MHADA flats lottery May 2012

The Mumbai Housing and Area Development Board (MHADA) and the Konkan Housing and Area Development Board (a regional unit of MHADA) is having a sale by lottery of 867 tenements in Mumbai and 1726 tenements at Mira Road under the Konkan Board. For the 2014 lottery details check out the information here: 2014 MHADA Lottery Application

Manchester United Soccer School Mumbai

Logo image from official website

In collaboration with the Western India Football Association (WIFA), Manchester United had last year launched a branch of its Manchester United Soccer Schools in Mumbai, Maharashtra at the Cooperage grounds. Specially created mini fields of artificial synthetic turf.at these grounds will provide children between the ages of 8 to 17 years all-round development skills through varied training modules. It is a non-residential program. Each training session will be of 5 weeks duration.

In addition to the full coaching program which includes 12½ hours on-field training, the children will get a goody bag, evaluation of each player and a fantastic opportunity to bag a place at the prestigious 2012 World Skills Final in Manchester - the lucky ones will play the beautiful game on the pitch at Old Trafford prior to the start of a Premiership game. Wow!

The new soccer training at Manchester United Soccer School Mumbai dates: 12th March - 15th April 2012 
Course Fees: Rs 12,600/-

Contact Information of Manchester United Soccer School Mumbai:
Manchester United Soccer Schools
Cooperage Football Ground, 
Maharashi Karve Road, 
Mumbai 400 021
Ph: + 91 22 22844544 + 91 22 22844545
Office Hours : Monday to Saturday – 10.30 Am to 5.30PM   
Website: manutdsoccerschools.in/courses.html

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena party impressive show in 2012 Mumbai Civic Elections

Raj Thackeray, chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) party, and his party's supporters have plenty of reasons to celebrate despite not outright winning the 2012 Mumbai civic polls.

Reason No.1: ALL 7 seats in the civic wards of the Dadar-Mahim area have been bagged by MNS candidates. These wards form the heart of the 'Marathi manoos' belt in the city & Shiv Sena candidates have long since held sway in past elections here.

Reason No.2: MNS won 28 seats - that's quite a good number! - which is far more than the mere 7 seats they got in the 2007 civic elections. It proves that they have taken great strides in getting a larger support base from voters.

Reason No. 3: The MNS has established itself as the single largest party in Nashik by winning a whopping 40 seats.

Reason No. 4: In Pune, MNS was second to the NCP, having won 29 seats. Shiv Sena could bag only 15 seats, while the BJP got 26 seat & Congress got 28 seats.

Now that MNS will be the opposition party in the Mumbai Civic Corporation, it can make its presence felt by proving to be responsible through its work & shedding the image of being just loud critics.

Shiv Sena is the King of Mumbai Civic Corporation

Without doubt, the Shiv Sena party proved that it is still roaring...and how! The saffron flag flew proudly atop the Shiv Sena Headquarters in Mumbai and was waved vigorously by ardent supporters as they gathered in groups all over Mumbai to celebrate their success in the 2012 Mumbai civic elections.

Watch the celebrations:

Interview of  Balasaheb Thackeray just prior to the ballot voting :

 




Shiv Sena supporters at Sena Bhavan, Mumbai with the Shiv Sena party song playing in the background (press the play button to start the video:

2012 Maharashtra Civic Corporations Elections Final Results

The Shiv Sena party bagged 5 of the 10 civic corporations which went to elections in the State of Maharashtra. These are: Mumbai, Thane, Ulhasnagar, Nagpur and Akola. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) won a clear majority in Pimpri-Chinchwad. It may join hands with the Congress in the Pune and Nashik civic bodies. The MNS party was the surprise package, bagging 40 seats and thereby emerging as the winner in Nashik and the second largest in Pune with 28 seats. In Amravati, the Congress and NCP will join hands to form the civic government.

Below is a tabulated list of the 2012 Maharashtra Civic Elections Corporation-wise Final Results

2012 Maharashtra Civic Elections Results
	Mumbai = 227	Thane = 130	Ulhasnagar = 78	Pune = 152	Nashik = 122	Pimpri-Chinchwad=128	Solapur = 102	Amravati = 87	Akola = 126	Nagpur = 145
Shiv Sena	75	54	19	18	19	15	9	12	15	6
BJP	32	8	11	26	14	3	25	8	18	62
RPI	1
Congress	50	18	8	28	15	15	45	25	18	41
NCP	14	34	20	51	20	84	16	17	5	6
MNS	28	7	1	29	40	4		0	1	2
Independents	28	7	13	1	6	9	1
CPI (M)					3		3
BSP		2	2				3
Other	27	1	4	2	5	0	1

Live! 2012 Mumbai civic elections results online

The 2012 Mumbai civic elections had a total of 227 seats up for grabs. Some of the major political parties who contested are:

• Shiv Sena= 135 seats
• BJP= 63 seats
• RPI(A)= 29 seats  
• MNS= 208 seats
• NCP= 58 seats 
• Congress= 169 seats

Voter turnout in 2012 civic elections:

• Mumbai: 44%-45% 
• Thane: 52%
• Ulhasnagar: 43%
• Nashik: 58%
• Solapur: 58%
• Nagpur: 55%
• Pune: 53%
• Amravati: 58%
• Akola: 57%
• Pimpri-Chinchwad: 56% 

The magic number required to win in Mumbai is 114 seats.

You can watch the results of the 2012 Mumbai civic polls live here: 

IBN Lokmat Live streaming of 2012 Mumbai civic polls results

IBN Lokmat will also give live updates of the 2012 civic polls results of Thane, Ulhasnagar Pune, Nagpur, Nashik, Solapur, Amravati, Akola and Pimpri-Chinchwad, all of which had elections for seats in their civic wards.  

Snapshots of 2012 Mumbai civic elections campaigns

Any election campaign rally has plenty of noise, the adage being to be heard more than to be seen.

A low rumbling sound could be heard from afar, increasing as it approached...it was a roadroller, with an indpendent candidate seated behind the driver!! Wonder if he got any votes...

Walking along a busy main road in Dadar, my ears were assaulted by the thunderous sound of hundreds of bikes. Well, it wasn't Abhishek Bacchan & co shooting for Dhoom 3!! It was a never-ending procession of roaring bikes. The bikers were vociferous supporters of the MNS party, each pillion rider waving a large party flag. Adding to the din were the bike riders honking away.

The MNS campaign was quite innovative, with the party symbol perched atop jeeps & even an entire vehicle resembling a railway engine.

Then there was the Shiv Sena party's rally, with most of the supporters either dressed from head to toe in saffron (the party's colour) or with a saffron-coloured scarf jauntily tied around the neck. The rally included traditional tutari players and a cacophony arose from the loud beating of large drums. Included in the mix of supporters for the Shiv Sena-BJP combine was an enthusiastic wheelchair-bound supporter.

Relatively quieter were the Congress-NCP party's supporters. They, too, like the other parties, had bikers and candidates atop open jeeps but the sound levels seemed to be limited to what came out of a loudspeaker.

 

 A few candidates just campaigned once in a while, preferring to simply put up posters like the candidate below.

All in all, it was good fun to watch the campaigns!