Roadways Union’s strike from Sept 1
Dehradun: On the demands of regularising the contractual workers in Uttarakhand roadways the Uttaranchal Roadways Karmchari Union has declared work boycott from September 01 – 03. The call of the organisation is sure to affect the fleet of roadways as almost all the drivers and conductors are members of the organisation. This decision was taken in a meeting of the organisation at Haldwani on Sunday. The General Secretary of the organisation, Ashok Choudhary said that a cabinet sub committee has recently recommended that all contractual workers working for more than five years would be regularized but the MD of roadways is trying to sabotage the regularization of more than 2000 employees of roadways by categorizing them as outsource workers. He said that the bus services in the state would affected by the strike.
463 students appear for Super 50
Dehradun: The entrance examination for the Super 50 of Baluni Classes was held here on Sunday. In the examination 463 students participated. The Super-50 is a very popularprogramme of Baluni classes under which free coaching for medical and engineering entrance examination is provided to fifty selected students. Set up on the lines of Super 30 programme of legendary Anand Kumar of Patna in Bihar, Super 50 draws good response in Uttarakhand. The Chairman of the Baluni welfare and educational society, Dr Navin Baluni said that 495 students had registered for the examination.
He said that the classes select 25 poor students each for medical and engineering entrance exam and provided free coaching to them.
The super 50 entrance examination was conducted at Dehradun, Kotdwar and Roorkee and the result would be declared on August 29. Baluni claims that all the students of Super 50 bag top positions in Medical and engineering entrance exams.