Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Minister of Railways, flagged-off three pairs of Express trains from Anand Vihar Terminal station to Malda Town, Santragachi and Saharsa cities respectively at a ceremony held at Anand Vihar Terminal station. Harsh Vardhan, Minister for Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Manoj Sinha, MoS for Railways and Maheish Giri, member of Parliament (lok Sabha) were the distinguished guests on the occasion.
The top executives from the railways present on the occasion included chairman of Railway Board, AK Mittal, engineering member of Railway Board, VK Gupta, staff member of Railway Board, Pradeep Kumar, electrical member of Railway Board, Naveen Tandon, general manager, Northern Railway, AK Puthia, divisional railway manager of Northern Railway, Delhi, AK Sachan and senior railway officials.
Following the inaugural run of the special trains to Malda Town, Santragachi and Saharsa cities, the regular services of the three pair of trains, train no. 13429/13430 Anand Vihar Terminal-Malda Town (weekly) Express Train, 15529/15530 Anand Vihar Terminal-Saharsa Jan Sadhran (weekly) Express Train and 22857/22858 Anand Vihar Terminal-Santragachi (weekly) Express Train shall be as per the under-mentioned programme:
nWeekly Express Train No 13429/13430 between Anand Vihar T-Malda Town. 13429 Malda Town-Anand Vihar Terminal Express Train shall commence regular services while in the return direction, the 13430 Anand Vihar Terminal-Malda Town Weekly Express Train shall commence regular services from Jan 10. 13429/13430 will have AC II and III tier, sleeper and general second class accommodation. 22857 Santragachi-Anand Vihar Terminal Express Train shall commence regular services from Jan 12 while in the return direction, 22858 Anand Vihar Terminal-Santragachi Express Train shall commence regular services from Jan 13.
Role model
A delegation of Delhi Information and Public Relation Officers Association (DIPRA) has met the Delhi lT governor Najeeb Jung at Rajniwas. The delegation also submitted a memorandum regarding the revision of present pay scale of the employees of Information Department and creation of new posts in a knowledge-based society. The delegation consisted of Nalin Chauhan, president, Vinod Gupta, VP, Amit Kumar, Chandan Kumar, secretary, Manish Kumar, Govind Kundalia, Urmila Beniwal and Pravin Mishra (joint secretaries) with photographers Ajay Kumar, Yogesh Joshi and SN Upadhyay.
The lT governor praised the working of the Delhi government PR officers/officials and said it was good to see that these officers were performing the duty to publicise the government policies, schemes and achievements in limited infrastructure support. The delegation also underlined the functional needs in new modern age of journalism and public relation. He assured the delegation that the government would ensure the justice is done with the information cadre officers and officials. The lT governor agreed with the need to increase the manpower and infrastructure in the Information Department. He assured for a positive and time bound action in this regard.
The Delhi Information and Public Relation Officers Association has been formed to publicise the policies, schemes, initiatives and achievements of government among the citizens.
Back to basics
True to its philosophy of working towards the betterment of less-privileged sections of the society, particularly those residing in JJ clusters and re-settlement colonies, Tata Power Delhi Distribution signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Delhi Jal Board for installing of industrial type RO plants with ATW (Any time water) machines, popularly called Water ATWMs.
The MoU was signed by Praveer Sinha, CEO & ED, Tata Power Delhi Distribution and Vijay Kumar, CEO, Delhi Jal Board in presence of lt Governor Najeeb Jung. As per the MoU, TPDDl would install 10 water ATWMs during the current financial at Haiderpur, lal Bagh (Azadpur), Sanjay Basti, Timarpur, Inder lok, Kirtinagar, Keshavpuram, Chander Shekhar Azad colony and Wazirpur Industrial Area. These areas have been shortlisted in consultation with area pradhans and instructors of TPDDl’s women literacy centres. An entrepreneur/self help group shall be developed in each of the area for smooth operation and maintenance of the water ATWMs.
Jung expressed happiness and said, “Setting up of RO plants by TPDDl in association with DJB in JJ clusters in north and northwest Delhi is a commendable initiative. I believe, this type of government-corporate partnership for social good and it holds a huge potential for the benefit of the society.”
Commenting on the initiative, Praveer Sinha said, “We would like to thank Delhi Jal Board for joining hands with us. TPDDl has been striving for the improvement of quality of life of people in line with Tata Group’s CSR ethos.”
An achiever’s day
Harshit Tekchandani, son of Rajni Tekchandani, employee of Airports Authority of India from St Columba’s School has made his school and parents proud by emerging as the winner in under 17 boys’ singles and runner up in under 17 boys’ doubles in Yonex Sara Delhi-NCR Prize Money Open Badminton Championship held at Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC). He has been awarded trophies, certificates and cash prize.
He started playing badminton when he was studying in class VII and quickly rose to emerge as one of the Delhi state players. Despite a career-threatening injury that prevented him from playing for two years, he displayed determination and passion for the sport to recover and resume practice from 2014. After putting in long hours of practise everyday and regaining his touch, he participated in the above championship.