அமெரிக்க பல்கலையில் இந்தியருக்கு பதவி

Added : மார் 04, 2019 00:41



ஹூஸ்டன் : அமெரிக்காவில் உள்ள பென்சில்வேனியா பல்கலை துணைத் தலைவராக, அமெரிக்க வாழ் இந்தியரான, மேதா நர்வேகர், 59, நியமிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

அமெரிக்காவில் உள்ள, பிரசித்தி பெற்ற பென்சில்வேனியா பல்கலையின் துணைத் தலைவராக பதவி வகிக்கும், லெஸ்லி கருஹ்லி, ஜூன், 30ல் ஓய்வு பெறுகிறார். இதையடுத்து, புதிய துணைத் தலைவராக, பல்கலையில், முன்னாள் மாணவர்கள் தொடர்புத்துறை அதிகாரியாக பணியாற்றி வரும், அமெரிக்க வாழ் இந்தியரான, மேதா நர்வேகர் நியமிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார். நர்வேகர், 32 ஆண்டுகளாக, பென்சில்வேனியா பல்கலையில் பணியாற்றி வருகிறார்.

Madras HC can’t interfere with routine administration of state: Judge

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | J STALIN

PublishedMar 3, 2019, 2:28 am IST

The petitioner, a cook, said there was a surprise inspection conducted by a team from DVAC and the police recovered Rs 2,000.

Madras High Court

Chennai: The Madras High Court has said that it cannot interfere with the routine administration of the state or its organisations. "In the event of such routine interference in administration, more specifically in transfer cases, the very discipline and functioning of the administration would be paralysed", the court observed

Justice S.M. Subramaniam made the observation while dismissing a petition filed by one G. Sankaralingam, challenging an order of the District Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Officer, Villupuram, transferring him from the Adi Dravidar Welfare Boys Hostel at Thumboor to Tindivanam.

The petitioner, a cook, said there was a surprise inspection conducted by a team from DVAC and the police recovered Rs 2,000. He was able to establish that the amount was withdrawn from his bank account and no action was taken in this regard. Subsequently, he was transferred citing this reason, he said.

Justice Subramaniam said the court was of the opinion that transfers could be issued on various grounds. Mr Sankaralingam's transfer order stated that he was transferred on administrative grounds and in the interest of administration. This apart, the petitioner was transferred from Thumboor to Tindivanam, which was not far away and located within the same district.

Transfers were imminent in respect of public servants, whenever a wide complaint against the employee was made known to the competent authorities. In certain circumstances, there may not be evidence to prosecute the employee or to initiate departmental disciplinary proceedings, the judge said.

The competent authorities may be of the opinion that continuance of a public servant in a particular place would cause inconvenience as well as a difficult situation for public administration.

In those circumstances, transfers alone were the remedies. Therefore, it was not necessary that there must be a transfer only after conducting an enquiry or initiation of disciplinary proceedings, Justice Subramaniam said.

The judge said administrative transfers were the prerogative of the department concerned and the competent authorities were the best ones to assess the situation and take action. Those competent authorities should act in the public interest and only in the event of any illegality or some personal motive could the employee approach the court for appropriate remedy.

Justice Subramaniam said that in the absence of any such legal ground, routine administrative transfers can never be interfered with by the constitutional courts.

"The place or post can never be claimed as a matter of choice by the public servants. All public servants are dutybound to perform their duties diligently and with utmost care and devotion. This being the basic principles to be followed and erosion in this regard can never be tolerated either by the officials or by the courts", he said.

The judge said the judicial review of administrative transfers must be exercised with restraint and only in exceptional circumstances can such orders can be interfered with by the High Court.

This being the scope of judicial review of administrative transfers, the court was of the opinion that the petitioner had not established strong acceptable grounds for the purpose of interference in the order of transfer, Justice Subramaniam said and dismissed the petition.

Soon, government order on incentive marks for service doctors in PG admissions

The committee was constituted on the directives of the Madras HC order dated May 17, 2018, to identify remote, difficult and rural areas for awarding incentive marks to government service-doctors.

Published: 04th March 2019 03:33 AM

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: The State health department is likely to issue a government order soon on providing incentive marks for service doctors in PG medial admission, after a seven-member committee chaired by a retired judge of Madras High Court A Selvam completed its assessment report.

The committee was constituted on the directives of the Madras High Court order dated May 17, 2018, to identify remote, difficult and rural areas for awarding incentive marks to government service-doctors for admission to PG courses for 2019-2020. A Edwin Joe, Director of Medical Education, told Express that one of the members of the committee had said," The committee completed its geographical areas assessment report and classified the areas into four categories, namely hilly, difficult areas in plains, rural and remote areas. The committee is now in the process of giving definition for these areas. Once, its submits it with those definitions, the G.O. will be issued. This will take another couple of weeks," he said.

He said the committee has marked 119 areas in hilly category, 660 in difficult areas in plains, 23 in remote areas, and 1021 in rural areas. These areas come under the Directorate of Public Health institutions, that is Primary Health Centres. Similarly, there are 20 areas in hilly regions, 85 in difficult areas in plain and three areas in remote and 119 areas in rural on the Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services side.

Meanwhile, another official said, "Ten incentive marks will be provided per year to service-doctors who worked in hilly areas, nine marks will be provided to doctors who worked in difficult areas in plains, eight marks to doctors who worked in remote areas and five marks will be provided to doctor who worked in rural areas," the official added. The committee also had asked the collectors to submit the list of remote, difficult and rural areas in their districts.


In April, the Madras High Court quashed Government Orders (GOs) of the State health department dated March 9, as amended in the subsequent GO dated March 23 last and clause 16 of the prospectus for admission to PG degree/diploma courses in the State of Tamil Nadu for 2018-2019 session.

Stone laying for new rail line from Dharmapuri to Morappur today

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal will lay the foundation for the 36-km long Dharmapuri-Morappur new railway line, in Dharmapuri on Monday.

Published: 04th March 2019 05:07 AM |

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: Railway Minister Piyush Goyal will lay the foundation for the 36-km long Dharmapuri-Morappur new railway line, in Dharmapuri on Monday.


According to a release, the minister will also participate in a function at Egmore through video-conferencing, where he will announce the extension of Tambaram-Tirunelveli Antyodaya Express to Nagercoil and also flag off train no.16101/16102 Chennai Egmore-Kollam daily express train. As part of the development of 36 km new line, two major bridges, 24 minor bridges, five road over bridges and 15 road under bridges will be built. The section will have two level-crossings at Ranimukkanur and Mukkanur.

The extension of Antyodaya Express to Nagercoil is expected to provide better connectivity between Central districts with Nagercoil, the release said.

Misconduct: 3 lawyers debarred for five years

The Committee, headed by senior advocate R Singaravelan, found that the three lawyers were guilty under various sections of the Advocates Act and that of the Bar Council.

Published: 03rd March 2019 06:19 AM 

By Siva Sekaran

Express News Service

CHENNAI: THE Disciplinary Committee attached to the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry has debarred three advocates from practising for five years for their misconduct and violation of the Bar Council rules.

The charges against the three advocates – A Raveendran, A Jeyakumar and M Murugan –were that they had fraudulently filed three separate affidavits before the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal in Chennai, claiming compensation for the one and same accident without the knowledge of the victim, involving a vehicle, involved in some other accident elsewhere on some other date.

The Committee, headed by senior advocate R Singaravelan, found that the three lawyers were guilty under various sections of the Advocates Act and that of the Bar Council. In fact, they all deserved the major punishment of removal from the Bar, Singaravelan said in the order delivered on Feb 27.


However, as the three advocates expressed their willingness to pay `3 lakh each, to the family members of the victims, the committee modified the punishment to six months. They shall submit DDs for the amount in favour of the claimants and hand over the same straight away to the victims, the order said. The committee also suggested involvement of the State Legal Services Authority to curb such frauds.

Tamil Nadu: Mother-daughter land government jobs together

Mother of three girls, N. Santhilakshmi, a BA and B.Ed, started looking for a job to sustain her family after her husband A. Ramachandran's death in 2014.

Published: 02nd March 2019 04:29 PM 

By IANS

CHENNAI: A 47-year old woman and her 28-year-old daughter who attended coaching classes together and took the same examination have got jobs with the Tamil Nadu government.

Mother of three girls, N. Santhilakshmi, a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Education graduate (B.Ed), started looking for a job to sustain her family after her husband A. Ramachandran's death in 2014.

"I was a homemaker. But after my husband died I decided to take up a job," Santhilakshmi told IANS.

Last year, Sannthilakshmi and her elder daughter R. Thenmozhi started attending the free coaching classes run by G. Senthilkumar, a school teacher, in the Theni district.


"Santhilakshmi had come to the coaching centre for her daughter's admission. But when we told her that she too can write the examination, she decided to join," Senthilkumar said.

For jobs classified Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission Group IV, there is no age bar for the candidates having higher qualifications than the prescribed minimum qualification of Class 10, he informed.

"In the class where the other students were in the age group of her daughter, Santhilakshmi never hesitated to raise doubts. When she was not able to attend classes, her daughter would teach her at home," Senthilkumar said.

"I will be posted in the Health Department. I hope my posting will be in Theni. I will still join my duty if that is not possible," Santhilakshmi said.

Her daughter Thenmozhi, a B.A (Tamil Literature) graduate, will be posted in the Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Department.

MADRAS VARSITY ASSESSES QUALITY OF 1,400 TEACHERS

04.03.2019  TOI

In a bid to address questions on the quality of education at self-financing colleges affiliated to the University of Madras, as many as 1,400 teachers employed with these colleges were given qualification approval after assessment. They were assessed by subject experts during a ten-day session conducted by the varsity. These qualified teachers are now eligible for answer-sheet evaluation, can be part of committees to set syllabus and also eligible to become members of bodies like academic council. Qualification of around 5,000 teachers associated with these colleges is yet to be scrutinised.