Friday, August 10, 2012

Why Dr Samant quits top posts of KIIT Deemed University? - India News Diary

Why Dr Samant quits top posts of KIIT Deemed University? - India News Diary:

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BHUBANESWAR: With entire KIIT Deemed University under scanner of CBI and it sister concern Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences under close watch of Medical Council of India, founder secretary of the leading educational institution Dr Achyuta Samant stepped down from his post raising eyebrows.

Dr Samanta attributed his resignation from top posts of KIIT Empire as part of his aim to play a bigger role in education and social sector in national level.KIIT society has accepted his resignation letters as per media reports.

Dr Samant had been heading KIIT since last 20 years. The resignation of Dr Samanta came few months after the MCI debarred KIMS for MBBS admission for two years from 2012-13-2013-14 following a CBI charge sheet.

But defying, sources said, KIMS reportedly carried out MBBS admission despite a ban imposed by MCI. MBBS students are paying around 27 to 28 lakh for 9 semesters’ examinations and Rs 2.60 lakh per semester.

As Dr Samant is a member in University Grant Commission, he faced tough time because his pending CBI against KIIT.

The MCI website , which clearly mentioned that KIMS has been debarred from MBBS admission for the year 2012-13, 2013-14 but in reality, admission completed in KIMS.

Sources said that students, who qualified KIIT Medical Exam-2012 entrance had been allowing for admission despite ban by MCI.Seven doctors of KIMS, a sister concern of KIIT caught red handed by CBI. They were saving KIIT from the clutches of MCI.

Seven posed them as KIIT doctors to save Dr Samant from MCI. CBI sources informed that the government medicos, who were suspended by Naveen Patnaik following the allegation paid hefty amounts to masquerade as KIM’s doctors by Dr Samanta to save disqualification from MCI

On January 30 CBI charge sheeted four senior functionaries of KIMS – Bhagabati Charan Das (dean-cum-principal), Achyuta Samanta (former secretary), Debasish Debata (assistant personnel officer) and Dilip Kumar Panda (deputy chief executive officer) – for resorting to “fraudulent” practice to impress the MCI squad, which inspected the institute on March 5, 2010.

As per reports, four KIMS functionaries were charge sheeted under sections 120 (B), 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged documents as genuine) and 176 IPC. On November 11, 2010, CBI registered a case against KIM’s authorities following allegations of irregularities.

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Resume fraud weighs on Indian IT industry, one in five CVs contain fake information - The Economic Times

Resume fraud weighs on Indian IT industry, one in five CVs contain fake information - The Economic Times:
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HR experts say that the issue of resume fraud is very closely related to the integrity of the employees and their employer

BANGALORE/NEW DELHI: Last month, R Nandan, a 33-year-old employee of IBM, was discovered to have used his wife's academic credentials to get his Rs 24-lakh-a-year job, putting the spotlight on rampantresume fraud faced by India's $100-billion informationtechnology services sector.

Had it not been for falling out with his wife, Nandan's fraud may never have been exposed. Every year, despite the IT industry's stated resolve to stamp out the problem of applicants lying about their academic qualifications and work experience, thousands like Nandan manage to sneak in. This is raising questions about whether companies are serious about tackling an issue which has the potential to harm India's reputation as the world's preferred location for outsourcingtechnology services.

One in every five CVs floating in the Indian IT industry is suspect, industry insiders and hiring experts say.

"At any given point in time, up to 10 per cent of the existing workforce in companies would be caught for fabricating or exaggerating their qualifications if verification tests are conducted," said Aditya Mishra, head of staffing business at Ma Foi Randstad, a leading HR services company in India.

HR experts say that the issue of resume fraud is very closely related to the integrity of the employees and their employer, and such instances would definitely have an impact on India's image.

"If companies don't get their act together on this, their reputation will be impacted. It speaks about their integrity," said Ganesh Shermon, partner and country head for human capital advisory services at KPMG.

The industry's inability to stop candidates who seek to game the system has partly got to do with lack of firm commitment from companies to follow uniform practices across the industry. "Honestly, most IT firms don't care; they just terminate these employees and forget about it. Unless employees, who fake their credentials, are taken to the police, this issue will never come to an end," a senior executive of another Bangalore-based IT company said, on condition of anonymity.

Continued high prevalence of resume fraud also raises questions about the efficacy of National Skills Registry, an initiative that industry body Nasscom started over five years ago as a long-term solution to the problem. As many as 118 large companies are members of the registry, which currently has a database of 1.1 million candidates, according to Nasscom. Of this, nearly 8 million candidate profiles have been vetted, so far, with the help of some 17 third-party background verification agencies.

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Friday, August 3, 2012

2G auction: Cabinet sets base price at Rs 14,000 crore

2G auction: Cabinet sets base price at Rs 14,000 crore:

2G auction: Cabinet sets base price at Rs 14,000 crore

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Bids by telecom companies for second-generation or 2G licenses will have to start at Rs 14,000 crore each, the cabinet decided today.

122 licenses were cancelled earlier this year by the Supreme Court, which ordered that spectrum or the airwaves used for mobile networks should be auctioned. The licenses that were revoked had been granted in 2008 by then telecom minister A. Raja, who was jailed for corruption and conspiracy. He was meant to follow a first-come-first-serve policy; the CBI says he accepted kickbacks to help companies jump to the top of a long queue.

The Hindu : NATIONAL / OTHER STATES : KIMS barred from admitting students for 2 years

The Hindu : NATIONAL / OTHER STATES : KIMS barred from admitting students for 2 years:

KIMS barred from admitting students for 2 years

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In an important development, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has barred the city-based Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences – a sister organisation of KIIT University - from admitting students for the two academic years – 2012-13 and 2013-14.

The two-year ban on admission is a blow to KIMS, which has already conducted entrance examination inviting students from and outside the State to take admission in the institute. The MCI has released the list of its recognised colleges in its website.

KIMS is the only college in the State which has been barred from admitting students. There are seven medical colleges operating in the State including three government-run medical colleges such as SCB Medical College, Cuttack, VSS Medical College, Burla, and MKCG Medical College, Berhampur.

Four privately-run medical colleges are KIMS, Bhubaneswar, Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Bhubaneswar, and two medical colleges of Hi-Tech group in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela. While IMS has been permitted by the MCI to take students for its 100 seats, Hi-Tech group, with 100 seats in Bhubaneswar, has been recognised for admitting students. Hi-Tech’s Rourkela college will be taking students for the first time from this academic season.

The MCI has adopted very stringent approach to any violation of rules or false information submitted by medical colleges ever since alleged bribery episode involving council’s former chief Ketan Desai came to the fore.

CBI recommendation

It is to be noted that the Central Bureau of Investigation had detected gross forgeries committed by KIMS to comply stringent MCI guidelines for offering MBBS programme. Moreover, the premier investigating agency had recommended the MCI to cancel recognition of the fourth batch of MBBS programme of KIMS. The CBI had even filed charge sheet against KIMS authorities on charges of hatching criminal conspiracy, cheating, and forgery.

Following CBI’s charge sheet, the State government had suspended seven government doctors who were hired by KIMS to impersonate as its staff before an inspecting MCI team. However, the exact reason behind MCI barring KIMS from admitting students for two academic sessions has not been ascertained. The MCI’s two-year ban on KIMS is a big jolt for the State government which had been encouraging private players to set up medical colleges across the State and help produce medical professionals.

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