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With an aim to have better security at

the Navi Mumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation's (NMMC) headquarters at CBD Belapur and af-ter consultation with the Com-missioner of Navi Mumbai Police, the Mu-nicipal Commis-sioner Abhijit Bangar has de-cided to tighten security at NM-MC’s headquar-ters and has is-sued a special circular in this regard.

As per the circular, henceforth, the visitors

will be able to visit the headquarters from 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm. Except in special cases, visitors will not be allowed to enter the headquarters

after 6.00 pm and visi-tors to the headquarters will be required to leave the headquarters before

6.00 pm.Visitors to the head-

quarters will be admitted to the headquarters only after ascertaining the department they wish

to visit, check-ing the nature of their work by looking at their identity card (Aadhar card, PAN card, elec-tion card, driv-ing license etc.) and registering their names in the register.

It will be mandatory for every NMMC em-

NMMC tightens security at its headquarter

ST employees to get 28% dearness

allowance and a hike in housing allowance

Anil Parab, Min-ister for Transport and President of ST Corporation has an-nounced an increase in the dearness al-lowance and housing allowance of employ-ees of State Transport (ST) by 28 per cent.4

Two employees of NMMC caught while demanding

bribe from massage parlour

The Navi Mumbai Anti-Corruption Unit has filed a case against two employees of the Belapur divisional of-fice of the Navi Mum-bai Municipal Cor-poration (NMMC) for demanding a bribe of Rs twenty-four thou-sand from a massage parlour…

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Four arrested for trying to sell baby girl for Rs 4 lakhIn a shocking in-

cident in Kamothe, a woman tried to sell her two-and-a-half-month old daughter for Rs. four lakh. After the Kamothe police got the information, the police arrested the mother of the child who came to sell the girl through a bogus buyer, as well as a doctor and two women who medi-ated for the sale of the baby…

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Navi Mumbai may get Flamingo City status

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CM asks top officials to study greens’ plea

Chief Minister Ud-dhav Thackeray has

taken cognisance of the environmentalists’ plea to brand Navi Mumbai as a Flamingo City and asked the Environment and Forest secretaries to take the suggestion for-ward.

Responding to a plea by NatConnect Foun-dation to help conserve Navi Mumbai’s bio-

diversity, Thackeray marked the mail to Man-isha Patankar Mhaiskar, Principal Secretary – Environment, and P Venugopal Reddy, For-est Secretary. “We are happy that the CM re-sponse came in less than ten minutes and we will now follow-up with the government depart-ments,” NatConnect Di-rector B N Kumar said.

NatConnect also re-quested the Chief Min-ister to facilitate Navi Mumbai Municipal Cor-poration (NMMC) take over the wetlands at NRI and TS Chanakya in Nerul and maintain them as wetalnds with the help of the State Mangrove Cell. NMMC already maintains 24 lakes in urban as well as rural areas of the

City under it. NMMC has also been painting the city with flamingo pictures and putting up the sculptures to remind the people of the biodi-versity. “We need to go beyond this and protect and conserve the birds,” Kumar said.

Commenting on the Flamingo City proposal,

By abhitash d.Singh

The central govern-ment as per their

latest data, recorded around one lakh fifty three thousand and fifty two suicides in the year 2020 and average of four hundred and eigh-teen daily cases. Maha-rashtra tops the list with nineteen thousand nine hundred and nine sui-cides in the year 2020.

The National Crime Records Bureau in an annual report stated the figures for 2020 were more in comparison to

2019 when one lakh thirty nine thousand one hundred and twenty three suicides were recorded in the country. The Na-tional Crime Records Bureau, which functions under the Union Min-istry of Home Affairs (MHA), stated the sui-cide rate (per lakh popu-lation) also increased from 10.4 in 2019 to 11.3 last year.

As per the data, the majority of suicides, nineteen thousand nine hundred and nine in to-tal, were reported in Ma-

harashtra followed by sixteen thousand eight hundred and eighty three in Tamil Nadu, four-teen thousand five hun-dred and seventy eight in Madhya Pradesh, thirteen thousand one hundred and thirteen in West Bengal and twelve thousand two hundred and fifty nine in Karna-taka accounting for 13 percent, 11 percent, 9.5 percent, 8.6 percent and 8 percent of the total sui-cides respectively.

Maha records highest suicide

cases in India in 2020Uttar Pradesh with largest population in the country recorded least suicides

Flamingos at DPS Lake (Pic. by Dharmesh Barai, Environment Life)

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By Crime Reporter

A married woman named Shital

Manohar Nikam (36) living in Ghansoli was murdered by her rela-tive Samadhan Land-way (38) and pretended to be a suicide. The investigation has re-vealed that the accused Samadhan Landway wrote a letter before committing the murder. According to the Rabale police, the accused has been caught.

The deceased Shital Nikam, a mar-ried woman living with her husband, two children and younger brother in Ghansoli village. The accused Samadhan Landway, who lives in Kanjur village, is a relative of the Nikam couple. So, while Shital's husband and brother were not at home, accused Land-way was regularly visiting her house. As Samadhan is a clerk in a private bank, he had taken out a loan of Rs 6 lakh 50 thousand from the bank in his own name to buy a house for the Nikam couple.

However, due to finan-cial difficulties, Shital and her husband could not return the money taken from Samadhan. Hence, Samadhan re-peatedly asked the bank to repay the loan and he was demanding the loan amount from Shital and her husband. So Samadhan and Nikam were always arguing.

So, on October 21, after Shital's husband and brother left for work, Samadhan went to Shital's house. At this time, Shital was alone in the house as both his children had gone. Taking advantage Samadhan wrote a letter pretending written by Shital and strangled her with the help of a sari. He then tried to strangle to the fan in the house showing it as suicide, however, he was not unsuccessful and left her body on the floor and escaped.

Sometime later, a neighbour woman vis-ited his house and found him lying dead with a sari wrapped around his neck.

After getting infor-

mation that Shital had committed suicide, Shi-tal's husband and broth-er ran home. This time Samadhan also entered the house with them. Rabale police rushed to the spot, seized Shital's body and sent it for autopsy. He also seized a letter signed by Shital and started an inves-tigation into Shital's suicide. During the investigation, the police came to know that Samadhan came to their house around 11 am on the day. It was also found that there was no incident of suicide. This created suspicion.

The autopsy report, meanwhile, found that Shital's death was not due to suicide but to strangulation caused by a sari wrapped around her neck. Police later ar-rested Samadhan Land-way from his house in KanjurMarg on Thurs-day night and confessed that he had killed Shital . He was later arrested, said Inspector of Police Bhaguji Auti. The court has remanded him in police custody for five days.

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Sunil Agrawal of Save Navi Mumbai Environ-ment, said, “It is long overdue to protect and conserve the City's bio-diversity. We need more and more green lungs as the so-called planned city is fast turning into a concrete jungle.”

“Governments talk about protecting wild-life and nature. Now it is time for them to do walk the talk," Agrawal pointed out.

CIDCO had planned to build a golf course here which Agrawal and his team opposed and won even a High Court

battle. CIDCO has since moved the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, En-vironment Minister Aditya Thackeray has asked CIDCO to ex-plore maintaining the wetlands as a flamingo sanctuary rather than burying them for the golf course and submit a report which is yet to happen.

“Our point is also that the NRI-TSC Golf Course will be a white elephant since the CI-DCO golf facility at Kharghar is hardly be-ing used,” Kumar said.

The Mangrove Cell has already expressed its desire to conserve them as part of the sat-

ellite sanctuaries for the Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary (TCFS) as proposed by BNHS.

BNHS has suggested to maintain these wet-lands as a risk mitiga-tion measure for the upcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA). Birds from Thane sanctuary tend to fly to these and other wetlands for roosting during high tides. These two wetlands also attract thousands of migratory birds and these are part of the City’s biodiver-sity. Thousands of birds, which either fly into these wetlands or take refuge during high tides in Thane creek could

pose risks for the flights at Navi Mumbai Interna-tional Airport (NMIA) if they miss their tradition-al destinations, BNHS has repeatedly warned.

NatConnect has already drawn the at-tention of the Prime Minister, Civil Aviation Minister and global and national pilots’ bodies to this aspect.

Supporting the idea of conserving the two wetlands, BNHS di-rector Dr Bivash Pan-dav has said, “We are blessed with such natu-ral wetlands and we must make all efforts to protect them instead of building a golf course on them.”

PUBLIC NOTICE My clients (1) MR. DEEPALI AMOL AHIR AND (2) MR. AMOL VISH-RAM AHIR are joint owners of the property i. e. Flat No. 702, Sev-enth Floor, A – Wing, Suyog Samuh Co-operative Housing Society Ltd; Plot No. 41 to 44, Sector - 8, Sanpada, Navi-Mumbai-400705, Built up area admeasuring about 558 Sq. Fts; they have purchased the said flat from (1) MRS. MEGHA SANJAY MUNGEKAR AND (2) MR. SANJAY MADHUSUDAN MUNGEKAR. They were having original Share Certificate of the said flat Share Certificate No. 033 vide its distinctive Nos. 161 to 165 dated 11/07/2004 issued by the Suyog Samuh C.H.S. Ltd. The said Share Certificate is in the name of previous owners i. e. in the names of (1) MRS. MEGHA SANJAY MUNGEKAR AND (2) MR. SANJAY MADHUSUDAN MUNGEKAR. The said original Share Certificate have been lost or misplaced from my client on or about 27/10/2021 from Sanpada, Navi-Mumbai.Hence Notice is hereby given to all person that, if anybody has found the above mentioned original Share Certificate then kindly be return to undersigned or my client on above mentioned address. If anybody is having any type of claim then to approach & give in writing within 30 days from the date of publication this notice. After this period no-body’s claim shall be entertained. Further not to deal with any other person except my client in respect of transfer of any right, title, inter-est, claim, demand, sale of the above said flat.Instructed by:(1) Mr. Deepali A. Ahir(2) Mr. Amol V. Ahir Sd/- SHRI. ANANDA N. POL, B.Sc., LL.M. ADVOCATE Flat No. A-1103, Hill View Residency C.H.S. Ltd; Plot No. 5 & 6, Sector-30 & 31, C.B.D., Belapur, Navi Mumbai - 400 614.Date: 31-10-2021 Mob. No. 98215 89350 / 8369476987

By Chandrashekhar Hendve

With an aim to help the needy, a ‘Wall of Humanity’, will be

set up in Ghansoli node on Sun-day. “Covid 19 pandemic has led to economic downturn in many parts of the world. Unemployment has increased. Rains in July have led to floods in places like Konkan and

Kolhapur. Hence, we thought of joining hands to do something for our brethren”, said Umesh Jun-aghare, president of the organiza-tion.

For more information, call Ra-hul Dalvi 9819698950, Raj Bho-sale 9664694834, Prashant Deore 9220863288, Vijay Patil 9768845577.

Wall of humanity to be set up in Ghansoli on Sunday

An initiative of Adarsh Seva Sanstha


The book 'The Spots Class Thinking Towards Business' written by Dr.

Santosh RS and published by Notion Press was recently unveiled in Navi Mumbai.

His long experience in industrial manage-ment and his creative ex-pression are reflected in this book. Looking at the world of sports through the lens of management, this book is a guide to the emerging talent in the

field of management. Former MP Dr. Sanjeev Naik was the chief guest at this book release ceremony. The book is available on Amazon, Kindle, Google Pillar, Cobo and iBook.

Book by Dr. Santosh RS unveiled

3Sunday, 31 october 2021


The Vigilance Awareness Week is be-ing celebrated from October 26 till

November 1, with an aim to eliminate corruption at all levels and ensure people can get their job done without paying ex-tra money.

The students of Karmaveer Bhau-rao Patil College conducted a street play at CBD Belapur Sector 6 Market and CBD Railway Station premises to create awareness against corruption. Informa-tion leaflets were distributed to the citi-zens.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Navi Mumbai put up banners at Chha-trapati Shivaji Chowk Vashi, Navi Mum-bai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), Konkan Bhavan, CIDCO Bhavan,

Raigad Bhavan, Ward Office Turbhe, Vashi, Nerul, Koparkhairane, Nerul Registration Office. In Vashi Police sta-tion Conducted discussion sessions of officers and bureaucrats on eradication of corruption.

“The week will conclude with street plays being organised at various places in the city,” said Joyti Deshmukh, Navi Mumbai Deputy superintendent of po-lice (ACB).

If any Maharashtra State Govern-ment official is found to be accepting bribe, the citizens are urged to contact Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Navi Mumbai, Phone no 022-27833344 Or ACB office, Central Facility Bldg, Room No 505, 6th floor, APMC Fruit Market Sector 19, Turbhe, Navi Mumbai.

By Crime Reporter

The Navi Mumbai Ant i -Cor rup t ion

Unit has filed a case against two employees of the Belapur divisional office of the Navi Mum-bai Municipal Corpora-tion (NMMC) for de-manding a bribe of Rs twenty-four thousand from a massage parlour.

Information / Regis-tration clerk Rakesh Hi-ralal Getme (38) and Ju-nior Engineer (Contract Worker) are among those charged in the case.

Both of them work in the Encroachment Department of Belapur Divisional Office of the NMMC.

The complainant in this case was CBD. Three massage parlours have been started in the Belapur area. They have partitioned the furniture inside the massage par-lour. Hiralal Getme and Vijay Lavand, both em-ployees of the Belapur divisional office, had de-manded a bribe from the three massage parlours.

The massage parlour operator had lodged a complaint with the Navi Mumbai Anti-Corrup-tion Bureau. Accord-ingly, a team from Navi Mumbai Anti-Corrup-tion Bureau had inves-tigated the matter and found that it contained facts. Accordingly, the Navi Mumbai Anti-Cor-ruption Bureau on Fri-day filed a case against both the employees of the Municipal Corpo-ration for demanding bribes.


At the state level, once in three years, the elections of the Youth

Congress are held in a democratic manner, said Mukul Gupta during a programme at Vashi. He stressed that the goal of the party is to give opportu-nities to the youth of the country.

Navi Mumbai Youth Congress District President Subin Thomas had organized a press conference at the Congress party office in Vashi to give information about the upcoming party election process.

Vice President. Mrinal Manad-hane, General Secretary Sudarshan Nitin Sawant, Secretary Ashwin Bhor, Swapnil Mhatre and Sudhakar Bhakat, Munna Khan, Kartik Pujari and Navi Mumbai District Youth Con-gress office bearers were present.

In this conference, the Youth Con-gress Election Officer gave detailed information about how the Congress supporters should participate in the elections. He also said that the party becomes stronger if there is active participation of the youth.

Various activities conducted during Vigilance Awareness Week in the city

Two employees of NMMC caught while demanding bribe from massage parlour

The goal of the Congress party is to give opportunities to the youth

of the country: Mukul Gupta

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NMMC TigHTeNS SeCuRiTy aT iTS...

ployee on duty at the headquarters to wear the identity card from the time he enters the head-quarters building till he is on duty, i.e. during the entire office hours.

NMMC employees and regular contract employees will not be allowed to enter the headquarters if they do not have an identity card with them.

Employees who have lost their identity card or whose identity cards are

in poor condition, need to immediately renew their identity card. Otherwise they will be denied entry to the headquarters.

Everyone entering the headquarters (offi-cers, staff and other visi-tors) will be admitted only through Gate No.1.

Workers come to the headquarters after office hours and on holidays if various works are start-ed by the engineering department and other departments. Informa-tion about the work and the workers, as well as the organizers and the

literature of the various events organized at the headquarters, should be made available to the security department in writing two days in ad-vance.

Gate pass would be issued by the concerned department before leav-ing the headquarters building and the security personnel will allow the person/goods to leave the premises only after checking the gate pass.

The entrance near the driving room in the base-ment of the headquarters would be closed.

By Crime Reporter

In a shocking incident in Kamothe, a woman tried to sell her two-and-

a-half-month old daughter for Rs. four lakh. After the Kamothe police got the information, the police arrest-ed the mother of the child who came to sell the girl through a bogus buyer, as well as a doctor and two women who mediated for the sale of the baby.

Among the arrested are Amarin Bano Badar-bakhsh Ali, 31, Rukhsar Nadin Sheikh, 29, Rajni Pandurang Jadhav, 32, and Dr. Pankaj Patil, a mediator in the sale of the baby. Among them, Dr. Pankaj Patil is running a hospital called Family Health Care in Kamothe Sector-8 and Rajni Jad-hav has worked with a doctor. Kamothe police had received informa-tion that Dr. Pakanj Patil would sell a two-and-a-half-month old girl for Rs 4 lakh. Accordingly, the Kamothe police sent a fake buyer to buy the baby on Thursday eve-ning and sent him to Dr. Pankaj Patil's hospital.

Accordingly, after the fake buyer reached the

hospital of Dr. Pankaj Patil, Dr. Pankaj Patil called and asked him to bring the baby. Amarin Bano, Rukhsar Sheikh and Rajni Jadhav arrived in a Hyundai car with the baby. As the three women were leaving, Assistant Inspector of Po-lice Rajesh Mahala and his team raided the place and arrested everyone, includ-ing the doctor. After that, the police con-fiscated the money paid to the doctor.

Four arrested for trying to sell baby girl for Rs 4 lakh


By dr. vandana Mahajani“So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense pays not the least heed to them!” Says Swami Vivekananda.

Diwali, the festival of light is and joy is around the corner. It is the right time

now to think of all our countrymen who are not so fortunate to enjoy the festivity. Here I am not talking only of the beggers that roam the streets, or are found at the cross roads of our big cities.I am talking of also those who despite working hard are unable to make a decent living. It includes those, who have migrated from rural areas to big centres in search of jobs and work.

Once, a news reporter along with two of his friends was talking. They turned to talk about Swamiji and later desired to meet him. They met Swamiji and talked to him about Dharma. While the conversa-tion was on, he came to know that all three were from Punjab. At that timePunjab was affected by famine. He enquired from the men about the situation at length. They re-alized that swamiji had talked more about the state of his people than about Dharma. They told swamiji so, to which he said, friends, till even one man stays hungry in this country we can-not talk of religion or dharma to him. If the stomach is not full there is no point in talking of religion to men. Dharma cannot be taught to men with empty stomach.

And there lies the truth. Yes, we cannot teach religion to men who don’t have basic means of subsis-tence. Conversions have happened only when men have come forward to feed the poor. That was what attracted the poor to those men and then religious conversion followed.

However there are some organiza-tions, who are going ahead and doing this job of feeding the poor without expecting any return.

The Ramakrishna Math Baranagar , Kolkotta , does the job of feeding milk ev-eryday to poor and old people. A request for all those who wish to donate is on their website. People can come forward and donate while celebrating birthday and an-niversaries of their dear ones.

ISKON is another organization that is into relieving hunger. ISKCON’s kitchens in cities, towns and remote villages have together served more than 7 crore meals and food kits to the less-privileged sec-tions of our society amidst the lock down and the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pan-demic.” We were starving but ISKCON people are giving us daily meals and if we continue to get some food like this, then

we do not have to go back to our villages.” Are the words of a migrant labour during covid times.

The Harmandir Sahib, or the Golden temple as it is more popularly known feeds more than 100,000 people daily. This num-ber doubles on festival days. The food is offered free tone and all to everyone who visits the temple. Serving meals in Lan-gars since 1577, these religious places have been carrying forward the teachings of their great gurus with full commitment.

The Shiri temple of Sai Baba serves food to 40,000 odd devotees daily. The prasadalaya provides free food daily.

Many of the above temples have seen devotees providing free services in these food operations. It could be the job of cut-ting, chopping or peeling vegetables, or task of serving food or even washing used dishes for serving food. Why do people do it? And that too in large numbers? The answer often given by these people is the satisfaction they receive after giving the service.

SEVA as we know it, is service to the needy. Seva is not limited to only feed-ing the poor but also looking at our sur-

roundings, identifying the need and mov-ing ahead. All great saints of the past did just that.

Sant Gadge Baba was one such saint. He started with the mission of cleaning all the dirt around in rural rural areas thus spearheading mass movement of cleanli-ness is next to God-liness, much before

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Had we under-stood his message, the abhiyan call would not have been needed at all!!!

Another great seva was given by Sis-ter Nivedita , Margaret Noble, the Irish lady who left her home and came to India. One of the foremost female disciples of Swami Vivekananda, she was fired by his thoughts and lived to serve humanity. She served the people during plague, bringing sick children home. Not once did she think of death.

This is the time when we all again need to come forward. Vivekananda Ken-dra, Kanyakumari, with more than 1050 branches across India, calls upon young people to come forward and give at least one year of their lifetime to Seva Karya. For when we grow old we may have time and money, but no energy. Wherever you are you can start giving seva. Vivekanan-da Kendra Navi Mumbai branch would be happy if you get in touch with us to offer yourself for service.

dr vandana Mahajani is Nagar pramukh, vivekananda Kendra, Navi

Mumbai [email protected]

Inspire: Shiv bhave jeev sevaNot too long ago, prep-

arations for Diwali began months in advance. Each day a new shelf would be scrubbed and cleaned till it shone like new. From the kitchen to the cupboards to the lofts, each untouched corner of the house would be bathed like a child, adorned afresh with new clothes, and made to look spic and span. The cobwebs would disappear, the layer of dust that turned white into grey would wonder at its own transformation. The house would be decked up like a bride, in all her splendour, elegance and beauty, bejewelled with flowers and exquisite Rangoli designs, and lit up with diyas that illuminated the house and added a bright sparkle.

Most importantly, the aroma of freshly cooked sweets and sa-vouries would waft through the kitchen into each room, mak-ing mouths water. Each family member had a favourite delicacy that he or she would look forward to, and would relish every morsel with delight, knowing that it would be another year before that dish could be savoured again. No one counted calories, for no one knew what calories were. Festivals were times for feasting, and bonding with families – for the way to a fam-ily member’s heart was through the stomach!

Diwali was also a license to gamble, and endless games of teen patti made the festival more entic-ing. While the stakes depended on one’s social and financial status, the sheer joy of playing was far more important than winning or losing. While adults indulged themselves in cards, children waited for per-mission to light fire crackers and witness the tiny fireworks light up the sky and flare up in smoke with sound effect! Every member of the family also looked forward to dress-ing up in their best attire, giving an opportunity to the shimmering out-fits and jewellery sets to see the light

of day.Some traditions con-

tinue, and have escalated in intensity over the years; others have been modified, or done away with com-pletely. In a lot of homes, home-made sweets have been replaced by those

from the market, often sugar-free ones with healthy dry fruits and jag-gery instead of ghee-laden sinful treats that would entail extra hours of work out for months to come. Diwali parties have been outsourced to professional caterers so that the hosts can enjoy themselves and be at ease. The number of fire crackers has gradually diminished over the years, with greater consciousness amongst

children about the impact of crack-ers on pollution levels, environment, senior citizens and animals. Poker has swapped places with teen patti in some households, and counters have taken over crisp currency notes and shiny coins. Tea light candles find a place in diyas instead of tradi-tional wicks soaked in oil, while the diyas themselves are much fancier and more colourful than their plain mud counterparts.

What has not changed is the bond of families and friends, the decoration, illumination and clean-ing of homes, the beautiful tradi-tional outfits, and of course the joy, ecstasy and smiles that the festival brings. And at the end of the day, that is what matters – the spirit of the festival, which even Covid has been unable to extinguish!

The writer is associate professor, indira institute of Business Management, Consultant,

indian School of Management and entrepreneurship

The Spirit of Diwali

dr. Monica Khanna


MaHa ReCoRdS HigHeST SuiCide...

The official from the National Crime Records Bureau said, "Maha-rashtra, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Karnataka together accounted for

50.1 percent of the to-tal suicides reported in the country, while the remaining 49.9 percent were reported from the remaining 23 states and eight Union Territo-ries.”

The National Crime Records Bureau added,

"The most populous state of Uttar Pradesh with 16.9 percent share of the country's popula-tion, reported a compar-atively lower percentage share of suicidal deaths, accounting for only 3.1 percent of the total sui-cides.


By indrani Basu

Just ahead of Di-wali, Deep or Diya

meditation was held at Vaidic Viswa Yoga cen-tre, Vashi with an aim to support the meditators to experience positive vibes while alleviating the negativity of Covid 19 spread across the bio-sphere.

Nine diyas were placed on heaps of a variety of pulses, main-taining particular dis-tances, decorated with flowers. The technique of this mediation is called ‘Tratak’ which is usually focusing the mind on lighted lamps, at a stretch, without winking, to attain and achieve emotional calm-ness and to stabilise the state of mind. In front of nine diyas or illumi-nated oil lamps, partici-pants sat on the ground, taking the energy from the earth, listening to the instruction of the Guru, doing tratak and dhyan. In this way, they experi-enced a new meaning of life while meditating.

Guru Neelam Gupta, the well-known medita-tion instructor conduct-ed this deep meditation. She shared, “Mediation is practiced as a stress buster and helps to al-leviate anxiety, depres-sion, reduce the monot-ony of life and makes a person cheerful and positive. This Deep meditation has various

properties, it helps to look, to think, to feel and to experience every aspect of life being in a state of mindfulness”.

She explained the gravity and sanctity of nine diyas which are usually object oriented and made of various metals.

The first one was the Golden Deepak or lamp facing towards the East to inherit energy from the Sun. To attain peace and compose a state of mind is the prime inten-tion.

Second lamp was made of silver or Chandi ka Deepak kept on the heap of rice and deco-rated with white flow-ers, the light was com-ing from the west, that is from the back, it helps to attain self-conscious-ness.

The third lamp was made of copper placed on a heap of lentils or masoor dal decorated with red petals of roses. This lamp symbolises prosperity and wealth.

Peetal or Brass lamp was the fourth one placed on Toovar dal, decorated with yellow petals having tilak of turmeric and Kumkum facing towards the West. Participants chanted Mahamrityunjay slo-kas to alleviate Mrityu Dosha.

The fifth diya which is made of iron kept on a heap of Urad dal,

decorated with pet-als of lotus facing up-wards brings good omen while removing bad omen. Participants performed tratak and chanted Shanti Mantra.

Earthen lamp or clay diya was the sixth one placed on Toovar dal, decorated with marigold flowers symbolising five elements like water, air, sky, fire and earth, bringing prosperity and happiness after a long battle with the vices or Coronavirus.

The seventh one was a lamp made from wheat, which is com-monly used in every household. This diya was kept on the heap of channa dal, decorated with sunflowers hav-ing four wicks. Those four tapers bring vibra-tion and energy from four sides: East, West, North and South, denot-ing attainment of good health, plenty of wealth and happiness.

The next one a simple oil lamp placed on mixed pulses and garlanded with vari-ous flowers symbolises peace and tranquillity after a long battle with coronavirus.

The last diya had special implications. The flames explained the cheerfulness after conquering Coronavi-rus, praying for healing on the earth while en-joying victory over evil.

Deep or Diya meditation held at Vaidic Vishwa Yoga Centre

The aim was to attain positive energy after alleviating the negativity of coronavirus

A Diwali ration distribution programme was organised by BJP Yuva President, Navi Mumbai Datta Ghangale for the needy citi-zens of Seawood West Division.

By ashok dhamija

The much-awaited Craft Bazaar to cre-

ate a link between the artisans / weaver and

the market, was inau-gurated by Chief Guest Ajit B Cha-van, Secre-tary– Textile Committee, Govt of In-dia, Ministry of Textiles on the eve of the auspi-cious festi-val of Diwali in presence of well-known pioneers and promoters of Indian crafts of the likes of Ms. Radhi Parekh – founder Artisans’ Centre India, Ms. Bhamini Subrama-niam – designer pro-prietor and craft vet-eran and Ms. Vishpala Hundekari – founder Ekibeki & Craft Dignity at the campus of Na-tional Institute of Fash-ion Technology (NIFT), Mumbai in Kharghar on Thursday.

Organized and hosted by the city based NIFT the Craft Bazaar show-cased the traditional hand-crafted ‘one of its kind’ colorful creations by artisans from various parts of India in various sectors like the weaving, textiles and vanishing crafts of India. The in-tricate efforts expression

of the creators includ-ed ‘Mata ni Pachedi’, ‘Bagru prints’, ‘ Warli paintings’, ‘Leather pup-pets and lamp’s, ‘Terra-

cotta’, ‘Banjara embroi-dery’, ‘Coconut shell craft’, ‘Batik’, ‘Kantha’ among others. The one of its kind event attract-ed connoisseurs of arts across various walks of life, including students of the institute and pro-spective customers to

interact with the skilled artisans and to buy the hand crafted products.

On the occasion a live demonstration of

Zardosi embroidery was also arranged to help the audience understand about the nuances of handcrafted products. A craft display of student work where they co-created with artisans too

Atmanirbhar Bharat - celebrating and empowering our culture and heritage NIFT’s Craft Bazaar builds bridge between artisans,

art connoisseurs and buyers

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Students of NIFT Mumbai to put up a wide variety of crafts works at their col-lege campus

Ms. Radhi Parekh – founder Artisans’ Centre India, along with other dignitaries are all ears as artesian Sreeramulu Shinde shares his wis-dom on products including life size puppets made from Leather craft

Chief Guest Ajit B Chavan (L) and NIFT Mum-bai Director, Prof. (Dr.) Pavan Godiawala (R) exchange views on the sidelines of the craft exhibition. (Photos by Ashok Dhamija)


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The decision to impose fine on the motorists for not wearing seat

belts and helmet is certainly a wel-come move. In the recent past, road accidents involving two wheeler riders are increasing at an alarming pace all over the place. While rash driving, violation of traffic rules etc. are the prime reasons for the increase in the road accidents, driving after consuming liquor is another major cause, which has not been seriously considered till now.

Long smooth stretches like the Palm Beach Marg allow the driv-ers to push the accelerators just for the thrill. The desire becomes more strong, especially amongst young-sters, after getting tipsy, or in the company of friends. It is seen that usually whenever there is serious accident, one of the drivers is in drunken state. So far, in the absence of proper equipment, the RTO offi-cials were unable to penalize the of-fenders. Now equipped with breath analyzers, the task has become easi-er. These drives should be conducted periodically especially at strategic locations. If implemented strictly, it would help in curbing the tendency to drive after consuming liquor.

While the All India Road Safety

Programme Implementation Com-mittee set up by MOST, has recom-mended use of helmets as manda-tory for two wheeler drivers, it has not been seriously implemented. The use of helmets mitigates to a large extent the fatality of the ac-cidents. It is difficult to understand why this is not being followed by the motorists themselves when the rule has been framed for their own safety? Probably, it is the tendency to defy rules, which forces us not to follow rules and regulations. Ear-lier, rules of compulsory wearing of seat belts while driving four wheel-ers or prohibiting talking on mobile phones while driving, also could not be implemented strictly due to cal-lous nature of the motorists and the enforcing authorities.

It is highly essential that in view of the rising accidents, the motor-ists themselves realize the gravity of drunken driving and the peril of not wearing helmets. The authorities on their part, should continue their drives as these would help in instill-ing traffic discipline amongst the motorists. Only traffic discipline, stringent action, coupled with safety devices such as helmets and seat belts can save precious lives.

Welcome moveBy abhitash d.Singh

In a recent develop-ment for Maharash-

tra, the Asian Devel-opment Bank (ADB) approved a loan of $100 million to improve agri-business network and productivity in Maha-rashtra.

As per the report, Maharashtra produces eleven and six percent of India’s fruit and veg-etable production, re-spectively, and accounts for about eight percent of the country’s flo-riculture exports. Despite ample op-portunities for the growth of horticul-ture, most small-holder farmers still practice subsistence farming because of fragmented land ownership, insuf-ficient capital to scale up, and lack of di-rect access to emerging high-value markets.

Speaking with the media Masahiro Nishimura, ADB Prin-cipal Rural Develop-ment Specialist for South Asia said, "To maximize the benefits from the horticulture industry, the linkag-es between the value chain operators (VCOs) and farmers need to be strengthened. The proj-ect will help small and marginal farmers in Maharashtra improve their post-harvest and marketing capacity, re-

duce food losses, and in-crease incomes through access to finance, ca-pacity building, and horticulture value chain infrastructure develop-ment. The project will also support inclusive development through gender equality and so-cial inclusion actions.”

The ADB loan will help provide financ-ing opportunities for farmer producer orga-nizations (FPOs) and VCOs through match-

ing grants or financial intermediation loans to support 300 subprojects for $92 million in total, including the govern-ment counterpart con-tributions.

The Agribusiness project will upgrade sixteen existing post-harvest facilities and construct three new ones to provide individ-ual farmers and FPOs clean, accessible, and sustainable crop storage and processing facili-ties. It will also build the capacity of FPOs and VCOs on value chain acceleration and post-

harvest handling and management, especially those owned and led by women. The project is expected to benefit two lakh farmers.

“ADB’s approach is to help demonstrate in-novative rural and agri-cultural transformation into resource-efficient and higher value busi-nesses for smallholder farmers through several mutually complement-ing and interlinking projects in Maharashtra

and replicate them within and outside India once com-pleted,” said ADB Principal Natural Resources and Ag-riculture Specialist Michiko Katagami.

ADB will pro-vide a $500,000 technical assistance

(TA) grant from its Technical Assistance Special Fund and $2 million from the Japan Fund for Poverty Re-duction on a grant ba-sis to improve market linkages for FPOs. The TA will establish crop-based centres of excel-lence networks, promote innovative technologies in agribusiness and ag-riculture value chains, and support capacity building, including the asset and financial man-agement capabilities of the MAGNET Society and the Maharashtra State Agriculture Mar-keting Board.

Maha to get $100 million loan to improve agribusiness network

Under Room No. A-1/89/8, Sec. Also property owner, house no.

1598/07 and Koparigaon near Sai Baba Temple, both these unauthor-ized constructions were served no-tices under Section 54 of the Maha-rashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966. A crackdown on unauthor-ized constructions was organized by the Turbhe Divisional Office. The unauthorized construction was removed during the drive. Officers / staff of Turbhe department were pres-ent for this campaign. Also police officers / officers were deployed in the Encroachment Eradication Squad. 10

labourers, 01 JCB, have been used for this campaign.

Unauthorized constructions in Turbhe demolished


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was displayed in the col-lege campus as well.

Chief Guest Ajit B Chavan on the occasion said, “ The Craft Bazaar 2021 organised and host-ed by NIFT, Mumbai at its campus in Kharghar is a great platform for craftsmen and weavers to showcase their prod-uct. Not only it acts as a platform to popular-ize the weavers, textiles and crafts of India but also provides artisans to reach out to prospec-tive buyers, their by providing impetus to be financially independent as well as conserve our rich cultural heritage, especially as it comes in the backdrop of the pan-demic. The Government of India through vari-ous initiatives has been

supporting these crafts-men by organizing vari-ous crafts fairs across the country and even abroad through cultural exchange programmes. Along with this we have set up departments for Development Commis-sioner Handicrafts and Handlooms to guide these artisans. It's im-portant that we revive our rich heritage by sup-porting these artisans and documenting the various traditional crafts for our future genera-tions. NIFT is doing a yeoman job in achieving these goals``.

NIFT Mumbai Di-rector, Prof. (Dr.) Pavan Godiawala “Over the years NIFT Mumbai has been working with the artisans across the coun-try. As part of the ongo-ing endeavours we have invited a dozen skilled

craftsmen physically from across the country to showcase their arts and products. The same is being done after near-ly 18 months following the pandemic that has been tough for each one of us and yet it taught us to stand up for human-ity. These artisans were unable to reach prospec-tive buyers. Now their skilled creations are waiting to be appreci-ated and NIFT Mumbai has committed to make this Diwali a better one for these artisans. Our students benefit from these initiatives as they get an opportunity to learn from these artisans and also give back by providing a roadmap to ensure wider reach by adapting the traditional products to the demands of the society”.



The Maharashtra gov-ernment is making

efforts to provide well equipped police station, accommodation with all facilities and up-to-date administrative buildings for the police force. “All the ongoing projects in various districts of the state through Maharash-tra State Police Housing and Welfare Corporation should be completed with priority,” directed Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

A presentation was made by the Maharash-tra Police Housing Cor-poration in a meeting chaired by the Chief Minister to make ac-commodation available for the police. Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil, Housing Min-ister Jitendra Awhad, Environment Minister Aditya Thackeray, Min-ister of State for Home Affairs Satej Patil, Min-ister of State for Home Affairs Shambhuraj Desai (online), MLA Sada Sarvankar, Addi-

tional Chief Secretary of Home Department Manukumar Srivastava, Director General of Police Sanjay Pandey, Mumbai Police Com-missioner Hemant Na-garale, Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister Ashish Kumar Singh, Principal Secre-tary Vikas Kharge, Prin-cipal Secretary Housing Milind Mhaiskar, MHA-DA Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Anil Diggikar, Mumbai Board Chief Officer Yo-gesh Mhase and other officials were present.

The meeting also dis-cussed the provision of residential space in the proposed police colony redevelopment project by giving concessions in the reservation of resi-dential areas, develop-ment of Home Depart-ment plots in the state through Police Housing Corporation and provi-sion of capital to the cor-poration as well as rede-velopment of residential buildings on MHADA plots.

The Chief Minis-ter also directed to take immediate action to transfer the completed projects to the Police Department through the Police Housing Corpo-ration. He also said that sufficient funds would be made available for speedy completion of 49 projects in progress.

Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil said that pri-ority should be given to the construction of po-lice station and other of-fice buildings.

Environment Min-ister Aditya Thackeray said that all the neces-sary permits for police housing projects would be issued immediately by the environment de-partment.

Housing Minister Ji-tendra Awhad clarified that a comprehensive policy for police houses would be worked out through the housing department. Presenta-tion was made by Vivek Phansalkar, Managing Director, Police Hous-ing Corporation.

Housing project for the police force should be completed at the earliest: CM Uddhav Thackeray

By ashok dhamija

Central Railway (CR), Mumbai Di-vision will operate a Mega Block

on its Suburban section (Harbour and Main lines) for carrying out mainte-nance work essential for infrastructure upkeep and safety on Sunday 31st Oc-tober, 2021. The details are as below:A) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus – Chunabhatti UP & DN Harbour lines From: 11.10 am to 4.47 pm

UP Harbour line Special services for CSMT, Mumbai leaving Panvel / Belapur / Vashi from 9.53 am to 3.20 pm and DN Harbour line Special ser-vices to Vashi / Belapur / Panvel leav-ing CSMT, Mumbai from 11.34 am to 4.47 pm will remain suspended. How-ever, Special services will run between Panvel and Kurla (Platform No.8) dur-ing the block period.B) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Ter-minus – Bandra UP & DN Harbour lines From: 9.56 am to 4.58 pm

UP Harbour line Special services for CSMT Mumbai leaving Goregaon / Bandra from 10.45 am to 4.58 pm and DN Harbour line Special services to

Bandra/Goregaon leaving CSMT from 9.56 am to 4.43 pm will remain sus-pended. Harbour line passengers how-ever are permitted to travel via Main line and Western line from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm during block period.

Passengers are requested to bear with the Railway Administration for the inconvenience caused.C) Matunga - Mulund UP and DN Main Slow Lines From: 11.00 am to 4.00 pm

UP Main Slow line services leaving Thane from 10.37 am to 3.55 pm will be diverted o n UP Fast line between Mulund and Matunga and will not halt at Nahur, Kanjurmarg and Vidyavihar stations. Further will be re-diverted o n the proper UP Slow line at Matunga station. DN Slow line services leaving Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Mumbai from 10.18 am to 3.36 pm will be diverted o n DN Fast line between Matunga and Mulund stations and will not halt at Vidyavihar, Kanjurmarg and Nahur stations. Further will be re-divert-ed o n the proper slow line at Mulund.

Passengers are requested to bear with the Railway Administration for the inconvenience caused.

CR Mega Block On 31st OctoberNo direct connectivity to CSMT/ Bandra/Goregaon

on Harbour route from city

By abhitash d.Singh

The Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thack-

eray has announced a bonus for the Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) and Brihanmumbai Electric-ity Supply and Transport (BEST) employees. A meet-ing was held on Friday, October 29, 2021 with the BEST Workers’ Union office bearers, Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar, BEST chairman Ashish Chemburkar at Varsha Bungalow.

The office bearers of BMC and BEST Union have expressed their gratitude to the Chief Minister and BMC Commissioner for increasing the bonus by rupees four thousand five hundred.

Adv. Prakash Devdas, convener of the workers’ coordination committee said, “After a long discussion of the last two days, the Chief Minister has announced to give a bonus of rupees twenty thousand to all the employees of BMC and BEST and this bonus will not be reduced in the next three years. Last year, the workers got a bonus of rupees fifteen thousand five hundred

but now it has increased by rupees four thousand five hundred to rupees twenty thousand."

Devdas added, “The Coor-dinating Committee brought to the notice of the Chief Minister that forty thousand posts of the corporation are

lying vacant. And their burden is be-ing borne by the workers of the BMC. We have put this important issue be-fore him. We thank the Chief Minister for taking all our issues into consider-ation and fulfilling our demands.”

Last year, after the mediation of the Chief Minister, ninety five thou-sand BMC employees got a bonus of rupees fifteen thousand and five hun-dred. Around thirty two thousand BEST employees were given a bonus of rupees ten thousand and hundred.

This year who will get how much bonus:

BMC Employees Rs. 20,000 BEST Employee Rs. 20,000 Teachers Rs. 10,000 Health worker Rs. 5300Teaching servant Rs. 2800 Part time worker Rs. 2800

Maha CM announces bonus for BMC & BEST employees

This initiative is part of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’Nimisha Thawai of Panvel bagged the bronze medal in the 32nd Maharashtra State Senior Group Fencing Compe-tition. Nimisha Thawai (age 15) won the bronze medal in the open group foil event at Kol-hapur. BJP's North Raigad dis-trict president MLA Prashant Thakur lauded Nimisha and wished her well for the future. Parents, other dignitaries as well as coaches Milind Thakur and Vaibhav Petkar were pres-ent on this occasion.

Panvel Girl strikes Bronze in 32nd Maharashtra State Senior Group

Fencing Competition


By dr. veena adige

More than 35 Vsis-ters, dressed in

lovely finery and orna-ments enjoyed the pre Diwali function on Fri-day, October 29. All were in a festive mood, taking all precautions of wearing masks and social distancing, after having met after many months. Vsisters is an active eleven year old all women group from Navi Mumbai.

The program began with wonderful Ganpati and Devi vandanas by Shantala Bhat. This was followed by a beautiful rendition of the popular ‘Bhagyadha Laskshmi baramma’ by Poornima Shenoy, inviting God-dess Lakshmi to our houses . A lavani per-

formed by Mughdha Na-dkarni made everyone’s feet tap and hands clap. Durga Shenoy spoke on the importance of Diwali and the celebra-tions while Jaya She-noy described the entire week long observance of Diwali traditions and Diwali stories. Savitha H Nayak spoke about Diwali in her childhood along with her brothers and sisters and how they competed in making Di-wali lanterns.

‘In those days, we made everything at home, including sweets, lanterns, rangolis,’ she continued.

‘And had hot water baths after getting thor-oughly oiled,’ put in Du-rga Shenoy. Oil bath is a traditional Diwali ritual

among the people in the south. In many houses this evening bath is fol-lowed by fresh fried fish dinner.

Anjani Pai sang a beautiful song in Konk-ani, while Vidya Bhat, Prabha Prabhu, young Aishwarya Bhat, and others showed their tal-ent in singing Diwali and Goddess Lakshmi related songs. Discus-sions on Diwali in their childhood and now, was followed by lucky draws and housie by Sudha Ka-math and Savitha Joshy.

All the members had brought home made Di-wali sweets and other sa-voury items like chaklis and chivda which was shared by everyone in good bonhomie and Di-wali spirit.

Diwali Dhamaka by Vsisters

By ashok dhamija

Miss Shrishti Bannatti and Ya-shika Dhole are the winners of

Diadem Miss and Mrs. Maharashtra Beauty pageant held at the Four Point Hotel in Vashi, Navi Mumbai.

Organised for the first time in the city the event was conceptualized by Amisha Chaudhary.

The glittering event witnessed 48 contestants (32 beauties in the cat-egory of Mrs. and 15 in the Miss cat-egories) from across the state being shortlisted for the final round which was judged by Batul Ali, Archana Chaudhary, Aryana Grewal, Nikita Jagtap and Sanjeev Kumar

Varsha Naik and Smi-ta Thakre came second and third respectively in the Mrs category, while Poonam Maharana and Punita Bhardwaj were placed second and third respectively in the Miss category.

Suvarna Zore from Pune. Who has been as-sociated with various social causes for the up-liftment of downtrodden won the Beauty with Pur-pose title. In addition the organisers also bestowed sub titles keeping in mind intelligence, beauty and confi-dence in both the categories.

Through this competition, the organisers also raised social aware-ness of "Masik Satya" (Menstruation Truth) and on behalf of the partici-pants distributed Sanitary pads to the needy women.

Speaking on the occasion with me-dia representatives Amisha Chaud-hary, the first Indian to be crowned as Ms. United Nations 2017 in United Nations Private Pageant shared that "This competition is not about looks but the depth of the beauty of the

heart. By asking various questions to the beauties, we and the examiners understand how much they belong to the society. We have created a plat-form for women in Maharashtra to prove themselves. "

City based Yashika Dhole, a HR Professional with HLL who won the Mrs Maharashtra crown while speak-ing to Newsband shared that the suc-cess would not have been possible without the support of her in-laws and parents. “The organisers ensured that everyone was geared for the main event with various assignments and regular feedbacks Once the ini-

tial challenge of stage fright was overcome it was all about confidence and reposing faith in one self and the huge applause from the appreciative audience only boosted the morale of all the participants”

Diadem Mrs Maharashtra 2021Yashika Gowda (winner)

Varsha naik (1st Runner Up)Smita Thakre (2nd Runner Up)

Diadem Miss Maharashtra 2021 Srushti Bannatti (Winner)

Poonam Maharana (1st Runner Up)Punita Bhardwaj (2nd Runner Up)

Mrs Maharashtra - Beauty with purpose 2021

Suvarna Zore

Diadem Miss and Mrs. Maharashtra Beauty pageant concludes on a highShrishti Bannatti and Yashika Dhole crowned winners

By Ryhea george

The residents of the satellite city are fed

up with the ignorance shown by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) towards the encroach-ment issues which are being witnessed all over the city. It is more than a year since the area near the subway at CBD Be-lapur has turned into a mini slum. People have made tents and huts and cook, sleep in the open. This is not only illegal, but such sites are spoil-ing the scenic paintings made by the students of Art schools, say the resi-dents.

Speaking to News-band a resident Merrin

John said, “The subway has been beautifully painted with murals and coral themes, but due to the encroachment there are a lot of disturbances in the area. The place has become unhygienic

and people are seen bathing and spitting near the gutters in the area. They have also made small huts. The NMMC should take stringent measures against such encroachments as the

encroachers also create disturbances for the mo-torists passing through the subway.”

Another resident Madhur Patil said, “En-croachment is one of the major issues seen in var-

ious parts of the city and the subway needs to be cleared to make it look clean and tidy. Hawkers are also building their business in this new spot which can increase traffic in the area.”

Encroachment rampant at CBD-Belapur Subway

Residents demand action from the civic officials

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