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Water Augmentation Scheme to partially start from Apr 2011!


Raipur, December 16, 2010

The Rs 303.64 crore-Water Augmentation Scheme has delayed further and is likely to commence partially from April 2011. The Centrally-sponsored scheme under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was approved back in 2007 and was supposed to be completed before March 2010.
Considering that the full-fledged water supply through the scheme is not possible in the summer, the RMC has already geared up and the civic Commissioner has asked the officials to identify water-scarce areas beforehand to ensure proper water supply in those places with tankers.
So, the water war will continue in the capital this summer too as the municipal corporation will largely depend on tankers that would usually be ferried in the wards, but priority would be given to the influential people.
The RMC do not want to take responsibility for the delay in the project and says that it is the state’s Public Health Engineering (PHE) department that is looking after the project ever since its commencement. “It was the PHE that had prepared drawing and design of the proposal of Water Augmentation Scheme and the role of the municipal corporation will begin only after the completion of the entire project,” the civic officials said.
Under the scheme, a new filter pant with 150 million litres per day (MLD) capacity is being constructed at Ravanbhatha while 17 overhead water tanks will also be constructed. The PHE has almost completed construction works of ten overhead tanks but remaining seven are less likely to be ready before June 2011, informed sources.
The officials of municipal’s Water Works Department on anonymity say that the project got delayed because of two major reasons, first – due to its snail’s pace and second – because of fund crisis. They say the RMC could have solved 50 percent of the water crisis problem in 2010 summer in wake of timely completion of the task.
The Congress corporators say that the BJP government deliberately held up the project because their party got mandate in civic body election and came in power at RMC. “It is the BJP’s ploy to delay the Water Augmentation Scheme because it feared that the Congress would win the public appreciation for timely accomplishment of task,” they said.
“The government did not qualified to stalling the significant projects like Water Augmentation Scheme, but it also refrained to provide fund to carry out development works in the capital. So, if Raipurians still face water crisis and other problems in spite of living in the capital then it is the BJP that should clarify as it is ruling in the state for the past seven years,” they said.

The Executive Engineer RMC Water Works Department AK Malwe says – “The PHE has completed construction of ten overhead water tanks out of 17 and the pending task of new filter plant would also be accomplished by March 2011. So, we are hoping to start water supply from April 2011 under Water Augmentation Scheme with ten tanks initially. We have also planned to provide water in the areas where the construction of remaining overhead tanks would delay by directly pumping through rising pipeline.”



Prohibition on meat selling on tomorrow

Raipur, December 16, 2010

The municipal corporation on Thursday issued a directive that all the mutton markets would have to keep their shops close on December 18, 2010 on the occasion Baba Guru Ghasidas Jayanti. 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 December 18. The civic Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary has warned that the municipal would take stern action against those who would flout directives besides imposing heavy fine on them. He has asked all the zonal sanitary inspectors to keep an eye on the mutton shops on the birth anniversary of Baba Guru Ghasidas.



RMC gears up to solve water crisis before summer

Raipur, December 16, 2010

The RMC aims to solve the major problem of water crisis in the capital before summer 2011. In this regard, the president of municipal’s Water Works Department Jaggu Singh Thakur on Thursday said that he would conduct meeting of all the corporators of each zone to prepare lists of water-scarce areas so that the problem could be solved before it aggravates. Thakur said the corporators should also suggest methods and solutions to the municipal corporation to deal the water crisis. Thakur said the municipal desperately require effective work plan to permanently solve the water crisis in the city. On Thursday, he conducted meeting of corporators from zone 1 that was attended by Anjali Vibhar, Dr Purnprakash Jha, Radhika Rao, Purushottam Dewangan, Sundar Jogi, Babul Yadav, zone 1 commissioner BR Agrawal and officials from RMC’s Water Works Department including Executive Engineer AK Malwe, Assistant Engineers Hemant Solanki and AK Banjare.



RMC committed to benefit poor: Das

Raipur, December 16, 2010

The president of municipal’s Poverty Eradication Department Amit Das said that the RMC was committed to benefit the poor through its different schemes. In this connection, Das said the poor who do not have BPL cards too can get the benefits of municipal schemes after they would get enlisted among the BPL families. For this, such people would have to first submit an application signed and verified by their local corporators to the RMC. The municipal would conduct physical verification of all the applications and the final list would be approved by the advisory committee of the Poverty Eradication Department.


Haj House must for Muslims: Sahu

Raipur, December 16, 2010

The corporator of Chandrashekhar Azad ward Pardesi Ram Sahu on Thursday demanded from the state government to quickly construct a Haj House for the Muslim fraternity. He said a large number of Muslims go for Haj every year from the capital city the provision of Haj House would foster their documentation works and other formalities though it.



Students learn Darwin’s survival of the fittest

on 2nd day of INSPIRE Internship Winter Camp II at RSU

Raipur, December 16, 2010

Charles Darwin general theory of evolution presumes the development of life from non-life and stresses a purely naturalistic descent with modification. According to his theory, it was possible for species to change from one form and develop into another over time.  This led him to the notion that all life forms were not fixed but continuously changing or evolving. The information was imparted by Professor BN Singh, ex-head and coordinator from Department of Zoology Banaras Hindu University (BHU) while he was speaking on – ‘Mechanism of evolution: Darwin’s theory of natural selection’ on the second day of Pt Ravishankar Shukla University’s (RSU) five-day Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Internship Winter Camp II on Thursday.
“Darwin held notion that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor: the birds and the bananas, the fishes and the flowers. His general idea was that amongst a family of plants or animals individual members carried hereditary traits.  These traits would be general to the individual’s family, but not the species. It is these traits which could give the member a better chance of survival and reproduction.  This is what Darwin called - survival of the fittest or natural selection.  Those individuals with slightly better adaptations, according to the theory, would get more food, be healthier, live longer and, most importantly, have more mates.  As time progresses, traits become more obvious, therefore later generations will be more defined and, possibly after thousands of generations, form a new species,” Professor Singh said.
The second lecture of the day was imparted by Professor Durga Prasad Dewangan from Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad who informed the students about the development of atoms and molecules.
Professor Nitin Chattopadhyay from Jhadhavpur University Kolkata was the third speaker who imparted lecture on – ‘Learning: A reversible process’. He said the Chemistry is not a difficult subject and can be comprehended well through practical. He further taught the students about capillary action through a pen.
In the evening, Dr Pradeep Choubey, OSD Department of Higher Education informed the students about principles of mathematics and the inter-relation of its various branches. He also cited example of various renowned mathematicians by giving their brief history and contribution in the field of maths.
Later, in the interactive session, Professor BN Singh, Professor Nitin Chattopadhyay, Professor Durga Prasad Dewangan and Dr Pradeep Choubey gave answers to the questions of the students.

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