Friday, April 29, 2022
VACCINATION
NRIs and Sputnik beneficiaries unable to get boosters now
Neha Madaan TNN
Pune : Thousands of NRIs, who took Covid vaccines other than Covishield or Covaxin and are back in India, now face a unique problem: they are unable to get boosters. Even those who took the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is Covishield in India, are in a fix because their details are not on CoWin.
Sumit Sachdeva, a working professional from Mumbai, said: “My mother was in Australia last year where she got two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. She later returned to India and is now due for her precaution dose. But when we visited a hospital, we were told she can’t get one because there’s no way to register on CoWin the doses she took in Australia. ”
Many NRIs had taken vaccines such as Pfizer abroad. Scores of them had also moved back to India. But they’re unable to get boost- ers as the government only allowed homologous doses.
Asenior official from the health ministry said it would not be possible to import foreign vaccines for a set of beneficiaries. The official, however, added: “The ministry has been getting queries from beneficiaries on this issue. And the matter may be discussed soon by officials. ”
Those who took Sputnik are also having trouble getting boosters. There has been no update from the health ministry on Sputnik Vprecaution doses.
BANK NEWS
SBI denies farmer no-dues cert over 31 paise; HC livid
Ahmedabad : The Gujarat high court rapped State Bank of India (SBI) on Wednesday for withholding a farmer’s no-dues certificate over an outstanding amount of 31 paise. The farmer needed the certificate to complete a land deal after repaying a loan. The bank told the court that the bank’s charge from the land parcel has not been removed because the farmer still owed 31 paise after repayment of the loan. Justice Bhargav Karia said: “This is too much,” adding that not issuing a no-dues certificate for such a meagre amount is “nothing but harassment”.
“Outstanding of 31 paise? Do you know anything less than 50 paise is to be ignored,” the judge said. A furious Justice Karia told the bank to file an affidavit on the issue and posted the hearing to May 2. In this case, Rakesh Verma and Manoj Verma had purchased a parcel of land in Khoraj village, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, from Shamjibhai Pashabhai and his family.
Earlier, Pashabhai’s family had obtained a crop loan from SBI. Before the loan was repaid, Pashabhai’s family sold the land.
The outstanding amount made the bank place a charge on the land and the new owners’ names could not be entered into the revenue records. The purchasers offered to pay the amount to get the certificate.
As the matter did not progress, the purchasers approached the HC in 2020. During the pendency of the petition, the loan was repaid completely. But the bank still did not issue a no-dues certificate and the land could not be transferred. On Wednesday, the court said that once the loan has been paid, it will direct the bank to issue the certificate.
DENTISTRY
Few takers for dentistry, 243 seats vacant after 4th round
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Ahmedabad : While all undergraduate seats in the medical, ayurveda and homeopathy courses have been filled in the current intake, it appears that there are few takers for dentistry.
After three online admission rounds, 289 dental seats remained vacant. To fill these, a fourth round was held on Wednesday for which 500 students were called. At the end of it, 243 seats were still vacant.
The Admission Committee for Professional Undergraduate Medical Educational Courses (ACPUGMEC) has handed these vacant se- ats back to the colleges who can now admit students on their own.
Last year, 445 dental seats had gone vacant at the end of the admissions process. Sources said this suggests that interest in dentistry is waning.
At the beginning of the fourth round of admissions, 1,086 seats were vacant: 418 dental seats, 234 in ayurveda and 434 in homeopathy. After including the seats for which students cancelled admissions, the number of empty seats rose to 1,244, for which 8,154 students provided their preferences.
The committee will now not allow students who have confirmed admissions in MBBS, ayurveda and homeopathy courses to cancel their admissions.
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NEET-UG] Supreme Court appoints Amicus Curiae in plea challenging requirement of class XI certificate for counselling
NEET-UG] Supreme Court appoints Amicus Curiae in plea challenging requirement of class XI certificate for counselling
The Court appointed Senior Advocate Aman Sinha as amicus curie in a plea challenging the mandatory requirement of class XI certificate to be eligible for participating in NEET-UG counselling.
Supreme Court, Exams
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20 Apr, 2022, 8:00 pm
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed Senior Advocate Aman Sinha as amicus curiae in a plea challenging the mandatory requirement of class XI certificate for eligibility in the counselling process for undergraduate courses of National Eligibility cum Test (NEET UG) [Srishti Nayak and ors. v. Union of India and ors.]
A Bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and BR Gavai allowed the intervention application filed by a class XII student who contended that the Director of Medical Education, Bhopal made it mandatory to upload class 11 mark sheet, failing which, the students will not be eligible to participate in the counselling.
"Mr. Aman Sinha, learned senior counsel, is requested to appear as Amicus Curiae in this case," the Bench ordered.
The plea contended that the mandatory requirement of Class XI certificates will make private candidates who have passed 10+2 exams ineligible for counselling.
Earlier, the Delhi High Court had held that this requirement is unconstitutional and it was struck down in the case of Anshul Aggarwal v. Union of India.
The applicant submitted that the requirement is arbitrary and violative of Article 14, 19(1)(g) and 21 of the Constitution, because many students have become ineligible to participate in counselling, which amounts to denial for admission in MBBS course, although, they have cleared the NEET examination.
A private candidate from the State of Maharasthra is not eligible as per this rule as there are no class XI examinations in the State, it was pointed out.
The plea further said that the applicant was not categorised as 'ineligible' even for securing admissions in a foreign university, but was not granted an eligibility certificate for NEET as the Class XI marksheet was not annexed.
The matter will be heard by the Supreme Court after the summer vacations.
Senior Advocates Nidesh Gupta and SK Gangale and advocates Avijit Mani Tripathi, Akshat Srivastava and Gaurav Sharma appeared for the petitioners.
Additional Solicitor General of India Aishwarya Bhati and Senior Advocate Vikas Singh appeared for respondents.
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