MUMBAI: Nearly 25% of taxis plying on metropolis roads do not have fitness certificate and they’ll be deemed “undeserving” for delivery as the necessary health exams are pending due to backlogs at RTO, assets stated.
Mumbai Taximen’s Union chief A L Quadros confirmed that there was a huge ready listing for the exams and plenty of drivers have been playing without acquiring the certificates. “What can they do if the ready duration for the once a year examination is extra than 3 months?” he requested. “The Tardeo RTO has stopped engaging in health exams on its premises as it’s miles within the procedure of putting in place a brand new 250m check tune as consistent with court docket directives. As an alternative, cab drivers had been asked to take their kaali-peelies to Nerul. But at Nerul, there may be a long queue and fitness checks are completed most effective for 2 hours in the morning,” he pointed out.
He stated that because the annual health takes a look at floor has been shifted to Navi Mumbai, taxi drivers from Mumbai had been suffering and lots of are but to get the mandatory certificates. “They can’t prevent their enterprise and are plying taxis without the health certificate,” he stated. A senior RTO respectable said the existing tune at Tardeo RTO has a few timbers which need to be transplanted. “We have already carried out to the Tree Authority and we will clear the song quickly. The new 250m music may be geared up earlier than monsoon and we can then expedite the examinations,” the reliable delivered.
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MUMBAI: The training branch has all over again extended the cut-off date to May 10 for securing the seats reserved below the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009. The first cut-off date to affirm admissions became April 26.
Under RTE, all unaided non-minority colleges must reserve 25% of their seats on the entry degree for kids from the economically and socially weaker sections.
More than 2 lakh college students carried out for the 1.16 lakh seats to be had in the state. The software process commenced on March five.
At the quiet of the shape filling, Pune crowned the listing of districts for the number of programs with 45,708 making use of for sixteen,594 seats.
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MUMBAI: Five months after a gang of robbers had robbed valuables worth as a minimum Rs sixty six lakh on a nation bus in Gujarat, one of the alleged robbers, Suresh Sawant alias Pravin alias Bandya, became arrested from Andheri (east). A crew of the Mumbai police crime department which become led by using inspector Arun Pokharkar arrested Sawant, a Malad resident.
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The police said that the group had earlier expertise that a collection of angadiyas, or men used to courier valuables, become to board the bus with valuables. They had robbed the angadiyas of diamond, gold, and cash valued at Rs sixty-six lakh. The theft had taken region at a desolate stretch alongside the Mehsana-Ahmedabad motorway on December 6.
