New Delhi: Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Wednesday expressed concern over cleanliness and the quality of food served in trains and at stations and urged zonal managers to regularly monitor the situation.
"He also asked senior officers to pay attention to punctuality of trains and safety of the network," said an official after the minister reviewed the functioning of the railways with zonal general managers in Delhi.
According to officials, the minister said that quality of the food served in trains should be good and the catering complaint number 1800111321 should be popularised for quick redressal of grievances.
Bansal urged managers to minimise human error, which sometimes leads to accidents, and said that reasons should be ascertained and corrective measures taken for training and counselling staff....
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04:05 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Amitabh Bachchan launched The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation's virtual classroom facility and cleanliness drive. After inaugurating the expansion of the virtual classroom facility aimed at providing education to over 400 civic schools in Mumbai and distributing iron tablets as a part of an anti-malnutrition campaign, Amitabh Bachchan pledged his support to the cause of a clean Mumbai through BMC's latest clean up drive. ...
10:42 AM, Jan 24, 2013
The next time you spend a holiday at a hotel, do not order food in bed. A new study says a bathroom is actually the most hygienic place to eat in most hotel rooms. ...
09:50 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Bangalore: Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy said on Thursday that the BBMP needs at least three to six months to solve the garbage crisis in the city. Speaking to reporters, he said the civic body is taking all steps to clear the garbage piling up across the city. "We are setting up biomethane plants in 16 out of the total 198 wards. Tenders have been finalised and the work order has...
12:20 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Chennai: When the Health Minister said that he would ensure that he cleaned up every state-run hospital in Tamil Nadu, even if it meant inspecting every one of them personally, he certainly wasnt speaking in jest. Continuing his clean-up drive, Dr V S Vijay visited the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (IOG), which is attached to the Madras Medical College, and conducted his fourth surprise inspection in the past few...
02:10 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Bangalore: Even though the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) managed to clear garbage from many areas on Sunday, tonnes of garbage remained spewed across some of the main markets. The garbage disposal comes in the wake of Mayor D Venkatesh Murthys promise on Friday to clear the garbage within 72 hours. The City Market, Yeshwantpur Market, Gandhi Bazaar Market, Russell Market, Madiwala and Marathahalli Markets had very little garbage collection....
12:37 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: With the heavy downpour worsening the garbage problem in the city, the City Corporation remains clueless on a solution. The Corporation is now burying the waste on vacant lands under its possession. We are burying the waste mainly on our land on the Chalai bypass. However, it cannot be carried out for long, said Deputy Mayor G Happykumar. He also said that the Corporation was yet to receive any...
05:56 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Chennai: Almost every State-run hospital underwent a mass cleaning exercise that left them almost unrecognizable, a day after the Chief Minister directed hospitals to increase the standards of hygiene. On Wednesday, squads of staff, conservancy workers and exterminators combed the premises of the major hospitals and ensured that they were animal-free zones. The Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital, where a childs disfigured body sparked uproar on Monday, looked the best of...
02:12 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: With the festival season adding to the capitals garbage woes, the largest trash dump in the city limits is raising a hellish stink again. Much to the dismay of the people living nearby, the City Corporation has resumed the dumping of garbage on a roughly six-acre plot and its environs lying next to Chalai on the Attakulangara-Killipalam Bypass. Truck-loads of waste, mainly from the nearby Chalai market, are being...
04:21 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Bangalore: The BBMP has cleared most of the garbage piled in the city on Sunday, but is yet to start sanitisation of places where garbage was dumped to get rid of the stink and mosquito menace. The BBMP ferried 900 truckloads (about 5,200 tonnes) of garbage on Sunday and is hoping to clear the rest in a day or two. Sources said about 5,000 tonnes of garbage still needs to...
02:39 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Bangalore: Bangaloreans have to live with the stench for another three days as Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has said it cannot find a solution to the problem of clearing garbage before Monday. The uncleared garbage on city streets is also likely to pose health problems, particularly after the heavy rains on Thursday evening. Doctors said if the garbage is not cleared within two days, dengue will become rampant. Tonnes...
12:22 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Hyderabad: As many as 400 students came out onto the streets near Sanjeevaiah park in the city, and all they asked for was a cleaner Hussain Sagar Lake. Echoing similar views, slogans raised at the event said, We want stench free, colourless water in this lake, this being one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. They were part of a walk organised by Electronics & Mechanical Engineering (EME)...
01:46 PM, Jul 30, 2012
Chennai: The Chennai Corporation administration has committed itself to a number of steps aimed at making the city free of encroachments. Mayor Saidai S Duraisamy assured a meeting of the Corporation Council that the civic body would spare no effort in clearing the Marina Beach of encroachments and also crackdown on colleges in the extended areas of the Corporation that did not have the requisite planning permission of the CMDA....
01:22 PM, Jun 21, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: New-found fame notwithstanding, the Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple today stands at the wrong end of the garbage crisis faced by the capital city. The roads immediately surrounding the old temple have become stinking garbage dumps with waste collection coming to a standstill owing to the Vilappilsala crisis. Local people as well as shops and establishments in the neighbourhood are dumping wastes by the tonnes every day in the locality....
11:28 AM, May 16, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A peaceful Sunday it should have been; but Mayor K Chandrika received the shock of her life early in the day when she saw how a mammoth march had reduced the main stretch at Palayam and the Chandrasekharan Nair stadium into a dump yard. Bottles, thousands of them, plastic glasses, covers, paper plates, left-over foodstuff, packets of snacks and what not, abandoned in the street and stadium after the...
11:30 AM, Apr 30, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation on Thursday opened its pre-monsoon cleaning drive, but is in a quandary over the disposal of the collected waste. Reason - all the areas that were designated by the Corporation after December for burying garbage have hit the saturation point. The State Government has not responded to a request by the Corporation that government plots be released for garbage burial.Meanwhile, Mayor K Chandrika said the Corporation...
11:27 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Visited by thousands everyday and a symbol of courage and pride of the Indian soldiers, the famous India Gate is badly in need of a ...
06:15 PM, Apr 18, 2012
CHENNAI:If residents treat the city as they treat their own home, a chunk of problems can be solved, said Mayor of Chennai Corporation, Saidai SDuraisamy. Speaking at the inauguration of the Raja Annamalai PuramResidents Welfare Association here on Sunday, he said that thecleanliness of their surrounding was in their hands. After having stated that the Chennai Corporation lacked basicfacilities when he and his team took up office, the Mayor added...
08:26 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Singapore: Squeaky-clean Singapore needs cleaner toilets and public awareness is one way to achieve this, a civic group said at the launch of the latest stage of its LOO campaign -- Let's Observe Ourselves. The city-state has 30,000 public restrooms and is pushing to make 70 percent of them at least "three-star" clean by 2013. But a survey by the Restroom Association (Singapore) (RAS) found that only some 500 of...
02:11 PM, Dec 20, 2010
Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board has said it would give credibility to the report about match-fixing in a British newspaper only if the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit took up the issue and contacted it. The Sunday Times, in its report, quoted a bookmaker making big claims about how he had fixed matches, including the 2011 World Cup semi-final between India and Pakistan. The report only becomes creditable to us...
08:26 PM, May 02, 2008
