Poorly Maintained NMMT Buses
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The Dynamic Daily Newspaper of Navi Mumbai Wednesday, 11 November 2020 www.newsband.in Pages 8 • Price 2 VOL. 14 • ISSUE 132 RNI No. MAHEN/2007/21778 POSTAL REGN. No. NMB/154/2020-22/VASHI MDG POST OFFICE Liquor is being Poorly maintained sold in Kharghar NMMC chief holds special meeting illegally, say residents The commissioner NMMT buses irk Although a ‘dry zone’, a number of villagers of the Navi Mumbai Mu- are selling liquor in Kharghar, allege residents nicipal Corporation, Ab- hijit Bangar held a spe- daily commuters By Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan small cars like Innova cial meeting to discuss By Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan paying exorbitantly for the seats of their buses. Navi Mumbai and Sumo for transport- various sanitation works Navi Mumbai the tickets. You will see a thick lay- harghar is the first ing the liquor at night.” that need to be carried he daily commut- Sheetal Kamble, a er of dust on almost all Kresidential area “You will find as out for 'Swachh Survey Ters of the Navi which was declared as many as five liquor shops 2021'… Mumbai Municipal a ‘dry zone’ in the city only in Owepeth gaon. (More on page 4) Corporation (NMMT) of Navi Mumbai. Tak- Apart from the premi- Overdue salaries buses are miffed as the ing the views of the lo- um wines, homemade of State Transport transport authority is cal residents into con- liquor is also available employees to be given not taking care of their sideration, the district in their shops. People before Diwali: Trans- buses before running administration has not port Minister them on the city roads. allowed a single wine “The entire over- Different issues shop there till date. due salaries of the ST such as dirty and dam- This ban put on the employees, which has aged seats, missing wine shops, however, been pending for the window panes, broken is hardly serving any last three months will doors among others purpose as a number of be paid before Diwali”, have been annoying villagers are illegally assured Transport Min- the commuters for a selling liquor at differ- ister Adv. Anil Parab long time. They com- ent places of the town. from outside Kharghar (More on page 7) plain that due to such According to the local also come for purchas- residents, such unli- ing liquor from them. Glass panes of 25 issues, they are unable resident of Nerul said, the seats. The seats are censed wine shops are We are sure, Kharghar parked auto-rickshaws to enjoy smooth trav- “First of all, the NMMT CONTINUED ON page...2 prevalent in every nook police are also aware of smashed elling even as they are takes no effort to clean and corner of sector 32, it,” he added. The glass panes of and 35 of the node. Manoj Mane, a social about 25 to 30 parked Burglar involved in 22 theft Dharmendra Sutar, activist said, “Kharghar auto-rickshaws on pri- a resident said, “Some has been a liquor-free vate land in the Digha residents of Owepeth zone since it was de- area were smashed on cases nabbed gaon of sector 32, and veloped by the City and Monday morning. Ra- With his arrest many burglary cases are likely to be uncovered Owa gaon and Papdi Industrial Development bale MIDC police have cha Pada of sector 35, Corporation (CIDCO) registered a case against have been selling liquor in early 1970s. A wine an unidentified group as their traditional busi- shop was opened here (More on page 3) ness for last many years. in 2007, but all the resi- Covid-19: four test They transport the li- dents raised their voices positive in Uran taluka quor from various parts against it and conse- On Tuesday (No- of Mumbai and distrib- quently it had to be vember 10), 4 patients ute among themselves. tested positive for Covid- Generally they use CONTINUED ON page... 2 19, taking the tally in Uran Taluka to 2122. A total of 1966 patients have been discharged. 44 corona positive pa- tients are undergoing treatment and 112 co- By Crime Reporter been registered in the will be unearthed. rona positive patients Navi Mumbai Navi Mumbai and Thane The accused, Kisan have died till date, said erul police have suc- Police Commissioner- Mahadev Vhankore, a Uran Tehsildar Bhausa- Nceeded in arresting a ates. With his arrest, the native of Wagdari vil- heb Andhare. burglar against whom 22 police are hopeful that cases of burglary have several cases of burglary CONTINUED ON page... 7 2 Wednesday, 11 November 2020 KVIC’s e-portal brings early Blood donation camp held Diwali for empowered potters The camp was organized by Shiv Sena Apta Branch on By Chandrashekhar Hendve KVIC is also sell- e-portal, diyas made in the occasion of Memorial Day of Balasaheb Thackeray Mumbai ing diyas and other clay Rajasthan are being pur- hadi and Village In- items such as Laxmi- chased in remote states Kdustries Commis- Ganesh idols and other like Arunachal Pradesh, sion (KVIC), this year, decoratives through J&K, Kerala,Assam, for the first time, decid- its outlets in Delhi and Maharashtra, Andaman ed to sell diyas to online other cities. These idols & Nicobar Islands. This and through stores to are being made by pot- has prompted an in- become foot soldiers of ters in Varanasi, Rajas- crease in production and the Prime minister's vi- than, Haryana and other higher income of the pot- sion of Vocal for Local. states and are fetching ters,” Saxena said. “This KVIC launched online good income for the pot- is precisely the dream of sale of Diyas on Octo- ters. Diyas, on the other the Hon'ble Prime Min- ber 8, and in less than hand, is being procured ister to empower potters a month, nearly 10,000 from KVIC units in and revive the art of pot- diyas have already been Pokharan in Jaisalmer tery,” Saxena added. sold online. Huge de- and Rawatsar in Hanu- Madan Lal Praja- mand for Khadi’s clay mangarh district in Ra- pati, one such potter of By Dinesh Pawar, Uran Thorve, Karade Gram Mehtar, Tejas Kakade, diyas was seen PMEGP unit in blood donation Panchayat Member Ni- Sunil Pawar, Omkar from the very first Pokharan, said this A camp was organized tesh Karande, Yuvasena Pawar, Sujit Mehtar, Raj day of its launch is the first time he on behalf of Apta Shiv Taluka Officer Vikrant Mehtar, Abhay Rapte, and In less than 10 is selling diyas Sena branch on 8th No- Gharat, Kelvane Zilla Shivdas Bhoir, Rupesh days, a majority outside his vil- vember 2020 on the oc- Parishad Divisional Of- Rathod, Sushant Mehtar, of designer diyas lage. “This diwali casion of Memorial Day ficer Swapnil Bhovad, Nishant Mehtar, Amrit were completely our sale has shot of Balasaheb Thackeray. Branch Head Rajendra Sonwane, Sagar Bho- sold out. up. We are sup- A large number of blood Gholap, Sub Branch vad, Ganesh Thorve, Following this, plying our diyas donors participated in Chief Sanjay Ambwane, Rohan Bhoir, Mayur KVIC launched to Khadi Bhavan the cam. Apta Gram Panchayat Bhoir, Bhushan Bhoir, new sets of de- in Delhi and from Zilla Parishad mem- Member Vrishabh Dhu- Kaustubh Jadhav, Yash signer diyas that there it is being ber Vijay Bhoir, Deputy mal , Sameer Bhalekar, Kakade, Abhinav Phul- are also in huge sold throughout Taluka Chief Ashok Babu Sayyed, Vinayak mali were present. demand. The sale of di- jasthan. Over 10,000 di- the country online. This yas is further rising with yas have also been sold is fetching me good in- POORLy maintained demic, when the trains nance. The commuters Diwali inching closer. through various Khadi come,” he said. NMMT BUSES IRk... are being run with a lot my find some minor is- KVIC has launched outlets. Notably, KVIC has CONTINUED FROM page...1 of restrictions, the resi- sues, but we try and fix 8 types of designer di- KVIC Chairman trained these potters so dirty that no one feels dents are mostly depen- them as soon as these yas that are priced nomi- Shri Vinai Kumar Sax- and provided them with like sitting on them. On dent on the civic buses. come to our notice,” he nally between Rs 84 and ena said the online sale electric potter wheels several occasions, I my- Therefore, the transport said. Rs 108 for a set of 12 of clay items is empow- and other equipment self chose to stand even authority should keep “As far as the dust pieces. KVIC is also of- erment of KVIC potters under Kumhar Sashak- as there were vacant their buses in good con- issue is concerned, we fering a discount of 10% in real sense. “Earlier, tikaran Yojana that has seats in the buses.” ditions so that the com- have seen it mostly in on these diyas. KVIC potters in a particular increased their produc- “In quite a few bus- muters do not face any the buses which ply potters have expressed region would only sell tion and income by up es, I have observed dam- problem,” he said. around the airport site. happiness that they are their items locally but to 5 times. So far, KVIC aged seats too. In fact I Shirish Aradwad, Because of the ongoing earning Rs 2 to Rs 3 with the pan-India reach has distributed over have barely seen the general manager of construction work, dust on sale of every diya. of Khadi’s e-portal, 18,000 electric potter long rear seats in good NMMT said that they accumulates in the seat Khadi’s designer diyas these products are being wheels benefitting over shape.