HC Orders Restoration of Lotus Lake
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www.newsband.in • VOL. 15 • ISSuE: 71 • FRIday, 23 JuLy 2021 • RNI No. MAHEN/2007/21778 • POSTAL REGN. NO. NMB/154/2020-22/VASHI MDG POST OFFICE PAGES: 8 PRICE : 2.00 State Government looking HC orders restoration into greens plea to restore Maharashtra hills, check landslides Government to conduct of Lotus Lake Teacher Eligibility Test s landslides wreaked ban Development-2, after a gap of NMMC deploys trucks to remove debris Ahavoc during the and Manisha Patankar two years while CIDCO is yet to respond current wave of inces- Mhaiskar, Principal Sec- With a view to pro- sant rains, Chief Minis- retary – Environment. vide aspiring candidates By Ryhea George Lake. After the activists acre lake near Parsik hill ter Uddhav Thackeray “We do not want to an opportunity to pur- fter hearing the PIL dug more information is a verified wetland area quickly responded to go into the legalities of sue teaching as a viable filed by Advocate about lotus lake it was which is being used for environmentalists’ plea the hutments and struc- A to restore hills across the tures on the hills and career in Maharashtra, Pradeep Patole on debris known that the wetland is dumping of debris in the Mumbai Metropolitan hill slopes,” said Kumar, the state government being dumped in Lotus Lake near Parsik hill, a Region (MMR) and re- “since it is for the gov- is all set to conduct the settle the shanty dwell- ernment to decide.” Maharashtra Teacher bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Dutta and Jus- ers. “We are concerned Eligibility Test (MAHA- In a letter to the about protecting the TET) after a gap of two tice Girish Kulkarni of Mumbai High Court on Chief Minister, NatCon- hills and of course the years… nect Foundation said the lives of people,” Ku- (More on page 3) 9th July, 2021 said that the matter was serious and the debris must be (Photo by NatConnect Foundation) Covid-19 positivity rate removed. The Mumbai now below 1.5 percent High Court verbally said in NMMC jurisdiction “Remove debris and re- As per the Navi store lotus lake”. Mumbai Municipal Cor- During the early a part of NWIA (National lake, which is slowly de- poration (NMMC) data, months of 2020, many Wetland Inventory and stroying the lake. the positivity rate in environment activists Assessment) and the area Speaking about the the NMMC jurisdiction raised their voice regard- is more than 2.25 hectare hearing, Advocate Satya- has dropped below 1.5 ing the dumping of debris and is eligible for wetland percent now. This is as in the area near Lotus conservation. This seven- CONTINUED ON PAGE... 7 landslides are an eye- mar said and pointed per the weekly average opener for protecting out that the government compared to the previ- Mangrove restoration activity planned the region’s biodiversity could resettle the slum ous lowest of 2 percent and requested the gov- dwellers as per the Slum reported last week... ernment to quickly order Redevelopment Author- on World Mangrove Conservation Day a census of all hutments ity norms or under the (More on page 3) on the hills across MMR Pradhan Mantri Awas Baby mangrove saplings to be planted in mangrove and work on a resettle- Yojana (PMAY). Rtn. Rajendra Agarwal zone near Vashi mini seashore ment plan. In this connection, installed as District “We are happy that he drew the attention of Governor the CM responded in the government to Par- Rtn Rajendra Agarw- less than six hours,” said sik Hill rejuvenation by al on Tuesday July 2021 B N Kumar, director of NMMC in association was installed as District NatConnect Founda- with TERI (The Energy Governor 2021-22 at tion. The CM’s mail and Research Institute) a glittering function in was marked to Mahesh the midst of RI (Rotary Pathak, Secretary – Ur- CONTINUED ON PAGE... 2 International) President Shekhar Mehta and First Lady Rashi Mehta and in the presence of RI Di- rector Mahesh Kotbagi, By Indrani Basu under the project Eco- balance and to save the members of the col- ith an aim to re- restoration of Mangrove city life from the fury lege of past governors, Wstore mangroves, on World Mangrove of floods and related members of the core saplings of mangroves Conservation Day on destruction. With this team and many Rotary will be planted by the July 26th. motto team from Indian Dream Presidents. team of women scien- Eco restoration is Women Scientists’ As- (More on page 5) tists, their interns and the need of the hour to mangrove Marshalls protect the ecological CONTINUED ON PAGE... 7 2 Friday, 23 July 2021 Activists and nature lovers clean cemetery and Nana-Nani park By Chandrashekhar Hendve (Khopte) and the surround- which had grown were cut. als. Therefore, the area should Love Point Group and Friends over Point Group and ing areas at Nana-Nani Park Citizens from Uran East look clean and beautiful. With Group, an organization from LFriends Group, cleaned the in Uran. During the clean-up come to Nana Nani Park near a view to prevent the spread Khopte village in Uran taluka, crematorium at Bandhapada drive, the grasses and shrubs the creek for Dashakriya ritu- of any kind of disease, the carried out the social activities. Working President of Congress, Retired man cheated By Crime Reporter learn business. Amit gave Rs ten lakh Kharghar City demands vaccination retired man living At that time, Amit from the company's ac- Ain Vashi, Sector-12 Trivedi had asked Bho- count to Apollo Hospital centre for pregnant women was cheated by a young sale to invest Rs thirty for his father's treatment. man acquaintance by lakhs for it. Since Praveen He also took Rs two lakh By Ryhea George Pawar said, “Pregnant women forcing him to invest Rs did not have a job, Bho- from his brother Sumit, orking President of Con- need to visit hospitals often thirty lakhs in spice busi- sale had decided to do Rs five lakh from his Wgress, Kharghar City, for their check ups and medi- ness. The youth, identi- business with Amit and girlfriend Jyoti Samant Dr. Swapnil Pawar in a letter cations and during such times, fied as Amit Trivedi, has paid money. Amit then and Rs nine lakh sixty to the commissioner of the the hospitals, which are consid- been booked by the Vashi started a company called thousand from his own Panvel City Municipal Cor- ered to the hot spots for the vi- police for fraud and em- Nitya Impex under the account. In this way, poration (PCMC) has urged to rus spread, it becomes risky for bezzlement. name of Bhosale's wife. Amit Trivedi used the start special Covid-19 vaccina- the pregnant women. Already The complainant in After that, Amit did company's money for tion centre for the pregnant women. there is a lot of rush in the vaccina- this case is Sahebrao not involve Praveen in personal work. With medical experts giving green tion centres in the city. Going there for Bhosale (62), retired in any of the company's Meanwhile, when signal and clearly specifying that vaccination and waiting in serpentine 2018. At that time, Bho- transactions, and kept Bhosale demanded the pregnant women can get Covid vac- queue, can be risky and tiring for preg- sale's son Pravin Bho- him as a nominee. Mean- money from Amit, he cination, which is safe for the foetus nant women. PCMC needs to start a sale's classmate Sumit while, Amit from time handed over a cheque of and the mother, most of the municipal special vaccination centre for women Trivedi had met Bhosale. to time withdrew money Rs thirty lakh. However, corporations have started vaccinating who are expecting and special prior- He also said that his from Bhosle's wife's ac- the cheque got bounced pregnant women. However, PCMC ity should be given to them. We learn brother Amit Trivedi was count under the pretext back. Bhosale lodged a has not given any such information or that the letter has been forwarded to running a spice business of orders placement. complaint with the Vashi notice to the public in this regard. the Chief minister’s office for consid- in the APMC market. While Bhosale's wife police station alleging Speaking with the Newsband, eration.” And encourage Pravin to has a 60 per cent stake embezzlement of money. in the company, he did Accordingly, the police State GOVERNMENT Kumar said. Turbhe and at the foot- reside at the foothills,” not pay any compensa- have registered a case of LOOKING INTO GREENS... NatConnect also ex- hill in Belapur which the group said. tion to Bhosale. Also, embezzlement against CONTINUED FROM PAGE...1 pressed concern over face the landslide threat. Nandakumar Pawar, without giving any idea Amit Trivedi and started and said similar plans CIDCO plans to develop The non-stop quarry- head of Shri Ekvira Aai to Bhosle and his family, an investigation. could be worked out for affordable housing un- ing is also in progress at Pratishtan, said the gov- restoration of hills and der the Pradhan Mantri Kharghar and poses an- ernment should have a CHANGE OF NAME slopes in other areas of Awas Yojana (PMAY) other major threat, said fresh look at the entire I have changed my name from SOKOMAL CHANDRA MMR as well. along the quarried Par- activist Naresh Chandra MMR biodiversity and sik Hill range. Apart Singh. work on a comprehen- BHOWMICK to SUKOMAL CHANDRA BHOWMICK The next danger- as per documents. ous area is the quarried from the fact that the A tweet from sive plan to save the en- stretch of Parsik Hills land is under the Forest Kharghar Wetlands vironment and people’s that is landslide prone Department, the project group appealed to CI- lives.