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District rolls back catch cattle scheme

Wednesday, 28 April 2010 10:53 administrator
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Indian Express 28.04.2010

District rolls back catch cattle scheme

CHHAVI BHATIA Tags : corporation Posted: Wednesday, Apr 28, 2010 at 0227 hrs

Panchkula: The Panchkula Municipal Corporation has rolled back the scheme of rewarding the public who would help them catch stray cattle.

Executive officer, MC, K K Jain said people did not show any enthusiasm to be paid Rs 500 for catching cattle.

After receiving regular complaints about stray cattle across the city, officials had floated the scheme in December hoping people would come forward in containing the menace.

“We did not receive a single case, and the public did not show any interests. Hence we had to call off the scheme. In case someone shows some interest, we may revive it,” said Jain.

This is not the first time the MC’s plan to handle stray cattle has failed to generate desired results. A few years ago, the corporation had hired a contractor to catch stray cattle. The contract was never renewed as he “did not deliver good results.”

The MC has been planning to construct a cattle pen in Pinjore over 12 acres of land. While earlier it did not have the requisite finances, former councillors rue that with everything in place now, the project should be given a go ahead.

“We had got a budget of over Rs 1.76 crore sanctioned for the cattle pen. The land has also been transferred to the MC.

Putting the cattle at a proper place is an equally important issue as getting the city rid of them. The MC should start with the construction at the earliest,” said Ravinder Rawal, former president, MC.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 April 2010 10:56
 

Citizens cautioned against eating out

Tuesday, 27 April 2010 11:06 administrator
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Indian Express 26.04.2010

Citizens cautioned against eating out

Express News Service Tags : corporation, citizens cautioned Posted: Tuesday , Apr 27, 2010 at 0144 hrs

Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has cautioned citizens against having outside food and water during summer to avoid any health problems. The civic body has issued a notice appealing people to drink boiled water if there are cases of high temperature, gastro or or dysentery in their localities. The citizens should not use water from canal, well and bore well either for drinking or washing vegetables and fruits, said the notice. The civic administration appealed the citizens not to drink juices with ice prepared for industrial purpose as it could of poor quality. The citizens should not have liquid that has factory made ice, it said. If citizens notice any leakage in the drainage system, a complaint should be registered with the civic authorities or and at ward offices. Citizens should take precautionary measure while using swimming pools. Those with fever, vomiting or dysentery should immediately take medical treatment. The private medical practitioners should inform the civic administration of patients with symptoms of water borne disease. It said that the 14 ward offices of the civic body have been directed to seize food material being sold in open and initiate action against those selling them. The citizens can get treatment for any infection in civic hospitals including Naidu Hospital.

NCP-Cong nominate 17 members for ward committees
The NCP-Congress alliance in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday dominated the nomination list for the member of ward committee. The civic body nominates three members each to the 14 ward committees. The NCP managed to get in its 17 members while its alliance partner got 13 of its members on various committees. The Shiv Sena and BJP got six members each nominated on the committee.

Census 2011: 700 civic workers get memo
The PMC on Monday issued memo to 700 of its staff for not attending the training programme for population census 2011. Assistant census officer Pravin Ashtikar said the civic body would register offence against civic staff, following the chief secretary’s direction to initiate action against those showing negligence in performing duty assigned for the population census. The civic body has engaged 7,116 of it employees for the population census. They have been directed to carry out the census work for 45 days along with their daily office work. The house listing would begin from May 1

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 April 2010 11:08
 

PMC creates posts for 25 multi-speciality doctors

Tuesday, 27 April 2010 10:33 administrator
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The Times of India 27.04.2010

PMC creates posts for 25 multi-speciality doctors

TNN, Apr 27, 2010, 04.27am IST
PUNE: Until now, the Pune Municipal Corporation had just five specialist doctors (Surgeon, Pathalogist etc) for its hospitals, but with growth in population and increase in number of hospitals - it has decided to increase the posts of specialist doctors to 25 and have begun recruitment for a total of 312 vacant seats including nurses and pharmacists.

While elected members claim that it was a long needed requirement to fill these posts and the administration has only been delaying the recruitments, officials deny the allegation.

Last week during the general body meeting, the elected members had raised a tirade against the civic administration stating that newly built hospitals were lying unused due to shortage of staff.

Bhartiya Janata Party corporator Ujwal Keskar pointed out that the post of head of the health department too has remained vacant for more than 1.5 years and another officer has been given the additional charge for it.

"Right from the head of the department and multi-speciality doctors to nurses and lower rung employees - the health department is gripped with shortage. How can proper services be provided without adequate staff? The procedures for recruitment have been delayed since years," Keskar said.

He pointed out that the doctors are burdened with work and even the medical officers at the ward level are given work other than that which needs medical expertise.

"They are asked to do solid-waste management related work, which takes up all their time. Then how can they devote time for medical problems," Keskar questioned.

When contacted, additional head of health department V M Satarkar said that the recruitment procedures have begun and 25 multi-speciality doctors will soon be recruited. However, explained that it isn't in his power to comment about the vacancy of administrative posts such as head of the department.

"As regards to the medical staff, we got approved 312 new posts of that of specialists, doctors and nurses. Of these, 25 doctors will be multi-specialists and the posts will be filled within six months. Earlier, we had five expert doctors - surgeon, radiologist, pathologist, microbiologist and a paediatrician. The total number of other doctors was 125, 359 nurses and 73 pharmacists. New OPDs (out patient departments) have been started at hospitals like the Kamla Nehru hospital - which increased the demand for doctors, so fresh recruitments are being carried out," Satarkar said.
 
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