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Participants of Aurangabad Pharma Runners who are going to participate in the Aurangabad Maha Marathon(from L) Ganesh Deshmukh, Pravin Bankar, Akshay Ghongde, Vivek Patil, Rahul Harkal, Bharat Kadam, AnilNavade, Jatin Chandarana, Charan Koli, Saurabh Nikam, Rameshwar Tathe, Gopal Raut and Arvind Salunkhe.

Participants of the Nukkad The Eat Street Theme Cafe Cake Boutique who are going to participate in theAurangabad Maha Marathon (from L) Priyanka Gade, Mahesh Rathod, Sanjay Jhod, Raju Jadhav, PawanJadhav, Raju Dhanraj, Vishal Deshmukh and Smita Kulkarni.

Participants of the Saffron Group who will participate in the Aurangabad Maha Marathon are (from L) NitinChudiwal, Rajan Khade, Suraj Malkumavat, Pradeep Bhalerao, Subhash Khandare, Prashant Chavan, Chetan

Tawre, Bapu Gaikwad, Dharma Bongane, Hitesh Sugandhi, Anil Munot (partnerSaffron group), Mahesh Labhshetwar (partner Saffron group), Rahul Patel, MayurPatel, Deepak Patel, Yogesh Mote, Narendra Patel, Himmat Patel and GauravKumar. Sitting (from left) Harish Waghmare, Shaikh Shahnawaz, Yadav Gajalwarand Darshik Patel.

Participants of the MGM Health Clubs Fitness Freaks group who are going to run the Aurangabad MahaMarathon (from L) Shital Salve, Ravi Motwani, Dr Sachin Deshmukh, Rajendra Maheshwari, Madhuri Patil,Monica Maheshwari, Rimpi Chabda, Indar Chabda, Dr Jagdish Loya, Nishant Ferwani, Ritesh Paraswani, DrVinod Totla, Manoj Ghodke, Chandrashekhar Patil and Ashutosh Holani.

Desirous participants can register their names for Lokmat Maha Marathon at Lokmat Bhavan, Regal Lawn, Jalna Road,Aurangabad from 11 am to 5 pm. School and college students and staff, employees of companies, and runners groups can alsoparticipate in the event. The organisers have appealed to the runners and citizens to participate in the run in large numbers.

For details contact 9921030700 or 0240-3021708. Onlineregistration facility is also available. Interested runners can

visit the website www.mahamarathon. com

LLOOKKMMAATT NNEEWWSS NNEETTWWOORRKKAHMEDNAGAR, DEC 6

After almost ten months of theincident, the government has sus-pended four senior officers,including the then civil surgeonof the district civil hospital, afterthe committee found them primafacie guilty in the Pangarmalhooch tragedy that had claimedthe lives of nine persons.

Civil surgeon Dr PandurangBorute has confirmed of receiv-ing the suspension orders on lateTuesday evening.

The four officers facing suspen-sion are former civil surgeon DrS M Sonawane, the then ENT sur-geon Dr P S Kambale, formeradministrative officer Dr SanjayRathod and current admin officerDr Ramesh Mane.

The committee inquiring into

the Pangarmal hooch tragedyfound the civil surgeon guilty ofdereliction of duty. ENT DrKambale was acting civil surgeonbefore Dr Sonawane. He and thethen admin officer Dr Rathodwere also held guilty of derelic-tion of duty. The action againstDr Mane has come for noimprovement in the services ofthe hospital.

HHoooocchh ttrraaggeeddyyIt may be recalled that during

February 2017 elections to thegram panchayat and panchayatsamitis, liquor was served byShiv Sena candidates inPangarmal village. Over 22 per-sons had got severely ill after con-sumption of the liquor.

The liquor had taken the lives ofnine persons while three wererendered permanently blind.Investigations had led the policeto Civil Hospital canteen, whereliquor was manufactured and bot-tled. Over a dozen people werearrested in due course of theinvestigations.

The case is still sub judice. Thethen Sena candidate for the ZP isstill missing. Ironically, no actionwas taken against thecivil hospital staff and the offi-cers in Khaki who were alleged tohave been working with the

liquor racket.The Topkhana police is located

just 50 meters away from the can-teen where the killer liquor wasbottled.

Meanwhile, social activists havedemanded initiation of criminalproceedings not only against thehospital staff but also against thepolicemen who were alleged tohave received money for protect-ing the racket.

4 suspended forhooch tragedy

LLOOKKMMAATT NNEEWWSS NNEETTWWOORRKKVAIJAPUR, DEC 6

‘Ek Kadam Swachhata kioar’ an ambitious pro-gram launched by theCentral Government toenlighten the people onthe importance of thecleanliness has evokedgood response. Number ofpeople including womenare voluntarily participat-ing in the campaign andthey have started segre-gating of the wet and drylitter and putting it intothe ghantagadi of themunicipal council thatmoves in all the parts ofthe town to collect the

garbage.Social worker and

retired officer of themunicipal councilDhondiramsinh Rajput onWednesday was dressedlike Sant Gadgebaba, thepioneer of the cleanlinesscampaign. Ram Uchit,Pandharinath Pote,Santosh Tribhuvan,Shyam Alhat, MeenaRajput, Sarika Raut,Pramod Nikale we’represent on the occasion.The people were asked toregister their complaintabout the uncleanlinessin the town through theSwachhata App launchedby the government.

Cleanliness campaigngets good response

As part of 'Ek kadam swachhata ki or' campaign, vil-lagers participate in cleanliness drive, at Vaijapur onWednesday.

Liquor served by ShivSena candidates inPangarmal villagehad claimed ninelives and left 22persons ill and threepermanently blind

MMiissmmaannaaggeemmeennttMeanwhile, the civil hospital isin focus for its highly poorservices and the uncleanliness.On late Monday evening, statehealth minister Dr DipakSawant paid a surprise visit tothe hospital. He was leftstunned with the mismanage-ment of the hospital andcalled deputy health directorto visit the hospital and submita report. Accordingly, deputyhealth director Dr VijayKandhewad visited the hospi-tal on early Tuesday morning.The visits by the minister andthe director sped up the clean-ing operations and the doctorsremained present duringduty hours.

LLOOKKMMAATT NNEEWWSS NNEETTWWOORRKKJALNA, DEC 6

Fourteen students of zillaparishad school inBathanbu village in Jalnatehsil were admitted to theDistrict GovernmentHospital, Jalna after con-suming castor seeds onWednesday.

According to sources,the students in the agegroup of 8-10 years mis-took castor seeds forpeanuts and almonds andate them. Soonafter eating they com-plained of dizziness andstarted vomiting. Twelveboys and 2 girls ate castorseeds from the nearbytrees.The teachers of theschool found that the chil-dren had eaten castorseeds.

On getting the news, par-ents rushed to the schooland with help of teachers,they admitted the childrento the hospital.

Later minister of statefor dairy development andtextile Arjun Khotkar vis-ited the hospital andinquired the condition of

the children.The civil surgeon, Dr.

M.K Rathod and a team ofdoctors team were treatingthe children. The condi-tion of the children is sta-ble. The minister directedthe doctors to provideimmediate medicalassistance.

14 taken ill aftereating castor seedsNNaannddeedd,, DDeecc 66:: Out of 32 sugar factories in the

Nanded zone, the crushing session has started in28 mills and 21.25 lakh tonnes of sugarcane hasbeen crushed since May.

The Nanded zone consists of five districtsincluding Nanded, Latur, Hingoli, Parbhani andOsmanabad.

Out of the five sugar factories in Nanded dis-trict, 3 have started its crushing session withBhaurao Chavan Cooperative Sugar Factorycrushing highest quantity of sugarcane i.e.1.1lakh metric tonnes.

In its unit number 4 crushing of 86760 metrictonne of sugarcane has been completed while JaiAmbika Sugar Factory at Kuntur has crushed24220 metric tonnes.

The Western Maharashtra used to pay Rs 3,000per metric tonne for sugarcane procurement butits price yet has not been decided in the district.The factory administration say that it will be setas per the recovery. Bhaurao ChavanCooperative sugar factory has paid Rs 2,238 inadvance to every sugarcane grower.

In Hingoli district all the four sugar factorieshave started crushing seasons. In Parbhani dis-trict, out of 5, four have ignited their boilers. InOsmanabad district two cooperative and 8 pri-vate sugar factories have started crushing and inLatur district out of 8 factories, 7 have startedcushing .

Sugarcane producers are facing hardship dueto dearth of labourers for cane harvesting, how-ever, some of them are managing it by usingmachines. If harvesting takes long time, sugar-cane will attract less price in the factories.

28 mills start sugarcanecrushing in Nanded zone

Children under treatment at the District GovernmentHospital, Jalna. --LT photo by Saber Khan.

All students undertreatment in Jalna

SHORT TAKES

BBeeeedd:: District unit presi-dent of All India Majlis-e-

Ittehad-ul Muslimeen(AIMIM) Shaikh Nizam

demanded that the BabriMasjid be built again at thesame spot. He submitted amemorandum to President

of India throughBeed collector on

Wednesday. Shaikh Nizamalso said that the provoca-

tive speechesshould be stopped against

the Muslims. After thedemolition of Babri

Masjid the then prime min-ister P.V Narasimha Rao

had assured thecommunity that the BabriMasjid will be reconstruct-

ed but in vain. RafiqueNashad, Quayum Inamdar,

Shaikh Zakiuddin andcouncillor Shaikh Amar

were present whilesubmitting a

memorandum to the col-lector M.D Sinh.

Rebuild BabriMasjid, demands

MIM dist chief

BBeeeedd:: The roadwork fromSathe Chowk to Malives

Chowk under the citydevelopment scheme willbe completed by January31, 2018, said chief officerof Beed Municipal Council

Dr. Dhananjay Javalikar.Talking to Lokmat Times,

Dr. Javalikar said that in all1200 metres long

road will be completed inthe first phase from SatheChowk to Malives road. Allthe encroachments of the

roadside have beenremoved and here will be

wide road, made of cementconcrete, he said. Thoughthe deadline for the com-

pleting road isFebruary 28, 2018 but itwill be completed by the

contractor one month ago,said deputy engineer

K.S. Deshmukh.

Roadwork to beover by Jan 2018

JJaallnnaa:: Noted writer RekhaBaijal will be honouredwith the

awardJainendra

Kumar JainPuraskar for

her Hindinovel ‘Maut

se zindagiki Or.’ Theaward is

instituted by Hindi SahityaAcademy, Maharashtra. Theaward will be presented to

her at a function inMumbai shortly. Baijal has

penned 35 books inMarathi and

Hindi. She was congratulat-ed by well-wishers and

the relatives.

Rekha Baijal getsJainendra Puraskar

NNaannddeedd,, DDeecc 66:: The SwamiRamanand TeerthMarathwada University incollaboration with theWashington StateUniversity, will organise atwo-day InternationalSeminar on December 10and 11 on the topic of‘breeding new wheat vari-eties sustaining theincreasing global warm-ing.’

It is expected to be attend-ed by over 300 delegates.The global warming hasdrastically affected produc-tion and quality of wheatallover the world, increas-ing concern among the sci-entists. Scientists are con-ducting research to breednew varieties of wheatwhich could sustain theGlobal Warming effect.This will help provide foodto the increasing popula-tion.

This is the first of its proj-ect being held by theSRTMU with incurring anexpenditure of Rs 52 crore.The USA has shared Rs 31crore and the remaining Rs

21 crore will be shared bythe University GrantsCommission.

A memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) hasbeen signed by the SRTMUwith the Washington StateUniversity in the US,Kansas State University,Punjab AgriculturalUniversity (Ludhiana), GBPant University(Pantnagar), Dr. RajendraKrishi Vidyapeeth(Samastipur), ChaudharyCharan Singh University(Meerut), JawaharlalNehru AgriculturalUniversity (Jabalpur) andMethahexis Pvt. and J.K.Hebride Pvt six monthsago. According to the agree-ment, these universitiesand companies will cometogether for research to pre-pare wheat varities whichcan withstand the increas-ing temperature.

Intl workshop on wheat tocombat global warming

SRTMU, USvarsity to organise2-day prog

AAhhmmeeddnnaaggaarr,, DDeecc 66:: TheBombay High Court hasstayed the auction of theproperty of KineticEngineering Ltd (KEL), whichowes over Rs 3.3 crore as taxto the AhmednagarMunicipal Corporation(AMC).

After failure to have any bid-ders for the auction of the fac-tory by the AMC, the highcourt has also stayed theprocess of transfer of rightsof the property to the AMC.KEL owes over Rs 3.3 crore tothe AMC as tax. BeforeDiwali, the AMC had seizedthe property. The company,once famous for manufactur-ing Kinetic mopeds, hadapproached the district courtagainst the AMC action.However, the court hadupheld the action of the AMC.Accordingly, the AMC hadfloated tenders for the sale ofcompany property. However,no bids were received till thelast day (December 5), of theproposed auction. The AMCthen initiated action to trans-fer the rights of the propertyin its own name. However, inthe meantime, the companyhad approached the highcourt filing a plea against thecorporation action. The pleawas heard on Tuesday and theHC ordered stay on the recov-ery of outstanding tax and thecompany sought one monthtime to submit its say. Thecourt ordered to submit thesay by December 19 andstayed the auction. The court,however, upheld the sealing ofthe company till disposal ofthe plea.

HC STAYS AUCTIONOF KEL PROPERTY