Counselling for management seats in Tamil Nadu from Saturday

Over a thousand candidates were called for counselling on Wednesday and among them 747 attended and 165 seats were allotted.

Published: 04th April 2019 05:21 AM |

By Express News Service

CHENNAI : On the third day of counselling for PG admissions, 877 seats were filled and 201 seats remained vacant in government medical colleges and government seats in private medical colleges. According to selection committee officials, on Wednesday, 1,015 candidates were called for the counselling. Among them, 747 attended and 165 seats were allotted. Among 165, 101 seats were allotted to service doctors, and 64 to private doctors. Thus, 61 per cent seats were allotted to service doctors, and 39 per cent seats to private doctors.

On the first day, total 290 seats were allotted. Of them, 112 seats were allotted to service doctors and 178 seats were allotted to private doctors, according to committee officials. On Tuesday, 422 seats were allotted. Among them, 145 went to service doctors and 277 seats to private medical practitioners .

So far, a total of 877 seats were allotted, including 358 seats for service doctors and 519 seats for private doctors. Forty-one per cent seats were allotted to service doctors and 59 to private doctors.Counselling to fill government seats in private and government medical colleges will go on till Thursday at the Government Multi Super-Speciality Hospital at Omandurar Estate here.The officials further added that the counselling to fill management seats in private colleges will begin on Saturday.

College staff disappointed over non-disbursal of salary

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

APRIL 04, 2019 00:00 IST

Despite a High Court directive to officials to raise salary bills by April 2, over 40 teaching and non-teaching staff of Devanga Arts College, Aruppukottai, on Wednesday returned home disappointed after Regional Joint Director of Collegiate Education (RJD) R. Baskaran “refused” to comply with the order.

The staff, who held a meeting with the RJD, insisted that an order be issued for disbursal of salary for February following a directive from the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court to the Education department to disburse salary by April 2. The order was issued on Friday.

“Meanwhile, the Director of Collegiate Education issued an order on April 2 to the RJD to act as per the court order. However, since no salary was received on Tuesday, around 40 of us met the RJD,” a teaching staff said.

Mr. Baskaran said he wanted to receive clarification from the Director’s office and also get legal opinion from the Government Pleader on the issue before acting on the order.

“We do not understand the logic behind his argument. When the court has issued a directive, and his higher official [Director] has given the nod to comply with the court order, why should he insist on legal opinion,” a MUTA member said.

The staff member said it was only a ploy to help another group of staff, whose appointment in the college had been challenged, also to get salary.

The court had restricted disbursal of salary to those who were appointed prior to October 4, 2017.

Petition challenges minimum eligibility criterion of TNTET

STAFF REPORTER

MADURAI, APRIL 04, 2019 00:00 IST

HC orders notice to State government

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday ordered notice to the State on a petition that challenged the minimum eligibility of 45% to appear for the 2019 Tamil Nadu Teachers Eligibility Test (TNTET).

Justice G. R. Swaminathan ordered notice to the Teachers’ Recruitment Board and adjourned the hearing till April 4.

The writ petition filed by M. Devi of Pudukottai district said that the minimum eligibility of 45% for this year’s examination was inhibiting people, particularly the backward classes, from taking up the examination.

The petitioner said the eligibility criterion to take up the degree of Bachelor of Education as per Tamil Nadu Teachers’ Education University was 50% for the General category, 45% for Backward Classes, 43% for Most Backward Classes and 40% for the SC/ST. This eligibility criterion had been used to take up jobs as teachers.

However, the eligibility to take up TNTET 2019 was raised to 45% from last year’s 40%. This denied the chance of those from the Backward Classes who had scored more than 40% but less than 45% in their graduation to take up the examination.

The petitioner complained she was affected by this increase in percentage for eligibility and sought a direction to quash the TNTET notification.

Report calls for action against medical officer on harassment charges

Serena Josephine M.

CHENNAI, APRIL 04, 2019 00:00 IST

An Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) that inquired into complaints of sexual harassment has submitted a report to the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, seeking to initiate action against a block medical officer in Tiruvarur district. The report was based on complaints from urban health nurses, village health nurses (VHNs) and a patient.

The directorate is examining the report and will be taking appropriate disciplinary action against the block medical officer. The doctor was absconding, health department officials said. In March, the Deputy Director of Health Services (DDHS), Tiruvarur, received at least eight complaints from urban health nurses, VHNs and a patient (a pregnant woman who had come for antenatal check-up) against C. Manavazhagan, block medical officer attached to the Urban Primary Health Centre in Mannargudi. The complaints ranged from attempts to sexually harass women, use of abusive language and sending inappropriate messages at night.

Vishaka guidelines

Later, the DDHS referred the complaints to the ICC as per the Vishaka guidelines. Chaired by Ranimuthulakshmi, a block medical officer, the committee had seven members including the district social welfare officer.

The complainants appeared and gave their statements, while six witnesses were also questioned. The committee summoned the doctor and he denied all accusations. Based on the inquiry, the committee concluded that all charges were true.

தேர்தல் பயிற்சிக்கு வராத அரசு ஊழியர்களை பணியிடை நீக்கம் செய்ய பரிந்துரை...!!
தேர்தல் பயிற்சிக்கு வராத 8 அரசு ஊழியர்களை பணியிடை நீக்கம் செய்ய தேர்தல் ஆணையம் பரிந்துரை செய்தது.

இதுகுறித்து மாவட்டத் தேர்தல் அதிகாரி தி.அருண் வெள்ளிக்கிழமை வெளியிட்ட செய்திக் குறிப்பு

புதுவை மக்களவைத் தொகுதி, தட்டாஞ்சாவடி சட்டப்பேரவை தொகுதி இடைத் தேர்தல் ஆகியவற்றுக்கு ஏப். 18-ஆம் தேதி வாக்குப்பதிவு நடைபெறுகிறது. அதற்கான ஆயத்தப் பணிகள் தீவிரமாக நடைபெற்று வருகின்றன.

இதற்கான பணிகளில் ஈடுபட உள்ள அரசு ஊழியர்களுக்கு முதல் கட்டப் பயிற்சி அளிக்கப்பட்டது. தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்ட ஊழியர்களுக்கு கடந்த 23-ஆம் தேதி முதல் 26-ஆம் தேதி வரை 4 நாள்கள் பயிற்சி அளிக்கப்பட்டது.

இந்த நிலையில், தகுந்த காரணமில்லாமல் முதல் கட்டப் பயிற்சி வகுப்பில் பங்கு பெறாத 92 அலுவலர்களிடம் விளக்கம் கேட்டு நோட்டீஸ் அனுப்பப்பட்டது. அதன்படி, 84 அலுவலர்களிடம் இருந்து விளக்கம் பெறப்பட்டது.

நோட்டீஸ் பெற்றும் எந்த விளக்கமும் அளிக்காத 8 அலுவலர்களை பணியிடை நீக்கம் செய்யவும், அந்த அலுவலர்கள் மீது துறை ரீதியிலான நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கவும் அந்தந்தத் துறைத் தலைவர்களுக்கு பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளதாக அந்தச் செய்திக் குறிப்பில் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.

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Now, register online for Chittirai fest

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Madurai:04.04.2019
Paid darshan for which devotees can register online is among some measures being planned by the administration for the Chittirai festival beginning here on April

8. Even as the Madurai district administration is gearing for the LS polls, arrangements are under way at the Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple here for the Chittirai festival which will begin with flag hoisting, after which lakhs of devotees areexpectedto visitthetemple throughout the10-day event.

This year, after the flag hoisting, the coronation of Goddess Meenakshi, “Pattabishekam”, will be held on April 15, followed by “Digvijayam” on April 16 and the culminating event, the celestial wedding, on April17.

Elaborate arrangements are being made for the celestial wedding, which will take place in a stage to be erected at the junction of the north and west Aadi streets.

The entire area would be covered with special roofing and the marriage venue would be fitted with high capacity, 100-tonne air conditioners. The temple administration has decided to provide about 3,200 to 3,500 free passes to devotees on a first come, first served basis.

Paid darshan for the celestial wedding would be through ₹200 and₹500 tickets, for which devotees can register online on the website www.maduraimeenakshi.org. About 16,000 devotees would be accommodated for the event in the temple this year, according to temple sources. LCD monitors would be placed inside the temple at important places to help more people witness the ceremonies. Meanwhile, as the election dates are clashing with the car festival on April 18, arrangements are being made to ensure that parking facilities do not hinder the polling process or the festival. Polling booths near the festival area would have barricading to help the voters identify them.


Arrangements under way at the Meenakshi Amman temple

DOTE to conduct online engg counselling this year

Univ Asked To Provide Tech Help

A Ragu Raman TNN

Chennai:04.04.2019

The Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE) will conduct the annual engineering counselling following the resignation of M K Surappa, vice-chancellor of Anna University from Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee. Anna University has been conducting counselling for the last 22 years.

The vice-chancellor resigned as chairman of the TNEA following the differences over reconstitution of TNEA committee in which DOTE commissioner R Vivekanandan was made cochairman of the committee.

“Since the chairman of the committee has resigned, the co-chairman will conduct the counselling this year. We have also asked the university to provide technical help for conducting the online counselling,” Mangat Ram Sharma, higher education secretary, told TOI.

Sources said after the vice-chancellor’s resignation, there were many letters exchanged between Anna University and higher education department with regard to the counselling.

However, there are still doubts whether the university professors would work under the DOTE commissioner.

“The university professors who were part of TNEA’s co-ordination committee had skipped the recent meeting for counselling. Now, the question remains whether the university will take part in the counselling process,” a professor said.

When enquired, the officials from Anna University said that involving two institutions in the counselling process will lead to confusion. “Either it has to be done by Anna University or without. If Anna University has to be involved then the vicechancellor has to be the head of the committee,” they said.

Earlier, the university has informed the higher education department that it was willing to conduct online engineering counselling this year as per the old GO.

Anna University had come in for great appreciation from students, parents and academicians for the efficient manner in which engineering admissions was being conducted through a single window counselling.

However, the issue erupted when TNEA committee was reconstituted and additional members were added.

“The committee was constituted in November 2017 for a period of three years. There is no need to reconstitute the present committee after completing just one year,” an official said.

Anna University has been conducting counselling for the last 22 years