The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) won the highest award of excellence in the UNESCO Asia Pacific awards 2022 for cultural heritage conservation.
The Byculla railway station of Central Railway has received an award of merit for conservation, giving a double pride moment to the people of Mumbai city.
The CSMVS, which is part of the Victorian gothic and art deco ensembles of Mumbai World Heritage property in India, got the award as it impressively restored ‘a major civic institution in the historic city of Mumbai’. The jury of the UNESCO Asia Pacific awards 2022 noted, “The project addressed extensive deterioration through well-informed architectural and engineering solutions, overcoming major challenges during the pandemic.”
In other updates from state: The Covid pandemic has brought in big changes affecting the way many of us process death. Many enterprising entrepreneurs are, however, seeing this as a fertile time for people to re-imagine funeral practices allowing them the opportunity to pre-plan their own funeral services.
One such entreprenuer is Sanjay Ramgude, whose Sukhant Funeral Management offers people the option of pre-planning their funeral service. The firm offers various plans, including allowing people who are single or whose families do not stay with them to pre-plan their funeral service. It also offers services where families can ask it to arrange the entire funeral service after a death in the family.
Ramgude founded Sukhant (meaning ‘happy ending’) in 2014 with an intention to provide someone who has died with a dignified farewell. A cinematographer by profession, he was working in Varanasi in 1995 when the idea came to his mind. “What I realised is that if there is birth, there is death. And when death happens in a family, they usually don’t know what to do. It creates a lot of difficulty,” he said.
The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) will start installation of smart meters for its 10.5 lakh power consumers from February 2023 onwards. These devices will be enabled with 4G and 5G SIM cards and will offer pre-paid payment options for consumers.
Userscan check their daily power usage or according to their convenience eliminating the need for a BEST power technician visiting their place and take meter readings to generate bills, said Lokesh Chandra, General Manager (GM) of BEST.
“The tender for the appointment of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) service provider, who will implement the pre-paid smart metering project on Design-Build-Finance-Own-Operate-Transfer (DBFOOT) basis was floated earlier this year and now all tendering work has been finished. The bidder has started the procurement and the installation will begin from next year. The smart meter service provider will take care of any complaints related to faulty meters or any glitch for 10 years,” he said.