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Raipur : Chief Minister writes letter to Union Minister of Road Transport requesting speedy completion of National Highway construction works in Chhattisgarh
National highway construction works in Tatibandh Chowk Raipur, Bilaspur, Dhamtari, Ambikapur are incomplete
Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel has written letter to Union Road Transport and Highway Minister Mr. Nitin Gadkari requesting speedy completion of pending construction works of various National Highways in Chhattisgarh. Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel mentioned about the need to accelerate the construction work of flyover in Tatibandh Chowk, widening of Raipur-Dhamtari Road, widening work of Bilaspur-Ambikapur, Champa-Korba-Katghora Road, and Kunkuri Road of Patthalgaon. Mr. Baghel said that incomplete construction of these roads is creating problems in public transport.
Chief Minister stated in the letter to Union Minister that NH-53 is situated in Tatibandh Chowk of Raipur city, which is the junction of Raipur-Durg, Raipur-Simga, Tatibandh-Amanaka and Tatibandh-Bhanpuri roads. During Chhattisgarh tour, Union Minister had announced construction of flyover worth Rs 100 crore on September 10, 2018, but the construction work could not be started even after one year of the announcement. Chief Minister said that as Tatibandh is one of the busiest squares of the city and junction has not been constructed as per the parameters, number of road accidents on this route is continuously increasing. He requested to start the construction of flyover as soon as possible so as to ensure smooth traffic movement.
Likewise, Chief Minister Mr. Baghel mentioned in the letter that road widening work of National Highway 30 Raipur-Dhamtari Road has been stopped from May 2018and the construction agency has left the road under-constructed at several places, which is creating problems in traffic movement. It is an important road that connects Raipur-Jagdalpur. Chief Minister also requested that the construction of Raipur-Dhamtari four-lane should also be started soon. Besides, he also mentioned how construction agency has left the widening and upgrading work of NH-43 Patthalgaon-Kunkuri Road incomplete. For last two years, people have been facing problems as Patthalgaon-Kansabel road has been dug out in between creating problems in traffic movement.
Chief Minister also mentioned in the letter about delayed construction works at NH-149, NH-111, etc which have been causing major inconvenience to public, requesting speedy completion of the road construction/repairing/upgrading works.
NATIONAL
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PMC Bank Crisis: 80-year-old protester who deposited Rs 90 lakh passes away after protests
On Monday, a 51-year-old man, a PMC customer, died after attending protests. The man was identified as Sanjay Gulati suffered a cardiac arrest after he lost his life savings to the scam.
According to Repulicworld.com, 51-year-old Gulati had lost his job at Jet Airways. On Monday, he attended a protest morcha against the PMC bank. Later, when he returned home he suffered massive heart failure due to stress while he was having food. Sanjay was under a lot of stress as first he had lost his job in the Jet Airways and now his life savings were stuck in the PMC Bank, as per reports. Gulati's family has Rs 90 lakh held up in the Oshiwara branch.
On Monday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said she is closely monitoring the developments at PMC Bank, and the RBI governor has assured that customers' interest will be protected.
The police registered an FIR against the top officials of the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) bank and the promoters of the HDIL, Rakesh Wadhwan, and Sarang. The bank allegedly continued giving loans to the debt-ridden HDIL from 2008 to 2019 despite the previous loans the firm defaulting on earlier loans. This resulted in a loss of nearly Rs 4,355 crore. The ED's criminal case of money laundering is based on a recent FIR filed by the Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) alleging irregularities in the financial and loan-giving affairs of the bank.
WORLD
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Pakistan complied with 36 of 40 FATF parameters: APG
Islamabad: The Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) has published its report on money-laundering and terror-financing in Pakistan which says that Islamabad has largely but partially complied with 36 of the 40 parameters set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) at the time of the country's inclusion in the grey list.
The long-awaited 228-page report, titled "Mutual Evaluation Report 2019" was published on Saturday, a week before the FATF - the international money-laundering and terror-financing watchdog - is set to announce its decision to remove or retain Pakistan in its grey list, Geo News reported on Monday.
The repor would provide a basis for the FATF to make its decision in an upcoming Paris meeting scheduled for October 13-18, keeping in view Pakistan's compliance with the parameters it had set earlier.
However, it pointed out that Islamabad only missed four of the total 40 parameters that it was to follow in order to be effectively removed from the list.
The report said Pakistan's performance on international cooperation was moderate.
It also stressed on the country's weakness pertaining to risk, policy and coordination; supervision; preventive measures; legal persons and arrangements; financial intelligence; money-laundering (ML) investigations and prosecution; confiscation; terror-financing (TF) investigations and prosecution; TF preventive measures and financial sanctions; proliferation-financing (PF) financial sanctions.
Last month, a high-level Pakistani delegation led by Economic Affairs Minister Hammad Azhar had attended a two-day meeting with the APG to discuss Islamabad's progress on the FATF action plan.
Earlier in August it was reported that out of 40 universal recommendations of FATF, Pakistan's rating was partially and non-compliant on 30 recommendations and performance was also below par on 10 as against 11 Immediate Outcomes, The News International said.
Out of total 11 Immediate Outcomes, only on one indicator effectiveness was found moderately effective and on rest of 10, the rating was ineffective.
The FATF review had placed Pakistan into grey list in June 2018 and had given 27 action plans till September 2019 to comply for coming out from the grey list.
This upcoming review of the FATF meeting in Paris will now decide the fate of the country with three possibilities -- excluding it from grey and put into green list, continuing it into grey list with extended period of nine to 12 months and thirdly in worst case scenario putting the country into blacklist, having dire consequences for the country's economy.
Technology
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Huawei’s phone sales are ballooning while Apple and Samsung’s slump
New Delhi : China-based Huawei outsold Apple’s iPhones in the first quarter of this year, seizing the California company’s second place spot in a tightening smartphone market dominated by Samsung, a tracker said on Tuesday. A total of 310.8 million smartphones were shipped globally during the first three months of this year in a 6.6% decline from the same period in 2018, according to preliminary data from the Chinese-owned International Data Corporation.
It was the sixth consecutive quarter of decline for global smartphone shipments, the market tracker added. IDC saw the results as a sign that 2019 will be another down year overall for smartphone shipments, apart from strong growth by Huawei. “It is becoming increasingly clear that Huawei is laser focused on growing its stature in the world of mobile devices, with smartphones being its lead horse,” said IDC mobile device program director Ryan Reith.
“The overall smartphone market continues to be challenged in almost all areas, yet Huawei was able to grow shipments by 50%.” South Korean consumer electronics behemoth Samsung saw smartphone shipments drop 8.1% to 71.9 million in the first quarter.
Huawei, meanwhile, weighed in with 50.3% growth to ship 59.1 million smartphones and put it within “striking distance” of Samsung, according to International Data Corporation.
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Collector's misconduct case: Officer-Employees Federation union warns of statewide agitation
Angered by the misconduct of the Kanker collector, the officers and employees' federation has warned of statewide agitation.
Kanker Collector K. Ram in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh with Collector D. Ram L. The case of misbehavior of Chauhan is taking the form of statewide agitation.
Angered by this act of the Collector, the Federation of Officers and Employees Federation has warned of statewide agitation. Federation officials from Raipur called a meeting at a private hotel in Kanker, in which they strongly condemned the Collector's misbehavior with engineer D. Ram.
Kamal Verma, convenor of the Federation of Officers and Employees Federation said that all the employees and officers of the state are with the engineer. Collector K. L. Memorandum has been given in Raipur to take action against Chauhan. He said that if no concrete action is taken against the collector till October 9, then on October 10, he will protest in front of all the collector offices of the state.
What is the whole matter
In fact, on 30 September, during the visit of CM Bhupesh Baghel to Kanker, the Collector due to a flaw in the Green Room construction. L. Chauhan kept engineer D. Ram in the police station for 5 hours. All employees of the district, hurt by this incident, submitted a memorandum to the MLA. The response of all the top ministers of the state also came on this, but so far no concrete action has been taken against the Collector.
Due to this, now the Federation of Officers and Employees has warned of movement at the state level. He was the Collector K. L. Have mobilized and demanded action against Chauhan.
