Politician Promise

EVEN AFTER making promises on camera, on the citizen journalist show aired on CNN-IBN, the commissioner of Mira-Bhayander Municipal Corporation, has reneged on his promises. It took just a day of rain, for the Siddhivinayak Marg area to be flooded; it was not even the entire Mira-Bhayander area that was flooded,  just the Siddhivinayak Marg [...]

Police forces in mega cities will be provided with helicopters like in New York and London and other big cities of the world, Home Minister P Chidambaram said in Mumbai on Tuesday. “There are plans to provide helicopters for the mega city policing. So when mega city policing project is complete, mega cities will have helicopters,” [...]

After PMC washed its hands of maintenance of wadas, the issue was raised in the Legislative Assembly. A panel has been appointed to look into the matter In a move that might come as a relief to residents of dilapidated wadas in the city, the state government has announced that an independent building repairs body would [...]

MUMBAI: The state’s decision to reserve 90% of junior college seats for SSC students  has received support from the Shiv Sena and the MNS. The reason behind their approval is simple: a large number of SSC students are Marathis, and there is a need to protect their interests, say party members. Sena executive president Uddhav [...]

PUNE: Chief minister Ashok Chavan has assured a delegation of mayors in the state that he will consider various demands about increasing the powers of mayors and granting various facilities to them. Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, Pimpri-Chinchwad mayor Aparna Doke said that a delegation of the All Maharashtra Mayoral Council (AMMC) met the chief [...]

MUMBAI: It’s reassurances once again for Mumbai. As Maharashtra finance minister Dilip Walse-Patil presented the budget for 2009-10, he again reiterated the state government’s past promises to Mumbai. Walse-Patil promised Rs 50 crore for the much-hyped Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue to be built in the Arabian Sea. He said with 85 projects totalling Rs 12,204 crore sanctioned, [...]

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan today assured the members of the Assembly of providing total transparency in security speedy trial in 26/11 terrorist attacks. He also defended the need for providing security to Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone captured Pakistani terrorist of the Mumbai attacks so as to ensure justice to the victims. Replying to the [...]

Mumbai: The government has assured the domestic metals trade and industry of removing the hurdles on imports of major non-ferrous metal scrap. The ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) has agreed to relax the norms set for imports of metals scrap, particularly non-ferrous, and will issue a notification shortly in this regard. “Considering the genuine [...]

Noted economist and former member of State Planning Commission Professor H M Desarda today said the new UPA government should concentrate on fulfilling its promises and not allow vested interests of businessmen, industrialists and builders lobby come in the way of discharging their duties. Addressing a press conference here today, Prof Desarda, a member of Monitoring [...]

MUMBAI: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ child actors Azharuddin Mohammad Ismail and Rubina Ali Qureshi, who lost their shanties in a demolition drive, are all set to get new homes. The Maharashtra Housing and Development Authority (MHADA) has promised that the young stars will have new houses before the monsoons. Amarjeet Singh Manhas, chairman of MHADA had in the month of [...]

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