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Kejriwal Govt Presents Rs 60,K Cr Budget for 2019-20

[New Delhi]Kejriwal Govt Presents Rs 60,K Cr Budget for 2019-20
The AAP government Tuesday presented a Rs 60,000 crore budget for 2019-20 in the Assembly and said it is “two times more” than the one presented in 2014-15.
Presenting the budget, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said the budget has been dedicated to soldiers martyred in the Pulwama attack.
The Delhi Assembly session began with a standing ovation to the the Indian Air Force for carrying out pre-dawn air strikes on terror camps inside Pakistani territory
“The budget estimates for 2019-20 are pegged at Rs 60,000 crore which is two times more than the budget presented in 2014-15,” Sisodia said.
A 53,000 crore was presented last year.

Teachers Demand Hospital at ‘Jamia Milia Islamia’

[New Delhi] Teachers Demand Hospital at ‘Jamia Milia Islamia’
Teacher’s association of the Jamia Millia Islamia has written to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for establishing a hospital in the university that could be converted into a medical college in future.
DU, BHU and AMU are successfully running hospital and medical college
So teachers of Jamia requested CM Delhi to establish a new 500 bedded hospital
The JTA said the university is situated in a densely-populated area, where more than 90 per cent of the population belongs to the Muslim community and many of them are underprivileged and desperately need quality medical facilities. “But they are not getting these services as there is no hospital nearby.”
The letter pointed out that JMI was running a bachelor’s degree course in dentistry, but the students had to go to other hospitals to study medicine.

Kejriwal’s Another Milestone: Launches Mobile Medical Service

[New Delhi]Kejriwal’s Another Milestone: Launches Mobile Medical Service
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday formally launched the volunteers mobile medical service by flagging off a mobile medical van at his residence.
This initiative will help in early detection of lifestyle diseases like diabetics and hypertension while also educating the public about the importance of hygiene in general with a special focus on mothers and kids,

Court Finds MLA Sirsa Not Guilty in 3 Yrs Old Case

[New Delhi]Court Finds MLA Sirsa Not Guilty in 3 Yrs Old Case
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal granted relief to BJP MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa saying he was facing this case for about three years for the commission of act which is not even an offence.
In its order,
Sirsa had told the court that since the hoarding was affixed on the electricity pole and there was no defacement of the public property.
According to the FIR lodged in January 2015, the accused had put up an election hoarding in Rajouri Garden of west Delhi area asking for votes.
If convicted, the accused could have been punished with a maximum of one-year imprisonment or a Rs 50,000 fine or both.

Kejriwal Kicks CCTV Project Into PM’s Court

[New Delhi]Kejriwal Kicks CCTV Project Into PM’s Court Seeking PM’s Intervention
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention in execution of the Delhi government’s CCTV project, Earlier Lt Governor Anil Baijal has constituted a panel to prepare a framework for CCTV Project for Delhi
Kejriwal sought an appointment with Modi and requested him to order Baijal to allow the installation of CCTV cameras, saying that as it was related to women safety there should be no politics over the issue.
Yesterday, the AAP government had declared as “null and void” the L-G appointed committee, saying that it was the government’s job to install CCTV cameras and asked Baijal to prevent rising crimes in the city.
The committee had been formed to “stall” the CCTV project, the chief minister alleged in the letter, claiming that the L-G was doing “politics” over the issue.
Yesterday, Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain had written to Baijal, saying “Under the Constitution, L-G’s job is to do good policing and prevent crime. Kindly concentrate on your job. It is elected government’s job to install cameras. Please allow us to do our job.
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Congress Derailing CCTV Project in Delhi:AAP

[New Delhi] Congress Derailing CCTV Project in Delhi:AAP
The Aam Aadmi Party today alleged a “conspiracy” was being hatched to stall its ambitious CCTV project, a day after Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken claimed the project was marred by corruption.
Senior AAP leader Gopal Rai alleged that Maken was “working on the BJP agenda” and sought to know if the Congress chief was planning to join the saffron party.
Rejecting Maken’s charges that tenders were finalised without the approval of the competent authority, the AAP’s Delhi convener said the Delhi government had not relaxed rules to favour any agency.
He said there were two types of tenders —
Rate Contract Tender and
Project Contract Tender.
The government was installing CCTV cameras through the Rate Contract Tender, under which payment to the agency concerned is made based on the basis of rate-per-unit.
He also sought to know as to how many CCTV cameras were installed by the Sheila Dikshit goverment which helmed Delhi for 15 years.

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Kejriwal Has no Experts for his Ambitious WiFi Project

[New Delhi]Kejriwal Has no Experts for his Ambitious WiFi Project.
Provision of free Wi-Fi across the national capital was one of the key poll promises of the Aam Aadmi Party. However, more than three years after it came to power, the AAP is yet to realise the promise.
In February this year, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the government was working on three-four models for providing free Wi-Fi and would soon take a decision.
Now Public Works Department has expressed inability to implement the scheme of Wi Fi citing a lack of expertise.
Earlier this month, the project-in-charge wrote to the PWD engineer-in-chief in this connection.
A government official said that the Information Technology department of the Delhi government should execute the project as it has the expertise required to implement it.
In the 2018-19 Budget, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia allocated Rs 100 crore to provide free Wi-Fi facility and handed over the project to the PWD from the IT department.

NGT Slams Rs 50K Fine on Delhi Govt:Hookah Bars

[New Delhi] NGT Slams Rs 50K Fine on Delhi Govt for not Submitting Report on Hookah Bars
The National Green Tribunal today pulled up the Delhi government for not furnishing a list of restaurants and bars in the city which permit hookah smoking on their premises and slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on it.
A bench headed by acting NGT Chairperson Justice Jawad Rahim also directed the AAP government to submit the data within 10 days from today.
The tribunal was hearing a plea filed by Manjinder Singh Sirsa, a BJP MLA from Rajouri Garden, seeking immediate ban on hookah bars in the national capital.
During the hearing, advocate S S Ahluwalia, appearing for the petitioner, told the bench that neither has the government carried out searches nor has it produced the list of restaurants serving hookah as per the December 12, 2017 order of the tribunal.
The bench asked the government counsel as to why it had failed to submit the data. The counsel sought more time to furnish the information but the bench said that it would have to do it in 10 days
The matter has been posted for next hearing on May 18.
Sirsa had contended that that the ambient air quality standards in public places such as restaurants and bars were dangerously higher than the prescribed norms.
Referring to the Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rules 2008, the plea had said these rules are being openly flouted by various restaurants and hookah bars in Delhi wherein hookah, as a tobacco product, is being permitted to be smoked in open spaces without designating any part of its premises as a smoking area.

PWD Approves Rs 2.46 Cr For Old Delhi’s Congested Roads

[New Delhi]PWD Approves Rs 2.46 Cr For Chandni Chowk’s Congested Roads
The public works department of the Delhi government has approved an estimated cost of around 2.46 crore to execute the project “surface”
” PWD has given approval to the resurfacing of road and improvement of foothpath of Chandni Chowk road from Lal Jain Mandir to Fathepuri Mosque for an estimated cost of Rs 2,46,69,700,”
The road stretch from Lal Jain Mandir to Fatepuri Mosque houses shops which witness large footfall of shoppers.

Baijal Drops Kejriwal’s Proposal For Doorstep Delivery Of Ration

[New Delhi] Baijal Drops Kejriwal’s Proposal For Doorstep Delivery Of Ration Kejriwal Calls Petty Politics
Lt Governor Of Delhi Anil Baijal has rejected the Delhi government’s proposal for doorstep delivery of ration, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal reacted on twitter “important” measure had fallen victim to “petty politics”.
Earlier this month, the Delhi Cabinet had approved the proposal for delivering rations in sealed packets at the doorstep to PDS beneficiaries.
The proposal advocates providing doorstep delivery of wheat/flour, rice and sugar for eligible beneficiaries.According to a government official, there are around 72 lakh PDS beneficiaries in the city.Four Lakhs ration cards in April are treated as suspicious , As per Food& Civil Supply Department ,more then 4 Lakh may be duplicate to improper issuance
After the Cabinet’s decision, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had said that attempts were made to put roadblocks in the passage of the scheme, adding that he would request the L-G to consider it keeping in mind the poor residents of Delhi and pass it.