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MNS:- The Special Judge for CBI Cases, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) has convicted Shri R.S. Ayer, then Branch Manager of Central Bank of India, Shahpura Branch, Distt. Bhopal(MP) and three private persons i.e. Dharmendra Parmar, Shri Sukhdev Prasad Makhija & Shri R.K.Dwivedi in a bank fraud case. R.S.Ayer, then Branch Manager was sentenced to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.1.30 lakh while other three private persons to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.50,000/- each.CBI Bhopal Branch had registered a Case against Shri R. S. Ayer, the then Branch Manager of Central Bank of India Shahpura Branch, Dist- Bhopal & others U/s 120-B r/w 420, 468, 471 of IPC & Sec. 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of PC Act, 1988 on the allegations that he had entered into Criminal Conspiracy with private persons and dishonestly & fraudulently sanctioned Housing loan to the tune of Rs. 51,77,000/-. After investigation, four charge sheets were filed on 13.07.2004 in the Court of Special Judge for CBI Cases, Bhopal against Shri R. S. Ayer, the then Branch Manager of Central Bank of India Shahpura Branch, Dist- Bhopal & others.
The Trial Court found the then Branch Manager & three private persons guilty and convicted them. One another private person died during trial.
The Special Judge for CBI Cases, Bhopal has earlier on 06.02.2013 also sentenced Shri R.S.Ayer, then Branch Manager to undergo seven years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.60,000/-, Shri M.B.Nayak, then Assistant Manager to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with a fine of Rs.40,000/-; Shri Dharmendra Parmar(Private person ) to undergo seven years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs. 70,000/- and four other private persons i.e. Shakeel Ahmed, Shri Kishan Sukhwani, Shri Rajeev Singh & Shri Kamlesh Jain, all to undergo seven years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs. 90,000/- each in this case. One private person was acquitted by the Court.
The ACMM, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi has convicted Chander Dev Prasad Mahto, then LDC, Directorate of Estate, Ministry of Urban Development, New Delhi in a forgery case and sentenced him to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.20,000/-
A case was registered on 15.06.2005 U/s 120-B, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 472 IPC against Shri Chander Dev Prasad Mahto, LDC in Directorate of Estate, Ministry of Urban Development, New Delhi ( a resident of Village Nagauli, Distt. Siwan, Bihar) on the allegation that he had obtained employment in 1983 on the basis of forged Scheduled Tribe Certificate.

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MNS:- Guwahati, February 28, 2013: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organized a regional workshop on “Energy and Resource Efficiency in Urban Water Management” here on February 28. The workshop was supported by the Urban Development Department (UDD) and the Guwahati Development Department (GDD), Government of Assam as the local partner state. The workshop is part of various activities supported under the Comprehensive Capacity Building Programme (CCBP) – National Urban Renewal Mission, Ministry of Urban Development and Government of India.
At the inaugural session, Mr Moloy Bora, joint secretary, GDD welcomed the participants representing key functionaries from water resources, public health departments, development authorities, town and country planning pollution control board and local bodies of government of Assam and other Northeast states. The government officials were both policy makers and senior officials involved in planning and implementation of NURM projects in NE states. Among the other participants were faculty and researchers from IITG, Gauhati University, professional bodies, practitioners, consultants and NGOs involved in advocacy for sustainable urban water management in North Eastern states..
Suresh Kumar Rohilla, programme director, water management, CSE presented an overview of the water and waste management in NURM phase I and the challenges in expanding the accessibility and availability of water supply and wastewater treatment to make the NE states and mission cities vibrant. He emphasized that one of the prime objective of NURM Phase II is to establish smart cities with carbon neutral and energy efficient. He set the tone of the meeting by setting out the objectives of the regional workshop as follows:
· To generate awareness about the best management practices (BMPs), state of art knowledge and reforms in the area of energy and resource efficiency in urban water management in NE states.
To discuss with key stakeholders the concept, issues/barriers and experiences in mainstreaming of the reforms in the sustainable water management area
To explore capacity building support required to implement projects aimed at mainstreaming environmental sustainability related reforms in the NURM schemes.
Hilly streams and Brahmaputra as natural resources are the identity of the Northeast regions that stretch over six Indian States – Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya. Resource and energy intensive development in practice with the rapid urbanization is resulting degradation and pollution said the Guest of Honor and Principal Secretary, Urban Development Department, Government of Assam, Mr. JB Singh. He reiterated the need for energy and resource efficient systems in the management of water and waste in NE states particularly.
The chief guest of the programme, Captain Robin Bordoloi, chairperson of the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) speaking at the workshop highlighted the challenges and potential specific to urban water management in the city of Guwahati. He added that the JnNURM Phase II focus areas require hand holding support for state agencies in developing – planning, designing of credible projects for funding from the central schemes.
There were experts from Alliance to Save Energy, Bangalore and School of Planning and Architecture, N.Delhi to talk about energy and water efficiency/ audit in water management at municipal and building levels, while expert from National Environmental Energy Research Institute, Nagpur presented an eye opening solution to treat wastewater at a low cost energy. Expert from IIT Guwahati shared ecological and energy efficient practices for storm water management.
The workshop concluded with the idea that there was a need of capacity building programmes to promote decentralised water-waste management systems and CSE definitely needs to get involved in the state programmes and train the government officials on the tools, techniques and policies on decentralised techniques of water management related to reforms of JnNURM.

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