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500 IP students to repeat semester
NDMC proposes 3% increase
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Bank manager stabbed to death
500 people vow to donate organs
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One more life snuffed out
Ex gratia announced; four-member panel to review facilities in hospitals Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December 5 Vikram, a resident of Trans-Yamuna, was reportedly pushed into the critical state after yesterday’s technical snag in the supply of oxygen even as the hospital administration said that the patient was a head injury case and had anyhow suffered three cardiac arrests before he died this morning. “He died due to a cardiac arrest and was in a critical condition. He doesn’t fall into the category of the other four and the cause of his death was not yesterday’s oxygen failure,” said the hospital’s authorities. Taking a serious view of the tragic incident, the government has constituted a four-member committee to review the medical procedures and facilities in Delhi government hospitals and make recommendations for strengthening and upgradation of the system while Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit announced an ex gratia for the next of the kin of the deceased. Dean of Maulana Azad Medical College, Dr Arun Kumar is chairman of the committee while members of the committee are Dr D.K. Tempe, Director Professor and Head (Department of Anaesthesia), G.B. Pant Hospital; Dr U.C. Verma, Director Professor, (Department of Anaesthesia), Lok Nayak Hospital; Dr A.K. Sethi and Head of the Anaesthesia Department, Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital. Delhi Health Minister A. K. Walia added that the committee would have expert inputs from the medical superintendents of G.B. Pant Hospital, Lok Nayak Hospital and GTB Hospital. The committee would visit the hospitals and submit a detailed report within a fortnight. The existing system in the hospitals, Dr Walia said, will be strengthened and provided with a complete administrative, financial and technical support.
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Govt to ban sale of
e-rickshaw
New Delhi, December 5 Delhi Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami said that the department had issued show-cause notices to the dealers for selling such vehicles in the city, asking why they were selling the rickshaw when it had not been under the ambit of regulations. The department has also received a number of complaints about the violation of routes, rash driving and overcrowding by Gramin Seva vehicles. Thereafter, 10 special teams have been constituted to tame the drivers and owners of Gramin Seva vehicles. They would not be allowed to violate the rules and regulations. Goswami has instructed the department to keep an eye on all the Gramin Seva vehicles plying on the roads in various parts of the city and take action against the violators. |
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Dalit activists, Left leaders clamour for equal rights
New Delhi, December 5 Later, Left members Brinda Karat, CPI (M), D. Raja, MP (CPI) and veteran CPI leader A.B. Bardhan, also joined the march and exhorted people of the sections concerned to continue their struggle against social oppression and discrimination. Speaking of the impact of liberalisation and privatisation on the economy, Karat said that the worst affected have been Dalits and other excluded communities due to which they are getting only one third of the actual wages. They urged the representatives of all the political parties to try and bridge the development divide between Dalits and non-Dalits. Demanding a fair share in the economy, grassroots activists of various communities shared their experiences and struggles for dignity and rights, starting from challenges in accessing the basic facilities of health, education and social schemes to raising their voices against discrimination. The Dalit Dignity March, organised as a part of the 3rd five-day National Conference of Dalit Organisations by the National Confederation of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), witnessed a good response with people from more than 20 states in the country coming in a show of solidarity to demand an inclusive development for all. “The people here are a testimony to our belief that all the members of society need to be equal stakeholders if we are to fulfill the promises made in our Constitution that all of us are equal and honorable members of society. We are committed to the cause of bridging the divide between Dalits and non-Dalits,” said Ashok Bharti, the chairman of the National Confederation of Dalit Organisations.
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500 IP students to repeat semester
New Delhi, December 5 At a meeting convened by the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday, Vice-Chancellor of I.P. University Professor BK Bandopadhyay said that as a special case, a third chance was given to over 2,200 students through a supplementary examination this year to improve their scores, and those who failed will have to repeat their year now. “Of these 2,200 students, 524 students failed to pass the supplementary exam. The remaining 1,676 students cleared the examination. It was unanimously felt that these 524 students have not been able to rise to the minimum standards required for promotion to the third year and in their own interest should repeat a year to enable them to be at par with the remaining students,” he said. Bandopadhyay said, “The students have been informed that they will have to repeat their semester. They had three chances to maintain their scores and end credits. The Delhi government is also on board with us on the decision.” According to the Academic Council’s 2009 order, students had to pass in at least 50% of the papers in the first year and earn 90% credits in the second year for promotion to the third and fourth year in their degree. |
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NDMC proposes 3% increase
in property tax
New Delhi, December 5 The budget proposals were presented by NDMC Commissioner PK Gupta in a special meeting. The new budget also has provisions for setting up a medical college, the first by a civic body in the Capital, a Mahila Haat to encourage women entrepreneurs and parking lots. The budget has proposed a new parking regime based on the hourly billing system in place of the existing one. Gupta said the three per cent hike in property tax will result in an extra income of Rs 200 crore in the next fiscal and justified the measure, noting that there had been no increase in this regard since 2003-04. He said the Municipal Evaluation Committee had suggested increase in tax and valuation of property. “The value of the property, vacant or constructed buildings, should be increased as it was last hiked in 2003,” Gupta said. |
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Bank manager stabbed to death
New Delhi, December 5 The deceased has been identified as Vinod Das. The police received a PCR call at around 7:55 am. Das used to work with Corporation Bank in the area. The police said that he had an enmity with his relative Bharat who killed him after a heated exchange of arguments. Das had been living in the Trilokpuri area for years. |
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500 people vow to donate organs
New Delhi, December 5 During the awareness event, organised in memory of the late Tej Ram who was chairman of the Board of Trust SGRH and two more families who donated organs of their deceased members, organisers read out the message of Priyanka who was supposed to attend the event. In her message that read, “I could not make it to the event due to some unscheduled engagement. You are welcome to announce my name as a donor if it helps the cause.” Regretting the dismal picture of the donors in India, Dr R S Rana, chairman of the Board of Management SGRH, said the rate of deceased organ donation is only 0.8 per million people in the country as against UK’s 17/million and Spain’s 35/million. Also, unlike western countries where 90 per cent of the organs come from the deceased donors, in India it is less than 2 per cent nationwide although recently the number has improved in states like Andhra and Gujarat, he added while noting that “If only 20 per cent of the families of people who had a brain death donated their organs, all the requirements for organ transplantation in India would be met.” Chairman of NGO MOHAN Foundation, Sunil Shroff, said India has 1.4 lakh accident victims who are diagnosed as brain dead annually, but the conversion rate is still far from what is required. “Organ donation is the highest form of giving and one organ donor can save up to nine lives,” he said. At SRGH recently, 14 patients got the life-saving gift starting with the organs of Tej Ram, who suffered a brain haemorrhage and died at the age of 87 on September 23. Following this, the family of another brain dead patient Sunil Kumar Vohra (63) at the hospital agreed to donate organs while the organs of Suhant Kaushal (20), a road accident victim declared brain dead on November 22, 2012, also went on to save the life of many needy patients. Mamata Jain, who donated organs of her late son, said people should understand the need of donation. “My son has not died in vain, he lives on in many lives,” Jain said.
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