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Regd. No. MH/MR/South-160/2012-14 RNI Regn. No. 43675/1985 MUMBAI TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013 24 PAGES `3 Website: www.afternoondc.in

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MAYOR, MC ADMIT YESTERDAY’S CHAOS WAS Gold: `27,345 Silver: `45,220 US Dollar: `56.50 Temperature: 340C/280C Humidity: 66%

Health&Fitness Pg13-20

Azad Shrivastav | ADC

Contractors goof; BMC engineers’ failure to cross check and supervise work resulted in most parts of the city being submerged in knee deep water By Vishnudas Sheshrao

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haos prevailed in the city yesterday, as the lashing rains felled over 200 healthy trees, disturbed rail, and road, and air traffic and saw most parts of the city submerged in knee deep water till evening. An embarrassed Municipal Commissioner, Sitaram Kunte who had visited the Hindmata and Byculla spots, the worst affected in the city, later admitted at a press conference that the water logging despite the stopping of the rains was attributed to a “man made blunder” and ordered an instant inquiry. Coming strongly down on

Heavy Rains Today, Too

According to Metrological reports, Colaba recorded 58mm rainfall and Santa Curz 59mm, yesterday, between 8.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. The IMD forecasted that the city will experience heavy to very heavy rainfall in next 24 hours.

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“In a nutshell, the whole system as such has failed. The gross negligence by the contractors and also by the junior engineers concerned, right up to the Additional Municipal Commissioner in-charge, had jeopardized the safety of the city.” — Mayor Sunil Prabhu

“It was a man made blunder. The contractors had failed to remove the walls… the concerned engineers grossly failed to cross check and supervise the work. We have set up an inquiry inot the matter.” — Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte

ATKT? You can appear for final year exams MU allows students to take admission for the final year even if they have reached there with ATKT

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By Yatin Ingle

ity college students will be intensely relieved over Mumbai University’s (MU) new resolution regarding promotion of students to the Final Year. Students who cleared the third and fourth semesters, but

carried the ATKT of their first and second year, as per varsity rules, were not allowed to appear for the final examinations. Keeping in mind the large number of students being left out because of this, the varsity has now finalized a new resolution allowing students to appear for the

final board examinations even if they have an ATKT. In the Academic Council of MU, the members finally brought up this new resolution for promotion, which states that a student should be passed in the entire subject in any one of the three years and if he has an ATKT in

any of the other year, he is eligible to take admission in the Third year. The Decision will be finalized once the resolution is passed by the Management Council of the varsity. Earlier, the First and Second Year Continued on pg 6 «


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