Mumbaiwalla !!! to file PIL in Bombay HC regarding CNG pipeline damage

By a Correspondent

 

Mumbaiwalla  !!! – a forum of concerned Mumbaikars is contemplating filing a PIL in the Bombay High Court seeking compensation for the untold hardship and financial losses to the citizens of Mumbai. Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL), the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the administrative machinery of Mumbai including the Government of Maharashtra and other authorities will be made respondents in the matter regarding the damage to the CNG pipeline which kept about 90,000 autorickshaws and about 80 per cent of Taxis off the roads of Mumbai causing untold hardship to students who were appearing for their board exams not to forget financial losses to several other businesses etc.

Mumbaiwalla !!! is a general helpline for Mumbaikars, particularly for those who are new to Mumbai and unable to find their way in the city. Mumbaiwalla !!! provides information services, co-ordinates with service providers, Utility and Telecom services, employment agencies, Facilities Management Servics and other general purpose service agencies. The aim is to try and make life a wee bit easier for Mumbaikars, says Flynn Remedios, a spokesperson for Mumbaiwalla !!!.

Mumbaiwalla !!!  also has a social service cell which undertakes activity to help the underprivileged, downtrodden and poor.

Hundreds if not thousands of software engineers from Delhi, Chandigarh, Bangalore and smaller towns recruited by Call Centres, BPOs and IT firms like Oracle, TCS, Mphasis and banks like Citibank and H3GS located at Mindspace (Malad), Infinity Park (Film City, Goregaon East), Bandra-Kurla complex who are completely new to Mumbai had to shell out anywhere between Rs 200 to Rs 400 to reach their homes as autorickshaws and Taxis charged a hefty premium.

According to a report in Mid-day, “The BMC does not have a map of the underground utilities such as water and gas pipelines, and drainage system due to which the incidences of pipeline damage are on the rise. On Monday, a Mahanagar Gas Limited pipeline was damaged while the BMC staffers were widening a nullah for the storm water drainage project, disrupting CNG supply.

An official from the BMC said, “The BMC had decided to carry out GIS-based digital mapping of the city’s structures (building by building) that sent the project cost shooting upto Rs 240 crore, while actual allocation for the project was Rs 32 crore. The idea of mapping water pipelines was scrapped last year as the cost was exceeding.”

At present, the civic body has an old water pipeline map sans newly developed areas. In January 2011, BMC finally invited tenders from private parties for carrying out digital surveys to map around 33 underground utilities in the city. Digital images of those will be compiled on the basis of information collected by the GIS surveys. Then, these images would be juxtaposed on the city’s base map.

“But we have not yet received the base maps from the NIC as well as clearance from the defense ministry for conducting the survey in sensitive areas in its jurisdiction, “said BMC’s Information Technology assistant commissioner Yogesh Mahangade. The BMC survey will mainly involve collecting information about civic-controlled utilities such as water, sewerage networks and storm water drain lines. But in the process, the other utilities under the ground too will get automatically recorded, another official said.”

According to a report in the Times of India, “The problem began late on Monday night as news spread of a tear in the main pipeline supplying CNG to Mumbai region. The breach had occurred earlier in the day when a piling machine being used by a civic contractor to concrete a drain hit the GAIL pipeline close to the Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers (RCF) plant in Wadala.

Immediately after the accident, GAIL and Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) turned off the supply of CNG to the latter’s 148 filling stations and, as a result, to lakhs of autorickshaws, taxis and private cars. Officials promised supply would be normalized by Tuesday night.

Normally, MGL supplies about 9.8-lakh kg of CNG to the region every day. On Tuesday, only 3.5-lakh kg was delivered. Worst affected were western and central suburbs besides the island city.

The incident touched off the usual game of passing the buck between government agencies.”

 

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TATA DOCOMO GSM SERVICES IN MUMBAI ARE ONE OF THE WORST TELECOM SERVICES IN MUMBAI

 

 

I paid Rs 5000/- for a premium or VIP Tata Docomo prepaid number belonging to the Mumbai Circle. In all, I purchased 3 such premium numbers paying a total of Rs 15,000/- only for the VIP numbers alone. In normal situations, I would have been assigned a relationship manager or a customer service executive to look into network or billing/balance related problems. Nothing of that sort happened.

Many dealers or retailers in the Andheri to Borivli area in suburban Mumbai DO NOT stock or are out of stock  of Tata Docomo recharges. After a long search, I located a dealer who had a Tata Docomo recharge. I recharged with a special recharge to convert all local calls to Rs 30 paise per minute. In spite of successfully recharging with the special pack, my local calls continue to be charged at Rs 1/- per minute.

I called the special helpline at Tata Docomo set up and mandated by TRAI and DOT (198) for complaints etc. Instead of being put on to a customer service executive, I was relayed only advertising messages for almost 20 minutes at a stretch. And then the line disconnected. I dialed 198 several times after that and every time I only got advertising messages for several minutes. No CS came on the line in spite of trying all options.

As compared to this retarded and lackadaisical response from Tata Docomo, Vodafone has assigned a special relationship manager to handle complaints. When I compare the service of Tata Docomo to Vodafone, I feel Vodafone is way ahead of Tata in terms of customer service.

After about one hour of continuous trying, I gave up, deciding never to use Tata Docomo again. I am putting this note up on my blog to inform other Telecom subscribers why I feel Tata Docomo is one of the worst Telecom services in Mumbai or should I say India.

– Flynn Remedios

Journalist and Publicist Flynn Remedios bereaved

Mumbai-based senior journalist and Bollywood Publicist Flynn Remedios was bereaved today 2nd March when his mother passed away after a massive heart attack at about 8.30pm. She was 70. After she complained of chest pain she was rushed to a private clinic at Andheri in suburban Mumbai for a medical checkup and ECG where she suffered a massive heart attack even while waiting for the checkup to be done.

The last rites and funeral services will be held on 3rd March at Holy Family Church in suburban Mumbai.

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Neesha Singh needs no introduction. She was seen in films like the Ajay Devgan-starrer Halla Bol, Right Ya Wrong, Memsaab and many others. She has done over 10 films in the South, particularly in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu.

 

She has done about six music videos released by prominent music companies like TIPS, T-SERIES and VENUS MUSIC.

 

She is a fantastic dancer and stage perfomer and can do various dance forms like Bollywood, Indian classical, Samba, Bellydance, Fox Trot, etc., She is a trained Indian classical dancer having trained since childhood in Kathak and Bharat Natayam.

She is doing choreographed international dance, acts, tours and shows and can be contacted on neesha.singh.mumbai@gmail.com

 

IPL gate: New sex racket unearthed. Models asked to “compromise for work”??

 

Some models including an item girl have accused certain co-ordinators, agents and individuals associated with the IPL and IPL parties of demanding sexual favours in lieu of getting them work or assignments related to the IPL. We bring you the full story tomorrow.

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IPL Scam or IPL Gate: Lalit Modi to launch his own cricket IPL or Indian People’s League

 

According to reliable sources from within the Lalit Modi camp, it is possible that Lalit Modi and his cronies may be planning to launch their own version of the IPL or the Indian Premier League. The name doing the rounds for the new cricket body is the Indian People’s League – a name that Lalit Modi had used during one of his last official speeches as IPL Commissioner and IPL Chairman. Will the Lalit Modi camp be able to register or official use the same or similar name will remain to be seen.

 And supporting Lalit Modi is none less than the patriarch of the Modi group and Lalit Modi’s father K K Modi. In an interview to CNN-IBN, K K Modi said that if the BCCI gave Lalit Modi something like Rs 200 crore to start the IPL, he was willing to invest double that amount or Rs 400 crore to start a similar or parallel league.

IPL gate: Lalit Modi still IPL Commissioner and IPL Chairman on BCCI website

 

 

By Flynn Remedios – Futuristic Media Network

Lalit Modi will surely be grinning from ear -to-ear on this one, while Shashank Manohar and his camp at the BCCI would be red faced, cross and angry. 

Almost 48 hours after it suspended Lalit Modi as IPL chairman and IPL Commissioner and barred him from attending the governing council meeting, the BCCI has still to make the requisite changes to their website and all the relevant related websites. Lalit Modi still appears as IPL chairman and IPL Commissioner on most the official BCCI , IPL and related websites. 

Lalit Modi’s tweets on Twitter as the chairman and IPL commissioner also appear on the home page of the IPL website through an RSS feed.

Lalit Modi: “Mera Pass Papa Hein”

A similing Lalit Modi in spite of his suspension as Commissioner and Chairman of the IPL, by the BCCI governing council must surely be saying, “Mera pass Papa hein”, even as Ratnakar Shetty began his probe into what has now come to be known as IPL gate.

BCCI President Shashank Manohar washed his hands off all liability for Lalit Modi’s alleged wrong doings by saying that “you don’t expect us to come and sit here all day long”. He also said that some papers pertaining to the bids and other crucuial, sensitive and confidential matters were missing.

 

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IPLgate: K K Modi, family support Lalit Modi. Lalit Modi legal inheritor, successor of Godfrey Phillips India (GPI)

Lalit Modi must be one happy man. He can definitely say, “mere pass papa hein”. And without any doubt for Lalit Modi’s family including his father K K Modi have openly come out in support of their own blood.

 

Here’s what the Economic Times has to say:

Putting to rest persistent reports about strained — even estranged — relations between himself and his son Lalit Modi, industrialist K K Modi sprang to his son’s defence on Monday and declared that the 46-year-old would succeed him as head of the Rs 3,500-crore group’s flagship company, Godfrey Phillips India (GPI), the makers of Marlboro, Four Square and Red & White cigarettes.

‘‘ Lalit is the seniormost member of the K K Modi family , he is meant to take over the business,’’ the 73-year patriarch told TOI. Lalit is, at present, an executive director in GPI. Modi senior, however, did not have a date in mind for the succession.

It’s clear that K K Modi is putting his weight behind his son, who has dominated headlines for the past few weeks, mostly for the wrong reasons. ‘‘Lalit is the most brilliant and intelligent member of the family and has created something no one has been able to do so far,’’ he said, referring to the IPL. ‘‘I only wish he had done it for the K K Modi group.”

‘IPL good for Brand Modi’

Ousted IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi has some good news coming his way: Papa K K Modi — who heads a Rs 3,500-crore group — backs him. The 73-year-old patriarch declared Lalit as his rightful inheritor on Monday. Doesn’t it bother him that his eldest son spends so little time on the family business, something that earlier used to worry him? ‘‘I actually encourage it now because it benefits the business through better branding. Thanks to his association with IPL, he has created a network of the rich, famous and influential, which can always be utilized whenever business opportunities crop up for the Modi family.’’

Modi senior sounds doting as he proudly recounts how during his recent visit to Australia , he was introduced as Lalit Modi’s father. ‘‘ I’m wellknown in my age group, but for him it’s across all ages.’’

Modi has another interesting take on Lalit’s limited role in the family business: All his three children have been given space to focus on one additional business, which they do separately. So while younger son Samir runs a cosmetic business on his own, daughter Charu (Bhartia ) manages an education business. Similarly, his wife runs a chain of restaurants and a fashion line. ‘‘ So it’s all right if Lalit wants to put time into a business which makes Modi a household name.’’

Interestingly, some other members of the extended Modi family, which once fought acrimoniously, have thrown their weight behind Lalit. TOI spoke to another senior Modi, who said Lalit could do no wrong.

MR MONEYBAGS

As executive director of Godfrey Phillips India, Lalit Modi drew a salary of Rs 50.69 lakh in 2008-09 , according to the company’s annual report As director of Indofil Organic Industries he drew Rs 1.86 lakh He holds 5.89% stake in Savera Industries. The stake is worth Rs 2 crore, based on Savera’s Monday closing price of Rs 61 on the BSE.