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NAGPUR: The Maharashtra police have provided jobs to more than 180 family members of police personnel who died while on duty, including those in fight against coronavirus, DGP Hemant Nagrale said on Thursday.
Addressing a press conference here, Nagrale said appointment letters were issued this week to 183 family members of police personnel who died while on duty in different police ranges of the state.
Of these, 30 appointment letters were issued in Nagpur on Thursday, he said.
The appointments were made under a government scheme for employment on compassionate ground, said Nagrale, who is on a two-day visit to review the police department s functioning in Nagpur and a few of its neighbouring districts.
File photo of Maharashtra’s higher and technical education minister Uday Samant
MUMBAI: University and college campuses in the state can reopen physically for students from February 15, after a 10-month-long break. The state’s higher and technical education minister Uday Samant announced that colleges can start classes with 50% attendance on a rotation basis. Classes and examinations will be conducted both online and offline and attendance will be voluntary, he said. Mumbai University will take a call on the matter soon and issue its circular after deliberating with local authorities, report Sujit Mahamulkar and Yogita Rao.
Samant said universities can come out with their own SOPs, adding the mandatory 75% attendance rule will be relaxed and students will not be debarred from exams.
Some of the candidates who won the gram panchayat elections.
MUMBAI: A revolution is quietly brewing in the patriarchal Marathwada region of Maharashtra, and women such as Sumanbai Nurude (55) are scripting it.
Nurude, who was widowed 30 years ago and sent back to her parents’ village with her two daughters, contested the gram panchayat elections from her Bhaswadi village in Nanded district and, to her surprise, won.
“I was surprised when I was declared winner. It is hard for a single woman to come so far. But now that I have got the opportunity, I will work to raise the issues of women and focus on helping more single women,” said Nurude, adding that her daughters and brother have been her pillars of support.
Single women scripting Maharashtra revolution
Single women scripting Maharashtra revolution
ByBhavika JainBhavika Jain / Updated: Jan 24, 2021, 10:33 IST
Maharashtra, and women such as Sumanbai Nurude (55) are scripting it.
Nurude, who was widowed 30 years ago and sent back to her parents’ village with her two daughters, contested the gram panchayat elections from her Bhaswadi village in Nanded district and, to her surprise, won.
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“I was surprised when I was declared winner. It is hard for a single woman to come so far. But now that I have got the opportunity, I will work to raise the issues of women and focus on helping more single women,” said Nurude, adding that her daughters and brother have been her pillars of support.
Voting for Maharashtra rural polls (file photo)
NASHIK: Maharashtra state election commissioner U P S Madan has ordered the cancellation of the elections in Umrane village in Nashik district and Khondamali village in Nandurbar district following the allegations of the sarpanch and gram panchayat members posts being auctioned here.
The decision to cancel the polls in both the villages was announced by Madan in a press release issued by the state election commission office in Mumbai.
Quoting Madan, the press release read: “There were media reports about the auction of seats of sarpanch (head man) and members of the gram panchayat of Umrane and Khondamali. The reports from the tehsildar, sub-divisional officer, election observer and the collectors were sought. And after verification of the complaints, reports and audio-visual media reports, the decision to cancel the process was taken.”