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 ...
Since Wednesday, ongoing development works in city continue to spell trouble for power utilities as JCB hit the underground cable interrupting power supply during summer scorch for hours. Several areas of city went without power since Wednesday due to damage done to underground cables.
According to information, a 33 KV underground cable that passes through the Gorewada area of Umred road was damaged at 10.45 am while digging a pit for cement road. After the incident, power supply to Bhupesh Nagar, Girija Palace, Kamruddin lay-out, MHADA colony, Utkarsh Nagar, Ganga Nagar, Virchakra colony, Narmada colony, Jagdish Nagar, Ekta Nagar got disrupted. More than 7,000 households went without power supply for two hours.
In another incident, power cable in Sutgirni area of Umred Road was broken by a JCB operator. On Wednesday night, two such incidents were reported in the city. A JCB operator hit the underground power cables in Binkar Nagar of Hudkeshwar area. The power supply was restored after tremendous hard-work by SNDL team.
Despite repeated request from the power franchise, the negligent JCB operators are breaking underground power cables repeatedly. In a month, more than 10 such incidents were reported in city.
In another incident, an unknown person set afire huge amount of trash just below a transformer located at Venu Corner, Balaji Nagar, Manewada. The fire caused severe damage to the underground incoming supply cable of the transformer and disrupted the supply to the transformer itself besides causing severe damage to the allied infrastructure. This caused outage to the 100-odd households for several hours. SNDL has requested public not to dump or burn waste near electrical equipments.
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