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Workshop on Sakshar Bharat


Raipur, Aug 04, 2010

For effective implementation of Sakshar Bharat programme, the state government will organise workshop in all the development block headquarters. According to information, the workshop will be organised in Government Higher Secondary Sonhat on August 5, conference room of Janpad Panchayat office Bharatpur on August 6, conference room of Janpad Panchayat office Manendragarh on August 7, community building Kharhgavan on August 9 and in Manas Bhawan Baikunthpur on August 10.


Public hearing from August 10

Raipur, Aug 04, 2010

The Women’s Commission will conduct public hearing to redress the women-related issues in various places of Bilaspur district on August 10, 11 and 12, 2010. According to information, the public hearing would be conducted in Chhattisgarh Bhawan at Bilaspur city on August 10, rest house in Takhatpur on August 11 and at Kota rest house on August 12. The schedule of the hearing would from 11 am to 4 pm. The Chairperson of Women’s Commission Vibha Rao has asked all the petitioners to mandatorily present in the hearings.


BJP ST Morcha meeting today

Raipur, Aug 04, 2010

The BJP ST Morcha meeting has been called upon at party office Ekatma Parisar at 4 pm on Thursday. The meeting will be attended by the Morcha’s national president Faggan Singh Kulaste, national coordinator Arjun Munda, senior patron Baba Apte and BJP national secretary Devendra Yadav who will give significant guidelines to the workers. The Morcha’s state secretary Vikas Markam informed that the national leaders would reach capital at 7.30 am on Thursday morning from New Delhi. They will first attend a programme in the city and then later participate in the Morcha meeting, he added. The Morcha’s state president Satyanand Rathiya and former president Dinesh Kashyap have appealed from all the office-bearers and workers to attend the meeting.


Penalty notice of Rs 25,000 to RMC Commissioner

For not lodging FIR about municipal’s lost documents

First ever incident of penalty against any IAS official in country

Raipur, Aug 04, 2010

The State Information Commission (SIC) has shot penalty notice of Rs 25,000 on RMC Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary for not following its instructions to lodge complaint with the police regarding municipal’s lost documents from zonal offices that contained information about road works. The Commission had also directed Choudhary to fix responsibility on the reckless officials, but he did not obey the directive.
The CPCC spokesperson Rajesh Bissa informed that he had sought information about work orders of repairing of the five roads of the city after 2001 and the copies of the contracts from the RMC under Right to Information Act. He alleged that all the five roads were repaired several times by the civic authorities although they were aware that the roads were under guarantee period.
Earlier Bissa was denied any information but when he raised the issue before the SIC, the RMC informed him that the roads from Ashoka Tower chowk (Shankar Nagar) to Avanti Bai chowk and from CM House triangle to Rest House were repaired only one in the past nine years.
Bissa raised his objection before the SIC and informed it that the road from CM House triangle to Rest House was actually repaired six times in the past nine years and the municipal was deliberately hiding the facts. When the SIC summoned Choudhary in this connection on April 20, 2010, he informed that relevant documents were lost. The SIC directed Choudhary to conduct inquiry into the matter in 15 days by fixing responsibility on the guilty ones for losing the documents and lodge an FIR with the police besides submitting an affidavit regarding it.
However, Bissa said, no action had been taken by Choudhary even after completion of four months of SIC’s directives. Taking serious note on this, the Information Commissioner Anil Joshi on August 3, 2010 served a penalty notice of Rs 25,000 to Choudhary.
Bissa alleged of huge corruption on road construction works done by the RMC and said the relevant documents had been stealthily taken out from the zonal offices.


Govt survey to acquire civic hospitals begins

Raipur, Aug 04, 2010

State government has commenced survey to acquire all the municipal hospitals. The Health department will expand the existing medical facilities in these hospitals besides improving the infrastructure on the basis of the survey report, informed the relevant officials. According to information, the acquisition process of the hospitals would take at least six months.
The condition of the municipal hospitals is aggravating day-by-day in the absence of adequate doctors, support staff, equipments and medicines. The patients arriving in these hospitals complain that the existing staffers either ask them to go to district hospital or the private medical centres. Considering abject condition of the municipal hospitals and less arrival of patients, the state government has decided to take them in its custody.
Some of the civic bodies including Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) had already requested from the government to take possession of its hospitals to run them properly by enhancing the facilities.
The Health department has prepared a roadmap to acquire the hospitals and has also evolved consensus about it with the Urban Administration and Development department.
Sources informed that the Health department first decided to conduct survey of the hospitals to know the ground realities and to include all the factors from infrastructure to medical staff and other essential resources in the comprehensive report.
At present, the Health department has issued directives to its officials of Raipur and Bilaspur to prepare survey report of the municipal hospitals of their respective areas. The officials informed that considering more number of civic hospitals in Raipur and Bilaspur as compared to other cities of the state, the department had commenced the survey process from the two major cities. They further informed that the government would only run the hospital and the ownership of land and building would remain with the respective municipal corporations as usual.

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