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Farm varsities need more funds, says ICAR chief
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Teachers against politicians on higher education council
Govt staff to step up stir
Plan to set up 100
SEZs: Kanda
Hooda calls for second green revolution
Rohtak PGIMS to get more
on faculty
HC Judge to open Ellenabad judicial complex today
Experts dwell on corporate world
Ban on free eye camps
Sex racket busted, 5 held
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Farm varsities need more funds, says ICAR chief
Hisar, December 10 Addressing the 23rd convocation of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University here, he said inadequate public funding meant that universities were unable to keep even the minimum required strength of faculty in certain disciplines. This had also resulted in a specific lack of competence among the existing faculty in new and emerging areas. The mismatch between student intake and faculty recruitment, lack of infrastructure for education and research, poor status of universities’ farms and establishment of new agricultural universities and colleges without matching resources were other factors affecting farm universities. Ayyappan said till the Sixth Plan as much as 33 per cent of the ICAR budget was spent on strengthening agricultural education in the country. This explained why most farm varsities established during that period had excellent infrastructure. After that period the spending had gone down to 8.9 per cent in the Eighth Plan, 14 per cent in the Tenth Plan and 21.5 per cent in the Eleventh Plan. He said “it is imperative to enhance budgetary support, both at the central and the state level, to attain and sustain enhanced velocity and vigour and the much desired output, outcome and long-term impact”. The ICAR chief said the present approach on technology transfer was not delivering the desired results. The strategy had to be reviewed and emerging issues had to be addressed. New strategies for on-farm employment generation needed to be evolved. The role of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) had to be redefined, he added. Ayyappan had a word of advice for teachers and students. “Teachers who teach with the salary paid to them in their minds and students who learn with the jobs they may procure in their minds are both pursuing wrong paths,” he said, quoting an anonymous spiritual personality. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was conferred the honoris causa degree of Doctor of Science. Haryana Governor and Chancellor Jagannath Pahadia, who presided over the convocation, presented the degree to Hooda while Vice-Chancellor KS Khokhar read the citation. Hooda, who was the guest of honour on the occasion, gave away the Best Teacher awards, the Best Krishi Vigyan Kendra and Best Research Station awards. As many as 832 degrees were awarded. These included 54 PhD degrees.
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Teachers against politicians on higher education council
Sirsa, December 10 Teachers’ associations of most of the prominent universities in the state have welcomed the constitution of the council, but, at the same time, they have flayed the government for its proposed structure, under which politicians and bureaucrats will be holding prominent positions. The government had recently announced the setting up of the council with the Chief Minister as its chairman and the Education Minister as the vice-chairperson. The Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Education, Financial Commissioners and Principal Secretaries of Finance, Higher Education, School Education, Health and Medical Education, Technical Education, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Departments, vice chancellors of all universities in the state, directors of the Agriculture, Technical Education, Animal Husbandry and Health Departments will be the members of the council. Two principals of government colleges from the state and two prominent academicians would also be nominated as its members, while the Commissioner, Higher Education, would be its Member Secretary, the government announcement had said. The council would advise the government on measures to enhance access, inclusion and equity in higher education and suggest measures to remove imbalances in the development of higher education and research. The council would also advise on the adequacy of funding for higher education, the course of reforms to rejuvenate higher education and research and ensure comprehensive and holistic growth of higher education for sustainable and inclusive development, said a spokesperson. Dr Parmesh Kumar, secretary of the Federation of Haryana University Teachers Associations, said the very purpose of the council was defeated when those who have to take the final decision occupy prominent positions in the advisory panel. He said the federation had been demanding that a council headed by prominent academicians be constituted to advice the government. Dr Somvir Rathee, president of the Maharshi Dayanand University Teachers Association (MDUTA), said the manner in which the council had been constituted, including ministers and bureaucrats, the whole exercise had been made a sham. Dr Rajesh Malik, secretary of the Chaudhary Devi Lal University Teachers Association, said: “The council is not going to serve any purpose because those who need advice have themselves assumed the advisory work,” he added. Dr BS Chaudhary, a member of the executive council of KU, demanded that the council should be headed by an academician of repute and all its members should be chosen from the academic circle.
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Govt staff to step up stir
Rohtak, December 10 Stating this, a spokesperson for the sangh said here today that a large number of employees from all districts would take part in the agitation. Describing the PPP model of development as total failure and anti-people, he said the system had come handy to corrupt officials and politicians and had resulted in wastage of the public funds to the tune of several crores in each of the department since it was adopted and had failed to provide the desired results. Accusing the government of promoting inefficiency and corruption at various levels, he said the policy of outsourcing of work in various departments had failed to deliver results as it had resulted in exploitation of the work force and development of a mafia between officials and private companies. Demanding abolition of the PPP model, he said the state government should look into the “failures” and bring in a system that was more responsive and accountable to the public. Claiming that the state government had not been taking several demands of the government staff seriously, he said the pay anomalies had not been removed so far. While over 25,000 posts had been lying vacant, a similar number of employees working on contract or part-time basis had been awaiting regularisation, he added.
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Plan to set up 100
SEZs: Kanda
Sirsa, December 10 Speaking to mediapersons after inaugurating a cattle feed plant in the private sector here today, the minister said the state government proposed to set up 100 special economic zones (SEZs), involving an investment of Rs 2 lakh crore, to boost the industry and exports in the state. He said of these, sanction had already been given to 64 SEZs. Coming down on the recent statement of Leader of the Opposition Om Prakash Chautala on the issue of SEZs, Kanda alleged that the industry felt stifled during the INLD government led by Chautala as the former Chief Minister had no interest in the development of the state. Chautala had earlier demanded a White Paper on SEZs and had alleged that the government had played a big fraud by acquiring land of poor farmers in the name of SEZs and then allowing them to sell that land for a huge premium. The minister maintained that under the new industrial policy of the government, 106 big and 9,742 medium-level new industries had been set up in Haryana. He said a self-assessment system had been introduced in Haryana to save the industrial units from unnecessary inspections. To a question, the minister said he was exploring the possibilities of bringing some agriculture-based industries to Sirsa and Fatehabad districts. Kanda, who represents the Sirsa seat in the state Assembly, said Sirsa would get several new projects on December 25, when Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda would address a rally here. He said a hockey academy for men had been already announced for Sirsa in the “Chak De India, Chak De Haryana” rally at Rai last month. Kanda participated in a number of programmes in the town today.
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Hooda calls for second green revolution
Hisar, December 10 Hooda was speaking at the 23rd convocation of HAU here after an honoris causa degree of Doctor of Science was conferred on him “in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the cause of Indian agriculture, uplift of the farming community and promotion of education and sports”. He said agricultural scientists would have to work together to provide the technology for new breakthroughs. Hooda said HAU should help Haryana claim its rightful place in the evolving economy of the country. “A university is not merely a place where one comes to earn a degree. You come here to master a discipline and to learn the art of addressing challenges in life,” he added. Hooda said scientists should provide crop, region, resource and farm-specific solutions to our farming problems. The farm scientists needed to extend application of research to sustain agricultural growth, productivity of our livestock, and protection of environment,” he added. |
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Rohtak PGIMS to get more
on faculty
Rohtak, December 10 The PGIMS admits over 150 students for the under-graduate and post-graduate courses each year. The university has now advertised 102 posts of teaching faculty in various disciplines. The PGIMS, the largest medical college and hospital in the state in the government sector, has been selected for upgradation by the Union Health Ministry under a special package. It will be getting a special financial aid of Rs 125 crore for adding infrastructure. Several super-speciality departments, including neurology, were started here several years back, but posts of doctors and teachers could not be filled to the required level. The Dental College, earlier part of the PGIMS, has now been accorded independent status, but is also faced with a staff crunch. The posts advertised by the health university include 23 posts of Assistant Professor in neurology, surgical gastro-enterology, cardiac surgery, burns, nephrology, paediatric surgery, cardiology, urology, haematology, nuclear medicine, medical oncology and pulmonary and critical care medicine. Seven posts of Assistant Professor have been advertised for the Dental College for various fields like orthodontics, oral surgery and conservative dentistry. Five posts of Senior Professor are vacant in the college, besides 16 posts in the teaching departments. |
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HC Judge to open Ellenabad judicial complex today
Ellenabad , December 10 District and Sessions Judge Shiva Sharma said besides Justice Gogoi, Justice SK Mittal, Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justice Alok Singh, Justice RK Garg, Justice RK Jain and Justice Mehinder Singh Sullar will also be present during the inauguration of the new judicial complex. Spread over 9 acres, the complex has been constructed at a cost of Rs 3.25 crore. It has four courtrooms, two on each floor. The setting up of the courts will bring much relief to the local people, who had to go to Sirsa for their cases of civil and criminal nature. The judge said Judicial Magistrate Amarjeet Singh had been transferred to Ellenabad from Dabwali courts so that court work could begin in the new court complex here from tomorrow.
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Experts dwell on corporate world
Ambala, December 10 Prof BB Tandon, former chairman, University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh, delivered the keynote address and Vinod Goel, Chairman Galaxy Group, presided over the conference. Expressing his views about the changing corporate world, Khandelwal said the basic management concepts were relevant but they have to think about the changes happening in the world. He said by identifying the core competency of every individual employee and teamwork would bring success. He advised the corporate world to change the strategies, work together and compete with the situation to meet the changing business dynamics. Prof Tandon explained the situation of the past and present economic status. He said though growth meant distribution and development equality, these two attributes alone could not bring total development unless the distribution was even. Dr Khandelwal also released two new publications, “GGGI Business Review” and “GGGI Times” on the occasion.
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Ban on free eye camps
Jind, December 10 This order comes in the wake of seven persons losing their eyesight after a cataract operation at a free camp organised by two social bodies in Safidon recently. The district authorities have announced a probe by a team headed by the Chief Medical Officer. Officials say that work pressure on eye surgeons at such camps is too much and may cause errors. Chief Medical Officer Dr Ravinder Wadhwa said patients should contact civil or government hospitals only if they wished to undergo any such operation. |
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Sex racket busted, 5 held
Sirsa, December 10 A spokesperson for the district police said Krishna Yadav, SHO of the City police station, received a tip-off when she was on patrol duty that a brothel was being run in a house in the New Housing Board Colony. The police raided the house and found two women with two youths, Balvinder and Gobind. The police said one of the women was the wife of the brothel owner, Kanshi Nath, while the other one had been brought from Delhi. The accused, according to the police, has confessed that they were running a brothel in the guise of an orchestra unit.
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Government of India, said today that the pace and quality of farm technology generation in most Indian agricultural universities could be considerably improved provided these were adequately funded.
