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Time of India
16-05-2025
- Time of India
HC orders Doon administration to de-seal 3 bookshops after 45 days
Dehradun: In a relief to three Dehradun-based bookshops that were sealed in March, Uttarakhand high court has directed the district authorities to de-seal these and asked under what provision of law action was taken. When the counsel for the state said "in public interest", the court on Wednesday directed the state to file a counter affidavit within four weeks. Four bookshops were sealed after FIRs were lodged against them on March 29 over several alleged irregularities, including overpricing, GST evasion, selling books from fake publications with forged international standard book numbers (ISBNs), and not providing proper bills to customers. The crackdown by the local administration came after complaints filed by parents of schoolchildren. The district administration lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against shopkeeper Ashwani Mohan of Asian Book Depot, maintaining that the ISBN was not found in some books, and online verification of the Chemistry Lab Manual for Class 9 and Basudha for Class 5 could not be done. Similar FIRs were lodged against Sudhir Kr Jain of National Book House and Vinay Kr Aggarwal of Brothers Pustak Bhandar, as the ISBN number on some books could not be verified at Jain's shop, while the ISCE board books' ISBN number was not recorded at Aggarwal's shop.
New Indian Express
12-05-2025
- General
- New Indian Express
Basudha projects on slow lane, water crisis grips rural areas of Odisha's Rairangpur
BARIPADA: Several rural pockets in Rairangpur division of Mayurbhanj district are facing acute water shortage reportedly due to slow progress of water supply projects under the Basudha scheme. Residents of Rengalbeda village under Chadheipahadi panchayat in Bijatala block expressed dissatisfaction with the local administration for failing to address their persistent water woes. Construction of a water tank, sanctioned under the Basudha scheme, is reportedly continuing for the last five years and is yet to be completed. Besides, a solar-powered water project installed in the village has been non-functional for the last two years while only one of the four tube-wells installed in Rengalbeda is operational. With a population of around 250, villagers claimed the single tube-well is insufficient to meet their daily needs. Womenfolk of the village are forced to stand in long queues near the tube-well from early morning to collect water. Some also cover a distance of over 1 km to fetch water from unsafe wells in the nearby forests, they alleged.
