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Minister Parvesh Verma pulls up ‘thick-skinned’ Delhi officers, says system was ‘destroyed’ over 10 yrs

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Minister Parvesh Verma pulls up ‘thick-skinned’ Delhi officers, says system was ‘destroyed’ over 10 yrs

New Delhi: Government officers in Delhi have become thick-skinned over the last 10 years and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government will now make them run and burn their fat, Delhi’s Public Works Department Minister Parvesh Verma said Friday. This came a day after Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta wrote to Chief Secretary Dharmendra, complaining that the officers were not even acknowledging MLAs’ calls and letters. On Friday, Verma directed the suspension of a PWD executive engineer over poor desilting of a drain in the Akshardham area in the national capital. The minister was inspecting the condition of roads and drains in certain parts of Delhi. “Sabko dauda rahe hain, mai bhi daud raha hun. Humko bhi paseena ayega aur unko bhi (We are making them run, I am running, too. We will sweat a...

Amit Shah chairs meeting to review Delhi law & order situation, coordination between new govt & police

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a crucial meeting to review the law and order situation in the national capital on Friday. Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, Delhi Home Minister Ashish Sood and senior officers from the Delhi government are present in the meeting. Besides, Union Home Secretary and IB Chief along with senior officers from the Ministry of Home Affairs joined the meeting. Show Full Article The meeting was expected to focus on strategies to enhance coordination between the newly formed Delhi government and the Delhi Police, as well as strengthen policing measures to address emerging threats to law and order in the city.Shah has been actively monitoring security situations across the country and has previously emphasised the need for...

No Delhi govt vs L-G anymore? Delhi’s new BJP govt set to review AAP’s litigations against Centre

However, with the Bharatiya Janata Party returning to power in Delhi after 27 years, these legal disputes look set to be put to rest.“It (AAP) did a few things only for politics, so those will, of course, undergo review on a case-to-case basis, and the cases will reach their natural destiny,” a highly placed source in the newly formed government told ThePrint. The legal tiff between the Delhi government and the Centre began early into the AAP’s first term in the national capital. Questions over the administrative powers of the L-G in light of the special status of Delhi as a Union Territory under the Constitution reached the Delhi High Court through a batch of petitions in 2015. These included petitions filed by the Delhi government and the Centre. The matter reached the Supreme Court, and...