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Travel & Bus passes for regular music festivals and concerts at interna-
blood donors in Odisha tional and local levels.
Tourism
In a bid to encourage general people Gadkari criticized RTOs for
News to donate blood, Odisha government rampant corruption
has decided to issue bus passes to
Introduction of bus service those who do it regularly. The decision, Lashing out at Regional Transport Of-
to Nepal taken at a high-level meeting chaired fices (RTOs), Road, Transport and High-
by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, said ways Minister Nitin Gadkari termed
A bus service between India and Nepal the regular blood donors may avail free them as the most corrupt in the coun-
has been started for the convenience travel in buses across the state. try and said they indulge in loot bigger
of the people. Buses will operate from than those of dacoits of Chambal.
New Delhi via Banbasa in the Varanasi and Jaipur earn
Champawati district of Uttarakhand to Unesco 'Excellence' tag "RTO is the most corrupt organisation
Mahendra Nagar in Nepal. in the country. They indulge in loot
The director general of Unesco in Paris surpassing even what the dacoits did
AI to serve only veg meals recently declared that Varanasi has in the forests of Chambal," Gadkari said
in 90-min flights been included in the list of Unesco's while giving vent to his anger over large
'Cities of music'. scale corruption at RTOs.
Air India has decided to serve hot veg-
etarian meals on flights with duration Uska R.K., the Member Secretary, Cul- Peeved at delay in implementation of
of 60 to 90 minutes from January 1, tural Heritage, Union Ministry of Cul- the new motor law, he said once the
even as people roasted the move on ture, said, "Varanasi was chosen in the Road Transport and Safety Bill is en-
social media. While passengers recall music category, Jaipur was selected in acted, it will reform the entire sector.
being served non-vegetarian meals on the craft and folk art category under
AI flights less that 90 minutes long Unesco's 'field of excellence' plan. The The vested interests opposed to trans-
(most domestic flights are of that du- fields of excellence are classified into parency and computerisation in the
ration), the airline said it mainly served categories of literature, film, music, transport sector are against the new
vegetarian sandwiches and cake slices craft and folk art, design, media arts Bill and "I am pained to say" that RTO
on such flights. and gastronomy." officials have provoked ministers in the
States to oppose the Bill, he said.
Online booking of rail bed- The successful candidate cities will
roll started demonstrate experience in holding "I feel guilty... Nowhere driving li-
cences can be obtained as easily as in
Rail passengers can now book bedrolls India. Thirty per cent of these are bo-
online and at the IRCTC-run food out- gus licences," he said adding that the
lets in stations. The facility will be in- racket by RTOs was behind opposition
troduced on a trial basis at New Delhi, to the Bill and was behind the propa-
Hazrat Nizamuddin, Chhatrapati Shivaji ganda that the Centre would infringe
Terminus and Mumbai Central at first. upon their rights.
The Bill incorporates the global best
practices and provides for the creation
of a National Road Safety and Traffic
Management Authority.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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