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Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Friday that her government would be approaching the Supreme Court for relief in the matter of Yamuna water supply if Haryana does not change its ways. Ms. Dikshit said she did not want a confrontation with Haryana but Delhi's larger neighbour had by deciding to cut 45 MGD (million gallons a day) supply to the Capital in the past fortnight left the city with little option.

With a huge wheat harvest across North India and massive pile-up of stocks in godowns not resulting in a drop in the price of flour, the Delhi Government has decided to step in yet again with the sale of its “Bhagidari atta” for providing people with wheat flour at a reasonable price.

Delhi Food & Civil Supplies Minister Haroon Yusuf, who had a meeting with several mill owners on Monday, said the Government would be reintroducing its wheat flour scheme through a tender process for which the request for quotation (RFQ) would be issued in a week or 10 days.

The petrol price in Delhi is all set to go down by 92 paise per litre from Rs. 71.16 as the Delhi Budget, which carried the proposal of waiving off the Value Added Tax on the recently-hiked price of the fuel, was passed by the Assembly on Monday. Besides, the Government has also dropped the proposal to impose five per cent VAT on compressed natural gas and high value textiles.

: Nearly 15 million gallons of clean water has been finding its way into the Najafgarh drain for the past four days.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is considering creation of National Commission for Human Resource in Health (NCHRH), an over arching regulatory body for the health sector, with the

Farmers, whose land was acquired at a meagre Rs.

From “development with a human face” in the 12th Five Year Plan, Delhi will be moving towards becoming a “good, productive and caring city” in the 12th Plan that begins in 2012, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said as she presented the Delhi Budget for 2012-13 in the Assembly on Monday.

Noting that in the years ahead special attention will be paid to the qualitative improvements of the vastly upgraded infrastructure, Ms. Dikshit said the city will also fulfil the needs of the productive and creative citizenry by looking at their training, skill up-gradation and financing needs.

Announcing the proposal, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said her government would incur a burden of nearly Rs.140 crore in revenue on this count. However, it would be more than covering up for this loss by imposing five per cent VAT on Compressed Natural Gas, on which the entire public transport in the city now runs. The move is expected to result in a hike in auto-rickshaw and taxi fares.

In her budget speech, Ms. Dikshit delved on how since the introduction of the VAT system in Delhi, CNG has always been exempted from its purview “though the same should be taxed @ 12.5 per cent as per the recommendations of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers.”

Changes in traffic flow at Chirag Dilli, Siri Fort intersections

The flow of traffic between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand along the Capital's much talked about Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor will revert to the original lane system from Wednesday. The Delhi Integrated Multi-modal Transit System Limited (DIMTS), which operates the corridor, said on Tuesday that following the end of the trial runs by Central Road Research Institute on the instructions of the Delhi High Court, the corridor was handed back to it on Saturday.

The Delhi Integrated Multi Modal Transit System which manages the much talked about Bus Rapid Transit corridor in South Delhi has got a case registered with Delhi Police against Colonel B. B.