New Delhi:&nbsp;Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday flagged off 150 electric buses from the Indraprastha Depot and also announced free travel in these buses for the next three days. Kejriwal along with Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot also took a ride on board an electric bus from the Indraprastha Depot to Rajghat after flagging off the fleet. “Today is a happy day, I am happy and hope the people of Delhi are also happy. Today 150 electric buses have hit the roads of Delhi. I also took a short ride in the bus. These are beautiful and luxurious buses,” Kejriwal said.“We have made the ride free for the next three days. Take a ride around the city and enjoy. The electric buses will also reduce pollution.”He also announced that 150 more buses will join the fleet after one month. “The capital city needs total 11,000. Today we have achieved the 7,200 mark, which is the largest number of buses in the history of Delhi. We will also buy 600-700 CNG buses as production of electric buses is very less now. The target is to have 2,000 electric buses on the roads of Delhi in a year” the Chief Minister added. On the appointment of Vinai Kumar Saxena as the new Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Kejriwal said they will work together for the development of Delhi.—IANS

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday flagged off 150 electric buses from the Indraprastha Depot and also announced free travel in these buses for the next three days. 

Delhi CM Flags Off 150 Electric Buses, Announces 3-Day Free Ride

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New Delhi:&nbsp;Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday flagged off 150 electric buses and took a ride in one of them. "These are your buses. Please take care of them, don't make them dirty," he urged people while interacting with reporters. The Delhi government allocated Rs 1,862 crore for getting electric buses over the next 10 years. The Centre has provided Rs 150 crore.Kejriwal said the target is to get 2,000 electric buses in a year. Asked about the Centre's fund, he said "We are thankful to the Centre. We give them the credit. Work should happen in Delhi."The chief minister flagged off the buses from the Indraprastha Depot and boarded one of them to reach the Rajghat Bus Depot. He was accompanied by Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot and chief secretary Naresh Kumar. Kejriwal also welcomed new Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena and said, "We will work together to take Delhi to new heights.—PTI

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday flagged off 150 electric buses and took a ride in one of them.

Delhi CM Kejriwal flags off 150 electric buses

New Delhi: Delhi Police have arrested two persons for killing a Haryanvi singer, who went missing on May 11, an official said on Tuesday. The accused were identified as Rohit and Anil and the mutilated body of the singer, identified as Sangeeta alias Divya (29), was found buried near a roadside in Meham, Haryana.“We received a complaint from the victim Sangeeta’s parents on May 14 that their daughter has gone missing after which we began our probe,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) Shankar Choudhary said.During the investigation, the police found two suspects Rohit and Anil and subsequently they were arrested on May 22. It was revealed that the accused duo had hatched a conspiracy to kill the woman and had called her on the pretext of making a music video. “One accused picked her from Delhi, drugged and killed her on May 11. Later both accused buried her on the roadside in the area of Meham police station,” the senior official said. He further said that a team of Delhi Police was still in Meham along with the accused duo.Intitially the case was registered under section 365 (kidnapping) and later murder charges were added to it. A separate FIR under section 302 and 201 has also been registered at the Meham police station in Haryana.Both the accused are in their late 20s and were friends of the deceased singer. They worked in some finance company in Haryana. Parents of deceased Sangeeta were informed after which they reached Meham. The police have handed over her body to the relatives after a post-mortem.—IANS

 Delhi Police have arrested two persons for killing a Haryanvi singer, who went missing on May 11, an official said on Tuesday. The accused were identified as Rohit and Anil and the mutilated body of the singer, identified as Sangeeta alias Divya (29), was found buried near a roadside in Meham, Haryana.

Missing For 12 Days, Singer’s Body Found Buried In Haryana’s Meham

New Delhi: The structure of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi started taking shape on Monday with the appointment of five departmental heads and allotment of office spaces to officials of erstwhile north and east civic bodies at its headquarters at the Civic Centre in New Delhi, officials said. The unified MCD formally came into existence on Sunday, with IAS officers Ashwani Kumar and Gyanesh Bharti assuming charge as the new civic body's special officer and commissioner, respectively. According to senior officials, nine additional commissioners have been allocated departments and office spaces at different floors of the Civic Centre, while three deputy commissioners were also appointed.They said the unification process started by bringing some officials of erstwhile east corporation into its head office at the Civic Centre and also by making a single website for the three MCDs. IAS Ankit Mishra was appointed as the deputy commissioner of Rohini zone while IAS Prince Dhawan has been given charge of Civil Lines zone, an order later said.DANICS officer Jitender Kumar has been made deputy commissioner (Hackney Carriage, Language, Disaster Management and Election), it added.The order also said the unified MCD will also have three engineer-in-chiefs.While KP Singh will be the engineer-in-chief for different zones, including Rohini, Narela, Keshavpuram, SP-City, Karol Bagh and Civil Lines, PC Meena was appointed EnC for central zone, south zone, west zone and Najafgarh zone, the order said. It added that Dilip Ramnani will look after the works of the EnC for Shahdara (south) and Shahdara (north) zones."Appointment of five head of departments have been finalised and rest will be appointed soon. The departments for which HODs have been appointed include education, law, vigilance, IT and press and information," a senior official of the MCD told&nbsp;PTI. An order issued by the MCD said AK Sharma will be the chief law officer of the unified MCD, Vikas Tripathi will be the MCD's director, education, while Amit Kumar has been appointed as director (P&amp;I). Sanjay Sahay has been appointed as director vigilance and IAS Prince Dhawan will be the new director (IT), the order said.The official said appointment of directors of remunerative project cell and advertising departments are next in line.The MCD was trifurcated in 2012 during Congress leader Sheila Dikshit's tenure as the chief minister. It is now reunified by merging the three civic bodies -- North, South and East municipal corporations. Soon after assuming charge, MCD Commissioner Bharti issued an order, saying that erstwhile SDMC's Central Establishment Department will act as the nodal department for transfer and posting of officials and staff for the unified MCD. He also ordered that erstwhile SDMC's office of CA-cum-FA and the accounts department will act as the nodal finance and accounts department of the unified MCD. According to officials, the development of making the erstwhile SDMC's departments as the nodal agency for transfer posting has led to some "unhappiness" among officials of erstwhile North and East civic body staff. A senior MCD official said making the unified MCD financially stable will be among the key challenges."We are examining the possible viable options for making the civic body financially strong. We are constantly holding meetings with officials to zero in on possible solutions," the official said.The official also said the initial focus of the corporation would be on the issue of waste. "Waste segregation is an important segment to take care of to ensure cleanliness and effective waste disposal. Clear instructions are being given that landfills has to be shortened. We will ensure that waste segregation is done at source. "It however requires collective will. It cannot be done by just imposing things but collective campaign has to be done," the official said. The MCD special officer Ashwani Kumar had on Saturday visited Ghazipur landfill site to take stock of the situationThe three civic bodies have been merged into one MCD through the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2022. A bill to unify the three civic bodies was approved by the Lok Sabha on March 30 and by the Rajya Sabha on April 5. The bill became an Act after President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to it on April 18.The Act reduces the number of wards in the national capital to 250 from the existing 272, which means that the MCD will have to undergo a delimitation exercise before the election.The Centre will form a delimitation commission to carry out the demarcation of wards.—PTI

The structure of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi started taking shape on Monday with the appointment of five departmental heads and allotment of office spaces to officials of erstwhile north and east civic bodies at its headquarters at the Civic Centre in New Delhi, officials said.

Financial stability, waste management top Delhi municipality's agenda

New Delhi: Vinai Kumar Saxena, the chairperson of Khadi and Village Industries Commission, was appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of Delhi on Monday, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement. Saxena, 64, will succeed Anil Baijal who resigned from the post last week citing "personal reasons"."The President of India has been pleased to appoint Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena to be the Lt. Governor of National Capital Territory of Delhi with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office," according to the Rashtrapati Bhavan statement. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal welcomed Saxena's appointment and assured him of his cabinet's full cooperation."On behalf of the people of Delhi, I extend a warm welcome to the newly appointed Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Vinai Kumar Saxena. For the betterment of Delhi, he will get full cooperation from the Delhi cabinet," he said in a tweet in Hindi.Kejriwal also said he, in coordination with outgoing Lieutenant Governor Baijal, had done many things for Delhi and tried to solve its various problems. "He (Baijal) is a very nice person. I wish him all the best for the future and wish him good health and long life," he added.Baijal, a 1969-batch IAS officer, was appointed as the 21st lieutenant governor of Delhi in December 2016 after the sudden resignation of Najeeb Jung.Saxena, who started his career as an assistant officer in Rajasthan with JK Group, was elevated in 1995 as general manager to look after a proposed port project in Gujarat.He then rose to become the CEO and was later elevated as Director of the Dholer Port Project.Born on March 23, 1958 and an alumnus of Kanpur University with a pilot licence, Saxena is a philanthropist in vision and corporate scientist in action, according to his profile available in the KVIC.He had formed an NGO, National Council for Civil Liberties in 1991, which opposed Medha Patkar of the Narmada Bachao Andolan for their attempts to stop construction of the Sardar Sarovar Project and other upcoming hydro projects in Narmada Valley since 1991.The role of his voluntary organisation NCCL was acknowledged by the people of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh for exposing the activities of anti-dam activists, according to his profile.He was appointed as KVIC chairperson in 2015. Saxena is one of the members of the national committee to commemorate the 75th anniversary of India's Independence. This committee is headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.In November 2020, Saxena was nominated as a member of the high-powered Padma awards selection committee for the year 2021 by the government of India.—PTI

Vinai Kumar Saxena, the chairperson of Khadi and Village Industries Commission, was appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of Delhi on Monday, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement.