In Noida and other NCR region, most of the people have just moved in and they have hired the helps from local contacts or from placement agencies. While hiring from the placement agencies, people do not feel the need to verify the identity of the person which has given an advantage to the rising crimes. Noida police says residents do not realize the necessity of verification of helps. But the recent murder of a DPS school girl has raised the issue again.

The Noida police have arrested four people on Thursday claiming them as carjackers. Two country made pistols, four mobile phones and two cars has been seized from them. A police patrol van in night noticed these four men in Noida sector-63 and detained them to police station for interrogation.

The area of Noida’s prime market of sector 18 has been demolished on Wednesday to make the way for metro rail extension in the city. The authorities destroyed the Kali Charan market worth Rs.2 billion. The market is said to be illegal but the efforts to demolish it earlier go futile as the developer has taken a stay order from the Allahabad high court.

An international airport in Greater Noida will become a reality soon. Thanks to the burgeoning traffic on IGI airport, the civil aviation ministry has realized the need to construct a new structure for International airport. The ministry found that the IGI airport do not has sufficient space to handle the queues on immigration counter or in baggage check in counters. The plans of expansion are going flat in IGI airport. Therefore, the civil aviation ministry has decided to build a new international airport in Noida

The land rates have increased by 50 – 60% in Greater Noida. The Noida authority is planning to revise the rates of residential property in Greater Noida. The dream of owning a house in Noida will may end up as a dream only, as the rates are now got almost doubled. Lalit Shrivastava, Chairman Noida and Greater Noida authority, told the pressmen that the property rates have increased by 50-60% in view of the hike in land compensation.

Getting the job is becoming tough for the fresh engineering graduates. This fact is now very well known to the students. They feel themselves lucky if a company shows for the campus placement in the institutes. But even after the selection, students were asked to wait at least for next six months or for a year. A student of Noida based engineering institute said,
“I have received the offer letter from the IT company but the joining date mentioned on it is after a six months”.

From the day of inauguration the Noida expressway has claimed 45 lives and 60 serious accidents on the road. The increased rate of accidents has raised the eyebrows of the authorities to take some protective steps to control the accidents. The main reason found for the accidents is the trucks and tractors parked on the road side and the low dividers. Any car or vehicle can easily change the lane to the other side of the road which ultimately causes the collision.

The Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) found in an audit that most of the PF accounts of the employees are inaccurately reconciled. The study shows 90% of the accounts in the north zone of the country are inaccurate. Some of the employees can bet on their accounts that they are imperfect in the areas of Noida (98.26%), Gurgaon (96.05%), Chandigarh (96%) and Bhopal (93.3%).

The member of planning commission B K Chaturvedi argues that UP needs to improve the governance to attract the investors from the country. However, the planning commission has approved the Noida-Balia Ganga Expressway and also examining the proposal for International airport at Noida. But, the planning commission feels that state can grow much faster by adopting human resource based economic development program.

The Noida police have arrested four men planning to rob the cash van of a branch of ICICI bank in Sector-61 in Noida. The culprits were studying the movements of the cash van from past one week. They all are identified as Amit Singh, Sandeep Tomar, Sanjay and Deepak Tomar from Baghpat, Badhaut and Muzzafarnagar area.