- Jat agitation enters Day 9. Death toll at 16; over 150 injured.
- Rajnath Singh meets Narendra Modi to apprise him of Jat row.
- Special trains to help stranded passengers.
- Airfare remains exorbitant. Ait ticket rates hiked to 300%.
- Wazirabad water treatment plant starts functioning.
- Special committee meeting in Venkaiah Naidu’s residence ends.
- Munak Canal to be fully functional by tomorrow.
- Curfew still imposed in Hisar.
- Army, RAF secures Munak canal supplying water to Delhi. Water to reach Delhi by evening.
- Delhi schools shut. Gurgaon police also advised schools to remain closed.
- Most border areas connected with Delhi reopen.
- Centre gives into the Jats’ demand for reservation, forms panel under Venkaiah Naidu. But Jat leaders say they won’t stop protests.
Non-Political Committee Should Decide on Reservation: Bhagwat
RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat on Monday suggested that a non-political committee should be formed to decide on eligibility for reservation.
Which section of the society should be brought forward, for how long they should be given reservation - a time bound program should be chalked out regarding it. The committee should be given powers for execution.Mohan Bhagwat, RSS supremo
Bhagwat said a person not getting opportunity only because
of his birth in a particular caste should not happen.
Now Fly to Mumbai From Amritsar for Rs 23,000!
Domestic airlines continued to charge exorbitant fares in the wake of the Jat stir with some carriers spiking ticket prices to as high as Rs 23,000 for a Amristsar-Mumbai flight, a hike of over 300 per cent, even as Government washed its hands off, saying it can only “request” them to keep the rates under check.
According to travel portals, while the fares for a SpiceJet flight to Amritsar from Mumbai for tomorrow stood at whopping 23,610, IndiGo, GoAir and SpiceJet’s fares for a Delhi-Amritsar flight have been quoted as Rs 18,562.
Similarly, full service carrier Jet Airways has hiked its fares to Rs 16,815 for a Delhi-Chandigarh flight on Tuesday.
At the same time, national carrier Air India’s was charging Rs 11,678 for a Jaipur-Mumbai journey, while budget carrier had upped teh fares to Rs 17,418 for the same route, according to the portal.
The 30-day advance booking fares for these destinations on an average range between Rs 3,000-6,400 for a single journey.
Special Trains to Help Stranded Passengers
The railways has pressed into service special trains for Jammu and Chandigarh on Monday to help the passengers who were stranded due to the Jat agitation.
A special train will leave Old Delhi railway station for Jammu at 6 PM and another will depart from New Delhi to Jammu at 10 PM, according to Railway Ministry sources.
The special trains will run through Ghaziabad, Meerut, Saharanpur and Ambala.
There will be another special train to clear the stranded rail passengers from Chandigarh also.
A special train from Chandigarh to Anand Vihar has been pressed into service at 4 PM.
The train will stop at Ambala, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut and Ghaziabad stations enroute Anand Vihar.
Naidu-Led Meeting Ends; Meeting With Khattar Tomorrow
The committee meeting that was led by Union Parliamentary Affairs minister M
Venkaiah Naidu on Monday took stock of the Jat situation and discussed as how to move forward
in the matter.
Other members of the committee - Mahesh Sharma, Sanjeev Baliyan, both Union Ministers and BJP leaders Satpal Malik and Avinash Rai Khanna, attended the hour-long meeting.
The committee is likely to talk to Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and other state ministers on Tuesday for ascertaining the state government’s views on the subject, according to a close aide of Naidu.
Yielding to pressure from agitating Jats, the Centre had
last night announced setting up of the committee under Naidu to examine the
quota demand for the community in government jobs.