AC Double Decker and Shatabdi Exp. Indian Railway New Trains time table for Konkan 2014

Konkan Railway, Central Railway and Western Railway announced on Wednesday the double decker holiday special train & Shatabdi  Exp.

Please find below time table for 2014 Ganeshostav Festival.

Konkan Railway complaints can be registered under 9004470700 via SMS.

Courtesy :
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Konkan-Railways-double-decker-train-to-run-between-August-22-and-September-9/articleshow/40249226.cms

Maharastra Times dated 16th Aug 2014

Sudhagad Fort Trek

Sudhagad Fort, Pali

First, I would like to introduce about trekking spot Sudhagad Fort(also called Bhorapgad from goddess Bhoraidevi ). It’s one of very old fort in Maharashtra near Mumbai.Let's explore this new attraction. Sudhagad, which is a popular trekking destination as it is one of the better preserved forts in Maharashtra. On the slopes of the fort there are lots of trees in and around fort.

The fort has temple of Bhoraidevi, which is well maintained by Govt. On fort there are two lakes, a house of Poojari who maintained temple and serve trekkers. All of this scattered around the fort area. There are three main gates the largest of which is called the Maha Darwaja.

We started on Sunday morning towards Pali @ 7.30 AM in the morning, during journey we took halt at Shree Ballaleshwar Pali temple and visit temple took blessings from Ganpati Bappa and had breakfast in Pali city. 

Remember there are two parking near temple area one is free from temple authorities and other is private which charge 50ru for a Bus, most of roads near temple are one way please mind sign boards while driving.

We recharge ourselves with cup of tea, Misal pav and continued our journey to Sudhagad. The fort is about 14 Km from temple it took almost 15 to 20 min. There are two routes to reach at fort via pacchapur (shortest) and other is from dhondse. Those who are traveling via public transport please make a note of ST bus timings.

 We reach at base village at around 12 AM and started trek. Traking path is simple but upright straight at some points it seems difficult but we enjoyed the whole trek. Make sure you carry atleast 3lt of water per person and some snaks because you won’t find any kind of shop during teak.

At top of fort you can find lots of cows eating grass in mansoon. At temple one poojari who can arrange a food and tea for you so if you are planning to take lunch at fort tell them in advance.

Some of trekkers created a ladder to clime on of hurdle in between which is great experience.

From fort you can see a whole Pali at panoramic view. Then we had enjoyed scenic view from top and left toward base village. We took less than half of time than we had taken to climb.

This has been amazing experience to feel fog at fort and waterfall during journey.

Wish you also enjoy this fascinating fort.

Regards,

 

EXTRA TRIP, NEW TRAINS & ST BUSES FOR GANPATI FESTIVAL IN KONKAN RAILWAY

EXTRA TRIP FOR GANPATI SPECIAL TRAIN  ON KONKAN RAILWAY

Good news for passengers !! It has been decided to run one additional trip of train No. 01041 / 01042 Mumbai CST-Karmali-Mumbai CST on Konkan Railway route to clear extra rush of passengers during Ganpati Festival in co-ordination with Central Railway.  

Train No. 01041 CSTM - Karmali Special train will now have an additional trip on 13.09.2014 and train No. 01042 Karmali - CSTM special train will have an additional trip on 14.09.2014.

Other details remains the same.

10 MORE “GANPATI FESTIVAL” SPECIAL TRAINS ON KONKAN RAILWAY

In addition to 118 Ganpati Special Trains already announced on Konkan Railway Route recently, Konkan Railway has now introduced the following 10 additional Special Trains between Madgaon and Diva for the convenience of its most valuable and esteemed passengers. The details of these train services are as under:

 00114/00113 Madgaon – Diva - Reserved Special:

Train No.	From	To	Departure / Arrival	Date
00114	Madgaon	Diva	01.00 / 15.30 Hrs.	23/09/2012, 25/09/2012, 27/09/2012, 29/09/2012 & 01/10/2012
00113	Diva	Madgaon	16.10 / 05.00 Hrs.  Next Day	23/09/2012, 25/09/2012, 27/09/2012, 29/09/2012 & 01/10/2012

Halts at:The trains will halt at Karmali, Thivim, Pernem, Madure, Sawantwadi, Kudal, Sindhudurg, Kankavali, Vaibhavwadi, Rajapur, Vilavade,Adavali, Ratnagiri, Sangameshwar, Chiplun, Khed, Mangaon, Roha & Panvel stations.  The train will have 18 coaches withcomposition of Five Sleeper Coaches, Two AC 3-Tiers, One AC 2 -Tier, Eight Seating, and Two SLR Coaches.

With these additional train services, the total number of Ganpati Special Trains being run on Konkan Railway Route during this Ganesh Festival rises to 128. It is requested that wide publicity may kindly be given for the same for the information and convenience of the esteemed travelling passengers and public on Konkan Railway Route.                                      

                                

Source : http://www.konkanrailway.com/

Special ST buses to Konkan for Ganpati

The MSRTC will run 1,500 special buses to cater to the rush of passengers travelling from Mumbai to Konkan during the Ganesh festival next month. A control room is being set up at the MSRTC headquarters in Mumbai to monitor movement of buses and to provide assistance to passengers. Bookings can be done at the ST depots and at the offices of registered MSRTC agents

Rainy Trek - Lohgad Fort

Its 2014 June.. Monsoon drizzled in most of cities and our planning for monsoon trips, treks are going on… most of whats up group names are changing to picnic points, rainy photos…

I am here to introduce you one of fascinating and relaxing trekking point “Lohgad Fort”

Lohagad fort is near Pune. Lohagad makes an ideal trekking destination for trekkers from Pune and Mumbai because of its accesibility, ease of the trek and lush green surroundings. Lohagad at 3400 ft is a wide spread fort. There are 4 doors to Lohagad from the nearby village Lohagadwadi. Malawli is the nearest railway station from Lohagad.

There are two ways we can plan Lohgad fort trek one is shorter way, if you have your own vehicle then you can directly go at the bottom of the fort and start from there and explore fort. 

There is one more fort just 1km apart is Visapur fort, this seems to be tough for trekking than Lohgad, Visapur is more in heigh than lohgad. we heard story  from local villegers that mughals used Visapur fort to attacked lohgad fort with cannons and forced Marathas to leave fort.

And second is longer way which starts at BHAJE caves and then you have to cross a whole mountain to reach at Lohgad fort, in this journey you can enjoy waterfalls and narrow way trekking with greenery & scenery at its best..!

Bhaje caves, which is near to Lohgad/Visapur Fort is buddist caves there is nominal fees you have to pay to enter in caves because Bhaje caves ae protected as a National Monument by archeological survey of india.

If you are planning your trek by public transport then you can board train towards pune and leave at Malavali station next to Lonavala. Then walk towards pune side and ask local villagers or at shops to bhaje gaon.

Bhaje/Carla Caves

Lohgad for is wide and each place on fort has its significance. During rainy season fog at top of fort is dense so you have to careful and walk along with group.

There is one KABAR at fort too.. 

You can get drinking water at fort near temple, this fort user by Shivaji Maharaj to keep treasury. This is wide spread fort so you can have beautiful view from top at bottom of fort many shops who can offer you a lunch so plan accordingly and tell them in advance so that they will prepare for you while you are roaming on fort.

Fort in and around

KABAR

This is must visit destination near Mumbai and pune..!

For being Relax, Energized and Enjoy..!!

Have a great Trek..!

Thank You

Sulekh Yashwantrao

My king banned in Europe.

European Union bans Indian mangoes, vegetables due to concerns over pests

The European Union’s Standing Committee on Plant Health decided to impose a ban on Indian mangoes and some vegetables from May due to concerns over the presence of pests and insects in consignments arriving from India

It was imposed in March after fruit flies were found in 207 shipments in 2013, leading to fears that the non-native species could contaminate European crops.

The Times of India poked fun at the ruling last week, saying: "Those jittery Europeans have taken fright at some fruit flies in our mango exports, flies which they fear will wreak havoc on their tomatoes and cucumbers”

Due to this it effects most in market and alphanso prices slashed down, a box of four dozen mangoes which cost Rs 5000/- now became Rs 1000/-

If we bargain in market for a dozen mangoes we can get range of 50/- to 500/- which makes lots of loss of most of Mango Exporters. Due to early rain in May and rise in temperature most of mango consignments were rotten and become defective.

We hope at least next year my king will get more prestige in World.

Diva Sawantwadi Passenger Accident - 2014

When I heard news, DERAILMENT OF 50106 UP SAWANTWADI – DIVA PASSENGER TRAIN BETWEEN SAVARDA – KAMATHE STATION NEAR CHIPLUN, I stunned…!!

Till now I can prefer and faith only one transport to go to my konkan as rail routes but after this news many of us got shocked. This is one of most frightening mishap happen in Konkani belt.

Diva Passenger Train coming towards Mumbai, first 3 Coaches  of the train derailed between Savarda & Kamathe Station atleast 19 passengers were killed and more than 100 injured when the engine and coaches of a passenger train derailed.

As we all know Diva passenger is one of crowded train on this route, so we can imagine the situation at the time of mishap happened.

For rescue operation which happened we must thanks to local villagers who came forward and help passengers, police officers, railway rescue workers and co- passengers.

The Railway Officers ordered an inquiry and Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge announced of Rs 2 lakh for the relatives of those killed in the accident, Rs 50,000 for the grievously injured and Rs 10,000 for those with minor injuries.

We heard many of stories in next day in news paper and feel condolence for those who lost their lives, but this is not enough have we thought how this happened? Some says this is because of over speed of railway engine, some says there was a crack on track and railway derailed because of this, some says because of heat rail track got cracked and derail happened.

Residents of nearby villages were the first to reach the spot, followed by fire brigade and railway officers. Injured were admitted to Roha, Nagothane, Panvel and Mumbai hospitals. Most of uninjured passengers walk down the track to reach next station. Konkan Railway remain stopped for about a day during that time railway arranged extra ST buses for convenience of passengers in konkan.

We can only pray that such incidences must not happened in future anywhere and be alert while travelling.

Be Vigilant Be Safe!!

Regards

Sulekh Yashwantrao

A weekend gateway in Alibaug – Awas

AWAS - Alibaug

As atmosphere become hotter during these days, I am here to introduce you a perfect weekend gateway near Mumbai.

Awas Beach is near Mandwa Jetty which is one of most fascinating and virgin beach to chill out with friend and loved ones. AWAS village is located close to Kihim, Awas beach is a stretch of beach with suru trees lining its shores. A vast stretch of sandy beach, Awas beach is a far less crowded beach and is the best beach to be in if you are looking to be away from everything in this part of Alibaug

To reach awas best option is to board jetty from gateway of India and then in same fare you can go till AWAS fata which is around 9 KM from mandwa jetty. Then you can choose to spend your time in one of resort near AWAS. There were few popular resorts such as AWAS beach resort, Joglekar Cottage are few of them you can find details of these on internet. These resorts provides many modern amenities too such as swimming pool, rain dance, AC cottages, family rooms etc. Room rents are vary from 500/- to 2000/ per person with lunch dinner and breakfast.

You can hire anyone of private banglow if you are planning with your family. Bwach is about 10-15 min walkin from awas village as these is less crowded beach a whole family or couple can have quality time with each other.

 Near AWAS you can plan to visit Sasawane beach too which is along the same streach. Some of villagers offer water sports near Mandwa jetty too or you can plan to visit Nagaon or Kashid beach which are 15-20 km away from awas.

Here are some beautiful pics in and around Alibaug :

Amala Tree

Coconut Tree

Find below options around AWAS alibaug,

Karmarkar Shipalaya-Museum (in AWAS) Mr. Vinayak. P. Karmarkar, born on 2nd October 1891, was among the most renowned sculptures of all times. Topper of J. J. School of arts, winner of Lord Meyo Medal and also alumni of Royal Academy; Karmarkar’s sculptures are a pleasure to see. There are approximately 200 of them in this museum with Hira Kolin and Shankhdhwani being the most noted ones. The sculptures are so beautiful that pictures shown here are not even comparable to the originals. Make it point to spend an hour or two here.

Pandwadevi Temple (1 km)- Awas:
Ancient, said being constructed at Pandwa's time.
Ganesh Temple

Nageshwar Temple (1 km)- Awas - Awas:
Rare temple of Cobra. Annual celebration called as Tripura Pournima Fair, which is held on previous day, invites 1.5 lakhs of pilgrimages

Kihim Beach - (2 kms.) from Awas Beach (low tide):
One of the beautiful beaches in the vicinity of Alibag. 

Alibag City - (18 kms.) from Awas:

District place where all nicely situated in one part of city

Nagav Beach - (25 kms.) from Awas:
One of the beautiful beaches in the vicinity of Alibag

Birla Temple - (40 kms.) from Awas:
Temple built by industrialist Birla Group when they started their ispat company there. This temple is big & Beautiful.

Murud Fort  - (60 kms.) from Awas:
A fort, consisting of three different forts inside. Huge fort situated close to shore but in deep see

From Mandwa jetty to awas phata trip is free which is included in your ferry fare. Then from awas phata to awas village you can hire auto which cost 10/- per person.

This is typical konkan village , Enjoy fresh breath in coconut and mango trees and have fun.

A light on Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant Project - JNPP

   Jaitapur is a small port situated in Rajapur Tehsil of Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra State, India. Jaitapur lies on the sea coast in konkan.

Brief about project :

Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project is a proposed 9900 MW power project of Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) at Madban village of Ratnagiri.

If this project completed then this would be largest power plant in world till now.

This deal was signed on 6 december 2010 between french president Nicolas Sarkozy and Indian prime minister Manmohan singh for the construction of first set of two third-generation European Pressurized Reactor and the supply of nuclear fuel for 25 years .

French nuclear engineering firm Areva S.A. and Indian state-owned nuclear operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India signed this multi billion valued agreement of about $9.3 billion and estimated cost of this project is around 1000 billion (US$16 billion).

JNPP would be one of the costliest nuclear power plant projects considering its sheer size and the new technology. French officials say the reactors are expensive because of enhanced safety measures

http://www.npcil.nic.in/main/A_Brief_on_JNPP.pdf

Local Concerned (Protest) :

Jaitapur is in the Konkan region in the Western Ghats (in Rajapur). It is considered to be one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots and is home to thousands of species of plants and animals, many of which are threatened. This project will put this entire ecosystem at considerable risk.

There has been opposition to the project from the people of Jaitapur and the surrounding areas. Land has been forcibly acquired in most cases.

Now, these is view of individual concerned to support project or oppose it.
Being an villeger or local i would like to live in harmless and hygene environment, but goverment want to add value by deploying project forcefully and want to be one of superpower country.

Tha jaitapur indian nuclear plant is also an earthquake prone zone. Still do we want to take risk?

I won't say who is wrong or right now u decide....!

#KonkanLoverIndian

Ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaitapur_Nuclear_Power_Project
http://www.npcil.nic.in/main/jaitapur-atomic-power-plant.aspx