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HC calls for all files as govt picks new DME

Madurai: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Friday raised questions over the government’s proposed appointment of Edwin Joe as director of medical education (DME) and called for all files relating to the appointments of DMEs since 2014.

The court’s observations came on a contempt case filed by the dean-cum-special officer of Karur Government Medical College, S Revwathy, who has been fighting for her right to the promotional post of DME for two years. The additional advocate general told the division bench of Justices N Kirubakaran and R Tharani that the state’s health and family welfare department had prepared a panel of names for the appointment of the new DME, from which it had chosen Edwin Joe.

The post of DME had fallen vacant on December 28, 2015, after the then DME S Geethalakshmi became vice-chancellor of TN Dr MGR Medical University. As per the norms framed by the government, Revwathy should have been appointed as DME. But the government appointed Madras Medical College dean R Vimala as DME on March 18, 2016, by relaxing the rule under the Special Rules for Tamiil Nadu Medical Service. Thereafter, it appointed Coimbatore government medical college dean Edwin Joe on April 25, 2017. TNN

Jio tops chart with peak 4G speed of 25.6 mbps in Nov: Trai 


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Reliance Jio topped the chart of 4G broadband service providers for the 11th straight month by recording a peak download speed of 25.6 mbps for November 2017, data published by telecom regulator Trai showed today. Vodafone, the closest competitor to Jio, registered a top download speed of 10 megabit per second (mbps) followed by Bharti Airtel 9.8 mbps and Idea Cellular 7 mbps in November 2017, as per Trai data.

In October, Jio had registered a top speed of 21.8 mbps. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) collects and computes data download speed with the help of its 'MySpeed' application on a real-time basis.

In terms of upload speed, Vodafone overtook Idea Cellular in November by registering a speed of 6.9 mbps. Idea logged a peak upload speed of 6.6 mbps, followed by Jio which registered a speed of 4.9 mbps. Airtel recorded an upload speed of 4 mbps. In October, Idea had topped the chart by registering the highest upload speed of 7.1 mbps.

BDS MIGRATION

Government of India  Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Medical Professionals/Students and  General Public are hereby informed that the Medical Education in the country is governed by the Indian Medical Council (IMC) Act, 1956 and various rules and regulations made thereunder which are mandatory and binding in nature.

It is brought to the notice that migration of students from one medical college  to another medical college in India is regulated under Clause 6 of Regulations on Graduate Medical Education (GME), 1997.

 Sub-Clause 4 of Clause 6 of GME Regulations states that:

“6(4) For the purpose of migration an applicant candidate shall first obtain ‘No Objection Certificate’ from the college where he is studying for the present and the university to which that college is affiliated and also from the college to which the migration is sought and the university to it that college is affiliated. He/She
shall submit his application for migration within a period of 1 month of passing (Declaration of result of the 1st Professional MBBS examination) alongwith the above cited four ‘No Objection Certificates’ to: 

(a) the Director of Medical Education of the State, if migration is sought from one college to another within the same State, or 

(b) the Medical Council of India, if the migration is sought from one college to another located outside the State.”

Forthwith the request for migration of a medical student may be sent to the respective authorities and no such application shall be sent to Ministry of Health & 

Family Welfare directly. 

(Ali R.Rizvi)Joint Secretary, Medical Education

MCI bars open school students from NEET UG

by Admin | Jan 18, 2018 | MCI, NEET UG |

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has barred students who have completed class 12 examination through open and distance mode from appearing in NEET UG citing lack of practical knowledge. The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) under the human resource development (HRD) ministry said the decision will deprive thousands of students the opportunity to pursue medical education. HRD minister Prakash Javadekar and Union health minister JP Nadda was to hold a meeting on Wednesday 17th January to take a call on the issue. More than 2 lakh students register every year with NIOS and close to 3,000 had registered for NEET exam in 2017, the official said. “Across India, the number would be higher. Out of 3,000 NIOS students, 864 qualified the test too. So it is unfair to bar them,” said a senior official.

In a letter to NIOS, the Medical Council of India (MCI) said they had examined the proposal to allow these students to take the test. However, it pointed out that NIOS students would not be on par with those from the regular mode. “…they would be ineligible for NEET on an equitable basis,” reads the letter sent in 2017.

NIOS officials claimed that in the past, MCI board of governors had said if the required criteria of graduate medical education regulation is fulfilled by students appearing in 10+2 exams by the NIOS, they would be eligible for MBBS admission. “It was proposed by the MCI,” said a health ministry official.

NIOS officials said their syllabus was more rigorous and students are examined on the syllabus for class XI and XII, whereas other boards examine learners just on class XII syllabus.

“We can’t equate regular students with those who complete class 12 from correspondence as the latter don’t get practical lessons,” said a member of the MCI, justifying the rationale for the Council’s decision.

Medical Reporter