A day-long strike on Thursday by 1,000 resident doctors at the city's largest medical facility, Safdarjung Hospital, ended after the concerned authorities agreed to consider their demands. The strike call was given by the resident doctors association to demand regular salary payment, better hostel facilities and security on the campus.
Sameer Prabhakar, president of the Resident Doctors Asscosiation of Safdarjang Hospital said, 'At approximately 6 pm on Thursday, we met Jagdish Prassad, director general of health services and other government officials from the health ministry and tabled our demands. The officials have agreed to consider all our demands, including release of four months salary of interns, availability of potable water in all wards, upgradation of canteen and security on the premises.
As far as the demand for hostel is concerned, they have assured us to come up with a concrete plan by Tuesday. Hence, we are discontinuing our strike,’ Prabhakar. The association represents around 900 resident doctors in the hospital.
Doctors resumed work immediately after the meeting, he said. B D Athani, medical superintendent of the hospital said, 'We at Safdarjung Hospital are not paid regular salary and salary is not quite sufficient. Also, the accommodation for resident doctors is not up to the mark. Our demands have not been met by the administration despite several assurances in the past. Hence, we had resorted to the strike.’
The strike had hit the outdoor patients department (OPD) services but there were no disruption in emergency and intensive care unit (ICU) services, hospital officials said.
The executive council of Delhi University in its historic meet on Thursday cleared the curricula of all 63 proposed courses for the four-year-degree programme for undergraduate level to be introduced from July this year.
The academic council and the executive council of the University of Delhi in their meeting held on the 7 and 8 of May by an overwhelming majority of 86-6 and 19-2, respectively, have accorded due approval to the new courses and syllabi, scheme of examination and evaluation and other consequent amendments to the ordinance to introduce four-year undergraduate programme from the coming session of 2013-14. Aditya Narayan Mishra, an executive council member said, 'The high point of Thursday's development is that SC/ST admissions have been decentralised in Delhi University from the coming four year session. Earlier admissions in the SC/ST category were centralised.’
Mishra also informed that courses received the green signal late afternoon at approximately 3.15 pm after a long debate with overwhelming support in the executive council meeting'.
'There were over 21 executive council members present at the historic session of the council. The executive council is meeting to assess the course syllabus passed by the academic council on Wednesday. The executive council is the highest body which gives the stamp of approval to academic matters of the university,' he added.
Mishra said, 'The executive council decision is going to help the SC/ST students in taking admission in a college and course of their choice, instead of being forced to study what’s been alotted to them.
In the meeting, I also requested the DU administration to form a grievance committee.' With these approvals all formal requirements as per the University of Delhi Act, statues and ordinances have been complied with and the University is all set to launch the four-year programme'.
'I also urged the Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh, to make these reforms more inclusive and appointment of teachers should be started in order to make these reforms more successful. Also, due weightage should be given to the teaching experience of ad-hoc teachers'.
A source said, 'Teachers’ representatives belonging to Left affiliated bodies registered dissent, but later during the course of the meeting teachers deliberately participated in the approval of courses and confessed that the new four-year course should be introduced to impart employable skills to the students.'
Earlier, the academic council of Delhi University had met for over two days to approve courses and their syllabus, which had already been scrutinised by the standing committee of the academic council for over 30 hours.
Sameer Prabhakar, president of the Resident Doctors Asscosiation of Safdarjang Hospital said, 'At approximately 6 pm on Thursday, we met Jagdish Prassad, director general of health services and other government officials from the health ministry and tabled our demands. The officials have agreed to consider all our demands, including release of four months salary of interns, availability of potable water in all wards, upgradation of canteen and security on the premises.
As far as the demand for hostel is concerned, they have assured us to come up with a concrete plan by Tuesday. Hence, we are discontinuing our strike,’ Prabhakar. The association represents around 900 resident doctors in the hospital.
Doctors resumed work immediately after the meeting, he said. B D Athani, medical superintendent of the hospital said, 'We at Safdarjung Hospital are not paid regular salary and salary is not quite sufficient. Also, the accommodation for resident doctors is not up to the mark. Our demands have not been met by the administration despite several assurances in the past. Hence, we had resorted to the strike.’
The strike had hit the outdoor patients department (OPD) services but there were no disruption in emergency and intensive care unit (ICU) services, hospital officials said.
The executive council of Delhi University in its historic meet on Thursday cleared the curricula of all 63 proposed courses for the four-year-degree programme for undergraduate level to be introduced from July this year.
The academic council and the executive council of the University of Delhi in their meeting held on the 7 and 8 of May by an overwhelming majority of 86-6 and 19-2, respectively, have accorded due approval to the new courses and syllabi, scheme of examination and evaluation and other consequent amendments to the ordinance to introduce four-year undergraduate programme from the coming session of 2013-14. Aditya Narayan Mishra, an executive council member said, 'The high point of Thursday's development is that SC/ST admissions have been decentralised in Delhi University from the coming four year session. Earlier admissions in the SC/ST category were centralised.’
Mishra also informed that courses received the green signal late afternoon at approximately 3.15 pm after a long debate with overwhelming support in the executive council meeting'.
'There were over 21 executive council members present at the historic session of the council. The executive council is meeting to assess the course syllabus passed by the academic council on Wednesday. The executive council is the highest body which gives the stamp of approval to academic matters of the university,' he added.
Mishra said, 'The executive council decision is going to help the SC/ST students in taking admission in a college and course of their choice, instead of being forced to study what’s been alotted to them.
In the meeting, I also requested the DU administration to form a grievance committee.' With these approvals all formal requirements as per the University of Delhi Act, statues and ordinances have been complied with and the University is all set to launch the four-year programme'.
'I also urged the Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh, to make these reforms more inclusive and appointment of teachers should be started in order to make these reforms more successful. Also, due weightage should be given to the teaching experience of ad-hoc teachers'.
A source said, 'Teachers’ representatives belonging to Left affiliated bodies registered dissent, but later during the course of the meeting teachers deliberately participated in the approval of courses and confessed that the new four-year course should be introduced to impart employable skills to the students.'
Earlier, the academic council of Delhi University had met for over two days to approve courses and their syllabus, which had already been scrutinised by the standing committee of the academic council for over 30 hours.