Shops in the Nilgiris shut for a day as homage to crash victims
The Hindu
DGP Sylendra Babu visits Kattery, thanks residents for help in rescue operation
All shops and businesses in the Nilgiris were closed down as a mark of respect after the demise of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, wife and 11 others, in a helicopter crash in Kattery, near Coonoor, on Wednesday.
Almost all shops and businesses remained closed till 6 p.m., while autorickshaws and taxis too stayed off the roads on Friday. All shops in the Ooty and Coonoor municipal markets were shut, and footfall in the town was at a minimum. Pictures of General Rawat were also plastered across many parts of the town and many people garlanded the posters.
On Friday, Tamil Nadu Director General of Police C. Sylendra Babu also visited the settlement of Nanjappan Sathiram in Kattery, Coonoor, and praised the residents for their efforts to pull people out from the wreckage.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.