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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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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
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STBs show the real picture: MSOs evaded Rs 18 cr duty each year

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By Dheeraj Fartode

EACH Set Top Box installed in city’s household has started unearthing the fraud played on the State Government by Multi Service Operators (MSO). In A bid to evade entertainment duty the MSOs misguided the district administration on the number of cable connections which cost the state exchequer a whopping loss of over Rs 18 crore as Entertainment Duty (ED) per year.
After the STBs were made compulsory from April 1 the real picture has started coming to fore. The MSOs had put their cable connection strength to 88,637 in Nagpur city that has 5.32 households. However, data collected from Nagpur Divisional Commissionerate states that 4.34 lakh STBs have been installed in the Second Capital till date. The number has exposed the false claims of the MSOs and the massive evasion of Entertainment Duty.
The government applies Rs 45 as Entertainment Duty for each cable connection. Before the STBs were made compulsory the MSOs in the city had shown their connections as 88,637 thus paying only Rs 4.78 crore as ED every year.
Sources said same practice was on in the entire State thus causing a huge loss of hundreds of crore every year to the government coffers.
The State Government is now mulling issuing notices for recovery of ED to all cable operators in Maharashtra.
“We have noticed that MSOs evaded huge amount of ED every year. The administration will serve notice to all MSOs for back recovery of ED with interest,” Deputy Commissioner S G Gautam said.
Divisional Inspector (ED) Udaykumar Bhaisare said the administration had done a survey of cable connections in the city and found a big mismatch in the numbers claimed by the cable operators.
“However, the cable operators denied our claim and only 14,000 cable connections were increased in February 2013. The digitalisation process was aimed at plugging such leaks in the system. With STBs in place, the tax collection is also expected to rise,” Bhaisare said.
STBs were installed in Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Aurangabad, Nashik and Thane cities under the process of digitalisation from April 1.

STBs installed in city

UCN 2.60 lakh
IN-BCN 1.31 lakh
GTPL 0.43 lakh
Total 4.34 lakh

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