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Hindustan Times
2 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Ownership of 95 house owners of Kanshiram Awas Yojana cancelled in Prayagraj
Jun 28, 2025 05:49 PM IST Authorities have cancelled the ownership of 95 houses under the Kanshiram Awas Yojana in Devghat, Jhalwa, after an inspection found that the beneficiaries were renting out the units instead of residing in them, as mandated under the housing scheme, officials confirmed on Saturday. Probe finds houses rented out despite rules meant for homeless beneficiaries. (Sourced) The action followed a ground inspection by sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) (Sadar) Abhishek Singh on the direction of district magistrate Ravindra Kumar Mandar. The inspection revealed that in 95 out of 512 houses across 34 blocks, the original allottees were not residing and had instead rented out their homes. The matter surfaced after a poor woman approached the DM during a public hearing, stating she was landless and in desperate need of a house. Responding to her plea, the DM ordered a verification of the Kanshiram Awas Yojana beneficiaries. According to officials, such misuse directly violates the terms of the Kanshiram Awas Yojana, which aims to provide shelter to economically weaker sections who do not own property. On Friday evening, Tehsildar (Sadar) Anil Pathak directed local staff to paste notices of ownership cancellation on the gates of the affected units in Devghat Jhalwa.
Indian Express
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Indian Express
Over 100 high-res cameras, AI-system and Radar units- How NHAI's new traffic system on Dwarka Expressway aim to curb India's infamous road fatalities record
At the control room of Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) on Dwarka Expressway, a video and photo pops up on Abhishek Singh's computer monitor. Singh, a traffic operator, clicks at the 15-second video that records an SUV is passing through at the speed of 163 kilometres per hour at 8.29 am from Bharthal chowk on the expressway. The photo flashes the number plate of the vehicle. The photo and video was generated by the Incident Detection & Enforcement System (VIDES), which is one of the key component of ATMS ecosystem and is equipped with advanced sensors including Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras, overview cameras, and radar units on the Dwarka Expressway. 'These are very advanced cameras, which sends accurate visual of the violations. We check these videos and photos, which is created by the AI-powered system from 8 to 10 frames, to make sure that there is no error in the violations. The cameras are right at 90 percent times,' said Singh, as he forwards the violations, after auditing, to the NIC for further action by district authorities. The ATMS on Dwarka Expressway, which became operational from April this year, is the first project to be implemented as per the upgraded policy of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) issued in October 2023, which mandates the use of advancements in AI technology and new cameras for enforcement of traffic rules. The project is being implemented through Indian Highways Management Company Limited (IHMCL), a company promoted by NHAI. The new system bridges the gap between district traffic police and the highway authority, and share the camera feed to check violations, issue challans and reduce incident response time. The share of National Highways in fatalities is more than 35 per cent, while only making up about two per cent of the total road length. The ATMS project on Dwarka Expressway spans a total length of 56.46 km —covering entire stretch of 28.46 km along Dwarka Expressway and another 28 km on the Delhi–Gurgaon stretch of NH-48 from Shiv Murti on NH-8 in Delhi to Kherki Daula Toll Plaza in Gurgaon. The total cost of the project is Rs. 16.7 crore. The ATMS mandates the installation of key five systems- Traffic Monitoring Camera System (TMCS), Video Incident Detection and Enforcement System (VIDES), Vehicle Actuated Speed Display (VASD) System, Variable Message Sign (VMS) and Optical Fiber Cable based networking. The TMCS enables 24-hours live surveillance of traffic flow, stalled vehicles, and accidents. For this, a total of 110 high-resolution PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) cameras have been installed at the interval of 1 km, covering the full corridor of the expressway. This reduces the need for manual monitoring load and helps in post-incident investigations. To record the violations, the VIDES have been installed at every 10 km, primarily at high-risk zones and accident-prone areas. The system is capable of detecting 14 types of incidents, including over-speeding, two-wheeler or banned vehicle, wrong-lane driving, triple riding, seat-belt violations, and helmet violations. NHAI officials said that a total of 15 VIDES gantry have been installed on the complete stretch. This has been integrated with NIC e-Challan platform, so that respective police department can issue challan at their end. VIDES also helps in real-time traffic data collection. Under the ATMS on Dwarka Expressway, a total of six Vehicle Actuated Speed Display System or VASD has been installed at the interval of almost 20 km for speed awareness, using radar-based detection on LED boards. Officials said that a total of 10 VMS has been installed at the expressway for the smart communication with Commuters. Placed at key locations, including project entries, exits, blackspots, and junctions, VMS provides real-time updates on traffic conditions, diversions, weather, and incidents. AR Chitranshi, the Chief Operating Officer (COO), IHMCL, said that on an average 800 incidents per day are being sent to NIC for e-Challan. 'We are providing back end support to the challaning authority. We monitor the complete stretch of the expressway, get the details of every violations and then send cases to NIC where challan can be issued. NIC further share information to the district police, who re-audit the incidents and issue challan accordingly,' said Chitranshi to The Indian Express. He further said that for road users, ATMS will ensure safer roads by timely incident management, reducing accidents, easing congestion, and proactive traffic management. 'The major violations that we have seen so far is over speeding, plying of two-wheeler, which is prohibited, seatbelt and helmet violations,' said the official. Before, Dwarka Expressway, the old version of ATMS was implemented on 117-km Bangalore-Mysuru Expressway in Karnataka in July, 2024. Built at the cost of Rs. 3.6 crore, the system brought down fatalities from 188 in 2023 to 50 deaths in 2024. The similar standalone projects are under construction on 180-km Delhi-Agra Corridor in Uttar Pradesh, 75-km UER-II in Delhi and 103-km lucknow ring road in UP. Apart from this, In new national highway projects on high density and high-speed corridors of NHAI, installation of ATMS has been made part of the project. Dheeraj Mishra is a Principal correspondent with The Indian Express, Business Bureau. He covers India's two key ministries- Ministry of Railways and Ministry of Road Transport & Highways. 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Time of India
6 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
IndiaAI plan moves forward with over 17,000 GPUs successfully installed
Live Events A little over 17,300 graphics processing units (GPUs) have been successfully installed under the IndiaAI Mission 's ambitious compute infrastructure tender, which has received proposals for 34,333 GPUs across its first two rounds, people aware of the developments told was revealed at a meeting IndiaAI CEO Abhishek Singh held with all empanelled cloud service providers (CSPs) last week to review GPU installation progress, their integration with the IndiaAI compute portal, and allocation of GPU time to end mission seeks to build a scalable cloud computing platform for researchers and startups to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. The third round of bidding has already concluded and the proposals are awaiting technical of the ten CSPs selected in the first round — Jio Platforms and CtrlS Datacenters — are yet to deploy their GPUs, while providers like Yotta, NextGen, and E2E Networks have made significant headway in installing and commissioning GPUs, people cited above IndiaAI Mission flagged this at the review meeting on June 16. However, the companies have time till August 7 to install GPUs, they per the agreement, companies were to install the GPUs within six months from the issue of the letter of intent, which was sent on February a presentation at the review meeting, the IndiaAI team said CtrlS had not confirmed GPU installation although it shared purchase orders. CtrlS had also not started the API integration with the compute portal.'We are in discussions with the department to address the timelines and ensure we fulfil our commitment,' CtrlS told ET in a statement. It claimed it has 'completed the portal integration'.Jio, meanwhile, was in the process of procuring 752 Nvidia H200 GPUs and 268 AMD MI300X GPUs, according to the IndiaAI presentation. Its API integration with the compute portal was ongoing and was expected to be completed by the third quarter of did not respond to ET's request for comment until press time gave the cabinet approval for the Rs 10,000-crore IndiaAI Mission in March last year, with a target of procuring over 10,000 part of the mission, the government is also incentivising the development of local large language models (LLMs) built by startups like Sarvam, Gnani, Gan, and Soket AI Labs with investment capital and other support. The move is aimed at building up India's AI prowess. Yotta Data Services , the highest GPU-contributing company in the lot, has almost 50% of its GPUs installed and the delivery of the rest of its GPUs is awaited. Its API integration is complete.'We are installing and commissioning and going live with an additional 4,096 Nvidia H100 GPUs by July 10,' Sunil Gupta, chief executive of Yotta, told had got allocation from IndiaAI for 4,096 Nvidia H100 GPUs for Sarvam's LLM and 200 Nvidia H100 GPUs for Bhashini in early May to drive inferencing on all its language models.'We have already delivered 1,504 Nvidia H100 GPUs to Sarvam along with an additional 108 as a redundant buffer, and 200 Nvidia H100 GPUs to Bhashini as on May 31 last month,' Gupta remaining 2,592 Nvidia H100 GPUs are being delivered to Sarvam by July 10 next month, he GPUs are under commissioning and performance testing by Nvidia and Yotta engineering teams, at its data centre in Navi Mumbai, before they're the second round of empanelment, the company offered and has been empanelled for 8,192 Nvidia B200 GPUs (Blackwell GPUs).NxtGen Cloud Technologies has installed 51% of its total proposed GPUs. The remaining 49% of GPUs are under procurement, and the company expects delivery by June 30. Its API integration with the compute portal has been completed for the installed GPUs.'The demand for the Nvidia platform outweighs other options at the moment. We will be finetuning our next phase of deployment in favour of newer models from Nvidia,' AS Rajgopal, chief executive of NxtGen, told ET.'We understand that the IndiaAI Mission will take a little while to gather momentum,' he said. 'We continue to work with Nvidia, AMD and Intel to build the market. There are multiple other options emerging, specifically to run models efficiently for inference. We will be introducing three more options going forward.'Cyfuture has installed 4% GPUs while the rest 96% are under procurement. Its API integration is also under process.'We've been empanelled only a few days back and we're confident of installing committed quantities within one quarter,' Anuj Bairathi, chief executive of Cyfuture India, told ET. 'We also expect integration with the India AI portal to be completed by July.'Cyfuture emerged as L1 bidder in all categories it offered in the second round of bidding, Bairathi noted. 'Since no other companies have so far matched our pricing, we stand a chance to get the business once our installation is completed within the next three months,' he Orient, Tata Communications, Ishan, Sify, Netmagic and the IndiaAI Mission did not respond to ET's requests for a press release on June 12, Ishan had said it will offer access to over 1,000 high-performance GPUs.
Time of India
17-06-2025
- Science
- Time of India
Model rocket launch trials in Kushinagar inspire students ahead of national competition
Lucknow: It was a distinctive experience for locals, particularly kids, in a Kushinagar village this weekend when the skies witnessed successful test trials of model rocket launch systems. The launch forms the part of the preparatory phase for a national competition to be held in Kushinagar in Oct-Nov, where over 100 student-built rocket models will be launched, said officials. Conducted by the Astronautical Society of India (ASI), the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe), and the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), these tests were designed to validate the rocket launcher developed by a private company-- Thrust Tech India Pvt Ltd. According to Isro scientist Abhishek Singh, the trials were conducted to qualify the above private company to deliver the rockets and motor. The weight of the model rocket was 15 kg and it soared to 1km. "The trial launches were aimed to test the suitability of the launch site and other requirements such as safety margins, communication range, area recovery conditions, etc. The parameters of the launcher have met the competition requirement," Singh said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Complete protection with iPru All-in-one Term Plan ICICI Pru Life Insurance Plan Get Quote Undo He added that the rockets for the finals are being designed and developed by the student teams from across the country. A team of experts from IN-SPACe and ISRO is reviewing the design. Kushinagar district magistrate Mahendra Singh Tawar said an MoU was signed between ASI, IN-SPACe, and the district administration, Kushinagar, for providing local/administrative support during this event. "The model rocket launch ahead of the national contest will definitely add wings to the imagination of young minds who are in the field of space sciences," he told TOI. The competition is aligned with IN-SPACe's mission to promote private sector involvement, public awareness and STEM education in India's space sector. They provide hands-on experience, bridging theoretical knowledge with practical skills, and prepare students for careers in aerospace. Deoria MP Shashank Mani Tripathi has been instrumental in bringing the model rocketry competition to a small village, Rakba Jangal Patti Sevrahi, Tamkuhi Raj, Kushinagar.
Time of India
17-06-2025
- Time of India
Muzaffarnagar cops return 235 lost, stolen phones
Agra: When hundreds of Muzaffarnagar residents, mostly daily wagers, gathered at the police lines on Tuesday at the district police's invitation, they had no idea they'd get their lost or stolen smartphones back. A total of 235 mobile phones, recovered over the past few months, were returned to their rightful owners. Valued at an estimated Rs 48-50 lakh, the devices were recovered through digital tracking by police's surveillance and Special Operations Group (SOG) teams. SSP Sanjay Kumar Verma said the phones had gone missing under various circumstances — during train journeys, weddings, processions. Across India, police have increasingly been using the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) portal, developed by the department of telecommunications, to track and block lost phones. Once reported on CEIR, a lost phone is blacklisted, making it unusable and traceable if reconnected to a network. In Muzaffarnagar, residents were not told the reason for the gathering, resulting in emotional scenes as they spotted their long-lost phones displayed on tables. "I bought this phone after saving money. I was devastated when it was stolen from me while I was walking home. I never imagined I'd get it back. I thank the police for recovering it," said one recipient. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like What She Did Mid-Air Left Passengers Speechless medalmerit Learn More Undo As recognition for the recovery operation, the SSP announced a Rs 20,000 cash reward for the police teams involved. A similar initiative was conducted last Aug, when Muzaffarnagar Police's surveillance cell returned 214 phones, worth around Rs 41 lakh, to their owners. That operation had been launched by then SSP Abhishek Singh and led by SP (City) Satyanarayan Prajapat. Phones reported lost over four months were tracked and retrieved through sustained digital surveillance. According to data from the CEIR portal, over 1.9 lakh devices were blocked and more than 1.2 lakh handsets were traced in Uttar Pradesh, while police have so far successfully retrieved 31,545 devices. Across the country, over 4.6 lakh phones have been recovered so far, with Telangana Police leading with 82,265 recoveries.
