Fire Mishap at Pachanady Dumping Yard: Night long operation undertaken to extinguish fire
Mangaluru: In an incident that occurred on Sunday night, a fire mishap in the dumping yard in Pachanady prompted the fire service department to undertake a night-long operation to extinguish the fire. While the garbage heaps in the site burned to the ground, no other life-threatening damages have occurred in the surrounding areas, it is learned.
Reportedly, the fire was spotted around 7 pm at the dumping yard. Although the reasons for the fire have not yet been determined, speculations have been made that it could either be a result of a short circuit in the area or the work of delinquents who may have lit the garbage heap. Due to the fire mishap, reportedly, the areas surrounding Pachanady were covered in thick smoke causing problems to the locals.
It has also been learned that the fire extinguishing operation had been delayed due to the unavailability of service staff who were on leave on the account of it being Sunday. As a result, the fire had spread even further, rendering the extinguishing operation to carry on till 3 am, eyewitnesses revealed.
Along with the staff from the fire brigade services, 4-5 JCBs were also involved in the operation to put out the fire. It is said that, if the extinguishing operations had delayed any further, the fire could have spread into the houses situated nearby.
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Count of voters in Gujarat drops by 73.73 lakh to 4.34 crore post-SIR
Ahmedabad (PTI): The names of nearly 74 lakh voters have been dropped from Gujarat's draft electoral rolls after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, pegging the total count of electors at 4.34 crore as against the 5.08 crore earlier, an official said on Friday.
The draft electoral rolls were published here by the Election Commission on Friday.
A total of 73.73 lakh voters were omitted from the electoral rolls after the exercise initiated by the EC to clean the rolls, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Hareet Shukla said.
"Before the publication of the draft electoral rolls, a total of 5,08,43,436 voters were registered in the state. After the publication of these rolls, the number of voters is now 4,34,70,109," he said.
"During the SIR campaign, the names of a total of 73,73,327 voters have been removed from the draft electoral roll," Shukla said.
The names of voters in following categories were deleted in the draft electoral rolls -- deceased voters (18,07,278), absent voters (9,69,662), voters who have permanently migrated (40,25,553), voters registered in two places (3,81,470) and others (1,89,364), a release from CEO office said.
The SIR exercise began in Gujarat on November 4 and ended on December 14.
After the publication of draft rolls, objections and claims regarding them can be submitted to authorities till January 18, the EC earlier said.
