Mumbai Beat

Vaitarna lake overflows

Incessant rains for the last two days has resulted in the Modak Sagar Vaitarna lake, which supplies potable water to Mumbai, overflowing since early Friday. Last year this lake started overflowing from August 3, civic sources said, adding that the other three lakes 8211; Vihar, Tansa, Tulsi and Upper Vaitarna have yet to reach the overflowing level.

Reservation centre at Palghar

A computerised passenger reservation centre was opened at Palghar station of Mumbai Central division, on Western Railway on Friday. This is the 14th computerised passenger reservation centre on Mumbai Central division.

Constructed at a cost of Rs 18 lakh, rail users can book/reserve tickets for any station from this centre. Palghar is a taluka in Thane district with a population of 3.25 lakh and directly linked with rail and road routes to Ahmedabad, Delhi and Mumbai. There are a number of large and small scale industries like steel engineering, pharmaceuticals and chemicals located inand around Palghar. Earlier, in absence of a reservation centre passengers had to go either to Virar or Vapi.