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No increase in service despite the convenience of air condition: Mumbai Local

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Despite the arrival of one more air-conditioned train on Tuesday, Central Railway (CR) will not be increasing its AC local services immediately due to public opposition and glitches in its existing fleet. The new train will be used as a backup. Following sustained complaints, Mumbai railway officials have also realised that the existing fleet of trains is plagued by technical issues, from a faulty air-conditioning system to water leakages to glitches in the door-closing mechanism. CR has also summoned a team from the manufacturers—the Chennai-based Integral Coach Factory—to iron out all the snags.

Regular AC train commuters get upset when their services are cancelled. “In the first place, CR is not increasing services. In fact, they often cancel existing ones, which inconveniences commuters who pay the steep AC train fare,” Ravikant Mehra, a commuter, said.

Railway officials said that the AC train services are cancelled and replaced with regular services only when technical snags that make them inoperational are reported. “We have taken up the issue of snags in AC trains with the manufacturers and looking to solve them,” an official said.While CR runs 56 AC services, with four trains and one spare, excluding the recent arrival, Western Railway (WR) operates 79 such services, with six trains in use and another on the way.

“There is one more AC train waiting to be inducted into the fleet on WR with 10 more services soon, the details of which are being finalised,” an official said.

Though the existing fleet of 13 trains is being fixed, there are long-term plans to get 238 new Mumbai-customised AC locals—47 under MUTP-3 and 191 under MUTP-3A. They will have an inbuilt infotainment system, CCTVs and better acceleration.

Mumbai’s AC locals have been a political tool since August 2022, with NCP president Sharad Pawar calling for their complete withdrawal from the city and restoration of regular services for working-class commuters. The first AC local train service in Mumbai was started on December 25, 2017, on WR.

56 No of AC train services operated by CR

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Mumbai’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sudhakar Pathare, who was posted in the Port Zone, passed away in a road accident on Saturday.

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Pathare had visited Hyderabad for training. He was on his way to visit a temple with a relative when the accident occurred. Both Pathare and his relative lost their lives in the crash.

Mumbai Police have been informed about the incident.

More details are awaited.

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Order to demolish the tomb of Hazrat Syed Bale Shah Baba in Mira Bhayander

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Mumbai: The state government has issued an order to demolish the four hundred year old dargah of Hazrat Syed Bale Shah Peer Rahmatullah Alaih located in Mira Bhayander. Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation has sent a letter to the collector declaring this dargah illegal and ordered action against it. As the dargah is located on forest land, communalists had started demanding the demolition of the dargah. In the House, Darranjan Daukhre had also demanded action against the dargah, after which now the state government has ordered to run a bulldozer on the dargah. An order has also been issued to remove and demolish the dargah by May.

Dargah trustee Amjad Sheikh said that this dargah is ancient and this order is illegal in itself. In this case, communal forces had launched a campaign against the dargah, after which this order was issued.

There is a dargah on the beach and citing the threat of terrorist and illegal activities and the presence of terrorists here, there was a demand to demolish the dargah. The dargah is close to the sea and in such a situation, the threat of a terrorist attack on Mumbai from the sea has been expressed, while the dargah administration has clearly denied this and said that communal organizations are running their agenda against the dargah and there is no such threat. Muslims have opposed this decision of the government and Muslims have also expressed their displeasure and anger over it.

The trustee says that this dargah is ancient and earlier the collector and the municipal corporation had given a notice, after which the illegal shed and other premises were demolished here and the dargah administration has taken this action at its own level. Now an order has been issued to demolish the dargah itself.

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Haji Ali Dargah will be closed for pilgrims for a few hours on Eid due to rising sea level

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Mumbai: Due to rising sea level at Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai, the dargah will be closed for pilgrims for a few hours on Eid. On March 31, the dargah will be closed for pilgrims from 12 noon to 3 pm. During this time, entry of pilgrims to the dargah will be restricted. The dargah will be closed on Tuesday, April 1 from 12:45 pm to 3:45 pm and on Wednesday, April 2 from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm.

Therefore, we have appealed to the pilgrims not to gather at the dargah during these hours. This information has been released by Tahir, administrative officer of Haji Ali Dargah. Pilgrims visit Haji Ali Dargah on Eid-Basi and Tiwasi, but due to the rising water level of the sea, water gets accumulated on the way to the Dargah and entry to the Dargah is prohibited and the gate of the Dargah remains closed during these days, due to which there is a lot of crowd there. Therefore, pilgrims have been requested to come to the Dargah only at the scheduled time.

The police also remains vigilant at the Dargah during the rising sea level, as there is a crowd of pilgrims here during Eid and festivals. The Haji Ali Dargah administration has said that on the occasion of Eid, lakhs of pilgrims visit the Dargah of Haji Ali (RahmatullahAlaih). These pilgrims include pilgrims from the country and abroad, so the Dargah administration has also claimed special security arrangements on Eid. Spiritual scenes are also seen at Haji Ali Dargah during Eid prayers.

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