NET result: Lectureship only for top 15%

Manash Pratim Gohain TNN 

New Delhi: Only the top 15% of the candidates in the National Educational Testing (NET) merit list for each subject and category will be declared qualified and will be eligible for lectureship. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has notified the procedure and criteria for declaration of result for NET, which is going to be conducted on December 30, 2012. As per the new scheme, the candidates will need to obtain minimum marks in each paper separately. 
    According to UGC officials, the merit list will include only those candidates who have obtained minimum marks in each paper separately. 
    The final merit list will be prepared subject-wise and category-wise using the aggregate marks of all the three papers secured by such candidates. 
    Aseparate merit list for the award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) will be prepared from among the NET qualified candidates figuring in the merit list. 
    NET will comprise three papers and will consist of only objective-type questions. While in paper II and III all the 50 and 75 questions, respectively, are compulsory, in paper I, of the 60 questions, the candidates are required to attempt only 50. While paper I is of general nature to assess the teaching/research aptitude of the candidate, paper II and III will comprise questions based on the subject selected by the candidates and each question will carry two marks. 
    UGC’s NET Bureau has devised a four-step procedure and criteria for declaration of results. The first step the candidates need to clear is to score the minimum marks separately in all the three papers. 
    For general category candidates, one has to score 40% each in paper I and II, and 50% in paper III, while for the OBC (non-creamy) category, the distribution is 35%, 35% and 45%, respectively. 
    Among those candidates who have cleared step I, a merit list will be prepared subjectwise and category-wise using the aggregate marks of all the three papers secured by such candidates. And in step III, only 15% candidates (for each subject and category), from the merit list mentioned under step II, will be declared NET qualified for eligibility for lectureship only. A separate merit list for the award of JRF will be prepared from among the NET qualified candidates figuring in the merit list prepared under step III. Around 7.8 Lakh candidates have registered for the examination which will be conducted in 78 subjects at 77 centres across the country. As per the new UGC scheme, candidates will need to get minimum marks in each paper separately.

 

 

 Source ::: The times of India,  28-12-2012, p.16.http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=TOIM&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW

Govt drops pvt university bill

Vaibhav Ganjapure TNN 

Nagpur: The Maharashtra government has dropped the plan to introduce the ‘Private Universities Act’ to regulate private universities. The Uturn by the government comes after the cabinet cleared the bill, introduced by the state higher and technical education department, on December 13. 
    The bill was to come up for discussion in the legislative council and was even mentioned in the daily schedule last week. But it was deferred by the chairman following a request by the government. The bill came under criticism from members on the issue of reservation. Even Governor K Sankaranarayanan had referred it back after demands were made for reservation in these institutions. 
    Though chief minister Prithviraj Chavan refused to confirm the development directly, he hinted to TOI that since the government had to make a new bill for every private university, they were contemplating making some changes in the bill. “We are studying establishment of many such universities which have already opened centres in other states andwillthen make necessary changes,” he said. 
    However, minister for higher and technical education Rajesh Tope confirmed the development, stating that the existing bill had been dropped and new model guidelines will be framed for entry of these universities. 
    He,however, remained noncommittal about the percentage of reservation in the new guidelines . 
    Tope made it clear that all these universities would have to be cleared by both the assembly and council to become operational.


Source:::: The Times of India, 21-12-2012, p.04. http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=TOIM&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW&AW=1356080949251

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Eve-teasing: HC says women’s dignity at stake

Rosy Sequeira TNN 

Mumbai: Exactly a week after a 19-year-old youth was killed in Dombivli by a group of boys after he took them on for passing lewd comments on a girl, the Bombay high court on Monday said eve-teasing needed to be redressed as the question of women’s dignity was at stake. 
    The court’s observation came on a suo motu public interest litigation. Taking note of the need to ensure the safety of women, a division bench of Justices V M Kanade and P D Kode had recommended the framing of norms for women, especially those working on night shifts, and requested the chief justice to take it up as a PIL. The recommendation from the judges came on September 17, 2012 after they upheld the death rap of two men who raped and killed a 22-year-old Pune BPO staffer on November 1, 2007. 
    On November 8, 2012, the CJ converted the judges’ request into a PIL and assigned it before the same bench. When the matter came up for hearing onMonday, the judges said women’s security was a burning issue. “Apart from security to be provided to women, it has been noticed that of late there have been instances where people rescuing women have been assaulted and murdered,” Justice Kanade said, adding the issue needed to be resolved considering all aspects.


Source:::: The Times of India, 11-12-2012, p.01. http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=TOIM&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW&AW=1355204307234

Human Rights Day, 10 December

Human Rights Day presents an opportunity, every year, to celebrate human rights, highlight a specific issue, and advocate for the full enjoyment of all human rights by everyone everywhere.

This year, the spotlight is on the rights of all people — women, youth, minorities, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, the poor and marginalized — to make their voices heard in public life and be included in political decision-making.

These human rights — the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, to peaceful assembly and association, and to take part in government (articles 19, 20 and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) have been at the centre of the historic changes in the Arab world over the past two years, in which millions have taken to the streets to demand change. In other parts of the world, the “99%” made their voices heard through the global Occupy movement protesting economic, political and social inequality.

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Share your thoughts about the right to participate in public life and political decision-making, using #VoiceCount.

Take part in a series of four Goolge+ Hangouts between 22 November and 10 December to engage with senior UN officials and leading experts on the rights of minorities, persons with disabilities, the impact of business on human rights, and beyond.

And, starting on 1 December, send us your questions using#AskRights. Selected questions will be answered by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, at a Human Rights Day Google+ Hangout.

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2nd ANNUAL INDIAN LEGAL AWARDS 2013

“Recognition of Legal Finesse, Innovation and Accomplishments”

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Don’t let your signature bounce New Delhi: A person may face criminal proceedings if a cheque issued by him gets dishonoured on the ground that his signature does not match the specimen signature available with the bank, the Supreme Court has said. A bench of justices TS Thakur and Gyan Sudha Mishra set aside the verdict of Gujarat high court which had held that criminal proceedings for dishonouring of cheque can be initiated only when the cheque is dishonoured because of lack of sufficient amount in the account and not in the case of mismatch of signatures.  “Just as dishonour of a cheque on the ground that the account has been closed is a dishonour falling in the first contingency referred to in section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act, so also dishonour on the ground that the ‘’signatures do not match’’ or that the ‘’image is not found’’, which too implies that the specimen signatures do not match the signatures on the cheque would constitute a dishonour within the meaning of section 138 of the Act,” the bench said. Source::::: DNA, 03-12-2012, p.01, http://epaper.dnaindia.com/story.aspx?id=33390&boxid=28691&ed_date=2012-12-03&ed_code=820009&ed_page=1