Nagpur Mayor Dayashankar Tiwari, on Sunday, launched Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) door-to-door polio campaign drive. He, along with Deputy Mayor Manisha Dhawade visited Rognidan Centre in Mahal, Nagpur and inaugurated the campaign by giving polio drops to a toddler.
As per NMC officials, ten Zonal Medical Officers and Ten Health inspectors would visit every house in their respective zones, in order to vaccinate children between the ages of zero-five to immune them against polio.
NMC had recognised Sunday as the official day for polio vaccination. Under Polio Ravivar, they plan to vaccinate more than three lakh kids in Nagpur. They also urged Nagpurkars to vaccinate their children at pulse Polio Booths near their homes from 8 am- 5 pm, on Sunday.
NMC Standing Committee Chief, Corporator Vijay Zalke spoke to Nation Next regarding this campaign and said, This year’s polio drive is going to be bigger than last year. We are planning to vaccinate around 3- 3.15 lakh kids. NMC is bearing the cost of infrastructure and execution. The state government provided us with the doses.
He further stated that there were special teams to vaccinate the homeless during night. ?When it comes to the health of Nagpurkars, money is not a factor we should think about, said Zalke when asked about NMC’s current financial crunch.
As per Zalke, vaccination facility would also be available in slums,, factory areas and other outskirts of Nagpur.

Congress leader Prakash Rathod, on Friday, was caught on camera while allegedly scrolling through few adult content clips in the State Assembly. This turned out to be a huge embarrassment for both, Congress and Rathod as regional channels aired the video, in which he was ?caught in the act.
The MLC member was present in the house during the proceedings of the legislative council. While the house was in session, Rathod was watching adult content on his smartphone.
However, he threw these charges under the bus and said, I was looking for materials for a question I wanted to ask the government in question hour.
?When I was looking for question material, I deleted too many messages as my phone storage was full. What the media has shown or seen, I don’t know. I would never do such things or see such things, he added.
This was not the first time in Karnataka that such an incident had happened. Back in 2012, three Bharatiya Janata Party ministers were caught on camera allegedly watching adult content in the State Assembly. Following the scandal, they resigned from the state government due to public embarrassment.

Nagpur’s Maha Metro, on 26 January, broke all its previous records of ridership and witnessed 56,406 riders (approx.) combining both, Orange- Aqua lines, in one day alone. The last record-breaking ridership was recorded on 27 December 2020 with a count of 22, 123 riders.

Nagpurians rushed in and were seen standing in long queues to buy tickets for the metro ride on the occasion of Republic Day. Among others, Sitabuldi Interchange station was hugely crowded. A fellow rider Surbhi Dhomne, said, I never saw such huge gathering of people at the metro before. This is very encouraging and would go a long way in boosting Maha Metro ridership.

The entertainment and shopping facilities at the Maha Metro stations levels up the riders overall experience and it adds another charm to the ride, said rider Anant Chopra.

To commemorate the Republic Day and attract more riders, Maha Metro had organised various events and competitions and different metro stations. Drawing, music performances, skating contest, CRPF band and other events added fun and riders were seen having a good time with family and friends.

As per reports, Maha Metro had already prepared themselves to deal with a huge crowd and staff workers including, guards, station workers and housekeeping were stationed on duty. Maha Metro now awaits to break this record as well.