October 2003

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31st October:
State Safety Drive: Helmet compulsion on State Highways:
The State Road Transport Authority has announced compulsion of use of helmet on national highways for every person using and sitting on two-wheelers. The order excludes Highways and roads area falling in Municipal Council or Municipal Corporation border.
The decision came into effect following alarming number of accident cases reported throughout the country.

Inter-College Cricket Competition:
The NMU Level Inter-College Cricket competition is beginning from 01st November 2003 at Police Ground Jalgaon. In all 23 College-teams on NMU level are participating in this 20 Over each Competition.

30th October:
Food & Drug department to release Seizure:
The District Food & Drug Department is soon releasing all Loose and Branded oil seized following receipt of non-adulteration in Sample reports tested by National level Laboratories. The Department has received reports of 24 out of 32 sent samples of Oil for verification. The decision marks relief for Oil vendors facing absolutely no business since last month.

Farmers welcome Cotton Rates announcement:
The District's second largest agricultural product 'cotton' growing farmers have welcomed State Government's announcement of Cotton Rates. The State CM announced Rs. 2500/- per quintal rates for cotton on Wednesday.

29th October:
PWD begins Road repairs and build-up works:
The State PWD Deparment is beginning its road build-up and repairs work on Jalgaon - Kanalda - Amoda Road, Bhokar - Idgaon Road, and Hated over bridgework. The in all project cost is estimated to be 3.5 Crores will be inaugurated on 01st November 2003.

Youth commits suicide:
A 22 years old youth Chandrakant Baliram Tayade of Shirsoli village has committed suicide by drinking poison on 28th October. The MIDC Police Station has registered Incidental death and further investigation is going on.

28th October:
Ramjan festivity begins today:
The Muslim community Ramjan month has begun on 27th October with community fellows observing fast throughout the month.

Police Diary:
The Nashirabad village witnessed tension on Monday morning when two rival groups wrestled causing injuries to two. Nashirabad Police Station has booked five people in this concern.
In another incidence, the Parola city observed fight between two groups begun due to minor issues. The Parola Police Station has booked various offenders in this regards under Section IPC 504, 323, 506.

Cold wave hits District:
The entire Jalgaon District is witnessing significant fall in thermometer scale since last four days. The temperature felled to a low of 13.3 on 27th October as compared to low of 19.6 on 20th October.

27th October:
Maheshwari Community Group Marriage:
The Maheshwari community is organising group marriage on 04th November 2003. The community has urged Maheshwari community fellows to register for group marriage until 30th October 2003. For more details, please contact 2223959, 2222546.

26th October:
Happy New Year:
People all around celebrated the festival of Lightening, Diwali with merriment and crackers. With Diwali, today is "Padva," marking beginning of a new year full of excitement and prosperity for all of us. The fireworks burst caused fire in Dahigaon village of Yaval taluka causing losses worth Rs. 6000.
This Diwali witnessed record fireworks causing pollution at its top levels. The fireworks scenario caused smoke all around the roads on Diwali night making it hard to breath and drive on roads. The smog caused by this one-day firework was almost equivalent to pollution caused by using Petrol vehicles for over a month. Let us every one plant at least one tree on this auspicious day as a penalty for causing this alarming pollution and health problems and make our motherland green and pollution free.

Tractor collapse causes Farmer death in Asoda:
A 50 years old Asoda farmer Dilip Jagganath Chaudhari died on the spot, when his tractor driver lost balance and his body crushed below tractor. The incidence took place when both were returning home after finishing their farming work in evening. The Jalgaon Taluka Police Station has booked Tractor driver also injured under Section IPC 304, 279 and further investigation is going on.

Peoples College wins Inter-College Football competition:
The Bhusaval Peoples College team has won Inter-College NMU Level Football competition played at MJ College ground. The team defeated host MJ College team by 2-0 in competition in which ten College teams participated.

25th October:
Diwali Greetings:
Let the festival of Diwali bring in prosperity, joy, and peace for you and your entire family. Let us all pray together to Goddess Laxmi for wealthiest Jalgaon District and our motherland.
Let us lighten home with Diyas, drawing Rangoli and celebrate pollution-free Diwali by distributing Sweets and not exploding Crackers.

Electoral Rolls of Graduates:
The Government of Maharashtra has urged every person who is a citizen of India, is ordinarily resident in the constituency, and has at least 3 years before 01st November 2003 been either a Graduate of a University in the territory of India or in the possession of equivalent qualification for enrolling in Graduate's electoral roll 2003.
Printed applications in Form 18 and Proforma for specimen signatures may be obtained free of cost from Tahsildar in the districts. Manuscript, typewritten, cyclostyled or privately printed forms will also be accepted.

Seven injured in Road accident:
Jalgaon District's seven persons were injured in a road accident on Surat - Nagpur Highway at Ner village in Dhule District when their mini-door vehicle driver lost its control and vehicle buckled. All are under treatment in Dhule District.

Change in timing of Nagpur - Bhusaval Passenger:
The 1386 Nagpur Bhusaval Passenger timing is changing with effect from 24th October 2003. The Train will reach one hour before current time.

24th October:
JCMC repays Hudco loan instalment:
The JCMC administration has begun repaying its debts to HUDCO taken for Housing for slums. The JCMC paid its instalment of Rs. 5 Crores to HUDCO on 22nd October 2003.

23rd October:
CM halts Octroi Tax implementation in Jalgaon:
State CM has ordered for halting implementation of Octroi Tax in Jalgaon following his meetings with Business community leaders from Jalgaon. The welcome decision came with formal order for JCMC administrator to conduct meets with City business community and they only implement Octroi Tax in city.

BSNL slashes ISD rates:
The BSNL has slashed its International calling rates for Diwali festivity. The concession rate available until 21st November offers ISD Calling at Rs. 9.60 for USA, Rs. 7.20 for UK and very attractive rates for other destinations throughout the world.

22nd October:
Say No to Crackers:
Every year the widespread use of Fire Crackers increases air pollution throughout the country by as much as 10 times. This leads to many health problems like Asthma, Bronchitis and heart Attacks. Moreover, noise pollution beyond 125db, the maximum level tolerable by the human ear can even cause deafness.
By celebrating Diwali with Diyas, Rangoli, Sweets, and Gifts instead of crackers, will avoid pollution and make our city healthy and rich in traditional values. Let us get cracking and convince of our family members, friends and neighbours to join us in saying "NO to Crackers."

MSEB Jalgaon units get whopping 52 Crores funds:
The MSEB Jalgaon Units have received whopping 52 Crores 44 Lacs fund from Central Government to strengthen its power distribution network. The MSEB is starting up installation on new power transformers and distribution centres throughout the district.

21st October:
Business community all set to protest Octroi:
The Jalgaon city business community is gearing up its sketch for initiating statewide protest to Octroi Tax implementation in Municipal Corporation limits having population less than 15 Lacs. The City Business associations meet last day to discuss the scenario and formulate its action plan.
On other hand, the JCMC is all set to award its Octroi Tax collection award to a private party with effect from 01st November 2003. The Private parties have offered approximate quote of Rs. 10 Crores a month with contract until March 2004 end.

Court extends Cyber Café owner's PC:
The Court has extended all five-cyber café owners' Police Custody for 15 days. Earlier the Court sent all five for two days PC. All five are booked under Section 67, and the Police have released all café visitors arrested on the day of raid.

Theatre owners withdraw their Strike:
The Maharashtra State Theatre owners have withdrawn their strike following State Government announcing 10% deduction in Entertainment Tax and 1% increase in Service Tax. Other demands accepted includes film display licensing until three years, decision of extending seating capacity on local level, cancellation of approval required for modification in existing setup.
All theatres are starting their normal routine movie display with effect from today, 21st November 2003.

State Transport starts extra buses:
The State Transport Jalgaon depot has started various new buses for controlling ongoing festival rush. Most of the buses started are long route buses and the depot has urged passengers to take advantage of the same.

20th October:
NMU Student Council elections:
The NCP has won both President and Secretary Posts for the NMU Student Council elections conducted on 19th October 2003. Jaihind College Dhule student Dinesh J Patil and Bhushan S Shelke, Dondaicha have won President, Secretary Post elections respectively.

Chalisgaon girls win State Level Softball competition:
Chalisgaon Girls team has won State Level Junior category girls competition at Yavatmal. The team defeated the host Yavatmal team by 11/1.

19th October:
LPG explosion causes two deaths in Parola:
The Mahavir Nagar Parola based Bhandari family faced shock when its three members faced LPG explosion in kitchen. Mrs. Anita Bhandari (Age 30), Jayesh Bhandari (Age 3), Neha Bhandari (Age 5) were admitted to Parola's hospital. Both Ms. Bhandari and Neha died following severe burn and Jayesh is also having around 61% burns and is under critical care.

Industries on strike from 29th October:
All MIDC based Industries are going on indefinite strike from 29th October to protest implementation of Octroi in Jalgaon city with effect from 01st November 2003. The strike well supported by all major Industries association will paralyse city's financial backbone.

State Table Tennis competition begins in Jalgaon:
The 10th State Table Tennis competitions began in Jalgaon on 18th October 2003.

Pune wins Under-17 Cricket competition:
The Pune team has won Under-17 State Level Cricket competition in Jalgaon. The team won the match based on first innings lead on Solapur team. Pune scored 293/9 in first inning replied by 149 all out by Solapur team.

Pachora's Govind Borse selected in National volleyball team:
The National Volleyball team selection committee has selected Pachora based Govind Borse for upcoming National volleyball team. With this he becomes the only Maharashtrian student selected in the team.

18th October:
Police raids Cyber Cafés in Jalgaon City:
The Jalgaon City Police has raided city's five cyber café owners and arrested in all 33 persons including two girls and cyber owners. All cyber owners have been booked under section 67 accusing on charges of showing pornographic pictures to their café visitors.
The Police department has also seized all the computers at these places making it city's largest computer seizure and raid activity. All five arrested have been sent to Two days Police Custody.

BSNL starts CENTRAX facility:
The BSNL has started the group calling facility "CENTRAX" in Jalgaon. With this facility, calling home from office or frequent number has become cheaper for regular users. Charged at Rs. 25/- per month per group phone number, one can call his registered number by dialling last four digits of number once activated in telephone exchange. There will be no local call count for these numbers once registered for CENTRAX.

Change in NMU telephone numbers:
With installation of new telephone exchange, the North Maharashtra University Jalgaon telephone numbers have changed. There are now 11 lines from 2258428 - 2258438 with NMU.

Blackout in city area:
The MSEB continued its line repairs work in city's business hub Navi Peth area causing no power for more than 7 to 8 hours.

17th October:
Changing face of Colleges:
College, the powerhouse of education plays a vital role in student's curriculum and establishing his career. With increasing number of colleges every year, the race to leading has begun throughout making learning a never before enthusiastic experience.
In earlier days, the State Government and UGC played a vital role in granting funds for smooth running of colleges. Most of the Government, Private, but Government approved colleges depended a lot on such funds. From last two years, the education field is changing with Government playing 'Baniya' role in the field. Taking Government grants has no longer remained just paper work, the NAAC committee visiting and allocating ratings to colleges marked first ever control over every private college. The NAAC inspection reminds us of schooling days when District Education Officers used to visit schools for inspection. The committee peer team inspects every minute setup details along with onsite live training campaigns and one to one discussions with students.
The most impressive factors on students part is changing paradigm of setup. Almost every College is now a days having fantastic setup with the best resources available, the key factor lacking behind is proper boosting of these factors from time to time to enhance student productivity. So one shall generally ask a question viz. what is the use of such huge setup. The most dashing step on student's part will be forming a small College level group to interact and represent student issues to management. The group can organise small level seminars of experts in the field to resolve the "Teaching Problem" in colleges. There is adequate setup, management willing to provide the best; the only factor is linking the students with faculty members to get the best of education.

Uday Patil flies to Mauritius:
Mauritius' Florist organisation has selected Dahivad (Taluka: Amalner) based Uday Bhalchandra Patil as Poly-house specialist.

Theatre owners on indefinite strike:
All Maharashtra Theatre owners are going on indefinite strike from today demanding decrease in Entertainment Tax duty levied from State Government.

16th October:
Akashwani Jalgaon celebrates its 27th Annual Day:
The All India Radio Jalgaon station celebrates its 27th Anniversary today. Established on 16th October 1976, the AIR Jalgaon is city's oldest audio media network providing music, daily news and much more with annual budget of over Rs One Crore.

Bhusaval Police recovers 8 Revolvers and 21 cartridges:
The Bhusaval Bazar Peth Police station team has recovered eight revolvers along with 21 cartridges from an unclaimed bag in Nandurbar to Mangrul Peer (Vidarbha) State Transport bus on Bhusaval Bus Stand.

State Oil mill owner's Association calls token strike:
The Oil Mill owner's association has called for statewide a day token strike today to protest the harassments and delay in announcing sampling results by food and drug authority.

Pune defeats Jalgaon in Under-17 Cricket Competition:
The Pune team has defeated Jalgaon in ongoing Under-17 Cricket Competition semi-final match. The Pune team scored 338/8 and sent Jalgaon team back in pavilion just for 134 runs. Getting lead of 204 runs, the Pune team scored 60/3 in second innings and won the match on basis of first inning lead.
In another match Solapur team, defeated Kolhapur and now Pune and Solapur tea will play in the final of State Level Under-17 Cricket competition.

15th October:
Dharangaon's Harun Patel stands first in State Art Masters Examination:
Harun Patel, an arts teacher in Dharangaon's Bambhori village school has secured first rank throughout the State in Arts Master Examination.

Youths drowns in Dharangaon:
Two youths drown in stored water cavity when they went to swim in Bhone Railway Station area in Dharangaon Taluka. Sachin Pralhad Patil (Age 18) and Gajanan Raghunath Thakre (Age: 17), class XI students were drown in on Tuesday evening.

Post Department starts Express parcel service:
After Speed Post Service, the Indian Post Department has initiated Express Parcel Service in Jalgaon city. The Express Parcel service offers parcel up to 35kgs at any destination throughout the World that too at reasonable rates.

BSNL installs new telephone exchange at NMU:
The BSNL has installed a 500-lines OCB RSU telephone exchange in North Maharashtra University campus to facilitate University, Educational Institutions, and Industries around the region.
With this installation, all six digits telephone numbers from Paldhi Telephone exchange in NMU region will change to seven digit telephone numbers in Jalgaon exchange. There is no change in NMU, COET's Jalgaon Telephone numbers.

14th October:
Food Department continues seizures and sampling:
The District food department continued its extensive Oil sampling and seizure process throughout the District. District's business hub Dana Bazar businesspersons' demonstrated strong protest to the up going sampling procedure. The current food sampling is going to cause oil shortage in market soon as there is almost no sale of oil in entire district.
The Food department apart from Oil has begun its process for sampling of Cadbury chocolates and shall soon start seizure of the same following state-level orders.

Sindhi Community "Varsi" festivity from today:
Amar Shahid Sant Kanwarram Trust and Kanwar Nagar Pujya Panchayat are beginning their Varshi festivity 2003 from today. The festivity marks presence of thousands of Sindhi community people from around the world along with a funfair with continuous religious activities.
The three day festivity beginning from 14th October until 17th October begun long back and Jalgaon is the only location where this festivity is celebrated.

State level Under-17 Cricket: Semi-final matches from today:
The Under-17 State Level Cricket competition semi-final matches are beginning today with Jalgaon - Pune and Solapur - Kolhapur teams playing.

13th October:
State Transport starts Inter-State Bus Services:
The Jalgaon State Transport office has started Inter-State Bus Service from various points of Jalgaon District. The Inter-State Bus service includes Jamner - Surat, Chopda - Parel, Raver - Pune, and Burhanpur - Nashik. Please contact ST authority for detailed Timetable of newly started buses.

St. Lawrence students selected in International Karate Championship:
St. Lawrence School students Siddarth Pradeep Patil, Ashutosh Sunil Malvade and Jai Atul Piparia have been selected for International karate Championship from 16th October until 19th October 2003 at Bhutan.

12th October:
Police arrests crooks gang:
The Shani Peth Police Station team has registered three crooks for alleged involvement in looting. The District Police administration has formed a team of Special Police Officers to curb the increasing crime in District and this arrest is a result of such team's night vigilance. The Court has ordered Police custody to these offenders until 14th October 2003.

Jalgaon - Aurangabad Cricket match turns interesting:
The Jalgaon and Aurangabad Cricket Team's ongoing match is turning interesting on second day in Under-17 State Level Cricket Competition played at Jalgaon. At the end of first day, the Aurangabad team scored 136 while Jalgaon team scored 115/8. Jalgaon's Hitesh Patel played a marvellous inning of 68 runs and Mehul Ingle did the damage to Aurangabad team by taking six wickets at just 47 runs.

Edible Oil issue:
The Chalisgaon business community is launching its indefinite strike from today, 12th October 2003 to protest ongoing inquiry by food department. The Food department launched massive campaign to control the adulterated loose oil sales following death of two persons in Malegaon by using this type of oil. The Business community has urged that the seizure by food authority in Chalisgaon have no basis in regards with branded oil sealed by department in many retail shops in Chalisgaon.
The public health risk by using such adulterated oil can only be determined after the results of sampling by Laboratories; the local food authority shall launch public awareness campaign on Local Television media regarding use of such serious health related issue.

Youth drowns in Mehrun Lake:
Manoj Dnyaneshwar Patil (Age 14), a pupil drowned in Mehrun Lake on 10th October evening when he along with his friends went in Mehrun Lake for swimming in evening time. The drowning caused mainly due to him reaching depth in Lake is among series of such evil deaths caused every month or so.

11th October:
Theatre owners on strike from 17th October:
Theatre owners association, Cinematograph Exhibitors Association of India, and Central Circuit Cine Association have jointly decided to go on indefinite strike with effect from 17th October 2003 throughout the Maharashtra State demanding for reduction of Entertainment tax levied on Movie tickets.

10th October:
RBI orders acceptance of Coins at Banks:
The Reserve Bank of India has ordered for acceptance of coins including 5 Paise, 10 Paise, 20 Paise at all Nationalised, Co-operative Banks, Co-operative Societies. This order will benefit common person where there is heavy inflow of coins now a days.

Private Bus - Tanker crash at Nashirabad:
The Private Luxury bus arriving from Bhusaval crashed an oil tanker in front of a petrol pump at Nashirabad village at 1.30pm on Thursday. The crash caused injuries to many of the bus passengers and have are under treatment at civil hospital at Jalgaon and Bhusaval.

No Power in Bhusaval on 11th October:
Following maintenance work of High Capacity Electricity supply, the Bhusaval city will not have power from 09am until 03pm on 11th October 2003.

09th October:
ABVP State Level Convention in Jalgaon:
The All India Students Council (ABVP) Jalgaon is hosting its 38th State Convention in Jalgaon from 28th until 30th November 2003. Around 2500 members from throughout the Maharashtra State shall attend the event at G. S. Ground in city.

Kolhapur beats Jalgaon in Under-17 Cricket competition:
The Kolhapur Cricket team has beaten Jalgaon team in District Cricket association organised Under-17 State Level Super League cricket competition by nine wickets. The Jalgaon team scored 117 in first inning while 138 in second innings. The Kolhapur team scored 161 in first innings while rest 95 runs at loss of just one wicket.

08th October:
Police arrests 21 in Godri Stone Pelting:
The District Police have arrested 21 people including four Ladies in connection with stone pelting in Godri village of Jamner taluka. The arrested includes the key offender charged of abusing a girl.
The District Police is continuously monitoring the situation at Godri and the village is back to its normal daily routine.

Blackouts continue in Jalgaon city:
The Jalgaon city witnessed another major blackout on Tuesday when the State Electricity board failed to supply power following undeclared maintenance and repairs schedule. This remains third major power cut for the city since last week with absolutely no power for more than 9 hours.
In another incidence, the India's largest Telephone service provider BSNL witnessed technical hiccups in their MIDC telephone exchange causing no communication throughout the day.

07th October:
Thievery in Parola:
A group of four armed offenders entered in a house on Chorvad Road in Parola city and looted cash and jewellery worth Rs. 2.25 Lacs on 06th October morning 03am. This is second consecutive robbery after Bhusaval in Jalgaon District in last two days. Parola Police Station is further investigating this case.

Stone Pelting on Police in Godri village:
A mob started stone pelting on Police in Godri village of Jamner Taluka following delay on part of penalising an offender on charges of abusing a girl. The stone pelting resulted in injuries to four Police Constables from Pahur Police Station arriving for Case Inquiry.
The Pahur Police Station and Jamner Police Station team along with Rapid Action force arrived in the village to take charge of city but the mob continued their stone pelting on these teams as well. The severe level of stone pelting has caused injuries to many Policemen including RAF Police.
The Chalisgaon Police station team took over the final charge of the situation and made immediate arrest of offender. The Police have made public announcements for the same and have urged people to maintain Law and Order situation. District Police Superintendent along with top level Police officials have reached the site and are in full control of the situation. The Police have filed riot charges on village people for stone pelting on Police.

JCMC Permanent Committee Elections:
The Jalgaon City Municipal Corporation has received 19 applications for permanent committee membership while 13 applications for accepted Corporator. There are 16 posts of permanent committee members in JCMC and the publicly elected Corporators poll for the election.
The Polling is on 11th October 2003 and results will be available by late night.

Industry License Renewal Notice:
The Deputy Directorate of Industrial Safety and hygiene has urged for renewal of Licenses for year 2004 under Industries Act until 31st October 2003. For more details, contact the above office at Third Floor, B J Market or call 2229689.

MJ wins Inter-College Ball Badminton Competition:
The MJ College Boys team and Kotecha College Girls team have won the Inter-college Ball Badminton competition conducted in Jalgaon. The MJ College team defeated Nutan Maratha College boys.

06th October:

Magician Sumeet on Star Plus: Jalgaon's mini Magician Sumeet Madanlal Chhajer is performing his magic show on Start Plus's talent search serial "Kuch Kar Dikhana Hai" on 10th October 2003. His show will include a Car Levitation, which remains one of the master arts of few of magicians around the world. Before this show, he has performed many of such shows at various Social events and other programmes. At just 21, he loves magic, performs his shows just as his hobby, and has an astonishing magical hand. EJalgaon Team wishes him the best of future in his Career.

"I Love Jalgaon" crackers lighten the 'Dasra festivity':
The Jalgaon city Mayor along with Deputy Mayor, JCMC Administrator, and Police Chief fired in Ravana effigy on the eve of Dasra festivity. The major attraction of festivity remained Crackers displaying "I Love Jalgaon" on blasting the Ravana effigy.

Blackouts in Jalgaon city:
The Jalgaon city market area witnessed blackout for more than five hours on Sunday evening following breaking of power supplying connection cable in Navi Peth area. Earlier the city witnessed major blackout on whole Friday due to major service line repairs and faults at MIDC Sub-Station.

Theft in Bhusaval:
A group of seven to eight armed crooks entered in Bhusaval city's Nagin park bungalow and looted an approximate amount of Rs. 1.75 Lacs in form of Cash and Jewellery on 05th October morning 2 to 3am period. The crooks entered the bungalow by beating the security guard and then blocking his mouth with a piece of cotton and tying him with ropes. On opposing the offenders, the group tied the owner Mr. Agrawal with ropes and blocked his mouth too.
The Bhusaval Bazar Peth Police Station is investigating further in this case.

05th October:
The Education field scenario:
With increasing awareness amongst students, education holds utmost significant role in development of youth's personality. The Jalgaon District has witnessed a revolutionary change in Education aspects in last year. Starting up of many new Engineering, Science, and Computer Courses Colleges has changed the way Colleges handled before. Every college has to struggle to fill in their intake and even after taking massive campaigning in media, an average of 20% seats remains vacant.
Considering the current factors, Colleges need to change the way they handle their students. Computers and Intranet (not internet) can help them achieve this goal with ease and at lowest expenditure too. A student enters in a college with his admission process, he/ she has to spend more than two hours in going through current manual admission process. If Colleges setup guidance centre providing the entire admission process on a single mouse click, it shall definite ease the headache of both College and student. It will not only be a low cost affair for college but also will definitely boost student moral. The Colleges can provide various admission forms along with information regarding courses conducted at the terminal.
Another major revolution needed is fixing student's attitude and giving a fine touch to student's personality. If colleges can setup a virtual server with intranet in their campus, they can conduct many online interactive sessions to do so. The same setup can also be utilised to teach students and faculty members with various technical subjects as well.
The perfect intranet usage remains the next step in revolutionising the training industry. It shall not only reduce the cost of communicated with their customers (students) but will also offer the institution with ready data collection that can be used in future. Today's Training industry has adequate machine setup but finds hard to get skilled resources and 95's scenario remained exactly contrary where skilled resources always found lack of high cost machinery to experiment on.

04th October:
'Vijayadashmi', the festivity of victory of Good over evil:
The entire country celebrates Vijayadashmi festival today on the eve of victory of Good over evil. The rejoicing marks a good upcoming year for the people of Jalgaon. The Jalgaon District witnessed many positive happenings throughout the year including the wonderful monsoon raining and formation of Jalgaon City Municipal Corporation.
On business front, the district remained unvoiced and failed to attract newer investments and growth. The existing businesses finds hard to survive due to tough competition from neighbouring competing districts and increasing bad debts. The branded trend formed its footprints in the region with many national brands opening up their exclusive retail outlets. Another critical and dangerously spreading factor is no-maintenance of shopping complexes. Most of city businesses are setup in City Municipal Corporation owned complexes. The corporation has failed to provide basic business necessities and has not concentrated at all on issues relating to facilities required. Even on failing in this part, the newly formed Corporation is thinking of reviewing Shop Taxes due to its inability of repaying its loans. At this stage, an average shopping complex shop owner pays a total tax of around Rs. 8000 per annum. Against this taxation, the shop owners do not find adequate facilities and security setup. Business can progress only when its home ground is fine, these council shop owners remains so puzzled in shop related issues that they find hard to develop their activities and services.
On agricultural front, the district is all set to break its previous crop records with over 140% monsoon raining. The District farmers won various national level recognitions for their efforts in field of Banana and other productions.
No newer industries setup at District meant fewer job opportunities for the awaiting just educated youth. Majority of students from every stream found harsh results for lucrative job search. Another key factor for unemployment remains level and quality of students generated from our existing education system. The existing education system does not evolve all-round personality creating huge gap in requirements and studies. There are still hundreds of thousands of jobs in market, but the employers find lack of skill factor for their requirements. If the things continue this way, we will soon see enormous force of unemployed youths all around us. The unemployment and wide exposure to visual media by means of Television sets may cause these force to turn in criminal world and may raise criminal incidences. What is required is fine touch to students finishing their education in Colleges. Colleges should setup their Student Entrepreneurship Council in association with leading industry and should enact as a basis to provide practical market training at least month training. This education will not only help student earn his bread but will also help companies to get good and fine-touched skills.
So let us all join hands together and lead to a prosperous, peaceful and mutually beneficial and inspiring Jalgaon.

Under-17 State Level Cricket Competition in Jalgaon:
The Jalgaon District Cricket Council is hosting Under-17 State Level Cricket Competition in Jalgaon from 07th October until 18th October 2003. There will be in all 12 matches of two-day, two semi final matches, and final match. The Jalgaon district has honour of organising first ever Under-17 state level cricket competition.

03rd October:
Cinema Theatres on Strike:
The entire Maharashtra State Cinema Theatre owner are going on indefinite strike with effect from 16th October 2003 following State Government's no-consideration to their demands for decreasing Entertainment Tax and other options.

02nd October:
We offer our tributes to father of our Nation, Mahatma Gandhi on his 134th Anniversary and Lal Bahadur Shastri. Let us all together join hands to form a new India with Peace, Non-violence, and prosperity all around.

01st October:
Tension eases in Uchanda:
The 28th September stone pelting issue raising tension in MuktaiNagar taluka's Uchanda village eased on Tuesday with Police continuously monitoring the situation. Two companies of State Reserve Police along with Ladies Constables are guarding the entire village.

Need Home Loan, call now:
After strong reforms in the Banking sector, the private Banks are all set to move in to the next generation financing Business "Home Loans." Leading National level Private Banks has begun their massive campaign to promote Home Loan concept in the region by tying up with Local builders. Along with offering Home Loans for Jalgaon, they are also offering for Loans at Pune, Nashik considering the huge Leva Community base in Pune. Apart from offering Customer-friendly services, these Banks are combining Lucky Draws, Low Interest Per annum and many more features. The Nationalised Banks are also following the race with many offerings and lower interest rates.
Competition always benefits Customers and therefore the current Home Loans scenario is at its superior beneficial level to customers. Therefore, if you are willing for a Home Loan or plan to get finance for buying a new Home, just make a call to any of these Banks, you will definitely enjoy the hospitality and good offerings. Remember to go through complete process of repayment before making final decision.

Finance Minister in Jalgaon:
The Central Finance minister is visiting Jalgaon today. He is Chief Guest for Lokmat Newspaper's Khandesh Edition Silver Jubilee function in Jalgaon. Many other dignitaries including State Level Ministers and Industrialist are also arriving for the function.

Manudevi festivity on 03rd October:
The Khandesh Goddess Manudevi festivity is on 03rd October (Ashtami) on the eve of Navratri Festival. Celebrated five times in the year, the Manudevi festivity remains key attraction for region's people.
The Temple located in Satpuda hills is ancient time "Hemand Panthi" temple and has beautiful natural surrounding including 125 feet high falling waterfall.