City to Observe Global E-Waste Day on October 14
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The Dynamic Daily Newspaper of Navi Mumbai 12 October VOL. 13 • ISSUE 137 PAGES 10 • PRICE ` 1 2019 SATURDAY RNI No. MAHEN/2007/21778 POSTAL REGN. NO. NMB/154/2017-19/VASHI MDG POST OFFICE NEWS IN City to observe global Senior Citizens demand BRIEF E-Waste Day on October 14 Escalators & Lifts Annual Most of the stations do exhibition Red bins, street play, human chain to not have the facility cum sale create awareness about safe disposal By Abhitash D. Singh ity is still a dream for Students, staff NAVI MUMBAI: Un- the Navi Mumbaikars. and management of like most of the sta- Sunil Parab (60) a Swami Brahmanand NAVI MUMBAI: Elec- tronic waste or e-waste tions in resident of Pratishthan, Centre Central Ulwe who for special children is is emerging as a seri- ous public health and and West- travels organizing their ern rail- from 30th annual exhibi- major environmental concern in the country. way line, Kharkopar tion cum sale on Oc- the sta- to Vashi dai- tober 12, 2019 from With an aim to in- crease consumers’ tions in ly says, “It 10.30 am to 6.30pm Navi becomes dif- at Swami Brah- knowledge about e- waste and how to dis- Mumbai ficult for the manand Pratish- are still person of than ‘Nav-Shanti’, pose it off correctly, en- vironmental groups, not com- my age to plot no 7, Sector 8A, muter travel in the CBD, Navi Mumbai. students and NGOs in 2019. and NGO Navi Mum- the city have come to- As part of the cam- bai First, students friendly, local train gether to observe the paign spearheaded by from Anchorwala Edu- say senior due to un- Coffee with International E-waste environment forum, citizens. availability Day on October 14, The Nature Connect Contd. on pg. 2 The sta- of lifts and Goa CM tions nei- escalators Goa State Chief ther have in almost Minister Pramod Fake driving license racket busted escala- all the sta- Sawant will be com- tors nor tions of Navi ing in the city on the By Crime Reporter elevators Mumbai. I due to which they have have to take staircases October 12. He will NAVI MUMBAI: The 245 fake licenses seized be participating in APMC police have ar- to use staircases, which for changing the the ‘Coffee with CM’- rested members of a becomes a difficult trains.” a chat programme task, they add. gang who issued fake Contd. on pg. 7 with Navi Mumbai driving license. The Both the Central doctors. The pro- gang allegedly stole the and Western Railway gramme will be held cancelled driving li- had decided to install between 4 pm to censes from the Navi escalators and eleva- 5 pm at Grand Mumbai RTO office tors at most of the sta- Mookambika Hotel, and made around 245 tions in the year 2011. plot No 1, Sector 1A, fake driving licenses. A After eight years, most Koperkhairane, in- large number of fake of the stations in both formed Dr. Rahul licenses, rubber stamps central and western Dhale, President of of Navi Mumbai, Pan- lines have at least two doctors Cell. to three escalators and Contd. on pg. 9 also lifts but this facil- www.newsband.in | [email protected] 2 Saturday, 12 October 2019 RCS Students Pay Tributes To Elders With Love & Affection Montessori students showcasing their personalised greeting cards and mimicked their Grandparents. Few of them even dressed like their elders in the family By Ashok Dhamija contribution towards NAVI MUMBAI: USA the society an activity based Tia Walker, a was conducted on renowned public Friday 11th of Octo- speaker, facilitator of ber 2019 by Ryan women’s groups, Christian school healthy lifestyle Vashi. advocate and proud Ryanites from mother of three sons Mont I to Gr. VIII once said “To care for made beautiful those who once cared greeting cards to for us is one of the express their love and highest honors.” gratitude for their Who better can be grandparents. Little referred in our close ones from Montessori Secondary students pen their thought about their sweet memories about their Grand Parents during one of the many surroundings, than section also imitated activities held to mark the International Elder’s Day one’s own Grandpar- their grandparents ents. They are the of a loving legacy, the tions. Grandparents Through their special close at heart. To with role plays much family’s greatest greatest storytellers, are the family’s love and care, grand- honour them and to to the delight of the treasure, the founders the keepers of tradi- strong foundation. parents keep a family appreciate their gathering. City to laptops, cameras, TVs last year’s collective “The ill-effects of pealed to the PM and lamented Lions club etc. campaign, Navi Mum- improper and irrespon- the various States to member, Vijayalaksh- observe A group of citizens bai Municipal Corpora- sible disposal of e- take appropriate policy mi B. global... will gather at 11 am on tion (NMMC) had an- waste are too well measures and save the It may be recalled Saturday to formally nounced to set up an known to be de- nation from future that according to AS- Contd. from pg. 1 launch the campaign. E-waste education sec- scribed,” said Mohan shocks. Sadly, envi- SOCHAM, an indus- cation Academy will “We will hand over the tion at the country’s Gurnani, Chairman of ronment care is one of trial body in India, the stage a street play and E waste to government first Swachh Park at Navi Mumbai First. the most neglected as- Compound Annual conduct a human recognised labs for safe Koparkhairane. That “We are told that high pects by the Centre Growth Rate (CAGR) of chain at Vashi Railway disposal and recy- was a good beginning. and prolonged exposure and States.” electronic waste is station focusing on e- cling,” said B N Ku- We now need to go be- to these chemicals and ”It is shocking 30%. With changing waste management. mar, director of The yond this Park concept pollutants emitted dur- that the awareness consumer behaviour Lions Club of Navi Nature Connect. An- and ensure proper col- ing unsafe e-waste re- about proper disposal and rapid economic Mumbai NRI will also chorwala Education lection and disposal,” cycling leads to dam- of e-waste if generally growth, ASSOCHAM participate. Academy has also kept said Kumar. age of nervous sys- lacking and hence estimates that India In a first citizen en- a red bin at its school The Nature Con- tems, blood systems, many of us tend to sell will generate 5.2 mil- deavour, The Nature inviting students, par- nect has launched a kidneys and brain de- it as any other junk to lion tonnes of e-waste Connect will keep a ents and teachers to campaign addressing velopment, respiratory kabadi and raddiwalas,” by 2020. dedicated red e-waste make use of it. the Chief Ministers of disorders, skin disor- bin at its premises at The Nature Con- States like Maharash- ders, bronchitis, lung Sector-6 as a perma- nect has aligned itself tra, Telangana, Kar- cancer, heart, liver, ATTENTION READERS nent facility for people with the Europe based nakata and Haryana and spleen damage,” While every effort is made to check the genuineness of to deposit their dis- WEEE (Waste Electric which has IT and he said. party/parties inserting ads in this paper, we cannot be held carded e waste prod- sand Electric Equip- ITES hubs using and Nandakumar responsible for the truthfulness of its contents. The publish- ucts, which may in- ment) Forum to focus replacing electronic Pawar, head of Shree ers, Editor and/or the staff cannot be held responsible for clude gadgets like on scientific disposal of equipment in large Ekvika Aai Pratishtan any loss or damage due to transactions that they may enter smartphone, tablets, e-waste. “During our numbers. said: “We have ap- into guided by the ads. Printed and owned by Kailash Shankarlalji Gindodia Published by Shiv Kailash Gindodia Editor : Varda Sharma Printed at Siddhakala Print Media & Publications Pvt. Ltd. Plot No. W-230, T.T.C. Ind. Area, MIDC, Khairane, Navi Mumbai – 400 710 and published at 1313/1314, 13th Floor, Real Tech Park, Plot No. 39/2, Sec. 30A, Vashi, Navi Mumbai 400 703. • RNI No. MAHENG2007/21778 • Postal Regn. No. NMB/154/2014-16/Vashi MDG Post Office • ABC Certificte No. 133/2106 Phone : 2087 0513 / 2781 5380 Telefax : 2781 5380 e-mail : [email protected] website : www.newsband.in www.newsband.in | [email protected] 3 12 - 18 October 2019 Two Nigerians arrested for selling drugs Sharbat distrubuted on Vijayadashami to school students in Navi Mumbai By Crime Reporter about a man named team chased and NAVI MUMBAI: A spe- Imran Gulshan Khan nabbed the Nigerian cial anti-narcotics (30), who sold drugs citizen and arrested team of Circle-1 has near Fr. Agnel School him. When the police arrested two Nigerian in Vashi. Accordingly, checked they found 35 citizens and a peddler special squad laid a grams of heroin in his who smuggled heroin trap and nabbed Imran possession. Subse- and methaculone near the school. The quently, both the Nige- drugs to students in police found 12 grams rian citizens and Im- various schools, colleg- of methaculone under ran Khan have been es in Navi Mumbai. Ac- his possession. When arrested under NDPS, cording to Deputy the team further in- said Deputy Commis- Commissioner of Po- quired, he informed sioner of Police Pankaj By Chandrashekhar Hendve Sharbat to the committee president lice, Pankaj Dahane, about two other accom- Dahane.