மருத்துவ மாணவர்கள் 107 பேர் தனியார் கல்லுாரிக்கு மாற்றம்

Added : மே 29, 2019 22:41

சென்னை, காஞ்சிபுரம், பொன்னையா ராமஜெயம் மருத்துவ கல்லுாரியில் படித்த, 107 மாணவர்கள், கவுன்சிலிங் வாயிலாக, தனியார் மருத்துவக் கல்லுாரிக்கு மாற்றப்பட்டனர்.காஞ்சிபுரம் மாவட்டம், மணமைநல்லுாரில், பொன்னையா ராமஜெயம் என்ற, தனியார் மருத்துவக் கல்லுாரி செயல்பட்டது. 

இந்திய மருத்துவ கவுன்சில் விதியை பின்பற்றாததால், கல்லுாரியின் அங்கீகாரம் ரத்து செய்யப்பட்டது.இதனால், 2016 - 17 கல்வியாண்டில், இக்கல்லுாரியில் சேர்ந்த, 108 மாணவர்களை, ஆறு தனியார் மருத்துவக் கல்லுாரிக்கு மாற்ற வேண்டும் என, உயர் நீதிமன்றம் உத்தரவிட்டது. இதற்கான கவுன்சிலிங், சென்னை, கீழ்ப்பாக்கத்தில் உள்ள, மருத்துவக் கல்வி இயக்குனரக அலுவலகத்தில், நேற்று நடந்தது;
107 மாணவர்கள் வந்திருந்தனர்; ஒரு மாணவி பங்கேற்வில்லை.இதில், 50 மாணவர்கள், சிதம்பரம், ராஜா முத்தையா மருத்துவக்கல்லுாரிக்கும், 10 மாணவர்கள், மேல்மருவத்துார், ஆதிபராசக்தி மருத்துவக்கல்லுாரிக்கும் மாற்றப்பட்டனர். மற்றவர்கள், காஞ்சிபுரம், கற்பகவிநாயகா; கோவை, கற்பகம்; சென்னை, தாகூர்; மதுரை, வேலம்மாள் மருத்துவ கல்லுாரிகளுக்கு மாற்றப்பட்டனர்.

Visually impaired med aspirant gets reprieve

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | J STALIN

PublishedMay 30, 2019, 4:07 am IST

Stating that the benefit of the relief given by the single judge to allot a seat to Vibin shall be given effect to for the academic year 2019-2020.

Madras high court

Chennai: Madras high court directed the authorities to allot a medical seat to a minor student with more than 40 % visual impairment. The court pointed out that the notification issued by the Medical Council of India dated February 4, 2019 making persons with visual impairment of low vision and blindness equivalent to or more than 40 per cent ineligible to join the medical course, would operate prospectively and it cannot be given effect to retrospectively.

Dismissing the appeals filed by the state government and the Government Pudukottai Medical College Hospital in Pudukottai, a division bench comprising Justices Pushpa Sathyanarayana and T.Krishnavalli gave the directive and upheld an order passed by the single judge, directing the authorities to allot a medical seat to J.Vibin of Tirunelveli.

Stating that the benefit of the relief given by the single judge to allot a seat to Vibin shall be given effect to for the academic year 2019-2020, the bench directed the Selection Committee to pass appropriate orders in this regard immediately.

"Before parting with this matter, this court places on record its appreciation to the efforts put forth by Vibin to become a medical practitioner. Indeed, his tireless efforts are laudable and surely deserve appreciation. This court wishes Vibin to come up with flying colours in his endeavours", the bench added.

Vibin is a physically challenged student, having benchmark disability of visually impairment to an extent of 75 % as per certificate issued to him by the Government of Tamil Nadu. He has secured the requisite marks in the qualifying examinations and participated in NEET examination. Thereafter, through online counselling, he got selected and allotted to the Government Pudukottai Medical College Hospital.

When he went to the college, he was asked to produce Disability Certificate from one of the Disability Assessment Boards. Accordingly, he appeared before Special Medical Board (Madras Medical College) and it was certified that he was suffering from visual impairment to an extent of 90 % and hence he was not eligible for admission in Medical/Dental Courses as per MCI norms. He was denied medical seat in the college. Aggrieved, he approached the high court and a single judge had allowed the petition. Assailing the same, the state government and the college filed the present appeals.

Dismissing the appeals, the bench said Vibin was suffering from not less than 40 percent of specified disability, which means, he was a person with benchmark disability. According to the senior counsel for the petitioner, since Vibin was suffering from benchmark disability, he was entitled to claim a seat out of five percent seats, which ought to have been reserved for persons with benchmark disabilities, the bench added.

The bench said a similar question as to whether a person with benchmark disability of low vision can be denied the benefit of reservation for admission to the MBBS medical course came for consideration before the Supreme Court. As the recommendation of the committee formed by the MCI was not given statutory effect and the amendment proposed was only at secretariat level, the Supreme Court held that the petitioner therein cannot be denied of medical admission. Placing reliance on the provision (5 percent reservation) and the judgment of the apex court, the single judge passed the order. However, subsequently, the MCI brought an amendment by which the persons with 40 percent or more visual impairment were not eligible to join a medical course. The MCI issued the notification on February 4, 2019 in which it was stated that they shall come into force from the date of the notification. Hence, it goes without saying the notification would operate prospectively and it cannot be given effect to retrospectively, the bench added and gave the above directive.

Can’t bar candidates with learning disabilities: Madras high court

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | J STALIN

PublishedMay 30, 2019, 4:10 am IST

Bench said the Preamble of the PWD Act does not permit any deviation from the Act.

Madras High Court

Chennai: The Madras high court has observed that candidates with learning disabilities or any other disability should not be barred from entering the field of medicine.

"The principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (PWD Act) should be followed in their letter and spirit", said a division bench comprising Justices Pushpa Sathyanarayana and T. Krishnavalli.

The bench made the observations while referring to the recent amendment notified by the Medical Council of India, making the persons with 40 percent or more visual impairment ineligible for medical course.

Dealing with a case of a medical aspirant, who was denied seat on the ground that he was suffering from visual impairment to an extent of 90 %, the bench said the amendment would operate prospectively and cannot be given effect to retrospectively and directed the authorities to allot a seat to the petitioner.

While considering a question as to whether the 2019 amendment to the Medical Education Regulations suggested by the Expert committee was applicable to the case of the petitioner J.Vibin, the bench said in the light of the PWD Act and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the recent guidelines of MCI were unfair, discriminatory and unlawful.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2007was accepted and ratified by India by which it was mandatory to harmonise all its existing legislations in line with its provisions. Accordingly, the PWD Act was passed in 2016 and brought to force in 2017.

"The intention of the legislature was to move from a charity approach to a right based approach and safeguard the human rights of the Persons with Disabilities. As per the Act, any person with benchmark disability, i.e., minimum 40 % of a specified disability is entitled, as a matter of right, to avail the benefits under the PWD Act including 5 percent reservation in higher education", the bench added.

Bench said the Preamble of the PWD Act does not permit any deviation from the Act. While framing the guidelines, doctors with disabilities ought to have been considered. The competence of a doctor with disability cannot be assumed, as unless it was experienced one may not understand the same. If a person with visual impairment was already a doctor, it shall be possible for a blind person to be a doctor.

Dr.Y.G.Parameshvera of Karnataka was the first Indian blind doctor and practiced medicine and won several awards. It seems to be a difficult struggle for these blind men to achieve what they want. The petitioner is not the first blind doctor and he can learn from the experiences of others like him. Being blind need not destroy one's dreams", the bench added.

The bench said even most of the hospitals in the country were not disabled friendly. It was painful to note that no time allowance was given to persons with disabilities and they crack this tough competitive examination along with/on a par with others, the bench added.

Reproducing section 21 and 10 of the PWD Act, the bench said the MCI regulations denying reasonable accommodation was discriminatory. The MCI guidelines did not foresee the emotional impact of studying medicine with disabilities.

"The arbitrary sudden and unreasoned amendment to the notification is violative of Article 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India and also the doctrine of legitimate expectation. The subsequent amendment should not operate to the prejudice of the persons with disabilities, particularly, when the person (Vibin) had qualified and cleared the eligibility criteria", the bench added.

The bench said in the case on hand, the petitioner (Vibin) was given the benefit of joining the medical course in the ensuing academic year by the writ court and the same cannot be curtailed by any reason whatsoever, which was unsustainable in the eye of law and thrashing out his legitimate expectation.

SC allows wife of convict to live with in-laws’ family

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | PARMOD KUMAR

PublishedMay 30, 2019, 1:54 am IST

Quashes HC’s ruling on woman’s stay with Catholic community.

Supreme Court of India  30.05.2019

New Delhi: The Supreme court on Wednesday set aside the Madras high court order directing Ansar Nisha, a woman, to be kept in the custody of Madras Christian Council Social Service home even though she had expressed the wish to stay in her matrimonial home after she married a life convict Tajudeen.

Noting that Ansar Nisha is a major — 22 year old —and has expressed her desire to stay with the family of her husband, who is presently in custody, the vacation bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose said, “we do not see how the high court could have passed impugned interim order directing the appellant (Ansar Nisha) to be housed in the home at Madras Christian Council of Social Service,...”

Referring to the averments made before the court today, the bench in its order said, “It is quite clear that the appellant (Ansar Nisha) is clear of her intention to stay with her in-laws in their house and not with her parents. If that is so, we find no justification for the high court to pass the impugned order.”

Pronouncing the order, Chief Justice Gogoi said, “The appellant being a major would have a right to choose to stay in the house of her husband along with the relatives of the husband.”

Setting aside April 29, 2019, interim order of the high court, the top court today directed that Ansar Nisha, to be released from the home at Madras Christian Council of Social Service, where she is presently lodged. The high court by its April 29, 2019, interim order had continued the custody of Ansar Nisha with the Chennai based Madras Christian Council Social Service home till June 13.

The high court while continuing the custody of Ansar Nisha at Madras Christian Council Social Service home had said that it was open to the home to give her counselling. The high court had also permitted the mother and elder brother of Nisha to meet her.

The court also added that if the mother and elder brother of Nisha wanted to meet her, then they would have to first approach an all women police station at Perambur and only then, they can meet her in the presence of a police official.

Ansar Nisha had earlier filed a domestic violence against her mother and brother alleging that they have misappropriated 250 gms of gold jewellery given to her by her father for her marriage. She had also alleged that she was beaten up. She had further alleged that her mother and brother forcibly tried to marry her to a dumb man. The top court had on May 10 issued notice to Tamil Nadu government and Ansar Nisha’s family.

Couple running illegal abortion centre behind departmental store nabbed

Sources say action was taken after the Collector received a complaint from relatives of a woman who underwent an abortion at the illegal centre and developed complications.

Published: 30th May 2019 03:51 AM |

By R Sivakuma

Express News Service

TIRUVANNAMALAI: A married couple was arrested by the Tiruvannamalai police on Wednesday for allegedly running an illegal abortion centre. Surgical instruments and medicines used at the centre, set up behind a departmental store on the Avalurpet Road, were seized.

Police say the centre has been functioning from the same place for the last five years. P Kavitha of Krishna Nagar was running the centre while her husband G Prabhu, who has a medical shop in the town, helped her manage the affairs, occasionally.

“Based on information, we raided the centre Tuesday night and seized some equipment. We believe there is an illegal abortion racket behind the centre. We are probing for further details,” said police superintendent Sibi Chakravarthy. Kavitha, a school dropout, allegedly had hundreds of clients, mostly unmarried women. She used the help of touts to get new patients. Police have found that Prabhu is not qualified to be a pharmacist, and his shop does not have a license. Later in the day, raids were also conducted at scan centres where the suspect had her clients scanned.


Sources say action was taken after the Collector received a complaint from relatives of a woman who underwent an abortion at the illegal centre and developed complications. Authorities, however, maintained the complaint was lodged by the Joint Director of Medical Services. This is the second such case to be reported from Tiruvannamalai.

Second case in the last six months

This is the second such case to be reported from Tiruvannamalai in recent times. Last December, another couple was arrested for the same crime.

5K guest lecturers getting paid just Rs 15K per month?

In January, UGC hiked their pay but the govt is yet to implement the wage revision

Published: 30th May 2019 04:08 AM |

By Sushmitha Ramakrishnan

Express News Service

CHENNAI: Guest lecturers of government arts and science colleges have not received any pay revisions in the last three years. Despite doing as much work as regular lecturers, about 5,100 guest lecturers working in Tamil Nadu get paid only Rs 15,000, without any scope for performance appraisal, alleged Venkatesan Thangaraj of the Tamil Nadu All Government College UGC Qualified Guest Lecturers Association.

In January, the University Grants Commission hiked the salary for guest lecturers in colleges and universities to Rs 1,500 per lecture subject to a maximum of Rs 50,000 per month. In February 2010, the UGC made a similar announcement and fixed the maximum pay for guest lecturers as Rs 25,000.

Despite these pay hikes existing on paper, the government is yet to implement them, said Thangaraj. “While the Kerala government implemented the order, the Tamil Nadu government has not implemented it. Guest lecturers in the State get paid only Rs 15,000 a month,” he said. The State had revised the salary from Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 a month in 2016.

Mangat Sharma, the principal secretary to the Higher Education Department, said that the department is working on regularising the jobs of the guest lecturers.”We are working on a more permanent solution. We are strategising ways to make them permanent employees,” he said. Express could not get comments from R Sarumathi, the director of Collegiate Education, despite repeated calls and messages.

A guest lecturer from Thiruvannamalai Government Arts and Science College, on condition of anonymity, said that guest lecturers work almost as much as or even more than lecturers appointed by the government. “Colleges use us to compensate for their vacancies. We teach equal number of hours as regular faculty members. We still do not get the pay mandated by the UGC.”

He added that lecturers who have cleared the National Eligibility Test as mandated by UGC get paid the same as unqualified guest lecturers.

Madras HC allows suspended government staff for US trip

Subbiah, an Assistant Executive Engineer with Sulur Sub-Division in Coimbatore district, was suspended on May 31, 2018, the day of his retirement, following certain charges.

Published: 29th May 2019 03:11 AM

Madras High Court 

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has granted permission to a government servant, who had been suspended from service on the last day of his retirement and facing disciplinary proceedings, to visit Atlanta in the United States to participate in the house-warming celebration of his son.


Justice RMT Teekaa Raman, who granted the permission to K Subbiah, however, restricted the number of days to 45 only.

Subbiah, an Assistant Executive Engineer with Sulur Sub-Division in Coimbatore district, was suspended on May 31, 2018, the day of his retirement, following certain charges.

He moved the High Court with the present petition to grant him three months to go to Atlanta to participate in the house-warming celebration of his son, scheduled for June 13.