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Wednesday, 6 January 2021

VOL. 14 • ISSUE 178 RNI No. MAHEN/2007/21778 POSTAL REGN. No. NMB/154/2020-22/VASHI MDG POST OFFICE

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By Abhitash D.Singh

Ahead of the upcom-ing Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation's (NMMC) election, many staunch supporters of Ganesh Naik, who had

joined Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in the year 2019 along with more than 50 corporators, are now leaving the BJP par-ty and joining Shiv-Sena and Nationalist Congress

Party (NCP).Within a gap of two

weeks, five staunch sup-porters of Ganesh Naik and also BJP corporators

Vaibhav Gaikwad & Divya Gaikwad join NCP

NMMC collects fine of Rs 1 crore from Covid-19 offendersThe vigilance squad

of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has fined over 20,000 people from the satellite city from April till December, 2020 for vio-lating various Covid 19 rules. A fine to the tune of Rs 1 crores have been collected from them…

(More on page 8)NMMC hosts workshop

on 'Safai Mitra Suraksha challenge'

campaignNavi Mumbai Munici-

pal Corporation (NMMC) which has participated in the campaign 'Safai Mitra Suraksha challenge 2020-2021' implemented by the Central Government across the country from 19th November 2020 to 15th August 2021, is hosting an informative three days’ workshop (from 4th January to 6th January) at its headquar-ters under the campaign. The NMMC has become the first city in the coun-try to host the workshop under the campaign...

(More on page 3) NCP MLA Rohit Pawar

visits APMC Market The Nationalist Con-

gress Party (NCP) MLA, Rohit Pawar, who is also the nephew of Maharash-tra Deputy Chief Minister, Ajit Pawar visited the Ag-riculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) mar-ket on Tuesday 5th Janu-ary, 2021 to understand the working of APMC market and also to know the problems of the trad-ers as well as the ongo-ing farmers agitations on new Agricultural Act by the central government...

(More on page 4)

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Earlier Gavte family too had quit BJP

By Chandrashekhar Hendve

Under the central government’s Jal Jeevan Mission, all the households in Uran ta-luka have got piped wa-ter connections. It has now become the first taluka in the state of Maharashtra to provide 100% tap water connec-tions to the residents. Raigad Zilla Parishad is implementing Jal Je-evan Mission in all the rural areas with an aim to provide safe drinking water to every house-hold.

As per the data, there

are 36,108 households in Uran taluka. By April 2020, 26,962 house-holds had got tap con-nection. The remaining

houses have now been provided with the tap connection.

“During the initial phase of the mission, information of every household which has tap connection was collect-ed. Then in the second phase, the houses which did not have individual tap connections were given tap connection”, said an official from Raigad Zilla Parishad.

The mission was accomplished under the guidance of Zilla

All households in Uran taluka get tap water connectionsBecomes first in the state to provide household

tap connections under Jal Jeevan Mission The New Year has come with a ray of

hope for the residents residing in the nodes which receive water supply from the City and Industrial Develop-ment Corporation (CI-DCO).

The Board of CIDCO has decided to pay Rs. 119.80 crores to Konkan Irrigation Development

Corporation (KIDC) for additional quota of 120 MLD water per day from Hetawane dam for CIDCO. “This deci-sion will surely benefit the nodes and villages which receive CIDCO supplied water,” said the Vice Chairman and the Managing Director of CIDCO, Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee.

Presently, the water from Hetawane dam is

supplied to Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) region and to some nodes and nearby villages under the juris-diction of CIDCO.

“CIDCO had imple-mented Hetawane water supply scheme at Pen taluka of Raigad dis-trict in 2001-02 wherein 100 MLD quota of raw water was allocated

to CIDCO against the capital contribution of Rs. 47 crores. Addi-tional 50 MLD quota was allocated in March 2015 against the capi-tal contribution of Rs. 148.81 crores. At pres-ent, CIDCO is draw-ing 150 MLD water from Hetawane dam. Besides, the state gov-ernment has handed

CIDCO takes steps to ease water woes

Rs. 119.80 crores to be paid to KIDC for an additional 120 MLD water per day from Hetawane dam


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I have changed my name from MR. RADHAKRISH-NAN SELVAN to MR. RADHAKRISHNAN SELVAM as per affidavit dated 4th January 2021.

CHANGE OF NAME

PUBLIC NOTICEThis public Notice is given to the Public at large that my client 1) SHRI. VASANT SHANKAR DESAI & 2) MRS. VANDANA VASANT DESAI, Residing at Ramdas Mhatre Chwal, Near Shankar Mandir, Kamothe Gaon, Sector- 14, Navi Mumbai, have lost the Original document in respect of Shop No- 12, on the Ground Floor, Plot No- 15, Sector- 4E, Kalamboli, Taluka- Panvel, District- Raigad, Navi Mumbai- 410218 as follows. 1) Final Order’s issued by the CIDCO LTD., along with the rel-

evant Documents and Receipts, During the transit / from their Home on or before one month i.e. 29/11/2020 and accordingly the Complaint was lodged with Ka-mothe Police Station on dated 29/12/2020 under Property Miss-ing Registration No- 1377 / 2020 for misplaced of above men-tioned Documents. My client apprehend that any person who find it may misused the said document therefore the Public at Large informed and warned not to deal with in respect of said document and the Property in any manner whatsoever with any person and if any person does so, my client will not responsible for any legal consequences, loss or damages which please Note. My client further inform that if any person or persons have any right title to interest or any claim either claiming to or under the Allottee shall have to lodge such claim or objection either with me or with my client within 14 days from the date of the publication of this notice and subsequently thereafter no such claim or objection shall be entertained which please note. Sd/- AMIT H. YEWALE B.Com. LL.B. ADVOCATE HIGH COURT Off: 12, Janta Market, Sector.4E/A Kalamboli, Navi Mumbai – 410218. Mob: 96994 95256 Date: 06-01-2021 Email:[email protected]

PUBLIC NOTICENOTICE IS HEREBY given to the public at large that my clients Mrs. Azra Misbahur Rehman Farooqui & Ms. Mahenoor Misba-hur Rehman Farooqui, residing at Flat No.302, on the 3rd floor, Sterling Apartment, 62/70, Surti Mohalla, Tank Street, Nagpada, Mumbai 400008 have agreed to purchase a Flat No.6, on the 2nd Floor, in the Shree Vighnahar Krupa CHS Ltd., Plot No.A-52, Sector-23, Darave, Nerul (East), Navi Mumbai 400706, admea-suring 560 Sq. Ft. Built-up area, within the limits of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation and within the Registration District and Sub-District of Thane from its Owners Mr. Ekhlaque Yusuf Fakih through his Constituted Attorney his wife Mrs. Gulafroz Ekhlaque Fakih and Mrs. Gulafroz Ekhlaque Fakih for herself.Any Person or Persons, firm, company having any claim in, to or over the said Flat or any part thereof, either by way of sale, mortgage, lien, gift or otherwise howsoever, should give notice of such Claims/Objections in writing stating therein the nature of his/her/their Claims/objections along with other particulars suf-ficient to identify the same as well as documentary evidence, in support thereof and the same must be lodged with the office of the undersigned within 14 (fourteen) days from the date of the Publication of this Notice failing which it shall be presumed that the said Flat to be purchased is free from all encumbrances and the right and claims or any holder of the claim, if any has been waived and my clients shall proceed with the purchase of the said Flat without considering any claim or objection received after expiry of Notice period as aforesaid. Sd/- ADV. K. P. SAYED (LL. M.) Advocate, High Court, Mumbai Shop No.06, Neel Empire CHS, Plot No.3A/4, Near IDBI Bank/ Jhama Sweet Shop, Secto-25, Nerul (E), Navi Mumbai 400706Dated: 06/01/2021 Mob. 9321731273

DOCUMENT MISSINGNotice is hereby given that the Original Registration Receipt No. 8-1381/2013 in respect of Flat No. 23 situated on the Second Floor, Shatatarka Society Ltd., Akashganga, 2nd Rabodi, Thane (W) and issued in favour of Mr. Chandrabhan Singh, has been misplaced/lost near home on 15th December 2020 at 12.00 noon and is not traceable. A complaint to the effect has been lodged by Mr. Chandrabhan Singh, with Rabodi police station, Thane who have recorded the same vide their document missing register No. 1095/2020 dated 28th December, 2020. Any member of the public who finds/has found the said docu-ments, is requested to arrange to return the same to Mr. Chan-drabhan Singh. Date : 06-01-2020 Sd/-Place: Navi Mumbai. Mr. Chandrabhan Singh

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CIDCO TAkES STEPS TO EASE wATER...

over the Kondhane dam (250 MLD) capacity to CIDCO,” informed Dr. Mukherjee.

By considering the increasing population in the city, development of projects like Navi Mumbai International Airport, Mass Housing Scheme, Navi Mumbai Airport Influenced No-tified Area, the water demand of the city till the year 2050 will be

around 1275 MLD.“The decision to

take an additional quota from Hetawane dam will serve the re-quirements of various upcoming projects till 2025,” he added.

“Moreover, the mi-cro tunnelling work to draw more water from Hetawane reservoir is nearing completion. Together, this will go a long way in resolv-ing the water issues in CIDCO areas,” stressed Dr. Mukherjee.

Mahadevbuva Shah Bajkar appointed as State Secretary

of All India Koli SamajBy Vikram Gaikwad

State President Kanti Koli has appointed Mahadevbuva Shah Ba-jkar as the General Secre-tary of All India Koli Sa-maj Maharashtra Pradesh Committee. Rajendra Pan-durang Madhavi has been appointed as treasurer.


ALL HOUSEHOLDS IN URAN TALUkA...

Parishad Chief Execu-tive Officer Dr. Kiran Patil, Executive Engi-neer, Water Supply De-partment Vengurlekar, Uran Panchayat Samiti, Group Development Officer Neelam Gade and others.

District Guardian Minister Aditi Tatkare, Zilla Parishad President Yogita Pardhi, Vice President Sudhakar Ghare, Leader of Op-position Surendra Mha-tre along with all Zilla

Parishad members, of-ficers and staff were instrumental in making Jal Jeevan Mission a success.

“Under Jal Jeevan Mission, tap connection has been provided in all the houses in Uran taluka. If any person has built a new house in this taluka or a fam-ily has migrated to the taluka for work, then such families should contact the administra-tion and demand tap connection”, said Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Kiran Patil.

Webinar on Deemed Conveyance provided learning

experience to the invitees By Indrani Basu

Around 450 members from different coopera-tive housing societies located at various nodes in Kharghar Panvel, Taloja joined in the webinar conducted on Sunday regarding Deemed Convey-ance. The event was organized and conducted by Mr. Mangesh Ranawade, Chairman MAHASEWA, Navi Mumbai Chapter and also the Chairman of Kharghar – Taloja Colonies Welfare association. The objective of the webinar was to guide and educate the represen-tatives of the respective cooperative housing societies to acquire conveyance certificate.

“It is vital to acquire conveyance or deemed con-veyance and have the land named after their society,” told Ranawade. He added, “There are nearly 9500 housing societies in Navi Mumbai and more than 40% are old and need to go into redevelopment. It is vital to acquire conveyance because failing to do so, a housing society cannot go under redevelopment. There are several documents which are required to apply for deemed conveyance. In the webinar our experts informed about the required formalities the societies shall have to fulfill to apply for a deemed conveyance.”

Maharashtra Government has declared a special drive from 1st January to 15th January2021 appealing societies to apply for conveyance of their premises. The invitees came to know about the facts, procedures of applying for getting conveyance, their doubts and the concepts were cleared by the experts Dr. Kedari Jadav, the Joint Registrar of cooperative Society, Be-lapur and Ramesh Prabhu, CA, the Chairman of MA-HASEWA.

The expert informed, “A Conveyance Deed is a legal document of ownership right over the property whether it is land or Building. It is a document de-signed to transfer the property ownership right from Developer /builder to the society. For getting this, the members of a housing society located at Navi Mum-bai have to submit the required documents to the Joint Registrar Office of Raigad to get the order.”

They added ,“Builders unnecessary delay in pro-viding or refrain from giving Conveyance in hopes of increased FSI that they could avail in the future or simply because they are negligent in following the mandatory procedure.”

Duttatreya Patil, a member from Vastu Vihar CHS, Sector 16, Kharghar, who joined in the webinar told, “It was a very informative session. As we have been staying in CIDCO flats, we have many doubts regarding redevelopments. The experts conveyed some important advice to us.”

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The 190th Birth Anni-versary of Savitribai Phule, the first female teacher who set the foun-dation for women’s Edu-cation in India, was cele-brated at Rayat Shikshan Sanstha’s Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil College, Vashi, Navi Mumbai on 4th January 2021.

The function began with illuminating the holy lamp by all dig-nitaries who then paid homage to the great souls, Krantijyoti Savit-ribai Phule and Padmab-hushan Dr. Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil.

The Chairperson of Women Empower-ment Cell Prof. Sujata Bote welcomed the dig-nitaries and Prof. San-gita Naik introduced the chief guest.

Shri Balshashtri Jambhekar awardee and the Assistant Editor of Maharashtra Times Newspaper, Pragati Bankhele, graced the function as the chief guest. While interact-ing online on the topic of 'Savitribai Phule was

the First Traveller on the Path of Equality', they said that Savitribai and Jyotiba Phule, both were complementary and in-complete without each

other. “It is very difficult

to do anything when the whole society is against

By Crime Reporter

A 22-year-old married woman attempting to commit suicide was rescued by the Panvel Railway Police near Be-lapur Railway Station on Sunday morning.

The girl was married and had been living with her parents in Belapur for several days after

her husband abandoned her. She had been under mental stress for the past few days due to the fam-ily reason. She went to Belapur railway station around 11 am on Sun-day with an intention to commit suicide. While she was standing on the railway track in the tun-nel, a local guard head-

ing towards Panvel no-ticed her and informed the station master about this. They immediately rushed towards the tun-nel and rescued her.

The police then counselled her and handed her to her par-ents, said senior police inspector Sambhaji Ka-tare.

190th Birth Anniversary of Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule celebrated at Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil College

Railway police rescues young woman from committing suicide

Navi Mumbai Mu-nicipal Corpora-tion (NMMC) which has participated in the campaign 'Safai Mi-tra Suraksha challenge 2020-2021' implemented by the Central Govern-ment across the country from 19th November 2020 to 15th August 2021, is hosting an in-formative three days’ workshop (from 4th January to 6th January) at its headquarters un-der the campaign. The NMMC has become the first city in the country to host the workshop under the campaign.

NMMC is amongst the 243 cities partici-pating in the campaign. Expressing his thoughts at the beginning of this workshop, Deputy Commissioner of Solid Waste Management Dr. Babasaheb Rajale stated that NMMC aims at bag-ging the first rank this year in the nationwide cleanliness survey and is implementing several innovative initiatives to-

wards this end. On the first day of the

workshop, information was given on the state-of-the-art machinery and equipment available for the cleaning of sew-ers and machine holes. Safety kits such as hel-mets, hand gloves, gum-boots, masks, uniforms, first aid boxes, gas mon-itors, oxygen cylinders, reflecting jackets, flash-lights are provided to the cleaning staff, it was informed.

“NMMC has been cleaning the sewage lines, manholes and septic tanks since 2005 without any human in-tervention. Hence, there have not been any ac-cidents. Presently, the NMMC is paying the contract cleaners as per the Equal Pay Act and the working period is 8 hours. Besides, it has also provided provident fund facility to these workers,” said Execu-tive Engineer Sanjay Desai

The central govern-

ment has launched the Safai Mitra Suraksha Challenge campaign this year, which aims at ensuring that no person needs to enter a sewer or septic tank, unless abso-lutely unavoidable in the interest of greater public hygiene. The initiative, promotes mechanized cleaning, also aims at ensuring that no life of any sewer or septic tank cleaner is ever lost ow-ing to the issue of 'haz-ardous' cleaning.

Director of Kam Foundation, M. Krish-na, Chief Executive Of-ficer, Dr. Smita Singh and Project Manager, Amit Panchal gave guidance on how to clean the sewers under the Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge campaign by using mechanical ma-chines as well as vari-ous safety equipment. All Junior Engineers of Navi Mumbai Munici-pal Corporation Sewer-age Department as well as 38 Safaimitras were present on the occasion.

NMMC hosts workshop on 'Safai Mitra Suraksha challenge' campaign

NM becomes the first city in the country to host workshop under the campaign

Civic work from Navdurga to Safal, Wonders Park to MSEB, as well as from Wonders Park to Fire Station being carried out under the guidance of Ravindra Ithape in ward no. 100 were inaugurated. On the occasion, MLA Ganesh Naik appreciated and praised Ithape for carrying out various developmental works in his ward. Present on the occasion were MLA Ganesh Naik, Mayor Jaywant Sutar, District President Ramchandra Gharat, dignitaries and members of all the societies.



This new year let us be hopeful. Hope is a very small word but with a great power. Just like being optimis-tic, being hopeful also creates a positivity in us. With hope, we can always visualise our-selves to be happy and this visualisation changes our way of being.

The way in which hopeful per-son handle the adverse situation is very different from those who are not hopeful.

"Hope is a seed that you so ev-eryday. It is not necessary that you will get to fruit immediately but keep watering it with faith & one day you will surely reap what you wished"

Hope gives us the strength to find our disappointments. It drives us to the path of expectation that there will be good happening in future. Even if the present circumstances are not very favourable, giving a thought of hope, that the future will be better can really buffer are stress and can reduce the negativity level.

We can consider hope in any of the ways. We can take it as an emo-tion or we can feel it as a motivating factor.

In any case there are certain situations that are beyond our con-trol. We can do nothing about them. So the best option we have is to be hopeful. Hoping good will definitely not change the situation but it will surely make us strong enough to face that particular situation in a positive way and to reassure ourselves that this tough time will pass soon. Hope helps us to anticipate a good futur-istic life and influences us to handle our present.

A powerful hope helps us to an-ticipate a limitlessly positive version of our future.

The researchers have examined that if we are hopeful in our life,

we tend to have a bet-ter physical and mental health. We can help ourselves in staying away from problems like depression and anxiety.

In order to feel hopeful, we can listen to some motivational

speeches we can engage ourselves in some religious and spiritual ac-tivities.

Ultimately, we are human be-ings. So is not always possible to be hopeful. There are times when we tend to lose hope. Irrespective of all our efforts there will often be hur-dles in the way, which will threaten our hope. Unfavourable things do

happen. But we shouldn't feel as if all the doors are closed. We should keep up our willpower. We should keep finding options that lead to our goals.

Being hopeful changes the way we see the things and helps us to work in a positive and energetic manner. It helps us to make the best use of our current circumstances.

Remember that when we can't do much about an existing situation, wecan always face it with the belief that there is surely something that we can do about it and we can make our life easier. Hope can be a motivation for us to work in a direction that can make things better and working on it can fuel even more hope.

There is always a way! Be Hope-ful!(The author is PgD (guidance and counsel-

ling), M.Sc (Counselling)

THE MIND DIARY

Let us be hopeful

By kamna walecha

NCP MLA Rohit Pawar visits APMC Market

By Abhitash D.Singh

The Nationalist Con-gress Party (NCP) MLA, Rohit Pawar, who is also the nephew of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, Ajit Pawar visited the Agri-culture Produce Market Committee (APMC) market on Tuesday 5th January, 2021 at 4 am to understand the working of APMC market and also to know the problems of the traders as well as the ongoing farm-ers agitations on new Agricultural Act by the central government.

A senior politi-cal analyst from Navi Mumbai on the con-dition of anonymity informed, "The recent visit by Rohit Pawar to APMC market appears to seal the speculation

that he would be play-ing an important role in the upcoming NMMC election this year."

Rohit Pawar while visiting the APMC mar-ket tried to understand its working style and also discussed various

issues with traders and some farmers.

Rohit Pawar, NCP MLA while interacting with the media said, "In order to understand the mechanism and work-ing style of the APMC market, it is important to visit the market in the early hours and interact

with the traders. Instead of sleeping in the comfort of home, one should come out and understand the prob-lems of APMC market traders and farmers and of everyone who is as-sociated with the APMC

market."Pawar further added,

"All the problems faced by the farmers and trad-ers in the APMC market will be raised in the coming session."

When reporters asked Rohit Pawar

It is speculated that he will play an important role in the upcoming NMMC elections

Photo by Sumit Renose


The athletes and sports enthusiasts are highly perturbed by the absence of a play-ground in ward no. 19 and 20 Rabale.

To ensure that the youngsters of Rabale get a playground, Rishikesh Wankhede, an activist, met the commissioner of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corpora-tion (NMMC), Abhijit Bangar and urged him

to allot a playground through the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) and handed over a letter in this regard.

Speaking to News-band, Rishikesh Wankhede said, “Ward No. 19 and 20 of Rabale is a slum node in MIDC. The children of this wards come from financially weaker background and hence cannot offer pri-vate sports facilities”.

There are play-grounds or open gyms in all the nodal areas in Navi Mumbai. But there is nothing in ward no 19 and 20, he stressed.

He further said, “The MIDC administration have sold acres of land to companies. But to fulfill the needs of the citizens is also the duty of NMMC and MIDC. Hence, they should pro-vide playground in these wards at the earliest”.

Residents demand playground for ward no 19 and 20 in Rabale

Entrepreneur and social activist Sanjay Bhosale, a resident of Airoli has been appointed as Shiv Sena Vibhag Pramukh of ward no 10 and 11 (By Chandrashekhar Hendve)



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Parmanand Pritmani, 62, a resident of Sector 19, Kharghar, has been feeding stray dogs in his vicinity for the past two years, ev-ery day. However, when he came to know about a stray feeding drive in Kharghar, he was all enthusiastic to join in the initiative for the voiceless furry friends. Mr. Pritmani was amongst the 15 people who joined hands with Seema Tank, an animal

activist and provided food to the strays on 1st January, 2021.

“This was my first group feeding drive. It was a pleasure to see so many like-minded people coming together and feeding the voice-less and homeless,” said Mr. Pritmani.

Seema started the initiative in 2018 with an aim to spread awareness about feeding and being kind towards stray ani-mals. “I wanted people to show kindness to-

wards the furry friends. I decided to start two mega food drives in a year”, said Seema.

Speaking further she said, during the current drive we provided food to 400 dogs. However, this could not have hap-pened without the help and support of so many people.

Speaking about her future plans Seema said, “I will be carrying my annual rabies drive in the month of Febru-ary.”

Kharghar residents join hands to feed strays

By Ashok Dhamija

Ryan Christian School, Vashi students celebrated ‘Savit-ribai Phule Jayanti’ - the birth anniversary of the 19th crusader of women’s education early this week with a great zeal and en-thusiasm. A number of activities were organized for the students on the occasion which included

an online speech and essay writing to pay tribute to the social reformer who also devoted her life against untouch-ability, illiteracy, and for the rights of women among others.

“Savitribai Phule who was born on 3rd January 1831 January is a well-known Indian social reformer. She with her breath taking personal-ity and character, has brought about many changes and transformations in the society. She is known all over the country for her brave approach in fighting vested interests to ensure

child girls and women get education. Regarded as the first female teacher of India and the mother of Indian feminism. On the occasion many stu-dents expressed their respect towards her, in the form of speech and essays. Through this programme students also came to know about her early life and her contribution for the society. It was indeed very memorable day for all the students of the institute who actively took part in her 189th birth anniver-sary celebrations,” shared Sharlet Fer-nandes, Section Head, Ryan Christian School, Vashi.

RCS Vashi pays tribute to Indian social reformer and pioneer of women education

A youngster dressed up as Savitribai Phule on the occassion

Class VI students of RCS Vashi pay tribute to the 19th crusader of women’s education with speeches and and essay writing acitivities

A badly injured flamin-go, which was badly injured by a predator bird kite at Uran in Navi Mumbai was rescued by birder Parag Gharat who hails from Dongari vil-lage. He was alerted by one of his friends who informed him that kites are attacking flamingos at a salt pan behind JNPT Township.

Upon receiving infor-mation, Parag rushed to the spot and informed re-gional forest officer S.A. Kadam. They rescued the injured bird and took it to the Uran veterinary hospital.

Post treatment, Parag said, “I will take care of the bird for a day today and release it in a safe zone tomorrow.”

“Thank God, we got the alert in time and could rescue the flamin-go. The bird can stand on

its own,” said the birder.Environmentalist B

N Kumar, director of NatConnect Foundation, said the rapid destruc-

tion of wetlands in Uran is forcing the birds to fly helter-sekelter and

Predator kite hurts flamingo at UranBirder rescues the injured bird


Injured flamingo at Uran


EditorialISSUE: 178 6 jANUARy, 2021

Though the awareness about con-servation 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

With a higher life expectancy, ab-sence of any social se-curity, rising inflation and healthcare costs, it is imperative for in-dividuals particularly the bread earners of the family to plan for a se-cure retired life. Cater-ing to this need ICI-CI Prudential Life Insurance a leading private life insurer has launched an in-novative retirement plan under the brand name ‘ICICI Pru Guar-anteed Pension Plan’. This non-linked non-participating individual annuity product, aims to provide its custom-ers with the flexibility to choose between Im-mediate and Deferred Annuity as part of its guaranteed life-long in-

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ICICI Prudential Life Insurance launches guaranteed pension plan


On the occasion of the birth anni-versary of Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule, who laid the foundation for women's education, a tribute was paid on behalf of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Women's Cell in ward no. 10, Airoli.

Former Bharatiya Janata Party cor-porator Shashikala Sutar, while giving guidance, said that women have scaled to new heights due to the efforts of Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule, who was the pioneer of Indian women's lib-

eration and women's education. The new generation living in the age of mobile should adopt the ideals of the freedom fighter and social reformer.

Former senior corporator of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation Anant Sutar, former ward 10 cor-porator Shashikala Sutar, Archana Chavan, Sonali Pawar, Vanita Surve, Arpana Tambe, Sultana Sheikh, Su-lochana Manjrekar, Vishakha Kadam and other women were present on this occasion.

BJP supporters pay homage to Savitribai Phule in Airoli ward 10

it but Savitribai Phule showed the new direc-tion to the people who were exploited by the customs and traditions of the then society and made them independent and capable by stand-ing firmly behind them”, Bankhele said.

She further exempli-fied, “Savitribai Phule not only imparted edu-cation to the society but also gave a new vision

to the society by set-ting up ‘The Satyashod-hak Samaj’, providing help to the widows for their remarriage, open-ing orphanages, provid-ing food to the starving people during the fam-ine of 1876 and many more great revolutionary works were rendered by Savitribai Phule and Ma-hatma Jotiba Phule.

Principal of the college Dr. Shubhada Nayak said that it should not be forgotten that all the empowered daugh-

ters of Savitribai Phule are working effectively at all levels only because of untiring efforts put by Mahatma Phule and Savitribai Phule. She congratulated the Wom-en Empowerment Cell.

On this occasion, Vice Principal C.D. Bhosle, DG Bote, Dr. RP Ghorpade, teach-ers, teaching staff and students were present in good numbers.

Dr. Archana Chavan proposed the vote of thanks.


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Maharashtra Ware House workers greeted MLA Mahesh Baladi on New Year (By Dinesh Pawar)

about the ongoing inquiry from Enforce-ment Directorate (ED) from Shiv-Sena's Varsha Raut's and also about

the renaming of Au-rangabad he replied, "The game of political vendetta is on the rise in Maharashtra. The day will come when ED will also inquire me. Instead of giving attention to

developmental projects I don't know why there is so much attention given to renaming Aurangabad? There are many other issues which need to be looked after on a priority basis."


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from Navi Mumbai have left the party and joined Shiv-Sena and NCP. Earlier former standing committee chairman and BJP corporator Navin Gavte, corporator Apar-na Gavte and Dipa Gavte joined Shiv-Sena in the presence of Shiv-Sena Chief and Maharashtra Chief Minister, Uddhav Thackeray. On Tuesday 5th January, 2021 BJP

former corporators Vaib-hav Gaikwad and Divya Gaikwad quit BJP and joined NCP in the pres-ence of NCP Supremo, Sharad Pawar.

The NCP party se-nior leaders like Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar welcomed both Vaibhav Gaikwad and Divya Gai-kwad in NCP fold.

Vaibhav Gaikwad said, “I had contested the 2010 NMMC elec-tion under the symbol

of Nationalist Congress Party and later my wife, Divya Vaibhav Gaikwad stood for 2015 NMMC election. We both won with a thumping major-ity. Now, once again we have decided to stand with the Nationalist Congress Party for the upcoming NMMC elec-tion. We will continue to follow the principles of a democratic secular society."

"We have been the staunch supporter of

Ganesh Naik, but from the last few months, our views are not getting heard by the senior lead-ers. When educated cor-porators raise voice and ask the administration to do the work in our ward for the benefit of the citizens, we are stopped to speak in the house. Hence, we finally decid-ed to join the same NCP party from which we had won the NMMC elec-tions in 2010 and 2015."


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By Crime Reporter

A 70-year-old mentally ill woman living in Turbhe Sector-22 committed suicide by jumping into a pond. The woman, identified as Sushila Vijay Sutar, body was found floating in the pond on Monday afternoon.

The deceased, Sushila Vijay Sutar was staying with her son in Turbhe Sector-22. Due to her mental health issue, Sushila was undergoing treatment for the last few years. Last Sun-day night, Sushila Sutar's son Mangesh Sutar gave her dinner and put her off to sleep. How-

ever, she left the house at mid-night. When Mangesh woke-up at around 4 am he noticed that his mother was not in the house.

Despite diligent search he did not find her and around 12.30 her body was found in the pond, said Sub-Inspector of Police Prashant Kumbhar.

Mentally challenged woman commits suicide by jumping into a pond

land in isolated places. They tend to come un-der predators’ attack. It is therefore very impor-tant to allow wetlands as they are and protect the biodiversity of the area, Kumar said.

There have been sev-eral complaints against the burial of wetlands for infrastructure proj-ects, he recalled and ex-pressed the hope that the recent intervention of the Chief Minister and Envi-ronment Minister would have positive results in

the interest of the envi-ronment.

Kumar appreciated the enthusiasm among the local youths such as Parag to protect birds and wetlands. In fact, Parag had earlier noticed chopping of mangroves at Panje and alerted the authorities.

A demand by envi-ronmentalists to con-serve Panje wetland as a Bird Sanctuary has been pending action from the Government. CM Ud-dhav Thackeray has re-ferred the issue to the environment department, NatConnect said.


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While the state of Maharashtra is taking adequate precau-tions in the backdrop of new corona virus strain found in the UK, the central government will be asked to quarantine such passengers at the airports where they will land, considering the flow of passengers ar-riving in Maharashtra from abroad, said Chief Minister of Maharash-tra, Uddhav Thackeray, while reviewing the roll out preparation of co-rona vaccination.

The Chief Minister directed the agencies to be more vigilant as 8 passengers coming from UK to Maharashtra have tested positive for the new strain.

Chief Minister

Thackeray said that the passengers arriving in Mumbai directly from the UK are sent to the airport for institutional segregation as per the rules. So, it is not possi-ble to track them down. The Central Govern-ment should quarantine those who have trav-elled abroad from those airports, said Mr. Thack-eray.

After reviewing the preparations for vac-cination, CM said that all those who are vac-cinated should be moni-tored for any adverse side effects and should be given timely treat-ment. “A task force-like mechanism should be set up to guide the treat-ing doctors,” he said. Mr. Thackeray also sug-gested that vaccination

should be done only in health institutions.

Municipal Commis-sioner of BMC, I. S. Dr. Chahal, Principal Sec-retary, Department of Health. Pradip Vyas pre-sented the preparations for vaccination.

The meeting was attended by Chief Sec-retary Sanjay Kumar, Principal Advisor to the Chief Minister Ajoy Mehta, Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister Ashish Ku-mar Singh, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Vikas Kharge, Secretary for Medical Education Sourav Vi-jay, Additional Com-missioner of Mumbai Municipal Corporation Suresh Kakani, Director of Medical Education Dr Tatyarao Lahane.

By Ryhea George

The annual general election of the Fed-eration of Headmasters of Secondary and High-er Secondary Schools in Raigad district was held recently at K.A. Ban-thia High School, New Panvel. Bhagwan Mali, Principal of K.A. Ban-thia School was elected unopposed as the Presi-dent. "It is a great hon-our to be elected as the President and entrusting me with so much of re-sponsibility. We will all work together for the betterment of the stu-

dents," said Mali. There are about 800

secondary and higher secondary schools in Raigad district. Various issues of these schools are pending before the government. Raigad Dis-trict Headmasters Feder-ation has been working for the last several years to highlight these issues with the government. The President of this Headmasters Federation is elected from among the Headmasters of all schools in the district.

Mr. Mali’s election has been widely lauded

by the presidents, princi-pals, headmasters, super-visors, deputy principals and non-teaching staff unions of various educa-tional institutions in the district. Present on the occasion were: MLA of Konkan Teachers Con-stituency Balaram Patil, President of Sudhagad Education Society Vas-antrao Oswal, Raigad District Education Of-ficer Bhausaheb Thorat, Panvel Group Education Officer Navnath Sable, Secretary of Teach-ers Federation, Milind Joshi.

Need to exercise more precaution as 8 UK returnees test positive: CM Uddhav Thackeray

Bhagwan Mali elected as the President of the Federation of Headmasters of

Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools

By Abhitash D.Singh

The vigilance squad of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has fined over 20,000 people from the satellite city from April till December, 2020 for violating various Covid 19 rules. A fine to the tune of Rs 1 crores have been collected from them.

The fines have been levied for vari-ous offences like not wearing masks and for not maintaining social distanc-es at public places. Penalties were also imposed for spitting in public places. The civic body, apart from the regu-lar mobile squads, also deployed eight special squads for the crackdown.

NMMC Chief Abhijit Bangar said, "The action has been taken by the ward level anti nuisance squads, which were supported by the special vigilance teams formed in all the eight

wards. Belapur ward re-corded the highest num-ber of offences in terms of both cases and penalty amount. Digha ward was at the bottom of the table with regards to both- the number of cases as well as fine collection."

Bangar further add-ed, "The civic body's aim

is not to collect the fines but to ensure that the citizens abide by the Covid-19 protocols. We have been launch-ing several initiatives to make people aware about importance of following Covid-19 protocols so that the cases of Covid-19 do not increase in the city, but there are some miscreants who even after several reminders, do not follow the rules and hence the squads have to be strict with them. The fines worth Rs 1 crore collected from the Covid-19 violators will be used for the developmental work of the city."

NMMC collects fine of Rs 1 crore from Covid-19 offenders

20,000 people have been fined in nine months for flouting various Covid-19 protocols

By Ryhea George

With an aim to curb and control illegal erection of bill boards and the banners, the Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) razed down an illegal billboard and hoarding of Ashtavinayak Hospi-tal that was placed near CIDCO public garden in Khandha Colony on 4th January, 2021.

There had been few complaints as well as demand by the residents to file a case against the hospital administration for erecting illegal bill-boards.

The Ashtavinayak Hospital in Khandha colony had put up a large billboard in the CIDCO garden near the hospital. The issue of il-legal encroachment by Ashtavinayak Hospital

was raised by the press committee of Panvel Ta-luka which then started compiling the list of various billboards erect-ed illegally in the Panvel municipal area.

Keval Mahadik, a volunteer from the com-mittee said, "The civic body should take stern

action against illegal encroachments of public places. The move will deter others from plac-ing or erecting banners and bill boards illegal-ly.”

The Hospital had put up a large billboard

on the compound wall of CIDCO Park, and no permission had been given from CIDCO or the corporation in this regard. Now, four days ago, after the issue came up for discussion, the hospital administration moved to the corpora-tion for permission.

However, neither the corporation nor CIDCO gave permission to the hospital. On the other hand, taking into ac-count the demands of the journalists, action was taken against this hospital.

PCMC razes down illegal billboard of Ashtavinayak Hospital