautification, development of big nullahs, construction of zone offices, construction of new swimming pool and central library and fund to purchase of vehicles and poclains for demolition squad.
‘Install rainwater harvesting system thru experts’
Raipur, June 24, 2010
RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava on Thursday took a meeting of eight rainwater harvesting experts registered with the municipal at his office. In the meeting, Shrivastava informed the experts that he had received a number of complaints from the people that they receive polluted water after installing rainwater harvesting system in their houses. He said people were getting polluted water because they had roped unskilled group or companies to install rainwater harvesting system. He asked the officials to create awareness among the people to take help of the experts to install the water conservation system. He further asked the experts to avoid taking inordinate fee for installation process.
Rlys nod for Raipur-Dhamtari broad gauge proposal
Raipur, June 24, 2010
Indian Railways have agreed for converting the existing narrow gauge Raipur-Dhamtari rail track into broad gauge. This track would also link Naya Raipur, Abhanpur and Rajim. The entire revised estimated cost of the entire project would be about Rs 278 crore of which the state government would incur Rs 186 crore. This proposal would now be sent to the Railway Ministry for approval and for provision in budget. Hailing the decision taken by the Railways in the state government’s favour, Chief Minister Raman Singh said the project would open new avenues of development in the state and would also benefit the people residing in Dhamtari district and in its ambience. He also expressed his gratitude towards the Centre for fulfilling this age-old demand of the Chhattisgarh people and hoped that the project would soon commence.
Ambedkar to become superspecialty hospital
Raipur, June 24, 2010
With it aim to upgrade Ambedkar hospital into a superspecialty unit, state government is gradually installing modern medical equipments and the recent installation of integrated oxygen plant in the hospital premises to provide the facility of liquid oxygen to the patients is seen as one of the major steps through which the state’s largest medial service centre would appear into a new avatar.
Notably, the new integrated oxygen plant with 11,450 litres capacity was dedicated to the public by Chief Minister Raman Singh on June 19, 2010. According to information, the plant would start functioning after a team of experts from Government of India’s Explosive department would complete their inspection. The team is expected to arrive from department’s regional office Bhopal next week. In this connection, the Health Minister Amar Agrawal has issued necessary directives to the officials.
The plant has been installed at the cost of Rs 20 lakh. After inspection of the plant by the team of explosive department, the government would sign an agreement with the one Jamshedpur-based company BOC India Limited for continuous supply of liquid oxygen.
The officials of Ambedkar hospital informed that an electronic sensor has been installed in the plant through which the oxygen supplying company would regularly monitor the available stock of liquid oxygen in it.
The officials said the commencement of the integrated plant would solve the problem of oxygen cylinder crisis. Currently, the hospital requires at least 75-80 oxygen cylinders everyday and the monthly expenditure of oxygen facility through cylinders is about Rs five lakh. The officials said the integrated plant would not only bring down the expenditure to half but it would also be convenient for the patients as there would not be any need to change the cylinders frequently. Besides, the plant would also help in checking cylinder thefts cases, they said.
The Health Minister has reiterated that the government was committed to provide best medical facilities to the patients in the government hospitals and in this direction the three major medical centres – Ambedkar at Raipur, CIMS at Bilaspur and Maharani hospital at Jagdalpur would be upgraded into superspecialty units.
At present, the facilities provided in the Ambedkar hospital are – MRI, CT scan, Angiography, Haemodialysis, cochlear implant surgery and linear accelerator and simulator machine for cancer patients.
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