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Essential and Emergency Telephone Directory – Mumbai

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AIR LINES ENQUIRIES – Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Inter-National Air Terminal Sahar Mumbai AIR LINES ENQUIRIES – Domestic Terminal Santacruz AMBULANCES – Name
B.E.S.T. – Office B.S.E.S. (RELIANCE) – Office BLOOD BANKS – Name
CASUALTY HOSPITAL COURTS – Designation CRANES SERVICES
CRIME BRANCH (CB) CRIME BRANCH (DETECTION) (DCB) CRIME BRANCH ANTI NARCOTIC CELL- (ANC)
CRIME BRANCH ECONOMIC OFFENCES WING-(EOW) CRIME BRANCH ENFORCEMENT Essential and Important Telephone Numbers
MISCELLANEOUS OTHERS PREVENTIVE CRIME BRANCH
PRISONS & JAIL – Designation RAILWAY ENQUIRIES – Central Railway RAILWAY ENQUIRIES – Train Arrival & Departure
RAILWAY ENQUIRIES – Western Railway Mumbai Police  / Police Stations

Courtesy : Mumbai Police

Cap on subsidised LPG cylinders

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Government of India has been providing subsidy on Domestic LPG purchased by Consumers. There has been a change in norms of supply of Domestic LPG effective 14th of September 2012. This was further modified effective 18th January 2013. The number of Domestic Cylinders for which Subsidy can be availed for has now been capped at 9 refills per LPG Connection. More details are given below.

FAQs regarding cap on subsidised LPG Cylinders

  1. What is Capping of LPG cylinder?
  2. How many subsidised cylinder I will get in current financial year 2013-14?
  3. After I consume all capped quantity am I eligible for subsidised cylinder?
  4. What will happen to my subsidised quota when I transfer my connection?
  5. Am I eligible for subsidised quota if my connection is blocked?
  6. In case of new connection what will be the eligibility of subsidised quota?
  7. How can I keep record of my consumption of cylinder?
  8. I do not want subsidised cylinder, is it possible?
  9. A re subsidised cylinders applicable for reticulated LPG customers?

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Portal for Public Grievances

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The Department of Administrative Reforms And Public Grievances is the nodal agency to formulate policy guidelines for citizen-centric governance in the country. Redress of citizens’ grievances , being one of the most important initiatives of the department, DAR&PG formulates public grievance redress mechanisms for effective and timely redress / settlement of citizens’ grievances.

This is a Government of India Portal aimed at providing the citizens with a platform for redress of their grievances. If you have any grievance against any Government organization in the country, you may lodge your grievance here which will go to the Ministry/Department/State Government concerned for immediate redress.

The grievances arising out of Unsatisfactory response or No response from the Ministry/Department concerned will be taken up by the PG officers of DAR&PG who will take up the matter with the Ministry/Department concerned for close monitoring and expeditious redress.

If you have any Grievance against Central Govt. Ministries or Departments or State Govt. Departments, Click Here to enter  your Grievance. If there is a delay in settling your Grievance, even that can be handled by this website.

The draconian LBT explained

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Local Body Tax (LBT) is a draconian Act, especially with key words like ‘goods’, ‘dealer’, ‘business’ loosely defined in the legislature, giving enough scope for the administrators to stretch their imagination to fanciful limits to the common man’s harassment and dismay

At the time of introduction of VAT in 2005 the Government of Maharashtra had promised that Octroi would be removed and there will not be any additional tax burden on citizens but now they have introduced  the LBT. Thus, LBT is not a good system of tax collection suited for the 21st century, and when there are many other better options available with the government.

Your dabbawala gets your tiffin box daily to your office in Fort area from your house in Thane. As the financial year comes to an end, one fine day, after December, a LBT officer lands in your office instead of the dabbawala with a warrant to arrest you for having brought into the city limits the goods exceeding the prescribed turnover limits.

Another point against LBT is the cascading effect of LBT. Unlike excise or service tax or VAT, there is no concept of set-off or input credit.

Click Here to read the full article by ANANTHRAM RAO, partner at Borkar & Shenoy, Chartered Accountants

Pay legitimate Transfer Fees, not Donation

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PAY TRANSFER FEES AS PER LAW INSTEAD OF DONATING

The unlawful concept of ‘donation’, employed by the cooperative housing society’s managing committees, to facilitate the transfer of a flat by a CHS member, urgently need to be examined at length, points out GAJANAN KHERGAMKER

Each time, a cooperative housing society member wants to sell his property anywhere in Mumbai, he is bullied into paying up way beyond the officially ‘legal’ transfer fee of a maximum of Rs 25,000. The excess he pays ranges from Rs 5,000, in case of small societies to as high as a few lakhs of rupees, depending on the size, status and level of moral accountability of the society in question.
The cooperative housing societies and their managing committees, charging the fees, are spurred by a skewed sense of logic in their acts of demanding donations. “If a member is getting a good price for his flat, it’s because we’ve collectively maintained the society and the common amenities too. Why then, should the member be reluctant to ‘donate’ something for the society that he’s lived in for years? He pays only voluntarily and as a gesture of goodwill,” is the regular rejoinder of managing committee members ‘charging’ donation fees. Any argument, however illogical, is permissible in a democracy but only in the context of a debate and within socially-approved parameters. The managing committee members have even evolved ways to elbow outgoing members into paying up the excess. In several cases all over the city, society’s managing committee members refuse to provide the no-objection certificate for the purpose of sale and transfer to the outgoing member.

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