-The Indian Express New Delhi: Aiming to improve the condition of government schools in the capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has set up a team of volunteers who will visit all government schools in the capital and give first-hand information about their condition to Education Minister Manish Sisodia. In the course of the next few days, the team of approximately 200 volunteers will visit government schools across the city and communicate...
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Kejriwal Takes Measures to Help the Homeless
-Outlook New Delhi: Delhi government today announced a series of measures to provide roof to the homeless in biting cold sweeping the city and decided to replace all the night shelters being run from plastic tents with porta cabins within three days. "An order has been passed to replace all night shelters with porta cabins within three days," Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a statement released here. He also directed SDMs to...
More »Activists say subsidy waste of public money
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Opposition parties and activists who have been campaigning against private discoms and tariff hikes slammed the government's decision to increase the subsidy on power consumption on Tuesday. While BJP criticized the move, Congress said it is analyzing the implications of the subsidy announcement. BJP said money meant for welfare schemes would be spent on the increased subsidy. "He is giving subsidy to people at the cost...
More »Water priorities for urban India-Mihir Shah
-The Hindu The Aam Aadmi Party's proposal of 666 litres of free water a day raises the alarming prospect of further disadvantaging the already deprived sections of Delhi who get no piped water at all The Twelfth Five Year Plan has proposed a paradigm shift in water management in India. One of our key proposals relates to urban water. In many ways, it could be said that the crisis of water and...
More »AAP delivers on water promise, but bills to rise for big consumers -Neha Lalchandani
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday kept its promise of free water - 20 kilolitres per month or an average of about 660 litres a day per family - but it came with a rider and a whammy for bigger water consumers. The rider is that if consumption exceeds 20 kl, you would be billed for the entire water consumed, and the whammy was that...
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