Act Against Govt Teachers Taking Private Tuitions & Other Businesses : Madras High Court

Act Against Govt Teachers Taking Private Tuitions & Other Businesses : Madras High Court

Slamming those government teachers who take private tuition classes for remuneration and do other businesses, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has issued a slew of directions to prevent government school teachers from flouting the Tamil Nadu Government Servants (Conditions of Service) Act, 2016 and Service Rules.

"The teaching community is concentrating to satisfy their self-needs, thereby neutralizing the duties and responsibilities. They are fighting only for their rights...But, time has come now for the Courts for emphasis the duties to be performed by these Teachers and citizen in general. Rights and duties are corresponding. When a Teacher claims a right, equally the performance of duties is to be emphasised. But, the trend is that the duties are not considered as important. Such a mind-set at no circumstances, is tolerable."

For full story

https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/act-against-govt-teachers-taking-private-tuitions-other-businesses-madras-high-court-193202

Madras High Court Directs Act Against Govt Teachers Taking Private Tuitions & Other Businesses

Madras High Court Directs Act Against Govt Teachers Taking Private Tuitions & Other Businesses: Slamming those government teachers who take private tuition classes for remuneration and do other

NEET-UG 2022 likely to be held in June-end

NEET-UG 2022 likely to be held in June-end

TNN | Feb 28, 2022, 11.15 PM IST

NEW DELHI: The Medical Advisory Council of the National Medical Commission has asked the National Testing Agency to consider the third and fourth week of June, 2022 for conducting the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (undergraduate). The council in its meeting last week suggested the period and asked NTA to work on the schedule as per its convenience.

NTA would be conducting multiple entrances starting April 2022, which include two JEE (main) for admissions to engineering and architecture programmes, NEET-UG for medical and allied courses and a common entrance test for admission to central universities.

According to a member present in the meeting, “The members discussed the probable period for conduct of the medical entrance test this year and suggested NTA to pick a date from either the third or fourth week of June. Representative from the ministry of education who was also present in the meeting presented the position of NTA which is conducting other exams as well.”

Last year, the NEET-UG exam was held on September 12 with over 95% of the registered candidates appearing for the medical entrance exam.

Unlike the other entrances, NEET-UG would continue to be single day, pen-paper mode exam. “There no change in the format for NEET-UG,” said the official.

Over 15.44 lakh candidates had appeared for the exam which was conducted at 3,858 centres in 13 languages in 2021. Over 8.70 lakh candidates had qualified the exam.

According to NTA sources, the agency is likely to announce the schedule for JEE (main), NEET-UG and CUCET around March 10 and registration for JEE (main) April is also likely to start immediately.

Last year, Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Main was conducted four times a year to offer flexibility to students and a chance to improve their scores. As first reported by the TOI, the ministry of education however has decided to conduct the exam twice this year with the merit list to be decided based on the best of the two scores.

Last year the first phase was held in February and the second in March. The next phases were scheduled for April and May but those were postponed in view of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic that raged through the country affecting lakhs.

Govt. doctor’s licence suspended in T.N. for carelessness

Govt. doctor’s licence suspended in T.N. for carelessness

R. Sujatha

MARCH 02, 2022 00:16 IST

UPDATED: MARCH 02, 2022 00:16 IST

Medical council suspends orthopaedist’s licence for a week

The registrar of Tamil Nadu Medical Council (TNMC) has suspended the licence of a doctor for providing false certificate.

Gobinath, alias Gobi, who was arrested for possessing 1.5 kg of ganja got bail from the Madurai bench of Madras High Court. When he was called for police interrogation on March 28, 2021, he said he had been injured in an accident the previous day and produced a medical certificate for treatment, signed by C. Balaji, an assistant professor of the Government Thanjavur Medical College.

On examination, police found his claim was fake. The Madurai bench then instructed the police to take action against Gobinath for furnishing false documents and marked a copy of the order to TNMC to initiate appropriate action against Dr. Balaji for issuing a certificate on August 19, 2021, stating he had treated the patient from April 1, 2020 till September 26, 2020.

The Council issued a show cause notice to Dr. Balaji for “for issuing a false certificate in violation of regulation 7.7 of Code of Medical Ethics regulations 2003”.

Dr. Balaji explained he had treated Gobi in his private clinic’s outpatient service for left ankle injury. The patient, treated for a tendon injury, did not come for any review till September 20, 2020. He said he had issued a certificate on humanitarian grounds as the patient had complained of pain while standing.

The Council’s disciplinary committee opined that the doctor had issued a fake certificate after seeing the patient just once. Besides, Dr. Balaji had not used the usual format for medical certificates. He had issued the certificate in his official capacity as per the seal on the letter.

K. Senthil, president of TNMC said, “There was no vested interest on the part of the doctor. Hence, we have suspended his licence for just a week,” he explained. The council has ruled that Dr. Balaji’s medical licence would be suspended for a week, beginning March 15. It also instructed him to surrender his registration certificate forthwith.

Andhra Pradesh: Man bleeds to death after BPharm students perform sex change operation in Nellore

Andhra Pradesh: Man bleeds to death after BPharm students perform sex change operation in Nellore

TNN | Feb 27, 2022, 04.08 AM IST

By: Madhu Rasala

VIJAYAWADA: A married man, who decided to change his sex, died due to excessive bleeding after two pharmacy students attempted to perform sex reassignment surgery with the help of a YouTube video. The sex change operation involving removal of the reproductive parts was `performed’ in a room of a private hotel without any medical precautions or supervision of a qualified doctor.

The bizarre incident took place in Nellore town on Thursday.

Police have arrested the two accused, both bachelor of pharmacy students in a private college in Nellore.

The 28-year-old man, who had left his wife to live alone, came in contact with the students through social media. Police officials said there was excessive bleeding during the attempted surgery leading to instant death. Also, the room where the procedure was carried out was unhygienic.

The accused have any surgical expertise. Their only guide were YouTube.

The victim was a native of Kamepally village in Zarugumalli mandal of neighbouring Prakasam district. As a boy, he had shifted to Hyderabad where he worked as a daily-wage labour. In 2019 he married his uncle's daughter and within a year they got separated. He obtained a divorce in 2020. It is suspected that he had divorced his wife allegedly due to his gender preference.

He later shifted to Prakasam district where he came in touch with a transgender from Visakhapatnam through social media.

Police said they came into contact with the two students, Mastan and Jeeva, and the four would chat regularly on WhatsApp. When the victim expressed his desire to get sex reassignment surgery in Mumbai, Mastan and Jeeva told him that they were aware of the surgical procedure and would perform it at an affordable cost. The students convinced him against going to a doctor in Mumbai as it would be a costly affair, the police said.

The duo had planned to perform the surgery in a lodge room at Gandhi Bomma centre in the Nellore town. They then rented a room in a hotel on February 23. The operation was performed on February 24.

The police said the victim had died due to bleeding and an overdose of medicines including sedatives. Noticing the death, the accused fled from the hotel. The incident came to light after the hotel staff found the body in the room.

Man deserts wife for demanding new clothes

Man deserts wife for demanding new clothes

TNN | Mar 2, 2022, 03.56 AM IST

Ahmedabad: When she asked her husband to buy new clothes because her old ones did not fit her any more, the last thing she expected was to be abandoned over this demand.

Filing a complaint of domestic violence against her husband and in-laws on Tuesday, a 38-year-old woman from Ghatlodia accused her husband of subjecting her to violence for dowry and abandoning her.

She told police, “I married a man from Patan on November 11, 2016. Soon after the marriage, my husband and my in-laws began torturing me. They would thrash me often asking for Rs 15 lakh in dowry.” Aggrieved by this, the woman had left her husband’s house on February 21, 2017 and filed a police complaint against him. During investigation, her husband and in-laws sought to arrive at a compromise over the issue. Convinced by the assurances they offered, the woman returned to his house on January 21, 2021. At the time, she realized that the clothes she had left behind was either torn or do not fit her any longer. So, she asked her husband to get her new clothes. “My husband took me to the market. He asked me to return to my parents’ place as he did not want to keep me and left me there,” she told police. tnn

Agra: MBBS students caught in exam with ear device

Agra: MBBS students caught in exam with ear device

TNN | Feb 28, 2022, 07.46 AM IST

AGRA: Three final-year medical students were allegedly caught cheating in an exam at Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University on Saturday. They were using a micro-Bluetooth device in their ears and had attached a SIM card-inserted circuit to their vest, officials said, adding that they were being dictated the answers from outside the exam centre. Action against them will be taken on the basis of a recommendation by the examination committee, the officials added. So far, no FIR has been registered in the case.

Speaking about the matter, examination controller, Ajay Krishna Yadav, said, "A report concerning three MBBS final-year students caught using unfair means during an exam has been received. A hi-tech Bluetooth device and a sim-inserted circuit used for cheating were recovered from these students. The matter is being investigated in detail by the university's committee."

Around 31 MBBS (final professional) students of the self-financed FH Medical College located in Etmadpur had appeared for a surgery exam at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Khandari campus of the Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University. The three-hour exam started at 10:00 am. According to university officials, the invigilator on duty heard a student murmuring around 30 minutes after the commencement of the exam. On observing the student for a few minutes, the invigilator found that he was pressing on an object on the lower side of his chest, inside the shirt repeatedly. His suspicions aroused, the invigilator searched the student and found the device. Senior officials were called and the other students were also checked. Two other students were then found with the same set of devices.

VK Saraswat, in-charge of the examination centre and director of the varsity's engineering institute, said, "The answer sheets of the students were marked as "using unfair means" and they were sealed along with the devices recovered from them. They were issued new answer sheets to continue their exam.""The process of cheating in the exam was very well-planned. The Bluetooth device was so small that it couldn't be seen even by near observation. They were wearing face masks to avoid being seen talking to someone. The involvement of their college cannot be denied," said a senior official of the university.