Belapur : The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) is all set to organize a mega food festival at CBD Belapur on February 11 to February 14, 2016. An initiative of Mayor Sudhakar Sambhaji Sonavane, the Food Festival aims to promote healthy eating habits among the citizens.
“With lifestyle disorders percolating deep in our society, the lifestyle has changed and has raised an alarming concern about obesity and diabetes among kids. This initiative invites vigilant citizens to reckon eating habit disorder and save our children, our future,” says Mayor Sonavane.
The festival will feature and exhibit more than 100 food, craft stands, live performances by musicians and dancers. Among the food stalls, first time ever the festival will showcase Organic Food and workshops, the festival will exhibit and conduct workshops to promote and teach some healthy cooking and eating habits among the citizens.
“The Navi Mumbai Food Festival 2016 is a platform to unite different cultures at the Food Festival and promote young entrepreneurs and home makers-bakers. Along with the initiative to encourage healthy eating habits, the NMFF 2016 initiates cultural ties,” adds Nehal Thakkar, Founder, Madea Creative House, the official event partner for Navi Mumbai Food Festival.
The performances will take place throughout the festival. The line-up of performances will include:
3-D Street Painting; Rock Band Performance; Celebrity Chefs to conduct workshops; Get Certificate for participating in One-day workshop by the ‘The Chef’; Innovative Mothers exhibiting Secret Health recipes; Cook Omega3 rich food with Institute of Naturotherapy; Free Health-check-ups for Kids @ NMFF 2016
Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi launches e-Office in the Ministry of Women & Child Development
In keeping with the spirit of “Good Governance” initiative of Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi; the Ministry of Women and Child Development has launched the e-office in the Ministry. The e-office was formally launched by WCD Minister, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi in New Delhi today. Secretary, WCD, Shri V. Somasundaran; Secretary, DeitY, Shri J. S. Deepak; Additional Secretary, WCD, Ms Nutan Guha Biwas and other senior officials of the Ministry of WCD and NIC were present on the occasion.
Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi congratulated the officials for making such a big leap forward towards paperless functioning. The new system brings transparency and accountability, which will help to step up the delivery mechanisms, the Minister explained. She also hoped to bring other organizations like National Commission for Women within the ambit of e-Office soon since they receive a large number of complaints from the public which need rigorous follow-up. Smt Maneka Gandhi urged that applications along with the necessary documents for important programmes of the Ministry like STEP should be received online and processed on the new system.
The legacy data of all the files of the ministry has been digitized and the entire file movement is now taking place electron-ically.Under the e-office, every receipt of any paper is scanned and digitized and the new file is opened. The file is then processed electronically as per specified procedure and specified hierarchy. The project was initiated in July, 2015 and over 12,000 files of the Ministry have been digitized. Several modules of e-office ie File Management System, Knowledge Management System, Leave Management System, Tour Management System, have been running under the e-office.Personnel Information Management System (e-Service Book) is expected to start from the 1st of January, 2016.
In the new system, a file takes only 4-5 days for processing as compared to 30-40 days earlier and it is possible to locate the point at which the file is held up and avoid delay by expediting the same, he explained.
All files of the M/o Women & Child Development are being processed in e-Office (13383 number of Total Files processed till 22nd December, 2015), Receipts are also getting scanned and processed in e-Office (23993 number of total Receipts processed till 22nd December, 2015).
The e-office has resulted in substantial reduction of processing time which directly impacts the delivery mechanism of the ministry, both for the State Governments as well as related civil society organizations.
