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  • Plea In SC Against Delhi Govt’s Guidelines For Handling End-Of-Life Vehicles. auto news

    Delhi Govt’s Guidelines For Handling End-Of-Life Vehicles: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi government’s fresh guidelines for handling end-of-life vehicles in public places. The plea filed by Nagalaxmi Laxmi Narayan has contended that retrospective application of the Guidelines for Handling End of Life Vehicle in Public Place, 2024 is arbitrary.

    “The retrospective application of the guidelines to vehicles is arbitrary, violates the applicant’s legitimate expectation, and deprives the applicant of their right to property under Article 300A of the Constitution,” the plea has contended.

    It said the scrapping rules are being applied without due consideration of the condition of vehicles and the actual emissions they made.

    The Delhi government had in February issued fresh guidelines for handling end-of-life vehicles in public places, stipulating a penalty of Rs 10,000 for four-wheelers and Rs 5,000 for two-wheelers to be imposed on the owners of the vehicles impounded before they are released.

    According to the guidelines, continuous enforcement drives should be conducted to phase out such vehicles from public places in the national capital and daily reports sent to the environment department for onward submission to the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM).

    The government has classified the release procedure for impounded vehicles under two categories — those who wish to shift their vehicle out of Delhi-NCR and those who wish to park the vehicle in private spaces which are not shared parking places.

    “On plying and parking of ELVs (end-of-life vehicles) in public place in NCT of Delhi, once impounded for the first time it can be released on the basis of submission of an undertaking that vehicle will not be plied or parked in any public place within the territory of Delhi and will be removed from the city…,” the guidelines read.

    “In case of 4-wheeler, a penalty of Rs 10,000 along with towing charge and parking fee as notified in Delhi Maintenance and Management of Parking Places Rules, 2019, shall be charged before releasing of such ELVs. In case of 2-wheeler, a penalty of Rs 5,000 along with towing charge and parking fee as notified in Parking Rules 2019 shall be charged…,” it said.

    According to the guidelines, any end-of-life vehicle impounded for a second time and transport vehicles running on diesel fuel and aged more than 10 years cannot be released.

    The application for the release of a vehicle along with necessary documents should be submitted within three weeks of impounding of the vehicle and an online platform will be developed for this purpose, it said.

    According to the guidelines, impounded vehicles will be scrapped in case of three scenarios — non-submission of application for release within three weeks of impounding of the vehicle, rejection of application submitted for release and impounding of the same vehicle for the second time.

    All scrap value shall be paid through digital mode only to the bank account in the name of the vehicle owner within 15 days of the vehicle being accepted by the Registered Vehicles Scrapping Facility, it added.

  • Overage Vehicles Found Parked In Public Spaces May Be Impounded: Delhi Govt | Auto News

    Overage Vehicles Policy In Delhi: Overage vehicles need to be parked in private spaces or be scrapped, the Delhi government said in a public notice on Thursday. Vehicles found parked in public places in violation of the guidelines may be impounded, the notice said.

    Reiterating its guidelines for overage vehicles issued this February, the transport department said there is a complete prohibition on parking overage vehicles in areas just outside residences, which are considered public places.

    “Keep such vehicles in private parking spaces owned by the individual, not in a shared parking space, even if it’s part of a residential complex. A parking space allotted to the owner within a residential complex is considered private,” it said.

    According to the notice, the Delhi government has deregistered 5.5 million overage vehicles. Owners of such vehicles have the option of obtaining a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to move the vehicle out of Delhi within one year of the vehicle’s expiry date, it said, adding that no NOC for the vehicle will be issued after one year of expiry of the vehicle.

    Another option for owners of overage vehicles is to scrap the vehicle through the Voluntary Vehicle Scrapping Application at ‘https://vscrap.Parivahan.Gov.In/’ at any nearby registered vehicle scrapping facility, it added.

    The notice said the enforcement wing of the transport department, New Delhi Municipal Council, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, and Traffic Police may impound such vehicles found parked in public places, even if an NOC has been issued but the vehicle has not been moved out of Delhi within one month of NOC issuance. Offenders may also be prosecuted as per the ‘Guidelines for Handling of End-of-Life Vehicles 2024’.

    In 2018, the Supreme Court banned diesel and petrol vehicles older than 10 and 15 years, respectively, in Delhi. It had added that the vehicles plying in violation of the order would be impounded. A 2014 order of the National Green Tribunal bars vehicles older than 15 years to be parked in public places.

  • Delhi Govt says Haryana has refused to release additional water |

    New Delhi: Amid the worsening water crisis in Delhi, the AAP government on Tuesday claimed that Haryana has expressed its inability to provide additional water to the national capital on humanitarian grounds.

    The BJP slammed the AAP dispensation, saying the Haryana government on Tuesday released data that showed it provided more than 17 per cent excess water to Delhi and claimed Water Minister Atishi was blaming the neighbouring state in a bid to hide her own flaw in addressing the issue of water shortage in the city.

    A Delhi government statement said its delegation solicited the release of additional water supplies on humanitarian grounds in a meeting with the Principal Secretary (Water Resources) of Haryana in Chandigarh.

    “Haryana government expressed its inability to release additional water to Delhi on humanitarian grounds,” it said.

    Atishi stressed the urgency of coordination to mitigate the current water emergency exacerbated by severe heat waves.

    The minister had last week requested Haryana to give additional water to Delhi on humanitarian grounds. The Upper Yamuna River Board had advised Delhi and Haryana to hold a bilateral meeting and consider whether Haryana could give extra water to Delhi, the statement said.

    Expressing disappointment, Atishi said that the “well-being of our citizens is at stake, and it is imperative that we receive this crucial support without delay”.

    Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva alleged that the “dirty politics” of AAP was responsible for the water crisis in the city.

    “Haryana government has today released data showing that they have provided more than 17 per cent excess water to Delhi,” he said and alleged that “lying with confidence is the hallmark of Aam Aadmi Party leaders”.

    Sachdeva said that water theft and leaking pipeline system, which should have been fixed over the past 10 years, remain unresolved while Atishi continues to blame Haryana and the BJP to hide her flaws.

  • Atishi declares order of appointing Delhi govt standing counsel on interim basis ‘invalid’

    NEW DELHI: Delhi Law Minister Atishi has declared as “invalid” an order issued by the principal secretary (Law) appointing another lawyer as standing counsel to represent Delhi government before the Delhi High Court on interim basis instead of standing counsel (civil) Santosh Kumar. Tripathi.

    The minister, in an order issued on February 15, said “Tripathi will continue to handle the responsibilities of standing counsel (civil), Delhi High Court, GNCTD”.

    A copy of the order has also been sent to the registrar general of the high court.Earlier this month, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had said that government counsel have made “misleading” statements before the high court related to a report on the opening of Liquor vends in conforming and nonconforming wards while implementing the nowrescinded excise policy in the national capital, officials had said.

    Later on February 14, the principal secretary (Law) issued an order stating, “As an interim arrangement and to ensure proper representation of GNCTD of Delhi before Hon’ble High Court of Delhi, Shri Anupam Srivastava, Additional Standing Counsel (Civil) is hereby appointed Standing Counsel (Civil), Delhi High Court NCT of Delhi till further orders. He will perform all the duties of Standing Counsel (Civil), Delhi High Court, GNCT of Delhi and conduct the cases presently handled by Shri Santosh Kumar Tripathi. “

    Taking note of this, the next day Atishi issued an order saying that the principal secretary (Law) had issued the order on the directions of the LG and the Chief Secretary and the appointment of the standing counsel is a transferred subject and is a decision taken. by the Council of Ministers of the Delhi government.”Removal or appointment of a standing counsel (whether in a permanent or interim manner) is outside the, purview of the Hon’ble LG. Neither is this covered under the GNCTD Amendment Act 2023, ” she said in the order.”The impugned order has been issued by principal secretary (Law) without the approval of the minister incharge and is therefore without basis in law, and is in violation of Allocation of Business Rules, Transaction of Business Rules, GNCTD Act and Article 239AA of the Constitution. Therefore, the impugned order is ab initio null and void, and therefore declared invalid,” she said.

    The principal secretary (Law) on the instructions of LG, had also asked Tripathi not to appear on behalf of Delhi government before any court of law till further orders and till the decision is taken in the matter by the competent authority.

    A similar order was also issued to advocate Arun Panwar, who is also a panel counsel of Delhi government.

    Earlier, Raj Niwas officials had said the proposal of the Excise Commissioner to submit the report of the committee set up on the orders of the Delhi High Court regarding conforming and nonconforming wards to the court was moved for LG’s approval on. August 18, 2022.

    However, it was stalled by the then minister twice, officials had said.

    “All this while the government kept telling on record in HC, that the report was pending with LG. It prompted the court to request the LG thrice to clear the file for submission of the report expeditiously, despite the fact that the file was not with LG.

    “The proposal was cleared by Atishi (Delhi minister) who sent it for further recommendation to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who cleared it on January 16 this year and sent it to LG,” an official had said.

    In a file noting to Kejriwal, Saxena noted that the file relating to the approval of the report was received at the LG Secretariat on January 16 this year after a lapse of one year and five months since it was first moved for LG’s approval on August 18, 2022, the official had said.

    Saxena had noted in the file that the case is a “sad reflection on the manner in which the state government counsels made false and misleading statements” before the court, showing the Lieutenant Governor and his office in poor light in the eyes of the court.

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  • Centre to introduce Delhi providers invoice in Lok Sabha on August 1

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Delhi providers invoice which seeks to exchange an ordinance that mandated the creation of an authority for transfers and postings of senior officers within the Delhi authorities is listed for introduction within the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

    According to the revised record of enterprise for Tuesday, Home Minister Amit Shah will introduce the invoice whereas his deputy Nityanand Rai will make a press release on the explanations for bringing “immediate legislation” by promulgating the ordinance.

    The ordinance has grow to be a rallying level for opposition events in opposition to the BJP-led NDA.

    According to The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, all transfers and postings of senior officers within the Delhi authorities might be achieved by a three-member committee headed by the Delhi chief minister.

    The Delhi ordinance was promulgated by the central authorities every week after the Supreme Court handed over the management of providers in Delhi, excluding police, public order and land, to the elected authorities headed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

    “With a view to present impact to the intent and function behind the provisions of Article 239AA of the Constitution, a everlasting authority, headed by the Chief Minister of Delhi together with the Chief Secretary, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Principal Secretary, Home, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, is being constituted to make suggestions to the Lieutenant Governor concerning issues regarding switch postings, vigilance and different issues, in response to the assertion of objects and causes of the invoice.

    The National Capital Civil Service Authority shall have the duty to suggest the transfers and postings of all Group ‘A’ officers (IAS) and officers of Delhi Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Service (DANICS) officer (DANICS) serving within the Delhi authorities.

    It says that this could stability the curiosity of the nation with the curiosity of the Union territory of Delhi within the administration of the capital to the manifestation of the need of the individuals reposed within the central authorities in addition to the federal government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

    Justifying the transfer to carry the invoice, the assertion of objects and causes says a number of necessary nationwide and worldwide establishments and authorities just like the President, the Parliament, the Supreme Court, varied constitutional functionaries, international diplomatic missions, worldwide companies, and so forth are positioned in Delhi and excessive dignitaries from different nations pay official visits to Delhi.

    The highest doable requirements are required to be maintained within the administration and governance of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, it stated.

    ALSO READ | Amid Parliament gridlock, Centre goals to cross contentious Delhi providers ordinance invoice this week

    It stated that any determination taken in respect of Delhi not solely impacts the residents of town however all the nation and shall have the potential of placing the nationwide popularity, picture, credibility and status at stake within the worldwide world spectrum and due to this fact, all the nation is vitally within the governance of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

    Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party had opposed the ordinance saying the Centre had “deceived” the individuals of Delhi.

    “This is a deception dedicated by the Supreme Court and the individuals of Delhi who’ve chosen Kejriwal thrice because the chief minister.

    He does not have any powers however the LG, who has not even been chosen however pressured upon individuals, may have powers and thru him, the Centre will preserve tabs on the work taking place in Delhi.

    This is contempt of courtroom,” AAP chief spokesperson and Services Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj had stated.

    Kejriwal himself, together with party-ruled Punjab’s Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, had visited most non-BJP-ruled states and met opposition leaders looking for their assist to oppose the laws.

    NEW DELHI: The Delhi providers invoice which seeks to exchange an ordinance that mandated the creation of an authority for transfers and postings of senior officers within the Delhi authorities is listed for introduction within the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

    According to the revised record of enterprise for Tuesday, Home Minister Amit Shah will introduce the invoice whereas his deputy Nityanand Rai will make a press release on the explanations for bringing “immediate legislation” by promulgating the ordinance.

    The ordinance has grow to be a rallying level for opposition events in opposition to the BJP-led NDA.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    According to The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, all transfers and postings of senior officers within the Delhi authorities might be achieved by a three-member committee headed by the Delhi chief minister.

    The Delhi ordinance was promulgated by the central authorities every week after the Supreme Court handed over the management of providers in Delhi, excluding police, public order and land, to the elected authorities headed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

    “With a view to present impact to the intent and function behind the provisions of Article 239AA of the Constitution, a everlasting authority, headed by the Chief Minister of Delhi together with the Chief Secretary, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Principal Secretary, Home, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, is being constituted to make suggestions to the Lieutenant Governor concerning issues regarding switch postings, vigilance and different issues, in response to the assertion of objects and causes of the invoice.

    The National Capital Civil Service Authority shall have the duty to suggest the transfers and postings of all Group ‘A’ officers (IAS) and officers of Delhi Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Service (DANICS) officer (DANICS) serving within the Delhi authorities.

    It says that this could stability the curiosity of the nation with the curiosity of the Union territory of Delhi within the administration of the capital to the manifestation of the need of the individuals reposed within the central authorities in addition to the federal government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

    Justifying the transfer to carry the invoice, the assertion of objects and causes says a number of necessary nationwide and worldwide establishments and authorities just like the President, the Parliament, the Supreme Court, varied constitutional functionaries, international diplomatic missions, worldwide companies, and so forth are positioned in Delhi and excessive dignitaries from different nations pay official visits to Delhi.

    The highest doable requirements are required to be maintained within the administration and governance of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, it stated.

    ALSO READ | Amid Parliament gridlock, Centre goals to cross contentious Delhi providers ordinance invoice this week

    It stated that any determination taken in respect of Delhi not solely impacts the residents of town however all the nation and shall have the potential of placing the nationwide popularity, picture, credibility and status at stake within the worldwide world spectrum and due to this fact, all the nation is vitally within the governance of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

    Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party had opposed the ordinance saying the Centre had “deceived” the individuals of Delhi.

    “This is a deception dedicated by the Supreme Court and the individuals of Delhi who’ve chosen Kejriwal thrice because the chief minister.

    He does not have any powers however the LG, who has not even been chosen however pressured upon individuals, may have powers and thru him, the Centre will preserve tabs on the work taking place in Delhi.

    This is contempt of courtroom,” AAP chief spokesperson and Services Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj had stated.

    Kejriwal himself, together with party-ruled Punjab’s Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, had visited most non-BJP-ruled states and met opposition leaders looking for their assist to oppose the laws.

  • Courts needs to be delicate, coping with people, not information: Delhi HC 

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Courts want to keep up sensitivity and compassion that’s balanced with the regulation as they’re coping with people and never mere information and orders, the Delhi High Court has mentioned.

    The courtroom’s commentary got here whereas coping with a petition by a homicide convict serving a life time period, who sought a two-month parole to settle the division of his household property, prepare funds for his household and likewise “curb inner stress” following the dying of his mom.

    The petitioner’s request for parole was turned down by the Delhi authorities on a number of grounds, together with that his conduct in jail was unsatisfactory.

    Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, nonetheless, directed the discharge of the petitioner for a interval of 45 days on parole, saying, “Sensitivity and compassion balanced with guidelines, rules and regulation must be maintained by any courtroom as one is coping with people and never mere information and orders.

    “The judge considered that the petitioner, who has spent 14 years in jail and was earlier granted parole on seven occasions, “has misplaced his mom whereas he was in judicial custody and now after the dying of his mom, such exigencies have arisen which he must attend to”.

    “While considering grant of parole, the court also has to remain conscious of the fact that the petitioner has been awarded life imprisonment and circumstances have arisen in the last 14 years, which he needs to attend to,” mentioned the choose in a latest order.

    The courtroom requested the petitioner to furnish a private bond of Rs 25,000 whereas shelling out with the requirement of furnishing a surety as he didn’t have any kinfolk in Delhi.

    In its order, the courtroom mentioned that within the final two years, the petitioner was not concerned in any offence involving violence and that his final two punishments in jail have been nonetheless a matter of inquiry.

    It additional famous that the petitioner was granted parole earlier on seven events and had not misused the freedom.

    While ordering the discharge of the petitioner, the courtroom requested him to give up his passport, maintain his cell quantity switched on always and never take pleasure in any illegal act or omission.

    NEW DELHI: Courts want to keep up sensitivity and compassion that’s balanced with the regulation as they’re coping with people and never mere information and orders, the Delhi High Court has mentioned.

    The courtroom’s commentary got here whereas coping with a petition by a homicide convict serving a life time period, who sought a two-month parole to settle the division of his household property, prepare funds for his household and likewise “curb inner stress” following the dying of his mom.

    The petitioner’s request for parole was turned down by the Delhi authorities on a number of grounds, together with that his conduct in jail was unsatisfactory.

    Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, nonetheless, directed the discharge of the petitioner for a interval of 45 days on parole, saying, “Sensitivity and compassion balanced with guidelines, rules and regulation must be maintained by any courtroom as one is coping with people and never mere information and orders.

    “The judge considered that the petitioner, who has spent 14 years in jail and was earlier granted parole on seven occasions, “has misplaced his mom whereas he was in judicial custody and now after the dying of his mom, such exigencies have arisen which he must attend to”.

    “While considering grant of parole, the court also has to remain conscious of the fact that the petitioner has been awarded life imprisonment and circumstances have arisen in the last 14 years, which he needs to attend to,” mentioned the choose in a latest order.

    The courtroom requested the petitioner to furnish a private bond of Rs 25,000 whereas shelling out with the requirement of furnishing a surety as he didn’t have any kinfolk in Delhi.

    In its order, the courtroom mentioned that within the final two years, the petitioner was not concerned in any offence involving violence and that his final two punishments in jail have been nonetheless a matter of inquiry.

    It additional famous that the petitioner was granted parole earlier on seven events and had not misused the freedom.

    While ordering the discharge of the petitioner, the courtroom requested him to give up his passport, maintain his cell quantity switched on always and never take pleasure in any illegal act or omission.

  • Delhi authorities points new promotion coverage for sophistication 5, 8 college students

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Delhi authorities has issued a brand new promotion coverage for college students of courses 5 and eight and recent examination pointers for courses 3-8 which will likely be applied from the tutorial session 2023-24, officers mentioned on Friday.

    The Delhi authorities officers mentioned that beneath the brand new evaluation pointers, college students of courses 5 and eight “will not be promoted to the next class” in the event that they “do not pass” the yearly examination.

    The new evaluation and promotion pointers ready by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) Delhi have been launched by the Directorate of Education (DoE) for all authorities, native our bodies and personal colleges in Delhi on Friday.

    According to the rules, evaluation of kids’s studying in courses 5 and eight will embody mid-term and annual examinations in addition to co-curricular actions.

    The co-curricular actions embody project-based actions, portfolio, kid’s participation within the classroom, participation in actions like theatre, dance, music, sports activities and kid’s attendance.

    Under SCERT’s new evaluation pointers, if a toddler is unable to go class 5 or 8, he/she is going to get one other likelihood to enhance the efficiency inside two months via re-examination.

    “No child shall be expelled from school till the completion of elementary education. There shall be a regular examination in classes 5 and 8 at the end of every academic year,” the rules mentioned.

    It additional mentioned that he evaluation of courses 3, 4, 6, and seven will likely be finished on the identical examination sample as of courses 5 and eight.

    The college students of courses 3, 4, 6 and seven is not going to be held again in the identical class.

    For courses 5 and eight, in an effort to be declared “Pass” on the finish of the session for promotion to the following increased class, a pupil should safe a minimum of 33 per cent marks in every topic through the session, in response to the rules.

    “The promotion to the next higher class is also subject to the condition that a minimum of 25 per cent of marks must be scored in mid term plus annual examination,” the rules mentioned.

    It additional mentioned that in an effort to be declared “Pass” in re-examination, a pupil should safe a minimum of 25 per cent marks within the topic(s) and if a pupil doesn’t safe a minimum of 25 per cent, the coed will likely be positioned within the class of “essential repeat” — which implies the coed on this case will likely be held again in the identical class through the subsequent session.

    “The ‘no detention policy’ was very progressive but due to lack of preparation, the education system could not take full advantage of it. But we need to prepare such a system to lay a strong foundation at the elementary level,” Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia mentioned.

    He additional acknowledged that protecting the “holistic development of children” in thoughts, SCERT, Delhi has launched new evaluation pointers.

    “Through these guidelines, our aim is not to stop any student from getting promoted to the next class. Our real aim is to bring the same degree of seriousness in elementary grades as for class X and XII,” the deputy chief minister added.

    The pointers will likely be applied in all the federal government, government-aided, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, New Delhi Municipal Corporation, Delhi Cantonment Board and acknowledged unaided colleges inside NCT of Delhi from the Academic session 2023-24.

    NEW DELHI: The Delhi authorities has issued a brand new promotion coverage for college students of courses 5 and eight and recent examination pointers for courses 3-8 which will likely be applied from the tutorial session 2023-24, officers mentioned on Friday.

    The Delhi authorities officers mentioned that beneath the brand new evaluation pointers, college students of courses 5 and eight “will not be promoted to the next class” in the event that they “do not pass” the yearly examination.

    The new evaluation and promotion pointers ready by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) Delhi have been launched by the Directorate of Education (DoE) for all authorities, native our bodies and personal colleges in Delhi on Friday.

    According to the rules, evaluation of kids’s studying in courses 5 and eight will embody mid-term and annual examinations in addition to co-curricular actions.

    The co-curricular actions embody project-based actions, portfolio, kid’s participation within the classroom, participation in actions like theatre, dance, music, sports activities and kid’s attendance.

    Under SCERT’s new evaluation pointers, if a toddler is unable to go class 5 or 8, he/she is going to get one other likelihood to enhance the efficiency inside two months via re-examination.

    “No child shall be expelled from school till the completion of elementary education. There shall be a regular examination in classes 5 and 8 at the end of every academic year,” the rules mentioned.

    It additional mentioned that he evaluation of courses 3, 4, 6, and seven will likely be finished on the identical examination sample as of courses 5 and eight.

    The college students of courses 3, 4, 6 and seven is not going to be held again in the identical class.

    For courses 5 and eight, in an effort to be declared “Pass” on the finish of the session for promotion to the following increased class, a pupil should safe a minimum of 33 per cent marks in every topic through the session, in response to the rules.

    “The promotion to the next higher class is also subject to the condition that a minimum of 25 per cent of marks must be scored in mid term plus annual examination,” the rules mentioned.

    It additional mentioned that in an effort to be declared “Pass” in re-examination, a pupil should safe a minimum of 25 per cent marks within the topic(s) and if a pupil doesn’t safe a minimum of 25 per cent, the coed will likely be positioned within the class of “essential repeat” — which implies the coed on this case will likely be held again in the identical class through the subsequent session.

    “The ‘no detention policy’ was very progressive but due to lack of preparation, the education system could not take full advantage of it. But we need to prepare such a system to lay a strong foundation at the elementary level,” Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia mentioned.

    He additional acknowledged that protecting the “holistic development of children” in thoughts, SCERT, Delhi has launched new evaluation pointers.

    “Through these guidelines, our aim is not to stop any student from getting promoted to the next class. Our real aim is to bring the same degree of seriousness in elementary grades as for class X and XII,” the deputy chief minister added.

    The pointers will likely be applied in all the federal government, government-aided, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, New Delhi Municipal Corporation, Delhi Cantonment Board and acknowledged unaided colleges inside NCT of Delhi from the Academic session 2023-24.

  • The issues with the Street Vendors Act in Delhi

    New Delhi: Seven years after Parliament enacted the legislation to guard their livelihood, road distributors within the nationwide capital proceed to stay underneath the fixed risk of eviction. Simply as a result of the Delhi authorities and the civic companies have so far been unable to implement the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014.

    A survey of distributors, mandated underneath the Act, began in January this 12 months and until December 7, the final day of the survey, 76,301 road distributors have been recognized by the three municipal firms. This got here after the primary section of the road vendor survey lasted until the top of September, with elements of the town nonetheless remaining, the city improvement division of the Delhi authorities granted a two-month extension.
    While municipal firms have began issuing ‘Certificates of Vending’ (CoVs) to recognized road distributors, they haven’t been supplied house for merchandising but, as mandated within the Act. It is these discrepancies which have prompted the Delhi High Court to say that there’s “a big disconnect” within the implementation of the Street Vendors Act within the Capital, calling for a particular assembly with officers of all civic our bodies and different stakeholders on Saturday. HT seems to be on the myriad points which are plaguing the implementation of the Act.
    Current standing of the survey
    The Delhi authorities had notified 28 merchandising committees throughout the town overlaying the 5 native our bodies and short-term our bodies which then began conducting the survey in January. The authorities additionally employed two non-public corporations to help within the survey. Officials mentioned that this course of, nevertheless, bought inevitably delayed by COVID 19. “While the survey of vendors is carried out by the private agencies, at least 40% members of TVC (Town Vending Committee) need to be present to authenticate the exercise,” a municipal official defined.
    The Street Vendors Act estimates road distributors and hawkers to moderately represent 2.5% of the inhabitants of a metropolis. As per a conservative estimate, there are round 4-5 lakh road distributors in Delhi. But with fewer than a lakh distributors recognized, the Delhi authorities is now contemplating one other extension of the survey which ended on December 7. Under section one of many survey, the north company has recognized 5,912 distributors in City Sadar-Pahar Ganj zone, 4,018 in Karol Bagh, 2,861 in Civil Lines, 5,334 in Keshav Puram, 5,080 in Rohini, and 4,614 in Narela. Similarly, the south company has recognized 8,140 road distributors within the central zone, 7,789 in south zone, 4,350 in west zone, and three,672 in Najafgarh. The east company has discovered 10,039 distributors in Shahdara South zone and 9,604 in Shahdara North zone. Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal mentioned the civic physique will make each effort to incorporate those who stay if an extension is granted.
    The New Delhi Municipal Council has not launched any figures on the distributors recognized in its areas. Richa Sinha, a supervisor with National Street Vendors Association mentioned that the council has not carried out any survey of distributors after the TVC’s had been constituted in 2019 and no certificates of merchandising have been issued. “A survey of the vendors was carried out in the council areas in 2016 but no new survey has been carried out. This has kept the legal status of the vendors unclear when evictions are continuously being carried out,” Sinha added.
    Despite repeated makes an attempt by HT, the NDMC officers didn’t touch upon the matter.
    Issues of implementation
    While the Act was notified in May 2014, the foundations and scheme for its implementation had been notified by the Delhi authorities solely in 2017 and in April 2019 respectively. The Delhi authorities had notified the scheme for the primary time in 2015, nevertheless it was challenged by the road distributors’ organizations within the Delhi High court docket. The Act mandates the formation of a TVC for the identification of distributors and likewise merchandising zones. The TVCs will “ensure that all existing street vendors, identified in the survey, are accommodated in the vending zones”. The Delhi authorities has constituted 28 TVCs, together with one every on the New Delhi Municipal Council and Delhi Cantonment Board. There are 11 TVCs in North MCD areas, 6 TVCs in East MCD and 9 overlaying South MCD areas. Each TVC has 30 members and it’s headed by the zonal deputy commissioner and has the illustration of elected road distributors, a senior municipal official defined.
    Arbind Singh, the nationwide coordinator of the National Association of Street Vendors of India, mentioned, “There has been an inordinate delay in the implementation of this Act due to which lakhs of street vendors today live in the fear of eviction and face harassment by government agencies. It took the government agencies almost seven years to start the survey, which is not being carried out properly. There should have been just one TVC. The government’s decision to have 28 TVCs has only added to the problem.”
    While the Act says that the merchandising zones will likely be recognized on the suggestions of the TVCs, the 28 TVCs’ are solely liable for the survey underneath the current association. Singh mentioned, “So far the government is yet to identify vending zones, which is essential for effective implementation of the Act. The present TVCs don’t have the mandate to identify the vending zones. They are just involved in the identification of vendors.”
    Last month, NASVI wrote to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal asking him to make the Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) operational and empower TVCs as per the Act. “There is no mechanism for grievance redressal right now. We have also asked the CM to give full powers to the TVCs as mandated in the Act,” mentioned Singh. The officers from all three municipal firms confirmed that no merchandising zones have been recognized but. “No progress has been made in identifying the zones where space will be allocated to street vendors. New TVwill be elected by the street vendors identified in the survey. The space allocation and vending zone identification process will be undertaken in consultation with Delhi government and DDA only after the vending survey is completed and accepted by the state government,” an EDMC official defined.
    A senior municipal official who’s a member of the merchandising committee mentioned on the situation of anonymity that the contradictions between the scheme notified by the Delhi authorities and the central act have added problems. “We are issuing the vending certificates as per the rules notified under the Delhi government’s scheme. The central act stated that the certificates will include the place of vending but the scheme does not specify this,” the official acknowledged.
    The harassment of distributors
    Following court docket orders, a sequence of evictions of road distributors have taken place in Connaught Place, Janpath and neighbouring areas over the past couple of months. This has led to the distributors organising protests on Friday, a day marking Human Rights Day.
    Mathura Bai, a disabled road vendor and a TVC member mentioned that their rights of livelihood are being taken away. “We are not begging. We also have the right to feed our families. People have been vending in the area for the last two decades and should not be evicted overnight,” she mentioned.
    Sanju V, president of Kanti Nagar weekly market at Shahdara, mentioned, “Less than 50% of the vendors have been surveyed so far. Vendors are in fear that they will be evicted or their goods will be confiscated by municipal authorities. They should give us a place, ideally allow us to continue where we have been setting up our weekly market for years now.”
    AR Sunil Kumar Shahji, president of Delhi Pradesh Saptahik Bazaar Welfare Association, who has over 3000 distributors as a part of the organisation, mentioned, “Around 15% of the vendors have been able to get registered. The entire process is flawed, as vendors are being harassed despite getting registered. The government agencies need to streamline the system and make it vendor-friendly.”

  • Delhi HC: State has failed to guard most simple elementary proper…the best to life’

    THE DELHI High Court on Friday stated the State has failed to guard probably the most elementary of rights — the best to life — after it was knowledgeable of the dying of an individual who had petitioned the court docket for an ICU mattress.
    The court docket expressed its anguish when, within the midst of the day’s listening to, advocate Amit Sharma stated, “My lord, my brother-in-law has expired. No more efforts should be made. I have completely failed. So grateful to you.”
    At this, the division bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli stated, “No. The State has failed. We have failed. We all have failed.”
    The court docket later recorded within the order, “During the course of hearing, Mr Amit Sharma has informed that Atul Kumar Sharma has expired. We may at this stage record our complete helplessness with the situation. We can only say that the State has failed in performing its fundamental obligation of protecting the most basic fundamental right, that is right to life contained under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.”
    As Sharma broke the information, the digital courtroom was engulfed in silence. Only minutes in the past, the court docket had heard Sharma’s request for assist for his brother-in-law.
    “May I request all my senior advocates who are here… if they can help me because the oxygen level of my brother-in-law has gone down to 68…,” Sharma instructed the court docket. “By tomorrow he may not be there in the world. I have very limited time.”
    Sharma had been showing often earlier than the court docket for the previous few days, searching for its intervention for his brother-in-law, who remained within the emergency room of Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, however couldn’t be offered any ICU mattress since there was none vacant. “I have no other option than to beg everyone,” Sharma had instructed the court docket on Thursday.
    On Friday, the court docket requested the attorneys, together with Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma, to make efforts on this regard. Chetan Sharma instructed the court docket {that a} mattress had change into obtainable on Thursday at Safdarjung Hospital, but it surely was not doable to shift the affected person there given his critical situation and, within the meantime, the mattress was offered to another critical affected person.
    On the allocation of medical oxygen to Delhi, the division bench earlier instructed Solicitor General Tushar Mehta: “Everyday people are dying. We are quite fed up with hearing everyday SOS calls from so many hospitals, nursing homes. It is really straining the whole city.”
    After Mehta’s request for time, the court docket stated it should take care of the difficulty of allocation on Monday.
    While listening to a petition filed by the Bar Council of Delhi, the court docket earlier within the day additionally stated that it’s a “complete failure of the State” that every thing, together with medical oxygen and hospital beds, is in brief provide. “It is a war and it would be wrong to call it a battle,” stated the court docket on the continuing Covid-19 scenario within the nation.
    Without referring to any specific authorities, the division bench noticed that the nation is witnessing an enormous surge of Covid-19, which has impacted the whole medical system. “Nobody could have imagined it would attack us this way,” stated the court docket.
    On the disaster of infrastructure, the court docket stated, “There is such a great dearth of oxygen that hospitals that have beds have stopped admissions because they are unable to service the patients. Doctors are breaking down, crying.”

  • Tihar seems to be for 3,468 inmates gone ‘missing’ whereas on Covid parole

    Of the 6,740 prisoners at Tihar Jail who have been launched on parole final 12 months within the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, 3,468 have gone “missing”. Jail authorities have now approached the Delhi Police to assist hint them.
    Most of the convicts and undertrial prisoners struggling diseases akin to HIV, most cancers, kidney dysfunction requiring dialysis, Hepatitis B or C, bronchial asthma and TB have been launched final 12 months to decongest the jail as Covid instances rose. Tihar, with a cumulative capability of holding 10,026 inmates, is among the largest jail complexes in South Asia.
    Sources stated that of these launched, 1,184 have been convicted inmates let loose of Delhi’s three jails, at Tihar, Mandoli, Rohini. “They were initially released for eight weeks, which was later extended from time to time. They were finally supposed to surrender between February 7 and March 6. But out of 1,184, 112 are missing. When jail officials approached their family members, they were told that they were not present at their homes,” jail sources stated.
    Of the undertrial prisoners, solely round 2,200 of the 5,556 launched on interim bail have returned. “The process to surrender started on March 6 this year and they were asked to surrender by the end of March,” sources in Tihar jail stated.

    All states had constituted high-powered committees to put down standards for the discharge of convicted and undertrial prisoners to decongest jails following a Supreme Court suggestion in March final 12 months. Following this, states launched inmates on bail for 30-60 days. For Delhi, the committee was headed by Delhi High Court choose Justice Hima Kohli. It additionally included then Delhi authorities Principal Secretary (Home)/Additional Chief Secretary Satya Gopal and Tihar Director General (Prisons) Sandeep Goel.

    Asked in regards to the “missing” prisoners, DG Goel stated, “We have shared a list of UTPs (undertrial prisoners) and convicts who have not surrendered with the Delhi Police. Some UTPs are still surrendering and some might have obtained regular bails from courts, which is being ascertained.”
    Data supplied by the Tihar jail authorities present that as of Wednesday, the jail had 67 energetic instances amongst jail inmates and 11 amongst jail employees, together with a jail superintendent and two jail medical doctors. “Currently there are around 20,000 prisoners in Tihar. Till date, 174 inmates and 300 staff have tested positive. Last week, the Tihar jail administration decided to cancel meetings between prisoners and their family members till further orders, following the surge of Covid-19 cases in Delhi,” an official stated.