Lucknow City Online

Lucknow division of Northern Railway (NR) has got its separate full fledged website http://lko.railnet.gov.in.

In case of link failure from central server in Delhi it can be accessed at
http://beta.onlinedelivery.in.

The website was inaugurated by general manager of NR, S K Budhalakoti, on Tuesday. The GM was in the city to participate in the annual general body meeting of northern railway union. The GM also inspected Alamnagar station. He reviewed the ongoing construction work at the station and took stock of the passenger amenities.

International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKON) has organized a grand programme on the occasion of Janmashtami at Ravindralaya on September 2 from 7 pm. The devotees of Lord Krishna will organize bhajan sandhya, a play on Krishna Leela followed by distribution of ‘prasad’. Other programmes like puja, abhishek and nandutsav will be organized on September 3 Iskon mandir at Ashok Nagar. The ‘mahaarti’ will be held at 12.30 pm.

Festivities and characteristic enthusiasm marked the golden jubilee celebrations of 1/11 Gorkha Rifles. The two-day event got off to a flying start on Tuesday morning with Central Mandir for serving and retired ranks followed by golden jubilee mela in which various competitions were organized. Khukri dance and band display by the jawans of 1/11 GR further added to the festivities in the event.

Government has declared the last Friday of Ramzan (Jumat-ul Vida) on September 3 as a public holiday. Earlier, the department of general administration had declared the last Friday falling on September 10 as a public holiday, informs special secretary, department of general administration PN Yadav.

District Administration has started a 24 hour operational helpline for reporting against ragging. Students as well as their parents can lodge complaints regarding to ragging on this helpline, the number is 0522-2623024.

The helpline will cover all the educational institutions in Lucknow.

Besides using this helpline, cases can also be lodged with the head of the institute, where they will probe the case within 7 days and if the case find genuine, the concerned police station will be informed. Ragging cases within college premises and outside can be lodged and anyone found guilty will be fined Rs. 10000 with/without two years imprisonment.

Accused student can appeal within 30 days. Divisional commissioner will be the prescribed officer for secondary education level and V-C for degree colleges and university.

Ok you might be thinking that some song is going on here, like a popular song from a bollywood flick which has lyrics “ Pappu Can’t Dance Sala”.

You are wrong here; we are talking about Ahmed alias Pappu, the one and only man in the dog catching squad of Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC), who has a big target of catching around 50000 stray dogs on the streets of the city.

Let’s wait and watch how many centuries would take Pappu to catch them all.

Now Direct Flight from Varanasi to Jeddah

Haj pilgrims now have some reason to cheer up because now they can have direct flight to Jeddah from Varanasi. Actually this proposal was overdue with the external affairs ministry.

The request by the Chairman of UP Haj Committee Mr. Naseemuddin Siddiqui has been finally accepted by the Ministry and now the pilgrims will not have to waste 20 to 25 hours in traveling from Varanasi to Delhi and then from Delhi to Saudi Arabia.

So now for Haj – 2010 pilgrims can have direct flight from Varanasi to Jeddah

For all of you eid Mubarak!!!

Despite all lasing from courts and various parties, it seems that the CM of Uttar Pradesh is biased to complete their projects related to dalit icons.

In a new development the government has earmarked Rs 500 crores more for ongoing projects.

The irony is the government has money to waste on showcasing dalit icons but has no money for Bundelkhand and 40 districts of eastern UP, which got merely Rs 10 crore and Rs. 50 crores respectively

Lucknow division of north eastern railways has now planned to install butterfly jet toilets in long distance trains, so that passengers can avail better toilet facilities.

Starting with AC coaches, once finished, railways will install these toilets in sleeper coaches as well.

MNREGA, an ambitious project from UPA, which provides working opportunity for rural youth, is proving a nightmare for Indian railways.

Every year Indian Railways receive huge revenue from migrating laborers from eastern UP and Bihar who travel to areas like Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan in search of work.

Now when the rural youths are finding work easily at their own locality from MNREGA, migration has come down to the tune of 50%.

Indian railways saw a slump in business on the routes where labor movement has come down considerably like the east UP districts of Balia, Ghazipur, Bahraich, Basti, Gorakhpur, Gonda towards Mumbai, Delhi, Ambala, Ahmedabad, Vadodara etc.

It is really a good news for the government which would be really happy on the success of their scheme.