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With the increasing poll pitch in Delhi, AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal has accused Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay and his deputy Ashish Sood of owning companies which installed and replaced electricity meters in Delhi. | |
Kejriwal alleged that all power meters in Delhi have been installed by the companies owned by them and asked the duo to come clean on their ties with power suppliers in Delhi. Refuting the allegations, Satish Upadhyay challenged Kejriwal to produce proof to back his charges or quit politics and threatened to sue him over the allegations. Power tariffs in Delhi is one of the main poll planks of AAP. During its 49 day rule, the Arvind Kejriwal-led government had slashed them and ordered an audit of power discoms. While the war of charges and counter-charges has intensified the question should the battle for Delhi be fought on them or on real issues that directly impact the livelihood of people in the national capital. | |
In UP, Not even a single case of fine for ‘littering’ or ‘smoking’ at
public places reported in last 5 years putting a big question Mark on
Success of Modi’s ‘Swacch Bharat Mission’ in UP!: It is as if Laws are
made only to keep them buried deep in official shelves.
Dear Friend,
Success of Narendra Modi's dream project 'Swach Bharat', proposed to
be completed in the next five years upto 150th anniversary of Mahatma
Gandhi in 2019, seems to be impossible in Uttar Pradesh, the largest
populated state of India. .Yes I am saying this on the basis of a RTI
reply from directorate of Local bodies of UP which states that in UP
not even a single person has been fined for littering the Public
Places in any of the districts of Uttar Pradesh in last 5 years. Its
altogether a different thing that you n me might have seen signboards
with cautions of penalties for littering public places Though
cleanliness has direct relationship with well-being, we all know the
reality as to how these public places are being littered all across
UP.
Recently, Union Government has moved an amendment for a more
stringent anti-smoking law with radical changes, including ban on sale
of loose cigarettes, raising the minimum age of a person buying
tobacco products to 21 years from existing 18, raising of fine to Rs
1,000 from Rs 200 on smoking in public places, increasing the maximum
fine to Rs 1 lakh from the existing Rs 10,000 , Ban to employ, engage
or use any person who is under 18 years of age in cultivation,
processing, sale of tobacco or tobacco products and removal of
designated smoking zones in hotels and restaurants .Yes, I am talking
of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement
and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and
Distribution) (Amendment) Bill 2015, which were put out by the health
ministry on to seek suggestions from the public. But How far this new
law shall be effective, can easily be gauged by a RTI reply from
directorate of Local bodies of UP which states that in UP not even a
single person has been fined for smoking in Public Places in any of
the districts of Uttar Pradesh in last 5 years.
Scanned copies of RTI are attached.
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Urvashi Sharma
Founder & Chief Coordinator-UPCPRI
http://upcpri.hpage.com/
Uttar Pradesh Campaign to Protect RTI
http://upcpri.blogspot.in/
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 Cameroon, Chad and Niger have launched a regional bid to combat the Boko Haram militants, as their attacks spread beyond Nigeria and concern mounts over the Nigerians’ failure to regain control. The three neighbours have opted for a joint military response to the cross-border threat from Boko Haram fighters and have made veiled criticisms of Nigeria, whose armed forces appear no match for the militant group that emerged in 2009. Brutal raids, massacres, suicide bomb attacks and kidnappings by Boko Haram have claimed at least 13,000 lives and driven an estimated 1.5 million people from their homes, mainly in arid northeast Nigeria. |
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