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ADDED : நவ 23, 2024 02:16 AM

சிவகங்கை:காரைக்குடி அருகே வைரவபுரத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவர் ஆர்.பத்மாவதி. அழகப்பா பல்கலையில் உதவி பதிவாளராக பணிபுரிந்தார்; 2023 மார்ச் 31ல் ஓய்வு பெற்றார்.

ஓய்வுபெற்று ஒன்றரை ஆண்டு முடிந்தும், அவருக்கு ஓய்வூதிய பணப்பலன்களை வழங்கவில்லை. இதுகுறித்து, பல்கலை நிர்வாகத்திடம் பலமுறை கேட்டும் தீர்வு எட்டப்படவில்லை.

இதனால், பத்மாவதி நேற்று காலை 11:30 மணிக்கு சிவகங்கை கலெக்டர் அலுவலகம் முன், உடலில் மண்ணெண்ணெய் ஊற்றி தீக்குளிக்க முயன்றார்.

பாதுகாப்பு பணியில் இருந்த சப் - இன்ஸ்பெக்டர் செல்வராஜ், அவரை மீட்டு கலெக்டரின் பி.ஏ., முத்துகழுவனிடம் அனுப்பினார்.

பின், அப்பெண்ணிற்கு முதலுதவி அளித்து சிவகங்கை அரசு மருத்துவமனையில் சேர்த்தனர்.

காரைக்குடி அழகப்பா பல்கலை துணைவேந்தர் ஜி.ரவி கூறியதாவது:

அவருக்கு ஓய்வூதிய பலனை கொடுக்கத் தான் விரும்புகிறோம். நேரடியாக அழைத்து பேச முயற்சித்தும் அவர்கள் வரவில்லை. பதிவு தபால் அனுப்பியும் அதை வாங்கவில்லை.

இவருக்கான பணப்பலனை தணிக்கை துறை தான் நிறுத்தி வைத்துள்ளது. பல்கலை நிர்வாகத்திடம் ஒன்றும் இல்லை.

இவ்வாறு அவர் கூறினார்.

Probe ordered into irregular appointments in Thanjavur's Tamil University

It is alleged he overlooked the statutes as well as directions issued by the governor regarding the expert committee’s recommendations.

N Ramesh

Updated on: 22 Nov 2024, 11:01 am

THANJAVUR: An inquiry has been ordered into the alleged irregular appointments in the Thanjavur-based Tamil University by Governor and Chancellor R N Ravi. Former Judge of the Madras High Court Justice M Jaichandren will head the inquiry.

Sources said the inquiry order was issued on November 19 along with the order for suspending Vice-Chancellor V Thiruvalluan from service. It is alleged 40 academicians including professors, associate professors and assistant professors were appointed violating norms in 2017 and 2018.

The probe will cover the actions of Thiruvalluvan who declared probation for the said 40 faculty members without acting on the report of expert committee. It is alleged he overlooked the statutes as well as directions issued by the governor regarding the expert committee’s recommendations.

Also, two public interest petitions with regard to the appointments were pending in the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court when he took arbitrary actions. The inquiry, which has been ordered under the Tamil University Act, 1982, will also propose further action on the breach of rules.

The then-governor in 2021 had instructed the university administration to constitute an expert committee to go into allegations of irregularities of appointments.

A three-member expert committee in its report submitted to the governor’s office on August 11, 2021 listed various deviations in the appointments including not adhering to communal roster, appointment of unqualified personnel, downgrading of posts without valid reasons and careless totalling of marks by selection committees.

The committee detailed the deviations of norms in appointing 34 faculties including 12 Professors, 13 Associate Professors and nine Assistant Professors.

Madurai Kamaraj University announces election for nominees from senate & syndicate to V-C post

Madurai Kamaraj University(File photo)

Express News Service

Updated on:

22 Nov 2024, 11:16 am

MADURAI: Madurai Kamaraj University announced the election of a nominee by the senate and syndicate to the committee for recommending a panel of three names to the chancellor for appointment of the vice-chancellor. Earlier, Governor RN Ravi appointed a UGC nominee to the search committee.

The notification in the gazette calling for nomination by the senate and syndicate was November 13. The last date and time for filing nominations for the senate was December, 2 and for the syndicate was December 3. Academicians welcomed the move but raised questions as to whether the governor will appoint a UGC nominee to the search committee, which would be opposed by the state. However, the issue is pending in court, they said.

TNIE spoke to a higher official from MKU who said that as per MKU norms and with the concurrence of the higher education department a notification was issued, and this did not require the governor's nod. After selecting the senate and syndicate nominee for the search committee, the department of higher education will send it to the governor for appointing his nominee, and they are unaware of the governor's decision, he said.

TNIE tried to contact officials from the governor's office, but they were unavailable for comment. It is noted that recently, UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar made it clear that it was mandatory to have a UGC nominee in the VC selection panel.

Election of senate nominee

The scrutiny of nominations will be held on December 2. The publication of the list of valid nominations will be done on the same day. The last date and time by which candidates can withdraw their candidature by notice in writing is December 9. The despatch of a final list of candidates validly nominated if there is an election will be on December 9. The election will be held on December 20 from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm. If the number of persons validly nominated and who have not withdrawn is more than one, an election will be held at the meeting of the senate on December 20 from 10.30 am to 01.30 pm at the Dr Mu Va Arangu in the varsity.

Election of syndicate nominee

The scrutiny of nominations will be held on December 3 and publication of the list of valid nominations will be held on December 3. The last date and time by which the candidates can withdraw their candidature by notice in writing is on or before December 10. Dispatch of the final list of candidates validly nominated if there is an election is on December 10. The election will be held on December 23 from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm. If the number of persons validly nominated and who have not withdrawn is more than one, an election will be held at the meeting of the syndicate on December 23 from 10.30 am to 01.30 pm at the syndicate room in the varsity. The counting of votes will be taken up immediately afterwards.

PU Syndicate meeting: six government ex-officio members fail to participate

Higher Education Dept. Secretary was also absent; the government should instruct all ex-officio members to participate in the meeting as there are allegedly chances to take some decision against the wishes of the government, say sources

M. Sabari

Salem 23.11.2024

The 116th Syndicate meeting was held at Periyar University on Friday in which only two of the eight government ex-officio members participated.

The Higher Education Department Secretary also did not participate in the meeting.

The meeting was presided over by Vice-Chancellor and Syndicate Chairman R. Jagannathan. Of the 22 members, 15 members - two government deputy secretaries (Law and Finance), four members from the Periyar University Association of Self-Financing Colleges (PASAM), two government nominees, four university teachers, and three governor nominees - participated. Six government ex-officio members, including the Higher Education Secretary, did not participate.

The members, who participated in the meeting, on condition of anonymity said that while one of the agenda that was placed by the university administration was to remove assistant professor, K. Prem Kumar, from service for allegedly leaking the agenda of a Syndicate meeting, a few members raised concerns.

Following this, the Vice-Chancellor said that the minutes would be sent in circulation and the members shall give their assent or dissent for that agenda.

Agenda

“In the next two or three days, we will know whether the agenda will be passed or rejected. In the last three years, this Syndicate meeting ended smoothly without any serious discussions. In the last meeting, while the same agenda was tabled, a series of discussions took place and the agenda was rejected by majority members. Similarly, it is usual to take a decision on an agenda in the meeting itself. But this time, it was not taken. The government should instruct all government ex-officio members to participate in the Syndicate meeting as there are allegedly chances to take some decision against the wishes of the government,” sources added.

DME to act against six candidates who used fake documents for MBBS seats

The Hindu Bureau CHENNAI 23.11.2024

The Directorate of Medical Education is planning to initiate legal action against six candidates who applied for MBBS seats under the non-resident Indian quota using fake documents.

The medical selection committee, on its website, said three candidates had already been allotted seats. The allotment had since been cancelled. In a notification issued on Friday, it said the candidature of six applicants had been cancelled for submitting fake embassy certificates.

“Among the six candidates, three had got their MBBS allotment based on fake embassy certificates. The allotment of the three candidates is cancelled as per the rules in the prospectus, and these three seats will be added to the vacancies and included in the special round of counselling, which will start on November 25, 2024,” the notification said.

An official said it was routine for the DME to verify the documents submitted by the candidates with the embassies. The embassies responded saying the documents were not issued by them, a source said.

Friday, November 22, 2024

NEWS TODAY 22.11.2024

HC asks govt to declare nursing students’ results for ‘19-20 & ‘20-21

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 22.11.2024

Bhopal/Jabalpur : A division bench of the MP High Court, seized a PIL over 'fake' nursing colleges operating in the state, on Thursday directed the state govt to declare the results of students for the academic sessions 2019-20 & 2020-21. It further ordered that all the eligible nursing and paramedical colleges in the state for the session 2024-25 will be affiliated with MP Medical University. The court also directed that the list and shortcomings found in the colleges declared 'unfit' to operate should be enumerated on MP Nursing Council’s website.

President of the Law Students' Union, Vishal Baghel, filed a PIL raising the issue of alarge number of 'fake' nursing colleges operating in the state, particularly in the tribal areas, which don't have the requisite infrastructure or manpower to run the nursing courses. In the course of the hearing, the HC ordered a probe by CBI into the credentials of all the nursing colleges in the state and whether they have the requisite facilities to operate nursing courses. The CBI gave a clean chit to 169 nursing colleges, pointed out deficiencies in 74 but said that they can be rectified, & found 65 colleges unfit to operate.

Later, the court constituted a three-member committee headed by Justice Rajendra Kumar Shrivastava, to examine whether the 74 colleges with deficiencies that could be cured, actually do it within the given time frame and decide on adjusting students of these colleges to other colleges in the meantime. The 65 nursing colleges found unsuitable for operation will be shut, & their students will not be adjusted to any other college, said court