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Nagpur: Banks were directed to start using indelible ink to ensure that people only change old notes for new ones once under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheme to fight “black money”, resorting to a tactic used to prevent multiple voting in elections.

The move by Finance Ministry and RBI was to prevent “unscrupulous persons” from sending people from one bank branch to the next to exchange old notes. Individuals are allowed to swap Rs 4,500 just once. According to Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das, the bank officials found the same people coming back again and again. Thus huge queues were preventing honest people from getting the cash they need.

Reality check
Nagpur Today ventured out to different banks and found that many were yet to implement the novel way to prevent multiple exchanges of old demonetized notes. Most of the Head-offices claimed that they have sent the list for approval and once okayed, they will use the indelible ink. Some banks used permanent markers on the end of finger nails and finger on the reverse of palm on the ring finger.

While we were still covering the manner in which the bank employees are attempting this, some people including two ladies approached the bank official to complain that the ink has been erased when she rubbed it.

However, many banks did procure indelible ink and had marked the people who had come to exchange demonetized notes. The success of the move to prevent multiple exchanges of old demonetized notes may not be so successful after all since many youngsters enthusiastically showed how the ink could be removed.

Banks use marker pens instead of indelible ink

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Nagpur: “Generator No. 6 at the Koradi Thermal Power Station must start by April 2016. Bharat Electricals Limited (BHEL) will not be given any further extension for the job,” said Energy Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule here on Wednesday.
Bwankule was addressing a meeting Mahagenco officials organised to review the progress of work on generator No. 6 of Koradi, Nos. 8, 9 of Chandrapur and Nos. 8A, 8B at Parali. The minister also directed the officials to not to give any work to the contractor companies unless they employ local youths.

Director of MSEB Holding Company Limited Vishwas Pathak, Energy Secretary Bipin Shrimali, officials from Bharat Heavy Electricals and many other high ranking officials were present during the meeting.

The Energy Minister expressed his displeasure over the delay in completing the works on the generators at different power stations and snubbed BHEL for its slow work. The minister also directed Mahagenco to file a complaint against BHEL with Energy Minister, Energy Secretary, Heavy Industries Minister and Secretary for Heavy Industries.

When contacted on phone, Managing Director of BHEL Atul Sobti wasn’t available to provide any statement. The delays from BHEL have resulted in a loss of 2000 MW for Mahagenco.

Bawankule snubs BHEL for delays in work

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Nagpur: Old rivalry and constant harassment led the victims to join hands and eliminate the perpetrator. In a pre-planned murder, three accused connived and murdered a notorious goon by slitting his throat in Ganga Jamuna Red-light area in the wee hours of November 16, 2016. The deceased is identified as notorious goon Raja Ganthdya alias Rajesh Suresh Belekar.

The cops of Lakhadganj Police Station have arrested three accused in the case. The accused are

• Roshan Shankar Chaurasia aged 26 years and a resident of Pardi
• Sonu Omprakash Sakhre aged 26 years and a resident of Khadan Jyoti Nagar
• Santosh alias Balu Paras Shivas aged 28 years and a resident of Gosavi Akhada

Sources claimed that, two days ago, there was a heated argument between Raja Ganthdya and Roshan Shankar Chaurasia over Rs 7000/- Is it presumed that this amount could have been the cause of the murder.

Police sources added that Raja Ganthdya used to run a paid cycle-stand in Ganga Jamuna Red-light area in the city. Raja Ganthdya is accused in three prior murder cases.

On the other hand Roshan Shankar Chaurasia runs a hired autorickshaw. Sonu Sakhre is said to be a close friend of Roshan Chuarasia. Balu Shrivas was working for some time in the paid cycle-stand in Ganga Jamuna Red-light area. Raja Ganthdya had allegedly lent some money to Roshan Chaurasia and was constantly demanding the money back. Raja Ganthdya had threatened Roshan Chaurasia that if he is unable to pay back the amount, he should start working for him in the paid cycle-stand in Ganga Jamuna Red-light area. However, when Roshan refused to work in his cycle stand, Raja Ganthdya threatened to kill him. Roshan felt threatened and reported the matter to his friend identified as Sonu Sakhre who used to run a Pan-Kiosk. Sources claimed that even Sonu was fed up with Raja Ganthdya and his threats. Both of these accused joined hands and then incorporated a good friend and associate of Raja Ganthdya too. Two days ago, Raja Ganthdya had bashed up Balu Shrivas too.

Modus operandi of crime
Having planned to eliminate Raja Ganthdya, the three accused laid in wait for him in the cycle stand. Early in the morning at around 6:15 am Raja Ganthdya arrived at the cycle stand and sat in a plastic chair kept there. Roshan and Sonu arrived at the spot on a motorcycle. Sources claimed that as soon as they arrived, they pounced on Raja Ganthdya. The accused started assaulting Raja Ganthdya with sharp edged weapons. Raja Ganthdya started running away from the spot but the accused Roshan and Sonu allegedly ran after him and slit his throat, killing him on the spot.

On being questioned Roshan and Sonu confessed to their role in the murder. Balu too had assaulted Raja Ganthdya. Raja Ganthdya had a fearful reputation in Ganga Jamuna area. Sources claimed that he used fleece and loot all those customers who used to emerge from the Badnam Galli (where commercial sex workers offer services). Raja Ganthdya was said to be involved in the murder of an Army Jawan. Raja and five of his co-accused had murdered the Army jawan. There are some more serious offences registered against Raja Ganthdya.

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Nagpur: A Skoda Octavia car turned to ashes in few minutes as it caught fire in Poonam Chambers Square late in the afternoon on November 16, 2016.

According to sources, the car belongs to Akram. He had brought the car to some garage situated nearby. A mechanic of the garage was taking a trial run of the car when he noticed smoke emanating from under the bonnet.

The garage driver immediately deserted the car and stood outside the car. Within minutes the entire car burnt to ashes. Some on-looker had called the fire department and a fire tender arrived to douse the fire. However, by that time the car had already turned to ashes. Not one part of the car remained intact.

The cops of Sadar Police Station have towed the car to Sadar Police Station and are investigating further.

Further details awaited.

Video: Skoda Octavia car turned to ashes in few minutes due to auto-combustion

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Nagpur: As kids we have all heard and sung that popular nursery rhyme:

“London bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down – my fair lady.

Hold it up with iron bars, iron bars, iron bars, my fair lady!”

Well, in front of our eyes our beloved ‘Chatrapati bridge’ which we all have traveled over since its existence – and loved the peek we got into the Sai Mandir from it! – is not just falling but being pulled down and we CANNOT hold it up with anything even if we wanted to.

Apart from the trauma of watching it fall many Nagpurians, living in that area and also driving to the Nagpur Airport, have to suffer a lot of inconvenience. People in the neighborhood must also be putting up with noise and dust pollution.

To sugarcoat all these issues, the management of the Nagpur Metro headed by M.D. Brijesh Dixit, has thought up many novel ways to make Nagpurians feel a part of the process and turn the
‘tragedy ‘into a memorable experience in which they can all participate!

The ‘programs’ they have thus devised are as follows:

Under the heading ‘smooth dismantling of bridge – Day 2’ they inform us:

“Work of Dismantling of Chhatrpati Bridge on Wardha Raod which commenced on 15/11/2016 and progressed throughout the day & night.

The Technical team of the contractor along with Team NMRCL have been personally executing the smooth dismantling of the bridge. Traffic on Wardha Raod and other nearby roads has been diverted as per programme and as announced by NMRCL earlier. Marshalls of Nagpur Metro are constantly guiding the road users and other citizens on the diversion of the roads as also helping them on traffic flow.

Nagpur Metro has started an Information Centre for the public help & updated information. All information regarding the dismantling, traffic diversion plan, barricading, helpline number etc. is available 24X7 for the citizens in this centre. The activities being performed by Nagpur Metro during the process of dismantling of Chhatrapati Bridge include:

1. SMS Blast Road Show
2. Whats App Blast
3. Radio Broadcast
4. Information Kiosks
5. Ballon Branding
6. Signature Campaign
7. Selfie Contest
8. Informative Brochure/Leaflet Distribution
9. On Site information Center at Chhatrapti Square

On day 2 -Out of 4 spans 2 have been dismantled Today. Three Poclin machines are working and work of dismantling of Chhatrapati Bridge is in progress as per plan. Ramp portion of 3500 Cubic Meter out of 15000 Cubic Meter filling has been removed. About 300 engineers, supervisors, labour, Traffic Marshalls are working day & night on the project of dismantling the bridge.

Finest on-the-spot memory drawings by local artists.

Enthusiastic painters from different educational Institutions and commercial artists painted on their own encouraging drawings on the Chhatrapati Bridge.

So, so what if the bridge is going to be no more as we know it now?

A better and bigger one is going to be built soon in its place. And meanwhile, we will have selfies and drawings to remember the old one by!!

So let the bridge fall – no point trying to hold it up…

Nagpur Metro devising novel ways to sugar coat sight of ‘falling’ Chatrapati bridge

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Nagpur/Mumbai: Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das briefs media on demonitization. Highlights…

— Govt has decided to permit farmers to withdraw up to Rs 25,000 per week against crop loans sanctioned and credited to their accounts. The account has to be KYC compliant.

— Payment of crop insurance premium extended to 15 days.

— Mandi traders can withdraw Rs 50,000 per week. Again the account has to be KYC compliant.

— For wedding ceremonies, Rs 2.5 lakh can be drawn per week, from the parents or the couple’s accounts. All the accounts have to be KYC compliant. A self declaration has to be furnished that the money is drawn from one account.

— And the best for the last — the over the counter exchange of old Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes — has been brought down from Rs 4500 per week to Rs 2000 per week. This, says Das, will enable larger number of people to get the benefit. This comes into effect from November 18.

Exchange of old notes reduced from Rs 4500 to Rs 2000 per week from tomorrow

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Nagpur: Congress workers under the leadership of corporator Arun Dawre staged a ‘rasta roko’ at the Takli Bridge Road here on Thursday.

“The residents of Zingabai Takli and Mankapur areas are suffering because of lack of basic infrastructure, and the administration is completely apathetic towards their issues,” said Dawre. He further said that Zingabai Takli and Mankapur were two of the oldest localities in the city and infrastructure like drainage lines and electric poles etc. are not in the required numbers in these areas.

Dawre also said that the population of these areas was increasing every day. However, the administration had not taken any initiative to provide basic infrastructure to the people despite they paying all their taxes. “The administration is busy constructing cement roads where they are not necessary, but the 150-year-old Godhani-Mankapur Shiv Mandir Road hasn’t been repaired yet,” the Congress corporator said.

Those who took part in the ‘rasta roko’ included Pradnya Badwaik, Rajni Raut, Poonam Khade, Sarita Harmade, Shyam Khule, Yogesh Pethe, Ajay Godbole, Ram Kalambe, Tamija Sheikh, Pramod Thakur, Jyoti Patil, Kamla Tai Bhalerao, Rekha Ambhore and many others.

Congmen stage ‘rasta roko’ at Takli Bridge Road

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Nagpur: In a shocking incident, an eleven year old school student committed suicide by hanging himself with the help of his mother’s dupatta on November 17, 2016.

The deceased boy is identified as Vedant Raut aged 11 years, a fourth standard student and a resident of Hingna Road. The Raut family is yet to come to terms and accept that their lone son had ended his life by hanging himself at the tender age of eleven. Vedant Raut was found hanging by the ceiling hook with his mother’s dupatta at his Mahajan Layout, Hingna Road residence at afternoon on Wednesday, the November 17, 2016.

Police Sub Inspector Barad of the Hingna Police Station who registered a case of accidental death told Nagpur Today that he was scared of getting a scolding from his parents for not being regular at school. Barad suspected that this could be the reason behind the minor taking the extreme step.

No suicide note was found from the boy’s pockets. The cops had even checked all his notebooks but nothing was found.
Police informed that Vedant had not gone to the school on Wednesday. His mother had gone out for some official work to nearby bank at around 2 pm. His mother works with a marketing team of a private bank, while Vedant’s father Sanjay who works with a private firm was in his office at Dhantoli. Vedant’s elder sister, aged 14 years had gone to the school. The boy was said to be alone at home with his aunt. His aunt was talking with a neighbour when Vedant had locked himself in a room.

PSI Barad claimed that Vedant had used the stool to climb the upper shelf from where he tied the dupatta to the ceiling hook. He was known to keep his kites at the top of the shelf and thus was used to climbing the height. He had tied the dupatta in the ceiling hook and hanged himself claimed the cop. The suicide came to light when Vedant’s mother came home and he did not respond to her call. Later, with the help of neighbour, the room door was broken open to see the minor boy hanging to the ceiling hook. MIDC police rushed to the spot and the body was taken for post mortem. Police has registered a case of an accidental death.

Fear of scolding causes 11-year-old boy hang himself with mother’s dupatta

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Nagpur: In a matter of pride for the city, Dr Ajay M Gondane, a Diplomat hailing from Nagpur has been appointed as the High Commissioner of India to Australia. Dr Ajay M Gondane an IFS officer of 1985 batch will be taking up his assignment in a few days, succeeding Navdeep Suri, who has been moved to the Embassy in UAE. Gondane is currently holding the post of Additional Secretary (Political) in the Union Ministry of External Affairs.

Australia is said to be a high income country, whose population is lesser than of Delhi. It is strategically located and is surrounded by water from all directions. While speaking to media personnel, he said that India wants to develop the part as our area of influence. He added that we work with a vision of India in 2030.

Australia has a tough stance towards countries with nuclear capabilities. We brought them around saying strategic needs demand it. We have to defend ourselves. Other countries would not fight for us, he claimed.

Gondane will focus on students in colleges and residencies, and on curbing racial attacks. Improving exports, bringing investment, promoting Indian tourism and helping develop India’s resources are his other priorities. Australia was biased towards whites more than Asians. But they soon realized that work won’t go on without Indians, he remarked.

Having closely worked with Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, Gondane points that she is the most intelligent Minister he has seen. The ministry has generated goodwill owing to Swaraj’s prompt response to public over social media. “Within six months of joining the ministry, she knew me by name and recalled plans which were discussed in an earlier meeting,” he says.

In his vast experience of 31 years in Indian Foreign Service, Gondane has handled posts including Deputy Consulate General of India in New York and High Commissioner of India to Papua New Guinea.

Gondane recalls days in the Nagpur University Library, where students would fight to get their hands on the newspaper to take notes. “When I think of the boys and girls around me, I feel they were under-confident, and didn’t sustain through that phase. I want to tell students of Nagpur to not be afraid of pursuing their dreams,” he says.

Ajay Gondane hailing from Nagpur appointed High Commissioner to Australia

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Nagpur: The demonetization farce is going from the macabre to the ridiculous.

Paranoid over its fears that the ‘Jugadu’ Indians were finding ways of confounding the govt. moves and exploiting loopholes to change their ‘ill gotten’ black into white they are finding strange solutions to defeat such attempts.

One of the brain waves has been to ink the fingers of those who have once changed money – from all notes to new – to prevent them from being “agents of the rich”.

How did this strategy come about?

As a Bank Manager of SBI explained to NT ” we had many people who were not our customers coming to exchange money – we suspect repeatedly. They could be agents who were being recruited to change money again and again, from our bank and other banks too, on behalf of the rich who had hoards of black money. To prevent this from happening, government has decided to put indelible ink, like what is put after voting, to identify these ‘racketeers’ and prevent them from doing what they were doing”.

But how does this system really work.

“Will fingers of genuine customers not be inked when they change money?”

“We will change their money once, then ask them to deposit money – old notes – in their accounts and withdraw money- new notes- from there” replied the Manager.

So even legitimate account holders will not have their money changed again, once it has been done?

NO, was the reply.

This solution is confounding many other bankers acrosss the country though.

“Poor planning in rolling out this programme has ended up preventing lakhs of people from withdrawing money from their own accounts. The decision to mark fingers of all customers with indelible ink to prevent repeated money exchange is like burning the house to catch a rat. This is going to put the public in more difficulty now,” D Thomas Franco, vice president, All India Bank Officers Confederation, said in Chennai.

Franco said that the Economic Affairs Secretary had no authority to take the decision on using indelible ink. “Such decisions should come either from the Reserve Bank of India or the finance secretary… How many marks would bank staff put on customers who exchange the limited amount in two or three stages?” said Franco.

A government official said that they are coming out with operating procedure on usage of the ink. “This will be circulated hopefully by tonight. This should clarify how a person can exchange old currency multiple times,” he said.

So there is confusion and different opinions among bankers about how the ink is to be used.

There is also the matter of enough indelible ink not being available across India. (Only one factory in Mysore makes it for elections). So some banks are using permanent markers – which get washed off easily!

As we said, it is turning into a drama of ridiculous.

Inking fingers to prevent repeated cash withdrawals – ink and inking policy, both failing!

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Nagpur: Sensation prevailed in the Mahadula area of Koradi when an old woman was found murdered at her residence in Dhulas Layout here on Thursday.

The deceased has been identified as 62-year-old Pramila Marotrao Kanfade. Her body was found in the kitchen with multiple injuries on her face and head. A pestle and a knife were found near her body.

Kanfade was living with her grandson Mayur. It is learnt that Mayur is an alcoholic and often used to abuse and beat his grandmother for money. Police are suspecting that Mayur Kanfade can be the culprit in this case.

Family members informed that Mayur was a daily wage labourer at the Koradi Power Station. Tired of his drinking habit and abusive behaviour, Pramila had thrown him out of the house a few months back, following which Mayur went to the place of his paternal grandparents at Mouda. However, he came to Pramila’s house two weeks back and created rukus. He also vandalized her property. He also broke the electricity meter.

Pramila had called her relative Vaibhav Nimbalkar to fix the meter. When Vaibhav Nimbalkar went to her house, he got no reply from Pramila after he knocked the door. The door was open. He went inside the house to check if everything was fine and found Pramila dead in the kitchen.

Police have registered a case in this regard and are interrogating Mayur Kanfade. No arrests have been made so far in this case.

Video: Old woman found murdered in Koradi, grandson suspected

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Nagpur: The Nagpur Metro project achieved financial closure on Thursday after receiving a credit of Rs 975 crore from French Development Agency (AFD). Joint Secretary of Department of Economic Affairs Selvakumar and AFD Regional Director for South Asia Nicolas Fornage signed a credit facility agreement in this regard. French Ambassador Alexander Ziegler was also present on the occasion.

For speedy development of Nagpur Metro, in April 2016, the Central Government had signed a 500 million Euros loan agreement with German bank KfW.

With Thursday’s credit agreement, Nagpur Metro has achieved financial closure in a record 18 months, a press release said.

The press release further said that order for rolling stock has already been placed and tendering of other packages for power supply, traction systems, signaling, telecom, and automatic fare collection system are in advanced stages.

Nagpur Metro gets Rs 975 crore credit from French agency

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Nagpur: In a swift action, the cops of DCP Zone-III raided a slaughterhouse situated in Habibnagar, Teka Naka area under the jurisdiction of Panchpaoli Police Station and found carcass of nearly 50 cows. The cops of DCP (Zone-III) managed to rescue 15 cows.

According to reliable sources the cops of DCP Zone-III received a secret tip off that cows were being slaughtered in the slaughterhouse situated in Habibnagar, Teka Naka area. Many senior police officials were also present during the raid. The cops have since arrested nearly 10 persons involved in the slaughter of cows.

With such a huge heist of slaughtered cows, sensation prevailed in the area. Till the time of filing the story, further action was initiated: Details are awaited.

Police raids slaughterhouse at Habibnagar, carcass of 50 cows found and 15 cattle rescued

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Nagpur: In another sensational incident, a 35-year-old married woman was murdered by her paramour in Gujarat Lodge situated in Cotton Market area in the city on November 17, 2016.

According to reliable sources, the deceased a 35-year-old woman identified as Rukhsana* (*name changed for privacy) and her 27 year-old paramour identified as Dinesh Devraoji Chichmalkar had checked into Gujarat Lodge situated in Cotton Market area in the city falling within the jurisdiction of Ganeshpeth Police Station on November 17, 2016.

Sources claimed that both the deceased and the accused were residents of Bhivapur and used to regularly come to the city from Bhivapur to enjoy privacy since they had an affair. The deceased is said to be married and a mother of two children.

On Thursday, November 17, 2016, late in the afternoon, both of them enjoyed liquor. Sources claimed that both of them were heavily drunk.

While one version says that the accused had claimed that he had playfully strangulated her and immediately had left to get non-vegetarian food from Mominpura not realizing that the lady had died and on his return, he had found her dead.

The other version is that both had some argument and in a fit of rage, the accused had strangulated her and had locked the room from outside pretending to go to Mominpura to get non-vegetarian food. And when he returned, he had found the lady dead. He had started raising an alarm and had played innocent of the entire murder.

On receipt of the information, the cops of Ganeshpeth Police Station had rushed to the spot and right from the beginning the cops suspected the accused. On intense questioning by the cops of Ganeshpeth Police Station, the accused Dinesh Devraoji Chichmalkar had spilled the beans and had confessed to the crime. The accused confessed that he and the deceased were regular customers of the Gujarat Lodge and today they were staying in Room No 121. He confessed that he had strangulated the victim in a fit of rage and staged the entire drama.

The cops of Ganeshpeth Police Station dispatched the body to Government Medical College and Hospital for Post Mortem after performing Panchanama and other formalities.

The cops have registered a case against the accused Dinesh Devraoji Chichmalkar under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code and have initiated an investigation in this regard.

35-year-old woman killed by her paramour

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Nagpur: HotelKey is a Corporate offering cloud based Hotel Management System built specially to manage hotels and motels. This app has been so designed to help both Owner and Hotel management staff plus customers.A state of the art Front desk iPad app provides core property management functions, real time reporting and useful analytics.

Owner and Manager Apps on smartphones provide access to occupancy, revenue and other key performance indicators. The Housekeeping and Maintenance apps allow staff to manage daily maintenance, repair, and service functions.

HotelKey mobile booking application, self check-in and drive to room are innovations designed for customers which will revolutionize the hotel industry.

This company which already has a presence in three countries – USA, Kosovo and India – had already opened a back end office in Nagpur.

This 12th November, they have inaugurated brand new premises on Nag Road where they propose to expand operations and add key functions like Development, Quality testing, Analysis, Support, Implementation and at the next stage, product marketing – for Indian markets – also.

This move by HotelKey management has been a God sent for many professionally qualified Nagpurians who have been given an opportunity to move back to their families and their home town without compromising their ‘take home’ in the least. On the contrary, they are all moving back with at least a 20% enhancement of their emoluments.

Bhumika Shinkhede is one such fortunate person. She is a graduate of YCC Engg college Nagpur who had to shift to Pune two years ago when she got a job in Infosys. She worked briefly in Mysore and Banglore too before moving to Pune. Permanently, it seemed, since it was a great job and she was learning a lot. She was Functional consultant for client Harley Davidson. Her family was both happy for her and sad that she was not coming back.

But now they are overjoyed that this job with HotelKey has brought their only child back home to them.

“This job is more paying and very exciting too. Plus I get to live at home with my parents so they are not constantly worried about me as they used to be earlier when I was in Pune. It is like having your cake and eating it too!” says the pretty girl.

Sneha Agrawal is another Akola based Engineering graduate – she studied in Ramdeo Baba college – who HotelKey brought back close to home. After graduation she had worked in Cybage Pune for two years before ill health of parents forced her to quit and move back to Akola for a while. In her free time she trained in OCP as Database Administrator and was musing future course of action when she learnt about HotelKey through an article in Linked in. She sent in her application and was overjoyed when she got selected.

“With this opportunity I get the best of both worlds without having to move too far away from my family in Akola. I can visit them on weekends , but the thing I am happiest about is getting to go home on festivals! It was such a hassle planning to travel from Pune for Diwali, New Year etc. Most times I was forced to miss them.”

There are approximately 30 such youngsters working in the Nagpur office now. Ritesh Patwardhan, the senior most guy and the office in charge of Nagpur was working in Pune too.The second in command is Akash Rayte, also a Nagpur guy.

They are on a hiring spree and are looking to increase their strength to 55 by year end. By 2017, they plan to expand to 100 – 150 based on the response they get world wide and from within India too. Right now, it is looking very positive and the response has been tremendous.

They have been hired by the biggest Economy Motel chain in USA who are so confident of their product that they have offered funding too. (The name of the group is under wraps pending a formal announcement from their end).

“Why Nagpur?” We ask Aditya Thyagarajan , the Co Founder and President of the Company.

“Because I am from Nagpur” he replies simply. (Though Aditya’s parents are now settled in Banglore the family originally belongs to Nagpur and Aditya was born in Amraoti and lived in Nagpur in his initial growing up years. He did his Engineering from Banglore where he was also an ace Cricketer playing ultimately for the state of Karnataka in Ranjeet Trophy matches. He moved to USA to do his MS and played cricket there too – becoming Captain of USA’s first cricket team- The glamorous Hollywood Cricket team!)

Aditya, whose ties with Nagpur have strengthened with marriage to Renuka, Senior Congress leader and ex Union Minister Vilas Muttemwar’s only daughter, says he was very impressed with the caliber of Engineering graduates from Nagpur.

So when he decided to set up HotelKey in USA with co founder and CEO Fareed Ahmed, India, and Nagpur were his first choice for setting up the back end service office.

In fact last year in December 2015, they formally launched HotelKey from Nagpur only.

The message I want to give the city youth is ” Don’t go to Pune or Mumbai for work. Stay in Nagpur, have a great career that will have you travelling the world!” Says Aditya.

HotelKey offers golden chance for Nagpur youth to come back home

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Nagpur: You can now withdraw 2,000 from certain petrol pumps starting Friday by swiping your debit card.

This facility will be available at 2,500 petrol pumps across the country and selected in Nagpur.

“It has been decided that an amount up to Rs2000 per day per person in cash can be dispensed against swiping of debit card from select petrol pumps where point of sale machines of SBI are already available,” an official told media.

PoS machines are the machines which are generally used for debit or credit card transactions.

Get Rs 2,000 cash in some petrol pumps starting today

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Nagpur: As the new currency notes float into the markets, gradually easing the cash crunch in retail segment, many customers as well as shopkeepers are heaving a sigh of relief. However, still the defaulters are dying in frustration of what to do with the bulky bundle of unaccounted currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000, which they have accumulated without any accounts. These currency notes have been demonetized by Modi sarkar as a masterstroke against black money, counterfeit notes and not the least, against the giant monster of corruption. Sources informed though demonetization has put aam aadmi to temporary inconvenience but it has certainly become a permanent problem for some of the real estate players, doctors and satta operators in Nagpur.

Demolished hopes of builders
As Nagpur Today checked into the prevailing trend, it turned out that the erring real estate players, who were having the ball with 60:40 game – taking part cash payment from the customers and part through cheque – are feeling the heat of the decision. The cash payment usually goes unaccounted and was not shown into account books of these real estate companies. The builders are now having lines of worries on their face, pondering and brainstorming over what to do with the accumulated cash as Modi sprang a sudden ‘unpleasant surprise’ before them.

A bitter pill for doctors
Similar is the condition of many big doctors, particularly those mushrooming in Dhantoli and Ramdaspeth areas. The outstation patients usually bring cash to them which largely went unaccounted and never deposited in the banks. This has left with huge piles of unaccounted cash stashed in the ‘illegal coffers’ of many of the top surgeons in the city. Insiders informed that a well-known heart surgeon having its sprawling hospital in Dhantoli has been in contact with few local netas who could help him out in making his black money into ‘white’. However, we learnt that netas are also keeping away from such ‘elements’ who can put them into unwanted trouble.

All Close, No Open
Demonetization has hit Nagpur’s satta, also called as matka market, hard with Mumbai kingpins ordering their agents in Nagpur and Vidarbha to keep a lid on all operation for the time being, slashing the region’s turnover by nearly 25 per cent. Sources informed that a major matka king from Mumbai operates the Nagpur and Vidarbha market. Butibori, Takalghat and Katol have gained notoriety due to rampant matka operations. Even pan-shop owners are running satta businesses with impunity with the blessings of corrupt police officials. Though the Mumbai kingpins have ordered to shut down operations but the local agents are managing the business clandestinely on their own. These agents are operating discreetly from their homes or shops but their business too has crashed from Rs 1 lakh daily to Rs 20,000 to Rs 30,000.

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Nagpur: The Statutory Committee of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has given nod to new establishment schedule on Friday. The schedule is now waiting for clearance in the General Meeting. After approval from the State Government, according to the new schedule, there will be total 17,334 positions in the NMC.

The present establishment schedule was drafted in year 1976, when NMC was run according to the CP and Berar Act. At that time there were 12,625 approved positions. Out of them, only 8,200 were filled. The monthly expenditure of maintaining these positions is Rs 32 crore.

Presently the NMC is governed by the NMC Act. Hence, a new establishment schedule had become need of the hour. The new schedule will be sent to the State Government for approval after general consensus.

According to the new schedule, there will be a separate police station under NMC which will be having a strength of 80 personnel. The station will be headed by a Joint Police Commissioner level officer. Chairman of the Statutory Committee Bandu Raut has proposed Municipal Courts under NMC on the lines of Pune Municipal Corporation. Raut also made announcement about 4-day Nagpur Mahotsav, which will begin from December 16.

– RAJEEV RANJAN KUSHWAHA

Statutory Committee gives nod to new establishment schedule

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Nagpur: A 30-year-old woman was raped on the pretext of marriage in Koradi area of the city. The incident came to light when the victim filed a complaint with Koradi police in this regard on Friday.

According to details, the victim, a resident of Koradi, came into contact with the accused identified as Sunil Naiti (28), a resident of Balaghat district in Madhya Pradesh in year 2015. The victim fell in love with the accused who established physical relationship with her on the pretext of getting married. However, the accused later on backtracked and refused to marry her.

The victim has filed a case complaint the accused at Koradi police station. The police have arrested the accused and registered a case under Section 375 of the IPC against him. Further investigation is on.

Woman raped on pretext of marriage in Koradi