Outer Delhi Set to Get a ‘Smart’ City Hospital Liftman Arrested DDA Will Have It Built on 24,000Ha in Najafgarh, Narela and Kanjhawala for Assaulting Disabled Girl
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THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 TIMES CITY 5 Outer Delhi set to get a ‘smart’ city Hospital liftman arrested DDA Will Have It Built On 24,000Ha In Najafgarh, Narela And Kanjhawala for assaulting disabled girl [email protected] As a model, DDA has picked TIMES NEWS NETWORK cused took her to a room on to the police post at LNJP Hos- the Gujarat International Fi- FUTURE Kundli pretext of getting her examin- pital which is nearest to the New Delhi: Commercial focus Halalpur Khekra nance Tec-City, or GIFT City as New Delhi: A liftman working ed by a doctor and assaulted spot and narrated all to duty of- may move out of New Delhi Narela it is otherwise known as, which PERFECT Zone-N Palla in GB Pant Hospital has been her,” an officer said. ficers there. An FIR was regis- with big plans of Smart City de- Zone P-II was the first Smart City com- arrested and charged with sex- Her father, who owns a tered under POCSO Act. velopment being made on the DDA’s Smart City Bakhtawarpur missioned by Narendra Modi ually abusing a 15-year-old shop in southeast Delhi’s Jait- Scanning CCTV footage outskirts. Under the direction as part of the 100 Smart City mentally challenged girl when pur area, said he had come to from the hospital, police iden- to spread over areas Holambi of the urban development min- Qutabgarh Bawana campaign. her father left her in the wait- the hospital to get a disability tified Zafar and tracked his lo- marked for landpooling | Khurd Alipur Tronica istry, DDA is preparing a pro- Nathu City “There is a lot to learn from ing hall of the hospital to get an certificate for her. When he re- cation electronically. He was posal to turn areas they had 24,000 hectares Pooth Khurd Pura the manner in which GIFT City appointment from a doctor. turned to the waiting hall, he nabbed in the early hours of identified for land pooling into in outer Delhi Burari is shaping up. The area where The teenager had shared her Sunday from a friend’s house a giant, integrated Smart City. Kanjhawala Rohini Loni it’s coming up is barren like trauma with her father upon POCSO INVOKED in the locality. He initially de- Around 24,000 hectares in Based on concept of Outer Delhi, so we will try to his return. nied the charge but later broke Begumpur Najafgarh, Kanjhawala and Gujarat International Zone K-I replicate their efforts of water The father approached po- found her lying on the floor down and confessed. He was Narela will be converted into a Finance Tec-City Pitampura regeneration and recycling. lice on Saturday night after crying. She kept repeating that produced before the magist- model city. It will have, among (GIFT City) Nangloi Signature For this we have decided to ap- which an FIR was registered. she wanted to leave. When he rate and sent to Tihar Jail. Po- Kamla Bridge other facilities, 100% power, Mundka point a world-class consultant Mohd Zafar (35), an area resi- insisted she tell him what the lice are probing if he abused 100% internet connectivity, Jharoda Paschim Nagar who will advise us in water con- Kalan Vihar dent, was arrested within a few problem was, the girl said that other patients. They are going 24/7 water supply, and high fre- Daboda Soldha Patel Nagar servation, and another consult- hours. Police suspect he also a man had taken her to an emp- through Zafar’s mobile phone quency mass transport. Khurd Tilak CP ant to advise us on solid waste abused other girls and women ty room and, once there, tou- to check if he had filmed the Nagar Delhi Part of the BJP poll agenda, Uttam treatment facilities. Smart City who came to the hospital seek- ched her inappropriately and child. Police have informed the finance minister Arun Jaitley Zone-L Luksar Nagar India will be a model not only in tech- ing treatment. “The girl was also threatened her with dire hospital authorities and are had announced Rs 7,060 crore Najafgarh Gate nical advancement but also in alone in the waiting hall dur- consequences. probing to see if there was any Dwarka Dhaula for development of 100 such Palam its approach towards utilizing ing evening hours. The ac- The shocked father rushed negligence on their part. Kuan Barapullah Smart Cities all over the coun- Badli Corridor precious natural resources like try. DDA’s Smart City project Chhawla Okhla water,” Kumar said. would be one of them. Officials Munimpur Dhansa Hauz Khas The Smart City in Delhi, for Mahipalpur in the Authority say that the Kukrola Kalkaji which DDA has been given proposal has almost been com- Vasant charge, will have to fulfil the set Kunj Saket pleted and will be tabled in the Mehrauli of parameters that define a next meeting for final approval. Badarpur standard Smart City. These in- KEY FEATURES Chhatarpur Once it gets the nod, work on clude dedicated bicycle lanes, the project will begin immedi- Wi-Fi hubs to Mobility Buildings Top-notch 100% High-frequency high frequency mass transport, ately, they say. provide 100% through based on water and metered mass transport 24x7 water and power supplies “By the end of this year, we internet coverage surface-level & green solid waste power and dedicated to all households, no waterlog- should be comfortably placed to at 100Mbps elevated roads technology management connection bicycle lanes ging incidents in a year, 100% start land pooling scheme in internet coverage, 30 minutes Delhi, and at the same time we lands and begin its develop- that the two go on synchronous- the project, said. Development emergency medical response would also have in place a PMC ment—begin work on their ly. We want to create a model is likely to bear visible results time, and facilities like parks, or a project management con- own projects we should have city that can be replicated in between the next five and ten retail outlets, parks, schools, sultant. Our idea is to ensure the supporting infrastructure other parts of the country,” years at the end of which the and recreational areas to be lo- that by the time the developer like roads and public transport DDA vice-chairperson Balvin- Smart City should be function- cated within 400 metres of 95% entities—those who pool their hubs in making alongside, so der Kumar, who is overseeing al, Kumar said. households. New projects Second dengue death in capital for Dwarka TIMES NEWS NETWORK pal official. He added that the weather is the prospect of sudden drop in platelet New Delhi: The Centre on uncharacteristically warm this year post- count. Elderly people often suffer from co- Monday announced a num- New Delhi: Dengue has claimed its sec- Diwali which is conducive for the growth morbidities such as diabetes, heart dis- ber of projects—a football ond victim in the capital. According to the of dengue mosquitoes. eases and other such health issues and stadium, a cycle sharing municipal corporation, a 52-year-old man Officials said south Delhi is the worst- they need special care,” said a senior doc- project, 13 community halls admitted at Max Super-Specialty Hospital hit by dengue with 155 cases reported this tor at Moolchand MedCity hospital in and a cultural centre—for died due to the mosquito-borne disease on season. North and east corporations have south Delhi. He added that they have re- Dwarka. “We are going to October 10. Sureshwar Singh, a resident reported 68 and 56 cases, respectively. ceived nearly 100 patients suffering from implement cycle sharing of Loni road near Shahdara in northeast “The numbers are less as compared to dengue. project in Dwarka. This is Delhi, was diagnosed positive for the IgM A senior doctor at Safdarjung hospital for the first time such a pro- antibody for dengue virus by the ELISA said: “Normally, we would see a sharp de- 115 CASES IN A WEEK ject is being implemented in diagnostic test. cline in dengue cases post-Diwali. But this India,” Union urban devel- The first dengue death took place in previous years. In the year 2013, Delhi re- year we are still getting 2-3 patients daily.” opment minister M Ven- Chhawla village in west Delhi where a 48- ported 4,402 cases during this period,” the Over 5,500 dengue cases and six deaths kaiah Naidu said here. year-old man succumbed to the disease. official added. were registered in the national capital last The minister said that Cases of dengue have also gone up sig- Many hospitals said they are flooded year, according to SDMC, which compiles cycling was very good for nificantly in the last few weeks with the with requests for admission from patients report for vector-borne diseases in the health and the centre has total number reaching 340, as on Saturday. suffering from dengue symptoms. “Not city. Civic bodies are continuing with pre- specially worked out this “In the last one week, 115 dengue cases all cases required admission as treatment ventive measures like fumigation, check- project keeping in mind a have been reported from across the city, is mostly symptomatic. But patients con- ing of breeding areas and awareness cam- congested city like Delhi. which is very high,” said a senior munici- firmed positive for dengue are scared at paigns to control the dengue menace. “With the cycle sharing pro- ject ready, people don't need Prez visit to CAG office Nigerian held to buy a cycle,” he added.