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Nagar's power dis-connection avoidedAhmednagar: The Maharashtra State electricity Board MSEB has agreed to accept the cheques issued by...

Nagar8217;s power dis-connection avoided
Ahmednagar: The Maharashtra State electricity Board MSEB has agreed to accept the cheques issued by Ahmednagar Municipal Council in favour of the Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran. This has temporarily avoided the city8217;s dis-connection of power supply due to the payments of pending power bills.

In the past, the municipal council used to issue cheques in favour of the Jeevan Pradhikaran who was looking after the city8217;s drinking water scheme. With the recent transfer of the water scheme, the Jeevan Pradhikaran had asked the municipal council to issue the payment cheques directly in favour of the MSEB. The municipal council had rejected the suggestion on the ground that as the municipal8217;s power meter had continued to be in the name of the Pradhikaran, the municipal council was not yet made a consumer of the MSEB.

As per an agreement arrived at a joint meeting held in Mumbai in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Gopinath Munde, the municipal council has been paying Rs 20 lakh as power charges every month.

The MSEB has accepted the old three cheques of the municipal council which were returned by the Jeevan Pradhikaran.

It is learnt that although the water scheme has been transferred to the municipal council, due to the pending power charges, it is not possible to transfer the power meter in the name of the municipal council. The pending bills are to the tune of some crores of rupees. Besides, the municipal council is also not paying the total current power bills.

Sadul new district bank chief
Solapur: Former Member of Lok Sabha Dharmanna Sadul has been re-elected chairman of Solapur District Industrial Cooperative Bank. Nagesh Gunjal has been re-elected to the post of vice-president.

Sadul has been elected to the post for the third term while this will be Gunjal8217;s second term.

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Nominations for KMC poll
Kolhapur: Fifteen persons have filed nominations for the eight seats of Standing Committee while 10 nominations were submitted for the six seats of the transport committee of the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation KMC.

The elections to these posts will be held during the general body meeting of the KMC on October 18. Monday was the last date for filing application form.

Truck hijacked
Pune: Sunil Kumar Agarwal, a transporter from Akurdi, has lodged an first information report FIR at Swargate police claiming that one of his truck drivers relieved him of a truck loaded with tins of coconut oil.

The FIR said Agarwal had asked Lahuji Kolharkar to deliver the tins of coconut oil at Mahaveer Sales Corporation in Gultekdi Market Yard from Akurdi. Kolharkar did a vanishing act instead of taking the consignment to Market Yard, it added.