FREE PRESS - VOL. 11 NO. 320 | BHOPAL | TUESDAY | MAY 3, 2022 | PAGES 14 Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023; 46K GUEST TEACHERS GET THE BOOT FROM SCHOOLS WWW.FREEPRESSJOURNAL.IN EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE EDIT WHY THIS CACOPHONY OVER A LOUDSPEAKER FOR 24X7 UPDATES ANNUAL EXERCISE, they will be invited again in new session says school edu dept director OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in An order from School Education Department has rendered around 46,000 Atithi Shikshak (guest faculty) jobless. According to the order, honorarium generated be should through GFMS (Guest Faculty Management System) portal and then their names be deleted from the portal. According to the instructions issued to all district education officers, services of guest faculty was to be taken till April 30 and their bills be generated and completed payment through the GFMS portal. FOR REPRESENTATION PURPOSE Director, school education KK department, Dwivedi instructed that names of all guest teachers be removed from the GFMS portal by May 10. The teachers should also be 'unmapped' from the portal, said the order. The guest faculty alleged that the department was with functioning vengeance while the department termed it as an annual exercise. Director Dwivedi said that it was an annual exercise and guest faculty would be invited again when the new session begins. However, state secretary of guest faculty association, Ravi Kant Gupta said that the strength of guest faculty in 2018 stood at more than one lakh. Every year the numbers are brought down. In the current year, 46,640 guest faculties were engaged thus bringing down their numbers by half. "The government did not remove guest faculties last Pvt operator gets nod to run electric buses on Bhopal-Indore route News Brief Tarun Kapoor is new advisor in PMO Former petroleum secretary Tarun Kapoor has been appointed as Advisor in the Prime Minister's Office while IAS officers Hari Ranjan Rao and Atish Chandra have been appointed as Additional Secretaries. Khajuraho-Tikamgarh daily train flagged off MP BJP president and Khajuraho Lok Sabha MP Vishnu Dutt Sharma on Monday virtually flagged off a special daily express train between Khajuraho and Tikamgarh. OPERATIONS to begin in June OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in The Pradesh Madhya Authority Transport (MPTA) has approved the application of the electric vehicle (EV) company GreenCell Mobility to run electric buses on BhopalIndore route. The chief executive officer (CEO) of the company Alok Agarwal informed on Monday that the e-bus service, NueGo, has secured permits to launch the first ever long-distance e-bus service in the country in Madhya Pradesh. The company has already begun road trials of the buses and aims at launching the service in June, initially with 10 buses. Agarwal said that the buses would complete 1 lakh kilo- metre of road trial before they are allotted to carry passengers on decided routes to ensure safe travel. The electric buses can run up to 250 kilometres on a single charge with air conditioners on in traffic conditions he said. The company would create 4,125 new jobs in the state as the e-bus service would expand in other cities as well, he added. "We are excited to secure permits to operate electric buses on the Indore-Bhopal route. Our buses are on road trials before the launch of operations to ensure customer comfort and ." safety GreenCell Mobility MD and CEO Ashok Agarwal said. Agarwal said, “We will have 100 e-buses transiting through various cities in Madhya Pradesh. The gross CO2 emission avoided over the lifetime of these buses would be 56,154 tons.” CONTD. ON P6 year considering adverse circumstances created by Covid. It is beyond comprehension as to why the government that is talking about creating employment is throwing people out of jobs," said Ravi Gupta. Moreover, Chhattisgarh High Court has ordered that position vacated by guest faculties in annual exercise by the department should not be deemed vacant for another temporary appointment, added Gupta. The guest faculty association has urged Chief MinSingh Shivraj ister Chouhan to regularise their services. 154kmph: Umran clocks fastest delivery of IPL HIS SIX children too attend the function FP NEWS SERVICE Alirajpur ceremony and witnessed their parents tying the nuptial knot. Groom Samrath Mourya, a former sarpanch from Nanpur gram panchayat got married to Nainabai, daughter of Magan Mujalda, a native of Kharpai village, Mela, daughter of Bhuru Solanki, a native of Ajanda Imran took away official BMW X5 after ouster ISLAMABAD Pakistan Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb has claimed that Imran Khan took a BMW X5 on his way out as the country's premier, which was basically a car from the Prime Minister Offices pool for foreign delegations. Aurangzeb said a Prime Minister can keep cars in his use only according to the law, Dawn news reported. The Minister went on to say that the ousted premier insisted that he wanted to keep this car, although he had earlier criticised previous governments over expensive cars in Prime Minister House. She added that the price of that car when it was purchased in 2016 was 30 million PKR, which was now 60 million PKR, and if the bomb-proofing and bulletproofing were factored in, the vehicle now cost around 150 million PKR. Aurangzeb also said that Khan was the only Prime Minister who sold off gifts from foreign nations in their own countries. CONTD. ON P6 EID MUBARAK! Pg-14 WhatsApp banned 18 lakh Indian accounts in March AGENCIES New Delhi Meta-owned WhatsApp on Monday said that it banned over 18 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of March in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform had banned over 14 lakh such accounts in the country in February . The company said that it also received 597 grievance reports in the same month from the country, and the accounts "actioned" were 74. "In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, we've published our report for the month of March 2022. This user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp's own preventive actions to combat abuse on our platform," a WhatsApp spokesperson said in a statement. CONTD. ON P6 ONLINE REPORT / Pune Hyderabad SunRisers (SRH) pacer Umran Malik has been in sensational form this season and has won over fans, experts with his performances. Despite not being at his best against Chennai Super , Kings (CSK) on Sunday the bowler managed to bowl the fastest delivery of IPL 2022 -- not once but twice. During the first innings of Match 46, Umran clocked 154kmph in the 10th over. He sent a full delivery on the stumps to Ruturaj Gaikwad, but the CSK opener smacked it for a four. CONTD. ON P6 and Sakari, daughter of Nathusingh Chongad, a native of Kharkua village. The quartet has six children, two each from every woman. Revealing how it all started Samarth said that it all started 15 years ago when he fell in love with the three women one by one. But since he was poor and not in a condition to get married, he decided to elope with them one by one and they started living together like a couple. We had six children from our relationship and we are happily living together. Samrath and three of his wives come from Bhilala community and the live-in tradition is prevalent in . the community CONTD. ON P6 NO FORCED JABS, SAYS SC NEW DELHI No individual can be forced to get vaccinated against Covid-19, the Supreme Court said on Monday and asked the Centre to make public data on the immunisation's adverse events. Bodily autonomy and integrity are protected under Article 21 of the Constitution, a bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai said while suggesting that there be no restrictions on unvaccinated people in public areas till Covid numbers are low. On the basis of available material, and considering expert views, the current Covid-19 vaccine policy cannot be said to be manifestly arbitrary and unreasonable, the apex court said. "Till numbers are low, we suggest that relevant orders are followed and no restriction is imposed on unvaccinated individuals on access to public areas or recall the same if already not done," the bench said. The apex court also directed the Union of India to publish reports on adverse events of vaccines from the public and doctors on a publicly accessible system without compromising on the data of individuals. The apex court was hearing a plea filed by Dr Jacob Puliyel, a former member of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, who has sought directions to also disclose post-vaccination data regarding adverse events. On the issue of vaccination for children, the bench said that it is not possible to second guess the opinion of experts and the vaccination indeed follows global standards and practices. CONTD. ON P6 `3 QUALITY AT VALUE WEATHER 41.20c. 26.60c Sunrise : 05.54 Sunset : 06.54 CBI books Choksi for cheating IFCI of Rs 22cr NEW DELHI The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday said that they have lodged a new case against fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi and his company Gitanjali Gems for allegedly defrauding the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) to the tune Rs 22 crore between 2014-18. Choksi, who is wanted in India by the CBI and the ED in the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, had gone missing from Dominica on May 23, last year sparking a massive manhunt. A Dominican court had restrained his deportation after hearing a habeas corpus filed by Choksi's lawyers. Choksi has been residing in Antigua and Barbuda since January 4, 2018, days before the CBI registered the case of bank fraud against him and his nephew, absconding diamantaire Nirav Modi Nirav Modi, among several others. UP minister ‘bitten by rat’, rushed to hospital BANDA: Uttar Pradesh Minister Girish Chandra Yadav was rushed to a hospital here in the early hours of Monday following a bite possibly by a rat or a mole, a senior official at the district hospital said. The Minister of State for Youth Welfare and Sports, who was on a tour of Ban- Man in live-in relationship with 3 women marries all A person who is in a live-in relationships with three women entered into a wedlock with all them in the presence of the entire village. This unique wedding ceremony took place in Nanpur village in the tribal-dominated Alirajpur district. The marriage was solemnised on Sunday and not only the villagers, but his six kids from his three partners also participated in the wedding RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 da district and was staying in a circuit house, is fine and left for Lucknow in the morning, officials added. The minister woke up feeling uneasy around 3 am, suspecting that he had been bitten on the hand by an insect and was rushed to the trauma centre of the district hospital. An examination revealed Minister Girish Chandra Yadav that the bite on a finger of the right hand was possibly from a rat or a shrew (an insectivorous mammal that resembles a mouse), said the district hospital's Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) Dr SN Mishra. The 47-year-old minister told PTI over the phone that he doesn't know which animal had bitten him but blood was oozing from the spot of the bite. CONTD. ON P6