Politics

New Delhi: The government owned airline Air India which is already notorious for its delayed timings and bad services is in question again for serving decayed food and egg shells in omelet on board the Pune Delhi flight last week. 

Air India has told one of its catering agencies to bear the handling charges and the cost of the entire stack of food supplied on its Pune-Delhi flight last week, as penalty, following a complaint from an NCP MP that there were egg shells in the omelet served to her last week, an official said on Monday.

NCP Rajya Sabha member Vandana Chavan on Sunday had complained concerning the poor quality of the meals served onboard her AI flight to Delhi from Pune and alleged that the omelet she was served for breakfast had “egg shells.”

In a series of tweets on October 5, Chavan said the omelette she was served had small eggshells, while the potatoes seemed rotten and the beans undercooked.

"Travelled Pun-Del early morning @airindia flight a few days back. Had ordered an omelet for breakfast. When finished with 3-4 bites I hit upon egg shells in the omelet," she tweeted and tagged it to the PMO, the aviation minister, the DGCA and the Air India chairman.

"Though of course the airhostess was not directly responsible for what came in my tray, it was disheartening how dispassionately they responded to what was brought to their notice. Was wondering whether I should post it here, but thought I should in public interest," Chavan tweeted.

She further said she had filled up a complaint form available on board and hoped for action.

Travelled Pun-Del on the early morning @airindiain flight few days back. Had ordered an omelette for breakfast. When I finished with 3-4 bites I hit upon shells of the egg in the omelette, @HardeepSPuri @MoCA_GoI @PMOIndia @narendramodi @DGCAIndia #FDA #CMDAirIndia (1/1) pic.twitter.com/QBeEHEus8d

— Vandana Chavan (@MPVandanaChavan) 5 अक्तूबर 2019

Raipur: Reservation in Panchayat election has been declared for the posts of presidents of all 27 district panchayats. A lottery proceeding had taken place at New Circuit House, Civil Lines in the capital. Reservation has been decided through this lottery system where  13 seats were declared for the Scheduled Tribes out of 27 districts, 3 are reserved for Scheduled Castes, 7 are reserved for Other Backward Classes. 4 Districts were declared unreserved, 50% of all reservation has been reserved for women.

OBC reservation in these districts
Janjgir-Champa, Raigarh, Balodabazar District - OBC Male Reserve
Rajnandgaon, Mahasamund, Durg and Bemetara - OBC Women's Reserve

Districts reserved for ST
Dantewada, Sukma, Bijapur, Narayanpur, Kanker, Kondagaon, Bastar, Surajpur, Surguja, Balrampur, Korea, Korba and JS Shapur districts have been reserved for STs.
Korea, Jashpur, Narayanpur, Dantewada, Balrampur, Korba, Surguja district is reserved for women.

3 districts reserved for SC.
In the reservation process for district panchayats, 3 zilla panchayats have been reserved for scheduled castes. In which Balod, Kabirdham, Dhamtari have been reserved for SC.
Out of which, Kabirdham and Dhamtari are reserved for women.

4 districts unreserved for general

Raipur, Bilaspur, Mungeli, Gariaband districts have been unreserved for the post of president in district panchayats.Raipur and Mungeli district is reserved for women.

Dantewada : Famous for his controversial bold statements excise minister Kawasi Lakhma has once again hit headlines. A video of the minister giving strange suggestions to the children which can provoke them is doing rounds on social media.

 In the video, Lakhma is seen saying that if you want to be a big leader, then grab the SP’s & collector's collar with your hand. There has been a ruckus after this strange and poor advice of the minister to hold the collector-SP's collar in the children's program. The video is said to be 4 days old, when the minister arrived to attend the Teacher's Day program at Pavaras government school in Sukma district.

During this event a child asked minister how to become a leader like you and what should we do to reach there. Replying to the kid, the minister told children an old anecdote, “in the program of P L Punia (in charge of state Congress) and CM, the Kanwar caste boy had asked me that I too want to become a great minister like you. How did you reach here? So I said grab the collar of Collector-SP, then you will become a big leader.”  This video of Lakhma is now viral on social media.

After the video went viral, BJP has reacted sharply. MLA Shivratan Sharma said that Kawasi Lakhma's statement reflects the culture of the Congress, how to oppress others to become a big leader, that is what the minister is teaching children.

Raipur : CG Government's General Administration Department has issued a letter to  collector and Zila Panchayat Chief Executive Officers directing  to dismiss the employees who got jobs using fake caste certificates. The order stated that for those government employees holding fake caste certificates will not have to undergo any probe nor a probe team will be constituted. They will face the termination.

The employees can be terminated directly with immediate effect, the order said.

The order underlines the fact that in cases where stay has been granted by High Courts, based on the earlier guidelines, the matter will be referred to legal department and efforts will be made to lift the stay to initiate action.

The order stated that even after complaints, such employees are under patronage of officers and they are not being removed from the post.

The order said that before issuing the termination order of employees, the departments should prepare a caveat, so that High Court before commencing the hearing can take the state governments view on it.

The GAD also sought the action taken report from officials at the earliest.