Case

registered against 3 firms for evading 48 cr rupees VAT

First India Bureau

Sangli:A case has been registered against three businessmen engaged in edible oil business in a local police station for not paying Value Added Tax (VAT) of 48 crores to the state government, while carrying out their oil businesses in Islampur. Mahalaxmi Trading, Mahesh Veg Oil and Mahesh Kumar Trading used to do business of selling edible oil from April 2011 to March 2016.

VAT tax registration was also done in the name of this company. But the government did not receive the tax. Due to this, a complaint has been lodged in the police station for non-payment of tax along with interest of Rs 48 crore. In this case, a case has been registered against the company’s directors.

Shinde Gives Relief To Students

CM asks MPSC to postpone examination process till 2025

—Anil Parab, Former minister

MHADA has denied his allegations. Another issue is the application that we submitted for regularization. I asked MHADA how unauthorized constructions are determined. Any construction outside the original structure is considered as unauthorized construction. But MHADA does not have a copy of the original construction plan. If I don’t get their maps in eight days, I will file a claim against MHADA and also go to court. If the regularization application is not approved within 60 days, it is approved as DMP. Hence our application is considered accepted. As these buildings are going for redevelopment, the said construction has been removed. But a false report has been given that no decisive action has been taken so far. I have demanded action against the officer who issued the wrong notice. I will go to court against MHADA,” he said.

“MHADA has written to me stating that it has withdrawn the notice issued on 27th June 2019 at MHADA office. Both these things mean that Kirit Somaiya is making such allegations to defame me.

Web Werks-Iron Mountain plans to invest `4,000 crore more in state: Dy CM Maha govt allocates `135 cr to 26 civic bodies

First India Bureau

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday sanctioned a sum of Rs 135 crore for distribution among 26 civic bodies in the state with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s political turf Thane getting the third highest allocation at Rs 15 crore.

As per a government resolution (GR), the highest allocation of Rs 47.32 crore was made to the Pune Municipal Corporation followed by Rs 20.04 crore to the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation.

The Thane Municipal Corporation was at the third spot with an allocation of Rs 15.34 crore, the order said. This was the fourth instalment released by the state government to civic bodies. So far, the state government has disbursed Rs 914.25 crore to these 26 municipal corporations (barring Mumbai).

First India Bureau Mumbai: Maharashtra

Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said Web

Werks Iron Mountain joint venture is mulling to invest another Rs 4,000 crore to create data centre capacity in the state.

At present, the state is home to 65 per cent of the overall installed data centre capacity in the country, Fadnavis said, adding that at the recent World Economic Forum summit in Davos, it signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) envisaging an- other Rs 20,000 crore investments in the sector.

“ Web Werks and Iron Mountain have expressed interest to sign an additional Rs 4,000 crore MoU with the government of Maharashtra for further expansion,” Fadnavis said, while speaking at the launch of a newly created 10 MW capacity data centre in neighbouring Navi Mumbai.

A company spokes- person said it intends to invest another Rs 4,000 crore in the next 15 months to create another 120 MW of capacity.

As of now, it has already invested Rs 300 crore to create the 10 MW capacity, while its overall investments in the country stand at Rs 700 crore.

It has investments or has planned investments in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Noida, the spokesperson said.

Cabinet Expansion

First India Bureau Mumbai: Maharashtra Public Service Commission has decided to conduct the State Service Main Examination through descriptive method instead of objective options. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has requested the Maharashtra Public Service Commission to postpone the decision to conduct the main examination in a descriptive manner till the main examination of 2025 as this decision is likely to do injustice to the students preparing for the examination.

In a letter sent to the Maharashtra Public Service Commission, Chief Minister Shinde said, “The State Services Main Examination is an objective based test. The commission has decided to change this method and conduct the examination with the old method i.e. descriptive method. If this decision is implemented immediately then there is a possibility of injustice to the students preparing for

Shinde has requested MPSC to postpone the decision to conduct the main examination in a descriptive manner till 2025 this exam from 2023. Hence, the students have strongly demanded that the decision to conduct the examination in descriptive mode be postponed till the main examination of 2025. Accepting this demand of the students, the decision of descriptive examination method should be postponed accordingly.”

The Chief Minister also expressed confidence that the commission will give relief to lakhs of youth of the state by taking an immediate decision on this.

The Maharashtra Public Service Commission is working very efficiently and in the last seven-eight months, the commission has worked swiftly to reduce the backlog of jobs. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has said in the letter that 75,000 vacancies have been filled in government jobs. Preparation to fill the vacant posts has been completed and planning for the same has been done.