Vikas Vaidya

By Vikas Vaidya The Central Project Unit of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has created a module to build student-teacher relation in technical institutions of the country. This module will not only help in building this relationship but it will also become a guiding force for the institutions to enhance the quality of teaching, this is what AICTE feels. The technical institutions in the country are facing so many problems. They include rising vacancy, degradation of quality, student-faculty ratio, method of teaching. Considering all these aspect into consideration, AICTE has taken this step. This module will try to inculcate human values among students. The Central Project Unit of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) headed by its Advisor Dr P M Khodke has prepared modules. They started imparting training to teachers of technical institutions with a view that these teachers would pass it on to students. There are several problems from teacher as well...

By Vikas Vaidya The speculations reign supreme as to who will head the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) in Maharashtra. The interviews for the post of Director of Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) were conducted on Tuesday and the names are sealed in the envelope. The name will be declared very soon. Meanwhile the names of Dr S K Mahajan and Dr Abhay Wagh. The interviews for the post of Director of DTE conducted on Tuesday and the panel led by Dr Bhalchandra Chopne, former Vice-Chancellor of Nagpur University and ex-Director of DTE shortlisted seven names. The names include Dr S K Mahajan, Joint Director of DTE (Dr Mahajan has handled the charge of Director of  DTE for 8 years in a successful manner), Dr Abhay Wagh, Deputy Secertary of Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education (MSBTE), Dr Borikar, Dr G K Awari, Principal of Tulsiram Gaikwad Patil College, Nagpur; Dr Gulhane, Principal of Government Polytechnic, Murtizapur; Dr R P Mogre, Principal of Gov...

By Vikas Vaidya The issue of scholarship is haunting Maharashtra. To add to woes of beneficiaries the portal through which the procedure of scholarship conducted is not functioning since April 30. The website was being handled by MASTEK company whose contract came to an end on April 30 and since then the website is not functioning. With over Rs 100 crore pending with Government against the scholarship to be paid to students of reserved category, the educational institutes especially engineering colleges are facing financial crunch. Most of the colleges are unable to pay the salaries of their employees. The reliable sources told ‘The Hitavada’. The stoppage of website through which procedure of on-line scholarship gets operated, has brought everything related to scholarship to standstill.” It is learnt that MASTEK discontinued as the money was not paid to it. It was requested to TCS to run the website but that too did not work. The website does whole work of scholarship. It is t...

By Vikas Vaidya In the wake of deaths taken place due to spraying of insecticide, the issue of poison control centre has come up. ‘The Hitavada’ came to know the shocking information-- Maharashtra donot have Poison Control Centre. Poison Control Centre is a medical facility that is able to provide immediate, free, and expert treatment advice and assistance over the telephone in case of exposure to poisonous or hazardous substances. This is only one small part of the advantage of this centre. There are several other things that could have helped in preventing deaths that have taken place now, had the centre existed. One senior expert in Forensic Science told ‘The Hitavada’, “During the tenure of Thomas Benjamin as a Medical Education Secretary, it was proposed that such centre will be set-up in each medical college but that did not work out. The centre is meant to provide every information about poison, including its type. The centre is supposed to possess the information abou...

The perspective view of London street. By Vikas Vaidya Considering the increasing number of hospitals, clinics in Ramdaspeth and Dhantoli areas, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari had mooted an idea to shift the hospitals on London street or asked new ones to come or asked existing hospitals to do the expansion there. The project was gathering dust. But suddenly it has started taking momentum. The reason is it comes in the constituency of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis (South-West) who desperately wants to get it completed. The total area is 32 hectare starting from near Hotel Radisson Blu with length of 5.5 km that ends at Jaitala with average width of 70 meter. This was originally railway track and land was acquired by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) from railway. The plot has an excellent location on South of the city. It runs parallel to the Ring Road and in close proximately to the Airport. Initially it was planned to set up 5-Star hotel, auditorium, cultura...

By Vikas Vaidya No matter the fact that India was declared ‘Leprosy-Free’ as long back as 2005, the demeaning disease seems to be assuming menacing proportions in the country, if the statistical details available from Nagpur District alone are to be taken as a measure. Government teams have found out as part of their work under National Leprosy Eradication Programme that the district has approximaterly 800 identified Leprosy patients, and the number is still growing, ‘The Hitavada’ has learnt authentically. If this is the case of only one district, then the figure of identified leprosy patients across the country is bound to be mind-boggling, experts suspect. In sharp contrast, the experts state that at this juncture, the whole of China has only 600 persons identified as afflicted by leprosy, thanks to the aggressive efforts of the Chinese authorities in the past some years. As part of the National Leprosy Eradication Programme, the Leprosy Unit of the Department of Public ...

By Vikas Vaidya With over Rs 100 crore pending with Government against the scholarship to be paid to students of reserved category, the educational institutes especially engineering colleges are facing financial crunch. Most of the colleges are unable to pay the salaries of their employees. This fact has been admitted by Education Minister Vinod Tawde. The issue has become bigger and if not resolved in time, it would have long term repercussions, warned experts. The Social Welfare department distribute the scholarship amount of about 1.54 lakh students of Nagpur district every year. This year it could distribute the scholarship worth Rs 90 crore of 89,000 students for the year 2016-17. The scholarship of 64,000 students amounting to Rs 70 crore is pending. Some Rs 40 crore of the year 2015-16 is yet not distributed. It means that about Rs 110 crore is yet not distributed. Over one lakh applications have been submitted by the colleges in Nagpur division to Social Welfare Departmen...