VIEWS & VISION OF CITY Volume: 12, Issue: 120 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2020, MUMBAI 12 Pages, ₹2 /- RNI No. MAHENG/2009/29332 www.afternoonvoice.com Central Railway fails to recover Major hoardings fines Events Happened Newsmakers Bureau 1.13 crore is still outstanding. laqshya Media Limited has violation and outstanding fine in India afternoon_voice RTI activists had sought paid only Rs 78.24 lakh and can be voluminous. He also << information from Central yet to pay Rs 1.13 crore. The advised that it is necessary to PG 05 Railway about the hoardings railways argue that M/s blacklist such fraudulent entral Railway allows companies using more space laqshya Media Limited firms by registering an FIR for installation of than the allotted space, action company has a security against them, but on the Choardings in the taken and penalty levied in the deposit of Rs 5.75 crore on the contrary railways try to save Sad railway premises but in case of last 5 years. Senior divisional same contract and a security their skin. Otherwise, it additional space in violation commercial manager of deposit of Rs 65.73 lakh is should levy 100 per cent Demises of permission, it imposes fine Central Railway (Mumbai deposited with Byculla ROB. penalty and recover it. PG 06 << and recover it from the D i v i s i o n ) G a u r a v J h a O n t h e q u e s t i o n o f Writing to Railway Minister contractors. But the central informed Anil Galgali that blacklisting m/s laqshya Piyush Goyal, Railway Board railway has failed to recover M/s laqshya Media Limited Media Limited Company, Chairman Vinod Yadav, 100 percent penalty from M/s was found to be using more Central Railway claims that General Manager of Central Year laqshya Media Limited, a space during the year 2019-20. there is no provision for Railway Sanjeev Mittal, Anil violator of the terms and The said firm was allotted blacklisting on use of more Galgali has demanded action Ender- conditions and this has been 27600 sq ft of space under the space as per tender, only fines against the railway officials disclosed by an RTI query agreement but it was found can be imposed in such cases. who have not taken strict New filed by activist Anil Galgali. using 2000 sq ft more space in Anil Galgali pointed out that action into the matter and RTI says that out of Rs 1.91 addition to the distributed this is not only a matter in this blacklist such fraudulent firms Launches crore, only Rs 78.24 lakh has space. A fine of Rs 1.91 crore case, but it is very rampant and by registering an FIR against << been recovered so far and Rs was imposed in the case. M/s the number of such cases of them. PG 07 2020 was a rat year- we were hiding and caged call it Rat year because we were caged in lockdown, we were Farmers didn't get labor due to pandemic. hiding from social lives. And many people were running India’s and other countries’ (those facing this lockdown) GDP Itowards their states just like the rats of sinking ships. Many got declined, economic clashes. The Covid-19 pandemic that killed without getting hour of death or final rituals. This year we infected almost millions of people and killed nearly lakh lived like rats, we ate whatever was possible and we lived confined. worldwide till the filing of this story. Economies around the world Entire this year we mostly stayed at home, many youngsters lost collapsed, job losses are at a peak and several sectors witnessed a their jobs, small ventures got closed, the savings drained, salary doom. Natural disasters followed in different parts of the globe, cuts and layoffs this year gave us many challenges for survival. Lot leading to further bloodbath. India, for an example, witnessed of people come on the road; their lives also changed. Street floods, cyclones, earthquakes, and a bloody border confrontation vendors, businessmen, industries, farmers, etc. had the worst time. Dr.Vaidehi CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 afternoonvoice.com/editorial [email protected] afternoon_voice afternoonvoicenews THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2020 Editoritis AFTERNOON VOICE, MUMBAI 02 2020 was a rat year- we were hiding and caged << PAGE 1 enough tools to test and cure viruses as they does not lift the mood, but there is more than surface. cricket on the mind of anyone who values the all in the past eight months. This rat year is a Approaching the end of this troublesome year, liberal heart of the Constitution and its uniquely bizarre year. The biggest thing that we’ve the Coronavirus was an awful pandemic and it guarantees of individual freedoms. experienced in this present 21st century is the ruined and changed the lives of millions. We are The continuing erosion of civil liberty routine changes. Normally there would be new into the closing day of a year that must go down bulwarks comes along with partisan state laws movie releases every week or month in the as the worst since Independence, mostly but not for largely imagined social problems, high- cinemas, but those moments are being stopped only because of Covid-19. India is better placed handed executive action at state and central level, until these days. The daily routines are also now than it was half a century ago to deal with and prosecutorial targeting. One could add the changed; people are forced to wear a mask every multiple simultaneous crises. So while the issues messages implicit in the Supreme Court time if they go out. Due to COVID 19 pandemic confronting the country go beyond the extreme judgment last year in the Ramjanmabhoomi case, Tourism industry, one of the most suffered privations caused by the lockdown, and beyond followed this year by the “not guilty” verdict for industry ever in terms of economy. 2020 will most also the vaccination challenge to tame a deadly everyone accused of conspiring to pull down the definitely go down in history as it is the year where virus that has taken a massive toll, the economic Babri masjid. As the country enters the third the whole world is suffering from one pandemic damage can be substantially repaired in the next decade of the century, one thing is clear: Its known as Covid-19. couple of years — the sharp shrinking of the institutions and instincts, resources and reserves The virus has claimed almost 3.4 million lives economy for the first time in four decades, the will face tough stress tests. The government can out of 5.43 million reported cases leading to large-scale loss of jobs, the impact on argue with reason that it has dealt proactively governments taking control measures like government finances, and the ballooning of with issues and pushed economic reform in the curfews and lockdowns to contain the virus. public debt. But, to repeat, the blight on the year midst of crisis. But the violence in a Karnataka Still, in the same year, it is seen that 500 million wasn’t just on account of Covid. factory by unpaid workers reminds everyone that animals died due to bushfire in Australia. To In fact Covid brought to a halt the sustained capitalism functions best with effective many, this may seem like the most disastrous agitation against a new citizenship law by people regulation and oversight. Meanwhile, the year, but after in-depth research, it is clear that who feared the horrors of potential statelessness. uncompromising stance of agitating farmers who the world has experienced worse cases before. As the year draws to a close, farmers in north fear the loss of a safety net is reminiscent of the Conditions like smallpox in (1520) and the India have laid siege to Delhi in protest against anti-corruption agitation of 2011. The underlying Spanish Flu (1920) that claimed about 100 three new laws to do with agriculture (produce problem was and is lack of trust between the million lives are just but an example of dark days marketing, contract farming, and application of rulers and the ruled. So, it is time the most that the world has experienced in the past. Each the Essential Commodities Act). In between, powerful government of the past three decades showed how unprepared the world is to face there were the first large-scale riots in Delhi after reminded itself of the promises it made: Good severe virus attacks and expose negligence by the post-Partition mayhem (1984 was a pogrom, days, good governance, and progress for various governments in equipping hospitals with not a riot). The Test cricket team’s performance everyone. [email protected] vaidehitaman vaidehisachin Volume No. 12 | Issue No. 120 Editor Dr. Vaidehi Printer and Publisher Printed at Newsmakers Publications Pvt. Ltd. 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