The Dynamic Daily Newspaper of Navi Mumbai Tuesday, 20 October 2020 www.newsband.in Pages 8 • Price 2 VOL. 14 • ISSUE 113 RNI No. MAHEN/2007/21778 POSTAL REGN. No. NMB/154/2020-22/VASHI MDG POST OFFICE State government gives nod to PCMC to cancel MoU with start gyms from 25th October Mastermind behind Group exercises like zumba, steam, sauna gutkha racket arrested Dr. DY Patil & MGM Hospital The anti-narcotics and yoga centres to remain closed squad of the Navi Mum- Action initiated after state government’s directions By Chandrashekhar Hendve bai Police on Saturday By Abhitash D. Singh tion, the then former Commissioner. green signal as per the Navi Mumbai morning arrested the Navi Mumbai PCMC chief Ganesh The PCMC has come instructions in the SOP. nder ‘Mission Be- mastermind behind the he Maharashtra Deshmukh had entered into criticism after enter- Chief Adviser to the gin Again’, the gutkha racket in Navi Government’s health into an agreement with ing into the agreement. U Chief Minister Ajoy T Maharashtra State Gov- Mumbai. Pramod Das department has directed the Dr. D Y Patil Hospi- Rajesh Tope, Maha- Mehta, Additional Chief alias Kalu (35) was ar- the Commissioner of the ernment has given its Secretary to the Chief rested by the police Panvel City Municipal nod to start gym opera- Minister Ashish Kumar while he was trying to Corporation (PCMC) to tions in the state from Singh, Additional Com- flee from Mumbai air- cancel the agreement for Dussehra i.e. 25th Oc- missioner of Mumbai port to Bhubaneswar the treatment of Covid- tober, 2020. Chief Min- Municipal Corpora- (More on page 3) 19 patients at Dr. D Y ister Uddhav Thackeray tion Ashwini Bhide, said, “Approval is being Principal Secretary to NMMC asks Urban Patil Hospital in Nerul and MGM Hospital in given to start gymnasi- the Chief Minister Vi- Haat officials not to ums, fitness centres in kas Kharge, Principal host exhibitions for Kamothe. Following now the directions from the The Navi Mumbai state government the Municipal Corporation PCMC Chief Sudhakar (NMMC) has asked the Deshmukh has ordered officials of Urban Haat for the cancellation of not to host any exhibi- the Memorandum of tal on 11th May, 2020. rashtra Health Minister tion for now as a num- Understanding (MoUs) The agreement with speaking with the News- ber of city residents are with both the hospitals. the MGM Hospital was band correspondent in- still getting infected with Earlier, when the signed later when Sud- formed, “The state had Covid-19 was at its peak hakar Deshmukh took Covid-19 every day. CONTINUED ON page... 7 (More on page 3) in the PCMC jurisdic- the charge as the PCMC As Navratri begins, flower prices scale up Civic schools to be under CCTV the state from Dussehra Secretary Health De- With the onset of with strict compliance partment Pradip Vyas, Navratri festival, the surveillance in two months of corona preventive Dr. Shashank Joshi as flower prices have By Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan process and the contract not to be named, as he is rules, measures and well as Nikhil Rajpuria scaled up. The devotees Navi Mumbai will be awarded within not authorized to speak SOP (Standard Opera- of Maharashtra Gym point out that although ll the schools run a month. The contrac- to media. tion Procedure)”. He Owners Association, se- every year, the flower Aby the Navi Mum- tor will be given a time- According to the interacted with repre- nior journalists Sandeep prices go up during the bai Municipal Corpora- frame of one month to engineer, surveys were sentatives of gyms, fit- Acharya, Karan Talreja, festival period, however, tion (NMMC) will be ness centres through an Abhimanyu Sable, Ma- this year, the prices are under the surveillance online meeting. hesh Gaikwad, Hemant extremely high and un- of CCTV cameras in “Gymnasiums and Dudhwadkar, Sainath affordable… two months. Once com- fitness centres are for Durge, Rajesh Desai, (More on page 3) pleted, the NMMC will public health. However, Yogini Patil were pres- be one of the few civic maximum care should ent in the meeting. bodies in the whole of be taken to prevent the India to have done this, spread of corona infec- a senior officer said. The tion in this area”, he civic body has allocated added. The Chief Min- a budget of Rs 3.75 crore ister also directed that on this project. the SOP prepared for NMMC runs a total finish the project. Thus, conducted earlier this gyms should be strictly of 70 schools of which we can say that the cam- year, to understand the followed. 53 are primary and 17 eras will be installed number of cameras re- However, group ex- are secondary schools. within two months,” quired in each school. ercises such as Zumba, “We have already said an executive engi- yoga, steam and sauna started the tendering neer of NMMC wishing CONTINUED ON page... 2 have not been given 2 Tuesday, 20 October 2020 Celebrating white colour Onions bring tears again in auspicious way By Chandrashekhar Hendve, Navi Mumbai e have seen many forms of WDurga, and Durga has come to our support whenever there is a crisis on the human race. Even today, Adi Maya, Adi Bhavani and many others forms of Durga, in the form of doctors, nurses and para medical staff have come to our aid in this pandemic. From the last six months, the covid warriors (men and women) of Terna Specialty Hospital and Due to continuous heavy rains, the onion crop has been adversely hit. As a result, the onion Research Centre at Nerul in Navi prices have gone up to Rs 70 per kg (By: Sumit Renose) Mumbai have been fighting Coro- na for 24 hours. The covid warriors of Terna Speciality Hospital gave a APMC security guards manhandled positive message to corona positive patients by posing as Navdurga. for asking labourers to wear masks By Crime Reporter, Navi Mumbai everyone to wear face mask while ven- Samarthanam Trust distributes nger for being told to wear masks turing out of the house. Meanwhile, Aand follow the guidelines, few the state government has also started ration kits to people with different abilities labourers at the Agriculture Produce taking action against those who do Market Committee (APMC) fruit di- not wear masks. The APMC adminis- vision manhandled the security guards tration has also stopped giving access on Saturday afternoon. While it is nec- to those who do not wear masks in essary to use face masks to prevent the the market. But even after that, some spread of corona, many labourers in traders in the APMC market and their the market are violating the rule. The labourers can be seen roaming around reckless behaviour of the workers has without the masks. led to fear of the surge of corona in the After the incident, the security market. guards lodged complaint with the Various measures are being taken APMC police station and the police by the state government to curb the have registered a case against the spread of corona. As a part of this, the labourers who pushed the security government has made it mandatory for guards. CIVIC SCHOOLS covering her mouth with tured by the cameras and TO BE UNDER CCTV... a handkerchief when she that they will be arrested By Chandrashekhar Hendve de, Airoli Divisional Officer, Ganesh CONTINUED FROM page 1 was entering the school by police. Therefore, ev- Navi Mumbai Aghav, Superintendent, Circle 2, Sub- “The number will and raped her inside it. ery school including the amarthanam Trust for the Disabled hash Mhase, Sanitation Officer, Anil vary depending on the The police could not ar- private ones should in- Sin Belapur distributed ration kits Patil, Sudesh Parab, Jitendra Karnik structure of the school rest anyone in that case. stall such cameras.” to 250 persons with different abilities of Samarthnam Sanstha distributed premises. We will in- The parents of the Ramesh Bhagat, an- in Navi Mumbai. Manohar Gangur- the kits. stall such cameras in the students have welcomed other parent said, “At classrooms, teachers’ the move. Usha Pathare, times parents allege that common rooms, balco- a parent from Vashi said, their kids are beaten up nies, near the gates and “When a school has by teachers. The teach- toilets. The data collect- CCTV cameras installed ers, on the other hand, ing machines will be on its premises, miscre- deny that. There will kept at the principals’ ants normally get scared never be such confu- rooms,” he further said. to enter its compound. sion, if every classroom The CCTV cameras They will be scared that has CCTV cameras in- on the school premises their faces would be cap- side it.” was a topic of discus- sion in the satellite city Attention READERS: While every effort is made in 2018, after a minor to check the genuineness of party/parties inserting girl was allegedly raped ads in this paper, we cannot be held responsible for by someone inside the truthfulness of its contents. The publishers, Editor her school premises at and/or the staff cannot be held responsible for any Vashi. The girl said that loss or damage due to transactions that they may en- an unidentified person Ayush Mhatre offers his prayers to an idol of Goddesses Durga at Jai Ambe ter into guided by the ads. 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