MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2011

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> Nigerian held at airport for

promising jackpot money

Silvassa crime branch on Sunday
arrested a Nigerian from outside
Santa Cruz airport in connection
with a fraud jackpot case, the
police said. Silvassa crime branch
in-charge KB Mahanjan said that
Raymond Andra Odee was arrested
with the help of their Mumbai
counterparts. Earlier, an FIR was
lodged against the accused by citybased Manoj Kothari stating that
he had received many calls and
emails claiming that he had won a
jackpot of Rs40 lakh and he could
claim the amount only after
depositing Rs40,000.

> Vikhroli house break-in:

Cops look for culprit

The Vikhroli police are on the
lookout for an unidentified person
who stole valuables and cash worth
around Rs13 lakh from a house in
Tagore Nagar, Vikhroli. Shahanaj
Shamshudadin Sheikh, 36, lodged a
complaint against an unidentified
person for breaking into her house
in Rathi Khajji Chawl near the
Jama Masjid. The incident took
place between 3am and 7am on
Sunday. Sheikh, a housewife, was
sleeping in another room when the
burglary took place.

MUMBAI UPFRONT

SHORT STORIES

Std X sr sportsmen to get grace mark

State board move
will help shoot
the students
aggregate by
at least 4%

UNFAIR
ADVANTAGE?
> A circular dated June 10,

There is good news in store for

Std X students who have sporting achievements to their
credit. Like last year, this year,
too, the students of Std X who
have achievements in sports
will be able to avail of 25 grace
marks in their final scores.
It will help in shooting up
their aggregate by at least 4%.
Moreover, this year, those students who have played in the
senior category will also be eligible for the grace marks.
While this year the Maharashtra state board had decided to review the allocation
of 25 grace marks for Std X
students, a circular dated
June 10, issued by the department of school education

> It has also included senior

category students (who
were excluded last year)

policy voiced their

concern that these
additional marks give an
unfair advantage to a
few students over others

> The principal of a south

issued by the
department of school
education and sports,
has given its consent for
continuing with the 25
grace marks for sports

Puja Pednekar

> However, critics of the

Mumbai school said:

The students who excel
in sports already have
3% seats reserved in
colleges. The grace
marks allotted to them
are too much. Last year,
the aggregate scores of
such students went
above 100%.

Picture for representational purpose only

and sports, has given its consent for continuing with the
25 grace marks for sports. It
also included senior category
students (who were excluded
last year). A committee was
set up to look into the policy
and decide whether to do
away with the grace marks or
reduce them.
A senior education official
said: After much discussion
and debate, we have decided

that it would be unfair for

sports students not to get this
benefit, especially since the
students of the previous batch
availed of its advantage. Once
again this year, 25 additional
marks will be given to students excelling in sports.
However, critics of the policy voiced their concern that
these additional marks give
an unfair advantage to a few
students over others. The

principal of a renowned
south Mumbai school said:
The students who excel in
sports already have 3% seats
reserved in colleges. The
grace marks allotted to them
are too much. Last year, the
aggregate scores of such students went above 100%.
The governments decision
was prompted by demands
from Ramnath Mote, an MLA
and representative of the Ma-

harashtra Rajya Shikshak

Parishad, who met with the
sports minister and officials
of the education department
regarding the allocation of
grace marks even for students
who have played in the senior
category, which includes students below 19 years of age.
This category was not eligible for the sports quota
last year. But now, due to
Motes demands, the sports

Sunchika B Pandey

eradicating child labour: CM

RIDING
THE TIDE

Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on

Sunday said that the state
government was committed towards
eradicating child labour by ensuring
that every child of school-going age
attends school. We will eradicate
this national evil (child labour) and
bring every child to school to make
him a productive member of the
society, Chavan said while
addressing a programme on World
Day Against Child Labour.

A huge cargo
ship, MV Wisdom, has drifted on its own
and is now
near the Juhu
beach
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Unmanned ship drifts towards Juhu beach

builders body tells govt

In view of the overwhelming
response received by the
Maharashtra Housing and Area
Development Authority (Mhada) for
its offer of 4,034 flats under
different categories, Builders
Association of India (BAI) has
urged the state government to take
over the redevelopment of SRA
schemes and nominate Mhada,
MMRDA and Cidco as the official
agencies for slum redevelopment.
Mhada, MMRDA and Cidco can
offer free rehab houses to eligible
slum dwellers by constructing
multistoreyed buildings as
provided in the SRA scheme. They
can sell the balance area to all those
applicants of Mhada flats who did
not get allotment, said BAI
treasurer, Anand Gupta.

Divyesh Singh
An unmanned ship, which
was being towed from near
the Mumbai coast and being
taken to Alang from Colombo, that had lost its tow has
now drifted closer to the
Mumbai coast.
MV Wisdom has now drifted towards the Juhu beach
and is just 400 metres from
the coastline.
It was being tugged by MV
Seabulk Plover for scrap
when the tow was lost
around 12 nautical miles off
the Mumbai coast on Satur-

Temperature

Maximum
Minimum

24.6o C

9:42pm

3.80m

High 10:10am

4.24m

93%

Low 3:17am

0.52m

Sunrise

6.28am

4:06pm

1.85m

Sunset

7.15pm

Moonrise

2.49pm

Moonset

8.42am

Forecast Few spells of

rain will occur in parts of
the city and suburbs

Monday, June 13, 2011

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ITSELF

Puja Pednekar

Tides

26.2o C

Humidity

make sure that the ship did

day afternoon.
Due to the rough sea and not cause any damage to anybad weather, the tow was lost thing or become part of a
and MV Wisdom started mishap. It is good that it is
drifting on its own as per the going closer to the coast. If it
had drifted in
tide. It came
the middle of
very close to
ALL
BY
the sea, it
the
Worli
could have
coast and it
hit vessels
was feared
that it might hit the Bandra coming towards the coast
Worli Sea Link, said a sen- and caused heavy damage.
Coast guard ship ICGS
ior coast guard officer.
He added, We received Sankalp has been continuthe information from the ously monitoring the moveMumbai Port Trust and DG ments of MV Wisdom. A
Shipping around 1pm and an dornier was also launched in
operation was launched to the day to keep a track of its

Need for Lokpal

Apropos Govt on Mission
Kill Bill (May 31), it is an excellent summary of the governments intent not to enact
the stringent Lokpal Bill to
curb corruption since the
government is run by corrupt
ministers headed by prime
minister Mr Clean. If the government opposes inclusion of
PM, higher judiciary, lower
level bureaucrats and acts of
MPs inside Parliament under
Lokpal ambit, then, what is
purpose of Lokpal Bill? Anna
Hazare and his civil society
members have to be firm and
convince the government to
show whether there is any
other law which can punish
all those in act of corruption
in all three organs of Constitution. Let the government

> Printer & Publisher: Deepak Rathi > Editor-in-chief: Aditya Sinha >

movements.
By Saturday evening, the
ship MV Wisdom was spotted near the Worli coast, but
by late night it had moved towards Bandra and on Sunday afternoon it had reached
near the Juhu beach very
close to the coast.
The coast guard operation
will be kept on and monitoring will be on till the vessel
is tugged again. Also, the
vessel will be checked thoroughly by coast guard officials before being sent for
breaking at Alang in Gujarat.

NEARING SHORE
> MV Wisdom has drifted

towards the Juhu beach

and is just 400 metres
from the coastline

> Coast guard ship ICGS

Sankalp has been

continuously monitoring
its movements

> It was being tugged by

MV Seabulk Plover for

scrap when the tow was
lost around 12 nautical
miles off the Mumbai
coast on Saturday
afternoon

City colleges opt for no paper admissions

WEATHER & ALMANAC

quota will be extended to

them as well.
Last year, a group of parents of ICSE students had
moved the Bombay high court
against the policy, which benefited only state board students. The high court had
moved in their favour and the
policy was extended to students from other boards too.
However, the policy stated
that the grace marks were applicable only for academic
year 2010-11.
Therefore, the state government is drafting a similar
resolution that will extend the
benefit of grace marks to students from all other boards for
2011-12.
K Parab, under secretary,
state government, said: We
have extended the sports quota and grace marks for all
sports students this year, including senior category and
open category students. We
are now deliberating whether
to continue with these benefits for next academic year
2011-12 as well.

Risk firm to
pay 27 lakh
to robbed
jeweller

> State committed towards

> Take over redevelopment,

SAVING THE TREE

City colleges are going for

green admissions this year.
Many top city colleges are urging students to apply online
and have switched to ecofriendly, no paper admissions
in an effort to reduce paper
work during the admission
process and stop indiscriminate felling of trees.
In
SNDT
university,
Churchgate; St Xaviers college, Fort; Rizvi college and St
Andrews college, Bandra, students have an option to fill and
submit their college application form online, instead of
queuing up outside colleges.
Admissions are always a
messy affair. But the no paper policy helps us in easily

NoPaperForms
is being
followed by St
Xaviers college,
St Andrews
college and
SNDT university

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sorting student details and the
rest of the data. It also reduces
the use of paper in colleges to
a certain extent. We are gradually moving towards zero paper admissions, said Marie
Fernandes, principal of St Andrews college.

think twice before agreeing to

Anna Hazares suggestions
before compelling them to
dissociate from framing the
bill on corruption. This
stringent Bill will be great
service to country to eradicate corruption.
KC Jaisinghani, Pune

24 hour TV channels. TV
broadcast should be allowed
only for 8 hours a day - just
like any other working schedule. Just imagine the amount
of power that will be saved.
As they say, practice what you
preach.
TR Ramaswami, via email

Conserving electricity

Baba is a good man

"Be Green" seems to be the

new media mantra with even
the media jumping onto the
bandwagon. As usual, a number of ideas and initiatives
are being organised, including asking common people to
switch of their lights for one
hour -in a country where 40%
of the population does not
even have electricity. To conserve energy we should stop

This is with reference to

Govt top guns shoot from
lip, (June 7). Has Baba
Ramdev harmed anyone till
date? Instead now whole
world has recognised the benefits of pranayam and Yoga.
The media is also talking
about the competition between Baba Ramdev and Hazare, but can there be competition between people who are

5,000
75,000
15

forms an institution
distributes on an
average every year
paper sheets such an
institution uses
the number of pages of
application along with
the prospectus

trees need to be cut to produce 75,000 sheets

(Figures as per given on the nopaperforms website)

All 250 colleges and 43 university departments under the

Shreemati Nathibai Damodar
Thackersey Womens University in Churchgate and Santa
Cruz have used this method of
admission and claim that it has
proved very popular with stu-

fighting for the same cause.

As a citizen of India, everyone should be concerned
about the country and should
protest against corruption
and injustice. The Baba doesnt need popularity.
Amit Rai, via email

Hygiene issues
It is surprising that the BMC
has the audacity to state that
they do not need honorary

dents. Online admissions help

students outside the city to apply easily for admission
forms, said Dr Vibhuti Patel,
professor at SNDT university.
Most of the colleges are
also using an online portal
NoPaperForms to set up on-

doctors. The salary of Rs1,000

paid to the honorary doctors
is truly shocking. The BMC
does not seem to care for the
medical fraternity. Moreover,
when one enters BMC hospitals, the dirt and uncleanliness is nauseating. There
seems to be nobody to check
into these aspects. Only during inspections, there is some
semblance of cleanliness. It is
high time the municipal commissioner looks into the
salaries paid to the honorary
doctors as well as the issue of
hygiene in BMC hospitals.
Harischandra Parshuram,
Mumbai

A shocking death
When veteran journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, who had put in

line admissions.
Students only have to click
on the apply online link of the
college website and they are directed to the NoPaperForms
servers for filling and submitting forms, attaching scanned
copies of required documents
etc. They have the option to pay
through netbanking, credit or
debit cards, or cash coupons
from retail outlets.
Fernandes, however, added
that the no paper initiative
has not been successful yet, as
students take printouts of the
form. Students often take
printouts of the online form
and submit hard copies at the
college office. Many times,
they end up using more paper
instead of taking back to back
printouts, she said.

over 15 years with many

prominent dailies in the city
was shot dead by the motorcycle-borne gunmen in Powai,
shocked the journalistic community and also the common
man (Killed for exposing
crime, June 12). According to
police, Deys murder is the
handiwork of either oil mafia
or the underworld, possibly
as a result of some investigative reports he had done in
the recent past. It reminds
one that a few days ago Pakistani journalist, Syed Saleem
Shahzad was brutally murdered after the publication of
his incriminating article
about the ISI-Taliban relations. The government of
Maharashtra should deal
with Deys murderers with an
iron fist and as early as possi-

Had Oriental Insurance Company accepted the order of the

state consumer forum on November 6, 2007, it would have
had to pay an amount of Rs27
lakh at an interest of 6% to
Amrit Jawanmal Shah. Now,
nothing has changed except
the rate of interest.
The company moved the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC).
The NCDRC set aside the 2007
order in February 2010 and directed the state forum to decide the complaint afresh allowing the company to file its
defence and surveyors report,
if any, to assess the loss suffered by Shah. However, this
was anything but a development in the companys favour
as the state forum ruled in
Shahs favour again directing
the firm to pay the same
amount at an interest of 9%
per annum from the date of repudiation.

CLAIM GETS

COSTLIER
Presiding member SR
Khanzode and member SP
Lale also ordered Rs25,000 to be
paid as cost of complaint.
Shah had filed a complaint
before the state forum on October 16, 2006, through Consumer Welfare Association, alleging deficiency in service on
account of non-settlement of
his insurance claim.
According to the complaint,
theft of jewellery and cash
from his shop in Zaveri Bazaar
on April 5, 2004, had led to a
loss of Rs27 lakh. Shah informed the insurance company and a police report was
lodged. After survey, the surveyor and investigator appointed by the company expressed their doubt about any
loss to the complainant due to
the alleged theft. The company
in turn lodged a police complaint against Shah under sections 420 and 511 of the Indian
Penal Code for lodging a false
claim in order to defraud them.
However, Shah was eventually acquitted of all charges.
The forum said that the company failed to adhere to NCDRCs directions and neither
did it file its written version on
the record, nor any supplementary survey report to assess Shahs loss. Thus the allegations in the complaint had to
be taken as admitted and needed to be relied and acted upon.

ble because Dey lost his life

in pursuit of betterment of
the public life.
Bidyut Kumar Chatterjee,
via email

Artistic freedom
Not many know, and there
wasnt even one writer who
mentioned in any of the newspapers that Maqbool Fida Husain was Indias first installation artist to show his work at
the NGMA. If only all these
tributes/ swansongs/ if only
writeups had been written before Husain had died, then
maybe he would have been
able to come home, all forgiven. Im sure he died a sad man.
With his death, a little of our
artistic freedom has died too.
Francis H DSa, Mumbai

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