Academic activities yet to start even after two months
Wenlock second year para medical students express their pain before DC
Mangaluru, November 19: Students of the second year paramedical course at the Wenlock district hospital said that though two months were over after the beginning of the academic year for various courses, academic activities have not yet started.
Expressing their pain before the deputy commissioner in a memorandum led by SFI organization here on Monday, the students appealed the officer to ensure justice to them. The students who have taken admission to DMLT, DDTT, MRD, DDT, DOT and Health Inspector courses have already completed their first year course at the Para Medical Science of Mangala College as per the agreement. Though the second year course was started in September, they have been doing the hospital works in the name of postings. Even during the government holidays and Sundays, they were being asked to participate in the hospital work. Moreover, they were being harassed by the hospital staff, they said.
Students from Savanur, Subramanya, Shivamogga, Ballari, Madikeri, Kodagu, Kolar, Chikmagaluru, Karkala, Kinnigoli, Belthangady and other rural areas have been getting education staying in BCM hostels. The private colleges have already completed their internal exams for the courses. But for them, academic activities were not yet started. When asked the Wenlock Hospital chief, they were not responding properly. There was no attendance on getting practical training. The parents were invited in the beginning of the first year course. After that, parents meeting was not convened. In the beginning of the second year, all students were being summoned to the Wenlock hospital and entrusted the hospital works. Recently, an MLT course student was given ward duty and cleaning work at mental treatment section. Now, the hospital authorities were telling that the students have to work in night shift. The students have joined the course with lot of expectations. They wanted justice, they urged the deputy commissioner.
“We came to know about the students problems just two days before. As the students have asked the authorities to start lessons, the authorities have informed them that the hospital doctors would take the classes instead of teachers. This is not a good decision. In view of this, we have urged the deputy commissioner to solve the problem”, SFI district secretary Madhuri Bolara told Varthabharati.
Demands
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Steps should be taken to start classes
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Should stop using the students for the hospital works in the name of postings much against the norms
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Permanent lecturers should be appointed instead of doctors
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First year classes should be started immediately
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Security should be provided to the students during postings
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Gujarat: Mevani demands collector’s suspension over ‘anti-Dalit’ remark; IAS officer rejects charge
Mahnisagar, Oct 30: Gujarat Congress MLA Jignesh Mevani on Wednesday demanded the suspension of Mahisagar District Collector Neha Kumari, accusing her of making anti-Dalit comments, a charge the bureaucrat rejected.
Mevani’s demand comes a week after he sought similar action against senior IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian for allegedly misbehaving with him and one of his party colleagues.
Mevani targeted Kumari citing a purported video in which she was heard saying that 90 per cent of cases registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, or the Atrocities Act, are used for blackmailing.
The IAS officer termed the lawmaker’s claims “baseless” and an unsuccessful attempt to get political mileage.
Mevani visited Lunawada, the district headquarters, and demanded that an FIR be registered against the collector under the Atrocities Act and that she was suspended over her “insensitive” remarks and “unparliamentary” words.
When one Vijay Parmar went to meet the collector with his grievance at the SWAGAT programme on October 23, she used “unparliamentary” words against him and also insulted the lawyer community by saying they should be “slapped with slippers”, the Vadgam MLA told reporters.
SWAGAT is an initiative of the Gujarat government for the redressal of people’s grievances.
According to Mevani, the collector’s claim that 90 per cent of cases under the Atrocities Act are misused for blackmailing is an insult to the SC and ST communities and amounts to an offence under the Atrocities Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
“We demand Kumari's suspension and that a case be registered against her,” he said.
The district collector called the MLA’s allegations a “political stunt”.
“The man whom the MLA called poor, innocent young friend (Vijay Parmar) has a police case against him, and his brother has more than one case of rape, kidnapping and assault against him,” Kumari said, adding that they keep visiting the collector’s office with grievances.
At the SWAGAT programme on October 23, he pressured the collector to file a case against police officers. When the collector told him that she did not have the power to file a case and that he should approach the superintendent of police (SP) or the court, he continued to pester her over his issue, she said.
He even threatened the officers and told the collector that she was a Brahmin and he would let her know what “section 4 of the Atrocities Act entailed”, she said.
“You can understand the direction in which this MLA wants to take law and order by keeping a person with a criminal history along with him even when the state government is sensitive about children and women,” she said.
The collector said that the way Vijay Parmar is “blackmailing” government employees in the name of the Atrocities Act is not at all right. “The MLA's support to such people makes it difficult for the real complainants and the real victims to get justice,” she said.
Last week, Congress leaders and Dalit community members gathered outside the office of the Director General of Police in the state capital Gandhinagar demanding the suspension of senior IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian over his alleged misbehaviour with Mevani and his party colleague.
