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Nagpur: Protesting against illegal plying of overloaded trucks from Nagpur to Patansawangi and further to Khapa-Badegaon-Bichhwa (Khursapar) till Ramakona; villagers residing beside these roads have appealed to the District Collector to stop this illegal transportation immediately. The villagers have also threatened to stage ‘rasta roko’ agitation after the Geneshotsava if the action is not taken by then.

The villagers informed the Collector that around 300 trucks, tipper and trailers, registered with different RTOs in Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh; ply illegally and overloaded on above-mentioned route to avoid RTO Naka between Kelvad in Maharashtra to Sausar in Madhya Pradesh.

Although Koradi, Patansawangi and Khapa police stations are on the same route, the illegal transportation continues unabated round the clock. Moreover, the illegal vehicles are also engaged in transportation of liquor, meat, cattle, minerals and sand. And all is going on with the support of police and RTO, the villagers alleged.

The villagers have demanded that a check-post be created at Badegaon. Also, flying squads of RTO shall be deployed on the said route. The villagers have submitted a memorandum to Khapa police station apprising them of the situation. The copies of the memorandum have been sent to local MLA Sunil Kedar, SP Rural, Regional Transport Officer, Saoner Tehsildar and Saoner police inspector.

The villagers also said that check-post will increase revenues of the RTO. The check on overloaded trucks will also ensure further ruining of road conditions. The villagers also threatened that if their demands were not met, they will stage rasta roko after Ganeshotsava.

Villagers allege RTO-Police nexus supporting illegal transport

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Nagpur: Power supply will remain disrupted at Zero Mile area from 6 am to 10 am on Saturday due to important work of Metro Rail.

Power supply will be affected at CTO Compound, Government Press, BSNL Office and areas under 11KV Regent Switching Centre to 111KV Zero Mile transformer.

Maha Discom will send alert messages to the consumers, who have registered their mobile numbers with the company. Maha Discom has appealed the consumers to cooperate in the work.

Power supply near Zero Mile area to remain disrupted

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Nagpur: Gay rights activist and founder of Sarthi Trust, Anand Chandranni, hailed the recent Supreme Court judgment as historic.

Talking to Nagpur Today, Chandranni said, “The verdict was much more than just decriminalizing a provision. It was about an aspiration to realize constitutional rights and equal existence of LGBT community as other citizens. However, marriages and child adoption in the society are still unresolved issues in front of us.”

“Choice of sexual preference, it is far more intimate than what it seems. A person should have right to choose his sexual preference being male or a female,” he asserted.

SC ruling on LGBT more than just decriminalizing a provision: Activist

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Nagpur: MahaMetro is very much in trend these days in Nagpur, especially for the ongoing metro rail project in the city. As the commuters encounter heavy machinery works right in the middle of the roads, the gigantic project is gradually making its presence felt in the urban scape of Nagpur. And the man behind the show is Dr Brijesh Dixit, Managing Director of MahaMetro, who is spearheading the mega project with a degree of perfection, barring few unfortunate incidents.

With the project on the run, it has also opened plethora of job opportunities for the unemployed youths in Nagpur and connecting areas. And Dr Dixit is making sure the local people get maximum job opportunity through making the knowledge of reading and writing Marathi compulsory for the landing the jobs.

This apart, the heavy girders being launched along with the vertical giant pillars have become the common sight now a days. Nonetheless, the traffic snarls and the vehicular conjestion that follows, have almost turned major stress for the commuters. But as they say, behind every development there is patience and some pain too.

At a time when every Nagpurian is optimistic about Majhi Metro – the metro rail project in the city, Nagpur Today caught up with Dr Dixit and quizzed him over the recent incidents that put the works under controversy.

In a detailed conversation with NT, Dr Dixit elaborated on the safety measures being undertaken to to ensure the citizens have safe and smooth commute while the project works are on. Also he drew attention towards the new job avenues the ongoing project has opened up…

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Nagpur: Even as the Ganesh festival is adding up to all the vibrance and fervour throughout the city, the commuters are facing hard times coping up with less number of city buses plying on the roads. The reason – less number of conductors are available as most of them are not reporting to duty in view to festive engagements due to Mahalaxmi and Ganesh festival.

On Friday too, many passengers of Aapli Bus were left stranded on over a dozen routes after many buses did not ply on time due to non-availability of conductors. A senior official from Delhi Integrated Multimodal Transit System (DIMTS), agency monitoring the city bus service gave information in this regard.

The two agencies, Unity Infrastructure and Security and Intelligence Services (SIS), that were appointed to streamline the city bus service, together have 1,500 conductors for running 320 buses. However, the NMC has suffered a loss of over Rs 50 crore since April 2018 as many buses could not be operated for want of conductors.
Since September 9, three red bus operators of Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s Aapli Bus service have cancelled many trips due to lack of conductors.

The affected routes include Sitabuldi to Besa, Godhni, Hingna, Bahadur Phata, Vaishali Nagar, Pardi, Defence (Wadi), New Narsala and others. “On September 11, the operators could not ply around 24 buses. On Friday too they had to cancel trips of 12 buses on these routes,” said a senior official from NMC’s transport department. DIMTS has issued show cause notices to both the ticketing agencies for causing financial loss due to non-availability of conductors.

DIMTS official, however, said lack of conductors has not affected the service badly as the number of passengers was less due to festivals like Pola and Ganesh Chaturthi. One of the operators said they have enough drivers and buses to run the buses. “However, we are losing trips due to unavailability of conductors, while NMC too is suffering revenue loss,” the operator said.

Passengers were forced to travel in overcrowded Red buses. Some criticized the NMC for the deteriorating service. Prakash Bhalerao, a regular traveller from Wadi, said, “The bus service has gone from bad to worse. I was waiting for almost an hour but failed to get bus for Wadi Defence to Sitabuldi route.”

Break on Aapli Bus as conductors remain off duty

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NAGPUR: Tausif Khan and Irshad Sheikh have been elected as president and vice-president respectively of Youth Congress’ Nagpur unit. The results of the organization elections were announced on Friday as party members were eagerly awaiting for it after the controversial elections had become a point of discussion across the State.

The organization elections to Youth Congress in Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency had started on September 9. Polling was done for election of State President, State Secretary, District President, District Secretary, and General Secretary. 5,023 voters of the total of 12,500 voters cast votes in the elections.

Meanwhile, allegations of bogus voting at Ahbab Communicty Centre for the election of president of West Nagpur State Assembly constituency were made and huge uproar was created. Youth Congress workers had demanded action against those creating chaos and therefore the counting was postponed.

Tausif Khan and Dhiraj Pande were among the 10 candidates for Nagpur president’s post. While Tausif Khan 1,491 votes, Dhiraj Pande managed to get 1,099 votes. Tausif is the son of Congress City executive member Bashir Bhai. Whereas Dhiraj is the son of Krishna Kumar Pande, who is supporter of AICC’s SC Cell president and former minister Nitin Raut. It was learnt that Dhiraj Pande and Irshad Sheikh will be appointed as vice-presidents.

Naved Sheikh polled maximum 542 votes in the City general secretary election. Ketan Thakre and Sheikh Azhar also won in the elections. Akash Gujar was elected as vice-president on SC reserved seat while Kavita Yadav was elected on seat reserved for woman.

Election of Assembly-wise presidents

Elections were held for City committee as well as Assembly-wise committees. Swapnil Dhoke with 518 votes was elected president of YC Central Nagpur. Bobby Dhote (605 votes) from South Nagpur, Anmol Lonare (401) from North Nagpur, Akshay Ghatole (213) from East Nagpur, Akhilesh Rajan (249) from West Nagpur and Mangesh Badhel from South-West Nagpur were elected.

Five Nagpurians on State Committee

Five candidates from Nagpur won in the Youth Congress State Committee elections. Kunal Raut was elected state vice-president, while Bhushan Maraskohle and Neha Nikose were elected state general secretaries. Rohit Khairwar and Ajit Singh were elected state secretaries.

Setback for Nitin Raut in North Nagpur

Many senior party leaders suffered setback in YC elections. AICC SC Cell president and former minister Nitin Raut’s son Kunal Raut had to settle for state vice-president’s post. While Raut camp’s candidate lost in the election of president of North Nagpur. Here Anmol Lonare of Vikas Thakre camp won the election. Vikas Thakre’s son Ketan became City general secretary.

Tausif Khan elected Youth Congress Nagpur chief

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Nagpur: In increasing incidents of hit-and-run, yet another young man was killed when the two-wheeler he was riding was hit by an unidentified vehicle in Hudkeshwar area here in the wee hours of Saturday. The vehicle driver fled the spot after the accident.

A resident of Plot No. 17, Ayodhya Nagar, Girish Ramesh Rohankar (27), was going on his two-wheeler (MH-49/W 2265) between 0200 and 0230 hours on Saturday. When Girish reached near Jabalpur-Hyderabad bridge on Pachgaon Road, a recklessly driven unidentified vehicle rammed his two-wheeler. Girish suffered fatal injuries and died on the spot. The accused driver along with his vehicle sped the spot soon after the mishap.

Hudkeshwar Woman PSI Mohare, based on a complaint lodged by Parag Ramesh Rohankar (24), has registered a case under Sections 279, 427, 304(A) of the IPC and searching for the accused driver of the unidentified vehicle.

Similarly, a 24-year old man succumbed to injuries he suffered in a hit-and-run accident that took place in Hingna area on September 12. The deceased, Ganesh Arun Shelke, resident of Khubala, Saoner and his friend Harshal Mohre of Khapa were going on Nagpur-Amravati Highway on their two-wheeler (MH-31/B 6546) around 4 pm on September 12. Midway near Dhamna Shivar, a speeding Pulsar motorcycle driven by unidentified person, hit Ganesh’s two-wheeler. Ganesh received grievous injuries and was taken to GMCH. He succumbed to injuries on September 14 during treatment.

Hingna police constable Arvind booked the unidentified bike rider under Sections 279, 337, 304(A) of the IPC and searching for him.

Hit-and-run mishap: Unidentified vehicle kills bike rider in Hudkeshwar

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Nagpur: One more woman was robbed of gold ornaments while travelling in an auto on Friday. The crime of the kind has increased in alarming magnitude as gangs of men and women travelling in autos as co-passengers have gone of robbing spree in recent times.

In the instant case, a native of Thanegaon, Tehsil Lakhni, District Bhandara, Ranjana Purshottam Dhenge (48) arrived in Nagpur around 1.30 pm on Friday for attending a programme at a relative’s house. Ranjana boarded an auto at Bus Stand for going to Dighori. Two con women already sitting in the auto.

The two women distracted Ranjana’s attention and slyly pilfered her gold mangalsutra worth Rs 34,000 kept in her bag. Midway, the two women burglars deboarded the auto and vanished with the booty. As Ranjana came to know about the theft, she approached Nandanvan police and lodged a complaint.

PSI Bambode registered a case against the two accused women under Sections 379, 34 of the IPC and searching for them.

Chain snatching:
Bike-borne goons snatched gold chains from two women in separate incidents in Gittikhadan and Tehsil police jurisdictions on Friday.

A resident of Plot No. 126, Jagruti Colony, Friends Colony, Nirmala Mahadeo Akre (64) was taking a walk near her house around 7 pm on Friday. Near NIT Garden Main Gate, two bike-borne miscreants, aged 20-25 years, snatched her gold chain worth Rs 20,000 and fled the spot.

Gittikhadan PSI Rathod, after registering a case under Sections 392, 34 of the IPC, searching for the robbers.

In other incident, Sonal Shailendra Gangotri (31) of Hansapuri, Chhoti Khadan, was returning home around 10.15 pm on Friday. Two goons riding on a motorcycle snatched Sonal’s gold chain worth Rs 40,000 near HP Godown and fled.

Tehsil PSI Fartale booked the accused under Sections 392, 34 of the IPC and probing the matter further.

One more woman robbed of gold booty while travelling in auto

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Nagpur: Sitabuldi in Nagpur is best known as market hub. But the area has a dubious distinction, too, as police records would reveal. As per records, Sitabuldi has emerged as most dangerous place for youngsters. In the last three and half years since 2015, 24 youngsters were killed in different kinds of crimes under the jurisdiction of Sitabuldi Police Station. The startling fact has come to the fore through Right to Information Act.

In reply to an RTI query posed by activist Abhay Kolarkar, who had sought information regarding crime scenario in under jurisdictionns of Dhantoli, Ambazari and Sitabuldi police stations, the city cops had provided the shocking details. Kolarkar had specifically asked about murders, crime against women and fatal attacks on young boys and girls.

As per RTI reply, 24 incidents of attack on children were recorded in which 24 kids were killed between January 1, 2015 and June 30, 2018 under Sitabuldi Police Station jurisdiction. Nine children were killed in 2015 and 2016 each whereas three young boys and girls lost their lives in the first six months of 2018.

During the same period, 54 senior citizens lost their lives in different incidents under the three police stations. 34 senior citizens were killed in Dhantoli area while 18 died in Ambazari jurisdiction. Though the police department didn’t mention the reasons of deaths of youngsters and the aged, the numbers are still worrying.

Dhantoli, Sitabuldi and Ambazari areas are mostly dominated by white-collared people. Despite this, 39 cases of crimes against women were recorded in last three and half years. Similarly, 22 murders also took place during the same period. These police stations also recorded 77 cases of chain-snatching during the same period.

RTI shocker: Market hub Sitabuldi most unsafe as 24 youngsters killed in 3 years

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Nagpur: In a significant development, Nagpur Metro Region Development Authority (NMRDA) has issued notice to M/s Ankur Estate Private Ltd and gave a 24-hour ultimatum to demolish illegal constructions in the premises of ‘Meadows Club’ in Suraburdi. The NMRDA has warned of demolition without prior notice if the ultimatum is not adhered to. Expenses of the action will also be recovered.

The NMRDA had on July 30, 2018, had issued a notice to Byramji Town-based M/s Ankur Estate Pvt Ltd informing it that illegal constructions such as a hall and cottage in the ground and first floor of ‘Meadows Club’, situated at Khasra No. 103/1, 103/2 of Mauza Suraburdi in Nagpur Rural. The NMRDA has termed the constructions illegal as no prior permission was sought. A 24-hour ultimatum has been issued to demolish the illegal constructions or else the NMRDA will act on its own in accordance with Section 53 of Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act, the notice said.

Copy of the notice has been forwarded to Wadi Police Inspector, Executive Engineer-1 of NMRDA, and MSEDCL’s Executive Engineer.

It may be recalled that roads leading to Suraburdi-based Minor Irrigation Project (small lake) have allegedly been grabbed by Brijkishore Hargovind Agrawal Group and the roads were closed. A complainant had drawn attention of State Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan towards the issue.

According to the complainant, earlier also the Executive Engineer at Ajni Office was apprised of the matter through a complaint but no action was taken. The Brijkishore Hargovind Agrawal Group had started the Suraburdi-based ‘Meadows Club’ 10 years back. The Group clandestinely grabbed the nearby lands near the lake and illuminated the area brightly ‘illegally.’

On the other hand, a 2.01 hectare land of Irrigation Department was given to the Group’s Ankur Agrawal 10 years ago for tourism development. In return, it was made mandatory for Ankur Agrawal to remit Rs 60,000 per year. However, Ankur Agrawal did absolutely nothing for development of tourism in the past 10 years. On the contrary, the place was converted to a commercial lawn and earned in crores. Moreover, water of the nearby lake was misused and left the irrigated areas in the lurch.

The land was allotted to Ankur Agrawal on a 10-year lease in 2004. The lease period ended in 2014. But with the “blessings” of local office of Executive Engineer, Ankur Agrawal utilised the land free of cost and applied for renewal of the lease in 2018. The application was found full of shortcomings.

According to Water Resources Ministry, the lease period was not renewed. Subsequently, the complainant had demanded penal action against Ankur Agrawal for sidelining the rules and regulations.

NMRDA toughens stand on ‘illegal acts’ at Suraburdi-based ‘Meadows Club’

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Nagpur: It’s been over one year that the angiography machine at the Super Speciality Hospital (SSH) at Government Medical Hospital has been functioning irregularly and has even went idle several times during operations.

A source informed Nagpur Today that the machine’s ‘operation’ is pending since past 3 weeks. Despite knowing the angiography machine developing snags frequently at the cardiology operation theatre (OT), the administration chose to sit idle.

A patient currently staying at SSH for 3 weeks now, with a problem of hole in her heart, highlighted her ordeal.

She said, “Every system is pathetic here. Doctors do not visit the ward regularly which is why they are unable to understand our problem. First the doctor told me that my operation will be performed on Friday, last week. But since then, not even the doctor or attendant has visited even once for the operation. Staff said that angiography machine is not working due to which no operation has been performed at SSH.”

Another patient whose operation has been kept on hold for over a month said, “A doctor told me that the Oxygenator is not functioning and so they are unable to operate me. We are facing so much trouble because neither the nurses nor the doctors are explaining the matter to us. They always ignore us whenever we ask them about the machine or about the operation.”

Meanwhile denying all the allegations, Head of Department (HOD) Dr M A Deshpande told Nagpur Today that in this entire year only for once the angiography machine took a pause. “On May 28, the machine was once shut down because of some technical glitch. One can understand that it is a machine and can stop working anytime. No such problems have occurred and all the angiographies are going on smoothly,” he added.

Flawed angiography machine puts SSH patients in the dock

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NAGPUR: Petrol and diesel prices have broken all records. But they are not uniform across the country. The prices vary due to several factors, the most important being the state value-added tax (VAT). States do not levy the VAT at the same rate which leads to a wide variation in prices.

In India, petrol and diesel prices are dependent on a lot of factors. The actual price of petrol and diesel is way less than what we pay for it at the pumps. For every litre of petrol, a buyer also pays excise duty, state VAT, dealer commission and transportation cost apart from the actual price of petrol. The final price of petrol and diesel at the pump is: price charged by refineries to dealers + Central government tax (customs duty, excise duty) + state tax (VAT) + dealer commission + inland freight charges. The retail price for petrol reaches up to Rs 90.42 per litre in Maharashtra’s Parbhani where state VAT is the highest. This is the highest price for a litre of petrol in India.

Among the

In Nagpur petrol is at Rs. 88.67 because the state tax in Maharashtra is the highest. On the other hand, prices of petrol and diesel are a bit less in Port Blair where a litre of petrol costs Rs 69.97, Rs 18.7 less than in Nagpur.

The lowest VAT percentage is for Port Blair with 6 per cent VAT levied on petrol. This leads to the lowest cost of petrol in Port Blair. In comparison, state VAT on petrol in Mumbai is 39.12 per cent, the highest in the country. Diesel sells at Rs 77.82 in Mumbai while in Port Blair the price is Rs 68.58. State VAT on diesel in Mumbai is 24.78 per cent, among the highest; in Port Blair, it is 6 per cent, the lowest.

A high VAT on petrol doesn’t necessarily mean an equally high VAT for diesel too. The highest VAT for diesel was levied by Andhra Pradesh with 28.08 per cent but four days back the state government cut it by Rs 2. Now the highest VAT is levied by Telangana at 26.01 per cent.

The cheapest petrol in state capitals

Port Blair: Rs 69.97
Panjim: Rs 74.97
Itanagar: Rs 76.97

The cheapest diesel in state capitals

Port Blair: Rs 68.58
Itanagar: Rs 70.44
Aizawl: Rs 70.53

The costliest petrol in state capitals

Mumbai: Rs 88.67
Patna: Rs 87.46
Bhopal: Rs 87

The costliest diesel in state capitals

Shillong: Rs 83.67
Kolkata: Rs 83.14
Hyderabad: Rs 79.73

In this City Petrol is Rs 18.7 less than in Nagpur..

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Nagpur: A rashly driven truck went berserk and hit a group of girl students returning home after school was over. One girl was killed and four others were injured seriously. The tragedy took place in Bhivapur Town on Nagpur-Gadchiroli Road Saturday morning. The incident sparks anger and people resorted to violence and arson. Some vehicles were damaged and burned. Even stones were pelted at Police Station forcing cops to fire in the air. A tense situation prevailed in the town.

The deceased has been identified as Sugandha Dhanraj Pimpalkar (17), resident of Chimur, Chandrapur district while the injured are Yuvanshi Mahesh Kaikade (17) of Nakshi, Bhivapur, Aishwarya Bodile (17), Deepali Deorao Nagrikar (17) of Bhivapur and Dhanashri Arware. All the five girls are Class XI students of Bhivapur-based Rashtriya Vidyalaya and Kanishta Mahavidyalaya. Since it was Saturday, the school was in the morning.

After the school was over at 11 am, a group of girls left for home on bicycles. They crossed the Nagpur-Gadchiroli Road and proceeded further on left side. At the same time, a speeding truck went berserk and hit the girls leaving Sugandha dead and four other girls seriously injured.

The injured girls were taken to a local Rural Hospital but since there were no doctors, the girls were referred to Government Medical College and Hospital in Nagpur. In the meanwhile, angry crowd smashed glasses of some vehicles and also torched a travel bus. The crowd also pelted stones on Bhivapur Police Station forcing cops to fire in the air. A tense situation prevailed in the town.

One girl student killed, 4 injured as speeding truck goes berserk in Bhivapur

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Nagpur: The CCTV footage helped cops nab two members of an inter-state gang involved in stealing valuables from parked cars. The gang used to recce bank customers withdrawing cash and target the cars for burgling the money.

The DCP Zone 4 Nilesh Bharne, while talking to media persons, said the gang members came to city from other states and committed crimes in city. Cops have seized Rs 2.50 lakh cash, a two-wheeler, a car and arms from the possession of two arrested accused. The accused have been identified as Sanjaysingh alias Buddhu alias Nandkishoresingh Karwal (32), native of Rajgarh, District Mirzapur (UP) and Jani alias Anand Armukh Pandey (24), native of Shahdol, MP.

Both the accused would keep a close watch on customers withdrawing huge cash from banks. As the customers left the bank, the accused used to trail them. At the opportune time, the accused would target the vehicles of customers, open utility boxes and lift cash, other valuables.

In the instant case, a resident of Kalamna, Bhimrao Gulabrao Gadbail (56) withdrew Rs 1.30 lakh from Bank of Baroda Branch, Ishwar Nagar, Nandanvan on August 30, 2018 and kept the cash in utility box of his two-wheeler. While returning home, the burglars opened the utility box between Bank of Baroda Branch and Ishwar Nagar Square by diverting Bhimrao’s attention and decamped with the cash. A case was registered with Nandanvan police and probe started.

During probe, cops scanned CCTV footage and zeroed in on the two gang members who were seen lifting the cash and flling the spot on a Pulsar bike. The accused used to stay in Abhishek Lodge at Temple Bazaar Road, Sitabuldi. Cops raided the lodge and seized several valuables purchased from stolen money, Pulsar bike, a Honda City car (MH-29/L 0333) valued at Rs 2.20 lakh, arms and other tools.

The task was achieved by Senior PI Vinayak Chavan, PI Mukund Salunke (Crime), API P D Ghadge, PSI Hemant Thorat, under the guidance of DCP mNilesh Bharne and ACP Kapgate.

Inter-state gang involved in stealing cash from vehicles busted

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Nagpur: For the first time in Independent India, a renowned institute celebrated its convocation ceremony without the traditional attire of robe and cap, which had become practice since the British rule.

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur celebrated its 16th convocation ceremony on September 15 in their campus in a very different manner setting a new example of conducting convocation ceremony in a distinctive way. VNIT became the first institute, where all graduating students were given a dress code, Shirt and Pant for Boys and traditional Kurtis and Sarees for girls. The chief guest and other faculty members were also seen in the new dress code.

Chief guest Ramakrishnan Mukundan, Managing Director and CEO of Tata Chemicals Ltd, along with Dr Pramod M Padole, Director VNIT, and Vishram Jamdar, Chairman BoG, VNIT, along with other faculty members were present on the dais to present degrees to the students.

Addressing the students, Ramakrishnan Mukundan said that hard work and discipline were the key elements of his progress in life. He urged the students to stay in India as in his view India was the right place now.

Explaining further, he gave five ABCDE points to students: i.e. Stay Audacious, Stay Boundaryless and Curious, Stay Content inwardly with what you need, Stay Discontented with what you give, Stay Energized and Focused. He congratulated students for receiving their degrees on the prestigious day, which is also celebrated as Engineers Day in India.

Addepalli Shalini received the prestigious Sir Visvesvaraya Medal, late NG Joshi Prize, late Dr AG Paithankar Medal and many other medals for her excellence during the academic years and for receiving the highest CGPA Marks 9.90 in B.Tech/ B.Arch category. Shalini received the highest CGPA among girl candidates in B.Tech electronic and communication engineering along with other students, who received medals and prizes for their excellent performances.

Students were happy to celebrate the ceremony in their new attire, although many thought that it could have been done in a more traditional way if students had received their degrees in Kurta Paijamas.

Dr Pramod M Padole and Vishram Jamdar informed that the institute had received many positive comments for their initiative and bringing a change in the tradition, which was followed since many years. The ceremony ended with a promise to meet again and celebrate the big success of each other.

By Abhishek Tiwari

VNIT celebrates 16th convocation sans old uniform

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NAGPUR: Demanding to restart admission process after they failed to meet deadline due to delayed revaluation results, the students of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) stages agitation at the Vice-Chancellor office on Saturday. However, when the VC refused to heed to their demand, the agitating students decided to stage dharna at the VC office till the university reopens on Monday morning.

The future of hundreds of students of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) is at stake as students have not been admitted to their next academic sessions. These students had failed due to less marks or due to errors in checking the exam papers and they had applied for revaluation of exam papers.

The last date of admission for all the courses was September 6 and students were instructed to complete the procedures within the framed time period. Many students had applied for revaluation of their papers but they didn’t know that revaluation result will be declared after September 10.

This created a havoc in the minds of students as institutes and university refused to admit them after the date. Students from different streams and colleges approached the university and met Vice-Chancellor SP Kane but in vain.

Students alleged that even after the revaluation result came late and students had passed in the results, the university denied giving admissions to them. The students said their future was at stake and university was responsible for declaring the results late. They demanded that admission process be restarted so that all the students were admitted in their respective colleges.

During the agitation, the VC reportedly called city police. He said that revaluation was just one of the facilities and students won’t get admission through it. Meanwhile, the students have decided to stage dharna in front of the VC’s office till the university opens on Monday.

RTMNU students on dharna at VC office

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VIA members

Nagpur: The premier organization for the promotion and development of Industry in the region, Vidarbha Industries Association which has been working for more than five decades celebrated its 55th Foundation Day on Saturday, Sep 15 at Hotel Centre Point, Ramdaspeth, Nagpur.

As per the tradition, VIA gave ‘The VIA-Solar Vidarbha Udyog Gaurav Awards 2018’ on this occasion by recognizing eight industrialists,the torchbearers of industrial development in the region. It is conceived as an annual initiative for recognizing individuals and organisations that have made outstanding contribution to the industrial development of Vidarbha region.

Awardees

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was the chief guest of the Foundation Day ceremony function of the Vidarbha Industries Association.

Atul-Pande with Devendra Fadnavis

Prominent recipient of the the awards are as follows:

·Large Scale Industry- Raymond UCO Denim Pvt. Ltd, Nitin Shrivastava, Director, Yavatmal

·Medium Scale Industry – Spacewood , Kirit Joshi, Founder Director and his partner Vivek Deshpande

Nitin Khara,Atul Pande,Vivek Deshpande Kirit Joshi & Satyanarayan Nuwal

·Small Scale Industry- Miegale Numatics Pvt. Ltd, Ratul Chakrobory, CEO

·Woman Entrepreneur of the year – Global scientific INC, Dr Smita Bhavra.

·Best Startup of the Region – Fandhal technology, Vinaya Saraf, Director

· Most Promising Unit in Developing District- Subhlaxmi food products, Gondia, Madhur Agarwal, Director

·Best Exporter of the region – ZIM laboratories Pvt. Ltd, Niraj Dhadiwal

· Best Service Provider – R and Y logistics, Abhishek Rao

·Lifetime achievement award- Dinshaw’s, Jimmy Rana and Aspee Bapuna

Nitin Khara & Devendra Fadnavis

While delivering introductory remarks Atul Pande, president, Vidarbha Industris Association (VIA) discussed the need of industrialization also advice CM Devendra Fadnavis to recognize Wasim, Gadchiroli districts in the interest of growing industries, as they are full filled with enrich resources.

While addressing the gathering CM Devendra Fadnavis said that “This award ceremony is really special for me, as I’m feeling that I’m giving awards to my people. I think rather that recognizing the talent among us, such award inspires people to work with full potential. Maharashtra contributes 47% of the county’s FDI which is the proof that compare to our neighboring states even standing together, we are far ahead in terms of industrialization.

While discussing roles of infrastructure and policies when it comes to setting up an industry he mentioned, “Being a magnet, infrastructure plays key role in attracting investors and ultimately developing any industry. As a component Maharashtra seems to achieve all the milestones however if tally it with its constituents one can easily find out that the growth and development has been limited to western part of the state. However the updated industrial polices will primarily focused of Vidarbha,” CM assured.

“For uniform development of the state we need better policies which seek to speared growth across the state, creating completely balanced growth” He added.

While pulling off a quip he also assured the gathering that, he is not in the mood of leaving CM chair.

Shweta Shelgaokar compared the programme and Suhas Budhe, secretary, VIA paid the vote of thanks.

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Suresh Rathi, Akash Agrawal,Prashant Mohota & Vishal Agrawal.

Sandeep Joshi,Girish Vyas & Ashwin Golcha

Rajay Surana,Pankaj Bakshi,Suhas Buddhe & Girish Deodhar

Ramesh Bang,Sunil Kedar,Krupal Tumane & Dinanath Padole

Girish Gandhi

B.K.Agrawal,Pravin Tapadiya & O.S.Bagadia

Ashish Jaiswal

Vishal Agrawal & DR Aashish

Vicky Kukreja,Pintu Zalke & Deepraj Pardikar

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Ramesh Jayaswal & Dipen Agrawal

Nishant Gandhi

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Hemant Kumar Kharabe

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DCP Chinmay Pandit

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Vidarbha Industries Association ( VIA ) celebrate 55th Foundation Day with élan

Nagpur Today : Nagpur News

Nagpur: According to a Times of India news, a stunning revelation, Nagpur Mayor Nanda Jichkar has taken her younger son Priyash, ,on an official tour of the US,whom she has introduces as her private secretary in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC).

According to report Published by TOI , While Jichkar has informed the officiating municipal commissioner Ravindra Thakre about the tour, she makes no mention about her son traveling with her.

When repoter of the newspaper spoke to her She said that the organizer had allowed her to bring one person.Since Priyash looks after my social media, ar I chose to take him,” she said, adding that some of the others who are at the conference too have brought along family members.

Stunned by this revelation , the ruling party leaders in the NMC has excepted that it was wrong on Jichkar’s part “to take her son along as private secretary”. BJP City Unit will seek a reply from Jichkar when she returns.

Jichkar is a BJP corporator from ward No. 37 which includes areas like Pratap Nagar, Laxmi Nagar, Gopal Nagar etc.

Jichkar is in San Francisco on the invitation of the governor of California Edmund G Brown Jr to attend the meeting of the Global Co-tenant of Mayors for Climate Ind Energy (GCoM) which is international alliance of city Let works and their members committed to raising the global ambition for climate action.

This is 6th Official tour of City Mayor in last 11 month. Nagpur Today has earlier reported on how She doesn’t inform about her tour plan to NMC officials and give charge to Deputy Mayor when She is out of City.

Mayor Nanda Jichkar takes along Son as pvt secy on official US tour

Nagpur Today : Nagpur News

Nagpur: At a time when the cops are on their toes hunting down the notorious hookah parlours flourishing in and around Nagpur, yet another big raid has exposed the murky game of rave parties. In a midnight swoop on a party den, rural SP Rakesh Ola along with senior policemen from Nagpur rural police team has cracked down on alleged sex trade being run in a house located right in the middle of Gondkhairi village, 40 kms off Nagpur on Saturday night.

The cops have caught 6 girls and few customers from the spot and detained them for interrogation. Besides, huge amount of cash, liquor bottles, note counting machine, DJ equipments and alleged banned substances were also seized from the spot. During the raid, few big names have also surfaced who were allegedly the regular customers at this place.

The dubious duo known as Ujjwala and Rohan were said to be the perpetrators behind the racket. The duo allegedly runs an event management company and operates sex racket in its garb. They conduct Dubai tours and organise events. Both are said to have strong political connection and learnt to have brought girls from Mumbai.

Few months ago, the duo was rounded up at the similar raid in Jaripatka area, but were let off for the reasons best known to cops.

It was not yet known whether the duo was also present during the raid at Gondkhairi.

It is learnt that the area is well protected from the police eye as members of certain community guard the area. They do not let the cops enter their territory, a source said. In the past too, the women from this community have atracked the police party and the latter had to return without action.

However this time SP (Nagpur Rural) Ola laid a siege and policemen from various rural police stations were called upon to join the forces and hit the den in the dark of night at around 2 am.

Sources informed that the party was on when the cops raided the premises. The girls were allegedly performing obscene dance before the customers who too were caught in the raid.

Cops crackdown on rave party in Gondkhairi, sex racket suspected as 6 girls detained

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Nagpur : Petrol and diesel prices continue to remain on rampage as they further increased by 15 paisa and 6 paisa per litre on Monday, taking the petrol price to Rs 89.38 per litre and Rs 77.10 per litre in Nagpur.

The prices are even worse in the financial capital Mumbai, where the petrol and diesel prices have mounted to Rs 89.44 and Rs 78.33 per litre.

The most shocking part is that the petrol price has crossed Rs 90 mark in 12 regions in Maharashtra.

‘Knee-jerk reactions’ to rising fuel prices may harm economy: BJP

With the opposition demanding that the government slash fuel prices, the BJP Wednesday said “knee-jerk reactions” will not help and may end up harming the economy by worsening the fiscal deficit and pushing up inflation.

Union minister Piyush Goyal put up a strong defence of the government amid the opposition’s attack on it over spiralling fuel prices, saying it is working with a holistic view of the economy and has full confidence that people will support and respect the decisions taken in the national interest.

Fuel prices mount further: Petrol and diesel get dearer by 15, 6 paisa respectively today