A postal worker died after being hit by a speeding vehicle in front of a petrol pump located on the Mirzapur-Prayagraj Highway under the Industrial Area police station on Thursday night. On getting information the police reached the spot and sent the body for the postmortem after identification. Sunil Kumar (31) of Rampur, Tulsi Ka Pura under Industrial Area police station was an employee in sub-post office Arai of Karchana tehsil. Late at night he was returning home after getting petrol filled in his bike from the petrol pump located near the industrial area. An unknown vehicle coming from behind hit him due to which he was seriously injured. On being informed the police reached the spot and sent him to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead. Sunil was the youngest of three sisters and two brothers. The Industrial Area police station incharge Sanjeev Choubey said vehicle involved in the accident could not be traced. The body has been sent for the postmortem.
DACOITS RAID HOUSE: About half a dozen masked dacoits raided the house of a trader in front of Meja Road police outpost, injured him, tied his wife and children and decamped with booty worth lakhs. ACP Meja reached the spot in the late night hours and formed police and SOG teams to nab the criminals. The dacoits entered the house of Vijay Jaiswal from the roof top and attacked him with lathis and rods. On hearing his screams, his wife and children rushed there and were overpowered by criminals and beaten up. They tied Preeti Jaiswal and children with rope and saree and decamped with `2 lakh in cash besides jewellery with lakhs of rupees and other valuables. Vijay was seriously injured. His wife and children managed to reach the door and broke it open to reach their neighbours and narrated their ordeal. Vijay a trader of Krishna Nagar Kydganj had shifted to Meja Road about 12 years ago with family and had opened a footwear shop in the house. He then opened a jewellery shop there.
STUDY CENTRES: As lakhs of young aspirants make Sangam city their home while preparing for different competitive exams, authorities of Smart City Project, Prayagraj plan to convert the smart class rooms in 19 schools of the city into study centres for them.
The Smart City Project proposed to accommodate the young aspirants in the smart classrooms after school hours at a nominal monthly fee of `300. Presently, these aspirants are coughing up between `800 and `1,500 for such a facility. The Smart City Mission has converted a total of 295 classrooms in 19 schools of the city into smart classrooms. As per the proposed plan, the aspirants will be provided with low-cost ‘study centres’, wherein all amenities will be provided that they get by paying hefty amounts to private players in the market. There are around 200 such privately owned study centres in the city. “Prayagraj Smart City will charge a monthly fee of `300, of which an amount of `100 would be retained by Smart city (for the operation of the scheme) while the rest of `200 will be given to the school for meeting out the expenditure for providing the facility”, said Mission Manager (Technical) of the Smart City project, SK Sinha. He said an app for slot-booking of these study centres will be developed through which the users will be able to pay the fees for the facility. Sinha also claimed that Prayagraj will be the first city in the state to come up with this idea. The ‘Smart study centres’ will be provided in two phases. In the first phase, seven schools will be provided for the purpose while the remaining 12 will be added later. In the first phase one, 50 smart classrooms in seven schools will be used for the purpose and if 80 per cent occupancy is calculated, 1200 aspirants can be accommodated. “This will generate revenue of `3, 60,000 per month, of which `2, 40,000 will be distributed among the schools and `1, 20,000 will be taken by Smart City Project,” said Sinha. In the second phase, 245 more such classrooms of 12 schools will be provided to the aspirants.