2 Downtown/State THE ECHO OF INDIA• SILIGURI Tuesday• February 3, 2015 Arsenic-affected village now selling packaged drinking water Uber to introduce pan India screening system Robbery in *Employs First Advantage for process broad daylight MALDA, FEB 2 /--/ A gang of dacoits broke into a house in Madhughat, Kaliachak around noon on Monday and assaulted family members before robbing them of valuables and cash. The police said the dacoits tied up the family members, assaulted them and took away Rs10 lakh in cash and around 100gm of gold and other valuables before disappearing. Malda SP Prasun Banerjee said a probe has been initiated and the police are on the lookout for the robbers. (HS) Satyabhama Adil bags Amravati Sujan Puraskar SILIGURI, FEB 2 /--/ Renowned Hindi poet Dr Satyabhama Adil has been awarded the prestigious Amravati Sujan Puraskar for the year 2014. Adil received the award from Siliguri MLA Rudranath Bhattacharya on Sunday at an event organised by the Apka Tista Himalaya magazine. The Amravati Sujan Puraskar is an annual award given for important contributions to Hindi literature. Bhattacharya said, “She (Satyabhama) is someone who has provided legendary service to the promotion of Hindi literature. I feel very honoured to present this award to a person like her.” (HS) AHRC asks govt to probe the assault on woman scribe GUWAHATI, FEB 2/--/Assam Human Rights Commission today issued notice to state Chief Secretary for instituting a probe into the reported incident of a woman journalist being assaulted by policemen here on January 31. AHRC chairperson Justice Dr Aftab H Saikia and member Tarun Phookan registered a case, taking suo moto cognizance of the news reports published in local newspapers about alleged police atrocities on the woman journalist of Guwahati-based TV Channel Dy365 and its video journalist. The AHRC directed the Chief Secretary to have the incident probed by an officer not below the rank of a Commissioner and Secretary and submit a report within 30 days. The Commission mentioned the news report that the woman journalist had gone to Latasil police station premises here on January 31 after taking permission from the officer on duty to take footage of the alleged pathetic condition of barracks and renting of police quarters to civilians. Officer-inCharge Chidananda Bora, and sub-inspector Samsuddin Ahmed assaulted her and damaged their video camera, the AHRC said quoting media reports. (PTI) KOLKATA/NEW DELHI, FEB 2/--/Uber has set out to introduce enhanced safety measures that go above and beyond industry standards and government requirements in the country. After extensive testing of multiple domestic and international vendors who specialize in background screening, today, the company is for mally unveiling its new nationwide driver screening, working with First Advantage. Across India, Uber has always partnered exclusively with commercially licensed and insured driver-partners who are required to go through multiple verifications as part of government mandated transport licensing processes. The company already has an ongoing, comprehensive re-verification process underway to ensure that all Uber driverpartners have the required police clearance and verifications, sources said. The arrangement with First Advantage brings in additional layers of screening over and above the standard transport licensing process including: address verification, a local criminal court search, and a national criminal database search, the source added. Serving more than 45,000 organizations worldwide processing over 23 million screens annually, First Advantage is a global leader in background screening. The pilot testing of the new screening process with First Advantage has been executed in recent weeks, and many thousands of driver-partners are in the process of being put through the screening and re-verification program in several cities, including Delhi, to bring the highest screening standards to Uber users around the country, company sources said. (EOIC) Siliguri-based welfare association Unity Group on Sunday visited the Fakurtala area and distributed slippers and food items to the poor on the occasion of its sixth foundation day. The association’s noble gesture of distributing as many as 100 pairs of slippers and food items lit up the faces of the recipients in gratitude and happiness. CHANGEOFNAME CHANGEOFNAME CHANGEOFNAME I, RAFIKUL ISLAM MONDAL S/ O. LATE TASIMUDDIN MONDAL R/O. 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GAIGHATA(WB), FEB 2/--/Once forced to drink arseniccontaminated ground water, residents of a remote hamlet in West Bengal near Indo-Bangla border are now purifying water from ponds and selling packaged safe drinking water to neighbouring villages. Using a new innovative technology from France, village co-operative society Madhusudankati Samabay Krishi Unnayan Samity has constructed a water purification project which converts contaminated pond water into safe drinking water. The co-operative is now supplying arsenic-free drinking water to a hundred families located in Madhusudankanti and selling it to nearby villages of North 24 Parganas district at only 50 paise per litre. "At present we are purifying and selling 2000 litres of water every day after packing it in jars and bottles. Around 200 families from outside the village are also our customers," co-operative chairman Haladhar Sharma told PTI. Labelled as 'Sulabh Jal', the project is funded and conceptualised by Sulabh International which had pioneered the Sulabh Sauchalya (Sulabh Toilets) in the country. Sulabh founder Bindeshwar Pathak said the water purification technology had been tested in Cambodia and Madagascar but is being used on a larger scale for the first time in the village. "This is the first time in the world that we have succeeded in producing pure drinking water at a very nominal cost by this new technology," he said. Located in Gaighata block, the remote village is 14 km away from Bangladesh border. The model uses a four-stage purification process using alum and UV filter to produce clean water. "Our production cost is only 30 paise while other costs like distribution, storing, manpower come to 20 paise and so we call sell it easily at 50 paise per litre in jars and bottles," Sharma said. Every day villagers come to the plant to buy the 20-litre jars of 'Sulabh Jal'. People from three nearby villages of Bishnupur, Faridkati and Teghoria too queue up to buy drinking water. For long they had no option but to drink arsenic-contaminated water from tube-wells. Surface water in ponds is free of arsenic but is not fit to drink in the absence of any water purification plant. The installation cost of the project was Rs 20 lakh, which is shared between the French organisation '1001 Fontaines', Sulabh and the villagers. Ground water in nine districts of West Bengal including North 24 Parganas has severe arsenic contamination which has affected around 16 million people in rural areas and 12 million in urban areas, said K J Nath, president of the Institution of Public Health Engineers. (PTI)
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