Pawan Dixit has been a journalist for over a decade. He has extensively covered eastern UP for around five years, covered 2012 UP assembly polls, 2014 Lok Sabha polls while being stationed in Varanasi. Now, in Lucknow, he covers outstation political assignments, reports special cases from district court, high court and state information commission
Articles by Pawan Dixit
Extra power: Boon for people, bane for Kesco
THE PEOPLE of Kanpur have at last got some respite from power woes but this relief to the citizens has brought acute discomfort to Kanpur Electricity Supply Company (Kesco) officials.
Published on Jun 15, 2006 12:02 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
KESCo call centre: Too busy to be true
DIAL THE special telephone number 1912 allotted to the KESCo call centre and the response is an engaged tone. Try it any number of times but the response is the same. Like several other projects of KESCo, the call centre opened by it with much fanfare has also proved to be a damp squib.
Published on Jun 13, 2006 12:02 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
CPMT: City boy bags IIIrd spot
ADDING TO its long list of toppers, the Kanpur city basked in the glory of yet another achievement. Om Prakash Yadav brought laurels to the city by securing third position in the CPMT examination, the results of which were declared today.
Published on Jun 05, 2006 12:38 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
Notorious five get a taste of public anger
THE GANG of five brothers who on Tuesday carried on the bonnet of their moving vehicle circle officer Chowk (Lucknow) Rajesh Sahni in full public view happen to be notorious residents of New Azad Nagar, Kalyanpur. Once the Lucknow police proved false the gang?s claim to political connections, residents of their locality threw out all their belongings from the house they had rented from Akhilesh Tripathi. They had not once paid the rent in last four years.
Published on Jun 01, 2006 12:06 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
RMS pile-up may cost students dear
ARE YOU waiting for your admit card to arrive? It may be lying unsorted with the Railway Mail Service (RMS) at the Kanpur Central Railway station. The reason: Staff shortage.
Published on May 27, 2006 12:25 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
No salary for DIL workers since Jan
THE WORKERS of the Duncan Industries Limited (DIL) are suffering due to the non-payment of salaries since January 2006. After the closure of the plant on October 18, 2005, both the workers and the executives of the company were given salaries till December 2005. But from January 2006 onwards DIL management had stopped the payment of salaries on grounds of financial crisis.
Published on Apr 19, 2006 12:07 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
Recovery notice to industrial house cost KESCo MD his post
EFFORTS MADE by KESCo managing director Sudhir Garg to realise pending electricity dues from a top industrial house cost him his chair and, in turn, gave a severe jolt to the power company.
Published on Apr 12, 2006 01:21 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
KESCo notice goes in vain
KESCO?S EXERCISE of sending notice to the Duncan Industries Limited (DIL) to snap power supply on March 31 went in vein. Despite the notice, the power company was not able to snap power supply of DIL?s fertilizer plant at Panki today. According to sources, KESCo was all set to take the wind out of Duncans? sail, but the power that be in the state capital came to the rescue of the fertiliser giant at the eleventh hour.
Published on Apr 01, 2006 12:49 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
KESCo notice may hit DIL revival plan
WILL KESCO?S notice to the Duncan Industries Limited (DIL) prove to be the last nail in the revival plan of the fertilizer plant? KESCo managing director Sudhir Garg has sent a notice to the DIL management to submit pending electricity bill of Rs 3.85 crore for the current month by March 29 or else the power supply to the plant would be snapped by March 31.
Published on Mar 29, 2006 12:38 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
Duncan up for sale, contenders line up
THAT DUNCAN Industries Limited is up for sale is a by-gone conclusion. But who?s buying it? The answer lies in negotiations between DIL owners and some key players in the fertiliser business. The decision to sell-off DIL was taken after all efforts of the management failed to resume production after its last closure on October 18, 2005.
Published on Mar 25, 2006 12:13 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
LML declares lockout, staff protest
ON TUESDAY, two-wheeler maker LML declared lockout at its Kanpur plant. Though the LML management has cited labour unrest for the step, the employees? union of company Lohia Machine Karamchari Sangh blamed it on the financial crisis.
Published on Mar 08, 2006 12:41 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
Deadline over, KMC yet to finish probe
EVEN AFTER passing of the deadline on Saturday, an inquiry set up by the DM and administrator of Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC) Deepak Kumar into the alleged misappropriation of Rs 7.5 crore, could not be completed.
Published on Feb 26, 2006 12:50 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
Naptha price hike hits Duncan?s restart
THE INCREASED cost of Naphtha is proving to be a major hurdle in the resumption of production at the Panki-based fertilizer plant of Duncan Industries Limited (DIL).
Published on Feb 18, 2006 12:33 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
For them one daily meal is a luxury
Revelries of Republic Day have no meaning for the destitute sons of freedom fighters who have been shunned away by the State and Central governments. During the pre-Independence era, these sons of lesser God were deprived of their due affection and parental care as their fathers were lodged behind bars in the freedom struggle.
Updated on Feb 20, 2013 06:50 PM IST
None | Pawan Dixit/Gaurav Tripathi, Kanpur
Restructuring of Duncan subsidy issue resolved
THE LONG overdue restructuring of the subsidy of Duncan Fertilizer Industry has now been resolved with the Fertilizer Industry Coordination Committee (FICC) announcing new fixed price for Chand Chap Urea. Much to the relief of Duncan Fertilizer, the FICC has fixed Rs 16,328 plus the sales tax as per ton cost of production of the urea produced at the Panki plant. The revised subsidy to the fertilizer plant will now be calculated on the basis of the new price fixed by the FICC. This was the issue which resulted in re-closure of plant on October 18, 2005.
Published on Jan 25, 2006 12:30 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
ATC losses cause of concern for KESCo
THE DISMAL power scenario of the city would continue as the Aggregate Technical and Commercial (ATC) losses of KESCo are mounting with each passing day. In the current fiscal, the ATC loss in the month of September was almost the same as compared to the preceding year. The ATC loss in September this fiscal was 46.92 per cent while it was 46.09 per cent in the previous year.
Published on Jan 23, 2006 12:34 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
More documentary film makers are needed
SOCIETY NEEDS more entrepreneurs to produce documentary films, to cater to the needs of a vast section of short film lovers. This was stated by noted documentary filmmaker and one of the members of ?Film For Freedom?- Action Platform Kavita Joshi while talking to the Hindustan Times.
Published on Jan 13, 2006 12:24 AM IST
None | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
?Know Your Army? exhibition
THE FIRST ever arms exhibition ? Know Your Army ? in the city enthralled Kanpurites who got the rare opportunity to have a close look at the paraphernalia of the infantry and state of the art communnication system of the Army.
Published on Jan 11, 2006 12:34 AM IST
PTI | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
KESCo claims prove to be pack of lies
TALL CLAIMS made by KESCo for improving power supply in the city for its 4.25 lakh consumers proved a pack of lies. For the entire 2005, the city reeled under acute power crisis and even violent demonstrations by enraged masses could not improve the dismal power scenario in the city. Be it the festival of lights Diwali, Eid or Christmas, Kanpurites could get no respite from the power crisis. The pathetic scenario could be gauged by the fact that even the court order to regularise rostering in the city proved futile. The prestigious Rs 93 crore APDRP project undertaken to improve power distribution system in the city failed to take off.
Published on Dec 31, 2005 12:06 AM IST
PTI | Pawan Dixit, Kanpur
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