Chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s move of privatisation of Delhi Jal Board has triggered a tug-of-war between the BJP led civic body and the Congress government.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd on Thursday said it has commissioned the third 250 MW advanced-class gas turbine Pragati-III project at Bawana in New Delhi.

Report on three voluntary organisations submitted, but none finalised

The East Corporation will feed 16,000 more mouths through its school meal programme this academic year and is in the process of finalising voluntary organisations to supply cooked food. All the schools are scheduled to reopen after the summer break from Monday. The mid-day meal will be provided to 1,48,000 children in Shahdara (North) and 95,000 children in Shahdara (South) zones. The scheme would reach out to students studying in Municipal Corporation of Delhi schools and government aided schools.

The Delhi high court on Thursday directed the city government’s transport department to retain, till its final order, the arrangement that allowed plying of all vehicles in the lane reserved for buses on the BRT corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand Hospital in south Delhi.

The division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked the government to allow all vehicles to ply on the lane reserved for buses on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor till it passes an order on a PIL that sought opening of the corridor to all vehicles for smooth traffic movement.

To overcome the shortage of drinking water in the Capital, the Delhi Government is keen on commissioning the Munak Canal as this would result in saving of 80 million gallons per day of raw water an

The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board on Wednesday approved construction of 7,400 houses for slum-dwellers under the Economically Weaker Section category at Bhalaswa Jahangirpuri.

At a meeting in Delhi Secretariat, the Board also gave its nod for construction of a community hall at Trilokpuri and passed its budget for the year 2012-13. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who chaired the meeting of the Board, said the EWS houses would have five floors and would come up at a cost of Rs 356.79 crore.

When the 16th President is sworn in at Rashtrapati Bhavan in July-end, he can feel proud that his residence has under a unique business partnership, succeeded in bringing down energy costs by almost 25 per cent.

The sprawling President Estate’s baseline energy consumption used to be over `70 lakh annually. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) offered to help bring the energy costs of Rashtrapati Bhavan down with no additional cost to the exchequer.

After electricity, water is literally going to burn a hole in the pockets of Delhiites. Delhi CM Mrs Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday confirmed the government’s plan of privatisation of Delhi Jal Board, following a model similar to the one followed by the discoms for power distribution. The privatisation will result in a massive hike in water tariff.

“Privatisation of water distribution system is definitely necessary in Delhi. We want to replicate the same model in Delhi Jal Board that we have used in the privatisation of power distribution,” Ms Dikshit told reporters here.

Cabinet approves the buses under Clusters 6, 7, 8 and 9

The Delhi Cabinet on Monday paved the way for increasing the number of buses plying under the cluster scheme in Delhi to 3,000 by permitting the implementation of four new clusters. Following the Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said her Government has been trying hard to augment the fleet of public transport buses in Delhi.

INDIA’S BIGGEST lies hide behind its per capita figures. Our average income is $1,219 (approximately 68,300) and we are ranked 142nd in the world.