Piped Gas in Six Months !!

City  KoparKhairane

: 100 KM of pipeline has already been land accross the “SATELLITE CITY”.

Dream Come True.

If all goes well, MGL would be able to supply piped Natural Gas (PNG) within six months but it depends on the availablity of gas.

The Infrastructure has been laid down. The construction season is from October to April and work is on at various nodes in full pace.

MGL is a joint venture between GAIL and the BG group, Uk. The piped gas project will soon be extended to Belapur too, promised officers. Industrial areas like Taloja and Thane-Belapur will also be supplied piped gas shortly. NMMT too is converting its buses to CNG.

Satellite township comes up in Kopar khairane city !!!

NAVI MUMBAI: Marine engineer Ramesh Prasad and his wife Sunita, a young married couple, made a decision to live in Belapur. The fact that Prasad has to make the long daily commute to CST to reach his workplace in south Mumbai is not seen as a major drawback. “Navi MumbPROJECT.TIMlete city with malls, multiplexes, schools, colleges and hospitals,” said Prasad.

Spread over 344sq km of land, the 38-year-old city, which was dubbed the `satellite township’, is evolving into an independent entity. With a population of 1.8 million, it has its own municipal corporation. One major attraction is the green space-45% of the land has been reserved for `green zones’ and parks.

The spokesperson of the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Limited (Cidco), Mohan Ninawe, said: “The upcoming Greenfield Airport near Kharghar and Panvel, good connectivity, and the upcoming trans-harbour sea link have all contributed to this young city’s success.”

“Investors know the potential of the city. Even if the sales are slow, the city will attract revenue with so many projects lined up,” said real estate consultant, Mahesh Hemrajani. The success of the city is linked to the development of many new major projects like the international airport and the Trans-Harbour link.

Like Mumbai, the city has a north-south divide of sorts, with Vashi, Sanpada, Nerul and Belapur having more prestige than the still-developing Kharghar, Panvel and Kamothe districts.

How to get merit medical seat without giving exam In Kopar Khairane ?

When TOI set out to uncover the seats-for-cash scam in medical colleges, we expected to encounter touts in hole-in-the-wall

offices.

We soon realised this was a nostalgic impression that had nothing to do with today’s reality.

Posing as students, our reporters discovered a welloiled system where buying a seat is as easy as booking a railway ticket.

Touts no longer hang around outside the college gates like blackmarketeers outside movie halls. They operate under the guise of vocational counsellors, advertise in newspapers, drive big cars, and stride down the corridors of the college greeting professors and students in a familiar fashion. One tout is actually a doctor with a small nursing home.

Two sets of reporters went out with middlemen who offered to take them to meet a trustee of the MGM Medical College in Kamothe, a deemed university in Navi Mumbai owned by Kamal Kishore Kadam, a former state education minister.

Mumbai: It started with a Pune-based ‘counselling class’ repeatedly calling a Mumbai student and promising to secure an MBBS seat for her in MGM College, Kamothe, for a certain fee.

The tout had got the number from her examination form. The student called TOI and tipped us off. Two reporters, one posing as a student, the other as her brother, decided to investigate.

The calls from Pune were made by a Raj Tapaswi who ran Education Solutions. Initially, he offered career counselling, but after a few calls he revealed his real intent – a seat in the MGM Medical College in Navi Mumbai if we were ready to pay. We were ready, we said.

On Wednesday, we went to a three-star hotel in Sanpada. Tapaswi, a pot-bellied 30-something who had booked several rooms, was already there talking to another parent. He told us what we would have to do: pay Rs 16.75 lakh to the college and Rs 25,000 to him as a service charge. He said he had been in the business for five years and that his clients included doctors.

The payment would be in hard cash and there would be no receipts. Feigning nervousness, we insisted on meeting college officials before paying up.

Tapaswi said that we could only meet them while actually making the payment but promised to try and fix a prior meeting with one of the trustees, Amardeep Nitin Kadam, the son of Kamal Kishore Kadam. We were to pay the money to Amardeep in his office in the hospital attached to the medical college.

Instead, Tapaswi, who drives a Maruti Esteem, introduced us to one Avinash, who claimed to be the college’s representative. Avinash, who drives an Opel Astra,explained that the seat allotted us would be from the discretionary quota. This quota accounted for nearly 15% of the total seats, or 30 of the 200 seats.

Navi Mumbai to get five skywalks- The Monuments

BELAPUR: After Mumbai’s ambitious plans to have 50 skywalks, it’s now the turn of Navi Mumbai to build 5 such modern Structures on two major high ways ” Sion – Panvel” & “Thane – Turbhe” passing through the sattelite Township


These skywalks are proposed at Vashi, Nerul, Koparkhairne, Ghansoli and Airoli.

“There have been several instances of fatal mishaps in these spots. Most of them were pedestrians who were trying to cross the road and tracks while trying to catch a train. In these areas, industries, railway stations and residential areas are located nearby, which complicates the problem,” said standing committee chairman of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) Sandip Naik. “Over the last five years, 16 persons have been killed and 60 injured in various road mishaps in these areas,” he added.
“The five skywalks will be built by private participation and not with civic funds,” an official said. Each skywalk will be 90 metre in length, 6.9 metre in height and will cost about Rs 5 crore each. “Both the ends of the skywalk will have lifts for the elderly and handicapped. The structures will be illuminated by solar panels. We expect the work to be over within 11 months after the project is approved,” Naik added.

“UK-based consulting firm, The Firm Associates, which has experience in building skywalks in several countries, has agreed to provide expertise in designing the structures,” Naik said. “Man Infrastructure, a company based in Navi Mumbai, had already agreed to build one of these skywalks,” he added. Naik, however, refused to divulge the names of other three major companies which are going to build the skywalks. According to sources, both the Ambani brothers have evinced interest.

The Rs 25-crore project will be put up before the civic body for approval in the next meeting. “The NMMC will not spend a single rupee even though it had allocated Rs 5 crore for the skywalk project. Private parties will have to come up with their designs and plans. Five of them will be selected,” added Naik.

Source: Ronak Shah