Mumbai, July 13 (IANS) A comprehensive physical inspection and audit conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) over the past two years has exposed severe mismanagement, lack of basic amenities, and financial misappropriation across government-run and aided student hostels in Maharashtra. Designed to support the education of students from backward and economically weaker sections, many of these facilities were found to be in a state of utter neglect, with some aided hostels turning o…
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Mumbai, June 20 (IANS) Bringing the curtains down on one of Maharashtra’s longest-running and most politically sensitive criminal cases, a special CBI court in Mumbai on Saturday acquitted all eight accused in the 2006 murder of senior Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar and his driver Samad Abdul Wahid Kazi, citing lack of evidence.Among those acquitted was former Maharashtra Home Minister and ex-NCP MP Padamsinh Patil, 86, who was alleged by the CBI to be the key conspirator behind the killing…
Mumbai, May 14 (IANS) In a major move to boost skill-based education and regional development, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has approved 17 new professional colleges in tribal, hilly and backward districts of the state.The decision was taken during a meeting of the Maharashtra State Higher Education and Development Commission (MAHED) chaired by the Chief Minister.According to an official release, priority approval has been granted for 17 new colleges specialising in Engineering, …
Mumbai, April 21 (IANS) The Maharashtra Department of Women and Child Development on Tuesday said that a series of preventive measures implemented on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya led to the successful prevention of 13 child marriages across the state. The department said that special arrangements for online coordination and guidance were put in place under the chairmanship of Meghna Bordikar, Minister of State for Women and Child Development in Maharashtra, to ensure swift action and monitori…
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) The Maharashtra government, in a minor reshuffle, transferred four bureaucrats on Thursday. G. Sreekanth (IAS: RR: 2009), Mission Director, Jal Jeevan Mission, Navi Mumbai, has been posted as Divisional Commissioner, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar Division, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar.Jitendra Papalkar (IAS: SCS: 2010), Divisional Commissioner, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar Division, has been posted as Joint Commissioner, GST, Mumbai.Gangatharan D (IAS: RR: 2013) has bee…