Four-year course, including internship, proposed; it would be “institutional” in character The annual proposed intake for the course is 25 to 50 students Medical Council of India plans to start the course in August The proposed alternative model for under-graduate medical education to create a cadre of rural doctors will be discussed at a two-day workshop beginning here this Thursday. The model, mooted by the Medical Council of India (MCI), is to...
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Wiping flaws by swiping a ‘smarter’ NREGS card by Tarannum Manjul
Fake entries and wrong entries have been the bane of the government’s flagship welfare plan — the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). However, Uttar Pradesh has found a way out. Starting July 2009, the state Department of Rural Development introduced the biometric smart card attendance system in 10 villages of two blocks, and in 2010, it plans to extend the same to at least one block in each of...
More »Delhi cops don't file FIRs in 90% of cases by Rahul Tripathi
Here's why it would be extremely embarrassing for Delhi to accept the Centre's ``advice'' that all complaints made to the police be filed as FIRs. If FIRs are indeed made mandatory, there would roughly be a 10-fold increase in the city's crime statistics. A study of PCR call records in Delhi reveals that on an average, nearly 20 complaints of snatchings are received every day while more than 10 calls...
More »The system strikes back by Vidya Subrahmaniam
Missing job cards, fudged muster rolls and diversion of NREGS funds through fake bills. What the Rajasthan social audit has revealed is the tip of the iceberg. Bhilwara-2009 invited a swift and strong backlash — the government backed off realising it had stepped into a quagmire of corruption The battle being fought in the panchayats, streets, offices, and courts of Rajasthan is not just about social audit To understand why civil society...
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KEY TRENDS • The proportion of households which completed 100 days of wage employment under MGNREGA in total households that worked was 6.02 percent in 2014-15, 10.07 percent in 2015-16, 7.79 percent in 2016-17 and 5.78 percent in 2017-18 @$ • Completed works as a proportion of total works was 30.15 percent in 2014-15, 29.39 percent in 2015-16, 40.27 percent in 2016-17, 32.01 percent in 2017-18 and 3.3 percent in 2018-19 (as on 7th May, 2018) @$ • In...
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