Hyderabad, Aug 18th: Due to shortage of doctors in hospitals, the state government has decided to employ qualified doctor’s from private hospitals to teach in government medical colleges. There are at least 600 vacancies in these colleges. The minister for medical education, Mr. P. Sudarshan Reddy, said doctors hired from private hospitals would teach specialized subjects. Initially these doctors would teach at the government medical colleges in Anantapur district.
The minister revealed that the respective government hospitals will decide the salaries for this faculty. As a pilot project, only colleges in Anantapur will be allowed to hire private doctors. Later, it would be extended to other major medical colleges across the state in phased manner. There is an acute shortage of post graduate teaching staff, he said. Meanwhile, in the wake of many complaints the state government has also decided to upgrade the services of major government medical colleges, including Gandhi Hospital and Osmania General Hospital.
The minister revealed that the respective government hospitals will decide the salaries for this faculty. As a pilot project, only colleges in Anantapur will be allowed to hire private doctors. Later, it would be extended to other major medical colleges across the state in phased manner. There is an acute shortage of post graduate teaching staff, he said. Meanwhile, in the wake of many complaints the state government has also decided to upgrade the services of major government medical colleges, including Gandhi Hospital and Osmania General Hospital.
CBSC grading for SSC Posted on 20-Aug-2009
Hyderabad, Aug 19th: The state government has finally decided to adopt the CBSE pattern of grading for SSC public exams from this year. The committee constituted by the government to look into the issue studied both the CBSC and ICSE patterns and decided to go ahead with the former which it felt was ...
New courses to launch in ITIs Posted on 20-Aug-2009
Visakhapatnam, Aug 19th: The union minister for power, Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde, will launch new courses in 12 industrial training institutes on Thursday through video conferencing mode from Scope Convention Center, New Delhi. The institutes were adopted by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC...
Schools still to seek states nod Posted on 20-Aug-2009
Hyderabad, Aug 19th: Though a GO on regulating fee structure in private schools was issued by the government fifteen days ago, none of the school managements have approached the government so far to seek approval for their revised fee, which was hiked in the range of 40 percent to 100 percent this ye...
Fresh survey on ration cards Posted on 20-Aug-2009
Rajahmundry, Aug 19th: The East Godavari joint collector, Mr. Kona Sasidhar, called for conducting a fresh survey on ration cards, housing and pensions. He made it clear that the program was not meant for weeding out the bogus ration cards but it was being conducted only to collect information pertai...
Migrations continue in PR Posted on 20-Aug-2009
Rajahmundry, Aug 19th: Praja Rajyam Party is likely to witness an exodus of a few more leaders who are basically migrants from other parties in the days to come, while party sources maintain that their cadre base is strong in East and West Godavari districts. Senior leaders, Mr. Devender Goud, Mr. Ta...
Chiru rules out merge with Congress Posted on 21-Aug-2009
Hyderabad, Aug 20th: The Praja Rajyam party president, Mr. K. Chiranjeevi on Thursday ruled out the rumors coming out about the merger of PRP with Congress. While addressing a media conference he criticized a regional daily for deliberately carrying out a vicious campaign against his party for the la...
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