Says mafias backed by BJP control flow of PDS ration
Raipur, May 22, 2010
The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) has alleged that huge corruption prevailed in state government’s Public Distribution System (PDS) and the flow of entire ration under the scheme was being controlled by the mafias backed by the BJP.
“Chief Minister Raman Singh has given only partial information about the state’s PDS to the Planning Commission of India while giving presentation about it at New Delhi on Friday,” said PCC president Dhanendra Sahu on Saturday. “There is nothing new in Singh’s presentation. He has simply informed that the incoming and outgoing process of the ration under PDS is being monitored under Global Positioning System (GPS),” Sahu said.
“However, the practical reality is completely shocking. As soon as the ration reaches the ration shop, the mafias shift it to the nearby godowns and sell it at higher rates. This ration again reached to the government godowns through custom milling done by the rice millers. But the CM poses mysterious silence over this glaring corruption because the bigwigs of his party are involved in it,” Sahu added.
He said the state’s PDS was sheer deception as the eligible poor were not getting ration cards while a large number of ineligible ones had easily managed to enlist themselves among the beneficiaries.
Sahu claimed that the recent investigation that unleashed fraudulence of about 1.50 lakh fake ration cards was only a superficial success and deeper probe in this connection could extract startling facts. He also criticised the CM for taking credit of the quota allotted by the Centre for APL cardholders by renaming it as Mukhyamantri Khadyann Yojana.
He questioned how the government could claim its PDS as successful model when its people were involved in the irregularities prevailed in the scheme and poor were not receiving their share of ration. He said the PCC would give actual information about status of PDS in Chhattisgarh to Prime Dr Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA and AICC President Sonia Gandhi and Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
Sahu reminded the CM that how could he boast about the effectiveness of the PDS when he himself had accepted it as flawed after his party’s loss in one by-election. He asked why the government did not take any action against those mafias whose licenses of ration shops were revoked on grounds of irregularities and why the CM was resisting to order inquiry into fake ration card cases.
Santoshi Nagar residents gherao RMC office, stage dharna
Raipur, May 22, 2010
The residents of Santoshi Nagar gheraoed the RMC office on Saturday in protest of the municipal’s demolition works being carried out in the area for construction of nullah and road widening process. They attempted to enter into the office to give a memorandum to the Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary with their demand to stop demolition works, but when they learnt that he was not in the office, they staged dharna in front of the municipal office.
Later, Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak met the residents and urged them to give the memorandum to Health Officer Dr Amrit Chopra.
The residents said the demolition would affect about 80 shopkeepers of the area, but the RMC had neither fixed any compensation package for them nor had planned to rehabilitate them elsewhere.
Arman nullah to be cleaned in one week
Raipur, May 22, 2010
The RMC’s special sanitation gang commenced cleaning of Arman nullah in Raja Talab area (Guru Govind Singh ward) on Saturday. The officials informed that the cleaning process will be complete in one week. The municipal has also engaged a poclain for proper cleaning of the nullah. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak and Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava inspected the area separately on Saturday morning and directed the Zone-3 Commissioner Subhash Chandrakar and Health Officer Dr Preetam Mishra to monitor the task and complete it in the given timeframe so that the people could not face inconvenience during rainy season.
RMC notice to Chidambara Point owner Balkrishna Agrawal
To produce license of the hotel
Raipur, May 22, 2010
The municipal on Saturday served notice to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Balkrishna Agrawal to produce the license of his hotel Chidambara Point located at GE Road (opposite to Collectorate premises). The notice was served after a team of RMC officials led by Zone-3 Health Officer Dr Preetam Mishra visited to the hotel to check its license, but the hotel manager failed to produce it.
“We were surprised when the hotel manager Arjun Verma said he did not have license of the hotel. We asked him to produce the license at the earliest and to renew it. We further instructed him that if the hotel owner has not obtained license then he would have to mandatorily apply for it and he would also have to pay penalty along with new license fee,” said Mishra. The hotel manager tried to create pressure on Mishra and asked him to talk to the owner over phone but he refused.
Later, the RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava also reached the spot, but was severely irked when he saw garbage and stale food materials thrown on the main road and drain near the hotel. Shrivastava directed Mishra to ensure that the hotel owner should incur the cost of lifting the garbage from the road and the drain and not to make the area unclean in future.
“We have initially warned the hotel manager to avoid making the ambience unhygienic by throwing garbage in public place. We have also cautioned him apparently that the RMC would impose heavy penalty on the hotel owner if it would not follow its instructions,” Mishra said.
The RMC’s Zone-3 Health Officer Dr Preetam Mishra said every hotel and restaurant owner should first obtain license from the municipal’s relevant department under Gumasta Act (Shops and Establishment Act). Using the provisions of the Act, the RMC can impose penalty up to Rs 5000 on the hotels being operated without license, he said. Similarly, the license renewal fee of the hotel can also go beyond Rs 1000 depending on the status of license, he added.
Bhoomipujan today
Raipur, May 22, 2010
Urban Administration and Development Minister Rajesh Munat will perform bhoomipujan of the construction of boundary wall and development work of the land allotted to the Kinnar community at Labhandi in Maharshi Valmiki ward at 10 am on Sunday morning. The programme would be chaired by Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak in presence of Raipur (Rural) legislator Nandkumar Sahu, municipal Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava, MiC member and Public Works department president Lakhwant Singh Gil and local corporator Bindu Maheshwari.
Raipur, May 22, 2010
The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) has alleged that huge corruption prevailed in state government’s Public Distribution System (PDS) and the flow of entire ration under the scheme was being controlled by the mafias backed by the BJP.
“Chief Minister Raman Singh has given only partial information about the state’s PDS to the Planning Commission of India while giving presentation about it at New Delhi on Friday,” said PCC president Dhanendra Sahu on Saturday. “There is nothing new in Singh’s presentation. He has simply informed that the incoming and outgoing process of the ration under PDS is being monitored under Global Positioning System (GPS),” Sahu said.
“However, the practical reality is completely shocking. As soon as the ration reaches the ration shop, the mafias shift it to the nearby godowns and sell it at higher rates. This ration again reached to the government godowns through custom milling done by the rice millers. But the CM poses mysterious silence over this glaring corruption because the bigwigs of his party are involved in it,” Sahu added.
He said the state’s PDS was sheer deception as the eligible poor were not getting ration cards while a large number of ineligible ones had easily managed to enlist themselves among the beneficiaries.
Sahu claimed that the recent investigation that unleashed fraudulence of about 1.50 lakh fake ration cards was only a superficial success and deeper probe in this connection could extract startling facts. He also criticised the CM for taking credit of the quota allotted by the Centre for APL cardholders by renaming it as Mukhyamantri Khadyann Yojana.
He questioned how the government could claim its PDS as successful model when its people were involved in the irregularities prevailed in the scheme and poor were not receiving their share of ration. He said the PCC would give actual information about status of PDS in Chhattisgarh to Prime Dr Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA and AICC President Sonia Gandhi and Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
Sahu reminded the CM that how could he boast about the effectiveness of the PDS when he himself had accepted it as flawed after his party’s loss in one by-election. He asked why the government did not take any action against those mafias whose licenses of ration shops were revoked on grounds of irregularities and why the CM was resisting to order inquiry into fake ration card cases.
Santoshi Nagar residents gherao RMC office, stage dharna
Raipur, May 22, 2010
The residents of Santoshi Nagar gheraoed the RMC office on Saturday in protest of the municipal’s demolition works being carried out in the area for construction of nullah and road widening process. They attempted to enter into the office to give a memorandum to the Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary with their demand to stop demolition works, but when they learnt that he was not in the office, they staged dharna in front of the municipal office.
Later, Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak met the residents and urged them to give the memorandum to Health Officer Dr Amrit Chopra.
The residents said the demolition would affect about 80 shopkeepers of the area, but the RMC had neither fixed any compensation package for them nor had planned to rehabilitate them elsewhere.
Arman nullah to be cleaned in one week
Raipur, May 22, 2010
The RMC’s special sanitation gang commenced cleaning of Arman nullah in Raja Talab area (Guru Govind Singh ward) on Saturday. The officials informed that the cleaning process will be complete in one week. The municipal has also engaged a poclain for proper cleaning of the nullah. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak and Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava inspected the area separately on Saturday morning and directed the Zone-3 Commissioner Subhash Chandrakar and Health Officer Dr Preetam Mishra to monitor the task and complete it in the given timeframe so that the people could not face inconvenience during rainy season.
RMC notice to Chidambara Point owner Balkrishna Agrawal
To produce license of the hotel
Raipur, May 22, 2010
The municipal on Saturday served notice to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Balkrishna Agrawal to produce the license of his hotel Chidambara Point located at GE Road (opposite to Collectorate premises). The notice was served after a team of RMC officials led by Zone-3 Health Officer Dr Preetam Mishra visited to the hotel to check its license, but the hotel manager failed to produce it.
“We were surprised when the hotel manager Arjun Verma said he did not have license of the hotel. We asked him to produce the license at the earliest and to renew it. We further instructed him that if the hotel owner has not obtained license then he would have to mandatorily apply for it and he would also have to pay penalty along with new license fee,” said Mishra. The hotel manager tried to create pressure on Mishra and asked him to talk to the owner over phone but he refused.
Later, the RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava also reached the spot, but was severely irked when he saw garbage and stale food materials thrown on the main road and drain near the hotel. Shrivastava directed Mishra to ensure that the hotel owner should incur the cost of lifting the garbage from the road and the drain and not to make the area unclean in future.
“We have initially warned the hotel manager to avoid making the ambience unhygienic by throwing garbage in public place. We have also cautioned him apparently that the RMC would impose heavy penalty on the hotel owner if it would not follow its instructions,” Mishra said.
The RMC’s Zone-3 Health Officer Dr Preetam Mishra said every hotel and restaurant owner should first obtain license from the municipal’s relevant department under Gumasta Act (Shops and Establishment Act). Using the provisions of the Act, the RMC can impose penalty up to Rs 5000 on the hotels being operated without license, he said. Similarly, the license renewal fee of the hotel can also go beyond Rs 1000 depending on the status of license, he added.
Bhoomipujan today
Raipur, May 22, 2010
Urban Administration and Development Minister Rajesh Munat will perform bhoomipujan of the construction of boundary wall and development work of the land allotted to the Kinnar community at Labhandi in Maharshi Valmiki ward at 10 am on Sunday morning. The programme would be chaired by Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak in presence of Raipur (Rural) legislator Nandkumar Sahu, municipal Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava, MiC member and Public Works department president Lakhwant Singh Gil and local corporator Bindu Maheshwari.
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