Articles by Brajendra K Parashar
Traffic violators beware!
NOW, IT won?t be easy to violate traffic rules and get away. Cops sitting in a high-tech mobile Maruti Versas, equipped with sophisticated enforcement and surveillance equipments, will be keeping a watch on the violators.

Published on Jun 06, 2006 01:33 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Beacon drive only for city?
THE DRIVE against hooters and beacons fitted on vehicles seems to be focused within the city only. There are scores of jeeps and cars coming from surrounding districts through either Kanpur road and Rae Bareli road that remain a nuisance with the traffic policemen just watching them pass by without taking any action on the two busy highways. These cars and jeeps breeze through the VIP road with no checking done by policemen either in the morning or late night hours.

Published on Jun 05, 2006 01:12 AM IST
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Santosh Chowdhury and Brajendra K Parashar
Women?s Desk for each PS mooted
UNDER CONSTANT criticism for growing number of atrocities on women and failure of the Mahila police stations to deal with such cases, the State police department is seriously considering to set up a ?Women?s Desk? at each police station in the State.

Published on Jun 02, 2006 01:24 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
?NTPC profiteering? bleeds UPPCL
IF ITS representations to various bodies in Delhi are taken on face value, a funds-starved UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) seems to be paying through its nose for the electricity it purchases from the National Thermal Power Corporation. The NTPC not only recovers the full cost of power it supplies to the UPPCL, but also earns handsome return on its equity.

Published on May 29, 2006 01:12 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Save electricity: Switch off your ?standby? power guzzlers
TURN OFF your electricity gadgets when not in use. Your remote controlled gadgets guzzle up a good amount of electricity when in the standby mode. That?s a sure shot way to trim your monthly electricity bills and contribute your bit to the ?save-energy campaign?.Changing lifestyle is one of the major reasons for UP?s ever increasing requirement of electricity.

Published on May 28, 2006 01:14 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Energy-efficient fridges a must
AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT labelling or star rating of refrigerators and tubular fluorescent lamps depending on their electricity consumption will soon be mandatory for manufacturers in all the States, including UP.

Published on May 23, 2006 01:18 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
PCL moots mandatory energy savers
TAKING A cue from Haryana, the UPPCL has proposed to make use of energy savers and energy efficient equipment in government and commercial buildings mandatory. The proposal is awaiting the State Government?s nod.

Published on May 21, 2006 01:31 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
But, LESA?s tech pal playing foul!
DILLYDALLYING BY CMC Ltd in handing over the source code is coming in the way of LESA?s being part of the e-Suvidha project scheduled to be launched on June 8.

Published on May 17, 2006 12:05 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar
POWER POLITICS
The Big Fight between the State and the Centre over the issue of power supply turns bloodier with each passing day. And surely, the Mulayam Singh Yadav Government?s decision to bring Rae Bareli (Sonia Gandhi?s constituency) under regular load shedding ? a day after the Congress chief gave a humiliating defeat to all other political parties in the just concluded Lok Sabha bye-election ? will only add fuel to the fire being generated by the Centre-State collision.

Published on May 14, 2006 12:21 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar
Centre hits back with max power
IN A strong rebuttal to Mulayam Singh Yadav government?s accusations that the Centre was discriminating against UP on the power front, Union power scretary RV Shahi today claimed that UP was getting the highest amount of electricity from the Central pool in the country.

Published on May 11, 2006 01:38 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Power crisis: Try checking wastage and theft?
THE PREVAILING unprecedented power crisis in the State is more a problem of inefficiency and wastage than of shortage. The State, it is believed, can be rid of much of its crisis by controlling the rampant theft and effectively imposing reasonable restrictions on illegal use of electricity.

Published on May 10, 2006 01:08 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
BLACKOUT
ELECTRIFIED BY the Reliance Energy Ltd (REL) entering into an agreement with the State Government for constructing a 3,000 MW mega gas-based power plant at Dadri, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav had on June 10, 2004, told mediapersons that the UP?s power shortage would be over within three years. ?The State will not only meet its own demand but will also export 2,000 MW of electricity to other States after three years,? he had claimed while briefing the journalists after the Cabinet meet.

Published on May 07, 2006 12:06 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar
Govt invites proposals for growth centres
THE STATE Government has started inviting proposals from entrepreneurs for setting up growth centres in the State?s rural pockets under all districts. The government has earmarked Rs 100 crore for assistance to parties coming forward to establish such centres.

Published on May 06, 2006 01:32 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Power supply: Centre-state spat hots up
THE CENTRE-STATE spat over power supply is getting hotter even as the people reel under acute and prolonged blackouts throughout Uttar Pradesh. While the Centre has warned UP not to draw electricity from the Northern Grid more than its quota when the grid frequency is low, the latter argues that it is not getting its full quota of electricity from the Central sector power houses and, hence, it was forced to overdraw to meet its requirements.

Published on May 01, 2006 12:47 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
PCL promises Centre the moon
THE UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) bosses seem to have found a magic wand to rid the ailing power sector of recurring losses. In just over two-six months, they intend to achieve what others could not during the last six years of power reforms.

Published on Apr 29, 2006 01:16 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Fair drew power illegally
LOCAL POWER officials allegedly chose to turn a blind eye to open pilferage of electricity by organisers of the Meerut fair. The organisers had flouted all electricity safety norms, and this is precisely what ultimately led to the tragedy.

Published on Apr 12, 2006 01:13 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Power conservation mantra: Don?t supply it!
SAVE ENERGY for the benefit of self and the nation, the new slogan coined by the UP Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (UPRVUNL) is being followed by it in letter and spirit.

Published on Mar 31, 2006 12:43 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
And, UPPCL fails to hit the target!
EVEN AS some over-smart power officials are resorting to illegal methods to jack up revenue without having to work hard, a quite unseasonal atmosphere is prevailing in the Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration (LESA), this year.

Published on Mar 25, 2006 12:14 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar
Centre to UP: Fend for yourself
IN WHAT may kick start a new round of blame game, the Congress led UPA Government at the Centre has outrightly rejected Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav?s demand for 1,000 MW of additional electricity from the Central pool. On the contrary, the Centre has attributed the power shortage in the State to UP?s failure to set up new powerhouses and modernise the existing ones, contain power theft and effectively implement the Centre-funded schemes.

Updated on Mar 06, 2006 01:08 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Dupe consumers, jack up revenue
THE UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) continues to invent novel and easy ways, though illegal, for increasing its revenue collection. Officials do not believe in increasing revenue by controlling the rampant power theft and increasing efficiency? a method which they think is too outdated and painstaking.

Published on Feb 28, 2006 01:50 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Political pill worsens PCL disease
IT IS like ignoring the doctor?s prescription and cursing the disease. Contrary to the advice given to it for reducing import of exorbitantly costly electricity, the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) has started supplying more electricity to villages incurring more losses.

Published on Feb 27, 2006 01:21 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
For PCL engineers ?name? is identity
NO ROMEO and Juliet is being enacted, though. The UPPCL engineers have found everything in a name. And this was clearly evident when the Power Corporation has agreed to change the designations of various officials.

Published on Feb 26, 2006 01:45 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Hardcore drug peddlers push for a softer law
GUESS WHO is clamouring for an anti-drug law to be made more lenient? Drug peddlers lodged in Lucknow and Barabanki district jails! Perhaps, if they had their way, murderers should be let off with mild punishment. Ditto for other criminals. All this is not good news for a State whose minister was recently caught on camera accepting his involvement in the narcotics trade.

Published on Feb 23, 2006 01:28 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
You?ll love going by bus now?
A TICKET for a movie show, a coupon for dinner at a restaurant, a to-and-fro ticket in an air-conditioned bus and much more. You may get all this absolutely free of cost. All you have to do is travel in UPSRTC?s city buses with a ticket.

Published on Feb 22, 2006 12:25 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar
Power cuts at LESA?s whims & fancies
THE LUCKNOW Electricity Supply Administration (LESA) is adopting a pick and choose policy in making power cuts in the city. While no rostering is being done in any locality under the Hussainganj division that caters to the so-called VIP places, people in rest of the city are being subjected to three-hour power cuts every day.

Published on Feb 21, 2006 01:39 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Hey! Shut down your hooters
THE LUCKNOWITES may gradually suffer from hearing loss without knowing what hit their ears if earsplitting hooters and sirens weren?t brought into decibel limits. Pressure horns, hooters and child?s cry, musical tones and police sirens are rising like a trend.

Published on Feb 20, 2006 01:15 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar
State capital in for rostering
THIS YEAR?s summers are going to be a lot hotter for the Lucknowites. Soon the State capital will witness a four-hour power cut every day. In other cities and towns, life will be even more difficult as they are all set to undergo an additional rostering of 3-4 hours a day.

Published on Feb 14, 2006 01:21 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Irrigation Dept fights to get back its folk
USED TO a money-spinning assignment and better working conditions for years, the Irrigation Department?s junior engineers, who had been sent to the Trade Tax Department on deputation as officers, are now reluctant to return to their parent department.

Published on Feb 01, 2006 01:22 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
BSNL faces a very private threat
THREAT OF private operators utilising BSNL?s internet copper wired line looms large over the State-owned telecom major, if the progress of broadband connections in the UP Telecom (East) Circle, is anything to go by.

Published on Jan 24, 2006 01:21 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
PCL centralised system draws CAG flak
OVER NINE months ago, the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) replaced the decentralised system of material purchase with the centralized one. The HT had then smelled a rat and published a report quoting sources that alleged that it was mainly the charm of hundreds of crores of rupees being doled out by the Centre under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification programme that had led the officials to centralise the system denying any role in awarding contracts etc., to the subsidiary power companies.

Updated on Jan 20, 2006 01:12 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
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