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Eknath Shinde asks Thane collector to look into Samruddhi Mahamarg irregularities

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Thane | Thane Guardian Minister Eknath Shinde has asked the district collector to inquire into the allegations of irregularities in the Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg project.

At the district planning committee meeting here on Saturday, BJP MLA from Murbad (Thane) Kisan Kathore alleged that some revenue officials were involved in irregularities in the acquisition of land in the district and payment of compensation to farmers and villagers affected by the project.

Taking a serious note of the charges, Shinde asked Collector Rajesh Narvekar to conduct a probe into it. The Mumbai-Nagpur Super Communication Expressway,also known as the Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg, is a planned 701km-long, an eight-lane expressway that will run through 10 districts in the state.

It is expected to cut travel time between the two cities to eight hours from the current 15 hours. It is estimated to cost Rs 46,000 crore and will pass through Nagpur, Buldhana, Amravati, Wardha, Washim, Thane, Aurangabad, Akola, Bhiwandi and Nashik districts. The project is facing opposition from farmers in some pockets along its 700-km route, especially in Nashik district.

Meanwhile, Shinde also approved a Rs 20 crore annual plan for the Thane district for 2019-20. He directed the district officials to utilise the funds to complete the pending works well before the Lok Sabha polls due later this year.

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Things at JNU comically bad: Professor who won Infosys Prize 2018

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Bengaluru | Jawahar Lal University (JNU) professor and the winner of Infosys Prize 2018 Kavita Singh landed here, only to get to know that her leave application to attend the award ceremony was rejected by the JNU vice-chancellor. Reacting to the development, she said things at the university were β€œcomically bad”.

Singh got to know about the rejection of her leave application only after she landed in Bengaluru to attend the event organised by the Infosys Science Foundation (ISF). She received the award on Saturday night.

Speaking after receiving the award, Singh thanked the JNU, where she has been teaching for 17 years, and said until recently, it was β€œa very congenial and supportive place”. β€œWe never had much money or facilities, but we had excellent colleagues and academic freedom. Today, things are bad; things are comically bad in my institutional home.

β€œHow bad you may ask? After I came to Bengaluru, I checked my e-mail and found that the leave application I had put in to come here and receive the award had been rejected by my vice-chancellor. So please be warned that my presence on this stage today is illegitimate,” she said. Singh is a professor and the Dean of the School of Arts and Aesthetics at the JNU in New Delhi. She received the Infosys Science Prize for her study of Mughal, Rajput and Deccan art.

Singh’s work shows the significance of museums in highlighting the social impact of art and thereby, relates visual culture to large contemporary questions of secularity, modernity and political conflict.

The ISF honoured six eminent professors for winning the Infosys Prize 2018 across different categories of science and research at an awards ceremony here on Saturday night, while also celebrating its 10th-year milestone.

The annual award includes a pure gold medal, a citation and a prize purse worth USD 100,000 (or its equivalent in Indian rupees). A six-member jury of renowned scientists and professors selected the winners from 244 nominations received in six categories.

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