Post-grad sweeper gets job upgrade in GHMC wing

Post-grad sweeper gets job upgrade in GHMC wing

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Hyderabad:21.09.2021 

A post-graduate in organic chemistry and a PhD aspirant, Ambi Rajani, who was forced to work as a contract sweeper in GHMC, as she had neither the power nor resources to obtain a better job, was offered a job in GHMC’s entomology wing on Monday.

Her ordeal came to an end after her story caught the attention of minister for Municipal administration and urban development KT Rama Rao, whom she met in his office, along with principal secretary Arvind Kumar. She was handed over appointment orders as assistant entomologist on an outsourcing basis. “Though my parents paid the fee, I had to earn for books and my commute to college. I am extremely happy, and am forever indebted to KTR sir,” said Rajani, who was the sole breadwinner for a family of five.

Hailing from the socially disadvantaged Yerukala community of Ramakrishnapuram village in Warangal district, Rajani had taken taken up the job of a sweeper on a contract basis in GHMC for a salary of ₹10,000.

Backdoor Entries In Educational Institutions Should Stop:

Backdoor Entries In Educational Institutions Should Stop:

Delhi High Court Dismisses Plea Of 5 Medical Aspirants Granted Admission Sans Counselling

Nupur Thapliyal20 Sep 2021 7:00 PM

The Delhi High Court has recently observed that permitting backdoor entries to educational institutions would be grossly unfair to the students who are denied admission in such institutions despite being more meritorious.

Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh said:

"It is high time that such backdoor entries in educational institutions, including Medical Colleges, should stop. Lakhs of students all over the country work hard and toil to secure admissions to educational institutions on the basis of their merit."

"To permit any backdoor entry to any educational institution would be grossly unfair to those who are denied admission, despite being more meritorious, on account of the seats being taken and blocked by such backdoor entrants."

The Court upheld the order of Medical Council of India, discharging five students who were granted admission in 2016 by L.N. Medical College Hospital without undergoing centralized counselling conducted by the Department of Medical Education (DME).

Discharge letters were issued to the students by MCI however, the Medical College continued to treat them as their students, allowed them to attend the course and appear in examinations.

The petitioners had then filed the petition seeking quashing of the discharge communications issued by the MCI and further directing that they be permitted to continue their studies as regular medical students.

A single judge vide order dated August 7, 2019 dismissed their petition.

In appeal filed by the students, the Division Bench noted,

"The petitioners have only themselves to blame for the mess that they find themselves in. Had they acted in terms of the discharge letter dated 26.04.2017, they would have saved four years of their lives. But they did not, and acted recklessly. Despite not having any interim orders in their favour in their writ petition, they continued to attend the course – obviously, at their own peril."

The students had argued that no one higher in merit in the NEET examination has been denied admission at the respondent Medical College due to grant of admission to the petitioners.

However, the Court noted,

"if the respondent Medical College had informed the vacancy position to the DME on time, the DME would have conducted further counselling and sent names on merit on the basis of the NEET examination conducted in 2016. It is quite possible that the names of other candidates, more meritorious then the five petitioners, may have been sent. Since the respondent Medical College does not appear to have informed the DME of the vacancy position, and they proceeded to grant admissions to the five petitioners much before the close of the date of admission on 07.10.2016, the other meritorious students, obviously, remained unaware that they could stake a claim against a seat in the respondent Medical College on the basis of their merit."

It added that the admissions granted to the petitioners were outside the centralised counselling conducted by the DME. If the vacancies position had been communicated to the DME by the respondent Medical College on, or before 07.10.2016, the DME could have sent the names of candidates post counselling. However, it appears that was not done by the respondent Medical College, which proceeded to grant admission to the five petitioners much earlier, i.e. between 04.09.2016 and 28.09.2016.

The bench was also of the view that grant of such admissions were in the teeth of Supreme Court's decision in Modern Dental College & Research Centre case which held that admissions to all Government and Private Medical Colleges in the county would be held throughout the centralized counselling system on the basis of the result of the NEET examination.

"The conduct of the petitioners and the respondent Medical College is, in fact, in gross contempt of not only the judgment in Modern Dental College & Research Centre, but also the order dated 22.09.2016 in Jainarayan Chaouksey," the Court observed.

Case Title: DEEPANSHU BHADORIYA & ORS v. MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA & ORS

Terminated nurses seek job extension, pending salary

Terminated nurses seek job extension, pending salary

A total of 44 nurses were recruited by the hospital as contract workers in May. However, they were all terminated after three months and their salary is yet to be settled.

Published: 21st September 2021 05:38 AM 

By Express News Service

KARUR: Nurses, who were appointed on a temporary basis at the Karur Government Medical College Hospital during the second wave of Covid-19, submitted a petition at the Collectorate on Monday, seeking job extension and settlement of pending salary.A total of 44 nurses were recruited by the hospital as contract workers in May. However, they were all terminated after three months and their salary is yet to be settled.

One of the nurses, Hemalatha, told TNIE, “The Deputy Director of Health Services recruited us on a 3-month contract. We worked very hard braving risks, but were terminated on August 15. Nobody is bothered about us . Despite approaching the Deputy Director of Health and the hospital Dean, we received no proper response. We are yet to get our salary too. Meanwhile, the officials are now looking to recruit 75 nurses to tackle a probable third wave.”

Teen flags bug in IRCTC’s system

Teen flags bug in IRCTC’s system

Hacker could have accessed details of passengers

21/09/2021

P. Renganathan

S. Vijay Kumar CHENNAI

A city school student has helped the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) fix a bug on its online ticketing platform that could have exposed private information of millions of passengers.

Acting on his alert, the Computer Emergency Response Team, India, conveyed the vulnerability to the IRCTC that fixed the glitch, preventing a possible hacking of the largest online ticketing portal in the country.

According to P. Renganathan, 17, a Class XII student of a private school in Tambaram here, he was booking a train ticket by logging into the IRCTC portal a few days ago when he found certain vulnerabilities that could compromise the security of the site. The critical Insecure Object Direct References (IDOR) vulnerability on the website enabled him to access the journey details of other passengers such as name, gender, age, PNR number, train details, departure station and date of journey.

“Since the back-end code is the same, a hacker would have been able to order food, change the boarding station and even cancel the ticket without the knowledge of the bonafide passenger. Other services like domestic/international tourism, bus tickets and hotel bookings would have been possible in the user profile of other passengers. Most importantly, there was a risk of a huge database of millions of passengers getting leaked,” Renganathan said.

Issue resolved

On August 30, 2021, he reported the vulnerability to the CERT, India, which raised a ticket within minutes. Five days later, the bug was fixed and acknowledged by the IRCTC, says Renganathan.

The teenager says he has got acknowledgements from LinkedIn, United Nations, Nike and Lenovo among others for reporting security vulnerabilities on their web applications.

Renganathan wants to pursue a career in Computer Science, while continuing independent research on security of web applications.

SC not to interfere in reopening of schools

SC not to interfere in reopening of schools

21/09/2021

“The situation may vary according to factors like the size of the State to density of population. It’s the decision of each State to see the areas where there is a spike in cases and act accordingly. Ultimately, it’s best to leave it to the governments to decide. We cannot take over governance,” he noted.

Justice Nagarathna pointed out that teachers had to be vaccinated and children had not been vaccinated yet.

“The government is ultimately responsible to bring children back to school. We cannot direct them to open up in a time-bound manner. We have just come out of the second wave. There may be a third wave, though it may not be as devastating,” Justice Chandrachud remarked. The issue of whether to send children to school for physical classes or not and when to do that concerned the “complexities of governance which makes it eminently a case on which the court should not interfere”.

Advocate Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, for the petitioner, said the plea was not meant to be “publicity seeking”. Instead, it focused on the psychological and physical damage children were being subject to by not going to school. Many thousands of children also depended on schools for their midday meal. Justice Chandrachud agreed that there was a need to balance the need to keep children safe from the virus with the requirement to keep them physical and mentally healthy.

No-dowry bond a must in Calicut varsity

No-dowry bond a must in Calicut varsity

21/09/2021

Staff Reporter Kozhikode

More universities seem to be following Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan’s dictum to collect a ‘no-dowry’ bond before awarding degree certificates as the University of Calicut has now asked students and parents to sign such a declaration during the ongoing admissions to undergraduate courses.

As many as two lakh students seek admission to various undergraduate courses in Calicut University, which has a jurisdiction over six of the 14 districts in the State. The students are being asked to sign an undertaking that any breach of the rules relating to taking or abetting the taking of dowry shall render them liable for appropriate action, which include cancellation of admission, withdrawal of degree or refusal to grant degree.

Rajan panel wants deemed varsities under govt. purview

Rajan panel wants deemed varsities under govt. purview

But State is not inclined to implement the recommendation as experts opined that it may not have been legally correct

21/09/2021

Dennis S. JesudasanCHENNAI

The high-level committee, led by the retired High Court judge, A.K. Rajan, has recommended that all deemed universities be brought under the Tamil Nadu government’s purview. The committee, constituted to study the impact of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) on medical admissions in the State, submitted its report two months ago.

“As far as the deemed universities are concerned, an Act has to be passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly to bring all deemed universities of Tamil Nadu under the government’s purview, as under Act 3/2007, and the President’s assent has to be obtained,” according to the last of the seven recommendations made in the 165-page report. Act 3/2007 refers to the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act, 2006, passed in the Tamil Nadu Assembly. It received the President’s assent in 2007.

However, sources in the government told The Hindu that the government was not inclined to accept the last recommendation. Incidentally, the committee's report was the basis for the government to table a Bill against the NEET in the Assembly last week. It went through.

“Some of the legal experts opined that it [the Act for bringing the deemed universities under the government’s purview] may not have been legally correct. The part that recommended an Act against the NEET and admission on the basis of the Class 12 marks was taken up, and the Bill was passed,” an official said.

Though the report recommended bringing “all deemed universities of Tamil Nadu” under the government’s purview, another official pointed out that since the committee was constituted to study the impact of the NEET on medical education, “it most probably could have meant only those deemed universities that offer medicine as a course of study”.

One of the opinions received by the committee contended that the NEET nullified the opportunities for students of the tribal and rural communities and the oppressed sections to pursue medical education. “Especially, it has helped the private and deemed universities prevent the students of the oppressed sections from pursuing medicine,” the report said, citing the feedback.

“After the NEET, students who got a mere pass were able to get admission at private medical colleges by paying a huge amount of money. Rich people can buy seat by paying ₹25 lakh per annum at deemed universities even if they get a low score, and the total cost of the entire course would be around ₹1.50 crore,” the report said, again citing the feedback.

When contacted, one of the members of the committee told The Hindu, “Education is in the Concurrent List, and the State government can enact laws to bring deemed universities under its purview.”

Passenger books an entire business class for pet

Passenger books an entire business class for pet

Maltese Bela travels by Mumbai-Chennai flight in style

21/09/2021

Rare privilege: Bela, the Maltese, that travelled in the Mumbai-Chennai flight. ANI

Staff ReporterCHENNAI

On the morning of September 15, the crew of Air India at Mumbai airport were in for a surprise as they had an adorable white furry passenger carried into the business class of the aircraft. A woman passenger had booked 12 seats, the entire business class in the Airbus 320 to ensure a comfortable flight for her Maltese Bela from Mumbai to Chennai.

One way fare for a single business class seat on the flight is about ₹20,000 and the passenger may have spent about ₹2.4 lakh to ensure a comfortable flight for her pet.

Air India sources said while was rare for a passenger to book the entire business class, it was not uncommon to see pets taking a flight in the economy class. “We have seen dogs and cats on numerous occasions in the economy class; once, we even had hamsters on a flight from Delhi to Chennai,” a source in Air India said. For those who wish to carry their pets, Air India says it can be done either in cargo or cabin but there has to be a health and rabies vaccination certificate. “Also, the weight of the pet should be less than 5 kg and the animal must be carried in a soft-ventilated bag or kennel,” the source said.

The flight AI671 left Mumbai at 9 a.m. and landed in Chennai at 10.55 a.m. with the fur ball getting all the attention as it walked out of the terminal.

Air Canada resumes direct flights to and from India

Air Canada resumes direct flights to and from India

New Delhi:21.09.2021

Direct connectivity has resumed between India and Canada after almost five months. Air Canada restarted Delhi-Toronto non-stop flights with a new protocol that WHO approved vaccinated passengers must undergo an RT-PCR or a rapid PCR test within 18 hours of boarding flights from Covid testing centre and lounge at Delhi Airport’s terminal 3, reports Saurabh Sinha.

“Air Canada requires either of these specific tests as no other test from any other clinic within India will be accepted,” Air Canada says on its site for “testing requirements for flights from India.”

“The following conditions to travel still remain: All travellers must be double vaccinated. Only the following vaccines are recognised by Canada : Johnson / Moderna / Pfizer/Covishield,” it has told travel partners in a communique accessed by TOI. TNN

‘Fleeing abroad after MBBS without serving deplorable’

‘Fleeing abroad after MBBS without serving deplorable’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:21.09.2021

The Gujarat high court on Monday deprecated the practice adopted by some medical students who move abroad after completion of studies in India and do not intend to serve in rural areas.

While disposing of a petition filed by an MBBS graduate, whose documents were withheld by the government for not submitting Rs 2 lakh bond in lieu of one-year rural service after internship, Justice Bhargav Karia said, “It was a pious duty on part of the student to render service to the government, to pay back the obligation he has undertaken by paying back to the society or to pay the money for not rendering his services in order to pursue his education abroad. By taking advantage of education facility available in the country and then fleeing abroad without rendering any service to this country is deprecated.” Justice Karia ordered the government to return the documents that the student had submitted at the time of his admission in the medical college run by GMERS at Himmatnagar in 2015. The documents were not returned because the student had not submitted bonds, which was the admission condition. However, the student insisted on the certificates regarding completion of his MBBS and internship.

The court said that it would not interfere on the government’s decision over bond. The court said that the state government is entitled to recover Rs 2 lakh towards the bond condition. Upon the government’s insistence on recovering Rs 2 lakh from the student, his father, who too was a petitioner, said, “Asking for money for provisional certificate amounts to extortion on part of the government.” The court cited a Supreme Court order and said that rendering services to the government after completion of MBBS is not unreasonable. The petitioner’s argument that the college was self-financed is not ground to escape the condition of rural service. It is also not believable that the student was not aware of the bond condition even after completion of five years of study.

‘Racist & biased’: Indians slam new UK travel curbs

‘Racist & biased’: Indians slam new UK travel curbs

Naomi Canton

London:21.09.2021

The UK government’s new international travel rules, which do not recognise people vaccinated in India as being “fully vaccinated”, have been blasted as “offensive”, “bizarre” and “racist”. The new rules mean people vaccinated in India will still have to home quarantine for 10 days in the UK when those vaccinated in scores of other countries will not.

Aware of the backlash on social media after Congress leader Shashi Tharoor pulled out of a Cambridge Union debate and his own book launch events in Britain to protest against the latest curbs, the UK announced it was willing to engage with the Indian government to resolve the matter. Tharoor tweeted: “It is offensive to ask fully vaccinated Indians to quarantine.” On September 17, the UK had announced new rules for international travel to replace the current system of red, amber and green.

US to allow jabbed travellers from Nov

The US in November will re-open air travellers from China, India, Britain and many other European nations who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the White House said on Monday, rolling back pandemic-related travel curbs imposed early last year. P 14

‘Fully vaccinated’ don’t require home quarantine

A British high commission spokesperson in New Delhi told TOI: “We are engaging with the government of India to explore how we could expand UK recognition of vaccine certification to people vaccinated by a relevant public health body in India.” On September 17, the UK had announced new rules for international travel to replace the current system of red, amber and green. The new rules divide countries into red and the rest of the world and come into effect at 4 am (UK time) on October 4. Whilst the red list rules will remain the same regardless of vaccination status, the rules for people arriving in the UK from the “rest of the world” – which includes India – will differ depending on whether the traveller is “fully vaccinated” or not.

Those deemed as “fully vaccinated” will no longer have to home quarantine for 10 days, no longer need to take a pre-departure test nor take a day 8 Covid-19 test. They just need to take a Covid-19 test on day 2 after they arrive.

CITY BUS DEPOTS IN TOTAL DISARRAY

CITY BUS DEPOTS IN TOTAL DISARRAY

Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com

21.09.2021

They are frequented by millions of people daily, but most government bus terminals in the city are in terrible shape, with hardly any passenger facilities.

The bay at the Ayanavaram terminus in central Chennai, used by at least 200 MTC buses daily, is almost entirely used as a parking lot by private vehicles, mainly belonging to people coming for driving licence tests and vehicle registrations at the adjacent Regional Transport Office building.

Some of these vehicles are parked at the entrance of the terminus, forcing drivers of buses to park on the roadside. The two rows of seats for waiting passengers are damaged. “Usually bus frequency is poor after the lunch hour and we stand in the sun and rain for 15-20 minutes,” said B Satish, a regular commuter.

T Sadagopan, a resident-activist from Avadi, said that almost all bus terminuses in the western suburbs lack urinals and toilets and those that are available are unclean. At Avadi, the urinal is located inside the branch manager’s office and kept under lock and key. Passengers, mostly senior citizens who are diabetic, are at the mercy of officials to use it, he said.

Another basic facility that is lacking is access to clean drinking water. The Amma Water Scheme, welcomed by all sections, has been given a silent burial and even MTC staff are forced to buy water from private shops in the vicinity, say workers’ unions.

The terminus at Broadway, where more than 650 buses on 70 different routes arrive and depart daily and which attracts more than 1 lakh footfalls daily, has been neglected for long. A Greater Chennai Corporation official said a detailed proposal was submitted to the Tamil Nadu Infrastructure Development Board (TNIDB) for a 900-crore project to transform the facility with demarcated space for bus bays, a multi-storey parking complex, commercial space and rail connectivity.

V Rama Rao of the Traffic and Transportation Forum commuters had been waiting for the past 20 years but the corporation has not moved to mitigate their woes.

A senior MTC official said transport minister R S Rajakannapan recently visited the Amma water bottling plant in Gummidipoondi and promised to expand production.

The Union urban affairs ministry, in its manual for city bus depots, mandates installation of Public Address Systems with alarms, but none of the terminals visited by TOI Ayanavaram, Broadway, Foreshore Estate, Velachery and Ambattur had them. “Signages and PA systems play an important role in regulating pedestrian movement. Commuting can be easier for passengers, particularly those from other districts or states who are unfamiliar with city bus routes, if relevant information of bus arrival/departure timings and directions are provided through PA systems in multiple languages,” said T Rengachari, a transportation activist.

Kilambakkam bus terminus to open by March

EASING CONGESTION

Kilambakkam bus terminus to open by March

Broken Chairs, Illegal Parking And Ramshackle Facilities Are Common At Most MTC Bus Depots

Ram Sundaram TNN

21.09.2021

The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) is likely to throw open a new bus terminus at Kilambakkam for public use by March 2022.

The terminus, which is being constructed for ₹397 crore, has more than a dozen toilet blocks, a waiting area with seats, escalators and can accommodate 245 government and private omni buses at a time. Around 3,000 private vehicles can be parked at in the complex.

Besides mofussil buses, CMDA has created separate bays and a depot for city buses. The MTC has already started operating buses from Kilambakkam and has partially shifted the base from Perungalathur to the new location.

The State Express Transport Corporation (SETC), which operates long-distance government buses, will no longer use CMBT, Koyambedu, from next year. Buses to southern districts like Madurai, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari will leave from Kilambakkam.

However, several commuters have said the project has its own pitfalls. People living within the city have to spend more to reach the terminal. The nearest suburban station from Kilambakkam is at least 2 km away. If passengers choose a cab or auto, they will have to pay more.

A senior SETC official said getting down at Kilambakkam, which is 30 km from Koyambedu, and boarding another MTC bus in the wee hours is going to be tedious for many passengers.

The other problem is the delay in expanding Tambaram-Chengalpet highway (NH-45) along which the terminus is located. The NHAI is converting the existing four-lane into six-lane roads.

G Ganesh, a resident-activist from Singaperumalkoil, said, “If they (NHAI) don’t complete it before next March, it is going to chaos here. Already private buses and vans of industries in Oragadam are using NH-45 instead of Bengaluru highway in order to avoid the toll gate at Sriperumbudur. This coupled with more government buses on incomplete roads will make traffic congestion worst”.

Hi-tech tools help cops nab cyber crooks

Hi-tech tools help cops nab cyber crooks

City Digital Forensic Lab Got Busier Since First Lockdown

Ram Sundaram & Sindhu Kannan TNN

Chennai:21.09.2021

Last year, Kirthika* continuously received sleazy messages and nude photographs on her mobile phone from a stalker for nearly two months. The 16-year-old Chennai resident lodged a police complaint. The stalker deleted the messages and broke his mobile phone, believing he could go scot-free. But, using a highend data extraction tool procured by the Tamil Nadu Forensic Department, police managed to retrieve all the messages and media files. The stalker is now in jail.

Retrieving such deleted files from damaged electronic devices is possible due to Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), a mobile tool available at Chennai Forensic House, Mylapore. The lab has other globally-accepted software tools such as EnCase, XRY and Magnet Axiom, which extract crucial evidence from not only mobile phones (Android and iOS) but also from storage devices (laptops, hard disks, pen drives and memory cards) and CCTV cameras.

Ever since the Covid-triggered lockdown, there has been a three-fold rise in the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act and women harassment cases dealt by Chennai Forensic House. On an average, every month, the lab deals with at least 50 such cases a month. Earlier, it was less than 15, according to police data. In almost all these cases, the lab reports have helped police get the perpetrators convicted by courts.

“Though there are hundreds of open-source data extraction tools available in the market, only National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-standard tools such as these are admissible in a court of law. Such tools are sold only to state enforcement agencies and we procured them three years ago using Tamil Nadu Innovative Initiative (TANII) funds,” said a senior forensic department official.

A senior scientist from the Chennai lab said data from a cell phone can be extracted using two methods: logical and physical. In the first method, the extraction tool interacts with the phone using its own programming language to retrieve calls and text logs, passwords to social media accounts, saved photos and videos. But it has limitations since deleted and password-protected files can’t be accessed. In the other method, deleted files can be extracted as the tools create a bit-by-bit replica of all the files in the phone, including hidden files in subfolders. Currently, UFED is the most preferred tool by the Chennai lab as it presents the extracted data in a searchable and user-friendly format.

“Despite using such highend tools, extracting and analysing data is becoming increasingly difficult as mobile manufacturers keep updating their products. The type of smartphone, OS and security features determine the amount of access to data. There is no guarantee that all data can be retrieved. But the forensic tool firms also keep updating their products at regular intervals to meet the challenge,” the scientist told TOI.

(*name changed)

Law student armed with shotgun kills 6 on Russian campus, 19 hurt

Law student armed with shotgun kills 6 on Russian campus, 19 hurt

It Is Second School Shooting This year

Moscow:21.09.2021

An 18-year-old law student wielding a pump-action shotgun went on a shooting spree on a Russian university campus on Monday, killing at least six people and wounding 19, according to state media, government officials and a university spokeswoman.

Students described scenes of chaos, saying they barricaded themselves in classrooms and waited in terror while hearing shots and screams in their building, Russian media reported. Others escaped by jumping from second-story windows and running away. Police published a video showing hallways and a stairway covered in broken glass, spent shotgun shells and blood. The gunman resisted arrest but was later wounded and taken into custody, law enforcement officials told local media. Ivan Pechishchev, a lecturer at the university, said that when he saw students jumping out of windows he thought there had been a fire. Pechishchev said he hid with students in an auditorium for more than an hour before they were told they could leave the building. “The city is shocked. I walked home because it was impossible to get a taxi,” he said.

RIA Novosti, a state news agency, posted videos showing a slender man dressed in black clothing, a black helmet and carrying a gun. He was identified as a student at Perm State University, where the shooting took place, about 1,046 km east of Moscow. The man had obtained the shotgun legally in May, the Investigative Committee law enforcement agency said, according to state media reports. A traffic police unit was the first to reach the scene, and the suspect opened fire on them, according to the interior ministry. He was wounded when police returned fire and then was disarmed, the ministry said. The gunman also was armed with a knife, it said. A member of parliament, Alexander Khinshtein, identified the gunman as an 18-year-old student in the university’s law faculty. The university said about 3,000 people were on the campus at the time of the shooting.

A lengthy social media post attributed to the gunman went up shortly before the attack on Monday, and local media published it. It was a misanthropic screed stretching to several pages, suggesting a lifelong fascination with violence. He did not hint at a political motive. Social media company Vkontakte blocked his account on Monday.

While still rare, school shootings have become more common in Russia in recent years. This was the second mass shooting at a Russian school this year. In May, an attacker killed seven students and two school employees in the Russian city of Kazan. That was Russia’s deadliest school shooting since 2018, when a student at a college in Russian-annexed Crimea killed 20 people before turning his gun on himself. Russia raised the minimum age for buying firearms from18 to 21 after the Kazan shooting, but the new law has yet to come into force. AGENCIES

Shocked students speak on their phones near the university in Perm on Monday. Russia has strict restrictions on civilian firearm ownership, but some categories of guns are available for purchase for hunting, self-defence or sport to those who meet specific requirements

All Indian students safe, says embassy

All Indian students studying at Russia’s Perm medical university are safe, the Indian embassy in Moscow said on Monday. “Shocked at horrific attack at Perm State University in Russia; our deep condolences for the loss of life and best wishes for early recovery of those injured,” the Indian embassy tweeted. “Embassy is in touch with local authorities and representatives of Indian students. All Indian students at Perm State Medical University are safe,” it said. PTI

Racist, bizarre: Indians slam UK travel rules

Racist, bizarre: Indians slam UK travel rules

21.09.2021

The UK’s new international travel rules came under fire in India with many terming the rules, which don’t recognise people vaccinated in India as being “fully vaccinated” and mandates a 10-day quarantine, “offensive”, “bizarre” and “racist”, reports Naomi Canton. Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh tweeted: “Absolutely bizarre considering Covishield was originally developed in the UK and the Serum Institute, Pune has supplied to that country too! This smacks of racism.” A representative told TOI that the British high commission is in discussions with the Centre

7.5% quota: TN to pay full edu cost of govt students

7.5% quota: TN to pay full edu cost of govt students

Chennai:21.09.2021

The Tamil Nadu government would bear the entire education cost — tuition fees, hostel fees and counselling fees — of all government school students joining professional courses under the 7.5% quota, chief minister M K Stalin said on Monday.

Issuing admission letters to 50 students under special reservation in Anna University, Stalin said around 12,000 students would join engineering, agriculture, veterinary science, fisheries and law courses. “This will lead their families and the places to development, besides benefiting the state. I am proud to issue these admission letters,” Stalin said. TNN

BIG HELP: CM M K Stalin said 12,000 students would join engineering & other courses

Special quota is a rural development scheme, says Stalin

Among the beneficiaries, G Viswanathan got admission in electronics and communication engineering, while Monish K got admission in computer science engineering — both in College of Engineering, Guindy. They had lost their fathers many years ago and their families were struggling to make ends meet.

Viswanathan of Government Higher Secondary School in Anakaputhur and the topper among government school students with an aggregate of 197.9 marks, said the government bearing his education cost would ensure that he completes his studies. His sister has been the family’s sole bread-winner after their father, a watchman, died nine years ago.

Monish, another student from the same school who works part-time to support his family, said the announcement has come as a “huge relief” to his family. He was raised by his mother after his father died in 2015. His mother works at Chennai airport’s tollgate for a monthly salary of ₹5,000. He scored 195.75 marks to get the eighth rank among government school students.

Stalin said 69% of students of government schools came from villages and the special reservation has become a virtual rural development scheme. He recalled it was the DMK government headed by M Karunanidhi that cancelled entrance exams for medical and engineering courses as it had been blocking the entry of rural students in professional courses.

“The government is conducting a legal battle against NEET. Government orders issued to ensure social justice are laying the foundation for an equitable society,” he said. Asking the departments of school education and higher education to lay the foundation for Tamil society’s allround development, he said the present government’s tenure should become a golden period for higher education, professional education and research.

MD aspirants challenge change in NEET-SS exam question pattern

MD aspirants challenge change in NEET-SS exam question pattern

Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:21.09.2021

The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the National Board of Examinations, National Medical Commission and the Centre within a week on a petition filed by doctors challenging the NMC’s arbitrary last-minute decision to change subject-wise distribution of marks in the question papers for the NEET-Super Speciality 2021 exam, the gateway for MD course admissions.

Appearing for the 41 postgraduate doctors, who are intending to appear for the NEET-SS examination scheduled for November 13/ 14, senior advocate Shyam Divan told a bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and B V Nagarathna that the NMC without authority effected changes in the rules of the game after the play has commenced.

Divan said that the examination dates were announced on July 23 and the aspirants began their preparations suiting to the pattern of the question papers and subject-wise distribution of marks as was announced in 2018 and continued for the years 2019 and 2020.

By this uncalled for change in pattern of questions, announced on August 31, the National Medical Commission has changed the rules of the game after the play has begun, he said.

The bench issued notices to NBE, NMC and Centre and sought their responses within a week. The petitioner doctors through advocate Javedur Rehman have challenged the abrupt last-minute changes made to the exam pattern/scheme, when the NEET-SS 2021 exams were just two months away. National Medical Commission does not have any power to change the pattern of questions and mark allocations, Rehman said.

Rehman said the aspirants have been preparing in terms of the pattern that has been in place for the last three years, when the sudden change in pattern/ scheme was made public.

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Reopening of schools entirely for state govts to decide, says SC

Reopening of schools entirely for state govts to decide, says SC

Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:21.09.2021

Advising a student petitioner to concentrate on his studies, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain his PIL seeking immediate physical reopening of schools and said it would not enter into decision-making on resumption of offline academic activities, which fell exclusively within the domain of the executive.

Asking senior advocate Ravi P Mehrotra to tell his young client, class XII student Amar Prem Prakash, to focus on his studies, a bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and B V Nagarathna said it is imperious on the part of a student in Delhi to demand immediate decision by governments to reopen physical schools in a time bound manner when the entire country does not know whether or not the third wave of the Covid pandemic is on the anvil or not.

“It is a misplaced PIL if not a publicity-seeking petition. The distribution of the severity of the Covid pandemic is not the same in all states. Does the situation in Kerala match with that of West Bengal or for that matter Delhi? How the Supreme Court can issue an omnibus order directing reopening of schools?” it asked. “As we read in newspapers and various other sources, the third wave may not be as severe as the second. The vaccination is going on apace. But, we cannot equate the pandemic situation in Kerala with that of Karnataka or West Bengal or for that matter Delhi. Some states, depending on the waning of the pandemic, are gradually reopening the schools. Let us leave the decision in this regard to the state governments. Even within a state, the pandemic situation may not be uniform. Some districts may have a high infection rate while in others it may be mild. What should be done about reopening of schools, must be left to the governments,” the bench said.

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Man poses as woman, lover kills him

Man poses as woman, lover kills him

Tuticorin:21.09.2021

A case of suspicious death has turned out to be a murder as the victim had deceived the accused by impersonating as a woman on Facebook,lured him into a homosexual relationship and threatened to share their intimate pictures with his family.

Police have identified the deceased as P Murugan, 28, of Mela Eral village in Tuticorin district. Murugan, who was a Class X dropout, worked with his father in their field. On September 15, his body was found in bushes in Melakaranthai village with an injury on his head. The Masarpatti police registered a case of suspicious death under Section 174 of the CrPC and sent the body for postmortem.

Police, who checked CCTV footages from Ettayapuram, saw another man accompanying Murugan on September 14. Going through his call details, police came to know that he frequently spoke to a man, identified as M Murugan, 24, of Dhamaal in Kancheepuram district. He worked in a car accessories manufacturing company. TNN

20 reasons and two routes to eliminate NEET, Rajan committee tells TN govt

20 reasons and two routes to eliminate NEET, Rajan committee tells TN govt

Ragu.Raman@timesgroup.com

Chennai:21.09.2021

The Justice AK Rajan Committee, which studied the impact of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) on the student community in Tamil Nadu, has listed 20 reasons for elimination of NEET.

It suggested the twinroute of legislative and legal procedures to achieve the purpose. The committee also made seven recommendations that included bringing all deemed universities under the purview of the state government.

The 165-page report, submitted to the government in July 2021, was released to the media on Monday. The contents of the report were first reported by TOI on July 15.

Among the 20 points for opposing NEET were arguments that NEET neglected Class XII marks and promoted private coaching, and that it denied opportunities to tribal, rural and oppressed students.

Also, the report said the percentage of rural students came down from 65.17% in 2016-17 in the pre-NEET year, to 49.91% in 2020-21. The number of Tamil medium students allotted the MBBS seats also came down from 14.88% in 2016-17 to a mere 1.99% in 2020-21.

Likewise, the percentage of state board students getting MBBS seats also plummeted from 65.66% in 2016-17 to 48.22% in 2017-18 while the percentage of CBSE students has increased from 0.39% to 24.91% in just one year after the introduction of NEET. The number of government school students getting MBBS admissions also decreased from 34 students to just three students after NEET and no student from government schools got admitted to government medical colleges in 2017-18.

The number of first-generation graduates getting the seats also came down from 24.9% to 13.6% after the introduction of NEET in Tamil Nadu. Students whose parents annual income is less than 2.5lakhs per annum also come down from 47.42% before NEET to 30.6% after NEET.

Before NEET, 87.5% current-year students entered medical colleges, but it got reduced to 28.5% in 2020-21 as 71.4% repeaters grabbed the medical seats. The report also said the students were shelling out Rs 1 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh per annum for coaching classes.

Justice Rajan Committee, therefore, asked the government to bring in a Bill to bin NEET and get the President's assent for the legislation. Reverting to Class XII marksbased admission to MBBS courses by adopting normalisation of scores to bring in equality among boards would be the solution, it said.

"This will ensure social justice and protect all vulnerable student communities from being discriminated against in admission to medical education programmes," the committee said in its report. It also advised the government to bring all deemed universities which are now directly under the UGC under the purview of the state government.

The committee, headed by Justice Rajan, had eight other members, including six government officials. It received more than 86,000 responses from the public. While more than 65,000 opposed NEET, 18,000 supported NEET and nearly 1,500 had no opinion.

The seven points that supported NEET included prevention of blocking of seats and the provision for Tamil Nadu students to enter union government-run colleges.

Man eats biryani, spits blood, dies; had TB, says kin

Man eats biryani, spits blood, dies; had TB, says kin

Shiva Kumar Pinna

Warangal:20.09.2021

A 23-year-old man, allegedly suffering from TB, died coughing blood a few minutes after having biryani for lunch at a hotel on Sunday in Narsampet Town in Warangal. The family did not register any complaint and police have not booked a case.

The man, B Prasad, a resident of Jhalli village in Chennaraopet mandal in the district, had come to the hotel with a friend. The incident was soon all over WhatsApp groups.

Narsampet ACP CHRV Phaninder said that Prasad’s uncle told them he was suffering from TB and the family did not want to register a complaint.

The body has been shifted to the Narsampet Government Hospital for autopsy.

HC asks petitioner to move govt for financial emergency in varsity

HC asks petitioner to move govt for financial emergency in varsity

Bhopal/Jabalpur:20.09.2021

A division bench of MP High Court asked the petitioner, who had filed a petition in the court for imposing financial emergency in the MP Medical University under section 50 of the MP Medical University Act, to present an application to that effect to the state government while directing the latter to take a decision on the application within two months.

President of Bharat Vikas Parishad, Alok Mishra, in his petition contended that there have been major financial irregularities in the medical university. Budget for the fiscal 2021-22 was not presented in the university at all and yet payment of lakhs of rupees are being made for different purposes by the university.

Section 26 (3) of the MP Medical University Act clearly provides that the finance committee of the university will present a budget before the executive council of the university for approval before the beginning of the new financial year. Mishra said that he had submitted an application before the state government urging for imposition of financial emergency in the university under section 50 of the Act but no action was taken by the state on his application. The bench comprising Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice Satyendra Kumar Singh asked the petitioner to submit an application with the state government on the issue once again and directed that a decision in the matter should be taken by the state within two months. TNN

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Daughters Are Daughters Forever, Sons Are Sons Till They Are Married': Bombay HC Upholds Direction Under Senior Citizens Act

To Son To Vacate Flat Of Elderly Parents

Sharmeen Hakim19 Sep 2021 9:43 AM

The Court said that the Senior Citizens Act protects the right of elderly parents to have a "normal life" free from harassment.

The Senior Citizens Act mandates that children or relatives are obligated to cater to the needs of the senior citizens so that they 'live a normal life', free of any harassment, the Bombay High Court said, directing a Mumbai resident and his wife to vacate his elderly parents' flat within a month.

The Court observed that the man and his family living on his 90-year-old father's property (which has been gifted by him to his daughter) against the parent's wishes was harassment and defeated the parents' right to a 'normal life.' Accordingly, it dismissed the son's appeal against the Maintenance Tribunal order asking him to vacate the premises.

"..Section 4 clearly provide that the obligation of the children or relatives would be to cater to the needs of the senior citizens so that they 'live a normal life'…this would certainly include within its ambit, protection from any harassment and torture meted out by a son or relative by keeping himself on the premises owned by the senior citizens..."

The Court reiterated the old saying about daughters standing by their parents forever but sons sticking around only till they get married.

"Before parting and having noticed that this is a case where the old parents are suffering at the hands of the only son and daughter-in-law, it appears that there is certainly some element of truth in the popular saying that 'daughters are daughters forever and sons are sons till they are married' albeit there would surely be exemplary exceptions," the HC said.

The Court held that the several legal proceedings between the parties are the evidence of the feeling of torture and harassment by the parents. Moreover, the property in question is not an ancestral property on which the son can claim any legal right.

Background

The parents (father aged 90 years and mother aged 89 years) had approached the Maintenance Tribunal, against the harassment by their son. The Tribunal ordered the son and family to vacate the flat in which his elderly parents were residing.

Challenging the Tribunal's order, the son and his family filed a writ petition before the High Court.

At the very outset, the High Court observed that it was a "sad case" and expressed concern at the "misery of the parents"

The son and his family argued the plea on two grounds. First, they claimed that since a local court had already passed an order in the 89-year-old mother's favour not to dispossess her from the house under the Domestic Violence Act, the elderly couple was precluded from approaching the senior citizen's tribunal. Moreover, since the elderly parents had gifted the flat to the daughter, it could not be called the their own property to invoke section 4 of the Act.

The counsel for the parents argued that this was a clear case where the parents at such advanced stage of their lives are tortured and harassed by the petitioner nos. 1 and 2. He cited instances of inhuman treatment being meted out to the parents to grab the flat.

The Court held that the senior citizens would in no manner be precluded approaching the Tribunal, as Section 4 of the Act would include all facets of maintenance. Moreover, the father was not party to the DV proceedings.

"It is thus clear that the intention of the legislature in making such provisions in the interest of senior citizens, covers a wide spectrum of the senior citizens rights, which are fundamental to the their very survival and/or livelihood at their old age. Certainly the Court's approach cannot be narrow and pedantic in applying the provisions of the Senior Citizens Act to the grievances of the senior citizens falling within the ambit of the said Act."

"Normal Life" under Senior Citizens Act has a deeper meaning

Section 4 clearly provide that the obligation of the children or relatives would be to cater to the needs of the senior citizens so that they 'live a normal life'. The words "normal life" as used in these provisions would possess a far deeper and wider concept, deriving its meaning and having a bearing on the fundamental rights of livelihood as guaranteed and enjoyed by senior citizens under Article 21 of the Constitution.

The Court also noted that the term "property" under Section 2(f) mean property of any kind, whether movable or immovable, ancestral or self acquired, tangible or intangible and which would include rights or interest in such property.

The argument that the parents could not assert rights in the flat as they had gifted to their daughter was rejected by the Court noting that they had rights and interests in it.

The Court noted that the son was affluent and had properties of his own. Despite that, he was harassing his elderly parents, who just wanted to lead a peaceful life.

"The present case is a sad story of desperate parents who intend to be in peace at such advanced stage in life. Whether such bare minimum expectations and requirement should also be deprived to them by an affluent son, is a thought which the petitioners need to ponder on", the Court observed.

The Court observed that the the son appeared to be blinded in discharging his obligations to cater to his old and needy parents and on the contrary dragged them to litigation.

"It is painful to conceive that whatever are the relations between the son and the parents, should the son disown his old aged parents for material gains?", the Court noted with anguish.

Case Title: Ashish Vinod Dalal & Ors v. Vinod Ramanlal Dalal & Ors

'Daughters Are Daughters Forever, Sons Are Sons Till They Are Married': Bombay HC Upholds Direction Under Senior Citizens Act To Son To Vacate Flat Of Elderly Parents

'Daughters Are Daughters Forever, Sons Are Sons Till They Are Married': Bombay HC Upholds Direction Under Senior Citizens Act To Son To Vacate Flat Of Elderly Parents: The Court said that the Senior Citizens Act protects the right of elderly parents to have a 'normal life' free from harassment.

'தகுதியான மாணவர்களை ஒதுக்கி முறைகேடாக சேர்க்கை நடத்துவதா?' : டில்லி ஐகோர்ட்

'தகுதியான மாணவர்களை ஒதுக்கி முறைகேடாக சேர்க்கை நடத்துவதா?' : டில்லி ஐகோர்ட்

புதுடில்லி-'மருத்துவம் உட்பட அனைத்து கல்லுாரிகளிலும் தகுதி அடிப்படையில் சேர்க்கைக்கு காத்திருக்கும் மாணவர்களை ஒதுக்கிவிட்டு முறைகேடாக சேர்க்கை வழங்குவது சரியல்ல' என டில்லி உயர் நீதிமன்றம் உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது.நாட்டில் அனைத்து அரசு மற்றும் தனியார் மருத்துவக் கல்லுாரிகளில் 'நீட்' தேர்வு மதிப்பெண் அடிப்படையில் மாணவர் சேர்க்கை நடைபெறுகிறது.இந்த விதிகளை மீறி மத்திய பிரதேசத்தின் போபால் எல்.என்., மருத்துவக் கல்லுாரி மற்றும் ஆராய்ச்சி மையத்தில் 2016ல் ஐந்து மாணவர்கள் சேர்க்கப்பட்டனர்.அவர்களை கல்லுாரியில் இருந்து வெளியேற்ற வேண்டும் என இந்திய மருத்துவ கவுன்சில் கடிதம் அனுப்பியது. 

ஆனால் கல்லுாரி தரப்பில் அவர்கள் தொடர்ந்து படிக்கவும், தேர்வுகள் எழுதி அடுத்தடுத்த நிலைகளுக்கு செல்லவும் அனுமதி அளிக்கப்பட்டது.இதற்கிடையே மருத்துவ கவுன்சில் உத்தரவை ரத்து செய்வதுடன், தங்கள் மருத்துவக் கல்வியை தொடர அனுமதி கோரி மாணவர்கள் தாக்கல் செய்த மனு டில்லி உயர் நீதிமன்றத்தில் தள்ளுபடி ஆனது.இதையடுத்து மாணவர்கள் தாக்கல் செய்த மேல் முறையீட்டு மனு, டில்லி உயர் நீதிமன்ற நீதிபதிகள் விபின் சங்கி மற்றும் ஜஸ்மீத் சிங் அமர்வு முன் விசாரணைக்கு வந்தது.முடிவில் மனுவை தள்ளுபடி செய்து நீதிபதிகள் பிறப்பித்த உத்தரவு:

 நாட்டில் லட்சக்கணக்கான மாணவர்கள் தகுதி அடிப்படையில் கல்வி நிறுவனங்களில் சேர கடினமாக உழைக்கின்றனர்; அப்படி இருக்கும்போது மருத்துவக் கல்லுாரி உட்பட எந்த கல்வி நிறுவனத்திலும் முறைகேடான சேர்க்கைகள் நிறுத்தப்பட வேண்டும்.கல்வி நிலையங்களில் குறுக்கு வழியில் சிலருக்கு வழங்கப்படும் அனுமதியால், அதிக தகுதி பெற்றவர்கள் கல்லுாரிகளில் சேர்க்கை கிடைக்காமல் தவிக்கும் நிலை ஏற்படுகிறது.

இந்த விவகாரத்தில் நான்கு கல்வி ஆண்டுகள் வீணானதாக மனுதாரர்கள் கூறுகின்றனர்; இதற்கு அவர்களே முழு பொறுப்பும் ஏற்க வேண்டும்.இந்திய மருத்துவ கவுன்சில் கடிதம் கிடைத்ததும், அவர்கள் கல்லுாரியில் இருந்து வெளியேறி இருந்தால் நான்கு ஆண்டுகள் வீணாகி இருக்காது.ஏற்கனவே அவர்கள் தாக்கல் செய்த மனுவிற்கு ஏதேனும் இடைக்கால உத்தரவு கிடைத்திருந்தால் ஐந்து பேரும் கல்வியை தொடர்ந்ததில் அர்த்தம் இருந்திருக்கும்.அதுபோல் எந்த அனுமதியும் கிடைக்காமல், அவர்கள் எடுத்த முடிவுகள் தற்போது அவர்களுக்கே எதிராக முடிந்துள்ளது. இவ்வாறு உத்தரவில் கூறப்பட்டு உள்ளது.

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Are Internal Complaints Committees in education institutions serving their purpose?

Are Internal Complaints Committees in education institutions serving their purpose?

To know if the universities had submitted their reports, Coimbatore-based CAPA president NR Ravishankar sought nine types of information from nine universities through the RTI petitions.

Published: 20th September 2021 01:29 AM |

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By N Dhamotharan

Express News Service

COIMBATORE: The Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) set up in higher education institutions to investigate complaints of sexual harassment from students and staff are not functioning properly, an RTI activist has alleged.

On September 5, 2020, the State government sent a circular to all universities seeking details about the functioning of ICC constituted under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act 2013. The consolidated compliance report was to be submitted to the Social Welfare and Nutritious Meal Programme Department which would then send it to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The Commission had asked for the report for research purposes.

To know if the universities had submitted their reports, Coimbatore-based Consumer Awareness and Protection Association (CAPA) president NR Ravishankar sought nine types of information from nine universities through the RTI petitions.

He told TNIE, "First, I sought to know the date of receipt of the circular. Anna University replied it did not receive the circular, while the University of Madras, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil University, Thiruvalluvar University, and Dr Ambedkar Law University did not reply. Only Manomaniam Sundaranar University, Bharathidasan University and Bharathiar University replied saying that they received the circular on September 07, 2020."

He said, except Bharathidasan University, the eight other universities had not submitted the consolidated compliance report to the Social Welfare and Nutritious Meal Programme Department. Further university registrars, who are also public information officers, refused to give information on the complaints taken from affected women, action taken on them, the number of rooms allotted to teaching faculty, details of the CCTV camera fitted in each room of the faculty of each department, the list of ICC committee members, the number of complaints received from girl students and copies of minutes and agenda of ICC meetings.

To his query on the complaints received, he said, Anna University had replied that it had received two complaints in the academic year 2017-18 and 12 complaints in 2018 -19.

Manomaniam Sundaranar University had got eight complaints. To the query on CCTVs, Dr Ambedkar Law University said it had not fitted the CCTVs, he said.

"The replies from the universities indicate that the ICCs are not functioning effectively, leaving girl students and woman staff without safety. Hence, the chief minister should ensure their safety in higher education institutions by following norms strictly," he said.

He also urged the State Information Commissioner to take stringent action on the public information officers who fail and refuse to provide the correct details to those who need information through RTI Act.

K Ramya (name changed), a PhD scholar at a university, told TNIE, "In 2019, a faculty member sexually harassed a student. When we took up the issue with the complaints committee, its members refused to take the complaint from the affected student. After we protested, a complaint was accepted. However, the members had been delaying inquiry and action. In fact, they tortured her mentally leading to her discontinuing her studies. She even tried to end her life. After a big protest, the committee finally suspended the faculty member." She alleged the committee in the university was functioning for a namesake.

Professor C Pichandy, former president of the Association of University Teachers (AUT), told TNIE, "The government should see the functioning of ICCs as a serious issue. Not only in higher education institutions, but the committees also are not working properly in private and government offices too. Crimes and sexual harassment of women can be prevented only if the committees functioned transparently. For that, Tamil Nadu State Commission for Women must ensure the functioning of the committee in all places."

Higher Education Secretary D Karthikeyan said that he would look into this issue.