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Wednesday, 11 November 2020

VOL. 14 • ISSUE 132 RNI No. MAHEN/2007/21778 POSTAL REGN. No. NMB/154/2020-22/VASHI MDG POST OFFICE

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By Crime Reporter Navi Mumbai

Nerul police have suc-ceeded in arresting a burglar against whom 22 cases of burglary have

been registered in the Navi Mumbai and Thane Police Commissioner-ates. With his arrest, the police are hopeful that several cases of burglary

will be unearthed. The accused, Kisan

Mahadev Vhankore, a native of Wagdari vil-

Burglar involved in 22 theft cases nabbed

NMMC chief holds special meetingThe commissioner

of the Navi Mumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation, Ab-hijit Bangar held a spe-cial meeting to discuss various sanitation works that need to be carried out for 'Swachh Survey 2021'…

(More on page 4)Overdue salaries of State Transport

employees to be given before Diwali: Trans-

port Minister“The entire over-

due salaries of the ST employees, which has been pending for the last three months will be paid before Diwali”, assured Transport Min-ister Adv. Anil Parab

(More on page 7)Glass panes of 25

parked auto-rickshaws smashed

The glass panes of about 25 to 30 parked auto-rickshaws on pri-vate land in the Digha area were smashed on Monday morning. Ra-bale MIDC police have registered a case against an unidentified group

(More on page 3)Covid-19: four test

positive in Uran taluka On Tuesday (No-

vember 10), 4 patients tested positive for Covid-19, taking the tally in Uran Taluka to 2122. A total of 1966 patients have been discharged. 44 corona positive pa-tients are undergoing treatment and 112 co-rona positive patients have died till date, said Uran Tehsildar Bhausa-heb Andhare.

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With his arrest many burglary cases are likely to be uncovered

By Pranab Jyoti BhuyanNavi Mumbai

The daily commut-ers of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMT) buses are miffed as the transport authority is not taking care of their buses before running them on the city roads.

Different issues such as dirty and dam-aged seats, missing window panes, broken doors among others have been annoying the commuters for a long time. They com-plain that due to such issues, they are unable to enjoy smooth trav-elling even as they are

paying exorbitantly for the tickets.

Sheetal Kamble, a

resident of Nerul said, “First of all, the NMMT takes no effort to clean

the seats of their buses. You will see a thick lay-er of dust on almost all

the seats. The seats are

Poorly maintained NMMT buses irk

daily commuters By Pranab Jyoti BhuyanNavi Mumbai

Kharghar is the first residential area which was declared as a ‘dry zone’ in the city of Navi Mumbai. Tak-ing the views of the lo-cal residents into con-sideration, the district administration has not allowed a single wine shop there till date.

This ban put on the wine shops, however, is hardly serving any purpose as a number of villagers are illegally selling liquor at differ-ent places of the town. According to the local residents, such unli-censed wine shops are prevalent in every nook and corner of sector 32, and 35 of the node.

Dharmendra Sutar, a resident said, “Some residents of Owepeth gaon of sector 32, and Owa gaon and Papdi cha Pada of sector 35, have been selling liquor as their traditional busi-ness for last many years. They transport the li-quor from various parts of Mumbai and distrib-ute among themselves. Generally they use

small cars like Innova and Sumo for transport-ing the liquor at night.”

“You will find as many as five liquor shops only in Owepeth gaon. Apart from the premi-um wines, homemade liquor is also available in their shops. People

from outside Kharghar also come for purchas-ing liquor from them. We are sure, Kharghar police are also aware of it,” he added.

Manoj Mane, a social activist said, “Kharghar has been a liquor-free zone since it was de-veloped by the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) in early 1970s. A wine shop was opened here in 2007, but all the resi-dents raised their voices against it and conse-quently it had to be

Liquor is being sold in Kharghar

illegally, say residentsAlthough a ‘dry zone’, a number of villagers

are selling liquor in Kharghar, allege residents

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By Chandrashekhar HendveMumbai

Khadi and Village In-dustries Commis-sion (KVIC), this year, for the first time, decid-ed to sell diyas to online and through stores to become foot soldiers of the Prime minister's vi-sion of Vocal for Local. KVIC launched online sale of Diyas on Octo-ber 8, and in less than a month, nearly 10,000 diyas have already been sold online. Huge de-mand for Khadi’s clay diyas was seen from the very first day of its launch and In less than 10 days, a majority of designer diyas were completely sold out.

Following this, KVIC launched new sets of de-signer diyas that are also in huge demand. The sale of di-yas is further rising with Diwali inching closer.

KVIC has launched 8 types of designer di-yas that are priced nomi-nally between Rs 84 and Rs 108 for a set of 12 pieces. KVIC is also of-fering a discount of 10% on these diyas. KVIC potters have expressed happiness that they are earning Rs 2 to Rs 3 on sale of every diya. Khadi’s designer diyas are available at www.khadiindia.gov.in.

KVIC is also sell-ing diyas and other clay items such as Laxmi-Ganesh idols and other decoratives through its outlets in Delhi and other cities. These idols are being made by pot-ters in Varanasi, Rajas-than, Haryana and other states and are fetching good income for the pot-ters. Diyas, on the other hand, is being procured from KVIC units in Pokharan in Jaisalmer and Rawatsar in Hanu-mangarh district in Ra-

jasthan. Over 10,000 di-yas have also been sold through various Khadi outlets.

KVIC Chairman Shri Vinai Kumar Sax-ena said the online sale of clay items is empow-erment of KVIC potters in real sense. “Earlier, potters in a particular region would only sell their items locally but with the pan-India reach of Khadi’s e-portal, these products are being sold in every part of the country. Through KVIC

e-portal, diyas made in Rajasthan are being pur-chased in remote states like Arunachal Pradesh, J&K, Kerala,Assam, Maharashtra, Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This has prompted an in-crease in production and higher income of the pot-ters,” Saxena said. “This is precisely the dream of the Hon'ble Prime Min-ister to empower potters and revive the art of pot-tery,” Saxena added.

Madan Lal Praja-pati, one such potter of

PMEGP unit in Pokharan, said this is the first time he is selling diyas outside his vil-lage. “This diwali our sale has shot up. We are sup-plying our diyas to Khadi Bhavan in Delhi and from there it is being sold throughout

the country online. This is fetching me good in-come,” he said.

Notably, KVIC has trained these potters and provided them with electric potter wheels and other equipment under Kumhar Sashak-tikaran Yojana that has increased their produc-tion and income by up to 5 times. So far, KVIC has distributed over 18,000 electric potter wheels benefitting over 80,000 people of the Kumhar community.

KVIC’s e-portal brings early Diwali for empowered potters

By Dinesh Pawar, Uran

A blood donation camp was organized on behalf of Apta Shiv Sena branch on 8th No-vember 2020 on the oc-casion of Memorial Day of Balasaheb Thackeray. A large number of blood donors participated in the cam.

Zilla Parishad mem-ber Vijay Bhoir, Deputy Taluka Chief Ashok

Thorve, Karade Gram Panchayat Member Ni-tesh Karande, Yuvasena Taluka Officer Vikrant Gharat, Kelvane Zilla Parishad Divisional Of-ficer Swapnil Bhovad, Branch Head Rajendra Gholap, Sub Branch Chief Sanjay Ambwane, Apta Gram Panchayat Member Vrishabh Dhu-mal , Sameer Bhalekar, Babu Sayyed, Vinayak

Mehtar, Tejas Kakade, Sunil Pawar, Omkar Pawar, Sujit Mehtar, Raj Mehtar, Abhay Rapte, Shivdas Bhoir, Rupesh Rathod, Sushant Mehtar, Nishant Mehtar, Amrit Sonwane, Sagar Bho-vad, Ganesh Thorve, Rohan Bhoir, Mayur Bhoir, Bhushan Bhoir, Kaustubh Jadhav, Yash Kakade, Abhinav Phul-mali were present.

Blood donation camp held The camp was organized by Shiv Sena Apta Branch on the occasion of Memorial Day of Balasaheb Thackeray

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POORLy MAINTAINED NMMT BUSES IRk...

so dirty that no one feels like sitting on them. On several occasions, I my-self chose to stand even as there were vacant seats in the buses.”

“In quite a few bus-es, I have observed dam-aged seats too. In fact I have barely seen the long rear seats in good shape. We don’t know why NMMT is not pay-ing attention to these is-sues?” she said.

Ameya Patil, a resident of Sanpada said, “On the one hand NMMT is increasing the prices of their bus tick-ets, while on the other, they are not ready to provide us satisfactory services. Why cannot they repair the broken doors and broken win-dow panes?”

“During this pan-

demic, when the trains are being run with a lot of restrictions, the resi-dents are mostly depen-dent on the civic buses. Therefore, the transport authority should keep their buses in good con-ditions so that the com-muters do not face any problem,” he said.

Shirish Aradwad, general manager of NMMT said that they are taking all possible steps to keep the bus-es in good condition. “Whenever we notice some issues in a bus, we send it for repairing. At any given time, around 10 percent of our buses remain out for mainte-

nance. The commuters my find some minor is-sues, but we try and fix them as soon as these come to our notice,” he said.

“As far as the dust issue is concerned, we have seen it mostly in the buses which ply around the airport site. Because of the ongoing construction work, dust accumulates in the seat just after one trip and it is not possible for us to clean a bus after every trip. At present in view of the Covid-19 pan-demic, we are sanitizing around 50% of our bus-es every day,” he further said.


LIqUOR IS BEING SOLD IN kHARGHAR...

closed.”“One family of Owa

gaon has lost its five members only because of liquor consumption. Considering its adverse effects, we have been re-questing the authorities not to allow any wine shop inside the town.

However, some anti-so-cial groups are repeat-edly trying to defeat us by secretly selling liquor in the area. The police department should take strict action against it,” he added.

When contacted, a senior police officer wishing not to be named said, “We are putting all our efforts to keep

Kharghar a liquor-free zone. We registered around 30 cases against people for illegally sell-ing liquor, last year alone. Even after that some people transport liquor to sell in the vil-lages. Of late, we have increased patrolling in some areas where such cases were reported in the past.”

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By Chandrashekhar Hendve Navi Mumbai

The Central and State Governments should ensure that the changes in the Agricul-ture and Labour Act do not affect the traders and the hardworking Mathadi workers and does not lead to unem-ployment. Otherwise, all the Mathadi work-ers will go on indefinite strike, said Mathadi Mu-kadam activists, office bearers of traders’ asso-ciation, leaders of Ma-harashtra State Mathadi, Transport and General Workers Union, office bearers of market com-mittee during a meeting that was held at Mathadi Bhavan, Turbhe under the leadership of Maha-rashtra State Mathadi,

Transport and General Workers Union.

Speaking on the oc-casion, Mathadi Labour leader Narendra Patil said, “If any law comes and it is oppressive, we will oppose it. It is im-portant to consider who is benefited from FDI and retail trade. The state government should immediately clarify its position on the law passed by the central government and should oppose it. Action will be taken by the office bear-ers of the traders' asso-ciation, Mathadi union representatives and a decision will be taken to carry out further agita-tion if our demands are not heard”.

MLA Shashikant Shinde said the meet-

ing has been organized to sustain the trade of the merchant class and the work of the Mathadi workers. Traders and Mathadi workers have been protesting against the consequences of the government's law. “We will continue to oppose the law which is against the interest of traders and Mathadi workers”, he said.

Shankar Sheth Pin-gale of Vegetable Mar-ket, Kirti Rana of Masala Market, Ashok Badhiya of Danabunder Market, Raju Maniar of Kanda-Batata Market and other office bearers of the as-sociation as well as Mu-kadam activists Nana Dhonde and Santosh Ahire were present dur-ing the meeting.

Mathadi Traders Associations warn of indefinite strike against new Agriculture and Labour Act

By Crime ReporterNavi Mumbai

The Kalamboli po-lice have succeeded in nabbing one accused involved in the murder case of Nagnath Male (31) at CIDCO's Garden in Kalamboli Sector-2E last week. Investiga-tions have revealed that four robbers had killed Nagnath Male after tak-ing away cash. Police said Sashmesh Pramod Bhosale (20) has been arrested in connec-tion with the murder case. Police have now launched a search for the other three accused who are absconding, informed Shivraj Patil,

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Circle-2.

Male, a young man living in Chakan area of Pune, had come to his sister's house in Kalam-boli at around 5 am on November 5. However, before reaching his sis-ter's house, the accused, Sashmesh Bhosale and his three accomplices stopped Male with the intention of robbing cash and gold necklace. They got into a scuffle while Male tried to stop them. The four then strangled him and fled.

The next day Male's body was found in the garden, said senior po-lice inspector Satish

Gaikwad. On the instruc-tions of his superiors, Mr. Gaikwad formed three teams to search for the accused. The po-lice team checked the CCTV in the area and after getting information about the accused from the sources, arrested Sashmesh Bhosale, who stays near Panvel rail-way station. After fur-ther questioning by the police, he confessed to have killed Male along with the three other ac-complices. They wanted to rob him. Police have arrested him and are now searching for the three other absconding accused.

By Crime ReporterNavi Mumbai

The glass panes of about 25 to 30 parked auto-rickshaws on private land in the Digha area were smashed on Monday morning. Rabale MIDC police have registered a case against an unidentified group. There is a pri-vate parking lot in a vacant plot near Mukund Company in Digha where rickshaw drivers from the area park their vehicles. On Monday morning, an unidentified man/group allegedly went into the parking lot and broke the glass panes of about 25 to 30 rick-shaws and fled. After seeing the glass

broken, the rickshaw drivers rushed to the police station.

Meanwhile, in the parking lot where rickshaws are parked, drunken youths sit and were recently stopped by the security guards from entering. The police suspect that the drunken youths must have broken the glasses of 25 to 30 rickshaws. A case has been registered against the accused for breaking the glass panes of the rick-shaw, said Nitin Gite, senior police in-spector, Rabale MIDC police station. One of the accused has been identified and he and his accomplices are being sought, Gite said.

Kalamboli Murder: One arrested, police search for the other three absconding accused

Police launch search for a group who broke glass panes of 25 parked auto-rickshaws

By Dinesh Pawar, Uran

Morning Katta in Uran city has completed 4 years. The group, which was start-ed by Subodh Darne and Suryakant Dan-dekar aims at providing awareness programmes as well as organizing various cultural, health and legal programmes with an aim to keep all its members happy and healthy.

The programmes are conducted free of cost and are being held

at Vimla Lake garden under the Municipal Council.

The birthdays of senior citizens and

members are celebrated every month. Founder President Subodh Darne, Suryakant Dan-

dekar, Ulhas Mokashi, Adv. Dattatreya Nawale, Sunil Gharat, Sanjay Chiplunkar, Her-man Fernandes, Dar-

shan Koli are working hard to ensure that the activities reach out to large number of people.

Morning Katta completes four years

Panvel: Opposition leader Pri-tam Mhatre along with the corpora-tor Preeti George, Dr Surekha Mo-hokar and Sarika Bhagat have demanded immedi-ate cement concretising of the road from Hotel Pancharatna, Nadkarni Hospital to Prince Para-dise Society.

“The city is developing rapidly. Panvel is known as the main city of the taluka. With big markets in this city, many people come and go every day for buying and selling. Thus, every day many heavy

vehicles pass through Panvel. There-fore, cement concreting of roads in the area is required”, said Mhatre.

While, some of the roads have been concert-ized, the main roads are yet to be cemented such as Agari Samaj Hall Road, Late Shantabai Ganpat Ghadge Marg (behind New Court), Road at Ru-pali Cinema (Maharash-tra Bank to Rupali Cin-ema Theater), Old Court to Pada Mohalla Badi

Masjid, Pada Mohalla Badi Majjid to Shani Mandir.

Opposition leader Pritam Mhatre demands cement concreting of roads


Navi Mumbai

The commissioner of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corpora-tion (NMMC), Abhijit Bangar held a special meeting to discuss vari-ous sanitation works that need to be carried out for 'Swachh Survey 2021'. During the meet-ing, the Commissioner took stock of various sanitary issues. Ad-ditional Commissioner Sujata Dhole, City En-gineer Surendra Patil, Administration and Zone1 Deputy Com-missioner Dadasaheb Chabukaswar, Deputy Commissioner of Solid Waste Management

Dr. Babasaheb Rajale, Zone 2 Deputy Com-missioner Shri. Amr-ish Patnigere, Deputy Commissioner of Parks Manojkumar Mahale were present.

Mr. Bangar instruct-ed all the departments of the corporation to be ready to work more vigorously for the current year's survey. He also instructed the municipal officers and employees to go to the actual places in the departments and carry out sanitary works.

"Survey is a test, but cleanliness should be a habit," said Ban-gar. "Cleanliness is

not possible without public participation. Therefore, awareness drives should be created

to make every citizen aware of the importance of cleanliness and put

it into practice," he stressed.

The Commissioner directed that more em-

phasis should be laid on categorizing the waste from household to be

segregated into wet, dry and household hazards at source level.

At the same time,

wet waste should be composted by the citizens using compost

baskets, he said. Mr. Bangar also stressed that public and com-munal toilets should be well maintained and more attention should be paid to cleanliness in villages and slums.

Bangar further directed to focus on various issues such as changing the mindset of the citizens towards cleanliness, maintain-ing regular cleanliness of the lakes, 100 per cent implementation of compositing projects by the societies, colonies and institutions which generate a large amount of waste.

NMMC chief holds special meetingDiscusses various initiatives to be undertaken for ‘Swachh Survey 2021’

By Ashok Dhamija

Skipper Smriti Mand-hana led from the front with an sparkling half century while off spinner Salma Khatun picked three wickets, as Trailblazer defeated two times defending cham-pions Supernovas by 16 runs in a low scoring Jio Women’s T20 Challenge Final for their maiden ti-tle at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Monday. In the process they avenged their narrow last ball loss by two runs to the Har-manpreet Kaur side in their final league game.

Put in to bat Smriti in the company of Dean-dra Dottin provided the perfect start and put on a

fifty-run stand in the sev-enth over, with the for-mer doing the majority of the scoring. Poonam Yadav however brought the first breakthrough in the 12th over after she had Dottin (32-ball 20) caught by Radha Yadav at 71. Southpaw Smriti in the meantime reached her maiden fifty in the same over with a four and a six. Cruising at 101 for 1 in the 15th over and set for a big score Trali-blazers soon lost the plot after the dismissal of their skipper to a smart piece of stumping by Taniya Bhatia off Sha-shikala Siriwardeneto in the next over not before Smriti had scored 68 (in

49-ball) which included five fours and three six-es. Supernovas Radha Yadav with her left-arm orthodox spin ran through Trailblazers bat-ting order as she picked five wickets in the death overs (two wickets in 18th and three in the fi-nal over) to restrict them

to 118/8. In the process Mumbai born Radha be-came the first bowler to pick a five-wicket haul in the Women’s T20 Challenge that also saw her earn the Player of the Series award.

Supernovas in their run chase lost opener Chamari Athapaththu

early after World no. 1 bowler Sophie Eccle-stone trapped her before the wickets. The de-fending champions who managed to score 28 in the power play lost two quick wickets of Taniya Bhatia (14) and Jemimah Rodrigues (13) in space of three overs to Deepti Sharma (2/9). Harman-preet Kaur and Shashika-la Siriwardene tried to revive the innings with a 37-run fourth wick-et stand. A top-edged sweep by Shashikala off Salma was pocketed by veteran Jhulan Goswami of in the 15th over that put additional pressure on Harmanpreet who batted valiantly despite

hamstring injury . Need-ing 28 from the last two overs, a double wicket strike by Salma which included the prize wick-et of Harmanpreet (30) proved to be decisive as Supernovas in the end managed to score 102/7 in the end

Brief Scores (Fi-nal): Trailblazers - 118/8 (Smriti Mandhana 68, Deandra Dottin 20; Radha Yadav 5/16) beat Supernovas - 102/7 (Harmanpreet Kaur 30, Shashikala Siriwardene 19; Salma Khatun 3/18) by 16 runs. Player of the Match: Smriti Mandhana (Trailblazers). Player of the Series: Radha Ya-dav (Supernovas).

Trailblazers clinch maiden Jio Women's T20 Challenge title

Supernovas Radha Yadav became the first bowler to pick a five-wicket haul in the Women’s T20 Challenge was nominated the Player of the Series (Photo courtesy BCCI)

Smriti Mandhana's Trailblazers celebrate their maiden Women’s T20 Challenge title (Photo courtesy BCCI)


Nowadays stress has become a reg-ular part of almost ev-eryone's life. If you are doing nothing about it and the levels of your stress keep increasing, you are surely putting your well-being in high risk.

Stress consumes you mentally, emo-tionally and also threatens your physical health. Stress can be a big hindrance in fulfilling your family respon-sibilities as well as the profes-sional ones. In short, stress can make your day to day life very difficult to live.

So, in order to live a happy life, you need to manage your stress very well.

There are certain steps that can help you to overcome your stress and make your life much better.# Recognise the rea-

son of your stress: try to find out the major reasons that you think are caus-ing you stress. It might be related to your job, concerns for some family members, relation-ship issues or many other factors. Gen-erally, we tend to ignore the thoughts that keep bothering us and they turn into stress.

# Vent out your feel-ings : whatever thoughts are trou-bling you, share with someone you really trust. You may get a solution to your problem or at least you may feel lighter. If you keep bottling up your thoughts, they will surely break you.

# Try to follow the 4 A's of stress man-agement : Avoid, Alter, Adapt or Ac-ceptAvoid being in the

situations or with the people that cause you

stressThere are certain

situations that are im-possible to avoid. In such situations, just alter your attitude, ac-tions & expectations for your own good.

Sometimes the un-expected situations in your life cause anxi-ety and makes you feel nervous. Work to adapt yourself to such situations. Learning always makes adapta-tion easier.

There are few things in life that are totally beyond your control. The only way out for you is to ac-cept it and move on. Keeping on thinking

or regretting or try-ing to change, will do nothing but make you stressful. Don't put an effort to control the uncontrollable.# Stay connected &

keep in touch with your friends, fam-ily and the people who make you feel happy and forget your tensions.

# Forgive and forget is the best the prin-cipal that will help you to move on in life. Just don't cling on to your bad ex-periences.

# Live with a Healthy lifestyle: Yoga,

workout and meditation are the best exer-cises to relieve your mind, body and soul.# Practice some quick stress bust-ers when you feel extremely stressed, like the deep breath-ing, chanting, moving out for a walk, some craftwork, lis-

tening to your favourite music, talking to a good friend. Do what makes you feel in-stantly happy.Outer factors are

surely the ones that cause you stress, but unless and until you yourself decide to fight with that, before it in-ternally destroys you, stress will remain out of your control. Not every technique works the same for everyone. But the ultimate goal is to fight & defeat your stress. So, look out for a method that works out the best for you and go ahead to lead a stress free life.

The MInd dIAry

Live life, Stress free

By kamna Walecha

Panvel: Following the demand by the Panvel Sangharsh Samiti to put fence under the Kalam-boli flyover, the officials of the Maharashtra State Road Development Cor-poration (MSRDC) held a meeting and agreed to take up the proposal with the senior officers.

A meeting was held at Panvel Tehsildar's Of-fice under the chairman-ship of Deputy Tehsildar Rahul Suryavanshi. Con-sidering the increased menace of beggars oc-cupying the space under the flyover and risk of accidents, also the pos-

sibility of the spread of corona infection, the Panvel Sangharsh Samiti President Kantilal Kadu said that it was essential to put iron fences under the flyover. During the meeting, the officials of MSRDC said that an es-timate cost detail would be prepared in two days and a proposal will be sent to the seniors. After that, the work of putting fences on both the sides of the iron grate will be taken up.

Deputy Tehsildar Rahul Suryavanshi, Mande, Aval Karkun S. N. Rathod, a senior of-

ficer of Road Develop-ment Corporation R. P. Alexander, Advisor Shirish Pote, Bhagwa-trao Warekar, Deepak More, IRB Officer M. H. Gandhi, Panvel Munici-pal Corporation Ward Officer Prakash Gaik-wad, Panvel Sangharsh Samiti President Kantilal Kadu, Panvel City Presi-dent Ganesh Waghilkar, Karanjade Divisional President Mangal Bhar-wad, Vice President Ra-mashree Chavan, Nere Divisional President Sachin Patil and others were present on the oc-casion.

Panvel Sangharsh Samiti demands iron fencing under Kalamboli flyover

A meeting was held with the officials of the MSRDC


During the weekly meeting with the Commissioner of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) Abhijit Bangar, MLA Ganesh Naik urged him to ask the CIDCO and MIDC to transfer the plots to the civic body for creating facilities.

“To be able to create new infrastructural fa-cilities, NMMC should demand both CIDCO and MIDC to promptly transfer the plots to the

civic body. A node like Ghansoli, which has been transferred from CIDCO to the NMMC, will require facilities like hospital, school, sports and transporta-tion,” said Mr. Naik. The former corporators present at the meeting gave examples of how CIDCO has changed the reservation of facility plots in their wards and used it for a different purpose.

Speaking to the del-egation, Bangar said, “A meeting of CIDCO and

MIDC officials will be held and a demand will be made to transfer the reserved plots”.

Naik further de-manded the construc-tion of a route for as-cending and descending at Airoli on the Airoli to Katai Naka Kalyan route being constructed by MMRDA. He also demanded speeding up of projects started or planned under the City Mobility Scheme to ease the internal traf-fic congestion in Navi Mumbai.

CIDCO and MIDC should hand over the reserved plots to NMMC

for creating facilities: Ganesh Naik


EditorialISSUE: 132 11 NOVEMBER, 2020

Over the last few weeks, there has been a stupendous increase in the crime graph, especially in the pet-ty crime. Cases of daylight robbery, chain snatching etc. are on the rise. This has instilled a sense of insecu-rity amongst the residents. The non chalant attitude of the many police officials, non friendly image of the police department and the difficult legal procedures have only helped in eroding the image further.

This is an era of specialization. Considering the competitiveness that one has to face, success in any field, to a great extent, depends on specialization. This adage applies to the police department as well. The present day working in the police department makes it imperative for the officials to carry out a wide range of duties, which in turn adversely affects their performance as prime security providing agency. The po-lice today have no defined duties, which varies from nabbing criminals to providing security to the VVIPs to making bandobast for dharnas & community celebrations, to manag-ing traffic, mediating in disputes, providing security cover to the poli-ticians during elections and election rallies and what not. It is because of this multi faceted duty requirement that the performance of police in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai is lack luster and they fail to perform their prime duty that of providing security to the residents, which is what they are actually created for. Limited force equipped with arms of the stone- age era with unlimited working hours is finding itself at the receiving end es-pecially when the nature of crime is getting sophisticated and complex. As is said power corrupts person, the same is true to great extent for the police force also, which wields legit-imate and some times even illegiti-mate powers. Lack of commitment and weak morale are visible in the police force today leading to disgust in the society and police as a profes-

sion carries a very poor image.The police alone cannot be

blamed for this sorry state of affairs. Huge interferences from the politi-cians who treat the police depart-ment as personal employees, has also contributed towards its poor per-formances. Transfers and postings make lot of news these days where merits rarely count. This has put a big question mark on the working of the police department and there is an eminent need for revamping the whole system especially in view of the recent scam.

The police department needs to go in for specialized forces for different works like for example crime branch, VVIPs security, traf-fic department etc. It is heartening to note that recently efforts have been made to modernize the department, but the forces should be imparted specialized training in dealing with particular kind of crimes especially in view of new types of crimes like financial and cyber crimes. A sig-nificant amount of autonomy needs to be given to the police department and there has to be a minimum in-terference from the politicians. In this revamping process not only the police department needs to be overhauled but the public in general also needs to be counseled. The il-legal migrants from neighbouring countries, the slum dwellers, many of the road side beggars and urchins are also potential criminals and they need to be discouraged as prevention of crime is better than conviction of criminals after crime is committed. The working conditions in the police department need to be improved and the police force should be augment-ed and equipped with latest arms, means of communication & trans-portation. They should also have better inter connection and exchange of information with other security agencies in order to enhance their performance and also to improve their sagging morale.

Zooming crime graph- Cause for concern

By Ashok Dhamija, Panvel

On account of the ongoing Gur-jar agitation in Rajasthan, train movement has been affected between Hindaun City - Bayana section in Raj-asthan. In Kota Division of West Cen-tral Railway, tracks have been blocked between Dumariya – Fateh Singhpura section. In view of the above events, few Special Trains passing which also pass via Konkan Railway route with halt at Panvel Junction (Central Railway) and Vasai Road (Western Railway) too have been diverted and accordingly short originated wef Sun-day 8th November, 2020 till further notice.

The details of these affected trains are as under:

A) Diversion of UP Trains via KR Route:

Train No. 02432 New Delhi– Thiruvananthapuram Central Special

Train will be diverted via Mathura Jn. – Jhansi - Bina – Sant Hirdaram Nagar – Nagda.

B) Diversion of DN Trains via KR Route:

1). Train No. 02493 Pune - H.

Nizamuddin Special Train will be di-verted via Nagda – Sant Hirdaram Na-gar - Bina – Jhansi - Mathura Jn.

2). Train No. 02413 Madgaon - H. Nizamuddin Special Train, will be di-verted via Nagda – Sant Hirdaram Na-gar - Bina – Jhansi - Mathura Jn.

diversion of special trains services affected due to Gurjar agitationin rajasthan

For representational purpose only

By Ashok Dhamija, Mumbai

Central Railway (CR) will run for fully reserved additional Festi-val Weekly Specials and increase the frequency of existing Festival Special Train to daily to clear the extra rush of passengers during the festival season, as per details below:

A) Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Gor-akhpur Weekly Festival Specials

Train no. 01079 Special will leave Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT),

Mumbai o¬n every Thursday from 12th to 26th November,2020 (3 Trips) and arrive at Gorakhpur on the third day. On its return journey Train no. 01080 Special will leave Gorakhpur o¬n every Saturday from 14th to 28th November,2020 (3 Trips) and arrive LTT, Mumbai the next day.

The above Special will comprise One AC-2 Tier, Four AC-3 Tier, Twelve Sleeper Second Class and Three Sec-ond Class Seating coaches. Halts en-route includes Kalyan Jn, Nasik Road,

Bhusaval Jn, Khandwa, Itarsi Jn, Habibganj, Vidisha, Jhansi Jn, Orai, Kanpur Central, Lucknow Nr, Bara-banki Jn, Jarwal Road, Colonelganj, Gonda Jn, ,Balrampur, Jharkhandi F, Tulsipur, Barhni, Siddharth Nagar and Anand Nagar stations

B) Lokmanya Tilak Terminus- Manduadih Daily Festival Special

Train no. 02167 Special will de-part Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT), Mumbai daily with effect from Tues-

day 10th to 30th November,2020 and arrive at Manduadih next day. On its return journey Train no. 02168 Special will depart Mandu-adih daily with effect from 11th to 1st December,2020 and arrive at LTT, Mumbai next day. There will be no change in the composition of the above Special. Halts en-route includes Kalyan Jn, Igatpuri, Nasik Road, Bhusaval Jn, Khandwa, Itarsi

Jn, Jabalpur, Katni, Satna, Manikpur Jn, Prayagraj Chheoki and Varanasi Jn

Reservations for above Festival Special o¬n Special Charges have commenced at all Reservation Cen-tres and o¬n website: www.irctc.co.in. Only passengers having confirmed tickets will be permitted to board these special trains. Passengers are advised to adhere to all norms, SOPs related to COVID19 during the boarding, travel and at destination.

Cr to run additional Festival Weekly Specials on Mumbai – Gorakhpur route

Lokmanya Tilak Terminus - Manduadih Festival Special to run daily


LETTER TO THE EDITORRise and fall of Donald Trump

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Jubel D'Cruz, Mumbai


Mumbai

To meet the grow-ing demand for chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) pipe and fittings in India, Lubrizol Advanced Materials, a global spe-cialty chemical leader and the market leader for CPVC, and Grasim Industries Limited, a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, have entered into a definitive agreement to manufacture and supply CPVC resin in India.

Once commissioned, this near 100,000 metric-ton state-of-the-art CPVC plant at Grasim’s site in Vilayat, Gujarat, will be the largest single-site ca-pacity for CPVC resin production glob-ally. The project will take part in two phases, with the first phase of production expected to be operational in late 2022. The CPVC resin produced at Vilayat will en-able product sold under Lubrizol’s FlowGuard® Plus, Corzan® and BlazeMas-ter® brands.

This col-laboration, in support of the Government of India’s “Make in India” initiative, is expected to bolster economic development in the state of Gujarat. To further support the local mar-ket, Lubrizol will make additional investments in the coming years to expand its existing CPVC compound plant in Dahej, Gujarat and establish a local innova-tion center as demand continues to grow.

India is amongst the largest consumers of CPVC, primarily in the form of plumbing pipe and fittings, and growing needs for clean water in all residential and commercial build-

ings will drive contin-ued growth. Lubrizol is the inventor and largest manufacturer of CPVC resin and CPVC compounds worldwide. With billions of feet installed globally, Lu-brizol’s CPVC solutions enable long-lasting sys-tems and reliable access to clean, safe drinking water to millions of homes, in alignment with the company’s mission to help the world Live Better. To-date, Lubrizol products have been instrumental in delivering safer water to some 200 million citizens in South Asia. Lubrizol has plans to in-troduce other advanced water solutions in India in the near future.

With this investment to supply resin to its existing compounding plant in Dahej, Gujarat, Lubrizol becomes the only company in India with end-to-end CPVC capability. In addition to its regional manu-facturing capabilities, Lubrizol continues to strengthen its customer network, collaborat-ing with local leaders like Ashirvad Pipes, an Aliaxis company, and Prince Pipes to ensure robust distribution in India and South Asia. As part of its regional support, Lubrizol is also committed to the ongoing development of plumbers in India, having trained nearly 100,000 local plumb-

ers on installation of advanced plumbing systems.

“This alliance will help Lubrizol better serve our customers in India and South Asia, as well as support the Indian economy,” said Arnau Pano, Vice President, Lubrizol Ad-vanced Materials, South Asia. “Connecting with Grasim Industries Lim-ited, a reputable global conglomerate, who share our commitment to sustainable chemical production, will allow us to provide our cus-tomers with increased, reliable CPVC supply and further our goal of improving access to clean, safe drinking water for millions of

global citizens through the advantages offered by FlowGuard® Plus plumbing solutions.”

“This collaboration with Lubrizol Advanced Materials is part of our long-term direction to bring in world-class technologies to India and additionally com-plements our growth strategy in Chlor-Alkali and Derivatives plat-form,” said Kalyan Ram Madabhushi, CEO-Global Chemicals & Group Business Head-Fertilisers & Insulators, Aditya Birla Group. “The collaboration will support the ‘Make in India’ initiative and is expected to create local jobs and downstream opportunities.”

Lubrizol and Grasim Industries Limited partner for India’s largest CPVC resin plant

By Ashok DhamijaMumbai

Railways will run six additional Specials between Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT), Mumbai and Hatia stations to clear the extra rush of pas-sengers during the forthcoming Di-pawali and Chhat pooja festivals as per details:-

Train no. 08226 Special will leave LTT, Mumbai o¬n every Monday at 00.15 hrs from 16th to 30th No-vember, 2020 (3 Trips) and arrive in Hatia at 04.00 hrs next day.

Train no. 08225 Special on the other hand will leave Hatia at 09.40 hrs o¬n every Saturday from 14th to 28th No-vember, 2020 (3 Trips)

and arrive LTT, Mumbai at 13.35 hrs next day.

The above Special will comprise Two AC-2 Tier, Six AC-3 Tier, Seven Sleeper

Second Class and Four Second Class Seating coaches. Halts en-route includes Thane, Kalyan Jn, Nasik Road, Man-mad Jn, Bhusaval Jn,

Akola Jn, Badnera Jn, Wardha Jn, Nagpur, Gondia Jn, Durg, Raipur Jn, Bilaspur Jn, Raigarh, Jhar-suguda Jn and Rourkela in both directions. Reser-vations for above

Festival Special on Special Charges have commenced at all Reservation Centres and on website: www.irctc.co.in

Six fully reserved additional festival specials on Mumbai - hatia route



BURGLAR INVOLVED IN 22 THEFT CASES...

lage in Akkalkot taluka of Solapur, used to live with his father in Ko-parkhairane. An expert in housebreaking, Kisan could break into the house in a few minutes and steal valuables and cash. On January 31, when Kisan came from Solapur to appear before the CBD court, on his way back from the court, he burgled the locked house of Babita Jagtap, which is a six-room apartment in Nerul, Sec-tor-10. Within few min-

utes, he had stolen Rs 3 lakh 78 thousand from the house.

After a case was registered at the Nerul police station, the po-lice checked the CCTV in the area and found the accused Kisan sus-piciously moving in the area. When the police inquired, they found out that he had committed the crime. It was learnt that he had moved to his native place in Solapur. After the lockdown was relaxed, Assistant In-spector of Police Sachin More and his team, un-der the guidance of Se-

nior Inspector of Police Sham Shinde, went to his native village and ar-rested him.

During interroga-tion he accepted to have committed the crime. So far, valuables worth Rs 1 lakh 40 thousand have been seized from him. “22 burglary cases with-in the limits of Thane and Navi Mumbai Police Commissionerate have been registered against him. Accordingly, a thorough investigation is being carried out”, in-formed Suresh Mengde, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Circle-1.


“The entire over-due salaries of the ST employees, which has been pending for the last three months will be paid before Diwali”, assured Transport Min-ister Adv. Anil Parab.

Adv. Anil Parab said, “On Monday, 9th November there was a discussion with the Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. A meeting was also held with the Deputy Chief Minister

and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar as well. The government has an-nounced a package of Rs 1,000 crore as financial assistance for ST. This will help in overcoming the problems of the state transport department”.

Out of the salary ar-rears of ST employees for the last 3 months, the salary for the month of August and the ad-vance payment for Di-wali will be credited to the bank account of the employees, said Trans-

port Minister Adv. Anil Parab. “The remaining salary too will be paid as soon as possible,” he said.

Due to the lockdown, the bus services were closed for five months except for essential ser-vice providers. During this period, ST incurred a loss of about Rs 3,000 crore. However, now the number of passengers is increasing day by day and the revenue is also improving, said the Transport Minister.

Overdue salaries of State Transport employees to be given before diwali: Transport Minister

Government announces Rs 1,000 crore package for State Transport


By Ashok DhamijaNavi Mumbai

Diwali the festival of lights is just around the corner and marks the celebration of together-ness, love and sharing. Symbolising the spiri-tual victory of ‘light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance’ the popular Hindu festival is a harbinger of joy, happiness and prosperity.

The young Ryanities of STD I to XII of Ryan International School, Sanpada too joined the cel-ebrations virtually in the wake of COVID 19 pandemic. Showcasing their creativity, the enthusiastic students welcomed the festival of lights with beautifully painted Diyas with vibrant hues using watercolour paints along with decorative materi-als, colourful handmade lanterns, beautiful torans, greetings, posters with socially relevant posters as part of the many activities organised by their teachers on the occasion.

“Diwali, or Deepawali, is India's biggest festival and derives its name from the row (avali) of clay lamps (deepa) which is lighted by a majority of Indians every year as part of the celebrations. The same symbolizes the spiritual victory of inner light that enables one to overcome our internal

darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance. Ryan International School, Sanpada too joined in welcoming the festival of lights before the start of the annual Diwali holidays with vari-ous online activities from the safety of their home this time around. It was a great learning experience and all the children with their wholehearted participation showcased their creativ-ity to highlight celebration of light of hope, love, joy and happiness,” shared Muriel Fernandes, Principal of the In-stitute.

Ryanites welcome festival of lights with joy and hope

By Indrani BasuNavi Mumbai

A conference was held on ‘Birds’ at Karnala Bird Sanctuary on November 9, under the leadership of Range Forest Officer RFO Pradeep Chavan. This was a part of the ‘Bird week’ celebration which is being organised from

5th to 12th November. Behaviour of birds,

their habitat, nature with special attention on mi-gratory ‘Oriental dwarf Kingfisher’ were some of the topics that were discussed in the confer-ence. Around 60 forest personnel along with NGOs, bird lovers or Pakshi mitra, nature lov-ers and ornithologists at-tended that conference.

Pradeep Chavan told, “With an aim to protect birds and understand their behavior, the state government has an-nounced 5th to 12th No-vember to be observed as ‘Bird week’. This will be an annual event and will be held across the state to save birds and to give more attention on their feeding, behaviour, their habitat and also to save their lives.

“We are observ-ing the week-long pro-gramme along with the villagers, citizens and social organisations,” he

said.During this ongoing

bird week, the Karnala Bird Sanctuary will in-augurate the award-winning documentary made on Oriental Dwarf Kingfishers. This tini-est migratory bird, only 13cm in length, visits the sanctuary every year for two-three months and

attracts bird watchers in large number. To spread more information on this feathery friend and create awareness to save this endangered species, a documentary titled ‘The Life Journey of a Forest Jewel’ is made by Maharashtra Forest De-partment.

The documentary got nominated in Natural History category among hundred plus wildlife movies from India and other countries in Nature inFocus, an Internation-al Film festival of Ben-galuru. The documen-tary finally bagged the 4th position, informed Pradeep Chavan.

As 5th November is the birthday of a well- known Marathi nature writer Maruti Chitam-palli and 12th November is the birth anniversary of noted ornithologist, late Dr. Salim Ali, this entire week has been dedicated to birds, said Nikhil Bhopale, the

wildlife expert. Meanwhile Green

World Trust organized many activities on birds starting from November 5. The team comprising of wildlife conserva-tionist Nikhil Bhopale , Krupa Patil and Milind Pandit visited few vil-lages in Raigad District namely Parangkhar,

Tale, Phansad, Shirgav, Amli and organized various competitions like painting, essay writ-ing , collage making etc. among the children. They also encouraged children to save birds and their habitats with PPT presentation.

“Every year we conduct many activi-ties with the villagers and children of Raigad to teach and enlighten them about nature, flo-ra, fauna of the nearby forest, how to protect them, about bird, animal and their natural habitat etc. We want to bring a change in mindset of the people towards birds and animals. Our aim is to intertwine nature along with human beings to make an ecological bal-ance to protect the envi-ronment.”

The week -long cel-ebration will conclude on 12th November with a program with the For-est Department.

Forest Department observes ‘Bird Week’


Shiv Sahakar Sena and Bharatiya Vima Karmachari Sena (National Unit) distributed semolina, flour, oil, ghee, sugar, pohe, rice etc. to 450 needy people at the food distribution centre which was inaugurated on Tuesday, 10th November at Samaj Mandir Hall, Indiranagar, Navi Mumbai.

Adv. Manohar Gaykhe, General Secretary, Shiv Sahakar Sena, Maha-rashtra, Ganesh Domse, Navi Mum-bai organizer of Shiv Sahakar Sena, Sanjay Dakhal, Executive Secretary

of Vima Karmachari Sena, Mahesh, Head of Shiv Sena Division, Koti-wale, Shivaji More, Deputy City Chief Mahesh Khairnar North Indian Team Chief Kamlesh, Verma, Hemant Jaisw-al, Prakash Pal, Nishad Mhatre, Patil, Gawde and hundreds of Shiv Sainiks were present.

Shiv Sahakar Sena and Bharatiya Vima Karmachari Sena distribute food items

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