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Flight services to reduce in France: Passengers advised to postpone their trips

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Air traffic in France will be severely disrupted this Friday due to a strike over wages, the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has warned. French air traffic controllers are taking action to demand higher wages due to soaring inflation.

The national strike will last from 6 a.m. on Friday to 6 a.m. on Saturday, DGAC announced on Tuesday.

In addition to calling for higher wages, air traffic controllers will also use this strike to force authorities to open up employment in aviation, especially in air traffic control, Xinhua news agency reported.

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“From 2029 to 2035, a third of the body will be retiring, it is imperative to anticipate and plan recruitment,” the National Union of Air Traffic Controllers (SNCTA) said, adding that “failure to do so will have inevitable consequences in terms of public service, working conditions and mobility”.

The SNCTA and the DGAC have called on airlines to reduce their flight services by 50 per cent on Friday, both in Metropolitan France and in the French overseas territories. Passengers are being advised to postpone their trips.

Meanwhile, SNCTA said on Tuesday that a second strike could be expected between September 28 and 30.

Ordinance Issued to Defer NEET This Year

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In a deja vu, the Union government on Friday issued an ordinance postponing the implementation of NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) for medical and dental courses in institutions under state governments. The NEET will apply in these institutions from next year, 2017 onwards, said the statement.

It means the NEET 2016 will be applicable only to those who are applying for admission to Central government and private management institutions under the management quota. It may be noted that Karnataka and other state governments had asked the Centre to defer the NEET for this year in view of reforming their own system of entrance exam.

As NEET was laready tken by 6.5 lakh students on May 1 and another 8 lakhs are taking it on July 24, there was considerable confusion among the students over the fate of their first exam. Most of them have decidd forego the results in the first and prepare for the second one next month.

The confusion triggered after the Supreme Court said all students should take only one common entrance test, the NEET, for entry to medical colleges, owing to several complaints about corruption in states and in private medical colleges which hold their own exams.