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Delhi News Live Updates Today: Delhi LG V K Saxena has approved a proposal to forward a complaint to the CBI to probe the alleged corruption in the procurement of 1,000 low-floor buses by the DTC, official sources said on Saturday. A complaint addressed to Saxena in June this year had highlighted the appointment of the Minister of Transport as the chairman of the committee for tendering and procurement of buses by DTC in a “premeditated manner”, reports PTI.
In other news, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged state governments and the Union government to regularise the services of temporary employees, stating that the system of temporary postings is exploitative. “From the AAP, I would like to say that wherever the party forms the government, we will make temporary employees permanent, and give them their rights,” Kejriwal said. In an address on Saturday, Kejriwal pointed to the Punjab government as an example. “On September 5, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann made a big announcement, which is important not just for Punjab but for the rest of the country as well. He announced that 8,000 temporary teachers will be given permanent positions,” Kejriwal said.
In other news, a 23-year-old food delivery executive died after an SUV being driven by a Class 11 student of a prominent private school allegedly hit his motorbike at Desh Bandhu Gupta Road late Friday night, said police. Police said that after the incident, the boy and his friend, a foreign national, allegedly left the car, an MG Hector, at the spot and fled. DCP (Central) Shweta Chauhan said, “We have registered an FIR and apprehended the juvenile. The deceased was identified as Rahul Kumar, a resident of Gole Market, who works with Swiggy. He was going with his cousin to meet his friends. Further investigation is on.”
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