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.

Pepsi Co India organised ‘Nagpur Cleanathon’

PepsiCo India today announced the milestone of achieving 100% PET collection and recycling for the State of Maharashtra as part of its Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program. They set up 100 collection points across 36 districts of Maharashtra for the effective recycling of used PET bottles while PepsiCo India worked with GEM Enviro Management, a waste management company. The program worked on strengthening the existing informal collection network involving more than 10,000 waste-pickers and ensuring higher income by incentivizing collection efforts.

PepsiCo India and GEM Enviro in presence of senior officials from Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), today organized ‘Nagpur Cleanathon’ at Ambazari lake garden to celebrate this achievement. The cleaning drive is part of an effort to continue the momentum of encouraging all stakeholders to collectively come forward and work towards responsible management of post-consumer plastic waste. Additionally, the drive also witnessed an overwhelming response from 100 volunteers, college students and professors and Mrs Nanda Jichkar, Mayor of Nagpur city, Mr Ram Joshi, Hon’ble Additional Municipal Commissioner, Nagpur Municipal corporation; Hema Deshpande, SRO, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board; Sachin Sharma, Director, GEM Enviro and Juhi Gupta, Head Sustainability, PepsiCo India participated in the ‘Nagpur Cleanathon’ cleaning drive. “So glad to witness such a great response at Nagpur Cleanathon. From electric vehicles to recycling plants, the city of Nagpur is proactively working towards making it clean and green. She further urged all the students to become plastic brand ambassadors and spread the message of reducing, recycling and reinventing plastic wherever they go.” Mrs Nanda Jichkar, Mayor of Nagpur city, said at the occasion.

“At PepsiCo India, we have been taking a proactive approach to address the issue of plastic waste, and as part of our Winning with Purpose vision, we’re striving to help build a world where plastics need never become waste. As part of the same vision, we have been actively working across multiple states to collect, segregate, & sustainably manage the equivalent of 100 per cent of our plastic packaging by 2021. Maharashtra is the second city after Delhi to achieve 100% PET Recycling target and we are thankful to our implementation partner GEM Enviro for leading this initiative on-ground. We also want to thank the Maharashtra State Government for supporting this special initiative.” said Juhi Gupta, Head Sustainability, PepsiCo India, Commenting on the occasion. She also added “The Cleanathon is aligned with Govt of India’s ‘Swachhta Hi Sewa’ campaign, that focusses on plastic waste management in the country through nationwide Shramdaan on October 2, 2019. We are encouraged by the kind of response received from college students to clean the Ambazari lake garden. Such collection drives will go a long way towards creating mass awareness on plastic waste management and making Nagpur cleaner and greener.”

Banks to remain shut for 4 days.

The several banks across the country will remain closed from September 26 to September 29, affecting regular banking services due to strikes and holidays.

Four banking unions –

All India Bank Officers’ Confederation (AIBOC),

All India Bank Officers’ Association (AIBOA),

Indian National Bank Officers’ Congress (INBOC),

National Organisation of Bank Officers (NOBO)

Following the recent government announcement on an amalgamation of 10 public sector banks into four have called for a strike. To protest against the merger these banking unions have threatened to go on a two-day strike between September 26 and September 27. As official holidays September 28 will be the last Saturday of the month and September 29 is a Sunday, and hence banks will be closed on those two days.

Hence banks will be closed for all 4 days. Punjab National Bank, Oriental Bank and United Bank will be merged to become the second-largest PSU Bank in India  Canara Bank and Syndicate Bank will be merged into one entity to be 4th largest PSB, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced on August 30. She also added while Union Bank of India, Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank will be amalgamated into a single entity to be the 5th largest PSB; and Indian Bank and Allahabad Bank will become one entity to be the 7th largest PSB. After the amalgamation, only 12 PSBs will be left in India from the 27 earlier. The Bank of India and Central Bank of India would remain independent said the Finance Minister.

3.51 cr traffic dues in Nagpur.

Orange City’s record of paying up traffic challans even under the old regime are not encouraging as traffic violators of Nagpur owes the City Traffic Department fines of over Rs 3.51 crore. Though the Parliament has passed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill and notified on the hike in fines for traffic violations beginning September 1. The fine is just between the period of February 8 and September 11, this year.  Traffic Department has already raised exchequer for the state by recovering Rs 4,72,08,351 from 1,74,189 challans. Fine worth Rs 3,51,38,350 is in debt on commuters in terms of pending 74,284 challans. Such figures have clearly put the smart citizens of the smart city in contrast.

The statistics fetched from City Traffic Department revealed that the department had issued total 2,48,473 challans worth Rs 8,23,46,701 across the 10 zones viz, Ajni, Cotton Market, Indora, Kamptee, Lakadganj, MIDC, Sadar, Sakkardara, Sitabuldi, and Sonegoan. Compared to last year, the Traffic Department has issued total 2,25,466 challans (worth Rs 5,98,56,000) i.e. comparatively 62,385 challans (worth Rs 1,02,36,700) more, than that for the exact same period, between January 1 and September 10, 2019.

 Between January 1 and September 10, 2018, the department had issued total 1,63,081 challans (worth Rs 4,96,19300). Traffic Department has urged citizens to install ‘MahaTrafficapp’ to avoid any uncertainty and to derive information about challans. Traffic Department has started calling traffic violators and directed zonal traffic officers to collected fine by paying the violators’ home a visit.

KINETIC GREEN’S E-RICKSHAW TO PROVIDE LAST MILE CONNECTIVITY FOR MAHAMETRO – NAGPUR

For the last mile connectivity to provide a fleet of 20 three-wheeler electric rickshaws, kinetic Green and MahaMetro Nagpur have signed a memorandum of understanding. The e-rickshaw, that is called ‘Kinetic Safar’, can be booked via a smartphone application and can be paid for using digital payment methods. For Khapri, New Airport, Airport South, Airport Jaiprakash Nagar, Sitabardi Subhash Nagar and Lokmanya Nagar Metro Station passengers can avail the services at very low fares for Rs 10.

“We are excited to partner with Kinetic Green to provide e-rickshaws to our commuters in Nagpur. At MahaMetro we always have a sensitive approach towards the environment, therefore, our Rail Projects are one of the greenest projects in India with up to 65 per cent energy to come from solar panels”, said Brijesh Dixit, MD MahaMetro. Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Founder and CEO, Kinetic Green Energy and Power Solutions Ltd. said, “We are extremely happy to partner with MahaMetro to provide an environment-friendly yet a cost-effective mode of last-mile transport to their passengers. With this MoU, we will be offering affordable rides at Rs 10 per ride to commuters of MahaMetro and I think this will also contribute to the increasing popularity of metro services. With this MoU, we will be starting with a pilot batch of 20 vehicles and then eventually, we will ramp to 15 vehicles per station. Kinetic Green has been providing a similar fleet operation for last-mile connectivity at Kochi Metro successfully and we are confident that the citizens of Nagpur will be pleased with this service”, said Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Founder and CEO, Kinetic Green Energy and Power Solutions Ltd. while confirming this association,

Zero Degree Bar in MIDC Raided

Zero Degree bar in MIDC area, raided of laying bare beyond the law, as it was bustling with overdrunk youths even at that time. Crime Branch DCP Gajanan Rajmane and his party conducted the raid. The owner of the bar is Tapan Ramesh Kumar Jaiswal of Bhende LayOut, Swawalambi Nagar. Due to wrong reasons, The bar has always been in the news. Once a criminal opened fire here. The bar remained crowded by anti-social elements and criminals. Recently police came to know that some wanted criminals were a regular visitor of the bar. The bar remained open till early morning. Earlier, also police had conducted raids on the bar and had taken action for opening the bar beyond the limit. DCP Gajanan Rajmane came to know that the bar was running in the early morning at gam during the night patrolling. In a secret way, Police raided the bar but the bar employees alerted the customers seeing the police van. Police covered the bar but few customers got out by the back door. Police got 58 customers including young boys and girls. Some gay customers tried to create a din but police went tough on them. During questioning, young boys and girls tried to hide their identity. Police suspected that some of the youths were also minor. However, the police released them later.

Most of the customers were in a drunken state. There was also a cabin in the bar for special customers. A large number of bonne-en were there to control the drunk people. The night was a dark phase for Zero degree customers, owner and staff. During the inquiry , Jaiswal avoided most of the questions. He had not given the proper answer about the personal cabins. Police suspected that drugs were also being. However, the drugs and other stuff were kept hidden during the raid. There were all over 75 employees including bouncers in the bar.

Full Harvest Moon – On 13 September Friday.

It’s 13 September Friday what makes this Friday different is that it will finally witness full harvest moon too. If you are thinking about what is full harvest moon, here you can know everything about the spookiest full moon in 13 years. The full moon on this Friday the 13th is the first since January 2006. Yes, you heard right it is very rare!

Date: September 13, 2019

Time: The Harvest Moon will reach its peak on September 14 at 12:33 am IST. This was also the case in January 2006, when the moon rose the night of the 13th but became full-on 4:48 a.m. on Saturday, the 14th.

What is actually Harvest Moon?

The moon rises 50 minutes after the sunset but due to autumn equinox, harvest moon rises soon after sunset. This shift creates brightness early in the evening, which was a traditional aide to farmers with the harvesting of their summer-grown crops. And this is why this full moon was named Harvest Moon though the concept is attributed to native Americans.

The last time full moon coincided with Friday the 13th was on October 13, 2000, and the next time it will take place on August 13, 2049.

Totladoh Dam- All 14 Gates Open After 6 Year’s.

Due to increased rainfall in Chindwara of Madhya Pradesh forced Vidarbha Irrigation Development Cooperation on Wednesday to open all 14 gates of Totaladoh Dam. Till August 11, the dam does not have strong water storage. Last time in August 2013 the gate of these dams were opened, When the upstream Chaurai dam was still incomplete. “At 6 pm live storage has crossed 95% and hence all 14 gates were opened in stages by 30 centimetres. Since Tuesday we have started hydroelectric power generation and were generating 160 MW, and as per the agreement it has been supplied to Madhya Pradesh.

In Kamphtee Khari Dam too the water was released. The discharge through generation was 120 cubic meter per second. After the gates were opened another 443 cumec water started flowing out of Totladoh”, said VIDC executive engineer GM Turkhede. The gates were opened as the three weeks of the rainy season are still left said, official. Tamai village received a record of 1600 millimetre rainfall on September 7. A large amount of water flowed into a Pench river o which Totladoh is built said Chhindwara Officials. The dam was filled up to 86.37% by Monday evening. A message of taking precaution measures must be taken for the village along the river Pench as Totladoh gate may open anytime said District Collector Ashwin Mudgal.

He also told on Wednesday there was no immediate threat of flooding. Totladoh water will flow into Kamptee Khairi which still 50% empty. Totladoh gate was open only 30 cm. There is no danger of flood, said Mudgal. With Totladoh over 95% full and three weeks of rains still left, water worries of the city are over for least the next two summers. The capacity Totladoh is 1017 MMC while city requires 175 MMC water. There 95 MMC dead storage. 142 MMC is a live storage capacity of Kampthee Khairi. It cant be used for a technical reason since its a dead storage.

Nagpur Police to Vikram Lander.

This time Nagpur City Police is going viral through the internet and this time for their adorable tweet on Isro spotting Vikram Moon Lander on the lunar surface. The official handle of Nagpur City Police, @NagpurPolice took to social media today to post their tweet which said, “Dear Vikram, Please respond. We are not going to challan you for breaking the signals! #VikramLanderFound #ISROSpotsVikram @isro #NagpurPolice. Isro (Indian Space Research Organisation) announced that they made a successful attempt after finding the lander Vikram in one piece on the lunar surface and after a hard-landing after knowing news finally this tweet has come. With these mission of Isro Chandrayaan-2,  the tweet also hilariously made a hilarious remark on the new Motor Vehicles Act. After it was posted, Nagpur Police’s tweet received a lot of love from the internet across the city.

One Twitter user wrote, “Nagpur Police. Yes, indeed, Hopes of 133 crore Indians attached to #Vikram. It’s truly an exception. And YOUR tweet is EXCEPTIONAL!” another wrote, “That’s a really sweet one. Vikram you can’t break so many hearts, you would not even know how many shed tears for you.” This tweet already had 5.5k retweets and 18k likes. Vikram, with rover ‘Pragyan’ housed inside it, hit the lunar surface after communications with the ground-stations were lost during its final descent, just 2.1 km above the lunar surface, in the early hours of Saturday. “It had a hard-landing very close to the planned (touch-down) site as per the images sent by the on-board camera of the orbiter. The lander is there as a single piece, not broken into pieces. It’s in a tilted position,” an Isro official associated with the mission claimed on Monday. “We are making all-out efforts to see whether communication can be re-established with the lander,” said Isro.

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