Mumbai Underground

HOPING to create a stir at the civic improvements committee meeting last week,Ashraf Azmi,a Samajwadi Party corporator,flagged a plot in Sewri,supposedly under the civic bodys ownership,as a case of corruption along the lines of Adarsh scam.

TYPO TROUBLE

HOPING to create a stir at the civic improvements committee meeting last week,Ashraf Azmi,a Samajwadi Party corporator,flagged a plot in Sewri,supposedly under the civic bodys ownership,as a case of corruption along the lines of Adarsh scam. Having researched the plot number in the land records,Azmi revealed that the land actually belonged to the Collector and not BMC and alleged that the civic body was hand-in-glove with the builders lobby. His revelation,however,failed to have the desired impact as deputy municipal commissioner Sunil Dhamne promptly said,We have made a typing error in the plot numbers. Members of Opposition parties promptly walked out of the meeting in a huff.

SLEEPLESS IN MUMBAI

OFFICERS of the state police are losing sleep trying to figure out ways to comply with a recent order of State Chief Information Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad about making the police manual public after an RTI applicant was denied this data. The information is spread across three books and runs into more than 1,800 pages. The state police is still awaiting answers from its information technology wing. Either you scan them page by page,or update the information into webpages. Either way,it is a nightmare, an officer said. Another suggestion was to create a new website altogether. At the police headquarters,which has now been given a deadline,a senior officer was heard saying,There are many security issues we should be worried about but some of us are racking our brains only dealing with this issue.

WINGS CLIPPED

BUSTING a racket spread across the country might earn the police laurels,but it does not come without its own headaches. Recently,Uttar Pradesh ATS blew the lid off an illegal arms racket,arresting four accused from within the state and one from Mumbai. The ATS has,since then,uncovered several leads pointing to many other states and the investigating team is eager to visit these places. However,their hands are tied as all the five accused have submitted bail pleas one after the other and the investigating officers are busy making court appearances almost every day just to oppose bail.

TRACK card

EVEN as the fate of the Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd Metro corridor continues to hang in the balance,the project seems to be very much on the cards if one goes by brochures of real estate developers having projects along the alignment. The project has been a non-starter owing to issues with the concessionaire and hurdles over environmental clearance,but real estate developers are touting it as one of their strong selling points. A case in point is that last week,Godrej Properties launched a luxury residential project,Godrej Serenity,in Chembur. The developer projected the location as a high-end residential destination, while listing out the infrastructure projects being implemented there. Other than the Eastern Freeway and monorail,the list included the second phase of the Mumbai Metro.

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Mumbai Underground

HOPING to create a stir at the civic improvements committee meeting last week,Ashraf Azmi,a Samajwadi Party corporator,flagged a plot in Sewri,supposedly under the civic bodys ownership,as a case of corruption along the lines of Adarsh scam.

HOPING to create a stir at the civic improvements committee meeting last week,Ashraf Azmi,a Samajwadi Party corporator,flagged a plot in Sewri,supposedly under the civic bodys ownership,as a case of corruption along the lines of Adarsh scam.