Didi to celebrate Mangal Pandey with eternal flame and tourism circuit
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a tourism circuit around Mangal Pandey, whose death on April 8, 1857 triggered India’s first war of Independence.
Pandey incited fellow Indian soldiers to attack British officers and himself injured two British officers on March 29, 1857. He was arrested and hanged on April 8, 1857, 10 days before schedule.
The Bengal chief minister announced on Tuesday that the highlight of the circuit will be a perpetual flame like the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate.
“The perpetually burning flame styled as Amar Jawan Jyoti in New Delhi will be named Uthsa Dhara. This was the starting point of India’s first war of Independence and Mangal Pandey was the country’s first martyr,” she said while chairing an administrative meeting at Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas district.
Barrackpore, on the eastern banks of river Hooghly about 30 kilometres from Kolkata, was the seat of the 34th regiment of Bengal Native Infantry of the British East India Company that was disbanded in the aftermath of Pandey’s rebellion.
Barrackpore’s role in the 1857 revolt is part of heritage and a tourism circuit will be developed around that heritage,” she said. She also announced a grant of Rs 5 crore from the state’s urban development department.
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All the hours you spent in participating in sports during school are just about to help you in securing a seat in a college at Delhi University.
The high cutoffs will not play a spoiler for students applying under sports quota as they will get admission based on their performance certificates and trials in the discipline they apply under.
The university has 36 sports disciplines for which one can apply for admission under the sports quota. Every college reserves 5% seat for sports and extracurricular activities (ECA) .
“Students, who are good at sports can apply through this category. The university and college will support the student in pursuing the sport during the three years of college,” said Anil : : : : : : : : :
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From this session, the university will give more weightage for sports trial to applicants, instead of giving equal weightage to trial and certificates.
Earlier, the university used to give 50% weightage to sports trial and 50% to sports certificates. However, now the admission committee is planning to give 60% weightage to trial and 40% to certificates.
The university has done away with common physical fitness test and will instead conduct sports’ specific physical fitness test.
“We used to have a common physical fitness test for all students despite the fact that they applied for different sports. Every sport requires different kind of physical strength so this time we are planning to conduct sport-specific fitness test,” officials said.