05-08-2007, 03:22 AM
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Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
Health and Family Welfare Minister Abumani Ramadoss has made a fresh bid to wrest control of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) from its Director P Venugopal. In the Governing Body (GB) meeting held in his chairmanship on Monday, it was decided that the institute could not appoint any lawyer without the approval of the institute's president Ramadoss.
The body also decided to issue show cause notice to the Faculty Association for casting aspersions on the meeting of the GB. Moreover, the GB directed the institute to comply with its recommendations made in the last GB meeting held on January 24.
<b>"The GB has decided that the appointment of lawyers on behalf of AIIMS would be made by president in consultation with the director. Only those lawyers will represent the institute," said Naresh Dayal, the Health Secretary. "But the last word will be of the president only," </b>he said. The Health Secretary said that show cause notice would be issued to the Faculty Association of AIIMS. <b>"Taking strong exception to the kind of news circulated by the association regarding the workings of the GB, we have decided to issue show cause notice against them,"</b> he said.
The Faculty Association had stated in its press release on Sunday that the GB is discussing personal issues rather than making some constructive efforts for the development of the institute.
<b>Though the senior members of the AIIMS faculty and Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) were not even allowed to enter the premises of Nirman Bhavan</b>, where the meeting was being held, UGC Chairman Sukhdeo Thorat was called and thanked by the members of the Governing Body for his findings of the report submitted on Saturday. The report alleged that the director of the institute was involved in promoting the anti-quota protests.
"Thorat was called in the last minutes of the meeting. He was invited. The members thanked him for his report and its findings," Dayal said. The power and functions of the GB and the director was also discussed in the meeting. It was held that all the recommendations made in the last meeting of GB held on January should be implemented as soon as possible.
<b>Meanwhile, the faculty members of the institute present there shouted slogans against autocratic behaviour of the Health Minister and demanded that the reports of the MS Valiathan Committee that was constituted by the Prime Minister two years ago should be made public. According to sources, the Valiathan report said that interference of the Ministry in the working of AIIMS should be reduced.</b>
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Pioneer.com
Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
Health and Family Welfare Minister Abumani Ramadoss has made a fresh bid to wrest control of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) from its Director P Venugopal. In the Governing Body (GB) meeting held in his chairmanship on Monday, it was decided that the institute could not appoint any lawyer without the approval of the institute's president Ramadoss.
The body also decided to issue show cause notice to the Faculty Association for casting aspersions on the meeting of the GB. Moreover, the GB directed the institute to comply with its recommendations made in the last GB meeting held on January 24.
<b>"The GB has decided that the appointment of lawyers on behalf of AIIMS would be made by president in consultation with the director. Only those lawyers will represent the institute," said Naresh Dayal, the Health Secretary. "But the last word will be of the president only," </b>he said. The Health Secretary said that show cause notice would be issued to the Faculty Association of AIIMS. <b>"Taking strong exception to the kind of news circulated by the association regarding the workings of the GB, we have decided to issue show cause notice against them,"</b> he said.
The Faculty Association had stated in its press release on Sunday that the GB is discussing personal issues rather than making some constructive efforts for the development of the institute.
<b>Though the senior members of the AIIMS faculty and Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) were not even allowed to enter the premises of Nirman Bhavan</b>, where the meeting was being held, UGC Chairman Sukhdeo Thorat was called and thanked by the members of the Governing Body for his findings of the report submitted on Saturday. The report alleged that the director of the institute was involved in promoting the anti-quota protests.
"Thorat was called in the last minutes of the meeting. He was invited. The members thanked him for his report and its findings," Dayal said. The power and functions of the GB and the director was also discussed in the meeting. It was held that all the recommendations made in the last meeting of GB held on January should be implemented as soon as possible.
<b>Meanwhile, the faculty members of the institute present there shouted slogans against autocratic behaviour of the Health Minister and demanded that the reports of the MS Valiathan Committee that was constituted by the Prime Minister two years ago should be made public. According to sources, the Valiathan report said that interference of the Ministry in the working of AIIMS should be reduced.</b>
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