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Medical education now under NCHRH

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The initiative by the Prime Minister's Office to decide whether medical education in India should be under the aegis of the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) or the National Council for Human Resource in Health (NCHRH) has been decided. Both NCHER and NCHRH had been proposed by the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry. According to the new formulations, both NCHER and NCHRH will operate separately. Although medical education in the country would be a part of the NCHRH, there would also be linkages established with the NCHER regarding quality, content and curriculum of the education. The formulations have been approved by HRD minister Kapil Sibal as well as Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. A senior official said that the formulation still needs to be fine tuned further. He said that an agreement had been reached on the nature of linkage between the NCHER and the NCHRH. Another meeting will be held between the NCHER and the NCHRH on February 15 to finalize the formulations.

US very sensitive, attentive to Indian students

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The US is “very sensitive” to the issue of the Indian students deceived by a fake university in California and would not allow them to be mistreated, the country's ambassador to India said here on Sunday. “The US is very sensitive and attentive to (the issue). We are proud that there are 103,000 Indian students studying in various American schools and we want more students to come to America. We want our doors to be open for education,” the US Ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer told reporters on the sidelines of a cancer awareness event. According to him, the US is attentive to the problems of the Indian students and does not want any section of the society to take advantage of them. “We will have more to say once this case moves ahead,” Roemer added. The Tri-Valley University (TVU) in Pleasanton, a suburb in San Francisco Bay Area, was raided on January 25 and charged with helping foreign nationals illegally acquire immigration status. A complaint filed by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against the “sham” university alleged that the school's founder and president, Susan Xiao-Ping Su, was using the school to issue US visa to any foreign national willing to pay for it. Some 1,555 students of Tri-Valley University, 90 percent of them from India, mostly Andhra Pradesh, face the prospect of deportation following the closure of the university.

Congress focuses on implementing RTE

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has made provision of around Rs.2.25 lakh crore for the next five years for implementing the Right to Education Act. “For successful implementation of the Right to Education Act, our government is making every effort to assist the state governments. For Uttar Pradesh this year our government has granted around Rs.7,000 crore in the education sector, which is more than 75 percent of last year's amount,'' Gandhi said at a function in Navodaya Vidyalaya here. Gandhi added, “We have taken a number of steps to improve secondary education in the country. For example, we have permitted setting up of a model school in every block of the country. For construction of such schools, 75 percent of the total budget will be provided by the central government.” The central government has already given the budget for setting up 148 such schools in Uttar Pradesh, she pointed out. “Uttar Pradesh has benefited from the central government schemes and projects aimed to improve education,” Gandhi claimed. Expressing concern over the drop-out rate in government schools, Gandhi said, “A large number of students are admitted in government schools, but still the drop-out rate is considerable. Particularly, students from poor families are not able to pursue education. Though we have scholarship and coaching programmers for such students, a lot still needs to be done in to counter it.” Gandhi arrived here on Friday afternoon on a two-day tour of her parliamentary constituency. She inaugurated a community centre in Lalganj and a guest house in Dalmau. She also laid the foundation stone for the sports complex in the Navodaya Vidyalaya.

New medical colleges in pipeline

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Giving a boost to medical education in the country, the health ministry will open new colleges and create more seats in government-run institutes. “An ambitious scheme costing Rs.1, 350 crore will be implemented soon to strengthen the fabric of medical education. An additional 4,000 seats in medical colleges run by the central government have been created to produce more doctors every year,” said Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here on Friday. “Besides, 269 new nursing colleges will be opened to consolidate the paramedical infrastructure. The government is doing all-out efforts to eradicate communicable diseases in the country,” he added. Azad was here to attend the 31st convocation of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER). Expressing concern over the World Health Organization (WHO) report that said India would become a real hub of cancer by 2020, Azad said, “We have launched a cancer-combat pilot project in hundred districts. Under this, each district will be given funds for early detection of cancer. And Rs.100,000 will be given per patient for chemotherapy treatment.”

100 schools in Haryana to run in public partnership

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A public partnership project will be implemented on a pilot basis in Haryana to make it an educational hub, the state's Education and Social Welfare Minister Geeta Bhukkal said on Sunday. She said that under this project, at least one school in each of the state's 21 districts will be run in the public partnership mode from the new academic session this year. Addressing people in Jhajjar, some 350 km from here, Bhukkal said that a total of about 100 schools will be run through this project. Haryana is also setting up an educational hub near Sonepat. An all-women university has also been set up near Sonepat, some 70 km from Delhi.

USIEF announces Fulbright fellowship

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The US-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) has announced the opening of its annual competition for Fulbright-Nehru and other Fulbright fellowship opportunities for study, research, teaching and professional development in the US. Outstanding Indian students, academics, teachers, policy planners, administrators and professionals in all disciplines can apply, an American embassy statement said on Friday. The India-US bilateral Fulbright agreement has resulted in a significant increase in the number of scholarships awarded each year. USIEF expects to offer approximately 120 Fulbright-Nehru fellowships for Indians in 2012.

IGNOU to train cops in human rights

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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) School of Law (SOL), in collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has launched an online training programme to sensitize police personnel on human rights. The five-day programme was inaugurated for the police academy personnel of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh by NHRC Chairperson Justice K.G. Balakrishnan at the IGNOU Convention Centre on February 1. “This activity is an outcome of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between IGNOU and NHRC a few months ago. The main aim of this programme is to sensitize and spread awareness about human rights. With such a programme, IGNOU aims to bring down the rate of conflicts and crime in the society by creating awareness among police personnel,” said IGNOU Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai. While delivering the inaugural address, Justice Balakrishnan said, “It is our basic duty to sensitize people and protect their human rights, and the police play a very important role in the society in maintaining the law and order. NHRC appreciates IGNOU's efforts in this field. We have launched a basic programme for lower level police personnel in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana. The programme is currently available in Hindi and shall be translated into regional languages soon.” Keeping in view the tight schedule of the police personnel, the five-day tailor-made programme aims to equip them with the knowledge of human rights and it can be applied while dealing with the public, said SOL Director Prof K. Elumalai. The first basic programme was attended by the police personnel in three police academies in Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. They had an online interaction with the chairperson and other members of the commission on human rights related issues. Giving details about the programme, Prof Elumalai said, “On the first three days, participants will be taught six units through interactive lectures using multimedia tools. On the fourth and fifth day, interactive counseling sessions will be held, wherein all the participants and the programme coordinators will interact through web-conferencing.” “Almost 60 to 80 percent of the police personnel are constables and sub-constables and nearly 80 percent of them are just 10th pass. There is a need to make them aware about all the penal laws in the country, along with the legal knowledge,” he added. NHRC member P.C. Sharma said, “The huge number of complaints against police personnel received in the commission compels us to think about the needful steps to be taken to train them, to make them realize their responsibility towards prevention and detection of crime.” Others present at the event included Sunil Krishna, DG, NHRC; Satyabrat Pal, Member, NHRC; K.S. Money, Secretary General, NHRC; and Prof Uma Kanjilal, Director, School of Social Sciences, IGNOU.

ViewSonic appoints Aveco as the national distributor for projectors

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ViewSonic, the worldwide leader in visual display products and consumer electronics expert today announced the appointment of Aveco as their National Distributor for Projectors. With this partnership Aveco will distribute the entire range of projectors from ViewSonic. Aveco Technologies Pvt. Ltd., with its experience of nearly two decades in the AV distribution business, is expected to give a new high in the sales of the projectors of ViewSonic. With a network of over 500 dealers in Pan India and its special efforts in the Education & Government sector, Aveco will help in boosting the sales of the ViewSonic projectors in Pan India. Talking about this strategical alliance, Mr. Kuldeep Ramaiya, National Sales Head, ViewSonic Technologies Limited, said, “We are looking forward for a great boost in sales of our Projectors as Aveco is one of the most trusted names in the AV distribution. We are expecting the Education industry to be targeted at large for our interactive projectors through this partnership”. Expressing his views on this association, Mr. Sandeep Jain MD, Aveco said, “With This Strategic tie-up with a world renowned Brand in the DLP Technology space, we expect to storm the Indian market. The Interactive and the short-throw projector range of ViewSonic will give us a great boost in our foray into the Growing Education Market; ViewSonic Projectors with its unique features like being 3D ready will give us an edge in the Home Segment and Digital Signage applications too”. ViewSonic has a great range of projectors to serve all the needs of the industry. It has recently launched the Interactive projector PJD7383i, and also PRO series for the best range of entertainment projectors.

CA ties up with IIT-Mum, JGU

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Canada's world-famous Carleton University is set to sign memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with various Indian educational institutions during the visit of it president and vice-chancellor to India next week. Ottawa-based Carleton is the only university in the world to have a full-fledged India-centric Centre of Excellence in Science, Technology, Trade and Policy to raise awareness about bilateral studies and public diplomacy, and develop initiatives to build a better understanding of both countries. University president Roseann Runte, who is leaving for India on Friday, told the sources she would meet top Indian academics and sign MoUs with various institutions during her five-day visit which takes her to Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad. “We will sign MoUs with Jindal Global University near Delhi, Jai Hind College under Mumbai University, IIT Mumbai and Petroleum University. These MoUs are geared towards exchange of faculties, students and interns, joint research and programmes, and conducting joint degree courses,'' she said. During her visit to Hyderabad, Dr Runte would also meet the president of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute which is a bi-national organization that promotes understanding between India and Canada through academic activities and exchanges. Dr Runte, who is going to India at the invitation of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Hyderabad campus, to be their guest at their cultural celebrations February 10, said she would also meet representatives of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) to discuss joint initiatives with them. “We may sign an MoU with FICCI on internships, conferences and sharing information among businesses in the two countries,” she said. Apart from meeting government officials in Delhi, Dr Runte would also call on Sam Pitroda, chairman of the National Innovation Council, to invite him for the excellence summit to be held at Carleton University in June as part of the Year of India in Canada. “Probably, Mr Pitroda is not in India next week, but I call on his office and formally invite him for the June summit,” she said.

RTE helps kids

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The Right to Education (RTE) Act, besides giving children between six and 14 years access to free and compulsory education, also helps their health as voluntary groups often target schools for their programmes, experts said on Thursday. Deworm the World (DTW), a voluntary organization giving deworming medicine against intestinal parasites to children between 6 to 14 years, will soon be covering the capital's government schools and slums. “After a year-long successful work in seven districts of Andhra Pradesh since 2009, we will now target Bihar and Delhi where our prevalence studies have been going on for quite some time,” DTW's executive director Lesley Drake told the sources on her visit to India. “We realized how effective health plans can be when they are pitched in with educational schemes. RTE is an important catalyst for our policy in India,” added Drake. The NGO, in its massive action plan, stated that the programme in Bihar will be rolled out in over 67,000 schools of its 38 districts from February to April. “Deworming is often ignored in developing nations because it does not affect the mortality rate. The need is to realize its impact on the cognitive growth of the child, his education, mental and physical abilities,” explained Drake. The deworming schemes will also rope in the state governments and additional technical support from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). “In Delhi, our studies across slums and schools are underway, and a school-based deworming programme will be launched in identified at-risk areas later this year,” said Prerna Makkar, regional director of DTW's south Asia wing. “Adequate sanitation, hygienic living conditions, and safe drinking water are other key approaches to the deworming plan,” added Makkar.

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