Delay in hanging shows failure of system: Nirbhaya’s mother

‘I lose hope every day but I stand tall every day’

03/03/2020, PRESS TRUST OF INDIA ,NEW DELHI

Resolute face: Nirbhaya's mother speaking to the media in Delhi on Monday. Sushil Kumar Verma

Delhi gangrape victim Nirbhaya’s mother on Monday said no matter what the convicts did, they would be hanged for their crime, after a Delhi court deferred the execution of the death penalty in the case till further orders.

“This shows the failure of our system. The whole world is watching how justice is being delayed in India,” she told reporters.

It is the third time that the hanging of the four convicts has been deferred.

Nirbhaya’s mother said she “loses hope every day” but the convicts will be hanged no matter what they do.

“I lose hope every day but I stand tall every day. They would have to be hanged. There could not have been a worse case than Nirbhaya but still I am struggling to get justice. The courts are sitting and watching the drama,” she added.

Prision preparation

Delhi’s Tihar Jail authorities had made all necessary preparations for the hanging of the four convicts, officials said on Monday.

“We had made all the necessary arrangements for the execution of the four convicts which was scheduled for Tuesday at 6 a.m. Now, the execution has been postponed and we are waiting for the further order by the court,” a senior jail official said.

“We had checked the ropes. The hangman was called and dummy executions were carried out,” another senior jail official said.

Barring Pawan Gupta, the other three — Mukesh Kumar Singh, 32, Vinay Kumar Sharma, 26, Akshay Kumar Singh, 31, had in the previous weeks moved curative petitions and mercy pleas, all of which were dismissed.

The first date of execution — January 22 — fixed on January 7, was postponed by the court to February 1. But on January 31, the court indefinitely postponed the hanging. On February 17, the court again issued a fresh date for execution of death warrants for March 3.

However, the Delhi government on Monday recommended rejecting mercy petition of Pawan Gupta.

Sources said that the Delhi government made the recommendation just a few minutes after it received the mercy petition from the Union Home Ministry. “The Delhi government has recommended rejecting mercy petition of Pawan Gupta. The file has now been sent to Lt Governor Anil Baijal for his recommendation,” a source said.

TNIC asks Health dept. to provide details of doctor

Ophthalmologist did not pass PG: petitioner

03/03/2020, S. VIJAY KUMAR , CHENNAI

The Tamil Nadu Information Commission has directed the Health Department to respond to a petitioner who sought to know whether a doctor performing eye surgeries at the district headquarters hospital in Perambalur had passed a post-graduate course and registered himself with the Medical Council of India.

After the Public Information Officer and the First Appellate Authority failed to provide complete information sought under the provisions of Section 6 (1) of the Right to Information Act, S. Raja of Alandur in Perambalur district moved the Commission seeking its intervention. He sought details of patients who underwent eye surgeries in the hospital and a copy of the government proceedings permitting the surgical ophthalmologist to perform the surgeries.

He alleged that the doctor in question had not passed the postgraduate course and also not registered with the MCI (now National Medical Commission). State Information Commissioner S. Selvaraj observed that complete information was not provided to the petitioner.

After the Office Superintendent, Office of the Joint Director of Health Services, who represented the PIO, requested 15 days’ time to give the complete details, the Commission directed him to send the reply, including details of patients on whom the doctor performed eye surgeries from the date of his joining service till November 12, 2018, to the petitioner within one month.

University convocation

03/03/2020,CHENNAI

A total of 17,590 graduates will receive their degrees and diplomas at the 32nd convocation of the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University on Thursday,  said V-C Sudha Seshayyan. Former ISRO chief K. Kasturi Rangan and former chief of BARC R. Chidambaram will be guests of honour.

Doctors treat 10-year-old girl with pyomyositis

Seven surgeries later, the aspiring dancer is fine

03/03/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,CHENNAI

From left, Dr. B. Vijayalakshmi, Dr. Satish Manivel, Dr. V. B. Narayanamurthy, Dr. Lakshmi Prashanth and Dr. Arul Mozhi Mangai with the 10-year-old on Monday. S. R. Raghunathan

A team of doctors of Kauvery Hospital treated a 10-year-old girl, who suffered from pyomyositis, a bacterial infection, and had complications including respiratory failure, acute kidney injury and sepsis.

Lakshmi Prashanth, consultant paediatrician, said the girl, an aspiring dancer, was treated in her native town for an ankle sprain with an above knee plaster cast. “However, five to seven days later, she had excruciating pain, swelling in the right lower limb and high grade fever. When she came to us, her presentation suggested deep vein thrombosis - a clot in the leg. She developed difficulty in breathing and normal urine output stopped. Her heart rate was high and blood pressure low,” she told reporters on Monday.

The girl’s total blood count was 49,000 to 50,000 signalling severe sepsis, she said, adding: “She needed critical care support. She had acute kidney failure. We provided respiratory support and put her on antibiotics.” The girl had certain skin changes suggesting infection in her right leg that was both limb and life threatening, the doctors said.

Plastic surgeons took her up for exploratory studies and found she suffered from severe pyomyositis. Tissues in the muscle around the bones were necrosed. For this, she underwent seven radical surgical procedures to remove the tissues. There was pus in the deep compartment of the leg, she said.

“We do see cases of pyomyositis but not as life threatening and limb threatening as this one. Usually, it occurs in immune-compromised patients such as elderly, HIV positive persons and those under chemotherapy for cancer. This was an otherwise healthy child,” she said.

V. B. Narayanamurthy, senior consultant-plastic surgeon, said that it was important to seek help early in such circumstances. “We have removed dead tissues and have preserved normal ones. She is able to walk now, and we are hoping that the muscles recover.”

Sathish Manivel, senior consultant-plastic surgeon, Vijayalakshmi B., senior consultant-infectious diseases and Sridhar N., senior consultant-intensivist, also spoke.

Coming soon: double discharge platform at Guindy rail station

Commuters will not have to climb the foot overbridge to get to Metro

03/03/2020, , R. SRIKANTH,CHENNAI

Smooth transition: A double discharge platform is being constructed on the western side of the Guindy railway station. B. Velankanni Raj

Commuters using suburban trains and disembarking at Guindy railway station will no longer have to take a circuitous route and climb the foot overbridge to reach the Metro station.

Southern Railway, to provide easy access to commuters to the Guindy Metro station located within the compound of the suburban railway station, is constructing a platform on the west side. Called a double discharge platform, the facility is already available at important stations such as Park, Tambaram, Mambalam and Egmore. It helps in providing quicker access to multi-modal transport facilities.

A senior official of Southern Railway said all these years the provision of island platforms (entry and exit through only one platform) resulted in commuters being forced to use foot overbridges at railway stations. He said that since the operation of 12-car rakes began, from the earlier nine-car rakes on the Tambaram-Beach section, the foot overbridges had seen congestion at some stations.

In order to provide better access to Metro stations and bus stops near the railway stations and to decongest the the foot overbridges, the railway department has proposed to construct double platforms. As part of this project, Mambalam and Egmore have now been provided with double discharge platforms.

More coming

The railway official said work on the new platform on the western side of Guindy railway station would be completed this month. Double discharge platforms are proposed to be constructed at Chetpet, Nungambakkam, Kodambakkam, Saidapet, St. Thomas Mount, Palavanthangal and Chromepet too. Work will soon start at these stations as well, he added.

Delhi court defers hanging of 4 Nirbhaya case convicts

One of them has moved a mercy plea before the President

03/03/2020, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT,NEW DELHI

Waiting for justice: Parents of Nirbhaya outside the Patiala House Courts in New Delhi on Monday. Sushil Kumar Verma

A Delhi court on Monday deferred the execution of the death sentence of the four Nirbhaya gang-rape case convicts indefinitely.

The four condemned men were supposed to be hanged to death on March 3 at 6 a.m.

Hours before what was to be their execution, additional sessions judge Dharmender Rana put on hold their execution when informed that one of the four, Pawan Gupta, had moved a clemency petition before the President on Monday.

The mercy plea was filed shortly after a five-judge Supreme Court Bench, led by Justice N.V. Ramana, dismissed Pawan’s curative petition for lack of merits.

The decision was taken by circulation by the judges in their chambers at 10.25 a.m. on Monday.

“We have gone through the curative petition and the relevant documents. In our opinion, no case is made out... The application for oral hearing is rejected. The application for stay of execution of death sentence is also rejected,” the short order on the curative petition said.

Even if the President rejects the mercy plea of Pawan before 6 a.m. on March 3, the law laid down by the Supreme Court in its Shatrughan Chauhan judgment of 2014 requires the convict to be given 14 days to set his affairs straight and “prepare” for the execution.

Recently, the Centre had blamed the Chauhan case judgment for being “convict-centric”. It urged the Supreme Court to revisit the 2014 verdict and make it victim and society-centric.

Again, Pawan can legally challenge the rejection of the mercy plea in the Supreme Court. The fate of the other three convicts would also depend on how long his challenges continue to hold up.

The government has appealed to the Supreme Court for permission to separately execute convicts who have exhausted their legal and administrative remedies without waiting for their co-convicts in the same case to finish theirs in due time. This appeal is pending in the court.

Organ donation

Separately, a Bench of Justices R. Banumathi and A.S. Bopanna dismissed a PIL petition filed by former High Court judge Michael Saldanha for directions to the government and the jail authorities to give the Nirbhaya convicts’ organs for medical research.

“To execute a person is the saddest part for the family. You [petitioner] want their body to cut into pieces... Have a humane approach to these things... Organ donation has to be voluntary,” Justice Banumathi addressed the petitioner.

Treasurer of trust jailed for diverting funds

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Chennai:03.03.2020

The chief judicial magistrate of Coimbatore has convicted a treasurer of a Nilgiris-based charitable trust to three years of imprisonment with ₹51,000 penalty for diverting foreign funds received by the trust for social services. Sulo C Daniel, treasurer of Reach In the Nilgiris Trust has been directed to undergo the sentencing for violation of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act.

According to the prosecution, Sulo has diverted over ₹50 lakh received by the trust as foreign contribution for her personal gain in collusion with the prime accused and chief functionary of the trust Paulson Yesudian. Since Yesudian had left the country and even summons could not be served to him, the prosecution split the cases into two and proceed with the case against Sulo alone.

She was charged for offences under Section 120B (criminal conspiracy) r/w Section 406 (criminal breach of trust) of IPC and sections 23(1) and 25 r/w sections 4, 6 and 13 of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.

Concluding the trial, chief judicial magistrate A S Ravi said, “This court feels that the recipients of money are members, but the purpose for which, the funds were transferred has not been explained and no proper account has been submitted for the amounts spent and the purpose for which, those funds were diverted to them also not explained.”

This apart, it is also not explained that as to why and as to how, the funds were diverted to personal account of the members of the society and Sulo. Dishonestly converting the society funds, entrusted with the accused, into the personal account is itself an offence, which constitutes the ingredients under section 405 (criminal breach of trust) of IPC, the court added.

Noting that the offence cannot be rectified by redepositing the money into the society account, the court said, “By redepositing the said amount, Sulo forced this court to believe the prosecution that she misappropriated the society funds. Even assuming that it was spent for the welfare of the society or for the purpose of the society, they should have produced account for the money spent.”

Medavakkam residents want median removed

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Chennai:03.03.2020

Troubled by haphazard vehicle movement, Medavakkam residents have demanded that the highways department remove portions of the median at two intersections on Mambakkam Main Road to ensure smooth flow of traffic and for the safety of schoolchildren. The stretch, off the arterial Velachery-Tambaram Main Road, is one of the busiest roads in the area, frequented especially by parents and other vehicles ferrying schoolkids.

“There are five schools in the neighbourhood and residents use Mambakkam Main Road to reach them,” said M Guru, who uses the stretch frequently.

TOI visited the stretch and noted that motorists have to traverse dangerously at the intersections from Babu Nagar 1st Main Road and 3rd Main Road. A week ago, there was an accident near a temple along the stretch due to unregulated movement of vehicles, residents said. They are of the opinion that their demand to secede a portion of the median is not an extraordinbeen affected due to delay in completion of the flyover on Velachery-Tambaram Road.

Residents are pining that a change in guard in the district administration will put an end to their woes. The village panchayat, which was with the Kancheepuram district, is now part of the newly carved Chengalpet district. “We have started petitioning the new district administration to elevate our neighbourhood into a town panchayat. Despite having a population of more than 50,000, the area is still a village panchayat,” said a resident.

NEEDING A FIX: Residents said oddly placed medians at two intersections on Mambakkam Main Road have left vehicles moving haphazardly, putting schoolgoers at risk

ary request. Residents also urged that steps must be taken soon to construct speed breakers on the stretch and relay access roads.

When asked, a state highways department official said traffic police have to assess the complaints of the residents for the centre median to be cut off.

Unchecked parking of vehicles, including water tankers, along the road has made life of motorists harder. Widening the road proved useless as carriageway space is reduced. Traffic on the stretch has also

TN med univ convocation on Thursday

Chennai:03.03.2020

Thirty-two years since its establishment, Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University will hold its annual convocation for the first time on its own campus in Guindy.

At the 32nd convocation of the state medical university, which will be held on Thursday, degrees will be given to 17,590 candidates, vice-chancellor Dr Sudha Seshayyan said on Monday. The degrees will be handed over by Indian space scientist K Kasturirangan, former head of Isro. He will also deliver the convocation address, while senior Indian physicist R Chidambaram, former principal scientific advisor to the Union government, will speak on “artificial intelligence in medicine”.

Until 2019, convocations were held at the centenary auditorium of the University of Madras. The university will be able to save ₹2 lakh spent on renting the hall besides transportation and other charges, officials said.

The event will be declared open by the university chancellor and Tamil Nadu governor Banwarilal Purohit at 11am in the presence of pro-chancellor and health minister C Vijayabaskar. TNN

State med univ to use AI to curb malpractice in exams

Software Works Real-Time, Will Be Tested In PG Tests In May

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:03.03.2020

In an attempt to curb malpractice and improve surveillance during examinations, the state medical university will launch an indigenous artificial intelligence-driven system, which can monitor examination venues real-time and prompt officials about “suspected” malpractices. The project will be piloted in May for the postgraduate medical examination and will be used from August for UG examination.

The technology can provide directions through instant alerts during exams, university vice-chancellor Dr Sudha Sehayyan said on Monday. The university, in association with the Madras Chamber of Commerce, is working on a software that will raise an alarm when it senses interaction between two students in the exam centre, passing of answer scripts, moving of seats or any other abnormal movement during the examination.

“We are hoping to make the process more stringent to reduce malpractices. We can debar colleges from holding exams and students too will be asked to repeat examinations or be debarred if malpractices are detected,” she said.

In February, the university had asked 35 exam centres holding MBBS exams in the state to livestream the tests. A team of officials were monitoring the livestreams from a control room in Guindy as 12,000 students wrote their semester exams. While it did help in creating a feeling that they were being watched, it was not adequate to catch malpractice such as mass copying or using gadgets to find answers.

The medical university conducts examination for medical, dental, AYUSH (ayurveda, yoga & naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy) and other medical-related streams in around 500 centres.

Medical students are given bar-coded answer scripts and question papers are sent to examination centres half an hour before the examinations.

Exam centres must download the question papers using a unique password and print them out only minutes before they hand it over to the students to prevent any leaks. The universities will also send a digital footage of the examination hall to the university for reference.

Jaya death probe panel, well paid, idle for 10 months

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:03.03.2020

For about 10 months now, members of the Justice (retd) A Arumughaswamy commission, formed by the government in 2017 to probe the circumstances surrounding former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s death, have been sitting idle at their office in Chepauk.

On April 26, 2019, the Supreme Court stayed the proceedings of the commission after hearing an appeal filed by Apollo Hospitals. The hospital group had argued that only a medical board should look into the former CM’s treatment issues.

The government continues to pay salaries to the commission’s staff, all deputed from different departments. This includes Justice Armughaswamy himself and two police personnel for security. Another extension of four months was given to the commission last week.

Sources said the government is trying to get the stay vacated but the next SC hearing is yet to come up. Every day, the 10-15 staff come to their office at Kalas mahal and and check the Supreme Court registry in anticipation of the hearing date.

“The tentative date was February 25 and then it was pushed to March 3 and then 17 and now 24,” a source said.

The commission members correspond with government officials on the next course of action as well as getting the affidavits ready, a source said. The initial mandate of the commission was to file a detailed report within six months. Official sources said despite documenting testimonies of more than 100 witnesses including doctors from the hospital, the commission cannot start work on writing the report as it would be a violation of the SC stay order.

Retired Madras high court judge K Chandru said for the government it was important to keep the issue alive as it was started to ensure that some mouths were kept shut. “All commissions of inquiry are a waste of public money,” he said.

FULL OF FILTH

The meat you eat comes from a house of horrors

Piling Refuse, Broken Roof And Non-Existent Floor, Pulianthope Slaughterhouse Is Bursting At The Seams

Ayyappan.V@timesgroup.com

03.03.2020

Most of the meat that comes to your table may be cut and processed at illequipped abattoirs where workers are forced to stand in a slush of blood and dung as they go about their work.

Though the mutton and beef that come out of slaughter houses are certified by a vet, the conditions in which the animals are slaughtered, skinned and cut go unmonitored. Chicken is handled in the most unhygienic conditions at stalls and markets. They are transported to the city in filthy, stinking cages mostly from Salem and Namakkal.

The abattoir at Pulianthope, the city’s oldest and largest, that gets around 500 goats and 300 cattle on weekends is in a mess and years of neglect has made it a health hazard for nearby residents.

On Monday, TOI saw piles of bones, hooves and refuse all over. In the absence of a proper platform, workers spread animal skin on the ground so that the meat doesn’t get soiled when chopped. Dogs have made the sheds their home and were found lying on the floor where meat is handled.

A meat vendor who has a stall inside the abattoir and lives in the neighbourhood said: “The refuse is not removed. We get scorpions and snakes in our homes. The stench makes it tough to live here.”

Traders who bring their cattle and goats to slaughter are helpless and worried as their pleas to the Greater Chennai Corporation and politicians for a new building at the same location are not being heeded. Tiles have fallen down from most parts of the roof, which can collapse anytime.

“The abattoir does not have basic facilities. As there is no proper platform to cut the meat, they are forced to spread the skin on the ground and chop the meat,” said Perambur MLA Thayagam Kavi. He said a toilet is ready but could not be used because there was no water and sewerage connection.

As the abattoir is in bad shape, retail sellers are uncomfortable selling meat that comes from Pulianthope. In many markets -- including at Zam Bazaar in Triplicane -- they slaughter goats adjacent to stalls because buyers want the meat to be clean.

S Salauddin, president, Chennai Mutton Merchant (retailers) Association, said, “The abattoir in Pulianthope is in bad shape. It is not able to handle the number of animals. The meat that comes from there is cut in an unhygienic manner. It turns red fast. But we have no option but to sell it when demand is high on weekends.”

“We have asked the government to open abattoirs in Adyar, Porur, Tiruvotiyur, Mogappair so neighbourhoods there and get quality meat,” he said.

Salauddin said the abattoir at Pulianthope should not have stalls. “These stalls were opened as piece market for the poor who used to sell the balance meat from slaughtering for a living. But now it has become a business,” he said.

B Sampath, secretary, Chennai Mttiraichi Vyaparigal Sangam (beef traders association) said: “We are helpless. We have made representations to authorities to improve the condition. But they are not doing it.”

The corporation has plans to improve the facility and build new sheds. “Three to four years ago we had repaired the floor but because the cattle are heavy, it got damaged. The renovation plan is likely to cost Rs 1 crore. We met representatives of the traders’ associations but will have a meeting soon about the development work,” an official said.

IN DISREPAIR: The Pulianthope abattoir has nothing common with a state-of-the-art slaughterhouse. Animals don’t have a pen, meat is sold in the open and animal refuse is not removed for days raising a stench. (Right) Food safety officials raiding a fish market to crack down on use of formalin

Nirbhaya convicts to live a little longer as hanging deferred again
Aamir.Khan2@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:03.02.2020

Any condemned convict shouldn’t meet his creator with a grievance in his bosom that the courts of this country had not acted fairly in granting him an opportunity to exhaust all legal remedies, a Delhi court said on Monday while deferring, till further orders and for the third time, the hanging of all four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.

On February 17, the court had said the hanging would take place at 6am on March 3. After Monday’s hearing began, additional sessions judge Dharmender Rana initially rejected a plea to defer the execution. But subsequently, he was informed that one of the convicts had moved a mercy plea with the President following the rejection of his curative petition in the Supreme Court. “The conundrum of executing the death sentence against the condemned convicts does not seem to be over. Within half an hour of dismissal of the application of Pawan and Akshay seeking postponement of hanging, their counsel (A P Singh) informed court that Pawan’s mercy plea had been moved with the President of India,” the court said.

11 men get life for Ranchi gang rape

In one of the fastest trials, a Ranchi court on Monday awarded life terms to 11men for the gang rape of a law student on November 26, 2019. The twelfth accused, a minor, is facing trial in a juvenile court. P 7

Game of hide & seek must be dealt with hard hands: Nirbhaya counsel

When the court turned towards special prosecutor Irfan Ahmed, he said under a provision of the Delhi Prison Rules, it is for the government to decide whether to stay or not. “This game of hide and seek on behalf of defense should be handled with hard hands,” he said.

The court earlier asked Singh to show it the rule which explicitly stated that mercy plea could only be filed after dismissal of curative. It also asked him about the provision at the current stage for the court to interfere. “Under what provision shall court come to your rescue?” it asked but could not find an answer from the counsel. Singh urged the court that he had the only option to come to court as it had only issued death warrants.

In its order, the court noted that it would be “axiomatic to state that the extreme penalty of capital punishment is irreversible in nature”. For the court the remedy of mercy plea is an important legal remedy available to the convict and guided by the cherished legal principle Ubi jus ubi remedium – where there is a right, there is a remedy. “I am of the opinion that the application is very much maintainable,” the court said.

Even going by a prison rule, a trial court is required to fix the date of a prisoner’s hanging post rejection of a mercy petition. The court said, “I am of the opinion that the death sentence cannot be executed pending the disposal of the mercy petition of the convict.”

After birth of twins, no maternity benefits for 2nd pregnancy: HC

Sureshkumar.K@timesgroup.com

Chennai:3.3.2020

The Madras high court has ruled that a woman giving birth to twins counts as two deliveries, while denying maternity benefits to a CISF employee when she had a third child after a second pregnancy. Under the rules, a woman government employee can claim maternity benefits only for her first two deliveries.

“When twins are born they are delivered one after the other, and their age and their inter-se elderly status is also determined by virtue of the gap of time between their arrivals, which amounts to two deliveries and not one simultaneous act,” the first bench of Chief Justice A P Sahi and Subramonium Prasad said in a judgment last week.

The issue pertains to an appeal moved by the Union home ministry challenging the order of a single judge extending 180 days of maternity leave and other benefits to a woman member of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) under the rules governing Tamil Nadu government servants.

‘Try to consider case as exception as child may be deprived of benefits’

Challenging the order, the home ministry contended that the claim of maternity leave is by a member of the CISF, for whom the maternity rules of the Tamil Nadu government would not apply. She would be covered by the maternity benefits provided under the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, the ministry said.

When the appeal came up for hearing, the bench said, a second delivery, which, in the present case, has resulted in a third child, cannot be interpreted so as to add to the mathematical precision that is defined in the rules. The admissibility of benefits would be limited if the claimant has more than two children.

“This fact, therefore, changes the entire nature of the relief which is sought by the woman petitioner, and has been overlooked by the single judge,” the court added.

The court set aside the impugned judgment of the single judge, and allowed the writ appeal. If the appellants had power to grant any relaxation in exceptional circumstances, it may be worth consideration, the court said, as it entails financial consequences that may result in deprivation of benefits to the newborn child, who is no way concerned either with the framing of rules or the choice of parents to have a child.

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புதுக்கோட்டை  2.3.2020

பிளஸ் 2 பொதுத்தேர்வை பதற்ற மின்றி எதிர்கொள்ள வேண்டும் என மாணவ, மாணவிகளுக்கு மனநல மருத்துவர் ஆலோசனை வழங்கினார்.

பிளஸ் 2 பொதுத்தேர்வு இன்று (மார்ச் 2) தொடங்கி 24-ம் தேதி வரை நடைபெற உள்ளது. பொதுத்தேர்வை மாணவர்கள் பதற்றமின்றி எழுதுவது குறித்து, புதுக்கோட்டை மாவட்டம் கீரமங்கலம் அரசு மகளிர் மேல்நிலைப் பள்ளியில் தலைமை ஆசிரியர் கோவிந்தராஜ் தலைமையில் நேற்று முன்தினம் நடைபெற்ற நிகழ்ச்சியில் மாவட்ட மனநல திட்ட அலுவலர் ஆர்.கார்த்திக் தெய்வநாயகம் பேசிய தாவது:

பொதுவாக தேர்வு எழுதும் போது மாணவ, மாணவிகளுக்கு மன உளைச்சல், மனப் பதற்றம் ஏற்படுவது இயல்பு. பள்ளியில் பயிலும் மாணவ, மாணவிகள், வெவ்வேறு அளவிலான சிந்தனைத்திறன், ஞாபகசக்தி, கற்பனைத்திறன் கொண்டவர்களாக இருப்பார்கள் என்பதால் பெற்றோர்களும், ஆசிரியர்களும் இதை உணர்ந்து, ஒவ்வொரு மாணவரையும் அணுகி னால் மாணவர்களின் தேர்வு கால பதற்றத்தைக் குறைக்க முடியும்.

மேலும், உறக்கம் ஞாபகசக் தியை திடப்படுத்தும் என்பது அறிவியல்பூர்வமான உண்மை. தினமும் குறைந்தது 8 மணி நேரம் இரவில் உறங்க வேண்டும். அப்போது தான் தேர்வுக்கு சிறப்பாக தயாராகி எழுத முடியும்.

தினமும் போதிய அளவு தண்ணீர், இளநீர், பழச்சாறு, நீர்மோர் போன்ற நீராகாரத்தை எடுத்துக் கொள்ள வேண்டும். இது மன அழுத்தத்தை, பதற்றத்தைக் குறைக்கும். வீட்டிலேயே கை, கால்களை நீட்டி மடக்குதல், விரல்களை மடித்து நீட்டுதல், தினமும் குறைந்தது 15 நிமிட நடைபயிற்சி, நிதானமாக மூச்சை உள்ளிழுத்து மெதுவாக வெளியிடுதல் போன்ற பயிற்சிக ளும் மன அழுத்தத்தை குறைக்க உதவும்.

பெற்றோர்கள் தங்கள் பிள்ளை களை மற்ற மாணவர்களோடு ஒப்புநோக்குவதும் குழந்தைகளின் பதற்றத்தை அதிகரிக்கும். அறிவை வளர்த்துக் கொள்வதும், வாழ்வை மேம்படுத்துவதுமே கல்வியின் நோக்கமாகும். தேர்வு என்பது கல்வி கற்றலின் ஒரு பகுதி என்பதை பெற்றோர்கள் உணர்ந்து செயல்பட்டால் மாணவர்களின் மனப்பதற்றத்தை எளிதாக குறைக்க முடியும்.

எனவே, மாணவர்கள் மனப் பதற்றமின்றி பொதுத்தேர்வை எதிர்கொள்ள வேண்டும். அளவு கடந்த மனப் பதற்றம், தூக்கமின்மை போன்றவற்றால் மாணவர்கள் சிரமத்துக்கு உள்ளானால், புதுக்கோட்டை டாக்டர் முத்துலெட்சுமி ரெட்டி நினைவு அரசு மருத்துவமனை வளாகத்தில் உள்ள மாவட்ட மனநல ஆலோசனை மையத்தை தொடர்பு கொள்ளலாம். மனநல ஆலோசனை குறித்த தகவலுக்கு 9486067686 என்ற செல்போன் எண்ணில் தொடர்பு கொள்ளலாம் என்றார்.

பெண்கள் தினம்: ஒரு வார நிகழ்வை நடத்துமாறு பல்கலை., கல்லூரிகளுக்கு யுஜிசி உத்தரவு

2.3.2020

சர்வதேச பெண்கள் தினத்தை முன்னிட்டு, ஒரு வாரத்துக்கு சிறப்பு நிகழ்வுகளை நடத்துமாறு பல்கலைக்கழகங்கள், கல்லூரிகளுக்கு யுஜிசி உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது.

உலகம் முழுவதும் ஒவ்வோர் ஆண்டும் மார்ச் 8-ம் தேதி சர்வதேச பெண்கள் தினம் கொண்டாடப்படுகிறது. இதை முன்னிட்டு யுஜிசி அங்கீகாரம் பெற்ற அனைத்து கல்லூரி, பல்கலைக்கழகங்களில் பெண்கள் நிகழ்ச்சிகளைக் கொண்டாட வேண்டும் என்று தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

உதாரணத்துக்கு, பயிற்சிப் பட்டறைகள், விரிவுரைகள், வினாடி வினாக்கள், விவாதங்கள், தெரு நாடகங்கள், மராத்தான், கலாச்சார நிகழ்வுகள் உள்ளிட்ட நிகழ்ச்சிகளை நடத்தலாம் என்று யுஜிசி அறிவித்துள்ளது. அத்துடன் பாலின சமத்துவம், பெண்கள் உடல்நலன், கல்வி, அதிகாரமளித்தல், பெண்கள் பாதுகாப்பு ஆகியவை குறித்த விழிப்புணர்வை ஏற்படுத்தும் வகையிலும் நிகழ்ச்சிகளை நடத்தலாம் என்று தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இந்த நிகழ்வுகளை மார்ச் 1 முதல் 7 வரை நடத்தவேண்டும் எனவும் நிறைவாக பெண்கள் தினமான மார்ச் 8 அன்றும் சிறப்பு நிகழ்ச்சிகளை நடத்தவும் யுஜிசி அனுமதி அளித்துள்ளது. இதற்காக முன்கூட்டியே தேவையான முன்னேற்பாடுகளை மேற்கொள்ள வேண்டும் என்று தெரிவித்துள்ள யுஜிசி, மார்ச் 9-ம் தேதி தங்கள் வளாகத்தில் நடைபெற்ற நிகழ்வுகள் தொடர்பான அறிக்கை, புகைப்படங்கள், வீடியோக்களை பல்கலைக்கழக கண்காணிப்புத் தளத்தில் பதிவேற்றம் செய்ய வேண்டும் என்று உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது.

உயர் கல்வியில் பெண்களின் பங்களிப்பை அதிகரிக்க, யுஜிசி பல்வேறு நடவடிக்கைகளை எடுத்து வருகிறது. இதன் ஒரு பகுதியாக பெண் மாணவர்களுக்கும் ஆராய்ச்சி மேற்கொள்வோருக்கும் 3 சிறப்பு உதவித் தொகைகளை யுஜிசி அறிவித்துள்ளது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.

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By அஹமது நவ்ரோஸ் பேகம் | Published on : 02nd March 2020 01:42 AM 

இன்றைய வகுப்பறைகளும், பள்ளிச் சூழலும் மாணவா்களுக்கு உகந்ததாக இருக்கிா என்ற கேள்விக்கு ஆம் என்றோ, இல்லை என்றோ சட்டென்று பதில் சொல்வதற்குப் பதிலாக ஆழ்ந்த யோசனைதான் ஏற்படுகிறது.

பள்ளி சென்றுவிட்டு அலுத்து வரும் மாணவா்கள் சீருடை களைந்து பெற்றோா் தரும் சிற்றுண்டியை அவசர, அவசரமாக விழுங்கி விட்டு

பயிற்சி வகுப்புக்கு (டியூஷன்) செல்லத் தயாராகிறாா்கள். பொதுத் தோ்வு எழுதும் மாணவா்களின் நிலையைக் கூறவே தேவையில்லை.

மாலை நேரப் பயிற்சி வகுப்புகளில் அவா்கள் படிக்காத பாடங்களில் தோ்வு வைக்கிறேன் என்று ஆசிரியா்கள் கொடுமைப்படுத்துகிறாா்கள். ஏழு, எட்டு மணிக்குதான் வீட்டிற்கே வருகிறாா்கள்; அதன் பிறகு தங்கள் நேரத்தை செல்லிடப்பேசியில் மாணவா்கள் செலவிடுகிறாா்கள். பிள்ளைக்கு வேறு என்ன பொழுதுபோக்கு இருக்கிறது என்று பெற்றோரும் இதை அனுமதிக்கிறாா்கள். பிறகு இரவுச் சாப்பாடு, நேரம் தவறிய தூக்கம் என்று கழிகிறது.

குழந்தைகள் தங்கள் வேகத்துக்கு ஈடு கொடுக்க வேண்டும் என்று பெற்றோா்கள் விரும்புகிறாா்கள். ஆனால், பெரும்பாலான குழந்தைகள் பல் துலக்கி, குளித்து, குளியல் அறையில் இருந்து வெளிவருவதற்கு அதிக நேரம் எடுத்துக் கொள்கிறாா்கள். பள்ளிச் சீருடையை அணிந்து கொண்டோ அல்லது புத்தகப் பையில் புத்தகங்களை அடுக்கிக் கொண்டோ நின்றபடியும் நடந்தபடியும் இருக்கும் அவா்களுக்கு வாயில் உணவு திணிக்கப்படுகிறது. பின்னா் பள்ளிக்குச் செல்லும் நிலை உள்ளது.

காலையில் என்ன சாப்பிட்டீா்கள், இரவு நன்றாகத் தூங்கினீா்களா என்ற அன்பான கேள்விகளுக்கும், விசாரிப்புகளுக்கும், இந்தக் காலத்து ஆசிரியா்களுக்கும் தூரம் அதிகமாகி வெகுகாலமாகி விட்டது. அவா்களுக்குத் தெரிந்ததெல்லாம் அடுத்து முடிக்க வேண்டிய பாடம் குறித்தும், கொடுக்கப்பட்ட வீட்டுப் பாடத்தை மாணவா்கள் முடித்து விட்டாா்களா, இல்லையா என்பதும்தான்.

முதுநிலை பட்டம் பெற்றவ ஆசிரியா்களில் பலா், தங்களின் பாடங்களில் நிபுணத்துவம் இல்லாமல் உள்ளனா். இப்படிப்பட்ட ஆசிரியா்களிடம் கற்கும் மாணவா்கள் பாடங்களைப் புரிந்துகொள்ள முடியாமல், மனப்பாடமும் செய்ய முடியாமல் தோ்வுகளில் தோல்வி அடைகின்றனா்.

ஆசிரியா்களால் மட்டுமின்றி சக மாணவா்களாலும் சில மாணவா்களின் எதிா்காலம் திசை மாறிப் போய்விடுகிறது. இவ்வாறு பரிவு காட்டும் மாணவா்கள் அவா்களை நல்வழிப்படுத்துபவா்களாக இருந்தால் அவா்களின் எதிா்காலம் சிறப்பாக அமையும். வேறு மாதிரி அமைந்துவிட்டால் கெட்ட விஷயங்களால் கவனம் சிதறி படிப்பில் பாதிப்பு ஏற்படலாம்.

பெரும்பாலான மாணவா்கள் மன அழுத்தத்துடன் பள்ளிக்கு வருகின்றனா். வீட்டிலும், பள்ளியிலும் பிரச்னைகளை எதிா்கொள்ளும் மாணவா்கள் அவற்றை சமாளிக்கத் தெரியாமல் திணறுகிறாா்கள். பெற்றோரில் ஒருவரோ அல்லது இருவரோ அல்லது ஒரே ஒரு நல்ல ஆசிரியா் அவா்களுக்குக் கிடைத்தால் போதும். அவா்கள், அப்படிப்பட்ட மாணவா்களின் மனநிலையைப் புரிந்து மனநல ஆலோசனைகள் வழங்கி, அழுத்தத்தில் இருந்து அவா்களை மீட்டு விடுவாா்கள்.

மாணவா்கள் சந்திக்கும் மற்றுமொரு சவால், பள்ளிகளில் சரியாகப் பராமரிக்கப்படாத கழிப்பறைகள். பள்ளியின் கழிப்பறைகள் அசுத்தமாக இருப்பதன் காரணமாக மாணவா்கள் தாங்கள் வீட்டில் இருந்து கொண்டு செல்லும் தண்ணீா் புட்டிகளை அப்படியே கொண்டு வருகிறாா்கள். இது மாணவா்களின் உடல் நலத்தை மிக மோசமாகப் பாதிக்கும் விஷயம் என்பதை கழிப்பறைகளைப் பராமரிக்காத பள்ளிகள் உணர வேண்டும்.

துரித உணவு, உணவகங்களில் கிடைக்கும் தரமற்ற உணவையே விரும்புகின்றனா். அத்துடன் காலை உணவை பெரும்பாலான பள்ளிக் குழந்தைகள் தவிா்த்து விடுவதால், பள்ளியின் பிராா்த்தனைக் கூட்டத்தில் பத்து நிமிஷங்கள்கூட அவா்களால் நிற்க முடிவதில்லை.

வெயில், மழை போன்ற இயற்கையான வானிலை மாற்றங்களைக்கூடத் தாங்கிக் கொள்ளும் வகையில் இப்போதுள்ள மாணவச் சமுதாயத்தின் உடல் நிலை இல்லை. ஆரோக்கியமான உணவு நினைவாற்றலுக்கும், உடல் சுறுசுறுப்புக்கும் மிகவும் அவசியம். இதனாலேயே மாணவா்களால் அதிக மதிப்பெண்கள் பெற இயலவில்லை என்பதை பெற்றோரும், ஆசிரியா்களும் உணா்ந்து தரமான உணவு சாப்பிட வேண்டியதன் அவசியத்தை அவா்களிடம் அடிக்கடி வலியுறுத்த வேண்டும்.

பொதுத் தோ்வு நெருங்கும்போது பெற்றோரும், ஆசிரியா்களும் பரபரப்புடன் இருக்கிறாா்கள்.நன்கு படிக்கக் கூடிய மாணவா்களுக்கு நூற்றுக்கு நூறு மதிப்பெண்கள் பெறவேண்டும்; மெல்லக் கற்கும் மாணவா்களுக்கு தோ்ச்சி பெற்றே ஆக வேண்டும் என இலக்கு நிா்ணயிக்கப்படுகிறது. ஆக, தோ்வை பயத்துடன் எதிா்கொள்ளும் நிலைதான் இன்றைய மாணவா்களுக்கு உள்ளது.

இப்படிப்பட்ட சூழ்நிலையை மாற்றுவதற்கு ஆசிரியா்களும், பெற்றோரும் மாறவேண்டும். தங்கள் பிள்ளைகள் வீட்டில் இருக்கும் நேரங்களில் பெற்றோா் தங்களுடைய நேரத்தை அவா்களுடன் செலவிட வேண்டும். அவா்களின் அன்பும், அனுசரணையும் பிள்ளைகளின் மனஅழுத்தத்தைக் குறைக்கும். அவா்கள் படிப்பதற்கேற்ற சூழலை வீட்டில் உருவாக்குவது மிகவும் அவசியம்.

தொலைக்காட்சி, செல்லிடப்பேசி பயன்பாட்டை பெற்றோரும், பிள்ளைகளும் தவிா்க்க வேண்டும். ஆசிரியா்களுக்கும் இது பொருந்தும். கிடைக்கும் நேரங்களை பாடங்களைத் தயாா் செய்யப் பயன்படுத்த வேண்டும். அத்துடன் வகுப்பறையில் ஒவ்வொரு மாணவரும் தாங்கள் நடத்திய பாடங்களைப் புரிந்து கொண்டாா்களா என்பதை உறுதி செய்ய வேண்டும். படிப்பில் மாணவா்கள் சிறந்து விளங்குவதற்கு, பாடங்களைக் கற்பிக்கும் அவா்களின் ஆசிரியா்கள் திறமைசாலிகளாக இருக்க வேண்டாமா?

மாணவா்கள் மன அழுத்தமின்றி தோ்வுகளை எதிா்கொள்வதற்கும், அவா்களின் பள்ளிப் பருவத்தை, இனிமையாகவும், மகிழ்ச்சியாகவும் மாற்றுவதற்கும், அரசும், பள்ளி நிா்வாகமும் ஆசிரியா்களும், பெற்றோரும் இணைந்து செயல்படுவது இன்றியமையாததாகும்.

'நிர்பயா' குற்றவாளிகள் மனு மீது இன்று விசாரணை

Added : மார் 01, 2020 23:51

புதுடில்லி: துாக்கு தண்டனையைஎதிர்த்து,'நிர்பயா' பாலியல் பலாத்காரம் மற்றும் கொலை வழக்கில் தண்டனை பெற்றுள்ள, அக் ஷய் குமார் மற்றும் பவன் குப்தா தாக்கல் செய்துள்ள மனுக்கள் இன்று விசாரிக்கப்பட உள்ளது.

டில்லியில், 2012ல், மருத்துவ மாணவி நிர்பயா, ஓடும் பஸ்சில் பாலியல் பலாத்காரம் செய்யப்பட்டு கொல்லப்பட்டார்.இந்தவழக்கில், முகேஷ் குமார் சிங், 32, பவன் குப்தா, 25, வினய் குமார் சர்மா, 26, அக் ஷய் குமார், 31, ஆகியோருக்கு துாக்கு தண்டனை விதிக்கப்பட்டு உள்ளது.தண்டனையை நிறைவேற்ற, ஏற்கனவே இரண்டு முறை நாள் குறிக்கப்பட்டு, ஒத்தி வைக்கப்பட்டன.

இவர்களுக்கான தண்டனையை, நாளை காலை, 6:00 மணிக்கு நிறைவேற்ற, 'வாரன்ட்' பிறப்பிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்த நிலையில், பவன் குப்தா மற்றும் அக் ஷய் குமார் சார்பில், டில்லி கூடுதல் செஷன்ஸ் நீதிமன்றத்தில் புதிய மனு நேற்று தாக்கல் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது.'துாக்கு தண்டனையைஎதிர்த்து, மறுசீராய்வு மனு தாக்கல் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது.அது நிலுவையில்உள்ளதால், தண்டனையைநிறைவேற்றக் கூடாது' என, பவன் குப்தா சார்பில் மனு தாக்கல் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது.

'தண்டனையை குறைக்கும்படி, ஜனாதிபதிக்கு புதிய கருணை மனு அனுப்பப்பட்டுள்ளது. அதனால்,தண்டனையை நிறைவேற்றக் கூடாது' என, அக் ஷய் குமார் சார்பில் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.இவற்றை,டில்லி நீதிமன்றம்,இன்று விசாரிக்க உள்ளது.

இந்த நிலையில், பவன் குமார் தாக்கல் செய்துள்ள மறுசீராய்வு மனுவை, உச்ச நீதிமன்றம் இன்று விசாரிக்க உள்ளது.

அண்ணா பல்கலையில் சிறப்பு நியமனங்கள்: மாதம் ரூ.1.5 லட்சம் வரை ஊதியம்

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சென்னை: அண்ணா பல்கலையில் சிறப்பு வகை பேராசிரியர்கள் விரைவில் நியமிக்கப்பட உள்ளனர். இதற்கான ஊதியம் மற்றும் கல்வித்தகுதி குறித்து, 'சிண்டிகேட்' கூட்டத்தில், புதிய விதிகள் வகுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. அதன் விபரம்:தொழில் துறையில் புதிய ஆராய்ச்சிகளை மேற்கொண்டு, பொதுத்துறை மற்றும் தனியார் துறைகளில், சிறப்பாக செயல்பட்டவர்களை, சிறப்பு பேராசிரியரான, 'விசிட்டிங் புரொபசர்' என்ற பதவியில் நியமிக்கலாம்.

ஆராய்ச்சிமதிப்புமிகு பேராசிரியர் என்ற, 'எமினென்ஸ் புரொபசர்' பதவிக்கு நியமிக்கப்படுவோர், தேசிய மற்றும் சர்வதேச அளவில் பிரபலமானவர்களாகவும், ஆராய்ச்சி விருதுகளை பெற்றவர்களாக இருக்கவும் வேண்டும். சிறப்புமிகு, 'ஹானரரி புரொபசர்' என்ற பதவிக்கு, பிரபலமான விஞ்ஞானிகள், அறிவியலாளர்கள், தொழில்நுட்ப வல்லுனர்களை நியமிக்கலாம்.இந்த பதவிகளுக்கு, ஐ.ஐ.டி., - என்.ஐ.டி., - ஐ.ஐ.எஸ்சி., ஆகிய, மத்திய அரசின் உயர்கல்வி நிறுவனங்களில் பணியாற்றி, ஓய்வுபெற்ற பேராசிரியர்களை தேர்வு செய்யலாம். மொத்தம் உள்ள பேராசிரியர்கள் பணியிடங்களில், 10 சதவீதத்தை, இந்த வகை பேராசிரியர்களை நியமிக்கலாம் என, விதிகள் வகுக்கப்பட்டுஉள்ளன. சிறப்பு நியமன பேராசிரியர்களுக்கு, 60 ஆயிரம் ரூபாய் முதல், 1.5 லட்சம் ரூபாய் வரை மதிப்பூதியம் அல்லது தொகுப்பூதியம் வழங்கப்படும்.

அனுமதிசிறப்புமிகு பேராசிரியர் என்ற, ஹானரரி பேராசிரியர்களுக்கு சம்பளம் கிடையாது; ஆராய்ச்சி மற்றும் முதுநிலை மாணவர்களுக்கு அவர்கள் பாடம் எடுப்பர்.இந்த சிறப்பு பேராசிரியர் நியமனத்துக்கான விண்ணப்பங்களை, கல்லுாரிகளின் முதல்வர்கள், பல்கலையின் துணைவேந்தருக்கு வழங்க வேண்டும். விண்ணப்பத்தில் உள்ள தகவல்களை, துணைவேந்தரே நேரடியாக பரிசீலித்து, விண்ணப்பித்தவருக்கு, அதிகபட்சம், ஓராண்டு வரை பணியில் ஈடுபட அனுமதிக்கலாம் என, விதிகளில் தெரிவிக்கப் பட்டுள்ளது.

Report says Madurai Kamaraj University professor used 'filthy' words against female staff, students

Periyasamy, who works as a teacher at MKU Constituency College in Thirumangalam, was accused of 'emotionally harassing' female faculty members and students.

Published: 01st March 2020 12:43 PM |

Madurai Kamaraj University

By Express News Service

MADURAI: A report submitted by Madurai Kamaraj University's (MKU) Internal Committee on a complaint against a male faculty member concluded that the teacher used unparliamentary and filthy words against students and female teachers.

Periyasamy, who works as a teacher at MKU Constituency College in Thirumangalam, was accused of "emotionally harassing" female faculty members and students. On Tuesday, the committee questioned Periyasamy, who is also the head of the Department of Tamil and recorded his statements.

The committee also recorded the complainants' statements. Sources said the committee interacted with students, teachers and a few non-teaching staff as well.

In its report, the committee concluded that the teaching faculty used "unparliamentary and filthy words" while speaking to female teachers, girl and boy students.

Sources said that the committee recommended MKU Vice-Chancellor M Krishnan to take action against Periyasamy in the form of transfer/suspension, apology letter, etc.

On Tuesday, the internal committee, comprising syndicate members -- Theena Thayalan, Pari Parameswaran, Rajkumar and Sakila -- questioned the two female teachers of the college, who had lodged a complaint against Periyasamy with Vice-Chancellor M Krishnan a month ago.

Speaking to TNIE, Krishnan said he was yet to read the committee's report since he was out of station.

Meanwhile, sources from the university told TNIE that the V-C would take action against Periyasamy on Monday.

Wanted! Teachers for a day or until the end of Anna University inspection
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear,” goes a saying. But these teachers only appear when Anna University inspection committees visit colleges to certify affiliation.

Published: 02nd March 2020 02:34 AM | Last Updated: 02nd March 2020 02:34 AM | A+A A-

By Sushmitha Ramakrishnan

Express News Service

CHENNAI: “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear,” goes a saying. But these teachers only appear when Anna University inspection committees visit colleges to certify affiliation. Express reached out to private engineering college faculty across Tamil Nadu. Faculty members of 28 colleges revealed that several colleges have employed fake staff to meet the Faculty-Student Ratio (FSR) during the ongoing inspections by Anna University (AU) to get their affiliation certified.

AU has begun an inspection of the 552 affiliated colleges to check their compliance with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) regulations. While in the Approval Process Handbook for 2020-21, it had increased the FSR to 1:15, AICTE granted colleges two years to meet the requirement. Colleges have been posting advertisements in newspapers and on social media to hire faculty just for the inspections.

Express accessed the messages sent to faculty members by agents asking for eligible staff for inspection purpose. They have also floated advertisements on several chat groups. One of them read: “Need one PhD in CSE department for inspection purpose in Chennai, Need one PhD in EEE for inspection.” Francis (name changed), a mechanical engineering faculty at a Madurai college, said colleges usually place advertisements in newspapers before inspections asking candidates to apply for vacancies. “When they show up at the interview, they are told that it is only for the purpose of inspection,” he said.

‘Steps taken to ensure no fake teachers are employed’

"She asked if I could submit my certificates for a week and show up on the inspection day at her college. She said they would pay me `10,000 for that one day," said Sajani, adding that many jobless graduates take up this work thinking it's easy money.Francis (name changed), a mechanical engineering faculty at a Madurai college, said colleges usually place advertisements in newspapers before inspections asking candidates to apply for vacancies. "When they show up at the interview, they are told that it is only for the purpose of inspection," he said.

KM Karthik of All India Private College Employees' Union said, "On record, these staff are shown to work throughout the year, while they are given only a single payment - siphoning government funds into their pockets." A few colleges also involve agents/middlemen to hunt for faculty before inspections. Karthik said he has filed a complaint at the CM's office, flagging the issue.

Meanwhile, faculty of the 28 private colleges also indicated that many colleges are struggling to achieve even the previous 1:20 FSR. Whistle-blowers too alleged that some of the colleges have faked up to 150 "faculty members".

"My college has displayed about 60 faculty members on its website ahead of the AU inspections. However, nearly half of them are fake," said a teacher from a college in Namakkal district. A teacher from an engineering college in Kanniyakumari said in the past four years of her employment she had never seen more than a third of the total staff listed by name on the college website. "However, the number of fake staff in each department is limited to one or two, making it hard to track," she said, on request of anonymity.

MK Surappa, Vice-Chancellor of Anna University, said the varsity has taken steps to ensure no such malpractice is followed. These steps include the formation of an inspection committee. Adding that several complaints were received in this regard, he said, "We are thinking of enabling Aadhaar ID and facial recognition to eliminate the possibility of duplication."

Madras High Court upholds railway employee's acquittal for stealing property
The RPF had challenged an order passed by Tiruchy lower court in 2013 acquitting one M Aloysius.

Published: 02nd March 2020 03:30 AM

Madras High Court (File Photo | D Sampath Kumar/EPS)
By Express News Service

MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court upheld the acquittal of a railway employee who faced charges for allegedly stealing control valves and cylindrical rollers belonging to the Railway Department, in Tiruchy in 2000.

Justice M Nirmal Kumar gave the verdict on a criminal appeal filed in 2014 by the Tiruchy Railway Protection Force (RPF) deployed at the Golden Rock Workshop under the Union of India. The RPF had challenged an order passed by Tiruchy lower court in 2013 acquitting one M Aloysius.

According to the prosecution, two brass control valves, bearing marks of the Railway department, were found concealed under the seat of Aloysius' bicycle in November 2000.

Since the workshop had very restricted access, the valves were recovered without the presence of any independent witnesses. Subsequently, a search was conducted at the residence of Aloysius and 46 Railway cylindrical rollers and other engineering materials were seized. Aloysius was booked for 'unlawful possession' of railway properties. However, the trial court acquitted him, challenging which the appeal was filed.

Justice Nirmal Kumar noted that the first seizure had taken place inside the workshop and that taking materials for job inside the workshop is not an offence. Moreover, the materials produced have not been proved to be that of the Railway department and are said to be available even in open market, he pointed out and dismissed the appeal.

‘AIIMS will come up in Madurai as per schedule’

Union Minister lays foundation for ₹325-cr. medical college

02/03/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ,RAMANATHAPURAM

Harsh Vardhan

Assuring that an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will come up in Madurai as per schedule, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said the Centre would extend all necessary support to the health sector.

Laying the foundation stone for a new government medical college which will come up on a sprawling 22-acre area at an estimated cost of ₹325 crore in Ramanathapuram, he said the proposed AIIMS would have state-of-the-art infrastructure and research facilities on a par with international standards. The funds had been earmarked and the project work would be expedited by the agencies concerned, he said.

Lauding the State government for the proactive measures being taken in the health sector, Dr. Vardhan said the parameters achieved by the State in MMR/IMR were impressive. He appealed to the Health Ministry officials to ensure that there were no maternal deaths.

“Take it as a challenge,” he said, adding that unless the cause of death was unavoidable, there should not be any casualties.

Quoting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he highlighted the plan to have 75 new medical colleges built in as many districts by the time the country celebrates its 75th Independence Day in 2022. The idea was that the government should reach out to the districts that had never received adequate attention since Independence and bring them into the mainstream. Tamil Nadu had benefitted from the initiative as it had received approval to start medical colleges in 11 districts, including Ramanathapuram and Virudhunagar, within six months, he added.

He lauded Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, State Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar, Health Secretary Beela Rajesh and Ramanathapuram Collector K. Veera Raghava Rao for preparing the Detailed Project Report, which facilitated the speedy sanctioning of funds by the Centre.

Paying rich tributes to late President APJ Abdul Kalam, he said Kalam’s dream of thinking big had become a reality in his home town.

Over 8 lakh will take Plus Two exams from today

This will be the first batch of students to take the test under a revamped State board syllabus

02/03/2020, S. POORVAJA ,CHENNAI

The syllabus was revamped to ensure that students do not resort to rote learning. Photo used for representation purpose

From Monday, nearly 8.16 lakh school students across Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will start writing the Plus Two examinations. Following the revamp of the State board syllabus, this is the first batch of students that will be taking the exams.

A total of 8.35 lakh candidates, including private candidates, will write the exams. In the absence of a blueprint for exams for classes X, XI and XII this year, the Education Department had said that questions could be asked from any lesson for any number of marks.

While model question papers were made available, the Department has made it clear that it should be used only for reference and is not a blueprint of the final paper.

These are the steps taken by the Education Department to ensure that students read the full syllabus and develop a better understanding of concepts, instead of resorting to rote learning, a teacher from a government school in Chennai said, hoping that evaluation methods would reflect the changes.

Coaching sessions

The last few weeks in the run-up to the public exams were spent by students attending coaching sessions with their teachers, and brushing up on concepts which they felt needed attention.

“We have had revisions and special coaching classes for slow learners in the last few weeks. Our general advice to students has been that they should not start studying any concept that is new and unfamiliar to them before the exam. It is better they revise and strengthen the concepts they already know,” said G.J. Manohar, headmaster, M.C.C. Higher Secondary School.

“With the new syllabus for the Plus Two students this term, teachers had to put in a fair bit of preparation to effectively cover the full portions. To train the teachers, we roped in subject experts from colleges and other schools,” said K.R. Nandakumar, State general secretary, Tamil Nadu Nursery Primary Higher Secondary Matriculation and CBSE schools.

On Sunday evening, the education helpline 14417 had language teachers answering the doubts of students. On the days before every exam, the Education Department said that teachers would be available in the evenings to answer queries of students.

Plus Two examinations begin today

02/03/2020,CHENNAI

From Monday, nearly 8.16 lakh students across Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will sit for the Plus Two exams. This is the first batch of students to take the exams after the revamp of the State Board syllabus. In the absence of a blueprint for the exams, the Education Department said questions could be asked from any lesson for any number of marks.

NEET PG Round 1 Counselling 2020: MCC To Freeze Portal To Prepare Seat Matrix On 2nd March 

By Meghna A Singhania Published On 28 Feb 2020 12:01 PM | Updated On 28 Feb 2020 12:01 PM 

 New Delhi: Informing about the upcoming NEET PG 2020 Round 1 counselling, the Medical Counselling Committee has informed that is going to freeze the intramcc portal to prepare for the seat matrix on 2nd March 2020. 

As per Supreme Court judgement, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has been entrusted with the responsibility to hold on-line counselling for 50% All India Quota Post-Graduate Medical and Dental seats and also as per the notification issued by the MCI for common counselling. With this MCC will conduct counselling for the following Institutions/Universities:-

 a) 50 % All India Quota seats for all State Govt. medical/dental colleges/institutes, except state of Jammu and Kashmir as per merit of PG NEET 2018.

 b) For all PG seats of the Deemed Universities as per merit of PG NEET 2018.

 c) 50 % institutional quota seats for Central Universities of Delhi University, Aligarh Muslim University, and Banaras Hindu University.

 d) PG counseling for institutes of Armed Forces Medical Services. 

The state Govt. of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are participating in online counselling of All India Quota from the academic year 2018-19 onwards. For deciding the seat matrix for the Round 1, MCC had asked for contribution of seats by the participating colleges of All India Quota/ Deemed & Central Universities/ ESIC for the PG Counselling 2020 for MD/ MS/ Diploma/ MDS courses. The earlier deadline for submission for the same was 19th Feb, 2020. Advertisement In the meanwhile, the apex medical council, Medical Council of India Board Of Governors has issued new Letter of permission for various courses to medical college. Keeping this in mind, MCC has now extended its deadline to allow these medical colleges to participate in round 1 of the pg medical counselling. MCC in its notice, hence stated In view of the new LOP's being issued by the BOG, MCI, the intramcc portal has been kept open by MCC which was to close earlier by 19th Feb, 2020 for contribution of seats. It is for the information to all participating colleges that the intramcc portal will freeze at 06:00 PM of 2nd March, 2020 for preparation of Seat Matrix. Any new seats for which LOP's are received after 2nd March, 2020 will be taken up in Round-II of counselling only.

https://education.medicaldialogues.in/medical-education/neet-pg-round-1-counselling-2020-mcc-to-freeze-portal-to-prepare-seat-matrix-on-2nd-march-63501

இலவச மருத்துவம் அளிக்க வேண்டும் என்ற நிபந்தனையுடன் மருத்துவரை மணந்த உதவி ஆட்சியர்

சென்னையைச் சேர்ந்த மருத்துவர் தி.கிருஷ்ணபாரதியுடன் தஞ்சாவூர் மாவட்டம் ஒட்டங்காடு கிராமத்தைச் சேர்ந்த உதவி ஆட்சியர் மா.சிவகுருபிரபாகரன்.

தஞ்சாவூர்  1.3.2020

எனது கிராமத்துக்கு மக்களுக்கு இலவசமாக மருத்துவம் பார்க்கவேண்டும் என்று நூதன வரதட்சணை கேட்டு சென்னை மருத்துவரை மணந்துள்ளார் தஞ்சாவூர் மாவட்டம் ஒட்டங்காடு கிராமத்தைச் சேர்ந்த உதவி ஆட்சியர் மா.சிவகுருபிரபாகரன்.

பேராவூரணி அடுத்த ஒட்டங்காடு கிராமத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவர் மாரிமுத்து மகன் சிவகுருபிரபாகரன்(32). ஐ.ஐ.டி-யில் எம்.டெக் முடித்த சிவகுருபிரபாகரனுக்கு, ஐஏஎஸ் ஆவது இலக்காக இருந்ததால் பிற துறைகளில் கிடைத்த வேலைவாய்ப்புகளைத் தட்டிக் கழித்து வந்தார். சிவில் சர்வீஸ் தேர்வு எழுதி 2018-ம் ஆண்டு ஐஏஎஸ் தேர்வில் அகில இந்தியஅளவில் 101-வது இடத்தையும், தமிழக அளவில் 3-வது இடத்தையும் பிடித்த சிவகுருபிரபாகரன், தற்போது திருநெல்வேலி மாவட்ட பயிற்சி உதவி ஆட்சியராக பணியாற்றி வருகிறார்.

மேலும், டாக்டர் ஏ.பி.ஜே கிராம வளர்ச்சிக் குழுவை உருவாக்கி அதன் மூலம் மருத்துவ முகாம் நடத்தியது, ஏரியைத் தூர் வாரியது போன்ற நலத்திட்டப் பணிகளைச் செய்து வருகிறார்.

இந்நிலையில், சிவகுருபிரபாகர னுக்கு திருமணம் செய்து வைக்க பெண் பார்க்கத் தொடங்கிய தன் பெற்றோரிடம், “100 பவுன் நகை, கார் போன்ற வரதட்சணை தரும் பெண் வேண்டாம். பெண் டாக்டராக இருக்க வேண்டும், நமது கிராமத்துக்கு வரும்போது ஊர் மக்களுக்காக இலவசமாக மருத்துவ சிகிச்சை அளிக்க வேண்டும். இதற்கு சம்மதம் என்று சொல்லும் பெண் கிடைத்தால் சொல்லுங்கள்” எனக் கூறியுள்ளார்.

அதன்படி, சிவகுருபிரபாகர னின் கோரிக்கையை சென்னைநந்தனம் கல்லூரியில் கணித விரிவுரையாளராக பணியாற்றும் திருமலைசாமியின் மகள் மருத்துவர் கிருஷ்ணபாரதி ஏற்றுக்கொண்டு, திருமணத்துக்கு சம்மதம் தெரிவித்தார். இதையடுத்து, சிவகுருபிரபாகரன்- கிருஷ்ணபாரதி திருமணம் அண்மையில் பேராவூரணியில் நடைபெற்றது.

இதுகுறித்து சிவகுருபிரபாகரன் கூறியதாவது: நான் விவசாய குடும்பத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவன். எனது கிராம வளர்ச்சிக்கு நிறைய செய்ய வேண்டும் என்ற நோக்கத்தோடு, பல்வேறு சமூக சேவைகளை செய்து வருகிறேன். அதேபோன்று, என் மனைவியையும் சேவையில் ஆர்வம் கொண்டவராக, மருத்துவராக இருக்க வேண்டும் என நினைத்தேன். அதன்படி, என்னுடைய விருப்பத்தை ஏற்றுக்கொண்ட கிருஷ்ணபாரதியை மணந்துகொண்டேன் என்றார்.