Nagpur: The state board has launched its helpline centre for counselling students and parents as the board exams seasons kicks off from February 21 with HSC (Std XII). In Nagpur division all six districts have a dedicated counsellor to handle queries from students. The queries can be related to mental stress or even about the exam itself (marking system etc). Shriram Chavhan Nagpur divisional board secretary said Students can call in with their queries from 8am to 8pm. The helplines will be functional till the examinations end in March. Board officials said it is natural for students to feel anxiety but it should not affect their academic performance. It is quite common for students to have various questions in the mind and sometimes it can be bothersome. We want that students should keep their minds absolutely free from every worry and focus only on the exams. To create that stressfree environment every year the board starts the helpline project said Chavhan. Since every district has been given a dedicated helpline number students and parents have been urged to contact them specifically. Both SSC and HSC exams will wind up by March 20 and results are expected in June. The board has initiated strong anti-copying measures to make sure that malpractices do not spoil the exam mood. Flying squads have been prepared to crack down on cheaters and the board has been taking stern action against them. Students in Nagpur can contact counsellor Vishal Gosami on 8275039252 / 9371168840
NAGPUR: The police on Sunday recovered dead bodies of a woman and a child hidden under a culvert near Vihirgaon village in the outskirt of the city. The deceased have been identified as Usha Kamble (54) and her one-and-half-year-old grand-daughter Rashi. The woman and her grand-daughter related to crime reporter Ravikant Kamble had been for last 24 hours. The police have detained a former murder accused-turned-grocer Ganesh Sahu along with another person in connection with the case. Based on the initital probe the police are suspecting monetary dispute as a reason behind the murders. The deaceased Usha was running a local chit fund service of which the Sahu family which owned a grocery shop in the vicinity of the Kamble s residence at Pawan Putra nagar was a member. It is learnt that Usha had been demanding the amount which was due to her from Ganesh and his family which is said to have prompted the murders. The bodies were found wrapped in gunny bags. Police have shifted the bodies to the Government medical college and hospital for post-mortem. The Hudkeshwar Police has registered an offence and started probe in the case.
Nagpur: In what can be termed as a nexus between the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) officials and restaurants owners a rooftop restaurant has been opened in a 40-year-old building at Sadar despite complaints. Similar inaction had led to death of 15 persons in a fire at a rooftop restaurant in Mumbai in December last year. RTI activist TH Naidu told TOI that the rooftop restaurant is on a G 1 floor commercial building owned by Vikram Vinayak Buty on Mount Road Extension adjacent to Smruti Cinema Theatre. There is another restaurant on the first floor of the same building. Documents obtained by me under RTI Act from the NMC and Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) show that the two restaurants were opened without permissions. There is no NOC from fire and emergency services department and the occupancy certificates too have not been obtained he said. Naidu added that no fire prevention and safety equipment have been installed. The first floor restaurant is totally packed. Permanent construction has been done for the rooftop restaurant which is not permissible. The only access to both the restaurants is very narrow he said. Naidu also said NMC fire and emergency services department and Dharampeth Zone did not take any action on his complaints lodged in January 2017 when the construction of the rooftop restaurant was going on. The officials didn t even bother to do inspection. Restaurant on the first floor is older than the rooftop one. I approached the NMC officials again after Kamala Mills fire incident but to no avail he said. Fire department officials said action would be taken against the two restaurants. Action was delayed as there is only one officer for inspecting and taking action against unauthorized restaurants or buildings. Three rooftops restaurants were closed down after our warning an official said. Over 50 restaurants are functioning on rooftop and in residential buildings without permissions and fire safety equipment. On February 11 TOI had reported about three rooftop restaurants at Dharampeth and Abhyankar Nagar. One restaurant at Abhyankar Nagar has been shut but the other two are still open. Following TOI s report NMC Dharampeth Zone had served notice under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning (MRTP) Act to a rooftop restaurant on Gokul Roshan building at Zenda Chowk Dharampeth a couple of days ago. Naidu said NMC officials and fire department issue only notices but don t act. All officials are hand in gloves with restaurant owners he said.
Nagpur: National secretary of Aam Aadmi Party Pankaj Gupta has pressed for regularization of unauthorized constructions of poor and farmers without any charges. He said AAP-led Delhi government had proposed to regularize 1 000 unauthorized colonies at zero regularization charges. He was speaking at the Jai Jawan Jai Kisan organized convention of sarpanches to discuss encroachment on powers of gram panchayats panchayat samitis and zilla parishads in metropolitan region area on Sunday. Gupta added Delhi government also proposed to execute development works in 1 000 unauthorized colonies without recovering development charges from beneficiaries. Houses are required for all human being. Urban poor and farmers had to construct unauthorized houses as the government failed to make available affordable housing. All these people will also not be able to pay high charges for regularization as they had constructed houses with their lifetime earnings he said. Gupta also hinted that there is a conspiracy between the state government and Nagpur Metropolitan Region Authority (NMRDA) for handing over farmers land to industrialists. Some 73% of nation s wealth is with only 1% population. This will go on increasing due to centralized governance. All know that farmers cannot pay high charges. It is a modus operandi to levy high charges and take possession of the lands he said. Prashant Pawar and Vijay Shinde of Jai Jawan Jai Kisan said NMRDA started regularization process even before commencement of works as per Metropolitan region s development plan. Actual village used to be very small with 30-40 houses. All villages have expanded manifold. Farmers constructed houses in expanded area or in their agriculture farms. Now government and NMRDA declared all houses outside gaothan as unauthorized. Farmers will be forced to pay charges of regularization inspection building plan occupancy etc they said. Alleging Rafale aircraft deal was an irregularity of Rs50 000 crore former MP Brig Sudhir Sawant said two industrialists were running the government. Reliance has been given 1 500 acre at Mihan under Rafale deal but there is no protest from anyone. All this is happening due to lack of unity among us. People should realize their powers and put aside differences to stop all these activities he said. Slamming the BJP government at the centre and state for demonetization land acquisition closure of schools etc former MP Nana Patole said citizens are left with only one type of right that is voting right. All elected representatives and villagers should come together and not accept NMRDA s any policies. We are witnessing so many incidents around us like Loya death case notice to BJP MLA Ashish Deshmukh etc. We have powers to end those who are trying to finish off democracy he said. Advocate Neeraj Khandewale announced support of Vidarbha Rajya Aghadi to the fight against NMRDA. Other speakers like Babanrao Taywade Vijay Jawandhia Milind Pakhale Shridhar Salve and Amitabh Pawde also condemned encroachment on the powers of local self governing bodies in metropolitan region area.
Nagpur: Renowned Santoor player from Nagpur Walmik Dhande has been named for the prestigious Rajya Sanskrutik Puraskar (2017-18) of Maharashtra government in Instrumental Music. The award carries an amount of Rs one lakh and will be presented at a ceremony to be held in Mumbai later.A disciple of Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma Dhande has been performing at various music concerts and festivals in India and abroad. Credited for establishing santoor in Nagpur the over sixty year old musician had also performed during the Kalidas Mahotsav held in November last year.
Nagpur: Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) faculty members and students have developed an eco-friendly bike and an e-capacitor which have the potential to make urban transport system pollution-free.The eco-bike VEB 1.0 (Visvesvaraya Electric Bike) has been developed by a team of 25 students from different engineering branches under the in-house Tesla Club of Innovation. The bike can touch a top speed of 47km per hour and run 66km on a single charge. The bike was designed and manufactured in three months at a cost of Rs62 000. The bike has inbuilt SMS alert system for emergencies automatic headlights can be started using a remote and takes 3 to 4 hours to recharge.Electrical department faculty member Ritesh Keshri who was adviser of the team said VEB 1.0 was an exclusively students initiative. The team participated in national level Electric Bike Racing Challenge 2017 in Odisha and stood second runners up and won the future learning award.Keshri said the team will now work on reducing the weight through use of lithium-ion battery. Currently the unladen weight is 140kg with the lead acid battery accounting for 63kg.On the other hand physics department head Babasaheb Sankapal and his PhD students Bidhan Pandit and Swapnil Kharade have developed a flexible and lightweight solid-state energy storage supercapacitor.Sankapal claimed that the e-device on mass production can be used in place of batteries in electric buses and recharged at every halt within city limits. The device can source energy from electrical points at bus stops batteries or solar panels he said.He explained that the device can be rolled up like films once used in cameras and can be used for advanced technology and portable electronic devices.The device was made using a combination of metal chalcogenide a chemical compound and carbon nanotubes to develop a hybrid. The hybrid material possess good conductivity large surface area good chemical stability and good reversibility.Sankapal said the innovation has been published in Nature Scientific reports. The 1 x1 supercapacitor can light up an LED flash light and carries 1.8 volts energy. Right now it can sustain for five minutes. The department of science and technology of Union government has allocated Rs60 lakh to develop the device further into a prototype he said.Besides Sankapal BB Kale of C-MET Pune and industry partner R Sharma would be working on the prototype.E-bike VEB 1.0 TeamKedar Padhye Kalyani Parkhi Monal Gedam Abhijeet Gawande Shantanu Domde Abhijeet Kokas Anurag Rautwar Palash Dahake Aditee Ramteke Priya Kasote Rugved Talmale Dikshanth Chahande Kushal Patil Aditya Kedia Yash Devikdar Yogesh Phalak Dexter Fernandes Aravind R Anirudh Harshal Gabhne Srushti Pikalmunde Sahithi Maddipatla Harshitha Reddy and Sneha Daskhne
Nagpur: When common tourists have to pay through the nose for a safari in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) the forest department has gone out of the way to allow VIPs a two-day round table conference inside the core area near Tadoba lake.The meet on February 20 and 21 will be held in the rest house opposite the lake which has been converted into PCCF (wildlife) and field director s camp office after NTCA guidelines based on Supreme Court directions. Ideally the rest house should be used by wildlife officials on tour but it is being misused said wildlife lover Dr Jerryl Banait.Papers with TOI show the meet has been termed as biodiversity economics social climate change discussion . It will be attended by seven officials from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in India.The 25 other dignitaries include forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar J&K environment minister Tassaduq Mufti Rajasthan forest minister Gajendra Singh Khimsar DGP Satish Mathur additional chief secretary Praveen Pardeshi Bittu Sahgal actress Dia Mirza leading bank CEOs members of NGO Sanctuary Nature Foundation Vivek Menon of WTI WII s Bilal Habib IFS officers and others.All the dignitaries will stay at the high profile Bamboo Forest Safari Lodge (BFSL) near Kolara. On February 21 the guests will be shown the community conservancy site and later enter core area for safari followed by conference at the rest house. They have been given freedom to enter from Navegaon or Kolara gates and exit from Zari gate which is permanently closed.When visitors have to shell out Rs4 000 or 8 000 for an emergency entry all visitors have been granted entry under VIP quota violating NTCA guidelines on carrying capacity and TCP.NTCA member-secretary Debabrata Swain said There is no problem is holding a conference but it should be outside the core area. It is wrong to hold the event at the rest house inside. I will find out. Senior wildlife officials have directed local staff to make the canter available for free at Kolara gate on February 21 for safari. Besides three vehicles of bamboo resort will also be allowed for VIPs without any gate fee.APCCF (wildlife) N Rambabu refused to comment. TATR field director Mukul Trivedi confirmed the conference but he too refused to talk.Mungantiwar who is presiding over the meet said My name must be in the list but I will be busy with Baba Ramdeo who is in Chandrapur in the same period. I will find out if the meet is being held in core area and will get back to you. RTI activist Avinash Prabhune who is fighting against VIP culture in Tadoba slammed the move. Why is the meet being held in core area when Tadoba has a well-equipped conference hall outside Mohurli gate. There are VIP suites and posh resorts too. It is a huge financial loss for the park for vested https://speakerdeck.com/kkmyntra interests. Dr Banait says as per NTCA ecotourism guidelines the lake area is prohibited for outsiders. Besides the rules state that permanent tourism facilities located inside core or critical tiger habitat which are being used for wildlife tourism should be phased out in a time frame decided by the LAC.LAC members said they are unaware about the conference. Despite SC directions lakhs have been spent to renovate the rest house ostensibly for such VIP parties said a section of them on condition of anonymity.Country s first electric safari vehicle in TATRForest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar will launch India s first specialized non-polluting electric safari vehicle in TATR on Wednesday. A donation for one such vehicle will also be handed over for landless local families living near the park as part of livelihood creation. The team will later visit Gothangaon gate of Umred-Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary to review a conservancy project.
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