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AFTER GOVERNMENT CANCELS FREE-SHIP SCHEME, THOUSANDS OF OBC STUDENTS REMAIN WITHOUT DEGREES AS THEY CANNOT AFFORD FULL PAYMENT OF FEES WHICH VARSITY IS NOW DEMANDING BEFORE RELEASING MARK-SHEETS
By Yatin Ingle
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fter the State government cancelled free-ships for students belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category, thousands of students are now without their marks-sheets. Varsities across
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Maharashtra are now insisting that students must make full payment of fees that too in one go without installments, in order to get hold of their mark-sheets and convocation certificates. Most students cannot afford to Continued on pg 8 «
NO NEW TAXES The inside information is: BMC does not plan to increase any taxes for the upcoming fiscal 2014-15
By Vishnudas Sheshrao
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Soft drinks of different brands? No sir, Those are the water samples collected from various polluted rivers.
here is some good news for Mumbaikars. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is neither going to introduce any new tax nor is it going to increase the existing taxes in the next fiscal year 201415, top sources have said. This is believed to be the aftermath of the AAP’s victory in Delhi. The civic administration is already in the process of preparing its fiscal budget for 2014-15, which is to be presented to the Standing Committee in the first week of February 2014. Former Municipal Commissioner Subodh Kumar had already increased existing taxes and had introduced new taxes in the fiscal year 2012-13. In his budget speech, Kumar had said, “For sustainability, it is necessary to revise these charges/fees, considering Continued on pg 8 «