THE TIMES OF INDIA, MUMBAI *WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012 9TIMES CITY

GLOBETROTTERS ‘ZAPP’ CITY WITH VINTAGE APPEALUma Kadam

Argentinians Herman Zapp (42) andCandelaria Zapp (40) travel the world

in a 1928 Graham Paige car along withtheir four children, each of whom, wasborn in a different country.

shipping company to take them to theirnext destination—South Africa.“Who is crazy? The ones who go for theirdream or the ones who don’t?” saidHerman. —Sharmila Ganesan-Ram

The couple embarked on their “dreamjourney” 12 years ago when they decidedto travel from Argentina to Alaska andhave covered over 45 countries. Currently,in India they are looking for a generous

Mumbai: Kingfisher Air-lines (KFA) has cut down itsoperation by 50% at Mumbaiairport this summer. Ac-cording to the new schedule,the airline will be operating24 flights out of Mumbai, in-stead of 50 in the summerschedule.

Across India, the airlinewill operate 120 daily flightsinstead of over 300 flights itoperated last year. Kingfish-er will use 20 aircraft out ofits fleet of 64, to operate thesummer schedule. OnWednesday, the airline is-sued a statement stating thatit has begun the 2012 sum-mer schedule operations.However, the current sched-ule is part of a “holdingplan” till re-capitalizationand return to full utilizationof the aircraft fleet. Thestatement comes a day afterKingfisher stopped oper-ations from Mumbai andDelhi to Lucknow and Patna.“The move was expected asthe airline has been cuttingdown on operations to tier IIcities. It had already stoppedoperating direct flights likeMumbai-Jaipur, Mumbai-

Hyderabad, Mumbai-Triva-ndrum etc,” officials said.“Since passenger loads havedecreased tremendously, theairline is finding it unfeasi-ble to operate on these sec-tors,” a senior airport offi-cial said.

“In Mumbai, only flyerswho had booked 3 to 4months in advance orthrough web portal schemesare the only ones flying onKingfisher. The airline willhave to stick to its schedule ifit has to win passenger confi-dence,” he added. Summerholidays is a time when mostairlines capitalize on the pas-senger rush. “Kingfisher hasonly ruined its chances fur-ther by reducing operationsdrastically from Mumbai,”an airport official said.

“Since we could resumeoperations after getting re-capitalized, most employeeshave been asked to stayhome,” the airline’s state-ment said. The companyadded that it is waiting forvarious decisions on FDI pol-icy and working capital fund-ing. “All of these will have amajor impact on the staffingdecisions we will have tomake,” the statement said.

KF cuts summerspecials by 50%

Chinmayi Shalya TNN

Mumbai: After years of talk,there is some cause for cheerfor water transport on the east-ern coast with the Maharash-tra State Road DevelopmentCorporation (MSRDC) push-ing ahead with plans for pas-senger and roll-on/roll-off fer-ry service to be ready by 2014.

MSRDC officials said thatthe initial project will meanpassenger and roll-on/roll offtransport ferries plying fromFerry Wharf to Mandwa andalso to Nerul. Both trips willtake approximately 25 min-utes, the officials said.

The ferries will be a boon tocity residents and it will cut offmore than 90 minutes from theusual travel time by road.

“Tenders for building theterminals have been floatedand we expect work to com-mence in June and be finishedin 18 months. The project willcost a total of Rs 475 crores,’’

said senior MSRDC officials.MSRDC has decided to buildthe terminals through a cashcontract and then let privateparties ply ferries by paying alicence fee.

“Initially we will build jet-ties at Ferry Wharf, Mandwaand Nerul and later expand theroute as the passenger and cartraffic goes up. The passengerswill have to pay Rs 100 per per-son one way and the fare forcars will be from Rs 280 to 300,”the official said.

MSRDC officials said therewould be separate ferries forvehicles and passengers. Thecost of building a modern ter-minal facility at Ferry Wharfand Nerul is estimated to costRs 209 crores while the con-struction of a terminal atMandwa would cost Rs 68crores. There will be an elevat-ed road from Ferry Wharf to PD’Mello Road and the easternfreeway at Orange Gate willcost Rs 79 crores.

Tenders forferry servicejetties issued

Ashley D’Mello TNN

Mumbai: Investigators prob-ing the murder of Seema Pa-rab on a Malad (E) street in Ku-rar have found a primewitness who got a clear look atthe killer’s face.

Parab, an accountant witha beauty parlour, was on herway to work last Friday when aman stabbed her thrice. Thewitness summoned an autodriver and helped him lift Pa-rab into his vehicle. The autodriver took her to BhagwatiHospital where doctors de-clared her dead. A police teamhas been sent to Konkanwhich is Parab’s home town.

Kurar murdereyewitnessfound: Cops

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Mumbai: The anti-corrup-tion bureau (ACB), probingthe disproportionate assetsof Mhada deputy collectorNitesh Thakur, believe hemay have hidden away cashtotalling Rs 9 crore at someof his 26 properties.

On March 15, the ACB araid onThakur’s propertiesand arrested him. Docu-ments relating to his bankstatements, jewellery, andcash totalling Rs 200 crorewere seized from the prem-ises. The ACB will opposeThakur’s bail application inthe Alibaug court. The ACBis awaiting the forensic re-port of Thakur’s computerand laptop drives.

‘Mhada manhas hid ̀̀ 9crin 26 places’

S Ahmed Ali TNN

Mumbai: Grandparentsof a seven-year-old Dhara-vi girl, who was branded by her stepmother with ahot spoon, took her to Jiv-dani Mata temple in Viraron Tuesday.

The Child WelfareCommittee (CWC) handedover the girl’s custody toher grandparents on Mon-day. Dharavi police saidthe girl and her grandpar-ents will board the PawanExpress from LokmanyaTilak Terminus on We-dnesday afternoon to re-turn to their hometown atMuzzafarpur in Bihar.

“I am happy that myniece will return to her

hometown,” said the vic-tim’s uncle, Saroj Thakur.

“The CWC gave thegirl’s custody to her pater-nal grandparents after go-ing through the state-ments and records thatshowed that they had

brought her up before shecame to Mumbai,” deputypolice commissioner (zoneV) Dhananjay Kulkarnisaid. The victim’s step-mother, Aarti Thakur (24),has secured bail.

“Aarti is pregnant andwe hoped she would be al-lowed to come home for de-livery,” said a relative.

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Branded kid toleave for Bihar

V Narayan TNN

DHARAVI CASE

Mumbai: If the Shiv Sena-ledBrihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC) is to be be-lieved, then it will make anamendment to the newly-an-nounced civic budget to intro-duce a new header, ‘Open

Space Mumbai’, and makebudgetary provisions for thesame.

“The standing committeehas the right to make amend-ments to the budget. We will ta-ble a proposal to make the

amendment under the newheader for open spaces (natu-ral assets). It will be a five-yearplan to protect the city’s natu-ral assets; there is already aprovision of Rs 2,389 crore for

open spaces in the new budget.We could divert funds from thisbudgetary provision for natu-ral assets like mangroves andcreeks,” said standing commit-tee chairman Rahul Shewale.

Speaking to TOI at theOpen Mumbai exhibition heldat the National Gallery of Mod-ern Art on Tuesday, Shewalesaid a proposal will be tabled toinclude mangroves in the re-vised Development Plan as“mangroves are always proneto encroachments”.

The exhibition, organizedby the Mumbai WaterfrontsCentre and architect P K Das,was also attended by mayor Su-nil Prabhu and 73 Sena corpo-rators. Addressing Sena corpo-rators, the party’s CEO UddhavThackeray said, “I called youhere as I wanted you to see theexhibition. e manual preparedby Das. Develop a love for natu-ral assets as they are Mumbai’sprized possessions.”

Sena wants BMC to budget for Linah Baliga TNN

GREEN ASSETSA proposal will be tabled before the standing committee

to amend the civic budget to make provisions for the city’s green assets like mangroves

Afake godman, Ramji Patel (65),was arrested by the local police

and his ashram located inside theBamshet forest in Nalasopara wasdemolished by the Vasai forestdepartment on Tuesday. Two of hisaccomplices managed to flee. Copsalso recovered over Rs 50,000. TNN

Fake godman nabbed

The Azad Maidan policearrested Nitin Gada on

Monday for selling piratedsoftware in Kalbadevi. Gada hasbeen charged under theCopyrights Act and remanded inpolice custody. TNN

Pirated software arrest

A70-year-old woman, SahimaSheikh, was arrested for

possession of marijuana by thePydhonie police on Monday.Cops found 40 gm of marijuanaworth Rs 4,000 at her residence.She was released on bail onTuesday by a trial court. TNN

70-yr-old held with charas

Patrolling policemen, with thehelp of passersby, nabbed a

chain-snatcher, Montu Harbhara(26), after he snatched PreetiShetty’s (32) gold mangalsutra,worth Rs 1.2 lakh at Dahisar onMonday night. TNN

Chain-snatching foiled

A44-year-old physicallychallenged sales tax officer,

Jayvant Patil, committed suicideby hanging himself on Tuesdaymorning at his house. Thereason behind suicide is yet tobe ascertained. TNN

Tax officer hangs self

The Parksite police registered an FIR in Vikhroli on March 22against four persons, including a father-son duo. The

accused — Aziz Irani (20), Ali Irani (20) and his father Yusuf(40) and Bobby alias Kasim (19)— for allegedly misbehavingwith two minor sisters in front of their mother in December2011 over a dispute over water. TNN

FIR against four for ‘molesting’ minors

Sushil Nair (43) was killed aftera train hit him near Goregaon

station on Tuesday. Nair wascrossing the railway tracks when aChurchgate-bound fast localcrushed him. A case of accidentaldeath has been recorded. TNN

Man hit by train, dies

Students of the Academy Of Th-eatre Arts, Mumbai university,

will commemorate ‘World TheatreDay’ by staging a play ‘Khalid kiKhala’ at the Mumbai University onWednesday at 7.15pm. TNN

Play at university

The theft of a gold Ganeshidol from the Diveagar

temple was raised in the statelegislative assembly. Thepolice are yet to make anyheadway in the probe. TNN

Idol theft irks netas

The revolver of a builderfrom Palghar was allegedly

stolen from his SUV on Mondayafter he stepped out forrefreshments in Virar. TNN

Builder’s gun stolen

Social workers and triballeaders met MMRDA officials

and asked the planners to createan efficient system to distributewater. TNN

Tribals meet officials

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