திருவல்லிக்கேணியில்ஒரு கிலோ தோசை மாவு வாங்கினால் ஒரு குடம் தண்ணீர் இலவசம்




 திருவல்லிக்கேணியில் ஒரு கிலோ தோசை மாவு வாங்கினால் ஒரு குடம் தண்ணீர் இலவசமாக வழங்கப்படுகிறது.

பதிவு: ஜூன் 30, 2019 05:12 AM

சென்னை,

சென்னையில் தண்ணீர் பிரச்சினை தலைவிரித்தாடுகிறது. ஒரு குடம் தண்ணீருக்காக இரவு முழுவதும் தூங்காமல் தண்ணீர் லாரியை எதிர்பார்த்து பலர் காத்துக்கிடக்கின்றனர். பல இடங்களில் ஒரு குடம் தண்ணீரை ரூ.5 முதல் ரூ.10 வரை விலை கொடுத்து வாங்கி வருகின்றனர். கடந்த ஒரு வாரமாக சென்னையில் மழை பெய்த போதும் தண்ணீர் பிரச்சினைக்கு தீர்வு ஏற்படவில்லை.

தலைவிரித்தாடும் தண்ணீர் பிரச்சினையை கருத்தில் கொண்டு சென்னை திருவல்லிக்கேணி பண்டி வெங்கடேசன் தெருவில் இட்லி, தோசை மாவு கடை நடத்தி வரும் பார்த்தசாரதி என்பவர் மாவு வாங்க வரும் பொதுமக்களுக்கு இலவசமாக தண்ணீர் கொடுக்க முடிவு செய்தார்.

அதன்படி, ‘ஒரு கிலோ இட்லி, தோசை மாவு வாங்கினால் ஒரு குடம் தண்ணீர் இலவசம்’ என்று அறிவித்தார். இதுதொடர்பான அறிவிப்பை பேனர் மூலம் தனது கடை முன்பு அவர் வைத்துள்ளார். மேலும், அந்த அறிவிப்பில் ஒரு கிலோ மாவு வாங்கினால் ஒரு குடம் நிலத்தடி நீர் இலவசமாக வழங்கப்படும் என்றும், மாவு வாங்க வரும்போது குடம் கொண்டு வர வேண்டும் என்றும் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது. அதுமட்டுமல்லாமல் வாடிக்கையாளர்களின் நலன் கருதி குடிநீரை வடிகட்டி காய்ச்சிய பிறகு உபயோகப்படுத்தவும் என்றும் குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளார்.

இந்த அறிவிப்பை பார்த்த பொதுமக்கள் பலர் இவரது கடைக்கு மாவு வாங்க குடங்களுடன் படை எடுக்க தொடங்கி உள்ளனர். இதனால், குடிநீர் லாரியில் தண்ணீர் பிடிக்க குடங்களை வரிசையாக வைத்திருப்பது போன்று இவரது கடையிலும் குடங்கள் வரிசையாக வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன.

தண்ணீர் பிரச்சினையை கருத்தில் கொண்டு சூழ்நிலைக்கு தகுந்தாற்போல் இந்த அறிவிப்பை வெளியிட்டு அதை செயல்படுத்தி வரும் மாவு கடை உரிமையாளர் பார்த்தசாரதி கூறும்போது, ‘கடந்த 24 ஆண்டுகளாக மாவு கடை நடத்தி வருகிறேன். ஆனால், இதுபோன்று தண்ணீர் பிரச்சினையை சந்தித்தது இல்லை. தண்ணீர் பிரச்சினையால் மக்கள் திண்டாடுவதை பார்த்து இதுபோன்ற அறிவிப்பை வெளியிட்டேன். வெளியில் இருந்து பணம் கொடுத்து தண்ணீரை வாங்கி வாடிக்கையாளர்களுக்கு கொடுத்து வருகிறேன்’ என்றார்.

RGUHS to conduct baseline survey of affiliate colleges 

Special Correspondent 
 
MANGALURU, June 29, 2019 23:37 IST 

Updated: June 29, 2019 23:37 IST

The Syndicate of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) here on Saturday decided to conduct a baseline survey of the state of academic practices in its affiliated 700 institutes in Karnataka.

Talking to reporters after the meeting, RGUHS vice-chancellor S. Sacchidanand said the baseline survey would be done to know the condition of the medical, dental and other health institutes and take steps for improving quality.

“It’s like a self-assessment. The survey helps institutes to know where they stand. It will help institutes to make changes necessary to get accreditation of the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers and other quality assessment organisations,” Dr. Sacchidanand said, and added that the survey would be part of the ongoing exercise to improve the quality of the education in all its affiliated institutions.

The Syndicate also decided to keep in abeyance disaffiliation of Rajarajeswari Medical College and Hospital, Bengaluru, following the latter’s recognition by the Union government to bring it under the ambit of MGR Educational and Research Institute (Deemed to be University), Chennai.

PIL against officials for allowing college to function

The interim prayer of K M Krishnan of West Mambalam is to restrain the authorities concerned from conducting counselling in the medical college.

Published: 30th June 2019 05:39 AM 

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: A PIL petition has been filed in the Madras High Court for a directive to the Central Vigilance Commissioner and the Union Ministry of Health in New Delhi to take punitive action against the Secretary-General, Board of Governors (in supersession of the Medical Council of India) and Tamil Nadu Health secretary for allowing Sri Muthukumaran Medical College Hospital and Research Institute at Chikkarayapuram in Chennai to function.


The interim prayer of KM Krishnan of West Mambalam is to restrain the authorities concerned from conducting counselling in the medical college. The first bench of Chief Justice VK Tahilramani and Justice M Doraisamy, before which the plea came up for hearing on Thursday, ordered notice to respondents.

According to petitioner, he sent representations to various state government authorities and Central Vigilance Commissioner, to order an inquiry with regard to unauthorised constructions by the college. The college had not obtained environment clearance and completion certificate, petitioner alleged.

Court stays fee panel’s fiat to private law college

According to the petitioner, the Central Law College, a self-financing, non-aided private one, is in existence from 1984 and had produced 30 batches of law graduates.

Published: 30th June 2019 05:38 AM 

Madras High Court (Photo 

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: A division bench of the Madras High Court has stayed the operation of the orders of the State government’s fee fixation committee, recommending a private law college in Salem to collect only Rs 65,000 per annum from 2019-20. The bench of Justices R Subbiah and C Saravanan, which granted the stay, permitted the petitioner college - Central Law College - to continue to collect Rs 85,000 till the disposal of the writ petition, on June 26.


According to the petitioner, the Central Law College, a self-financing, non-aided private one, is in existence from 1984 and had produced 30 batches of law graduates. It was collecting Rs 85,000 per year towards admission and tuition fees. The committee constituted by the petitioner/college consisting of a former High Court judge, a former Vice-Chancellor of the TN Dr Ambedkar Law University and former director of the TN State Judicial Academy and a reputed chartered accountant, after going through all the records, recommended to collect fees of Rs 1.03 lakh for the academic year 2019-2020.

In the meantime, the committee constituted by the government, had fixed the fees only at Rs 65,000 p.a. by an order dated May 28 this year, after rejecting the petitioner college’s plea to take into account the capital expenditure. Hence, the present petition. Considering the submissions made by the petitioner’s counsel, the judges said that they are granting the interim stay for four weeks.

Plea from institute turned down

The judge was dismissing a writ petition from the college on June 26.

 Published: 30th June 2019 05:37 AM |

 By Express News Service

CHENNAI: Accepting the arguments of Additional Advocate-General A Kumar, the Madras High Court has refused to quash the orders of Anna University, reducing the students’ strength for two undergraduate courses and denying affiliation to four post-graduate courses in SMK Fomra Institute of Technology in Kelambakkam.

Justice G Jayachandran also rejected the consequential prayer for a direction to the university to grant continuation of provisional affiliation for the engineering courses conducted by the petitioner college, for the sanctioned intake of students approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AIVTE) for 2019-2020. The judge was dismissing a writ petition from the college on June 26. The University had issued a communication on May 11, 2019, indicating that the deficiency mentioned in the inspection report regarding the library and laboratory, continue to exist for some courses and therefore, recommended for provisional affiliation with 25 per cent reduced intake of students for two UG courses viz; BE (Electronic and Communication Engineering) and BE (Mechanical Engineering) and no affiliation for four PG courses viz; ME (Computer Science Engineering), ME (Power System Engineering), ME (Thermal Engineering) and ME (VSL design). Hence, the present petition.

These children in Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore fetch water at home and school

The primary, middle and high schools in these panchayats are all deprived of water, making the sight of students walking outside schools in search of water quite common.
 
Published: 01st July 2019 06:40 AM |

 

Since schools reopened on June 3, the children have had to fetch water for their families and classes, often despite the scorching heat.

By Nirupa Sampath

Express News Service

CUDDALORE: For the past two months, nine-year-old Gayathri has been pulling ‘double duty’. At home, she has to fetch water for the household from the nearby lake before going to school.

Then once she gets to the government school in Nallur block where she is a student, she is sent to fetch water from the nearby village pump to meet the drinking water and sanitation needs of her classmates.

This has become the norm for children in some of the more parched parts of Cuddalore district this summer. Since schools reopened on June 3, these children have had to fetch water for their families and classes, often despite the scorching heat.


The severe water shortage in the district is most felt in the town and village panchayats of Virdhachalam, Nallur, Mangalore and remote villages of Thittagudi and Veppur. The primary, middle and high schools in these panchayats are all deprived of water, making the sight of students walking outside schools in search of water quite common.

Express visited government middle schools in Kadampuliyur and Nallur and found that it had become a practice for children to be sent out to fetch water — in pots, jugs or bottles — during class hours. While some of the children clearly relished the opportunity to bunk classes, the shortage of water meant students also had to resort open defecation.

One Class 5 student, seen washing his plate after having his mid-day meal, said, “We wash plates with drinking water provided to us from the common pipes. But, since there is no water in the toilets we often go in the open.”

Given the risk to the children and disruption of their studies, some teachers had taken it upon themselves to source the water.

A teacher at a government school at Mel Mathur village of Nallur block said that she ensured drinking water was kept outside the class so that students didn’t have to go looking for water.
“Due to the heat we frequently run out of water.

Although we are currently able to manage water for drinking, there is no water in toilets. Most of our time is spent on planning where to source water from,” she added.

The situation is worse in more remote villages, Express found. At several schools, the Reverse Osmosis plant was unused.When this was brought to the attention of the district education department, officials said that, at a recent review meeting, they had informed the Collector that the plants were not being used and the schools were facing water shortage.

“In a week’s time, the RO plants will be serviced if faulty and the shortage of drinking water will be resolved soon,” an official from the department said.

Anna University to boost its alumni association

Anna University authorities will soon direct all heads of departments to keep track of the students, who have passed from their branches.
  
Published: 01st July 2019 07:19 AM

Anna University (File Photo | EPS)

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: Anna University has planned to strengthen its alumni association and create a strong database of students passing out from varsity departments, university senior officials said. Officials claimed the move will serve multiple purposes and immensely benefit students and the institution.

University authorities will soon direct all heads of departments to keep track of the students, who have passed from their branches.

The alumni association, which is also active, will be asked to broaden its reach by including more of their friends into the association.

The exercise of strengthening the association will start in the next few months.“The initiative is very necessary as our alumni are our asset. Students passing from the university are scattered across the globe. They are working in eminent positions in big industries, government institutes and research fields. If we manage to compile a strong database of our alumni, then it will be a great achievement for us,” said a senior varsity administrative official.

 Along with helping in generating funds for development of the university, the alumni can also help present students in getting good placement opportunities.

Besides, they can also help in improving the ranking of the institute in the assessment by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).

Officials said as per NAAC parameters, the alumni should give their feedback about the institute. Alumni can provide crucial insights and help in improving the curriculum.

“Whenever we plan any change in the curriculum or want to update it, according to market needs, we need to consult academicians, other stakeholders. Our alumni will be the best persons to give their feedback as they are working in diverse fields and know the market needs well,” said a senior faculty member.