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Added : ஆக 04, 2019 01:08

சென்னை:திருவாரூர் தேரில் இருந்து, கீழே விழுந்து இறந்த, சிவாச்சாரியார் குடும்பத்திற்கு, மூன்று லட்சம் ரூபாய், நிவாரண நிதி வழங்க, முதல்வர், இ.பி.எஸ்., உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளார்.

திருவாரூர், தியாகராஜ சுவாமி கோவிலில், நேற்று முன்தினம் நடந்த தேரோட்டத்தில், சிவாச்சாரியார் முரளி, 56, நிலை தடுமாறி விழுந்து, இறந்தார்.அவரது குடும்பத்தினருக்கு, தியாகராஜ சுவாமி கோவில் நிதியிலிருந்து, மூன்று லட்சம் ரூபாய் வழங்க, முதல்வர் இ.பி.எஸ்., உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளார்.

Tiruvarur temple priest falls off chariot, dies

DECCAN CHRONICLE.

PublishedAug 4, 2019, 6:13 am IST

Sivachariyaar was rushed to the Government medical college hospital here from where he was referred to a private hospital in Thanjavaur.

Even as priest Murali Sivachariyaar was performing the closing poojas to the deity in the temple car, he accidentally fell to the ground from a height of 15 feet.

Tiruvarur: The chief priest of the Sri Thiyagaraja Swamy temple here, Murali Sivachariyaar (56) died after he accidentally fell off the temple car while performing poojas to the processional deity of Goddess Kamalambigai after the temple chariot reached its base at Tiruvarur on Friday night.

The Thiyagaraja Swamy temple is one of the popular Shiva temples in Tamil Nadu and the annual Adipooram festival began on July 24 with flag hoisting ceremony.

As part of the festival, the processional deity of Goddess Kamalambigai was taken in a temple car on Friday through main thoroughfares and reached its base around 8.30 pm. Even as priest Murali Sivachariyaar was performing the closing poojas to the deity in the temple car, he accidentally fell to the ground from a height of 15 feet.

Sivachariyaar was rushed to the Government medical college hospital here from where he was referred to a private hospital in Thanjavaur. But the priest succumbed to head injuries there, police said on Saturday

Aspiring girl medico, U.S. citizen by birth, gets HC reprieve

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | J STALIN

Published  Aug 4, 2019, 7:00 am IST

Justice G.Jayachandran gave the directive while disposing of a petition from student Abirami Anbalagan.

Madras high court

Chennai: Coming to the rescue of an aspiring MBBS girl student, born to Indian parents but in the US and became a US citizen by birth, who has been allotted a medical seat in Chennai on the condition to produce the Indian citizenship certificate by August 8, the Madras high court has directed authorities to accommodate her in the college provisionally on the condition that if she fails to produce the certificate within 12 weeks, the institute will terminate her admission.

Justice G.Jayachandran gave the directive while disposing of a petition from student Abirami Anbalagan.

Petitioner's counsel P.V.S.Giridhar submitted that the petitioner's father is a practising advocate in Chennai and her mother was a doctor. In 2001, her father was employed in TCS and posted in USA for a year and her mother accompanied him. She was born on June 30, 2001, in USA and she became a US citizen by birth. Her family returned to India in February 2002 itself and she has been residing with her parents in India from then on. The petitioner, who belongs to MBC category, after completing her plus-2and clearing Neet, she applied to the selection committee for MBBS under both government and management quota. Meanwhile, on becoming a major on June 30, 2019, she applied for Indian citizenship on July 8, he added.

Giridhar said the petitioner attended the counseling on July 11, 2019, and during verification of original documents, the selection committee stated that she was not entitled for seat under MBC since she was not an Indian citizen and treated her as an overseas citizen of India. When she approached the secretary, selection committee, she was instructed to get the transfer certificate updated by inserting the reference to her application for Indian citizenship and also an affidavit stating that she has applied for Indian citizenship. Accordingly, she produced the updated transfer certificate and an affidavit. In the second round of counseling on July 31, she was allotted with a seat in ESIC medical college in K.K.Nagar, Chennai.

However, she was not permitted to get admitted to the college and informed that her allotment would be confirmed once she submit the order passed on her application for Indian citizenship and till then the allotment would be withheld. She was further informed that she has to submit the order granting her citizenship within 3 days before the mop-up counseling, failing which allotment would be cancelled. Therefore, the petitioner has filed the present petition, Giridhar added.

The judge directed the authorities to accommodate the petitioner in the ESIC medical college, K.K.Nagar, Chennai, provisionally on the condition that if she fails to produce the citizenship certificate within 12 weeks, the institute will terminate her admission without further notice and on the part of the petitioner, she shall give an undertaking that if she was unable to produce the citizenship certificate within 12 weeks, she will get back all her certificate and also compensate the monetary loss of Rs 10 lakh as mandated in clause 15 of the prospectus, the judge added.

Gujarat HC: He can’t flip his hand but that doesn’t mean he can’t study MBBS

TNN | Jul 25, 2019, 08.05 AM IST

AHMEDABAD: In an important judgment, the Gujarat high court has overturned the decision of the medical board disqualifying Rajkot’s Harshil Upadhyay from participation in medical admission, because he cannot flip his right hand.

While quashing the medical expert’s opinion that Upadhyay is not fit to perform a doctor’s work, Justice Bela Trivedi reminded the government of the ideals of the Disabilities Act and said that it should “endeavour to provide inclusive education to the children with disabilities. The authorities should take all measures to enhance the object of the benevolent legislation by interpreting the provisions of rules and regulations to ensure that the persons with disabilities enjoy the right to equality and the life with dignity.”

Upadhyay is diagnosed with locomotor disability with right hand being affected with bilateral radio ulna synostosis. This restricts supination and pronation of his right hand. The medical board as well as the appellate board said that because of the primary impairment, he would suffer from a mechanical disadvantage to the muscles of the wrist that makes the hand functions difficult. This would hamper his motion rendering him ineligible for performing a doctor’s work.

The student challenged the expert’s decision before the HC, and his advocate Sudhir Nanavati stressed on the provisions of the law that Upadhyay was adjudged 55% disabled, which falls in the benchmark disability – 40% to 80%. Any candidate falling under this range disability is eligible for admission under the quota meant for the physically handicapped.

The state government vehemently opposed Upadhyay’s case and insisted that his case falls under the category which is held as unsuitable for a particular task. It maintained that with disability in his hand, Upadhyay cannot perform all jobs of a doctor. Advocate Nanavati countered this argument by submitting that Upadhyay may not be fit to perform a surgery, but there are various faculties in the field of medicine, he can pursue. His prospects cannot be curtailed only on the ground that he is not suitable for the career of a surgeon.

After hearing the case, the HC quashed the board’s decision which had held Upadhyay unsuitable for a doctor’s work and ordered the admission committee to grant him admission in MBBS under the quota for disabled on basis of his merit.

Talking Point: Should final year MBBS exam be considered as an entrance exam for PG

TNN | Jul 31, 2019, 12.43 PM IST

The National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill 2019 proposes final year MBBS exams to be treated as an entrance test for PG courses. Stakeholders share its pros and cons

More focus on internships

The final year MBBS assessment includes a theory exam and an internship. Most of the students are extremely caught up in preparing for NEET-PG that they are unable to focus on acquiring the skills through the internship. In medical profession, practical skills are more important than theoretical knowledge. If the final exams are treated as an entrance for PG courses, students will have to focus on only one exam and it will allow students to focus on their internships. Maintaining uniform standards of examination, evaluation and teaching in around 450 medical colleges will be a challenge.

- Dr VN Jindal, former dean, Goa Medical College and member of Executive Council, Medical Council of India (MCI)

Uniformity is a must

Entrance exams are conducted with a purpose to check a student’s knowledge of MBBS course as a whole. Hence, focussing on only final year exam will not justify the assessment for the PG entrance exam. Final year exams are theory based and assessment with subjectivity has more chances of bias during evaluation. All the medical colleges across the nation have different standards of examination and evaluation; hence, any national level exam should have a uniform pattern to provide fair chance to all the students.

- Dr VB Singh, principal and controller, Jawaharlal Nehru (JLN) Medical College, Ajmer

Need to develop soft skills

Medical students aspire for postgraduate courses for career betterment but with entrance exam being the key to get into these courses, students often neglect development of patient treating skills and devote their time in preparing themselves for exam oriented studies to excel in the entrance examination. Competitive entrance exams and skill-based tests should be coupled with assessment of communication skills, scientific and rational approach towards the patient.

- Dr Sandhya Satish Khadse, dean, Rajiv Gandhi Medical College, Mumbai

Exam system needs to evolve

The final year MBBS exams are not completely indicative of the level of understanding of the student. The exams are divided into a written and a practical one. The written exams revolve around bookish knowledge and the practicals only manage to scrape the surface of practical skills. Thus, a distinction of merit made on the basis of final year exams in MBBS would be unfair. Our medical entrance examinations system needs to take a cue from the United States Medical Licensing

Examination (USMLE) to design an entrance exam that gauges a student’s ability to render a well-rounded approach with a real-time perspective rather than rote learning that helps neither the candidate nor the healthcare ecosystem in the country.

- Rishabh Shetty, MBBS degree holder and PG aspirant

MBBS students boycott classes across TN to protest NMC Bill

Medical students in other districts also staged various protests.

Published: 03rd August 2019 04:39 AM

Madras Medical College students staging a protest against NMC Bill on Friday | R Satish Babu

By Express News Service

CHENNAI/VELLORE/MADURAI: Hundreds of medical students staged a sit-in at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai, boycotting classes on Friday to protest against the Central government’s National Medical Commission Bill 2019 which makes NEXT (National Exit Test) mandatory for MBBS students to practise in the country.

Around 700 MBBS students of the Madras Medical College staged the protest from 8 am to 5 pm, also opposing the term ‘Community Health Provider’ used in the NMC Bill, which allows persons without medical background and with just six months’ training to practise modern medicine.

Dr GR Ravindranath, general secretary, Doctors’ Association for Social Equality, said, “The President should not give assent for the Bill. The Centre should drop the Bill and bring back Medical Council of India. The six-month bridge courses for anyone to practise modern medicine as proposed in the Bill will be disastrous.”

Medical students in other districts also staged various protests.
Human chain in Vellore: Students of government medical college hospital formed a ‘human chain’ on the premises of the hospital in protest against the Bill and NEXT exam. Over 300 students, belonging to first, second and pre-final years, took part in the protest at Adukkambarai in Vellore district.


In Madurai, 200 students of the Madurai Medical College, in association with the Madurai chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), formed a human chain on Panagal Road near the IMA office. The students wore black badges as a form of protest. The NMC Bill proposes to conduct a common final-year MBBS examination -- the NEXT -- for medical students to obtain licence to practice.

Chennai power shutdown: Check the full list of areas to have electricity cut on August 5
According to a statement from Tangedco, power supply will be suspended from 9 am to 4 pm on August 5th.

Published: 03rd August 2019 06:27 PM

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: For carrying out maintenance work, power supply will be suspended by Tangedco on August 5 from 9 am to 4 pm in these following areas. According to a statement from Tangedco, power supply will be resumed before 4 pm if work is completed.

RAJAKILAPAKKAM: Velachery main road part, 100 feet road, Rajeshwari nagar and Extension, Dhanalakshmi nagar, Sriram nagar, Santhana Lakshimi st, Ganapathy colony Area.

SOTHUPERUMBEDU: Sothuperumbedu, karanodai, Solavaram Entire area, Sirunium, Kotamedu, Kamarpalayam, vijayanallur, Sembulivaram.

VELACHERY: Part of 100 feet Bye pass road, Venkateswara Nagar, Lakshmi Nagar, Vaduvambal Nagar, MGR Nagar, Orandiamman koil st.


MADHAVARAM: GNT Road, Brindhavam Garden, Prakash Nagar, Ponniaman medu, Periya salai, Thanigasalam nagar, ‘E’ Block, ‘F’ Block Nethaji salai, Ganapathy thottam.

AVADI: Police Battalian II, H.V.F Road, TSP Camp-II , C.T.H Road, B.V Puram, O.C. F Road, Avadi bus stand, Nagammai nagar.

TONDIARPET: K.H Road, Thiyagappa chetty st, Mennambal nagar, Bharathi nagar, New sastri nagar, Motchapuram, JJ nagar, Sudhanthirapuram, Kamaraj nagar.