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By Abhitash D. Singh

NAVI MUMBAI: TheNavi Mumbai Munici-pal Corporation’s(NMMC) ambitious planof setting up the state ofthe art sports cumcommercial com-plex is likely to bea reality by mid2021. The one of itskind, Rs. 150 croremega project willbe built at sector-12Vashi. The eightstoried premise willhave several facilities forthe citizens as well as forsports persons.

The complex willhave an Olympic- size,50mx25m swimmingpool, 12 shops and offic-es respectively, a multi-

State of the art Sportscum Commercial Complex

to come up by mid 2021

Rs. 150 crore facility to

come at Sector 12, Vashipurpose hall for organiz-ing different socio-cultur-al programmes. Overallthere will be 16 bus ter-minals and a parkinglot. The civic body has

made the facility that allthe buses from this stopgo to all the nodes of thecity, which will be oper-ated by the NMMT. Thecivic officials have al-ready prepared the de-

Contd. on pg. 2

NEWS IN

BRIEF

Funds for Belapurjetty sanctionedOn the insistence of

Belapur ConstituencyMember of Legislative As-sembly (MLA) MandataiMhatre, the state govern-ment has approved a fundof Rs 8.5 crore for the Be-lapur Jetty. The Bhumipu-jan ceremony for the samewill be held on Sunday,5 th January, 2020 ataround 10:30am in Sector-15 opposite Natural Ice-cream store in Belapur.

Police urge landlordsto furnish tenants’

detailsWith the growing num-

ber of illegal Bangladeshiimmigrants in Kharghar, theKharghar Senior police in-spector Pradeep Tidar hasurged the landlords to fur-nish details of the tenantsto the police. The officialsaid that there has been arise in the number of illegalBangladeshi immigrantsresiding in Kharghar. De-spite constant drives by thepolice, many illegal immi-grants manage to flee.

Turbhe resident to goon indefinite hungerstrike against illegal

parking menaceFed-up with the men-

ace of illegal parking ofheavy vehicles from Tur-bhe Naka to Indira Nagarat Turbhe, a residentPradeep Waghmare hasdecided to go on an indef-inite hunger strike from to-day. Waghmare allegedthat despite bringing the is-sue to the notice of NaviMumbai Police, TrafficBranch and the Navi Mum-bai Municipal Corporation(NMMC), no action hasbeen taken by the author-ities…

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Teams from East Zone dominate in RFYSFootball National Championship 2019-20

By Ashok Dhamija

NAVI MUMBAI: Arecord seven teamsfrom East Zone bookedtheir place in the semi-finals knock-out roundof the ongoing RelianceFoundation YouthSports (RFYS) Nation-al Football Champion-ship 2019-20 finals thatis being conducted inthe city.

Being held in fivecategories viz., SchoolGirls (Class IX - XII).Sub Junior Boys (ClassVI - VIII), Junior Boys(Class IX - X), SeniorBoys (XI – XII), CollegeBoys (Undergraduate)

Contd. on pg. 9

Assam based Titaguri High School’s Maidangshri Narzaryscored eight of the 12 goals in her teams convincing winover Gorkha Millitary Inter College, Dehradun in theirfinal School Girl’s league match

Contd. on pg. 8

Students gear up for preSSC Board ExaminationMore than 9100 students from Marathi, English and

Hindi medium will appear for the preparatory exam

By Abhitash D.Singh

NAVI MUMBAI: Withan aim to help the stu-dents preparing for theupcoming SSC Boardexamination, the NaviMumbai ShikshanSankul on Saturday

4th January, 2020 heldits 14th SSC Board Pre-paratory Examination.It was inaugurated atthe hands of Airoli con-stituency Member ofLegislative Assembly(MLA) from Bharatiya

Janata Party (BJP)Ganesh Naik.

The SSC Board Pre-paratory Examination2019-20, which wasstarted on 4th January,

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tailed project report of it.NMMC City Engineer Surendra Patil while

speaking with the Newsband said, “The proposalwas passed last year in the general body meeting.The actual work at the site started in the month ofAugust, 2019. Efforts are being made to ensure thatthe project gets completed in two years i.e. by mid2021.”

The plot allocated for the project is on Vashi-Ko-par Khairane road. It is located at a distance of 3km and 3.5 km from Sion-Panvel highway and theVashi railway station respectively and hence is eas-ily accessible for the residents.

“The swimming pool, that will come up in thecomplex, is going to be the first Olympic-size pool inthe entire city. Of the total Rs. 150 crore budget,around Rs 10 crore will be used for developing thepool alone. Once the project is ready, the concerneddepartment will consider hiring few trainers for thebeginners. However, nothing has been finalizedabout that till now,” informed a senior official from

NMMC.“Apart from the local buses, there is also a plan

to introduce other buses going to Mumbai and otherneighbouring areas from that terminus,” informed areliable source from NMMT.

Dhruv Mohite, a swimmer from Vashi sector-15said, “There are many aspiring swimmers in the citybut the pool facilities are not upto the mark in thesatellite city. There is not a single civic swimmingpool in the city till now. One such pool has been de-veloped at the Central Park at Ghansoli, but we can-not use it as the park has not been thrown open tothe public.”

“We are eagerly waiting for the upcoming com-plex to come up at Vashi. We just hope that the facil-ity gets completed on time and does not get entan-gled in the issue of multiple deadlines,” added Dhruv.

Komesh Jain, social activist from Koperkhairanesaid, “This part of Vashi is in need of a multi-purposehall for organizing different programmes. We are gladthat the NMMC is developing one in the upcomingcomplex. Since location of the project is between Vashiand Kopar Khairane, residents of both the nodes willbe benefitted from it.”

State of the art Sports...Contd. from pg. 1

Raigad BJP workers stage protest against Congress

PANVEL: Protestingagainst Congress fordefaming and publish-ing objectionable text inthe book about freedomfighter Savarkar, theBJP Raigad office lead-ers staged a protest on

Saturday.BJP city Raigad dis-

trict MLA PrashantThakur, BJP city pres-ident Jayant Pagade,deputy mayor VikrantPatil, district vice pres-ident Rajendra Patil,

Eknath Bhopi, districtsecretary Avinash Koli,and MLA Mahesh Bal-di, District PresidentTanaji Khandagale,Vishwanath Koli, Wom-en and Children YouthChairperson Kusum

Mhatre, Ward Com-mittee Chairman TejasKandpile, Sanjay Bho-pi, Corporator SantoshShetty, Prakash Bina-dar, Manoj Bhujbal,Sameer Thakur, Corpo-rator Darshana Bhoir,

PANVEL: Dr. Nanasaheb Dharma-dhikari, Mayor Dr. Kavita Chauta-mol and House Leader PareshThakur recently visited and reviewedthe facilities at the Sub-District Hos-pital recently.

During the visit the officials checkthe facility at the hospital and inter-acted with the patience to understandtheir further needs. During the visitDr. Arun Kumar Bhagat was accom-panied by corporator Darshan Bhoirand also the Medical Superintendentthe hospital were present.

PCMC Mayor and House leader visitsub-district hospital at Panvel

Sushila Ghart, formercorporator JagdishGaikar, KalpanThakur, Anesh Dha-wale and others werepresent.

Freedom fighterSavarkar was a greatfreedom fighter whowas jailed twice duringthe freedom struggle.He sacrificed every-thing for the nation.

The Congress has onceagain defamed the free-dom fighter, by publish-ing objectionable text inthe book on the relation-ship between VinayakDamodar Savarkarand Nathuram Godse.“We condemn this act ofCongress and demandthat the book isbanned,” said a memberfrom the BJP.



NAVI MUMBAI: TheMangrove Marshals, agroup initiated by justtwo friends in May2018 to clean the miniSea-Shore, is nowlooking for morevolunteers to join forthe cause. “We arelooking for more than200 volunteers whocan join us in cleaningand saving themangroves from Uranto Airoli,” says RohitMalhotra, a residentof Vashi Sector-9 A,who started theinitiative.

“I, along with oneof my friends, startedthe initiative ofcleaning the miniseashore in order tosave the mangroves.Gradually people fromvarious walks of lifestarted joining us andthe strength in-creased. We pursuedwith the Navi Mum-bai Municipal Corpo-ration (NMMC) andthey too supported usby providing us withfew staff to cleanalong with us. Ourmain aim is to savethe mangroves by

Mangrove Marshals look for volunteers for cleaning mini sea-shore

waste materials killthe mangroves whichare so essential forour eco-system. Mostof the waste andgarbage come fromThane creek andadversely affect themangroves fromAiroli to Uran. It isour endeavor to savethe mangroves fromUran to Airoli. Wepursued the matterwith the forestdepartment too, butdue to paucity ofmanpower they areunable to do the task.So we initiated the

drive and got wholehearted support fromthe civic body.”

Malhotra furtheradded, “The plasticwaste, bottles, ther-mocol and otherwastes which getsettled on top of thewater, damage theroots of the mangrovesthus killing them. Soour aim is to save itby cleaning all thewastes. If more peoplejoin us in our initia-tive, the task ofsaving the mangrovesfrom Uran to Airoliwill become easier.”

The group has been trying to save the mangroves from last 45 weeks

removing all thewaste materials

which are thrown inthe form of plastics,

thermocol in thewater body. The

Man arrestedfor hittinganother

person withbeer bottleBy Crime Reporter

NAVI MUMBAI: TheKamothe police have ar-rested a 33-year-old,Vikrant Thorat, for al-legedly hitting Anil Nir-bhavane (33) with abeer bottle on his head.The victim was severe-ly injured in the inci-dent.

As per the Kamothepolice, the incident hap-pened on 31st Decemberat Khushi Beer shop,Sector 9, Kamothe. Theaccused Thorat hit thevictim with a bottle andassaulted him with thehelp of his two friendswhen the victim askedthe accused for money.The victim sustained 4stitches on the head.


Issue : 208 5 January, 2020

By Chandrashekhar Hendve

SEAWOODS; Are youready to re-stock yourwardrobe with somecoolest fashion apparels,accessories and footwearjust as the year startsto take pace? InorbitMall, Malad and Vashiis all set to shower dis-counts this winter sea-son. The much longedFlat 50% sale is righthere, making wintereven happier than usu-al. Block dates for 4th &5th January 2020 (Inor-bit Vashi).

With some of thebiggest brands offeringa sale of flat 50%, theconsumers are destined

Get ready to go on a shoppingspree at Inorbit mall, Vashi

to find the perfect pairof shoes, accessoriesand fashion apparel,whatever suits your

choice, at unbelievableprices.

With the mostamazing brands, allunder one roof, going onsale, you are sure to

have the most eclecticshopping experience.From providing yououtfit options for any

occasion to aiding youto revamp your stylewith something new,this sale is sure to sur-prise you with its ma-jestic range.

The late Suraj Sm-riti Cup Cricket Tourna-ment is being organizedon behalf of OmsaiSankruti Kala KridaMandal, Vahal. Thetournament was inau-gurated by Ramsheth

Suraj Smriti Cup Cricket tournament

Thakur.On the occasion,

District spokesperson ofBJP Y T Deshmukh,Chairman of Agricultur-al Income Market Com-mittee Rajendra Patil,Madhukar Thakur,

Ravindra Patil, SitaramNaik, KesarinathDapolkar, GiridharGharat, Yograj Gharat,Pritam Naik, Officials,activists and dignitarieswere present in largenumber.

The New Year Calendar of 2020 published by Corporator of Ward No.111, GaneshMhatre was launched at the hands of Airoli Constituency Member of Legislative As-sembly (MLA) Ganesh Naik on Saturday, 04 January 2020. (By Abhitash D.Singh)

Let’s be part of Solution and Not PollutionThe unsatiated greed of mankind has today brought us to a

threshold, where our very existence is at stake. Environmentalpollution, caused by our own deeds, has become one of the big-gest challenges all over the globe.

According to a data by the National Health Portal of India, sev-en million people die every year in the country due to pollution.The data further says that nine among ten people in the country donot have access to safe air.

Over the years, the forest cover has been uniformly reducing.The green jungles full of life are being cut mercilessly and arebeing replaced concrete jungles in the process of unmindful ur-banization, which is disturbing the sensitive ecological balancecreated by nature. The climatic conditions are changing for worseand in a way by cutting trees we are literally closing the oxygenplants provided by nature although knowing quite well that theoxygen is one of the vital requirements for survival of life. Similar-ly in the coastal areas, especially in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai,incidences of unmindful destroying of mangroves vital for ecolog-ical balance are regularly being reported. In a haste to bring inmore and more land under development, the mangroves are be-ing destroyed and illegal reclamation of land is being carried out.This is adversely disturbing the aquatic life.

The resilience of the nature and its finite ability to absorb on-slaught has already been tested to its brim. However today, theawareness about conservation of forests and their environment atlarge has percolated deep down in the society. The governmentaland non-governmental organizations are vying with each other totake a lead in the field. Navi Mumbai too through its developmentauthorities- CIDCO and NMMC does come out with programmesor drives for tree plantation.

Though the spirit for these drives is right but as regards itsimplementation, more hype is being created than the concrete im-plementation of these programmes. Going by the statistics beingprovided, Navi Mumbai should have had a very thick forest coverby now. The ground reality is unfortunately contrary to these sta-tistics, which indicates that either the statistics is wrong or nofeedback or monitoring post plantation care is being done on thepart of the authorities. There seems to be no accountability for thehuge money being spent on such drives, which at least so far havenot yielded unfortunately to say any result.

Lot of authorities like CIDCO, NMMC, Forest department,Pollution Control Board have been created to control pollution.However, all these departments should be made jointly responsi-ble for addressing this grave concern for the very existence of thehuman civilization. This is not only to be limited to the govern-ment organizations. The non-governmental organizations and ev-ery citizen of the country will have to continue in their own way inpreserving the environment, in particularly the trees, to ensurethat this human civilization does not get wiped out by its own acts.

Unidentified man snatchesgold chain from a womanBy Crime Reporter

NAVI MUMBAI: In yetanother chain snatch-ing case, a 55-year-oldlady and a resident ofKamothe became thevictim. The incidenthappened when the vic-tim Shakuntala RanjitSingh had gone to pick

up her grandchildfrom school and waswalking towards Sec-tor 22 from sector 25.

When she reachednear Akshar Buildingin Sector 25, an uniden-tified man on motorbikesnatched her gold chainand fled from the spot.

Despite raising analarm, the accusedmanaged to flee.

Shocked by the in-cident, Singh contact-ed the police controlroom and informedabout the incident andthe police then rushedto the spot.



TURBHE: Fed-upwith the menace of ille-gal parking of heavy ve-hicles from TurbheNaka to Indira Nagarat Turbhe, a residentPradeep Waghmare hasdecided to go on an in-definite hunger strikefrom today. Waghmarealleged that despitebringing the issue to thenotice of Navi MumbaiPolice, Traffic Branchand the Navi MumbaiMunicipal Corporation(NMMC), no action hasbeen taken by the au-thorities.

Hundreds of high-way dumpers are ille-gally parked from In-dore Nagar road fromTurbhe Naka, causingtraffic snarls and some-times leading to fatalaccidents. A woman waskilled on the spot, twomonths back.

“Considering allthese incidents, a letter

Turbhe resident to go on indefinite hungerstrike against illegal parking menace

was sent to the authori-ty through my NGOSwablambi SamajikSeva Sanstha however,

no action has been tak-en by us. I have decidedto go on hunger strike,”says Waghmare.

NAVI MUMBAI: TheNavi Mumbai Munici-pal Corporation(NMMC) kick started

‘Mission Indradha-nush’ on2nd December, 2019that aims to achievethe goal of attaining95% immunizationcoverage across Indiafor every child in theage group of 0-2 yearsagainst seven vaccinepreventable diseases.

NMMC achieves 100 percentimmunization in its round one of

‘Mission Indradhanush 2.0’As per the guidelinesof the Central andState Government,the drive which will

be completed in March2020, has received 100percent success in itsfirst phase.

As per the data, atotal of 665 werebenefited of which 105were pregnant womenand 560 were chil-dren. In order toensure that every

child is vaccinatedthrough the corpora-tion, a card was givento the child / mother

on the day of vaccina-tion. The name of thechild, the place anddate of vaccinationwas mentioned.

During a reviewmeeting recentlyheld, the civic chiefAnnasaheb Misalcongratulated theofficials.


Kid’s Zone

Nikhil Krishnan, Std 1,Reliance Foundation School, Koparkhairane

New Year, New Beginnings…

By Dr. Monica Khanna

As a new year anddecade unfold, most ofus would have made alist of resolutions – ofthings that we will door not do in the comingyear. While some of usmanage to stick to ourresolutions, unfortu-nately, some othersdon’t. Determined tobring about a radicalchange in ourselves andour ways, we begin witha great deal of enthusi-asm; but the tempostarts waning as timepasses – and by the endof the year, we realizethat our marathon isincomplete. We havenot even covered halfthe distance we had setfor ourselves.

This happens pri-marily because our res-olutions are often unre-alistic, and our targetsunachievable. For in-stance, if I aim to losetwenty kilos in a year,and lose only one in thefirst month, I will bedisheartened and disil-lusioned. Instead of los-ing weight, I will end uplosing faith in myselfand my ability to reachmy goals. On the otherhand, if I target fivekilos and lose one in thefirst month, it will mo-tivate me to striveharder, and I may endup exceeding my targetwithout really intend-ing to.

Besides, each indi-vidual is different, andwhat works for one per-son does not necessari-ly work for another.Hence, just becausesomeone else managedto lose twenty kilos ina year doesn’t necessar-ily mean that I can dothe same. Comparingoneself with others canbe detrimental to one’sself-confidence and self-esteem, and can lower

one’s morale. Self-awareness is an inte-gral pre-requisite forsetting goals, and weneed to be aware of ourown capabilities andlimitations before weconceptualise our reso-lutions.

In addition to beingpractical when settinggoals, what is also im-perative is persever-ance. When we start amarathon, we hope toreach the finish line,and not back out dur-ing the run. As chil-

dren, we have all heardthe story of the hareand the tortoise, endingwith the moral – ‘Slowand steady wins therace’. Our marathon isnot a competitive race,but it is better to beslow and steady like thetortoise in the story,rather than sprintingforward like the hareand then running out ofenergy and taking abreak. We expect the

break to be momentary,but more often than not,it extends indefinitely,making us lethargicand complacent, andunwilling to get back inaction.

Each of us is run-ning on separate tracksthat we have createdfor ourselves. Thetracks may be parallelat times, and may evenconverge, but that is amere coincidence. Letus hope that all of uscross the finish line ofour own marathons

with cheerful and sat-isfied faces… let ushope that the dreamswe have envisioned for2020 see the light ofday, and not disappearinto oblivion with thepassing of time.

The writer is Associate

Professor, Indira Institute

of Business Management,

Consultant, Indian School

of Management and

Entrepreneurship

189th birth anniversary of KrantijyotiSavitribai Phule celebrated at

Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil College


VASHI: The 189 th

birth anniversary ofKrantijyoti SavitribaiPhule, the first femaleteacher who set thefoundation for wom-en’s education in In-dia, was celebrated atRayat Education Insti-tute’s KarmaveerBhaurao Patil College,Vashi on January 5, at9.30 pm.

College studentsstarted the program bypaying tribute to Sav-itribai Phule. CollegePrincipal Dr.V. S. Shi-

vankar introduced theguests and explainedabout the revolution-ary role of SavitribaiPhule in his proposal

speech with various ex-amples. Ms. KarismaSankpal presented themono act ‘Mi, SavitriJyotiba Phule Bolte’.

Inspire : Inspired talks-1

By Dr Vandana Mahajani

Once a group of pan-dits came to debatewith swami Vivekanan-da. The debate wasstarted in Sanskrit.For quite some time thedebate went on in pureSanskrit. However atone place Vivekanandamade a grammaticalerror in speaking. Atthis the punditslaughed and mocked atswamiji. This howeverdid not deter swamijifrom speaking. He alsowon the debate where-by the pundits accept-ed all the argumentsput forward by Swam-iji. After the punditsleft, Swamiji’s discipleconversed in Sanskritand also was unhappywith the way the pun-dits had laughed after

Vivekananda’s error.To this Swamiji

said, “It would be greatincivility in the west topoint out error of thiskind of slip of language.A civilised society wouldaccept the idea takingno note of the lan-guage” But to our coun-try people he said “Allthe fighting is goingover husk and nobodysearches for the kernelwithin”. This he said atCossipore in the year1897. I wonder if oursociety has changedmuch from that time.We still laugh at smallmistakes people makeduring making smallconversations!!

Then Swamiji wasasked -What is civilisa-tion? The more ad-vanced the society isspiritually, the morecivilised the nation is,answered swamiji. Hesaid mere accumula-tion of material goodsand wealth, like it ishappening in the westis only going to only in-crease the miseries inthe coming days.” We inour country are emulat-ing the west and seeing

the effect of the same onour society now. Thus,although today, peopleare intensely practical,they also need to ac-quire spiritual knowl-edge. This is whereVivekananda wantedthe west and east tomeet.

While in the west,Swamiji was askedmany a times why hejoked and talked frivol-ity when actually hewas a priest. To this hereplied “We are the chil-dren of bliss. Whyshould we look moroseand sombre?”

Once a disciple ofSwamiji said that hehad faith only in theUpanishads and did notbelieve in the othergreat books of other re-ligion, Vivekanandatold his disciple he wasfree to do so, but hemust let others followthe faith they wanted.He also said that at theend of the journey, hisdisciple would realisethat all lead to the samegoals.Dr Vandana Mahajani is Na-

gar Pramukh, Vivekananda

Kendra, Navi Mumbai Branch


By Meena R. Prashant

I love to be sur-rounded by natureand the majority ofmy family holidaysare at places whichare close to nature. Beit the hills, beaches,and sands we enjoysuch locations themost. Unlike others,we generally opt for

destinations whichare less crowded orchoose months whenthe crowd is less.

This year too, weheaded to a beautifuldestination ‘AmboliGhat’ in Maharash-tra. Amboli Ghat is amountain pass inthe Sahyadri and isone of the most beau-tiful ghats in Indiaand the famous hillstation of Amboli lieson this ghat.

To reach the ghatone can opt for statetransport run bus ser-

vices and the nearestdestination is Belgaumto Amboli which is 1hour 44 min(67.9 km) via Redi-Bel-agavi Road or fromSawantwadi which isjust 31.1 km distance.

Known for its scenicbeauty and its mesmer-izing waterfalls duringmonsoon and lush

green landscapes, thecar ride to the ghat isthe best. Surroundedwith lush green till fardistance there were alsomany small water falls,thanks to the extendedmonsoon season during2019.

With dense forestAmboli Ghat, is a placeknown for trekkingapart from monkeywhich are seen acrossthe ghat. The ghat alsois known for differentspecies of butterfly,snakes and other ani-mals. There are many

local people who taketourist for such trek-king.

Sightseeing

While Amboli is asmall hill station how-ever, there are stillmany places to visit. Tomove around, one canopt for private car ser-vices or local transportlike an auto rickshaw

or if you love cyclingthen this hill station isbest for you. With notraffic, peddling cycle isfun. However, we optedfor a local auto rickshawto take us to places.

As we reached thehill top at 4.00 pm ourfirst point for sightsee-ing was the SunsetPoint. The sunset pointis located a kilometeraway from the bus stoptowards Sawantwadi.Near the point there area few small eaterieswhich are operated bythe local villagers. You

can opt for simple yettasty hot snacks likevada, bhajiya’s and sipa hot cup of tea whileenjoying the chill breezeat the picture perfectplace at the sunsetpoint.

As it gets darksoon, we embarkedupon our sightseeingjourney the next day.

Although, the climatewas pleasant, we optedto start our day early,after a having a yum-my Poha as breakfastalong with local minibuns and hot tea. Weheaded to our seconddestination- Kavlesadpoint. After reachingthe place one needs toget down a few stepsand walk a bit to see thebreathtaking view ofthe endless valleys andsmall waterfalls. Andthe fun part was theecho through themountains.

The place is famousfor its reverse waterfallduring the monsoonseason. The reversewaterfall is an opticalillusion, created whenwild winds flow in thevalley, and it looks likethat the water is mov-ing upwards.

While the Kavlesh-et Point was approach-

able and the roads aregood however, it is nota disable friendly path.

After the Kavlesadpoint, our auto driversuggested us theHiranyakeshi Temple.

Hiranyakeshi

Temple Amboli

Dedicated to god-dess Parvati, Hirany-akeshi Temple is thepoint where the Hiran-yakeshi River origi-nates. In the sanctumof the temple, there isan idol of Devi Hirany-akeshi. The temple islocated amidst the lush

forest but reachinghere is not a problemas there well-builtroad over the Hrian-yakeshi river. The ve-hicle stops at a pointand which one needsto walk to the temple.

H i r a n y a k e s h iTemple is 5 kilome-ters from the main

bus stand in Amboli.Food

There are manysmall local hotels onthe ghat and with astaple diet being riceand fish. There areplenty of option forvegetarians as well.

Shopping

Amboli is a smalltown and does not of-fer much for shop-ping. The nearestshopping destinationis Sawantwadi whichis also known forbeautiful wooden toysand other products.

TRAVELOGUE

Amboli- A scenic hill station with picturesquelocations and mesmerizing waterfalls

Panoramic view of

Hiranyakeshi

Temple Amboli

Panoramic view of Kavlesad Point

Indian Shooting Contingent To Excel At 2020 Tokyo Olympics: Olympian Suma ShirurBy Ashok Dhamija

PANVEL: The IndianJunior Rifle teams,high performance spe-cialist coach SumaShirur hopes that theyear 2020 will usher anew chapter for the In-dian shooting contin-gent at the TokyoOlympics this year bywinning couple of med-als. Shirur expressedthat India is verystrong in two-threeshooting events.

The Panvel basedOlympian, ArjunaAwardee & WorldRecord Holder Shirursaid “I think that Indiais on top of the gameas far as shooting is

concerned. The shoot-ers are very talented.They have very goodhand-eye coordination.Each one of the shoot-ers is capable of win-ning a medal on a goodday. We are verystrong in two-threeevents and I am hop-ing for a couple ofOlympic medals thistime.”

As may be recalledAbhinav Bindra is theonly shooter to win aGold in Men’s 10m AirRifle at Beijing Olym-pics way back in 2008,while RajyavardhanSingh Rathore (2004Athens Olympic inMen’s double trap) and

Vijay Kumar (2012London Olympic Men’s25m Rapid Fire Pistol) bagged Silver medals.Gagan Narang (2012London Olympic Men’s10m Air Rifle) won the

pave the way for Indiato become a sportingsuperpower in the fu-ture.

The founder of theLakshya ShootingClub, which organisedthe 11th edition of thePremier InvitationalShooting Competitionpromoting ‘GENDEREQUALITY’ at theKarnala Sports Acade-

my premises in Panv-el recently, furtheradded “”The Indian gov-ernment’s financialsupport for athletes isthe best thing that hashappened to sports. Be-cause of the Khelo In-dia Youth Games,young talents are beingidentified at the grass-root level and they areprovided with theequipment. It’s such ahuge impetus for ayoung athlete. KheloIndia is going to pavethe way for India tobecome a sporting su-perpower in the yearsto come”.

Indian Junior Rifle team Coach SumaShirur

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Games will be held inGuwahati from 10 Jan-uary 2020 to 22 Janu-ary 2020. While speak-ing about the competi-tion, Shirur said thatthe tournament will

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2020, will continue till19 th January, 2020.The examination hascommenced in around27 centres in NaviMumbai and is beingconducted in English,Marathi and Hindi me-dium.

The event is a brain-child of the then MLA

from Airoli, SandeepNaik who initiated theSSC Board PreparatoryExamination in theyear 2006 and today ithas successfully com-pleted 14 years.

Ganesh Naik whileaddressing the studentsat Smt. RadhikabaiMeghe Vidayalaya atSector-16 in Airoli said,“During our time wedid not have the oppor-tunity to give such amock examination pri-or to the Board exami-nation. This is indeed agreat initiative thatwill help the studentsimmensely to performbetter. Dedication, hardwork, grit and determi-nation are the keys to

success.”Speaking with the

media Sandeep Naiksaid, “The main aim andmotto of starting this ini-tiative was to help thestudents appearing forthe SSC board examina-tion to know about theprocedures. The empha-sis was also on overcom-ing their pressure andfear which is obvious dur-ing the board examina-tion. The aim of the edu-

cational organisation ini-tiated by Ganesh Naik,i.e. Navi Mumbai Shik-shan Sankul is to em-power all the SSC stu-dents in the city partic-ularly those who comefrom the villages, slumsand weaker sections ofthe society. Under the ex-pert guidance of theteachers, the studentsget motivated to fare bet-ter in the SSC board ex-amination which isscheduled in February-March 2020. The preboard exam helps thestudents to prepare forthe final board exams.”

Apart from the SSCpreparatory exams, NaviMumbai ShikshanSankul also guides stu-

dents in career guid-ance, ICSE and IES ex-aminations. Stressingthat nowadays, to ob-tain passing marks isnot the only criteria,Sandeep Naik saidthat even the quality ofeducation needs to beimproved and the pre-paratory examinationsis a good opportunity toachieve the same.

More than 9100 stu-dents from Marathi,

English and Hindi me-dium will appear for thepreparatory exams.The first three studentsfrom all the three me-diums will be awardedwith tab, trophy andcertificates. All the stu-dents will be providedwith I-Score app free ofcost for improving thescore in SSC.

Present during theinauguration of theevent were GaneshNaik, Sanjeev Naik,Sandeep Naik, Jay-want Sutar, AnanthSutar, Sagar Naik andmany other dignitaries.

For more informationstudents can call on 9221267801/993032 2842 / 8369977125

Studentsgear up...

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Symposium on CAA and itsimpact to be held on 6th January

NMPC and NMUOJ appeal citizens to

present in large number during the event


NAVI MUMBAI: Onthe occasion ofJournalist Day on6th January, 2020 theNavi Mumbai PressClub (NMPC) andNavi Mumbai Unionof Journalists(NMUOJ) have jointlyorganised a sympo-sium on CitizenshipAmendment Act(CAA) and its impactat Vishnudas BhaveNatyagruha in Vashiat 4pm. Both theorganisations haveappealed the residentsand also the journal-ists of the city to bepresent in largenumber.

The prominentspeakers for the eventwill be Advocate AsimSarode (HumanRights Activist), Dr.

Narendra Pathak(Professor and Au-thor), Sanjay Aabte(State Editor, DivyaMarathi) and KeshavUpadhay ( BJPSpokesperson, Maha-rashtra).

The Chief Guestfor the event will beNavi Mumbai Munici-pal Corporation(NMMC) MayorJaywant Sutar, CivicChief AnnasahebMisal and Dr. GaneshMule (Deputy Direc-tor, InformationKonkan Division).

Manoj Jalnawala,President, NaviMumbai Press Clubsaid, “Every year wecelebrate JournalistDay in the city withgreat enthusiasm.CAA is the burningtopic nowadays. A

symposium on CAAand its impact hasbeen organised on theoccasion to enablepeople to presenttheir views andunderstand the Act.We appeal people tojoin us so that theycan gain moreknowledge andinformation on CAA.”

Machindra Patil,President of NaviMumbai Union ofJournalist said,“Maharashtra cele-brates Journalist Dayon 6th January everyyear with joy andhappiness. The aim oforganising the eventis to bring all thejournalists of the cityon one platform toenable them to sharetheir experiences andmeet each other.”

By Ashok Dhamija

Indian RailwaysPassenger ReservationSystem PRS systemwill be shutdown forData compression onintervening night ofSunday / Monday 5 / 6Jan 2020. Due towhich the PNR and

Shutdown of PRS Systemfor Mumbai Division

Coaching refundactivities will not beavailable from 23.45hrs (of Sunday 5 Jan to 05.15 hrs of Mon-day 6 Jan, 2020). Dueto this refund will bedone manually as perextant rules. Inaddition access to

IVRS system, CurrentReservation, RefundCounters, CoachingRefund terminal,Internet Booking forMumbai PRS will notbe available during theabove period. Passen-gers are requested toplease note.


at the Reliance Corpo-rate Park (RCP)Ground in Ghansoliand the Fr. Agnels Mul-tipurpose Sports Com-plex simultaneously,the league matches thatwere held between 40best teams from acrossthe nation (two winnerseach from four zones)witnessed highly en-grossing matches manyof which turned out tobe high scoring affairs.

On the final day ofthe group stages, Ti-taguri High Schoolfrom Assam becamethe first team in the fi-nal round of the fourthseason of the RFYSNational Champion-ship to score twelvegoals in a School Girl’scategory league gameheld at the RCP Ghan-soli. Overlapping de-fender MaidangshriNarzary was in primeform and grabbed thelimelight by scoringeight of them herselfagainst their Dehradunopponents Gorkha Mil-litary Inter College asthe team from Kokra-jhar will now face Nil-mani English Schoolfrom Imphal in an all-East Zone affair in thefinal four. St Joseph’sfrom Rohtak toppedGroup B with a thump-ing 6-0 win over St.Mary’s Higher Second-ary School, Chennai,with Poonam scoringfive of those.

It will be anotherface-off between Assamand Manipur as theyoungest footballers ofthe tournament fromBetkuchi High School,Guwahati and TheUnique Model Acade-my, Imphal will lockhorns in the Sub Jun-ior semi-finals.Progress High Schoolare the sole survivorsfrom Goa in the tourna-ment in this category,which has been intro-duced this season on-wards.

Earlier defendingchampions H Elias Me-morial School, Shillongstormed into the semi-finals of the Junior Boyscategory with theirthird consecutive win

over. The Shillongbased team humbledKerala side Govern-ment Oriental HighSchool, Edathanattuka-ra 4-0 with Henry Non-gford etching his nameon the score sheet onceagain. They toppedGroup A, with ninepoints on board, whiletheir rivals finishedsecond. On the otherhand last year’s run-ners-up MaharanaPratap Sports College,Dehradun too regis-tered an impressive 4-0 win over Kolhapurbased MaharashtraHigh School. Nischay

Nainwal scored a bracefor the winners to en-sure the Dehradunbased side toppedGroup B. ASC BoysSports School, Bengalu-ru too booked a place inthe semi-finals fromthis group after beingtied 1-1 with TG En-glish School, Imphaland will next meet theShillong giants who arethe current SubrotoCup champions.

Both Shillong Col-lege and Indore Chris-tian College progressedinto the knockouts ofthe College Boys (Un-dergraduate) categoryafter an entertaininggoal fest, which ended7-2 in favour of the Me-ghalaya side. EarlierGroup A toppersShillong College had de-feated DAV Post Grad-uate College, Dehradun11-1 in their openingleague match after be-ing a goal down in theiropening match thatwas played at Fr. Ag-nels, Vashi. RobertKhongjoh who wasnominated the Man ofthe match scored fourof those on either sideof the half for the win-

ners. Shillong Collegewill take on Farook Col-lege, Kozhikode whichgot the better of S.S.Dempo College of Com-merce & Economics,Goa by margin of 2-1 inthe last league match tofinish second in GroupB. Indore ChristianCollege on the otherhand will clash withDr. BhupendranathDutta, Kolkata who de-feated Sharda Univer-sity, Delhi by a marginof 2-0 to in the lastleague match andtopped the Group B onaccount of better goaldifference.

Results (League Phase):# School Girls

Group A: Govt. GirlsHigher Secondary School(Namakkal, Tamil Nadu) 9beat Gorkha Military InterCollege (Dehradun) 0; Ti-taguri High School (Guwahati)1 drew Faith Higher Second-ary School Himatnagar(Ahmedabad) 1; Titaguri HighSchool (Kokrajhar) 3 beatGovt Girls HSS (Namakkal) 1;Faith HSS Himatnagar(Ahmedabad) 5 beat GorkhaMilitary Inter College (Dehra-dun) 0; Titaguri High School(Kokrajhar, Assam) 12 beatGorkha Military Inter College(Dehradun) 0; Govt Girls HSS(Namakkal, Tamil Nadu) 3beat Faith HSS Himatnagar(Ahmedabad) 1.

Group B: St. Joseph’sInternational School (Rohtak)0 drew Nilmani English School(Imphal) 0; Rosary HigherSecondary School (Goa) 5beat St. Mary’s Higher Sec-ondary School (Chennai) 1;St. Joseph’s InternationalSchool (Rohtak) 2 beat Ro-sary HSS (Goa) 0; NilmaniEnglish School (Imphal) 2beat St. Mary’s HSS (Chen-nai) 0; St Joseph’s InternationalSchool (Rohtak) 6 beat St.Mary’s HSS (Chennai) 0; Nil-mani English School (Imphal)2 beat Rosary HSS (Goa) 0.

# Sub Junior BoysGroup A: VELS Vidh-

yashram (Chennai) 2 drewBetkuchi High School (Guwa-hati) 2; Govt. Model HighSchool Sector 36 (Chandi-garh) 1 beat Vrajbhoomi Pub-lic School (Ahmedabad) 0;Govt. Model High SchoolSector 36 (Chandigarh) 3beat VELS Vidhyashram 2;Betkuchi High School (Guwa-hati) 6 beat Vrajbhoomi Pub-lic School (Ahmedabad) 0;Govt Model High School Sec-tor 36 (Chandigarh) 1 drewBetkuchi High School (Guwa-hati) 1; VELS Vidhyashram(Chennai) 7 beat VrajbhoomiPublic School (Ahmedabad)0.

Group B: The UniqueModel Academy (Imphal) 1beat Vedas InternationalSchool (Delhi) 0; ProgressHigh School (Goa) 5 beatMSP Higher SecondarySchool (Kozhikode) 1; TheUnique Model Academy(Imphal) 5 beat Progress HighSchool (Goa) 1; Vedas Inter-national School (Delhi) 1 drewMSP Higher SecondarySchool (Kozhikode) 1; TheUnique Model Academy(Imphal) 5 beat MSP HSS(Kozhikode) 0; Progress HighSchool (Goa) 1 beat VedasInternational School (Delhi) 0.

# Junior BoysGroup A: Govt. Oriental

High School (Edathanattuka-ra) 3 beat Mamta ModernSenior Secondary School(Delhi) 1; H Elias MemorialSchool (Shillong) 2 beat Ka-mla Devi Public School (Bho-pal) 1; H Elias MemorialSchool (Shillong) 3 beat Mam-ta Modern SSS (Delhi) 0;Govt. Oriental HS (Edathanat-tukara) 1 beat Kamla DeviPublic School (Bhopal) 0; HElias Memorial School(Shillong) 4 beat Govt Orien-tal HS (Edathanattukara) 0;Mamta Modern SSS (Delhi) 2beat Kamla Devi PublicSchool (Bhopal) 1.

Group B: MaharanaPratap Sports College (De-hradun) 2 beat TG EnglishSchool (Imphal) 1; ASC BoysSports School (Bengaluru) 1drew Maharashtra HighSchool (Kolhapur) 1; ASCBoys Sports School (Benga-luru) 5 beat Maharana PratapSports College (Dehradun) 1;TG English School (Imphal) 0drew Maharashtra HighSchool (Kolhapur) 0; Maha-rana Pratap Sports College(Dehradun) 4 beat Maha-rashtra High School (Kol-hapur) 0; ASC Boys SportsSchool (Bengaluru) 1 drewTG English School (Imphal) 1.

# Senior BoysGroup A: Shillong Col-

lege HSS 3 beat Chitkara In-ternational School (Chandi-garh) 1; ASC Boys SportsSchool (Bengaluru) 4 beat Fr.Agnel HSS Pilar (Goa) 2;Shillong College HS (Shillong)2 beat Fr. Agnel HSS Pilar(Goa) 0; ASC Boys SportsSchool (Bengaluru) 1 beatChitkara International School(Chandigarh) 0; Shillong Col-lege HS (Shillong) 2 drew ASCBoys Sports School (Bengalu-ru) 2; Fr Agnel HSS Pilar(Goa) 2 beat Chitkara Inter-national School (Chandigarh)0; Shillong College HS(Shillong) 2 drew ASC BoysSports School (Bengaluru) 2;

Fr Agnel HSS Pilar (Goa) 2beat Chitkara InternationalSchool (Chandigarh) 0.

Group B: Mamta ModernSenior Secondary School(Delhi) 3 beat Shyama Pro-sad Inter College (Jamshed-pur) 1; MSP Higher Second-ary School (Kozhikode) 5 beatHiramani School (Ahmeda-bad) 0; MSP HSS (Kozhikode)4 beat Mamta Modern SSS(Delhi) 0; Shyama Prosad In-ter College (Jamshedpur) 1drew Hiramani School(Ahmedabad) 1; MSP HSS(Kozhikode) 10 beat ShyamaProsad Inter College (Jam-shedpur) 1; Mamta Model SSS(Delhi) 6 beat Hiramani School(Ahmedabad) 0.

# College BoysGroup A: Shillong Col-

lege Laitumkhrah (Shillong) 11beat DAV PG College (Dehra-dun) 1; Indore Christian Col-lege (Indore) 6 beat LoyolaCollege (Chennai) 1; ShillongCollege (Shillong) 3 drew Loy-ola College (Chennai) 3; In-dore Christian College (Indore)5 beat DAV PG College (De-hradun) 1; Shillong College(Shillong) 7 beat Indore Chris-tian College (Indore) 2; Loyo-la College (Chennai) 6 beatDAV PG College (Dehradun)3.

Group B: Dr Bhupen-dranath Dutta Smriti Mahavidy-alaya (Kolkata) 2 drew FarookCollege (Kozhikode) 2; Dr Bh-upendranath Dutta Smriti Ma-havidyalaya (Kolkata) 6 beatSS Dempo College of Com-merce and Economics (Goa)1; Farook College (Kozhikode)beat Sharda University (Del-hi): 3-1; Sharda University(Delhi) 4 beat SS Dempo Col-lege of Commerce and Eco-nomics (Goa) 1; Farook Col-lege (Kozhikode) 2 beat S.S.Dempo College of Commerce& Economics (Goa) 1; Dr. Bh-upendranath Dutta Smriti Ma-havidyalaya (Kolkata), 2 beatSharda University (Delhi) 0.

Teams fromEast Zone...

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It was ecstasy for some and agony for the others at the ongoing RFYS NationalFootball Championship 2019-20 whose final rounds are being held in the city.


KHARGHAR: Withthe growing number ofillegal Bangladeshi im-migrants in Kharghar,the Kharghar Seniorpolice inspectorPradeep Tidar hasurged the landlords tofurnish details of thetenants to the police.The official said thatthere has been a rise inthe number of illegal

Police urge landlords tofurnish tenants’ details

Bangladeshi immi-grants residing inKharghar. Despite con-stant drives by the po-lice, many illegal immi-grants manage to flee.

He further said, thelandlords are giving thehouse on higher rentsto these Bangladeshinationalists and do notprovide details which isillegal and punishableoffence. Secondly, many

mention the tenants ashailing from West Ben-gal people instead ofmentioning their na-tionality as ‘Bang-ladesh’.

He further said,Kharghar, Belpada,Murbi, Owepeth, Owecamp, Owe, Farsipa-da, Papadi Pada, arethe areas where manyimmigrants are stay-ing illegally.


East Indian Marathi programmesshould be shown on television

We, East Indians, who are the original people of Mumbai, are a talent-ed lot and have several East Indian Marathi music CDs and VCDs re-leased in the market. But not a single East Indian Marathi programme isbeing shown on television till date. Even Konkani programmes for theGoans living in Mumbai are not telecast. Its high time television chan-nels start telecasting East Indian Marathi and Konkani programmes ontelevision.

Jubel D’Cruz, Mumbai

Kin attack resident doctor at Nair HospitalThe unruly attack on a doctor for no fault of his in Nair hospital is

making news. After a long time such a serious situation has arisen in theMetro city and it is time to arrest the miscreants. After all the doctors areserving humanity to survive and no one feel like ending the life of a pa-tient. But strange thoughts and views make the people act in a verycruel manner and thereby causing ill feelings among the doctors - pa-tient’s relatives.

This is not the first time that Metro is suffering. Even Thane andNavi Mumbai doctors suffered the same fate in the event of a patient’sdeath and that is not in good taste. Attacking the doctor or the hospitals innot going to help and find an end solution to the crux of the problem.

Nickil Maniam,Shree Krishna, Palm Beach Road, Vashi

Letter to the Editor....MUMBAI: Relation-

ships today, morethan ever before, havebecomean entanglementrather than enrich-ment. Beit husband andwife, teacher andstudent, employerand employee orsimply twofriends, relation-ship managementis posing aconstant chal-lenge to one andall. More impor-tantly, unlessthere is clarity inthis vital aspectof life, there isa drain of pre-cious humanenergy for allconcerned.

This veryenergy could havebeen conserved andbetter utilized for amore exuberant andjoyous life. Life coach,Yogi, and Mystic,Viveck Shettyy for thefirst time, offers aunique RelationshipManagement work-shop that promises to

Relationship Management Workshopgive profound insightsinto dynamics andmechanics ofrelationships. Itfurther promisesto make your relation-

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Viveck Shettyy,Head Honcho, IndusCommunications, hasbeen a motivationalspeaker and a life

coach with a strongfocus on Yoga, LifeSciences and Mysticknowledge, for morethan 15 years nowwith over 500 lectures

and sessions tohis credit; spreadacross leadingcorporate groups,managementinstitutions,NGOs, medicaland engineeringcolleges, interna-tional schools andvarious manage-ment forums. Hewas conferredwith the Mid-DayAward for excel-lence in Motiva-tional Speakingin 2019.

These work-shops will beheld everyweekend on

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Shirur, the 2002C o m m o n w e a l t hGames gold medallistwhose Shooting Clubhas had the distinctionof being one the of onlyseven Khelo India ac-credited shooting acad-emies in the countrysince Oct 2018 and hasin its fold top ranking14 Khelo India Athletesfrom all over India, ex-plained the processwhich the Indianshooting coachingteam follows whenthey are looking to spotnew talents in thesport. However, the In-dian junior rifle teamcoach emphasized onthe fact that only tal-ent is not enough.

“We observe youngtalents for about two-three years and see atwhat pace a particularjunior player is grow-ing. If a shooter is tal-ented, then the playerpicks up the sport at afaster rate than theothers. But it doesn’t

mean that the otherscan’t make it. Eventu-ally, talent is notenough. All athleteshave to work hard ontheir game. There aremany athletes whocome up with sheerhard work,” saidShirur.

India will have arecord participation ofat least 15 shooters atTokyo Olympics 2020 sof date , which will bethree more than the2016 Rio Olympic, afew in fact are from theJunior category whohave a made a markalready. This includesSaurabh Chaudhary(17-year-old prodigy)who has already wonfive gold medals atWorld Cups and alsonabbed a silver at therecently concludedAsian Championshipin Qatar. DivyanshSingh Panwar, anoth-er 17 year old who wona Silver medal at theISSF World Cup in

Beijing earlier thisyear and has two ISSFWorld Cup Gold med-als in the Air Riflemixed team with An-jum Moudgil (who toohas qualified) alongwith Manu Bhaker(17-year-old sensation)who sealed her berthfor the Olympics witha fourth place in theISSF World Cup inMunich and also haswon a Gold at the re-cently concluded AsianChampionship. Aish-warya Singh Tomar

Another one of In-dia’s young shootingprodigies, 18-year-oldAishwarya SinghTomar who won theSenior category in the10m Air Rifle event atLakshya Cup lastweek in Panvel too istop contender and hadqualified after a thirdplace finish at theAsian Championshipand will showcase hisfinesse in the 50m 3position Rifle category.

Indian Shooting Contingent...Contd. from pg. 7

CR Infrastructure Work To AffectRun Of Outstation Trains

By Ashok Dhamija

MUMBAI: In view ofthe ongoing infra-structure work o-nUP Southeast Ghatline between MonkeyHill and Karjat ofMumbai Division thefollowing trains havebeen cancelled/shortterminated/ shortoriginated/diverted.

A) Trains Can-celled

i) Train no. 51317/51318 Panvel-Pune-Panvel (Daily) Passen-ger upto Wednesday15 Jan, 2020.

ii) Train no. 50127CSMT- Pandharpur(Tri-weekly) Passen-ger from Thursday 9Jan to 11 Jan,.2020

iii) Train no. 51028

Pandharpur-CSMT(Tri-weekly) Passen-ger on Sunday 5 Jan,2020 and Friday 10Jan to Sunday 12 Jan,2020.

Iv) Train no. 51029CSMT-Bijapur (4 Daysa week) Passengerfrom Sunday 5 Jan toWednesday 8 Jan,2020 and Sunday 12Jan to Wednesday 15Jan, 2020.

v) Train no. 51030Bijapur-CSMT (4Days a week) Passen-ger from Monday 6Jan to Thursday 9Jan, 2020 and Monday13 Jan to Wednesday15 Jan, 2020.

B) Trains Di-verted

i) Train no. 11025/

11026 Bhusaval-Pune-Bhusaval Express willbe diverted via Man-mad- Daund uptoWednesday 15 Jan,2020.

C) Trains ShortTerminated /ShortOriginated

i) Train no. 11029/11030 CSMT- Kol-hapur- CSMT KoynaExpress will be shortterminated at Puneand Short OriginateEx. Pune uptoWednesday 15 Jan,2020.

All concerned topleasenote. Passengers arerequested to bear withthe Railway Adminis-tration for the incon-venience caused.

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KHARGHAR: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena,Kharghar unit and Sant Savatmali Samajik Prat-ishtan distributed Bhagvat Gita to mark the birthanniversary of Savitribai Phule at the Virungula

Birth anniversary of KrantijyotiSavitribai Phule celebrated

Centre, Sector 15, Kharghar. Sharad Nalawade, Nilesh Mahapadi, Sripati

Godavale, Martand Sonawane, BR Deshnehre,Dhananjay Mawale, senior citizens and MNSworkers were present on the occasion.


KHARGHAR: In the recently heldstate level beauty pageant organ-ised by DIVA, Mrs SairekhaLimaye, a resident of Kharghar,Navi Mumbai bagged the title of‘Mrs. Maharashtra Perfect 10’.

Mrs. Limaye was one among the50 finalists. The event was held atHotel Hyatt, Pune.

Speaking with Newsband,Sairekha said, “Diva pageants is agreat platform for all the marriedwomen who have passion for mod-eling and are interested in fashionworld.”

A homemaker and a mother of11 year old boy, Sairekha said thatalthough she was interested inmodelling right from young age, shenever got an opportunity to partic-ipate in any such events. “In fact, Idid not have much exposure too,”she said.

Although born in Bhopal,Sairekha was brought up in Mum-bai. After completing M.Com., shetook up a job. After marriage, how-ever, she decided to concentrate onher family and her son and gaveup the job.

“Now my son has turned 11 andI felt, I could pursue my passion,”says Sairekha who came across theinformation on beauty pageantwhile browsing through the face-book.

“There was nervousness as Ijoined with the other contestants forthe three days’ grooming session,”says Sairekha, who had great diffi-culty in walking the ramp in highheels. But gradually, she gainedconfidence and with grit and deter-mination and the support from herhusband, Anurag Limaye, family

Resident of Kharghar bags‘Mrs Maharashtra Perfect 10’ title

and friends, she came in top 12 andwas selected for finale.

“I give credit to my mentorsKarl Mascarenhas, the founder di-rector of DIVA pageants and Anja-na Mascarenhas, India’s premier aswell as international pageant coachwho trained and groomed all the fi-nalists,” says Sairekha who likesto tell all the married women that,“it is never too late to chase dreams.If you believe it, you can do it.”

Jury members for the GrandFinale were a host of dignitaries in-cluding celebrities Varsha Usga-onkar, Gulshan Grover, Zoya Afroz,Dr Suhani Mendonsa.

Various information was given to the school students who visited the Navi MumbaiPolice Headquarters as part of the Police Raising Day (Sumit Renose)

NAVI MUMBAI: Morethan 18,000 studentsfrom various schoolsparticipated in thedrawing competitionorganised by the NaviMumbai MunicipalCorporation (NMMC)under the “CleanSurvey 2020’.

Mayor JaywantSutar, MunicipalCommissioner Anna-saheb Misal, Leader ofthe House RavindraIthape, CorporatorKavita Agonde,Deputy Commissionerof Education, NitinKale, Deputy Commis-sioner, Solid WasteManagement Depart-ment Tushar Pawar,Deputy Commissionerof Circle 1 DadasahebChabhuswar andother officials encour-aged the students.

Speaking duringthe occasion Commis-sioner AnnasahebMisal said, “NMMCwhich has participat-ed in the CleanSurvey 2020 andvarious sanitationprogramme, hasdecided to involvecitizens of differentage groups in the

More than 18,000 students participate indrawing competition organised by NMMC

cleanliness drive.Various initiatives arebeing organisedtowards this end. Onesuch innovativeventure was thepainting competitionin which thousands ofstudents from munici-pal schools, including

private schools andjunior colleges partici-pated”. He furthersaid that if everycitizen of Navi Mum-bai participates in thecleanliness movementwith love and pride,the city will get thefirst rank in cleanli-ness in the country.

Speaking about thecompetition an officialsaid, We have beenconducting thecompetition everyyear. This year too, wereceived an over-whelming response.5580 students werepresent at Sector 19A,

Wonders Park, whileat Meenatai Thacker-ay Garden sector 17,1534 students partici-pated. In Nature Parkat Sector 14 Ko-parkhairane, 5872students participatedwhile at Zen GardenChincholi, 5131students participated.

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