Raipur, July 08, 2010
A Tatibandh-based senior citizen has alleged that the sub postmaster (SPM) of his locality was mentally harassing him for the past 18 months and not providing his withdrawal payments timely. He said he incur financial losses in terms of annual interest owing to indifferent attitude of the SPM.
In this regard, IS Chandrakar, a 71-year-old retired principal from an engineering college, has sent a written complaint letter to the Post Master General (PMG) seeking justice. He informed that he was a customer of the post office for the past 40 years and had never faced such problems earlier. “However, ever since the new SPM came, neither I am getting my withdrawal payments at time nor my monthly payments through my accounts are being given to me on due date,” he said.
Chandrakar has lodged several complaints with the customer grievance cell of the postal department, but never get respite.
He asked from the PMG whether all his financial losses due to SPM would be compensated by the postal department and in what period of time appropriate action would be taken against the guilty ones.
RMC aims to plant 40k saplings
In this regard, IS Chandrakar, a 71-year-old retired principal from an engineering college, has sent a written complaint letter to the Post Master General (PMG) seeking justice. He informed that he was a customer of the post office for the past 40 years and had never faced such problems earlier. “However, ever since the new SPM came, neither I am getting my withdrawal payments at time nor my monthly payments through my accounts are being given to me on due date,” he said.
Chandrakar has lodged several complaints with the customer grievance cell of the postal department, but never get respite.
He asked from the PMG whether all his financial losses due to SPM would be compensated by the postal department and in what period of time appropriate action would be taken against the guilty ones.
RMC aims to plant 40k saplings
Raipur, July 08, 2010
The RMC will plant about 40,000 saplings in this monsoon season under its massive plantation drive. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak on Thursday appealed to all the citizens including social organisations, resident welfare associations, NGOs and school students to help the civic body in making the capital city green by planting saplings. Nayak said the municipal would also provide five saplings to each citizen free-of-cost for plantation. For this, each zone will get 1000 saplings for distribution.
Several quintal poly waste from Bombay Market nullah removed
Several quintal poly waste from Bombay Market nullah removed
RMC also broke concrete lane constructed over nullah in the area
Raipur, July 08, 2010
The RMC on Thursday removed several quintal polythene waste from the nullah flowing through Bombay Market that was causing waterlogging in front of Coffee House at GE road during heavy showers. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak appealed to the people not to throw polythene waste in the nullah or drains that hamper sanitation works of the municipal corporation.
The RMC sanitation gang also broke the concrete lane at Bombay Market that was constructed over the nullah and was obstructing the cleanliness works. Notably, the building of Chamber of Commerce and Industries has also been constructed over the nullah owing to which the RMC had not done cleanliness works for more than 20 years.
The RMC has recently complete first phase of nullah cleaning works in different parts of the city and had taken out several ton garbage.
Government aims 80 % literacy rate in two years
The RMC sanitation gang also broke the concrete lane at Bombay Market that was constructed over the nullah and was obstructing the cleanliness works. Notably, the building of Chamber of Commerce and Industries has also been constructed over the nullah owing to which the RMC had not done cleanliness works for more than 20 years.
The RMC has recently complete first phase of nullah cleaning works in different parts of the city and had taken out several ton garbage.
Government aims 80 % literacy rate in two years
Raipur, July 08, 2010
State government has set target to achieve 80 percent literacy rate in next two years. Chief Minister Raman Singh informed about the government’s plan pertaining to its literacy campaign after he released a book – Aakhri Jhaampi, published as a basic guide under Adult Education programme for the illiterates belonging to the age-group of 15-35 years at his residence on Thursday. Singh said literacy improve the lifestyle of a person. The book has been published by State Resource Centre.
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Sigh of relief
When Union Home Secretary GK Pillai, during his recent Chhattisgarh visit, ruled out the possibility of deploying army in the Maoist-hit areas of the state in spite of series of naxal violence in the past couple of months, the leaders from both the ruling BJP as well as Opposition Congress heaved a sigh of relief. Although, both parties genuinely want eradication of naxalism from the tribal belts but not through army route.
Contradiction surfaces at this juncture. The BJP’s national leadership wants army to deal naxals in Chhattisgarh, but this was made public only recently by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj while interacting with media persons during her Raipur visit. Swaraj first replied to the query on naxalism (now terrorism) in an obscure manner, but when the media insisted, she said a big ‘yes’ for army on party’s behalf. However, before her announcement, she had transferred the question to the Chief Minister Raman Singh terming him appropriate person to answer. Singh’s reply was completely indecipherable. He looked in accordance with Swaraj pertaining to use of army as a last resort to solve naxal problem, but the inference of his broken statements clearly indicated that he wanted Centre to take final decision after trying all permutations and combinations. But why Singh is not overtly supporting army deployment? The reason is simple. He knows that the army operations in the naxal-infested areas would also claim several innocent lives as it happened in Punjab and that might dethrone his party in the next elections. Hence, he wants to adopt the development route to win the confidence and mandate of tribals and has reasserted his faith in existing paramilitary forces.
The state Congress was also apprehensive that if the army was to be pressed into service in the naxal belts, people would not give it opportunity in the next Vidhan Sabha elections. Therefore, the Congress leaders, too, had kept their fingers crossed until the Union Home Secretary finally proclaimed before the media that army was not required in the present scenario and that it would take at least 5-7 years to eradicate naxal problem completely.
Speech skills
There are few ministers in the Chief Minister Raman Singh’s Cabinet who have been advised by their fellow ministers as well as by the Opposition Congress to hone their speech skills. One such minister, who is rather a novice in the Cabinet, when addressing a group of investors arrived recently in the capital from different parts of the country, quickly comprehended that he would have to adopt an eclectic approach while interacting with non-political brains. He must be thinking that extolling his government’s works in state Assembly was a job more comfortable than to convince the investors that the money they spend in the state would give them high returns. Another minister, who hails from Bilaspur district, always speaks through the craftily knitted words served by the officials of his department. The Opposition Congress sporadically cracks a joke on him for groping for words when he has to answer any query pertaining to his portfolio. However, he has gained little confidence now after giving a long written reply to the flurry of the questions shot by former chief minister Ajit Jogi on irregularities in his department. Why does the state BJP unit not invite the party’s firebrand figures and speech-maestros like Narendra Modi, Shatrughan Sinha or even the entertainer Navjot Singh Siddhu to train its ministers and legislators, and of course, the workers to enrich their political vocabulary ?
Ubiquitous leaders
There are too many politicos who are ubiquitous and you will find them even at those places where they are not supposed to be. But when you ask them about their omnipresence, they will answer gravely – “We are politicians. It is our duty to be present in every appropriate and inappropriate place.” One corporator-turned-MLA from Congress also belongs to the bandwagon of ubiquitous leaders. You can easily identify him even in a thickly crowded place because of his tallness. The people close to him say that he had yet to break the shell of corporator and think big, not just for his ward but for his entire constituency. Dear MLA, whether you are a corporator or a legislator, the issues would be the same, but with your domain expanded, you need to meet the expectations of more number of voters. Make sure, as your past hard work earned you an MLA berth, you do not lose the opportunity for same profile next time due to your existing approach – to be in limelight without work. Remember, sometimes, omnipresence cost dear to oneself as has happened with one of your party’s district-level leaders who had rather been rebuked by senior leaders to control his tongue in public.
In pursuit of prominence
Another state-level Youth Congress leader has categorically instructed his adjutants to instantly inform him wherever they discover the people angry with the system, especially students. This leader has, in fact, decided to keep on creating scenes at Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (RSU) campus in support of students’ issues. This idea serves him two purposes, one – his image will develop as staunch supporter of students which he will encash later in terms of arranging massive crowd during arrival of his party’s national leaders and two – he wants to develop his overall image as a professional politician in well-nigh contradiction with his physical features.
Self-reformation
In BJP, two leaders who suddenly became ‘Page 1’ figures for media due to their empire in the field of construction have decided to do the damage control exercise or more precisely an image rebuilding exercise by appearing in every event of the party, meetings and public as well as media interactive sessions with their humble faces and gentle ‘clarifying statements’.
Feigned overlordship
There is another BJP leader and a corporator who has been elevated to a more dignified profile in the municipal corporation, but he poses as if he has an aura of an MLA or a Parliamentarian. He, too, cannot help going to people which is a natural propensity of a public representative, but always trespasses his limits and starts issuing directives to the officials which is supposed to be given either by the head of the civic administration or by the first person of the capital city.
When Union Home Secretary GK Pillai, during his recent Chhattisgarh visit, ruled out the possibility of deploying army in the Maoist-hit areas of the state in spite of series of naxal violence in the past couple of months, the leaders from both the ruling BJP as well as Opposition Congress heaved a sigh of relief. Although, both parties genuinely want eradication of naxalism from the tribal belts but not through army route.
Contradiction surfaces at this juncture. The BJP’s national leadership wants army to deal naxals in Chhattisgarh, but this was made public only recently by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj while interacting with media persons during her Raipur visit. Swaraj first replied to the query on naxalism (now terrorism) in an obscure manner, but when the media insisted, she said a big ‘yes’ for army on party’s behalf. However, before her announcement, she had transferred the question to the Chief Minister Raman Singh terming him appropriate person to answer. Singh’s reply was completely indecipherable. He looked in accordance with Swaraj pertaining to use of army as a last resort to solve naxal problem, but the inference of his broken statements clearly indicated that he wanted Centre to take final decision after trying all permutations and combinations. But why Singh is not overtly supporting army deployment? The reason is simple. He knows that the army operations in the naxal-infested areas would also claim several innocent lives as it happened in Punjab and that might dethrone his party in the next elections. Hence, he wants to adopt the development route to win the confidence and mandate of tribals and has reasserted his faith in existing paramilitary forces.
The state Congress was also apprehensive that if the army was to be pressed into service in the naxal belts, people would not give it opportunity in the next Vidhan Sabha elections. Therefore, the Congress leaders, too, had kept their fingers crossed until the Union Home Secretary finally proclaimed before the media that army was not required in the present scenario and that it would take at least 5-7 years to eradicate naxal problem completely.
Speech skills
There are few ministers in the Chief Minister Raman Singh’s Cabinet who have been advised by their fellow ministers as well as by the Opposition Congress to hone their speech skills. One such minister, who is rather a novice in the Cabinet, when addressing a group of investors arrived recently in the capital from different parts of the country, quickly comprehended that he would have to adopt an eclectic approach while interacting with non-political brains. He must be thinking that extolling his government’s works in state Assembly was a job more comfortable than to convince the investors that the money they spend in the state would give them high returns. Another minister, who hails from Bilaspur district, always speaks through the craftily knitted words served by the officials of his department. The Opposition Congress sporadically cracks a joke on him for groping for words when he has to answer any query pertaining to his portfolio. However, he has gained little confidence now after giving a long written reply to the flurry of the questions shot by former chief minister Ajit Jogi on irregularities in his department. Why does the state BJP unit not invite the party’s firebrand figures and speech-maestros like Narendra Modi, Shatrughan Sinha or even the entertainer Navjot Singh Siddhu to train its ministers and legislators, and of course, the workers to enrich their political vocabulary ?
Ubiquitous leaders
There are too many politicos who are ubiquitous and you will find them even at those places where they are not supposed to be. But when you ask them about their omnipresence, they will answer gravely – “We are politicians. It is our duty to be present in every appropriate and inappropriate place.” One corporator-turned-MLA from Congress also belongs to the bandwagon of ubiquitous leaders. You can easily identify him even in a thickly crowded place because of his tallness. The people close to him say that he had yet to break the shell of corporator and think big, not just for his ward but for his entire constituency. Dear MLA, whether you are a corporator or a legislator, the issues would be the same, but with your domain expanded, you need to meet the expectations of more number of voters. Make sure, as your past hard work earned you an MLA berth, you do not lose the opportunity for same profile next time due to your existing approach – to be in limelight without work. Remember, sometimes, omnipresence cost dear to oneself as has happened with one of your party’s district-level leaders who had rather been rebuked by senior leaders to control his tongue in public.
In pursuit of prominence
Another state-level Youth Congress leader has categorically instructed his adjutants to instantly inform him wherever they discover the people angry with the system, especially students. This leader has, in fact, decided to keep on creating scenes at Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (RSU) campus in support of students’ issues. This idea serves him two purposes, one – his image will develop as staunch supporter of students which he will encash later in terms of arranging massive crowd during arrival of his party’s national leaders and two – he wants to develop his overall image as a professional politician in well-nigh contradiction with his physical features.
Self-reformation
In BJP, two leaders who suddenly became ‘Page 1’ figures for media due to their empire in the field of construction have decided to do the damage control exercise or more precisely an image rebuilding exercise by appearing in every event of the party, meetings and public as well as media interactive sessions with their humble faces and gentle ‘clarifying statements’.
Feigned overlordship
There is another BJP leader and a corporator who has been elevated to a more dignified profile in the municipal corporation, but he poses as if he has an aura of an MLA or a Parliamentarian. He, too, cannot help going to people which is a natural propensity of a public representative, but always trespasses his limits and starts issuing directives to the officials which is supposed to be given either by the head of the civic administration or by the first person of the capital city.
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