புத்தாண்டு கொண்டாட வரும் பெண்கள் விழிப்புணர்வுடன் இருக்க வேண்டும்

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மாமல்லபுரம் கடற்கரைக்கு புத்தாண்டு கொண்டாட வரும் பெண்கள் விழிப்புணர்வுடன் இருக்க வேண்டும் என்று துணை போலீஸ் சூப்பிரண்டு பேட்டி அளித்தார். 

 

டிசம்பர் 29, 2017, 04:15 AM

 

மாமல்லபுரம், 

மாமல்லபுரத்தில் புத்தாண்டு கொண்டாட்டத்தின்போது ஓட்டல்கள், விடுதிகள், கடற்கரை பண்ணை வீடுகள் கடைபிடிக்க வேண்டிய விதிமுறைகள் குறித்து அவற்றின் இயக்குனர்கள், உரிமையாளர்களை அழைத்து தனியார் திருமண மண்டபம் ஒன்றில் மாமல்லபுரம் துணை போலீஸ் சூப்பிரண்டு சுப்புராஜ் தலைமையில் போலீசார் ஆலோசனை கூட்டம் நடத்தினர். பிறகு புத்தாண்டு பிறப்பு நள்ளிரவு அன்று ஓட்டல் நிர்வாகத்தினர் கடைபிடிக்க வேண்டிய விதிமுறைகள் குறித்து துணை போலீஸ் சூப்பிரண்டு சுப்புராஜ் விளக்கி கூறினார்.
மாமல்லபுரம் கடற்கரை பகுதியில் புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்து சொல்லும் சாக்கில் சுற்றுலா வரும் பெண்களை கேலி, கிண்டல் செய்பவர்கள் மீது கடும் நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும். மாமல்லபுரத்தில் உள்ள ஓட்டல்களில் இரவு 12 மணிக்கு மேல் நீச்சல் குளங்களில் குளிக்க அனுமதி வழங்க கூடாது. கேளிக்கை நிகழ்ச்சிகள் நடத்த கூடாது. குறிப்பாக கடற்கரை நட்சத்திர ஓட்டல்களில் தங்கி உள்ளவர்கள் இரவு 12 மணிக்கு மேல், அறைகளைவிட்டு வெளியே வர கூடாது. பின்புறம் உள்ள கடற்கரை பகுதிக்கு செல்ல அனுமதிக்கப்பட மாட்டார்கள். கடலில் குளிக்கவும் தடை விதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

மேலும் மாமல்லபுரம் கடற்கரை பகுதிக்கு புத்தாண்டு கொண்டாட வரும் பெண்கள் விழிப்புடன் இருக்க வேண்டும். முகம் தெரியாத நபர்கள் தரும் உணவு பண்டங்களை வாங்கக்கூடாது. மாமல்லபுரம் கடற்கரை சாலை, ஐந்துரதம், அர்ச்சுனன் தபசு மற்றும் கிழக்கு கடற்கரை சாலை பகுதிகளில் 400 போலீசார் பாதுகாப்பு பணியில் ஈடுபடுத்தப்பட உள்ளனர். புத்தாண்டு கொண்டாடத்தின்போது மதுஅருந்திவிட்டு வாகனம் ஓட்டினால் அந்த வாகனம் பறிமுதல் செய்யப்பட்டு, அவர்களின் ஓட்டுனர் உரிமம் ரத்து செய்யப்படும்
குற்ற செயல்களை கண்டுபிடிக்கும் வகையில் சாதாரண உடையிலும் போலீசார் ரகசிய கண்காணிப்பில் ஈடுபட உள்ளனர். கிழக்கு கடற்கரை சாலை மற்றும் பழைய மாமல்லபுரம் சாலையில் செல்லும் இரு சக்கர வாகனங்கள் உள்பட அனைத்து வாகனங்களும் 10 தற்காலிக சோதனை சாவடிகள் மூலம் வாகன தணிக்கை செய்யப்படும்.

இந்த கூட்டத்தில் மாமல்லபுரம் போலீஸ் இன்ஸ்பெக்டர் சிரஞ்சீவி, மாமல்லபுரம் ஓட்டல்கள் சங்க நிர்வாகிகள் சண்முகானந்தன், கிருஷ்ணராஜ் உள்ளிட்ட பலர் கலந்து கொண்டனர்.

No decision on engineering passouts via correspondence mode: HRD minister Prakash Javadekar

By Express News Service  |   Published: 29th December 2017 08:38 PM  |  

 

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar (File | PTI)

NEW DELHI: The Centre has not yet taken a view on the validity of degrees of thousands of engineers who passed out through distance learning mode even as the apex court last month had declared degrees granted by four universities invalid.

The Supreme Court, in early November, while hearing a case on the validity of engineering programme offered via correspondence from four deemed universities had said that engineering degrees granted through correspondence secured from 2001 onwards were invalid.
The Universities included JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education in Rajasthan, Allahabad Agricultural Institute and Vinayaka Mission's Research Foundation in Tamil Nadu.

The court, while asking students who took admission between 2001 and 2005 to revive their degree by undergoing a fresh examination by the All India Council for Technical Education, those who passed out after 2005 were offered no such option.

On being asked, whether the government has taken a view on the validity of those passed out from other institutes in the country, the Union Human Resources Development minister Prakash Javadekar today said the “matter is still under consideration.”

He was interacting with media persons on the achievements of his ministry in the year 2017.
Sources in the ministry said that over last few weeks, over 40 representations have come from different people who have asked the government to clarify its stance on the issue as thousands of people who have qualified as engineers since 2001 and are working in various organisations are now facing difficulty.

“In many cases, employers are putting question marks on their qualification and are threatening to remove them—so they are a harrowed lot,” a source in the ministry said.
The Supreme Court had cancelled the degrees on the grounds that the course offered by deemed universities via correspondence had not been approved by the AICTE.
It had also restrained all deemed universities across the country from continuing any distance learning courses from the 2018-19 without prior approval of the regulatory authorities.

DNB doctors express disappointment over removal of a clause for introducing single PG Board from the National Medical Commission Bill

By Sumi Sukanya dutta  |  Express News Service  |   Published: 29th December 2017 08:58 PM  |  

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NEW DELHI: Thousands of doctors across the country have expressed shock and disappointment over the removal of a clause for a single post graduate degree from the National Medical Commission Bill that was tabled in the Lok Sabha today.

The NMC bill, being introduced to overhaul the medical education in the country and replace the medical education regulator Medical Council of India, had earlier mentioned the merger of the Post-Graduation Board and the National Board of examination in the draft version.

But the clause has been dropped from the current version that was tabled in the parliament. While PG Board, under the MCI, awards MD/ MS (Doctor in medicine, Doctor in Science) degree to MBBS doctors, the NBE, under the Union Health and Family Welfare ministry, awards DNB (Diplomate of National Board), another post-graduation qualification but often considered inferior to MD/MS.
“India’s is the only country in the world that offers two types of PG qualifications to doctors and DNB doctors are always treated as inferior because they train at big speciality hospitals as opposed to MD/MS doctors who are attached with a medical college,” a senior member of the Association of DNB doctors told this newspaper.

 “While the health ministry, through a 2012 notification, had made it clear that both MS/MD and DNB doctors will be treated at par for all practical purposes, the discrimination will not end till there are two boards,” he said. “While the bill still talks about degree equivalence, it’s extremely disheartening that the merger clause has now been dropped.”

The association has about 30,000 members and it is now planning two write to the Prime Minister’s office and the health ministry to re-include the merger clause.

The association has also protested a recent MCI move to make it mandatory for DNB doctors to do three year senior residency in hospitals before they can start teaching at medical colleges. Doctors with MD/ MS degrees have no such compulsion.

The country produces 63,835 MBBS doctors but there are only 20,000 PG seats on offer. For about 15,000 doctors DNB is the route for getting specialisation, sources said.
The NMC bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha today, meanwhile aims to replace the MCI with a 25-Commission, with only five elected members. It is being formed to do away with “heavy handed regulatory control” over medical institutions and will also bring in a national licentiate examination at the end of MBBS course for doctors.

One of the mandates of the Commission is to ease the processes for colleges to manage undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Earlier, the MCI approval was needed for establishing, renewing, recognising and increasing seats in a UG course.
Under the new proposal, permissions would only be sought for establishment and recognition of medical colleges.

Pension Grievances

Continue college in less polluted Kolhapur: Bombay HC

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Published : Dec 25, 2017, 5:07 am IST

The HC said that both Pune and Mumbai were more polluted than Kolhapur, and hence rejected the petition.


The Bombay High Court

Mumbai: The Bombay high court has rejected a petition filed by a medical student seeking a transfer from Kolhapur medical college to one of the colleges in Pune or Mumbai on grounds that she suffered from asthma and climate in Kolhapur was not conducive for her. Court held that both cities were more polluted than Kolhapur, which would only harm her. The student was 37th on the merit list for transfer to one of the nine vacant seats in colleges in Pune or Mumbai and had failed to secure one, hence the petition.

A division bench comprising of Justices B. R. Gavai and B. P. Colabawalla was hearing a writ petition filed by Janki Shende, a first year student of Government Medical College, Kolhapur, seeking a transfer in the open category to any of the five colleges she opted for in Pune or Mumbai due to health reasons. The petitioner prayed that since she had not managed a transfer, the court should direct the Director of Medical Education and Research (DMER) to do so. After hearing the petition and DMER’s reply, the court stated that authority had observed the criteria of merit and since the student was 37th in the list of merit for the nine vacant seats, there was nothing wrong in the state not giving her the desired transfer.

The HC said that both Pune and Mumbai were more polluted than Kolhapur, and hence rejected the petition.

Read more at Education Medical Dialogues: No Transfer for Medico on grounds of Pollution: High Court https://education.medicaldialogues.in/hc-rejects-petition-of-college-transfer-on-health-ground-declares-kolhapur-less-polluted/

24-yr-old techie acquitted of murder charge

By Express News Service  |   Published: 29th December 2017 02:49 AM  |  

CHENNAI: A Mahila Court in Chennai has acquitted a 24-year old B Tech graduate of the charge of murdering a 32-year-old post-graduate medical student at her apartment at Kilpauk two years ago.
The murder sent shock waves across the State.

Holding that the prosecution had failed to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt, the Mahila and Sessions Judge R N Manjula on Thursday acquitted Debanath Harindam, a native of Agartala in Tripura, also residing in the same apartment along with his doctor brother, who was working in a multi-specialty hospital in the city.

Debanath was a student of a private university at Maduravoyal and appeared for final exam in May in 2015. The victim, J Sathya, was a native of Perambalur pursuing her first year MS in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Kilpauk Medical college. She was sharing the accommodation with her college senior at Kilpauk. Sathya’s husband, Eshu, also a doctor, lives in Perambalur town with his two children.

The victim’s room-mate, found her dead in the apartment on August 20, 2015. Kilpauk police arrested Debanath.

Passengers worry over railway portal safety

By B Anbuselvan | Express News Service | Published: 29th December 2017 02:45 AM |

Last Updated: 29th December 2017 07:52 AM

CHENNAI: The arrest of two persons, including a CBI assistant programmer, by officials of CBI in Delhi, for their alleged involvement in selling illegal software to travel agents to book ‘tatkal’ tickets faster through IRCTC website has left rail passengers worried over safety of their personal records, including Aadhaar details.

According to CBI sources, Ajay Garg, a software programmer for CBI since 2012 had allegedly sold illegal software to book ‘tatkal’ tickets faster in IRCTC website to hundreds of travel agents across the country. He was supported by a travel agent Anil Kumar Gupta, who was also nabbed by CBI on Wednesday.

During ticket booking, the software would enable user to bypass the IRCTC captcha and bank OTP. In addition, it will also reduce the time gap set by IRCTC for generating PNR numbers. Thus, making bookings possible within 20 to 30 seconds. Hundreds of tickets can be booked at one go, said sources.
While the incident had solved the mystery as to how travel agents are able to get tickets for a train, many rail passengers raised concerns over the safety of IRCTC website and details of crores of passengers.

“At a time when government was forcing tatkal ticket booking through IRCTC by closing counters, safety of website must be ensured. How can an external software make an influence in the website of national transporter ? asked S.Mohan Ram, a former member of zonal railway users consultative committee, Southern railway.

He said lakhs of passengers personal details including Aadhaar had been uploaded in the website. Passengers feel insecure over possible misuse of the records, he said.

CBI inquiry revealed that Ajay Garg was a former employee of IT wing at IRCTC. He had sound knowledge on the vulnerability of IRCTC portal and developed a fake software to exploit it.

Passengers suspect that such software would have been sold to many travel agents in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry too. Despite waiting lists over 100 in IRCTC website for a long distance train, travel agents are able to sell confirmed tickets for the same train for excess fares in several congested routes, including Chennai - Kolkata, Chennai - Santrakachi, Chennai - New Delhi, Chennai - Coimbatore and Chennai - Tirunelveli.

“Earlier, IRCTC earmarked two percent berths for select travel agents who helped to increase revenue through other business. It was scrapped after 2010. But, they continue to book tatkal tickets ahead of rail passengers. Though such incidents happened openly, railway officials, RPF and Vigilance wing of railways remain mute spectators,” said a member of DRUCC, on the condition of anonymity.

The trend of train tickets getting booked in less than a minute was observed by many rail users in 2008. Though the issue was taken up with railway officials, it fell only on deaf ears, say passengers. K Baskar, a former member of Divisional Railway users consultative committees, Chennai said that in 2009, during rail users consultative meeting at Chennai a group of members raised suspicion over tatkal bookings through website in less than a minute when even the older version of IRCTC website was too slow.

IRCTC officials denied any possibility of misuse of passenger details.