Madras University invites applications for PG course

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

MANGALURU, JUNE 01, 2019 00:00 IST

Applications invited

The Department of Kannada, University of Madras, Chennai, has invited applications for admissions to its regular post-graduation course in Kannada and M.Phil in Kannada for 2019-20. Call Ph: 9840239321 or 8939387354.

801 students of Mailam college get placements

JUNE 01, 2019 00:00 IST

UPDATED: JUNE 01, 2019 05:39 IST

Leading MNCs, IT firms offer jobs at the Achievers’ Day

As many as 801 candidates received offer letters at a hiring drive at Mailam Engineering College which recently celebrated Achievers’ Day.

M. Dhanasekaran, chairman and managing director, Mailam Subramaniya Swamy Educational Trust, presided over the programme.

Vice-chairman S.V. Sugumaran, MLA and trust secretary Narayanasamy Kesavan felicitated the dignitaries.

S. Senthil, principal, and Rajendran Dandapani, business solutions evangelist, Zoho Corporation; gave away offer letters to 801 students who were placed in various MNCs such as TCS, CTS, Infosys, HCL, Wipro, OFS, Emphasis, Sutherland Global Services, IDBI Federal, Kotak Mahindra and so on during the academic year 2018-19. Placement officer Sathish Kumar explained the placement made during the year.

A one-day national seminar on “Nanobiophotonics – Imaging and Sensing- NANOBP’19” sponsored by CSIR, New Delhi, was conducted in IFET College of Engineering, Villupuram.

The seminar was inaugurated by V. Velmurugan, associate professor, Centre of Nanotechnology, VIT, Vellore, who was the chief guest.

In his inaugural address, Prof. Velmurugan explained the synthesis, properties and application of nanomaterial.

P. Hema of the department of information technology and V.S Shruthi of the department of computer science and engineering, hosted the afternoon sessions on image processing and sensing related to nanotechnology.

K.V. Raja, chairman; A. Mohamed Ilyas, vice-chairman; K. Shivaram Alva, secretary, G. Mahendran, principal; S. Matilda, vice-principal and dean academics; and J. Asha, dean placement, participated.

The programme was coordinated by a team led by K. Sivasankari.

(Compiled by

M. Dinesh Varma)

Bharathidasan University receives A+ Grade NAAC accreditation certificate

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TIRUCHI, JUNE 01, 2019 00:00 IST

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has presented the Certificate of Accreditation specifying A+ Grade to Bharathidasan University.

The university was given a CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average) of 3.32 on a four-point scale at the start of April based on the Self-Study Report submitted by the University to NAAC and the Report of the Peer Team of NAAC which inspected the University during 26th to 28th March 2019.

P. Manisankar, Vice-Chancellor, called on the Governor of Tamil Nadu and Chancellor of Bharathidasan University Banwarilal Purohit earlier this week and apprised him about the Certificate of Accreditation.

Congratulating the Vice-Chancellor on the achievement, the Governor encouraged the university to continue its efforts persistently so as to figure among the first 25 institutions in NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework) India Ranking.

In a press release, G. Gopinath, Registrar, said Bharathidasan University has advanced to 60th place in NIRF India Ranking in University Category for 2019 (from 67th place in 2018) and to 94th place in NIRF India Ranking in Overall Category for 2019 (from above 100 in 2018).

The CGPA of 3.32 has paved way for the university to conduct distance education programmes and on-line courses, and entitles the university to more funding from Central Government agencies, the release from Bharathidasan University said.

Bribery case accused denied bail again

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NEW DELHI, JUNE 01, 2019 00:00 IST

He tried to secure ‘Two Leaves’ symbol for Sasikala faction of AIADMK

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed the bail plea of Sukesh Chandrashekar, who was arrested in 2017 for allegedly bribing Election Commission officials to secure the ‘Two Leaves’ symbol for the Sasikala-led faction of the AIADMK.

Justice Mukta Gupta said, “Despite the fact that no charge under Section 467 IPC has been framed, the allegations against the petitioner are serious in nature as there has been recovery for a sum of Rs. 1.30 crore from his hotel room.”

The forged identity card of Member of Rajya Sabha and a forged sticker of Member of Parliament affixed on the Mercedes car clearly gave entry to the petitioner in all sensitive areas, thereby compromising on security, the High Court order said.

The High Court and the trial court denied him bail on several occasions.

Interestingly, Justice Gupta pointed out that he also tried to influence the jail officers to do him favours.

A charge sheet was filed by the police before the trial court in the case in July 2017, alleging that T.T.V. Dhinakaran and Chandrashekar conspired to bribe EC officials to get the ‘two leaves’ symbol.

The police also included in the charge sheet allegations of forgery.

Govt. doctors oppose transfers

R. SujathaWilson Thomas

CHENNAI/COIMBATORE, JUNE 01, 2019 00:00 IST

UPDATED: JUNE 01, 2019 04:30 IST

Say the resulting loss of posts will impact patient care

The Health Department on Friday launched a week-long compulsory counselling for transfer of doctors to peripheral hospitals and rural medical colleges to comply with the Medical Council of India’s norms.

As many as 900 doctors, including seniors, from clinical and non-clinical specialities, have been asked to attend the counselling. But this could lead to the removal of nearly 400 posts in government medical college hospitals across the State and impact patient care, the affected doctors said. They blamed the government for not implementing its order of 2009.

At that time when the doctors had demanded time-bound promotion and higher pay band, the government said it would provide promotions based on vacancy. Of the 11,000 doctors (in the three directorates — Medical Education, Medical and Rural Health Service and Public Health) 2,500 should have been promoted since then. The order was never implemented but recruitment continued. There are now 18,000 doctors in government service.

“The MCI norms on minimum criteria are meant for private medical college hospitals. The structure is entirely different in government medical college hospitals,” Tamil Nadu Government Doctors’ Association (TNGDA) secretary N. Ravishankar said, suggesting that counselling should start from higher posts to lower posts so as to fill up all vacancies.

A. Ramalingam of Service Doctors and Postgraduates Association said the Civil Medical List should be followed. The government, according to him, is looking at institution-wise seniority list which was hurting the promotion prospects of seniors. “For a college to admit 150 students it should have 500 beds. But in all our government medical college hospitals the bed strength is around 750 to 1,000. The current restructuring has not considered patient workload,” he said.

Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar, however, dismissed the concerns and said, “We need to do this exercise to increase the number of postgraduate seats in the State. The MCI has given us guidelines and we are following that. We are trying to retain those with super-speciality experience by placing them on deputation. We are moving these specialists to where there is a requirement, without causing too much displacement.”

New Vice-Chancellor for Open University

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CHENNAI, JUNE 01, 2019 00:00 IST

K. Parthasarathy, the new Vice-Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Open University, receiving his appointment order from Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Friday.Special arrangement

Governor-Chancellor Banwarilal Purohit has appointed K. Parthasarathy as the Vice-Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Open University for a period of three years with effect from the date of his assumption of office.

Mr. Parthasarathy, who specialised in the field of androgogy has served as a professor for over 22 years in Bharathidasan University. Apart from serving in various capacities including the head of department and dean of faculty, he was the founder Director of Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (IECD) at the university.

Apart from being a member in the academic council, executive council and on the planning board of Bharathidasan University he has been on its Board of Studies. He has been a member in the BoS of Annamalai University, Barathiyar University and University of Madras.

As a teacher he has been involved in the introduction of 117 new courses and formulation of innovative academic programmes such as rural technology and trouble shooting and maintenance of electrical and electronics equipment.

He has guided 17 Ph.D. research scholars and has to his credit 24 research papers and eight books, indicating his rich experience in the area of promoting research, according to a release.

Govt. advises its staff to avoid casual attire

Dennis S. Jesudasan

CHENNAI, JUNE 01, 2019 00:00 IST

Dress code:According to the latest advisory, women employees must wear sari, salwar kameez or churidhar with dupattaFile photo

‘Wear neat, clean, formal dress’

The State government has made an amendment to the Secretariat Office Manual advising employees in the Secretariat to avoid casual attire while on duty. Government servants are required to wear “neat, clean, formal attire that is appropriate to the workplace setting so as to maintain the decorum of the office while on duty,” stated a G.O. issued by the Chief Secretary.

The G.O. specified sari or salwar kameez or churidhar with dupatta of sober colour for women and formal shirts and trousers for men. “Casual attire shall be avoided,” the G.O. stated.

While appearing before a court or tribunal or any other judicial body, a male officer should wear a full-sleeved short buttoned-up coat and trousers and if he prefers, an open coat. “He should invariably put on a tie and the dress should be sober and subdued in colour and design.”

As for a female officer, she should wear a sari or salwar kameez or churidhar with dupatta of a sober colour, it added.

The amendment issued on May 28 removed the paragraph in the Secretariat Office Manual that reads: “Government servants are not bound by any restrictions in the matter of dress and are at perfect liberty to wear, while on duty, whatever dress they like, provided it is in conformity with the ideas of decency current in society.”

Office Assistants attached to Ministers and officers of the Secretariat are to use items of identification supplied to them while on duty.

S. Peter Anthonysamy, president, Tamil Nadu Secretariat Association (TANSA), said following several complaints the government made these changes. “Government staff could dress in line with the culture of the State. We will abide by the rules.”