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Pedestrians forced towalk on road behind

Vashi Fire BrigadeThe ongoing constructionwork carried out by the firebrigade department behindVashi fire brigade has com-pletely destroyed the foot-path forcing the pedestriansto walk on the road…

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Police succeeds inresolving murder case

of Harigram, PanvelThe Panvel Taluka policehave succeeded in crack-ing the murder case of aman whose body wasfound in a black colouredbag on December 9 in riv-er Gadhi in Panvel taluka.The Panvel Taluka policeidentified the deceased asImran Fahimuddin Khan(20) from his clothes as noidentity was found with thebody and have arrested awoman and her husbandin the case…

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Panipuri vendor diesafter an unknown

vehicle rams over him An unidentified vehiclerammed over a Panipurivendor who was on the wayto Kamothe from Panvel onSaturday. Panvel city po-lice have launched theprobe against the unidenti-fied driver.The deceased,has been identified as Har-ishchandra NanhakuramYadav, 35, who stayed inKamothe and had a smallstall of panipuri in front ofMGM hospital…

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Navi Mumbai to getRoller Skate Park soon

The project likely to become reality by October, 2020

By Abhitash D.Singh

NAVI MUMBAI: Hereis good news for theroller skating lovers.The Navi Mumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation(NMMC), which hadplanned to develop aroller skating park atSector 11 (A), Nerul inthe year 2015, has de-cided to turn this intoreality by October,2020.

The civic body is inconsultation with the

skating experts fromvarious countries. Theskating culture whichis more dominant in-

ternationally, is slowlycatching up in India.

Contd. on pg. 2

By Abhitash D. Singh

NAVI MUMBAI: Thepet lovers in the cityhave been demanding apet crematorium sinceseveral years. The issuehas also been taken upby the BJP Corporator,Netra Shirke, who is

currently the Chairper-son of Swacch MissionCommittee of the NaviMumbai MunicipalCorporation (NMMC) inthe standing committeemeetings but so farthere has been no head-way in this regard.

While speakingwith Newsband, NetraShirke said, “I alsohave many pets athome and hence under-stand this issue quitewell. As of now there isonly one pet crematori-um and that too is inParel, Mumbai. Most of

Navi Mumbai shouldhave a pet crematorium,

say pet loversThe issue has been raised by

Netra Shirke several times at

Standing Committee meetings

the time when a pet diesthe Navi Mumbaikarshave to go all the wayto Mumbai which is adifficult task. I have de-manded a pet cremato-rium in the city atNMMC standing com-mittee meet. While

there have been assur-ances, so far there hasbeen no progress in thisregard.”

Shirke added, “Peo-ple are greatly attached

Contd. on pg. 2

Contd. on pg. 4

Panvel Railway Station inpathetic condition

By Ryhea George

NAVI MUMBAI :Although an importantjunction for manySouth bound trains,the condition of Panvelrailway station,however is pathetic,say the commuters.The unpleasantnessstarts right from thetime one approachesthe station. The roadleading to the stationis potholed and rutted.The condition inside

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Hindu Janjagruti Samiti toorganise spiritual lecture

NMMC Commis-sioner Annasaheb Mis-al said, “Many young-sters are taking keeninterest in roller skat-ing in India. However,there is a lack of goodinfrastructure facilityfor the same. The skatepark in the city willcertainly help theseyoungsters to honetheir skills. NMMC isseeking guidance fromvarious experts in thissport both from Indiaand abroad.”

A senior official

from NMMC said,“Apart from seekingguidance from foreignskating experts, we arealso in touch with thelocal skating group ofthe city with regards todesign, infrastructureetc. The aim is to pro-vide the best facility.”

The skating park atNerul will have twosections: one for the be-ginners and the otherfor the professionals.Apart from the skatingfacility, the park willalso have several oth-er outdoor games facil-ities which would bespread over 32,000sq.meter.

Navi Mumbaito get...

Contd. from pg. 1

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NAVI MUMBAI: TheHindu JanjagrutiSamiti will be orga-nizing a publicdiscourse on Satur-day, January 4th,2020 at 5 pm in theShiva Temple atTurbhe Phase 1. Theremedies to be takenin order to relieve thestress from daily life;What must be doneto create an idealnation; What is thesolution to the

problems of corrup-tion, women oppres-sion etc. will be someof the topics that willbe discussed.

A spokesperson ofthe Hindu Jana-jagruti Samiti saidthat more and moredevotees shouldattend and under-stand the science ofmaking their liveshappier. For furtherdetails contact 8080208958.

By Crime Reporter

NAVI MUMBAI: Anunidentified vehiclerammed over aPanipuri vendor whowas on the way toKamothe from Panvelon Saturday. Panvelcity police havelaunched the probeagainst the unidenti-fied driver.

The deceased, hasbeen identified asHarishchandraNanhakuram Yadav,35, who stayed inKamothe and had asmall stall of panipuriin front of MGMhospital.

Panipuri vendor diesafter an unknown

vehicle rams over himOn December 31,

Harishchandra wentto his relative housein Panvel. Whenhe was returning backhome from Panvel toKamothe at about12:00 am on hisscooty, an unknownvehicle hit his scooty.Harishchandra felldown on the road andwas seriously injured.He was rushed to theMGM Hospital inKamothe for treat-ment. However, hesuccumbed to hisinjuries on Thursdayevening while under-going treatment.

with their pets andwhen they lose them,they want to have prop-er funeral with rituals.It is painful, when inthe absence of propercrematorium, the own-ers have to bury theirpets without perform-ing the rites.”

Arati Chauhan, An-imal Activist and a res-ident of Nerul said, “Petcrematorium is essen-tially needed in the city.I know the incidentwhen around 8-10 dogswere poisoned in theyear 2014 and the diffi-culties were faced incremating them. NaviMumbai, as a city, isdeveloping at a rapidpace and it becomes allthe more important tohave a pet crematori-um in the city.”

“A pet becomes afamily member. It isdifficult to describe thatdeep, gut-wrenchingpain one feels whenthey pass on. The own-ers desire to pay the fi-nal respect to their petsby cremating them inthe same way as thehuman beings are cre-

mated,” said DeekshaSinha, a resident ofNerul and a pet owner.

“When the citizensfrom Mumbai demand-ed more pet crematori-um in the city, the Bri-hanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC)made provision forthree crematoriums atMahalaxmi, Deonarand Malad, but whenthe Navi Mumbaikarsare demanding thesame from NMMC, weare only getting assur-ances,” remarks anoth-er pet lover from Airoli.

Navi Mumbaishould...Contd. from pg. 1

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By Chandrasekhar Hendve

KHARGHAR: Socialactivist AnirudhThakur of Murbi vil-lage celebrated his 65th

Social activist distributesfruits on his birthday

birthday by distributingfruits to the kindergar-ten children and localcitizens of Gholawadalpada in Kharghar. He

further promised to pro-vide educational materi-al to the students of thekindergarten in thecoming academic year.

NAVI MUMBAI: TheNavi Mumbai Munici-pal Corporation(NMMC) took stern ac-tion against the unau-thorized constructiondone at room no.886and 916 of Sector 6,Koperkhairane without

By Ryhea George

NAVI MUMBAI: Theongoing constructionwork carried out by thefire brigade depart-ment behind Vashi firebrigade has complete-ly destroyed the foot-path forcing the pedes-trians to walk on theroad.

Being a busy junc-tion, there is always amoderate amount oftraffic on the road andwith the footpath beingdestroyed, the pedestri-ans not only risk theirlives by walking on theroad but this also leadsto traffic snarls as theroad gets constricted.During the eveningwhen the school andcolleges close, there isutter chaos, say the pe-destrians.

“I have to traveldaily on this route as Ihave to drop and pickup my daughter toschool. It is really dif-ficult to walk throughthe road during the

Pedestrians forced to walk onroad behind Vashi Fire Brigade

The ongoing work by the fire brigade

department destroys footpath completely

school timings as lot ofstudents come walkingto school. It is evenworse during theevening when office go-ers leave from officeand the colleges too

close down. The foot-path should be repairedat the earliest,” said aparent whose daughteris studying in St.Lawrence School,Vashi.

NMMC takes stringent actionagainst unauthorized construction

at Koparkhairane

taking permission fromthe civic body.

A notice had beenissued to the owner un-der section 54 of theMaharashtra RegionalPlanning and PlanningAct, 1966, through theKoparkhairne division

office. However, as theowner failed to pay heedto the notice, the antiencroachment depart-ment took action. Offic-ers and employees ofKoparkhairne divisionconducted the cam-paign.

By Abhitash D.Singh

NAVI MUMBAI: Inthe one week eventthat was organised bythe Seawoods-NerulArya Samaj, severalresidents availed thebenefit.

In the patrioticsong competition,around 100 studentsparticipated. In thefree Ayurveda healthcheck up camp thatwas organised inassociation withPatanjali Group, morethan 200 residentsfrom Seawoods andNerul availed benefit.Pulse reading, diabe-tes check-up and blood

Residents avail benefit of healthcheck-up camp organised by Arya Samaj

pressure check-upwere done.

The health check-up camp was organ-ised under the guid-ance of Arya Samaj

trustee HaridasAgarwal and Dr.Tulsiram Bangiya.The camp was suc-

Contd. on pg. 3

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By Ashok Dhamija

NAVI MUMBAI:Central Railway (CR)will operate MegaBlock on Harbour lineand Main line forcarrying out mainte-nance work forinfrastructure upkeepand safety on Sunday5 Jan, 2020 as per thefollowing schedule:

A) ChhatrapatiShivaji Maharaj Terminus– Chunabhatti UP & DNHarbour Lines

From: 9.53 to 4.23pmAll UP Harbour

line services forChhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj Terminus(CSMT), Mumbaileaving Panvel /Belapur / Vashi from9.53 am to 2.44 pmand all DN Harbourline services to Vashi /Belapur / Panvelleaving CSMT,Mumbai / Vadala Roadfrom 11.34 am to 4.23pm to Vashi / Belapur/ Panvel from 11.34am to 4.23 pm willremain suspended.

However, Specialservices will runbetween Panvel andKurla (Platform No.8)during the blockperiod. Harbour linepassengers arepermitted to travel viaMain Line andWestern Railway from10.00 am to 6.00 pmduring block period.

B) UP & DN Chhatra-pati Shivaji MaharajTerminus – Bandra UP &DN Harbour Lines

From: 9.56 to 4.58 pmAll UP Harbour

line services forChhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj Terminus(CSMT), Mumbaileaving Goregaon /Bandra from 10.45 amto 4.58 pm and all DNHarbour line services

CR Mega Block On SundayNo direct connectivity to CSTM/Andheri on Harbour Route

to Bandra / Goregaonleaving CSMT,Mumbai from 9.56 amto 4.16 pm willremain suspended.

Harbour linepassengers arepermitted to travel viaMain Line andWestern Railway from10.00 am to 6.00 pmduring block period

C) Matunga-MulundUP Fast Main Line

From: 11.20 am to 3.50pm

All UP Fast Mainline services leavingKalyan from 10.39 am

to 3.19 pm will bediverted on UP MainSlow line betweenDiva and Parelstations halting at allstations up to Pareland further re-diverted on UP FastMain line and willarrive destination 20minutes behindschedule. DN Fast /Semi fast Mainservices leavingChhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj Terminus(CSMT), Mumbaifrom 10.25 am to 3.21pm will halt atGhatkopar, Vikhroli,Bhandup, Mulund andDiva stations inaddition to theirrespective scheduledhalts and arrivedestination 20 min-utes behind schedule.

All Main Slow lineservices leaving/arriving CSMT,Mumbai s between11.00 am and 6.00 pmwill arrive destination10 minutes behindschedule. All Mail /Express trainsarriving Dadar andCSMT, Mumbaiduring the blockperiod will be divertedon UP Main Slow linebetween Mulund andMatunga stations andwill arrive destination20 minutes behindschedule.

D) Short Terminationof Passenger Services:

Train no. 50104Ratnagiri – DadarPassenger will beterminated at DivaJn. and Train no.50103 Dadar – Ratna-giri Passenger willdepart from Diva Jn.Special Suburbanservice will be runfrom Dadar to Divafor passengers of50103 which willdepart from Dadar at3.40 pm, Thane at4.06 pm and arriveDiva at 4.18 pm.

Due to theseblocks, suburbantrains are likely to bemore crowded thanusual. Passengers arerequested not to takeany risks whiletravelling.

For representational purpose only

Savitribai Phule Jayanticelebrated at Uran

By Dinesh Pawar

URAN: The birth an-niversary of SavitribaiPhule, the first femaleteacher in India whostarted education forwomen, was celebratedon Friday, 3rd January,2020 at Uran MunicipalCouncil, Uran.

The President ofUran Municipal Coun-cil, Sally Mhatre in herspeech said that KrantiJyoti Savitribai Phuleshould be the role mod-

el for all women. Shewas the pioneer in initi-ating female educationin India and started thefirst school for women.

On this occasion, anawareness programmewas conducted on theinspiring life journey ofSavitribai Phule. Kan-chan Vishwakarmaguided the women onSavitribai Phule’s lifeand goals.

City President SallyMhatre, Women Child

Welfare and HealthCommittee ChairmanCouncilor SnehalKasare, Deputy Speak-er Asha Shelar, Admin-istrative Officer KGJadhav, Corporator Jan-vi Pandit and many oth-er dignitaries werepresent. In order to gen-erate interest andawareness among thekids, Uran BodhWadi will be distribut-ing books to children inAnganwadi.

cessfully managed byDr. Vibhav Bharti andSunita Yadav.

Arya Samajtrustee HaridasAgarwal informed,

“One week event wasorganised by AryaSamaj for the benefitof the people residingin Nerul and Seawoodsarea. The patrioticsong competition washeld for the studentsso that they under-stand the importance

of our culture and howthey should be morepatriotic. The healthcheck-up was organ-ised so that theresidents can get theircheck-up done free ofcost and they shouldbecome health con-scious.”

Residents

avail benefit..Contd. from pg. 2

By Ashok Dhamija

As the year 2019 fad-ed out and 2020 dawnedin, the Spiritual Head ofSant Nirankari Mis-sion, Satguru MataSudiksha Ji Maharajblessed everyone bywishing them a HappyNew Year and furtherstating that mayNirankar bless us thatthis year-2020 makes usthe best versions of our-selves. May we not re-peat the mistakes we’vedone in the past and befocused to give happi-ness to others to spreadsmiles. We must focuson Sewa (Selfless ser-vice), Simran (reminis-cence or mental recita-tion of God name), Sat-sang (fellowship withtruth) and always re-member what we learnin the company ofsaints. We should be-come a source of inspi-ration for everyone whocomes in contact with usto bring a positivechange in their life sim-ilar to what we are ex-periencing after beingbestowed with BrahmGyan (supreme knowl-

Let’s be the Best versions of ourselves:Nirankari Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji

edge of God). We mustalways remember theteachings that we learnfrom Satsang.

Satguru Mata fur-ther said that may wedo things that trulymake us human andhelp us in becoming Glo-bal Citizens in a waywhere we all just focuson making humanitystronger. May the worldactually be ‘a worldwithout walls’ and thechildren, youth and se-niors always be guidedby this truth”. In theend Satguru Mataprayed to Nirankar Al-mighty to bless every-one always with positiv-ity and that may every-one always do what’sright.

The of the Missionstated devotion to God isof prime essence in dayto day life as this willkeep us away from neg-ativity and enable us togive the world the bestof our positive conduct.One should continue toimbibe human valuesfurther and improve ourlife not only to keep our-selves happy, but alsobecome a source of hap-piness for others. Citingan example about a fishwhich enjoys all kindsof freedom, but remainsimprisoned within theocean; similarly the oneshould also enjoy theworldly life while re-maining bound by theAlmighty. One should bethankful to God forwhatever is bestowed tous by Him.

Remembering Sha-henshah Baba AvtarSingh Ji and NirankariRajmata Kulwant KaurJi on their birth anni-versary, Her Holinesssaid that they alsotaught us to improveourselves instead ofpointing out the mis-takes of others.

Nirankari Satguru MataSudiksha Ji

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The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation paid tribute to Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule on her Jayanti. The Leader of the House, Ravindra Ithape, Sports and Cultural ProgramsCommittee Chairman Dr. Jayaji Nath, Deputy Commissioner of Administration, Kiran Raj Yadav, Chief Accounting & Finance Officer, Dhanraj Garad, Chief Auditor DayanandNimkar and other officials and staff were present.

Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Jayanti celebrated at NMMC Headquarters

By Crime Reporter

NAVI MUMBAI: ThePanvel Taluka policehave succeeded incracking the murdercase of a man whosebody was found in ablack coloured bag onDecember 9 in riverGadhi in Panveltaluka. The PanvelTaluka police identi-fied the deceased asImran FahimuddinKhan (20) from hisclothes as no identitywas found with thebody and have arrest-ed a woman and herhusband in the case.

Police succeeds in resolving murder case in Harigram, PanvelWoman accused of murdering boyfriend with the help of husband arrested from UP

The deceased,Imran Khan, wasfrom Uttar Pradesh(UP) and was in lovewith 23-year-oldwoman who wasmarried to LalitaPrasad. Imran Khanillegally marriedLalita Prasad’s wifein court four monthsago. Lalita Prasad’swife along withImran Khan, had fledto Mumbai twomonths ago. However,Imran brought twoyoung girls alongwith him and startedstaying alone. This

led to a dispute withthe woman who calledher first husband inUttar Pradesh andasked him to rescueher from Imran.Accordingly, LalitaPrasad came toPanvel in earlyDecember.

Lalita Prasadstrangled Imran withthe help of his wifeand dumped the bodyin a bag and dumpedit in a riverbed for thepurpose of destroyingthe evidence. He thenfled to Uttar Pradeshwith his wife. Mean-

while, on December 9,Imran’s fully decom-posed body was foundin a bag in the Gadhiriver basin. ThePanvel Taluka policethen used the victim’sclothes and finger ringto identify the body.The residents ofHarigram informedthat a young man,who was staying withthe woman from thearea, had disappearedsome days back. Basedon this information,the police identifiedthe deceased to beImran Khan.

The police, afterconducting a technicalinquiry, removed thedummy data andfound out the accusedin the murder case.Subsequently, a teamof Assistant PoliceInspector Vijay Khed-kar and DeputySuperintendent ofPolice Sunil Gurav,under the guidance ofsenior police inspectorAshok Rajput, weresent to Uttar Pradeshto search for theaccused.

The accused LalitaPrasad’s village was

close to the NepalBorder and he waslikely to flee to Nepal.So a police teamstayed in the area forten days. Subsequent-ly, the accused, LalitaPrasad, 32, wasarrested with thehelp of UttarPradesh STF depart-ment. Later, his wifewas taken intocustody for question-ing and she was alsoarrested, Panvel’sAssistant PoliceCommissionerRavindra Gidadesaid.

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By Chandrashekhar Hendve

On the occasion ofthe birth anniversaryof Krantijyoti Savitrib-ai Phule, an inter-school sports festivalwas held at RajashreeChatrapati Shahu Ma-haraj Vidyalaya andKanshiramji HindiVidyalaya, Rabada.The event was inaugu-rated by Navi MumbaiMunicipal Commis-sioner Annasaheb Mis-al in the presence offormer Mayor and se-

Inter school sports organised on the occasionof Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Jayanti

nior councilorSudhakar Sonawane,

corporator RanjanaSonawane, education

ficer Mahendra Thoke,Shubha Phanse of Sim-mons, Maruti Gawali,Principal and otherswere present.

This is the 12th yearof the Sports Festival.The program wasstarted by lighting thelamps and leaving theballoons in the sky.

Various types ofsports competitionswere held which in-cluded kabaddi, khokho, badminton, 100mrunning, long jump etc.

PANVEL: On theoccasion of the birthanniversary ofKrantijyoti Savitrib-ai Phule, the teach-ers of Keshavji VirjiKanya High Schoolin Panvel werehonored with gifts onFriday, January3rd on behalf ofPanvel TalukaJournalist Develop-

Teachers felicitated on the occasion ofKrantijyoti Savitribai Phule Jayanti

ment Forum.Senior journalists

Madhavrao Patil,Sunil Potdar, Avi-nash Koli, SanjayKadam, Nitin Koli,Mandar Donde, VivekPatil, PrashantShadege, NileshSonawane, RajuGadde and otherswere present on theoccasion.

officer Nitin Kale,sports officer Abhilasha

Mhatre, police inspec-tor Nitin Gite, ward of-

the station is no better.The escalators are nonfunctional, displaysigns either do notwork or fail to provideproper information andthere is lack of cleanli-

ness.“The escalator

especially at Platformnumber 6 never worksproperly. Many old agepeople who wish toboard long distancetrain face great

difficulty,” saysApeksha Bhagat, aresident of Panvel.

Bhakti Dave ofPravasi Sanghatanasaid “Around 6 escala-tors have been ap-proved for the PanvelRailway station asPanvel is one of themain junctions. Out ofthose 2 are alreadyinstalled but one of

them, that is the oneat platform number 6,is never functional.Moreover, if ever itstarts operating, itshuts down again asthere is no one tohandle the escalator.

No specific operatorhas been appointed toman the the escala-tors, hence it isfrequently shut down.We have complained

about it multiple timesand still the situationis the same.”

Station ManagerSM Nair while speak-ing with Newsband

said that both theescalators are workingproperly. “If there isany issue regardingescalators, the passen-gers can immediatelyreach out to the deputyoffice of the station andlodge complain. Thedeputy station manag-er is available roundthe clock. One caneven complain in theoffice or call me.”

The following is thenumber provided bythe station manager-+91 9004410966through which one cancall and complainabout the issues goingon at the Panvelrailway station.

PanvelRailwayStation..Contd. from pg. 1

However, contraryto the claims by thestation manager, alook at the stationrevealed that neitherthe escalator onplatform number 6was functional nor thecondition of the stationwas good.

“The railwayauthorities should lookinto the issue and dothe needful at theearliest. It is one of theimportant stations, yetno action is takentowards its mainte-nance,” says HimaniKaur Bal, a SY BMMstudent from PillaiHOC College, Rasay-ani .

Potholed approach road,

non-functional escalators;

poor display system are

some of the few issues, say

the residents

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By Dr. Firuzi Mehta

A migraine is anintense, incapacitat-ing headache,accompanied by othersymptoms, thatoccurs repeatedly insome persons,occurring in episodesor ‘attacks’. It canaffect both sexes butis more common infemales. The natureof attacks variesbetween persons andfrom time to time inthe same person.Attacks may lastfrom 4 hours to 72hours in someindividuals.

Symptoms of aclassic migraineattack may appear asfollows: Some suffer-ers have a warning‘aura’, which is oftenvisual in nature,flashing lights, zig-zag lines etc. Somepeople may get otherwarning symptomslike tingling of theside of the head orface, etc. The painmay be throbbing orpulsating, oftenaffecting one side ofthe head. It may beaccompanied bynausea or vomiting.

It is believed thatconstriction, thendilatation andinflammation of bloodvessels that go to thescalp and brainresult in migraineheadaches. Visiondisturbances occurwhen blood vesselsnarrow. Headachebegins when theywiden again.

Treating Migraines with HomeopathyAttacks may be

triggered by:

• Tension or stress.Emotional problemsare probably themost commonreason for migraineattacks, but head-aches don’t neces-sarily coincide withemotional upset.They often occur onweekends whenstress is decreased.

• Menstruation.• Use of oral contra-

ceptives.• Consumption of

alcohol or certain

foods.• Bright lights or

flickering lights.• Lack of sleep or too

much sleep.The risk of develop-

ing migraines increaseswith a stressful lifestyle, be it at the homeor at the office, a familyhistory of migraines,smoking or excessalcohol consumption.Hence it is importantto cut down the stressin your life. Practicingrelaxing techniques,Yoga, meditation are ofbenefit. During asevere attack, rest isessential but in be-tween attacks, exerciseis essential to maintaina general level offitness.

Exercise (includingdeep breathing exercis-es) also works as astress reliever. Two keypoints for reducing pain

with acupressure arethe web between theforefinger and thumb(squeeze there untilyou feel pain) andunder the bony ridgesat the back of theneck (use boththumbs to applypressure there).

Foods like nuts,chocolates, cheese,excess salt maytrigger headaches.No particular dietaryrestrictions arenecessary unless youfind that a certainitem of food triggers

your headaches.Homeopathy has aholistic approach to ahuman being andhence is well suitedto curing a personwho suffers frommigraines. A classicalHomeopath will takea detailed history ofthe individual thatwill encompass hismental, physical andemotional profilealong with the mainproblem. Treatmentwill then be institut-ed, aiming at bring-ing in greaterbalance at all levels,thus making theperson better adaptedto life’s stresses andstrains. Immunelevels are improved,and the person is puton the road to cure.

The writer is B.H.M.S.(Bom.) H.M.D. (Lon.)

IACH DIHom.

Irked by the pathetic work of road asphaltation carried out by the civic body near RyanInternational School, Sector 10, Sanpada, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena called theNMMC officers in-charge and questioned them about the shoddy work. The municipalengineers acknowledged the mistake and assured the MNS office bearers that they willrectify the work soon. Senior MNS activists Suresh Madhavi, Yogesh Shete, Sub-Division President Devendra, Branch President Nitin Patil were present on the occa-sion. (By Chandrasekhar Hendve)

As winter sets in, citizens are seen burning bonfire to protect against cold and fogduring night on Palm Beach Road (Sumit Renose)

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Need for a changed outlookNations around the world have begun to recognize the deeply

rooted problems of discrimination against women. CelebratingWomen’s Day is a feeble effort to bring awakening amongst thefairer sex about their rights, to make them more stronger emo-tionally, educationally and even physically so that they have a senseof participation in the development of the country. Conditioned toundervalue their skills and abilities, women have been marginal-ized in society and have been forced out of the decision makingprocess. Unfortunately, till today, the present effort of the socialwelfare agencies and women’s organization have failed to providewomen their rightful place in society.

Discrimination against women is a part of power structure basedon male supremacy which assigns social roles to men and womenaccording to their sex. Women are in charge of raising childrenand doing house chores while men are responsible for the eco-nomic support of the family. In this structure men are given theauthority- endorsed by custom- to maintain such distribution oftasks. Right from childhood, women are trained to believe thattheir value is attached to the men in their lives- fathers, brothers,husbands and sons- and often they are socially ostracized if theydisplease or disobey them. Though today women have steppedout of their homes and are working at strategic places contribut-ing equally or sometimes even more, they many times have tobear the sexual harassment at work place. This has forced eventhe Supreme Court to interfere and bring in strong legislation toprevent sexual harassment of female workers. Not only this inmany sectors, especially in unorganized sectors, women are paidvery low wages in comparison to their male colleagues. Thoughthe Constitution of India provides for ‘equal pay for equal work forboth men and women’, the Equal Renumeration Act, 1976 has alsobeen enacted, but the wage difference still continues and in theprimary sector, equality of wages is a far cry.

Discrimination against girl child starts at an early age. Theyoften receive inadequate food and insufficient education. To addto the woes the prevalent dowry system, has led to abortion offemale childe or female infanticide. This has reduced the female-male ration to an alarmingly low proportion.

Mere enacting of an Act or celebrating a day as the Women’sDay is not going address this serious problem. For results, theattitude of the males has to change towards females, right fromhome to office. Also the females have to themselves fight this dis-crimination and help vest all the rights with the girl child. Sternaction should be taken against those promoting gender biases, asit is very clear that till this half of society, who is the creator of life,remains weak and under privileged, it is not possible to havewholesome development of our country.

On the occasion of 28th anniversary of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, acricket match was organised for the women staff. The women team from the socialwelfare department of NMMC bagged the second prize. Social development officer ofNMMC, Sarjerao Paranje felicitated the team. (By: Chandrashekhar Hendve)

By Ashok Dhamija

MUMBAI: Railways havedecided to attach an additionalone AC-3 Tier coach on perma-nent basis to Train nos. 16331/16332 Chhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj Terminus Mumbai-Thiruvananthapuram Expressas per details given below:

Additional AC Coach On Mumbai-Thiruvananthapuram Express

A) Train no. 16332 Expressfrom Thiruvananthapuram onand from Saturday 4 Jan, 2020.

B) Train no. 16331 Expressfrom Mumbai on and fromMonday 6 Jan, 2020.

Passengers are requested tocheck the PNR status of theirtickets before boarding the train

By Abhitash D.Singh

NAVI MUMBAI: The Navi MumbaiMunicipal Corporation (NMMC) chiefAnnasaheb Misal held a communica-tion with the principals and teachersof 356 schools, colleges and universi-ties from Navi Mumbai on Friday3rd January, 2020 in Knowledge Cen-

tre at NMMC Headquarter in CBD-Belapur. During the conversation thecivic chief appealed all the principalsand teachers that cleanliness is thecollective responsibility of all andtherefore the principals and teachersshould appeal the students and theirparents to participate in SwachtaSurvey-2020 in large numbers tomake Navi Mumbai one of the clean-est cities in the country.

In order to improve the rankingof NMMC in 2020 a special emphasisis being given to the participation ofthe people and also various activitiesare being implemented in the city ac-cordingly. Also at the department lev-el, dialogue sessions are being organ-ised to ensure that every citizen is ac-tively involved in the mission.

Present during the conversationsession were Ravindra Patil (Addi-tional Commissioner, NMMC), Tush-ar Pawar (Deputy Commissioner, Sol-id Waste Management, NMMC),Nitin Kale ( Deputy Commissionerand Education Officer, NMMC) andthe principal of 356 schools, juniorcolleges, universities in the NMMCarea on the basis of municipal pri-mary and secondary schools, private

NMMC Commissioner communicateswith 356 school principals & teachers on

“Clean Navi Mumbai-2020” initiative

Civic chief appeals them to enroll

maximum number of people in the drive

aided, private non-aided, and self-funded schools.

The representatives of Green Solewho were present during the sessiongave the attendees information on howthe old shoes and slippers can be re-cycled into new ones. The documen-tary showing the journey of 28 years

of NMMC and also the developmentpath of Navi Mumbai was shown toeveryone present during the session.

Drawing competition on varioussubjects to ensure the importance ofcleanliness has been organised by theNMMC where the schools have beendivided into two groups. The princi-pals and teachers have been request-ed to make it sure that the maximumnumber of students participate in thecompetition.

NMMC Commissioner AnnasahebMisal said, “Maintaining a clean NaviMumbai is not only the responsibili-ty of the civic body but it is of every-one. We need a large number of peo-ple to participate in this mission. Ialso urge that the school managementshould take the initiative to clean upthe school, school premises on a dailybasis and also start compost fertiliz-er project at school level to dispose offschool waste.”

Commissioner along with all theattendees present during the sessiontook the pledge to keep the satellitecity clean and green and also appealedeveryone to participate so that the citycan come in the first three top slot innational ranking.

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Controlling the Technology Epidemic

By Dr. Veena Adige

It is neitherstrange nor uncom-mon nor evensurprising to see agroup of silentpeople in a publicplace concentratingon their cell phonesor laptops to theexclusion of every-thing else. Theymay have the latestinformation aboutthe world but areabsolutely ignorantof the people next tothem. They are intheir own sweetworld.

It is sad but true.Technology has

invaded our housesand offices, so muchso that even normalconversation seemsunimportant orunnecessary.Cartoons show twopeople on a date‘talking’ to eachother on their cellphones. Or parentstelling children to‘wash their finger-tips’ before eating!!!

The averagechild in the US is

fully conversant withtechnology and haseyes and ears only forthe cells, laptops orTV. They ‘play’, ‘makefriendships’ anddiscuss through them.Even homeworkassignments arescheduled through theschool laptop!Smart schoolshave touchscreen tablets forchildren from avery young age.Games are playedwith finger tips.

However, thereis light at the endof the tunnel. USparents show agrowing concern ofthe invasion oftechnology and areconsciously tryingto change thehabits of the younggeneration. Remindsone of a couple ofdecades back whenUS was concernedabout the future overweight people andcame down heavily oncupcakes and sodas inschools and stressedon healthy food toprevent a nation ofoverweight citizens.

Today parents,grandparents, nanniesand baby sitters enrolltheir wards intoswimming, soccer,music, singing,painting and the liketo control the technol-ogy monster. A look at

Chelsea Piers inStamford will revealthe extent of impor-tance adults aregiving for sports oftheir youngsters.Swim teams, gymnas-tics, yoga, and othersports are in favour.The adults make time

to shepherd the kidsto their variousclasses in an attemptto wean them awayfrom technology andkindle interest inother things. Kayak-ing is another sportwhich is high on thepriority list of adultsfor their wards.Riverside in Connecti-cut has a beautifulbody of water wherecute ducks and swansswim along with thekayaks.

Binney Park inGreenwich is a veryattractive place.Beautiful, serene, cool

but the only visitorsoften are the dogwalkers. Connecticuthas huge libraries andchildren have theopportunity to ventureinto another world,reading and living it.Some youngsters dospend quite a major

portion of their timein libraries and it is ahealthy sign. They areno longer islands ofsolitary confinement.Book reading, withauthors addressingthe readers is verywelcome.

Parents are alsoencouraging childrento enter the musicsphere. Young violin-ists, chelloists, pianoplayers are aboundingand flourishing. It isgood to see activeinterest being takento guard the young-sters and preventthem from falling into

the trap of technology.I was happy to see

another trend, that ofbirthday partieswhich revolve aroundinteresting activities.Pizza making andeating, painting,baking, pottery,trampoline birthday

parties are the inthing. Parents payfor the party andleave the proceed-ings to the organ-isers. At a paint-ing party recentlymy husband and Ijoined the group ofeleven year olds asthey were taughthow to paint by anaccomplishedteacher. With aneasel, paints andbrushes, we sataround her as shetold us which

colours to use andhow to use them.

At a pizza party itwas interesting to seeyoung cooks kneadthe dough, choosetheir toppings andwatching how it ismade. The best was atrampoline jumpingparty. Guests weregiven socks andbands to identifythem from otherchildren, and were letloose on the trampo-lines. They jumped totheir hearts content,under the sharp eyesof the instructors andwhen the bell rang to

signify that thetime was up, theytrooped for thebirthday party,satisfied and happy.

Even then it isalarming howtechnology isinvading people.The epidemicproportions thattechnology hasreached can bereversed by theabove mentionedmethods beforemore damage isdone. It is up to theadults to see thatthe younger genera-tion is on the rightpath.

The writer is afreelance journalistwho was AssociateEditor of Bhavan’sjournal of BharatiyaVidya Bhavan inMumbai till recent-ly. She has writtenhundreds of arti-cles, features,stories, reviews etc.and is the author offive books. Shepresented a paperon Challenges andopportunities facedby rural girl chil-dren at the UnitedNations CSWseminar in March2018. Her articleshave been includedin the SSC Boardstext books and herstories have beentranslated intomany languages.

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Why do we require SwachhBharat Mission?

The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched bythe Narendra Modi government on October 2, 2014.Why do we require such a mission? It is a con-straint mission for the development of the nation; because without cleanand proper sanitation, a country cannot develop.

If our home is clean, then the question arises in our mind that why weneed a Swachh Bharat Abhiyan? Because at large, India’s public areas,streets, government offices, roads, footpaths, rivers and government hos-pitals are generally filthy. Almost everyday, we observe the garbage justoutside our home boundaries or publicplaces. But who cares?

Just for publicity’s sake, sweepingwith the broom for one or two days can-not lead to success of the Swachh Bhar-at Mission. Also, any politician or a gov-ernment or public leader cannot attainsuccess of Swachh Bharat by doing itthemselves alone. These exemplary lead-ers need to set an example for the mass-es to clean up their surroundings. Ifthese leaders have a real intention toclean up India, then they should proceed towards the dirty areas of theslums and mohallas.

Apart from a few cities, many villages are often cleaner than theunplanned colonies of big cities, and the more densely populated areas aredirtier, and people feel less of a responsibility to clean them. Another issuein such areas is that they do not have sufficient space and proper drain-age system, and thus, those dirty areas attract even more garbage.

In India, the major rivers are polluted and the main causes of pollu-tion are that various industries are established on the banks of a river,and people consider the river as their universal drainage. The govern-ment should impose strict rules to these industries to treat the garbagebefore dumping them into the river and ensure that it doesn’t affect theecological balance of the rivers. The mission of the present government toclean up the River Ganga from pollution by the year 2020 is a greatchallenge. To achieve this mission of Swachh Bharat, we the people ofIndia need to be more responsible to realise this dream.

Let all of us Indians therefore take up the responsibility to realise thedream of Swachh Bharat (clean India), change our mindset, and learnfrom the world’s cleanest countries and adopt their techniques to keepour neighbourhoods and country always clean.

Jubel D’Cruz, Mumbai

Letter to the Editor....

By Ashok Dhamija

PANVEL: Railwayshas decided to aug-ment coaches in thefollowing Expresstrains on temporarybasis via KonkanRailway (KR) routewith halts at PanvelJn (Central Railway)and Vasai Road(Western Railway) toclear extra rushof passengers asper the followingschedule: .

A) Bhavna-gar - Kochuve-li – BhavnagarWeekly Ex-press

One SleeperCoach will beaugmented to theexisting composition of20 Coaches of Trainno. 19260 / 19259Bhavnagar - Kochuve-li – BhavnagarWeekly Express. Thetrain with revisedcomposition of 21Coaches will run asunder:

Train no. 19260will departing ex.Bhavanagar everyTuesday from 7 Jan to28 Jan, 2020. Trainno. 19259 departingex. Kochuveli everyThursday from 9 Janto 30 Jan, 2020.

B) Porbandar -Kochuveli - Por-

Temporary Augmentation of Coaches OnVarious Express Trains Via KR Route

bandar WeeklyExpress

One 3 Tier ACCoach and OneSleeper Coach will beaugmented to theexisting composition of20 Coaches of Trainnos. 19262 / 19261Porbandar - Kochuveli- Porbandar WeeklyExpress. The train

with revised composi-tion of 22 Coaches willrun as under:

Train no. 19262departing ex. Porban-dar every Thursdayfrom 9 Jan to 30 Jan,2020. Train no. 19261departing ex. Kochu-veli every Sundayfrom 12 Jan to 2 Feb,2020.

C) Jamnagar -Tirunelveli - Jam-nagar Bi-WeeklyExpress

One 3 Tier ACCoach will be aug-mented to the existingcomposition of 22Coaches of Train

no. 19578 / 19577Jamnagar - Tirunelveli- Jamnagar Bi-WeeklyExpress. The trainwith revised composi-tion of 23 Coaches willrun as under:

Train no. 19578departing ex. Jamna-gar every Friday &Saturday from 3 Jan to31 Jan, 2020. Train no.

19577 departingex. Tirunelvelievery Monday &Tuesday from 6Jan to 3 Feb,2020.

D) Hapa -Madgaon Jn. -Hapa WeeklyExpress

One 3 Tier ACcoach will be

augmented to theexisting composition of22 Coaches of Train no.22908 / 22907 Hapa -Madgaon Jn. - HapaWeekly Express. Thetrain with revisedcomposition of 23Coaches will run asunder:

Train no. 22908departing ex. Hapaevery Thursday) from9 Jan to 30 Jan, 2020.Train no. 22907departing ex. MadgaonJn. Every Friday from10 Jan to 31 Jan, 2020.

Passengers arerequested to kindlyavail the services.

Chest infectionsare common, espe-cially after a cold orflu during autumn andwinter.

Although mostare mild and getbetter on their own,some can be seriousor even life-threaten-ing.

The main symp-toms of a chestinfection can include:

a persistent coughcoughing up

yellow or greenphlegm (thickmucus), or coughingup blood

breathlessness or

rapid and shallowbreathing

wheezinga high temperature

(fever)a rapid heartbeat

chest pain ortightness

feeling confusedand disorientated

You may alsoexperience moregeneral symptoms ofan infection, such as a

headache, fatigue,sweating, loss ofappetite, or joint andmuscle pain.What causes chestinfections?

A chest infection isan infection of thelungs or airways. The

main types of chestinfection are bronchitisand pneumonia.

Most bronchitiscases are caused byviruses, whereas mostpneumonia cases are

due to bacteria.These infections are

usually spread when aninfected person coughsor sneezes. Thislaunches tiny droplets

of fluid containing thevirus or bacteria intothe air, where they canbe breathed in byothers.

The infections canalso be spread to

others if you cough orsneeze onto your hand,an object or a surface,and someone elseshakes your hand ortouches those surfaces

before touchingtheir mouth ornose.

Certaingroups ofpeople have ahigher risk ofdevelopingserious chestinfections, suchas:

babies and veryyoung children

children withdevelopmental prob-lems

people who arevery overweight

Chest Infections elderly peoplepregnant womenpeople who

smokepeople with long-

term health condi-tions, such as asthma,heart disease,diabetes, kidneydisease, cysticfibrosis or chronicobstructive pulmo-nary disease(COPD)

people with aweakened immunesystem – this couldbe due to a recentillness, a transplant,high-dose steroids,chemotherapy or ahealth condition, suchas an undiagnosedHIV infection

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Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) Establishes Three Strategic BusinessUnits & Announces Regional Organizational Changes

Revamped organization structure to not onlyfocus on competitiveness but also ensure

sustainable growth of the companyFollowing its announcement on 10th December,

2019 of TKM’s Senior Leadership OrganizationalChanges for the year 2020, Toyota Kirloskar Motortoday announced the realignment of its RegionalOffices as three new Strategic Business Units(SBU) to enrich and empower its sales & servicefunctions with all the resources to execute its goals.

Based on the principle of Increased Organiza-tional Agility to enable quick decision making, theidea behind the revamped organization structureis not only to focus on ROI (Return on Investment)& KPI (Key Performance Indicator) based compet-itiveness but to also ensure sustainable growth ofthe company.

Apart from the changes made in the senior lead-ership management team, TKM is realigning itsregional office organization structure to get closerto the marketplace & its customers. Based on thesame, TKM has announced three SBU heads; Mr.Atul Sood, Associate Vice President- North & East

SBU, Mr. R. Venkatakrishnan, Vice President-South SBU & Institutional Sales & Mr. B. Pad-manabha, Vice president- West SBU. The threezonal SBUs will further be supported by GroupSBUs and State SBUs. With this, the companyaims to further strengthen the objectivity and agil-ity of the regional management team.

Commenting on the new regional organizationstructure, Mr. Naveen Soni, Sr. Vice President-Sales & Customer Service, Toyota Kirloskar Mo-tor said, “In our efforts to achieve SustainableGrowth and Organizational Agility, we are excitedto announce the formation of three new SBUs whichwill not only focus on the company’s ROI & KPIbased competitiveness, but also focus on the sus-tainable growth of the company. Moreover, theseSBUs will ensure that our regional teams headedby the three Vice Presidents, help us come closer tothe markets and our customers & partners alike.This structure will not only enrich & empower oursales team but will also provide us with the re-sources to execute our goals. I am certain that ournew team with their passionate leadership and stra-

tegic vision will steer the company to greater ave-nues”.

Overview of TKMEquity participation TMC: 89%, Kirloskar Systems

Limited (Mr. Vikram S. Kirloskar): 11%Number of employees: Approx. 6,500Land area: Approx. 432 acres (approx.1,700,000 m2)Building area: 74,000 m2Total Installed Production capacity : Up to 3,10,000 units

Overview of TKM 1st Plant:Established: October 1997 (start of production: December

1999)Location: BidadiProducts: Innova, Fortuner manufactured in India. Prado,

Land Cruiser and Prius imported as CBUs.Installed Production capacity: Up to 1,00,000 units

Overview of TKM 2nd Plant:Start of Production: December 2010Location: On the site of Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Lim-

ited, BidadiProducts: Corolla Altis, Toyota Yaris, Etios, Etios Liva, Etios

Cross, Camry & Camry HybridInstalled Production capacity: Up to 2,10,000 units

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Navi Mumbai police celebrate Raising Day by organizing various programmes

By Crime reporter

NAVI MUMBAI: Onthe occasion of

Maharashtra PoliceForce Foundationday, the Navi Mum-bai Police Commis-sioner organizedvarious programmesto mark the Raising

Day from 2nd to 8th

January, 2020. TheAnniversary Week

was inaugurated onThursday morningby the Navi Mum-bai Police Commis-sioner SanjayKumar. DeputyPolice Commission-

er Rajkumar Vatkarand all the DeputyCommissioners of

the Navi MumbaiPolice, AssistantPolice Commission-ers, senior policeofficers and S SHigh school studentsand teachers from

Seawoods werepresent on theoccasion.

A rally wasorganized at CidcoAuditorium in Vashion Friday January 3to guide the marineteam and fishermen.On 4th January, at 4

pm, a lecture on theeffects of drugs andcyber security was

organized for thecollege students atCBD Belapur. OnJanuary 8, at 4 pm,various valuablesthat were confiscatedby the police will be

handed over to theowners. Apart fromthis, various pro-

grams have beenorganized in all thepolice stations underthe Navi MumbaiPolice Commissioner-ate.

Multi talented Ananya Anand a fifth class student of Delhi Public school, Nerul showcases her creative skills with an Emboss painting

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Swachh Sarvekshan 2020-mural unveiled at NMMC HQ

Mural created from 110 non-functional mother boards

aims to spread awareness on proper recycling of e waste

NAVI MUMBAI: An ar-tistically created mural‘Swachh Sarvekshan2020’ made from 110non-functional motherboards was unveiled byNavi Mumbai DeputyMayor Mandakini Mha-tre and Navi MumbaiMunicipal Corporation(NMMC) CommissionerAnnasaheb Misal in thepresence of StandingCommittee ChairmanNaveen Gavte, Sportsand Cultural Commit-tee Chairman Dr Jaya-ji Nath, Corporator An-ita Manvatkar, Dy Com-missioner (Administra-tion) Kiranraj Yadav,Dy Commissioner, Sol-id Waste Management,Tushar Pawar, CityEngineer Surendra Pa-

til, CAFO Dhanraj Ga-rad, Chief Auditor Day-anand Nimkar, ChiefSanitation Officer Ra-jendra Sonavane and

others. The mural hasbeen installed in front oficonic NMMC Head-quarter Building.

The upcycle mural

is 15 feet wide and hasa height of seven feetand weighs around 200

By: Crime Reporter

NAVI MUMBAI: OnNew Year’s Eve on 31stDecember, 2019, theNavi Mumbai trafficpolice registered casesagainst 385 motoristsfor driving under theinfluence of alcohol.The special drive wascarried out by the traf-fic unit from 31st De-cember night to weehours on 1st January,2020.

As compared to lastyear, there has been anincrease of 35 drink anddrive cases. Last year,353 such offences were

385 cases registered against motorists indrink and drive cases on New Year’s Eve

registered. Apart fromthis, 1697 drivers were

caught for violatingtraffic rules.

NMMT churns profitthrough e-buses

Earns Rs. 21 lakhs in 25 days

By Chandrashekhar Hendve

NAVI MUMBAI: The eor the electric buseshave come as a boon tothe Navi Mumbai Mu-nicipal Transport(NMMT), which hasearned Rs. 21 lakhs injust 25 days. TheNMMT received 30 e-buses through 60% sub-sidy under Central Gov-ernment’s ‘Fame 1’scheme. Of these, 27buses have been operat-ing for passengers sinceDecember 1, despite thebasic fare being only Rs9 like that of its regu-lar non-air conditionedbuses.

The NMMT’s e bus-es ply on routes no- 9Vashi Railway Stationto Ghansoli Gharonda,Route no- 20 Ghansolito Nerul, Route no -121Ghansoli to Taddev,Route no-105 CBD BusStation to Bandra Rail-way Station. Out ofthese, the buses plyingon route no- 9 and 105receive good responsewith the transport wingearning Rs 17 lakhsfrom these routes only.Rs 5 lakhs have beengenerated from otherroutes.

The government’sheavy industry ministryhad urged various mu-

nicipal corporations totake electric buses on 60per cent subsidy to in-crease the use of electricbuses for passengertransport within thecity. Accordingly, theNavi Mumbai Munici-pal Corporation(NMMC) sent proposalfor 30 buses to the Cen-tral Government underthe ‘Fame 1’ scheme. Af-ter getting its approval,20 buses were given infirst slot. Of these, thetransport wing launched15 e-buses (air-condi-tioned) to its existingfleet. And on November21, the transport wingreceived the remaining10 buses. Subsequently,after inspection by RTO,the services of 27 buseswere started on variousroutes.

“Out of the electricbuses, 3 bus route num-bers have received agood response from thepassengers. The e bus-es do not cause pollutionand are also comfortableand cheaper. These bus-es have also less main-tenance cost. The ad-ministration will focuson providing better fa-cilities to travellers inthe New Year”, saidShirish Ardwad, Trans-port Manager, NMMT.

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kilograms. It has beendeveloped with the vi-sion to transform NaviMumbai into Zerowaste, Eco Friendly,Smart Art City.

“Through this mu-ral, the Navi MumbaiMunicipal Corporation(NMMC) wants totransform the humanbehaviour towards na-ture and make peopleaware of not just doingproper recycling of e-waste but also creatinga curiosity towards up-cycling e-waste,” saidNMMC Commissioner,Annasaheb Misal.

The mural has beendeveloped by theNMMC, Global Green

Innovators and GreenSociety Forum. Earliertoo, the Green SocietyForum under the theme‘Best out of Waste’ incollaboration withNMMC had created twoe-waste upcycled mu-rals by using non-func-tional Mother Boards ofLaptops. These havebeen installed in theNMMC Headquarterand Swachhta Park,Koperkhairane. Theyhad also created aunique applied visualart ‘Recycledelic FIFAMural’ installed in frontof NMMC Headquar-ter. The mural wasmade from over 7,000used plastic bottle caps,to celebrate the spirit ofthe FIFA U-17 WorldCup and aimed to cre-ate consciousness about

waste management.The creators of this

best out of waste muralare K Binoy, JaspalSingh Naol, Nikhil M,Devendra Singh, Push-kraj Mhatre, JayakarEllis, Virtual DesignerManju Chouhan, Art Di-rector Kushal Phursuleand their colleagues.

The mural has be-come a center of attrac-tion. Even during the31st December Eve, thepeople could be seen tak-ing selfies in front of thismural. “Even the peoplemoving through PalmBeach road are seen get-ting down from theirvehicles and taking Self-ies in front of this artis-tic upcycled E-wastemural,” said MeetaSharma, a resident ofNerul.

SwachhSarvekshan..

Contd. from pg. 1

Need for introspectionOnce considered to be the heaven of peace and tranquility, Navi

Mumbai can hardly be described the same. In the last few monthsthere has been an alarming rise in crime, especially the petty theftsand house burglaries. Police response to the rising crime has beeninadequate. Insufficient police strength, huge migration of labour,because of large scale construction activities, close proximity toMumbai, which can well be described as the den of underworld gangsand criminal activities, are sported as excuse for the zoom in thecrime graph. But along with these, there is no denying the fact thathandling has been inept and wanting.

While police may pat their shoulders for solving a few of the cas-es, it is disheartening to note that several remain unsolved whichonly help in bolstering the enthusiasm of the culprits, encouragingthem to venture further into crime. Police justify themselves byclaiming that some of the absconding culprits are foreign immigrantswho flee back after committing the crime and as such fall beyondtheir jurisdiction. This is unfortunately true. The police do not seemto have the authority as well as the power to nab such culprits, un-less the Central Government permits, which is a long procedure.This problem can only be tackled if India, like other nations, followsthe principle of issuing visas to the neighbouring countries and al-lows only those foreigners who have obtained proper jobs and ac-commodation. Secondly memorandum of understanding should besigned with the neighbouring countries to allow the police to nabthe culprit from whatever area he may have fled to.

The attitude of the police officials towards the complainants isalso many times not encouraging. It is seen that there is the ten-dency to ignore the crime, discourage lodging of complaints, slowdisposal of cases, harassment of witnesses etc. This has certainlydwindled the faith of the public in the police department and theysimply hesitate in going to the police stations for lodging of com-plaints and for other grievances. Over the past few months, therehas also been a dereliction of duties as well. Night patrolling, whichused to be a daily exercise, has been abandoned, for reasons bestknown to the police officials themselves. This has led to the in-crease in the cases of chain snatching and house breaking incidents.The detection rate has also not gone up.

The Navi Mumbai police department is presently trying to builda public friendly image. This is heartening and is certainly the needof the hour. This will help in strengthening the much desired faith ofthe public in the police department. Without public joining handswith the police department, crime cannot be controlled. The publicon their part should come forward bravely with complaints as wellas with information. The night patrolling exercise should be startedfor all the sectors to check the growing petty crime. It should be theendeavor of each one of us to make Navi Mumbai a crime free soci-ety.

As a precaution to prevent anyuntoward incident during the NewYear Eve, special arrangements weremade by Navi Mumbai Police andthere were 44 check post by policeand 18 check post by the traffic de-partment and 300 police officers andadditional police personnel were de-ployed by the transport department.

As per the data from the trafficdepartment in the drink and drive

offence, in Vashi unit 30 people werecaught, while in APMC-38, Ko-parkhairane-38, Rabale-14, Mahape-16, Turbhe-23, Seawoods-8, CBD Be-lapur-19, Kharghar-25, Taloja-28,Kalamboli-41, Panvel-21, Panvel Ta-luka-17, Uran-7, Nava-Sheva-5,Gwanaphata-10 cases were regis-tered. Driving licenses of the motor-ists have been suspended for threeto six months.

385 cases registered... Contd. from pg. 1

NMIA to become reality in2020- A big question mark?Ministers and planning authorities claim by mid-2020 NMIA will

be ready for inauguration; but residents are not so hopeful

By Abhitash D.Singh

NAVI MUMBAI: Whilethe City and Industrialand Development Cor-poration (CIDCO) hasset December 2020 asthe deadline for thecompletion of the NaviMumbai InternationalAirport project, thesources close to theproject as well as resi-dents feel that thechances are negligibleand the first flight isunlikely to take off be-fore 2023-24.

In 2019, the thenMaharashtra ChiefMinister Devendra Fad-navis had assured thatthe Navi Mumbai Inter-national Airport will bein action in December,2020. Many ministersand also officials hadpromised the NaviMumbaikars that theNMIA would be readyand become functionalby mid- 2020. TheNewsband correspon-dent before the end of2019 spoke to few offi-cials and Project Affect-ed People (PAP’s) about

the reality of the NMIAbut they told that thereis a zero chance of the

project getting complet-ed by December, 2020.

If the environmen-talists are to be be-lieved, there is morebad news in the pipelinefor the Navi MumbaiInternational Airport(NMIA). On one handthe CIDCO is claimingthat the villagers whoare happy with the pro-posals offered to themare ready to relocate,but it is said that fewvillagers are very firmon their decision andhave said that they willnot relocate until andunless CIDCO does notgive them what was

promised.The former Manag-

ing Director of CIDCO

on the condition of ano-nymity said, “In fact, ifthe pace of work is tak-en into consideration,than the earliest flightfrom the NMIA runwayis likely to take off onlyin 2023.”

Even though theplanning agency hadspeeded up the workand completed a land-fill of 8.5 meters andalso the diversion of tworivers, the other worklike levelling of a hill-ock that blocks theflight path needs morework. The terrain is

Contd. on pg. 6

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Ulwe residents demand more trainsfrom Kharkopar & Bamandongri station

Due to less frequency of trains autorickshaw drivers charge exorbitantly

By Abhitash D. Singh

ULWE: While thepopulation of Ulwe hasincreased manifold, therailway services havefailed to increase com-mensurately, say theresidents. Kharkopar& Bamandongri sta-tions were opened topublic in November2018. However, sincethen, the frequency oftrains has remainedthe same.

There are 10trains each fromNerul and CBDBelapur forKharkopar sta-tion. The firsttrain from Ner-ul to Kharkoparstarts at 7:45am and the lasttrain is at8:45pm, where-as from CBD-Belapur the firsttrain starts at6:22 am and thelast train is at 9:32 pm.The residents feel thatthere should be at leastfew more trains so thatthe people of Ulwe donot face the autocraticand demanding natureof autorickshaw driv-ers.

Pratik Yadav, one ofthe founders of Pariva-tan Foundation and aresident of sector-17,Ulwe said, “The popu-lation of Ulwe is in-creasing at a rapidpace. The residentialprices too are scalingnorthwards. However,while there has been arise in the populationin the node, the trans-port facilities, especial-ly trains, have failed tokeep pace. As of now

there are only 10trains from both Ner-ul & CBD Belapur tocater to the populationof more than 1 lakh ofUlwe. This is very less.We are demanding in-troduction of few moretrains. The last trainfrom Nerul is at8:45pm and if the pas-sengers miss thistrain then they have togo either by bus or

auto. The autorick-shaw drivers chargeRs 20-30 per seat fromNerul to Sector-19 andfrom Sector-19 to Sec-tor-17 they chargeRs.50 for just 1kmwhich is exorbitant.”

Junaid Shaikh, aresident of Ulwe Sec-tor-9 said, “I work inMasjid Bunder. As thelast train to Ulwe is at8:45pm from Nerul or9:32pm from CBD-Be-lapur, I am forced toleave from office early.If I miss either of thesetrains, I have to lookfor an alternative.Many times the autodrivers refuse to ply atnight so I have to walkfor nearly 2 km. Cen-tral Railway should

definitely increase thenumber of trains sothat our problems getresolved. At Nerul sta-tion the last trainshould be at 10:30pmand in CBD Belapur itshould be at 10:45 pm.”

One of the autorick-shaw drivers’ unionmembers on the condi-tion of anonymity said,“As of now we arecharging Rs.50 per seat

from Shagun Reality toSector-17 because wedon’t get passengersback from that area. Ifthe frequency of trainsincreases, we willcharge accordingly.The population nearKharkopar station isvery less and most ofthe flats are vacant.Once all the flats willbe filled, the fares willautomatically comedown.”

A K Singh, Sr. Pub-lic Relationship Officerof Central Railway saidthat they are well awareof the problems of theUlwe residents. “We areworking towards in-creasing the number oftrains, but it will takesome more time.”

By Chandrasekhar Hendve

NAVI MUMBAI: Withan aim to spreadwarmth during NewYear, two friends fromNerul- Sanjay Kumar,an internationally re-nowned magician andmusic teacher AmrutPatil distributed 100blankets from December25th to December 31st

Ushering in New Year in adifferent way

to underprivileged peo-ple living at the railwaystation premises inNerul, Seawoods,Juinagar.

“Generally, peoplespend lot of money inthrowing lavish partiesor going to hotels, how-ever, there are manypeople who spend theirnight in cold. To bring

happiness in their lives,we decided to distributeblankets”, said SanjayKumar.

“The real essence oflife is to give back to thesociety unconditionally.This was a feeble at-tempt from our end andwe hope that they wouldatleast be a little com-fortable while sleeping.”

difficult to work on andrequires a high level oftechnical expertise topull it off.

Recently Larsen &Toubro was officiallyawarded the contractfor construction. Butstill there are many dif-ficulties technically.

Vitesh Mhatre, a lo-cal leader from Ulwesaid, “NMIA projectwas started in 2007 andnow almost 12 yearsafter the project, thereis not much progress.Many of the otherprojects which have

been planned for thesmoother flow of trafficfrom different parts ofMumbai to NMIA, havealso not taken off theway they needed to pro-ceed. Infact many ofthose are still in plan-ning stage since 2007. One of the mainprojects to enhance con-nectivity to NMIA isthe Mumbai Trans Har-bour Link(MTHL) andin the year 2019 thefirst pier of the 22.5kmsix lane MTHL came upin Sewri which is al-most 49 years after itwas first proposed.”

Mhatre added, “As ofnow nothing is clearwhen the project wouldbe completed. But a ded-icated four lane (12km)

expressway to take pas-sengers to the entranceof the new airport (fromNhava to Panvel) andalso the two major rail-ways links planned be-tween the existing San-tacruz Airport and theNew Panvel (NaviMumbai) airportthrough a metro builtby the Mumbai Metro-politan Region Develop-ment Authority (MMR-DA), but both of theprojects are nowherenear completion. Also inthe year 2007-2008 therailway authority andCIDCO planned a newring rail network link-ing Panvel to Vashi butstill it is not clearwhether the same isstill on the cards.”

NMIA tobecomereality...Contd. from pg. 2

NAVI MUMBAI: TheNavi Mumbai Munici-pal Corporation(NMMC) will beconducting a drawingcompetition on Janu-ary 4th, 2020 under the“Clean Survey 2020 ‘.The competition willbe held at variousgardens across cityfrom 8.00 am to 10.00

NMMC aims to spread awareness amongst children on cleanlinesspm. These includeWonders Park, Sector,19A, Nerul; MeenataiThackeray Udayan,Sector 17, Vashi;Nisarg Udayan,Sector.14, Koparkhair-ane; Zen Garden,Sector 5, Airoli. Thecompetition is free andparticipation certifi-cates will be provided

to all the participatingstudents. Studentsfrom Classes 5th to7th can participate inthe first group whilein the second groupstudents from Classes8th to 10th can partici-pate.

Group I - (1) MySchool - BeautifulSchool (2) My locality

- Clean land (3) CleanCity - Green City

Group II - (1) Myresponsibility to mywaste (2) My partici-pation in the SwachhBharat Abhiyan (3)Classification andrecycling of waste -are subject to competi-tion.

From each group

first 5 students will begiven cash award; thefirst prize winner willget Rs. 11,000, secondwill receive Rs 9,000and third placewinner will get Rs7,000. The fourth andfifth winners will getRs 5,000 and 3,000respectively.

Students partici-

pating in the competi-tion are requested tobring along with themcrayons, watercolours, writing pads,brushes and necessarymaterials. Partici-pants should arrive atthe venue 15 minutesbefore the commence-ment of the competi-tion.

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Navi Mumbaikars usherin 2020 with great pompParties were mostly organised at home or in society premises;

Five Star Hotels, Pubs and Bar registered average footfall

By Abhitash D.Singh

NAVI MUMBAI: OnTuesday, the citizens ofthe satellite city ush-ered in New Year withgreat enthusiasm.However, most of thecitizens preferred tostay indoors and optedfor close gathering in-stead of gathering athotels, restaurants andbars, pubs and dhabas.All the Hotels and Res-taurants serving drinksand non-vegs reportedan average footfall.

The Police ban-dobast in the city re-mained high especiallyin areas like Sagar Vi-har, Palm Beach Roadand many other sensi-tive places. The NaviMumbai MunicipalCorporation (NMMC)building was illuminat-ed with colourful LEDlights where many cit-izens from the satellitecity gathered to see itsbeauty. CCTV cameraswere placed at strategiclocations and extra se-curity personnel weredeployed.

The Sikh communi-ty organised a beautifulGurbani Kirtan at ahuge ground in Sea-woods. There was anenormous floral embel-lishment outside thegate which had thesymbols of all the faith.

Many citizens from thesatellite city, whowished to begin 2020 onauspicious note, visitedthe known temple,which remained opentill 4:15am on Wednes-day.

A representativefrom Hoteliers associa-

tions like AHAR andHRAWI informed thatboth Mumbaikars &Navi Mumbaikars hadopted to organise NewYear parties and wel-comed 2020 in theirown home or the soci-ety compound. The rea-son cited by the citizenswere traffic jams, secu-rity concerns and alsoeconomic slowdown.

One of the waitersfrom Kirti Restaurant& Bar in Nerul said, "The main reason forless footfall was thatmany people do not con-sume non-vegetarian

food and alcohol onTuesday because theday is associated withLord Ganesha. For thisreason, many residentshad even postponedtheir celebration toWednesday on January1st, 2020."

Many people started

their holiday much be-fore and extended theirweekend holiday andtravelled to varioustourist spots to cele-brate.

Owner of DwarkaHotel in Nerul in-formed, " Many peopleopted for vegetarianfood instead of non-veg-etarian as it was Tues-day. The caterers, how-ever, received more or-ders for parties than usas most of the peoplecelebrated New YearEve either at home orin the societypremise."

By Ryhea George

NAVI MUMBAI :An in-teractive session will beheld on Sunday, 5thJanuary, 2020 for allthe cooperative housingsocieties. It has beenobserved that everyyear such meetings areheld during the begin-ning of the new year forthe cooperative housingsocieties in order toknow about the newlaws and changes thathas happened in thewhole year. The Maha-rashtra Societies Wel-fare Association

Interactive session for CooperativeHousing Society on 5th January, 2020

(MSWA), which hostssuch sessions for thepeople, is hosting itagain for the benefit ofthe citizens. Recentchanges that havebeen added in the CHSrules and also topicssuch as simplifying thedeemed conveyancewill be discussed by theeminent speakers.

The Speaker for theevent will be CA ShriRamesh Prabhu whowould be speaking andguiding the Navi Mum-baikars about thechanges and inclusions

of new laws for the year2020. The venue for thesession is Lotus Ban-quet, Sector-35E,Kharghar,NaviMumbai from 10:30 amto 12:30 pm.

The organizers forthis session are Maha-rashtra Societies Wel-fare Association (Ma-haseWA), Navi Mumbaiand Kharghar TalojaColonies Welfare Asso-ciation (KTC-WA). Forregistration please con-tact MangeshRanawade on 91-7798833777.

Rudrankksh Pips Pawan To BagJunior Gold: Lakshya Cup 2019

By Ashok Dhamija

PANVEL: Thane shoot-er Rudrankksh Patilpiped local favouritePawan Andhare to bagthe Junior Gold medal inthe 11th RR Lakshya Cupwhich was held at Panv-el based Karnala SportsAcademy’s World ClassShooting Range, equippedwith Megalink Electron-ic Targets early this week

Pawan a LakshyaShooting Club traineewas leading after the sec-ond series of five shots till16 shots, beforeRudrankksh came backstrongly in the last eightshots to upstage theformer with a tally 249.9.18-year-old Pawan on theother hand was narrow-ly behind with a tally of249.1.

The Bronze medalwent to another LakshyaShooting Club trainee andlocal lad Saurav Lagadwho also became the onlyjunior to achieve maxi-mum Bull’s Eye (10.9s).The other five who madethe finals in the juniorsection included: HarshitBinjwa, Mansi Kathait,Rishikesh Vishwambhar,Mohit Gowda and ShawriPakhale.

Speaking on his suc-cess the 10th grade stan-dard student of Hiranan-dani Foundation School,Thane, Rudrankksh whotook home a prize moneyof Rs. 50,000 and a All Sil-ver Rotating LakshyaCup for his efforts said “Iwas not focussed on win-ning gold. My focus wason the process. There istoo much pressure in thefinal few shots and themargin of difference be-tween shooters being veryless. Nevertheless, I amglad I won gold. This winwill certainly act as a mo-rale booster as I will berepresenting Maharash-tra in the third edition ofthe Khelo India YouthGames that is scheduledto take place in Assamduring January, 2020”.

A disappointed Pawanwho is a Diploma in CivilEngineering student andhad joined the Vashibranch of Lakshya Shoot-ing Club based in Fr. Ag-nel Sports Complex, at

academies of the coun-try since Oct 2018. Witha current strength of topranking 14 Khelo IndiaAthletes from across thecountry, the academyhas cemented its cre-dentials as a high per-formance centre. To topit all we have the Air Ri-fle Women Senior Na-tional Champion in Zee-na Khitta, our KheloIndia Athlete at the re-cently concluded 63rdNSCC in Bhopal. Overthe years the level ofcompetition that Lak-shya Cup sees everyyear has risen with Jun-iors dominating theChampionship in therecent past with Youthshooter Divyansh SinghPanwar of Rajasthanand Aishwary PratapSingh Tomar fromMadhya Pradesh win-ning bagging the Seniortitle in the 2018 and2019 edition respective-ly. In fact both of themhave earned a TokyoOlympic Quota place forIndia early this yearwith their stupendousperformance”.

Results (Finals):Junior Catego-

ry: 1) Rudrankksh Pa-til (Thane), 2) PawanAndhare (LakshyaShooting Club, Vashi),3) Saurav Lagad (Lak-shya Shooting Club,Panvel).

Special prizes (Rs25,000 each):

Max 10.9s (Bull’sEye): Saurav Lagad.

(L to R) ), Sanjay Chakravarthy (Dronacharya awardee),along with the Junior category toppers Pawan Andhare(Silver medallist), Rudrankksh Patil (Gold medallist), Sau-rav Lagad (Bronze medallist) along with Suma Shirur(Founder, Lakshya Shooting Club) pose for a groupphoto

the start of 2018, shared“I was not confident go-ing into the closing stag-es. Until then, I washaving a great hold inthe centre. Even SumaShirur Maam told methat if I had releasedquicker in the last fourshots, I would have wongold. Any way it’s alearning experience andI hope to improve on myoverall standing nexttime around”. Pawanhad to settle for a prizemoney of Rs. 30,000/-

“Lakshya Cup, aPremier InvitationalShooting Competitionorganised by LakshyaShooting Club since2008 is the first of itskind of Championshipthat has been promoting‘Gender Equality’ wherein men and women par-ticipants fire equalnumber of shots in acontest. Only in Dec2017 did the Interna-tional Shooting SportFederation (ISSF)adopted the equal shotrule in their competi-tions,” said SumaShirur, Founder Presi-dent of Lakshya Shoot-ing Club. The Olympi-an, Arjuna Awardee &World Record HolderSuma (Currently theHigh-Performance Spe-cialist Coach of the In-dian Rifle Shooting Jr.Team) further added“Our Club has had thedistinction of being onethe of only 7 Khelo In-dia accredited shooting