All the Efforts To Enable Them To Speak English……..!

• A crash course of Spoken English was organized by the Govt B. Ed. College at Ratnagiri
• Despite their competency of teaching skill most of the students need an ability to talk English
• Madam Principal expressed satisfaction for realization of her dream project 

No longer may British Empire exist, the language of those rulers is still ruling over the world. The ability to communicate in English has its special importance in all affairs. The number of students adopting English as the medium of instruction right from their first day in the school is ever growing. However there is yet a great magnitude of people with fear of this language, especially when it comes to conversation. What Government College of Education at Ratnagiri did in the last week was exactly to remove this fear. A very rapid crash course of Spoken English was organized by the college to enable the ‘to be teacher students’ of the college speak fluent English.

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“Saving One Life Will Lead To Safer Traffic”

·         Role of trucking and logistics in industrial development.

·         Regional economic transformation brought by JSW.

·         Road Safety Training and Awareness programmes for truck operators.

Trucking and logistics play significant role in industrial development. ‘JSW Port Ltd,’ located at Jaigarh, dist. Ratnagiri, a Konkan coastal region of Western India that is visited by over four hundred trucks every day has transformed the district industrial scenario to a growing economy. In spite of developing a large tiled base for parking hundreds of huge lorries and providing with standard amenities for halting truck operators the company also regularly organizes Road Safety Training and Awareness programmes for them. One such programme was recently arranged in which an educative slide show was presented by ‘Motor Jagat’ and ‘Masurkars’ Academy.’

              Saving One Life

Citizens Of Ratnagiri Walk For Safer Roads

Marathon has become a keyword for conveying messages to the masses. Government of Maharashtra made its perfect use to carry the message of ROAD SAFETY, NO HONKING and RESPONSIBLE DRIVING. Sunday morning was enthusiastically spent by as much as 300 thousand people in the state to respond government organized ‘WALKTHON 2018.’ Ratnagiri, a major district town in coastal Konkan led to participate with an involvement of hundreds of citizens including considerable transport personnel.   
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FAMILY HOME

On the way to the famous Adiware Mahakali temple, in the district of Ratnagiri, a palatial building along the road attracts your attention. It is ‘Tawde Sadan’, the home to the stock of the Tawdes. Being erected by ‘Kshatriya Maratha Tawde Hitwardhak Mandal’, under the leadership of Mr. Santosh Tawde, eminent architect, the huge building is aimed to be the home of the Tawdes on Konkan tour, their community programmes and the shrine of their community goddess, Lord Saptkoteshwara.

The marvelous structure stands on a spacious piece of land. It is built of locally available red laterite stone. Constructed in north Indian style the building is erected without using cement concrete and fitting the load bearings with traditional technique of wedging perfectly measured key stones. The arches, the walls and even the roofs are absolutely free from any cementing material. Several windows decorated with specially designed banisters and large doors with dual wooden frames are evident enough not only to reflect its prodigy but also the painstaking long term labour of the grand team of skillful artisans.

The two storied mansion houses a spacious hall at its centre, eight decent residential rooms on each floor, and a cooking space with a dining hall in the backside basement. In front of the stately home an artistic garden provides the visitor a delightful mood and the back corners of the avenue put on the views of lovely sunset.   

PAST AND PRESENT

Having their roots in Rajasthan the Tawdes belonged to the warrior Rajput race. With the decline of Jainism in the early 11^th century aroused the Kshatriya dynasties such as Kadam-Tawde. During the Mogul rule Adiware division had been administered from Pune. The Tawdes had their dwellings in Adiware and fourteen surrounding hamlets. They stamped out the coercive recovery campaigns of the Mogul officials. Failed to curb the brave community, the emperor’s lieutenants once caught men of Tawdes enjoying sea bathing and slaughtered them all. Their wives ended their lives on the pyres of sacred sati.  An only woman escaped as she was moved to another place for the period of her pregnancy, which brought forth a son that sustained the stock of the Tawdes. Due to the fear of the oppressive rulers’ dread she perhaps never returned to Adiware and the signs of the community had been annihilated from the neighbourhood of the famous place of goddess Kali.

Although not a single house of a Tawde exists in the area, a few persons of the community being intent of the affinity to their very native place, sought to create a noble monument of their brave ancestors at Adiware. It was Mr. Santosh Govind Tawde who stated the idea of a FAMILY HOME that would resort all Tawdes under its grand roof and would create a strong band of fraternity. An architect by occupation Mr. Santosh Tawde thoroughly studied the structures of monumental buildings in the country and abroad and prepared the plan of this prodigious mansion.

The half hector plot to the north of Adiware village is being carefully utilized to accommodate this majestic building of ‘Tawde Atithi Bhavan’ with sizable open space around. It would be a splendid blend of historic and modern architecture, as the community strives to trace their prosperous past; and a combination of Rajasthan grace as they had their origin in that state and local building material as they hold intense affection to Adiware, the land of their accomplishment.   

Do They Really Represent Us?

They have again vowed to drown down the proposed project of Nanar Refinery. Long back, two decades ago an influential BJP leader had pledged that they would drown the Enron power plant in Arabic Sea and would drag fetch Dowd Ibrahim, the mastermind behind Mumbai bomb blast. Nothing happened. They provoked people against proposed Jaitapur nuclear project, a lot of hue and cry was spread, activists that had never been connected to Konkan before, agitated, an innocent was victimized to Police firing. The project wasn’t called back, the work is going on.

Do they really represent people as they claim?

Do the people really want to drive the projects out of Konkan?

In case of Enron, the opponents had organized a lecture of certain Mahajan to enlighten the citizens about the high cost of the electricity to be produced by the American company, soon after that they had a meeting with Ribeca Mark, Enron Chief and they themselves were enlightened and influenced by the usefulness and reasonableness of the same plant.

Meanwhile Enron faced some trials in their own land of the U.S. and wound up to handover to others. The result was that the power plant at Dabhol/ Anjanwel remained under authority of several bodies, was time and again reformed and reorganized, but did never prove to be efficient and never produced sufficient power. Despite wastage of capacity, theft of water and a huge unpaid tax amount to the Gram Panchayat of Anjanwel nothing came out.

They also had protested before the energy plant being erected by Finolex, near Ratnagiri. A very honest and loyal party worker went on fast and suffered; the leaders thundered and received applause. The factory is working well. The people who always carried on protest drag substantial monetary aids for their sports events and so on…!

At the same time a very influential local leader concentrated on the energy plant of JSW at Jaigad and strategically spread agitation among surrounding dwellers for his own political benefit. The project itself did much to offer services to local people and utilized the CSR as good as possible.  

Now the project of Nanar Refinery. After declaration of the project estate agents rushed to that area. It is a fact that before a few months all lodgings at Vijaydurg were houseful and people discussed that a certain capitalist had purchased a huge land to erect a private port. It is the other side of the fact that some outsiders have already purchased land in Nanar area.

After all, for whose interest all this is happening? The leaders who never spoke clearly on this issue are set to hurriedly visit the area after it was declared that a Saudi company is going to invest. Is it for public interest or benefit of somebody else?

The leaders of Konkan might be very keen about the possible harm to regional environment. But they are so busy with the task of resistance to proposed projects that they must not have found time and space to think about the heavy pollution and hazards that have already present in the State industrial area around Chiplun. Occurrences of ruthless draining hazardous chemicals into agricultural land have taken place there. Several plants have caught fire that tolled lives. The river and streams near Gane Khadpoli MIDC area are worst polluted. It is for the people’s astonishment that not a single figure has been pointed to this deadly fact by any leader in the district.

If they don’t get time in their busy schedule as mentioned above we hope they will  look after;

And if they are ignoring the facts we should better say they are not representing us and should give up running after them!