ஆபாச வலைதளங்களுக்கு அடிமையாகும் பள்ளி மாணவர்கள்!

ஆபாச வலைதளங்களுக்கு பள்ளி மாணவர்கள் அடிமைகளாகி வருவதாக, ஆய்வுகளில் அதிர்ச்சி தகவல்கள் வெளியாகியுள்ளது. இது பெற்றோர்கள் மத்தியில் பெரும் கலக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது.


தகவல் தொடர்புத் துறையின் அபரிமிதமான வளர்ச்சி எண்ணற்றோருக்கு சாதகமாக இருந்தாலும், பெரும்பாலோனோருக்கு பாதகமாக உள்ளது. இணையதளங்களில் மட்டுமல்லாமல், ஐ பாட், மொபைல்போன் உள்ளிட்ட வடிவங்களில் ஆபாசப்படங்களை மிக எளிதாக பார்க்கும் சூழல் நிலவுகிறது.


இதனால் இளைய தலைமுறையினர் அதிகம் பாதிப்பிற்குள்ளாகின்றனர். பள்ளி பருவ மாணவர்களும் ஆபாசப்படங்களை பார்ப்பதில் ஆர்வம் செலுத்தி வருவதாக ஆய்வு தகவல்கள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன. கடந்த இரண்டு நாட்களுக்கு முன், கோவை டவுன்ஹால் பகுதியில் பள்ளி சீருடையில் இருந்த நான்கு மாணவர்கள் இரண்டு மணி நேரத்திற்கு மேல், பிரவுசிங் சென்டரில் அமர்ந்திருந்தனர். அருகில், அமர்ந்த முதியவர் ஒருவர் மாணவர்களை கண்காணித்ததில், ஆபாச வலைதளங்களை பார்த்துக்கொண்டு இருந்தது தெரியவந்தது.


அம்மாணவர்களை அழைத்து, கண்டித்ததுடன் பள்ளிக்கும் தகவல் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டது. இதுபோன்ற நோக்கில், பிரவுசிங் சென்டர் வரும் மாணவர்கள் எண்ணிக்கை அதிகளவில் உள்ளது. பெரும்பாலான நடுத்தர மற்றும் உயர்தர பெற்றோர்கள், மாணவர்களுக்கு பள்ளி பருவத்தில் வாங்கி பரிசளிக்கும் மொபைல் போன், லேப்-டாப் போன்றவை மாணவர் களை எளிதில் ஆபாச வலைதளங்களுக்கு அடிமைகளாக்கி விடுகின்றன.


இதுபோன்ற, விஷயங்களில் மாணவர்களின் கவனம் செல்வதால், படிப்பில் கவனம் சிதறி, தடுமாறும் செல்லும் சூழல் ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது. இதன் காரணமாகவே சமூகத்தில், வன்முறைகள் அதிகரித்து வருகின்றது. ஆபாச வலைதளங்களை முடக்க ஆலோசித்து வரும் மத்திய அரசு இதுகுறித்த முடிவை உடனடியாக மேற்கொள்ள சமூக ஆர்வலர்கள் வலியுறுத்தி வருகின்றனர்.


உளவியல் நிபுணர் அருள்வடிவு கூறுகையில், "இன்றைய தொழில்நுட்ப உலகில், இதுபோன்ற விஷயங்களை பார்ப்பதற்கு அதிக வாய்ப்புகள் இருப்பது, எதிர்மறை விளைவுகளை ஏற்படுத்துகின்றது. பள்ளிகளில் எட்டாம் வகுப்பு முதலே மாணவர்கள் இதுபோன்ற விஷயங்களுக்கு அடிமைகளாகி விடுகின்றனர். பாடத்திட்டம் வாயிலாக விழிப்புணர்வு அவசியம்.


மேலும், புத்தகம் வாசித்தல், விளையாட்டு போன்றவற்றில் மாணவர்களை ஈடுபடுத்துவது இதுபோன்ற தவறுகளிலிருந்து விலகிவைக்க உதவும். பெற்றோர்கள், பணம் ஈட்டுவதை குறிக்கோளாக கொள்ளாமல் பிள்ளைகளை நண்பர்களாக பாவித்து, அவர்களது மாற்றங்களை உடனுக்குடன் அறிந்து, உரிய தீர்வு காண்பது அவசியம்" என்றார்.

HC rejects a dental college plea to order DCI to register

The Madras High Court bench today rejected the plea of a dental college, seeking a direction to the Dental Council ofIndia and Dr. MGR Medical University to register candidates admitted in excess of the permitted level and issue them Hall tickets to write the exam for 2013-14.

Justice K K Sasidharan said the petitioner, Best Dental Science College of Ultra Trust, was treating dental education like any other business. They had admitted 17 students after the cutoff date and violated the time schedule approved by the Supreme Court with impunity, he said and dismissed the petition.

The court could not direct DCI or the University to forward the names of the excess students for registering and writing examination. The court could not be a party to illegal activities, the Judge said.

"The court cannot direct the DCI to change or modify the time schedule which was approved by the Supreme Court of India," Justice Sasidharan said.

Though DCI had increased the college strength from 50 to 100 from the 2013-14 academic year, Government of India gave the approval for it on Oct 14,2013. The last date for granting permission for BDS course as per DCI rules was over by July 15 2013 and hence the college could not seek issue of hall tickets for the extra 17 students admitted, he said.

The petitioner contended as the Centre had given approval for 2013-14, they were entitled to admit students and hence the DCO should send the names of the 17 students to the University for appearing in the exam.

RTI a costly affair?

HYDERABAD: Obtaining information through Right to Information (RTI) just became a costly affair. An activist, who had earlier this month sought information on developmental works was left flummoxed after the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewage Board (HMWS&SB), in their reply, asked him to pay a whopping Rs 32,470 for providing the demanded statistics.

In a series of five questions, a social activist Mohammed Abdul Akram of Yugantar (NGO) sought data on the number of completed and pending projects in Moghalpura, and the budgeted amount earmarked for each. He had also requested information on the list of borewells sanctioned from 2009 to 2014, apart from requesting details on the number of sanctioned bore-wells which were yet to be dug.

Instead of furnishing the information, HMWS&SB general manager of O&M division 1, Miralam S V Ramana Rao on November 11 gave the applicant a list of charges which the water works department would reportedly incur in providing the information.

What is ironic is that out of the Rs 32,470 "fee", only Rs 60 was mentioned as cost component for typing and printing the information.

Invoking section 7 (3) of the RTI Act in reply to the NGO activist, the HMWS&SB said that it would need a technical officer (TO), a manager, an attendant and a data processing officer (DPO) to procure the information and that the entire procedure would take eight days. Calculating salaries of each staff member for the same period, the applicant was asked to shell out Rs 17,240 as changes for deputing the TO, Rs 4,434 for the manager, Rs 7,672 for the attendant and Rs 3,064 for the DPO.

"The information I sought was simple. I have not asked for any technical plans. By unjustifiably charging me, it seems the HMWS&SB is trying to block information," Akram claimed.

When TOI tried to contact the HMWS&SB general manager of O&M division 1, Miralam S V Ramana Rao, he remained unavailable for comments.

INTRODUCTION OF AADHAR ENABLED BIO-METRIC ATTENDANCE SYSTEM

Admission commences in SRM University, Tamil Nadu for MD, MS and MDS courses 2015

SRM University, Tamil Nadu  has invited applications for the admission to the MD, MS and MDS courses through PG Medical entrance exam for the academic session 2015.

The university offers a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs in Engineering, Management, Medicine and Health sciences, and Science and Humanities.

The courses are offered in:

MD - Pulmonry Medicine, Radiology, Microbiology, Community Medicine, Biochemistry, Pathology, Pharmacology, Anaesthesiology, General Medicine, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Dermatology, Physiology, Anatomy.

MS - Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, General Surgery, ENT, Opthalmology.

MDS - Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Oral Pathology, microbiology & Forensic Odontology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Periodontology, Prosthodontics and Crown & Bridge, Public Health Dentistry, Oral Medicine & Radiology, Paedodontics & Preventive Dentistry.

Eligibility Criteria:

Candidates must have done MBBS / BDS degree from any of the Medical colleges recognised by Medical / Dental Council of India.

Selection Process:

The university would conduct an entrance exam for admission to the courses.

How to apply

Application Fee:

Rs 1000 through DD drawn in favor of "SRMIST", should be payable at Chennai.

The candidates are required to download the application form from the official website and send the completed form to ' The Director, Admissions, SRM University, SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur - 603203, Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu'.

Important Dates:

The last date for submission of applications is December 22, 2014.
The entrance exam is on January 18, 2015.

Source:India today in Education 

MGMIHS, Mumbai announces exam date for MGM-PGCET 2015 examination

Mahatma Gandhi Mission Institute of Health Sciences (MGMIHS), Mumbai has released the exam dates for MGM Institute of Health Sciences Post Graduate Common Entrance Exam (MGM-PGCET). The MGM-PGCET will be conducted on January 30, 2015.
MGM-PGCET is conducted for taking admission to Doctor of Medicine (M.D) and Master of Surgery (M.S) programs offered in constituent colleges in Navi Mumbai and Aurangabad for the session 2015.

Eligibility Criteria:

Candidate should have passed final MBBS examination from a recognized medical college or any foreign medical degree, recognized from Medical Council of India and have obtained permanent registration certificate from Medical Council of India or any of the state medical council after completing one year compulsory rotator internship shall be eligible to appear in MGM PGCET-2015 of MGMIHS. 

who are likely to complete their internship on or before 31.03.2015 are also eligible to appear in MGM PGCET-2015. 

The candidate should obtain minimum 50 percent marks in MGM PGCET-2015 to become eligible for admission to Post Graduate Courses.

The candidates who have passed their MBBS Examination from Medical College which are not recognized from Medical Council of India shall not be eligible.

Application Procedure:

Candidate can apply online.
The application cum examination fee for MGM PGCET- 2015 is Rs. 5500/-.
After submission of online form, bank challan will be displayed.
Candidate should take printout of bank challan and pay the required fee in any branch of State Bank of India (SBI). 

Paper Pattern for MGM PGCET 2015:

MGM PGCET-2015 paper will be of 3 hours duration containing 300 multiple choice questions.
Each question will be of single best response objective type with four answer options. Each correct response shall be awarded one mark. 

There shall be no negative marking for wrong answers. Candidate should completely darken one and the only one best response. 

The common entrance test shall be of the standard of MBBS examination and shall cover all the subjects of MBBS program. 

Important Dates:

Last date of submission of online application form is December 20, 2014.
Last date of submission of online application with late fee is December 25, 2014.
Admit cards can be downloaded from the website from January 14, 2015 to January 18, 2015.
Exam date of MGM-PGCET is January 30, 2015 (2 pm to 5 pm)
Declaration of result: upto February 11, 2015.

Madras HC puts onus on SC for delay in MBBS admissions

CHENNAI: A single judge of the Madras high court on Thursday said the Supreme Court, which had laid down a strict schedule for MBBS admissions, allowed high courts to breach it several times. As a result, no one knows where people and courts stand vis-a-vis admission schedules for medical education, Justice V Ramasubramanian said on Wednesday.

"It appears that the Supreme Court repeatedly fixed time schedules and warned statutory authorities not to violate the time schedule. But, quite a few orders passed by various courts beyond the time schedule were also upheld by the Supreme Court. Therefore, no one knows what the law is and where we stand. Our education in law appears to be inadequate to understand the law of education," he said.

The matter concerns 84 vacant MBBS seats in two private unaided medical institutions - 32 seats in Chennai Medical College & Research Centre in Trichy and 52 seats in Tagore Medical College & Hospital in Chennai. A batch of 28 students, who had earlier turned down MBBS seats in other private medical colleges owing to high fees, approached the HC saying they should have been considered for admission in these colleges.


In 2005, for the first time, the Supreme Court set a schedule for entrance tests and counseling for admissions. It also set September 30 as the last date for admission every year. In April this year, the court reiterated the schedule, and warned authorities of contempt action if they did not comply with it.

Trouble erupted in June/July this year, when the Medical Council of India refused renewal of permission for five colleges in TN. They failed to earn any reprieve before single judges, who said they would not violate the schedule fixed by the SC. However, a division bench directed the Centre to consider renewal of permission. The Centre found itself in a piquant situation, as following the HC order would mean contempt of the apex court, while not following it would amount to contempt of the HC.

In the meanwhile, on September 18, the SC, passing orders on a different batch of cases filed by medical colleges from across the country, sought to bend its own schedule saying the country needed more doctors and hence MBBS seats could not be allowed to go waste. It permitted these colleges to admit students this year, but set conditions - it asked them to admit only students sponsored by governments as per merit list and charge only government fee, which works out to a mere 12,000 in TN as against 3 lakh upwards charged by private colleges.

Out of the five colleges from TN, only two chose that option, and the government forwarded 150 students each for admission. It is in these colleges that 84 seats remained vacant. Some students moved the HC saying they were overlooked for admission in these colleges.

Justice Ramasubramanian, empathising with the plight of these students, however, said he did not propose to violate the SC-set schedule. Asking the government to redo the entire list for these two colleges or throwing out students already admitted or giving relief only to 28 students who have come to the court would open a Pandora's Box, the judge said. As a way out, the judge asked the students and managements of these two colleges to approach the SC for remedy.