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THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEWDELHIMONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2016 3TIMES CITY | QUOTA CAULDRON 

Gurgaon:This wasn’t the kind of the pre-marriage jitters they hadexpected. Young men and womenfrom other cities scheduled to tiethe knot fear being marooned bythe Jat protests ahead of their wed-dings scheduled over the next fewdays. Those getting married inGurgaon aren’t immune from anx-iety either. They aren’t sure rela-tives living in other parts of thestate will reach in time for the cere-monies.

Gurgaon hasn’t seen the worst

of the protests but has a huge work-ing population whose travel planshave been affected by the quota agi-tation that flared up over the week-end. Saurabh Gaur, an IT profes-sional from Rajasthan’s Barmer,

wedding is on February 25 andfunctions will start from February23, but now I don’t know how I’ll re-ach home,” Prema said. She waskeeping her fingers crossed that athaw in the protests will allow herto take a cab or a bus home.

Prema is not the only one whois racing against time. This beingpeak wedding season, many mar-riages are scheduled to take placeover the next few days. Pooja Aro-ra, a Gurgaon resident, is gettingmarried on Monday, but her rela-tives have still not turned up. “To-day (Sunday) is my sangeet cere-

mony, but till now, most of my rela-tives have not reached. They arestuck due to the protest,” said Poo-

 ja. She hoped there would be a let-up in protests that will help themreach Gurgaon by Monday.

was still figuring out how to gethome on Sunday. His wedding isscheduled for Wednesday. “I haveno option but to take a longer routebut that is going to be very exhaust-ing and take a lot of time,” saidGaur, adding he feared he wouldn’treach in time for the big day.

“The wedding of two other peo-ple in my company who are fromother cities id also scheduled in thenext few days. All of us are in trou-ble due to cancellation of trainsand road blockades,” Gaur added.

Prema Singh, an automobileengineer, spent the last month pre-

paring for her wedding. She was toboard a train for her hometown inUttarakhand from Delhi this week-end. But her train got cancelledand she couldn’t get a Shatabditicket because of the rush. “My

 For some, protests may turn ‘jodi-breaker’ Photos: Indranil Das

Gurgaon hasn’t seen the worst of the protests but the residents are worried

Bagish.Jha@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: With the Jat agi-tators blocking roads and ra-ilway lines, the one-way air-fares between the affectedplaces like Chandigarh, Am-

ritsar and Jaipur, and the ca-pital have shot up even up to alakh. The regular fares onthese routes range betweenRs 3,000 and Rs 4,000.

Despite four big airlines —Air India, IndiGo, Jet Air-ways and SpiceJet—runningextra flights following an av-iation ministry order, theprices have hit the roof onthese routes. For instance, allflights from Chandigarh toDelhi got sold out for Mondayby Sunday afternoon. ForTuesday, the fares rangedfrom Rs 12,700 to Rs 15,100for a non-stop flight to overRs 31,000 for a one-stop flightvia Mumbai.

For the Delhi-Chandi-garh route, the Monday price

was Rs 15,167 for a non-stopflight and Rs27,400 for flightswith a stop in Mumbai. ForTuesday, the non-stop fa resranged from Rs9,200 to Rs15,200 but the one-stop flightcost over Rs27,500.

Travel portals even sho-wed one-way tickets costingup to Rs99,000 through multi-ple flights.

The Delhi-Jaipur non-stop flights for Monday costRs 5,000 to Rs 8,000 and one-stop options were costingbetween Rs 9,000 and Rs10,000. The non-stop flightsfor Tuesday were going forRs 6,400 to Rs 9,000 while theone-stop ones cost up to Rs10,000. From Jaipur to Delhi,the Monday price ranged bet-ween Rs 7,800 and Rs 25,000.

To fly from Delhi to Am-ritsar on Monday, the ticketswent up to Rs 16,600 but for

Tuesday, the price dropped toRs 7,000. No seats were avai-lable on the Amritsar-Delhiflights for either Monday orTuesday.

Air India on Sunday cap-ped fares fo r some routes. “AI

is charging a nominal all-in-clusive fare. The one-way fa-re between Delhi and Chan-digarh is Rs 3,339 while it isRs 3,960 between Delhi andAmritsar,” it said.

Jet Airways said most di-rect flights on these routeshad been sold out. “Some fa-res seen on third-party travelportals are calculated by tho-se websites by combiningthe last-available seats onindirect routes. These faresare not available on our web-site.”

The airline added, “Weare working with these por-tals to not show such rounda-bout itineraries with thelast-available premiere ca-bin seats.”

Extra Flights Added On Affected Routes

Rail, roads blocked,airfares hit the roof 

PROTEST EFFECT

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Ghaziabad:Security was beefed upon Sunday at the head regulator of Upper Ganga Canal in Muradnagarto prevent any attempt by Jat reser-vation agitators from cutting downwater supply. In June 2010, protes-ters had laid siege to the regulatorand shut it down for several hours.The district administration and thepolice department have been direc-ted to keep round-the-clock vigil atthe regulator.

About 470 cusecs of Ganga wateris supplied to Delhi through two pi-

peline Delhi. While 270 cusecs aresupplied to the Sonia Vihar watertreatment plant, 200 cusecs are

supplied to the Bhagirathi plant.On Sunday, one company of Pro-

vincial Armed Constabulary, per-sonnel from four police stationsalong with their station house offi-

cers and two circle officers were pos-ted the regulator. “Personnel of theRapid Action Force have also been

deployed at the regulator on Sunday.The situation is completely normalas of now though the regulator willcontinue to remain under vigil forthe next few days. The exact detailsof security arrangements put inplace cannot be disclosed,” said Ra-kesh Kumar Pandey, SP (Rural).

Officials of UP Jal Nigam, whichis in charge of the regulator, confir-med that full quota of 470 cusecs hasbeen released to Delhi on Sunday.

“The district administration iscompletely prepared to deal withany untoward incident or conting-ency. We will take all measures to en-

sure that no inconvenience is cau-sed to the citizens,” said GhaziabadDM Vimal Kumar Sharma.

Security beefed up at Gzb canalAyaskant.Das@timesgroup.com

Police are keeping round-the-clock vigil

Umesh Kumar

RESERVATION RUCKUS: Protesters were seenthreatening auto drivers out on the road in Gurgaon

New Delhi: A group of at le-ast 100 Jat men from Matialavillage condemned the de-mand for reservation and sa-id only those who are financi-ally disadvantaged are eligib-le for it. The group held amarch on Sunday morningopposing the protests and re-lated violence.

“Jats have always had aprosperous history and don’tneed reservation or any suchprivilege. We are fighters andcan fight our way to success

without any special help,” sa-id Vikas Dahiya, who led themarch and runs a coachinginstitute for schoolchildrenin Tilak Nagar.

Dahiya said reservationswill further divide the society.“If our demand is accepted,tomorrow Gurjars will rise orsome other community.On what ground will the go-vernment refuse them? Shallprotest be the criteria to atta-in reservations?” Dahiya as-ked. TNN

Some Jats don’t want quota WEATHER

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Sunrise:Tuesday - 06:53amMainly clear sky, Mist/ shallow fog isvery likely to occur . Maximum & mintemperature on Monday will be around26°C & 14°C . Maximum humidity onSunday was 96% and minimum 43%

New Delhi: Roads in thenorthern and western partsof the city bordering Harya-na were choked due to theagitations by Jat groups onSunday. Protesters blockedthe highways and forcedshopkeepers to down theirshutters leading to a shorta-ge of essential supplies insome parts of the city.

Traffic jams were repor-ted from Rohini, Narela,Nangloi, Mundka and Najaf-garh. The agitations on theDelhi-Sonipat, Delhi-Baha-durgarh and Delhi-Jhajjarroads added to the woes.

Police officials said theRing Road near MadhubanChowk was choked for near-ly two hours in the afterno-on after a group of protes-ters parked their vehiclesacross the road and blockedit. Some of them also tried to

disrupt Metro services butwere prevented from ente-ring the station.

Trucks carrying essenti-al supplies in the night wereprevented from entering thecity leading to major shorta-ges in supplies in most are-as. Blockades were put up atkey locations to paralyseother roads as well.

“Our men are deployedat all major intersections toensure that there is no vehi-cular movement. We won’tindulge in violence, but wewon’t allow normal life to goon either until our demandsare met,” said KarambirSingh, one of the Jat leadersprotesting near Rohini.

Some protesters eventhreatened to storm into Pi-

tampura Metro station, af-ter which police closed thegates for a while. In someareas, protesters clashedwith police while they werebeing removed. However,most other protests were pe-aceful.

Protesters blocked majorroads like NH-10 and GT Kar-nal Road by parking tractorsand trucks across them. Theripple effect of these snarlschoked the Ring Road andDelhi-Rohtak Road. Vehi-cles heading to Chandigarhand Dehradun were stalleddue to the protests.

The agitation led by Jatsdemanding reservation un-der the economically back-ward classes, reached Delhion Saturday bringing the ca-pital to a standstill for hours,a day after three men died al-legedly due to police firing.

 Traffic stalled, shops

forced to down shutters

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Najafgarh Road |

Bahadurgarh borderto Inderlok due toprotests at Narelamarket

NH-57 | Delhi-Haridwar roadblocked becauseof agitation nearMuradnagar

NH-10 | Delhi-Rohtak Road tillMundka Metrostation blockeddue to protestson Jhajjar Road

NH-1 | SinghuBorder to SamaypurBadli on GT KarnalRoad; Ring Roadalso affected tillMadhuban Chowk

NO WAY OUT

Traffic jams werereported from Rohini,Narela, Nangloi,Mundka and Najafgarh.Agitations on Delhi-Sonipat, Delhi-Bahadur-garh and Delhi-Jhajjarroads added to the woes

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Gurgaon: Miscreants tried to sabotage theDelhi-Jaipur railway line for a second day bydumping a cement bench on the railwaytrack and setting fire to a ticket booking of-fice. Police said there were no witnesses tothe crimes and could not confirm who wasbehind the acts.

Both incidents took place at Basai-Dhan-kot railway station during the early hours of Sunday. The cops were able to remove thebench from the tracks around 7.30am. Theyfound the ticket office gutted when they reac-hed the station around 7.40am.

“We are investigating and have regis-tered a case under sections 151of the RailwayAct, 4 of the Prevention of Damage to PublicProperty Act and 436 of the IPC,” said in-spector Arvind Chauhan, SHO, Gurgaonrailway station police.

Members of the Jat community visited

the nearby Patli-Hajipur railway stationaround 9.30am. They stated they would holdpeaceful protests till their demands are met.

Station office burnt in Ggn

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New Delhi: Protests paralysedtraffic in Ghaziabad, police said.Jat leaders assembled at Hapur junction, at Duhai on NH-58 andnear the Lal Kuan Atma Steelfactory on NH-24 and halted roadtraffic. A group of Jats alsoblocked road traffic at Loni. PTI

Protests paralysetraffic in Gzb