MUMBAI, June 24: In view of the escalating sugar prices, Shiv Sena MP from North-East Mumbai Madhukar Sarpotdar has appealed to Union Minister of state for Food and Civil Supplies Raghuvansh Prasad Singh to hike the quota of monthly releases of sugar. Attributing the price rise to limited allocation by the Centre, Sarpotdar has in a communique issued jointly with former FCI director Kanhaiyalal Gidwani suggested that the quota for the coming quarter (July-Sept) be fixed at least at 8 lakh tonnes per month. This, they claim, would prevent artificial scarcity and bring rates from the existing Rs 17 per kilo down to a reasonable level.Kerosene quotaChief Minister Manohar Joshi has directed the Food and Civil Supplies department to increase the ration quota of kerosene for families in Mumbai and Thane having two to three members. These families will now get 10 and 12 litres of kerosene per month from the current month from the reserved quota as opposed to 3.5 litres they were getting earlier with immediate effect.Special cellA special information cell has been opened in the office of Minister for Higher Education Datta Rane for the benefit of students who want information for admissions to engineering, technical, arts, commerce, and science colleges and technical institutes for vocational courses at the plus two level. The cell will remain open from June 21 to July 5 between 3 and 4 pm.School branchThe Bombay Scottish School will now have an extension at Raheja Vihar, Powai Housing Development Finance Corpration chairman Deepak Parekh inaugurated the extension on Sunday.
