BDU denied access to 3K e-journals
MHRD Move Cited As Cost Cutting Initiative

Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com 12.04.2018

Trichy: In an unexpected development, research students as well as teachers of Bharathidasan University have lost access to 3,000-odd e-journals in various disciplines with the ministry of human resources and development blocking as many as 10 of the 19 eresource databases. These knowledge sources that were accessed free of cost by the students and research scholars at the university were allegedly blocked as part of a cost-cutting exercise.

BDU now has access to only 1,500 ejournals that are offered through Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre. It is an autonomous interuniversity centre (IUC) of UGC involved in sharing information resources and services among academic and research institutions. These international e-journals were sources of information for students and faculty members for their research papers apart from scholars for their MPhil and PhD research activity.

Universities are categorised as phase I, II and III by MHRD based on the usage of e-resources with Bharathidasan University falling under Phase II. A section of faculty members related the MHRD’s decision to the NIRF ranking as Bharathidasan couldn’t make it to the top 50 in the university category. However, university sources say it is a cost cutting measure by MHRD. “It is unfortunate that MHRD failed to realise that this was an investment towards students and researchers,” said an official.

“Library resources or infrastructure in centrally-funded institutions run into crores of rupees but it is only a few lakhs that state-run universities get. That’s why such e-resources are significant for state-run universities which also have to cater to the knowledge requirement of teachers and students in their affiliated institutions,” said a senior faculty member of BDU.

DISOBEYING ORDERS

HC wants action against erring TNCSC officials

TIMES NEWS NETWORK  12.04.2018

Chennai: Slamming Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) for “negligence, dereliction of duty and lapses”, the Madras high court has directed TNCSC managing director to take disciplinary action against officials who flouted judicial orders. The court has given him two weeks to spell out the details of action taken against the erring officials.

Justice S M Subramaniam, irked by the fact that officials had come back to the court after 10 months, that too seeking extension of time to comply with the court order, said: “The writ petition was preferred long after the automatic cancellation of the interim order. No such petition can be entertained, as it was filed in a casual manner by the officers of TNCSC. If at all there were any administrative difficulties, the authorities ought to have approached the court soon after the expiry of the time limit of four weeks granted by this court.”

The matter relates to an order passed by labour court in Coimbatore in November 2012, directing TNCSC to pay Rs 19,300 to R Thangavelu, who had worked as foreman and retired in February 2003. Challenging the order, TNCSC filed the present writ petition in 2017. The court granted interim stay of the labour court order, with a condition that the award amount should be deposited within four weeks, failing which the stay order granted by the high court would be deemed to be automatically cancelled.

But, without complying with the order, the TNCSC returned to court in January 2018 seeking extension of time.

When the case came up for hearing on Tuesday, Justice Subramanian said: “The writ petitioner had not complied with the order without any valid reason. The writ petitioner is civil supplies corporation, wholly owned by Tamil Nadu government. If such organisations are not taking any steps for complying with orders, the court has to draw a factual inference that the officials working in the corporation are committing lapses. Now, after a lapse of about 10 months, the present miscellaneous has been preferred. The managing director of TNCSC is directed to initiate appropriate disciplinary action against all officials responsible for such lapses, dereliction of duty and negligence in dealing with the court matters and report before this court within a period of two weeks.”

INALIENABLE RIGHTS

Sanitary worker wins legal battle 4 yrs after death

Srikkanth.D@timesgroup.com 12.04.2018

Chennai: A decade-long legal battle with the city corporation seeking pension dues has ended in victory for a sanitary worker, four years after his death. A labour court recently ordered an additional pension of ₹5.6 lakh to be paid to the deceased worker’s wife.

M Elumalai of Ambattur, a sweeper with the city corporation since 1970, was dismissed in 1994 for being absent without leave. When Elumalai challenged the dismissal, the labour court passed an award of ₹12,000 as compensation instead of reinstatement after which he moved the Madras high court.

In 2007, the high court modified the award and directed the corporation to treat the non-employment as compulsory retirement and pay him all terminal benefits.

When there was no response from the corporation, Elumalai filed a claim petition and, while awaiting a verdict on his petition, he died on May 12, 2013.

His wife Kanniamma and their son were impleaded as legal heirs and in 2017, the court ordered the corporation to pay ₹3.1lakh pension due to him from 1994 to July 2008.

Kanniamma moved the labour court seeking pension from August 2008 to May 2013 and 45 months family pension from the date of Elumalai’s death.

The corporation said it had already deposited a cheque for ₹4.56 lakh with the court on October 26, 2016 without prejudice to the case of the Madras high court judgement.

The labour court rapped the corporation for the delay and termed feeble its reasoning that the administrative sanction for the settlement of terminal benefit of employee was in process.

The court returned the balance to the corporation after paying the pension amount to Kanniamma.

On March 26, 2018, T Chandrasekaran, presiding officer of the additional labour court directed the corporation to pay ₹5.47 lakh to Kanniamma in addition to the pension already paid.

Doc maternity leave is part of service: Court 

times of india 12.04.2018

Chennai: Maternity leave taken by government doctors should be treated as part of service period while considering their candidature for PG medical admissions, the Madras HC has ruled.

A division bench headed by Justice Huluvadi G Ramesh, reversing an order of Justice S Vaidyanathan and confirming the earlier ruling of Justice N Kirubakaran said the government must consider 10 days of earned leave in a year as part of service period for service doctors, while computing incentive marks.

The issue came up when candidates moved the court after admissions were questioned because some of them took medical leave. TNN

PG med admissions to be only through common counselling
To Be Done By State Govts Or DGHS: Union Health Min

TIMES NEWS NETWORK  12.04.2018

Chennai: Admissions to postgraduate medical seats will be through common counselling either by the directorate general of medical services or by the government, and not by medical colleges, the Union health and family welfare ministry clarified in a letter to principal secretaries of all states and Union territories.

A Supreme Court order to this effect will supersede the MCI admission regulations for 2018, dated April 5, which provide for private medical colleges to admit students to 50% of the seats, it said.

In a two-page letter issued on April 10, undersecretary Amit Biswas said, in view of the September 2016 court order making entrance test and common counselling mandatory, “All admissions will be made through common counselling and not by the medical colleges or institutions concerned. Since the PG counselling session 2018-19 is going on, it is hereby reiterated that the state governments shall conduct common counselling for all PG institutions... including for management and NRI quota seats. There shall be no exemption whatsoever.”

The Postgraduate Medical Education (Amendment) Regulations 2018 said state governments or authorities they appoint should fill 50% of the seats in non-government medical colleges; medical colleges should fill the remaining seats on the basis of the NEET merit list.

The ministry reiterated this was an existing clause 9

(iv) notified on December 21 2010 under the PG Medical Education Regulation 2010. Under the same regulation, Clause 9 (A) mandates common counselling for all institutions in the state, it said.

MCI officials will discuss the regulations in an executive committee meeting next week. “The notification caused a lot of confusion,” said MCI vice-president Dr C V Bhirmanandham. “The notification also mentions that admissions cannot violate the Supreme Court order. We will discuss the issue on Wednesday,” he said.

The state health department said there were no changes in the admission process. The directorate of medical education, New Delhi, will conduct counselling for the seats (50%) that staterun medical colleges surrender under the all India quota. They will also conduct counselling for central institutions, universities established by an act of Parliament and deemed universities. The directorate will also hold counselling for admission to all superspecialty courses across the country.

The state selection committee under TN’s Directorate of Medical Education will conduct counselling for state quota seats. “The letter from the Union ministry clarifies that we should conducting counselling for all seats in selffinancing colleges affiliated to the state university. No other admission will be valid,” health secretary J Radhakrishnan said.

கணவர் மீதான காதலால் பாடப்புத்தகத்தில் இடம்பிடித்த ராணுவ அதிகாரி!

ஞா. சக்திவேல் முருகன் Chennai:

தீவிரவாதிகளுக்கும் ராணுவ வீரர்களுக்கும் நடந்த சண்டையில் தன்னுடைய கணவனை இழந்தாலும் மனம் தளராமல் பயிற்சி பெற்று ராணுவத்தில் அதிகாரியாகப் பதவியேற்றிருக்கிறார் ஸ்வாதி. இவர், மகாராஷ்டிரா மாநிலத்தின் பத்தாம் வகுப்புப் பாடப்புத்தகத்தில் இடம்பிடித்திருக்கிறார்.



மகாராஷ்டிரா மாநிலத்தில் சாட்ரா பகுதியில் போகார்வாடி என்ற சின்னஞ்சிறிய கிராமத்தில் பிறந்தவர் சந்தோஷ். அவருடைய தந்தை, வீடுதோறும் பால் விநியோகிப்பவர். இந்திய ராணுவத்தில் சேர வேண்டும் என்ற இலக்குடன் செயல்பட்ட சந்தோஷ், பன்னிரண்டாம் வகுப்பு முடித்தவுடன் தேர்வு எழுதி இந்திய ராணுவத்தில் சேர்ந்திருக்கிறார்.

துடிப்புடன் செயல்பட்டவருக்கு, தீவிரவாத எதிர்ப்புப் படையின் 41-வது ராஷ்ட்ரிய துப்பாக்கிப் படைப் பிரிவில் கமாண்டிங் ஆபீஸர் பணி கிடைத்தது. காஷ்மீர் மாநிலத்தில் இரவு-பகல் பாராமல் தீவிரவாதிகள் ஊடுருவல் இல்லாமல் பார்த்துக்கொள்ளும் கண்காணிப்பு வேலையில் ஆர்வத்தோடு ஈடுபட்டிருக்கிறார் கர்னல் சந்தோஷ். 2015-ம் ஆண்டு நவம்பர் மாதம் 17-ம் தேதி தீவிரவாதிகள் ஊடுருவலைத் தடுத்தபோது, தீவிரவாதிகள் நடத்திய துப்பாக்கிச் சூட்டில் உயிரிழந்தார். இவரின் சிறந்த சேவையைப் பாராட்டி 2016-ம் ஆண்டில் ஷாரியா சக்ரா விருது வழங்கியிருக்கிறது மத்திய அரசு.



2003-ம் ஆண்டு சொந்த ஊரில் ஆசிரியையாக வேலைபார்த்துவந்த ஸ்வாதியைத் திருமணம் செய்திருக்கிறார் சந்தோஷ். இவர்களுடைய காதல் வாழ்க்கையின் பரிசாக இரண்டு குழந்தைகள். எட்டு வயதில் பையன் சுயராஜ்யா. புனேவில் ஒன்றாம் வகுப்பு படிக்கிறான். 14-வயது மகள் கார்டிகி, டேராடூனில் 9-ம் வகுப்பு படிக்கிறார்.

உயிருக்கு உயிராக நேசித்த சந்தோஷ் உயிரிழந்த சோகத்திலிருந்து மீண்ட ஸ்வாதி, தானும் இந்திய ராணுவத்தில் சேர்ந்து பணியாற்ற வேண்டும் என விரும்பினார். ராணுவ அதிகாரி பதவிக்காக நடத்தப்படும் நுழைவுத்தேர்வை எழுதி தேர்ச்சி பெற்று, சென்னை ராணுவ அதிகாரிகள் பயிற்சி மையத்தில் சேர்ந்து பயிற்சி பெற்றார். பயிற்சியில் சேர்ந்தபோது அவருக்கு வயது 39. பயிற்சியில் ஸ்வாதி சிறப்பாகச் செயல்பட்டதாக சிறந்த பயிற்சி விருதையும், இரண்டு நட்சத்திர அந்தஸ்தையும் பெற்றிருக்கிறார். 2017-ம் ஆண்டு செப்டம்பர் 10-ம் தேதி ராணுவத்தில் சேர்ந்திருக்கிறார்.

தற்போது, புனேவில் அம்மோனியம் வெடிப்பொருள் ஆலையில் லெஃப்டினன்ட் அதிகாரியாகப் பொறுப்பேற்றிருக்கிறார் ஸ்வாதி. பள்ளி மாணவர்கள் ராணுவத்தில் சேர ஊக்கமளிக்கும் வகையில், இவரது வாழ்க்கை முறையை சமூக அறிவியல் பாடத்தில் தனிப்பாடமாகவே சேர்க்கப்பட்டிருக்கிறது.



பாடப்புத்தகத்தில் இடம்பிடித்தது தொடர்பாக ஸ்வாதி பேசியபோது, ``சந்தோஷ், முதலில் இந்திய ராணுவத்தைத்தான் முழுமையாகக் காதலித்தார். அதற்கு அடுத்துதான் என்னைக் காதலித்தார். என் கணவர் ராணுவ உடையைப் பெரிதும் மதித்தார். அவருடைய வீரமரணத்துக்குப் பிறகு ராணுவப் பணியால் ஈர்க்கப்பட்டு நானும் இந்தப் பணியில் சேர்ந்தேன். அவருக்காக, என்னுடைய சாதனைகளை அர்ப்பணிக்கிறேன். ராணுவ உடையை தினமும் அணியும்போது சந்தோஷ் என்னுடன் இருப்பதாகவே உணர்கிறேன். இந்த உடை எனக்கு உணர்வுபூர்வமானது மட்டுமல்ல, பொறுப்பும் பொறுமையும் மிக்கதாகவும் நினைக்கிறேன். என் வாழ்க்கைநிலை பற்றி பாடப் புத்தகத்தில் சேர்த்திருப்பதால், ஒரு குழந்தையேனும் ராணுவத்தில் சேர்ந்தால் மகிழ்வேன். வாழ்க்கை என்பது வாய்ப்புகளும் சோதனைகளும் நிறைந்தவைதாம். சக்கரம்போலவே மாறி மாறி நமக்கு வரவே செய்யும்" என்கிறார்.

ஸ்வாதிக்கு ஒரு ராயல் சல்யூட் கொடுப்போம்!

Delhi HC Raps UGC For Denying NET Certificate To Candidate With Higher Qualification Degree [Read Judgment] | Live Law

Delhi HC Raps UGC For Denying NET Certificate To Candidate With Higher Qualification Degree [Read Judgment] | Live Law: The Delhi High Court, on Friday, rapped the University Grants Commission (UGC) for denying the National Eligibility Test (NET) certificate to a candidate who held a higher qualification degree than what was prescribed by it. “If a master’s degree is the minimum eligibility qualification for the NET, then a candidate with a higher qualification degree …