Weather WatchRainfall, temperature & air quality in select
metros yesterday
Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD
(Taken at 18.00 Hrs)
Forecast for Wednesday: Heavy/very heavy
rainfall likelly at afew/isolated
places central Maharashtra, Vidarbha,
Marathawada, Konkan & Goa, north
interior Karnataka,
Telangana,coastal, north & south interior Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Kerala, Mahe and Andaman & Nicobar
Islands
city rain max min city rain max min
Agartala................—....36.0....26.4
Kozhikode............... 15.6....31.0....22.6
Ahmedabad...........—....37.1....22.5 Kurnool ..................
30.7....29.0....24.0
Aizawl...................—....29.7....19.9
Lucknow......................—....36.2....22.6
Allahabad..............—....36.3....24.0 Madurai
.......................—....33.9....25.1
Bengaluru .......... 4.6....23.0....20.2 Mangaluru
.............. 30.3....24.8....22.3
Bhopal ..................—....33.9....23.4 Mumbai
.......................—....32.8....26.4
Bhubaneswar.... 31.6....28.7....24.6 Mysuru
........................—....26.0....21.8
Chandigarh ...........—....34.8....22.4 New Delhi
...................—....35.4....19.8
Chennai ........... 17.9....34.2....25.5 Patna
..........................—....35.6....26.4
Coimbatore ........ 0.4....31.8....21.8 Port
Blair................ 29.7....30.4....23.4
Dehradun ..............—....32.5....19.7 Puducherry
............... 0.3....34.2....25.6
Gangtok................—....22.8....16.1
Pune....................... 24.8....32.2....21.3
Goa.................... 9.9....30.0....23.9 Raipur
.........................—....33.0....24.4
Guwahati ..............—....35.0....25.3 Ranchi
...................... 1.8....32.6....21.5
Hubballi ................—....25.0....21.0
Shillong.................... 1.6....25.2....16.8
Hyderabad ....... 45.4....24.4....21.4
Shimla.........................—....25.0....17.2
Imphal ..................—....31.6....19.1
Srinagar.......................—....26.1......5.2
Jaipur ...................—....36.0....21.6
Thiruvananthapuram....... 18....29.4....23.8
Kochi ............... 17.6....29.6....23.8
Tiruchi.........................—....34.5....26.2
Kohima .................—....24.2....17.3 Vijayawada ...........
162.8....29.0....24.2
Kolkata .................—....35.9....26.9 Visakhapatnam
........ 76.5....31.5....25.2
(Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius)
Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday
CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE
In observation made at4.00 p.m., Panipat,Haryana recorded
anoverall air quality index(AQI) score of 340indicating an
unhealthylevel of pollution. Incontrast, Shillong,Meghalaya
recorded ahealthy AQI score of 27
Ahmedabad..... 33 124 .48 ..139 .116 ....*
Bengaluru ....... 16 .29 .39 ....82 ...72 ....*
Chennai .......... 11 .18 .62 ....29 .....— ....*
Delhi .............. 15 109 .74 ..320 .391 ....*
Hyderabad ...... 26 .19 .14 ..... — ...63 ....*
Kolkata........... ..9 .18 ...— ..105 ...96 ....*
Lucknow ......... ..4 .77 .37 ..246 .180 ....*
Mumbai .......... ..4 .39 110 ..134 .137 ....*
Pune............... ..— ...— ...— ..... — .....— ....—
Visakhapatnam ..— ...— ...— ..... — .....— ....—
Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate
average AQI)
SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the
respiratory system,making breathing difficult. It can affect
visibility by reacting with other air
particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects
such as statues
and monuments.
NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes
haze to form byreacting with other air particles, causes acid rain,
pollutes coastal waters.
CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen
supply tocritical organs like the heart and brain. At very high
levels, it can cause
dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death.
PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause
irritation of the eyes,nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness
and shortness of breath, reduced
lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart
attacks and premature
death in people with heart or lung disease
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KARNATAKA
Many parents whose childrenwere
admitted under the RTEquota to
private schools andhave completed
Class 8 in
the201920 academic year are left inthe
lurch as the State
government has not extended the RTEquota till Class 10.
School managements are asking these parents to pay the feesif they want their children to beadmitted to Class 9. As many parents are unable to pay the fees,their children have been deniedaccess to online classes, they alleged.
There are parents whohave pulled
out their
childrenout of school and admitted themin
either low budget privateschools or
government schoolsas they are unable
to pay the
fees. An autorickshaw
driverwhose daughter completed Class8
in 201920 under the RTE quota
in a private school said
thatthe school was not allowing herto attend online classes for Class9
as the government has not extended it to this year.
“I have not put her in anotherschool
as I am waiting for
theState government to take a decision. She has not touched a notebook
or textbook since March.She is
keen on studying, but I
cannot pay the ₹�40,000 that theprivate
school is asking me
topay,” he said.
The State government, however, has not taken any decision inthis
regard which has put parents in
a dilemma. While theState government
was initiallymulling over the
possibility ofextending the quota
beyondClass 8 for students from
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribecommunities, the move was metwith
opposition from parentswho were not
from these communities and they
demandedthat it should be extended to allstudents.
Offi�cials of the Department ofPrimary
and Secondary
Education said the State government isnot keen on extending this moveas it incurs a cost of around ₹�560crore on tuition reimbursementsto private schools.
Across all classes, 5.06
lakhstudents are currently
studyingin private schools under the 25%reservation quota.
Parents demand extensionof RTE quota till Class 10 Many who are
unableto pay the fees havebeen denied access toonline classes Staff
Reporter
Bengaluru
A fi�le photo of children andparents at the online RTE seatallotment process.
Hundreds of candidates who were
recruited as lecturers ina government PU
college staged an
overnight protest as the Department
ofPreUniversity Education has not
giventhem appointment orders even a year afterthey were selected.
Following
this,Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and
Primary and SecondaryEducation Minister
S.Suresh Kumar assuredthem that the appointment orders would beissued
soon after thePU colleges reopen.
However, the candidates have not
withdrawn the protest anddemanded that the go
vernment should immediately issue
appointment orders.
It has been a
longwait for the candidateswho applied
in
2015when a notifi�cation forrecruitment of PU colleges
was issued. Thecounselling for
1,203candidates has beencompleted, but
appointment orders havenot been given.
PU lecturers stage protestseeking appointment orderStaff
Reporter
Bengaluru
The Railway Ministry on Tuesdayannounced
introduction of
196pairs of festival special trains, mostly comprising interState long distance
services to be
operationalbetween October 20 and November 30, including about 28 pairs operating out of Karnataka.
These special trains were beingintroduced in view of the upcoming Dasara and Deepavali festivals.
In a message to the GMs of ZonalRailways, the Ministry told them toensure the special services are operated at a minimum speed of 55kmph so that they become superfast
services. The Ministry
alsoasked the zones to operate the special services with more number ofAC 3Tier coaches that were in goodcondition. This was in line with therecent announcement of the Ministry
that longdistance superfast
trains would come to have more ACcoaches
in the place of
SecondSleeper coaches. Fares applicablefor these special trains would be asthose applicable to special trains.
While a majority of trains operate from cities like Bengaluru, Mysuru and Hubballi, other parts ofKarantaka have not got their due,rue railway activists. Kalyana Kar
nataka did not get any festival specials, rued rail activist Sunil Kulkarni.
Places such as
Kalaburagi,Raichur, Yadgir, Bidar, Koppal andBallari did not get trains. Similarly,Mangaluru region too did not getany festival specials. Though Central Railway had proposed to reintroduce Mumbai CSMTMangaluruJunctionMumbai
CSMT Special(earlier 12133/34), the
same appears
to have not been approvedby the Ministry.
Some of the trains to be operated from South Western Railway include,
Train No. 02251/52
YeshwantpurKorbaYeshwantpur(weekly); 02253/54
YeshwantpurBhagalpurYeshwantpur (weekly);02539/40
YeshwantpurLucknowYeshwantpur (weekly);
02607/08and 02657/58 ChennaiBengaluruChennai (daily) and 06231/32 MayiladutaraiBengaluruMayiladutarai(daily).
Special trains to operate from State till Nov. 30Anil Kumar
Sastry
MANGALURU
The special trains are beingintroduced from October 20 inview of the upcoming festivals ofDasara and Deepavali.
* FILE PHOTO
