NEET 2020 Application Form Correction Window Opens 

Correction in particulars of NEET application form will be allowed on the official website (ntaneet.nic.in) only. 

Correction in NEET application form will be allowed on the official website, ntaneet.nic.in.

New Delhi:

NEET 2020 application form edit window is open now. The National Testing Agency or NTA will allow applicants to make corrections, if required, in NEET UG application forms from January 15 till January 31, 2020, according to the official National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) notificiation. Correction in particulars of NEET application form will be allowed on the official website (ntaneet.nic.in) only. The NEET application form correction option has been provided within the candidate login page.

NEET correction option: How to do it

The candidates who want to update their NEET 2020 application form may follow these steps:

Step 1 : Visit the NTA NEET website, www.ntaneet.ac.in

Step 2 : Click on candidates login link provided on the homepage

Step 3 : Enter application number and password on next page

Step 4 : Login

Step 5 : On next page open, click on the correction link

Step 6: You will be provided the form and make necessary edits there.

Step 6 : Pay the fee and submit the details

More than 21 candidates will compete for one MBBS seat in the upcoming medical entrance exam, NEET. As per a report shared by the NTA a total of 15,93,452 candidates have registered for the NEET 2020.

NEET UG exam is held for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in institutes and colleges recognized by MCI. NEET UG, this year onward, has assumed greater significance since it is now the only medical entrance exam conducted for admission to an undergraduate medical or dental programme.

Earlier, AIIMS and JIPMER conducted a separate entrance examination for MBBS and BDS admission. The entrance exam for these institutes has been scraped under the provisions prescribed in the National Medical Commission Act 2019.

NEET PG 2020 Result Expected This Month 

The National Board of Examination (NBE) is expected to announce result for NEET PG 2020 exam soon. 

NEET PG 2020 result is expected by the end of this month

New Delhi:

The National Board of Examination (NBE) is expected to announce result for NEET PG 2020 examsoon. NEET PG exam is held for admission to postgraduate medical courses. For the academic session beginning in 2020, the entrance exam was held on January 5, 2020. As per the schedule announced for NEET PG, the result should be available by January 31, 2020.

NEET PG 2020 result will be released on the official website for NBE. Students who appeared for the exam will have to login to their account to view their marks and qualification status.

The minimum eligibility criterion for General categories is 50th percentile. For SC, ST, and OBC categories, the minimum qualifying criteria is 40th percentile and for PwD (general) category candidates the eligibility criteria is 45th percentile.

In case the number of qualifying candidates in the respective categories on the basis of the above mentioned percentile are less than three times the number of vacancies, the cut-off percentile will be automatically lowered in such a manner that the number of eligible candidates shall be minimum three times the number of seats in each respective category.

The NEET PG counselling will be held separately by the Directorate General of Health Services for 50 per cent All India Quota (AIQ) seats and by the state medical education boards for the state quota seats. The counselling schedule will be announced later.

67 in fray for 12 Karnataka Medical Council posts

TNN | Jan 16, 2020, 12.54 PM IST 

BENGALURU: Karnataka Medical Council (KMC) elections on January 23 will see 67 candidates fighting for 12 posts.

The state is divided into four zones - Bengaluru, Mysuru, Kalaburagi and Belagavi - and 71,000 doctors have voting rights. In Bengaluru zone, well-known gynaecologist Dr Kamini Rao is among the 19 candidates.

Pandurang Garg, joint registrar of co-operative societies who has been appointed returning officer for the polls, said the nomination of one doctor from Bengaluru was rejected as his/her name was missing from the voters' list. "There are complaints against three contestants. The notification on the final list of valid candidates will be published on January 17," he told TOI .

Contestants have come up with several promises through their manifestos, ranging from retirement policy, accident relief for doctors and making the council youth-friendly.

Rao said: "Firstly, the aim will be to keep science and law progressive. While science has gone ahead, the laws we have are archaic. Secondly, the KMC board needs a representative from all specialties so that cases are understood properly. And finally, speedy disposal of cases is required."

She feels it's demeaning for young doctors to get embroiled in legal cases for long and there's a need to settle cases through arbitration.

Dr Vinay Kumar, assistant professor, department of radiation oncology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, is another contestant from Bengaluru. His priority is to streamline the promotion process for doctors in both private and government sectors.

"An assessment-based promotion scheme is needed. A first promotion after four years and the second after three years must be considered for all doctors," he said. Vinay feels the current rulebook of Karnataka Private Medical Establishments, which makes it compulsory for small clinics to renew licences every year, can be done away with. "I will fight for exemption of small clinics from the licence rule," he said.

Kolkata: IPGMER to set up skill lab for MBBS students

TNN | Jan 20, 2020, 08.01 AM IST 

KOLKATA: Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (IPGMER) on SSKM Hospital campus, is going to develop a skill laboratory where undergraduate medical students will learn to handle patients by practising mannequins on intravenous injections, catheter insertion and skin suturing.

The students will also learn the skills of child delivery, tracheal intubation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) process. Following the directives of Medical Council of India (MCI), the hospital authority is going to install around 60 mannequins for training of the first-year MBBS students. Manimoy Bandyopadhyay, director of IPGMER, said that the laboratory, where different dummies will be available for training, will start functioning by March. "We had planned the laboratory for the 2019 batch of MBBS students," said Bandopadhyay. Swasthya Bhavan sources said similar laboratories would also come up at RG Kar Medical College and NRS Medical College. Earlier, MBBS students used to be trained by handling patients. As per the MCI's direction, it is compulsory for every medical college to come up with the laboratory for developing clinical, motor and communications skills among the students.

Pritam Pramanik, a first-year student of IPGMER, said, "We hope that the laboratory will help us enhance our skills in handling patients." Ankush Ghosh, a first-year student of Medical College said, "Now, we don't have any such laboratory. that is necessary for medical students."

Some Universities Are Awarding Non-Recognised Degrees: UGC 

The UGC, the higher education regulator, has also asked the universities to abide by the regulations laid by it "to award only such degrees as have been specified by the UGC".
Education

 Edited by Shihabudeen Kunju SUpdated: January 20, 2020 21:30 IST

UGC requested the universities to abide by the provision of Section 22 of the UGC Act, 1956.

New Delhi:

The University Grants Commission (UGC) said that some universities are awarding 'unspecified degrees' which is leading to litigations and different problems for the students conferred with such degrees. The UGC, the higher education regulator, has also asked the universities to abide by the regulations laid by it "to award only such degrees as have been specified by the UGC".

The UGC circular comes after the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), apex consumer commission, directed a Karnataka college recently to refund Rs 1.12 lakh to its 11 students who were awarded degree different from the one that they had enrolled for.

The consumer body had asked St Aloysius Institute of Computer Science, Mangalore to refund the amount within four weeks along with litigation cost to the 11 students who were awarded a degree in M.Sc. Software Technology instead of MS.



UGC circular on awarding 'unspecified degrees'.

"The Commission has been, time and again, requesting the Universities to award degrees only within the framework of Section 22 of the UGC Act. The consolidated list of UGC approved nomenclature of degree(s) for the purpose of Section 22(3) of the University Grant Commission Act, 1956 is available on the UGC website," the circular said.

"It has been observed that some universities or institutions are awarding unspecified degrees leading to litigations and different problems for the students conferred with such degrees. The Universities are once again, requested to abide by the provision of Section 22 of the UGC Act, 1956 and award only such degrees as have been specified by the UGC," it said.

If a university wishes to award a degree other than the one specified by the UGC, the Commission has asked educational institutions to approach the UGC for its approval six months prior to starting the degree programme with full justification on the course to be started.

HC raps Vijayakanth for wasting its time with frivolous pleas

TNN | Jan 21, 2020, 04.45 AM IST

Chennai: Censuring DMDK founder Vijayakanth for wasting the court’s time by filing unnecessary appeals seven years ago, the Madras high court dismissed as withdrawn one such appeal moved by him challenging refusal to quash criminal defamation complaints made by AIADMK government in 2011.

“Filing of such petitions and appeals unnecessarily consumes the time of the court and care should be taken in the preparation, drafting and presentation of such petitions and should not be brought forth unless there is any constitutional question, keeping in view of the nature of allegations that have been made. We hope and trust that such care shall be taken in future,” the first bench of Chief Justice A P Sahi and Justice Subramonium Prasad said on Monday.

The bench also informed the counsel for Vijayakanth that they are refraining from imposing cost as he had volunteered to withdraw the appeal. The criminal defamations were filed by the then AIADMK government led by former chief minister J Jayalalithaa against Vijayakanth when he was the opposition leader of the Tamil Nadu state assembly.

Vijayakanth moved the high court in 2012 seeking to quash all such proceedings pending before the subordinate court. However, the same was dismissed by a single judge in the admission stage itself. Aggrieved, the petitioner moved the present appeal. In his affidavit, Vijayakanth submitted that his plea challenging the validity of Sections 500 and 501 (criminal defamation) was pending before a constitutional bench of the Supreme Court.

Pallavaram municipality dumps waste in lake chosen for biomining
TNN | Jan 21, 2020, 04.54 AM IST

CHENNAI: What happens when a civic body is unable to dump garbage at a designated spot? It empties trucks in a legacy dump yard created on a large water body.

This is the state of affairs in Pallavaram. Garbage collected from houses in Pallavaram municipality is being sent to a dump yard south of the Pallavaram Periya Eri (lake).

David Manohar, a social activist and local resident, took photographs of vehicles ferrying garbage and emptying it in the dump yard. “This has been happening for the past few days. Garbage collection from houses has also become erratic,” he said.

The legacy waste in this dump yard is supposed to be biomined to help restore the water body. (See graphic)

Sources in the municipality said problems began after National Green Tribunal (NGT) pulled up Tambaram and Pallavaram municipalities for dumping waste in the Vengadamangalam yard located on the Vandalur-Kelambakkam Road.

In 2015, it was decided that waste from these two civic bodies would be sent to the waste-to-energy plant in Vengadamangalam. The waste collected from houses would be taken to a transfer station, where it would be compressed and then sent to the Vengadamangalam yard. However, the state government found several lapses in the working of the private contractor and work stopped.

Also, reports by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board showed that frequent fires broke out in the yard leading to pollution over which nearby residents protested.

Advocates appearing for the municipalities before NGT said that there would be no fresh dumping of garbage from September 2019 in Vengadamangalam. But then where was this garbage going? Residents of Pallavaram found this answer — into the lake.

An official from Pallavaram municipality told TOI they were in talks to transfer the garbage to Perungudi dump yard which is under the control of Greater Chennai Corporation.

S Narasimhan, a resident and former councillor of Pallavaram municipality, said there was major mismanagement at the Vengadamangalam yard as well as in the biomining project in Pallavaram.

“A work order was given a year ago, but there appears to be no change in the size of the garbage mounds. Frequent fires cause pollution while the water in the lake, used by local residents, is polluted,” Narasimhan said. “How can the government itself contribute to polluting a water body,” Narasimhan asked.

Manohar has documented how raw sewage is being pumped out from a collection well into a channel connecting Pallavaram lake and Kilkattalai lake. Sewage is being let out

into the Periya Eri through an inlet channel.

Despite repeated calls, the Pallavaram municipality commissioner could not be reached for comments.