Vikas Vaidya

 Dr. Nitin B. Ukunde, Dr. Amit Saini, Ex. CEO ZP Nagpur (Now, District Collector Gondia), V. G. Reddy, Divisional Commissioner,  Mr. Khan, Dy. Commissioner, Someshwar Naitam, Education Officer, Primary ZP Nagpur, Dr. Kamalkishor Futane, Dy. CEO ZP Nagpur   map through which it can be known that whether school Inspector has visited school or not By Vikas Vaidya It was a usual practice wherein, most of the school Inspectors not visiting schools they were supposed to and not collecting correct data to submit it to Education Officer. It was one of the factors because of which, midday-meal tragedy occured. It could have averted had there been VISHWAS.     Nagpur Zilla Parishad's most ambitious project "VISHWAS" has recently won the "Most Promising Project Gold Award" at national level. The Android mobile based project called "VISHWAS - Visiting Information of Schools Handled With Attendance System", created by Managing Director of Soft System...

No sports facility, no approval to colleges By Vikas Vaidya In a welcoming move, Maharashtra Government has decided not to give approval to new college if it does not have proper sports facility. This has been recommended by the sub-committee of Joint Board of Vice-Chancellors (JBVC) on sports and youth policy 2012 of State. It has also decided that universities should spend its 10 per cent fund for sports facilities. State Government has announced sports and youth policy 2012 to generate favourable atmosphere for the development of sports culture. The meeting  of JBVC conducted under the  Chairmanship of Governor has decided to implement the policy in universities and colleges in State. For its proper implementation a subcommittee headed by Higher and Technical Education Minister and School Education Minister was formed on January 10, 2013. This sub-committee had made some recommendations and government was considering to implement those. Kolhapur’s Shivaji University...

By Vikas Vaidya Being a mobile addict, he always wanted to improve the battery life of his mobile phone. So, he kept on working throughout the 2012 summer making wireless chargers or some equivalent device and like a lightning. During that period suddenly he asked questions to himself. What if, the mobile gets charged by itself in the field of network signals? What if, the areas hit by radiations can actually control the intensity of radiation, and indirectly avoid cancers? What if, the unwanted radiations are harvested to produce dc volts? Abhijeet Daigavane, an Electronics and Telecommunication engineer was trying to solve these querries. During that time, his concluding semesters of Engineering at G H Raisoni College of Engineering were underway wherein, he was supposed to have projects. So, he brought the prototype to the college lab and started the improvisation. His teachers first Prof. P. S. Hedaoo and later Prof. A. S. Titarmare, guided him well. Abhijeet got the succe...

Beware of Cheap Chinese education! By Vikas Vaidya Finally Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) administration has asked promoters of Chinese Universities those impart medical education to move out of its premises. The Hitavada on Monday published a news regarding Chinese universities promoting their MBBS course right in the campus of GMCH. Additional Chief Secretary Anand Kulkarni acted fast and directed GMCH authorities to ask agents of Chinese Universities to vacate the place. Raising this issue, experts opined that parents and students should be aware of cheap Chinese education. Chinese and Russian universities are promoting their universities through agents, sub-agents spread all over the country. These agents meet students and explain to them about the education being imparted by them. An expert in this field who is helping students to get admissions in foreign universities said, “There are 30 to 35 colleges in China, may be more than that, which are providing m...

Chinese varsities offer low-cost  MBBS course in GMCH premises By Vikas Vaidya China is known for its low-cost goods and chinese goods have already flooded global market ousting local variants which could not withstand the price competition. Going a step further, China is now eyeing Indian educational sector and Chinese Universities are now offering a MBBS course at unbelievable price. Ironically, chinese universities are promoting their MBBS course right in the campus of Government Medical College and Hospital. The franchisee which is promoting this course, has sought permission from the GMCH Dean and claimed to have got it from authorities. This attractive deal is being offered when the admission process of health science conducted by Government is underway. Anybody visiting GMCH premises can see a car with a banner ‘MBBS Degree in China- No donation, no NEET, no Entrance, no TOEFEL’. Beside this car there is a stall where two girls and a man are deputed to guide the pote...

MCI says State CS’s Undertaking on 40 IGGMC seats is vague By Vikas Vaidya Though Chief Secretary of Maharashtra State, Dr Jayantkumar Banthia at the behest of Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan acted fast and sent an Undertaking to Medical Council of India (MCI) regarding 40 seats of Indira Gandhi Government Medical College (IGGMC), MCI has called that Undertaking is vague. Recently,MCI has approved increased intake of 40 to Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) making the total seats from 60 to 100. MCI had made it clear that Chief Secretary of Maharashtra should give undertaking to rectify the deficiencies. On June 3, 2013 IGGMCH and Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) had sent the letter of undertaking. In undertaking it was mentioned that time-bound programme would be chalked out to remove the deficiencies including modernisation of IGGMCH. Finally Chief Secretary Dr Jayantkumar Banthia too submitted the Undertaking on July 5, 2013 M...

MCI approves increased intake of 40 to IGGMC, needs undertaking of CS By Vikas Vaidya Medical Council of India (MCI) has approved increased intake of 40 to Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) making the total seats from 60 to 100. MCI has made it clear that Chief Secretary of Maharashtra should give undertaking to rectify the deficiencies. Chief Secretary Dr Jayantkumar Banthia told The Hitavada from Mumbai that he would support to get back the seats. On June 3 IGGMCH and Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) have sent the letter of undertaking. In undertaking it was mentioned that timebound programme would be chalked out to remove the deficiencies including modernisation of IGGMCH. MCI’s letter says the issue of recognition/approval against the increased intake from 60 to 100 of IGGMCH was considered in the meeting of Board of Governors. MCI considered undertaking dated June 4, 2013 sent by DMER and approved the increased intake of 4...

Now pvt med colleges have to surrender unused seats to Govt By Vikas Vaidya Maharashtra Government has mandated that the seats that remained vacant for seven days after the second round of institute-level admissions would be deemed as restored to the Government. The mandate further clarifies that those seats would be allotted to the students on the basis of their scores in National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET). This initiative comes in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in Priya Gupta versus State of Chhattisgarh last year directing certain steps for improvement in MBBS and BDS admissions. The apex court had also directed that the seats thus vacant after second round of insitution-level admissions would be filled through competent authority of State Governments till September 15, cancelling out the need for a separate round of counseling. The peculiarity of this initiative is that Maharashtra Government has taken it in order to correct one violation of the SC directive on it...

Ready to confess, are you? By Vikas Vaidya Two lady teachers from a college in Pune were told by their students that they had been posted on Facebook Confession page in derogatory manner. Both were linked to their fellow male professors in an obscene manner. The matter became so serious that these two ladies thought of committing suicide. Somehow, their relatives handled them and they lodged a complaint in a police. Soon the culprits were nabbed. Now, this is a new menace on Facebook. Though, in India, unlike two years ago, people are deleting their profiles, but still the Facebook mania still has not reduced drastically. Dr Harold D’Costa, Director, Intelligent Quotient Security Systems (IQSS), Cyber Crime Trainer and Consultant- Maharashtra and Goa Police said, “The origin of Confession Pages seems to have taken the Internet world by storm. The idea of Confession pages is to post one’s secret or feelings, but this seems not to be going in the right direction. Most of the time...

They see death from close quarters By Vikas Vaidya When they left hotel at Gaurikund, they saw the water literally swallowed the hotel in which they were staying 10 minutes ago. They left Sitapur and reached Rampur with a news that Sitapur too sunk into the water. Mamta Gunjal was carrying her four and a half years old child visited house to house for drinking water but alas! She cried, prayed, begged for water but nothing doing. Even to make the road proper to travel, the pilgrims had to get the diesel from their vehicles and used it for JCB. “We, 27 persons left for Chardham pilgrimage on June 6 by Shri Gajanan Travels from Nagpur. The Nagpur bus left us at Delhi and we started our journey hiring another bus. After visiting Hardwar, Yamunotri; we went to Kedarnath from Gangotri. On June 15, Saturday we were approaching Kedarnath but our driver advised us to stay at Rampur, nine kilometer before Kedarnath. On Sunday early morning we reached Gourikund. We stayed at Gourikund for s...