The Dynamic Daily Newspaper of Navi Mumbai Wednesday, 21 October 2020 www.newsband.in Pages 8 • Price 2 VOL. 14 • ISSUE 114 RNI No. MAHEN/2007/21778 POSTAL REGN. No. NMB/154/2020-22/VASHI MDG POST OFFICE Cidco’s open plots turn into Two years on, Rs 78 crore garbage dumping grounds Small shop vendors Juinagar ROB still stuck in papers The residents demand that Cidco plant trees to make By Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan should start the projects for which these marketplace greener Navi Mumbai plots have been reserved Last week a unique t has been nearly two event took place in Iyears since the Navi Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan to them and in some of Kharghar. Small ven- Mumbai Municipal Cor- Navi Mumbai them they have even dors came forward poration (NMMC) had he City and Indus- mentioned the purpose to make a portion of announced that they Ttrial Development for what those plots have Kharghar node clean would develop a rail Corporation (Cidco) been reserved. But some and green. The small over bridge (ROB) at the has failed to protect the unidentified culprits shop owners, local Juinagar railway cross- open plots which they have broken the bound- vendors and garden- ing with a budget of Rs have reserved for differ- ary walls and have now ers from sector 35, 78 crore. However, they Surendra Patil, city he further said. ent developmental proj- started dumping debris Kharghar planted are unable to start work engineer of NMMC said, Ever since the arterial ects in their areas, allege there.” around 100 saplings in at the site till date. “We started the tender- road was developed by the residents. “We believe, the cul- association with ‘Adopt Due to lack of in- ing process last year and the City and Industrial the Nature’ group, last frastructures, a huge a few contractors have Developed Corporation week, under the cam- number of accidents come forward to take (Cidco) above the rail- paign “Each one plant have taken place at the up the projects. How- way tracks in mid-1990s, one”… crossing in the past two- ever, their rates are very the residents were forced (More on page 8) and-a-half decades. On high and hence we have to cross the junction put- 13,000 commuters November, 24 in 2018, not been able to give the ting their lives at risk. travelled on the 1st an NMMT bus was hit contract to any of them. Thousands of vehicles day of the resumption by an empty rake there. Thus, we are not in a and pedestrians use that of Metro train Nine passengers from position to say exactly road every day to reach After remain- that bus suffered injuries when the work at the site the Juinagar and Sanpa- ing closed for seven in the accident. This is will be started.” da railway stations from months, the Mumbai just one example of the “If we find a good the Juinagar node. Metro One Pvt Ltd many. contractor with reason- Around two months (MMOPL) resumed the Just after that ac- able rates, it will take after the bus accident, The town planning prits transport the debris services of their metro cident, the then com- us just one-and-a-half the central railway (CR) agency has reserved a from the construction trains on Monday, missioner of NMMC, month to complete the put a level crossing gate huge number of open sites and dump here, be- October, 19, 2020. Ramaswamy N had an- official formalities. Once (an iron bar on either side plots in their nodes such cause they know there is Around 13,000 com- nounced that they would the work is started at the of the crossing) there as Kharghar, Taloja, no one to catch hold of muters from MMR develop an ROB at the site, it will be completed Ulwe and Dronagiri. them. It is happening for region travelled on the crossing. within eighteen months,” CONTINUED ON page... 5 Most of these plots have the past several years. first day from Ghatko- been reserved for devel- Since, Cidco is not pay- par to Versova. Navi oping gardens, police ing due attention to this Mumbaikars were de- CIDCO's Chief Vigilance Officer to stations, health centres, matter, we have to live lighted and they too bus depots and other with these ‘dumping rejoiced the metro purview civic works in Navi Mumbai offices. However, due grounds’ in our neigh- train’s trip after a gap Navi Mumbai It is felt that to the indifference of bourhood,” he said. of seven months… s per the this decision will the concerned depart- The scenario is worse (More on page 2) instruc- help in the early ment, almost all such in Ulwe and Dronagiri. A plots have now turned tions of the Vice execution of the CONTINUED ON page... 6 President and work and proper into garbage dumping Managing Direc- c o o r d i n a t i o n grounds, say the local tor of the City with the civic residents. and Industrial bodies- the Navi Ameya Jadhav, a D e v e l o p m e n t Mumbai Munici- resident of Kharghar Corporation (CI- pal Corporation said, “There are quite a DCO), Dr. San- (NMMC) and few such open plots in jay Mukherjee, Panvel Municipal the interior Kharghar the civic works in Navi Mumbai will Corporation (PMC). It will also help such as sector 34, 35 now be under the purview of the Chief in redressing the problems related to and 36. The Cidco has Vigilance Officer, Shashikant Maha- civic services in Navi Mumbai more put boards claiming varkar. quickly and efficiently. that those plots belong 2 Wednesday, 21 October 2020 Local train for women: BJP playing 13,000 commuters travelled on the politics, allege Congress & Shiv-Sena 1st day of the resumption of Metro train By Abhitash D.Singh the women took U-turn state government had Commuters from Navi Mumbai expressed happiness Navi Mumbai and said that in order to announced the starting here was a feeling start the services, they of the local trains for the with the resumption of services after 7 months of happiness and need to convene a meet- women from 17th Octo- T By Abhitash D. Singh glee among the women ing with the railway ber, 2020. But soon after Navi Mumbai commuters over the an- board and after their nod the state government fter remaining nouncement of starting the local trains can be released the circular in closed for seven local trains for them by started for the women this regard, the railway A months, the Mumbai the Maharashtra gov- commuters. If the local authorities came up with Metro One Pvt Ltd ernment in the MMR trains for the women had another circular saying (MMOPL) resumed the region from 17th Oc- started from 17th Octo- that they can’t permit the services of their metro tober, 2020. However, ber, 2020, many women women on local trains trains on Monday, Oc- their delight was short commuters would have till they get a nod from tober, 19, 2020. Around lived as the railway au- benefitted during the the railway board.” 13,000 commuters from thorities at the last mo- Navratri festival.” “Union Railway MMR region travelled ment declined the deci- Sawant further add- Minister Piyush Goel is on the first day from Mishra further add- day of the resumption sion and said that after ed, “While, the leaders from Mumbai and he is Ghatkopar to Versova. ed, “The entire staff of of metro train services. having a meeting with of the Bhartiya Janata the senior leader from Navi Mumbaikars were MMOPL are equipped Deepa Suryavanshi, a the railway board, BJP. He must be well delighted and they with all the necessary resident of Nerul Sec- further course of ac- versed with the dif- too rejoiced the metro safety gear and health tor-19 speaking with tion will be taken. ficulties being faced train’s trip after a gap of desks. Also, the health the Newsband corre- Shiv-Sena and Con- by the women com- seven months. check-up kiosks have spondent said, “I missed gress, the coalition muters. Why doesn’t Abhay Kumar Mish- been set-up at all entry traveling in the metro parties with the state he take an action and ra, CEO, MMOPL while points. Wearing a mask train from the last seven government, allege give green signal speaking with the media is mandatory while trav- months, that is, after the that the Bhartiya Ja- for starting the local and thanking the state eling as well as during declaration of lockdown. nata Party (BJP) is trains for women. government said, “Fi- wait at stations. Every- Even though I don’t go playing politics over This can gradually nally the metro trains one needs to follow the for a job in Ghatkopar starting local trains be started for other have been started for the social distancing norms or Andheri but since the for the women in the Party (BJP) as also the passengers too. Earlier, commuters but initially both inside the trains services started after city. Maharashtra governor BJP had organised vari- we will be running only also at the stations. Met- 7 months I went along Speaking with the are creating unnecessary ous protests and Ghanta- 200 trains in compari- ro has adopted a con- with my husband and media during the press ruckus over the issue naad (Ringing Bell) pro- son with 400 trains be- tactless ticketing sys- son just to have fun in conference Sachin of opening of religious test was carried out with fore the lockdown.