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The Dynamic Daily Newspaper of Navi Mumbai
Tuesday, 5 January 2021
VOL. 14 • ISSUE 177 RNI No. MAHEN/2007/21778 POSTAL REGN. No.
NMB/154/2020-22/VASHI MDG POST OFFICE
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By Abhitash D. Singh
After the gap of al-most nine months, the Mangrove Mar-shalls,
once again started
the clean-up drive on 3rd January, 2021 and cleaned the area
around mini seashore with the support from the officials
and sanitation work-ers of the Navi Mumbai Municipal
Corporation
Mangrove Marshalls swing back into action
Police file case against man and his accomplice for cut-ting
cake with sword
A birthday celebra-tion went wrong for a man and his friends
after Turbhe MIDC po-lice registered a case against them for
cut-ting the cake with a sword. Turbhe MIDC police have registered
a case against the youth and 18 to 20 of his friends under Arms
Act...
(More on page 2)
Panch Dhatu Devi's mask stolen from
Gaondevi temple in Kopari village
An unidentified thief entered the Gaondevi temple in Kopari
vil-lage in Vashi sector-26 and stole the mask of Panch Dhatu Devi
from the temple. APMC po-lice have registered a case against the
unidentified thief and have begun investiga-tion…
(More on page 7)
NMIA should be named after D. B
Patil: MLA Prashant Thakur
MLA Prashant Thakur has demanded that the greenfield Navi Mumbai
International Airport (NMIA) should be named after D.B Patil, a
veteran politi-cian and social activ-ist who worked for the benefit
of the farmers in Navi Mumbai area especially in Uran and in Panvel
city…
(More on page 8)
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This is the third raid carried out by the police at the same
hookah parlour
Undertake clean-up drive after gap of 9 months with the support
from NMMC
By Abhitash D.Singh
The Member of Par-liament (MP) from Thane District Rajan Vichare
while inaugu-rating various projects of the former corpora-tor of
the Navi Mumbai Mu-nicipal Corpo-rator (NMMC), Suresh Kulkarni on
3rd January, 2021 said that the next Mayor will be from M a h a V i
k a s Aghadi party.
S p e a k i n g with the media Rajan Vichare said, "The citizens
of Navi Mumbai have ex-perienced the work of Ganesh Naik when he
was in the Nationalist
Congress Party. Now, he has joined the Bharatiya Janta Party
(BJP) and the citizens do not wish to see BJP to rule the
civic body. People want a change and I am con-fident that this
time the Navi Mumbaikars will choose all the corpora-
tors from Mahavikas Aghadi party."
Vichare further add-ed, "I am also confident that the next Mayor
at
NMMC will be from MVA. During the Covid 19 pandemic, Suresh
Next NMMC Mayor will be from MVA: Rajan Vichare
By Crime Reporter
The APMC police on Saturday night raid-ed Cafe Palm Atlantis, a
hookah parlour located in APMC’s Satara Plaza building and arrested
five people for smoking hookah and supplying hookah material. In
the operation, the police seized materials and to-bacco products
used for smoking hookah. This is the third raid con-ducted by the
po-lice against Cafe Palm Atlantis hookah parlour.
Situated on the sec-ond floor of Satara pla-za building in APMC,
the hookah parlour was opened in November after the state
govern-ment gave conditional
permission to reopen hotels, bars and pubs that had been closed
since March due to the lockdown. However, the APMC police re-ceived
information that the hookah parlour was
violating the condi-tions imposed by the state govern-ment.
Police then raided the hookah parlour around 11pm on Saturday night
and arrested Prashant Surve (24) and Prafulla
Gaikwad (29), the driv-er of the hookah par-lour, along with
Prasad Palande (24), Naeem Mulla (22) and Ashish Salve (24) for
violating the Covid 19 rules. They have been taken into po-lice
custody.
Cafe Palm Atlantis hookah parlour raided again
Youngsters make the most of the opportunity to showcase their
skills as they play some friendly tennis ball cricket matches on
Sunday in Navi Mumbai. (Photo by Ashok Dhamija)
Sporting encounters…
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By Crime Reporter
A birthday celebration went wrong for a man and his friends
after Turbhe MIDC police registered a case against them for cutting
the cake with a sword. Turbhe MIDC police have reg-istered a case
against the youth and 18 to 20 of his friends under Arms Act.
Mahesh Nandlal Halwai (25), a resident of Hanuman Nagar area in
Turbhe Naka, celebrated his birthday
on December 26 and invited around 18 to 20 friends at Hanuman
Nagar in Turbhe Naka at around 11 pm. Mahesh along with his friends
cut the cake with a sword and put a video on social me-dia. After
the video came to the notice of Turbhe MIDC police, the police took
serious note of it and registered a case against Mahesh Halwai and
his friends under the Arms Act, Maharash-tra Police Act and other
sections.
Police file case against man and his accomplice for cutting cake
with sword
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On the occasion of Kran-tijyoti Savitribai Phule Jayanti, idol
of Savitribai was worshipped in the amphitheatre at the Navi Mumbai
Municipal Corporation’s (NMMC) Head-
quarters. On this occasion, Deputy Commissioner of So-cial
Development Dr. Kranti Patil, Deputy Commissioner, Solid Waste
Management Ba-basaheb Rajale, Deputy Com-
missioner of Education Yogesh Kaduskar, Executive Engineer
Electrical Sunil Lad and other officers and employees were
present.
The day is also celebrated
as ‘Women’s Education Day’. Savitribai Phule was a great social
reformer and a teacher. The day was celebrated in all the schools
of the civic body with great enthusiasm. Teach-
ers and students participated in group-wise seminar based on the
educational contribution of Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule. Various
programmes were also organized on the occasion.
Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Jayanti observed in NMMC
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By Crime Reporter
A woman living in Panvel was duped by an unknown gang who sent
her a link of Max Life Insurance for paying the annual instal-ment
for her insurance. The woman lost Rs 20,621. The Panvel city police
have registered a case against the gang under the IT Act and has
started investigating the matter.
The victim, Shraddha Chavan, 48, has a policy of Max Life
Insurance and renews it every year by paying the premium amount
through Axis Bank. The gang took ad-vantage of this and sent fake
link on her mobile
phone in the name of Max Life Insurance last August. The gang
also sent a message about renewing the policy. Shraddha clicked on
the link thinking that it has come from the bank as a reminder to
renew the policy. Shraddha paid Rs 20,621,000 through Google
Pay.
A few days later, Shraddha was called by Axis Bank, Panvel
branch asking when she would pay the Max Life Insurance policy.
Shrad-
dha told the bank official that she had paid the in-surance
policy online. However, the officials from the bank told her that
she had not paid the policy amount. Follow-ing which she went to
Axis Bank and showed the link where she paid the insurance amount.
It was then learnt that the link was fake. Realising that she had
been looted by an unknown gang, she lodged a complaint at Panvel
city police sta-tion.
Gang loots woman by sending fake policy renewal reminder
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3Tuesday, 5 January 2021
With an aim to bag the first rank in the nationwide cleanli-ness
drive and spread awareness on the issue among the masses, the Navi
Mumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (NMMC) has unveiled 'Swachhta Raths'
or cleanliness awareness drives on the wheels.
The civic chief, Abhijit Bangar along with the Deputy
Com-missioner of Adminis-tration. Dr. Dadasaheb Chabukswar and
Deputy
Commissioner of Solid Waste Management Dr. Babasaheb Rajale,
con-ducted a final inspection of the Swachhta Rath.
A total of 4 Swachh-ta Raths, from Belapur to Turbhe in Zone 1
and Digha to Koparkhairane in Zone 2, will travel in the morning
and eve-ning and play songs and talk about cleanliness.
Speaking on the occasion, Commis-sioner, Bangar said, “Every
citizen should ensure that garbage is
not dumped in public places, and it should be strictly enforced.
All the citizens should segregate wastes at the source. The
colourful murals, as well as, beau-tification with the mes-sage of
cleanliness and environmental protec-tion have significantly
enhanced the beauty of the city. Now we should join hands to
improve our ranking further and make Navi Mumbai, the cleanest city
in the country.”
NMMC starts cleanliness awareness drives
‘Swachhta Raths’ will educate citizens about various measures
that need to be undertaken
By Dinesh Pawar
Rayat Shikshan Sanstha at Jasai in Uran taluka, Chha-trapati
Shivaji High School and Loknete DB Patil Junior Col-lege Jasai,
celebrated Savitribai Phule's birth-day. On this occasion,
President of District
Workers Union, Chair-man of School Manage-ment Committee Suresh
Patil, Village President Advisory Commit-tee Member Yashwant
Gharat, Principal of the school and social work-er of Rayat
Shikshan Sanstha Arun Ghag, Vice President of Rayat
Sevak Sangh Nura Sheikh Satpalsingh Chauhan, Manoj Jain, Rajuji
Maratha, Anilji Gehlot, school teacher DB Mhatre, Mrs. TT Gharat,
Suresh Thakur, Pandurang Mumbaikar, Rajesh Kamble and other
dignitaries were present.
Birthday of Savitribai Phule celebrated at Jasai Vidyalaya
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NExT NMMC MAyOR wILL BE FROM MVA...
Kulkarni, even after having four Covid-19 patients in the
fam-ily supported the people from his area who were facing
difficulties. Peo-ple have full trust in the MVA government.
BJP
from the last few years is just making promises but has failed
to deliv-er.”
Suresh Kulkar-ni, who was earlier a staunch supporter of Ga-nesh
Naik left the party soon after joining BJP because he was not
hap-py with the pace of work
being undertaken in his area. He said, "I am con-fident that the
people of Turbhe will support my work and they will defi-nitely
vote MVA repre-sentatives because they are now looking for a
change. The next Mayor of NMMC definitely be from the MVA
party.”
By Chandrashekhar Hendve
The meritorious students of Adi-vasi Pada, Koparyachi Wadi
(Chinchwali), Ambernath who suc-cessfully passed the 10th standard
in the decade 2010-2020 were honoured with educa-tional materials
and certificates. Citizens of tribal areas who are do-ing public
service were also honoured. During
the function food dona-tions was carried out. The felicitation
pro-gramme was organised by Ranpakhar Samajik Sanstha, Thane.
Prominent guests present during the func-tion were Parashuram
Hambir (Market Com-mittee, Deputy Chair-man - Ulhasnagar), Tanaji
Gawanda (For-mer Deputy Sarpanch - Chamtoli), Gajanan
Pardhi (Village WP Member - Chamtoli), Bharat Gawanda (Police
Patil), Bhagwan Shid (ZP School President - Koparyachi Wadi), Balu
Helm (Labour Organi-zation, President - Am-bernath), Babu Pardhi
(Labour Organization, Wangani), Shankar Warghada (Labour
Organization, Farmers Head), Datta Gawanda (Social Worker).
Meritorious students from Adivasi pada felicitated
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4 Tuesday, 5 January 2021
New year came and with COVID guidelines we welcomed it. We all
know that this 2021 will be a criti-cal year for all of us as it
will be a test of our resolve to eradicate COVID-19 and our
commitment to addressing its long-term impacts. Now that we know
that COVID-19 is not only a threat to people’s health and
liveli-hoods today, but it will also amplify dangerous, complex
challenges that threaten the world’s most vulnerable communities
for years and even de-cades to come.
The most important challenge is getting COVID-19 vaccines to
ev-eryone who needs them and it will re-quire mammoth efforts to
build trust within communities who are wary of their government’s
efforts. The re-cent news of promising COVID-19 vaccines gives us
all reason to be optimistic, but people in low-income countries and
refugee communities are likely to be among the last to re-ceive
them. Not only that transport-ing and distributing vaccines around
the world will create a massive logis-tical challenge, but that’s
just part of the equation. The reality is mass vac-cination will
also require a coordinat-ed, collaborative effort to build trust in
the vaccine and the governments who will provide it, particularly
in areas affected by conflict and chronic poverty. Misinformation
will inten-sify existing conflicts and undermine public health
efforts in communities
where safety is a daily concern.The farmers and the migrant
workers are too much affected by the pandemic .The supply chains
are dis-rupted by this pandemic and it will continue to threaten
the precarious livelihoods of small farmers, further limiting
access to nutritious food for millions who are already hungry. As
rural producers struggle to get seeds, fertilizer and other
agricultural re-sources, local markets have shut down, travel has
become difficult, and the credit farmers need to bridge the gap has
grown scarce .The eco-nomic impact of lockdowns will make it even
harder for young people to find employ-ment and for small
business-es to survive. Around the world, lockdowns and shrinking
sales as a result of the pandemic are caus-ing businesses of all
sizes to close, downsize, or reduce costs wherever they can and
this will impact small businesses and informal workers who work
outside of established employ-ment structures many of them are
young and without savings or safety nets to help them weather the
crisis.
The scope and scale of this new reality will take shape in 2021,
re-quiring collaboration across cultures, governments, and
humanitarian aid and development organizations. In countries where
violent conflict and political division impact daily life and
governance, the pandemic is likely to exacerbate tensions and
disrupt cru-
cial peacebuilding and humanitarian aid efforts.
2021 will be a ‘make it or break it’ year, but there is still
potential for economies to recover, If we navigate risks and
capitalize on opportunities .As it is general knowledge that from
finance to HR, all departments have been impacted by the Covid-19
crisis. Employee's careers feel the pain too and many mental health
issues arose due to remote work practices. Now the workplace has
set new boundar-ies and learning opportunities. But the question
is, how to prepare for
2021? What are the challenges that will remain even after the
crisis is over?
In 2021 many people are returning to the workplace, and
compa-
nies have to analyse hybrid mod-els for some employees. The
remote work potential will depend on the type of task, whether a
worker needs to be on-site to do it, interact with others, or use
equipment. Keeping people engaged, self-motivated and driving
innovation with distributed teams remains challenging and at the
same time, companies will still have to define how best to deliver
coach-ing and training and improving col-laboration and innovation
remotely. It is found that remote workers can be highly engaged
with their work when they receive frequent feedback from their
leaders, and it makes them even more regular than working
face-to-face. Network is the most important
communication point and companies have started to include
various tools to improve collaboration, engagement and innovation
in remote work, such as Zoom, Slack, Trello, Mural and many others.
The hybrid workplaces will have to maintain these tools and also
look for more ways to improve their physical organization and the
virtual one.
Lastly improving the quality of the relationship with teammates
through psychological safety has a significant impact on the bottom
line, performance, engagement and in-novation. Companies have to
check whether your remote team has not been innovating lately or
has reduced collaboration and interaction during virtual meetings,
because then there may be a psychological safety issue. It is a
very challenging work to build work atmosphere in a remote
envi-ronment, So companies need to start thinking about developing
a culture based on employees' strengths rather than weaknesses.
They have to do this through equality groups, one-on-one coaching
sessions available for all employees, continuous feedback,
gratitude sharing sessions, and ensur-ing different communication
chan-nels, companies learn to value and support different points of
view. We have to provide hybrid work oppor-tunities, more coaching
and feedback sessions from leaders and by improv-ing online
communication, agility and psychological safety we can prepare
ourselves for the new challenges. The Mantra is be positive think
of new ways to tackle challenges and move forward. Pandemics can
come and go but the show must go on.
THE yEAR 2021- THE SHOw MuST GO ON
By Ashok Dhamija
A 12 day break for any top performing football team can be like
a double edge sword. On one hand it allows play-ers suffering from
nig-gles time to recover and recharge. On the other hand the team
gets add-ed time to train and re- strategize depending on the
previous outcomes in the tournament.
For a team like Mumbai City FC which boasts of one of the most
balanced side in the sev-enth edition of the Hero
Indian Super League (ISL), it proved to be trial by fire even
though they reclaimed the top spot following a hard
fought 2-0 win over Kerala Blasters FC at their home base at GMC
Stadium on Saturday night to stretch their un-
beaten record to seven games in the tourney. .
The Sergio Lobera’s men were off to a flyer as their leading
scorer Adam le Fondre once again provided the Is-landers the lead
early on following a defensive er-ror. A foul on attacking
midfielder Hugo Bou-mous inside the box by Kerala Blaster defender
Costa Nhamoinesu after the former had latched on to his team mate
Vi-cente Gomez back pass saw the referee point
Mumbai City FC stretch their unbeaten record to sevenRegister a
hard fought 2-0 win over Kerala Blasters FC
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Mumbai City FC custodian and Hero of the Match Amrinder Singh
who denied his opponents ensured his fifth clean sheet in eight
outings (Photos courtesy ISL)
Attacking midfielder Hugo Boumous (2nd from Left) scored the
second goal of the match for the winners
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5Tuesday, 5 January 2021
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2020 was a very bad year!The year 2020 had been very bad for all
the people of the world. This year, a virus called Corona had
spread. Due to lock-down, all the essential transactions pertaining
livelihood were ceased. Corona adversely affected education,
health, enter-tainment, employment, business and such many things.
The financial side of the common people became lame. Year 2020 will
be remembered as a very bad experience. I pray to God that, such a
bad year should not be the fate of the people again.
Sudhir Kangutkar, B. R. Nagar, Diva (East).
I can definitely say that not only mine but of almost every
per-son, the experience of 2020 was not good. There was feeling of
anger, frustration, fear and pain.
Aliraza Merchant, Ulwe
I must say Covid 19 pandemic, that nearly engulfed the entire
2020, was a teacher in disguise! Fast paced life had suddenly come
to a standstill. As a mother of a child, daughter to elderly
parents & as a Counsellor; it was a task juggling with all the
roles, dealing with trauma, emotional upheavals of the people in
need. Each & everyone has discovered how much our fami-lies
mean to us. Although forced by lockdown initially, people got a
chance to spend time with self & family. It is heart break-ing
to say that many lives were lost in the pandemic. Being
able to be a support with online counselling, medical guidance
& empower them to recover & return to their families was an
experience that helped me become more wholesome & happy. Year
2020 brought many hearts together, displayed the power of unity.
Jobs lost, businesses gone bankrupt, year 2020 emphasized on the
saying, "As one door closes, another opens". ‘Be ready for the
change’ is the most important lesson of 2020.
Poonam Khairnar, Educationist, Counsellor & Social Activist,
Koperkhairane
I think experience is the wrong word it should be your
‘suffer-ing’ of 2020 which had different levels. Many innocents
lost their lives because of this infection; some innocent lost
their lives because they were poor and some people gave up on their
own due to frustration. The rest who have survived are suffering as
there is no jobs left, no money, no savings, no schools due to
lockdown and restrictions.
Rohit Panikar Mira road
NAVI MUMBAIKARS SPEAK yOUR ExPERIENCE OF THE yEAR 2020?
There is no pleasant experience of the year 2020, worthy of
be-ing shared, since more than 10 months of the year, majority of
the people were under the tension of the novel virus viz. Covid
-19. However, in the absence of the reliable vaccine, thanks to the
dedicated efforts made by the health officials, including doc-tors,
nurses, para-medicals, staff involved in keeping the area clean and
also the police officers, their staff members, the pan-demic has
been kept under control. The services of these novel warriors need
to be complimented. And the families of those
warriors who lost their lives, during the operations, need to be
financially compen-sated. Hopefully, the reliable vaccine,
reportedly now likely to be made available, the situation will
improve and the routine life will become normal again, as fast as
possible. Incidentally with the experience of the past 10 months or
so, people like me, have realised the importance of the fundamental
right to freedom.
Ravikant Shridhar Tawde, Navi Mumbai.
By Chandrashekhar Hendve
Ushering in New Year, Sunil Su-tar, Navi Mumbai Dis-trict Vice
President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and President of Palm
Beach Resi-dency in Nerul Sector-4 distributed free N-95 masks at
autorickshaw stands, street vendors, and employees of Navi Mumbai
Municipal Cor-poration (NMMC).
Since March 22, 2020, Sutar has been working tirelessly to
provide free essentials such as food grains,
sanitizers and masks to the poor, needy, desti-tute and slum
dwellers of Navi Mumbai.
“Unless an effective, curative drug or vaccine is available on
corona, the mask is the only op-tion to prevent the spread
of the virus. Therefore, we will continue to dis-tribute free
masks to the poor, needy citizens of Navi Mumbai,” said Su-nil
Sutar, Vice President - Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Navi Mumbai
District.
Masks distributed By Chandrashekhar Hendve
In the pitch darkness of ignorance, Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule
along with Mahatma Jotiba Phule ignited the light of education for
many, said Dr. Prajakta Modkar, President of Navi Mum-bai
Nationalist Congress while speaking during a programme to mark the
birth anniversary of Krantijy-oti Savitribai Phule. Nisha
Sonawane,
District Working President, Sunita Deshmukh, senior activists
Ujwala Dhole, Madhuri Pardeshi were present on this occasion.
Savitribai Phule ignited a flame that never goes out in a
woman's life: Dr. Prajakta Modkar
By Crime Reporter
A trailer driver died after he lost control of his vehicle and
hit a parked trailer on the side of the road on the JNPT Palaspe
National High-way at Nagandgaon on Friday morn-ing.
The deceased has been identified as Kamlesh Kanhaiyalal Kumar,
32, a driver of Aryan Transport Company in Chirale village in Uran.
Kamlesh was on his way to Navkar CFS in Savla village from JNPT at
around 5
am last Friday and was driving a con-tainer trailer. As his
trailer approached the Reliance petrol pump at Nagand-gaon on the
JNPT Palaspe National Highway, Kamlesh lost control of his trailer
and hit a trailer parked on the side of the road. Kamlesh was
critical-ly injured and was admitted to MGM Hospital, but was
declared dead on ad-mission. The Panvel city police have registered
a case against Kamlesh af-ter it was found that the accident was
due to his negligence.
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EditorialISSUE: 177 5 jANUARy, 2021
The population and the economy of the twin city have grown
multi-fold, but the growth of the in-frastructural facilities has
remained stagnant over the years. The trans-port sector has
suffered the most. Over years, it has deteriorated in quality as
well as in quantity of ser-vice. The demand today far exceeds the
supply. The problem is far more acute for the residents of Navi
Mum-bai, as contrary to the projections of the planners, the
business opportu-nities did not develop in Navi Mum-bai and still
most of the populace of Navi Mumbai has to depend on Mumbai for the
livelihood. For this, they have to undertake gruesome train
journeys everyday. Few years back, there was the hovercraft
facil-ity available for traveling to Mum-bai, which due to
bureaucratic apa-thy was abandoned with no signs of restarting.
Like many of the projects, the hovercraft project has been a big
failure for the CIDCO and is indica-tive of poor homework. Aimed at
providing an eco-friendly alternate transport system and with the
inten-tion of providing relief to the Roads and the Railways, which
were burst-ing on their seams, the hovercraft services were started
from Vashi and CBD. Huge investments were made by CIDCO to develop
hover-ports. However, these services were finally abandoned and the
investments are today seen as in-fructuous expendi-tures. The once
tastefully developed hover-ports, which used to bustle with
activity, today wear a deserted look with shrubs growing wildly.
The area has in fact become home for the encroachers and antisocial
elements.
The hovercraft services were
highly welcomed by the office go-ers as it made traveling faster
and comfortable. Moreover, the joy rides in the evenings and the
special services introduced for the Elephan-ta Caves and the JNPT
were a big rage amongst the residents. Due to these services, the
hover-ports both at Vashi and CBD became tourist spots and Navi
Mumbai an impor-tant destination. However, life was strangulated
out from these services, thanks to the non-cooperation and the lack
of initiative and interest from the state government and the CIDCO.
Initially, when the service was started, the Maharashtra state
government had asked the hover-craft service providers to run from
a temporary terminal at Mumbai to be-gin with. Years rolled by and
the file holding the request for a permanent terminal shuttled from
office to of-fice without any outcome and since then is gathering
dust. The service providers were betrayed and their highly
expensive state-of- the-art hovercrafts are rotting at the
work-shops waiting eagerly to hover again.
It is really a misfortune that a city with immense scope to have
superior quality water transport sys-tem with its calm bay, is
continuing with its limited roads and railways, which are creaking
under ever rising traffic demand. The waterways pro-vide
eco-friendly alternative, that too with no or very miniscule
main-tenance cost for the infrastructure. It can also help in
reducing travel time on roads besides bringing down the
road-accident statistics. Though it has dawned late, still the
traffic plan-ners should seriously try to exploit this vital
resource that Mumbai and Navi Mumbai are blessed with, as it is
better late than never.
Water transport- Need of the hour
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MANGROVE MARSHALLS SwING...
(NMMC). Rohitt Malhotra,
who heads the Man-grove Marshalls said, "After a gap of almost
nine months, we have once again resumed our clean-up drive. 10
vol-unteers along with the NMMC staff removed about one truckload
of non-biodegradable waste like glass, ther-mocol, plastic bottles,
footwear etc. from the mangrove belt adjoin-ing the holding pond at
mini-seashore. This pan-demic should serve as a warning to people
that if they continue to abuse nature, planet, then this pandemic
may not be the last global crisis. We may see many more and even
worse events in our lifetime."
Malhotra further added, "We are Man-grove Marshalls and our
objective is to clean and conserve our nature, es-pecially the
mangrove forests. Mangroves are a complete ecosystem harbouring
life and are the breeding grounds for marine life. Apart from
supplying our planet
with oxygen, the man-groves act as a wall and prevent flooding
during events like Tsunami, saving millions of lives. Cleaning our
ecosystem is our responsibility. As responsible citizens we have to
learn to manage our waste and dispose it in a sensible fashion. The
city, country, planet is our responsibility."
Shivani Ojha, an en-vironmentalist and also a member of Mangrove
Marshalls said, "#Man-groveMarshalls are back on their mission to
clean mangroves. We initiated the drive with the support of 10
Marshalls along with the NMMC staff and cleaned about one truckload
of non-biode-
gradable waste. Approxi-mately the cleanliness of Navi Mumbai
which has a population of around 17 lakh is looked after by only
3500 NMMC staff. We want more peo-ple to come forward and help us
to clean shore-line and mangroves. It is our planet and everyone
should take responsibil-ity of its cleanliness."
A senior official from NMMC said, "We ap-preciate the clean-up
drive undertaken by the Mangrove Marshalls. It is essential that
all of us understand the im-portance of cleanliness and do our bit
in keeping our mangroves and other areas clean. Hope many join in
the drive."
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On the occasion of Savitribai Phule Jayanti, Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) organised a celebration at the of-fice of Sector-II,
Ko-parkhairane. Repre-sentatives of Phule community and female
teachers were also pres-ent on the occasion.
Savitribai was one of the great social reform-ers, teachers,
writers and
poets of India. She is also honoured to be the first female
teacher in India. Together with her husband, Jyotirao Phule, she
played a key role in improving women's rights in India. She is
considered as the moth-er of Indian feminism. In 1848, the Phule
fam-ily established the first school for Indian girls at Bhide Wada
in Pune.
On this occasion,
Mr. Sarang Ambhore, a secondary school teacher, expressed his
thoughts on Savitri Bai Phule and her life. Mali Samaj Bandhav
Dnyaneshwar Mahajan, Kundlink Chaudhary Koparkhairane Mali Sa-maj
President, Rajendra Karne gave guidance on how Phule Ambedkar's
thoughts and conduct can be inculcated in the youth in the
future.
AAP Navi Mumbai celebrates Savitri Bai Phule’s Jayanti
By Dinesh Pawar
Science week was or-ganized in schools in Raigad district on
behalf of District Education and Training Institute, Panvel.
Various competitions were held. The student of RGP School Chirner,
Trisha Kiran Mhatre, won the first place in Uran group in Science
exhibition. The prize-giving ceremony of this compe-
tition was held recently.Science Week was orga-
nized at Raigad Zilla Pari-shad Primary School, Chirner from
24th to 28th February, 2020. The students of class III to IV of the
school par-ticipated in various activities such as drama
competition, poster making competition,
model making competition and other innovative projects.
Student of RGP School Chirner bags first prize in the science
exhibition
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Konkan Railway in coordination North-ern Railway and South-ern
Railway gas decided to augment one Second Class Sleeper coach on
temporary basis in
full reserved Train no. 02283 Ernakulam Jn. – H. Nizamuddin
Duranto Superfast Weekly Spe-cial ex. Ernakulam Jn. on Tuesday 5th
January, 2021 (Day 1). The same will have also have halts
at Panvel (Arr: 22:25 hrs - Day 2) and Vasai Road (Arr: 00:00
hrs Day 3). Passengers are request-ed to note the same and plan
their journey ac-cordingly.
Temporary augmentation of coach in Special Train on Ernakulam
Jn. – H. Nizamuddin route
By Ryhea George
The residents of Sec-tors 6 and 7, New Panvel will now get
bet-ter and smoother roads. The Public Works De-partment (PWD) will
commence the road con-struction work in these sectors soon at a
cost of Rs. 70 lakh. The bhumi-pujan for the same was performed on
Saturday, 2nd January.
Speaking to News-
band, corporator Prajyo-ti Mhatre said, “The re-construction of
the roads will start soon in the area from Sector 6 and 7 i.e. from
Vijaypath - Adai Circle to Tembhode vil-lage”.
The issue of the poor condition of the road was taken by
corpora-tor Prajyoti Mhatre and labour leader Prakash Mhatre with
the CIDCO administration. “CIDCO
has awarded the contract to Zenith Construction. The work is
expected to be completed in the next two months”, said Mhatre.
PWD New Panvel North Division Secretary Sharad Ghule, Young
Activist Pranay Mhatre, Pratiksha Ghule, Ram-kumar Shelar, Putlabai
Sargar, Asha Pawar and other residents were present on this
occasion.
PWD to begin road construction in Sector 6,7 New Panvel soon
By Crime Reporter
Vashi police on Sun-day afternoon res-cued a 20-year-old girl
who was trying to com-mit suicide by jump-ing from a water tank
from the terrace of Jai Jawan building in Vashi Sector-17. The
young woman, is believed to be mentally disturbed. To ensure the
woman was safely rescued the police tactfully engaged her in talks
while another po-lice officer climbed the water tank and brought
her down.
The 20-year-old woman lives with her grandmother and was
employed. For the past few days, her mental balance had
deteriorated due to domestic reasons. At around 4 pm on Sun-day,
she climbed the wa-ter tank on the building to commit suicide. Upon
receiving information, police constables Amrit Sali, Dattatraya
Rongte and women police con-stable Mansi Lad from Vashi police
station rushed to the spot with-out any delay. Even the
firefighters were called in.
Despite attempts the woman threatened to jump off if anyone came
near her. Finally, woman police Mansi Lad and Dattatraya Rongte
en-gaged the woman in talks while, police constable Amrit Sali
climbed on the water tank from be-hind and grabbed the girl and
brought her down.
After that, the wom-an was brought to Vashi police station and
was handed over to her rela-tives.
Suicide bid by mentally disturbed woman foiledThe 20-year-old
had climbed the water tank of her building on Sunday evening
to the spot. Le Fondre netted his sixth goal of the campaign
following a deflection of Kerala Blasters custodian Al-bino Gomes
legs in the 3rd minute of the match. Mumbai City soon doubled their
lead in the 11th minute after Boumous capitalized on a long range
free kick by his fellow mid-fielder Ahmed Jahouh. The nimble
Frenchman made it look easy as he got past his marker and slotted
past Albino. The Islanders though missed on an opportunity to take
complete control on the proceedings six minutes when Mandar Rao
Des-sai's attempt flew over the crossbar after some brilliant
build-up play by Mumbai.
Kerala Blasters how-ever settled soon and
soon made a couple of tries at the rival goal forc-ing Mumbai
City cap-tain and custodian Am-rinder Singh into action. Amrinder
first denied Gomez with a diving save and later stopped Sahal Abdul
Samad's effort. Post change of ends Kerala dominated the
proceedings early on and nearly pulled a goal back in the 55th
minute however their striker Jordan Murray's effort was ruled
offside by the linesman. Boumous who was fouled in the box for the
second time in the match, earned yet anoth-er penalty for his team.
However his attempt was denied by Kerala's Albino. At the other
end, Amrinder came up with some brilliant saves which included a
long ranger of Gomez's to dent any hope of the visitor’s comeback.
The Mumbai keeper did ex-
ceptionally well to help his side maintain their fifth clean
sheet of the season and also ensured his team’s fifth win in a row
against their rivals in ISL. Earlier in the previous outing Mumbai
City riding on goals by Bipin Singh and Le Fon-dre scored a
convincing 2-0 win over Hyderabad FC
Mumbai City Head Coach Lobera in his post-match views
high-lighted the need to kill games off at the earli-est and was
also high-ly appreciated of his custodian and Hero of the Match
Amrinder Singh who denied his opponents three clear chances under
the post to ensure that the team earn three full points. He also
urged on the im-portance of focusing on the next game against
former champions Ben-galuru FC.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE...4
MUMBAI CITy FC STRETCH THEIR...
By Crime Reporter
An unidentified thief entered the Gaondevi temple in Kopari
vil-lage in Vashi sector-26 and stole the mask of Panch Dhatu Devi
from the temple. APMC police have registered a case against the
unidentified thief and have begun investigation.
The Gaondevi temple was closed after the rituals on Saturday
night. However, on Sunday morning, an un-identified thief broke
open the iron
door from the rear entrance and stole the panch metal mask. At
around 7 in the morning, when Lakshmi Patil from the village came
to the temple to perform puja, she noticed that the mask of the
goddess in the temple was stolen. She then informed the vil-lagers
and lodged a complaint at the APMC police station. Based on the
complaint, the police have registered a case against the
unidentified thief and have started searching for him.
Panch Dhatu Devi's mask stolen from Gaondevi temple in Kopari
village
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Nature might have healed itself dur-ing COVID elsewhere, but in
Mumbai Metro-politan region (MMR) the leap year turned out to be a
bleak year when biodiversity has taken a big hit and the concerned
authorities remained unconcerned, activists said.
Despite orders from the State Government and the High Court
ap-pointed mangrove com-mittee, the various col-lectors, local
planners failed to hand over the unreserved mangroves in their
respective ju-risdictions to the forest department. The request by
the State Mangrove Foundation for taking charge of wetlands at
Belpada, Bhendkhal and Panje – all in Uran - for conserving the
bio-diversity also went un-heeded.
“Raigad collector, Dr Nidhi Cahudhary had declared at the High
Court appointed mangrove and wetlands committee meetings re-cently
that there are no wetlands in Uran. Sub-sequently, in her reports
to the Additional Prin-cipal Chief Conservator of Forests (APSSF),
she gave a clean chit to vari-ous project proponents,” said B N
Kumar, direc-tor of NGO NatConnect Foundation.
“The Collector vir-tually said no one killed Uran mangroves as
she came to the conclusion that the sea plants have dried down and
not been destroyed, despite the on-the-spot inspec-tion reports
saying to the contrary,” Kumar said.
This has prompted the environmentalists to approach Chief
Minister Uddhav Thackeray with supportive documents and
photographs. The CM asked the principal secretaries of the Rev-enue
(Dr Nitin Kareer)
and Urban Development (Mahesh Pathak) to look into the
issue.
“State Environment Minister Aditya Thack-eray had in March 2020,
ordered halt to all the construction activities on Panje wetland in
Uran and vowed to save bio-diversity of MMR. Far from stopping
construc-tion, the Navi Mumbai SEZ (NMSEZ) illegally leased out
Panje wetland built several security cabins and vested inter-ests
dried up the place several times, thus chas-ing away the
migratory
birds,” Kumar said. Bombay Natural
History Society (BNHS) which said at least 1,50,000 migratory
and local birds throng Panje, has called for declaring the wetland
as a bird sanctuary. NatConnect too repeatedly took up the issue
with the CM.
The High Court ap-pointed mangrove pro-tection and conservation
committee at its early 2020 meeting asked CIDCO and the Raigad
district administration to conserve Panje as it has all the
characteris-tics of a wetland though might not have been listed
under wetland at-las. As the authorities failed to protect Panje,
environmentalists have called for filing con-tempt cases. CIDCO
threw its hand up in the
air saying the area has been handed over to NMSEZ long ago.
“The High Court panel also directed the restoration of thousands
of mangroves killed at Pagote. It called for re-storing the
Bhendkhal wetland. CIDCO again said these places in Uran taluka are
under NM-SEZ. The restoration is yet to be done,” regret-ted
Nandakumar Pawar, head of Shri Ekvira Aai Pratishtan.
“Information ob-tained by us under the RTI clearly shows
that
the project proponents did not have the dis-trict or the coastal
zone clearances for starting any construction work or landfill, yet
they go scot free,” Pawar said.
Pawar said the wet-land and mangrove de-struction appeared to be
systematic and well planned. The destruc-tion has spread to new
areas such as Ulwe in Uran and Kharghar in Panvel talukas.
The illegal landfill has resulted in block-ing of the free flow
of tidal water which found its own course, inun-dating paddy fields
and low-lying areas, said Dilip Koli, an activist of Paaramparik
Mach-himar Bachao Kruti Samiti (Committee to Save Traditional
Fish-ing Community).
Greens cry foul as virtual clean chit given to infra
projects
By Crime Reporter
A young man named Prasad Koli, a resi-dent of Diwale village in
CBD area, allegedly abducted Somnath Koli, who was having an
af-fair with his wife. The accused Prasad, with the help of his
three brothers, brutally mur-dered Somnath.
The CBD Belapur police solved the case within 12 hours after the
incident and arrest-ed all the four brothers in the murder case,
said Suresh Mengde, Deputy Commissioner of Po-lice, zone-1.
Among those arrest-ed in the murder case are Prasad Koli (27),
Yogesh Koli (23), Datta Koli (29) and Nagesh
Koli (31)- all residents of Diwale village. Pras-ad Koli's wife
had an af-fair with Somnath Koli (39) of the village. The police
said, Sonamath Koli was abducted from Diwale village at around 10
pm on December 30th in a rickshaw. As he was missing, his brother
Devnath Koli lodged a complaint with the CBD police station after
he came to know that Prasad and his three brothers were in-volved
in the abduction. Accordingly, the CBD police registered a case of
kidnapping against the four brothers and started searching for them
under the guid-ance of Senior Inspector Anil Patil, Assistant
In-
spectors of Police Kes-hav Dinde, Pawan Patil, Kalyani Patil,
Sub-In-spector of Police Nitin Sangle, Vishnu Dubal.
The team investi-gated and arrested the accused Prasad, Yogesh
and Datta at around 1.30 am the next day.
During interroga-tion, Prasad confessed to have killed Som-nath
by hitting his head with stone and wooden board at Retibandar near
Diwale in CBD. The body was hidden under a rock near the crime
area. The police then went to the site and took into custody the
body of the deceased, informed Deputy Com-missioner of Police
Suresh Mengde.
Man having illicit relationship murderedFour involved in the
murder arrested by police within 12 hours
Creating a desert in destroying lush green mangroves - JNPT
By Ryhea George
MLA Prashant Thakur has de-manded that the greenfield Navi
Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) should be named after D.B
Patil, a veteran politician and social activist who worked for the
benefit of the farmers in Navi Mumbai area espe-cially in Uran and
in Panvel city. “His contribution to this city and for the working
class is well known and hence it would be apt to name the airport
after him”, said Prashant Thakur.
The Urban Development Minister Eknath Shinde had earlier
proposed NMIA to be named after late Shiv Sena leader Balasaheb
Thackeray.
From the last few days, Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde's social
media handles has been promoting the name
of Balasaheb Thackeray for the Navi Mumbai International
Airport.
“The lands of small and big villages in Panvel and Uran have
been used for the construction of NMIA. As D.B. Patil has worked
for the people of Navi Mumbai, Uran
and Panvel city, the people would be happy if the name of D.B
Patil is given to the airport. I don't think the Urban Development
Minister Eknath Shinde will oppose the decision to name the Navi
Mumbai Airport after D.B Patil,” said Thakur.
NMIA should be named after D. B Patil: MLA Prashant Thakur