Tag: Delhi govt

  • AAP blames Center over fund crunch

    New Delhi: A day after rains caused waterlogging and traffic snarls across the capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sought to shift the blame on the Center for not providing ample funds to Delhi to refurbish the storm water drainage system, sanitation and road construction. .

    The AAP, which controls both the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Delhi government, fielded mayor Shelly Oberoi and senior minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Thursday to put up its defence. Oberoi said she had written to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman right before she presented the Union budget on July 23 and sought ₹10,000 crore for Delhi. “We need this money for better infrastructure in the capital. We need ₹5,000 crore for sanitation, ₹3,000 crore for road construction and ₹2,000 crore for parks and greening.” Oberoi said Delhi had not got anything in the budget. “But this step motherly treatment is a regular feature. The people of Delhi pay the maximum taxes. We pay ₹25,000 crore in CGST (central goods and services tax)… You can see the monsoon season is on and it is essential to We need ₹5,000 crore for refurbishing the system.

    Having wrested the MCD from the BJP with a decisive mandate in December 2024, the AAP is now directly responsible for the municipal and civic governance. However, a number of budget proposals, including refurbishing and cleanup of main and arterial roads, remain, according to people familiar with the matter. Delhi has not even tapped into central schemes, such as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and Swachh Bharat Mission, to get funds for specific projects, they said. Even as it sought to blame the Center for not giving funds, though, the MCD took steps to Address illegal encroachments and illegal use of basements. Oberoi said the municipal commissioner had given instructions to the staff to work roundtheclock in shifts to address the problem of waterlogging in the city.

  • Delhi govt launches Covid helpline on WhatsApp. Details right here

    The Delhi Government introduced the launch of a devoted State Covid Helpline on WhatsApp. This service is free-to-use and can act as a supply for up-to-date details about COVID-19-related sources in Delhi. 

    The helpline additionally makes it simple for residents of Delhi to seek out their nearest vaccination centre and obtainable slots. This service is accessible in Hindi and English.

    How to make use of the brand new helpline

    To use the “Delhi Government Helpdesk” on WhatsApp, merely save the quantity +91 11 2230 7145 in your cellphone contacts and ship ‘Hi’ as a WhatsApp message. 

    Built on an built-in answer of WhatsApp Business API, the helpline will fetch verified solutions from the Government of Delhi to residents’ COVID-related queries. The service supplies info on subjects equivalent to hospital beds availability, vaccination, teleconsultation with docs and oxygen cylinder refilling.

    Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi stated, “Delhi Government has at all times been on the forefront of constructing progressive tech options to profit residents of Delhi. Now, with Delhi Government’s chatbot on WhatsApp for Covid-19 sources and vaccination, it would grow to be simpler for individuals of Delhi to win over the pandemic. We’ll proceed our relentless efforts to succeed in a 100% vaccination price by options like these that are easy and accessible to all.”

    Satyendar Jain, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Delhi Government – “As a part of our tireless makes an attempt to fight the pandemic and to fortify our preparedness within the face of the anticipated third wave, we’ve constructed the tech-solution of chatbot on WhatsApp to help residents conveniently entry credible info and sources associated to Covid-19 moreover serving to them find their nearest vaccine centres. We are grateful to WhatsApp for extending help to the Delhi Government in our steady efforts to win over this public well being disaster.”

    Shivnath Thurkral, Public Policy Director, WhatsApp India stated, “Over the final 12 months and a half, easy and intuitive know-how like WhatsApp has performed a pivotal position in serving to India in its strife towards the pandemic. Delhi state administration’s customized tech-solution of this Helpline chatbot on the WhatsApp-API will now complement and speed up the State-Government’s pandemic-relief efforts and equip the individuals of Delhi with credible info and sources associated to Covid-19. We are actually proud to companion with the Delhi Government in our steady endeavour to contribute meaningfully.“

    “We have been serving to varied authorities entities to launch citizen engagement chatbots in India, in shut collaboration with WhatsApp and that is one other milestone for us, collectively. This is a user-friendly chatbot, able to pulling in info from different techniques and serving to residents get solutions to their most urgent questions, with utmost accuracy and very quickly,” Harsha Solanki, Managing Director, Infobip India

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  • Centre seeks companies of West Bengal Chief Secretary, officer to report in Delhi on Monday

    The Centre on Friday sought companies of West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay and requested the state authorities to alleviate the officer instantly with a path to him to report in Delhi on Monday.
    Bandyopadhyay, a 1987-batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre, was earlier as a result of retire on May 31 after completion of 60 years of age. However, he was granted a three-month extension.
    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had on Monday stated that he was granted an extension for a interval of three months.
    Banerjee had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 12, urging him to grant Bandyopadhyay an extension for at the very least six months in view of his expertise of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
    In a communique to the state authorities, the Personnel Ministry on Friday stated the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has accredited the location of the companies of Bandyopadhyay with Government of India as per provisions of Rule 6 (1) of the Indian Administrative Service (cadre) Rules, 1954, with fast impact.
    “Accordingly, the state government is requested to relieve the officer with immediate effect and direct him to report to the Department of Personnel and Training, North Block, New Delhi by 10 am on May 31, 2021,” it stated.
    The rule says a cadre officer could, with the concurrence of the state governments involved and the central authorities, be deputed for service underneath the central authorities or one other state authorities.
    “Provided that in case of any disagreement, the matter shall be decided by the central government and the state government or state governments concerned shall give effect to the decision of the central government,” it says.

    Bandyopadhyay took over because the chief secretary of West Bengal after Rajiv Sinha retired in September final 12 months.

  • Delhi govt directs golf equipment, restro-bars to share their areas utilizing Google Maps

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    The Delhi Excise Department has directed house owners of golf equipment, eating places and inns within the metropolis to share the placement of their institutions utilizing Google Maps, a transfer geared toward making ready a digital database, officers mentioned on Monday. The division mentioned non-compliance of its instructions will likely be seen significantly. There are over 1,000 inns, golf equipment and restro-bars within the nationwide capital with excise licences to serve liquor to their clients.

    In a written communication, the division has requested the institutions to ship info referring to their location utilizing longitude and latitude.

    An official mentioned the transfer can even assist to know geographic areas of such institutions in a selected space.

    “It is digitally simple to seek out location of golf equipment, inns and eating places in a selected space. If we’ve got a digital database, we will take choices accordingly.

    Such database can be utilised for excise coverage within the coming months,” the official instructed PTI, including that the transfer is a part of excise reforms.

    Another official mentioned there are some areas which have enough variety of golf equipment and eating places, however there are additionally different areas the place such institutions should not in good numbers.

    Last month, the federal government had constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) below Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia to look at the present system of excise responsibility administration and the suggestions of an skilled committee on a brand new excise coverage.

    Health Minister Satyendar Jain and Law Minister Kailash Gahlot are a part of the GoM.

    It is analyzing all elements of the present system of excise responsibility administration and can undergo the report of the skilled committee and the options obtained from stakeholders and the general public.

    Last week, the division had warned golf equipment, inns and eating places of strict motion if they’re discovered serving alcohol to clients from liquor bottles not bearing 2D bar-codes.=
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  • Delhi survey: 10% youngsters out of faculty, 80% houses don’t have computer systems

    # Two lakh kids stay “out of school”, together with 64,813 as a result of “financial constraints”.
    # Over six lakh between 0-6 years are exterior the online of anganwadis, which cowl lower than half of Delhi’s pregnant ladies.
    # Over 63% individuals use buses for commuting, whereas solely 6% rely upon the flagship Delhi Metro.
    # As many as 42.59% households within the metropolis spend lower than Rs 10,000 monthly, almost 80% don’t personal computer systems, and 29% wouldn’t have entry to faucet water inside households. Almost all households have bathrooms.
    # Nearly three-fourth of the inhabitants will depend on authorities services; of the two.60% that suffer from persistent diseases, most have diabetes.
    # Around one-fourth of the kids within the age group 0-5 years haven’t acquired any vaccination.These are among the many findings of a Delhi authorities survey, the largest of its sort, masking 1.02 crore individuals, carried out between November 2018 and November 2019. The report, finalised in November 2020, reveals the socio-economic composition of the town, together with particulars on faith, caste, earnings, training, persistent diseases, standing of vaccination, employment and most well-liked modes of transport.
    The survey had been ordered following deaths of three minor women of suspected hunger in East Delhi’s Mandawali in July 2018. The household didn’t have a ration card, and a authorities probe discovered that the native anganwadi centre had fudged information after the deaths.

    As per the 2011 Census, Delhi has a inhabitants of 1.67 crore.
    Conducted by over 6,000 discipline employees utilizing a cell app linked with a central database, the survey’s most revealing findings concern training and early childhood improvement. They present that 2,21,694 kids between the ages of 6 and 17 (or 9.76% of complete) had been out of the varsity system, together with 1,31,584 who had dropped out and 90,110 who had by no means attended college.
    “The predominant reason for not attending school in the age group of 6-17 years is reported as financial constraint (29.2%),” the survey report says. As many as 13.50% had been “engaged in domestic duties”, 12.17% gave “desired education level achieved” as the rationale, whereas 9.37% had been stated to be “engaged in economic activities”.
    Of the full inhabitants of Delhi, 11.04% comprised kids within the age group of 0-6 years, of whom simply over half (55.40%) attended anganwadi centres. Among pregnant ladies aged 18 years and above, 47.15% had been discovered to be attending these centres, run below the Integrated Child Development Services programme of the federal government.
    The survey discovered that 47.31% households in Delhi spent Rs 10,000-Rs 25,000 each month, whereas 42.5% incurred a month-to-month expenditure of Rs 10,000 or under. The share of these spending Rs 25,000-Rs 50,000 stood at 8.44%, and only one.66% households spent over Rs 50,000 monthly. The per capita earnings of Delhi was Rs 3.89 lakh in 2019-20 (or over Rs 32,000 a month) — about thrice the nationwide common.
    Slightly over 21% of the 20.05 lakh households surveyed used desktops or laptops. Of these, 80.15% had Internet connection.
    The survey additionally discovered that as a lot as 72.87% of the town’s inhabitants availed therapy at authorities hospitals and dispensaries, with the remaining depending on personal services.
    Around 2.60% of the town’s complete inhabitants was discovered to be “suffering from some kind of chronic illness”, and of them, 36.33% had diabetes (43.34% in Central district), adopted by 21.75% with cardiac diseases (together with hypertension and blood circulatory illness) and 9.17% had respiratory ailments.
    In one other vital discovering, because the coronavirus vaccination drive begins Friday, the survey discovered that just about one-fourth of the kids within the age group 0-5 years had not acquired nor had been receiving vaccination — those that had been coated comprised 77.54%. In phrases of absolute numbers, out of 9.5 lakh kids falling within the 0-5 age bracket, 2.13 lakh had not acquired vaccination.
    On availability of water, the survey discovered that solely 37.75% individuals within the South East district had entry inside their family premises, versus 90% in Shahdara district. The metropolis’s general common was 70.98%. About 43.28% of the 1.86 lakh households within the South East district trusted bottled water, with the general share being 7.76% within the complete inhabitants. Of the full, 1.01 lakh households trusted tankers.
    Of the 20.5 lakh households, 18.7 lakh had bathrooms, 1.22 lakh trusted group bathrooms and 11,497 figured below the open defecation class.

    The preface to the report of the survey, executed at a value of Rs 26.61 crore, says earlier pattern surveys had been unable to depict real-time image of necessities vis-à-vis availability of infrastructure and social safety. “It was also felt by Delhi Government that due to lack of baseline data on various socio economic indicators in respect of Households/Individuals of Delhi, a great deal of difficulty is being faced by different departments of Government of NCT of Delhi for policy formulation and implementation of schemes… It is expected that the data generated in this report will provide necessary information to policy makers, researchers and Government.”
    The three women whose deaths prompted the survey lived in a one-room tenement within the catchment space of Anganwadi No.62 of Mandawali. A authorities investigation had discovered that officers had added their names within the information of the native anganwadi after their deaths.