Med edu curriculum in Hindi soon: Min

Med edu curriculum in Hindi soon: Min

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Bhopal:15.09.2021

Medical education curriculum could soon be in Hindi in Madhya Pradesh. A committee is preparing the module and in the near future it could be offered in Hindi as an option, said MP medical education minister Vishwas Sarang, here on Tuesday on the occasion of Hindi Day.

Similar initiatives have been made at Bhopal’s Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University but never saw the day of light after the campus of the university was shifted three years ago.

Madhya Pradesh government would offer the option of studying medicine in Hindi “in the near future”, the state medical education minister said.

“We are going to form a committee at the earliest to ensure that medical education courses (material) are prepared in Hindi as well. In the near future, we will start medical studies in Hindi too,” he said.

Vishwas Sarang said the special committee will work to prepare the course.

In Madhya Pradesh, medical students will now be taught in Hindi. The entire course will be in Hindi. The announcement was made by Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang. He said that today is Hindi Day. Best wishes to all. We have decided to study medicine in Hindi in Madhya Pradesh on the occasion of Hindi Day. A committee will be constituted soon.

Govt would offer the option of studying medicine in Hindi “in the near future”, state med edu minister Vishwas Sarang said

‘Aadhaar not a valid document for proof of age’

‘Aadhaar not a valid document for proof of age’

Chandigarh:15.09.2021

The Punjab and Haryana high court has made it clear that the Aadhaar card cannot be used for proof of age as no documentary details are usually sought at the time of applying for the Unique Identity Development Authority of India’s (UIDAI’s) verifiable 12-digit identification number.

Justice Amol Rattan Singh of the HC passed the order while hearing a petition filed by a runaway couple from Haryana’s Jind district. The court also ordered the state authorities to determine the actual age of the girl and take legal action if her age was found to be false.

"There is no firm proof of age of either of the petitioners other than their Aadhaar cards, which is actually no proof as no documentary proof is usually asked for at the time of applying for the Aadhaar card or the issuance thereof," the HC said. TNN

120kmph limit is dangerous, reduce it, HC orders Centre

120kmph limit is dangerous, reduce it, HC orders Centre

Chennai:15.09.2021

Flagging ‘overspeed’ on highways, the Madras high court has quashed a central notification issued in 2018, increasing the speed limit of vehicles on them from 100kmph to 120kmph.

In a recent order, the HC blamed ‘overspeeding’ for most road accidents and directed the Centre to set the speed limit as per an August 5, 2014 notification, which prescribed 80kmph as maximum speed on highways.

Refusing to accept the stand taken by the Union government that the speed limit had been fixed by an expert committee considering the improvement in the infrastructure and better engine technology of vehicles, a division bench of justices N Kirubakaran (since retired) and TV Thamilselvi said: “When overspeeding is a major cause for road accidents, it is not known as to how the improvement in road infrastructure and engine technology would reduce accidents.”

In fact, better engine technology would always be a reason for uncontrolled speed and thereby cause more accidents, the court said. It added that authorities must use modern gadgets like speed gun, speed indication display to find out the speeding vehicle and punish the driver. TNN

Madras HC does U-turn on bumper-to-bumper cover

Madras HC does U-turn on bumper-to-bumper cover

Sureshkumar.k@timesgroup.com

Chennai:15.09.2021

Madras high court on Tuesday withdrew its earlier order mandating five-year bumper-to-bumper insurance cover for all new vehicles registered from September 1.

Justice S Vaidyanathan recalled the order passed on August 4 after Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) submitted that it would consider better and fuller insurance coverage to all unfortunate victims, be it drivers, owners or gratuitous occupants or pillion riders, as the case may be.

While withdrawing his order, Justice Vaidyanathan expressed hope that lawmakers would look into the issue and examine the need for a suitable amendment to Motor Vehicles Act, relating to long-term coverage of vehicles so as to protect innocent victims.

The August 4 order made it mandatory for all vehicles sold after September 1 to have bumper-to-bumper insurance cover for five years.

Amend 3rd-party cover for car occupants: Industry

The Madras HC said the circular issued by the joint transport commissioner, Chennai, based on its earlier order on bumper-to-bumper insurance would stand cancelled.

The court issued its order in August after hearing a case where the occupants of a vehicle suffered an injury during an accident and insurance officials said they were not covered under the mandatory third-party insurance. Insurers can, however, issue a personal accident cover to occupants under a comprehensive cover.

The Madras high court on Monday heard a petition by the General Insurance Council, which sought clarification in respect of an order last month where the court had prescribed compulsory five-year bumperto-bumper insurance for new vehicles with effect from September 1, 2021. The order was, however, kept in abeyance following a petition filed by the GI Council.

According to industry officials, the court had rightly addressed the issue of insurance protection for accident victims who are in a vehicle. Industry officials said if the intention is to make coverage of vehicle occupants mandatory, the same can be done under the motor third-party cover with appropriate amendment and pricing.

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SC denies compassionate job to ‘divorced’ daughter

SC denies compassionate job to ‘divorced’ daughter

Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:15.09.2021

It is a classic case of a conspiracy that went awfully wrong in the final stretch. A woman took divorce on mutual consent months after the death of her mother, a government employee, to get a government job on compassionate grounds but ended without the job and her husband as the Supreme Court saw through the deception.

A bench of Justices MR Shah and Aniruddha Bose denied compassionate employment to the daughter of a deceased government employee when it found that she conspiratorially annulled her marriage on mutual consent after her mother’s death with the sole aim of cornering a government job.

Petitioner V Somyashree’s mother, who was employed with the Karnataka government as a second division assistant at Mandya district treasury, died in harness on March 25, 2012. Soumyashree was married at the time of her mother’s death and hence disentitled for compassionate employment. Six months later, she initiated divorce by mutual consent and on March 20, 2013, a trial court annulled her marriage. The next day (March 21, 2013), she applied to the authorities for appointment on compassionate grounds. The authorities rejected the application. Two years later, she moved the state administrative tribunal which too rejected her claim. But the Karnataka HC set aside the tribunal’s order and directed state government to consider giving her appointment on compassionate grounds. The state appealed against it before the SC.

Allowing the appeal, the SC bench said, “The chronology of dates and events would suggest that only for the purpose of getting appointment on compassionate grounds, the decree of divorce by mutual consent has been obtained. Otherwise, as a married daughter she was not entitled to the appointment on compassionate grounds.”

In blow to WB ‘organiser teachers’, SC says let qualified people teach primary students

Let qualified persons teach students in primary classes,” the Supreme Court said on Tuesday, refusing to entertain petitions seeking appointment of ‘organiser teachers’, who worked on the basis of a rule that was abrogated 40 years ago to spread education in the rural hinterland of West Bengal, as primary teachers, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. Refusing to entertain petitions filed by organiser teachers and their associations, a bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Vikram Nath and BV Nagarathna said, “Today qualified teachers are available. Organiser teachers don’t meet the qualification criteria prescribed by National Council for Teacher Education.”

Postmortem report can’t be sole basis for conviction: SC

AmitAnand.Choudhary@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:15.09.2021

Holding that a person cannot be convicted merely on the basis of postmortem report, the Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted a man who was sentenced to life imprisonment for unnatural death of his wife and quashed trial court and Patna high court order convicting him on the basis of medical report which said that she died of throttling.

A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Abhay S Oka said the guilt of the accused has not been established beyond a reasonable doubt and the circumstances established by the prosecution do not lead to only one possible inference regarding the guilt of the accused. The court also noted that there was no eyewitnesses in the case and the relationship between the husband and wife was not strained to indicate any foul play on his behalf.

In this case, the husband contended that she died of burn injuries as she caught fire while cooking and family members tried their best to douse the fire. The prosecution, however, rubbished his claim as the autopsy report said the death was due to asphyxia. Going by the findings of a post-mortem report, the trial court and the HC convicted him and awarded life imprisonment. Examining statements of all witnesses and evidence, the apex court said the guilt of the accused was not proved beyond doubt and acquitted him. “In this case, neither the prosecution witnesses have deposed to that effect nor any other material has been placed on record to show that the relationship between the appellant and the deceased was strained in any manner. Moreover, the appellant was not the only person residing in the house where the incident took place and it is brought on record that the parents of the appellant were also present on the date of the incident in the house. Therefore, it can be said that the facts established do not rule out the existence of any other hypothesis,” said Justice Oka who penned the verdict.

Another MBBS aspirant ends life a day after NEET

Another MBBS aspirant ends life a day after NEET

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Ariyalur:15.09.2021

An MBBS aspirant in Ariyalur district, who appeared for the national eligibility cum entrance test (NEET) on Sunday, was found hanging at her house late on Monday. The deceased has been identified as K Kanimozhi, 17. The girl’s father Karunanidhi is a lawyer practising in Jayankondam court.

Kanimozhi allegedly ended her life at her house at Thularankurichi near Udayarpalayam over fear of failure in the test, when her parents were attending a function at Ariyalur. Her elder sister is a student at a private college in Perambalur. Her family took her body to their native at Sathambadi in Ariyalur district, where her final rites were conducted in the evening.

Sathambadi panchayat president Thanga Ravichandran said that the girl was a student of a private school at Namakkal and had scored 562 out of 600 in Class XII board examinations. Her score in Class X was 469 out of 500. She appeared sad after appearing for NEET at a centre in Thanjavur as she had apprehension that she may not clear NEET.

Udayarpalayam police took up the investigation.

It is the second such suicide in the state in the last two days. Dhanush, 19, of Mettur in Salem district had ended his life before appearing for NEET.

Chief minister M K Stalin expressed shock over the death of Kanimozhi and he sought to drive away NEET through legal means. “I assure the students and their parents that there will be no compromise on abolishing NEET with the consent of the president of India,” said the CM. The chief minister also said that impersonation, question paper leak and malpractices at the coaching centres proved that NEET is not an exam that weighs the eligibility of the students.

Registering his condolence, former chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami asked the DMK to put an end to the ‘political drama’ over NEET and explain the reality to the students. The former CM also demanded the state government to provide counselling for the MBBS aspirants after appearing for NEET.

Former chief minister O Panneerselvam said that it was disheartening that the students were taking such extreme steps, while all political parties in the state were raising pitch against the NEET.

Calling it an unfortunate event, which should not happen to any student in future, TMC president G K Vasan MP said that political parties should not give any false hope to the students and their parents by politicising education.

MDMK general secretary Vaiko demanded the central government to give consent to the anti-NEET bill tabled by the DMK government. “NEET imposed by the BJP cost the lives of 15 students in Tamil Nadu. The Constitution of India has vested the state government with the power of enacting a law over education in the concurrent list for protecting the interest of the state,” said Vaiko.