'Sheer Violation Of Students' Fundamental Rights': MP Law Students Writes To CJI Against MHA Order Permitting Conduct Of University Exams [Read Letter]

'Sheer Violation Of Students' Fundamental Rights': MP Law Students Writes To CJI Against MHA Order Permitting Conduct Of University Exams [Read Letter]: A letter petition has been sent to the CJI, stating that the Government order directing Universities to compulsorily conduct examination of final year students is in 'sheer violation' of the...

மாயமானவர் இறந்ததாக யூகித்து மனைவிக்கு பணப்பலன் வழங்க உத்தரவு

மாயமானவர் இறந்ததாக யூகித்து மனைவிக்கு பணப்பலன் வழங்க உத்தரவு

Added : ஜூலை 11, 2020 23:36

மதுரை; மாயமான சுகாதார ஆய்வாளர் இறந்து விட்டதாக யூகித்து, அவரது மனைவிக்கு, சட்டப்பூர்வ பணப் பலன்கள் வழங்க, உயர் நீதிமன்ற மதுரைக் கிளை உத்தரவிட்டது.

மதுரை மாவட்டம், டி.புதுப்பட்டி ஆரம்ப சுகாதார நிலையத்தில், சுகாதார ஆய்வாளராக பணிபுரிந்தவர் நடராஜன். இவர், 2003 மே 2ல் மாயமானார். ௧௦ ஆண்டுகளாகியும், அவரை பற்றி தகவல் இல்லாததால், ௨௦௧௩ல், அவரை பணி நீக்கம் செய்து, பொது சுகாதாரத் துறை இயக்குனர் உத்தரவிட்டார்.அவரது மனைவி பொன்னி, 'என் கணவர் மாயமாகி விட்டதால், சட்டப்பூர்வ பணப் பலன்கள் மற்றும் குடும்ப ஓய்வூதியத்தை எனக்கு வழங்க உத்தரவிட வேண்டும்' என, உயர் நீதிமன்றக் கிளையில், மனு தாக்கல் செய்தார்.

தனி நீதிபதி, 'மனுதாரரின் கணவர், 1982 முதல் 2003 வரை பணிபுரிந்துள்ளார். அவர் இறந்து விட்டதாக யூகித்து, அவருக்குரிய சட்டப்பூர்வ பணப் பலன்களை, மனைவிக்கு வழங்க வேண்டும்' என, 2018ல் உத்தரவிட்டார்.இதை எதிர்த்து, பொது சுகாதாரத்துறை செயலர், இயக்குனர் மேல்முறையீடு செய்தனர். இதை விசாரித்த, நீதிபதிகள் பி.என்.பிரகாஷ், பி.புகழேந்தி அமர்வு உத்தரவு:நடராஜனை பணி நீக்கம் செய்து, 'எக்ஸ் பார்ட்டி'யாக பிறப்பித்த உத்தரவை ரத்து செய்வதாக, 2020 மார்ச் 13ல், பொது சுகாதார இயக்குனர் குழந்தைசாமி உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளார்.

இதன் மூலம், பொன்னி பணப்பலன்கள், குடும்ப ஓய்வூதியம் பெறுவதற்கான தடை விலகியுள்ளது.நடராஜனை இறந்தவராக கருத முடியாது. ஆனால், இந்திய சாட்சியச் சட்டப் பிரிவின்படி, ஏழு ஆண்டுகளுக்கு மேல் மாயமான ஒருவரை, யூகத்தின் அடிப்படையில், இறந்தவராக கருதலாம்.இவ்வழக்கில், நடராஜன், 2003ல் மாயமாகி விட்டார். அவரை கண்டுபிடிக்க முடியவில்லை என்ற போலீசாரின் சான்று பெற்று, பொது சுகாதார இயக்குனரிடம், உத்தரவாத பத்திரத்தை, பொன்னி தாக்கல் செய்ய வேண்டும்.

அதனடிப்படையில், அவருக்கு சட்டப்பூர்வ பலன்களை வழங்க வேண்டும். ஒருவேளை, நடராஜன் உயிருடன் வரும் பட்சத்தில், பொன்னியிடம் உள்ள சொத்துகளை மீட்க, சட்டப்பூர்வ நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கலாம். அரசின் மேல்முறையீட்டு மனுவை தள்ளுபடி செய்கிறோம்.இவ்வாறு, நீதிபதிகள் உத்தரவிட்டனர்.

AKU defers MBBS exams, medicos want to be promoted

AKU defers MBBS exams, medicos want to be promoted 

In a notification issued Monday, the AKU deferred these examinations “till further orders”. The exams were earlier scheduled to commence from July 28. 

EDUCATION Updated: Jul 02, 2020 16:34 IST 

Ruchir Kumar

Hindustan Times, Patna 

Aryabhatt Knowledge University at Mithapur in Patna Hindustan Times 

The Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU) will defer the second professional 2019 and the third professional part-I 2019 (II) examinations in Bihar in view of coronavirus (Covid-19). 

In a notification issued Monday, the AKU deferred these examinations “till further orders”. The exams were earlier scheduled to commence from July 28. 

“The decision to defer the MBBS exams was taken by chairman of the examination board, who is also AKU vice-chancellor, after discussion with other members, including external members from the department of science and technology, government of Bihar,” said AKU examination controller Rajeev Ranjan. 

New dates for conducting these examinations would now be issued after receiving suggestions by the state or central government or necessary directives by the regulator, the Medical Council of India, Ranjan added. 

“The decision to defer the examinations was taken based on suggestion by medicos, many of whom were stranded outside the state. The medicos had expressed apprehensions of contracting Covid-19 if they were to travel back to appear for the exams,” added Ranjan. 

The Hindustan Times had on June 28 carried a news report titled “Medicos irked as AKU announces exam dates amid rising Covid cases”. 

Medicos of intermediate semesters, however, are not satisfied by the AKU decision. They want the university to promote them to the next semester based on marks obtained in previous semesters and are bracing up to seek legal remedy. 

Barring MBBS and dental, the AKU has already postponed examinations and decided to promote to the next semester all students of B.Tech, B.Pharma, BBA, B.Com and BMC among other courses. 

“As per the AKU itinerary, our MBBS second professional exams were scheduled in January, this year. However, they got delayed till July because of Covid-19. If the university defers the exams further, we will continue in the MBBS second year for more than two years, whereas the curriculum is of one-and-a-half year only,” said Kritika Singh, a second year MBBS student of the Nalanda Medical College Hospital (NMCH), stuck in Delhi at present. 

“Deferring the exams further will not only hold us back in the same class, but also leave us with little time to attend classes and prepare for third professional exams. As such, we are demanding that the students be promoted internally,” she said. 

“Besides, those whose previous grades are not good and they want to improve should be allowed to do so when the pandemic eases,” said Kritika, who has taken it upon herself to fight on behalf of the medicos. 

Ranjan, however, said any decision to promote the medicos without conducting exams would have to be taken by the MCI.

Gujarat University's final year MBBS exams likely from August 6

Gujarat University's final year MBBS exams likely from August 6

TNN | Jul 11, 2020, 12.48 PM IST

AHMEDABAD: The theory exams for final year MBBS students in Gujarat University affiliated colleges are likely to be held from August 6 to 13. This was decided at the meeting of deans of various GU affiliated colleges that met on Friday at the NHL Municipal Medical College.

These dates are tentative and a final decision on it is expected to be taken after some directive from the state government, said sources.

The practical exams for final year 1 & 2 and second year MBBS students is likely to be held from August 15, sources added.

In the case of PG Medical courses, the exams are likely to be conducted after August 17.

While the dates for the terminal year exams for undergraduate students have been fixed tentatively, there is no clarity for intermediate year students for medical, dental and paramedical courses.

Many students are of the view that medical and dental courses are regulated by Medical Council of India (MCI) and Dental Council of India (DCI) and hence the recent guidelines of University Grants Commission do not apply to them. So, they are waiting for directives from the state education department, said sources. As per the UGC guidelines undergraduate students who are not in their final semester or terminal year are to be graded based on their internal marks and previous annual exam scores.

Gujarat University had already begun conducting exams for some final year paramedical courses which has been temporarily deferred. The varsity is yet to fix a new date for them, said sources.

WB-UGC clash: Mamata Banerjee writes to PM Modi, urges him to stop university exams

WB-UGC clash: Mamata Banerjee writes to PM Modi, urges him to stop university exams 

DNA 

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in her letter to the Prime Minister, asked him to reconsider immediately the "revised guidelines" 

12.07.2020 

In what adds a new dimension to the clash between the West Bengal government and the University Grants Commission (UGC), the state's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking the latter to re-examine the matter involving UGC issuing fresh guidelines to the universities and colleges across the country for compulsorily conducting the final year examinations. 

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in her letter to the Prime Minister, asked him to reconsider immediately the "revised guidelines", issued by the UGC and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), and restore the earlier advisory of the UGC. 

Banerjee informed the Prime Minister that the earlier UGC guidelines that were issued on April 29 had clearly stated that the guidelines are advisory and suggestive in nature. However, the new "revised" guidelines issued on July 6 had asked all universities and colleges in the country to "compulsorily complete" the end-of-term examinations. 

Banerjee mentioned that the West Bengal government had, "after extensive consultation with all Vice-Chancellors and stakeholders", issued an advisory on June 27 to all state-aided universities and colleges of the state. "Our advisory, issued in the interest of health, safety, and future of students, provides due weightage to the internal assessment and the performance of the candidate in the previous semesters in order to ensure transparency. Besides, our advisory has a provision for holding special exams after the situation gets normalised, for such students, who wish to appear in a formal examination instead of an alternative evaluation method." 

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the Prime Minister to reconsider the matter, especially since colleges and universities in West Bengal have already taken steps as per the advisory issued by the Higher Education Department. 

"The students, their parents, and other stakeholders have overwhelmingly appreciated our advisory issued on 27th June. In fact, I am now receiving hundreds of e-mails, from the students and the teaching community raising their concern o holding examinations, as per the revised guidelines issued by UGC, compelling me to take up this matter with your good office," Banerjee wrote in her letter to Prime Minister Modi. 

Earlier this day, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had also urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cancel the final year examinations of Delhi University and other central government universities in view of the COVID-19 situation in the country. 

"For the sake of our youth, I urge Hon’ble PM to personally intervene and cancel final year exams of DU and other central govt universities and save the future," Kejriwal tweeted. 

Kejriwal had also sent a letter to PM Modi requesting him to cancel all examinations for universities and colleges falling under the Centre. 

"I request the central government and the University Grants Commission to change their guidelines in the larger interest of the students and cancel their final-semester examinations," Kejriwal stated in the letter.

No exam for lower sem engg students: KTU

No exam for lower sem engg students: KTU

BS.Anilkumar@timesgroup.com

Thiruvananthapuram:  12.07.2020

APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University has decided to do away with all junior semester examinations for engineering course for the time being as Kerala is facing a serious health emergency owing to the outbreak of Covid-19. The academic council of the varsity, which met virtually on Saturday, could not reach a consensus on whether KTU should show such leniency towards final semester students.

According to sources, the council has reached a consensus that the varsity may do away with lower semester examinations, considering the unprecedented health emergency in state. It was decided that the marks of the students in lower semesters be decided based on their semester point grade average (SPGA) in other semesters. Emulating the model adopted by CBSE, the council come to an agreement that in case students feel he/she was eligible for more marks, such candidates can take exams when the varsity starts functioning normally and conducts examinations as usual.

However, the major concern that of final semester students could not be effectively addressed by the council as its members were divided over the proposal of university offering a similar or institution-level online examination for outgoing students.

Though there were suggestions that the final semester students – considering the peculiar circumstances they are poised to face as job seekers during the pandemic – be also given the option to either attend college-level online exams or their scores be calculated as in the case of lower semester students, a section in the academic council opposed the same.

They said there could be no alternative to the conventional mode of exam for the final semester students, at least. Following the standstill, the matter was referred to the university syndicate for further perusal and final decision.

The academic council of APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University could not reach a consensus on whether to show such leniency towards final semester students

M K Jayaraj is new Calicut Univ VC

M K Jayaraj is new Calicut Univ VC

Thiruvananthapuram:

12.07.2020

Putting an end to speculations and political manoeuvering, state governor Arif Mohammed Khan in his capacity as the chancellor, has appointed Prof M K Jayaraj as the new vicechancellor of Calicut University on Saturday.

The chancellor shed his procrastination nearly twoand-half months after the selection panel had submitted him two lists of candidates to the post, which had been remaining vacant for almost a year now. While the state government nominees in the search panel had professor K M Seethi of M G University as the main contender for the post, the UGC nominee in the panel had put his weight behind CTCRI principal scientist Prof C A Jayaparas, who incidentally was the only SC candidate in the list of eligible ones for the coveted post.

M K Jayaraj had never been the top candidate to both the state government and the Centre. However, he was one of the candidates the state government favoured in case the most preferred one lost.

Jayaraj is currently a professor in Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology. He has been appointed to the post for a period of four years from the date on which he assumes the office. TNN