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Govt moves to amend University Act Amendment bill

August 28, 2022 EditorComment(0)

The government has moved to persuade the governor. The administration is taking changes to the University Act Amendment Bill under consideration. The goal is to get around the requirement that the Vice-Chairman of the Council of Higher Education serve as the committee’s convener when looking for a new VC. Instead, it is decided that a Higher Education Council representative will do.

According to the government, appointing conveners who have close ties to universities will violate the UGC regulations. The government is unsure, though, of its ability to persuade the governor with the proposed amendment.

The re-appointment of the Vice Chancellor at Kannur University, according to Governor Arif Mohammad Khan, was made at the Chief Minister’s request. The governor’s latest admission on Kannur VC Gopinath Ravindran’s reappointment comes as the battle between the governor and the government heats up.

Even if the Assembly approves the Bills, according to Governor Arif Muhammad Khan, they won’t be approved without constitutional review. Any bill can be approved by government. The governor’s justification, however, is that a constitutional review will be carried out.

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Pulitzer award-winning photographer says she has stopped flying out of India again

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022 Editor

Sanna Irshad Mattoo, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Kashmiri photojournalist, claimed on Tuesday that immigration officials at the Delhi airport prevented her from travelling overseas for the second time this year. She had also been stopped in July. She tweeted, “Despite having a valid US visa and ticket, I was stopped at immigration at Delhi airport and barred from travelling internationally. I was on my way to accept the Pulitzer award in New York.” “I’ve been stopped twice now without cause or justification. After what happened a few months ago, I reached out to many officials, but I never got an answer. For me, the opportunity to attend the award ceremony was a once-in-a-lifetime experience “Added she. She had been detained in July when she was travelling from Delhi to Paris for a book launch and photography exhibition as one of the award winners. Then, Ms. Mattoo said that the immigration authorities had only told her that she was unable to travel overseas due to restrictions without providing any other justification. She had been added to a no-fly list, Jammu and Kashmir police officials had told the news agency PTI, without providing a reason. The action revived claims that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi targets journalists who publish unfavourable news about the administration. According to a survey released in May by international media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, India’s standing in the World Press Freedom Index this year dropped to the 150th position from previous year’s 142nd rank out of 180 countries as a result of the government’s vehement denials. Ms. Mattoo, a freelance photojournalist in Jammu and Kashmir since 2018, shared the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography with a team from the news organisation Reuters for their coverage of the COVID-19 crisis in India.

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Madhya Pradesh Medical Colleges to offer MBBS course in Hindi

October 15, 2022October 15, 2022 Editor

All 13 government medical colleges in Madhya Pradesh will teach their first-year students three MBBS disciplines in Hindi: anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry. On October 16, the first-year texts for the MBBS programme will be published in Hindi in Bhopal by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. It will alter people’s perceptions that Hindi cannot be used for medical or technical education, according to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. “This is a step toward making the notion that education in Hindi media may also help one advance in life a reality. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is adamant that education should be conducted in the student’s native tongue “said he. The Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal accordingly established a Hindi unit, “Mandar,” in February of this year, and a well-organized curriculum was created for the Hindi translation of texts. Medical professionals make up the task force. More than 5,568 hours were spent in brainstorming by 97 medical college professors and specialists. Although Hindi books would be available alongside English ones, Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang stated that technical terms will still be used in English. “Madhya Pradesh will launch medical education in Hindi as the first state in the nation. Beginning at Gandhi Medical College, a pilot programme for an MBBS programme in Hindi will be offered. In the first year of the MBBS programme at all 13 of Madhya Pradesh’s government medical colleges, anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry will be taught in Hindi beginning with the current academic year. In addition, it will be introduced in the second year of MBBS in the following session “explained he. Additionally, Mr. Sarang stated that there will be no separate instruction or classroom for children taking Hindi classes. Only those students who have trouble understanding the lectures and books in English would have the ability to understand the subject in their native tongue. The classroom, students, and lecturers would all remain the same. He continued, “Three books covering the core subjects in the first year of the MBBS have been transliterated utilising the vocabulary used in English.” Sahiba Khatoon, Rachna Yadav, and Budhram Meena are first-year medical students. Speaking to NDTV, they all agreed that Hindi textbooks will undoubtedly improve pupils in understanding and articulating the solutions. Final-year student Antara Lahiri commented, “It’s a commendable effort. Although laborious, the approach will undoubtedly benefit pupils. We’ll have to wait and see how they translate novels by international authors, though. Overall, it’s an excellent concept because many of our classmates have battled with their English “.