Around 400 cases of dengue were reported in the national capital this season, almost triggering the threat of a dengue outbreak in the city. Around 30 cases were reported on Saturday alone.

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has so far reported the highest number of cases, around 150 cases, with the north and East Delhi Municipal Corporations trailing not far behind, reporting approximately 140 and 70 cases respectively. While the rough estimated number of dengue cases being reported in Delhi is around 30 per day, doctors in most major Delhi hospitals say they are getting at least 20 cases every day.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Delhi Jal Board to take all requisite measures to ensure contamination-free water supply to the residents of South Extension Part-I in South Delhi.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Vipin Sanghi passed the direction while a hearing a petition by the Residents’ Welfare Association South Extension Part-I alleging that the residents were getting mud contaminated water.

The civic bodies seem ill prepared to meet the rising cases of dengue and malaria in the Capital with a majority of posts in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation’s malaria department lying vacant.

If the proposal to reinstate the slabs for calculating power consumption is accepted, consumers will find their monthly power bills slashed by 5 per cent to 20 per cent, said the Chairperson of the

Total number of cases so far this season goes up to 233

The Capital reported 31 fresh cases of dengue on Monday taking the total number of cases to 233 this season. According to figures released by Delhi Municipal Corporations, all the 12 zones, except the Sadar Paharganj zone, in the jurisdiction of South, North and East Delhi Municipalities recorded dengue cases.

There is some good news for activists who have been asking the Indian Railways to sort out the problem of manual scavenging due to the existence of conventional toilets in trains.

If Northern Railway officials are to be believed, all trains maintained by the Delhi Division will have bio-toilets, or green toilets as they are popularly called, by the end of this financial year.

Involving the community at keeping a vigil on “high risk families” with an open preference for the boy child and giving the girl child a fighting chance at being born, non-government organisation C

‘Supply of water is a human right, it cannot be leased out’

Even as the Delhi administration is getting ready to implement public private partnership model in water distribution in three areas of the city, a protest against the decision is all set to spill on to the streets. The members of the Water Privatisation-Commercialisation Resistance Committee (WPCRC) have slammed the government for trying to privatise water supply and cautioned that unless the government rolls back the initiatives, the protests will be intensified across the city.

Power distribution company BYPL is installing renewable energy assisted pumps (REAP) to provide clean drinking water to thousands of students studying in government schools in East Delhi.

The installation has already been carried out in four government schools -- the Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya (Seemapuri), Raja Ravi Verma Sarvodaya Baal/ anya Vidyalaya (Nandnagri), Government Senior Secondary School No-1,(Shahdara) and Government Senior Secondary School No-2 (Shahdara), will be extended to other schools in the area.

Uproar over steep increase in electricity bills after tariff revision in July last

A large section of consumers whose monthly electricity bills have shown a steep increase since the tariff was revised in July this year, have petitioned the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission to review the current billing pattern. The consumers are outraged by the sharp escalation of the monthly dues and have demanded that the Commission rework the tariff structure and reintroduce the 201-400 units slab that has been dispensed with in the new tariff order.