Vikas Vaidya

By Vikas Vaidya  It is the rude behaviour of Resident Doctors’ with the patients and their relatives while in casualty which is the main reason behind the attack on doctors. If this situation continues then the attack on doctors would also continue despite of laws being brought to resist the same. Taking serious cognizance of the same, Maharashtra Government has issued a circular wherein it has asked Deans of Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) of the state to conduct 6-monthly workshops to do the counseling of the Resident Doctors. Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan expects the Resident Doctors to be courteous, polite with the patients and their relatives. The Minister also wants that the Deans of the respective GMCs should endeavor to make their college the ‘Zero Conflict Institute’. These are usual complaints against the Resident Doctors of not talking to the relatives. Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has tried to sort out those. DMER tried to f...

By Vikas Vaidya Schools in Maharashtra did not get over Rs 600 crore as a reimbursement amount against the admissions done under Right To Education (RTE) Act since 2012. Founder President of Maharashtra English School Trustees Association (MESTA) Sanjayrao Tayade Patil has warned School Education department that it would not cooperate if the pending amount is not paid by December 31 this year. He further said that the schools will not participate in the RTE admission process. After the RTE act becoming effective, it became mandatory for the schools to admit students under it in 25% quota. It was decided that schools would keep 25 per cent seats for the admissions to be done under RTE. Government will pay Rs 14,000 for every student to schools. This amount was raised to Rs 18,000 per year per student. According to MESTA, Government has paid some 65% amount of the total amount to some schools that too of the academic year 2012-13 and 2013-14. Not a single penny against the admiss...