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Mumbai Commissioner Ashwini Bhide Tightens Civic Maintenance Supervision, Pushes In-House Repairs & Flood Preparedness In Suburbs

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Mumbai: Municipal Commissioner Ashwini Bhide on Wednesday directed civic officials to strengthen supervision in maintenance works and maximise the use of in-house municipal labour for routine infrastructure repairs instead of relying on contractors. During an inspection visit to civic maintenance facilities in the Andheri and Vile Parle areas of the western suburbs, Bhide said that while the Maintenance Department has adequate manpower, the supervision by Junior Engineers (JEs) lacked the expected level of rigor.

She also instructed assistant commissioners of all civic wards to review staffing levels at every maintenance post and ensure that routine works such as laying curb stones, repairing footpaths and fixing road dividers are carried out primarily by municipal workers. The commissioner also directed officials to minimise the appointment of contractors for regular maintenance activities and issue necessary instructions to assistant engineers, secondary engineers and junior engineers.

Bhide inspected sanitation posts, pesticide department facilities, road repair and storage depots, and maintenance posts during the visit. While interacting with sanitation workers, she instructed officers to maintain sanitation and pest control facilities in good condition and ensure adequate service amenities for staff.

The commissioner further directed assistant commissioners to conduct regular inspections of civic checkpoints in their respective jurisdictions and prepare detailed regional maintenance plans. She said the plans should be implemented in phases through a combination of in-house labour and contractors wherever required to ensure visible improvement in road maintenance works across Mumbai.

As part of the inspection, Bhide also reviewed pre-monsoon preparedness works at the solid waste management post near Andheri Railway Station, the pesticide post at Tata Compound in Vile Parle (West), and the conservation post at Bajaj Marg in Vile Parle (West). She additionally visited Irla Nala, SNDT Nala and the Gajdarbandh pumping station.

Highlighting flood mitigation measures, Bhide instructed officials to ensure that the Irla Rainwater Harvesting Centre in Juhu functions at full capacity on a continuous basis to provide relief from waterlogging in areas such as Milan Metro, Cooper Hospital, Vile Parle railway station and the Juhu-Vile Parle Development Scheme area.

She also directed immediate implementation of measures to prevent solid waste and floating debris from flowing towards Juhu beach.

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The race to save his son’s political career has begun, Uddhav Thackeray should start an ‘apology tour’, Shiv Sena Secretary Kiran Pawaskar attacks Uddhav

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Mumbai: Shiv Sena Secretary and Spokesperson Kiran Pavaskar has strongly attacked Uddhav Thackeray’s visit to Vidarbha and Marathwada. He claimed that the visit of the MPs who joined Shiv Sena to the Lok Sabha constituencies is not to apologize to the voters, but to save Aaditya Thackeray’s political career. At a press conference in Mumbai, Pavaskar said that if Uddhav Thackeray really cared about the people and workers, he would have fought the local body elections as well. He alleged that during this time, the workers and candidates were left to save their lives, while now the MLAs are being visited after they left the party. Pavskar said that this is not an apology to the people, but an attempt to save his son’s political base. He also claimed that many MPs joined the Shiv Sena due to dissatisfaction with the work of the Uddhav Thackeray group. Pavskar said that while Uddhav Thackeray and Aaditya Thackeray are currently touring Vidarbha, during the municipal, town council, and district council elections, the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray’s faction did not even plan to go out of Bandra. They left their workers and candidates to their own safety. He said that many members joined the Shiv Sena due to dissatisfaction with the work of the Uddhav Thackeray faction. Now an attempt is being made to apologize to the voters by visiting the Lok Sabha constituencies of these same MPs. But the question is, if the people and workers were so concerned, why was this visit not made earlier? Pawaskar said that the workers, office bearers, taluka heads, and district chiefs of Vidarbha and Marathwada will ask the same question to the Uddhav Thackeray faction. He alleged that the visit is not being made to apologize to the voters but to save Aaditya Thackeray’s political career.

Pawaskar further said that to ensure his son’s victory in a reserved constituency like Worli, the Uddhav Thackeray faction had to cancel the tickets of two MLAs. MLAs Sunil Shinde and Sachin Ahir had to be reinstated as Legislative Council candidates. He alleged that even today, the Uddhav Thackeray faction is visiting Vidarbha only to save its son’s political career.

Pawaskar said that 65 corporators have joined the Shiv Sena, expressing confidence in the leadership of core Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde. Similarly, 40 MLAs from Uddhav Thackeray’s faction joined the Shiv Sena, taking the party’s MLA strength to 60. He claimed that six MLAs have joined the Shiv Sena today, and in future this number will increase to 12.

Pavaskar said that the allegations of breaking up MLAs, MPs and corporators no longer make sense. He said that the Uddhav Thackeray faction should examine itself as to why all these public representatives are joining the Shiv Sena to work under the leadership of Shiv Sena’s central leader and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. He said that even today, MLAs, MPs and other public representatives from every corner of the state are eager to join the Shiv Sena. The main reason for this is that Eknath Shinde’s leadership works at the grassroots level and not from home. He also criticized Uddhav Thackeray’s faction on the issue. Pavskar claimed that important news regarding new additions to the party will be released soon in the coming days.

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Mumbai : Citizens and businesses must use the Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s analytical laboratory for water and food quality testing.

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Mumbai: Water and food are inseparable parts of our daily lives. The Mumbai Municipal Corporation is running an analytical laboratory to ensure that both these things are available to the citizens in a pure and quality manner. The Municipal Analytical Laboratory at the ‘G’ office in Dadar tests over 70,000 water and food samples every year. The laboratory has provided the facility of providing water testing reports on the user’s mobile and email at a very low cost and within 24 hours. However, Additional Municipal Commissioner Prajakta Vermalongare has appealed to the citizens and commercial establishments to take advantage of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s analytical laboratory for testing the purity of water and food.
The Municipal Analytical Laboratory under the Public Health Department of the Burhan Mumbai Municipal Corporation is a laboratory that is almost 123 years old and has been continuously serving the people of Mumbai since then. Started in 1903, the laboratory has been updated over time. In the last ten years, more than 7 lakh water and food samples have been tested in this laboratory. This is the only laboratory of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for testing food and water samples, which is functioning in Dadar. In this laboratory, water samples distributed daily by the Municipal Corporation’s Water Supply Department, fast food in the food court, ice samples, water used for construction, water used for swimming pools, etc. are regularly tested and analyzed. Therefore, it is possible to know the quality and purity of the relevant water and take necessary measures in time. The latest equipment and technology are used for analysis in this laboratory for testing the samples. More than 45 thousand water samples are tested by the laboratory in a year. Importantly, the test report of the water samples is available in just 24 hours. The report is made available on the website for institutions and on email and WhatsApp to citizens. Food and water samples are also sent to the Municipal Analytical Laboratory for testing by Central Railway, Western Railway and Konkan Railway. Apart from this, samples of mid-day meal served in schools, samples of prohibited items sent by various police stations of Mumbai, gutkha, fragrant supari and fragrant tobacco are tested. About 8 thousand such samples are tested in this laboratory during the year. Due to the use of latest equipment and technology in this laboratory, this laboratory has been given the status of a state-level food laboratory by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India. For safe and quality health facilities of Mumbaikars, a plan has been initiated to modernize the laboratory for more detailed analysis and more tests through the laboratory of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Additional Municipal Commissioner (City) Prajakta Verma Longare said in this regard that both food and water should be available for the health of Mumbaikars. For this, it is also necessary to upgrade the laboratory for more analytical and detailed tests. The role behind this is to ensure that a laboratory with international standards and testing capacity is constantly available at the service of Mumbaikars. The laboratory provides food and water testing facilities at a very low cost. Citizens, housing societies, food vendors and other commercial establishments should take full advantage of this facility. So that the quality of our food and water can be ensured.

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TET exam papers leaked in Bhiwandi, government is playing with students’ future: Abu Asim Azmi

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Mumbai: Abu Asim Azmi said on the TET exam paper leak in Bhiwandi that the government is playing with the future of students. Azmi slammed the government and said, “The government promises transparency, but it only talks, but the promises are not kept. The government has no control, all its officials are corrupt, and corruption is rampant everywhere, the government is not paying attention to these things, and the future of children is being destroyed, the government is not serious at all in this matter.”

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