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BBMP cracks down on Big Bazaar store

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 11:37 administrator

The Times of India 12.02.2014

BBMP cracks down on Big Bazaar store

BANGALORE: Health officials of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Monday shut down a Big Bazaar outlet for putting on sale seven types of food items whose expiry dates had elapsed.

During an inspection of the Big Bazaar store in Bhadrappa Layout, Outer Ring Road, North Bangalore, BBMP health officers found expired food items like mixed nuts, cheese, banana chips and four other food products.

Vijay Kumar S Biradar, deputy health officer (Yelahanka zone) of BBMP, said the expired food items have been seized and the supermarket shut down.

However, a spokesperson of Future Group that runs the Big Bazaar chain, said the products "were in our warehouse and not on the store shelf. These products were removed from the store and kept in the warehouse before the 'best-before' date had expired. The products were supposed to be returned to the vendors".

Action Plan to Supply Water to Ramanagaram Ready

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 11:33 administrator

The New Indian Express 12.02.2014

An action plan to supply 61 million litres of water every day to Ramanagaram city at a cost of Rs 330 crore will be sent to the Centre after getting the State Cabinet’s nod, District and Energy Minister D K Shivakumar said on Monday.

He told reporters that while 75 per cent of Kanakpura town gets water daily, Magadi town gets it once in three days, Channapatna once in two days and Ramanagaram city once a week.

Shivakumar said around 16 MLD (million litres per day) of water is supplied to Ramanagaram city against its daily requirement of 25 MLD. The action plan to draw 61 MLD from the Cauvery will take care of the drinking water needs of the city till 2045. The pipeline work to bring water to Bangalore was stopped, and the same facility will be used to bring water to Ramanagaram.

The minister said the district administration has been instructed to drill more borewells in villages.

Tank Filling

Shivakumar said the work on filling tanks is on. Ten tanks in Kanakpura taluk were filled with water from Arkavathy river. The other tanks will be filled soon.

GHMC Gears Up for Metropolis Congress

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 11:31 administrator

The New Indian Express 12.02.2014

A delegation from Metropolis, Barcelona held discussions with the GHMC authorities on the arrangements being made for the prestigious XI Metropolis World Congress-2014 to be held at Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) in Hyderabad from October 7 to 10.

The Metropolis team expressed satisfaction with the arrangements made by the GHMC.

Speaking to reporters here today, secretary general of Metropolis, Barcelona, Alain Lesaus, Country Director, Metropolis, Sydney, Sunil Dubey, International Manager, Metropolis, Barcelona, Agnes Bickart, Project Officer, Metropolis, Barcelona, Teresa Oliver and Regional Manager, Asia, Cities Alliance, Brussels, D. Ajay Suri along with Mayor M Majid Hussain and GHMC commissioner Somesh Kumar said that they were satisfied with the arrangements being made by the corporation and hoped that the congress would be a grand success.

It is for the first time that the Metropolis is being organised in South Asia. The theme for the congress is ‘Cities for All’. As many as 2,000 representatives from 136 cities from all over the world would participate the Metropolis to exchange ideas and developments taking place in the cities. Exchange programmes for making the youth lives better in short and long terms would be prepared for the youth development, Allen said.

Mayor said that the GHMC is making arrangements for the grand success of the Metropolis conference and a sum of Rs 100 crore will be spent for creating infrastructure and Rs 300 crore for road development plan. The GHMC has earmarked Rs 7 crore for making preparatory arrangements.

He reminded that Hyderabad has successfully conducted Conference of Parties (CoP) in 2012 and has brought laurels to the city.

Earlier, the delegation called on municipal administration minister M. Maheedhar Reddy.

The team also called on principal secretaries of MAUD Sameer Sarma and SK Joshi.

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