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Vishal Kant

Vishal Kant works as an Assistant Editor with Hindustan Times. He tracks developments in Aam Aadmi Party and Delhi government. Vishal has spent about a decade covering the city politics and governance, besides writing on Delhi’s civic issues, urban transport and infrastructure.

Articles by Vishal Kant

With broom, AAP now eyes clean sweep at Delhi’s municipal corporation polls

While broom is the symbol of AAP, the party intends to keep the larger narrative of the civic polls around the ‘performance’ of BJP-ruled MCDs over the past decade, especially the ‘garbage-crisis’ that has hit the city over the past few years due to the strike by municipal staff.

Municpal elections are likely to be held in the latter half of April. This will be AAP’s first full-fledged contest in Delhi’s three municipal corporations after making an impressive debut in municipal bypolls last year.(Arun Sharma/ HT photo)
Updated on Mar 21, 2017 05:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Plan to turn Delhi’s Bijwasan, Shakurbasti railway stations into mega terminals

To reduce the rush at four major railway stations, Bijwasan and Shakurbasti stations in south-west Delhi are being developed into mega passenger terminals. These stations will mostly serve to west India-bound trains.

Bijwasan stations is being developed into the first transit interchange facility in the south-western part of the Capital, integrated with other modes of mass transit.(Sushil Kumar/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Feb 06, 2017 11:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Budget 2017: Pilot waste-to-energy plant at Delhi railway station to operate by June

Finance minister Arun Jaitley had mention the upcoming waste-to-energy plant at Delhi railway station as a pilot project on the lines of which five more plants will be developed.

The railways had decided to set up the waste-to-energy plant at New Delhi railway station last year, following directions from the National Green Tribunal.(HT FILE)
Published on Feb 01, 2017 02:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Inspired by Beijing, railways going green to improve Delhi’s ‘first look’

The Northern Railways is developing green patches along the tracks approaching four major stations of the Capital. This will improve the first look of the city and give the passengers a positive and welcoming view.

Railway tracks approaching Beijing station are full of greenery. Inspired by the Beijing railway station, the Northern Railways is developing green patches along the tracks approaching the four major city stations — New Delhi, Old Delhi, Nizamuddin and Anand Vihar.
Updated on Jan 31, 2017 10:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

5 MPs give over Rs 5cr from their development fund for railway stations

The local area development fund of members of Parliament (MP LAD) fund has turned out to be very favourable for the Indian Railways as five of the seven city MPs have together allocated Rs5.35 crore from their funds over the past two years for infrastructure development at different, major and local, railway stations across the city, besides augmenting civic facilities in railway colonies.

MP Meenakshi Lekhi inaugurates an open gym at the Minto Road Railway Colony.
Updated on Jan 29, 2017 11:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Kofi Annan lauds AAP’s Mohalla Clinics project, suggests reforms

Former UN Secretary General writes to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, says Aam Aadmi Party government’s mohalla clinic scheme is a lesson for other Indian states for achieving Universal Health Care (UHC)

An Aam Adami Mohalla Clinic at Peeragarhi in New Delhi. The clinics, set up across the city, are a crucial link in providing primary health care in the Capital.(Virendra Singh Gosain/HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 27, 2017 10:45 AM IST
By, New Delhi

L-G Anil Baijal’s fortnight meetings with Delhi police to focus on a theme

Delhi L-G has said that the review meetings with the police will be based on a theme and will be attended by representatives from other departments as well. The coming meeting will be on women’s safety.

Safety of women will be the theme for L-G Anil Baijal’s review meeting with the Delhi police likely next week.(PTI FILE)
Published on Jan 25, 2017 11:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Delhi L-G seeks deadline from MCDs to make waste-to-energy plants operational

The direction comes after L-G held a review meeting of the projects and environmental issues related to the landfill sites, on Tuesday.

L-G Anil Baijal visits Delhi’s largest landfill site at Bhalaswa.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 24, 2017 11:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi:

Decade on, incomplete Old Delhi flyover faces fresh roadblocks

Two decades since it was mooted, 10 years since work started on it and six years after the deadline was first missed, construction of the 1.6-kilometre-long flyover on Rani Jhansi Road is far from over as officials try to weed out bottlenecks.

Rani Jhansi Rd flyover is critical to decongest important stretches in old and central Delhi.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 22, 2017 07:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By, New Delhi

CBI visits Delhi govt’s info and publicity dept headed by Sisodia

The CBI preliminary enquiry has been initiated against Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and unnamed officials for alleged irregularities in awarding contract for the government’s social media campaign, Talk To AK.

The CBI preliminary enquiry has been initiated against Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and unnamed officials for alleged irregularities in awarding contract for the government’s social media campaign, Talk To AK.(PTI)
Updated on Jan 19, 2017 08:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Punjab polls: 100 NRIs arrive in Delhi from Canada to drum up support for AAP

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is trying to garner all the support it can get, from India as well as abroad, to win the upcoming assembly elections in Punjab.

Nearly 100 NRI supporters of AAP arrived in Delhi from Canada on Thursday morning.(Picture courtesy: Twitter/AAPOverseas)
Updated on Jan 19, 2017 11:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Delhi MCD elections to be held in April after CBSE board exams

Delhi Election Commission sources say civic polls in Delhi may be held in April third week. They said notification for the polls may be issued after the CBSE board exams. BJP, AAP and Congress are the three main contenders.

Voters queue up to cast their votes in the Delhi municipal bypolls at Khichripur east Delhi in May 2016.(Arun Sharma/HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 18, 2017 11:26 PM IST
By, New Delhi

Poll dynamics change, parties anxious before Delhi MCD elections

Rearrangement of 272 wards across three municipal corporations has made the upcoming Delhi MCD polls unpredictable, though many feel that it may give an advantage to the ruling AAP which will be contesting a civic body poll for the first time

The delimitation of municipal wards has revised the number of municipal wards in 37 out of 70 assembly segments.(HT FILE)
Updated on Jan 18, 2017 01:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Kumar Vishwas joining BJP? Aam Aadmi Party rubbishes report

Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday sarcastically dismissed reports that senior party leader Kumar Vishwas is likely to join the BJP and contest in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

Aam Aadmi Party dismissed reports of Kumar Vishwas joining the BJP.(HT File Photo)
Updated on Jan 18, 2017 12:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Delhi Assembly session starts today, AAP set to target MCDs as BJP plans protest

At the two-day assembly session, the ruling AAP legislators are likely to raise issues such as the functioning of the BJP-led MCDs.

Opposition leader in Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta said that not inviting lieutenant governor Anil Baijal to address the House is ‘dishonouring’ his Constitutional office.(Sonu Mehta/HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 17, 2017 01:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

In a first in Delhi, Kejriwal to be seen with L-G at a public event

While former L-G Najeeb Jung was never seen with Arvind Kejriwal, the CM will be jointly inaugurating skill centres in west Delhi with the newly appointed L-G Anil Baijal

During the oath ceremony, Anil Baijal had said that he will work with the Delhi government to ensure a solution to issues of women safety and air pollution(Sushil Kumar/HT FILE)
Updated on Jan 10, 2017 11:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Politics over sanitation strike goes on as streets stink in East Delhi

Even as chief minister Arvind Kejriwal hit out at critics by reminding them that the BJP ruled MCDs in the city, Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari advised the chief minister of “not playing with numbers related to funds provided by the government to the civic body and announce a special package for the EDMC”.

A heap of garbage on the roadside in Kanti Nagar in east Delhi. The strike by the sanitation workers of EDMC entered fifth day on Monday.(Sonu Mehta/HT Photo)
Published on Jan 10, 2017 08:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By, New Delhi

Suspense on GST rollout hits Delhi government’s budget planning

Indirect taxes such as VAT, entertainment and luxury tax will get merged under the GST. Officials say once GST is implemented, the budget of state government would largely be about welfare proposals and hardly require any tax proposals.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley chaired the GST Council meeting last week.(PTI Photo)
Published on Jan 09, 2017 08:44 PM IST
By, New Delhi

No cash crunch for AAP, party collects Rs 1.3 crore at fundraiser

The Aam Aadmi Party raised Rs 1.13 crore at a dinner with city traders on Saturday, seeing almost a six-fold jump in donations from 2014 when the trade wing first held such an event.

File photo of AAP convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and deputy chief minister Manish Manish Sisodia.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 09, 2017 01:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Soon, passenger information system at Delhi’s railway stations on smartphones

Rail passengers will be able to monitor the arrival and departure of trains on their smartphones and tablets at five major stations in the national capital.

The average daily footfall of passengers at five major stations in city is estimated to be about 1.5 million.(Representative image)
Updated on Jan 09, 2017 09:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By

AAP to hold ‘business meet’ to give Delhi govt’s account of performance to traders

The development comes in the backdrop of the Narendra Modi government’s decision to demonetise Rs500 and Rs1000 bank notes from November 8.

The Aam Aadmi Party will hold a business summit early next year to woo traders.(Sushil Kumar/HT Photo)
Published on Dec 25, 2016 08:59 PM IST
By, New Delhi

Delhi: Eight public libraries built with Swaraj Fund to be opened today

These libraries are unique in their own way as they have been put together from the citizen local area development fund, or Swaraj fund, and were taken up after people chose them as priority projects in mohalla sabhas conducted in various assembly constituencies last year.

These libraries are unique in their own way as they have been put together from the citizen local area development fund, or Swaraj fund, and were taken up after people chose them as priority projects in mohalla sabhas conducted in various assembly constituencies last year.
Updated on Dec 25, 2016 09:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By, New Delhi

Jung resigns as Delhi L-G, Kejriwal calls it a ‘surprise’

Najeeb Jung resigned as Delhi’s lieutenant governor on Thursday, ending a three-and-half-year tenure marked by a bitter jurisdictional battle for the Capital with chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Najeeb Jung, a former IAS officer from the Madhya Pradesh Cadre and former vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, was the 20th L-G of Delhi.(Arvind Yadav/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Dec 23, 2016 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Fog delays trains in Delhi, flights ‘normal’, visibility dips in Noida and Ghaziabad

72 trains were delayed, 30 rescheduled and two cancelled, owing to thick blanket of fog across the northern plains

Lowest visibility at Palam airport was 600 metres at 5.30 am, while at Safdarjung airport visibility was 1000 metres, according to regional Met department.(Sanjeev Verma/ HT File)
Updated on Dec 09, 2016 11:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByVishal Kant & Abhishek Anand

Train services severely hit due to dense fog in north India

About 100 inbound and outbound trains were running behind schedule, ranging from four to over 30 hours, railway officials said.

About 100 inbound and outbound trains were running behind schedule, ranging from four to over 30 hours, railway officials said.(Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times)
Updated on Dec 09, 2016 11:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

L-G Najeeb Jung halting vacuum cleaning of roads: Kejriwal

Kejriwal said in a press conference that the clarifications sought are unnecessary and aimed at ‘stalling the initiative’. The L-G office offered no comment.

PWD workers clean a road with mechanized vacuum sweepers near Mayur Vihar in east Delhi. The Delhi government had assured the Supreme Court that it will start vacuum cleaning the roads to curb dust pollution.(Sonu Mehta/HT Photo)
Updated on Dec 08, 2016 08:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Resolve cash crunch in 3 days: Mamata, Kejriwal serve ultimatum to govt

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee on Thursday addressed a rally against demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes organised by the Aam Aadmi Party.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee with her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal at Parliament House in New Delhi.(HT File Photo)
Updated on Nov 17, 2016 06:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

AAP plans rally for Delhi traders miffed over Centre’s currency ban

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is likely to attend a rally organised by Aam Aadmi Party at Azadpur Mandi.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal meeting shopkeepers to talk about demonetisation at Laxmi Nagar market on November 12.(Ravi Choudhary/HT Photo)
Published on Nov 16, 2016 02:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Demonetisation: Kejriwal says PM Modi using his mother for politics

Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his nonagenarian mother for politics by letting her stand in queue to exchange old currency, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday.

PM Narendra Modi’s mother Hiraben Modi at Oriental Bank of Commerce branch at Raisan village in Gandhinagar.(HT Photo)
Updated on Feb 17, 2020 10:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByVishal Kant and Dhrubo Jyoti, New Delhi

Vegetable vendors in Delhi hit by withdrawal of currency notes

Traders at Azadpur mandi — the biggest vegetable and fruit hub in Delhi — said the retail traders could not get stocks of vegetables and fruits as the wholesalers refused to accept Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 note.
Updated on Nov 09, 2016 01:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi
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