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RAIGAD
OBSERVER
Page No.
2 November 1 - 15, 2011 Website : www.raigadobserver.com
Editorial
Facelift for Tourist
Destinations
The long Diwali holiday week witnessed quite a
rush to tourist destinations from Navi Mumbai
and surrounding regions. But the facilities for
tourists in tourist destinations in Raigad
district call for serious attention. Tourism is no more an
elite indulgence alone. Weekend tourism is the order of
the day and a big infrastructure facelift is needed, in the
form of information kiosks, road, water and air
connectivity, lodging and boarding amenities for all
income groups, play parks, sight seeing locations, etc.
CIDCO Ltd. and MTDC has established another
corporation Maha Tourism Corporation, only to utilize
the Rs.600 crores lying with CIDCO. Instead of aiming
at developing tourism infrastructure the new corporation
apparently is keen on promoting existing private facilities
in the tourist destinations, by arranging hotel and room
bookings of private parties.
With MTDC responsible for promoting and developing
tourism in the state, the establishment of a parallel
corporation appeared mysterious ; however the agenda
of booking rooms of private establishments as a
government activity defeats the very objective of
developing tourist destinations, that the new corporation
was established for.
It is just like the mayor of Navi Mumbai calling FDA
officials to conduct surprise raids on sweatmeat
establishments on the eve of Diwali, when 4 full time
FDA officials are appointed by the State only for Navi
Mumbai to undertake the same task. The mayor got his
publicity, the citizens got no respite as no major culprit
was caught and the FDA officials were shown in bad light
as incapable of doing their regular duty.
With so many historical, pilgrimage, adventure,
scenic and beach locations in Raigad district, the tourism
department in the district led by the district collector
and zilla parishad president need to gird up their loins
and equip these destinations to cope with the prospective
mad rush, that the rapid urbanization of the region will
entail.
This will not only be good economics for the district,
in terms of employment and revenue generation, but
also for the State and national economy.
Mr. Balaram Patil
: Secretary :
Peasants & Workers Party
Raigad District
: Chairman :
Education, Sports & Health commitee
Raigad Zilla Parishad
Seasons Festive
Greetings from
Dagdu Gaikwad
being felicitated,
on being
nominated Special
Executive Officer, by
Raigad district
Congress vice
president G.R.Patil,
flanked by legislator
Prashant Thakur,
C.C.Bhagat,
Darshana Bhoir,
Charushila Gharat
and others.
Photo -Laxman Thakur.
M ahendra Gharat addressing the ONGC workers participating in the 3-days token hunger
protest organized by Petroleum Employees Union against ONGC management for not implementing
Court orders in favour of the workers.
Kabaddi Tournament
(from page 1)
Panvel: Legislator and president
of Shri Ramshet Thakur
Samajik Vikas Mandal, Prashant
Thakur announced the organiza-
tion of the Rajiv Gandhi Gold Cup
2011 national level Kabaddi tournament,
from October 30 to November
2 at C.K.T. College,
Khanda colony, New Panvel.
The prestigious tournament
carries a cash award of
1,51,000/- each to the champion
men and women’s team and
81,000/- to the champion team
in the district. The runner-up prize
amount is 1,00,000/- each and
51,000/- respectively. Cash
awards for 3rd and 4th places are
41,000/- each and 21,000/for
the district winners. Best
Legislator and president of Shri Ramshet Thakur Samajik Vikas
Mandal, Prashant Thakur with Sharad Kadam and S.M.Deshmukh
announcing the Rajiv Gandhi Gold Cup National level Kabaddi
tournament. Photo – Haresh Sathe.
player of the series in the men
and women category will be
awarde 25,000/- each and
7000/- at the district level. Best
raider will each win 15,000/and
5000/- at the district level.
Further a cash award of 2000/
- will be given on all days of the
tournament to the best player of
the day.
16 top men and women teams
from all over India will compete
for the coveted title and 8 teams
each from the district will contest
for the district title, informed
Prashant Thakur. He added that
the prestigious title in the
memory of our late prime minister
shri Rajiv Gandhi is in keeping
with the youthful prime
minister’s emphasis on youth
power and skills.
The Mandal is committed to
groom prospective Olympians to
win Olympic glory for the country.
The Mandal organizes the
very popular Malhar Mahotsav
to promote sports and cultural
activities among the talented
sportspersons and artistes in
Panvel. Some of the deserving
awardees in this festival are
given educational, sports and
cultural scholarship and adequate
facilities to pursue their
skills and abilities, to excel in the
competitive world of sports and
academics.
Sharad Kadam, a well known
national Kabaddi coach is the organizing
secretary of the tournament,
to be held under the auspices
of Amateur Kabaddi Federation
of India, Maharashtra
State Kabaddi Association and
Raigad District Kabaddi Association.