Pune Beat

The decision of Board has come following tax payers and tax professionals demand for further extending the last date to submit the forms.

Non-teaching staffers’ stir today
The Pune District School Non-teaching Federation will take out a protest march on Wednesday as part of the State-level body’s call for an indefinite strike. The Maharashtra State School Non-teaching Federation will launch an indefinite agitation to press for their long pending demands of time-bound promotions and uniform allowance.

A statement issued by president of the Pune district federation K R Vaishampayan said that the protest march will be taken out from Shaniwarwada and wind its way via Ganesh Road, Agharkar Vidyalaya, Rasta Peth High School, Zilla Parishad, Deputy director of Education’s office and culminate near the Director of Education’s office.

The Federation has long since been demanding time-bound promotions from October 1, 1994. They have also demanded uniform allowance on par with that of the government employees. The Federation had resorted to an indefinite strike in July last year. They called it off due to assurances from the government. However the demands are still not met with, Vaishampayan lamented.

The Mukhyadyapak Sanghatana, Maharashtra Rajya Shikshak Parishad, Maharashtra Rajya Shikshak Sangh Mahamandal, Maharashtra State DEd College Karmachari Sangh and others have extended their support to the indefinite agitation.

Tanker runs over 12-year-old
The life of 12-year-old Vikramjit Singh Gurubachan Singh alias Vicky Nagpal met a cruel and abrupt end under the wheels of a tanker on Pune-Alandi Road on Tuesday morning.

Vicky’s mother Lakhbir Kaur and neighbour Harpal Singh Meher Singh Aurora, who works with the Bombay Engineering Group at Khadki, were also injured when the tanker coming toward Vishrantwadi from Alandi side ran over them. Vicky was waiting for his school bus at a Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) bus stop at Dighi village when the speeding tanker ran over him, around 7.45 am on Tuesday.