Mercury marks upward moves again:
Sizzling hot summer is gripping once again with mercury rising sharply in last few days. Bhusawal city yesterday recorded 45 degrees on scale marking unrest in routine life. Jalgaon city recorded 43.7 degrees maximum temperature. Neighboring Yaval recorded 48 degrees wherein Nepa Nagar in MP had 45 degrees.

Jalgaon city to get Waghur dam down scheme water from next week:
Jalgaon city Municipal Corporation area will receive Waghur dam down scheme water for drinking purposes from next week. Scheme was inaugurated and made public yesterday and took almost 6months time to complete. This scheme would avail 14MLD water for use. Corporation area is currently getting Waghur dam normal storage level water and it will sustain till next week. Jalgaon city is likely to get every fourth day supplies in June to have safer approach in water saving.

District Kharip crop review meeting:
Jalgaon district administration conducted Kharip crop preparations review meet yesterday. Meet had participation of district’s all public representatives and government officials involved. District has 7.78Lakh hectares under Kharip cultivation and this includes cotton as biggest crop with 4.65Lakh hectare land under cultivation followed by Jwar, Bazra, sweet corn with 1.61Lakh hectares, sugarcane with 1Lakh hectares cultivation and rest. District banks have availed 563 Crores crop loan by now.

• Gold continues downward trend – closes at Rs. 27,000 per 10gms
• Meeting on LBT today with State CM – likely to get announcements to resolve this
• District swimming team selection from today for State competition at Pune – includes under junior and sub-junior category matches
• Police recruitment drive – 461 candidates turn eligible

Jalgaon airport likely to witness commercial flights from June-end:
Pune based Silver jubilee travels officials visited Jalgaon airport yesterday as second review round of its planned commercial flights from Jalgaon. It has submitted proposal to AAI for starting up of smaller airplanes based services for Mumbai and Pune first and has shown readiness of operation from June-end. Jalgaon airport is ready since last year and awaits commercial operations to facilitate growth of entire Khandesh.

Chahardi based Vandana Badge wins 6.40Lakhs in Marathi Crorepati contest:
Chahardi (Chopda) based Vandana Badge has won 6.40Lakhs prize money in E-TV Marathi organised ‘कॊण हॊईल मराठी करॊडपती’ contest. She was selected via auditions at Aurangabad. Show host is Marathi Actor Sachin Khedekar and she gave 12 correct answers to win the prize money.

State EC announces removal of election cards not having photo identity:
Maharashtra State Election commission has announced removal of voters name from electoral roll having not taken photo identity based cards. District administrations has initiated special drives to collect photos of voters to avail photo identity based cards and has urged citizens not having photo identity on cards to visit nearest polling booth office. Special drive is from 21st to 24th May from 8am to 4pm at respective polling booth. It has also urged existing voters to verify their photo identity on State EC website.

NMU initiates digital paper delivery system:
North Maharashtra University Jalgaon examinations department has started online delivery of examination question papers to enhance secured conduct of exams. This year’s pilot experiment of digital delivery is applied on engineering and pharmacy exams and NMU examination department aims at introducing this delivery system for all of its exams conducted.

• State and traders tussle on LBT levy intense further – State yet to announce further policy
• NMU announces time table for second and third year graduation practical examination – please refer college for details
• Deep Nagar BTPS initiates 200MW electricity generation from fifth unit – to enhance generation up to 500MW
• MPSC exam today – Jalgaon district’s 9,456 aspirants to appear in the exam
• Paresh Badgujar wins gold in State air weapon shooting competition at Pune

Citizens and taxes – a deeper purview:
Taxes are part of social life and backbone of every country’s growth. Liberalisation led to tax reforms and top-brass official and top Leaders willingness to simplify taxes for healthy revenue and eased life. It has been now almost two decades India ushered in growth arena and results of efforts are all set to come. Last few years have marked devastating results of hard efforts carried for two decades and this aspect has raised panic in growth. The American growth pattern being followed does not see background discipline and need of simplicity desired is moving away.
Government processes automated in last decades have rather inflated and made life complex and paper-loaded wherein they should have turned simpler and cost reducing. Government agencies like Railways is openly charging premium for availing automation in service wherein it should have reduced or rather equalised human-involved operation like cost. Reducing and simplifying multiple taxes and its backend processes are rather going opposites. Governments levying newer taxes are failing to simplify life and are smarter way projecting trade community to be evader and leaders to be social servants even knowing fact that reveals so many frauds moving out large sum from government hands.
Local Body Tax (LBT) is one such new pain being injected in society by government machinery. State Governments rather optimising its internal district level funding is purposefully throwing its duty on citizens in name of local governance need of funds. Jalgaon has been first victim of this tax levy replacing Octroi tax and has drastically suffered revenue losses in trade following risen cost and added paper work. State government in spite of having earned more than targeted revenue from VAT rise from 4% to 5% two years ago has failed to keep its promises of removal of Octroi and non-levy of newer taxes. Taxing is paining traders and deducing their competency with other States.

Jalgaon city Municipal Corporation’s new Commissioner takes charge:
Satana (Nashik) native and year 1992 agricultural graduate and literary passionate Sanjay Kapadnis took charge as Jalgaon city municipal Corporation’s sixth fulltime commissioner yesterday. He was earlier CEO of Buldhana district council. He aims to have more transparent and speedy administration.

State Exam Council Scholarship result announced:
Maharashtra State exam council Pune conducted pre-secondary and secondary scholarship exam result was announced yesterday. This exam’s ICSE and CBSE pattern pre-secondary section merit list of top-50 has Jalgaon city’s 12 students. St. Joseph students Rameya Prashant Deshmukh, Himanshu Shivaji Sadulwad and Darshan Sudhir Kamble have topped in chart with 282 out of 300marks each.

Gold dips down by Rs. 300 per 10gms:
Gold and silver witnessed sharp decline yesterday with gold marking Rs. 300 per 10gms reduction closing at Rs. 27,500 wherein silver closed at Rs. 47,000 per kilogram.

• MHT-CET exam: District’s 9,444 students appear from 26 centers