DA Hiked by 8% wef from 1 January 2010

The state executive machinery is always blamed for not functioning well and other charges, but government is in the mood of making them all happy.

The Government announced on Monday to provide an additional installment of 8% of Dearness Allowance (DA) to around 16 lakh state employees.

Now, the rate of DA stands at 35% of the basic pay. The arrears from January to July will go to their provident fund (PF) account and from august onwards it will be paid along with their salary.

The government will have to bear an extra burden of Rupees 1635.5 crore because of this DA hike.

After a long wait, city witnessed its first shower and it seems that the God of Rain (Called Varun Dev) is happy with the city and the state. However the metrological department told that the monsoon will be late, but it seems that the lords defied humans and it rains 10 days earlier before the normal date.

Lucknow recorded 35.2 degrees Celsius maximum temperature on Tuesday. Some parts of the city also received rains during the day. Overall, the weather was cloudy but humid.

Almost every district in west UP received rains.

Heavy rainfall was recorded in

Moradabad: 140 mm

Dhampur: 130 mm

Nagina: 120 mm

Amroha: 110 mm

Bilari: 110 mm

Deoband: 90 mm

Saharanpur: 70 mm

Pilibhit: 70 mm

Kasganj: 70 mm

Nakur: 70 mm

In Bundelkhand

Garotha: 20 mm

Jalaun: 20 mm,

Jhansi: 10 mm

Hamirpur: 10 mm.

In east UP

Unnao: 60 mm rains

Safipur: 50 mm

Kanpur: 40 mm

Nighasan: 40 mm

Sitapur: 40 mm

Lakhimpur Kheri: 30 mm

Sardanagar: 30 mm

Chhibramau: 30 mm

Fatehgarh: 20 mm

Hardoi: 20 mm,

Sandila: 20 mm

Bhatpurwaghat: 20 mm.

Lets Hope more rains and a better agriculture season.

Government never forget to boast of the measures taken for cleaning Gomti river but due to non-coordination between different government departments the huge amount of money is going in waste bin as well as polluting the lifeline of Lucknow. Lucknow Municipal Corporation dumps garbage near Kudiaghat at the rivers catchments area polluting the river. Not only this, garbage is also burnt adding to pollution in the river

Mirzapur receives a good inflow of pilgrims and tourists as it has sacred places called Trikone (Vindhyachal-Ashtabhuja-Kali Khoh). Now, the hills of Ashtabhuja and Kali Khoh are going to be connected with a ropeway.

The state is all set to get the first ropeway in Mirzapur as after getting formal consent of the ministry of tourism, Government of India, the tourist officials have started the process of appointing consultancy for completing basic exercises like preparation of detailed project report.

Mango export Almost Doubled from the last year’s figure

After Malihabadi Dussehri got the Geographical Indication Status in February this year, the mango export nearly doubled to 81 tonne till the first week of June, comparing to 49 tonne in year 2009. The fruit has a very good demand in UAE, Kuwait and Singapore.

Mandi Parishad is also providing subsidy to mango exporters for boosting exports.

It is interesting to know that this year mango production would be around 34 lakh tonne

It seems that education level in small towns is getting better day by day, as children’s from small towns of the state showed their merit by grabbing top positions in the Combined Pre Medical Test (CPMT).

In fact all the top positions are captured by them. Isha Singh, who belongs to Muzaffarnagar grabbed the First position, Second and third position went to bhanu Pratap Maurya of Chandauli and Divya Agarwal of Bareilly respectively.

A total of 62,319 candidates had appeared for the exam. Out of the total candidates appeared 31,245 passed the exam and would try to get a seat in various medical colleges and universities in the state against a total number of 1500

It seems that children have bigger heart than adults and they showed their love to zoo inmates by adopting different animals at the Lucknow city zoo.

Some compassionate hearts adopted animals in the zoo. Rudra and Ribhav Singh adopted two silver pheasants and one zebra and their siblings Meghna and Vardhan Mittal adopted a Cheetal. This is an appreciable step and we adults should learn something from all these children, all of them are below 11 years of age. They Handled over cheque of Rupees 18885 and Rupees 3285 to zoo authorities. Zoo Director Renu Singh is very happy with this and expects more people will come out with a helping hand for these zoo inmates.

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and BSP party chief may always reiterate about the core value of her party and government that is “Sarvajan Hitaye” (Means the benefit of all), but recently while filing an affidavit along with her nomination papers for the Vidhan Parishad seat, she declared her assets which is more than Rupees 87 crores.

In 2007 declaration the value of her various properties was around Rupees 52 crores.

In the first guess anyone with sound mind can see what is she doing, the benefit to all or benefit for herself.

The growth rate is more than 67% in three years and it can envy any banking or monetary institution in the world.

There is no government agency in the county which can probe about this assets accumulation. In a country where a decent upper middle class spend whole of his life for purchasing a two BHK flat in any metro city, how come these politicians earn this much.

You might be thinking, what the Income Tax Department is doing? They are busy with middle and lower class taxpayers threatening them about higher deduction of TDS of 20% in non availability of PAN card and checking your account, questioning about an  extra rupee in your account which exceeds from your salary. So that’s a lot of work, so how can they get any time for all these affairs.

However it would be better if the Chief Minister reveals her magic investment plan, where one can get such a growth. In this way no one will remain poor in the whole country.

Now back to the original topic, let us have a look at Mayawati’s Properties:

Net Worth: Rs 87crores (It was Rs 35cr in 2007)
Bank deposits: Rs 11.39crores Cash: Rs 12.95L Jewellery: 1,034grams of gold and diamonds worth Rupees 86.8Lakhs

Valuables: 18.5kg silver dinner set worth Rs 4.44Lakhs, murals and other items worth Rs 15Lakhs

Property: Residential and commercial in Delhi, Lucknow worth Rs 73crores

Chief Minister owns property, both commercial and residential, in Connaught Place, Okhla, and Sardar Patel Marg, in Delhi, and land in Lucknow Cantonment area and elsewhere worth Rs 73 crore.

Now the question is, if the CM talks so much about under privileged, so why isn’t she giving all her property to a charity trust which works for the favor of SC/ST’s.

What do you all think over this, Please share your views with us by posting comments?

Chief Minister has alleged that center is hampering in the growth of the state be not sanctioning the amount in its quota under different development scheme.

She added that the loan waiver amount of Rs 1063.91 crore for the year 2008-2009 was not sanctioned, a deduction was made in the revenue of 2009-10 and no amount was sanctioned.

The amount spent in the drought affected areas in Bundelkhand has not been reimbursed it and the state was devoided of 90% of the amount as being granted to other states.

She further added that the state requested for approval of grants for electrification for around half a million of bastis but the center haven’t heeded of the request.  The CM said that an additional amount of about Rs 20,000 crore was required for the implementation of Right to Education Act, 2009 every year.

It is a very well saying in India “Evil doers have very short life”, this proverb is proving right in the case of alleged don Mukhtar Ansari who turned politician.

First his cousin Afzal Ansari was expelled from his party BSP by its chief and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms. Mayawati and now Slapping of Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) by Delhi Police.

Ansari has been charged under the stringent section 3 and 4 of MCOCA.

Delhi Police took this step after Munna Bajrangi, a sharp shooter from Uttar Pradesh and prime accused in the murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai, confessed that he eliminated Rai at Ansari’s Residence.

Bajrangi and his men have been accused of carrying out several killings of businessmen and politicians at the instance of Ansaris who allegedly run an extortion racket spread across UP, Bihar and Delhi.

Ansari’s main mafia activity is in coal mining, railway construction and scrap disposal, Public Works construction, and the illicit liquor business. He faced stiff competition from another UP Don Brajesh Singh.

In 2001 Singh ambushed Ansari’s convoy on the Mau-Lucknow highway. In the shootout that followed, Mukhtar Ansari lost three of his key men and Singh was critically injured and declared dead soon after.

Ansari was then hailed as the undisputed king of eastern UP. Singh was arrested in January 2008 from Orissa by Delhi Police where he was running a real estate business.