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800 patients to receive free
Super Speciality treatment
General Body accepts the proposal made by Hiranandani hospital
By Vijay Bhor /
Chandrashekhar Hendve
CBD-BELAPUR: After
much delay, NMMC’s
general body has
accepted the proposal
to treat the patients
referred to it by the
civic body in its super
speciality section free
of cost. The facility
however will be
limited to 800 patients
in a year.
All patients
including those
suffering from chronic
diseases like cancer,
heart attack and
kidney ailments, the
treatment for which is
very expensive, will be
extended this facility.
limits and those
whose family income
is less than Rs 3 lakhs
per year will be
eligible to apply for it.
Every expense including bed charges,
consulting doctor’s
fees, diagnostic tests,
food and medicines
will be borne by the
hospital. Only those
staying within Navi
Mumbai municipal
The facility has
been offered by the
hospital management
in return for the lease
of a portion of the
hospital building
where the Hiranandanis have established a
300 bed facility. The
General Body presided
over by Mayor Sagar
Naik put its stamp of
approval on the
arrangement on
Friday.
Speaking on the
motion, the corporators demanded that
NMMC should establish a separate cell
with a doctor in
charge to establish
rapport between the
patients’ families and
the hospital establishment. “This is necessary because of the
background of the
patients,” explained
Naik.
“The arrangement
has been arrived at so
that no one will have
to go without treatment for want of
money,” Naik declared
at the meeting.
Budget Presentation at
General Body Meet
Those two painters
are debating over the
subject whether to
paint Narendra Modi’s
portrait or Arvind Kejriwal’s on that blank
poster.
Standing Committee Chairman Suresh Kulkarni presents the NMMC Budget 201516 in addition to Standing Committee suggestions to Mayor Sagar Naik in General
body Meeting. On this Occasion, NMMC Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare, Leader
Of House Anant Sutar, Leader Of Opposition Saroj Patil were present on The dais.
General Body Meeting announced that Budget Discussion will be on 2 March 2015.
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More consumers to
receive piped gas
MGL agrees to expedite the work
on the system: Santosh Pachlag
By Vijay Bhor
CBD-BELAPUR: “In
response to systematic
follow up by Bharatiya
Janata Party,
Mahanagar
Gas Limited
(MGL) has
agreed to
expedite the
pipeline laying
work to reach
28,000 more
consumers,”
said Santosh
Pachlag,
General
Secretary of
BJP’S city unit
on Friday.
Giving
details of the
project, he said that in
all 58,000 consumers
had registered their
demand for piped
cooking gas and
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the budget presented by
Railway Minister
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Thursday, many Navi
Mumbaikars along
with city party leaders
were disappointed.
Commenting on the
budget, NCP leader Dr.
Sanjeev Naik said
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Humanist rikshaw
driver felicitated
By Chandrashekhar Hendve
VASHI: Rikshaw
driver Vijay Bhagavanta Kale is a resident of
Sector-2, Sanpada. Unlike most other rikshaw operators, he is a
man with a golden
heart which throbs for
the disabled and the
old. For years, he has
been ferrying the senior
citizens, the handicapped and sometimes
even the stranded
school children free of
cost. He is also known
to return the articles
left behind by forgetful
passengers by searching them out of the
crowd.
He is a man of patriotic spirit too. That
has made him to be a
part of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s cam-
paign ‘Save the girl
child, educate the girl
and save the country’.
Kale is a member of
D R Patil Rikshaw Chalak Malak Sanghatna
headed by Somnath
Talekar. The Sanghatna has recently conferred the Adarsh
Rishaw
Chalak
Puraskar on him. His
colleagues Ramdas
Deshmukh, Shashikant Jadhav, Sampat
Waikar, Ravi Chavan,
Ganesh Patil and
Madhukar Bhausaheb
joined together to felicitate him for having
won the Award. “I humbly accept the Award. I
am grateful to my
friends and well wishers who have recommended my name for
the Award,” he said accepting the Award and
responding to the felicitation.
Woman returning from wedding attacked
and robbed by Chain Snatchers
By Vikram Gaikwad
PANVEL: A woman
returning home after
attending a wedding
was attacked by a duo
of chain-snatchers who
robbed off her jewelries
worth Rs 2,31,000 on
Thursday.
The victim, Sarita
Jeetakar (24) is a resi-
dent of Kaloke village of
Panvel and was attending a wedding in Kalan
Samaj Hall, also in Panvel. After attending the
wedding at 8pm she left
to return home. As she
was walking towards
her car, two chain
snatchers riding a red
motorbike attacked her.
They robbed her jewelries worth more than
two lakhs before fleeing.
She tried to raise alarm
but the delinquents had
already fled the scene in
the dark of night. Accordingly, she has
lodged a complaint
against two with Panvel Police.
Concert by Rajan-Sajan Mishra
PANVEL: Well known cultural organization, Panvel Cultural Association is organizing a music concert by Bandhu Pandit Rajan-Sajan Mishra
on Saturday, 28 February, 2015 at 8.30 pm at Adya Krantiveer Vasudev
Balwant Phadke Hall at Panvel as a part of its silver jubilee celebration. All music lovers are requested to take advantage of the occasion.
Further details may be had from Jagannath Joshi over mobile 98923
88960.
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Pankaja Munde to
visit the city
By Chandrashekhar Hendve
Pankaja Munde,
Daughter of late Gopinath Munde and niece
of late Pramod
Mahajan and
also Minister
for Rural Development and
Woman Child
Welfare Maharashtra Government will
be visiting the city on
March 1, 2015.
Jay Bhagwan Mahasangha is organizing
a “Bhavya Samaj Melava” in the city and Minister Pankaja Munde
will be attending the
event.
The
event will be
held on the
City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO)
exhibition center ground,
near Vashi highway
and Vashi Station, sector-30 Vashi at 4 pm on
March 1.
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28 February - 6 March 2015 Co-operative Housing Societies
Housing Management - 58
Disconnection of water service
to the defaulters - Part III
A K Bhattacharyya
In the earlier issue
we have discussed
about some of the available provisions to deal
with the defaulters in a
cooperative housing society. In this issue we
will discuss the concluding part of problem.
You were requested
through me earlier issues to favour me with
your studied observations, suggestions, criticism, contributions on
the concepts as mentioned hereunder to facilitate further action at
our end.
The provision 12A(5)
reads as, “Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for
the time being in force:a) in
Greater
Bombay, the Court of
Small Causes, Bombay.
b) in area for
which a Court of Small
Causes is established
under the provisional
Small Causes Court
Act, 1887 CIX of 1887
such Court, and
c) Elsewhere, the
Court of the Civil Judge
(Senior Division) shall
have jurisdiction to decide any application
made under sub-section
(2), and no other court
shall have jurisdiction
to entertain such application. No appeal shall
lie from any order made
on such application:
but in Greater Bombay
a bench of two judges of
the Court of Small
Causes, Bombay which
shall not include the
judge who made such
order, and elsewhere
the District Court, may
for the purpose of satisfying itself that the order made was according
to law, call for the case
in which such order
was made and the
bench or court aforesaid
or the District Judge on
any Judge to whom the
case may be referred by
the District Judge,
Application form for 8th batch for subsidized Training
Programme for Manager in CHS ( scheduled to start
by February / March 2015) available in the office of
the Federation up to third week of February. Limited
seats. 3 months course. All Saturdays 6 pm to 8 pm
& Sundays 10 am to 2 pm. Eligibility H Sc XII pass.
Age 18 and above. Certificates are issued jointly by
Jt. Registrar Cooperative Societies (CIDCO) & Federation to successful candidates. Vacancies in Navi
Mumbai are more than 2000. Successful candidates
of earlier batches are gainfully employed. One time
fee (including study materials, law books stationeries
etc.) Rs. 2500/-only.
shall pass such order
with respect thereto as
it or he thinks fit.”
The provision 12 A
(6) reads as, “Any manager who contravenes
the provision of subsection (1) shall on conviction, be punished with
imprisonment for a
term which may extend
to three months, or
with fine, or both.”
Combined reading of
sub-section 12A(1),
12A(2), 12A(3) and
12A(4) leads to conclude
that in case the manger has contravened the
provision of sub-section
(1), and a member
makes an application to
the court for a direction
to restore such supply
or service, the court on
enquiry finds that the
applicant who was enjoying the essential supply of water, and that
it was cut off by the
manager without just
and sufficient cause,
the Court shall make
an order directing the
Manager to restore
such supply or service
before a date to be specified in the order but no
penalty to be imposed at
that stage.
It appears that the
question of imposition
of any penalty arises
only when the manager fails to restore the
essential services within the period ordered by
the court.
We may look at the
existing situation. Tthe
cooperative housing societies are to make payment of the entire
amount of the bills for
the water charges
claimed by the Municipality against the quantity of water received as
recorded by the water
meters installed in the
societies within the
specified dates. Society
fix of the liability of individual member as per
its byelaws about his
share to be paid to the
society and collect the
amount for onward payment to the municipality on that account to
avoid disconnection of
water supply.
When a member
fails to pay his share to
the society, there arises a short fall and the
municipality is in no
way interested to hear
any excuse of the internal problem of the sociCont. on pg. 4
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Weeklong Celebration To Promote
Usage Of State Language Concludes
At St. Joseph’s SSC Board
Students perform the Koli folk dance on the occasion
Text and Photo
tions such as Marathi
By Ashok Dhamija
poem recitation, MarNEW PANVEL: To athi proverb writing,
mark the birthday of word formation, news
the famous Marathi reading and elocution
poet and laureate Sri. were conducted. StuV. V. Shirwadkar. St. dents enthusiastically
Joseph’s High School participated and ex(State Board) , celebrat- plored more knowledge
ed Marathi Language about Marathi language
Day with great zest and and culture. A special
gusto on 27th Feb,2015. assembly enriched with
A weeklong celebration myriad cultural perforwas held in the school mances was conducted
with various competi- on this day, followed by
a special speech in Marathi. Elated winners
were felicitated. Speaking on the occasion Head
Mistress Saeeda Javed
said “Language moulds
the personality of a person and knowing their
roots helps in character
building of a person. The
initiative taken by our
MD Grace Pinto has
been the inspiration behind all such cultural
programs”
Xavierian’s Celebrates
Marathi Basha Divas
Dressed with the vibrant hues of yellow and orange students showcase Lavani which
is one of the folk dance of the state
Text and Photo
by Ashok Dhamija
AIROLI: The day
27th February, 2015
which marks the
Marathi Basha Divas
(Marathi Day) turned
out to be a vibrant one
as the students and
the teachers of St.
Xavier’s High School,
Airoli turned up in
traditional costumes to
celebrate the occasion.
On the occasion
speeches on the importance of Marathi
language was delivered
by the students. Traditional folk dances koli
and lavani dances
highlighted the rich
culture of Maharashtra.
A humorous skit had
the audience in
ruptures.
Chief Guest
Sanchit Chaudhari –
Music Director (Bollywood) congratulated
the students and spoke
of how the usage of
state language helps in
preserving its culture
and enriching ones
experience.
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NMMC to beautify Nerul lake 70 lakh worth ‘Skills And Employability
By Dinesh Kamath
NAVI MUMBAI: Navi
Mumbai Municipal
Corporation is planning
to beautify Nerul lake.
Around the lake will
be a fitness park, jogging path, an amphitheatre and an open
air gym. The city residents who enjoy
riding two wheelers,
especially the cycle,
can use this place to
have their fun. The
cycling track will soon
be ready. Cycling track
and jogging track will
be constructed separately. They will touch
the lake on one side and
Palm Beach Road on
the other side.
Once the beautification of Nerul lake is
completed, this spot is
bound to attract many
tourists. Even the local
residents are bound to
pay constant visit to
this spot especially to
exploit these tracks.
Migratory birds will be
an additional tourist
attraction.
The jogging track
will be made in such a
way that it will suit
professional runners
and the wooden floor
appearance of the
track will make it
more attractive to
those who use it.
There will be light
poles constructed
around the lake and
this will brighten up
the place at night.
Those who are interested in fishing will be
granted permission to
pursue their hobby
Cont. on pg. 4
Augustine celebrates ‘Marathi Day’
A skit being performed by the students.
Text and Photo
Nerul. Marathi folk
by Ashok Dhamija
dances, poems, skit &
NERUL: A Special as- songs were performed
sembly was conducted by the primary and secto mark the celebration ondary students of the
of Marathi day at St institute. Elocution
Augusitne High School, competitions, Essay
writing were also conducted. Teachers too
also gave speeches on
importance of Marathi
day and contribution of
Marathi in the field of
Literature.
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’ project in Navi Mumbai to empower
over 3000 candidates
By Hema Gobindram Lobo
NAVI MUMBAI : The
Rotarian community of
leading social workers
has been renowned for
well cultured leaders
who come together to
create a positive, lasting change in and
around them.
Supported solely by
voluntary contributions from
Rotarians and
friends of the
Foundation who
share its vision
of a better world,
the efforts of Rotary International have sustained over 37
years in Navi
Mumbai.
Its Computer
Aided Literacy
(CAL) project in
10 underprivileged schools in Navi
Mumbai with an outlay
of over Rs 30 lacs benefitting over 8000 students over the past 2
years has indeed been
an outstanding outreach project which has
managed to percolate
down to numerous people to add value to their
personal and professional lives.
“A major project being currently implemented is vocational
training project for girls
and young women in
slums to gain meaningful employment, project
cost Rs 30 lacs plus
with over 1500 beneficiaries,” informed Executive committee member Prem Kumar.
“Now with an aim
to expand the benefit of
‘Skills and Employability’ project to a larger
audience this year we
have embarked upon an
ambitious plan to double the number of beneficiaries to over 3000,”
stated President, Rotary Club of Navi Mumbai Mahesh Aranake.
He further added that
the estimated cost of the
project is around Rs 70
lacs of which the global
partners would fund
50% of the project cost,
he added.
To meet the remaining fund requirement the Club has ap-
pealed to Corporate
Houses, Philanthropists and generous individuals to pitch in.
A Mega Fund Raising Musical Nite by the
renowned Klub Nostalgia at Vishnudas Bhave
Auditorium on Saturday February 28 2015
at 8.00 pm will prove
that its
catchline
MUSIC
FOR A
CAUSE
will also
created
entertainment
without
a pause.
“In a
t r u l y
magical
way the
songs of
yesteryears and a three hour
SOUND SURROUND,
at the highly refined
auditorium in the company of intense music
lovers, has always been
an experience which
lasts to relive and revive the joys of life for a
long time to come for
one and all,” said Mrs.
Venkatraman a great
connoisseur in the
world of melody.
President RCNM
Rtn. Mahesh Aranake
is
available
on
+919820211735.
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28 February - 6 March 2015 Businessman robbed by muggers in motion
Issue : 44
28 February - 6 March 2015
Railway budget
and Mumbaikars
Most residents of Mumbai are sore with railway minister Suresh Prabhu for not making any
special provision for the city’s suburban section
which has been crumbling under the crushing
weight of passengers. Even the state government
has been pushing for improving transportation by
building coastal roads, elevated roads, metro and
mono rail etc. But alas, none of it has helped to
reduce the crowds on the local trains. We have however always held that nothing should be done to
attract more people to Mumbai as it is already over
crowded, instead the government’s policies should
be aimed at diverting the flow of people away from
Mumbai. That can be done by reducing job opportunities on the one hand and creating the same elsewhere, in satellite townships etc. Already, the high
prices of real estate have been putting off people
from migrating to the city. The flow of jobseekers
from the ‘developed’ southern states has stopped
long ago. Those coming from the northern states
need to be directed elsewhere. That apart,
every commuter interviewed during last few
years has been vocal about the lack of cleanliness
at railway stations as well as on the trains. Clearly,
Prabhu, a resident of the city, has taken that to the
heart. His first stress has been on improving cleanliness followed by security. Innovations like the introduction of vacuum toilets will be welcomed by
one and all. Now he will have to concentrate on
maintaining them. Most toilets on the railway platforms suffer from neglect. They need better maintenance.
One important criticism directed at the budget
is about the absence of any new trains. That is indeed disheartening; but most existing rolling stock
is old and crumbling and needs replacement. Probably Prabhu wants to concentrate on that though
there is no specific mention of it in the budget. As
for projects like new rail lines, his predecessor
Sadananda Gowda had announced that it is the government’s policy to complete the ongoing projects
rather than starting new ones. Already there are
projects remaining incomplete for more than 40
years! They cannot be completed unless necessary
funds are provided. Obviously, Prabhu is continuing with the laudable policy. Many of our trunk
routes like the Konkan railway need duplication.
One only hopes that hailing as he is from Konkan,
Prabh’s budget has made provision of adding a second track to the Konkan route.
Finally, the minister’s announcement that seats
can be reserved four months in advance is most
disheartening. It was introduced by Mamata Bannerji as a desperate measure; the railways had no
money even to pay the salaries. By extending the
date of reservation, she knew that people will come
and line up with cash. But from average man’s point
of view it is most inconvenient. No one can fathom
what is in store four months ahead. It will be the
non-fare-paying passengers like the government
employees who will benefit from the measure. We
would therefore urge the railway minister to reverse the decision as soon as possible.
By Vikram Gaikwad
NERUL: A businessman walking by the footpath
in front of Terna Medical College of Nerul was
robbed of his suitcase containing cash worth Rs
1, 45,000 by two robbers on motorbike on Thursday.
Pravin Gawade, the businessman was on his
way walking down the street in front of Terna
College of Sec-28 of Nerul on Thursday. As he was
walking, two muggers riding a motorbike attacked
him and snatched his bag containing cash worth
more than one lakh before bolting. Accordingly,
Pravin has lodged a complaint against the two
with Nerul Police.
NMMC to...
tions or events can be
organized and presented before 1000 audiences. The park will also
have an open-air gym
and parking lot.
The fitness zone will
also attract both the
tourists and local residents thus adding to
the revenue of NMMC.
The greenery factor will
also not be ignored
while beautifying the
lake and its surroundings.
municipality on the
plea of nonpayment of
any part of the total
claim. Thus to protect
the legitimate lawful
right of the sincere
members of the society
undisturbed due to nonpayment of a part of
the bill by the defaulting member and facilitate uninterrupted water supply to the deserving members.
d) No arrogant
member should be allowed to illegally enjoy
all the services without
paying dues to the societies.
e) Navi Mumbai
Cooperative Housing
Federation Ltd put this
suggestion for consideration with the relevant
Government notifications and the views of
the Judiciary before the
expert committee who
in turn originally accepted it for onward submission of the same to
the Government for consideration. Unfortunately the same could
not find place in the new
model byelaws, the reason for the same being
best known only to the
approving authority.
f)
Provision No
12A of the Maharashtra
Ownership Flats Act
allows the disconnection of essential services if made with proper
justification as mentioned above.
Your valuable opinion is cordially invited.
Application form for
8th batch for subsidized
Training Programme
for Manager in CHS
( scheduled to start by
February /March 2015)
available in the office
of the Federation up to
last week of February.
Limited seats.
3
months course. All
Saturdays 6pm to 8pm
& Sundays 10am to
2pm. Eligibility H Sc
XII pass. Age 18 and
above. Certificates are
issued jointly by Jt.
Registrar Cooperative
Societies (CIDCO) &
Federation to successful
candidates. Vacancies
in Navi Mumbai are
more than 2000. Successful candidates of
earlier batches are
gainfully employed.
One time fee (including study materials,
law books stationeries
etc.) Rs. 2500/-only.
near the lake under the
supervision of the lake
authorities.
The park will have
walls on all sides to prevent unwanted intrud-
Co-operative...
ety and consider it as
the defaulter to initiate
disconnection.
Now let us consider
the situation of the society 1) Where from
should it arrange the
deficit money to avoid
disconnection of water
supply?
2) Why the sincere members should
suffer water disconnection even after making
due payment on that
account and no fault of
them ?
3) Where is the
enabling provision for
the society to ask the
law-abiding members
to compensate the nonpayment of defaulting
member?
4) Why the society and the Municipality should not be considered to be similarly situated considering their
individual activities in
this aspect?
5) Is it not the
fact that municipality
is purchaser of water,
supplies the same to its
consumers and collect
money to pay back to
the seller including recovery of its cost of supply.
6) In what way a
society differ in its activity in this particular
issue from that of the
municipality?
7) When the service units like municipality, electric supply
corporation, telephone
nigam etc. have the
Cont. from pg. 3
ers. The park will have
a huge statue which
will be called the jewel
of Navi Mumbai and it
will also have an amphitheatre where funcCont. from pg. 2
enabling clause in their
respective Acts, why
should the housing societies should be deprived of such facility
and thereby to cause
immense problem and
damage to the housing
societies?
8) Such a situation has been cropped
up because the Municipality, MSEB, BEST,
MTNL are equipped
with the authority under their respective
laws while there is complete absence of any
such provision in MCS
Act, 1960 or MCS Rules
1961 nor even in the
approved Byelaws of the
CHS.
9. The followings
are the justification to
induct such an enabling power to the Cooperative Housing Societies :a) No law of natural justice can force
the sincere and law
abiding members to
bear the burden of the
defaulting member for
an indefinite period,
running to years together, in many cases.
b) Disconnection
of water supply should
not be considered as a
penalty imposed to the
defaulting member.
c) The basic intention is to bring down
the amount of the bill
for water charge to the
limit of the paying capacity of the society and
to avoid disconnection
of water supply by the
Readers may enjoy free consultation
with the author on all working days
Morning — 11 am to 1 pm —
Navi Mumbai Co-operative Housing
Federation Ltd. Tel : 2789 7301
Evening — 5 pm to 7 pm with appointment
at Keshav Kunj, Plot No 75, Sector 26,
Parsik Hill, CBD Belapur.
Mob : 98204 49452, Tel : 2752 1049 / 1050
A K Bhattcharyya, Chairman, Navi Mumbai
Co-operative Housing Federation Ltd.
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Meeting held with MSRTC’s MD
to discuss Panvel ST depot issue
T20
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Patil T20 Cup 2015 between
ONGC (Bowling) and TATA
Sports Club (Batting) in
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Letters to the Editor....
Save Aarey?
It is very shocking that BMC”s proposal for
Metro line III car shade in Aarey colony will make
vanish 2298 trees including the very rare Baobab
tree which is more than 100 years old. In the name
of development, the BMC and the Government will
not only destroy the city’s important green cover but in the process will
also cut a Baobab tree.
The Aarey Milk colony is 4000 acre of mass land situated in North
Mumbai adjacent to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
The rapid urbanization and development, pollution and other evils
of a megapolis are posing a serious environmental threat to the city.
Trees and plants are the most effective atmosphere quality controlling
mechanisms known to scientists.
The forest play a crucial economic, social and cultural role in our
country. Nature created adequate resources for their survival. However, because of meddling by the human being the resources have been
polluted.
Awareness among the people and active involvement is necessary
to protect our city’s green lung. Trees are city’s life line. They should be
treated with great care.
NGOs and other groups who joined to fight to Save Aarey should be
praised.
Citizens should come forward to support the activities to save the
Aarey colony.
- Probir Kumar Bose, New Panvel
Railway Budget User Friendly
The Railway Budget received a mixed response from Mumbai’s commuters and political parties as no big ticket announcements were made,
but the impetus to the third phase of Mumbai Urban Transport Project
(MUTP) stuck since 2011 and absence of hike in passenger fares, security cameras for safety of women were some measure welcomed. Though
no new trains have been announced for Mumbai or Maharashtra, not
increasing passenger fares and prices of seasonal passes are welcome
moves.
The introduction of air conditioned local trains will make the daily
commute better and reduce accidents as doors will have to be closed
when the train is on the move. It is indeed a real boon that the passenger fares have not been increased. Soon after Narendra Modi came to
power, there was a sharp increase in fares for seasonal passes. That
was not repeated. There is greater thrust on safety and customer service and user friendly measures.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu revealed that the stalled MUTP
III project would be speeded up, but he did not mention specifics. The
third phase of MUTP envisages additional tracks for 517 km which
could operate 266 trains at a cost of Rs. 52,000 crore. This includes 76
km of new suburban corridor linking Vasai-Virar on Western Railway
to Diva-Panvel on Central Railway which could enable commuters in
far western suburbs to travel to Navi Mumbai. It is indeed a right
move in the right direction. The Mumbai-Ahmadabad Bullet train will
benefit business community and such a super-fast or a Rajadhani Train
is the need for Mumbai-Chennai passengers in the next Railway Budget.
- C. K. Subramaniam, Sanpada
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By Umesh Parida
PANVEL: A meeting
was held between the
MSRTC’s MD Sanjay
Khandare and the Panvel MLA, MSRTC traffic general manager Mr
Ratnaparkhi, Panvel
Pravasi Sangh Executive Shrikant Bapat
and vice chairman
Yashwant Thakre, besides others. The meeting was held on Tuesday to resolve the issues
faced by the commuters
in the depot.
Panvel being the
gateway city to Kon-
kan and other parts of
the state, the commuters are facing the worst
woes while using the
ST service. The ST depot is earning Rs 2 cr
approximately with daily passage of 4000 bus
services. The representative has raised the
issue of losses incurred
as people move on by
using private vehicles.
The representatives
took on the issue of
BOT development of the
MSRTC Panvel depot.
The MSRTC’s MD assured that the BOT pro-
posal is considered at
the state government
level and a decision will
be soon taken. They
have demanded complete concretisation of
the entire parking areas of the depot.
Other demands included bus services between Swar Gate and
Mumbai, time table,
relaxation on price of
the tickets for senior
citizen, more buses to
Dadar, Kalyan, Karjat
and Khopoli, besides
filling up of the vacant
positions, etc.
Reporters protest against
attack on journalist
By Umesh Parida
ALIBAG: The Raigad
District Journalists had
organized a protest on
Wednesday to the
Raigad Superintendent
of Police. The protest
a report while the land
survey was going on for
the Delhi Mumbai corridor. There was some
altercation with the villagers. The reporters of
the entire district con-
Mahavarkar. They demanded stringent action against the culprits.
The other members
of the reporters’ delegation included Nagesh
was organized to demand the immediate
arrest of those involved
in attacking journalist
Kamalakar Ohal at
Mangaon.
It can be noted that
the journalist had gone
to Bhal village to cover
demned the incident.
A protest march
was taken to the
Raigad SP office led by
a steering committee
head S M Deshmukh.
The members presented a memorandum to
the SP Dr Shashikant
Kulkrani-Vice Chairman, district Marathi
Pratrakar Sangh, Milind Ashtivkar- Secretary,
Marathi
Pratrakar Sangh, Konkan Division, besides
reporters of various
newspapers.
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E-governance website of
PMC launched
By Umesh Parida
PANVEL: Under the egovernance solution, the
Panvel Municipal Council has launched a website on Thursday. The
launching ceremony
was done by Panvel
MLA in presence of
Bank of India GM Sardar Taralochan Singh
and others.
The Panvel Municipal Council has been following the e-way governance post the massive
use of the same by Navi
Mumbai Municipal Corporation, City and Industrial Development
Corporation and other
local government agencies. The Panvel Municipal Council is slowly
moving on to the information technology platform though it was
formed several years
before CIDCO and
NMMC in 1852. However, it lacked in taking
the IT edge.
The PMC took up
the step with the help of
Bank of India. Speaking
on the occasion, the BoI
GM Saradar Taralochan Singh said, “The
website was developed
over the last four years
for PMC. The BoI has
provided an assistance
of Rs 5.53 lacs. More
steps will be taken by
our bank to provide
more help to Panvel city
towards its beauty and
growth. This will enable the city to have picnic spots.”
The website contains map of the city,
development plan, advertisement policy, government applications,
birth and death registration, citizen complaints, besides outstanding dues, etc.
PMC President C K
Gharat, CO Mangesh
Chitale and others were
present at the event.
Rotary Club’s event on nature tourism
By Umesh Parida
PANVEL: The Rotary
Club of Panvel Sunrise
organized an event on
its activities. The
Rotarians tried to
deliberate issues
related to nature
tourism, etc. The
event was held at the
Yusuf Mehrauli Centre,
Tara. The Rotarians
expressed the hope to
generate new energy on
various fields.
Debating on the
issue, Rotarian and
general secretary Dr
More consumers...
deposited the required
security amount. Out
of them, 40,000 are
already receiving
piped gas. “The
progress of work in
giving connections to
the rest has been very
slow and BJP has
been receiving complaints about the
Cont. from pg. 1
same. As a result of
the persistent follow
up by the party
activists, MGL has
agreed to speed up the
work and commission
connections for the
remaining 18,000
spread across the city
between Airoli and
CBD. MGL has drawn
Anil Parmar expressed
that positive energy
will be spread while
working in Rotary
Clubs. The contribution of Rotary Club to
environment management was also spoken
about.
up plans to go further
and provide connections to 72,000 consumers and the work
will be completed in
the next few months,”
he added.
“The arrangement
will go a long way in
meeting the shortage
of cylinders often felt
by the consumers in
the city,” he said.
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PTPS and PRH distribute mask
to protect against swine flu
By Umesh Parida
PANVEL: To increase
the public awareness
against swine flu, the
Panvel
Taluka
Patrakar Sangh and
Panvel Rural Hospital
on Wednesday organized a program. The
people at the Panvel ST
depot and also the ST
staff members were given masks besides the
ST staff.
Keeping in mind
the rising number of
the avian flu among
people there was one
patient registered with
swine flu in Kamothe.
Keeping in mind the
situation of unavailability of beds the people fear that the numbers of swine flu cases
may go up.
Panvel ST depot,
being located centrally,
the reporters and the
rural hospital thought
that it is the best option
to increase the awareness. Hence they organized a program to dis-
tribute masks to the
commuters, passengers, besides staffs of ST
to increase the awareness level.
In the event, the
PRH Superintendent B
S Lohre spoke on the
issue to provide more
knowledge to those who
attended the event. ST
senior depot manager R
G Pardesi, PTPS
Madhav Patil, besides
many journalists were
present for the program.
Ls District President Dr Namita
A Mishra adopts a village
NAVI MUMBAI: Following the Campaign
‘Swachcha Bharat’ and
for security of girls and
women and their convenience, Lioness District
President Dr Namita A
Mishra has adopted the
village Anjurpada, Bhi-
borewells. So far more than 15 toilets
have been constructed by Lioness District and more are in pipeline. Lioness
District has carried out activities worth
more than 85 lakh rupees so far Everyone praised the efforts of Dr Namita
Mishra for taking the lead and doing
these need-based activities.
wandi on behalf of Lioness District. Alongwith the Sarpanch
Haresh, six toilets
blocks and two borewells
were inaugurated on 25
February 2015 by worthy hands of MDP Ls
Lalita Dave and Lioness
Multiple Coordinator
and PDG Ln O L Dave.
Dr Namita thanked
all the Presidents and
DC’s for contributing
handsomely for construction of toilets and