!" #$%#%&'" % &'(") ! ! "!" R " "!" # *, '- ( Mo Bus, has not paid salaries to $ !R Covid-19 guidelines. Last year the staffs during lockdown. The the approach road on 36.5 meter each. Each span approach road on the also, the festival was observed " drivers have accused the com- % " Baideswar side is under con- consists of three pre-stressed Gopinatpur side (left) is 240 in the district on a low key pany of cutting their two-day struction. In order to speed up girders and RCC deck slab. meter and on Baideswar side ! without public participation. BHUBANESWAR: The Mo salary i.e. on Saturday and ' the construction and review The carriageway width is 7.5 (right) is 407 meter, connect- Only priests and other con- Bus services were partially hit Sunday when buses stayed off quality aspects of the huge meter i.e. two lane with 1.5 ing to Badamba and Banki with cerned were allowed inside on different routes in the city on the roads due to weekend shut- orks Secretary Dr bridge, Secretary Works Dr meter raised pedestrian foot- curvilinear and congested vil- the Mandaps to perform the Monday after some of its down. The protesting employ- WKrishan Kumar has stip- Kumar visited the site recent- path on both sides. lage roads. ' $$% rituals. employees staged a demonstra- ees alleged that though compa- ulated a timeline for comple- ly, where senior officials briefed Moreover, there is a 240 A senior official informed Regarding reopening of tion demanding a hike in salary. ny is deducting money for prov- tion of a high-level bridge over him about the progress. meter length and 4 meter car- that there is a proposal to con- anesh Puja, which falls on religious institutions, the More than a hundred drivers ident fund from their salary, it the Mahanadi at Gopinathpur Dr Kumar made an inten- riageway width ramp bridge nect the important bridge with GSeptember 10, will be Collector said, “Discussion operating the bus service sat on is not reflecting in their deposit connecting Singhanathpeetha sive review of the construction, connecting the main bridge at long straight approach road up observed in Cuttack amidst is on and we are planning to a dharna at Mo Bus depot near accounts. and Baideswar in Cuttack dis- in which he directed the Chief 1,350 meter from Gopinathpur to the Banki Baideswar the Covid-19 pandemic as reopen the religious places Sum Hospital in the city. “The State Government did trict. Engineer to look into quality side and 1,790 meter from Kalapathar (ODR) road with the district Collector allowed within a day or two. All Reports said Mo Bus services in not give us any financial assis- With the completion of aspects of the bridge. The Baideswar side to the ASI pro- approximately 800 meter on observance of the festival in guidelines stipulated by the as many as 14 routes, including tance during the pandemic sit- the bridge, the State would have Works Secretary harped on tected famous Banki side and 4 km straight adherence to all safety norms. Government will be strictly Bhubaneswar, Jatni and uation. Therefore, we were the credit of an over-three-km- sticking to timeline so that Singhanathpeetha Siv temple road on Badamba side to con- Collector Bhabani followed.” Khordha were affected due to forced to launch strike. We had long bridge, the longest one so common people will be able to island on the upstream side of nect with Raja Athagarh- Shankar Chayani said Ganesh On closure of a few Covid ongoing cease-work stir. The earlier requested concerned far. The massive bridge, being use the bridge as soon as pos- the bridge situated inside the Narasinghpur Road (SH-65). Chaturthi would be held at Hospitals, he said, “Since the drivers alleged that though authorities for a hike in our constructed at a cost of more sible as it was their long stand- Mahanadi river. It is also proposed to pro- Puja Mandaps across the dis- number of cases has declined, prices of essential commodities salary from Rs 12,000 to Rs than Rs 130 ing demand, an official said. On completion, the bridge vide tourist amenity centres on trict though steps would be we have decided to ensure are soaring, there has not been 18,000. However, no steps have crore, would be completed Chief Engineer Roads will reduce the distance from both sides of the bridge to facil- taken to avoid public congre- treatment to Covid patients any hike in their salary for last been taken in this regard yet. We by October this year, The Manoranjan Mishra said the Badamba on left side of the itate the devotees who are vis- gations at the venues. Strict only at the SCB Medical three years. They also alleged will not join work until our Gopinathpur-side approach length of the bridge proper is Mahanadi to Banki on right iting the Singhanathpeetha action would be taken as per College Hospital and the that Travel Time, which is in demands are met,” threatened road has been completed and 3.139 km having 86 spans of side by 45 km. At present the throughout the year, he said. law in case of violation of the Ashwini Hospital.” charge of the management of the agitating staffs. PNS $ R" ! ' $ ( ""! ! water of the sea has damaged the shrine which was built ( during the dynasty of ! %. ". Bahumakaras in the Satabhaya village. The temple now is sub- ' he 1,200-year-old empty merged under three feet long TPanchubarahi temple locat- tidal water. delegation of the East ed at the sea erosion-prone According to locals, the ACoast Railway Engineers’ Satabhaya in Kendrapada dis- Panchabarahi shrine was ear- Association (ECoREA) dis- tric has been a victim of glob- lier at a safe distance from the cussed with Bhubaneswar MP al warming and climate change sea. Even, five years back the Aparajita Sarangi the long- as surging sea water has posed sea was 100 metres away from pending issues of railway engi- Mohanty told Sarangi that after a threat to its existence. the shrine. But, with water ' eral top officials at the office are neers on Monday. finalisation by the Chairman, The constantly rising water level rising constantly, the tur- involved in the bribery scandal ECoREA president Bobin the matter would be sent to the level of the sea has damaged its bulent sea has come near the large number of Student in which Sahoo’s arrest was just Mohanty explained the pay Finance Ministry for approval. structure completely. It is temple and the crawling water ACongress members held a a tip of the iceberg. “The bribe anomaly pending since two However, the upgradation pro- apprehended that within a has started devouring the demonstration before the culture has been prevalent at decades. He said the non-safe- posal was sent by the Railway month or two, the centuries- shrine. A wall of the temple fac- Odisha State Staff Selection the OSSC office for the last 21 ty and non-technical railway Board and DAC in 2009, but till old temple will completely be ing the sea has caved in recent- ' ' $$% in Sessions and District Commission (OSSC) office years. It has come to light employees have been given date the Ministry has not devoured by the marauding ly due sea water ingress where- Courts and the system of vir- here on Monday alleging mas- recently only after the bribe higher pay structures with pro- agreed in principle. So, now all sea. According to locals, about as lions statues that were istory was created in the tual courts for dealing with sive corruption in the recruit- money could not be shared motional avenue neglecting railway engineers are worried four to five families, who are yet installed at the front door of the HOrissa High Court on traffic e-challan cases in the ment drives. properly among the officials. the railway engineers who play that the same procedure might to be shifted to the resettlement temple also have been Monday in an open justice Cuttack-Bhubaneswar The agitators scuffled with We demand an impartial inves- vital role in safety and econo- be repeated by the Finance colony at Bagapatia and have destroyed. Meanwhile, locals delivery system when live Commissionerate areas. the police while trying to barge tigation into the recruitment of my of railways. Recently Ministry. been staying at Satabhaya, were have demanded for protection streaming of court proceed- The Chief Justice pro- into the OSSC office during a ineligible candidates, who got accounts staffs were given Mohanty requested Sarangi worshipping the deities in the and renovation of the heritage ings was done for the benefit fusely thanked the e-com- protest demanding a probe job by giving bribes. The future much higher salary though to impress upon Railway temple regularly. But the rising shrine of the district. of litigants and advocates. mittee of the Supreme Court into the alleged ‘bribe for of many deserving candidates they are in no way related Ministry, Finance Ministry and Chief Justice S for all the support provided to recruitment scandal’. has been put in the dark,” said with train movement. DOPT for an early approval Muralidhar inaugurated the the High Court to go tech- The agitation was carried Student Congress leader Manas He further stated that after with justified pay structure facility on a trial basis, which savvy. out at the OSSC headquarters Choudhury. several demonstrations and which should not be less than would go a long way to serve He said that for the time following the arrest of Biranchi The agitation would be the issues being raised in accounts staffs.