Brajendra K Parashar is a Special Correspondent presently looking after agriculture, energy, transport, panchayati raj, commercial tax, Rashtriya Lok Dal, state election commission, IAS/PCS Associations, Vidhan Parishad among other beats.
Articles by Brajendra K Parashar
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
Now, prepaid service on basic phone
THERE IS good news for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) subscribers. Now, they will enjoy prepaid service on basic phone and be able to control their budget just like in the case of prepaid mobile phone service.
Published on Jan 17, 2006 12:49 AM IST
None | Brajendra K Parashar
What?s behind LESA?s frequent trips?
IS LESA telling a lie, or is it technical ignorance on the part of those managing power transmission lines? Whatever the reason, at least the under- frequency of the grid is certainly not responsible for frequent power tripping in the trans-Gomti. The preliminary investigations into the matter have established this fact though the real cause is yet to be found out.
Published on Jan 09, 2006 01:08 AM IST
PTI | Brajendra K Parashar
Jilani calls meet to discuss issue
ZAFARYAB JILANI, an Aligarh Muslim University alumni and lawyer, has called a meeting of AMU Students? Union leaders and the staff here tomorrow to discuss the fall-out of the Allahabad High Court order stripping the university of its minority status and chalk out a strategy to protect its character.
Published on Jan 07, 2006 01:50 AM IST
PTI | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
22 districts identified for job guarantee scheme
UNEMPLOYED VILLAGERS will no longer be short of jobs. The State Government will be bound by law to provide them not less than 100 days? guaranteed work in a year, failing which the State will have to provide unemployment allowance to them.
Published on Jan 04, 2006 01:52 AM IST
PTI | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
Power overdraft: PCL paying through nose
NEXT TO J& K, Uttar Pradesh is the only state in the Northern Region that is paying high penalty to the Centre in the form unscheduled import (UI) charges for making overdraft of electricity from the grid.
Published on Jan 03, 2006 01:26 AM IST
PTI | Brajendra K Parashar, Lucknow
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