Новости за 18.11.2016

The government’s announcement that cash exchange facility would be available at point-of-sale (POS) machines to be installed in petrol pumps brought no cheer to Noida residents. Most petrol pumps in Gautam Budh Nagar district are yet to receive any information regarding the move from the central government or bank authorities.

With the scrapping of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, the Union government’s mint in Noida has started producing 20% more coins of Rs 5 and Rs 10 denominations. The Noida mint, one of the four mints in the country, produces 40% of the coins supplied to the entire country, while the remaining 60% is done by the other three mints, located in Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai.

The ordeal continued for residents on the tenth day of demonetisation as most banks rationalised the distribution of new currency notes to accommodate more people.

A 22-year-old executive of Kotak Mahindra Bank died when a car rammed his motorcycle near the HCL roundabout in Noida’s Sector 125 on Friday morning. Gaurav Kumar bled profusely following severe head injuries in the collision.

Farmers of Greater Noida gathered at seed distribution outlets on Friday, seeking and demanding shop owners to accept old 500 and 1000 rupee notes for seeds.

Two persons were seriously injured in a blast that took place in a steel-manufacturing unit in Kavinagar Industrial area on Friday morning. According to police, the mishap took place after a hydraulic machine developed some snag leading to the bursting of pipe. Sixty one-year-old Shaukat and 44-year-old Brahmdev, who were in the vicinity, suffered burn injuries and had to be rushed to a private hospital where their condition remained serious.

In an effort to curb illegal plying of old vehicles in Noida, Ghaziabad and other NCR regions, the state government on Friday restricted the number of districts which can issue fresh NOCs to such vehicles. Now, only 37 districts, most of them in central and eastern UP, can issue the NOC. Earlier, a person could get an NOC from districts around NCR region including Gautam Budh Nagar.

Two brothers aged 10 and five have been missing from Mayacha village of Dadri area since Thursday morning. Harish, a student of Class V and his younger brother Pankaj, a student of LKG, went to the Bright Convent Academy school in the village in the morning but did not return home.

IKEA Group, the leading Swedish home furnishings company, is scouting for land in Greater Noida to set up its first showroom in north India. Representatives of the company met Deepak Agarwal, CEO, Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA), on Friday and expressed interest in setting up the facility on nearly 25 acres of land in Greater Noida.

Celebrations turned gloomy in a wedding in the city when a woman stole a bag which contained around Rs 3 lakh in the wee hours on Thursday. The woman, who was caught on CCTV camera footage of the venue, was all dressed up for the wedding.An FIR has been lodged against the woman, and police are trying to trace her.

Malti Devi came to Gurgaon from UP 10 years ago in the hope of a better life. She started work as a domestic help and earned enough to send her son to college. But the government’s demonetisation move came as a shock to her as all her savings, mostly in cash, became worthless wads of paper overnight.

With limited access to banking, plastic money and mobile wallets, the unorganised sector has borne the brunt of the government’s demonetisation drive.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is planning to install hydraulic gates on the median verge of the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway to ensure speedy rescue in case of an accident.

An alleged land scam has come to the fore in Farrukh Nagar after a government probe revealed land meant for the poor was allotted to government officials and others at Mubarikpur village.

With thousands of vacancies of teachers in government schools, Haryana has introduced a policy to re-engage retired teachers to meet the staff crunch. Under this policy, the district education department will prepare a panel of retired teachers every year to fill 25% of the sanctioned posts in each category.

The state pollution control board on Friday sent a sent closure recommendation for seven garment industrial units in the city for operating in an unauthorised area without all measures in place to counter pollution.

Old currency notes, being deposited in a huge amount at the banks, have dust and smell in them causing breathing related health problems to bank workers.