residents of pcmc area to be exempted from double property

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By Abhitash D.Singh

The Maharashtra Chief Minister Ud-

dhav Thackeray dur-ing an all party meeting on Friday, September 3 unanimously agreed and said that the instructions should be given to the state backward classes commission to prepare empirical data as soon as possible to give political reservation to OBCs.

The meeting was held at Sahyadri Guest House in Mumbai on Friday to discuss the issue of OBC

reservations in local bod-ies.

After the meeting for-mer Maharashtra Chief Minister and opposition leader Devendra Fad-navis said, "We had a positive discussion on the issue of collecting empir-ical data through the state backward classes com-

mission and not holding local body elections in the state until the issue of political reservation of OBCs is resolved."

While interacting with the media the state rehabilitation and disas-ter management min-ister Vijay Waddetiwar said, " In the meeting we agreed to postpone the local body elections till the empirical data is collected. The state gov-ernment has filed a peti-tion in the supreme court

No polls in Maharashtra till OBC data is collected: CM Uddhav Thackeray

Maharashtra Deputy CM urges people not

to let their guard down

Maharashtra Dep-uty Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday, 3rd September asked citi-zens to follow all the Covid-19 protocols and guidelines set by the government to contain the spread of the virus in the state...

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India celebrates Teachers’ DayOn 5th September

the country celebrates Teachers’ Day. It is celebrated to com-memorate the birth an-niversary our late Vice President & President Dr. Sarvepalli Rad-hakrishnan who was born on this date in 1888. Dr. Radhakrish-nan was a renowned scholar, recipient of Bharat Ratna, an emi-nent educationist, an advocate of education, great orator, a distin-guished envoy, acade-mician, and above all a great teacher.

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City based dancer tries to spread

Rabindrik dance style on national and

international platformCity based classical

dancer, Dr. Sarmistha Chattopadhyay, the founder of Angik Dance Academy, Seawoods is trying to spread the work of Rabindranath Tagore on national and international plat-form...

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Traders look forward for brisk business

during Ganeshotsav

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Markets display array of decoration itemsBy Chandrashekhar Hendve

With Ganeshotsav just round the

corner, the shops in the city and market areas have displayed an array of decoration items to welcome the Elephant Lord on Ga-nesh Chaturthi on 10th September. The traders are positive to have brisk business this year compared to the begin-

ning of the pandemic.“During the last two

years, the pandemic has adversely affected the economy and over-all business was stalled due to lockdowns. In 2020 Ganeshotsav could not be celebrated. But this year, due to relaxation in the rules of Covid, people hope to celebrate the festival with great pomp and there is a positive at-

mosphere everywhere”, said a trader.

“The purchase of puja materials since Gokulashtami has increased. Despite a hike in the prices of re-ligious items, the sales have not been affected. Also, the number of customers has in-creased so the business hopefully will be better this year as compared

to last year”, said an-other shopkeeper.

During Ganeshot-sav, camphor, kanthi, red cloth, incense sticks, wooden stool, samai, niranjan, brass stiffener, turmeric, kumkum, abir, gulal, rangoli are in great de-mand. Similarly, cop-per and brass items are also in demand. The

Decision was taken during an all party meeting chaired by Maharashtra CM

By Chandrashekhar Hendve

Urban Development Minister Eknath

Shinde has instructed to transfer the civic ser-vices provided by the City and Industrial De-velopment Corporation (CIDCO) to Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) in next two months to save the citi-zens living in the civic

body’s area from double property tax. Only after that the Municipal Cor-poration will get the right to levy tax, said Shinde. He also expressed readi-ness to resolve the issue of double property tax currently being levied in a positive manner.

Raigad Guardian Minister Aditi Tatkare, MLA Baliram Patil,

Principal Secretary Urban Development Bhushan Gagrani and Mahesh Pathak, Panvel Municipal Commission-er Ganesh Deshmukh, Shiv Sena leader Ba-ban Patil and residents of Panvel were present at the meeting held at Sahyadri Guest House.

Residents of PCMC area to be exempted from double property tax

Urban Development Minister directs to transfer civic services provided by CIDCO to Panvel City Municipal Corporation in next two months

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Panvel Municipal Corporation came into existence in 2016. How-ever, for the first few years, the municipality did not collect property tax from the citizens. But this year, they sent notices to the citizens to pay property tax. How-ever, the citizens had expressed their displea-sure as the notice was sent with retrospective effect. Even after PCMC came into existence, many civic services were being provided by

the CIDCO for which it was levying the service charges.

PCMC Commission-er, Ganesh Deshmukh said after transferring all the civic amenities to PCMC, the civic body requires Rs. 216 crore annually for their repair. Therefore, it is neces-sary to levy property tax to raise funds, he said.

“We will take a deci-sion after examining the legal issues on how to give relief to the citizens regarding the property tax levied with retro-spective effect,” Shinde said.

pUBliC NOTiCENOTICE is hereby given to public at large M/s. JICS Logistic Ltd., through its Director Mr. Pranav Anil Jhawar having registered office at - Office No. 502, A-wing, Orchid Business Park, Twin Arcade Military Road, CTS-380, 380/182, VLG Marol, Andheri (East), Mumbai-400059 is a sole, absolute owner of and is in actual, physical, lawful possession of the property more particularly described in the schedule hereunder written. Any natural or legal person(s), entity(entities) [save and except M/s. JICS Logistic Ltd., through its Director Mr. Pranav Anil Jhawar] having or claim-ing any right, title, possession, claim, charge, demand or estate, interest, etc., in respect of the said scheduled property or to any part thereof by way of sale, exchange, mortgage, license, tenancy, lease, lien, charge, maintenance, gift, inheritance, share, possession, easement, trust, be-quest possession, assignment or encumbrance of whatsoever nature or otherwise is/are hereby requested/called upon to intimate to the under-signed in writing at the address mentioned below of any such claim ac-companied with all necessary and supporting documents within 14 days from the date of publication hereof, failing which it shall be presumed that there are no claims and that claims, if any, have been waived off and that against all such persons principle of estoppel should be applicable.

SCHEDUlE OF pROpERTYRevenue Village/Mauje – Jambhulpada, Taluka-Uran, District-RaigadSurvey / Gut No Area (H.-R.-Sq. Mtrs.) Aakar (Rs.- paise)53/3 0-03-00 Pot kharab 0-02-10 0-34 Total - 0-05-10 53/4/A 0-08-40 Pot kharab 0-02-40 1-25 Total - 0-10-80 53/5 0-05-10 Pot kharab 0-00-20 0-84 Total - 0-05-30 54/7 0-09-70 Pot kharab 0-00-50 1-62 Total - 0-10-20 54/8 0-10-40 Pot kharab 0-00-80 1-81 Total - 0-11-20 50/1 0-22-00 Pot kharab 0-05-00 2-62 Total - 0-27-00 50/14 0-06-60 Pot kharab 0-01-50 0-87 Total - 0-08-10 50/2 0-10-10 Pot kharab 0-02-80 0-78 Total - 0-12-90 50/3 0-30-00 Pot kharab 0-00-00 2-45 Total - 0-30-00 52/11 0-08-30 Pot kharab 0-00-50 0-66 Total - 0-08-80 52/4/A 0-77-10 Pot kharab 0-42-10 7-18 Total - 1-19-20 Sd/- Date: 05/09/2021 Amar D. patwardhan, Advocate. Address: Office No. 01, Ground floor, Yashokiran CHS Ltd., Near Swatantryaveer Savarkar Chowk, Panvel, Taluka-Panvel, District-Raigad, PIN Code 410206.


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pUBliC NOTiCETHIS IS TO NOTIFY THAT my clients MR. MATHEW CHERiAN pANiCKER & MRS. BEENA MATHEW pANiCKER are legally seized and possessed off and otherwise sufficiently entitled to a below mentioned scheduled property, hereinafter referred to as the "Said Flat/Property". That my clients have purchased the said property from MRS. JOANiTA EliZA REBEllO, on the execution and registration of an Agreement for Sale, dated 29th March 2001. Any person(s) who have his/her/their claim, right, interest, benefit in the said Apartment or any part of the said Flat which is in the sole ownership and rightful possession of my clients by way of Sale, Purchase, Mortgage, Charge, Lien, Gift, Lease, Trust, Pos-session Inheritance, bequest, easement, development or other-wise howsoever, is hereby required to raise such claim, within a period of 14 (Fourteen) days from the date of the publication of this Notice, failing which my client will be at liberty to complete the transaction in respect of the said Apartment without any ref-erence or regard to any such purported claim or interest which shall be deemed to have been waived for all intents and purpose and not binding on my client.

SCHEDUlE OF pROpERTY Flat no. 2:4, admeasuring about 575.00 Sq. Ft., Super Built - up area, on the Second Floor, in the Building of society known as AlAK Co-operative Housing Society ltd., on the plot no. 15, at Sector - 19A, Ferul, Navi Mumbai - 400 706, Tal & Dist - Thane. Sd/-Date: 05-09-2021 Swapna N. Bhojane BlS. ll.B Advocate High Court Office: C-2/4/0:1, Opp. Abbott Hotel, Xerox Lane Sector-2, Vashi, Navi Mumbai. Phone: 27823616

pUBliC NOTiCETHIS IS TO NOTIFY THAT my clients MR. MATHEW pANiCKER & MRS. BEENA MATHEW pANiCKER are legally seized and pos-sessed off and otherwise sufficiently entitled to a below mentioned scheduled property, hereinafter referred to as the "Said Flat/Prop-erty". That my clients have purchased the said property from MR. HARIHARAN HARISH IYER, on the execution and registration of Deed of Assignment/Conveyance Deed, dated 11th May 2021. Any person(s) who have his/her/their claim, right, interest, ben-efit in the said Apartment or any part of the said Flat which is in the sole ownership and rightful possession of my clients by way of Sale, Purchase, Mortgage, Charge, Lien, Gift, Lease, Trust, Possession Inheritance, bequest, easement, develop-ment or otherwise howsoever, is hereby required to raise such claim, within a period of 14 (Fourteen) days from the date of the publication of this Notice, failing which my client will be at liberty to complete the transaction in respect of the said Apart-ment without any reference or regard to any such purported claim or interest which shall be deemed to have been waived for all intents and purpose and not binding on my client.

SCHEDUlE OF pROpERTY Flat no. B-4/0:3, on the Ground Floor, admeasuring about 460.00 Sq. Ft., Built - up area or thereabouts, in Building no. B-4, of the society known as AlAK Co - operative Housing Society ltd., on the plot no. 15, at Sector - 19A, Nerul, Navi Mumbai - 400 706, Tal & Dist -Thane. Sd/-Date: 05-09-2021 Swapna N. Bhojane BlS. ll.B Advocate High Court Office: C-2/4/0:1, Opp. Abbott Hotel, Xerox Lane Sector-2, Vashi, Navi Mumbai. Phone: 27823616

price of copper, which was Rs seven hundred per kg last year, has now gone up to Rs one thousand and one hundred. Brass, which was sold at Rs four hundred and fifty per kg last year, has now gone up to Rs. seven hundred. Shopkeep-ers say the rise in raw materials has pushed

up the prices by twenty to twenty-five per cent. Copper pots come for sale from Pune and Roha, while brass comes from Morada-bad, Delhi.

Similarly, almonds, pistachios, castor sugar, cashews and raisins are also in demand during the festive season for dis-tribution as offerings and prasads. Simi-larly, as these foods

enhance the flavour of prasad, the prices of these ingredients have increased compared to last year. The prices of almonds, salted and plain pistachios, which are the main ingredi-ents, have gone up by Rs two hundred to Rs four hundred as per the quality. This is going to pinch the budget of the consumers.

“On the one hand, the corona is adding to

the economic woes of the citizens and on the other hand, the prices of gas, diesel and petrol are constantly rising. This will have an ef-fect on the price of the goods. The government needs to understand the sentiments of the people and work ac-cordingly”, said Ritu Gupta, a resident of Vashi.

“During Gana-pati, various sweets are

made. A large amount of dried fruits is added as prasad. With the rise in the cost of dry fruits, we will find it difficult to manage the budget”, said another consumer.

It is not only food material which has increase, items such as camphor used for aarti which was being sold at Rs. one thousand per kg, has gone up by Rs. two hundred and

fifty, agarbatti are now sold between Rs. one hundred to Rs. one thousand.

“This year, people are enthusiastic about shopping. We are fol-lowing all the Covid 19 rules. Consider-ing the response from customers, it is likely that there will be good business this year”, said owner Amol Yeolale of Shri Krishna Pooja Bhandar.

3Sunday, 5 September 2021

By Abhitash D.Singh“The Jawaharlal

Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) instead of solving many pending problems of the Project Affected Persons (PAPs) from last sev-eral years, is now trying to privatize JNPT, but we will not allow anyone to privatize JNPT,” warned Congress dis-trict president, Mahendra Gharat.

Earlier Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi had decided to privatize the JNPT port and it is learnt that steps will also be taken in this regard soon.

The delegates met the JNPT Chairman Sanjay Sethi and Deputy Chair-man Umesh Wagh and interacted with them. During the meet Sanjay Sethi said that the JNPT port was running at a loss and the reason the privatization decision has been taken.

Congress district president and labour leader Mahendra Gharat, Nationalist Congress Party state general sec-retary Prashant Patil, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) district president Atul Bhagat and Labour leader P.K. Raman strongly opposed the JNPT privatization initiative and said that it will create lots of prob-lems.

Mahendra Gharat, speaking with the media informed that, "The al-lotment of 12.5 percent land by the JNPT admin-istration is still pending. JNPT also promised to solve many problems of PAPs but some of them are still pending. The rehabilitation program of Hanuman Koliwada village and pre-rehabil-itation of Panje village is still pending. The ad-ministration of JNPT has forgotten to provide facilities to the project victims by playing with

their feelings. Now the news of privatization will hurt more project victims."

Gharat further add-

ed, "We will not allow privatization of JNPT at any cost. We will stage huge protests and agita-tions and will not allow

the centre government to play with the sentiments of PAPs."

During the meet the JNPT Chairman Sanjay

Sethi said that he will convey the message put across by the delegates to the government offi-cials.

We will not allow privatization of JNpT: Mahendra Gharat

By Crime Reporter

The High Court finally rejected the application filed by M/s Prat-

ibha Industries Pvt. following which, Thane District Court has handed over a cheque of Rs. twenty eight crore seventy five lakh and forty two thou-sand with interest to Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC). Therefore, the contractors who are trying to recover the amount from the Municipal Corporation by inflating the payment amount using the provi-sion of appointing an arbitrator in the contract agreement are under a lot of pressure.

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation had filed an appeal in the Thane District Court against the award. An amount of Rs twenty four crore ninety eight lakh and ten thou-sand was deposited in the Thane Dis-trict Court by the Municipal Corpora-tion for filing the appeal. The amount was kept in a fixed deposit by the court for 2 years.

During the hearing on this appeal, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corpora-tion competently presented its case in Thane District Court. At the end of the hearing, the Thane District Court

rejected the award. M/s. Pratibha In-dustries Pvt. Ltd. had also filed an appeal in the High Court seeking an injunction restraining the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation from withdrawing the amount deposited in the Thane District Court through a separate application.

In this regard, the Navi Mum-bai Municipal Corporation's High Court advocates strongly argued and pointed out to the High Court how it is necessary to get the amount with interest. In view of the facts, the High Court rejected the application of the concerned.

After the original attested order copy of the High Court was submitted to the Thane District Court through Navi Mumbai Municipal Corpora-tion, the Thane District Court handed over a check amounting to Rs. twenty eight crore seventy eight lakh forty two thousand and four hundred and eighty with interest to Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation. This order will curb the tendency of the contrac-tors to inflate the payment amount and recover the amount by using the provision of arbitration in the contract agreement against NMMC.

HC rejects application of M/s Pratibha Industries

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corpora-

tion (NMMC) has been taking special care to ensure that no section of the society is neglected in the Covid 19 vaccina-tion drive.

“The civic body has been carrying out spe-cial vaccination ses-sions for the homeless, transgender, citizens in red light areas as well as remote stone quarry areas workers have been vaccinated as per the availability of the vacci-nation”, said an official from the civic body.

Considering the fact that people who are bedridden and unable to move due to old age and illness may be deprived of vaccination due to their condition, as per the instruction of Mu-nicipal Commissioner Abhijit Bangar, a special vaccination drive for such persons has been

started from the month of June. So far, two hun-dred and seventy nine bedridden patients have been vaccinated at their homes under this spe-cial initiative. In addi-tion, three hundred and eighty-one persons from various old age homes have been vaccinated

against covid.“The commissioner

had issued orders to the medical officers of all the primary civic health centres of the corpora-tion to take precaution-ary measures to ensure that bedridden patients are not deprived of vac-cinations. Accordingly,

all the medical officers have collected the infor-mation of bedridden pa-tients in their jurisdic-tion through Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) and Asha Worker and accordingly home vac-cination has been start-ed”, said the official.

“The Navi Mumbai

Municipal Corpora-tion is taking care that no person is neglected from covid vaccination. If a family has bedrid-den patient, the fam-ily should contact their nearest Municipal Civic Health Centre for vac-cination or call at 022-27567460”, said Bangar.

279 bedridden patients vaccinated for Covid-19

pUBliC NOTiCETHIS IS TO NOTIFY THAT my client MR. NARSiMHA MAllAYA pOTlA & MRS. NiRMAlA NARSiMHA pOTlA is legally seized and possessed and otherwise sufficiently entitled to an B 21, 01, CHINTAMANI SOCIETY, SECTOR 26,VASHI, NAVI MUMBAI -400703 (hereinafter referred to as the “Said Apartment/ Prem-ises”); That my client have lost 1) Agreement of Sale dated 20.07.1993, executed between CIDCO as Corporation and Mr. Suhah Bhim-aji Puna as purchaser. 2) Original letter Allotment letter dated 23.02.1993 issued by CIDCO. 3) Original Possession Receipt dated 20.07.1993 issued by CIDCO. In this respect, my client executed an Affidavit and on lodging the missing complaint for the same with Vashi Taluka Police Station, Certificate dated 03/09/2021 was issued by Vashi Police Station, vide register no. 1377/2021. Any person(s) claim to have found the above mentioned Original and/or Xerox Document and/or intends to claim the Said Apart-ment by way of Sale, Purchase, Mortgage, Charge, Lien, Gift, Lease, Trust, Possession, Inheritance, bequest/ easement, de-velopment or otherwise howsoever, is hereby required to make the same known to the undersigned at our office address given hereinabove, along with the Original or Certified copies of the document pertaining to the claim, within a period of 14 days from the date of publication of this Notice, failing which my client will be at liberty to complete the transaction in respect of the said Apartment without any reference or regard to any such purported claim or interest which shall be deemed to have been waived for all intents and purpose and not binding on my client. Sd/- Adv. Shailesh K. Yadav B.com, llB. Office No.05, Ground floor, Gangasagar CHS Ltd, Sector 20, Near Zaika Hotel, Koperkhairane, Navi Mumbai-400709.Date: 05-09-2021 Mob: 9323619849/9619677958


By Dr. Vandana Mahajani

The 1893 World’s Parliament of Reli-

gions, held on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chi-cago, was the largest and most spectacular event among many other con-gresses in the World’s Columbian Exposition (world fair). The Expo-sition itself was a large trade fair that was to cel-ebrate the 400 years of the discovery of Amer-ica by Christopher Co-lumbus.

Statistically speak-ing, the Parliament was dominated by English-speaking Christian rep-resentatives, who deliv-ered 152 of 194 papers. The opportunity for the leaders from other re-ligious traditions was limited but significant; 12 speakers represented Buddhism, 11 Judaism,

8 Hinduism, 2 Islam, 2 Parsis religion, 2 Shin-toism, 2 Confucianism, 1 Taoism, and 1 Jainism (Seager 1986, 87).

Between September 11 and 27, 1893, Swami Vivekananda delivered six speeches at Chicago. Nonetheless, the most lasting impression at the conference was made by three colorful, articulate representatives of Hin-duism and Buddhism: Swami Vivekananda. Hon the first day he be-gan his talk …..

Sisters and Brothers of America,

What followed was a standing ovation and a thundering applause for several minutes from an audience of over 5000 people!

Vivekananda then thanked the audience

for the warm welcome given to him. He men-tioned that he belonged to a land of great re-ligion. He mentioned that the land has been a home of great monks. He thanked them in the name of the mother of religions; i.e., Hindu-ism and also on behalf of millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects.

He told the world that it was Hinduism that had taught the world both universal tolerance and acceptance. Hindu religion was great for it accepted the greatness of all other religions as well. It is important to quote him here….he said he belongs to a” na-tion which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the

earth. I am proud to tell you that we have gath-ered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyran-ny. I am proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is still fos-tering the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian na-tion. I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have re-peated from my earliest boyhood, “As the dif-ferent streams having their sources indifferent places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, var-

ious though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.”

He further added,” The wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita: “Whosoever comes to Me, through whatso-ever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me.” Sec-tarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilisation and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more ad-vanced than it is now. But their time is come; and I fervently hope that

the bell that tolled this morning in honour of this convention may be the death-knell of all fa-naticism, of all persecu-tions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings be-tween persons wending their way to the same goal.”

Vivekananda was the first to talk about a universal religion. What Vivekananda meant by the “universal religion” was not that all religious traditions would be dis-appeared and replaced by a new and single re-ligion. Rather, it would be an authentic togeth-erness of all religions, in which “each must as-similate the others and yet preserve its individ-

inspire: The World's parliament of Religions, Chicago (11th September, 1893) By Dr. Veena Adige

Children from five years to twelve,

from Avalon Heights International, Ram Krishnaa Academy, St Mary’s, Sadhu Vaswani, Terna Orchids, Podar International, and other schools participated in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Navi Mumbai Kendra’s Children’s Club Oral Quiz contest.

Renuka Tipnis, teacher of primary and secondary of Modern School and North Point school and former prin-cipal of APS School, Ghansoli, having thirty two years experience conducted the quiz contest gracefully. The questions were based on Indian culture and history, science, sports and general knowledge. Twenty three children had registered for the quiz which was held on line on Friday Septem-

ber 3.The children an-

swered according to their serial numbers and held placards of their numbers for easier iden-tification.

‘I enjoyed the con-test,’ said Mrs Tipnis, ‘The children were en-thusiastic and it was a

pleasant experience.’‘Questions asked

were good and easy’ said Tripti, one of the parents of the kids who participated. ‘They were well framed’ said Anika Bhat’s mother. Harsh-

veer Chhabria, Anaaya Pande, Pihuna, Saaz Mulla, Sumedha Pai, Vivaan Kini and other children said they en-joyed the quiz though a couple of children who could not answer were almost in tears.

This was the first quiz for many of the

club members and the younger ones were tim-id and shy to put up their hands for the general round. For the individ-ual round all the partici-pants had a chance to air their knowledge.

Quiz time for Bhavan’s children


By Ryhea george

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit

Pawar on Friday, 3rd Sep-tember asked citizens to follow all the Covid-19 pro-tocols and guidelines set by the government to contain the spread of the virus in the state. Expressing concern over the fact that people are letting their guard down against Covid-19 in rural areas, Ajit Pawar said that the cit-izens should not to put the state gov-ernment in a position where it has to shut everything in the event of a third wave of the pandemic.

“Unfortunately, in rural areas, some people are taking the Covid-19 virus lightly yet again. They are not scared of coronavirus. They do not use masks and don’t follow physical distancing, as they have assumed that Covid-19 pandemic is over which is not and this is leading to the rise in infection in the state.”

He also said that the Cen-tre has already cautioned all the states, citing that Kerala and Maharashtra have been reporting the highest number of cases. The chief minister has appealed to people from time to time, but some people might create issue and resort

to celebrating festivals, he said. “All this should stop somewhere.

People should not put the state govern-ment and administration in a position where they have to close everything if the third wave hits,” he appealed.

Speaking about school reopening Pawar said discussions are being held with the concerned experts and a deci-sion will be taken accordingly.

“There are two opinions for reopen-ing the schools as some say schools should open after Diwali, while others say they should be reopened in places where the Covid-19 positivity rate is zero. The chief minister, however, will take the decision,” said Pawar.

Maharashtra Deputy CM urges people not to let their guard down


no pollS In MAHARASHTRA TIll...

to get the imperial data from the centre and the matter will be heard on September 23."

Waddetiwar further added, "On Friday there was a discussion about what can be done until the OBC data is not col-lected. Earlier this year, the SC quashed quota

for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in local bodies in Maharashtra later observing that the total reservation should not exceed fifty per-cent."


By Ryhea george

Unable to find parking slots, the two wheeler driv-ers have started parking on the footpath near

Satra plaza, which is known as the hub for eateries and restaurants at Vashi. This is causing great deal of inconvenience to the pedestrians and people visiting the area.

Abel Biju, a citizen, said, "Footpaths are meant for pedestrians. But in the satellite city, most of the foot-paths have either been encroached upon by the shops or are being used for parking two wheelers. The pe-destrians are forced to walk on the road. The authori-ties need to sternly take action against the violators. Vehicles parked illegally should be towed away.”

Another resident from Vashi, Nicole George said, "There are parking facilities given inside Satra plaza and still people are illegally parking on wrong sides of the road and also on the footpath which needs to be stopped and punitive action should be taken against such people."

Nikhil Patil, another resident said, "We can see nu-merous vehicles parked illegally on both sides of the footpath. I even tweeted about this to the civic body and to the Navi Mumbai police and they also fined a few people but that's not the solution as again the next day we can find more vehicles parked there. Some stern measures need to be taken so that this menace can be stopped.”

Residents fume as parking on footpath near Satra plaza

Vashi continues unabated

On 5th September the country celebrates

Teachers’ Day. It is cele-brated to commemorate the birth anniversary our late Vice President & President Dr. Sarve-palli Radhakrishnan who was born on this date in 1888. Dr. Rad-hakrishnan was a re-nowned scholar, recipi-ent of Bharat Ratna, an eminent educationist, an advocate of education, great orator, a distin-guished envoy, acade-mician, and above all a great teacher.

When Dr. Rad-hakrishnan became President of India in 1962, some of his friends and students requested him to allow them to celebrate his birthday on 5th September. He responded, "Instead of observing my birthday discretely, it would be my pompous privilege if 5th September is scrutinised as Teachers' Day". Such a request coming from President of India clearly show-cased Dr. S. Radhakrish-nan's affection and dedication for teachers. From then onwards, In-dia celebrates Teachers' Day on 5th September. Education institutions all across the country celebrate this day by hosting various events, engagements, seminars, symposiums and quiz programs wherein the importance of education is highlighted and the best teachers are hon-ored. Globally, Teach-ers Day is celebrated on 5th October. No doubt that the best teacher teaches from the heart and not from the book. The influence of a good teacher outlasts schools and colleges and it can never be erased.

Teachers Day is im-portant to the students as it gives them a chance

to understand the efforts put in by their teachers to ensure that they get a proper education. Simi-larly, teachers also look forward to the Teachers’ Day celebration as their efforts get recognised and honoured by stu-dents and other agencies as well. Education alone is the panacea for all social evils. In this re-spect teachers are acting Hence our holy Vedas call upon the teachers and scholars to aryanize the whole world. Arya means refined, cultured and civilized, and to aryanize means to enno-ble. Peace and prosper-ity will prevail on earth when most of the people are aryanized.

THRee DeDICATeD TeACHeRS fRoM

nAVI MuMBAIV. RAMACHAnDRAnProf V Ramachan-

dran has been teacher for over two decades. He is an Associate Professor, Visiting Faculty of fa-mous educational insti-tutions of Navi Mumbai such as SIES College of Management, Indira In-stitute of Management, Times Business School,

Bharathiya Vidyapeeth Institute of Management Studies, ICFAI National College, Modern Col-lege, Oriental Institute of Management Stud-ies and Pillai Institute of Management Stud-ies & Research. He had also done Advance Finance Management for Public Sector from Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, Scot-land, UK. A qualified

Chartered Accountant Ramachandran’s areas of teaching include Fi-nancial Accounting, Financial Management, Strategic Cost Manage-ment, Financial Ana-lytics & Taxation for MBA, EMBA, MMS and PGDM students. He won many awards and honors for his brilliant teching and his classes are well attended for he makes complex subjects simple and easy to un-derstand.InDIRA RAMAMuRTHy

Smt. Indira is al-ways a teacher. First, she taught at Chennai in the mid-1960s. Then in Canada. Her husband Shri. Ramamurthy, a Director in The Atomic Energy went to Canada on promotion and teach-er Indira Ramamurthy went there to join him. She was teaching there also. Returning to In-dia after few years, her

husband was posted at Kota, Rajasthan as In-charge of Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP). Again Smt. In-dira Ramamurthy was appointed as a teacher in the Atomic Energy School. Then Shri. Ra-mamurthy came back to Mumbai and once again Smt. Indira Ramamur-thy began to teach at the AEC School in Mum-bai. Unfortunately, her beloved husband passed away in the 1990s. Af-ter a few months she was a teacher in a school at New Marine Lines. She was also a founder of a Kharghar School where

she has been teaching. She has sacrificed her life for teching.

pRAVeenA gouTHAMAn

Vashi based Smt. Praveena Gouthaman is a multitalented artiste cum Guru adept at per-forming and teaching both vocal music and veena. Smt. Praveena Gouthaman is a faculty member of Carnatic Vocal in Chembur Fine Arts Music School since 2008 and Nadam Acad-emy in Koperkhairne, Navi Mumbai. She takes Carnatic music theory lectures for students affiliated to IGNOU, New Delhi. She takes Skype classes also for

aspiring students from across the world. Apart from shining in the mu-sic and veena worlds, Smt. Praveena Goutha-man was also a brilliant student. She holds M. Com and M.Phil. De-grees in Commerce and MA in Music. She was working as a lecturer in a college at Bandra, Mumbai. She has won a number of awards and honors for her teaching. Smt. Praveena Goutha-man is currently train-ing students in Carnatic Vocal Music and Veena and has produced many artistes who constantly win awards in vari-ous music and veena competitions proving thereby a good teacher always produces good students.

wISHIng All THe TeACHeRS A VeRy HAppy TeACHeRS’ DAy

India celebrates Teachers’ DayThree Dedicated Teachers Of Navi Mumbai

By lakshman Sundar

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EditorialISSue: 109 5 SepTeMBeR, 2021

The resilience of the nature and its finite ability to absorb on-

slaught has already been tested to its brim. However, before it is too late, there is a need to take some concrete steps.

Though the awareness about conservation of forests and their environment at large has percolated deep down in the society with the governmental and non-governmen-tal organizations vying with each other to take a lead in the field, yet a lot needs to be done. Navi Mumbai too through its development authori-ties- CIDCO and NMMC does come out with programmes or drives for tree plantation. However, though the spirit for these drives is right but as regards its implementation, more hype is being created than the con-crete implementation of these pro-grammes. Going by the statistics be-ing provided, Navi Mumbai should have had a very thick forest cover by now. The ground reality is unfor-tunately contrary to these statistics, which indicates that either the statis-tics is wrong or no feedback or mon-itoring post plantation care is being done on the part of the authorities. There seems to be no accountabil-ity for the huge money being spent on such drives, which at least so far have not yielded any fruitful result.

Over the years the forest cover has been uniformly reducing. The green jungles full of life are being cut mercilessly and are being re-

placed by concrete jungles in the process of unmindful urbaniza-tion, which is disturbing the sensi-tive ecological balance created by nature. The climatic conditions are changing for worse and in a way by cutting trees we are literally clos-ing the oxygen plants provided by nature although knowing quite well that the oxygen is one of the vital re-quirements for survival of life. Simi-larly in the coastal areas, especially in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, inci-dences of unmindful destroying of mangroves vital for ecological bal-ance are regularly being reported. In a haste to bring in more and more land under development, the man-groves are being destroyed and ille-gal reclamation of land is being car-ried out. This is adversely disturbing the aquatic life.

Lot of authorities like CIDCO, NMMC, Forest Department, Pollu-tion Control Board have been creat-ed to control pollution. However, all these departments should be made jointly responsible for addressing this grave concern for the very ex-istence of the human civilization. This is not only to be limited to the government organizations. The non governmental organizations and ev-ery citizen of the country will have to continue in their own way in pre-serving the environment, in particu-larly the trees, to ensure that this hu-man civilization does not get wiped out by its own acts.

Unmindful urbanizationBy Ashok Dhamija

Konkan Railway in coordination with

Central Railway is all set to restore the ser-vices of fully reserved Daily Specials between Divya – Ratnagiri / Sawantwadi Road and Madgaon Jn – Ratnagiri / Sawantwadi Road as per the schedule given below:

A) Ratnagiri – Diva Jn. – Ratnagiri Daily Reserved Passenger Special

Train No. 01504 Ratnagiri – Diva Jn. Special will leave from Ratnagiri at 05:30 hrs. Daily from Tuesday 7th to Thursday 30th Sep-tember 2021and will reach Diva Jn. at 13:25 hrs. on the same day.

Train No. 01503 Diva Jn. – Ratnagiri Special will leave Diva Jn. at 15:30 hrs. Daily from Tuesday 7th to Thursday 30th Sep-tember 2021 and will reach Ratnagiri at 00:20 hrs. on the next day.

The above Daily Special will consist of 16 Coaches including Fourteen Second Seat-ing Class and Two SLR

Halts en-route in-cludes Bhoke, Ukshi, Sangameshwar Road, Kadavai, Aravali Road, Sawarda, Kamthe, Chiplun, Anjani, Khed, Kalambani Budruk, Di-wankhavati, Vinhere, Karanjadi, Sape Wamne, Veer, Goregaon Road (H), Mangaon, Indapur Road(H), Kolad, Roha, Jite, Apta and Panvel stations in both direc-tions.

B) Sawantwadi Road – Diva Jn. Daily Reserved Express Spe-cial

Train no. 01506 Sawantwadi Road – Diva Jn. Daily Reserved Express Special will leave from Sawantwadi Road at 08:20 hrs. Dai-ly, from Tuesday 7th to Thursday 30th Septem-ber 2021 and will reach Diva Jn. at 20:10 hrs. on

the same day.Train no. 01505 Diva

Jn. – Sawantwadi Road Daily Special will leave Diva Jn. at 06:55 hrs. Daily, from Wednesday 8th September to Friday 1st October 2021 and will reach Sawantwadi Road at 18:55 hrs. on the same day.

The above Daily Special will consist of 16 Coaches including Fourteen Second Seat-ing Class and Two Gen-erator Car

Halts en-route in-cludes Zarap, Kudal, Sindhudurg, Kankava-li, Nandgaon Road, Achirne, Vaibhavwadi Road, Kharepatan Road, Rajapur Road, Saundal (H), Vilavade, Veravali, Adavali, Nivasar, Rat-nagiri, Sangameshwar Road, Aravali Road, Sawarda, Chiplun, Khed, Vinhere, Karan-

jadi, Sape Wamne, Veer, Goregaon Road (H), Mangaon, Roha, Jite, Apta, Panvel & Kalam-boli stations in both di-rections.

C) Ratnagiri – Madgaon Jn. – Rat-nagiri Daily Reserved Express Special

Train No. 01501 Rat-nagiri – Madgaon Jn. Daily Reserved Express Special will leave from Ratnagiri at 01:40 hrs. Daily from Monday 6th to Wednesday 29th Sep-tember 2021 and will reach Madgaon Jn. at 08:50 hrs. the same day.

Train No. 01502 Madgaon Jn. – Ratnag-iri Daily Reserved Ex-press Special will leave from Madgaon Jn. at 19:40 hrs. Daily from Wednesday 8th Septem-ber to Friday 1st Octo-ber 2021 and will reach

Ratnagiri at 01:00 hrs. the next day.

The above Daily Special will consist of 16 Coaches including Fourteen Second Seat-ing Class and Two SLR.

Halts en-route in-cludes Rajapur Road, Vaibhavwadi Road, Kankavali, Sindhudurg, Kudal, Zarap, Sawant-wadi Road, Madure, Pernem, Thivim, Kar-mali and Verna stations in both directions.

D) Madgaon Jn. – Sawantwadi Road – Madgaon Jn. Daily Reserved Express Spe-cial

Train no. 01508 Mad-gaon Jn. – Sawantwadi Road Daily Reserved Express Special will leave from Madgaon Jn. at 06:25 hrs. Daily from Tuesday 7th to Thursday 30th September 2021 and will reach Sawant-

wadi Road at 08:15 hrs. the same day.

Train no. 01507 Sawantwadi Road – Madgaon Jn. Daily Re-served Express Special will leave from Sawant-wadi Road at 19:00 hrs. Daily, from Wednesday 8th September to Friday 1st October 2021 and will reach Madgaon Jn. at 21:30 hrs. the same day.

Halts en-route in-cludes Suravali, Ma-jorda, Verna, Karmali, Thivim, Pernem & Ma-dure stations in both di-rections.

Passengers are re-quested to avail the services and follow all norms of State & Cen-tral Government regard-ing COVID-19 includ-ing social distancing, sanitization etc. should be followed in trains.

KR to restore train services on its route from 6th September onwards

For representational purpose only


Urban Development Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday directed the

Raigad District Collector to conduct a survey of the houses built by the project affected people in Panvel-Uran village. He also clarified that the government will be able to take a positive decision on regularization of these houses only after completing the survey in the next two months.

Raigad Guardian Minister Aditi Tatkare, Thane MP Rajan Vichare, Ma-val MP Shrirang Barne, MLA Balaram Patil, MLA Manohar Bhoir, Shiv Sena leader Baban Patil, Principal Secretary Urban Development Bhushan Gagrani, CIDCO Managing Director Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee, Panvel Municipal Com-missioner Ganesh Deshmukh, and all

party leaders of the project victims were present.

A special meeting was held at Sahy-adri Guest House regarding regulariza-tion of houses built in 55 villages of Panvel-Uran belt. At that time, CIDCO clarified that there was a need to survey the houses of the project victims as the government did not have exact figures.

As the project affected people in Panvel-Uran have handed over their land for Navi Mumbai Airport, the gov-ernment is positive about regularizing the houses built for their needs, said Minister Shinde. Accordingly, Raigad District Collector has been directed to complete the survey work. The minis-ter also appealed to the leaders of the project affected people to cooperate during the survey.

Regularisation of pAp houses: Urban Development Minister instructs to complete

survey work in panvel-Uran belt in two months


By Ashok Dhamija

India's largest citizen-led move-

ment ‘Sunfeast In-dia Move As One’ which was launched on the 75th Anni-versary of India’s Independence Day early this year, to unite Indians and

Indophiles across the globe to lend support to children affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, has been receiv-ing unstinted support from all stake-holders and dignitaries from different walks of life since then.

Showcasing the Power of the Collective – a bea-con of hope and goodness, the movement announced an inspiring initiative on the eve of ‘International Day of Charity’, which is celebrated on 5th September 2021 with an aim to further galvanise citizens across the world.

In a bid to make every step count, on this day, ev-ery kilometer clocked by a participant through an activity of their choice - walk, run, cycle; the organis-ers ITC Limited will donate INR 20 towards the cause of children that will help contribute meaningfully to a child's education, health, well-being, and bring a smile.

Two times Olympics Gold medal-list in 10Km long distance race and four times World Championships title holder in the event, Haile Gebrselass-ie, who is the ambassador of ‘Sunfeast

India Move As One’, lauded the initiative and congratulated all the participants which included Join-ing them are school children, corporates employees, home-makers, running groups, cyclists along with stake-

holders and dignitaries from different walks of life, for joining the meaning-ful social event. “We have the power to bring about change and it's only up to each one of us to take that first step.

So on this day, I urge you to register with your family and friends. Run, walk, cycle and go for that extra mile. Your each km will have a manifold impact” added sporting icon Haile Gebrselassie.

As the movement enters the last leg, participants still have a chance to register at INR 149 and make an impact on a child's future. Every par-ticipant will also be celebrat-ed for their active participa-

tion efforts with gratifications such as a personalized e-bib, e-medal, ecertifi-cate, and leader board positions. Reg-istrations for the noble initiative will continue till 13th Sep 2021.

The movement commenced on 15th Aug 2021 and will continue till 15th Sep 2021.Participants will have the opportunity to fundraise until 30th Sep 2021. For more details log on to: www.sunfeastindiamoveasone.pro-cam.in.

Make every step count on international Day of Charity this Sunday

uality and grow accord-ing to its law of growth” (in Barrows 1893a, 170). The necessity to “assimilate the others” was expressed by Vive-kananda as the avoid-ance of the triumph of any one of the religions over others. He stated, “Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian? God forbid” (Barrows 1893a, 170).

The idea of evolving a cosmic or universal faith out of the Parlia-ment was not present in the minds of its chief promoters. They be-lieve that the elements of such a religion are already contained in the Christian ideal and the Christian Scripture. They wanted to prove superiority of Christian-ity over other religions.

However Viveka-

nanda with his all en-compassing speech threw this notion aside and the world congrega-tion came together on one platform for peace and harmony. This was in the year 1893.There have been several meet-ings referred to as a Par-liament of the World's Religions, the first being the World's Parliament of Religions of 1893, which was an attempt to create a global dialogue of faiths. The event was celebrated by another conference on its cente-nary in 1993. This led to a new series of confer-ences under the official title Parliament of the World's Religions with the same goal of try-ing to create a global dialogue of faiths. To-day the website https://parliamentofreligions.org/about gives details of the event planned for the year 2021.It will be a virtual event.

A world of peace, justice and sustainabil-

ity is the vision of this organisation. Its mission is: To cultivate harmony among the world’s reli-gious and spiritual com-munities; To foster their engagement with the world and its guiding in-stitutions to address the critical issues of our time.

128 years have passed since Swami Viveka-nanda made this historic speech. The state of world is not really very tolerant still. The growth of organizations that are fanatic in their approach has lead to death of na-tions in past. A look at the state of Afghanistan today depicts a similar picture. It is high time the world come together as one and talks of har-mony and tolerance, and more important, it lives what it talks. Let us re-member that peace is a precondition necessary for growth and prosper-ity the world.Dr. Vandana Mahajani can be contacted on [email protected]


InSpIRe: THe woRlD'S pARlIAMenT...

By Siddhesh waykar

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Cor-poration (NMMC) has taken an

initiative to build sports infrastructure in the open spaces lying unused under the bridges in the city. The civic body and its engineers have come up with a plan to set up sporting facilities like jogging tracks, open gyms, volleyball and b a d m i n t o n court, table tennis setup etc. under the bridges.

“Most of the space un-der the fly-overs are ly-ing unused, hence this initiative will surely fill up the space for the betterment of the residents”, said Sanjay Desai, City En-gineer, NMMC.

NMMC has already set up an open gym and a jogging track below the fly-over in Nerul, stretching from sector 26 to sector 46. The civic body is look-ing forward to develop infrastructure for table tennis and volleyball below the bridge in Sanpada that connects sector 16 with sector 8.

“Our prime purpose is to utilise the lying space to something productive. The other main reason behind this ini-tiative is to eliminate encroachment below the bridge. Many people have encroached on the free lying space for illegally setting up stalls and vehicle parking. Some homeless people even

use this space for residing”, said Desai.

“By remov-ing encroach-ment under the bridge, the city will automati-cally get beau-tified. So, we are planning to set up more open gyms and

jogging tracks”, said Desai.The overall budget for the upcom-

ing project in Sanpada is ₹60 lakhs and is awaiting NMMC’s finals approval.

“The engineering department of NMMC is conducting surveys to se-lect more spaces under the flyovers in the city. The flyovers in the residential areas will be prioritised and the ones on highways would not be liable as it may pose risk for the residents”, stated Desai.

NMMC plans to install sports infrastructure beneath flyovers

By Ryhea george

The automobile shops at Belpada village road in Kharghar have

encroached upon the footpaths, due to which the pedestrians are forced to walk on the busy roads risking their lives.

A resident Govind Salunkhe who had tweeted regarding the issue said, “Many four wheelers are being re-paired on footpaths at Kharghar Bel-pada village blocking the footpath and even a portion of the road. With the pedestrians forced to walk on the road, the chances of accidents to happen at this place.”

Another resident Siddesh Patil said, “The issue of double parking is very common in the area. Apart from that, some garage workers have started blocking a portion of the road as well for carrying out the repair work. The

Kharghar Police and the Panvel City Municipal Corporation need to keep a check on such garage workers. Due

to the irresponsible behaviour of some people, major accidents can happen injuring other commuters as well”.

Car repair shops encroach upon footpaths at Belpada village road in Kharghar



If people's representatives and administrative officers main-

tain an atmosphere of harmony while implementing the devel-opment plan, great works hap-pen. That is why the Konkan region is a leader in all areas in the state in implementing gov-ernment development plans, said Vilas Patil, Revenue Com-missioner, Konkan Division.

After evaluating the suc-cessful implementation and performance of various initia-tives implemented under "Maha Awas Abhiyan-Grameen", the best performing organizations and individuals were honoured with "Maha Awas Abhiyan-Grameen" award at Konkan Bhavan.

Shri. Pushpatai Patil, Presi-dent, Zilla Parishad Thane, Vaidhi Vishal Wadhan, Presi-dent, Zilla Parishad Palghar, Yogita Pardhima President, Zilla Parishad Raigad, San-jana Sawant, President, Zilla Parishad Sindhudurg, Bhausa-heb Dandge Chief Executive Officer, ZP Thane,Siddharam Salimath Chief Executive Of-ficer, ZP Palghar, Dr. Kiran Patil Chief Executive Officer, Dist. P. Raigad, Dr. Indurani Jakhar Chief Executive Officer, ZP Ratnagiri, Prajit Nair Chief Executive Officer, ZP Sindhu-durg, Girish Bhalerao Deputy Commissioner (Development), Manoj Ranade Deputy Com-missioner (General), Makrand Deshmukh Deputy Commis-sioner (Revenue), D. Y. Jad-hav Deputy Commissioner (Establishment), Chandrakant Waghmare Additional Chief Executive Officer, ZP Palghar, Randhir Somvanshi Additional Chief Executive Officer, ZP Raigad / Project Director, GV Management Raigad Dadabhau Gunjal Project Director, GV Yantrana, Thane, Manik Dive

Project Director, GV Yantrana, Palghar, Nandini Ghanekar Project Director, GV Yantrana, Ratnagiri Rajendra Paradkar, Project Director, GVR System, Sindhudurg etc. were present on the occasion.

While congratulating the award winners, Commissioner Mr. Vilas Patil said that the officers and employees of the Konkan Division have already worked with positive energy. The same energy should be maintained. The Konkan region has always been at the forefront of implementing government schemes. The best example of this is the ideal and beautiful villages in Konkan.

Praising the administrative officers, the Commissioner said that while carrying out devel-opment works, the office bear-ers of Zilla Parishad, Panchayat Samiti and Revenue Depart-ment have to face a big chal-lenge.

People's representatives need to forget all party differ-ences and castes and work to-gether. Keeping in mind the upcoming Ganeshotsav celebra-tions, it is necessary for every-one to be aware and follow the rules of the government on the background of Corona. People's representatives should raise awareness about corona at the grassroots level. He expressed such expectations this time

In the year 2020-21 in the state of Maharashtra, "Maha Awas Abhiyan Grameen" was implemented from November 20, 2020 to June 5, 2021 on the occasion of National Housing Day on November 20, 2020. In the campaign, Thane district had bagged the first number for the Prime Minister's Housing Scheme and Palghar district had received the highest number of awards for the best work done during the entire campaign.

Konkan Division is leading in implementing development plan in the state:

Divisional Commissioner Vilas patil

Dr.Sharmistha Chattopadhyay

By Indrani Basu

City based classical danc-er, Dr. Sarmistha Chat-

topadhyay, the founder of Angik Dance Academy, Sea-woods is trying to spread the work of Rabindranath Tagore on national and international platform. Her research work ‘Chetonar Ronge’ on Rabin-dranath Tagore’s dance form or the Rabindrik dance style is a tribute to Tagore con-ceptualised and presented by Angik Dance Acad-emy on his death anniver-sary in August 2020 and the second edition in Au-gust 2021 virtually. Along with students of Angik dance academy, various renowned classical artists from different parts of In-dia and abroad took part in both the editions.

Rabindrik dance style in various forms as well as Tagore's songs from Bhanu Singher Padabali, his popular dance dramas Shyama, Chitrangada and Chandalika were included in the first edition por-traying Tagore’s philoso-phy on nature and patrio-tism through a month long virtual events. The second edition had in-strumental pre-sentations on namely, sitar, flute, violin, H a r m o n i c a , piano, Sarod and Esraj by the maestros of that field. Few d i s c u s s i o n s and analysis on Tagore's dance forms and its concept by acclaimed artists were also the part of this festival. The high-light of this edition was the dance performances on the tune of translations of few of Tagore's popular songs in Sanskrit and Hindi, Indian regional languages like Ma-layalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese and also in foreign languages

like French, English. The folk dance forms of India like Kaikotikalli of Kerala, Garba of Gujarat, Lezim of Maharashtra, Bihu of Assam, French and English country dances were incorporated in the presentation. A dance performance to a Malayalam song, the translation of one of Tagore's poems from his Nobel prize winning collec-

tion "Gitanjali" was an added attraction.

Both the festival covered all criteria of Angik abhinaya on Tagore’s songs and poetry with the help of discussion on the concept on dance style, about the idioms of Rabindra nritya and its evolution. The panelists were Dr.Subhasis Bhattacharya, Dr. Sruti Ban-dopadhyay and Kamrul Is-

lam (Dhaka, Bangladesh). Dr Sarmistha Chattopad-

hyay is Doctorate in Geology from Calcutta university and worked many years as a wom-an scientist under Depart-ment of Science and Tech-nology, Govt of India. She holds a Nritya Bharti Upadhi in Manipuri , Kathakali and Rabindrik Nritya and Nritya Visharad in Odissi. She has

been associated with the NCPA's lecture-demo outreach programme for classical dance aware-ness and also a CSR project "Nritya Parichay" to provide training on different dance forms to underprivileged students of various schools. She has choreographed many acclaimed Classical and Rabindrik dance ballets. She narrated, “In fact “Chetonar Ronge” was an inspiration to do more in-depth interactive research and study pertaining to understanding Tagore’s philosophy, poetry, music and dance through varied and unrestrained thought

processes and feelings about the multifac-eted creations of the bard, p r e v a i l i n g with the broad spectrum of cultural com-munity across the country and globe.”

C h e t o n a r Ronge which means “In the colours of conscious-ness” has also proved to be a true tribute to

our beloved Nobel laureate and philosopher Tagore as the forum was enriched by participation of more than 125 experts and performers including professors from Rabindra Bharati University and Shantiniketan, poets, singers, instrument players and dance exponents during last two years of detailed re-search work”.

City based dancer tries to spread Rabindrik dance style on national

and international platform

Students from Angik Dance Academy performed in the research work

residents of pcmc area to be exempted from double property

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