Smart choice gets med seats even for modest NEET score

ROUND 1 CUT-OFF LOWER THAN 2019

Smart choice gets med seats even for modest NEET score

Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com

Chennai:12.111.2020

High scores in NEET may fetch hundreds of students a seat in medical colleges, but those with scores as low as 183 (out of 720) marks have also managed to land a seat in deemed universities, in the first round of online allotments itself.

Medical counselling committee attached to the directorate general of health services (DGHS) allots about 80,000 seats in AIIMS, Jipmer, central institutions and 15% seats surrendered by state-run medical colleges and deemed universities.

This year, when the committee released the allotment on November 5, the cut-off in  the general category allotment for students in general/OBC/EWS category for all India quota seats in government colleges was 618 marks compared to 591marks in 2019. For students in the SC and ST category, cut-off was 521 and 492 this year compared to 485 and 459 in 2019. The lowest cut-off was 115, allotted to an ST student with disability.

Under management quota for deemed universities, the cut-off for admission was the lowest to colleges in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, where the annual tuition is the highest. The lowest score that got a seat was a student with 183 marks. The student was allotted a seat in Chennai-based Meenakshi Medical College Hospital and Residential Institution in Enathur. The college charges an annual fee of ₹22.5 lakh.

“Over the last two years, we are seeing low-scoring students making smart choices when they lock seats. When they are sure that their chances of entering medical colleges are low, they opt for deemed universities in the first round itself. Students with high scores either opt for all India quota seats in central or state government-run colleges or wait for the state counselling, where there are greater chances of them getting seats in colleges of choice. Those with low scores have no option but to choose deemed universities in the first round of counselling,” said Manickavel Arumugam, who has been counselling medical aspirants on admissions.

A student with 584 marks opted for New Delhi-based Hamdart Institute of Medical Science and Research.

Students have time till Saturday to join the colleges. “Students with high scores allotted to deemed universities may opt for round two or wait for state counselling because there is no fine for not joining round 1,” said NEET coach and counsellor Sai Prakash. “But students with low scores have to join now if they want a medical seat this year. Unlike public colleges, cut-off for deemed universities is likely to go up in the second round,” he said.

State to add 875 seats, 3 pvt med colleges

 State to add 875 seats, 3 pvt med colleges

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:12.11.2020

Tamil Nadu will add 875 more MBBS seats this academic year. These seats will come from three new private colleges and additional seats granted to six medical colleges.

With this, the state will have 52 medical colleges with 8,000 seats, including 26 government institutions that have 3,650 seats.

On Tuesday, the National Medical Commission granted approval to Bhaarat Medical College and Hospital under the Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research (deemed University) to admit 150 medical students from 2020. It also granted permission for Indira Medical College and Hospitals in Tiruvallur affiliated to the Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University to admit 150 seats. Earlier, the committee had permitted Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute to admit 150 students. Seats from the two colleges will come into the state seat matrix for which counselling will be done by the state selection committee.

The government Kanyakumari Medical College will add 50 more seats, while ESIC college in KK Nagar will add 25 more seats. Besides, permission has been granted for PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research to add 100 more seats. Saveetha Medical College and Hospital (Saveetha University) and Meenakshi Medical College and Research Institute (Meenakshi University) – have permission to increase 100 seats. All the three colleges will now have 250 seats each. In addition Vinayaka Missions Kirupananda Variyar Medical College in Salem (Vinayaka Mission Deemed University) will add another 50 seats taking its seat tally to 150.

Heavy rainfall warning for Chennai ahead of Deepavali

Heavy rainfall warning for Chennai ahead of Deepavali

The weather bulletin says heavy to very-heavy rain with thunderstorms is likely to occur in Chennai, Tiruvalllur, Kancheepuram and Chengalpattu on November 12.

Published: 11th November 2020 05:41 AM 

Representational image. (File Photo | R Satish Babu, EPS)

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: After a mini-break, the next active monsoon spell would begin from Wednesday and the regional meteorological centre has issued heavy rainfall warning in Chennai, especially on November 11-12. The weather bulletin says heavy to very-heavy rain with thunderstorms is likely to occur in Chennai, Tiruvalllur, Kancheepuram and Chengalpattu on November 12.

N Puviarasan, director, Area Cyclone Warning Centre, said the State would receive good rainfall in next five days. Weather blogger Pradeep John said with Madden-Julian Oscillation, a phenomenon which is a fluctuation in the tropical weather with eastward movement of the pulse of cloud and rainfall, in the basin the rainfall activity would pick-up pace. “Starting Wednesday, the rains would continue till November 18. Chennai would witness heavy rains. The intensity would reduce a bit around Deepavali.”

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50% super-specialty, PG medical seats for government doctors in Tamil Nadu

50% super-specialty, PG medical seats for government doctors in Tamil Nadu

TNN | Nov 10, 2020, 04.36 AM IST

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday issued two crucial orders concerning post-graduate and super-specialty medical courses. While GO (463) reserved at least 50% of PG medical seats for in-service government doctors, the other GO (462) reserved the entire 50% state quota super-specialty medical seats for in-service candidates.

The new admission policy for MD/MS and MDS courses will come into force in 2021, and for the PG super-specialty (DM/MCh) courses, it will come into effect in 2020. The in-service candidates availing themselves of these two categories of seats have to sign a bond pledging to remain in government service till superannuation.

That these GOs have been issued was disclosed in the Madras high court when Justice N Anand Venkatesh took up a batch of cases filed by in-service medicos for further hearing.

On Monday, when the central government wanted the court to defer the hearing till the Supreme Court decides a similar issue pending before it, P Wilson, senior counsel for serving doctors, pointed out that the case before the apex court had nothing to do with the present petition and that it would not come in the way of the Tamil Nadu government granting 50% in-service reservation.

Concurring with the submission, Justice Anand Venkatesh refused to defer the hearing. He then recorded the stand of the state government and disposed of the plea. After surrendering 50% of PG medical seats in government colleges and government share of seats in self-financing to All India Quota for admission by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the state will be left with 50% of seats. Of this 50% of the seats – that is 25% of the overall seats – will be reserved for in-service candidates. The remaining seats will be for the open category, where all students, including non-service candidates from the state, can apply.

But in case of super-specialty seats, the order says that all 50% of seats reserved for the state will be in-service candidates from this academic year. “This difference was introduced because since 2016 counselling for all super-specialty seats was done by the DGHS purely based on NEET ranking. In case of PG, the state selection committee conducted counselling for 50% of state quota seats. This year, we asked for 50% of seats. We cannot reserve seats for the open category from this,” said Director of Medical Education Dr R Narayana Babu.

“Last year, we had just 10 students from government service in super-specialty courses. We have more than two dozen medical colleges and we are planning to add 11 more. We need more super-specialists who can offer high end surgeries free of cost to our patients,” he said.

HC: No amount of wealth can take place of mother’s love

HC: No amount of wealth can take place of mother’s love

Court Restores Custody Of Minor To Mom

Ajay.Sura@timesgroup.com

Chandigarh: 11.11.2020 

While holding the habeas corpus petition filed by a woman seeking custody of her child, who is aged under 5 years old as maintainable, the Punjab and Haryana high court observed that “no amount of wealth or mother-like love can take the place of mother’s love and care”. The HC also observed that the mother’s protection for the infant is indispensable and no other protection will be equal in measure and substance to the same.

“A writ of habeas corpus is not solely dependent on and does not necessarily follow merely determination of illegality of detention and is based on the paramount consideration of welfare of the minor child, irrespective of legal rights of the parents,” observed the HC.

Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi of the HC passed these orders while restoring the custody of a three-and-half-yearold girl to her mother. Amid the matrimonial dispute between the Bathinda-based couple, the child was taken away by husband in November 2019. While upholding the right of the mother over her minor child, Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi also observed, “In the present case, the question of welfare and interest of the minor daughter has to be judged on the consideration of universally acknowledged superiority of the mother’s instinctive selfless love and affection of her children, particularly the infants. The lap of the mother is the natural cradle where the safety and welfare of the infant can be assured and there is no substitute for the same.... Motherly care and affection is indispensable for the healthy growth of the infants.”

Divjyot S Sandhu, the wife’s counsel, had argued that in view of Section 6(a) of the Hindu Maintenance and Guardianship (HMG) Act, the petitioner is entitled to the custody of her daughter. Sandhu also submitted that due to her tender age, custody of the child with her father is not lawful/proper.

Counsel for the husband, however, argued that his custody of the minor child, being a natural guardian under Section 6 of the HMG Act, is not illegal. Submitting that the habeas corpus petition is not maintainable in such matters, the counsel said the wife has an equally efficacious remedy of filing petition under the HMG Act/the GW Act for custody of the minor child.

After hearing both the parties, the HC, in its order released on Monday evening, ordered the father to restore the girl’s custody to her mother by November 15. The HC, however, has allowed the father once-a-week visiting rights.

While pointing out that the father’s custody of the minor daughter cannot be said to be illegal, the HC was of the view that “there was no valid ground to deny interim custody of the minor daughter who is aged less than five years old, to the mother, as it is in fact essential to the welfare and in the best interest of the minor daughter” and also as per the statutory right conferred by Section 6(a) of the Hindu Maintenance and Guardianship Act.

ESSENTIAL FOR HER WELFARE

While pointing out that the father’s custody of the minor daughter cannot be said to be illegal, the HC was of the view that "there was no valid ground to deny interim custody of the minor daughter who is aged less than five years old, to the mother, as it is in fact essential to the welfare and in the best interest of the minor daughter"

191 உயர் சிறப்பு டாக்டர்கள் கொரோனா தடுப்புக்கு நியமனம்

Added : நவ 11, 2020 00:59

சென்னை:கொரோனா தடுப்பு பணிக்காக, 191 உயர் சிறப்பு டாக்டர்கள், ஒப்பந்த அடிப்படையில் நியமிக்கப்பட்டு உள்ளனர்.

தமிழகம் முழுதும், கொரோனா தொற்று குறைந்து வருகிறது. ஆனால், பண்டிகை காலங்களில் தொற்று அதிகரிக்க வாய்ப்புள்ளதாக, மருத்துவ நிபுணர்கள் எச்சரித்துள்ளனர். கொரோனா தொற்று தடுப்பு நடவடிக்கைகளை குறைக்கக்கூடாது என, தமிழக அரசு உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது. இதன்படி, கொரோனா தடுப்பு பணிக்காக, 191 உயர் சிறப்பு டாக்டர்களை, மூன்று மாத ஒப்பந்த அடிப்படையில், தமிழக அரசு நியமித்து உள்ளது.

சென்னை ஓமந்துாரார் அரசு மருத்துவ கல்லுாரி மருத்துவமனைக்கு, 40 பேர்; கிண்டி கிங்ஸ் கொரோனா சிறப்பு மருத்துவமனைக்கு, 50 பேர்; புதுக்கோட்டை அரசு மருத்துவமனைக்கு, 30 பேர் நியமிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.சிதம்பரம் ராஜ முத்தையா மருத்துவ கல்லுாரிக்கு, 20 பேர்; திருவள்ளூர் மருத்துவ கல்லுாரிக்கு, 21 பேர்; கோவை, இ.எஸ்.ஐ., - கரூர், ஈரோடு மருத்துவ கல்லுாரிகளுக்கு, தலா, 10 என, 191 உயர் சிறப்பு டாக்டர்கள் நியமிக்கப் பட்டுள்ளனர்.மேலும், முதுநிலை பட்டம் பெற்ற, ௫௪௭ டாக்டர்களும், தமிழகத்தில் உள்ள, 37 மருத்துவமனைகளுக்கு நியமிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.