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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.
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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)