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Attend: Flower show at Marine Drive

In a city fast losing its green cover, this plant and flower show is sure to gladden you. Don’t miss.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Mumbai city is currently inundated with cratered roads and accompanying debris and filth. Ordinarily, too, the city has long given up the green cover it used to enjoy to large plots of land housing residential and office buildings.

So in the midst of this concrete jungle, any respite in the form of plants and flowers is surely a welcome change.

Yesterday, the Governor of Maharashtra Ch. Vidyasagar Rao inaugurated a flower and plant Show organised by ‘I Love Mumbai’ on Marine Drive, Mumbai. The exhibition houses several varieties of flowering and non-flowering plants, which are on sale as well. The showing is on till January 17, 2015.

Ch Vinodha, wife of the Governor, Nana Chudasama, Founder of ‘I Love Mumbai’, Shaina NC and Sardar Tara Singh, MLA were among those present on the occasion.

Head to the plant and flower show at Service Road outside Wilson Gymkhana, next to Taraporewala aquarium, Marine Drive, Mumbai.

(Pictures courtesy Raj Bhavan, Mumbai)

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Governor receives 60 representations on Sanjay Dutt pardon

Individuals and organisations have written to the Maharashtra State Governor for or against a pardon for convicted actor Sanjay Dutt. 25 petitions oppose pardon.

While there’s been a bit of a brouhaha over whether actor Sanjay Dutt should be pardoned for his role in the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Bombay, even as his jail stint of a little over three years comes up as decreed by the Supreme Court, the Governor of Maharashtra’s received and sent representations in the matter to the State Government for review.

As per a press release issued by the Raj Bhavan, the Governor K Sankaranarayanan’s official residence in Mumbai, the Governor has received and now sent 60 representations and petitions received by him from various individuals and organisations both seeking and opposing clemency for Sanjay Dutt. The petitions and representations have been sent for review to the State Home Department.

In a letter dated April 4, 2013 addressed to the Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Maharashtra, Home Department, the Secretary to the Governor Vikas Chandra Rastogi has sent copies of all the representations received by the Governor during the last few days to the State Government.

The Governor had received representations on this issue from citizens and organisations from all parts of the country. These include those sent by Justice (retd) Markandeya Katju, Chairman, Press Council of India, and others. Earlier the Governor had sent the petition received from politicians Amar Singh and Jaya Prada, MP, to the State Home Department on March 28, 2013.

Interestingly, at least 25 individuals and organisations from out of the 60 petitioners have opposed pardon for Sanjay Dutt.

What’s your opinion on the matter? Do you think Sanjay Dutt deserves a pardon?

 (Picture courtesy timesofindia.com)

 

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Governor’s wife wants all-women police stations

After the Government’s announcement of an all-women nationalised bank in the country, the State Governor’s wife wants all-women police stations.

This is getting serious. In the Budget announced last month by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, there was an announcement for an all-woman nationalised bank to be launched later this year. Apart from that announcement, Chidambaram had laid heavy emphasis on women’s safety and security in the light of growing crimes against them.

Today, on the occasion of Women’s Day, a prominent woman – in fact, the wife of the State’s First Citizen, the Governor – expressed a desire for all-women police stations in Maharashtra and the country. Radha Sankaranarayan wished for a more sensitised police force and Courts, and in this connection, she said, “Opening of all-women police stations will give confidence to women to come forward and report crimes against them.”

She was speaking at a seminar on ‘Time for action to end violence against women’ organised by the United Nations Population Fund in association with the Department of Public Health, Government of Maharashtra, at Sahyadri State Guest House in Mumbai. She said, “As a woman, as a mother and as a grandmother, I feel sad, angry and at the same time helpless when I read reports of incidents of violence against women, sexual assault on small girls and even on toddlers. In some cases, the trauma of the victim ends with death. I feel benumbed.”

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