ஆதார் பதிவு முகாம் பள்ளிகளில் ஏற்பாடு

Added : அக் 25, 2019 23:41

சென்னை, தபால் நிலையங்கள் வாயிலாக ஆதார் பதிவு முகாம் நடத்த பள்ளிகளில் ஏற்பாடுகள் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன.நாடு முழுவதும் அரசின் அனைத்து திட்டங்களுக்கும் ஆதார் எண் முக்கிய அடையாள எண்ணாக பயன்படுத்தப்படுகிறது.வங்கி கணக்கு சமையல் எரிவாயு உதவி தொகை திட்டங்கள் நல திட்டங்கள் மற்றும் பள்ளி கல்லுாரி மாணவர் சேர்க்கை தேர்வுகள் என அனைத்திற்கும் ஆதார் எண் பயன்படுத்தப் படுகிறது. இதையொட்டி பள்ளி கல்லுாரிகளிலேயே மாணவர்களின் ஆதார் எண்ணை பெற்று உரிய விபரங்கள் சேகரிக்கப் படுகின்றன. அதனால் பள்ளிகளில் ஆதார் எண் பதிவுக்கான முகாம் நடத்தப்படுகிறது. நடப்பு கல்வி ஆண்டில் ஒவ்வொரு பள்ளியும் தங்கள் எல்லைக்கு உட்பட்ட மண்டல தபால் அலுவலகங்கள் வழியே இந்த முகாம்களை நடத்துமாறு கல்வித்துறை அதிகாரிகள் அறிவுறுத்தி உள்ளனர்.

15 மணி நேரமாக தொடரும் குழந்தையை மீட்கும் பணி : அடுத்து என்ன?

Updated : அக் 26, 2019 08:22 | Added : அக் 26, 2019 08:10

திருச்சி : திருச்சி அருகே நடுக்காட்டுப்பட்டியில் ஆழ்துளை கிணற்றில் விழுந்த குழந்தையை மீட்கும் பணி தொடர்ந்து 15 மணி நேரமாக நடந்து வருகிறது. இதுவரை எடுத்த அனைத்து முயற்சிகளும் தோல்வி அடைந்ததால், அடுத்து என்ன செய்யலாம் என்பது குறித்து ஆலோசிக்கப்பட்டு வருகிறது.




மணப்பாறை அருகே உள்ள நடுக்காட்டுப்பட்டியில் வீட்டின் அருகே உள்ள நிலத்தில் 4 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன் தோண்டப்பட்டு, மூடப்படாமல் இருந்த ஆழ்துளைக்குள் 2 வயது சிறுவன் சுஜீத் வில்சன் விழுந்தான். நேற்று (அக்.,25) மாலை 5.40 மணியளவில் ஆழ்துளைக்குள் விழுந்த குழந்தையை கேமிரா, மைக், ஆக்சிஜன் உள்ளிட்ட கருவிகளுடன் மீட்கும் பணி நடந்து வருகிறது. அமைச்சர்கள் விஜயபாஸ்கர், வெல்லமண்டி நடராஜன், வளர்மதி, திருச்சி கலெக்டர் உள்ளிட்டோர் சம்பவ இடத்தில் இருந்து, அடுத்த என்ன செய்யலாம் என்பது குறித்து ஆலோசித்து வருகின்றனர். தற்போது சென்னையில் இருந்து பேரிடம் மீட்புக் குழுவும் நடுகாட்டுபட்டிக்கு விரைந்துள்ளது.



இதுவரை எடுத்த முயற்சிகள் அனைத்தும் தோல்வி அடைந்ததால், கடைசி முயற்சியாக நவீன கருவிகளை கொண்டு மீட்க முயற்சி மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டு வருகிறது. 30 அடியில் இருந்து 70 அடி ஆழ்திற்கு சென்று விட்ட குழந்தையின் கைகளில் கயிறு கட்டி எடுக்கலாமா என்பது பற்றியும் ஆலோசிக்கப்பட்டு வருகிறது. மறுபுறம், ஆழ்துளையை சுற்றி 4 புறங்களிலும் பொக்லைன் இயந்திரம் மூலம் குழி தோண்டப்பட்டு வருகிறது. குழந்தையை மீட்க மத்தியக் குழுவின் உதவியையும் கேட்டுள்ளதாக கூறப்படுகிறது.

குழந்தையின் நிலை என்ன :

குழந்தை பயப்படாமல் இருக்க வெளிச்சம் அளிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. தொடர்ந்து ஆக்சிஜன் வழங்கப்பட்டு வருகிறது. காலை 7 மணி வரை குழந்தையின் குரல் கேட்டதாகவும், அதற்கு பிறகு குரல் ஏதும் கேட்கவில்லை எனவும் கூறப்படுகிறது. 70 அடி ஆழத்திற்கு சென்று விட்டதால் குழந்தை மயக்கமடைந்திருக்கலாம் என்றும் கூறப்படுகிறது.

Supreme Court to look into concept of shared parenting

PTI

Published  Oct 26, 2019, 1:27 am IST

SC to examine Hindu, Muslim laws on kids’ welfare in custody battles between spouses.

Supreme court.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine the constitutional validity of certain legal provisions of various Hindu and Muslim personal laws which favour granting custody of children to one of the separated spouses only, overlooking their welfare and fundamental right to have “care and love of both the parents”.

A bench headed by Chief Justice of Ranjan Gogoi took note of the PIL filed by London-based NRI activist Sulochana Rani and issued the notice to the Central government represented by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.

“This matter certainly requires examination,” Mehta told the bench which also comprised Justices S.A. Bobde and S. A. Nazeer.

The plea, filed through lawyer Kaleeswaram Raj, raised “significant questions relating to the laws on custody and guardianship of children in India” and sought directions of the apex court to develop the concept of “shared parenting” keeping in mind the welfare of children of estranged and warring couple.

“The legal provisions which currently exist as per various personal laws are in the nature of entrusting the custody of children exclusively to one of the parents in case of separation. The statutes create a strong presumption in favour of exclusive custody. This presumption severely affects the fundamental rights of the spouse who has been denied the custody rights and the fundamental rights of the child who will be deprived of care and love of both parents,” the plea said. It referred to sections 6(a) and 7 of the Hindu Minorities and Guardianship Act, 1956 and said that they be held “unconstitutional” as they give primacy to men over women with regard to custody of children and they are violative of Article 14 (right to equality) in the Constitution.

The plea then referred to customary practice among Muslims and the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937 and said as per them, father is considered as the guardian of the child and the mother is entitled to get automatic custody only for a short period of five years after the birth of the kids.

“Hence, it is the father who is entitled to get custody of the child. Both situations, that is, giving custody to the mother during the early years of the child and thereafter giving custody to the father in a mechanical manner, are antithetical to the very concept of welfare of the child. “Gender based fixation of right to custody and guardianship is discriminatory and it has to be held as unconstitutional as it violates Article 14 (right to equality) and Article 21 (right to life and liberty). These statutory schemes require “reformation” as they are violative of various fundamental rights including the right to equality and the right to life of the child and deprived spouses, it said. The plea sought a direction for the child-centric approach based on the idea of shared parenting to ensure effective implementation of the rights of the child in various areas such as “custody, guardianship and adoption”.

“The denial of custody to one spouse as against the other violates the fundamental right of parenting to the said spouse, which is part of right to life guaranteed under Article 21. Currently, custody is given to one of the spouses only and the other spouse is given visitorial rights.

Revaluation: It’s a question of answer scripts!

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | SANJAY PINTO

PublishedOct 26, 2019, 1:57 am IST

The apex court further went on to observe “that a person appointed erroneously to a post must not reap the benefits.

Madras high court

If you get an X-ray or scan done at a diagnostic centre or hospital, would you be given only the report or also the x-ray film and scan images? By the same logic, why should a school or university make a fuss and cite internal regulations over handing over answer scripts to students, especially in cases of revaluation? It took an application under the Right To Information (RTI) Act,2005, to galvanise an institution into action. To me, it’s a no brainer. The process of learning involves correction. And correction requires requires sufficient clarity on mistakes made. That clarity is possible only with access to answer scripts.

The Madras high court in Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University Vs Tamil Nadu State Information Commission, Pavan Kumar Gandhi, Paras Jain & Kumar Shanu recently ruled that “the Law University, being a Public Institution, is bound to implement the provisions of the Right to Information Act, scrupulously in its letter and spirit. The moot question is why should any public authority shy away from providing public information. Undoubtedly, confidential files are  protected under the provisions of the Act itself.” Justice S.M. Subramaniam has hit the nail on the head.

A cursory glance at Section 8 of the RTI Act will reveal that none of the exemptions is attracted to warrant denial of answer scripts. There are 12 exemptions under the statute, namely, information affecting the sovereignty and integrity of India, prohibited by courts, breach of legislative privilege, trade secrets or intellectual property, fiduciary matters, confidential data from foreign governments, sensitive matters that could endanger lives, cabinet papers with reasons for ongoing discussions within the Council of Ministers, privacy with no public interest overtones, violating the Official Secrets Act if the disclosure outweighs the harm to protected interests and limitation of beyond twenty years with irrelevant queries. Neither is an educational institution a security or intelligence organisation to take cover under Section 24 of the RTI Act.

The Madras High Court rightly relied on a decision of the Supreme Court in Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Vs Aditya Bandopadhyay which had reasoned that “when a candidate participates in an examination and writes his answers in an answer book and submits it to the examining body for evaluation and declaration of the result, the answer-book is a document or record. When the answer-book is evaluated by an examiner appointed by the examining body, the evaluated answer-book becomes a record containing the ‘opinion’ of the examiner. Therefore, the evaluated answer-book is also an ‘information’ under the Right to Information Act.”

Revaluation is usually necessitated by possible mistakes or oversight by the examiners. Admittedly, there is scope for a wild goose chase. No one can deny that. From a consumer law standpoint, as the candidates pay exam fees, such errors may constitute deficiency in service, causing mental agony to the students. Some sensitive candidates may end up taking extreme steps too. In such scenarios, shouldn’t revaluation fees be refunded? At a practical level, if a refund for a change of marks becomes the norm, examiners may be forced to dig their heels in and not effect any change!

The issue gets tricky when job appointments are made on the basis of marks allotted and changes take place, post revaluation, especially after malpractices come to light. The Supreme Court’s judgment in Vikas Pratap Singh Vs State of Chhattisgarh is instructive. “The pristine maxim of ‘fraus et jus nunquam cohabitant’ (fraud and justice never dwell together) continues to dwell in spirit and the body of service law jurisprudence. It is settled law that no legal right in respect of appointment to a said post vests in a candidate who has obtained the employment by fraud, mischief, misrepresentation or malafide.”

The apex court further went on to observe “that a person appointed erroneously to a post must not reap the benefits of wrongful appointment jeopardising the interests of the meritorious and worthy candidates. However, in cases where a wrongful or irregular appointment is made without any mistake on the part of the appointee and upon discovery of such error or irregularity the appointee is terminated, this Court has taken a sympathetic view in the light of various factors including bonafide of the candidate in such appointment and length of service of the candidate after such appointment.”

It’s a ‘marks-ist’ world, stupid!

(The writer is an advocate at the Madras high court, columnist & author)

Chennai: Rs 10 Lakh seized from panchayat office

DECCAN CHRONICLE.

PublishedOct 26, 2019, 2:02 am IST

DVAC conducted a surprise raid there.

Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption

CHENNAI: Sleuths of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption (DVAC) conducted a surprise raid at the panchayat union office in St. Thomas Mount near Chitlapakkam here of Friday afternoon and seized more than Rs 10 lakh, as officials failed to produce proper documents of the source of money.

According to sources, an eight-men strong team headed by DSP Kumaragurubarar (DVAC) begun searches at the St.Thomas Mount panjayat union office at around 3 pm.

DVAC sources said they have got a tip that the St. Thomas Mount panchayat union officials were taking bribe from contractors during the festival season.

“To confirm this, we conducted a surprise raid. When we entered, the office was filled with contractors, who were carrying out various civil works.”

On seeing the DVAC sleuths, the contractors and the panchayat union officials made an attempt to flee. However, the DVAC personnel locked the main door of the office and picked up the officials for enquiry.

The officials seized a total of Rs 10 lakh unaccounted money, gifts and fire crackers from Block Development Officer M. Baskaran, engineers and other office staff. Investigations are underway.

Madras HC impleads income tax department in NEET impersonation case

The I-T department had on October 12 said it seized Rs 30 crore unaccounted cash during raids on a group running the coaching centre in Namakkal.

Published: 25th October 2019 09:02 PM |

Madras HC 

By PTI

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Friday impleaded the Income Tax department in a case related to NEET impersonation scam, citing huge cash seizures made by the I-T sleuths during raids on a coaching centre in Tamil Nadu and on medical colleges in Bengaluru.

A division bench comprising Justices N Kirubakaran and P Velmurugan said the seized cash was alleged to have been paid for admission in medical colleges.

It impleaded the Director of Income Tax (Investigation), New Delhi, as a party respondent to the proceedings related to impersonation in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for medical admissions.

The I-T department had on October 12 said it seized Rs 30 crore unaccounted cash during raids on a group running the coaching centre in Namakkal on the basis of intelligence inputs that it was indulging in substantial tax evasion by "suppression" of fee receipts received from students.

It had also found Rs 150 crore undisclosed income of the group.

After the recent raids in Karnataka which included colleges run by a trust of former deputy chief minister and Congress leader G Parameshwara and a prominent business group, the department had said it detected "undisclosed" income of around Rs 100 crore and seized assets worth Rs 8.82 crore.

The unaccounted income was worked out considering the cash donations received for 185 seats averaging Rs 50 lakh to Rs 65 lakh per seat.

The court is hearing a petition filed by S Dheeran, an aspiring medical student, for a direction to the Tamil Nadu government for undertaking proper counselling and 'mop-up procedure' to fill the 207 management quota MBBS seats in various colleges.

It has widened the scope of the petition taking note of the NEET impersonation scam which surfaced last month when a suspicion was raised over a first-year MBBS student of Theni Medical College.

Investigations had revealed he had secured the admission using the marks scored by a proxy candidate.

After questioning of the student, his father, a government doctor, and an agent, all three arrested, it came to light that a number of other students from Tamil Nadu had used foul means to get admission in the MBBS course and lakhs of rupees reportedly changed hands.

The court had earlier impleaded the Human Resource Development Ministry.

When the matter came up for hearing on Friday, counsel appearing for Saveetha Deemed University here and Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore submitted they will file the list of candidates who have been admitted in the two institutions so that their thumb impressions can be obtained.

The bench then said all medical colleges in Tamil Nadu -- government, private and deemed universities -- shall send a list of admitted students to the National Testing Agency, which conducted the NEET, by e-mail on or before October 30.

On receipt of the communications, the NTA shall forward the original thumb impression of all the admitted candidates in the state to the CB-CID police, probing the impersonation scam, it said and posted the petition to November 4 for further hearing.

The court had on October 16 directed the NTA to send all details of candidates, including thumb impressions, to the Tamil Nadu CB-CID police, probing the impersonation scam.

Complying with it, the NTA on Thursday informed the court that it has sent thumb impressions of 4,250 candidates admitted to MBBS courses in the state and the fingerprints of those admitted to deemed universities in the state alone were yet to be forwarded.

The NTA has submitted the thumb impressions were collected when the students appeared for NEET across the country.

These thumb impressions would be compared with those obtained from the colleges to find out if there was any mismatch.

Obtain thumb impression of all medical students: Madras HC

Court asked NTA to clarify the procedure followed when students enter exam hall

Published: 25th October 2019 05:36 AM |

Madras HC 

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: A division bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday directed the CB-CID along with the Forensic Department to visit deemed universities and obtain thumb impressions of the medical students admitted this year, in the presence of the Deans or Principals concerned and get the process videographed.

The bench comprising Justices N Kirubakaran and P Velmurugan issued the direction as only the fingerprints of students in government and private colleges were obtained, but not those admitted in deemed universities. It passed the interim order on the plea moved by S Dheeran of Coimbatore, seeking direction to the government to undertake proper counselling and mop-up procedure to fill 207 management quota seats available due to non-filling of NRI quota seats.

The court also suo motu impleaded the Director of Finger Print Bureau, Chennai as an expert is required for the process of comparing the thumb impressions. The court has directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to clarify its position on the procedure followed at the time of allowing the students to enter the examination hall and also come out with information to answer the question whether the fingerprints of the students, who were admitted for examination, had been obtained manually by using ink or through the biometric method. The NTA had submitted only the details of the thumb impressions of the 4,250 candidates admitted in government and private medical colleges in Tamil Nadu.

2nd-yr also under scanner

Chennai: Officials are planning to reverify certificates of all second-year MBBS students following cases of suspected impersonation last year too. A senior official told Express, “ We will be verifying documents of all 2nd-year students just like we did in the case of first year. We received an anonymous email claiming a 2nd-year student at MMC also indulged in impersonation. We found out he had written NEET in Bihar, that too in Hindi. But, when the dean called him to sign or write a sentence in Hindi, he could not. So, the dean filed a complaint with police”.