-Business Standard Plugs Rs 5,060 crore of LPG subsidy parked with 21 million, largely fake customers The enrolment of beneficiaries under the ambitious modified Direct Benefits Transfer for LPG (DBTL) scheme has finally stopped at 128.7 million people, oil ministry, data show. This translates into annual subsidy savings for the government to the tune of Rs 5,060 crore at the current prices that was linked to the rest 21.3 million customers. These include...
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Rs 5,000 fine for burning waste in NCR, says NGT
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In yet another bid to check air pollution in Delhi and the rest of the NCR, National Green Tribunal on Tuesday banned burning of waste in the open. It also announced a fine of Rs 5,000 on anyone who is caught burning dry leaves, plastic, rubber or any other waste material in NCR. NGT said deputy commissioners, director of horticulture, area SHOs, assistant commissioners and sanitary...
More »More buses, fewer cars please -Karthik Rao Cavale & Aashish Gupta
-The Hindu If the ‘pro-poor’ Delhi government dismantles its only Bus Rapid Transit corridor, it will only make life more difficult for the least affluent class. The new government in Delhi is reportedly planning to dismantle the 5.8- kilometre-long pilot Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor and replace it with a six-lane road instead. Those who have followed the saga of the BRT experiment in Delhi will not be surprised by the decision...
More »Day after green tribunal order, cops seize 96 vehicles
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A day after the National Green Tribunal banned diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years in Delhi and NCR, the Delhi government was still in the process of trying to access the order. Meanwhile, the Delhi traffic police prosecuted 96 vehicles. Of these, 38 were commercial vehicles while the rest were private vehicles. The traffic police said it had...
More »AMRI victims seek damages
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Survivors and family members of the 93 people killed in the fire at Calcutta's AMRI hospital in 2011 have moved the Supreme Court seeking compensation between Rs 7 crore and Rs 9 crore each. A bench of Justices S.J. Mukhopadhaya and A.M. Sapre yesterday issued notices to AMRI on the application moved by the victims, led by Paromita Guha Thakurta and others, challenging a National Consumer Disputes Redressal...
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