For the forthcoming Ganesh Festival, Western Railways is operating 30 special trains between Mumbai, Maharashtra and Madgaon, Goa as well as between Ahmedabad, Gujarat and Madgaon (via Vasai).
You can book tickets at Passenger Reservation Centers from 22nd July, 2011.
Name of train: Madgaon Express
Train No.: 09033
Coach Berth options: AC 2-tier, AC 3-tier, Sleeper class and II class general accommodation
Starting point station: Bandra Terminus, Mumbai
Destination station: Madgaon, Goa
Time of departure from Bandra(T): 23.50 hrs
Days & Dates of Departure: Monday & Thursday, August 25th 2011, August 29th 2011, September 1st 2011, September 5th 2011, September 8th 2011, September 12th 2011.
Time of arrival at Madgaon: 16.30 hrs, the next day.
State government doctors have gone on a strike from Tuesday demanding that they should be paid as per the Sixth Pay Commission and should get allowances similar to the central government doctors.
“A total of 150 doctors in the city and 450 doctors in the district are participating in this indefinite strike, which will continue till our demands are met,” said Kalyan Deshpande, president of the Federation of Health Officer (doctors), Pune division committee. “A meeting of the federation was held at a Aundh hospital on Tuesday, where we took the decision to stop work.”
Strikes are rare in Pune city, but on Tuesday, it had a surfeit of them with college teachers, power utility staff, doctors and activists of the Republican Party of India staging strikes all at one go.
Over 10,000 state government employees jammed the busy Ambedkar Road in Camp area turning the normally chaotic traffic near the railway station even worse. The strike by the teaching staff in colleges continued for the seventh day on Tuesday and doctors continued to push for Sixth Pay Commission wages. Continue reading Rains and strikes bring city to a halt
Teachers of junior colleges and aided schools across the state went on a day’s token strike on Tuesday, to press for pay parity with central government teachers. Also on strike, albeit an indefinite one, were teachers of degree colleges, protesting non-implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission scales. The strikes, coupled with heavy rains, disrupted classes in colleges and aided schools in the city.
While most degree college teachers were on strike at Jai Hind College, Churchgate, junior college teachers reported for work. It was the same at KC College. As a mark of protest, in some colleges like St Xavier’s College, Dhobi Talao, teachers attended college and signed the register but did not teach. “Only 15% of staff and students made it to college today,” said St Xavier’s principal Fr Frazer Mascarenhas. At Wilson College, Chowpatty, while degree college teachers were on strike, junior college teachers came to help out with the admissions but stayed away from lectures.
