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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010
TIMES CITY
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Made in China, sprayed in the city
Your innerwear
Pics: Shreya Bhandary
may be behind
Shreya Bhandary | TNN
Tankers to milk
A
ll of 10, he could bare-
ly strap on the fluores- road cave-ins
cent green two-cylinder
bag to his shoulders and han- Sukhada Tatke | TNN people also don’t throw
dle the huge attached jet at the
water demand
things carelessly,’’ said ad-
same time. But shopping for Mumbai: Beware of what ditional municipal com-
pichkaris at Crawford Mar- TIMES NEWS NETWORK political pressure to provide you flush down the toilet, missioner R A Rajeev. “In
ket, where he was trying out more than the available quo- even your innerwear. It may fact, in 2006 during the mon-
his Holi weapon for the year, Mumbai: About 300-odd pri- ta of water on the festive day. become the indirect cause for soon, I stood at a drainage
Madhav was oblivious to his vate water suppliers in the Last year, the corporation a road to cave in. outfall near Haji Ali and
mother’s protests that the city are likely to have a field made arrangements for ad- The BMC, in the midst of found that at the end of two
pichkari was too expensive, day for Holi festivities after ditional water to citizens for all the criticism for the fre- hours trousers, sarees and
or that he wouldn’t be able to the BMC announced that it Holi festivites and rain dance. quent road cave-ins (the innerwear came out,’’ he
carry it when filled to its three- would restrict supply of mu- This time, as it is encour- most recent one being the added. The BMC will devise
litre capacity. nicipal tankers to residential aging and promoting water one at Kalachowkie on Mon- programmes to educate
With the festival of colours
WATERY WEAPONS: Chinese-made pichkaris (left) are a hot favourite compared to Indian ones
societies and buildings. conservation, there is little day), has found an unlikely people about the problem.
approaching, kids like Mad- Owners are likely to jack scope for providing extra wa- alibi in London. A senior
Mahesh Benkar
hav have descended all over that fascinated Madhav have Rehman Estate near Crawford This year itself, three new com- up rates by 30% to 40% for ter, say officials. BMC official has dug out
the city’s markets, hapless par- flooded the market. Market. His shop has panies sent us their pichkaris each tanker, especially in the Additional municipal com- facts about a similar road
ents in tow, to find the coolest, “Indian pichkaris are pichkaris in all shapes and and we have sold a good worst-hit areas that come at missioner Anil Diggikar said cave-in at London’s County
meanest water machine. The much costlier than the Chi- sizes ranging from Rs 10 to Rs amount of those,’’ said Vish- the fag end of the supply line since the city was reeling Durham, near Darlington
latest one, which Madhav was nese-made, so people often end 450. “People like all the fancy was Patil, a shopkeeper at and hilly regions. This is be- under a water shortage, (Middleton St George Street),
eyeing, has a higher capacity up buying the latter. Some- colours, there are few takers Dadar. Many have stopped sell- cause the civic hydraulic de- the citizens on their own in 2007. A bra and a pair of
of water—3 to 5 litres—and times even if the Chinese for simple ones,’’ he added. ing smaller pichkaris. “Only partment has directed all should avoid using knickers had snagged them-
extra nozzles for the water to pichkari is costlier they don’t But Indian manufacturers the bigger ones are in demand. ward offices to identify soci- potable water for selves across the nine-inch
spurt out. Others include mind spending as they are haven’t lost the battle as yet. The fancier the pichkari, the eties that need water for playing Holi. diameter of the pipe.
those in the shape of a fish, quite innovative,’’ said Aarif “New companies are coming better it sells,’’ said Moham- potable purposes and not for They can use Back home, civic offi-
with lights and music on their Nana, a stall owner at Abdul up with interesting designs. mad Danish, a shopkeeper. use during a rain non-potable wa- cials—trying to deal with a
body, priced as high as Rs 700- dance or other ter to celebrate sewerage system that is very
750 per pichkari.
Mantralaya goes green with eco-friendly colours
Holi festivities. A the festival,” he said. similar to London’s—admit
Some parents however, circular spelling But Mumbai’s that the pipelines are old and
seemed indulgent. “My kids Sanjeev Shivadekar | TNN “We can’t change things in a day. But in the out these directives first citizen and need replacement. But they
don’t settle for any small future the government may have to introduce was issued this week. mayor Shrad- also say, just like London, Mumbai has 54,000 man-
pichkari. The big ones are ex- Mumbai: Eco-friendly idols on Ganesh legislation banning hazardous colours,” state “Our rates will increase dha Jadhav has people may contribute to the holes, 50 pumping stations,
pensive but it is once a year Chaturthi, less noise and smoke emitting environment minister, Suresh Shetty, said. En- in proportion to increase in announced that occasional burst pipes, lead- and that ferries 20 trucks
that we get to celebrate this crackers on Diwali, and of course, skin-friend- vironment secretary Valsa Nair-Singh said, demand of water. The con- she would ensure ing to road cave-ins. The full of garbage found in the
festival, so I don’t mind spend- ly colours on Holi. The din for ‘greener cele- “It is a religious festival and instead of a law sumption is likely to go up the administra- BMC recovers an average of sewer system daily. “Most
ing some extra money,’’ said brations’ grows louder with every festival and prohibiting dangerous colours, every citizen manifold since BMC tankers tion provides ex- 80 tonnes of rags, clothes and of the garbage comprises
an indulgent Suhas Sharma, now the government itself is raising the deci- should voluntarily play eco-friendly Holi.” will be out of supply and peo- tra water to citi- innerwear from the sewers. clothes and sanitary nap-
as his sons took their pick at bels on this issue. For now, the government has set an exam- ple generally use more water zens for Holi. The London burst, said kins,’’ said a sewerage de-
Dadar market. ple by initiating change from Mantralaya itself. on Holi,” said a member of “This festival experts, happened because partment official.
Llike Diwali crackers and Stalls selling eco-friendly colours—made of the Water Tanker Suppliers comes once a the innerwear got stuck in “If you type the words,
Makar Sankranti kites, the herbs, flowers & trees—were inaugurated at Associations, that has some year and hence one end of the pipe causing ‘sewer collapses’, on Google,
Made-In-China label has tak- the administrative headquarters by chief min- 1,350 tankers supplying 600 it’s the corpora- it to burst. “Although we are it gives 4,730 cases worldwide
en over Holi too. A design for ister Ashok Chavan on Thursday. Holi has litres of water every day. tion’s duty to surveying all the drains and out of which 2,050 are in the
every child’s fancy, at prices changed from a celebration of natural Faced with an unprece- provide water to carrying out their replace- UK alone,’’ IIT civil engi-
that fit in every pocket, Chi- colours to the dry chemical variety. dented water shortage the citizens,” Jad- ment under the Brimstowad neering department profes-
nese pichkaris like the one corporation is under heavy hav said. project, it is important that sor Kapil Gupta said.
Socio paper today,
but teachers not
happy with syllabus
Anahita Mukherji | TNN castes and scheduled tribes
are included in a chapter on
Mumbai: While HSC stu- the weaker sections of soci-
dents are going to appear ety, the entire chapter on the
for their sociology paper on caste system has been re-
Friday, a number of Std XII moved. We have to teach it
faculty who teach the sub- to our students anyway, so
ject have several complaints that they understand the
about the sociology sylla- chapter on weaker sections,’’
bus, which was revised a said a sociology teacher from
few years ago. a reputed Mumbai college.
For one, many say that According to a sociolo-
it is way too vast and can- gy teacher from another
not be completed in one well-known college, the new
year. “I always end up tak- syllabus has been framed by
ing extra classes in order to administrators and not aca-
complete the portion,’’ a demicians. “The syllabus is
teacher told TOI.
Teachers say that many
Teachers say that the
topics in the sociology syl-
labus overlap with topics
portion is too vast
taught in other subjects and and cannot be
do not strictly belong to the
completed in a year
field of sociology. They feel
that some important topics
have been dropped from the vast and has no proper
CHENNKATA
new syllabus. structure. The syllabus
“The new syllabus has mentions terrorism, but is
included a topic on global- rather vague on how much
isation, which is taught in to encompass within the
economics, too. The syl- topic. It does not deal with
labus also includes IQ tests, several contemporary is-
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which are a part of psy- sues such as child abuse and
chology and a chapter on date rape,’’ adds the teacher.
social reformers, which be- Vijaysheela Sardesai,
long more to history than chairperson of the Maha-
to sociology,’’ said a teacher. rashtra State Board of Sec-
Meanwhile, topics such ondary and Higher Sec-
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Jr college teachers
withdraw HSC
boycott threat
Shreya Bhandary I TNN they still haven’t adhered
to the court order,’’ added
Mumbai: Following re- Singh.
peated protests and threats After hearing their griev-
to boycott the assessment ances, Sanjay Kumar or-
of HSC papers by members dered R R Bhise, deputy di-
of the Mumbai Junior Col- rector of education, to pass
lege Teachers’ Union (MJC- the order within two weeks
TU), their demands were fi- and make sure that the col-
nally met this week in a leges were re-opened with-
meeting at Mantralaya. in a week. MJCTU had also
At the meeting, princi- requested the government
pal secretary of School Ed- to scrap rule 25(a) from the
ucation Sanjay Kumar and Maharashtra Employees of
other officials heard the Private School, 1981, which
problems of thousands of gave the management the
teachers from all over the power to shut down a school
state and agreed to imme- or college without any pri-
diately put an end to their or warning or reason. “We
grievances. have also been assured that
“It was unfair to all of us they will scrap this rule in
in Maharashtra when we March,’’ said Singh, adding
didn’t even get paid as per that they have also been
the 6th Pay Commission. We promised 15 months’ salary
could no longer keep our along with arrears within
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