Yogesh Avasthi

Ambawadi Post Office will issue railway tickets from June; Postal dept to get Rs 15 for each sleeper class ticket, Rs 20 for AC two/three-tier ticket and Rs 25 for AC first class ticket sold By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Saturday, May 16, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20City&sectid=3&contentid=20090516200905160330032602be349ab ) Come June, visiting railway reservation centres would not be mandatory for booking train tickets. Amdavadis will have the option of buying them from a post office in the city from next month. The city’s maiden railway reservation centre at post office would be inaugurated at Ambawadi Post Office in Manikbag Society in the first week of June. The innovative service is ready for a smooth take-off next month with required infrastructure already in place.The postal department will charge Rs 15 for each sleeper class ticket, Rs 20 for each AC two-tier or AC three-tier ticket and Rs 25 for ...

One of the three mobile study centres is ready since last September, Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Open University is still waiting for ‘an official inauguration’ By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Friday, May 15, 2009 at 02:59:15 AM (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx? Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20City&sectid=3&contentid=200905152009051502591586931758b4c ) Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Open University’s mobile study centres, which were to roll out last year to rural areas to impart education to poor children, are still lying untouche d by the varsity authorities. While one is completely ready, three other vans are yet to be equipped with necessary electronic equipment. The Distance Education Council had given it grant in 2007-08 for three mobile classrooms to be developed by HCL Info Limited. However, till date, only one has been developed. Even that has not been rolled out. The completely developed unit, equipped with 10 computers and projectors, is lying on the ...

Lok Shakti passenger leads rail officials to tout who sold him VIP quota ticket; Girish Cyria was earlier held in 2005 for selling tickets illegally By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Friday, May 15, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20City&sectid=3&contentid=2009051520090515025904557e66058c9 ) With the arrest of a ticket tout on Thursday by the railway authorities, the misuse of VIP quota has come to light yet again. Girish Cyria, who has earlier been caught selling tickets illegally, was again caught on Thursday for getting a ticket in the VIP quota of a BJP member issued in the name of one Kaderbhai and selling it to another person named K Sanjiv. Cyria, his brother-in-law Girish Nakoda and Mahendra were earlier nabbed by the Railway vigilance at Gandigram station were caught selling tickets in dummy names on October 2005. Since then they have flourished. Railway Protection Force officials, however, said Cyria was ...

Courtesy their cheat builder, residents of Snehanjali Society in Sola are forced to buy their homes again or face demolition By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Thursday, May 14, 2009 (Ahmedbad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20Latest&sectid=2&contentid=20090514200905141836442540a8e35 ) What was once their retirement dream has turned into a nightmare. Residents of Snehanjali Society on Sola Road have received an AUDA notice that threatens to reduce their homes into a pile of stones, timber and debris. Housing six flats and 19 rowhouses, the society constructed in 1989 stands on illegal land, claims AUDA who has given the residents time till June to evacuate the premises. The civic body plans to raze the society and return the plot to its rightful owner. The only way out of the problem is to pay Rs 7 crore to the right owner. But the society members are retired ONGC employees who are finding it hard to face the spectre of eviction wh...

LJ Institute of Management Studies records 100 per cent placement of students By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Thursday, May 14, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20City&sectid=3&contentid=2009051420090514040647256a95b7d04 ) Even as jobs have dried up worldwide following recession, LJ Institute of Management Studies in Ahmedabad has recorded 100 per cent placement this session.Fighting the global downturn with an innovative strategy, the institute’s authorities ensured all their 118 students were placed in reputed firms. The average package offered to the students of the business school on SG Highway was Rs 1.8 lakh per annum. The highest offer made was over Rs 5 lakh. Those with engineering background were spoilt for choice after the campus recruitment. Several of them bagged five job offers.Siddarth Singh Bist, a faculty member, said: “All the students of finance, marketing and human resource management have eithe...

Almost two months after a battered Kamini’s plight was brought to light by her principal, who spotted blood on her uniform, the girl finally gets a better life By Yogesh Avasthi and Dhwani Pathak Posted On Wednesday, May 13, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20Latest&sectid=2&contentid=2009051320090513034030611aeb14fbf ) Kamini, the 11-year-old girl, who was physically and mentally abused by her stepmother, is finally in her uncle Rahul Jain’s custody. The legal process for the girl’s custody concluded on April 29.Pained at the constant thrashing Kamini received at the hands of her stepmother Anita, Jain had told Ahmedabad Mirror that he would spare no efforts to get the girl’s custody (Kamini’s uncle seeks custody, AM, April 2). Now that his wish is fulfilled, Jain said his first priority is to ensure Kamini gets over her past.Kamini’s story was flashed all over newspapers when she attended school with a wound...

Members charge trustees with nominating their own men in the Rs 200-crore Navrangpura Gam Dharmada Milkat Trust and selling its property worth crores surreptitiously By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Tuesday, May 12, 2009 ( Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20City&sectid=3&contentid=2009051220090512021737173b1536c73 ) A Rs 200-crore Trust has run into a legal tangle over who represents it as trustees. The dispute in the Navrangpura Gam Dharmada Milkat Trust is being heard by the Deputy Charity Commissioner who found three current trustees guilty of malpractice and fined them Rs 2000 each in four cases. The dispute in the Trust is primarily between Patels and other sections of the community. Set up way back in early 1910s, the Trust for the large part was controlled by Patels. It owned valuable properties, including Navrang School and a few famous temples, in Navrangpura, Naranpura, Memnagar etc. The Patel hegemony was con...