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ensure the ban continues. We will do whatever is needed to be done to ensure the dance bars don’t reopen. ome Minister R.R. Patil has Had we not banned them, the speed once again made it clear with which they would have invery firmly that the state creased would have given the state a government is determined not to let negative identity.” “The existing laws pertaining to the dance bars reopen. He also indicated that the government will labour, excise, revenue and women and child welfare departments are sufficient to enforce the ban on dance bars. A meeting of party group leaders in the house would be convened soon on the ordinance issue. We will then go before the cabinet, after which the ordinance will be issued,” he added further. Showing sympathy towards the police personnel convicted in the Lakhan Bhaiya encounter case, the Home Minister said the state government will back the police personnel. He also assured the soon bring in an ordinance to en- Assembly that all possible help sure that the ban on the dance bars would be given to their families. The Minister of State for Home, continues. While replying to a debate on law Satej Patil, too pointed out in the and order in the Assembly yester- Council that the government is firm day, Patil said, “The Advocate Gen- on the ban on bars for which the eral has suggested the option of government is seriously thinking coming out with an ordinance to about bringing in the ordinance.
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MIRACLE BABY Bhayandar toddler survives fall from third floor three-year-old girl miraculously A survived a fall from a third floor apartment window from the ShivBy Suresh Golani
Dham building in the Talao Road area of Bhayandar (East) on Friday afternoon. However, she sustained severe injuries and is recuperating at a private hospital in Mira Road. The toddler, identified as Bhakti Chawda, was playing on the parapet of the living room window while her mother was busy in the kitchen, when she accidentally slipped in between the gaps of the window grill. Chawda, who sustained injuries on her hands and legs, was rushed to the Bhakti Vedanta Hospital in Mira Road, where she is being treated in the N.I.C.U. “Apart from external injuries on her limbs she is also finding it difficult to breathe. The doctors are checking if the girl has sustained internal injuries,” revealed the child’s relative.
WHEN LEASING MEANS LOSING CAG report pulls up Maharashtra govt, civic agencies on land use By Robin Shukla
of the original lease premium if they failed to complete conhe Comptroller and Auditor struction in time, it said. The CAG report, “PerforGeneral (CAG) has pulled up Maharashtra government and mance audit on government two civic agencies for not taking land given on lease,“ was tabled adequate steps to recover lease in the state legislature today, the dues from big corporate houses last day of its monsoon session. such as Reliance Industries Ltd Despite these companies’ failure to complete construction work and Jet Airways. RIL and Jet Airways were allot- in time, MMRDA did not take ted land by Mumbai Metropoli- any step to recover additional tan Regional Development lease premium amount, which Authority (MMRDA) in the new resulted in a loss of Rs 272.36 business district of Bandra-Kurla crore to MMRDA, the report Complex but they failed to com- said, adding nearly Rs 200 crore plete construction work in pre- are due from RIL alone. Bennett, Coleman and Comscribed time mentioned in the lease agreement, CAG has ob- pany Ltd (BCCL)’s 99-year lease ended in 2000, CAG said. Municserved. As per the lease agreement ipal Corporation of Greater these companies signed with Mumbai (MCGM) fixed the lease MMRDA, they were required to amount at Rs.1.18 crore per year, pay an additional lease pre- but BCCL challenged the decimium equivalent to 10 per cent sion in the Bombay High Court,
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it said. The court ruled in 2003 that MCGM should appoint an officer who will decide the lease amount after hearing the lessee (BCCL) and in the interim BCCL should pay lease amount of Rs 50 lakh per annum, the report said. CAG expressed its disappointment over MCGM not taking any step to decide the lease amount, adding MCGM’s failure has resulted in a huge loss of revenue to the civic body. CAG also expressed its displeasure over “failure” of MCGM to recover lease amount of Rs.1.12 crore from the American Consulate for 2000-2012 for its premises at Marine Lines. The report also said there is no uniform policy adopted by the government and its agencies while leasing their lands and hardly any transparency is
CAG expressed its disappointment over MCGM and MMRDA over lackadaisical approach. maintained by these agencies while leasing out lands. These agencies don’t have any policy and machinery in place to check whether the land leased is used for the purpose for which it was given, it added.