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30 km road stretchto be concretized in

MIDC areaThe Navi Mumbai Mu-

nicipal Corporation (NMMC)and MIDC have decided toconcertize the 30 kilometersroad in the TTC Industrialarea. Navi Mumbai Munici-pal Corporation will concert-ize the 15 km and MIDC willconcertize the remaining 15km. Both NMMC and MIDCwill spend Rs 110 crores eachfor this project...

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NMMC introduces Redbin for hazardous waste

With an aim to improvethe ranking in the SwacchSurvey 2020, the NaviMumbai Municipal Corpora-tion is undertaking variousmeasures. After successfullyimplementing two wastesegregation categories, wetand dry, at the source level,the civic body has decidedto implement another bin‘Red bin’ to segregatehousehold hazardouswaste…(More on page 12)

Man arrested forillegally carrying pistol

and cartridgesA man carrying a pistol

with a live cartridge in Talojaarea has been arrested byNavi Mumbai crime branch.The young man, identifiedas Vishal Madhukar Mane(25), has been arrested andfurther inquiries are beingconducted by the police…

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By Varda Sharma

Navi Mumbai: Tak-ing a serious note of aseries of complaintsagainst destruction ofmangroves and wet-lands in Mumbai Met-ropolitan Region(MMR), the High Courtcommittee has orderedimmediate inspection ofall sites in the area.

“The reports of theinspections have to besubmitted within a fort-night and the Commit-tee will take stock onDecember 23,” saidShivaji Daund, Kon-

HC panel orders inspectionof mangrove, wetland

destruction in MMRCalls for reports by December 23 to plan restoration

kan Divisional Com-missioner who presidedover the MangroveMonitoring and Inspec-

tion Committee meet-ing held on Monday.

Contd. on pg. 9

By Abhitash D.Singh

NAVI MUMBAI: In or-der to boost the railwaytransportation, theMumbai Rail VikasCorporation (MRVC) isstudying the Commu-nication based TrainControl System (CBTC)technology for the sub-

urban harbour line lo-cal train that is fromCSMT-Panvel whichhad got approval fromthe Railway Ministry inthe month of June. Theinitiative by the rail-way ministry is thefirst step towards im-plementing the bettersignalling system forthe Mumbai’s and NaviMumbai’s lifeline thatis local train.

A senior official fromMRVC on the conditionof anonymity said, “Wewill soon be appointing

CBTC to be a reality soonfor CSMT-Panvel train

The technology will enable

the trains to run faster

the consultants forstudying about theCBTC system. The ap-pointed consultancyfirm will be given thetime limit of six monthsto study CBTC. The onemore initiative whichwe are planning ismerging the existing

rakes with the new sig-nalling system.”

According to the of-ficial, “The estimatedcost of the CBTC tech-

Contd. on pg. 9

MLA Ganesh Naik visits Dr. Babasaheb

Ambedkar Memorial

Demands work to be completed at the earliestBy Chandrashekhar Hendve

NAVI MUMBAI: AiroliMLA Ganesh Naik re-cently visited Dr. Ba-basaheb Ambedkar Me-morial at Airoli andasked the authorities tocomplete the pendingwork of the memorial atthe earliest.

Contd. on pg. 11

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PANVEL: Arun ShethBhagat has been unan-imously elected as Pan-vel Taluka Board secre-tary of Bharatiya Jana-ta Party and Jayant

Pagade has been unan-imously elected as CityPresident.

The election processof the Bharatiya Jana-ta Party is held everythree years. According-ly, the election of theChairman of PanvelTaluka Mandal and theCity Board was held at

Arun Sheth Bhagat and Jayant Pagade elected as BJP’s PanvelTaluka Board Secretary and City President respectively

Market Yard on Satur-day. BJP’s Raigad dis-trict MLA PrashantThakur, MLA MaheshBaldi, senior leader Bal-asaheb Patil and Raigad

district election vice-president Y T Desh-mukh were present dur-ing the election process.

As per the rules,Arun Sheth Bhagatfiled his nomination atthe Taluka Election Of-ficer and gave the nom-ination papers to Deep-ak Behre, while Jayant

Pagade filed nominationfor the post of city pres-ident and handed overthe nomination papersto Rajesh Bhagat. ArunSheth Bhagat was elect-

ed as the taluka presi-dent and Jayant Pagadewas elected unopposedas the president of thecity.

Mayor Dr. KavitaChautamol, DeputyMayor Vikrant Patil,District Vice PresidentRajendra Patil, EknathBhopi, district general

secretary Avinash Koli,city general secretaryNitin Patil, Ratnaprab-ha Gharat, and otherswere present.

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By Dinesh Pawar

Uran : DronagiriHigh School EnglishMedium School, cele-brated its annual daywith enthusiasm andzeal recently at theschool premise.

The event wasgraced by the presenceof the newly electedM.L.A. of Uran Legis-lature Assembly Mr.Mahesh Baldi, IOCLChief Manager (Institu-tional Business) Mr.Achintya Chakraborty,IOCL Sales ManagerMr.J.K.Rao,Mr.KaushikShah, Chairman ofKaranja MachhimarSociety Mr. Bhalchan-dra Koli Vice ChairmanK.M.S. Mr.NareshKoli, School Commit-tee Chairman Mrs Gee-ta Bhagat, Ex. Chair-man K.M.S. Mr. Shiv-das Nakhawa Ex.ViceChairman K.M.S. Mr.

Mahendra Koli,Former ChairmanMr.Narayan DhonduNakhawa along withall the committeemembers of KaranjaMachhimar Society.The Headmistress ofthe school, Mrs. M.K.Prabhu gave a warmwelcome to all the hon-orable guests at thefunction.

The function wasinaugurated by theM.L.A. Mr. Mahesh

Baldi, Mr.Chakraborty and othereminent guests bylightening the lamp.

The theme of theannual day was ‘FolkDances of EasternStates of India’. TheChief guest MaheshBaldi gave an inspira-tional speech by appre-ciating the growing tal-ents of the students ofthe school and prom-ised to extend a help-ing hand for the school

Dronagiri High School (English medium) celebrates Annual Day

at his level. Mr. Chak-roborty also assured toprovide every kind ofhelp for the progress ofthe school. Prize Dis-tribution was held bythe hands of the digni-taries. Mr. Baldi andMr.Achintya Chak-roborty felicitated theBest students of theyear with a trophy.

The function endedwith colourful danceperformances by thestudents.

Vasudev Balwant PhadkeVidyalaya celebrates AnnualDay with great enthusiasm

PANVEL: VasudevBalwant PhadkeVidyalaya, Primaryand pre primarysections, MarathiMedium celebratedtheir annual day withthe great zeal andenthusiasm.

Mansi Vaishampay-an, Principal, NishaDevere, PrimarySection, Principal,Namita Joshi, prePrimary Section, ChiefGuest Bank of Maha-rashtra, New Panvel

Branch, Branch Manag-er, Vijaykumar Patil,Arvind More and otherdignitaries were presentin large number.

Lauding the effortsof the students, ChiefGuest Vijaykumar Patilsaid that the event wasunique and students gota chance to showcasetheir talent. He furthersaid participation insuch events help thechildren to becomeconfident citizens.

Speaking on the

occasion, special guestArvind More said thatthe organization hascompleted five yearsand has helped inbuilding a bettersociety and a nation.He also motivated theaudience with aninspirational story.

Speaking on theoccasion, PrincipalMansi Vaishampayanthanked the parentsand advised children tobe focused and have aholistic development.

Mandala Pooja at Navi Mumbai Tamil SangamBy: C.K. Subramaniam

VASHI: The 17th year MandalaPooja of Sri Lord Ayyappa byBhakta Welfare Association,Vashi will be celebrated on 21/12/

2019 Saturday and 22/12/2019Sunday at Navi Mumbai TamilSangam (Behind Vashi BusDepot) Sector 9 A Vashi NaviMumbai.

By Abhitash D.Singh

NAVI MUMBAI: The Navi MumbaiMunicipal Corporation (NMMC) onFriday 13th December called up thegeneral body meeting to discussabout the much awaited developmentplan of the city. For the first time inthe general body meet, scribes andthe common citizens of the satellitecity were not al-lowed to attend thep r o c e e d i n g s .Guards were placedat the gate to checkthat the scribes donot enter the pro-ceedings.

The draft city de-velopment plan wassubmitted by thecivic administration to the NMMCmayor Jaywant Sutar six monthsback for tabling in the general bodymeeting and it was also taken for dis-cussion in the special general bodymeeting called up by Sutar on30th August, 2019. The discussiondidn’t go well and all the corporatorsraised the question on the DP planand asked for changes in the plan.The general body meeting was ad-journed on 30th August without anydecision. And it was pushed furtherand meanwhile the model code of con-duct was imposed in September, 2019for the Vidhan Sabha elections.

The civic body does not have itsown development plan from last 20years and they adopted the same de-velopment plan which was drafted by

NM DP plan discussed secretly in GB meeting

Scribes & citizens refrained from attending the proceedings

the City and Industrial DevelopmentCorporation (CIDCO) in the year1980 for Navi Mumbai, Panvel andUran taluka’s 95 villages that wereincluded in its jurisdiction. Now thecivic body’s draft plan which was pre-sented in the general body meetingon Friday 13th November, 2019 willbe for the period of next twenty years

and it will take intoconsideration thepopulation growthalong with services,amenities and landthey will require.

According to theMaharashtra Re-gional and TownPlanning Act 1966,it is essential for ev-

ery municipal corporation to preparea development plan of its city in thefirst 20 years. But the NMMC evenafter becoming the planning author-ity for Navi Mumbai in the year 1994by the state government declarationwere using the development plan ofCIDCO.

During the secret general bodymeeting, corporators discussed theplan in great detail and the meetingcontinued even after 10pm on Friday.All the corporators were shown thecopy of the development plan. All thecorporators during the discussiondemanded the facilities in their par-ticular wards according to the DPplan. They also said that the CIDCOplot should be trans-ferred to the NMMC Contd. on pg. 4

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Issue : 190 15 December, 2019

All sports need equal encouragementThe recent decision of former Mayor Sagar Naik to introduce

Navi Mumbai IPL to encourage young cricket talent from the city,is praiseworthy. Undoubtedly

Cricket has become the craze in the country and more and moreyoungsters desire to take up this sport. However, along with crick-et, there is also a need to encourage other sports as well.

It is unfortunate that while all of us are familiar with the namesof almost all the cricket players, most of us struggle with our mem-ory when asked to name players of other sports. Not many re-member that in Shooting, Gagan Narang won four Gold medals inCommon Wealth Games2010 or Indian World Champion wrestlerSushil Kumar has won the gold medal in FILA 2010 World Wres-tling Championships or Leander Paes has won Olympic bronzemedals in Tennis.

Along with cricket, there is a need to encourage players of oth-er sports too. Athletes from US perform well as they are givenwide coverage by media and broadcasting units irrespective of howmany viewers are present to watch them perform. The profit andmoney should not always be the criteria. Giving media exposureto the budding athletes boosts their morale and performance. Ad-ditionally, the Government should keep an eye on the biggestmedal prospects and provide good coaching to them. Private broad-casting companies should take help from sports authorities to covercertain sports which are unfamiliar in the country. It is equally im-portant to give financial assistance like introducing pension poli-cies and offering government jobs to all the talented sportspersonof all the games. Rarely do we hear of a cricketer living in poverty-thanks to the policies tabled by BCCI for cricketers due to whichthey do not have to deal with shortage of debts in their playingperiod or post retirement. Unfortunately, that is not the fate ofmost of the players of other sports who fail to get even thesponsors. They only live normal life when they are in the playingperiod and struggle post their retirement.

Leagues should be introduced for different sports to help innurturing more champion players. A sports like Kabaddi, forinstance, which was just familiar in rural India is now a vital part ofIndian sports- thanks to Pro Kabaddi which was sponsored &broadcasted by Star Sports in the earlier part. Hockey was also adepleting sport in India but Hockey India League gave it a newlifeline. Likewise, with the introduction of ISL, football too is see-ing positive improvement and India is now ranked under 100 after2 decades in football.

In a fast-growing economy like India, there is a tremendouspotential for the sports sector to develop and achieve the status ofan industry. India, now hosts the Indian Premier League (cricket),Hockey India League, Indian Super League (football), Pro Kabba-di League and Indian Badminton League, all of which have aidedin the growth of the sports sector. If sport is recognised as anindustry, it can generate a large number of employment opportu-nities in the form of the apparel and equipment sector, sports med-icine, sports tourism and other sport-related sectors. The Indiangovernment must also invest in technological advances such assports analytics to assist in coaching professional athletes. It mustalso provide wearables, sensors, and nutrition as per the require-ment of the sport and the sportsperson.

India being the second most populated country in the world,has the ability to churn out athletes who can put us on the globalmap in terms of sports, other than cricket. Players from differentsports are already making the country proud with their splendidperformances. By providing them with good facilities, monetaryassistance, world class infrastructure, India will have a huge med-al tally in all the sports. What Indian sports need is the support ofthe Government and its People.

By Dr. Monica Khanna

The stories that wehear in our childhoodare more powerful thanwhat we realize. Theyare instrumental inproviding role models,juxtaposing ‘good’ and‘bad’ behaviour, help-ing us to differentiatebetween right andwrong. Good or correctbehaviour is rewardedand bad or wrong be-haviour is punished.Just as we mix medi-cine in a sugar potionto disguise and replacethe bitterness, so alsodo we teach moralitythrough the supposed-ly innocent stories thatwe feed our children.Only, the stories arenot as innocent as theyseem to be. For un-knowingly, we condi-tion their impression-able minds and sowseeds of a thought pro-cess which stays em-bedded in their subcon-scious, influencing theway they think andlead their lives.

Yet, in moments ofreflection, these storiesresurface, and forceyou to question ideasthat you have accept-ed unconditionally. Forinstance, media hasbeen flooded with re-sponses to the rape cas-es that have takenplace in the recentpast. The widespreadprotests against theheinous crimes weremarred by the few butconspicuous commentsof those who held wom-en responsible for whathappened to them,

Tell Talesstating in no uncertainterms that women ‘in-vite’ rape through theirown actions. I could nothelp but correlate thisresponse, which to mewas almost as appall-ing as the crime itself,to the tale of Little RedRiding Hood that wasone of my favourite sto-ries as a little girl.

Little Red RidingHood wishes to visither grandmother whois unwell. Her mothergives her a basket offood, warning her notto stop anywhere ortalk to strangers. Al-though little RedRiding Hood seems tobe a sweet and obedi-

ent child, she gets dis-tracted by the beauti-ful sights in the forest,and also engages in con-versation with a ‘big,bad wolf.’ In all inno-cence, she discloses herdestination to the wolf,who gobbles up hergrandmother, and at-tacks her too. LittleRed Riding Hood man-ages to escape from theclutches of the wolfwith the help of a wood-cutter who hears hercry for help.

To begin with, thestory points to the dan-gers of a girl going outalone without an es-cort, and suggests thatthere are wolves lurk-ing about in search ofprey. Girls therefore

need to be cautious, lis-ten to the instructionsgiven to them, andavoid talking to strang-ers who may try to be-friend them. If theydisobey, they should beprepared for the conse-quences that will inev-itably follow. What isinteresting is thatthere are no instruc-tions for wolves – forwild animals cannot betamed or controlled.They will satiate theirhunger, and do as theyplease.

When little girlsare brought up to be-lieve that they are notsecure outside theboundaries laid out for

them, when little boysidentify themselveswith wolves that haveunrestricted freedomto satisfy their desires,when ‘masculinity’ isassociated with being aconqueror and ‘femi-ninity’ is associatedwith passivity, whenthe rules are differentfor boys and girls, whatare we teaching ourchildren about genderroles and equality ofthe sexes? Is it abouttime we rethink thetales we are telling ourchildren?

The writer is Associate

Professor, Indira Institute

of Business Management,

Consultant, Indian School

of Management and

Entrepreneurship

and the plot should beused for the benefits ofthe citizens.

NMMC Commis-sioner Annasaheb Mis-al said, “On Fridaythe draft developmentplan was presented

and all the corporatorsdiscussed on it. Aftergetting the approvalfrom GB meeting itwill be placed in thepublic domain whereresidents can put upthere suggestions andobjections.”

When asked whythe scribes were notallowed for the GB

NM DP plandiscussed...

Contd. from pg. 3

meeting where discus-sion on important sub-ject that is DP plan forthe city was being heldhe said, “It was theNMMC mayor’s deci-sion.”

NMMC Mayor Jay-want Sutar was un-available for the com-ment even after sever-al attempts.

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and pleasures of life.Even the onward jour-ney to the place ofsanctity is not simple.Devotee’s extremefaith in Lord Ayappa iscalled for in the entirescheme of things. Thesight of Makar Jyothithat appears in thesky at Sabarimala onthe 14th of Januaryevery year is a mys-tery in itself till thisvery day.

The devotees ofShree SubramaniaSeva Samaj wereserved with MahaPrasadam after Deep-aradana. VedamurthiShri SarachandraBhat of Nerul conduct-ed morning pooja toinvoke Lord Ganesha.

The writer is freelancer

from Navi Mumbai

By C.K. Subramaniam

SANPADA: Shree Sub-ramania Seva Samajconducted 17th AyappaPooja in a grand way attheir Balalayam templepremises in Sanpada onSaturday. Namasa-keertnam by Thonduku-lam Ramu Bhaga-vadhar party kept thedevotees spell bound.

Ayyappa pooja as-sumes greater impor-tance during the Man-dala period and Ayap-pa Bhakthas conductMaharavillakku inthe most religious way.The devotees observefast during this periodand follow lots of cus-toms before taking upthe route to Sabarima-la. The annual pilgrimseason to Sabarimalabegins with the Man-dalakala season,which commencesusually in the monthsof November-Decem-ber followed by theMakaravilakku seasonduring December-Jan-uary.

The temple at Sa-barimala can be ac-cessed via many tradi-tional routes. Pambais the main haltingpoint on the way to Sa-barimala. As per tra-dition a dip in the sa-cred river Pambacleanses the pilgrimsoff sins and after thatthey proceed to thesannidhanam or thesanctorium of LordAyyappa. A truly rivet-ing spiritual experi-ence in the lap of pris-tine nature, Sabarima-la has become a majordestination of thefaithful in India.

Mandala Puja is animportant ritual ob-served at the Sabari-mala Ayyappa Templein Kerala. It is ob-served from the 1stday of the ‘Vrish-chikam’ month till the11th or 12th day of the‘Dhanu’ masam in thetraditional Malayalamcalendar. The day ofMandala Puja marksthe end of the 41 dayslong austerity that isobserved by the follow-ers or devotees of LordAyyappa. The fast be-gins 41 before the ob-servance of MandalaPuja, that is, the firstday of the Malayalammonth of ‘Vrish-chikam’. MandalaPuja along with‘Makar Vilakku’ arethe two major eventsheld at the Sabarima-laAyyappa Templethat draws devoteesfrom all over Keralaand neighbouringstates. During thistime the temple re-mains open on most ofthe days for the devo-tees. As a tradition,devotees visiting theSabarimala AyyappaTemple during theMandala Puja alsovisit the ‘GuruvayurTemple’. During thistime special ‘Abh-ishekam’ ceremony isorganized in the ‘Gu-ruvayur Temple’.

Pathinettapadi (18divine steps) to thesanctum sanctorum isdivine in all aspects.Every Ayyappa devo-tee, before he sees theSanctum Sanatorium,has to lay his footstepsover eighteen sacred

steps. Initially the 18steps were made ofgranite. It was latercovered with Pancha-loha (a special compo-sition of gold, silver,copper, iron and tin),in the year 1985 to pre-vent it from deteriora-tion. Pilgrims initiatetheir ascent up thePathinettam Padi byplacing their right footon the first step. Asper the tradition, onlythose who undertakethe penance for 41 daysand those who carrythe irumudi on theirheads are allowed touse the steps

Apart from devo-tion, one has to havetremendous will pow-er, determination andself-control over thepleasantries, comforts

PANVEL: Sushila Gharat, a BJP corporator ofPanvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) hasvoluntarily undertaken the installation of paverblocks and water pipelines in PL-5/20 to 24 of Ji-vanasagar Society and (PL-5/9 to 13) and per-formed a poojan before starting the civil work.

Corporator Sushila has been taking up vari-ous social welfare activities as the representativeof the people of her ward. Earlier too, she hadundertaken several development projects throughher own expenditure.

District spokesperson of the BJP Y. T Desh-mukh, Mayor Dr. Kavita Chautamol, former citypresident Sandeep Patil, corporator Sushila Ghart,former sub-vice president Subhash Bhujbal,former corporator K. D. Mhatre, Jagadish Ghar,Member of State Council C. C. Bhagat, DivisionPresident Vijay Mhatre, Sachin Patil, TusharBhagat, Prashant Phulpgar, Dr. Prakash Patil,Booth President, Shakti Kendra chief and activ-ists were present along with Vitthal Popata dur-ing the poojan.

BJP corporator undertakescivil work in Panvel

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INSPIRE : Impact of Bhagvat Gita on life and work of Shri Eknath Ranande

By Dr Vandana Mahajani

This year the GitaJayanti was on 8 De-cember. At Vive-kananda kendra wecelebrate Gita Jayan-ti to focus on the ba-sic principles withwhich we shouldwork and also how asan instrument weshould develop.

Nivedita Bhide,Vice President, Vive-kananda KendraKanyakumari givessome of the pointersof how Eknathji fol-lowed Bhagavadgitain the saga of Vive-kananda Rock Me-morial

YudhyaswaVigatjwara–

In life, there willalways be obstacles,difficulties, opposi-tions from variouspersons. This may bebecause of their notunderstanding us orthe nature of ourwork or because theyare impelled by theafflictions of the

mind. Whatever maybe the reasons, weshould not get an-noyed, angry, jealous ofthem. Sri Krishnasays ‘YudhyaswaVi-gatjwara –’ fight with-out getting affected bythe opponent’s afflic-tions. Only then, thereis a possibility that wecan bring them to ourpath.

When a section ofChristian community,Sri Bhaktavatsalam,Sri HumayunKabir op-posed, Eknathji did nothave any ill-feelingabout them in hismind. Actually in oneof his letters whilementioning the situa-tion of the Christianfisherman community,he writes, “ I could getthe chance to tournearby areas of Kany-akumari and to studythe life of illiterate andinnocent fishermenand other downtroddensections of the peoplethere. Though theymust have got convert-ed into Christianitylong back, the Hinduethos and Samskarsare still in them inabundance. 323 MPssigned the request forconstruction of memo-rial. Thus, graduallyboth became very closefriends. These are theexamples of Yudhyas-waVigatJwara.

Parasparam Bhavay-antashreyaparamava-

psyath –When we work in

the society, we have toacknowledge the Shak-ti Kendras of the soci-ety and associate withthem, thus mutuallyhelping each other at-tain the noblest in life.As soon as Eknathji gotthe responsibility ofVivekananda Rock Me-morial, he wentstraight to Ramakrish-na Mission, BelurMath.

Similarly, Eknathjimet Shankaracharya

Sri Chandrashekharen-draSaraswati of Kan-chiKamakotiPeethamknown as Parama-charya and got his ac-tive support and bless-ings. Sri Bhaktavat-salam was ardent dev-otee of Paramacharya.When the state com-mittees were beingformed again Eknathjisaw to it that highly

respected persons gotassociated with it.Karmanyevaadhikaraste

ma phaleshukadachEknathji lived this

shloka of BhagavadGita. We all have achoice in action but notin the fruit of action asthere are many factorsworking for or againstit. Not only that, wemight have plannedsomething but Ishwarahas chosen us as instru-ments to do some great-er work. Thus the fruitthat we are expectingwe may not get, but weshould not give up our

efforts, our actions.Those actions also weshould properly chooseand do it.

Eknathji neverslacked in his efforts.His choice in action i.e.what to do, how to do,when to do was alwaysclear. As a Karyakarta,we always have to do somany things, but inthat also we have to ex-

ercise our choice. Whatis important should bedone immediately. Theroutine work keeps usbusy. But certainworks which should bedone at specific timeshould be done then.That choice of ‘when todo what’ needs to be ex-ercised by all the Kary-akartas. For examplewe have taken ‘Vive-kananda ShilaSmarak:Ek Bharat Vijayi Bhar-at’ as the Samparkwork to be done in the50th year of Vivekanan-da Rock Memorial.What needs to be donenow, if we just take itlightly, we will miss thebus. Exercising choicein action is very impor-tant.Nimittamaatram BhavSav-

yasachinEach one of us is

chosen by Ishwara to doHis work. Only some-one needed to be a ni-mittam, an instrumentto actualize it withone’s efforts. That iswhat Eknathji did. Theprovidence prepares theground, chooses theperson to act. If at thattime we escape it ordoes not take it serious-ly then we cease to bean instrument for thatwork. Therefore, weshould not lack in ourresponse to fulfil ourDayitva that opens upthe road for further

work and our innerdevelopment. Onlywhat is needed is -complete humilityand throwing our-selves 100 % on thejob,as was done byEknathji.

Tasmattvamuttishtha-yasholabhaswa-Sri Krishna says

do not be faint heart-ed, get up and achievesuccess in greatworks, noble works. Atoo much calculativeperson cannot succeedin life. Life is not atrade. It is an oppor-tunity to grow, to con-tribute, to take aheadthe process of humanevolution. That is pos-sible only if we areworking with integri-ty and seizing the op-portunities. Eknathjiused to say ‘Opportu-nities are duties.’

On the eve of GitaJayanti let us ponderon these lessons ofGita so that we areable to make use ofthis opportunity of the50 th year of Vive-kananda Rock Memo-rial to take the workVivekananda Kendrato the greater heightsin interest of our na-tion and our culture.

The writer is

Nagar pramukh,

Vivekananda Kendra,

Navi Mumbai Branch

Shree Sai Jyoti English School celebrates Annual DayKOPERKHAIRANE: Shree

Sai Jyoti English School,Koperkhairane celebratedtheir 13th Annual Dayfunction with great zealand enthusiasm. A num-ber of thematic perfor-mances were staged by thestudents ranging from de-votion to family values, pa-triotism, unity in diversi-ty, parental love, social is-sues etc. A galaxy of digni-taries graced the occasionas Guests of Honour. Dr.Sanjeev Naik was theChief Guest at the func-tion. Founder of the School,Mrs. Pushpa Singhthanked the dignitaries,staff and children for theircontribution in makingthe function the mostmemorable one.

By Chandrashekhar Hendve

NAVI MUMBAI: TheNavi Mumbai MIDCarea is known as thelargest MIDC area inAsia. However, due tothe deteriorating condi-tion of the internalroads in the industrialarea, the entrepreneurs

30 km road stretch to beconcretized in MIDC area

who have their facto-ries, bear the brunt.Due to pathetic condi-tion of the roads privatevehicles refuse to plyforcing the workers towalk to reach their re-spective factories.

Contd. on pg. 10

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1300 students and citizens participate inPanvel Minithon - Run for pollution free city

PANVEL: Under thebanner of SwacchBharat Abhiyan,Infinity foundationand INIFD Panvelorganised a Panvel

Minithon 2019- Runfor Pollution free citysupported by Maha-rashtra PollutionControl board andPanvel Municipal

Corporation on 14th

December 2019.Around 1300 studentsand citizens partici-pated in the mara-thon.

Present on theoccasion were MLAPrashant Thakur,Corporator RajeshreeVavekar, AdditionalCommissioner Shaam

Poshetty, Businessman Rajendra Kolkarmember of Maharash-tra builder associationLakshman Salunkeand other officers.

Pillai’s College ofEngineering, PCACS,MGM, Good morningclub, KLE College andother colleges partici-pated in this event.

Spirited India Lose U17 Women’s Football Tourney Opener Against European Powerhouse SwedenBy Ashok Dhamija

MUMBAI: Host Indiawent down fighting toSweden 0-3 in the open-ing league match of thetri-nation U17 Wom-en’s Football Tourna-ment 2019 which washeld at Mumbai Foot-ball Arena on FridayDecember 13, 2019.

The host concededthe lead as early as thefourth minute after In-dian defender wasguilty of bringing downa Sweden forward Mon-ica Bah and MatildaVinberg converted theensuing spot-kick suc-cessfully.

India came close toequalising only a fewminutes’ later, creatingtwo chances in succes-sion. Lynda Komcharged down the leftand took a shot fromthe edge of the box thatwas saved by the Swed-ish custodian in the11th minute. A minutelater, Sunita Mundabeat her marker downthe right flank and putin a cross towards

Dignitaries along with players from India and Sweden line up for a group photo prior to the start of the match

Dr. Vijay Patil (2nd from Right) along with Anna Lekvall,Souter Vaz and Abhishek Yadav shake hands with theplayers from both the teams and wished them good luckfor the tourney

Indian forward S Lynda Kom (Right) attempts her way into the danger area was cut short by the agile the strongSwedish defence

Sumati Kumari. How-ever, the Swedish de-fender came in with a

last-minute challengeand the defence clearedthe ball away to safe-

ty.The game became a

midfield battle as bothsides looked to passtheir way past the op-position. India goal-keeper Manju Ganjhushowed great alertnesson two occasions, rush-ing outside the penal-ty area to clear the ballaway. In the 21stminute, Lynda brokethrough once againand registered a power-ful effort that drew agood save from theSweden keeper. Man-ju made another savein the 24th minute buta minute later, Swedendoubled their advan-tage through IdaWeidenberg. The for-ward ran down the leftflank with the ball pastNirmala Devi and slot-ted it into the far cor-ner with a sublime fin-ish.

The last chance ofthe first half fell to Swe-den’s number 11 Mon-ica, who was played in

Contd. on pg. 10

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TRAVELOGUE

Seattle Safari-24: Amazon- The global corporate leader

In Downtown Seattle onefinds a lot of young Indiansmostly techies. If you askthem where are they working7 out of 10 are likely to an-swer Amazon! This is also theprevailing situation in apart-ments, malls, restaurantswhere you meet Indians. Yes,Amazon is the leading employ-er of this hi-tech city.

COMPANY IN A NUTSHELL

Trade name Amazon

Type Public

Traded NASDAQ: AMZN share valuearound US$1760 per share atpresent

Founder Jeff Bezos

Founded July 5, 1994; More than 25years ago in Bellevue, Wash-ington, United States

Headquarters Seattle, Washington, and Ar-lington, Virginia, USA

Area Served Worldwide

Key People Jeff Bezos (chairman, presi-dent and CEO) , Werner Vogels(CTO)

Industry Cloud Computing, E-com-merce, Artificial Intelligence,Consumer Electronics, DigitalDistribution & Grocery Stores

Number of 7,50,000(2019) worldwide moreemployees than Google, Facebook, and

Alibaba combined or about Se-attle City’s current population!

Revenue US$232.887 billion (2018).That is more than 160 individ-ual country’s GDP!

pansion in Seattle, containing over 2,000 glasspanels, designed to stop the production of excessheat.

Many of the plants in Amazon’s botanical-gar-den office complex are found in mountainous re-gions of tropical countries where temperatures arecooler than ground level. Amazon says the soundof water running through the building and thesmell of blossoming flowers will inspire “creativi-ty” and perhaps even improve brain function cit-ing studies linking increased productivity to morenatural environments. The building also has moretypical office features such as closed conferencerooms and meeting spaces.

Amazon GoOutside its corporate headquarters in Seattle,

Amazon opened its first amazon go the US. ama-zon go gives you the option to buy your goods from

Amazon in person rather than throughAmazon.com. It is a cashless, cashierless, card-less, checkless convenience store. That means,when you shop at amazon go, you will never haveto wait in line. The store works with an amazongo application - you simply enter amazon go, takethe products you want and, thanks to the app,just walk out. This technology can detect whenproducts are taken or returned to the shelves andkeeps track of them in your virtual cart. Whenyou leave the store with your goods, your Amazonaccount is charged and you are sent a receipt.What a fantastic technology! I complimented themanager and the staff for having this wonderfultime saving and convenient system.

(To Be Continued)

Amazon’s Headquarters & The Writer Before One Of TheSpheres At Downtown Seattle

By Lakshman Sundar

Casual Dress!I used to watch the office goers in corporate

America and particularly at Amazon. I was sur-prised by their simplicity in dressing. Nobodycomes wearing tie! Even senior officials come towork casually dressed sometimes in jeans and T-shirt. Performance and not dress is important hereand many companies in America.

Pet -friendly EnvironmentWatching the morning rush of the employees

from an opposite restaurant I was amused by thesight of dogs taken along with them to work dai-ly. There are about 7,000 registered dogs that atAmazon campus in Seattle. It has always been apet-friendly environment. The company says thatallowing pets in the office creates an overall bet-

ter place to work, Employees feel more inspired,more creative, and more comfortable. Executivestake pride in seeing their employees happy andthriving.

AMAZING FACTS!• Amazon began in the garage of founder Jeff

Bezos’ home in Bellevue near Seattle in the stateof Washington.

• When the website first went live it only soldbooks. The first book ever sold on Amazon was“Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies,” byDouglas Hofstadter.

• During its initial stage when Amazon used tosell books, a bell in the office used to informthe other employees.

• Amazon holds a patent on 1-Click buying, andlicenses it to Apple.

• Amazon’s fastest order delivered to date was afour-pack of Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino toa customer in Miami. The delivery was madein under 10 minutes.

• Another Amazon’s fastest delivery took 23 min-utes. It was an Easy-Bake Oven to a customerin Manhattan, New York City.

• Amazon owns 41 subsidiaries and brands.• Amazon’s logo shows a smile from A to Z in the

name to signify that the company is willing todeliver everything from A to Z to everyone,anywhere in the world.

• Amazon sponsors a streetcar (Tram) stop thatruns through the campus.

• Amazon.com employees including the CEOspend two days every two years working at thecustomer service desk. This practice is to helpall workers understand the customer serviceprocess.

• If all the cardboard used in all 1.6 million dai-ly Amazon packages (including padded enve-lopes) sent out is laid out flat, it would coveran area equivalent to 26,400 square miles—roughly the same size as the State of West Vir-ginia or the country of Sri Lanka. One back-of-the-cardboard calculation reveals that thecompany could cover the entire United Statesin cardboard in about five months of sales!

• PowerPoint presentations are banned at Ama-zon meetings. Employees are instead expectedto write out their points as prose in multi-pagenarratives on white boards. This, Bezos be-lieves, encourages critical thinking.

Indoor Mini Rain ForestAmazon opened a new office shaped as a series

of glass spheres containing an indoor rainforest.The tech giant’s new building, called the Sphere,in Downtown Seattle houses more than 40,000plants made up of more than 400 different spe-cies. At the centre of the building is a 55-foot-talltree nicknamed Rubi. The “Spheres” building isthe centrepiece of Amazon’s $4 billion office ex-

A Treat Bucket On The Desk Receptionist Desk Is A Fa-vorite Stop For The Hundreds Of Dogs That Go To WorkThere With Their Owners • A Dog Stops At The ReceptionFor A Treat! • One Of The Dog-friendly Water FountainsIn Amazon’s Campus!

Amazon’s Tri-sphere Biodome Complex • Employees Re-lax & Unwind Amongst Different Species Of Plants

The Writer With His Wife Before A Mini Rain Forest Dome• An Environmentally Invigorating Office At Amazon’sHeadquarters

The Writer Outside The Cashless, Cashierless, Cardless& Checkless Convenience Store amazon go At Down-town Seattle

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PANVEL: To offsetanxiety and fear that isprevalent amongst theaccount and depositholders of the scam hitKarnala Co-operativeBank, a meeting wasorganised at MarketYard to guide deposi-tors and accountantsunder the guidance ofMLA Prashant Thakurand MLA Mahesh Bal-di on December 14.During the meeting,the depositors ex-pressed their concernand demanded solu-tion.

Speaking duringthe meeting both theMLAs said they are sin-cerely trying to helpthe depositors. “We arefighting for you, andthere is no politicalmotive or vested inter-est in this,” they said.

MLA PrashantThakur said, “We willtry to resolve the crisisat the earliest so thatthe depositors get backtheir money. The bankwill be preparing aplan within 15 days,”he said.

He also announced

Karnala Co-operative Bank:MLA Thakur and Baldi assure support

the formation of a De-pository Conflict Com-mittee. MLA MaheshBaldi will be the chair-man of this conflictcommittee, which willinclude ten co-opera-tive committee mem-

bers.The district spokes-

person of the party YYT Deshmukh, Talukapresident Arun ShethBhagat, city presidentJayant Pagade, districtvice president Rajen-dra Patil, Eknath Bho-pi, district general sec-retary and corporatorNitin Patil, former citypresident Sandeep Pa-til, former corporatorAjay Kanpile, and oth-er dignitaries werepresent on the occa-

sion.“I and my wife have

a joint account in Kar-nala Bank. As I amunable to remove myown money I am forcedto borrow money for anoperation”, said Senior

citizen Abdul Mukad-am.

A teary eyed - Jiten-dra Joshi, an accountholder who waspresent in the meetingthanked the MLAs fortheir efforts to ensurethat the depositors’money is given back tothem at the earliest.Joshi had an FD withthe bank. Despite itsmaturity on 9th Sep-tember, 2019 he wasnot allowed to with-draw the money.

“The Konkan Divi-sional Commissionerwas aghast when hewas shown photograph-ic evidence of burial ofwetlands and killing ofmangroves in NMSEZand JNPT sites,” saidNandakumar Pawarwho attended the ses-sion representing NGOVanashakti.

Taking up com-plaints from a crosssection, the committee

noted the serious envi-ronment law violationsat NMSEZ sites atBhendkhal and Pagote,apart from Belpada,Panje, Chembur andalong the Sion-Panvelhighway at Vashi.

“I hope some seri-ous corrective actionswill follow as the Man-grove committee headappeared to be verykeen on restoring themangroves and wet-lands to the extent pos-sible,” said Pawar.

Welcoming the “pos-itive developments,”activist B N Kumar,director of NGO Nat-Connect Foundation

said for long there hasbeen a neglect of theecological destruction.

Both Kumar andPawar have recentlydrawn the attention ofChief Minister UddhavThackeray as well asthe Mangrove commit-tee to the all-round eco-logical destruction andcalled for immediatecorrective measures.

While the debrisdumping on wetlandshas been stopped at theinstance of the Commit-tee, the environmental-ists have pointed out

that “enough and moredamage has alreadybeen done” at Bhend-khal, Belpada, Jasaiand so on. Restorationof these sites will be aherculean task consid-ering the tonnes of ma-terial dumped, saidPawar.

At Vashi, Kumarpointed out, the high-way construction debrishad been dumped on themangroves and levelledsubsequently using JCBmachines apparently tofacilitate the road ex-pansion by PWD. ThePWD officials were al-ready summoned by theMangrove Committee to

explain their position onthe destruction of envi-ronment.

In another case ofgross neglect of viola-tion, the highway ex-pansion site near Pun-jab Warehouse CFSlooks like a “massivemangrove graveyard”as close to 5,000 vital,fully grown sea plantshave been choked due tothe blocking of flow oftidal water. NeitherNHAI nor its contrac-tor are yet to take themangrove restorationseriously despite the

mangrove committeeorders to do so and al-low tidal water flow, thegreen groups said intheir complaint.

Similarly at Ched-danagar, Chembur,hundreds of mangroveshave been hacked ap-parently by the landmafia, Pawar said.

Meanwhile, a teamcomprising of Revenue,forest, police, CIDCOvisited two sites-Bhendkhal wetlandand Uran Bori Pakha-di dumping site- on 13th

December where gar-bage is being dumpedon Mangroves and tookstock of the situation.

HC panelorders...Contd. from pg. 1

Man arrested for illegally carryingpistol and cartridges

By Crime Reporter

NAVI MUMBAI: A mancarrying a pistol witha live cartridge inTaloja area has beenarrested by NaviMumbai crimebranch. The youngman, identified asVishal MadhukarMane (25), has beenarrested and furtherinquiries are being

conducted by thepolice.

The crime branchcentral unit hadreceived informationthat a person iscarrying a pistol nearVivek Hindustan Hotelat Naveda Fata onPanvel-Mumbra route.Accordingly, seniorpolice inspector NBKolhatkar and his

team formed a trap onThursday afternoon.The police arrestedMane on suspicion andfound a pistol and twolive cartridges in hispossession.

Police arrestedMane for illegallypossessing illegalpistols and seizedpistols and cartridgesfrom him.

nology for all the three corridors thatis CSMT- Panvel on harbour line,CSMT-Kalyan section on both slowand fast track and Churchgate-Vi-rar on both slow and fast track is Rs5,928 crore. The best part of the tech-nology is that there would be no needfor fixing a physical signal pole be-cause it would be installed inside therake itself which would enable thetrains to move faster and reduceheadway between two trains to justtwo minutes instead of four minutesearlier. The system is also initiatedwith the introduction of advancedtechnology in order to provide plat-form screen doors (PSD) which willbe similar to one used in Metrotrain.”

A K Jain, Central Railway Pub-lic Relationship Officer informed, “Itis indeed a good news for the rail-way passengers. Through CBTC sys-

tem, the speed of trains will improvethus helping in introducing moreservices. One of the benefit railwayswill have through this system isthat the cases of trespassing will bereduced. Currently the signal sys-tems are fitted in the tracks whichsend signal to the poles whenever atrain passes and the pole flashes red,yellow, double yellow and green de-pending on the distance of train on astretch.”

The Cabinet Committee on Eco-nomic Affairs in March approved thephase 3A of Mumbai Urban Trans-port Project (MUTP) at an estimat-ed cost of Rs. 33690 crores.

Dr. Bhakti Dave, President ofPravashi Sangh, Panvel informed,“If the railway CBTC system isturned into reality than it will bereally a great gift for the passengerstravelling from CSMT to Panvel. Weare confident that the railway offi-cials will give more attention to theproject.”

CBTC to be a reality..Contd. from pg. 1

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NIEM crowned India’s BestEvent Management Institute

MUMBAI: At aglittering event atNew Delhi, NIEM-The Institute of EventManagement, wasconferred with “TheEducation Ahead”award for India’s bestEvent ManagementInstitute. Doing thehonors at this grandevent was ManipurEducation - MinisterThokchom Radheshy-am Singh. Dr. HoshiBhiwandiwalla andDr.Karna Upadhyayreceived the award onbehalf of NIEM TheInstitute of EventManagement. ManishSisodia-Deputy ChiefMinister of

Delhi, PrashantBhushan-ProminentAdvocate, AnilSahasrabudhe-Thechairman of AICTE,Arushi Nishank-Social worker andChetan Sharma -Editor-in-chief,IndiaAhead group wereamong the distin-guished dignitarieswho graced theoccasion.

An engrossingpanel discussion onhigher education alsosaw the presenceof Dr. Hoshi Bhiwan-diwalla, Dean, NIEMThe Institute of EventManagement as one ofthe panelists. NIEM

The Institute of EventManagement is Asia’sfirst and best eventmanagementinstitute. It took fiveyears’ research by Dr.Hoshi Bhiwandiwalla,the father of EventManagement and histeam to start a courseon event manage-ment, which gotoverwhelming supportfrom the event indus-try, entertainmentindustry, media, andstudents. NIEM givestraining experience tostudents on live mega-events and offers itsstudents unmatchedtraining in over 700events in a year.

(Centre) Dr. Hoshi Bhiwandiwalla receiving the award from Thokchom RadheshyamSingh -Manipur Minister of Education. Also seen in the picture (extreme left) ChetanSharma - Editor-in-chief, India Ahead group and Dr. Karna Updahya

on goal in the 32ndminute. However, shewas denied by the In-dian custodian, whotipped the ball over thecrossbar with a finger-tip save. The visitorshowever lost the ser-vices of their skipperHanna Maria Wijk (in-jured) and had to bereplaced with ElmaNovah eight minutesbefore the half timewhistle.

The second half be-gan just as the firstended, with both teamsbattling it out. Indiacoach Thomas Denner-by rang in the chang-es in space of five min-utes as Jyoti Kumari,Purnima Linda, SaiSankhe, Anisha Baxla,Aveka Singh andMariyammal came onoff the bench over the

course of the secondhalf. The Indian de-fence, marshalled bytheir u-14 skipperShilky Devi, repelledthe Swedish attacktime and again even asSumati Kumari poseddanger for the opposi-tion on a number of oc-casions, breaking pastthe backline. In the70th minute, shecharged into the boxdown the left but hercut-back towards localgirl Sai who fails to slotit home. Sumati poseddanger for the visitorstime and again andcame close to scoringonce again after athrough ball from Saifrom the left. Theformer attempts how-ever sailed over thecrossbar. Sweden toohad their chance to ex-

tend the lead in the 83rd

minute after substi-tute Johanna Ren-mark who came in asubstitute for her sec-ond goal scorer Ida,missed an easy goalafter she fails to scorefrom close range withIndian goalkeeper offthe line. Sweden how-ever made the lead 3-0in the first minute ofthe added four minutesof injury time as Mon-ica easily finds the netafter Manju who had abusy day under thepost came off the lineto make up for As-tam’s defensive error.The visitors picked upthe three points fortheir success. Sweden,will face Thailand inits next league game onSunday. As for Tho-mas Dennerby’s Indi-an side, it will be backon drawing board toreassess the loss and

Spirited India Lose...Contd. from pg. 7

put a new game planagainst Thailand onTuesday in order toqualify for the finals.

Earlier prior tokick-off, Anna Lekvall(Honourable ConuselGeneral, Embassy ofSweden), Dr. Vijay Pa-til (President, DY Pa-til University, NaviMumbai and MumbaiCricket Association),Souter Vaz (Secretary,WIFA) and Navi Mum-bai based former IndiaInternational AbhishekYadav (Director, Na-tional Teams, AIFF)shook hands with theplayers. AadityaThackeray (President,MDFA and Vice-Presi-dent, WIFA) alsograced the occasionwith his presence.

India’s U-17 HeadCoach Thomas Den-nerby who has wide ex-perience of coachingthe Sweden and Nige-

ria Senior team prior tohis taking up the newchallenge a monthback post the matchshared that he wasproud of the young In-dian eves and high-lighted the fact thatSweden are a strongteam in Europe andtheir senior team wonthe bronze medal at theWorld Cup this year.He highlighted the factthat everyone wants towin and not loose, hisgirls however createdsome really good scor-ing chances in thematch in particular thesecond half after over-coming early nervesand all departments —defence, midfield, at-tack showcased coordi-nated efforts. As forany new coach, it takesa little time for playersto see his vision andexecute the team plansduring the match. The

plan is to learn to playfrom behind and havebetter percentage of ballprocession. With timewe can hopefullyachieve it.

India Starting XI: Man-ju Ganjhu (GK), ShilkyDevi (C), MartinaThokchom, Kiran, Lyn-da Kom, Sumati Ku-mari, Astam Oraon,Sunita Munda, Priy-angka Devi, KritinaDevi, Nirmala Devi

Sweden Starting XI:Elin Svahn (GK), Han-na Wijk (C), SagaCarlsson, JohannaElin, Emilia Charlotte,Matilda Vinberg, RusulKafaji, Monica Bah,Emelie Jansson, IdaWeidenberg, SaraEriksson

Result (League Phase):Sweden 3 (Liv Vin-

berg 4’ (Penalty), IdaNadine Andersson 25’,Monica Bah (90+1)’ )beat India 0 (HT 2-0)

Blood donation camp heldat Vashi Railway Station

By Ryhea George

VASHI: A blood dona-tion camp was orga-nized by the KutchYuvak Sangh on 14th

December, 2019 atVashi Railway Station.

“The Kutch YuvakSangh conducts suchblood donation campsusually in a time spanof every three to fourmonths. The main cri-teria to donate blood isthat the person shouldbe above the legal ageof 18 and their weightshould be above 45 kg.

People suffering fromblood pressure, diabetesand thyroid are advisednot to donate theirblood. People consum-ing alcohol should notconsume alcohol atleast 24-48 hours beforedonating blood,” said avolunteer from theSangh.

“Annually around2000 people come tothese blood donationcamps to donate theirblood. Kutch YuvakSangh also spreadsawareness about organ

donations amongst thecommon masses. Thenext blood donationcamp is going to be heldon 5th January 2020 atthe Vashi Gurudwara.On the same day theKutch Yuvak Sangh isgoing have blood dona-tion camps at Uran andJNPT,” informed an-other volunteer. Kar-maveer Bhaurao Patilis one of the major cen-ters where KutchYuvak Sangh conductsblood donation campsamongst the students.

30 km road...Contd. from pg. 9

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Cor-poration (NMMC) and MIDC havedecided to concertize the 30 kilome-ters road in the TTC Industrial area.Navi Mumbai Municipal Corpora-tion will concertize the 15 km andMIDC will concertize the remaining

15 km. Both NMMC and MIDC willspend Rs 110 crores each for thisproject.

“MIDC and NMMC will jointlyconcertize the 30-km road and thecost of Rs 220 crores will be equallydivided by both the authorities.Work is expected to begin next year”,said Sanjay Desai Executive Engi-neer NMMC.

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The memorial whichis the brain child of thethen Guardian Ministerand the current MLAfrom Airoli AssemblyGanesh Naik was start-ed on 6 April 2011 withan aim to create an in-spiring memorial ofLate Bharat Ratna Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar inNavi Mumbai and thework was expected to becompleted by April 5,2013. However, the con-struction work was re-peatedly extended due tovarious reasons such aschange in design, con-tractor delay etc. Thefirst phase of the memo-rial was completed in2014 and the entirework was to be complet-

ed by December 2018.However, that too hasfailed to meet the dead-line.

During the visitNaik said, “The author-ities, as well as all thecontractors related tothe memorial should becalled by the senior of-ficials of the NMMC toensure that the work iscompleted at the earli-est.” He further askedthe Mayor to check theprogress of the work ev-ery month. GaneshNaik said that hewould again visit thememorial on 10 th

March, 2020.Speaking about the

funds related issues, hedirected the GeneralAssembly and theStanding Committee ofNMMC to approve thefunds.

Mayor Jaywant Su-tar, Former MayorSudhakar Sonawane,House Speaker Ravin-dra Ithape, StandingCommittee ChairmanNaveen Gawte, Seniorcorporator Anant Su-tar, Local corporatorSangeet Patil, corpora-tor Dr. Jayaji Nath,Dinesh Parkh, Formercorporator Ashok Patil,city engineer SurendraPatil and other officerswere present.

Details of the Memorial

49.20 mts Domeheight • 325 sqmts hall •134 sq mtsart gallery • 114 sq mtslibrary • 300 seat multipurpose hall • 37 sqmts hall • 174 sq mtsservice area • 300 to400 seating capacitypodium park • Half cir-cle entry gate

MLA GaneshNaik visits...

Contd. from pg. 1

Residents of Bonsari Gaonallege apathy of the civic body

Bonsari gaon lacks even the basic amenities

By Chandrashekhar

Hendve

NERUL: WhileNavi Mumbai hasbeen praised to beone of the best citiesof 21st century, one ofits nodes BonsariGaon in Nerul dis-plays a differentsight. The gaon res-idents allege thatthey have been de-prived of even basicamenities like sani-tation, communitytoilets, proper roads,transportation.

Speaking aboutthe issue GautamGaikwad a villager

said, “Despite beinga part of Navi Mum-bai Municipal Corpo-ration, Bonsari gaonis worse than most ofthe villages. We don’teven have basic facil-ities such as properwater supply, streetlight, transport ser-vices and toilets”.

“The childrenfrom our village areforced to walk and goto civic school at Tur-bhe or Pavane. Whyis NMMC not doinganything for thenode?”, questionedanother villagerDeepak Gaikwad.

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Saraswati College ofEngineering collaborates withUral Federal University, Russia

KHARGHAR: Saras-wati College of Engi-neering, Kharghar hasannounced its collabora-tion with Ural Federal

University, one of theleading University fromRussia. With this col-laboration both educa-tional Institutions willshare various facilitieslike research, projectbased learning, curric-ulum and conferences

etc.“It is indeed a proud

moment for us to collab-orate with Ural Feder-al University. This

MOU will bring Inter-national glimpse to ex-isting structure of Sa-raswati College of Engi-neering, Kharghar,” re-marked Principal, Sa-raswati College of Engi-neering, Dr. ManjushaDeshmukh.

A Musical Celebration

St Xavier’s Airoli Chorus group regale the audience with their performance

By Ashok Dhamija

NAVI MUMBAI: Witha view to instil all-round developmentamong students ofRyan Group of Schoolsbased in Navi Mumbai,St. Xavier ’s High

School Airoli organ-ised a ‘Carol Singingand Musical Instru-ment Competition’ onSaturday 14 Dec, 2019at its school auditori-um. On the occasionhundreds of studentsfrom various citybased institute took tothe stage with confi-dence and recited wellknown Christmas Car-

Time for celebrating success

ols in chorus whilespreading the messageof festive season. Thepremises also reverber-ated to the beats of themelodious tunes dishedout by their schoolbands.

Hosts St. Xavier’sAiroli bagged the Firstplace in the Carol Sing-ing Competition, whileSt. Lawrence, Vashicame close second inthe same categoryamong five schools thatwas judged by a panelof 10 judges. On theother hand the Instru-mental round saw St.Lawrence Vashi bag-

ging the First placeand St. Xavier’s, Airo-li being placed in thesecond position.

“Carol singing andmusic is an insepara-ble part of Christmaswhich is less than a

fortnight away. TheZonal Carol Singingand Musical Instru-ment Competitionwhich was organisedby our institute isbased on our ManagingDirector and Chair-man Sir ’s Vision totrain and excel the stu-dents in Music and Artfield and this day wasa witness to their vi-

sion. Hundreds of stu-dents from five citybased Ryan Group ofinstitutions participat-ed in the annual com-petition with great zealand enthusiasm.Judged by panel of ten

independent music ex-perts the Carol singinggroups from variouscity schools mesmer-ised the audience withtheir sterling perfor-mance. It was reallywonderful to see theyoung kids excelling invocals and reflecting amagical hand on theinstruments” sharedBlaise D’souza.

NMMC introduces third waste category for hazardous wasteBy Meena R. Prashant

NAVI MUMBAI: Withan aim to improve theranking in the SwacchSurvey 2020, the NaviMumbai MunicipalCorporation is under-taking various mea-sures. After successful-ly implementing twowaste segregation cat-egories, wet and dry, atthe source level, the civ-ic body has decided toimplement another bin‘Red bin’ to segregatehousehold hazardous

waste.Speaking about the

initiativeDMC, Sol-id WasteManage-m e n t ,T u s h a rP a w a rsaid, “It isnecessaryto scientif-ically dis-pose offhazardouswaste suchas diapers,

sanitary napkins, bat-tery cells, paint boxes,

chemicalsprays anda e r o s o l sthus wehave decid-ed to havea third cat-egory ashazardouswaste”.

He fur-ther said ared colourbin with125 litres

capacity will be provid-ed to each society with-in 15 days so that thehazardous waste is seg-regated at the sourcelevel itself. “To ensurethat the waste is pickedby our sanitation work-ers, a section too hasbeen made in the com-pactors and tippersused for collecting thegarbage. After it reach-es the dumping groundthese will be disposedoff in a scientific man-ner.”