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Time of India
4 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Gangajal project off, Khoda residents protest
Ghaziabad: Khoda residents are on a warpath after the Ganga water project to supply 50 MLD of Ganga water directly to the area for the colony was officially shelved. Residents, under the aegis of Khoda Residents Welfare, say they came to know about it when they filed a complaint on Integrated Grievance Redressal System (IGRS) portal. The residents are planning a bigger protest now. They are miffed over the fact that since 2023 they were kept in the dark as they were not informed through official channels that the project was shelved. You Can Also Check: Noida AQI | Weather in Noida | Bank Holidays in Noida | Public Holidays in Noida The issue is also acquiring a political connotation as chairperson of Khoda Nagar Palika Mohini Sharma blamed MLA Sunil Sharma for this. Mohini said, "The present MLA, Sunil Sharma, who is also a cabinet minister in the Yogi govt, in 2016 obtained the signatures of 5 lakh residents to press for the demand for Ganga water in trans-Hindon area, including Khoda. Now, the project has been shelved and even as a cabinet minister, he didn't do anything about it. He is to be blamed for the situation." Sahibabad MLA Sunil Sharma, meanwhile, said, "We are reviewing the project." An official from UP Jal Nigam said, "The state govt approved a Rs 185-crore project to supply 50 MLD of Ganga water directly to Khoda, for which a 9km pipeline from Chijarsi will be laid to Khoda. The pipeline is already supplying treated Ganga water from the Sidharth Vihar water treatment plant to Noida. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Find the Lowest Auto Insurance Rates in Your Area AutoSaveMax Get Quote Undo This was a water-sharing agreement with Noida, but at a later stage, Noida withdrew its consent primarily because Khoda comes under the jurisdiction of Ghaziabad, so the project has been shelved. " Meanwhile, Deepak Joshi of Khora Residents Welfare Association said, "With an estimated population of over 6 lakh, Khoda has been dependent on groundwater, which is unfit for human consumption. Over the years, the residents of Khoda have held numerous protests to initiate Ganga water supply to meet their potable water needs. Finally, in 2023, a DPR for the project was made, according to which the cost was pegged at Rs 185 crore and as per the plan, 50 MLD of Ganga water was to be supplied directly to Khoda. " Joshi added, "Till then Ganga water was to be supplied directly to Khoda through tankers. Seventy water tankers of 3,000 L and 5,000 L each supplied Ganga water to the area from the Sidharth Vihar Ganga water treatment was a stop-gap arrangement and while queuing up for Ganga water, there were many occasions when it led to water-riot-like situations. Yet, we waited patiently because we thought that the project to supply Ganga water through a pipeline was ongoing. But recently, we came to know that the project has been shelved and that also after we made a complaint in the IGRS. We feel cheated." Stay updated with the latest local news from your city on Times of India (TOI). Check upcoming bank holidays , public holidays , and current gold rates and s ilver prices in your area.
Hindustan Times
4 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Delhi man held over fake currency circulation in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: A 26-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly purchasing counterfeit currency notes and circulating these in trans-Hindon localities of Ghaziabad, the police said on Wednesday. Officers said that they have also booked the unidentified online friend of the suspect. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo) Police identified him as Ujjwal Jha, a resident of Mandoli, Delhi, working as an assistant manager at a pharmaceutical firm. He was arrested in the Vasundhara Sector 1 area while heading to Raj Nagar on a two-wheeler to hand over the fake currency to one of his contacts, said officers. 'During interrogation, the suspect told police that he met a person on a social media platform a few months ago. Later, during conversations, this online friend offered to provide him fake notes with the face value of ₹3 lakh for ₹1 lakh. He bought them and circulated in markets besides supplying them to his contacts,' said assistant commissioner of police (ACP) (Indirapuram circle) Abhishek Srivastava. Police recovered 566 fake currency notes of ₹500 denomination allegedly from his possession. 'The fake notes look like the original currency notes and will soon be sent to a forensic lab,' the officer said. 'The physical exchange of fake currency notes happened between the suspect and his online friend. We have certain information about the online friend of the suspect, and all backward and forward linkages in the entire chain are being traced as part of the investigation,' the ACP added. Jha is suspected to be a link in the chain where fake notes are getting printed and supplied further, officers said, adding that he has purportedly admitted to have purchased fake notes from his online friend earlier as well. The suspect has been booked under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 318(4) (cheating), 178 (counterfeiting coins, government stamps, currency notes, or bank notes), 179 (using forged or counterfeit coins, government stamps, currency notes, or bank notes as genuine), and 180 (possessing forged or counterfeit coin, government stamp, currency-note, or bank-note) at Indirapuram police station. Officers said that they have also booked the unidentified online friend of the suspect.
Time of India
30-07-2025
- Automotive
- Time of India
Mercedes breaks down on waterlogged road in Ghaziabad: Owner seeks Rs 5 lakh damage from civic body
A Mercedes car owner has issued a legal notice to the Ghaziabad municipal commissioner , demanding ₹5 lakh as compensation after his vehicle broke down on a waterlogged road in Sahibabad during heavy rainfall on the morning of July 23. The car, a Mercedes GLA 200D, was reportedly stranded for nearly two hours in knee-deep water in Lajpat Nagar before it had to be towed, a TOI report stated. Car breakdown and repair estimate Amit Kishore, a resident of Sector 11 in Vasundhara, said he purchased the vehicle for ₹60 lakh in 2018. He claimed the car was functioning properly until it developed a mechanical fault due to waterlogging on the way home around noon that day. "It just wouldn't start again. I had to arrange a crane to take it to a service centre in Noida, which has said that the repair would cost an estimated ₹5 lakh," Kishore told TOI. Legal notice to municipal corporation The legal notice, served to the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation through Kishore's lawyer, held the civic body accountable for not maintaining the drainage system. "Your failure to fulfil your statutory duties under the Municipal Corporation Act, Public Health Acts, and Environmental Protection Laws, as well as your breach of duty of care owed to the residents, makes you liable for financial, physical, and mental damages caused to my client and others similarly affected," the notice read. Live Events The notice also stated that legal proceedings would be initiated if no action is taken within 15 days. Municipal commissioner responds Municipal commissioner Vikramaditya Malik said the claim must be substantiated with evidence. "If the waterlogging caused his vehicle to break down, why didn't the same happen to other vehicles parked on the same street? On July 23, there was excessive rainfall, and IMD issued alerts as well. It led to waterlogging across NCR, but there were no other reports of vehicle breakdowns caused solely by it," Malik told TOI. Local residents support claim Residents of Sahibabad and nearby trans-Hindon areas said waterlogging has been a recurring issue due to clogged drains and poor maintenance. "Waterlogging is a major problem in trans-Hindon areas, especially Indirapuram, Vaishali, and Vasundhara. Waterlogging persists in these areas due to encroached, clogged drains and delayed, ineffective cleaning by the municipal corporation. The sanitation staffers simply leave sludge along the roadside until rains wash it back in," said Roy Tapan Bharti, a resident of Vasundhara's Sector 16 for 30 years. The municipal body has not yet issued an official written response to the legal notice.
Time of India
08-07-2025
- General
- Time of India
Crumbling roads to overflowing drains: What ails Ghaziabad's Makanpur and Kala Patthar road
1 2 3 4 5 Ghaziabad: Monsoon 's arrival has turned the yearlong mess on both sides of Kala Patthar Road, the central artery of Indirapuram that connects the trans-Hindon township with NH-9 and Delhi-Meerut Expressway, into an unmanageable reality for the thousands who use it every day. And seemingly for the police and corporation, too, with neither able to come up with a solution that streamlines traffic and put an end to the civic mess that people of Makanpur village on one side and families living in housing societies in Ahimsa Khand-1 and Vaibhav Khand on the other have had to put up with month after month, year after year. In the last three years, two big administrative reforms have taken place, the formation of the police commissionerate and the handover of Indirapuram, which used to be under GDA, to the corporation. But the change appears to have bypassed residents of Indirapuram, which has seen little reprieve from traffic unruliness and civic lapses. You Can Also Check: Noida AQI | Weather in Noida | Bank Holidays in Noida | Public Holidays in Noida On both sides, Kala Patthar Road has enough width to accommodate utilities like a footpath and regulated parking areas for vehicles. But the roadsides are broken, uneven and encroached either by vehicles or by food carts. As a result, the pedestrians and vehicles are locked in a daylong jostle for space past a maze of haphazardly parked cars, people crowding around stalls, autos and e-rickshaws picking up and dropping off passengers and two-wheelers darting to and from every direction, never mind the direction of the traffic. "It's like there are no rules here. There are two traffic signals at the Gaur mall and Aditya mall crossings, but no one bothers to even look at them. Vehicles are merrily driving on the wrong side all the way to NH-9 and even on it. They are coming from all directions. It's a driving nightmare. Have I ever seen police doing something about it? No. Have I ever seen the roadsides getting cleared? No," says Smita, resident of a housing society in the area who travels to Delhi for work every day. Kala Patthar road is also the main shopping centre for trans-Hindon. Shops selling everything from sofa covers to light bulbs and shoes line the Makanpur side of the road along its length from the NH-9 service lane to Mangal Bazar Chowk. On the opposite side, furniture shops and food vendors have made the roadside their own. Around the L-shaped Aditya mall, congestion is at its worst because of mall visitors parking on the roadside rather than in the designated basement area. Food vendors form the second layer of encroachers, spilling onto the road. The result is a daylong gridlock. So, on this road that is always teeming with people, the shoulders and half the road space get flooded every time it rains. The only option to walk this leaves people with is through traffic, risking accidents. Then there are thousands of locals who waste time navigating jams every day despite being right next to an expressway. "It takes me as long to drive past Makanpur and Khoda to get to the main Delhi-Meerut Expressway as it does to get from there to Sarai Kale Khan," a Vaibhav Khand resident who works with a Gurgaon-based company said. The mess on Kala Patthar road, he added, makes him regret the decision of buying a house in the area, "which is otherwise very nice to live in". Asked about the traffic situation on Kala Patthar Road and what steps police have taken, ACP traffic Ziauddin Ahmad said neither of the two signals on Kala Patthar Road has been working for the last couple of days. "We have informed the corporation. It will be repaired soon. We will deploy a traffic team at the place to stop wrong-side driving," he said. Inside Makanpur village, from which Indirapuram township was carved out in the 90s, the mess gets much worse, a stark contrast to the manicured compounds of the highrises that have come up around it. A pond inside the village reeks of filth. Littered with trash and barricaded by an uprooted fence, children gather by it to go cycling or fly kites. The narrow lanes leading up to it are littered with sludge dug out from choked drains. The sludge is everywhere, on village lanes and along the main road. Madan Pal Tyagi, a local resident, told TOI, "The lanes will be inundated with at least three feet of wastewater, and to reach here, you will have to wade through filth. This is an annual feature, just wait for a few days when it starts raining heavily. One may choose to overlook it as a problem limited to Makanpur, but residents living in multi-crore highrise apartments in Indirapuram, just 100 metres from here, also feel the pinch of civic apathy. The wastewater flows down to Kala Patthar Road, triggering traffic jams." According to a GDA official, Indirapuram has a massive drainage system, approximately 135km long. However, the circumference of the pipeline is narrow and it cannot handle the volume of wastewater generated in the area, leading to flooding on the roads. "Topography is also a factor behind this because the gradient of the township is towards the east, towards Hindon river, and due to the uneven nature of land here, water does not flow out smoothly. Funds alone will not solve the issue as it requires technical expertise and good leadership," the official said. Previously, the township used to be under a single ward, Makanpur. After delimitation, it was divided into seven wards in 2016. Over the years, Makanpur, which has a population of 40,000, came to constitute ward number 57 of GMC. Radhey Shyam Tyagi, councillor of ward 57, says, "Very soon, we will work to improve the situation, but it would be unfair to say that the situation in Makanpur has not improved. Today, every lane of the village has interlocking tiles. " "For GDA," adds Tyagi, "Makanpur was at the bottom of its priority list as it focused more on Indirapuram township. So, there was virtually no civic agency to take care of Makanpur. After it became part of one of GMC's wards, things did improve, but marginally. Now that the handover of Makanpur, along with Indirapuram, has taken place, and GMC has received considerable funds from GDA as part of the handover deal, I can assure you the situation is going to change drastically. " Mayor Sunita Dayal told TOI Makanpur's development is "interlinked with Indirapuram's". "Apart from the sewer and drain problem, encroachment is a big issue. We are in the process of creating a designated vending zone, which will take care of the problem of encroachment. Since the civic issue is a major legacy problem, we will have to draw up a plan to improve the situation, which we will take up in due course."
Time of India
08-07-2025
- General
- Time of India
Crumbling roads to overflowing drains: What ails Indirapuram's underbelly
Ghaziabad: Monsoon 's arrival has turned the yearlong mess on both sides of Kala Patthar Road, the central artery of Indirapuram that connects the trans-Hindon township with NH-9 and Delhi-Meerut Expressway, into an unmanageable reality for the thousands who use it every day. And seemingly for the police and corporation, too, with neither able to come up with a solution that streamlines traffic and put an end to the civic mess that people of Makanpur village on one side and families living in housing societies in Ahimsa Khand-1 and Vaibhav Khand on the other have had to put up with month after month, year after year. In the last three years, two big administrative reforms have taken place, the formation of the police commissionerate and the handover of Indirapuram, which used to be under GDA, to the corporation. But the change appears to have bypassed residents of Indirapuram, which has seen little reprieve from traffic unruliness and civic lapses. You Can Also Check: Noida AQI | Weather in Noida | Bank Holidays in Noida | Public Holidays in Noida On both sides, Kala Patthar Road has enough width to accommodate utilities like a footpath and regulated parking areas for vehicles. But the roadsides are broken, uneven and encroached either by vehicles or by food carts. As a result, the pedestrians and vehicles are locked in a daylong jostle for space past a maze of haphazardly parked cars, people crowding around stalls, autos and e-rickshaws picking up and dropping off passengers and two-wheelers darting to and from every direction, never mind the direction of the traffic. "It's like there are no rules here. There are two traffic signals at the Gaur mall and Aditya mall crossings, but no one bothers to even look at them. Vehicles are merrily driving on the wrong side all the way to NH-9 and even on it. They are coming from all directions. It's a driving nightmare. Have I ever seen police doing something about it? No. Have I ever seen the roadsides getting cleared? No," says Smita, resident of a housing society in the area who travels to Delhi for work every day. Kala Patthar road is also the main shopping centre for trans-Hindon. Shops selling everything from sofa covers to light bulbs and shoes line the Makanpur side of the road along its length from the NH-9 service lane to Mangal Bazar Chowk. On the opposite side, furniture shops and food vendors have made the roadside their own. Around the L-shaped Aditya mall, congestion is at its worst because of mall visitors parking on the roadside rather than in the designated basement area. Food vendors form the second layer of encroachers, spilling onto the road. The result is a daylong gridlock. So, on this road that is always teeming with people, the shoulders and half the road space get flooded every time it rains. The only option to walk this leaves people with is through traffic, risking accidents. Then there are thousands of locals who waste time navigating jams every day despite being right next to an expressway. "It takes me as long to drive past Makanpur and Khoda to get to the main Delhi-Meerut Expressway as it does to get from there to Sarai Kale Khan," a Vaibhav Khand resident who works with a Gurgaon-based company said. The mess on Kala Patthar road, he added, makes him regret the decision of buying a house in the area, "which is otherwise very nice to live in". Asked about the traffic situation on Kala Patthar Road and what steps police have taken, ACP traffic Ziauddin Ahmad said neither of the two signals on Kala Patthar Road has been working for the last couple of days. "We have informed the corporation. It will be repaired soon. We will deploy a traffic team at the place to stop wrong-side driving," he said. Inside Makanpur village, from which Indirapuram township was carved out in the 90s, the mess gets much worse, a stark contrast to the manicured compounds of the highrises that have come up around it. A pond inside the village reeks of filth. Littered with trash and barricaded by an uprooted fence, children gather by it to go cycling or fly kites. The narrow lanes leading up to it are littered with sludge dug out from choked drains. The sludge is everywhere, on village lanes and along the main road. Madan Pal Tyagi, a local resident, told TOI, "The lanes will be inundated with at least three feet of wastewater, and to reach here, you will have to wade through filth. This is an annual feature, just wait for a few days when it starts raining heavily. One may choose to overlook it as a problem limited to Makanpur, but residents living in multi-crore highrise apartments in Indirapuram, just 100 metres from here, also feel the pinch of civic apathy. The wastewater flows down to Kala Patthar Road, triggering traffic jams." According to a GDA official, Indirapuram has a massive drainage system, approximately 135km long. However, the circumference of the pipeline is narrow and it cannot handle the volume of wastewater generated in the area, leading to flooding on the roads. "Topography is also a factor behind this because the gradient of the township is towards the east, towards Hindon river, and due to the uneven nature of land here, water does not flow out smoothly. Funds alone will not solve the issue as it requires technical expertise and good leadership," the official said. Previously, the township used to be under a single ward, Makanpur. After delimitation, it was divided into seven wards in 2016. Over the years, Makanpur, which has a population of 40,000, came to constitute ward number 57 of GMC. Radhey Shyam Tyagi, councillor of ward 57, says, "Very soon, we will work to improve the situation, but it would be unfair to say that the situation in Makanpur has not improved. Today, every lane of the village has interlocking tiles. " "For GDA," adds Tyagi, "Makanpur was at the bottom of its priority list as it focused more on Indirapuram township. So, there was virtually no civic agency to take care of Makanpur. After it became part of one of GMC's wards, things did improve, but marginally. Now that the handover of Makanpur, along with Indirapuram, has taken place, and GMC has received considerable funds from GDA as part of the handover deal, I can assure you the situation is going to change drastically. " Mayor Sunita Dayal told TOI Makanpur's development is "interlinked with Indirapuram's". "Apart from the sewer and drain problem, encroachment is a big issue. We are in the process of creating a designated vending zone, which will take care of the problem of encroachment. Since the civic issue is a major legacy problem, we will have to draw up a plan to improve the situation, which we will take up in due course."
