Surendra P Gangan is Senior Assistant Editor with political bureau of Hindustan Times’ Mumbai Edition. He covers state politics and Maharashtra government’s administrative stories. Reports on the developments in finances, agriculture, social sectors among others.
Articles by Surendra P Gangan
Cong-NCP alliance slips through the cracks
Within an hour after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its decision to go solo, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) pulled the plug on its 15-year-old alliance with the Congress and the Democratic Front government.
Updated on Sep 26, 2014 01:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ketaki Ghoge and Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
NCP manifesto promises to be student-friendly
After the Sena chief announced tablets for students from Class 8 to 10 if his party was elected to power, the NCP has followed suit and proposed laptops to all the students passing out of junior college.
Updated on Sep 24, 2014 05:32 PM IST
Hindustantimes.com | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Cong, NCP join fight club after BJP-Sena tussle, disagree over seats
The ruling Congress-NCP combine in Maharashtra displaced the Sena-BJP alliance from the media centre stage on Saturday, exposing a divided house much like the opposition ahead of the October 15 state election.
Updated on Sep 21, 2014 10:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
EC to watch out for unaccounted money, code of conduct violations
The Election Commission has deployed around 1,800 teams, including flying squads and static surveillance teams, with thousands of officers to keep an eye on the expenditure and code of conduct violations.
Updated on Sep 19, 2014 05:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Maharashtra elections to cost exchequer Rs. 500 crore
The upcoming assembly elections to the 288-member Maharashtra assembly will cost the state at least Rs. 500 crore, according to Election Commission and finance department officials.
Updated on Sep 17, 2014 04:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Maharashtra: NCP gets 9 new MLAs, a few still shy away
Though the Nationalist Congress Party boasted of inducting nine independent MLAs on Monday, three legislators did not turn up for the event.
Updated on Sep 16, 2014 03:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
More than 300 Maharashtra tourists stranded in Kashmir, 184 are untraceable
Around 122 Mumbai residents belonging to a multinational company have been evacuated to safety in Pahalgam. Several other city residents, who were rescued by the armed forces, are in transit to New Delhi or Mumbai.
Updated on Sep 13, 2014 11:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
More than 100 tourists from Maharashtra are still missing in J-K
State officials said that more than 100 tourists stranded in Jammu and Kashmir from Maharashtra are still not traceable. About half of them are from Mumbai.
Updated on Sep 11, 2014 06:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
NCP gets the jitters over exodus of leaders
With the make-or-break assembly elections in Maharashtra just a couple of months away, the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is facing an unprecedented crisis. For the first time in its 15 years of existence, the NCP has lost at least a dozen legislators and key local-level leaders to the BJP and Shiv Sena.
Updated on Aug 26, 2014 01:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Maharashtra: EC to contact 19 lakh ‘deleted voters’, to spend Rs 8cr on special drive
Of the 50.32 lakh names deleted in 2013, 19.40 lakh were from Mumbai, its suburbs, Thane and Pune. The cities witnessed huge uproar in the Lok Sabha elections as thousands of names went missing from the electoral rolls.
Updated on Jun 29, 2014 11:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Modi is misleading people about Gujarat's growth story: Sharad Pawar
In an interview to HT, NCP chief Sharad Pawar gives a clean chit to former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, whose name figured in the Adarsh housing scam, and rubbished Narendra Modi's claims of development in Gujarat.
Updated on Apr 04, 2014 12:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Power shift: Sharad Pawar's party finds bastion slipping away
With a tarnished image and anti-incumbency, the NCP is trying to find a strong foothold to tide through Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra.
Updated on Mar 13, 2014 05:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Trouble in NCP over senior leaders being asked to contest LS polls
There is growing unrest among senior leaders of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) as they are being asked to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The issue was laid bare during a review meeting of the party on Monday.
Updated on Jan 07, 2014 12:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Firms in Maharashtra could be punished for no sexual offence panels
The strong public opinion generated by the sexual assault on a Tehelka journalist by her boss in Goa, has prompted the state government to propose an amendment in the existing acts to make neglect of the Supreme Court’s Vishaka guidelines a punishable offence.
Updated on Nov 27, 2013 12:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
40L families with income more than Rs 60,000 may be cut from food security scheme
The state has a Herculean task ahead. In order to roll out the food security programme, it will have to bring down the number of beneficiaries to 7 crore from the existing 8.52 crore beneficiaries.
Updated on Nov 21, 2013 09:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Mumbai: Prithviraj Chavan rules out intervention in Campa Cola demolition
Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, on Sunday, did not hold out any hope for Worli’s Campa Cola compound residents. Surendra P Gangan reports.
Updated on Nov 11, 2013 09:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Mumbai ranks 8th in human development index in Maharashtra
Mumbai has dipped to the eighth rank in the human development index in Maharashtra, as per the draft report presented before the state cabinet on Wednesday
Updated on Oct 31, 2013 08:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Maharashtra govt seeks action against arrested UDD employees
Political bosses in the urban development department have directed the dministration to take strict action against the three officials who were arrested three days ago by the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) in a graft case.
Updated on Oct 08, 2013 09:17 AM IST
None | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Maharashtra wants heliport at Mahalaxmi race course
After the Union defence ministry turned down permission for a heliport opposite NCPA in Nariman Point last year, the state decided to shift its plan to the Mahalaxmi race course.
Updated on Oct 02, 2013 09:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Public toilets proposed under flyovers, at toll nakas, petrol pumps
More public toilets could soon be available in the city, especially for women. The state government has proposed building toilets under flyovers, at petrol pumps, government offices and toll-posts.
Updated on Sep 25, 2013 01:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Less than 1% of Maha zilla parishad schools satisfactory: govt survey
Less than 1% of schools in rural Maharashtra could get an A grade in the evaluation drive conducted by the state government over the past few months.
Updated on Sep 09, 2013 08:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
New land bill to make infra projects costlier
The new land acquisition bill passed this week is likely to increase the cost of infrastructure, power and irrigation projects in the state at least eight-fold, making most of them unfeasible. Surendra P Gangan reports.
Updated on Sep 06, 2013 02:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Mumbai: slowdown forces state to cut development spend by 20%
The economic slowdown and recent spends on drought and flood mitigation have taken a toll on the state’s exchequer, with finance minister Ajit Pawar announcing a 20% expenditure cut on Wednesday.
Updated on Sep 05, 2013 02:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
77.93 lakh from city, Thane to be excluded from food security
To make the food security programme (FSP) viable, the food and civil supplies department of the state government has demanded the exclusion of families with an annual income of Rs1 lakh. This will result in the exclusion of 77.93 lakh ration cards in Mumbai, its suburbs and Thane.
Updated on Sep 02, 2013 01:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Mumbai: Cong, NCP meet to ensure Dhananjay wins by-poll today
With the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena deciding to remain neutral, the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party are up in arms against BJP leader Gopinath Munde and met on Sunday evening to ensure NCP candidate Dhananjay Munde’s victory in the legislative council by-poll to be held on Monday.
Updated on Sep 02, 2013 01:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Now, Maharashtra domestic workers to get benefits of minimum wages act
The monthly minimum wages from a house will be calculated based either on the number of hours spent, or the volume of work.
Updated on Aug 29, 2013 02:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Mumbai photojournalist's gang-rape: Ajit Pawar rapped police over safety of women hours earlier
Hours before the gang-rape of a 22-year old photojournalists on Thursday, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar had taken the Maharashtra police force to task in the half yearly annual general meeting at the police headquarters. Surendra P Gangan reports.
Updated on Aug 23, 2013 08:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Dabholkar murder: ordinance balm to soothe angry citizens
At the receiving end of public anger over the murder of Dr Narendra Dabholkar, the state Cabinet has been forced to decide on issuing an ordinance to enact the long-pending anti-superstition bill, which makes many superstitious practices punishable.
Updated on Aug 22, 2013 12:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
State faces flak for hazardous disposal of bio-medical waste
The unscientific disposal of bio-medical waste, rampant in major cities such as Mumbai, is posing a serious threat to citizens’ health, a report by the state legislature’s public accounts committee (PAC) has pointed out.
Updated on Aug 10, 2013 01:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Mantralaya staff to get salary via Aadhar - linked bank accounts
Nearly 95% of the 6,000 employees of Mantralaya will get their salary for August through their Aadhaar-linked bank accounts.
Updated on Aug 07, 2013 09:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai