MM : BMC braces for cleanliness drive : Oct 5, 2007

BMC BRACES FOR CLEANLINESS DRIVE

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, with the help of a contractor, plans
to advertise its cleanliness drive scheduled to begin from October 14.

    The civic agency will implement the drive with the help of clean-up
marshals hired from private security agencies. The BMC fears that the people
may oppose the drive when the clean-up marshals fine them. To avoid this,
BMC had planned to advertise the drive and the penal action.

    Ogilvy and Mather, the company given the contract for the cleanliness
drive, will campaign about the drive in two phases through its signboards.

RS 1 LAKH LOOTED FROM TEMPLE

A robber broke into the Sheetalnath Jain Derasar temple at Pratap Nagar in
Bhandup on Thursday morning and decamped with Rs 1 lakh in cash and gold
ornaments offered to the deity.

    According to the police, an unidentified robber broke into the temple
between 2 am and 3 am on Thursday. The robber broke the donation boxes and
fled with the booty. R S Jain, trustee of the temple told Mumbai Mirror, "We
generally close the temple around 9 pm and open it at 5 am. On Wednesday,
the priest closed the temple as per the schedule but when he opened the gate
on Thursday morning, he noticed that all the three donation boxes were
broken and cash and valuables were missing." The Bhandup police has
registered a case of robbery and probing the incident.
Publication:Mumbai Mirror ; Date:Oct 5, 2007; Section:City; Page Number:9

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