The one-day strike will affect the basic check-up of patients for cold, cough, fever and routine maternal visits that are scheduled for Wednesday, a government doctor said. (File/ Representational)
Mumbai News Live Updates: Community health workers posted at the primary health centres in rural areas of Maharashtra will go on a one-day strike at Azad Maidan in Mumbai on Wednesday. The health workers, who are currently working on a contract, are demanding a permanent government job, a reduction in workload, allotment of wages on time and insurance by the state government. The one-day strike will affect the basic check-up of patients for cold, cough, fever and routine maternal visits that are scheduled for Wednesday, a government doctor said.
The Mumbai Metro One Line running from Versova to Ghatkopar via Andheri will carry out 18 trips more per day from February 1, said the operator led by Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra) on Tuesday. With this, daily trips on weekdays will increase to 398, from 380. The operator stated it will also improve train frequency during peak hours to 3 minutes 40 seconds from the previous nearly 4 minutes. During non-peak hours, services will remain available at a frequency of 5-8 minutes.
Mumbai is likely to experience chilly weather over the next three days, as night and day temperatures are expected to drop by 2-3 degree Celsius. According to the forecast from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the minimum temperature in the city is likely to be around 16 degree Celsius on February 1, 17 degree Celsius on February 2, and around 18 degree Celsius on February 3. After the dip in temperatures last weekend, Mumbaikars have experienced pleasant weather. On Tuesday, the minimum temperature in the city was 19.8 degree Celsius, whereas the maximum temperature was 33 degree Celsius. The wind speed remained between 11 to 14 kmph.
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Those whom the BJP criticised as corrupt are now seen in photographs with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says NCP’s Baramati MP Supriya Sule. Speaking in a Town Hall organised by The Indian Express, Sule thinks that the MVA will perform exceptionally well if elections are held and raises questions on private individuals calling shots in the present Maharashtra government.
What do you think of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech in Mumbai about double engine government should now become triple engine government?
Our country is a democracy and he is the Prime Minister. He can say what he wants, when he wants. I didn’t read too much into that speech to be honest. I mean, what else would a Prime Minister say if he came to Mumbai? I mean what Manmohan Singh would say? The BJP makes a lot of allegations. So I don’t have so much time, fortunately because of my job, to sit and refute them, because half of them are so frivolous that it is even boring to engage.
Ridership on Mumbai’s suburban local trains on the Western Line is gradually falling after the opening of Metro Lines 2A and 7. Ridership at Andheri and Dahisar stations has dropped compared to the week before the new Metro lines were inaugurated.
As per Western Railway (WR) data, ridership at Dahisar station from January 12 to 19 was 5,18,517 while between January 20 and 26 it was 3,47,838, falling by 1,70,679.
The total ridership at Dahisar from January 12 to 26 was 8,66,355.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Metro lines on January 19. The lines were opened to the public on January 20.
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