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Ahmedabad: Contrary toGujarat Secondary andHigher Secondary Board(GSHSEB)’s claims that astudent was involved inclass X maths paper leak is-sue, police revealed onMonday that two teachersof Bhavnagar were actual-ly behind the entire episo-

de. The board had on Sun-day issued a statement thata student from Mahuvatown of Bhavnagar districthad leaked the paper onWhatsApp. However, pictu-res of the leaked papershow that it was a bunch ofquestion papers which wasimpossible for a student toaccess.

On Saturday, maths pa-per was leaked at J P Pa-rekh School in Mahuvatown of Bhavnagar dis-trict.

Earlier, the state offici-als were denying the leak,but later they accepted itbut alleged the student’s in-

volvement. However, poli-ce investigations revealedon Monday that two tea-chers — Vallabh Dodiya ofJ P Parekh School and Ni-lesh Solanki, another tea-cher from a different scho-ol deployed as reliever of asupervisor — may have arole to play in sending thepaper on WhatsApp.

A B Prajapati, districteducation officer (DEO) ofBhavnagar, said that theboard came to know thatthe leaked paper belongedto J P Parekh High Schoolas it became apparent fromthe serial number of pa-pers. A complaint has been

lodged with the cyber cri-me cell of police, Prajapatisaid, adding that the priori-ty is to conduct the exampeacefully.

Sources said as theschool belongs to a seniorBJP leader of the town, theauthorities are afraid of ta-king any stern action in theepisode. “Question papersof science and social studi-es were also leaked fromthe school,” claimed the so-urce.

Biology paper of classXII was leaked from JaySomnath School last yearwherein involvement of te-achers too was found.

‘2 teachers involved in paper leak’

Ahmedabad: A teacher ofSeventh-Day Adventist inManinagar yanked hairand banged heads of classIV students for talking inclass during their annualoral examination on Fri-day. On Monday as theschool reopened the pa-rents gathered to demonst-rate their displeasure, for-cing the management to ta-ke action. School authori-ties suspended the teacherfor his behaviour with fivestudents.

On Friday, during theoral examination, VanshPatel a student of class IV,section E was caught tal-king to his fellow studentsAnish, Dhruv and Prat-ham, after which the tea-cher, Moses Adela, grab-bed Vansh by his hair, pus-hed him down and bangedhis head on the ground. Be-fore that, he had struckAnish, Dhruv and Prat-

ham and another student.Vansh started to bleed.

Later another teacherspotted his condition andgave him first aid.

Vansh’s father has lod-ged a complaint with theKhokhara police station. DM Chauhan, inspector,Khokhara, said, “We havereceived an applicationfrom the parents and wewill call both the teachersnamed in the application.”

Teacher suspendedover corporalpunishment

Ahmedabad: “Lengthy, to-ugh, tricky, disastrous...”, ishow students of class XIIsummed up their maths ex-am on Monday. The studentswere really disappointedwith the Central Board of Se-condary Education (CBSE)for setting such tough paper.

This is the second year insuccession that the studentsof the CBSE found their mat-hematics paper tough. Manypanicked and started cryingas it is one subject wherethey work hard to score centper cent marks and a slightchange means a big twist intheir careergoals.

For mostof the students, the paperwas not just lengthy, buttricky too. Only handful spo-ke of scoring good marks inthe city and most of themcomplained of leaving ques-tions and no time to revise.Even, the CBSE website wasflooded with complaintsover maths paper.

Rutvik Shah, a student,

said, “I made silly mistakesas I did not get time to revise.Overall, the question paper

was tricky andlengthy. I will ha-ve to work hard

now in the remaining pa-pers.” Another student, Na-mita Bhatnagar added, “I gota bit nervous, when I sawmost of the students in myexamination hall crying. Itwas lengthy paper and waseasy for those who practisedfrom various reference bo-oks. This loss of 9-10 marksmakes a huge difference. .”

Maths paper leavesmany in tears

Ahmedabad: Protests mar-red the class X examination ofsocial science on Mondaywhen a school in Maninagarran out of supplementary pa-pers, and a supervisor in a Va-daj school collected answers-heets after hearing a templebell!

At JL School in Maninagar,the school authorities foundthe that there were no supple-mentary papers left for the stu-dents. They immediately cal-led up the zonal office and pro-cured more papers but that to-ok 15 minutes. When thestudents were given only 10 ex-tra minutes for the goof-up,they protested the decision. InSaurabh School in Vadaj, a su-pervisor, hearing the bell of atemple, collected the answers-heets from the examinees.When the students came out ofthe classroom they saw otherstudents writing their papers.The examinees and their pa-rents have lodged complaintswith the school and the DEO of-fice. In all, 12 cases of copyingwere reported from across sta-te in the SSC examination and13 in the HSC examination. TNN

Goof-ups inSSC exams lead

to protests

Ahmedabad:Speaking on thesidelines during the NaniPalkhivala Memorial Lectureat IIM-A on Monday, Subir Go-karn, executive director of theInternational Monetary Fund(IMF), pitched for reforms inthe banking sector, and laudedUnion government’s initiati-ves like ‘Indradhanush’ meantto revamp the functioning ofpublic sector banks. Gokarn’scomments came at a timewhen the entire nation is gluedto the controversy surroun-ding non-payment of bank lo-ans by liquor baron Vijay Mal-lya.

While speaking on the to-pic, ‘The Global Economic En-vironment and its Implica-tions for India’, Gokarn saidthat a combination of factorslike asset liability mismatchand business cycle problemshas led to the stressed loan sce-nario for Indian banks.

Gokarn, who once held thepost of the deputy governor ofReserve Bank of India (RBI),also said that steps like stricterrecognition norms, fixed time-

frame to clean up books, andbank consolidation initiativeswould help in achieving struc-tural reforms in banking.

He said that the overall bu-siness cycle was affected due toinfrastructure problems. “Be-cause infrastructure problemis very acute and it needs spe-cific strategy like National In-vestment and InfrastructureFund (NIIF). But the right wayto do it is through a combina-tion of elements like gover-nance, asset reconstruction,and then the recapitalisation,"Gokarn stressed.

Commenting on the needto further recapitalise banks,

he said, “You can't recapitalisethe leaky banks. First, you ha-ve to clean-up their books befo-re you recapitalise them.”“There are specific aspects toeach case individually,” he sa-id, adding, “But, primarily it isthe asset-liability mismatchand the business cycle pro-blem where the main problemhappened.” "The asset-liabili-ty problem was compoundedby the business cycle problem.So, it was because of the com-bination of factors that resul-ted into much weaker environ-ment for banks and made it dif-ficult for them,” he said.

Gokarn emphasized thatpublic private partnership(PPP) should be rethought andstressed that there was a needto further strengthen domes-tic drivers in India.

Expressing optimism abo-ut the Make in India drive toboost manufacturing sector,Gokarn said, “It has to be app-roached with right combina-tion of factors. The factors in-clude infrastructure, tax issu-es, ease of doing business andalso how you combine inputsto lower costs.”

Can’t recapitalize leaky bankswithout clean up: Gokarn

Gandhinagar: AlpeshThakor, convener of Tha-kor Kshatriya Sena whichis has given a clarion call tofight liquor and other addi-tions, who also formed theOBC, SC and ST (OSS) EktaManch, has declared hissupport to the Gujarat JanAdhikar Manch, which is ina legal and social fight aga-inst the state government’sfixed pay hiring policy.

Thakor said: “We fightfor de-addiction of the yo-uth and also expect the yo-uth are not exploited and0can contribute their bestto society. The fixed pay sy-stem of the state govern-ment just exploits the yo-uth. They will be forced toindulge in corruption fromthe start of their career asthey struggle to ends meet.We fully support the fightagainst the fixed pay sy-stem. This also indirectlypromotes addiction in yo-uth as these depressed yo-uth seek solace in addic-tion.”

Thakor said: “In the co-

ming days, OSS will take upthe issues of fixed pay wor-kers and support the Guja-rat Jan Adhikar Manch intheir all upcoming pro-grammes. We plans to orga-nize combined program-mes for de-addiction. Du-ring our upcoming Jantaraids drive against liquordens, we will also raise awa-reness against the fixed paysystem.”

Pravin Ram of GujaratJan Adhikar Manch saidthe support of Alpesh Tha-kor and OSS will help theircause against the fixed paysystem, not only in Gujaratbut across the country. Ourmanch works for youthrights, and we will supportall programmes of OSS.

Alpesh joins fightagainst fixed pay

Ahmedabad:A special CBI co-urt on Monday refused to partwith the second chargesheet inthe 2004 Ishrat Jahan encoun-ter case and denied a copy of itto the former investigator ofthe case, IPS officer SatishVerma.

Additional chief judicialmagistrate (CBI) D R Vyas refu-sed to give the chargesheet toVerma on the grounds that itdoes not form part of the courtrecord.

The second chargesheetwas filed in February 2014 aga-inst four Central IB officials,including the then joint direc-tor Rajinder Kumar, but the ho-me department has not gran-

ted sanction to prosecute themand the court has hence not ta-ken cognizance of that char-gesheet for the last two years.

In his demand for a certifi-ed copy of the chargesheet,Verma expressed apprehen-sion that the present volatilepolitical atmosphere may re-sult in a miscarriage of justicein this case. He argued that theCentre’s denial of sanction forcriminal prosecution of the in-telligence officials was not on-ly illegal but an attempt “towrongfully shield” the accu-sed. Verma sought the charges-heet papers, citing media inter-

views of Kumar and a witnessin undersecretary R V S Mani,which provided additionalcause for him “to believe that aserious and concerted attemptis being made to cause a mi-scarriage of justice, by attemp-ting to negate or weaken theevidence” collected during in-vestigation.

Verma was a member ofthe special investigation teamformed by Gujarat high courtto inquire into the genuinenessof the encounter, and the CBIlater took his help in investiga-tions which led to the filing oftwo chargesheets.

Court denies Satish VermaIshrat case chargesheet

Ahmedabad: As many as101 candidates, includingthree women, filed nomina-tions for the elections to beheld for 23 posts of directorin 30-member board of Kar-navati Club. Around 40 can-didates from Members Po-wer Panel (MPP) and 45 can-didates of newly formedMembers Freedom Panel(MFP) have filed nomina-tions besides few indepen-dents.

MPP already has sevenmembers in the board whohad won the elections heldin August last year.

“We have got 101nomina-tions. Scrutinizers will gothrough the forms and byMarch 24, candidates canwithdraw the forms if theywant. Annual general mee-ting (AGM) will be held onMarch 30 and elections onMarch 31,” said N G Patel,president, Karnavati Club.Patel will be fighting the

election from MPP.Girish Dani, who had

served as president of theclub for almost 15 years, didnot file papers. Dani, alongwith three other foundermembers, was removedfrom the post of permanentdirectorship in the extraor-dinary general meeting(EGM) held on March 4. Da-ni had earlier refused tofight elections. Among tho-se who filed nominations isalso Ajay Patel, chairmanof ADC Bank and GujaratState Co-op Bank. Ajay Pa-tel is brother of Jagdish-chandra Patel, who is presi-dent of Rajpath Club and al-so one of the scrutinizers ofthe upcoming KarnavatiClub elections.

More or less all the mem-bers of the current boardhave filed nominations.Members Freedom Panelwill be fielding its foundersNimesh Patel and ShaishavShah among other promi-nent club members.

Ahmedabad: A family court has asked a man topay Rs 75,000 every month towards maintenanceto his estranged wife. She was demanding Rs 5lakh monthly maintenance on the ground thather husband is a rich person and owns a factoryand various properties in the city.

After the court came to a conclusion that Rs75,000 is an appropriate amount that should be gi-ven to the woman by the factory owner, the wifeand husband both expressed their dissatisfac-tion. Their lawyers said that while wife felt thatthe amount was small compared to the income

and property her husband has got and she wouldmove Gujarat high court, the man found the amo-unt too much and decided to challenge the order.

The 48-year-old woman, who resides in Us-manpura with her 22-year-old son and 20-year-olddaughter, moved the family court in February2015 demanding maintenance of Rs 50 lakh permonth. Her husband had moved out of the housefour years ago. On the other hand, the husband’slawyer submitted before the court that the manwas taking care of all needs of his family. Earlier,the family court had ordered the man to pay Rs5,000 every month as interim arrangement tillthe case was finalized.

Court directs man to pay wife`̀75k monthly maintenance

Ahmedabad: Palitana willsee a massive confluence ofJain saints at the reveredShatrunjay Giriraj Mahatirthon March 21to celebrate one ofthe most auspicious days asper Jain belief.

The Jain community willbe organizing a three-day ex-travaganza called the ‘Shat-runjay Aadinath Mahima Ma-hotsav’. This event will be at-tended by chief ministerAnandiben Patel on March 21along with ministers SaurabhPatel, Vijay Rupani andothers. Manshukh Mandavi-ya (Member of Parliament)and Mahendra Trivedi, chair-man – Gujarat Pavitra VikasYatradham Board will alsograce the function. Ceremonywill witness the presence ofthousands of Jain venerablesaints along with their disci-ples.

During the three day me-ga-event, beginning fromMarch 20 to March 22, 2016, thehistory, glory and the sanctityof the Shatrunjay Giriraj Hillwill be depicted in myriadforms.

Jain communityto congregate

at Palitana

The news ‘Insurance executive held for rape, blackmail ofex-colleague’ published on February 3, 2011 pertaining toHimanshu Sampat was published inadvertently and isregretted.

Ahmedabad airport has lowest user developmentfee, says civil aviation minister: In reply to a question inparliament, minister of state in civil aviation ministryMahesh Sharma on Monday said that Ahmedabad airporthas the lowest user development fee (UDF) as far asdomestic airports is concerned. Among internationalairports, Ahmedabad has lowest UDF after Guwahatiairport. At Ahmedabad airport, UDF for domestic oper-ations is Rs 110 per passenger while for international itstands at Rs 415 per passenger.

2nd edition of IGNITE on March 17: IGNITE, an Intracollege technical festival started in 2015 will be held onMarch 17 at IIT Gandhinagar campus in Palaj. The fest willprovide a platform to display and debate all the technicalprojects undergoing at IIT-Gn of faculty and students. Theultimate motive of this event is to promote technicalculture at institute. Along with exhibition of projects, thisedition of IGNITE will have many other exciting featureslike TECH-TALK and informal technical games amongothers.

Lok adalat resolves 39 cases: The Lok Adalat held inGujarat High Court resolved 39 cases out of the 57 mattersplaced before it for resolution of dispute on Saturday.These cases were decided by Justice KJ Thaker and JusticeRP Dholaria. The cases which came up in Lok Adalat weremainly related to civil and revenue disputes besides casesof sales tax.

Senate elections called off:The Gujarat University hasfinally issued a notification cancelling the students’ senateelections. The election was cancelled following protestsover the voters list. Unable to resolve the issue, GU author-ities have decided to call off the elections. Meanwhile theuniversity’s in-charge registrar HC Patel who had resignedlast week taking the blame for removing the 1,400 namesfrom the voters list has been relieved of his charge.

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On Saturday, maths paper wasleaked at J P Parekh School inMahuva town

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Ahmedabad: A number of Agroup students appearing fortheir HSC boards exams arehyperventilating about notgetting their entrance hallticket for Joint EntranceExamination JEE (main), thetest for admission inengineering colleges isscheduled to be held on April3. At least 10 schools havereceived multiple complaintsfrom students in this regard.

JEE hall ticket glitch

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IMF exec director, Subir Gokarn

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CBSE EXAM

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Alpesh Thakor and Pravin Ram

The teacher allegedly bangedVansh’s head during an exam

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Karnavati polls: 101file nominations