NOIDA: The Noida Authority will start work on four parks in the city soon.
The projects have been delayed because of the lockdown and are now likely to pick up pace, officials said.
Ved Van in Sector 78 will be built at a cost of Rs 28 crore. The park will come up on 12 acre. A dog park is being planned near Sector 137 and the project will cost Rs 3.5 crore. A children’s park will be developed near Shilp Haat, Sector 33, and it will cost Rs 8 crore. A waste-to-wonder park from recycled plastic and wood is being planned at Kalindi Kunj.
Officials said the details are being worked out and a proposal will be submitted to the authority soon.
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NOIDA: A candidate for the zila panchayat polls allegedly fired upon cops when a police team raided his house in Dadri on information that he was in possession of illicit liquor supposed to be distributed to voters.
Police said Mukesh Gurjar, who is contesting the local zila panchayat member polls, opened fire as soon as he spotted cops outside his house in Nangla Nainsukh village on Sunday.
Dadri SHO Rajvir Singh told TOI, “He was spotted outside the house, but he got alarmed and fired one gunshot before escaping. An FIR is being lodged against him. Mukesh has a criminal history, and is wanted in cases of causing hurt and under the Arms Act.”
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GREATER NOIDA: To regulate entry of visitors to its office, GNIDA is gradually shifting its working to the online mode. The authority has asked residents and allottees to file all applications and service requests online from May 1.
Officials said that 203 services have already been digitised and will be offered through the web portal. The authority had started switching to paperless working from September last year. Having created an enterprise resource planning management software, the authority had started disposing applications submitted through its web portal and mobile app in a time-bound manner.
It has created 10 broad verticals property, planning, health, water and sewerage, electricity, transportation, maintenance, 6% abadi plots, drinking water and general under which over 200 types of services will be offered.
Noida: Gautam Budh Nagar district magistrate on Monday recommended to the director general of medical education and training, Lucknow, to provide 340 additional Covid beds for Sharda Hospital. This is in addition to the 380 beds notified for the facility last month. Apart from that, 200 Covid beds will be added at the Noida International Institute of Medical Sciences (NIIMS), officials said.
Currently, the district has two government Covid facilities 250-bed Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS), Greater Noida, and 168-bed Noida Covid Hospital (NCH), Sector 39. While GIMS has an 80-bed ICU, NCH has 38 ICU beds. NCH also has 200 additional beds on standby. Both hospitals currently have an occupancy rate of 85-90% and with more patients seeking hospitalisation, officials said, efforts are on to prepare additional beds.
Ghaziabad: To register their protests over the pathetic condition of arterial roads in Indirapuram’s Ahimsa Khand 2, some residents took out a march i.