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The Dynamic Daily Newspaper of Navi Mumbai
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
VOL. 14 • ISSUE 132 RNI No. MAHEN/2007/21778 POSTAL REGN. No.
NMB/154/2020-22/VASHI MDG POST OFFICE
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By Crime Reporter Navi Mumbai
Nerul police have suc-ceeded in arresting a burglar against whom
22 cases of burglary have
been registered in the Navi Mumbai and Thane Police
Commissioner-ates. With his arrest, the police are hopeful that
several cases of burglary
will be unearthed. The accused, Kisan
Mahadev Vhankore, a native of Wagdari vil-
Burglar involved in 22 theft cases nabbed
NMMC chief holds special meetingThe commissioner
of the Navi Mumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation, Ab-hijit Bangar held
a spe-cial meeting to discuss various sanitation works that need to
be carried out for 'Swachh Survey 2021'…
(More on page 4)Overdue salaries of State Transport
employees to be given before Diwali: Trans-
port Minister“The entire over-
due salaries of the ST employees, which has been pending for the
last three months will be paid before Diwali”, assured Transport
Min-ister Adv. Anil Parab
(More on page 7)Glass panes of 25
parked auto-rickshaws smashed
The glass panes of about 25 to 30 parked auto-rickshaws on
pri-vate land in the Digha area were smashed on Monday morning.
Ra-bale MIDC police have registered a case against an unidentified
group
(More on page 3)Covid-19: four test
positive in Uran taluka On Tuesday (No-
vember 10), 4 patients tested positive for Covid-19, taking the
tally in Uran Taluka to 2122. A total of 1966 patients have been
discharged. 44 corona positive pa-tients are undergoing treatment
and 112 co-rona positive patients have died till date, said Uran
Tehsildar Bhausa-heb Andhare.
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With his arrest many burglary cases are likely to be
uncovered
By Pranab Jyoti BhuyanNavi Mumbai
The daily commut-ers of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation
(NMMT) buses are miffed as the transport authority is not taking
care of their buses before running them on the city roads.
Different issues such as dirty and dam-aged seats, missing
window panes, broken doors among others have been annoying the
commuters for a long time. They com-plain that due to such issues,
they are unable to enjoy smooth trav-elling even as they are
paying exorbitantly for the tickets.
Sheetal Kamble, a
resident of Nerul said, “First of all, the NMMT takes no effort
to clean
the seats of their buses. You will see a thick lay-er of dust on
almost all
the seats. The seats are
Poorly maintained NMMT buses irk
daily commuters By Pranab Jyoti BhuyanNavi Mumbai
Kharghar is the first residential area which was declared as a
‘dry zone’ in the city of Navi Mumbai. Tak-ing the views of the
lo-cal residents into con-sideration, the district administration
has not allowed a single wine shop there till date.
This ban put on the wine shops, however, is hardly serving any
purpose as a number of villagers are illegally selling liquor at
differ-ent places of the town. According to the local residents,
such unli-censed wine shops are prevalent in every nook and corner
of sector 32, and 35 of the node.
Dharmendra Sutar, a resident said, “Some residents of Owepeth
gaon of sector 32, and Owa gaon and Papdi cha Pada of sector 35,
have been selling liquor as their traditional busi-ness for last
many years. They transport the li-quor from various parts of Mumbai
and distrib-ute among themselves. Generally they use
small cars like Innova and Sumo for transport-ing the liquor at
night.”
“You will find as many as five liquor shops only in Owepeth
gaon. Apart from the premi-um wines, homemade liquor is also
available in their shops. People
from outside Kharghar also come for purchas-ing liquor from
them. We are sure, Kharghar police are also aware of it,” he
added.
Manoj Mane, a social activist said, “Kharghar has been a
liquor-free zone since it was de-veloped by the City and Industrial
Development Corporation (CIDCO) in early 1970s. A wine shop was
opened here in 2007, but all the resi-dents raised their voices
against it and conse-quently it had to be
Liquor is being sold in Kharghar
illegally, say residentsAlthough a ‘dry zone’, a number of
villagers
are selling liquor in Kharghar, allege residents
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By Chandrashekhar HendveMumbai
Khadi and Village In-dustries Commis-sion (KVIC), this year, for
the first time, decid-ed to sell diyas to online and through stores
to become foot soldiers of the Prime minister's vi-sion of Vocal
for Local. KVIC launched online sale of Diyas on Octo-ber 8, and in
less than a month, nearly 10,000 diyas have already been sold
online. Huge de-mand for Khadi’s clay diyas was seen from the very
first day of its launch and In less than 10 days, a majority of
designer diyas were completely sold out.
Following this, KVIC launched new sets of de-signer diyas that
are also in huge demand. The sale of di-yas is further rising with
Diwali inching closer.
KVIC has launched 8 types of designer di-yas that are priced
nomi-nally between Rs 84 and Rs 108 for a set of 12 pieces. KVIC is
also of-fering a discount of 10% on these diyas. KVIC potters have
expressed happiness that they are earning Rs 2 to Rs 3 on sale of
every diya. Khadi’s designer diyas are available at
www.khadiindia.gov.in.
KVIC is also sell-ing diyas and other clay items such as
Laxmi-Ganesh idols and other decoratives through its outlets in
Delhi and other cities. These idols are being made by pot-ters in
Varanasi, Rajas-than, Haryana and other states and are fetching
good income for the pot-ters. Diyas, on the other hand, is being
procured from KVIC units in Pokharan in Jaisalmer and Rawatsar in
Hanu-mangarh district in Ra-
jasthan. Over 10,000 di-yas have also been sold through various
Khadi outlets.
KVIC Chairman Shri Vinai Kumar Sax-ena said the online sale of
clay items is empow-erment of KVIC potters in real sense. “Earlier,
potters in a particular region would only sell their items locally
but with the pan-India reach of Khadi’s e-portal, these products
are being sold in every part of the country. Through KVIC
e-portal, diyas made in Rajasthan are being pur-chased in remote
states like Arunachal Pradesh, J&K, Kerala,Assam, Maharashtra,
Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This has prompted an in-crease in
production and higher income of the pot-ters,” Saxena said. “This
is precisely the dream of the Hon'ble Prime Min-ister to empower
potters and revive the art of pot-tery,” Saxena added.
Madan Lal Praja-pati, one such potter of
PMEGP unit in Pokharan, said this is the first time he is
selling diyas outside his vil-lage. “This diwali our sale has shot
up. We are sup-plying our diyas to Khadi Bhavan in Delhi and from
there it is being sold throughout
the country online. This is fetching me good in-come,” he
said.
Notably, KVIC has trained these potters and provided them with
electric potter wheels and other equipment under Kumhar
Sashak-tikaran Yojana that has increased their produc-tion and
income by up to 5 times. So far, KVIC has distributed over 18,000
electric potter wheels benefitting over 80,000 people of the Kumhar
community.
KVIC’s e-portal brings early Diwali for empowered potters
By Dinesh Pawar, Uran
A blood donation camp was organized on behalf of Apta Shiv Sena
branch on 8th No-vember 2020 on the oc-casion of Memorial Day of
Balasaheb Thackeray. A large number of blood donors participated in
the cam.
Zilla Parishad mem-ber Vijay Bhoir, Deputy Taluka Chief
Ashok
Thorve, Karade Gram Panchayat Member Ni-tesh Karande, Yuvasena
Taluka Officer Vikrant Gharat, Kelvane Zilla Parishad Divisional
Of-ficer Swapnil Bhovad, Branch Head Rajendra Gholap, Sub Branch
Chief Sanjay Ambwane, Apta Gram Panchayat Member Vrishabh Dhu-mal ,
Sameer Bhalekar, Babu Sayyed, Vinayak
Mehtar, Tejas Kakade, Sunil Pawar, Omkar Pawar, Sujit Mehtar,
Raj Mehtar, Abhay Rapte, Shivdas Bhoir, Rupesh Rathod, Sushant
Mehtar, Nishant Mehtar, Amrit Sonwane, Sagar Bho-vad, Ganesh
Thorve, Rohan Bhoir, Mayur Bhoir, Bhushan Bhoir, Kaustubh Jadhav,
Yash Kakade, Abhinav Phul-mali were present.
Blood donation camp held The camp was organized by Shiv Sena
Apta Branch on the occasion of Memorial Day of Balasaheb
Thackeray
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POORLy MAINTAINED NMMT BUSES IRk...
so dirty that no one feels like sitting on them. On several
occasions, I my-self chose to stand even as there were vacant seats
in the buses.”
“In quite a few bus-es, I have observed dam-aged seats too. In
fact I have barely seen the long rear seats in good shape. We don’t
know why NMMT is not pay-ing attention to these is-sues?” she
said.
Ameya Patil, a resident of Sanpada said, “On the one hand NMMT
is increasing the prices of their bus tick-ets, while on the other,
they are not ready to provide us satisfactory services. Why cannot
they repair the broken doors and broken win-dow panes?”
“During this pan-
demic, when the trains are being run with a lot of restrictions,
the resi-dents are mostly depen-dent on the civic buses. Therefore,
the transport authority should keep their buses in good con-ditions
so that the com-muters do not face any problem,” he said.
Shirish Aradwad, general manager of NMMT said that they are
taking all possible steps to keep the bus-es in good condition.
“Whenever we notice some issues in a bus, we send it for repairing.
At any given time, around 10 percent of our buses remain out for
mainte-
nance. The commuters my find some minor is-sues, but we try and
fix them as soon as these come to our notice,” he said.
“As far as the dust issue is concerned, we have seen it mostly
in the buses which ply around the airport site. Because of the
ongoing construction work, dust accumulates in the seat just after
one trip and it is not possible for us to clean a bus after every
trip. At present in view of the Covid-19 pan-demic, we are
sanitizing around 50% of our bus-es every day,” he further
said.
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LIqUOR IS BEING SOLD IN kHARGHAR...
closed.”“One family of Owa
gaon has lost its five members only because of liquor
consumption. Considering its adverse effects, we have been
re-questing the authorities not to allow any wine shop inside the
town.
However, some anti-so-cial groups are repeat-edly trying to
defeat us by secretly selling liquor in the area. The police
department should take strict action against it,” he added.
When contacted, a senior police officer wishing not to be named
said, “We are putting all our efforts to keep
Kharghar a liquor-free zone. We registered around 30 cases
against people for illegally sell-ing liquor, last year alone. Even
after that some people transport liquor to sell in the vil-lages.
Of late, we have increased patrolling in some areas where such
cases were reported in the past.”
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3Wednesday, 11 November 2020
By Chandrashekhar Hendve Navi Mumbai
The Central and State Governments should ensure that the changes
in the Agricul-ture and Labour Act do not affect the traders and
the hardworking Mathadi workers and does not lead to unem-ployment.
Otherwise, all the Mathadi work-ers will go on indefinite strike,
said Mathadi Mu-kadam activists, office bearers of traders’
asso-ciation, leaders of Ma-harashtra State Mathadi, Transport and
General Workers Union, office bearers of market com-mittee during a
meeting that was held at Mathadi Bhavan, Turbhe under the
leadership of Maha-rashtra State Mathadi,
Transport and General Workers Union.
Speaking on the oc-casion, Mathadi Labour leader Narendra Patil
said, “If any law comes and it is oppressive, we will oppose it. It
is im-portant to consider who is benefited from FDI and retail
trade. The state government should immediately clarify its position
on the law passed by the central government and should oppose it.
Action will be taken by the office bear-ers of the traders'
asso-ciation, Mathadi union representatives and a decision will be
taken to carry out further agita-tion if our demands are not
heard”.
MLA Shashikant Shinde said the meet-
ing has been organized to sustain the trade of the merchant
class and the work of the Mathadi workers. Traders and Mathadi
workers have been protesting against the consequences of the
government's law. “We will continue to oppose the law which is
against the interest of traders and Mathadi workers”, he said.
Shankar Sheth Pin-gale of Vegetable Mar-ket, Kirti Rana of
Masala Market, Ashok Badhiya of Danabunder Market, Raju Maniar of
Kanda-Batata Market and other office bearers of the as-sociation as
well as Mu-kadam activists Nana Dhonde and Santosh Ahire were
present dur-ing the meeting.
Mathadi Traders Associations warn of indefinite strike against
new Agriculture and Labour Act
By Crime ReporterNavi Mumbai
The Kalamboli po-lice have succeeded in nabbing one accused
involved in the murder case of Nagnath Male (31) at CIDCO's Garden
in Kalamboli Sector-2E last week. Investiga-tions have revealed
that four robbers had killed Nagnath Male after tak-ing away cash.
Police said Sashmesh Pramod Bhosale (20) has been arrested in
connec-tion with the murder case. Police have now launched a search
for the other three accused who are absconding, informed Shivraj
Patil,
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Circle-2.
Male, a young man living in Chakan area of Pune, had come to his
sister's house in Kalam-boli at around 5 am on November 5. However,
before reaching his sis-ter's house, the accused, Sashmesh Bhosale
and his three accomplices stopped Male with the intention of
robbing cash and gold necklace. They got into a scuffle while Male
tried to stop them. The four then strangled him and fled.
The next day Male's body was found in the garden, said senior
po-lice inspector Satish
Gaikwad. On the instruc-tions of his superiors, Mr. Gaikwad
formed three teams to search for the accused. The po-lice team
checked the CCTV in the area and after getting information about
the accused from the sources, arrested Sashmesh Bhosale, who stays
near Panvel rail-way station. After fur-ther questioning by the
police, he confessed to have killed Male along with the three other
ac-complices. They wanted to rob him. Police have arrested him and
are now searching for the three other absconding accused.
By Crime ReporterNavi Mumbai
The glass panes of about 25 to 30 parked auto-rickshaws on
private land in the Digha area were smashed on Monday morning.
Rabale MIDC police have registered a case against an unidentified
group. There is a pri-vate parking lot in a vacant plot near Mukund
Company in Digha where rickshaw drivers from the area park their
vehicles. On Monday morning, an unidentified man/group allegedly
went into the parking lot and broke the glass panes of about 25 to
30 rick-shaws and fled. After seeing the glass
broken, the rickshaw drivers rushed to the police station.
Meanwhile, in the parking lot where rickshaws are parked,
drunken youths sit and were recently stopped by the security guards
from entering. The police suspect that the drunken youths must have
broken the glasses of 25 to 30 rickshaws. A case has been
registered against the accused for breaking the glass panes of the
rick-shaw, said Nitin Gite, senior police in-spector, Rabale MIDC
police station. One of the accused has been identified and he and
his accomplices are being sought, Gite said.
Kalamboli Murder: One arrested, police search for the other
three absconding accused
Police launch search for a group who broke glass panes of 25
parked auto-rickshaws
By Dinesh Pawar, Uran
Morning Katta in Uran city has completed 4 years. The group,
which was start-ed by Subodh Darne and Suryakant Dan-dekar aims at
providing awareness programmes as well as organizing various
cultural, health and legal programmes with an aim to keep all its
members happy and healthy.
The programmes are conducted free of cost and are being held
at Vimla Lake garden under the Municipal Council.
The birthdays of senior citizens and
members are celebrated every month. Founder President Subodh
Darne, Suryakant Dan-
dekar, Ulhas Mokashi, Adv. Dattatreya Nawale, Sunil Gharat,
Sanjay Chiplunkar, Her-man Fernandes, Dar-
shan Koli are working hard to ensure that the activities reach
out to large number of people.
Morning Katta completes four years
Panvel: Opposition leader Pri-tam Mhatre along with the
corpora-tor Preeti George, Dr Surekha Mo-hokar and Sarika Bhagat
have demanded immedi-ate cement concretising of the road from Hotel
Pancharatna, Nadkarni Hospital to Prince Para-dise Society.
“The city is developing rapidly. Panvel is known as the main
city of the taluka. With big markets in this city, many people come
and go every day for buying and selling. Thus, every day many
heavy
vehicles pass through Panvel. There-fore, cement concreting of
roads in the area is required”, said Mhatre.
While, some of the roads have been concert-ized, the main roads
are yet to be cemented such as Agari Samaj Hall Road, Late
Shantabai Ganpat Ghadge Marg (behind New Court), Road at Ru-pali
Cinema (Maharash-tra Bank to Rupali Cin-ema Theater), Old Court to
Pada Mohalla Badi
Masjid, Pada Mohalla Badi Majjid to Shani Mandir.
Opposition leader Pritam Mhatre demands cement concreting of
roads
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4 Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Navi Mumbai
The commissioner of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corpora-tion
(NMMC), Abhijit Bangar held a special meeting to discuss vari-ous
sanitation works that need to be carried out for 'Swachh Survey
2021'. During the meet-ing, the Commissioner took stock of various
sanitary issues. Ad-ditional Commissioner Sujata Dhole, City
En-gineer Surendra Patil, Administration and Zone1 Deputy
Com-missioner Dadasaheb Chabukaswar, Deputy Commissioner of Solid
Waste Management
Dr. Babasaheb Rajale, Zone 2 Deputy Com-missioner Shri. Amr-ish
Patnigere, Deputy Commissioner of Parks Manojkumar Mahale were
present.
Mr. Bangar instruct-ed all the departments of the corporation to
be ready to work more vigorously for the current year's survey. He
also instructed the municipal officers and employees to go to the
actual places in the departments and carry out sanitary works.
"Survey is a test, but cleanliness should be a habit," said
Ban-gar. "Cleanliness is
not possible without public participation. Therefore, awareness
drives should be created
to make every citizen aware of the importance of cleanliness and
put
it into practice," he stressed.
The Commissioner directed that more em-
phasis should be laid on categorizing the waste from household
to be
segregated into wet, dry and household hazards at source
level.
At the same time,
wet waste should be composted by the citizens using compost
baskets, he said. Mr. Bangar also stressed that public and
com-munal toilets should be well maintained and more attention
should be paid to cleanliness in villages and slums.
Bangar further directed to focus on various issues such as
changing the mindset of the citizens towards cleanliness,
maintain-ing regular cleanliness of the lakes, 100 per cent
implementation of compositing projects by the societies, colonies
and institutions which generate a large amount of waste.
NMMC chief holds special meetingDiscusses various initiatives to
be undertaken for ‘Swachh Survey 2021’
By Ashok Dhamija
Skipper Smriti Mand-hana led from the front with an sparkling
half century while off spinner Salma Khatun picked three wickets,
as Trailblazer defeated two times defending cham-pions Supernovas
by 16 runs in a low scoring Jio Women’s T20 Challenge Final for
their maiden ti-tle at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Monday. In
the process they avenged their narrow last ball loss by two runs to
the Har-manpreet Kaur side in their final league game.
Put in to bat Smriti in the company of Dean-dra Dottin provided
the perfect start and put on a
fifty-run stand in the sev-enth over, with the for-mer doing the
majority of the scoring. Poonam Yadav however brought the first
breakthrough in the 12th over after she had Dottin (32-ball 20)
caught by Radha Yadav at 71. Southpaw Smriti in the meantime
reached her maiden fifty in the same over with a four and a six.
Cruising at 101 for 1 in the 15th over and set for a big score
Trali-blazers soon lost the plot after the dismissal of their
skipper to a smart piece of stumping by Taniya Bhatia off
Sha-shikala Siriwardeneto in the next over not before Smriti had
scored 68 (in
49-ball) which included five fours and three six-es. Supernovas
Radha Yadav with her left-arm orthodox spin ran through
Trailblazers bat-ting order as she picked five wickets in the death
overs (two wickets in 18th and three in the fi-nal over) to
restrict them
to 118/8. In the process Mumbai born Radha be-came the first
bowler to pick a five-wicket haul in the Women’s T20 Challenge that
also saw her earn the Player of the Series award.
Supernovas in their run chase lost opener Chamari
Athapaththu
early after World no. 1 bowler Sophie Eccle-stone trapped her
before the wickets. The de-fending champions who managed to score
28 in the power play lost two quick wickets of Taniya Bhatia (14)
and Jemimah Rodrigues (13) in space of three overs to Deepti Sharma
(2/9). Harman-preet Kaur and Shashika-la Siriwardene tried to
revive the innings with a 37-run fourth wick-et stand. A top-edged
sweep by Shashikala off Salma was pocketed by veteran Jhulan
Goswami of in the 15th over that put additional pressure on
Harmanpreet who batted valiantly despite
hamstring injury . Need-ing 28 from the last two overs, a double
wicket strike by Salma which included the prize wick-et of
Harmanpreet (30) proved to be decisive as Supernovas in the end
managed to score 102/7 in the end
Brief Scores (Fi-nal): Trailblazers - 118/8 (Smriti Mandhana 68,
Deandra Dottin 20; Radha Yadav 5/16) beat Supernovas - 102/7
(Harmanpreet Kaur 30, Shashikala Siriwardene 19; Salma Khatun 3/18)
by 16 runs. Player of the Match: Smriti Mandhana (Trailblazers).
Player of the Series: Radha Ya-dav (Supernovas).
Trailblazers clinch maiden Jio Women's T20 Challenge title
Supernovas Radha Yadav became the first bowler to pick a
five-wicket haul in the Women’s T20 Challenge was nominated the
Player of the Series (Photo courtesy BCCI)
Smriti Mandhana's Trailblazers celebrate their maiden Women’s
T20 Challenge title (Photo courtesy BCCI)
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5Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Nowadays stress has become a reg-ular part of almost ev-eryone's
life. If you are doing nothing about it and the levels of your
stress keep increasing, you are surely putting your well-being in
high risk.
Stress consumes you mentally, emo-tionally and also threatens
your physical health. Stress can be a big hindrance in fulfilling
your family respon-sibilities as well as the profes-sional ones. In
short, stress can make your day to day life very difficult to
live.
So, in order to live a happy life, you need to manage your
stress very well.
There are certain steps that can help you to overcome your
stress and make your life much better.# Recognise the rea-
son of your stress: try to find out the major reasons that you
think are caus-ing you stress. It might be related to your job,
concerns for some family members, relation-ship issues or many
other factors. Gen-erally, we tend to ignore the thoughts that keep
bothering us and they turn into stress.
# Vent out your feel-ings : whatever thoughts are trou-bling
you, share with someone you really trust. You may get a solution to
your problem or at least you may feel lighter. If you keep bottling
up your thoughts, they will surely break you.
# Try to follow the 4 A's of stress man-agement : Avoid, Alter,
Adapt or Ac-ceptAvoid being in the
situations or with the people that cause you
stressThere are certain
situations that are im-possible to avoid. In such situations,
just alter your attitude, ac-tions & expectations for your own
good.
Sometimes the un-expected situations in your life cause anxi-ety
and makes you feel nervous. Work to adapt yourself to such
situations. Learning always makes adapta-tion easier.
There are few things in life that are totally beyond your
control. The only way out for you is to ac-cept it and move on.
Keeping on thinking
or regretting or try-ing to change, will do nothing but make you
stressful. Don't put an effort to control the uncontrollable.# Stay
connected &
keep in touch with your friends, fam-ily and the people who make
you feel happy and forget your tensions.
# Forgive and forget is the best the prin-cipal that will help
you to move on in life. Just don't cling on to your bad
ex-periences.
# Live with a Healthy lifestyle: Yoga,
workout and meditation are the best exer-cises to relieve your
mind, body and soul.# Practice some quick stress bust-ers when you
feel extremely stressed, like the deep breath-ing, chanting, moving
out for a walk, some craftwork, lis-
tening to your favourite music, talking to a good friend. Do
what makes you feel in-stantly happy.Outer factors are
surely the ones that cause you stress, but unless and until you
yourself decide to fight with that, before it in-ternally destroys
you, stress will remain out of your control. Not every technique
works the same for everyone. But the ultimate goal is to fight
& defeat your stress. So, look out for a method that works out
the best for you and go ahead to lead a stress free life.
The MInd dIAry
Live life, Stress free
By kamna Walecha
Panvel: Following the demand by the Panvel Sangharsh Samiti to
put fence under the Kalam-boli flyover, the officials of the
Maharashtra State Road Development Cor-poration (MSRDC) held a
meeting and agreed to take up the proposal with the senior
officers.
A meeting was held at Panvel Tehsildar's Of-fice under the
chairman-ship of Deputy Tehsildar Rahul Suryavanshi. Con-sidering
the increased menace of beggars oc-cupying the space under the
flyover and risk of accidents, also the pos-
sibility of the spread of corona infection, the Panvel Sangharsh
Samiti President Kantilal Kadu said that it was essential to put
iron fences under the flyover. During the meeting, the officials of
MSRDC said that an es-timate cost detail would be prepared in two
days and a proposal will be sent to the seniors. After that, the
work of putting fences on both the sides of the iron grate will be
taken up.
Deputy Tehsildar Rahul Suryavanshi, Mande, Aval Karkun S. N.
Rathod, a senior of-
ficer of Road Develop-ment Corporation R. P. Alexander, Advisor
Shirish Pote, Bhagwa-trao Warekar, Deepak More, IRB Officer M. H.
Gandhi, Panvel Munici-pal Corporation Ward Officer Prakash
Gaik-wad, Panvel Sangharsh Samiti President Kantilal Kadu, Panvel
City Presi-dent Ganesh Waghilkar, Karanjade Divisional President
Mangal Bhar-wad, Vice President Ra-mashree Chavan, Nere Divisional
President Sachin Patil and others were present on the
oc-casion.
Panvel Sangharsh Samiti demands iron fencing under Kalamboli
flyover
A meeting was held with the officials of the MSRDC
By Chandrashekhar Hendve Navi Mumbai
During the weekly meeting with the Commissioner of Navi Mumbai
Municipal Corporation (NMMC) Abhijit Bangar, MLA Ganesh Naik urged
him to ask the CIDCO and MIDC to transfer the plots to the civic
body for creating facilities.
“To be able to create new infrastructural fa-cilities, NMMC
should demand both CIDCO and MIDC to promptly transfer the plots to
the
civic body. A node like Ghansoli, which has been transferred
from CIDCO to the NMMC, will require facilities like hospital,
school, sports and transporta-tion,” said Mr. Naik. The former
corporators present at the meeting gave examples of how CIDCO has
changed the reservation of facility plots in their wards and used
it for a different purpose.
Speaking to the del-egation, Bangar said, “A meeting of CIDCO
and
MIDC officials will be held and a demand will be made to
transfer the reserved plots”.
Naik further de-manded the construc-tion of a route for
as-cending and descending at Airoli on the Airoli to Katai Naka
Kalyan route being constructed by MMRDA. He also demanded speeding
up of projects started or planned under the City Mobility Scheme to
ease the internal traf-fic congestion in Navi Mumbai.
CIDCO and MIDC should hand over the reserved plots to NMMC
for creating facilities: Ganesh Naik
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6 Wednesday, 11 November 2020
EditorialISSUE: 132 11 NOVEMBER, 2020
Over the last few weeks, there has been a stupendous increase in
the crime graph, especially in the pet-ty crime. Cases of daylight
robbery, chain snatching etc. are on the rise. This has instilled a
sense of insecu-rity amongst the residents. The non chalant
attitude of the many police officials, non friendly image of the
police department and the difficult legal procedures have only
helped in eroding the image further.
This is an era of specialization. Considering the
competitiveness that one has to face, success in any field, to a
great extent, depends on specialization. This adage applies to the
police department as well. The present day working in the police
department makes it imperative for the officials to carry out a
wide range of duties, which in turn adversely affects their
performance as prime security providing agency. The po-lice today
have no defined duties, which varies from nabbing criminals to
providing security to the VVIPs to making bandobast for dharnas
& community celebrations, to manag-ing traffic, mediating in
disputes, providing security cover to the poli-ticians during
elections and election rallies and what not. It is because of this
multi faceted duty requirement that the performance of police in
Mumbai and Navi Mumbai is lack luster and they fail to perform
their prime duty that of providing security to the residents, which
is what they are actually created for. Limited force equipped with
arms of the stone- age era with unlimited working hours is finding
itself at the receiving end es-pecially when the nature of crime is
getting sophisticated and complex. As is said power corrupts
person, the same is true to great extent for the police force also,
which wields legit-imate and some times even illegiti-mate powers.
Lack of commitment and weak morale are visible in the police force
today leading to disgust in the society and police as a profes-
sion carries a very poor image.The police alone cannot be
blamed for this sorry state of affairs. Huge interferences from
the politi-cians who treat the police depart-ment as personal
employees, has also contributed towards its poor per-formances.
Transfers and postings make lot of news these days where merits
rarely count. This has put a big question mark on the working of
the police department and there is an eminent need for revamping
the whole system especially in view of the recent scam.
The police department needs to go in for specialized forces for
different works like for example crime branch, VVIPs security,
traf-fic department etc. It is heartening to note that recently
efforts have been made to modernize the department, but the forces
should be imparted specialized training in dealing with particular
kind of crimes especially in view of new types of crimes like
financial and cyber crimes. A sig-nificant amount of autonomy needs
to be given to the police department and there has to be a minimum
in-terference from the politicians. In this revamping process not
only the police department needs to be overhauled but the public in
general also needs to be counseled. The il-legal migrants from
neighbouring countries, the slum dwellers, many of the road side
beggars and urchins are also potential criminals and they need to
be discouraged as prevention of crime is better than conviction of
criminals after crime is committed. The working conditions in the
police department need to be improved and the police force should
be augment-ed and equipped with latest arms, means of communication
& trans-portation. They should also have better inter
connection and exchange of information with other security agencies
in order to enhance their performance and also to improve their
sagging morale.
Zooming crime graph- Cause for concern
By Ashok Dhamija, Panvel
On account of the ongoing Gur-jar agitation in Rajasthan, train
movement has been affected between Hindaun City - Bayana section in
Raj-asthan. In Kota Division of West Cen-tral Railway, tracks have
been blocked between Dumariya – Fateh Singhpura section. In view of
the above events, few Special Trains passing which also pass via
Konkan Railway route with halt at Panvel Junction (Central Railway)
and Vasai Road (Western Railway) too have been diverted and
accordingly short originated wef Sun-day 8th November, 2020 till
further notice.
The details of these affected trains are as under:
A) Diversion of UP Trains via KR Route:
Train No. 02432 New Delhi– Thiruvananthapuram Central
Special
Train will be diverted via Mathura Jn. – Jhansi - Bina – Sant
Hirdaram Nagar – Nagda.
B) Diversion of DN Trains via KR Route:
1). Train No. 02493 Pune - H.
Nizamuddin Special Train will be di-verted via Nagda – Sant
Hirdaram Na-gar - Bina – Jhansi - Mathura Jn.
2). Train No. 02413 Madgaon - H. Nizamuddin Special Train, will
be di-verted via Nagda – Sant Hirdaram Na-gar - Bina – Jhansi -
Mathura Jn.
diversion of special trains services affected due to Gurjar
agitationin rajasthan
For representational purpose only
By Ashok Dhamija, Mumbai
Central Railway (CR) will run for fully reserved additional
Festi-val Weekly Specials and increase the frequency of existing
Festival Special Train to daily to clear the extra rush of
passengers during the festival season, as per details below:
A) Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Gor-akhpur Weekly Festival
Specials
Train no. 01079 Special will leave Lokmanya Tilak Terminus
(LTT),
Mumbai o¬n every Thursday from 12th to 26th November,2020 (3
Trips) and arrive at Gorakhpur on the third day. On its return
journey Train no. 01080 Special will leave Gorakhpur o¬n every
Saturday from 14th to 28th November,2020 (3 Trips) and arrive LTT,
Mumbai the next day.
The above Special will comprise One AC-2 Tier, Four AC-3 Tier,
Twelve Sleeper Second Class and Three Sec-ond Class Seating
coaches. Halts en-route includes Kalyan Jn, Nasik Road,
Bhusaval Jn, Khandwa, Itarsi Jn, Habibganj, Vidisha, Jhansi Jn,
Orai, Kanpur Central, Lucknow Nr, Bara-banki Jn, Jarwal Road,
Colonelganj, Gonda Jn, ,Balrampur, Jharkhandi F, Tulsipur, Barhni,
Siddharth Nagar and Anand Nagar stations
B) Lokmanya Tilak Terminus- Manduadih Daily Festival Special
Train no. 02167 Special will de-part Lokmanya Tilak Terminus
(LTT), Mumbai daily with effect from Tues-
day 10th to 30th November,2020 and arrive at Manduadih next day.
On its return journey Train no. 02168 Special will depart
Mandu-adih daily with effect from 11th to 1st December,2020 and
arrive at LTT, Mumbai next day. There will be no change in the
composition of the above Special. Halts en-route includes Kalyan
Jn, Igatpuri, Nasik Road, Bhusaval Jn, Khandwa, Itarsi
Jn, Jabalpur, Katni, Satna, Manikpur Jn, Prayagraj Chheoki and
Varanasi Jn
Reservations for above Festival Special o¬n Special Charges have
commenced at all Reservation Cen-tres and o¬n website:
www.irctc.co.in. Only passengers having confirmed tickets will be
permitted to board these special trains. Passengers are advised to
adhere to all norms, SOPs related to COVID19 during the boarding,
travel and at destination.
Cr to run additional Festival Weekly Specials on Mumbai –
Gorakhpur route
Lokmanya Tilak Terminus - Manduadih Festival Special to run
daily
For representational purpose only
LETTER TO THE EDITORRise and fall of Donald Trump
Mr. Donald Trump, you have lost a golden opportunity of your
life by your arrogance and weakness of faith. Your policy of clash
with religions and civilisa-tions was short sighted and biased.
Your rise and fall as President, rests with one word, lies. Your
lies won you a first term and your lies lost you a second term.
Jubel D'Cruz, Mumbai
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7Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Mumbai
To meet the grow-ing demand for chlorinated polyvinyl chloride
(CPVC) pipe and fittings in India, Lubrizol Advanced Materials, a
global spe-cialty chemical leader and the market leader for CPVC,
and Grasim Industries Limited, a flagship company of the Aditya
Birla Group, have entered into a definitive agreement to
manufacture and supply CPVC resin in India.
Once commissioned, this near 100,000 metric-ton state-of-the-art
CPVC plant at Grasim’s site in Vilayat, Gujarat, will be the
largest single-site ca-pacity for CPVC resin production glob-ally.
The project will take part in two phases, with the first phase of
production expected to be operational in late 2022. The CPVC resin
produced at Vilayat will en-able product sold under Lubrizol’s
FlowGuard® Plus, Corzan® and BlazeMas-ter® brands.
This col-laboration, in support of the Government of India’s
“Make in India” initiative, is expected to bolster economic
development in the state of Gujarat. To further support the local
mar-ket, Lubrizol will make additional investments in the coming
years to expand its existing CPVC compound plant in Dahej, Gujarat
and establish a local innova-tion center as demand continues to
grow.
India is amongst the largest consumers of CPVC, primarily in the
form of plumbing pipe and fittings, and growing needs for clean
water in all residential and commercial build-
ings will drive contin-ued growth. Lubrizol is the inventor and
largest manufacturer of CPVC resin and CPVC compounds worldwide.
With billions of feet installed globally, Lu-brizol’s CPVC
solutions enable long-lasting sys-tems and reliable access to
clean, safe drinking water to millions of homes, in alignment with
the company’s mission to help the world Live Better. To-date,
Lubrizol products have been instrumental in delivering safer water
to some 200 million citizens in South Asia. Lubrizol has plans to
in-troduce other advanced water solutions in India in the near
future.
With this investment to supply resin to its existing compounding
plant in Dahej, Gujarat, Lubrizol becomes the only company in India
with end-to-end CPVC capability. In addition to its regional
manu-facturing capabilities, Lubrizol continues to strengthen its
customer network, collaborat-ing with local leaders like Ashirvad
Pipes, an Aliaxis company, and Prince Pipes to ensure robust
distribution in India and South Asia. As part of its regional
support, Lubrizol is also committed to the ongoing development of
plumbers in India, having trained nearly 100,000 local plumb-
ers on installation of advanced plumbing systems.
“This alliance will help Lubrizol better serve our customers in
India and South Asia, as well as support the Indian economy,” said
Arnau Pano, Vice President, Lubrizol Ad-vanced Materials, South
Asia. “Connecting with Grasim Industries Lim-ited, a reputable
global conglomerate, who share our commitment to sustainable
chemical production, will allow us to provide our cus-tomers with
increased, reliable CPVC supply and further our goal of improving
access to clean, safe drinking water for millions of
global citizens through the advantages offered by FlowGuard®
Plus plumbing solutions.”
“This collaboration with Lubrizol Advanced Materials is part of
our long-term direction to bring in world-class technologies to
India and additionally com-plements our growth strategy in
Chlor-Alkali and Derivatives plat-form,” said Kalyan Ram
Madabhushi, CEO-Global Chemicals & Group Business
Head-Fertilisers & Insulators, Aditya Birla Group. “The
collaboration will support the ‘Make in India’ initiative and is
expected to create local jobs and downstream opportunities.”
Lubrizol and Grasim Industries Limited partner for India’s
largest CPVC resin plant
By Ashok DhamijaMumbai
Railways will run six additional Specials between Lokmanya Tilak
Terminus (LTT), Mumbai and Hatia stations to clear the extra rush
of pas-sengers during the forthcoming Di-pawali and Chhat pooja
festivals as per details:-
Train no. 08226 Special will leave LTT, Mumbai o¬n every Monday
at 00.15 hrs from 16th to 30th No-vember, 2020 (3 Trips) and arrive
in Hatia at 04.00 hrs next day.
Train no. 08225 Special on the other hand will leave Hatia at
09.40 hrs o¬n every Saturday from 14th to 28th No-vember, 2020 (3
Trips)
and arrive LTT, Mumbai at 13.35 hrs next day.
The above Special will comprise Two AC-2 Tier, Six AC-3 Tier,
Seven Sleeper
Second Class and Four Second Class Seating coaches. Halts
en-route includes Thane, Kalyan Jn, Nasik Road, Man-mad Jn,
Bhusaval Jn,
Akola Jn, Badnera Jn, Wardha Jn, Nagpur, Gondia Jn, Durg, Raipur
Jn, Bilaspur Jn, Raigarh, Jhar-suguda Jn and Rourkela in both
directions. Reser-vations for above
Festival Special on Special Charges have commenced at all
Reservation Centres and on website: www.irctc.co.in
Six fully reserved additional festival specials on Mumbai -
hatia route
For representational purpose only
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BURGLAR INVOLVED IN 22 THEFT CASES...
lage in Akkalkot taluka of Solapur, used to live with his father
in Ko-parkhairane. An expert in housebreaking, Kisan could break
into the house in a few minutes and steal valuables and cash. On
January 31, when Kisan came from Solapur to appear before the CBD
court, on his way back from the court, he burgled the locked house
of Babita Jagtap, which is a six-room apartment in Nerul,
Sec-tor-10. Within few min-
utes, he had stolen Rs 3 lakh 78 thousand from the house.
After a case was registered at the Nerul police station, the
po-lice checked the CCTV in the area and found the accused Kisan
sus-piciously moving in the area. When the police inquired, they
found out that he had committed the crime. It was learnt that he
had moved to his native place in Solapur. After the lockdown was
relaxed, Assistant In-spector of Police Sachin More and his team,
un-der the guidance of Se-
nior Inspector of Police Sham Shinde, went to his native village
and ar-rested him.
During interroga-tion he accepted to have committed the crime.
So far, valuables worth Rs 1 lakh 40 thousand have been seized from
him. “22 burglary cases with-in the limits of Thane and Navi Mumbai
Police Commissionerate have been registered against him.
Accordingly, a thorough investigation is being carried out”,
in-formed Suresh Mengde, Deputy Commissioner of Police,
Circle-1.
By Chandrashekhar Hendve Navi Mumbai
“The entire over-due salaries of the ST employees, which has
been pending for the last three months will be paid before Diwali”,
assured Transport Min-ister Adv. Anil Parab.
Adv. Anil Parab said, “On Monday, 9th November there was a
discussion with the Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. A meeting was
also held with the Deputy Chief Minister
and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar as well. The government has
an-nounced a package of Rs 1,000 crore as financial assistance for
ST. This will help in overcoming the problems of the state
transport department”.
Out of the salary ar-rears of ST employees for the last 3
months, the salary for the month of August and the ad-vance payment
for Di-wali will be credited to the bank account of the employees,
said Trans-
port Minister Adv. Anil Parab. “The remaining salary too will be
paid as soon as possible,” he said.
Due to the lockdown, the bus services were closed for five
months except for essential ser-vice providers. During this period,
ST incurred a loss of about Rs 3,000 crore. However, now the number
of passengers is increasing day by day and the revenue is also
improving, said the Transport Minister.
Overdue salaries of State Transport employees to be given before
diwali: Transport Minister
Government announces Rs 1,000 crore package for State
Transport
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8 Wednesday, 11 November 2020
By Ashok DhamijaNavi Mumbai
Diwali the festival of lights is just around the corner and
marks the celebration of together-ness, love and sharing.
Symbolising the spiri-tual victory of ‘light over darkness, good
over evil, and knowledge over ignorance’ the popular Hindu festival
is a harbinger of joy, happiness and prosperity.
The young Ryanities of STD I to XII of Ryan International
School, Sanpada too joined the cel-ebrations virtually in the wake
of COVID 19 pandemic. Showcasing their creativity, the enthusiastic
students welcomed the festival of lights with beautifully painted
Diyas with vibrant hues using watercolour paints along with
decorative materi-als, colourful handmade lanterns, beautiful
torans, greetings, posters with socially relevant posters as part
of the many activities organised by their teachers on the
occasion.
“Diwali, or Deepawali, is India's biggest festival and derives
its name from the row (avali) of clay lamps (deepa) which is
lighted by a majority of Indians every year as part of the
celebrations. The same symbolizes the spiritual victory of inner
light that enables one to overcome our internal
darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance. Ryan
International School, Sanpada too joined in welcoming the festival
of lights before the start of the annual Diwali holidays with
vari-ous online activities from the safety of their home this time
around. It was a great learning experience and all the children
with their wholehearted participation showcased their creativ-ity
to highlight celebration of light of hope, love, joy and
happiness,” shared Muriel Fernandes, Principal of the
In-stitute.
Ryanites welcome festival of lights with joy and hope
By Indrani BasuNavi Mumbai
A conference was held on ‘Birds’ at Karnala Bird Sanctuary on
November 9, under the leadership of Range Forest Officer RFO
Pradeep Chavan. This was a part of the ‘Bird week’ celebration
which is being organised from
5th to 12th November. Behaviour of birds,
their habitat, nature with special attention on mi-gratory
‘Oriental dwarf Kingfisher’ were some of the topics that were
discussed in the confer-ence. Around 60 forest personnel along with
NGOs, bird lovers or Pakshi mitra, nature lov-ers and
ornithologists at-tended that conference.
Pradeep Chavan told, “With an aim to protect birds and
understand their behavior, the state government has an-nounced 5th
to 12th No-vember to be observed as ‘Bird week’. This will be an
annual event and will be held across the state to save birds and to
give more attention on their feeding, behaviour, their habitat and
also to save their lives.
“We are observ-ing the week-long pro-gramme along with the
villagers, citizens and social organisations,” he
said.During this ongoing
bird week, the Karnala Bird Sanctuary will in-augurate the
award-winning documentary made on Oriental Dwarf Kingfishers. This
tini-est migratory bird, only 13cm in length, visits the sanctuary
every year for two-three months and
attracts bird watchers in large number. To spread more
information on this feathery friend and create awareness to save
this endangered species, a documentary titled ‘The Life Journey of
a Forest Jewel’ is made by Maharashtra Forest De-partment.
The documentary got nominated in Natural History category among
hundred plus wildlife movies from India and other countries in
Nature inFocus, an Internation-al Film festival of Ben-galuru. The
documen-tary finally bagged the 4th position, informed Pradeep
Chavan.
As 5th November is the birthday of a well- known Marathi nature
writer Maruti Chitam-palli and 12th November is the birth
anniversary of noted ornithologist, late Dr. Salim Ali, this entire
week has been dedicated to birds, said Nikhil Bhopale, the
wildlife expert. Meanwhile Green
World Trust organized many activities on birds starting from
November 5. The team comprising of wildlife conserva-tionist Nikhil
Bhopale , Krupa Patil and Milind Pandit visited few vil-lages in
Raigad District namely Parangkhar,
Tale, Phansad, Shirgav, Amli and organized various competitions
like painting, essay writ-ing , collage making etc. among the
children. They also encouraged children to save birds and their
habitats with PPT presentation.
“Every year we conduct many activi-ties with the villagers and
children of Raigad to teach and enlighten them about nature,
flo-ra, fauna of the nearby forest, how to protect them, about
bird, animal and their natural habitat etc. We want to bring a
change in mindset of the people towards birds and animals. Our aim
is to intertwine nature along with human beings to make an
ecological bal-ance to protect the envi-ronment.”
The week -long cel-ebration will conclude on 12th November with
a program with the For-est Department.
Forest Department observes ‘Bird Week’
By Chandrashekhar Hendve Navi Mumbai
Shiv Sahakar Sena and Bharatiya Vima Karmachari Sena (National
Unit) distributed semolina, flour, oil, ghee, sugar, pohe, rice
etc. to 450 needy people at the food distribution centre which was
inaugurated on Tuesday, 10th November at Samaj Mandir Hall,
Indiranagar, Navi Mumbai.
Adv. Manohar Gaykhe, General Secretary, Shiv Sahakar Sena,
Maha-rashtra, Ganesh Domse, Navi Mum-bai organizer of Shiv Sahakar
Sena, Sanjay Dakhal, Executive Secretary
of Vima Karmachari Sena, Mahesh, Head of Shiv Sena Division,
Koti-wale, Shivaji More, Deputy City Chief Mahesh Khairnar North
Indian Team Chief Kamlesh, Verma, Hemant Jaisw-al, Prakash Pal,
Nishad Mhatre, Patil, Gawde and hundreds of Shiv Sainiks were
present.
Shiv Sahakar Sena and Bharatiya Vima Karmachari Sena distribute
food items