YEH MERA INDIA
police turn banker to safe keep ` 92 crore on road
Jaipur: A Rajasthan Roadways bus hired to transport a whopping ` 92 crore from outstation bank branches found no takers at the Reserve Bank of India branch in Jaipur as the bus arrived late after the bank hours.
The cash was brought from three bank branches of Alwar and one each from Shahpura and Kotputli to be deposited in the Reserve Bank.
The bus reportedly got delayed due to traffic jam and reached the Reserve Bank at 6:15 pm. However, the Reserve Bank officials refused to deposit the amount since the bank was already closed.
Courtesy RBI, the bus was left stranded on the road for almost four hours before it was moved to a safer destination in police lines after intervention by the Jaipur police.
Deputy Manager of State Bank of India R L Meena, who accompanied the bus from Alwar, said their vehicle got delayed due to unavailability of labour at Kotputli and traffic jam following heavy rain in the region.
The police in-charge of treasury, Ramroop accompanying the cash said they requested the RBI branch to consider it as a special case since it was such a heavy amount but they did not get permission.
As a result, the heavily guarded bus carrying ` 92 crore waited for almost four hours till the decision was taken to move it to a safer place.
This is the first incident in the state capital where the city police had to come forward to do safe keeping for a staggering amount of `92 crore as the bank pulled down its shutters, refusing to take the amount after office hours.
Get cured – Do not pay - bash the doctor
Thane: The Government may have issued an ordinance stipulating five-year rigorous punishment to patients manhandling doctors, but that in no way prevented a patient – who even after getting cured of malaria fever refused to pay the bill – and his family members from bashing up the doctor instead. Doctor suffered internal wounds on his chest and arm and was admitted to ICU of the civil hospital.
The police have arrested Satyawan Khedekar along with his father Kashiram Khedekar, 60, Yogesh Jankar, 25, Ganesh Ambre, 20, and Thomson John, 26, for assaulting the doctor.
The incident occurred at Kisan Nagar-2 near Shreenagar in Thane. Satyawan, suffering from Malaria, was admitted to Ashtavinayak Hospital. When Satyawan got better of the disease, his family members asked Dr Satish Mohite to discharge him. The hospital authorities issued a bill of `13,000, of which `2,000 was reduced on the request of the patient.
When the hospital staff went away from the ward, Satyawan sneaked out of the hospital with the IV drips on his arm. On realising that he had gone missing, the hospital authorities called up at his residence number and asked Satyawan to come to the hospital, pay the bill and get the drip removed. Satyawan insisted that the doctor be sent to his place to remove the drip and collect the money. When Dr Mohite went to his house, Satyawan and his relatives allegedly beat him up brutally. Finally some people had to interfere and rescue Mohite and take him to the hospital.
Pot holes remained so did the repair machines idle
Mumbai: After a gap of six months, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally started operating jet patching machines for repair of potholes in the city. The civic body two years ago had bought three German technology-based machines at a cost of `2.5 crore to attend to potholes in the City, eastern suburbs and western suburbs. However, the machines were lying unused for last six months at the civic workshop in Santacruz due to lack of operating knowledge. Mayor Shraddha Jadhav inaugurated the work of repairing potholes with jet patching machines at Bharani Naka, Antop Hill. The machine specialises in absorbing water in potholes, thus planting asphalt firmly on roads.
Rich & poor disconnect Are 6-year-old students criminals?
Bangalore: In a controversial move aimed at scuttling provisions of the Right To Education Act, a school here has sent a letter to parents saying that admitting poor children will be detrimental to the psyche of those that are already studying there.
The circular has virtually dubbed poor children as criminals and voiced fears that such students could beat up others and teach them bad habits.
Bethany School in upmarket Koramangala has sent a circular to parents virtually opposing the RTE provision reserving 25 percent of admissions for children from poor and underprivileged. And the reasoning: “Once this Act is enforced, a child could beat up your child, smoke on the campus, misbehave with a girl or a teacher and the school will have to watch helplessly,” the parents have been told. The school has asked parents to closely study the Act and give their opinion on how the provisions would affect their children, Akash Ryall, principal of Bethany High School, was quoted in the media as saying: “Parents need to know with whom their children will be studying in future. Incidents mentioned in the circular about misbehaviour of the students have occurred in the past. But after the Act is in place, even if such incidents occur, we will not be in a position to take any action.”
“Free and compulsory education is a very good initiative from the government but not at the cost of children studying in private schools,” said Mohan Manghnani, president of ICSE schools in Karnataka and chairman of New Horizon educational Institution.
An embarrassed Karnataka government has taken the notice seriously and is planning legal action.
Woman not allowed to teach after burqa refusal
Kolkata: A lady in West Bengal’s first Muslim university, the Aliah University, was not allowed to teach after she refused to wear the burqa (veil) inside the varsity premises.
Sirin Middya, a guest lecturer of the university, along with eight other lady teachers got a ‘diktat’ from the leaders of the students’ union to wear burqa and attend the college and "if I don’t abide by the diktat, they won’t allow me to attend the college. Then after a few days as we were entering the university campus, they started shouting slogans 'those who are against purdha system should go to hell,'" Middya said.
Middya was appointed in March this year and got the union’s “diktat” in the second week of April. From April-end, she has been unable to go to the Aliah University’s Calcutta Madrasah Campus. A notice issued by the university clearly stated that “university has no dress code, any pressure from any corner will not be allowed regarding the use of burqa inside the university campus."
`6 crs.Contract awarded for ` 57 crs. & BMC didn't blink
Mumbai: Despite raising serious doubts initially, the storm water drain proposal of more than 350 percent variation amount was passed within minutes by the corporators in the civic standing committee meeting. Not a single voice of dissent was raised in the meeting over the proposal.
The civic administration has tabled a proposal with more than 350 per cent variation before the standing committee for approval. The proposal of constructing a box duct for the restoration of Mahalalaxmi railway nullah by using micro-piling with trenchless technology along the Sant Gadge Maharaj Chowk to Dr E Moses Road was allotted to M/s Skyway Construction Company for ` 6.26 crore for a period of 16 months by the standing committee on September 28, 2005. However, the work was delayed due to several reasons, which has resulted in increasing the project cost up to `50.89 crore. Several standing committee members had raised their apprehensions about the steep rise in the project cost.
As the civic coffers are running dry, the Municipal commissioner Swadhin Kshatriya while presenting the annual budget had vowed to restrict expenses and concentrate only on on-going projects. The BMC had also decided to keep a check on variation proposals, saying contracts with more than 15 per cent variation will not be approved.
However, despite the tall promises, the proposal was strangely passed within seconds as no corporator chose to speak on the issue.
Legislator in MP caught taking `10K bribe
Indore: Authorities in Madhya Pradesh have launched a probe into a sting-operation involving a BJP legislator who has been caught on camera purportedly accepting a bribe for opening a college in his constituency.
A local property broker claimed that he has conducted a sting-operation against Ramesh Khatik, the MLA from Karera in Shivpuri district. The dealer, Ajit Chourasia, said he conducted the operation on October 31, 2009 with the help of his brother against Khatik, who allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from him for setting up an engineering college in Karera. The ruling party MLA was caught on camera purportedly accepting `10,000 as the first installment. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was here told that he is getting the matter investigated by officials, and Khatik will face action if charges against him are proved right.
CAG: Poor quality food for troops
New Delhi: Food items like rice, wheat flour and edible oil whose storage life had expired were also being consumed by troops in Jammu and Kashmir and in some cases even up to 28 months after the expiry limit, according to a CAG report.
The comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) came out with this startling finding as it slammed the Army for the poor quality of food items supplied to troops in J&K and in the North-East, noting that the rations had rotted in some cases.
In its audit report for 2010-11on the Supply Chain Management of Rations in the Indian Army’ between 2005 and 2008 presented to the Parliament, the CAG said that in nearly 100 percent samples of food items it had tested, the products’ storage life had expired beyond the permissible limit for human consumption.
“Audit found that of the 11,346 samples of ration sent to three Central Forensic Labs for extension of the Estimated Storage Life (ESL), extension was granted in respect of 11,330 cases. Thus, in almost all the cases, extension was granted,” the report said.
The food items supplied to the troops had violated the instructions of the Director General of Supplies and Transport (DGST) in 2005, under which the edibles were to be supplied only up to three months of expiry of its prescribed ESL, it said.
“However, the CFL, in Jammu, which covers the whole of Northern Command and some parts of Western Command was found to grant extension well beyond three months of prescribed ESL, in some cases even up to 28 months. It was found that atta, sugar, rice, tea, dal, edible oil and raisins were consumed even six to 28 months after the expiry oif their normal ESL,” the report said.
Jaipur: A Rajasthan Roadways bus hired to transport a whopping ` 92 crore from outstation bank branches found no takers at the Reserve Bank of India branch in Jaipur as the bus arrived late after the bank hours.
The cash was brought from three bank branches of Alwar and one each from Shahpura and Kotputli to be deposited in the Reserve Bank.
The bus reportedly got delayed due to traffic jam and reached the Reserve Bank at 6:15 pm. However, the Reserve Bank officials refused to deposit the amount since the bank was already closed.
Courtesy RBI, the bus was left stranded on the road for almost four hours before it was moved to a safer destination in police lines after intervention by the Jaipur police.
Deputy Manager of State Bank of India R L Meena, who accompanied the bus from Alwar, said their vehicle got delayed due to unavailability of labour at Kotputli and traffic jam following heavy rain in the region.
The police in-charge of treasury, Ramroop accompanying the cash said they requested the RBI branch to consider it as a special case since it was such a heavy amount but they did not get permission.
As a result, the heavily guarded bus carrying ` 92 crore waited for almost four hours till the decision was taken to move it to a safer place.
This is the first incident in the state capital where the city police had to come forward to do safe keeping for a staggering amount of `92 crore as the bank pulled down its shutters, refusing to take the amount after office hours.
Get cured – Do not pay - bash the doctor
Thane: The Government may have issued an ordinance stipulating five-year rigorous punishment to patients manhandling doctors, but that in no way prevented a patient – who even after getting cured of malaria fever refused to pay the bill – and his family members from bashing up the doctor instead. Doctor suffered internal wounds on his chest and arm and was admitted to ICU of the civil hospital.
The police have arrested Satyawan Khedekar along with his father Kashiram Khedekar, 60, Yogesh Jankar, 25, Ganesh Ambre, 20, and Thomson John, 26, for assaulting the doctor.
The incident occurred at Kisan Nagar-2 near Shreenagar in Thane. Satyawan, suffering from Malaria, was admitted to Ashtavinayak Hospital. When Satyawan got better of the disease, his family members asked Dr Satish Mohite to discharge him. The hospital authorities issued a bill of `13,000, of which `2,000 was reduced on the request of the patient.
When the hospital staff went away from the ward, Satyawan sneaked out of the hospital with the IV drips on his arm. On realising that he had gone missing, the hospital authorities called up at his residence number and asked Satyawan to come to the hospital, pay the bill and get the drip removed. Satyawan insisted that the doctor be sent to his place to remove the drip and collect the money. When Dr Mohite went to his house, Satyawan and his relatives allegedly beat him up brutally. Finally some people had to interfere and rescue Mohite and take him to the hospital.
Pot holes remained so did the repair machines idle
Mumbai: After a gap of six months, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally started operating jet patching machines for repair of potholes in the city. The civic body two years ago had bought three German technology-based machines at a cost of `2.5 crore to attend to potholes in the City, eastern suburbs and western suburbs. However, the machines were lying unused for last six months at the civic workshop in Santacruz due to lack of operating knowledge. Mayor Shraddha Jadhav inaugurated the work of repairing potholes with jet patching machines at Bharani Naka, Antop Hill. The machine specialises in absorbing water in potholes, thus planting asphalt firmly on roads.
Rich & poor disconnect Are 6-year-old students criminals?
Bangalore: In a controversial move aimed at scuttling provisions of the Right To Education Act, a school here has sent a letter to parents saying that admitting poor children will be detrimental to the psyche of those that are already studying there.
The circular has virtually dubbed poor children as criminals and voiced fears that such students could beat up others and teach them bad habits.
Bethany School in upmarket Koramangala has sent a circular to parents virtually opposing the RTE provision reserving 25 percent of admissions for children from poor and underprivileged. And the reasoning: “Once this Act is enforced, a child could beat up your child, smoke on the campus, misbehave with a girl or a teacher and the school will have to watch helplessly,” the parents have been told. The school has asked parents to closely study the Act and give their opinion on how the provisions would affect their children, Akash Ryall, principal of Bethany High School, was quoted in the media as saying: “Parents need to know with whom their children will be studying in future. Incidents mentioned in the circular about misbehaviour of the students have occurred in the past. But after the Act is in place, even if such incidents occur, we will not be in a position to take any action.”
“Free and compulsory education is a very good initiative from the government but not at the cost of children studying in private schools,” said Mohan Manghnani, president of ICSE schools in Karnataka and chairman of New Horizon educational Institution.
An embarrassed Karnataka government has taken the notice seriously and is planning legal action.
Woman not allowed to teach after burqa refusal
Kolkata: A lady in West Bengal’s first Muslim university, the Aliah University, was not allowed to teach after she refused to wear the burqa (veil) inside the varsity premises.
Sirin Middya, a guest lecturer of the university, along with eight other lady teachers got a ‘diktat’ from the leaders of the students’ union to wear burqa and attend the college and "if I don’t abide by the diktat, they won’t allow me to attend the college. Then after a few days as we were entering the university campus, they started shouting slogans 'those who are against purdha system should go to hell,'" Middya said.
Middya was appointed in March this year and got the union’s “diktat” in the second week of April. From April-end, she has been unable to go to the Aliah University’s Calcutta Madrasah Campus. A notice issued by the university clearly stated that “university has no dress code, any pressure from any corner will not be allowed regarding the use of burqa inside the university campus."
`6 crs.Contract awarded for ` 57 crs. & BMC didn't blink
Mumbai: Despite raising serious doubts initially, the storm water drain proposal of more than 350 percent variation amount was passed within minutes by the corporators in the civic standing committee meeting. Not a single voice of dissent was raised in the meeting over the proposal.
The civic administration has tabled a proposal with more than 350 per cent variation before the standing committee for approval. The proposal of constructing a box duct for the restoration of Mahalalaxmi railway nullah by using micro-piling with trenchless technology along the Sant Gadge Maharaj Chowk to Dr E Moses Road was allotted to M/s Skyway Construction Company for ` 6.26 crore for a period of 16 months by the standing committee on September 28, 2005. However, the work was delayed due to several reasons, which has resulted in increasing the project cost up to `50.89 crore. Several standing committee members had raised their apprehensions about the steep rise in the project cost.
As the civic coffers are running dry, the Municipal commissioner Swadhin Kshatriya while presenting the annual budget had vowed to restrict expenses and concentrate only on on-going projects. The BMC had also decided to keep a check on variation proposals, saying contracts with more than 15 per cent variation will not be approved.
However, despite the tall promises, the proposal was strangely passed within seconds as no corporator chose to speak on the issue.
Legislator in MP caught taking `10K bribe
Indore: Authorities in Madhya Pradesh have launched a probe into a sting-operation involving a BJP legislator who has been caught on camera purportedly accepting a bribe for opening a college in his constituency.
A local property broker claimed that he has conducted a sting-operation against Ramesh Khatik, the MLA from Karera in Shivpuri district. The dealer, Ajit Chourasia, said he conducted the operation on October 31, 2009 with the help of his brother against Khatik, who allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from him for setting up an engineering college in Karera. The ruling party MLA was caught on camera purportedly accepting `10,000 as the first installment. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was here told that he is getting the matter investigated by officials, and Khatik will face action if charges against him are proved right.
CAG: Poor quality food for troops
New Delhi: Food items like rice, wheat flour and edible oil whose storage life had expired were also being consumed by troops in Jammu and Kashmir and in some cases even up to 28 months after the expiry limit, according to a CAG report.
The comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) came out with this startling finding as it slammed the Army for the poor quality of food items supplied to troops in J&K and in the North-East, noting that the rations had rotted in some cases.
In its audit report for 2010-11on the Supply Chain Management of Rations in the Indian Army’ between 2005 and 2008 presented to the Parliament, the CAG said that in nearly 100 percent samples of food items it had tested, the products’ storage life had expired beyond the permissible limit for human consumption.
“Audit found that of the 11,346 samples of ration sent to three Central Forensic Labs for extension of the Estimated Storage Life (ESL), extension was granted in respect of 11,330 cases. Thus, in almost all the cases, extension was granted,” the report said.
The food items supplied to the troops had violated the instructions of the Director General of Supplies and Transport (DGST) in 2005, under which the edibles were to be supplied only up to three months of expiry of its prescribed ESL, it said.
“However, the CFL, in Jammu, which covers the whole of Northern Command and some parts of Western Command was found to grant extension well beyond three months of prescribed ESL, in some cases even up to 28 months. It was found that atta, sugar, rice, tea, dal, edible oil and raisins were consumed even six to 28 months after the expiry oif their normal ESL,” the report said.
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