Rajkot: In a meeting held on Friday on road safety measures, road safety commissioner Lalit Padaliya suggested showcasing short films in accident-prone pockets on how to be safe. He further suggested the police to regulate traffic at diversion points as these points turn into sites for major accidents. According to a survey by Rajkot police, 24 percent critical accidents take place for over-speeding and wrong overtaking by violating traffic rules. Rajkot police commissioner Manoj Agrawal too asked the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) to put up appropriate signboards to avoid road accidents. The meeting voiced concern over the ongoing work of several flyovers and underpasses where diversions have been created at nearly half a dozen spots. Agrawal asked the civic body, highway authority and road and building department to put up necessary signboards, speed breakers and approach roads at 30 specific accident-prone zones.
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RAJKOT: Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) suspended Covid-19 vaccination on Wednesday on account of ‘Mamta Divas’. According to RMC officials, it was the decision of the state health department. Meanwhile, Rajkot continued to struggle with the shortage of doses.
According to RMC officials, the civic body gets about 7,600 doses of Covishield and 400 doses of Covaxin, against the city’s target to inoculate 20,000 people per day. It is expected that after July 20 the civic body will get more doses.
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Process is closed in the entire state for three days which is giving them a feeling of helplessness.
RAJKOT: The mandatory vaccination deadline for traders and factories draws nigh, but the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) is blissfully ignorant of how many staff could not be vaccinated because of shortage as it has no data. Forget data, it does not even have a category of this kind generated during the survey conducted last year on how many people were to be vaccinated!
The government defined super spreaders and mandated factories to make jabs compulsory or face closure in order to arest the spread of virus. It put a deadline of July 10 by which employees working with traders and in small scale factories in GIDC areas were told to take vaccination.
Addressing reporters, Dr. Hemang Vasavda, vice-president, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) said, “The government has failed in vaccinating maximum population. We won’t tolerate harassment to traders and daily wagers for state’s failure.”
RAJKOT: The city unit of Congress made public phone numbers for people to inform about police harassing business establishment owners and daily wagers over mandatory vaccine rule of the state government.
The government had set the deadline of June 30 for traders, vegetable vendors and other ‘super spreaders’ to take a jab or face a closure of business.
Addressing reporters, Dr. Hemang Vasavda, vice-president, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) said, “The government has failed in vaccinating maximum population. We won’t tolerate harassment to traders and daily wagers for state’s failure.”
Bhanuben Sorani, leader of opposition in RMC
RAJKOT: While the party did not garner people’s trust to run the civic body, Rajkot citizens from across city’s 18 municipal wards seem to be finding the Congress more reliable as a problem solver. No wonder than that for all their civic woes, people reach out to the opposition party’s dashboard to give voice to their grievances after they receive no sympathy from the existing helpline.
While Congress managed to get only four seats out of 72 in the last municipal elections, its dashboard, which it had started started online dashboard from June 17, has been flooded with 122 complaints in only 13 days. One such complaint from ward number 8 reads: “Builders show parking area only to get completion certificates, but thereafter construct commercial complexes there. There are many such construction in Nana Mauva area but the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) is doing nothing.”