30th September:
Nationwide Strike evokes mixed response:
The All India level strike called on Thursday evoked mixed response in the district. All Government institutions including Nationalised Banks, Income Tax and other Central Government establishments remained closed. The Banking suffered losses worth Crores with SBI - The Clearing Agent, employees participating in the strike.

MSEB's Ring Road Sub-divisional unit ready: Inauguration tomorrow:
The State owned Electricity Distribution Company's new sub-division at Ring road is ready and will be inaugurated on 01st October. The Sub-division will supply electricity to central City, Jilha Peth, Ring Road, Shiv Colony, Ganesh Colony, Pratap Nagar, Shahu Nagar, Pimprala Road, and Akashwani area.
The unit developed has 5000kva approved electricity supply capacity and will soon get extension based on requirements.

Village Cleanliness Drive from 02nd October:
The State Authorities are beginning Village Cleanliness Drive from 02nd October 2005 in Jalgaon District on eve of Gandhi Jayanti. There are over 1100 village Panchayat participating in the State's one of mega social event to promote cleanliness and hygiene facilities in the State. The Drive considers various parameters of cleanliness in a village that includes waste management, toilets, use of non-conventional energy resources, spreading family planning awareness, hygiene and health education, proper planning for drinking water supply.
The State Government panel evaluates the cleanliness parameters followed by the Village administrators during 01st November until 30th November and announce their awards thereafter.

29th September:
Twist in Corporation Politics:
The Jalgaon City Municipal Corporation politics witnessed a new turn when one of BJP candidate was elected in Accepted Candidates Election. The candidate elected received two votes from NCP members generating a huge mess in NCP leadership. The NCP leadership took resignations of all of its members to trace the confidence issue. The whole issue is going to cause a U-Turn in City's politics in coming days.
The Corporation Standing committee is meeting today to finalise various topics on agenda and Committee Chairman election is on 04th October.

Nationwide strike of Government employees today:
All Railways, Airport, Nationalised Banks, Insurance, District Council employees, Teachers Association, Post Employees, Telecom Employees, Petroleum sector employees are going on a day token strike to protest Government's policies and get right to Strike, removal of bonus cap, establishment of sixth pay commission, cancelling privatisation of PSU, and cancel amendments of Workers Act.
The most hitting sector is Banking with two days continue holiday from today i.e. 29th September as strike and 30th September as Half-yearly closing added with Saturday as half day followed by Sunday.

Bhusawal Bye-elections:
The EC authorities are conducting a bye-election of ward 4C on 23rd October 2005. The nomination filling process begins today and ends on 06th October followed by scrutiny on 07th October and last date of withdrawing nominations is 13th October.

28th September:
District's four teachers to be honoured by Navneet:
The Navneet Publications group is honouring 133 Outstanding Teachers from National and State Level that includes four from Jalgaon District. It includes Amalner Taluka's National Award winner Gambhir Arjun Chaudhari (Vavde), Prabhakar Deoram Mahajan (Vikhran, Erandol), State Award winner Raghunath Suklal Mali (Chogaon - Lasur, Chopda), and Bachpai Chaturbhuj Eknath (Dharangaon).
The Award Ceremony is on 01st October in Pune to honour these scholars performing outstanding activities in the field of education.

Corporation to get new Commissioner:
The Jalgaon City Municipal Corporation's existing Commissioner Mr. G. H. Ghate is retiring this 30th September. He joined Corporation Commissioner Role before 8 months and conducted various major activities in Corporation. "Corporation's weak financial status, various committees inquiring in to earlier Council's financials added with Octroi Tax Court matters caused hard times on development decision front" added commissioner on his press meeting on grounds of retirement.
He joined Jalgaon on 28th January 2005 after his Akola Corporation's Commissioner Role. The newly formed Jalgaon Corporation was under terrible financial status and managing Development and finances was one of toughest balance factor.
Corporation's major earning 'Octroi Tax' tumbled down to Court matter with city's business community opposing the tax enforcement. No State aid added with Court hearings remained harsh experience for him. The Corporation authorities even find it harder to pay salaries to their employees, routine administration expenses, and water supply issues. The State Government is yet to announce new Commissioner Appointment for Jalgaon city.
Meanwhile the Corporation Standing committee has selected NCP Candidate as acting Chairman of standing committee on grounds of existing Chairman resigning on his personal grounds. The Corporation General Meeting on 29th September will elect new Chairman for standing committee.

Call for nomination to State Social reforms Award:
The Maharashtra State Government Social Justice Department is calling for St. Ravidas Award for outstanding social reformers in State. Nomination candidates should be above 50 years of age (40 for women). Nomination forms should be in duplicate submitted to District Social Welfare Officer Jalgaon.

Leva Patidar Community Youth Introduction Meet:
The Leva Community Youth Association is hosting a Leva Community Youth Introduction meet on 27th November 2005. Last date of filling forms is 05th November. The Meet is expected to have presence of around 3000 Youth from community and is in Modern Girls High School campus. Please contact organisation heads on 0257-2223357, 0257-2229333 for more details thereof.

Pratik Patil to represent Maharashtra Team in National Chess Competition:
Jalgaon's Pratik Patil is representing Maharashtra Team in Under-11 National Chess competition being played at Nagpur from 24th until 30th September 2005. He qualified for this by winning qualifying rounds held at Parbhani.

23rd September:
Monsoon raining continues in full pace:
The whole Khandesh region continues to witness best of monsoon. The region witnessed showers throughout the day on Thursday resulting in significant increase in Girana dam storage. The Authorities opened up seven gates of this dam and released 47,000 cusecs of water in the Girana River. The District Authorities have sent alert to people living on the banks of river. The continued raining is delaying many trains arriving from Mumbai.

DM enforces Section 37(1) and 37(3) in Jalgaon:
The Jalgaon District Magistrate has enforced Section 37(1) and 37(3) of Bombay Police Act, 1951 to maintain Law and Order Situation in the District. The enforcement considered as routine practice for SSC Exam 2005 is in force from 27th September until 10th October 2005 along with IPC 1976 Section 144(1) and 144(2) to control the exams.

Jalgaon District planning and Development committee (DPDC) meets today:
The District planning and development committee is meeting today to review various development activities in the district. The District Parental care Minister will chair the meeting being taken after 2 years span. The District Authorities received Rs. 1 Crore aid from State last evening.

District Electoral roll review:
The EC ordered Electoral list review in Jalgaon District has resulted in deletion of 32,958 names found incorrect. The Authorities published this review list on 08th September. The list marks addition of around 3000 voters in district with total eligible voters amounting to 2,521,471 as compared to 2,518,585 in last election.

21st September:
Girana dam's gates opened:
The Girana dam authorities have opened up its few gates to control increasing water pressure in the dam. The opening of dam gates has resulted in flooding in the Girana River. The whole region is witnessing good raining since last fortnight and has crossed 65% raining mark.

National Level Language Congress Council in Amalner:
The Pratap College is hosting two-days National Level Language Congress in Amalner city on 23rd and 24th September 2005. The congress emphasises and stresses on spreading Hindi and Marathi and Global Language and would cover wide discussions on this topic. The congress has around 70 participants for Paper Presentation in respective areas and will have presence of around 300+. Please contact College authorities for more details and information thereof.

Yoga Competitions in Jalgaon on 22nd and 23rd September:
The District Sports Council, Jalgaon Corporation, and Jalgaon District Yoga Association are jointly hosting District level Yoga competition in Jalgaon on 22nd and 23rd September in St. Joseph School campus. The competition includes under-14 School category, Under-17 Boys and Girls, and Under-19 College youth categories. Please contact 98236-08888 for more details of the competition.

• District level Open category Chess competition on 18th and 19th September
• Anant Chaturdashi festivity ends peacefully: 1202 Mandals perform 'Visarjan'

17th September:
Goodbye Ganesha:
The Lord of happiness and prosperity "Ganesha" is moving away today spreading his blessings all around. The Ganesha Chaturthi this year witnessed cheer and devotee crowd in whole week. The Ganesha also brought up the much expected Monsoon raining with arrival.
The District authorities have made adequate arrangements for Anant Chaturdashi today. City's Mehrun Lake, Nimkhedi have various security arrangements. The festivity of Chaturdashi begins 12pm from Corporation's building area and pass through Tower Chowk, Dadhichi Chowk, Rath Chowk, RL Chowk, Subhash Chowk, Athawade Bazar, Sindhi Colony, Shirsoli, and finally to Mehrun. There are 10 lifeguards for escaping from emergency and the water level is 15 feet.

SSC & HSC September-October 2005 Exam:
The District authorities have made up all arrangements for smooth conducting the SSC and HSC Exam 2005 beginning from 27th September. There are 8516 students appearing in HSC Exam while 10836 students for SSC Exam. There are 17 centres for SSC while 14 centre for HSC Exam. Out of 17 centres for HSC, four centres are marked as 'Sensitive' centres for HSC while 3 out of 14 for HSC are sensitive centres.

Inter-School Kho-Kho Competition:
The Rotary Club Jalgaon Midtown is hosting Sub-Junior Under-14 age group Inter-School Jalgaon city and Taluka Level Kho-Kho competition on 21st and 22nd September 2005. Please contact respective authorities for more details thereof.

16th September:
Meditation - Pathway to Glory:
(Inspired by Acharya Mahapragya's Meditation Theory)
To be ambitious is first right step towards success in life and to follow the divinely meditation path is catalyst to ambition fulfilling. Meditation heals our body elements and generates energy to shine our inner soul. The meditation rightly followed and routinely adopted yields stability and growth to our soul. Meditation is 'Antibody' of human soul and antibodies once adopted alike human body system protects us from all kinds of viral infections, germs, and attacks.
If somebody is doing meditation since years and even could not get inner boost in his/ her soul, means that the meditation pathway adopted is going wrong somewhere. Meditation followed in exact specified manner is the best practice. Aum, Rhim, Arham, and Namah are four significant keywords in meditation. Each of these words has significance in terms of our soul and shall be spoken on four energy points of our soul. The fore point of nose is our Life Point. Centre point of both eyes conjoint is our vision centre and just above this is our Energy centre. Our skull middle is our knowledge centre.
The meditation process shall begin with Aum pronounced on our Life point followed by Rhim spoken on our vision point, Arham meditated on energy point, and Namah meditated on our knowledge centre. Each of these words should be meditated for 5 seconds at their respective points at least 10 times a day with full mind concentrated on the activity. This meditation practice taken in daily routine keeps us away from all kind of ill fates, reduces tension, and gives all different enjoyment. This experiment implied by those facing mental issues with at least 1000 times repeating gives miraculous improvement.
So get set ready, be ambitious and embark your ambitions with the powerful divine meditation pathway.

Jalgaon City Municipal Corporation Standing Committee Election today:
The Corporation Standing committee is undergoing Election process today to fill in eight vacant posts. There are in all 12 candidates in fray that include six NCP candidates, five BJP candidates, and a Shivsena candidate.

• Cotton crops yield begin in District: Rs. 1800-2000 rates availed by cotton procurers

14th September:
Constituency formation review to change political equations:
Following the guidelines of Delimitation of Constituencies Act, the EC authorities are busy in giving a final form to Jalgaon District's constituencies. The Raver and Parola constituency will be no more while Jalgaon city will have two different constituencies, the Bhusawal and Chopda could go to reserved category candidates.
The merging or Raver and Parola taluka would reduce total constituencies to 11 that could possibly lead to new power equations in the district. The Jalgaon Corporation boundary would become one constituency while the second one would consist of Jalgaon Taluka and rural area of Dharangaon Taluka.
Yaval constituency would have Yaval Revenue zone, Yaval city, Bhalod region, Faijpur Council, Raver Tahsil, Khiroda, and Khanapur revenue zone.
Chopda: Whole Chopda Taluka, Kingaon, Sakli (Yaval), revenue zone
Erandol: Whole Erandol Taluka, Chorwad, Parola revenue zone, Tamaswadi zone, Parola Council, and Amadgaon (Bhadgaon)
Amalner: Whole Amalner Taluka, Bahadarpur (Parola), Shelave revenue zone
Chalisgaon: Whole Chalisgaon Taluka
Pachora: Whole Pachora taluka excluding Kurhad revenue zone, Kolgaon (Bhadgaon), Bhadgaon and Gondgaon revenue zones
Jamner: Whole Jamner Taluka, Kurhad (Pachora) revenue zone
MuktaiNagar: whole MuktaiNagar and Bodwad Taluka, Savda (Raver), Khirdi revenue zone, Savda Council
The EC Authorities will finalise the complete State constituency restructure in meeting to at Delhi on 14th October.

Corporation authorities draw revenue plans:
The Jalgaon City Municipal Corporation drown in loans of Crores of rupees has come up with new ideas of revenue generations. The plan includes speeding up the House Tax collection process, increasing advertisement revenue, giving vacant shops on rental basis etc. The Corporation's major finance resource i.e. Octroi Tax Collection has halted following Court hearing pending at Aurangabad High Court.
Amidst tight measures includes tightening house tax collection, auctioning shops of those who have not taken up their shops in earlier auctions. The Corporation has huge tax burden of over 100 Crores with Intrest burden increasing hefty way. The State Appointed authorities are trying the best of revenue generation for corporation. However, the Loan repayment added with low revenue factor has paralysed development activities as expected in Corporations.

13th September:
Bhadgaon, Bodwad, Shendurni soon to have 'Municipal Council':
The State Government as an initiative to convert large scale Panchayats to Municipal Council has announced Jalgaon District's Bhadgaon, Bodwad, and Shendurni Panchayat as Municipal Council. These three Councils are amongst total 100 Panchayat converted to Municipal Council. The State Government is soon issuing an Ordinance to effect this order. These three Panchayat undergone Elections a fortnight before and are currently in process of election of Panchayat Head and Deputy.

Monsoon bonanza: Rainfall Report:
Many of taluka in district continue to witness good raining since last week. The raining has reduced tanker supply count and has significantly added to dam water level in many dams. Jalgaon's 12 taluka have crossed 50% raining mark as per 12th September statistics from meteorological department that includes Jalgaon (57.54%), Jamner (74.19%), Erandol (65.26%), Bhusawal (64.59%), Bodwad (54.95%), Yaval (68.84%), Raver (53.2%), MuktaiNagar (57.36%), Parola (70.62%), Pachora (63%), and Bhadgaon with 73.87% raining records.
The Hatnur dam is flowing with 84% water storage, Girana dam has 96%, Manyad has 20%, Bori has 20%, Bhokarbari has 13.94%, Suki has 67.90%, Abhora has 59.57%, Agnavati has 29.88%, Hivra has 23.89%, and Mangrul dam has 74.68% water storage. Jalgaon District now has 37 villages on tanker water supply of which nine are from Chalisgaon, 16 from Parola, 2 from Jamner, 3 from Jalgaon, 2 from Parola, and 5 from Amalner.

Co-operative societies in Jalgaon District:
The Co-operative Movement is backbone of financial world in district. The district has over 700 co-operative societies running on fixed deposits, consumer loans, and allied services. The Jalgaon city alone has over 100 societies actively engaged in offering consumer services. The Bhusawal city is runner up in the field with 88 co-operative societies running and 15 under process.
All these societies run on fixed deposits at an interest rate of 1% - 2% greater than that of co-operative banks and nationalised banks along with gifts like silver coins, gold rings etc. These societies also offer consumer loans at a higher intrest rates along with processing fees equal to around 2-3% of loan amount. Another lucrative area of income was that of offering Demand drafts at lower commission rates. These societies open up a Bank account with any of Any-branch banking banks like HDFC, UTI, and ICICI, take their At-par chequebooks, and keep a balance level. On receipt of money from customers for DD, they deposit this money in their account and thus earn the commission. What is most interesting here is these societies work 8am to 8pm, offers many of routine services on phone and word of mouth as most of the society Chairman are directly or indirectly related to each other.
The State Government Co-operative affairs department has recently banned initiating of new societies considering increasing number of financial irregularities observed. The district observed many of large-scale societies falling down due to such financial mismanaging and has tough challenging time as Government and RBI are tightening their belts to cover all loopholes in Consumer banking. The Co-operative Banks are first targets for Nationalised Banks with Government planning to take over these ill-financial status banks.