ஒரே கல்லூரியில் படித்த மாணவர்கள் 'நீட்' மோசடி புரோக்கரிடம் சிக்கிய கதை

Added : செப் 28, 2019 23:34


தேனி:மருத்துவக்கல்லுாரிகளில் சேர மாணவர்களின் பெற்றோர் மோசடியான புரோக்கரிடம் சிக்கியது எப்படி என தகவல் வெளியாகி உள்ளது.'நீட்' தேர்வு ஆள் மாறாட்ட புகாரில் சிக்கிய மாணவர்கள் உதித் சூர்யா, பிரவின், ராகுல், அபிராமி, இர்பான் ஆகியோர் இரண்டு ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன் சென்னை பிரிஸ்ட் மருத்துவக் கல்லுாரியில் சேர்ந்தனர். இரண்டாம் ஆண்டு செல்ல இருந்த நிலையில் இக்கல்லுாரிக்கு அரசு அனுமதி கிடைக்கவில்லை. இதனால் மாணவர்கள் வெளியேறினர்.ஒரே கல்லுாரியில் இவர்கள் படித்ததாலும், அனுமதி ரத்தான பிரச்னையாலும் இவர்களின் தந்தையர் நண்பர்களாகினர். ஒரு மாணவரின் தந்தையை புரோக்கர் ஒருவர் நாடியுள்ளார். இவர் தனக்கு செல்வாக்கு உள்ளதாகவும், பணம் கொடுத்தால் மருத்துவக்கல்லுாரியில் 'சீட்' வாங்கி தருவதாகவும் கூறினார்.இதை நம்பி அனைவரும் முறைகேட்டில் ஈடுபட்டு சிக்கலில் மாட்டிக் கொண்டது போலீஸ் விசாரணையில் தெரிந்துள்ளது.

NEET scam: one more student, parent arrested

Two other students under the scanner

29/09/2019, STAFF REPORTER,THENI

The CB-CID on Saturday arrested Praveen S., a student of SRM Medical College, and his father A.K.S. Saravanan in connection with the ongoing investigation in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) impersonation case.

Earlier, three students pursuing medicine in three different colleges in the State were brought here along with their parents amid tight security by CB-CID officials for investigation. The officials said they interrogated Rahul, a student of Sree Balaji Medical College, and his father Davis, Abirami Madhavan of Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute and Praveen. Abirami’s father Madhavan did not turn up for the investigation.

4 Tamil Nadu medicos & 1 Kerala agent held in Neet scam

TNN | Sep 28, 2019, 04.06 AM IST

CHENNAI: Four more MBBS students in Tamil Nadu, one of them a girl, and an agent from Kerala were picked up by the police on Friday as part of the ongoing investigation into the NEET impersonation scam.

The four students are from colleges in Chennai, Chengalpet and Dharmapuri (TOI has the names) while the agent was identified as George Joseph from Thiruvananthapuram. Police said Joseph had collected Rs 20 lakh from Udit Surya and his father Dr K S Venkatesh, who were arrested on Wednesday, to engage an impersonator to write NEET fpr Suriya in Mumbai. Surya got admission at the Theni Government Medical College, but was exposed as his photo in the college admit card did not match the NEET ID photo.

Police said the four students picked up on Friday and Udit Surya had studied at a private engineering college on the outskirts of Chennai in 2017-18. It was closed after failing to get approval from AICTE. All the four students were questioned at the CB-CID office in Chennai and Coimbatore before they were taken to Theni for further investigations.

A police officer, who was part of the investigation, said, one student had paid Rs. 23 lakh to an agent to get an impersonator to take the NEET examination for him. Two students got impersonators to write the NEET for them in New Delhi and Lucknow.

Police are on the lookout for two other agents, Rafi of Bengaluru and Mohammad Shafi of Vaniyambadi near Vellore. Police are also probing is such impersonation happened in previous years too.

Verify architects, CoA tells TN

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Coimbatore:26.09.2019

The council of architecture (COA), a national body constituted to regulate the practice and study of architecture, has written to the chief secretary of Tamil Nadu to direct local and municipal bodies to verify the validity of registration of architects when they submit a drawing or building plan for obtaining approval.

However, the council and the local planning authority have conflicting views on allowing engineers submit and get building plans approved.

The communication said the council had received complaints that non-architects were practising as architects using fake certificates under jurisdiction of municipal corporations and local bodies.

COA president Vijay Garg said the council was receiving complaints of local bodies allowing unqualified personnel to work as architects and this resulted in low quality buildings . “Only a person with BArch degree from a recognised institution would be registered by COA,” he said. Engineers, howeevr, said that the council’s demand could overburden local bodies.

Students demand action against NEET coaching centre

Allege parents were threatened when they demanded their money back

24/09/2019, STAFF REPORTER ,COIMBATORE

A group of students demanded action against a private coaching centre for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) at R.S. Puram alleging lack of teachers and basic facilities here on Monday.

Submitting a petition to District Collector K. Rajamani during the grievances redress meet, the students claimed that a total of 15 students have paid the course fees ranging from ₹ 55,000 to ₹ 1 lakh to the Centre.

Alleging that the classes were not regularly conducted for the past 10 days, they claimed that the persons at the coaching centre threatened the parents who demanded their money back.

The coaching centre lacks electricity connection and the students are forced to clean the classrooms as there are no workers, the petition claimed.

The teachers for subjects such as biology, physics and chemistry were also not present as their salaries were not paid by the coaching centre, the students alleged.

Impersonation case: hunt on to trace medico, his parents
Udit Surya moves court seeking anticipatory bail
21/09/2019, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ,CHENNAI

A special team of police personnel from Theni district visited the residence of the parents of Udit Surya, who allegedly secured admission to Government Theni Medical College by using a proxy to take the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).

It has intensified efforts to trace the student and his parents who have been absconding since the scandal broke out.

Anticipatory bail sought

In a related development, Udit Surya moved the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court seeking anticipatory bail. Refuting the charges levelled against him, he has stated mental health issues and depression as reasons for withdrawing from the course.

The police team headed by inspector T. Usha visited the apartment in Tondiarpet where Udit Surya and his parents, Dr. Venkatesan and Kayalvizhi, stayed.

They interacted with the neighbours, since the couple and their son were not at home. Sources added that the police are scrutinising call records of the trio, bank transactions and CCTV camera footage to trace them.

A senior official of Government Stanley Medical College Hospital said the team inquired about Dr. Venkatesan, who works as a casualty medical officer at the hospital. “He has been on medical leave since September 16,” he said.

The case surfaced after College Dean A. K. Rajendran received two emails on September 11 and 13 from a person identified as Ashok Krishnan, complaining that Udit Surya took the NEET twice but failed.

In his third attempt, he appeared in Mumbai and cleared the test. However, the subsequent mail claimed that the boy who is pursuing the course was not the person who appeared for the test.

PIL: Revoke admissions of 5 ineligible medical students

TNN | Sep 8, 2019, 09.58 AM IST

CHENNAI: Almost a year after admission to MBBS course was completed in the state for the academic year 2018-19, a PIL has been moved in the Madras high court seeking to revoke such admission of five students who scored less than 119 (minimum eligibility) in NEET-2018 through management quota.

Admitting the plea moved by Rajendran Chingaravelu of Pudukottai, a division bench of Justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee ordered notice to the directorate of medical education (DME) returnable by September 26.

According to the petitioner, MCI regulations mandate that every candidate seeking admission to MBBS secure minimum marks in the NEET fixed by the authorities every year.

The rules make it clear that no candidate who has failed to obtain the minimum eligibility marks shall be admitted to MBBS course in the said academic year.

The minimum NEET marks fixed for the academic year 2018-19 was 119. However, bypassing the minimum eligibility, PSG Medical College, Coimbatore and SRM, Trichy have admitted a total of five students who scored less than 119 in NEET, petitioner’s counsel PVS Gridhar said.

A reply to an RTI query made by the petitioner revealed that more than 170 MBBS seats allotted under NRI quota were left unfilled till the last day of counselling for MBBS in 2018 which was also not published in the website nor notified.

Subsequent to the counselling, the unfilled NRI seats were allowed to be converted as management quota seats which can be filled by the colleges themselves.

It is under such seats all the five students who scored less than 119 were admitted, he alleged.

The petitioner claimed that such admissions are made in violation of law with impunity and making unjust gain depriving legitimate meritorious candidates of seats leading to deterioration of quality of medical education by admitting unqualified candidates thereby endangering health and life of ordinary citizens.

Govt relaxes NEET PG courses cut-off

Sushmi.Dey@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:08.09.2019

In an attempt to address the large number of vacant seats in super speciality medical courses, the health ministry has approved relaxing of the eligibility cut-off for NEET PG for 2019-20.

With this, the qualifying marks for super speciality in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, cardiology and pediatric surgery has been reduced to 20th percentile, whereas that for other PG courses it has been brought down to 40th percentile. At present, the cut-off is 50th percentile.

“The Board of Governors reviewed the proposal in terms of the vacant seats and the number of additional eligible candidates to be provided for filing the vacancies in Super Speciality Courses. In principle it was decided that the reduction in percentile should provide at least double the number of vacant seats,” a letter from BoG secretary general R K Vats to health ministry said.

For full report, www.toi.in

NEET success: New Indian Express readers help government schoolgirl in Tamil Nadu

After Express carried a report titled ‘Govt schoolgirl scripts a NEET success story’ on July 27, its readers have come forward to help the girl, Charumathi J, through medical school.

Published: 29th August 2019 05:18 AM |

R Parthasarathy apprioached Express with his desire to help Charumathi | Express

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: After Express carried a report titled ‘Govt schoolgirl scripts a NEET success story’ on July 27, its readers have come forward to help the girl, Charumathi J, through medical school. While Charumathi, who studies at the Thiruvarur medical college, was not reachable, her sister Sankari J told Express, “We are grateful for the help we have received so far. It has come at a time when our father has been diagnosed with cancer. But, we have promised ourselves that we will spend the money we receive only for Charumathi’s education.”


Parthasarathy R, a retired senior manager, Bank of India, came forward with a cheque of Rs 10,000 that was encashed by Charumathi’s family on Wednesday. “Hers is a situation that was similar to my own when I was young — three siblings cooped up in a small space with nowhere to study in peace. But she has done exceedingly well when compared to me,” Parthasarathy said. “I would be happy if more readers come forward to help her,” he added.

Another reader, Preetha A Anand, a retired television news producer from Doordarshan, has provided her medical textbooks for two years now and will be providing her with the remaining textbooks for the next three years in October. “I met her family in person and gave them the books. We also gave her 12 new sets of salwar kameezes because she has recently joined the college,” said Preetha.

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Admission to Ayush courses to be NEET-based

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:23.08.2019

Admissions to Ayush courses, barring Yoga and Naturotherapy, will be NEET-based for the current academic year, officials from the Commissionarate of Indian Medicine said on Thursday. Applications for the course, like MBBS/BDS, will be available online and counselling will be conducted face-to-face, they said.

The merit list of the Bachelor of Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences (BYNS) course has been published by the selection committee of Indian Medicine on http://www.tnhealth.org/ and the counselling for the course will be held for two days from August 28.

The dates for counselling of ayurveda, siddha, unnai and homeopathy will be announced after the selection committee received the government order, the officials said.

Until June, health minister C Vijayabaskar maintained that representations were sent to the Central Council of Indian Medicine, the apex body which monitors and regulates traditional medical education and practices in the country, to exempt the state from NEET.

Meanwhile, as per the BYNS merit list, the first rank went to Jeya Kayathri S who had scored 194.50 marks in Class XII. While Pavithra A stood second with 194.25 marks, Ramya V was placed third with 193.50 marks. While top nine candidates had scored above 190 marks, students ranked between 10 and 74 had marks above 180.

State was not kept in the dark on anti-NEET Bills, govt. tells court

‘The information was shared in the Assembly in June 2018’

14/08/2019, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT,CHENNAI

Denying the claim that the State was kept kept in the dark for two years with regard to the President having withheld his assent to two anti-NEET Bills passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly in February 2017, the Tamil Nadu government on Monday told the Madras High Court that the information was shared in the Assembly as early as on June 28, 2018.

Advocate-General Vijay Narayan submitted before a Division Bench of Justices S. Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad the proceedings of the debate that took place on the subject in the Assembly last year and said the information was shared by Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar to a query raised by none other than the Leader of the Opposition M.K. Stalin.

As per the proceedings published under the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Rules, Mr. Stalin wanted to know the status of the two Bills passed by the Assembly on February 1, 2017, since Rajya Sabha member T.K. Rangarajan of Communist Party of India (Marxist) had reportedly received a letter stating that the President’s office had not received the Bills.

Replying to it, the Health Minister clearly stated that the President had withheld his assent to the Bills and that the State government had written to the Centre seeking the reasons for having done so. Since the discussion had taken place on June 28, 2018, there was no question of the State or the Assembly having been kept in the dark on the issue, the A-G clarified.

He also brought it to the notice of the court that the State Law Secretary had written as many as 11 letters to the Union Home Ministry between October 25, 2017 and July 5, 2019 seeking reasons for the President having withheld assent so that the shortcomings, if any, in the two Bills could be rectified but there was no positive response so far.

The submissions were made during the hearing of a batch of public interest litigation petitions filed in 2017 seeking a direction to the State government to expedite the process of obtaining Presidential assent for the two Bills aimed at granting exemption for students of the State from writing National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) to gain admission in medical courses.

After recording his submission, the Division Bench disposed of all the cases since the prayer had become infructuous in view of the subsequent developments that had taken place.

The President had withheld his assent for the Bills on September 18, 2017. Therefore, the Union Home Ministry had returned them to the State government on September 22, 2017. The petitioners would have to file fresh writ petitions challenging the subsequent proceedings subject to their maintainability, the judges observed.

During the course of hearing, they also said the use of the term ‘withhold assent’ instead of ‘refuse assent’ in Article 201 of the Constitution might have led to a lot of confusion on the issue.

NEET cases: HC closes petitions
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:14.08.2019

About two weeks after it became known that the Centre had returned Tamil Nadu’s two Bills exempting the state from NEET for medical admissions in 2017 itself, the Madras high court drew curtains on a batch of PILs on the issue saying the Centre’s rejection order could be separately challenged.

Among those who filed the PILs were Tamil Nadu Students Parents Welfare, represented by P B Prince Gajendra Babu and U Mustaffa, seeking a direction to Tamil Nadu government to complete the procedures for obtaining the presidential assent for the Bills on or before August 15, 2017.

A division bench of Justice S Manikumar and Justice Subramoniam Prasad, closing the cases, referred to senior counsel R Viduthalai’s submission that reasons for the rejection ought to have been given by the Centre. They then said: “It is our considered view that the propriety, illegality or irregularity or any other can be challenged in a writ of certiorari or declaration, as the case may be, subject to the pleadings and materials and maintainability of such writ petition, if any, filed.” The writ petition was disposed of with liberty to challenge the Centre’s rejection order.

During earlier hearings, the bench had rapped the Tamil Nadu government for not informing anyone, including the state legislative assembly, about the ‘rejection/return’ of the two NEET Bills adopted by the assembly, that too after acknowledging the receipt of the returned Bills from the Centre.

Viduthalai had accused the central an state governments of being hand in glove in the issue. He submitted that it was the constitutional duty of the President to record reasons for denial of assent to a Bill.

Even while there was a raging political debate over the fate of Tamil Nadu government’s NEET Bills was on, no official nor the government spoke of the fact that it had been returned by the Centre. However, during arguments in court during the hearing of the PILs, the Centre informed the court that the Bills were returned as early in September 2017.

சித்தா படிப்பை கைவிட்டால் 10 லட்சம் ரூபாய் அபராதம்

Added : ஆக 10, 2019 00:02

சென்னை : ''சித்தா உள்ளிட்ட, இந்திய மருத்துவ படிப்புகளை பாதியில் கைவிட்டால், 10 லட்சம் ரூபாய் அபராதம் விதிக்கப்படும்,'' என, இந்திய மருத்துவம் மற்றும் ஓமியோபதி துறை கமிஷனர், கணேசன் கூறினார்.

தமிழகத்தில், எம்.பி.பி.எஸ்., - - பி.டி.எஸ்., படிப்புகளுக்கான கவுன்சிலிங் முடிந்துள்ளது. சித்தா உள்ளிட்ட, இந்திய முறை மருத்துவ படிப்புகளுக்கான விண்ணப்ப வினியோகம், அடுத்த வாரம் துவங்க உள்ளது.இதுகுறித்து, இந்திய மருத்துவம் மற்றும் ஓமியோபதி துறை கமிஷனர், கணேசன் கூறியதாவது:சித்தா உள்ளிட்ட, இந்திய மருத்துவ படிப்புகளுக்கான விண்ணப்ப வினியோகம், விரைவில் துவங்கும். அலோபதி, கால்நடை மருத்துவ மாணவர் சேர்க்கை முடிந்து, சித்த உள்ளிட்ட மருத்துவ படிப்புக்களுக்கான கவுன்சிலிங் துவங்கும். இந்த கவுன்சிலிங், 'நீட்' தேர்வு அடிப்படையில் நடக்கிறது.

அலோபதி மருத்துவ படிப்பை பாதியில் கைவிட்டால், 10 லட்சம் ரூபாய் அபராதம் விதிக்கப்படுகிறது. அதே முறையில், சித்தா உள்ளிட்ட இந்திய முறை மருத்துவ படிப்பை கைவிட்டாலும், 10 லட்சம் ரூபாய் வரை அபராதம் விதிக்கப்படும். இவ்வாறு, அவர் கூறினார்.

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பெரம்பலூர் மாவட்டம் துறைமங்கலத்தைச் சேர்ந்த ஓய்வுபெற்ற அரசுப் பேருந்து நடத்துநர் செல்வராஜின் மகள் கீர்த்தனா, நெல்லை ஊருடையான் குடியிருப்பைச் சேர்ந்த ஆட்டோ டிரைவர் செல்வராஜின் மகள் தனலட்சுமி ஆகியோரின் தற்கொலை தமிழகத்தை உலுக்கியிருக்கிறது.



கீர்த்தனா

‘‘நீட் தேர்வுதான் இவர்களின் தற்கொலைக்குக் காரணம்’’ என்று சமூக ஆர்வலர்கள் சிலர் குற்றம்சாட்டுகின்றனர்.

துறைமங்கலத்தில் உள்ள செல்வராஜ் வீட்டைத் தேடிச் சென்றோம். கீர்த்தனாவின் மரண சோகத்திலிருந்து குடும்பத்தினர் மீளாத நிலையில், செல்வராஜின் நண்பர் தியாகராஜன் நம்மிடம் பேசினார்.

கீர்த்தனா, தனலட்சுமி

  ‘‘புள்ளைங்கதான் உலகம்னு வாழ்ந்த குடும்பம். கீர்த்தனாவின் அப்பா செல்வராஜுக்கு, தொண்டையில கேன்சர். சிகிச்சையப்போ அவர் பட்ட கஷ்டங்களைப் பார்த்த கீர்த்தனா, ‘நான் டாக்டர் ஆகி, அப்பாவை நல்லா கவனிச்சுக்குவேன்’னு சொன்னா. அதுபோலவே நல்லா படிக்கவும் ஆரம்பிச்சா. பத்தாம் வகுப்புல 495 மார்க் எடுத்து மாநிலத்திலேயே மூணாவது இடம் பிடிச்ச கீர்த்தனா, போன வருஷம் ப்ளஸ் டூ தேர்வுல 1,053 மார்க் எடுத்தா. நீட் தேர்வுல 202 மார்க் மட்டுமே எடுத்ததால, மருத்துவ சீட் கிடைக்கலை. அதனால, சென்னையில நீட் கோச்சிங் கிளாஸுல சேர்ந்தா. அவருக்காக ஒட்டுமொத்த குடும்பமும் சென்னையில குடியேறிச்சு. இந்த வருஷம் நீட் தேர்வுல 384 மார்க் எடுத்தும் சீட் கிடைக்காததால, இந்த முடிவை எடுத்துட்டா ’’ என்று கலங்கினார்.

கீர்த்தனாவின் தோழிகளிடம் பேசினோம். ‘‘அவளோட கனவு, லட்சியம் எல்லாமே டாக்டர் ஆகணும்கிறதுதான். சின்ன வயசுல இருந்தே `எங்க அப்பாவுக்கு மருத்துவம் பார்க்க டாக்டர் ஆகணும்’னு சொல்லிக்கிட்டே இருப்பா. ஆனா, நீட் தேர்வால் அவளோட கனவெல்லாம் சிதைஞ்சுப்போச்சு. `இந்த முறை சீட் கிடைச்சிடும்’னு ரொம்ப நம்பிக்கையா இருந்தா. அவளைவிட குறைவான மார்க் வாங்கி சுமாரா படிக்கிற புள்ளைங்க பலர், நீட் தேர்வுல அதிக மார்க் வாங்கி டாக்டருக்குப் படிக்கப் போயிட்டாங்க. அது அவளை ரொம்பவே அவமானப்பட வெச்சிருச்சு. அதனாலத்தான் இப்படியொரு முடிவைத் தேடிக்கிட்டா’’ என்று கண்ணீர் வடித்தார்கள்.

தனலட்சுமியின் கடிதம்

பெரம்பலூர் மாவட்ட மார்க்சிஸ்ட் கட்சியின் செயற்குழு உறுப்பினர் செல்லதுரை, ‘‘நீட் தேர்வால் ஏற்படும் உயிரிழப்புகள் ஒவ்வொரு வருடமும் தொடர்ந்துகொண்டிருக்கின்றன. இந்த நிலையில், நீட் தேர்வைத் தொடர்வதில் மத்திய அரசு பிடிவாதம் காட்டுவது சரியல்ல. தமிழக அரசு இந்த விவகாரத்தில் போதிய அழுத்தம் கொடுக்காதது வேதனைக்குரியது. ஜெயலலிதா எதிர்த்த நீட் தேர்வை, எடப்பாடி பழனிசாமி அரசு ஆதரிப்பது வெட்கக்கேடானது. மத்திய அரசின் அனைத்து அழிவுத் திட்டங்களுக்கும், தமிழக அரசு சிவப்புக் கம்பளம் விரிப்பது கேவலமானது. தமிழக அரசின் அரசியல் லாபத்துக்காக, நீட் தேர்வு என்ற பெயரில் இன்னும் எத்தனை உயிர்களை பலி கொடுக்கப்போகிறீர்கள்?” என்றார் ஆவேசமாக.

நெல்லை மாவட்டம் ஊருடையான் குடியிருப்புப் பகுதியைச் சேர்ந்த ஆட்டோ டிரைவரான செல்வராஜின் மகள் தனலட்சுமியின் தற்கொலை அந்தப் பகுதி மக்களை உலுக்கியுள்ளது.



தனலட்சுமி எழுதி வைத்த கடிதத்தில், ‘என் சாவுக்கு யாரும் காரணமில்லை. என்னால், நான் ஆசைப்பட்டதைப் படிக்க முடியவில்லை. பணம்தான் என் கனவுகளை நிறைவேற்ற முடியாத நிலைக்குத் தள்ளிவிட்டது. நான் மட்டும் நீட் கோச்சிங் கிளாஸுக்குப் போயிருந்தால், இப்போது டாக்டருக்குப் படித்துக்கொண்டிருப்பேன். நான் ஆசைப்பட்டது கிடைக்கவில்லை. அதனால் போய்வருகிறேன்’ என்று குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளார்.


தனலட்சுமியின் தந்தை செல்வராஜிடம் பேசியபோது, ‘‘நான் ஆட்டோ ஓட்டி குடும்பத்தை நடத்திக்கிட்டு வர்றேன். எனக்கு இதயப் பிரச்னை ஏற்பட்டு சர்ஜரி செய்ததுல, மூணு லட்சம் ரூபாய் செலவாயிடுச்சு. அதை கடனுக்கு வாங்கியதால, வட்டி கட்டிட்டிருக்கேன். அதனாலதான் கடந்த வருஷம் தனலட்சுமியை கோச்சிங் சென்டர்ல சேர்க்க முடியலை. இவ இந்த மாதிரி ஒரு முடிவை எடுப்பானு நினைச்சுக்கூடப் பார்க்கலை’’ எனக் கதறினார்.

‘‘நீட் தேர்வு காரணமாக மருத்துவர் ஆக முடியாத ஆதங்கத்தில் அரியலூர் அனிதா, செஞ்சி பிரதீபா, திருப்பூர் ரிது, பட்டுக்கோட்டை வைஸ்யா, விழுப்புரம் மோனிஷா, திருச்சி சுப தற்கொலை செய்து கொண்டனர். அந்த வரிசையில், பெரம்பலூர் கீர்த்தனா, நெல்லை தனலட்சுமி என எண்ணிக்கை கூடுகிறது. அரசு அக்கறையுடன் கவனம் செலுத்த வேண்டிய விவகாரம் இது’’ என்று சமூக ஆர்வலர்கள் தரப்பில் இருந்து குரல்கள் கேட்கின்றன.

பி.ஆர்க்., தரவரிசையில் குளறுபடி :கவுன்சிலிங் ரத்து செய்ய கோரிக்கை

Added : ஆக 07, 2019 01:27

சென்னை:பி.ஆர்க்., மாணவர் சேர்க்கை கவுன்சிலிங் தரவரிசையில் குளறுபடி நிகழ்ந்துள்ளதால், கவுன்சிலிங்கை ரத்து செய்ய வேண்டும் என்ற, கோரிக்கை எழுந்துள்ளது.

அண்ணா பல்கலை இணைப்பில் உள்ள, 'ஆர்கிடெக்ட்' என்ற, கட்டட வடிவமைப்பு கலை பயிற்றுவிக்கும் கல்லுாரிகளில், பி.ஆர்க்., முதலாம் ஆண்டு கவுன்சிலிங், நேற்று துவங்கியது. இதில் பங்கேற்க, 1,827 பேர் தகுதி பெற்றிருந்தனர். அவர்களுக்கு, அந்தந்த மாவட்டங்களில் உள்ள சேவை மையங்களில், சான்றிதழ் சரிபார்ப்பு நடத்துவதாக அறிவிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தது; ஆனால், நடத்தவில்லை.

மாறாக, 'கட் ஆப்' மதிப்பெண் மற்றும் தரவரிசை அடிப்படையில், கவுன்சிலிங்கில் நேரடியாக பங்கேற்க, மாணவர்கள் அழைக்கப்பட்டனர். நேற்று, இன்று, நாளை என, மூன்று நாட்கள், மாணவர்களின் பெயர்கள் பிரிக்கப்பட்டு, கவுன்சிலிங்குக்கு அழைக்கப்பட்டனர்.சென்னை, தரமணியில் உள்ள, மத்திய பாலிடெக்னிக் வளாகத்தில், நேற்று காலையில், சிறப்பு பிரிவினருக்கு, கவுன்சிலிங் துவங்கியது.

அப்போது, சான்றிதழ் சரிபார்த்ததில், சிலரது தரவரிசை மாறியிருந்தது. இந்த பிரச்னை சரி செய்யப்பட்டு, கவுன்சிலிங் முடிந்தது.பின் மதியம், 2:00 மணிக்கு மேல், பொதுப்பிரிவு மாணவர்களுக்கான, கவுன்சிலிங் துவங்கியது.அப்போது, சான்றிதழ் சரிபார்ப்பு நடத்தப்பட்டு, இட ஒதுக்கீடு துவங்கியது.

இதில், பல மாணவர்களுக்கு, அவர்களின் கல்வி தகுதி மற்றும் இட ஒதுக்கீடு விதிகள் மாறின. ஜாதி சான்றிதழ் இல்லாதது, உரிய கல்வி தகுதி பெறாதது, 'நாட்டா' மதிப்பெண் பதிவில் தவறு போன்ற பிரச்னையால், பல மாணவர்கள், தரவரிசையில் பின்னுக்கு தள்ளப்பட்டனர்.அதனால், அனைவருக்குமே தரவரிசை மாறும் நிலை ஏற்பட்டது. பின், அங்கேயே, தரவரிசை மாற்றி வழங்கப்பட்டது.

அதனால், மாணவர்களும், பெற்றோரும் அதிர்ச்சி அடைந்துள்ளனர்.பல மாணவர்கள், இன்றைய கவுன்சிலிங்கில் பங்கேற்க காத்திருக்கின்றனர். அவர்களுக்கு, இந்த குளறுபடி தெரியாது.இது குறித்து, பெற்றோர்கள் கூறியதாவது:சான்றிதழ் சரிபார்ப்பை, கவுன்சிலிங்குக்கு முன்பே நடத்தாமல் விட்டதால், இவ்வளவு குளறுபடி ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது.

குறைந்த மதிப்பெண் உள்ளவர்களுக்கு, முன்னணி கல்லுாரிகளிலும், அதிக மதிப்பெண் பெற்றவர்களுக்கு, பின்வரிசை கல்லுாரிகளிலும் இடம் கிடைக்கும் அபாயம் உள்ளது.இந்த கவுன்சிலிங்கை ரத்து செய்து, சான்றிதழ் சரிபார்ப்பை நடத்திய பின், தரவரிசை பட்டியல் வெளியிட்டு, இடங்களை ஒதுக்க வேண்டும்.இவ்வாறு, அவர்கள் கூறினர்.உயர் கல்வி துறை அமைச்சர், அன்பழகனிடம் கேட்டபோது, ''இதுகுறித்து, விசாரணை நடத்தி, பிரச்னை இருந்தால், அதை சரி செய்ய நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும்,'' என்றார்.

HC dismisses plea of MBBS aspirant with 85% disability

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Madurai:05.08.2019

The Madras high court has dismissed the plea of a medical aspirant with 85% disability citing MCI regulations which state that people with more than 80% disability are not eligible for medical admission and that disability certificate issued by the competent authority mentioned in the prospectus can only be considered for admission.

The petitioner R Sakeela, who cleared the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Neet), had applied for MBBS admission for the year 2019-20 under the disability quota. Her application was rejected as she suffered 85% locomotor disability. Following this, she moved the court.

Counsel for the petitioner stated that the district medical board had issued a disability certificate to her mentioning 70% locomotor disability on May 21.

However, the medical board of the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai, which issued a certificate on June 17, stated that Sakeela suffered 85% locomotor disability.

Her counsel contended that the disability certificate of the medical board of the hospital cannot prevail over the certificate issued by the district medical board.

Additional advocate general (AAG) K Chellapandian submitted that as per the prospectus for admission of students in the MBBS course, candidates who seek admission under the disability quota have to obtain certificate from the medical board of Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital.

Chellapandian also produced an amendment made by the Medical Council of India in the regulations for medical admission.

Justice R Suresh Kumar observed that as per the clause mentioned in the prospectus, the candidates are required to produce the certificate obtained from the medical board of the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital for the purpose of assessing the nature and extent of disability.

The judge dismissed the plea of Sakeela stating that the petitioner is not eligible to get medical admission in view of her 85% disability certified by the medical authority.

Though the district medical board issued a disability certificate to Sakeela mentioning 70% locomotor disability, the medical board of Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai, in its certificate, said she suffered 85% locomotor disability

Talking Point: Should final year MBBS exam be considered as an entrance exam for PG

TNN | Jul 31, 2019, 12.43 PM IST

The National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill 2019 proposes final year MBBS exams to be treated as an entrance test for PG courses. Stakeholders share its pros and cons

More focus on internships

The final year MBBS assessment includes a theory exam and an internship. Most of the students are extremely caught up in preparing for NEET-PG that they are unable to focus on acquiring the skills through the internship. In medical profession, practical skills are more important than theoretical knowledge. If the final exams are treated as an entrance for PG courses, students will have to focus on only one exam and it will allow students to focus on their internships. Maintaining uniform standards of examination, evaluation and teaching in around 450 medical colleges will be a challenge.

- Dr VN Jindal, former dean, Goa Medical College and member of Executive Council, Medical Council of India (MCI)

Uniformity is a must

Entrance exams are conducted with a purpose to check a student’s knowledge of MBBS course as a whole. Hence, focussing on only final year exam will not justify the assessment for the PG entrance exam. Final year exams are theory based and assessment with subjectivity has more chances of bias during evaluation. All the medical colleges across the nation have different standards of examination and evaluation; hence, any national level exam should have a uniform pattern to provide fair chance to all the students.

- Dr VB Singh, principal and controller, Jawaharlal Nehru (JLN) Medical College, Ajmer

Need to develop soft skills

Medical students aspire for postgraduate courses for career betterment but with entrance exam being the key to get into these courses, students often neglect development of patient treating skills and devote their time in preparing themselves for exam oriented studies to excel in the entrance examination. Competitive entrance exams and skill-based tests should be coupled with assessment of communication skills, scientific and rational approach towards the patient.

- Dr Sandhya Satish Khadse, dean, Rajiv Gandhi Medical College, Mumbai

Exam system needs to evolve

The final year MBBS exams are not completely indicative of the level of understanding of the student. The exams are divided into a written and a practical one. The written exams revolve around bookish knowledge and the practicals only manage to scrape the surface of practical skills. Thus, a distinction of merit made on the basis of final year exams in MBBS would be unfair. Our medical entrance examinations system needs to take a cue from the United States Medical Licensing

Examination (USMLE) to design an entrance exam that gauges a student’s ability to render a well-rounded approach with a real-time perspective rather than rote learning that helps neither the candidate nor the healthcare ecosystem in the country.

- Rishabh Shetty, MBBS degree holder and PG aspirant

This year, a qualifying test to avail of free coaching

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“However, there was a definite improvement in the performance overall, as more than 2,000 students who took the free coaching classes cleared the exam this year and we are working towards preparing students better,” he added.

In 2018-19, around 19,000 students from government and government-aided schools across the State enrolled for coaching classes conducted during the weekends. Of this, 2,579 students had been selected for the ‘Thoduvanam’ programme, where they went through a residential crash course one month before taking NEET.

Over 48% of all students in Tamil Nadu who took NEET qualified this year.

Officials have further clarified that there will be no reduction in the number of coaching centres in any of the districts. The test will be mainly based on the Class 11 syllabus and will test the basic subject knowledge of the students. While schools have been instructed to identify and send in a list of students who will be taking the exam, the head of a government school from the city said that teachers have motivated as many students as possible to take up the qualifying exam. Schools across the State have been instructed to compulsorily have practice tests based on competitive exams such as NEET and JEE every Friday starting August 9.

In a circular from the Director of School Education, schools have been informed that they will be sent question papers for the same via email. “Through these measures, we hope to prepare our students to take up competitive exams at the national level and ensure that they do well,” the director said.

Criticizing this move, P.K. Ilamaran, State President of the Tamil Nadu Teachers Association, said that the government should not restrict the opportunity to undergo coaching. “More students should be encouraged instead to attend the coaching classes regularly,” he added.

NEET coaching: Govt to hold screening test, weekly exams

TNN | Aug 4, 2019, 04.17 AM IST

CHENNAI: After drawing a blank in medical admissions, the school education department has prepared a plan to send more students to MBBS courses next year. It wants to select students for NEET coaching through a screening test and will conduct weekly tests at schools.

As per a circular issued by the directorate of school education, the screening test will be conducted on August 7. “The question paper and answer keys for the test will be sent to chief education officers. They should send the scores to the directorate by August 12,” the circular said. It further instructed conduct of weekly tests for students from government and government-aided schools on Fridays.

The department imparted NEET coaching to 19,355 students at 412 centres across the state. It gave residential coaching to the 2,700-odd students at 14 places.

An official said the screening test was not new and was conducted last year. “We have to select students for coaching classes. But if any student wants to attend coaching, we will accommodate him or her,” the official said

For the past two years, the government has provided NEET coaching in collaboration with Speed Medical Institute. As of now, the department has not tied up with any private agency. “The department has trained teachers and materials to conduct the coaching at schools,” an official said.

This NEET, 32 students trained by government-backed coaching centres scored above 300 compared to just 10 last year. The number of qualified students also increased from 1,333 last year to 2,000-plus. However, no student was able to secure a seat.

“Due to the lack of support from the school education department, many students could not get MBBS seats. We prepared speed learning app, study materials and question banks, but nothing reached them,” said Dr Vinayak Senthil, managing director, Speed Medical Institute. He said the institute incurred a loss of Rs 20 crore for NEET coaching. “Though state government allocated Rs 20 crore for it, we have not received any money. They paid Rs 1.96 crore to the internet service provider as bandwidth charges in April,” he said.

Officials said making payment to the institute was difficult since it did not come through a proper tender process. “They have not given us the desired results. Now they cannot talk about the lack of support and payment,” an official said.