Vikas Vaidya

By Vikas Vaidya The website of Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) crashed on Thursday putting the students aspiring to get admission to law and engineering courses in a fix. The provisional merit list of the students aspiring to get admission to five year law course was to be displayed today. But when students tried to search the website they could not find the link leaving them clueless. In this technological era, when everything on-line is being promoted such glitches are unexpected. So students who have applied for five year law course are confused over their next couse of action. With schedule is disturbed the students are likely to suffer further in the process. Common Entrance Test (CET) was conducted for the admission to law. Many had thought that this examination would bring some peace to law applicants but it has done exactly the opposite. The probable date for the new academic session of 2017 to start is fixed at September 20. But with these glitches in earlier...

By Vikas Vaidya Most of the parents expressed anger over the new rule of admission process of bifocal courses of Class XI. When the on-line phase of Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for Class XI began, the parents suddenly realised the problem they would be facing. As per new rule the students willing to take admission to bifocal courses will have to take admission to General Science in a college allotted to them and that particular college would give them admission to bifocal course if it is available there. If they don’t get the admission to bifocal course, then they don’t have a choice than to take admission to General Science in the same college. The information booklets distributed to students have password, user ID. The students will go to their respective schools and centres to fill  the form. But the students of other than State Board will have to carry their documents which will be verified by the prescribed centres where they go. In on-line phase they would en...

By Vikas Vaidya  With reduction in temperature there are chances that the cases of swine flu may get increased. Earlier Nagpur had to send samples to National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune. Now the Microbiology department at Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) is conducting the tests for swine flu. Maharashtra Government recently authorised Dhruv Pathology Laboratory situated at Central Bazar road, in front of  Somalwar High School to conduct tests. Nagpur’s IGGMCH’s Viral Research Diagnostic Laboratory is authorised one. IGGMCH is testing the samples on Reverse Transcripted Polymerase Chain Reaction (RTPCR) machine. It is done as per guidelines. IGGMCH accpets samples of the patients who are being treated at Government hospitals only. Private hospitals have to send it to Mumbai that costs around Rs 3,000 per test which is done in IGGMCH free of cost. Deputy Director of Health of Nagpur Division Dr Sanjay Jaiswal said, “Government has aut...

By Vikas Vaidya With starting of Approach Control Service for arriving and departing aircraft based on Radar (Surveillance sensor) at Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Aiport, the parallel taxiway can add to the efficiency of traffic management. With reduction in time, if flights are increased then additional taxiway can be a great boon as far as operations are concerned. The surveillance based approach control services could have been more efficient and fuel saving, had there been parallel taxiway/Rapid Exit Taxiway system at Nagpur airport. Many Passengers transiting through Airport, must have felt that aircraft take lot of taxi time on the runway including backtrack time due to lack of parallel taxiway/Rapid Exit Taxiway infrastructure at Nagpur airport. With the present state of available taxiway infrastructure at Nagpur Airport subsequent arrivals cannot be brought closer than 15 Nautical Miles (28Km) resulting in loss of time to subsequent arrivals and departur...

By Vikas Vaidya With the increasing need of healthcare facilities in India, Government is mooting out various ideas through which hospitals and doctors can be available in ample number. With this thought, now Government is creating Port hospitals on all shores in the country. This is the brainchild of our own Nagpurian Nitin Gadkari who happens to be the Minister of Shipping too. These hospitals are being created on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis. The report in this regard was prepared by another Nagpurian Dr Vedprakash Mishra, Chairman of Academic Committe of Medical Council of India (MCI) and was submitted. This PPP model will pave way for the hospitals like Daga, Railways to be converted into medical colleges. The Ministry of Shipping, Government of India, may avail the model of starting of a medical college as has been evoked by the Government of Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar where under the concerned State Govt. availing his own District Hospital has start...

By Vikas Vaidya With high level of automation system and surveillance sensors available, it has been decided by Airports Authority of India (AAI) to provide Approach Control Service for arriving and departing aircraft based on Radar (Surveillance sensor) at Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Aiport. This will not only save the time and fuel but also will help in increasing safety of passangers. With reduction in time, it will pave way for more number of flights to operate at this airport. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Airport, Nagpur presently caters to around 46 scheduled and 5 numbers of flight movements per day. Besides these movements, Nagpur Airport Runway also caters to flight operations to Air India MRO unit situated adjacent to Airport. Often the schedule movements take place in bunches during several periods of any given day. Airports Authority of India provides Air Traffic Control (ATC) and Communication Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) Services at Nagpur Airport...