The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home ...
By Dheeraj Fartode
Apathy of Democratic Front (DF) government in resolving the problem in Orange cultivation in Vidarbha is killing the prosperous Orange yards. Now just two crore trees have remained as equal number of them fell to various germ attacks and lack of support on irrigation front from State Government, alleged, Sunil Shinde, ex-MLA here on Thursday.
Former MLA Sunil Shinde |
Farmers need support from government to enable them to tide over huge losses due to fall in yield of Orange crop due to scattered rainfall. The flowers did not bloom as during the crucial period the rains dried-up in the Orange belt. The ex-legislator alleged that Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Horticulture minister do not have time to even discuss the problems facing the Orange cultivators.
Shinde who was once close confidant of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo, Sharad Pawar, was addressing a press conference at Vidhan Bhavan premises. Technology Mission on Citrus started after initiative taken by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, however the project was not effectively implemented by the DF government.
He demanded a compensation of Rs 8,000/hectare; implementation of Citrus Estate on the lines of Punjab; Rs 14.2 crore for Regional Fruit Research Centre of Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Agricultural University; 50 per cent grant on plastic crates and corrugated boxes for transportation of Oranges; availability of good quality saplings from Agriculture Department; grant of licence for extracting Orange juice pulp and for making products from Oranges; government help for Orange winery on the lines of one given to grape based wineries in West Maharashtra.
Deputy Leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Legislative Assembly, Nana Patole, MLA Nana Gawande were present at the press conference.
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