பல்கலைக்கு மத்திய அரசு உத்தரவு

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புதுடில்லி, : 'பிஎச்.டி., மாணவர்கள் சமர்ப்பிக்கும், ஆராய்ச்சி கட்டுரைகளில் இடம் பெற்றுள்ள தகவல்கள், திருடப்பட்டவையா என்பதை கட்டாயம் கண்டறிய வேண்டும்' என, பல்கலைகளுக்கு, மத்திய அரசு உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது.ராஜ்யசபாவில் நேற்று, இது பற்றி, மனிதவள மேம்பாட்டுத்துறை அமைச்சர், பிரகாஷ்ஜாவடேகர் கூறியதாவது:பல்கலைகளில், பிஎச்.டி., படிக்கும் மாணவர்கள் சமர்ப்பிக்கும் ஆராய்ச்சி கட்டுரைகள் அனைத்தும் போலி என, கூற முடியாது. ஆனால், கருத்துகள் திருடப்பட்டு, சில கட்டுரைகள் சமர்ப்பிக்கப்படுகின்றன. இதனால், பல்கலைக்கு அவப்பெயர் ஏற்படுகிறது.அதனால், ஆராய்ச்சி கட்டுரைகளின் உண்மை தன்மை, கட்டாயம் கண்டறியப்பட வேண்டும் என, பல்கலைகளுக்கு, அரசு உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது.இவ்வாறு அவர் கூறினார்.

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India Today Expose: How medical colleges scam NEET, sell seats to underachievers

Nitin Jain
Meerut/Lucknow
July 17, 2018
UPDATED: July 17, 2018 20:40 IST

HIGHLIGHTS

Seats are pre-blocked for low-ranking MBBS hopefuls in exchange for heavy donations

Some medical colleges were ready to take underachievers in, bypassing merit

Slots are already booked for potential bribe givers


India Today busts cash-for-seat scam

Unscrupulous elements in the country's medical-education sector appear to be brazenly circumventing NEET by pre-blocking seats for low-ranking MBBS aspirants in exchange for heavy donations, an India Today investigation found.

The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test, or NEET as it is commonly called, replaced the All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) and other individual exams conducted by colleges in 2013. The exam aims to ease mental and financial burden on medical aspirants, prevent malpractices like capitation fee and ensure merit remains the sole criterion for admissions.

But India Today's special investigation team found how some medical colleges were able to bypass merit.

Meerut's Mulayam Singh Yadav Medical College's (not linked to the Samajwadi Party founder) CEO, Dr Himani Agarwal, offered a medical slot in her institute for a donation of Rs 15 lakh per underperforming applicant.

"Here, we are taking Rs 15 lakh from those scoring less than 200 marks (in NEET). The fee structure will be separate," she told India Today reporters posing as relatives of a low-ranking medical candidate. "This Rs 15 lakh is only for donation. Okay? The rest are fees and annual charges. In total, it's Rs 16 lakh for the first year, Rs 11 lakh for the second, third and fourth and Rs 5.5 lakh for the final year," Dr Agarwal explained.

"Listen to me carefully. The admission will be done," she promised. "That's why we are taking the money. (After admissions through conselling) we have seats left for the (final) mop-up round. In all, we have 150 seats. We hope 50-60 will be left for the mop-up round. We'll close down the (pre-booking) of admissions after 30 seats (are sold)," the CEO claimed.

NEET requires qualifiers to apply to designated counselling authorities for recommendation to colleges on merit, government and private alike. The leftovers from the counselling stage can then opt for the final mop-round to secure admissions where the cases are sent to colleges that still have vacancies. And that's where some institutes like Dr Agarwal's spin the swindle.

Before the mop-up lists are sent, they have already booked slots for potential bribe givers.

CONNIVANCE WITH CORRUPT OFFICIALS

Dr Agarwal admitted that the scam is executed in connivance with corrupt officials.

"Basically, all this cash is shared with others. This is the procedure," she confessed.

"Can we book the seat now?" probed the reporter.

"That I will book with cash (in hand). We also will have to forward a lump-sum amount. In order to keep the seat vacant (reserved), we will also have to give away (money). Bribes work everywhere brother. Around 98 per cent of money will not remain with us. Try to understand, we'll have something (concrete) for us only if we charge in crores," she replied.

Dr Agarwal told the undercover reporters that as many as 12 seats had already been blocked by donation givers. "Five to six more will be done in a day or two," she said.

THE VITAMIN C CODE

India Today next investigated Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital in Lucknow's busy Sarfarzgunj area.

Officials named Waseem Mohsin and Waseem Ahmed at the Era Medical College asked for "Vitamin C" - a code for hard cash or capitation fee to get a NEET underachiever in.

"The process remains the same. Your candidate's name will be picked, Inshallah. We'll try. It's possible to get her in during the first round. Else, we'll go to the mop-up. God forbid, if it doesn't materialise, your keepsake (cash) would be returned to you," Mohsin said.

"How much for the keepsake?" the reporter asked.

"10 (lakh)," Mohsin responded.

"This is Vitamin C," interrupted Ahmed. "This is the cash part, separate from the fees. You can say donation, medicine. You can say Vitamin C but you can't mention cash," he explained.

At the TS Misra Medical College and Hospital in Lucknow's Amausi area, the team met two officials, Manish Tripathi and Narendra Pandey, who identified themselves as finance officers of the institute.

"That's what we are sitting here for. We want something, so does the college which has to fill up at least 150 seats," said Tripathi, recalling the institute charged around Rs 10 lakh on an average from backdoor entrants last year.

"It started with 20 (lakh). Some negotiated it at 15 (lakh), some at 12 (lakh), some at 13 (lakh)," Pandey added.

TRANSPARENT ADMISSION PROCESS

Dr Sarojini Agrawal, president of Meerut's Mulayam Singh Yadav Medical College, denied the institute was involved in admission malpractices. "I don't know what you have on your CD. I haven't seen it," she told India Today. "But what I know is that the admission process has been completely transparent in our medical college. This is our first batch. All seats were filled through recommendations of counseling authorities."

She claimed there was no scope of "manipulation" in admissions. "It's totally baseless to say that students with less than 200 marks could be admitted because the minimum cut-off has been 329. So, it's misleading to say money exchanged hands for admissions. We don't have any management quota either. Our process is completely transparent and open to scrutiny."

Waseem Ahmed of Era's Lucknow Medical College also denied any wrongdoing. "I never said that admission is possible without proper NEET score. This is the DG Medical Education and the government which can decide on admission. How can we decide on taking admissions?" he claimed. "Everything will be done through the DGME (director general of medical education), counseling, fee, documentation, everything. How we can do this? You tell me how it is possible. We don't do such kind of practices."

Responding to the investigation, Minister of state for health Ashwini Kumar Choubey said the government was committed to take stern action against any college found indulging in malpractices.

"If any college is found indulging in malpractices and there is sufficient evidence to prove it, the state governments will take appropriate action. The central government, if apprised of such malpractices, would recommend strong action against such colleges," he said.

The minister warned that institutes found selling off slots could lose their recognition. "I would like to appeal to all students and their guardians not to get misled by any such colleges. If the state governments recommend action, the central government can very well cancel their recognition. Action could also be initiated against those taking admission by corrupt means. Our government is committed to take strongest possible action against corrupt colleges," he said.

V-C selection panel formed

Dennis S. Jesudasan

CHENNAI, JULY 20, 2018 00:00 IST

Selection panel formed
for Tamil varsity V-C

The Governor has formed a five-member Selection Committee chaired by former High Court judge M. Jaichandren to select the Vice-Chancellor of Tamil University in Thanjavur. As per a notification, IAS officer S.K. Prabhakar academician M. Manivel and former Vice Chancellors K. Karunakaran and K. Vaidyanathan were some of the other members.

While Mr. Prabhakar is the government nominee, Mr. Manivel is the Senate nominee.

Appointments in univs across India stopped

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:20.07.2018

Appointment of academic staff in institutions of higher education across India has stopped after the University Grants Commission on Thursday asked all central universities, state universities and deemed universities receiving grantin-aid from the government or the commission and inter-university centres to postpone the process.

The UGC move followed an instruction from the HRD ministry due to a special leave petition filed before the Supreme Court regarding implementation of the government’s reservation policy. HRD minister Prakash Javadekar informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that the government is committed to 50% reservation for SC/STs and OBCs and that it “does not agree” with the Allahabad HC ruling that had struck down a circular prescribing institution-wise reservation to fill vacant faculty positions.

“We are hopeful we will be able to save reservation for SC, ST and OBCs,” he said replying to zero-hour mention by opposition members.

Delhi University and Allahabad University immediately postponed ongoing interviews. The recruitment of around 2,000 faculty posts in DU has been stalled due to confusion over the implementation of UGC’s March 5 notification that reservations for SC/ST posts be calculated department-wise, not institution-wise. While most colleges had cancelled the interviews some colleges had started the process but that too now stands postponed.



COMMITTED TO THE CAUSE

States to submit affidavits on translated NEET papers

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:  20.07.2018

The Centre would be taking affidavits from state governments on accuracy of translated NEET question papers from the next year, Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday.

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is conducted by the CBSE for admission to MBBS/ BDS courses.

Javadekar was responding to an issue raised by AIADMK member Vijila Sathyananth regarding inaccurate translation of NEET questions in Tamil and the problems faced by students, during zero hour in Rajya Sabha. She said 49 questions in the paper translated in Tamil were vague due to problems in translation and the students suffered.

APIL was filed in this regard and the court awarded grace marks to affected students, she said. Javadekar said as the matter was in court, he won’t speak much on the issue.

He, howeversaid the translators were provided by the Tamil Nadu government.

The minister further said that from the next year, the Centre would be taking affidavit from state governments that the translation done by their language experts was correct.

The AIADMK member had also pointed out that students appearing for the NEET exam had to travel to distant places to write the paper.

To this, Javadekar said he has already ordered that from the next year there would be no displacement of students.

As another member wanted to speak on the issue, chairman MVenkaiah Naidu said the minister has assured the house that students will have facility to write exam in their respective places.

Bar on women for Sabarimala purity, temple board tells SC

AmitAnand.Choudhary@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:20.07.2018

Travancore Devaswom Board, which manages the Sabarimala temple, on Thursday justified the ban on entry of women in the menstruating age group of 10-50 years into the temple and told the Supreme Court that the restriction was in place to maintain purity of the temple which depicted “perennial brahmacharya (celibacy)”.

Appearing before a constitution bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices R F Nariman, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra, the board’s counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi argued it was wrong to say that there was gender discrimination and ban on entry of women as there was just a restriction on entry of women in the age group of 10-50 years. He said people from all castes and religions were allowed to enter the temple as were women below 10 years and above 50 years.

He said there were thousands of Ayyappa temples across the country and such restriction was not there in any of them and women, irrespective of their age, could visit those temples.

“Why do women want to visit only Sabarimala temple? There are many other temples of Lord Ayyappa and they can go there. There is no such restriction. Sabarimala temple is supposed to depict ‘naishtika brahmacharya’, his great powers deriving specifically from his ascetic endeavours, in particular from abstention from sexual activities, and the practice is also followed by pilgrims before and during the pilgrimage to Sabarimala,” Singhvi said.

The bench, however, said it was devotion that drove people to go to a particular temple and it was the choice of devotees. “Once you say a person is not allowed to visit the temple, then you have to justify the prohibition,” the court said. It also questioned why the board’s notification only talked about age restriction when the purpose was to restrict menstruating women from entering the temple.

The board said the court would have to go into history and mythology to find out what set this temple apart from others and to find out why women in the reproductive age group, that is between 10 and 50 years, were not allowed.

The hearing remained inconclusive and will resume on July 24.



‘TEMPLE DEPICTS CELIBACY’