Khora Colony (Ghaziabad)

In the latest ‘Swachh Survekshan’ ranking issued by the Ministry of Urban Development, Ghaziabad fared badly yet again and secured a dismal 351st spot of a total of 434 cities that were surveyed. In 2016, Ghaziabad ranked 67th among 73 cities. The rankings, commissioned by the Ministry of Urban Development during January-February 2017, aimed at capturing the improvement in sanitation, primarily based on making cities and town open defecation free and also on the basis of processing of municipal solid waste. According to the latest ranking, a total of 62 cities from Uttar Pradesh competed and Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of PM Narendra Modi, emerged as the top city in the state. The remote town of Loni fared better than Ghaziabad and was ranked 331. Modi Nagar was ranked 360. Nearby Hapur district secured the 424th spot. The city scored a total of 672 with 374 points out of 900 for self-declaration of cleanliness measures (solid waste management including door-to...

Independent Schools’ Federation of India is observing a ‘token strike’ on Thursday against the district administration’s order to set up the committee to scrutinise their accounts. The committee is to look into the schools’ accounts and investigate other complaints forwarded by parents and associations. An association of private schools in Ghaziabad has decided to shut nearly 128 schools on Thursday as a mark of protest against the district administration’s decision to set up a committee to inquire into allegations of the unjustified fee hike. The committee comprises the additional district magistrate (finance), district inspector of schools and the basic education officer. The president of the Independent Schools’ Federation of India (ISFI) on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to the district officials and said that 128 private schools will observe a ‘token strike’ on Thursday against the district administration’s order to set up the committee. The committee is to look in...

यूपी गेट शनिवार सुबह से सिग्नल फ्री हो जाएगा और वाहन चालक फर्राटा भरेंगे। इसके लिए एनएच-नौ (पहले - 24) के गाजीपुर फ्लाईओवर को बंद कर ¨ लक रोड को काटकर बनाए गए नए रूट को चालू किया गया है। इससे एनएच - नौ से गुजरने वाले लाखों वाहन चालकों को जाम की समस्या से राहत मिलेगी। एनएच - नौ के चौड़ीकरण का कार्य इन दिनों तेजी से चल रहा है। पिछले सोमवार को निर्माण कार्य के कारण यूपी गेट पर डायवर्जन कर दिया गया था। यूपी गेट को सिग्नल फ्री करने के लिए एनएच- नौ के बगल से ¨ लक रोड को काट कर नई सड़क का निर्माण कार्य शुरू किया गया था। शुक्रवार को सड़क का निर्माण कार्य पूरा हो गया। शनिवार सुबह से दिल्ली से गाजियाबाद की ओर जाने वालों के लिए सड़क चालू कर दिया जाएगा। निर्माण कार्य के चलते गाजीपुर फ्लाईओवर रूट को पूरी तरफ से बंद किया जाएगा। प्रोजेक्ट इंजीनियर विकास नागर ने बताया कि हाइवे चौड़ीकरण के लिए यूपी गेट पर एनएच- नौ को बंद करना पड़ा। इसके लिए बगल से ¨ लक रोड को काट कर नई सड़क बनाई गई है। शनिवार सुबह नई सड़क पर यातायात शुरू हो जाएगी। -------- लगता था जाम : एनएच-नौ का गाजीपुर फ्लाईओवर रूट चालू होने से यूपी...

बेनामी संपत्ति जुटाने वालों पर शिकंजा कसने के लिए आयकर विभाग ने अब ऑपरेशन ‘ क्लीन प्रॉपर्टी ’ शुरू कर दिया है। गाजियाबाद स्थित आयकर ऑफिस ने करीब 2800 लोगों को बेनामी संपत्ति के मामले में नोटिस भेजा है। वहीं , आने वाले दिनों में विभाग नेे कार्रवाई के भी संकेत दिए हैं। आयकर विभाग से जुड़े सूत्र बताते हैं कि नोटिस के माध्यम से लोगों से संपत्ति को खरीदने का जरिया पूछा गया। सभी को दो सप्ताह में नोटिस का जवाब देने को कहा गया है। विभाग ने जिन लोगों को नोटिस भेजा है , उनमें सोना कारोबारी , सरकारी अधिकारी , प्रॉपर्टी डीलर , कांट्रेक्टर , बिल्डर और कुछ कर्मचारी भी शामिल हैं। उधर , भेजे गए नोटिस कुछ लोगों के पतों पर रिसीव नहीं हो रहे हैं। ऐसे में अब विभागीय टीम संबंधित व्यक्ति के पते पर जाकर नोटिस रिसीव कराएगी। बता दें कि बेनामी संपत्ति वालों पर शिकंजा कसने के लिए केंद्र सरकार ने आयकर विभाग को बिना किसी हस्तक्षेप करने की छूट दी है। एडिशनल कमिश्नर कर रहे मॉनीटरिंग बेनामी संपत्ति जुटाने वालों पर कार्रवाई करने के लिए आयकर विभाग ने अलग से नोडल अधिकारी नियुक्ति किया है। नोएडा स्थित आयकर ...

Auto rickshaws were seen plying on city roads on Monday. (TOI Photo) GHAZIABAD: Three-wheeler autos -- including 3+1 seaters and 6+1 seaters -- have been plying in regular fashion since Monday morning in Ghaziabad despite an indefinite strike called by the union. Autos were seen ferrying passengers at the Vaishali metro station, the terminal point of the metro line in Ghaziabad, on Monday. Autos also have been moving through Mohan Nagar, Link Road, GT Road and other parts of Ghaziabad.  Members of the Ghaziabad Three-Wheeler Auto Chalak Union, however, said the strike has not been called off.  Regular movement of autos in the city on Monday has spared commuters from inconveniences that were faced a day earlier on roads. Union president Dilshad Ahmed was not available for comments. The union has called the strike citing a slew of demands. Among other demands, the union has asked for the raising of life span of autos with 3+1 capacity from the current eight...

New Delhi/ Nagpur:  Despite all efforts to maintain communal harmony and peace, intermittent incidents of unrest and clashes of faiths crop up and pose threats to law and order situation as well as peaceful communal existence. Now, with a new and happy development of announcement of marriage of Shaban Bukhari, son of Jama Masjid’s Shahi Imam Syed Bukhari with a Hindu girl from Gaziabad, all skirmishes between Hindus and Muslims may find a newer dimension of social co-existence, and love as well as respect for one another, which is need of the hour.  It was November 22, 2014, Shaban Kukhari, son of Jama Masjid’s Shahi Imam Syed Bukhari, was formally annointed as the Naib Imam of Jama Masjid, Delhi. The 20-year-old Shaban Bhukari is pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Social Work at Amity University. Shaban will become the Shahi Imam of the country’s largest mosque when he would succeed his father. Amid rising communal tensions in the capital city, after a violent mob murde...

GHAZIABAD: The second phase of Ghaziabad's ambitious Metro project -from Dilshad Garden in Delhi to New Bus Stand -is facing uncertainty over funding.  Principal secretary (housing) and Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) chairman Sadakant Shukla on Monday said the UP government had not allocated any funds for the project in its budget and the state agencies that had promised to partly fund the Rs 2,208 crore project were now backing out.  However, modalities are being worked out for ensuring the ongoing Metro work is not affected due to paucity of funds and a decision is likely to be taken soon in Lucknow over external funding for the project if state government agencies failed to pay up their share of costs, Shukla said.  In fact, the Metro project is being jointly funded by the Centre, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and the UP government. While the Centre and DMRC have pledged Rs 730 crore for the project, the state government will be bearing a burden of Rs...

By IANS | Monday, October 5, 2015 - 18:12       Ghaziabad's Delhi Metro link in trouble Ghaziabad: The extension of Delhi Metro to Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad town is in doubt due to financial crunch, a senior official said on Monday.   Principal Secretary (Housing) Sadakant told the media that government agencies which had promised to partly fund the Rs.1,480 crore project were now backing out.   And the crisis was forcing the Uttar Pradesh government to "review" the project, he said.    Delhi Metro, which now extends to Noida and a part of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh and Gurgaon and Faridabad districts in Haryana, had planned to take its network from Delhi's Dilshad Garden to New Bus stand here.   Sadakant said the municipal corporation, the Ghaziabad Housing Board and the Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corp (UPSIDC) were not financially sound to contribute their share in the project.   Asked how...

INDIAN DOMINION: Taxing the Super Rich : Amidst wide anticipations of taxing the ‘super-rich’ of the country, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said in his budget speech 2013-14 th...

खोड़ा : खोड़ा में बिहार असोसिएशन ने सोमवार को भारत के प्रथम राष्ट्रपति डॉ. राजेंद्र प्रसाद का 129वां जन्मदिन मनाया। कार्यक्रम की शुरुआत में असोसिएशन अध्यक्ष जितेंद्र शर्मा ने राजेंद्र प्रसाद के चित्र पर माल्यापर्ण किया। इसके बाद एक आम बैठक में राजेंद्र प्रसाद के व्यवहार और उनके कार्यों पर प्रकाश डाला गया। इस मौके पर मौजूद सभी लोगों ने उनके आदर्शों पर चलने का संकल्प लिया। इसमें सर्व समाज के लोगों ने हिस्सा लिया। बैठक में रामानंद सिंह, मुरारी चौधरी, अमन शर्मा, विकास राय, कृष्णा, श्याम लाल, किरन प्रसाद, सतेंद्र कुमार समेत कई लोग मौजूद रहे। 

GHAZIABAD: The Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad  authorities didn't seem to take traffic snarls into consideration while opening two lanes of the link road between Holland Factory in Greater Noida and NH-24 earlier this month. The under-construction T-point where the link road meets NH-24 has become a site of major chaos with commuters trying to wedge past their vehicles to use the road to travel between Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Delhi. Peak hours have been witnessing major jams due to lack of traffic personnel being posted there to monitor movement of vehicles.  Only two lanes were opened to traffic earlier this month for commuters travelling between Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Meerut since the GDA is yet to complete work on the service lanes and the central verge of the link road. However, in spite of the incomplete construction work, people have been using the stretch. With no traffic cops stationed in the area to check such violations and with the ongoing work adding t...

GHAZIABAD: The  CBI  on Monday filed charge-sheet against senior IAS officer  Pradeep Shukla  in connection with alleged irregularities in upgrading of 89 district hospitals in the state, under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scheme, causing a loss of Rs 16 crore to the exchequer.  The agency had received sanction to prosecute Shukla on November 30 from the Centre after that a charge-sheet was filed before special CBI court in Ghaziabad on Monday.  Shukla and officials of UP Processing and Construction Cooperative Federation Ltd (PACCFED), including its managing director V K Chowdhary, the then director general of family welfare S P Ram, Moradabad-based businessman Saurabh Jain, and his firms were booked by the agency in January this year.  While remaining accused were chargesheeted in May this year, the charge-sheet against Shukla was pending because CBI was awaiting sanction for his prosecution.  The 55-year-old IAS officer was the NRHM mi...

Ghaziabad:  A day after allowing traffic to pass through free of cost, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) continued to lay siege to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) Dasna toll bridge in Ghaziabad on Monday. The BKU plans to make the toll road in Saharanpur and the DND (Delhi-Noida-Delhi) Flyway "toll-free" from December 4 and December 7, respectively, BKU Meerut division president Rajvir Singh said. "Our next target will be to liberate commuters from paying toll at the DND Flyway in Noida," he said.  Rajvir Singh also threatened to make all the highways in Uttar Pradesh toll-free and termed the collection of toll on the national highways as "extortion" from the commuters. He said the collection of toll at the Dasna toll bridge was in violation of the norms laid down by the NHAI.  "According to the NHAI rules, a toll bridge cannot be established within a 10-kilometre radius of any municipal body. The Dasna toll bridge is hardly two kilome...

A man was on Monday booked for allegedly losing his wife during gambling in Nehru Nagar area in the Ghaziabad district, police said on Monday.  According to the complaint lodged by the woman, the accused lost her in gambling ten days ago following which the fellow gamblers reached her residence to abduct her, she said. However, she managed to flee from the spot and later filed a complaint against her husband at the Jarcha police station in Noida. "My husband lost me in gambling. A neighbour I had confided in informed my parents. My father came and took me home. My husband visited me thrice, and I ultimately agreed to patch up with him against my family's wishes," the woman said. "But my husband continued to abuse me. Once he pushed me off the staircase," she said.  She alleged that after few months of marriage, the accused even asked her to have a sexual relationship with her brother-in-law to which she refused only to get beaten up badly at his hands. Furthe...

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to withdraw all cases against late liquor baron Ponty Chadha in the state. The decision was taken in a Cabinet meeting in Uttar Pradesh. Ponty Chadha, who was the sole liquor distributor in Uttar Pradesh, died after a shootout between him and his brother Hardeep at his farmhouse in Delhi. Hardeep was also killed in the shootout. Ponty Chadha's other business interests included real estate, sugar mills and film production, which he used to look after along with his two brothers - Hardeep and Rajinder. The business empire was reportedly worth Rs 6,000 crore. However, no arrests have been made in regard to the double murders case. The police are yet to find significant leads into what led to the shootout. The police have said that a clash between the two brothers had taken place in another farmhouse, located a few kilometers away, on the morning of the shootout. Ponty Chadha, who was the sole liquor distributor in Uttar Pradesh, ...

A major blow to Bollywood is the death of liquor baron and film distributor Ponty Chadha. Many movie producers and directors worked closely with Chadha in the past. At least 6-7 prominent filmmakers were in serious negotiations with Chadha over big-budget projects which would now have to seek a different outlet for financial sustenance. Apparently Bollywood financier Bharat Shah was the last person from the Hindi film industry to have negotiated with Ponty Chadha. Bharat Shah has major financial stakes in director Anand Kumar's Sanjay Dutt-Arshad Warsi-Vivek Oberoi production Zilla Ghazibad. Shah was to fly Delhi on Saturday, the day tragedy struck Ponty Chadha's life, to screen the film for Chadha who showed a keen interest in the distribution of the film. Barely an hour before Ponty was to view Zilla Ghaziabad, he was shot dead. Confirming this, the Zilla Ghaziabad producer Vinod Bachchan says, "Bharatbhai is closely involved with my film. He was in serious n...

RBI also asked the UP commissioner of Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies to issue an order for winding up Ghaziabad Urban Cooperative Bank as well as appoint a liquidator for the bank Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the licence of Ghaziabad Urban Cooperative Bank as it had become insolvent, reports PTI. "In view of the fact that Ghaziabad Urban Cooperative Bank, Ghaziabad (UP), had ceased to be solvent and with all efforts to revive it having failed ... the Reserve Bank of Indiadelivered the order cancelling its licence to the bank on 16 November 2012," RBI said in anotification today. RBI said it has asked the commissioner of Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies of Uttar Pradesh government to issue an order for winding up the bank as well as appoint a liquidator for the bank.  

India has requested  Interpol  to come up with a special notice for terror cases, which is not a part of the existing red corner notice. The request was made at the recently concluded general assembly of Interpol in Rome, which was attended by home minister  Sushil Kumar Shinde  and CBI director A P Singh. "It will simplify the process for all the investigating agencies to know about terror suspects if the notice's colour or style is changed," said an officer. Interpol is reported to be examining the request. In the general assembly, it was also decided that Interpol will hold training programmes at the CBI academy in Ghaziabad, for the Asia-Pacific nations. Training will be imparted to law enforcement officers of various countries on bio-terrorism, investigation of maritime piracy and anti-corruption cases, and there will be focused attention on fugitives involved in terror cases. "This was agreed upon at the Interpol's 81st general assembly which was held ...

Your car is approaching a toll booth, what do you do? Fumble for change, switch the frequency on the radio, look around to see other glum faces queuing up? If you were at the Ghaziabad-Meerut toll plaza on Friday afternoon, however, you would've got your autograph book out as the man in the SUV parked next to your car was cricket star Suresh Raina. And, so it was... Ever willing to give back to the ones who cherish it the most, Raina took time out – he was excitedly being chauffeured to the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit – to sign autographs and pose for photographs with frenzied fans who jumped out of their cars to catch a glimpse of the man who two years ago scored a century on his Test debut. "It's the fans who make you who you are. It's very important to acknowledge that and show gratitude," said Raina, who played a record 98 ODIs before making his Test debut. However, in a country where cricketing stars are worshipped like gods, things can sometim...