Nagpur Updates

Engineering seats go vacant in Nagpur division

This year only 49% of seats in 47 Engineering colleges in Nagpur Division have filled while a whopping 8,800 have gone begging after all types of admissions closed earlier this month. This is the worst performance in terms of percentage of innerspring Colleges. This time engineering colleges ARE FINDING 50% admissions also difficult for their total intake. Since the admission season have already started only 13,871 have applied and 9,342 confirmed their seats. This time the bachelor of pharmacy also saw a decrease in the number of admissions. 295 Seats gone vacant only 1375 seats were filled. While Bachelor of Pharmacy is more popular than Engineering. In July state has received 4433 applications against intake of 1670 at 25 colleges. 52% of seats are empty as expected in Polytechnic. The DTE had received 6949 applications against 13216 intake at 50 colleges but only 6258 admissions have been done. After Final merit list, the engineering admission list has become more clear. Total 18, 240 seats were available across all over 47 Engineering colleges in Nagpur and Gondwana University.

Last year only 60% admission have been conformed while 16, 049 engineering applicants had registered. The vacancy figure stood at 9056 against an admission of 10,874 for that year. Compared to previous year this polytechnic has a better result. The 6,494 applicants were 1000 more than previous year when 5415 applied but 5753 were admitted as they included who seek admissions in non-CAP rounds. This time no. of colleges and seats have too doped down. The gap between the number of applications is far bigger this time. Against the intake of 1,140 total 1,091 were admitted just 49 we let in pharmacy last year. To take admission in a first preferred college is compulsory while in second and third have flexibly said Pharmacy Principle. “Those getting admission in the first round are toppers who are aspirants for other courses like agriculture and MBBS. Hence, many don’t report while their admission gets a freeze,” he said.

Nagpur get three new Police Station.

At Kapil Nagar, Pardi and Wathoda three new police station were inaugurated on Wednesday by the hands of Gordian Minister Chandrashekar Bawankule and State Minister Parinay Fuke. Now with this police station, there is 32 police station in the city. On the occasion Commissioner of police department Dr.Bushan Kumar Upadhyay, Joint Commissioner Ravindra Kadam, Additional Commissioner of Police Shashikant Mahavarkar, DCP zone 5 Nilotpal, DCP zone 4 Nirmala Devi, DCP HQ Vikram Sali, ACP Prashuram Karyakarte, ACP Rajratan Bansod and ACP Vijay Dhopavkar.

By bifurcating the existence Jaripatka, Nadanvan, and Kalmna police station under the Nagpur City Police Commissionerate The new police stations are created. Kapil Nagar police station will be lead by Senior Police Inspector Prabhakar V Matte. Senior PI Bapu There will lead Wathoda Police Station and while Senior PI Sunil Shivaji Chauhan will look after Pardi Police Station. The city police aim to ensure better policing in these areas located on the outskirts of the city with an additional of three new police station.

Rupee falls against US dollar

The Indian rupee nowadays fell against the U.S. dollar, amid volatile trade. gap at 71.34 a dollar, the rupee listed within the vary of 71.07 to 71.37 throughout the day. The rupee settled at 71.32 a dollar as compared to its previous shut of 71.24. the event of a pointy sale in domestic equity markets weighed on the Indian currency whereas cooling oil costs supported on the drawback. Oil costs extended decline nowadays once Saudi Arabia aforementioned it might quickly restore full production following last weekend’s attacks on its facilities and as U.S. crude stockpiles rose unexpectedly.

Five Important Facts about USD-INR trade:

1) Weak domestic equities and continuous foreign fund outflows weighed on the domestic currency. Foreign institutional investors (FIIs), offloaded shares price ₹959.09 large integers on Wed. The Sensex nowadays over nearly five hundred points lower. )

2) With crude cooling off, the rupee might get some reprieve, says forex consultative firm IFA international in an exceedingly note. however with tension within the Near East remaining elevated and outflows continued from Indian equity markets, the rupee may stay struggling, say, analysts.

3) Nightlong, the North American nation central bank cut rate by twenty-five basis points. The Fed same it might act as acceptable to make sure that this growth continues. “Chairman Jerome Powell indicated that record size may have to extend ahead of expected. Overall, the policy looks to support risk and is positive for rising market assets,” IFA international intercalary.

4) Forex traders can nowadays concentrate on the Bank of England’s policy announcement. Analysts expect BoE to stay rates unchanged however sound pacifistic given the Brexit uncertainty.

5) The rupee is down concerning two thus far this year, weighed down by outflows Indian equity markets over the past few months.

Unplugged Social Classical Night | Social Bunch

Social Bunch
“Your relaxation can be charitable”
Unplugged Social Classical Night

Hello, Nagpurian’s! After the first successful event of Social Bunch and your overwhelming
the response we are back with another event on Saturday, 21 st September 2019. Join us for an evening filled with interesting communication, with different minded people and loosen up your body with some delightful classical music featured by our artists. Enjoy the upcoming talents of our city Mr.Vishal Dhakde as a male vocalist, Mrs Mpnika Bhoyar as a female vocalist, Mr Bhupesh Sawai on Harmonium, Mr Rambabu Khadse on Tabla, Vasant Bhatt on Guitar, and Mr Surmani Pandit Prabhakarraoji Dhakde on Violin. Pocket your phone, give a musical kick start to your weekend and get loosen up tonight.

Artists Performing:-

What is social Bunch?
A Social Bunch is a cozy cherished community gathering where upcoming artists perform in a unique space. Performance is witnessed by the different people coming to the event to relax and enjoy the musical pleasure. We encourage the audience who love to meet new people, new art and new music. Social Brunch does the funding for social organization & activates. Funding comes from the contributions in the form of tickets booked by the guest go to the social organization activates. Join us for a social welfare evening loosen up yourself into a musical evening.
When: 21.September-2019
Time: 7.00 Pm to 9.30 Pm
Where: Tamarind, Chitnavis Centre, NagpurSocial Bunch

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Arid land – lush green mini-forest

In a small village near Kalmeshwar about 30km from Nagpur, A lush green patch of bamboo mini-forest bears testimony to the resilience of the plant and also innovative thinking of a young sarpanch. Due to heavy murum presence on the ground, In 2015, this two-acre patch of land was barren but now it is abuzz with life and hosts tall bamboo plantation. Khapri-Ubagi village’s sarpanch Ritesh Pawarkar was a reason for starting all this his role as not only as an administrator but also an environment in his late 30s. Pawarkar said “You can’t grow any crop there, It’s hard rock and has a lot of murum One girl from our village was studying MSc and was connected and was connected with Neeri. Hence, I asked her to see what can be done about this degraded land.” A team from Nagpur visited the village for a spot study due to a meeting between Neeri officials and Pawarkar in 2015. Pawarkar said, ” They took the sample from the ground and analyzed in their lab. The result was that only 10% of it was soil and the rest hard rock Yet, Neeri took up the challenge and chose a two-acre stretch for the experiment,”. Khapri-Ubgai has become an example for other places with degraded land and this project started three years ago. Pawarkar added,” It’s impossible to imagine what kind of place it was before we planted bamboo with Neeri’s help. Nothing would grow here. Even weed managed to stay on the ground only for two months of monsoon after which it was left barren again. But now, it’s green with bamboo shooting off to 50 feet high. There are so many bamboo products that can be made and women self-help groups can be set up to take it forward,”. By setting up a cottage industry for women the young Turk is now planning to take this forward.

Inform on EWS quota: High court to Maharashtra government

A little prod from Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has finally asked on Monday to the Maharashtra Goverment by next academic year whether it would be implementing the EWS quota in private aided and unaided medical college. A division bench comprising justices Ravi Deshpande and Vinay Joshi told the government to clear its position within two weeks. a plea by 17-year-old Yash for his father Brjimohan Bhutada, praying for implementation of 10% EWS quota in Maharashtra’s private and unaided medical college brings out the poser for this. Through counsel Shreerang Bhandarkar, the petitioner had sought directives to respondents to increase seats in all medical colleges with a view to accommodate more students under the 10% EWS quota.

Directives were demanded by petitioner to respondents to admit him in any of the private colleges on basis of his NEET score. Issued on July 6, as illegal and against the Constitution He prayed for declaring the provisional seat matrix for 2019-20 academic session for MBBS admissions.

Repair Potholes On Top Priority | Nagpur

Abhijit Bangar promptly writing to all agencies to take up work of filling up potholes on top priority. A little prod from Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court pushed the civic machinery in action with Municipal Commissioner. Bangar has written that they need to ensure that roads need to be smoothened to Project Director, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), Chairperson, Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT), General Manager, Maha Metro, and Chief Engineer, Public Works Department (PWD).

Reference of letter from Assistant Commissioner, Zone-VIII about the poor condition of roads was given for NHAI, Bangar specifically underlined stretches on Pardi and Sadar where flyover construction is underway by them. High-intensity rains during the season worsened the situation on the ground already the roads were in bad shape. In the letter, Commissioner also mentioned that they need to address the issue of potholes that have formed on national highway stretches passing through the city. Due to ongoing construction of fly-over On Bhandara Road in Pardi area, one can hardly find any semblance of roads. The contract for flyover also had component relating to construction of concrete road but as primary work has slowed down there is no sign about the repairs to road surfaces yet. The fly-over construction is going on since the last few years on Sadar and Katol Road. The movement of heavy vehicles particularly those carrying pre-stressed concrete structures and concrete mixers to the site put extra load on the tar roads that have caved in at various places.

By contractors, the corresponding repairs to make this roads vehicle worthy was neglected by leaving people to suffer untold miseries on a daily basis. Taking cognisance of newspaper articles and photos mentioned difficult time for road users, Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court rapped civic body for its failure to provide pothole-free roads in the city it was mentioned on Tuesday.

The letters are dated September 17, 2019, means they were drafted post receipt of communication from the office of Government Pleader to NMC, in the evening. Municipal Commissioner underlined the cognisance taken by HC about potholes in city and said former should take quick steps so that information about action taken can be submitted to the court was mentioned In separate letters to each of the agencies. To GM, Hingna it was mentioned that due to bad conditions of roads the citizens are facing difficulties while driving on them. Maha Metro, the road stretches on Kamptee, Wardha, Central Avenue, North Ambazari to Hingna. A bad condition of roads can also lead to mishaps and hence they need to be repaired promptly was also underlined by Commissioner. Action plan about repairs the potholes and damaged roads on their project route so that the information can be furnished to HC during next hearing was also asked by him. Time to time the civic body had intimated the agencies to fill up the potholes on the roads stretches where their development work is going on was also underlined by Municipal Commissioner.

Wardha – Ballarsha III route begins.

Just inaugurated the third inauguration of the railway line connecting Ward to Chichoda-Bhaugaon-Senogaon station between Wardha and Ballarshah. Ramdas Tadas took place at Sevagram village station. Free WiFi service was also inaugurated at Sevagram station. This is the third route of 2.5 km. Tadas departed the first train on this route with a green flag. The free WiFi service was inaugurated by former MP Suresh Waghmare.

On this occasion, sanitation was done in the area of Sevagram Station. Eat while talking. Tadas said that because of the third route, more trains could now run from here. It will not only increase the railway income but also facilitate the passengers. WiFi service has provided a new facility to the travellers. He assured that from time to time we would cooperate in every scheme of railway development. Senior Board of Commerce Manager Krishnath Patil, Deputy Chief Engineer H. L. Kaware, Board Signal and Telecommunication Engineer Rambabu, Assistant Commercial Manager V. C. Thule was present. The program was conducted by Chief Commerce Inspector Manish Ayub. Thanks to Thul.

‘No to single use plastic’

To push people to discard the use of plastic bags Municipal Corporation (NMC) is undertaking an awareness campaign. The campaign will be undertaken till October 27, Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to people to stop the use of single-use plastic bags. The civic body will be implementing the ban on single-use plastic starting with its Central office and extending then to Zonal offices, hospitals and in its schools. Maharashtra Government has already banned single-use plastic, still, she said that one needs to constantly push citizens for reaching the ultimate goal of the plastic-free city, Addressing a press conference on Monday, said Mayor Nanda Jichkar.

With the help of NGOs, NSS and school students to reach every household and make a fervent appeal on avoiding single-use plastic Rallies are planned in each ward. The plastic lying by the roadside would be collected to ensure cleanliness in the area during the rallies. All the public representatives would participate in the rallies and make an appeal to citizens for joining the plastic-free campaign. NMC has increased number of persons in nuisance detection squads (NDS) with the recruitment of 46 more besides previous 41 to enforce a plastic ban. They are not targeting individuals but also targeting units where single-use plastic bags are manufactured said, Civic officials.

Maximum manufacturing facilities are in Gandhibagh and Satranjipura Zone where raids were carried out in May to prevent its sale in the market. The officials informed against a seller in Laxmi Nagar Zone, One FIR was also registered. During 2013-15 besides seizure of the material a fine of Rs. 44,35,300 was collected from the use of plastic. For its effective disposal, the plastic collected would be handed to the third party. Now many units are engaged in recycling of plastic and making innovative items from them like school bags, thread etc. Fervent appeal to citizens to ensure that this Diwali is free of single-use plastic was made by a mayor.

Vodafone network goes sloppy in Tajbagh Nagpur.

Due to call drops, bogged down by slow mobile internet speed and stymied by poor connectivity issues Vodafone users in Tajbagh vicinity are facing harassment thanks to prolonging network breakdown. The renowned company is yet to resolve the issue, However even reporting the grievance on several occasions, alleged the locals. Some even threatened to give up on the sloppy network While using social media to vent ire. Ashok Sahu, a local narrated his ordeal that how he faced inconvenience owing to the Vodafone network despite living on the third floor of the building in Tajbagh and writing them six times. Sahu also added, “The network and call drop issue in the Tajbagh locality has become common for quite some time now.

We had written six grievances to the officials of Vodafone in the last six months but in vain. Their representatives just paid a visit to our residence and told us that they had found weak indoor coverage. They asserted that the Vodafone has done maximum optimization at nearest cell-site to its maximum capacity to enhance the connectivity at Tajbagh vicinity. However, in the end, they were unable to address the network connectivity issue completely at our location but ensured instead to carry out regular network up-gradation activities in order to optimize the quality of our existing network,”. The 4G signals in the area are always so weak that we have to run our cell phones on 3G and some time in some cases at 2G speed. A team is working on the problem always answers On contacting Vodafone customer care. On hand we have Vodafone who force its customers to use 3G/2G connectivity, says another local. At on other hands, where other networks are competing for neck and neck regarding the launch of 5G network.