பாகுபாடில்லாத சமூகத்தை உருவாக்கும் கல்வி முறை பட்டமளிப்பு விழாவில் ஓய்வு நீதிபதி பேச்சு

Added : செப் 29, 2019 00:42

மதுரை:"பாகுபாடில்லாத சமூகத்தை உருவாக்கும் கல்வி முறையே சிறந்தது'' என உச்சநீதிமன்ற ஓய்வு நீதிபதி கோகலே தெரிவித்தார்.மதுரை காமராஜ் பல்கலையின் 53வது பட்டமளிப்பு விழா கவர்னர் பன்வாரிலால் புரோஹித் தலைமையில் நடந்தது.கோகலே பட்டமளிப்பு உரையாற்றியதாவது: கல்வி அறிவையும் திறனையும் வளர்க்கிறது. ஆயிரக்கணக்கானோருக்கு கிடைக்காத கல்வி நமக்கு கிடைத்துள்ளது என பட்டம் பெற்றோர் உணர வேண்டும். இதன் மூலம் ஜாதி மதம் பொருளாதார பாகுபாடில்லாத சமுதாயத்தை உருவாக்கும் மனநிலை ஏற்பட வேண்டும். தற்போது சுற்றுச்சூழல் சீரழிவு புவி வெப்பமயமாதல் பிரச்னையை உலகம் எதிர்கொண்டுள்ளது. ஆரோக்கியமான சுற்றுச்சூழலுடன் கூடிய தொழில்மயமாக்கம் குறித்த விழிப்புணர்வு ஏற்பட வேண்டும் என்றார்.துணைவேந்தர் கிருஷ்ணன் பேசுகையில் "இதுவரை ஒரு கோடிக்கும் மேற்பட்ட பட்டதாரிகளை பல்கலை உருவாக்கியுள்ளது. கல்வி மற்றும் ஆராய்ச்சியை மேம்படுத்தும் நடவடிக்கையால் தேசிய அளவில் (என்.ஐ.ஆர்.எப்.) 54வது தரத்தில் இருந்து 45வது இடத்திற்கு முன்னேறியுள்ளது" என்றார்.உயர்கல்வி அமைச்சர் அன்பழகன் செயலாளர் மங்கத்ராம் சர்மா பல்கலை பதிவாளர் சுதா சிண்டிகேட் உறுப்பினர்கள் டாக்டர் ஆர்.லட்சுமிபதி, தீனதயாளன், ராமகிருஷ்ணன், பாரி பரமேஸ்வரன், லில்லிஸ் திவாகர், கலெக்டர் ராஜசேகர், மாநகராட்சி கமிஷனர் விசாகன் மற்றும் பலர் பங்கேற்றனர். விழாவில் 271 பேருக்கு பி.எச்.டி. உட்பட 51,528 பேருக்கு பட்டம் வழங்கப்பட்டது.

பான் எண்-ஆதார் இணைப்பு டிச.,31 வரை நீட்டிப்பு

Updated : செப் 28, 2019 19:50 | Added : செப் 28, 2019 19:49 |

புதுடில்லி: பான் எண் உடன் ஆதார் எண்ணைஇணைப்பது டிச.,31 வரை நீட்டிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இது குறித்து மத்திய நேரடி வரிகள் வாரியம் தெரிவித்து இருப்பதாவது: பான் எண்ணுடன் ஆதார் எண்ணை இணைப்பதற்கான கால அவகாசம் செப்.,30ம் தேதியுடன் நிறைவடைவதாக இருந்தது. இந்நிலையில் பான் எண்ணுடன் ஆதாரை இணைப்பதற்கான கால கெடுவை வரும் டிச.,31 ம் தேதி வரை நீட்டிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளதாக தெரிவித்துள்ளது.

‘Education must lead to betterment of society’

Students should strive for excellence in their area of specialisation: former Judge

29/09/2019, STAFF REPORTER,MADURAI

Good counsel: Governor Banwarilal Purohit handing over a degree certificate to a student at the convocation of Madurai Kamaraj University on Saturday. G. Moorthy

“Education should lead you to a change in your mindset and pave the way to establish a society in which there will be no discrimination on the basis of caste, religion, gender or income,” said former Supreme Court judge H. L. Gokhale here on Saturday.

Delivering the 53rd convocation of Madurai Kamaraj University. Mr. Gokhale appealed to the graduates to take moral responsibility and remind themselves of the plight of thousands of youngsters who did not have the means to enter the portals of educational institutions. A number of luminaries from the State such as former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and father of India’s Green Revolution M. S. Swaminathan had contributed to the country’s development. Students must strive to achieve excellence in their area of specialisation.

Focusing on burning issues such as climate change, Mr. Gokhale said high carbon emission and global warming were causing concern. “We need industrialisation but also a good ecosystem,” he said citing the example of 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. “Let us be aware of these issues and make good use of the education to address these issues,” he said.

Of the 51,528 candidates, 270 received the degree in person and the rest in absentia. A total of 62 medals and prizes for students in undergraduate and postgraduate courses were distributed as well. Governor Banwarilal Purohit presided and distributed the degree certificates. Vice-Chancellor M. Krishnan, who presented the annual report, said Madurai Kamaraj University’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) had improved from 54 in 2018 to 45 this year.

The ‘entrepreneurship hub’ would conduct training programmes in the affiliated colleges. A sum of ₹53.50 crore had been released for the second phase of Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), under which infrastructure upgrade works had been undertaken, Mr. Krishnan said.

Higher Education Minister K. P. Anbalagan and secretary Mangat Ram Sharma were present.

Sowmiya gets Ph. D

Sowmiya Anbumani, Managing Director of Makkal TV and wife of Pattali Makkal Katchi leader and Rajya Sabha member Anbumani Ramadoss, received her Ph.D in Sociology at the Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU), here on Saturday.

Ms. Ramadoss did her thesis under the guidance of professors K. Muthuchelian and R. Kannan, from the Bio Energy and Sociology departments respectively. Her thesis was titled ‘Studies on the role of village forest council in betterment of rural livelihood besides ensuring forest biodiversity resources in Tamil Nadu’. She was among the 270 candidates who received the degree from Governor Banwarilal Purohit.

Flight makes emergency landing as woman goes into labour
Dubai-Manila route flight was diverted to Hyderabad

29/09/2019, STAFF REPORTER,HYDERABAD

A Manila-bound flight carrying 325 passengers made an emergency landing at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here after a woman went into labour pain in the wee hours of Saturday.

“Flight 5J15 of Cube Pacific airlines flying on the Dubai-Manila route was diverted to the Hyderabad airport around 4.55 a.m. after an expecting woman passenger of Filipino nationality reported contractions mid-air,” sources at theRajiv Gandhi International Airport said.

A medical team and ambulance were put on stand-by after the flight captain alerted the Air Traffic Controllers to the medical emergency.

Delivery in ambulance

The team attended on Mananieta Baby Jean, 26, immediately after the flight landed. “Jean delivered a baby boy in the ambulance while she was being shifted to the airport medical centre around 5.30 a.m.,” said an official, adding the ambulance was about 100 metres away from the medical centre when the baby was born.

He said the mother and the baby were shifted to a corporate hospital in Jubilee Hills and would soon be ready to return to their destination.

The flight departed around 8 a.m. after making an emergency parking payment of ₹6 lakh to airport authorities, said the official.

Speculation surrounds Dharmapuri medical student’s credentials
Verification panel awaits his appearance

29/09/2019, P.V. SRIVIDYA,DHARMAPURI

Speculation was rife about the credibility of the candidature of one particular student, after the Dharmapuri Government Medical College completed the verification of the bona fides of all but one student, admitted through NEET this year.

However, the verification committee, which was convened last week in the wake of the NEET impersonation scam, has decided to wait for the student concerned — who is reported to have gone on a long leave on medical grounds — to report to the college and produce himself before the committee on Monday.

A total of 100 students were admitted to the MBBS course at the Dharmapuri Government Medical College this year. However, only 99 students were cleared by the committee. The remaining one student has been absent since September 8.

The Vice Principal of the Dharmapuri Medical College, G. Murugan, who is also the head of the verification committee, said the student in question had vacated the hostel on September 7 and submitted a letter to the hostel authorities, stating that he was going home for a surgery for appendicitis.

However, the letter from the DME was received on September 20, and the vetting process began the same day.

The student was already on medical leave at the time. So, the committee had sent a letter by registered post to the student’s address, but there has been no response so far. According to Dr. Murugan, the committee is hoping that the student will turn up for verification on Monday, the 30th of September.

4 medicos under scanner are ex-students of defunct college

They were among 36 students the MCI wanted discharged from MBBS course

29/09/2019, SERENA JOSEPHINE M.,CHENNAI

Udit Surya K.V., who was arrested by the CB-CID in connection with a case of impersonation in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), and three other students who were questioned by the police are former students of the now-defunct Ponnaiyah Ramajayam Institute of Medical Sciences, Manamai Nellur, Kancheepuram. They were among 36 students who joined the MBBS course without qualifying for NEET during 2016-2017 and were later discharged from the college.

Udit Surya, a resident of Chennai, was studying at the Government Theni Medical College when two emails to the dean revealed that he had secured admission through impersonation. Based on a tip-off from him, the CB-CID detained Abirami Madhavan of Sai Satya Medical College, Praveen S. of SRM Medical College and and Raghul Davis of Balaji Medical College.

In a letter in February 2017, the Medical Council of India (MCI) directed the dean of Ponnaiyah Ramajayam Institute of Medical Sciences to issue discharge notices to 36 students who were admitted to the MBBS course without NEET qualification. The list featured the names of Abirami Madhavan, Rahul Davis, Udit Surya K.V. and Praveen S.

Earlier, the college trust, along with these students and a few others, had approached the Madras High Court, seeking permission to allow the 36 students in question to appear for the examination as they had completed an academic year. The college management had admitted them based on their Plus Two marks.

The students were unable to appear for the MBBS examination in November 2017 since their admissions were not approved by MCI. On its part, the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University declined to register these students as they had not qualified for NEET-UG 2016 and were ineligible to be granted admission to the MBBS course. It directed that all 36 of them should be discharged from the course.

R. Narayana Babu, director of medical education in-charge, said all three students detained by the CB-CID were admitted to deemed universities.

“The seats were not allocated by the Selection Committee. They have secured the admission directly with the deemed universities through the NEET scores,” he said.

Questions raised

A senior authority has raised questions about the way in which the Selection Committee, Directorate of Medical Education, had cleared two students from the PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore.

The institute’s dean had reported to the DME and Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University that the photographs in the NEET documents of the two first-year MBBS students did not match their appearance. Though the college had initially planned to lodge a police complaint, it later decided to send the students to the Selection Committee to get a genuineness certificate, official sources said.

“A detailed inquiry should have been held before the students were cleared,” an official said.

MUTA loses control of Madras varsity

Elections to senate, syndicate held

29/09/2019, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,CHENNAI

The Professors’ Forum has wrested control of governing bodies of the University of Madras.

For the first time, the Madras University Teachers’ Association (MUTA), once a strong voice for the faculty of the university, has no representation in the university’s senate or syndicate.

In the elections held on Saturday for vacancies in the senate and the syndicate, all seats contested went to members of the Professors’ Forum or those who had opposed the Association of University Teachers.

Contestants said of the 262 members in the academic council, as many as 240 persons had voted.

‘Streamlining necessary’

The University of Madras will follow rules to streamline M.Phil and Ph.D admissions, vice-chancellor P. Duraisamy informed the academic council.

Mr. Duraisamy said the streamlining was necessary as he had noticed in the last two years that colleges often failed to provide details of admission by the September deadline.