Delhi: Odd-even rule being violated in the capital, DDMA issues order to number all shops within 24 hours
After observing flagrant violations of the odd-even formula in Delhi, the DDMA has issued a directive to all district magistrates to firmly enforce the odd-even scheme by numbering shops within the next 24 hours.
Considering the Covid-19 situation in the country, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) had issued an order for shops dealing in non-essential items to open on an odd-even basis. But after ten days of imposing the policy, the DDMA has found that establishments in city malls and zonal markets are violating Covid-19 regulations.
After observing flagrant violations of the odd-even formula, the DDMA has issued a directive to all district magistrates to firmly enforce the odd-even scheme by numbering shops within the next 24 hours. It also directed the district magistrates to keep photographic and video evidence of each market’s numbering exercise. The order also states that DMs of each zone could only have one weekly market operating at 50 percent capacity.
According to the guidelines, the shops were only allowed to open from 10 am to 8 pm on alternate days depending upon the number and only one authorised weekly market will be allowed per day per zone under all three MCDs/ NDMC / Delhi Cantonment Board with 50 percent of the vendors allowed at a normal time. Apart from this, the shops in the malls are also allowed to open following the odd-even policy.
DDMA also stated that the authorities must take proper steps in order to prevent overcrowding in markets, malls, restaurants, bus stops, ISBTs. On January 6, the North East District authority had shut two markets —Puhshta Market in Sonia Vihar and Mukund Vihar in Karawal Nagar for violating Covid-19 protocols.
Kuldeep Singh Gangar, DDMA CEO in an order said that it has been observed that Covid instructions/directions are not being properly followed by shops, malls, and weekly markets, and shops are open without following the odd-even system. Further, it is also observed that more than one weekly market per day per zone is functioning and no information of permitted weekly markets, i.e. weekly market per day per zone, is available with the District Disaster Management Authorities and other authorities concerned for monitoring and enforcement.
The order further read that all district magistrates shall maintain documentary evidence of the exercise of numbering in each market. Field functionaries should be instructed to monitor the same at ground level daily and ensure strict enforcement.
Gangar said that all necessary actions/steps should be taken to avoid over-crowding in markets, malls, restaurants and bars, mandis, railway stations, bus stops, ISBTs, etc. and for strict compliance of Covid -appropriate behaviour.
Sanjay Bhargava, president of Chandi Chowk Market traders’ association, said that he has shared a list of weekly bazaars and non-hawking and non-squatting areas with the SP and district magistrate. These illegal encroachers should be removed with immediate effect.
Meanwhile, the national capital on Friday reported more than 17,000 in 24 hours, positivity rate jumps to 17.73 percent.
On Camera: Delhi man stabs girl multiple times in Mukherjee Nagar, arrested
The incident was captured on CCTV and has been shared widely on the internet.
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In a shocking incident, a man from Delhi was arrested on Sunday for stabbing a girl multiple times with a knife in the Mukherjee Nagar area in broad daylight. The incident was captured on CCTV and has been shared widely on the internet.
According to reports, the incident took place on March 22. The passers-by intervened and tried to stop and catch the accused. Although, the girl did not suffer grievous injuries in this attack and is out of danger.
The police have identified the accused as Aman. In the CCTV footage, the 22-year-old could be seen stabbing the girl with the knife several times.
It has been known that students in Mukherjee Nagar used to make fun of the accused, Aman, and call him mentally ill as he used to keep roaming in the area, without doing anything.
The woman he targeted would visit Mukherjee Nagar to study in a library. In the surveillance video, the man can be observed sprinting towards the woman, forcefully knocking her down, and subsequently striking her several times.
The man who is under arrest told the police that she ridiculed him, causing him to take a knife from a nearby vegetable vendor and launch an attack on her in a fit of rage.
Last year in April, another incident was reported from Northeast Delhi’s Karawal Nagar where a man killed his live-in partner and dumped her body 12 lm away from a house with the help of his sister.
Police, later, found the body of Rohina Naz alias Mahi, a resident of Uttarakhand’s Mirajpur, lying near Krishna Public School. The police arrested the sister of the accused in this case.
According to the police, the accused, identified as Vineet, was on the run while his sister Parul was arrested for helping him conspire the murder and hide the body.
The 25-year-old Mahi and Vineet eloped four years ago the date of the crime and were living together in Delhi. Deputy Commissioner of Police Joy Tirkey had said that Mahi was pressuring him for marriage and because of this, the couple used to fight frequently.
Delhi metro services will not be available till 2:30 pm on all Lines of the Delhi Metro including Rapid Metro/Airport Express Line.
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Delhi Metro services will begin at 2:30 pm from terminal stations on all lines on the occasion of Holi, March 25, and will continue normally thereafter.
The Delhi Metro on X, said that the metro train services to start at 2:30 pm on the day of the Holi festival, March 25 (Monday), adding that it said metro services will not be available till 2:30 pm on all Lines of the Delhi Metro including Rapid Metro/Airport Express Line.
Earlier on March 14, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of two additional corridors of Delhi Metro’s Phase 4 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Thursday. The cost of these 2 corridors of the Delhi Metro Phase 4 project is Rs 8,399 crore. These 2 lines will be 20.762 km long. The construction of these projects is slated for completion by March 2026.
During the press release, the government said that the Inderlok- Indraprastha corridor will be an extension of the Green Line and will provide interchange with the Blue, Violet, Magenta and Airport Line, Yellow and Red lines, while the Lajpat Nagar- Saket G Block corridor will connect Violet, Pink, Magenta and Silver lines.
Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar- Saket G Block corridor will be entirely elevated and have 8 stations, as per the reports. The Inderlok- Indraprastha corridor will have 10 stations. The Prime Minister also interacted with beneficiaries of the PM SVANidhi scheme. He distributed loans under the scheme to 1 lakh street vendors (SVs) including 5000 SVs from Delhi.
According to official records, till now up to Rs 82 lakh loans which amount to Rs 10, 978 crore have been disbursed to more than 62 lakh street vendors all over India. Speaking to the media at the event earlier, the Prime Minister said that the program PM SVANidhi Mahotsav was dedicated to those who are always around us and without whom one cannot imagine our lives.
7 BJP MLAs suspended from Delhi Assembly’s Budget session for interrupting LG’s address
Pandey said that such behaviour by the BJP MLAs amounted to lowering the dignity of the House.
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Seven out of eight Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) were suspended on Friday for the remainder of the Budget session of the Delhi Assembly for allegedly interrupting Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena’s address.
On Thursday, they were marshalled out of the House for their unruly behaviour. According to the reports, the seven BJP MLAs were interrupting Governor Saxena during his address to the House as they sought to attack the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led-AAP government.
Taking cognisance of the matter, the Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel sent the matter of disruption to the Privileges Committee.
On the second day of the session, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Dilip Kumar Pandey and the party convenor Kejriwal whip in the Assembly. Pandey pointed out the disruption made by the BJP MLAs during the LG’s speech, he said MLAs have disrupted Saxena’s address marking the opening of the budget session at least eight times. He further said that such behaviour by the BJP MLAs amounted to lowering the dignity of the House.
AAP MLA Pandey, later moved a proposal that the matter be referred to the Delhi Assembly Privileges Committee, demanding the suspension of the seven BJP MLAs from the proceedings of the House, until the panel decides on the matter. Through a voice vote, the proposal was passed.
Despite several warnings from the Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, BJP Vijender Gupta interrupted Saxena while he was citing the AAP’s achievements. Following this, the Speaker asked the House marshals to take Gupta out.
Later, when LG Saxena began his address, other leaders from the BJP party continued disrupting him as Saxena cited several Kejriwal government’s achievements.
After all this, the BJP MLAs defied the Goel and refrained from interrupting the Saxena’s address, to which the Speaker had to ask the marshals to take them out of the House too.
The House suspended seven BJP MLAs out of eight, the Leader of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri was not suspended, however, he walked out with other suspended BJP leaders in protest against the decision of the House to suspend its MLAs.
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