Delhi undergroud

Waste of effort
Residents believe the New Delhi Municipal Council’s garbage segregation system is a waste. Their reason: despite their efforts to dispose degradable and non-degradable garbage in different colour bins,it eventually ends up in one container. “When the NDMC garbage collectors come in the morning,the garbage from both the bins is dumped in one single container mixing the two,” a resident said. Now,the residents have also stopped segregating the garbage as they believe in the end it is just one big mess.

Snapshots
Four days after an RTI was filed seeking details about pictures of which personalities adorn the walls at the offices of Delhi ministers,Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s portrait was put up on a wall of Finance Minister Dr A K Walia’s room. The rumour goes that Dikshit herself had informally sent her portraits to all head of departments but not many have actually put them up. At Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta’s room,Dikshit’s portrait has been lying unattended in a corner for the past fortnight.

Unfair cops
When Senior Superintendent of Police (Ghaziabad) Raghubir Lal’s team won the tug-of-war competition arranged by the Ghaziabad police chief with an aim to keep the officers fit,the losing team alleged that Lal had used unfair means. “When the SSP Ghaziabad started losing,a senior officer signaled three policemen to join the team. Raghubir won but the strength was 21 against 18,” an officer said.

Missing monuments
According to the new amendment in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act 1958,construction within a protected area (100 metres around a monument) is not permitted. Now,this amendment has left the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) officials with some unique problems. One of them being,regarding ASI protected monuments have gone ‘missing’ — while the structure finds mention in ASI record books,it has in reality been wiped out. Officials are wondering how to measure the “protected area limits” of such a monument.

No comments
At a recent press conference addressed by Imran Malik,brother-in-law of Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik,tempers ran high. Malik was clearly at the end of his wits when a reporter asked him to comment on Sarfraz Nawaz’s allegation that Shoaib will start betting after his marriage to Sania Mirza. “He can say whatever he likes,you can say whatever you like and there are millions of people in Pakistan and they can say whatever they like. I am not going to answer all of them and how on earth is Sarfraz related to this issue,” Malik asked. The answer left the reporter visibly irritated,but he chose to keep quiet.