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Man goes forfishing; found dead

DJ VenkateshSheekha News Service

Diglipur, Nov 09: NanuMajhi a resident ofKhudirampur – 5, Diglipurdied yesterday under myste-rious circumstances.

According to reports48 years old Nanu, had gonefor fishing yesterday eveningat 4 PM on a river, close to hishouse. When he did not re-turn for a long time, familymembers went to the river

looking for him but they founddead body of Nanu Majhi inthe river. According to familymembers the fishing net wastangled in his hand but it isimpossible for one to drownin that depth.

The deceased is sur-vived by his wife, one daugh-ter and a son. The body wascremated today after PostMortem. Police has registereda case under relevant sectionsand investigation is on in thisregard.

In health field PPP mode has been a failure

Government aloneshould run Medical College inAndamans: Dr. Naresh Gupta

Sheekha BureauSheekha News Service

Port Blair, Nov 09: The Direc-tor-Professor of MaulanaAzad Medical College, Dr.Naresh Gupta, one of the bestmedicine man of India, hassaid that for a place likeAndamans, Governmentalone should run MedicalCollege. Dr. Gupta was in PortBlair to conduct interview forthe post of Doctors as an ex-pert in UPSC team. On Satur-day Andaman Sheekha inter-viewed Dr. Gupta to knowabout his views about thehealth scenario of Andamanand Nicobar Islands, MedicalCollege etc.

Expressing his satis-faction over the present healthscenario of Andaman andNicobar Islands, Dr. Guptasaid that considering thepresent set up of Health Infra-structure in Andaman andNicobar Islands, Government (See page 7)

alone should run the medicalCollege here. He said that PPPmode has proved to be a fail-ure in Health sector. Here isthe full transcript of the inter-view.Andaman Sheekha: What isyour general Impressionabout Health Scenario ofAndaman and Nicobar Is-lands?Dr. Naresh Gupta : See thehealth scenario in whole coun-

try is nothing that we can beproud of. It is much betterthan what it used to be but itis not something to be proudof. We don’t have requisitenumber of doctors, WHOwants we should have onedoctor for 700 people, wehave one doctor for 11,00 to15,00. There is always a greatdemand for doctors and howdo you meet these demands,

Major Protest againstAlcohol at Campbell BayStaff Correspondent

Sheekha News Service

Port Blair, Nov 09: TheCampbell Bay Island todaysaw a major protest againstentry of IMFL. MV Shakti hadbrought 42 tons of IMFL fromPort Blair to Campbell Bay fordelivery at berth for ANIIDCOwine shops. The Member ofParliament, Mr. Bishnu PadaRay, who is visiting CampbellBay presently also took partin the protest. Talking to

Andaman Sheekha Mr.Sanjay, Pramukh, PanchayatSamity, Campbell Bay todaysaid that he along with Mr.Rajesh, Pradhan LaxmiNagar, Campbell Bay, othergeneral public, includingMember of Parliament alongwith general public of GreatNicobar, Campbell Bay pro-tested against the sale of IMFLin Great Nicobar and they de-manded not to make deliveryof IMFL and to return back the

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modular accommodation forall off icers and sailorsonboard.

Indian Navy ship INS Cheetahback after major modifications

New Delhi/ Port Blair, Nov09: After a 15-month-longmajor upgrade a t theCochin Shipya rd, INSCheetah returned to theAndaman and NicobarCommand, officials said.The LST(M) class of shipunderwent extensive repairwork and major modifica-tions of equipment and ma-chineries onboard.

Commissioned in1984, it was the first in itsclass of ships to be up-graded to include an en-

closed bridge, officials said.The ship has been com-pletely upgraded with

President nod to Rajasthan labour law amendmentsJAIPUR: President PranabMukherjee has approvedamendments to the labourlaws passed by the Rajasthangovernment, officials said onSaturday, a move whichopens up the possibility ofdeeper changes in archaiclabour laws across states.

After winning a de-cisive mandate in state pollschief minister VasundharaRaje had brought in changesto the Industrial Disputes Act,the Contract Labour Act, theFactories Act and Appren-ticeship to enhance the easeof doing business, encourageindustrial activity and gener-ate new jobs.

"The state govern-ment has received the Presi-

dent of India's assent to theamendments in the labourlaws governing Industrial Dis-putes Act-1947, ContractLabour Act-1970 and Facto-ries Act-1948 on Friday. Theamendments to Apprentice-ship Act-1961 are still in theprocess," said Rajat KumarMishra, principal secretary(labour and employment) inRajasthan government. Thestate government will notifythe amended laws in the com-ing weeks.

Industry experts saidthe changes in labour lawswill trigger similar effort inother states as well as theCentre and help the govern-ment to attract investors.

"It's an innovation

which opens a window of op-portunities for every state to fol-low suit. Its brings us back tothe debate on how 29 chief min-isters in India can have moreimpact on India's job creationthan one Prime Minister," saidRituparna Chakarborty, CO-founder and senior Vice Presi-dent, TeamLease President, In-dian Staffing Federation.

Andhra Pradesh lodgesprotest with Centre overdisputes with Telangana

HYDERABAD: Allegingthat Hyderabad city policeadopted partisan attitude oninter-governmental issuesconcerning Andhra PradeshReorganisation Act, AP gov-ernment has requested theCentre to operationalize theAct's provisions to bring citypolice under common Gov-ernor.

Hyderabad is thecommon capital of AndhraPradesh and Telangana for10 years and ESLNarasimhan is the commonGovernor of both the states.

The protest by theAP government cameagainst the backdrop of bit-terness between the twostates over various issues, in-cluding institutions whichhave not been allocated ex-clusively to any of the two.

"Andhra PradeshChief Secretary IYR KrishnaRao met the Cabinet Secre-tary and the Home Secretaryon November 7. He lodged aprotest of the AP governmentwith regard to the partisan-ship exhibited by HyderabadCity Police in settling inter-governmental issues arisingout of the Re-organizationAct," a release issued by APgovernment last night said.

"These issues have tobe settled in terms of the Sec-tions of the Act. The ChiefSecretary briefed them abouta series of incidents involv-ing a questionable role ofHyderabad Police," it said.

The AP Chief Secre-tary referred to the "incidents"involving institutions like Na-tional Academy of Construc-tion (NAC), National Instituteof Tourism and HospitalityManagement (NITHM) andthe row over transfer offunds in AP Building Construc-tion Workers Welfare Fund, therelease said.

"The AP governmenthas posted B Sam Bob, princi-pal secretary to government, asin-charge Director General ofNAC. When he went to theoffice to take charge, he wasprevented by police from enter-ing there and was requested toreturn. After prolonged argu-ments with the police for anhour, he had no other option butto come back," the releasesaid. "Since it is Society un-der the Societies RegistrationAct with branches across thestate, the Telangana govern-ment should have allowed theexisting arrangement to con-tinue.

If there was an issue,the Telangana government(should have) referred it toGovernment of India for asettlement. But, the institutionhas been taken over by theTelangana government," it said.

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Passenger Bus falls in ditchat North Andaman; 8 injured

DJ VenkateshDiglipur, Nov 09: Atleast eightpassengers have sustainedserious injuries when a bus ofState Transport Service(STS) of A & N Administra-tion, fell into a road side ditchyesterday at Kishorinagararea Diglipur, situated atNorth Andaman region.

According to reportsthe STS bus left MayabunderIsland at 5.30 AM today andat around 07.45 AM, nearly13 KM away from Diglipurat a sharp turning the driverlost control over the bus dueto mechanical failure.

According to victimsdue to muddy surface the bus,with 45 passengers, went

down into the ditch slowly,after leaving the road, givingchance to many to jump outof the bus.

The Driver and Con-ductor of the bus reportedlybroke down many windowglasses to help passengers tocome out of the Bus.

According to pas-senger a Maruti Alto Car wascrossing the area, whichpicked up some victims andrushed them to CommunityHealth Centre, Diglipur whilemany others were carried byanother STS bus, comingfrom behind.

Some injured whowere taken to KishorinagarHospital were later shifted to

CHC Diglipur, due to lack ofDoctors.

“Eight people includ-ing two ladies are presentlyadmitted in CHC Diglipur. Outof these eight one sufferedfracture on hand while onemale patient PradeepChakraborty got serious headinjuries, followed by eighteenstitches,” CHC Diglipursources told AndamanSheekha.

Meanwhile, officialsin State Transport Depart-ment told Andaman Sheekhathat preliminary report saysmechanical failure was thereason behind the accidentwhile further inquiry will becarried out in detail.

PBMC Chairperson inspectdevelopmental projects in Ward No. 2

Port Blair, Nov 09: The Chair-person, Port Blair MunicipalCouncil, Shri M Arumugamaccompanied by the Jr. ViceChairperson, Shri HemaRao, Councilors of PBMCand senior officials of theCouncil visited Ward No. 2 onSaturday to inspect ongoingdevelopment projects.

The PBMC team in-spected theSulabhsouchalaya at Haddo.The Chairperson directed the

Sanitary Officer to ensureproper upkeep of sanitarycondition of the public utilitiesat a desired level so that thegeneral public can avail thefacilities.

Realizing the long feltdemand of the residents ofward No. 2, the Chairperson,PBMC instructed to expeditethe construction of a motoraleroad starting from Post officeto mosque for the benefits ofthe commuters. Taking a

strong note of a dilapidatedcondition of the bus stand atward No. 2, the Chairpersondirected the Executive Engi-neer (Wks) to immediatelyrenovate the facility.

The PBMC Chair-person also instructed the EE(Works) of the Council tohasten the ongoing develop-mental works to completethem in a time-bound mannerand carry out the maintenancework wherever necessary.

Port Blair, Nov 09:The CoastGuard Region (A&N), duringthe last two months has con-ducted 41 Community Inter-action Programme with fishercommunity all along the A&Nislands as part of ongoingCoastal Security Exercise“Tat Suraksha”. This drive byCoast Guard was aimed tocreate awareness amongst

the fishermen about the needof an effective Coast Secu-rity Mechanism and tosensitise them to abide by theFisheries Regulations such asto possess relevant docu-ments while operating at sea/fishing, to carry while oper-ating at sea/fishing, to carryadequate communication andlife saving equipment such as

VHF sets, life jackets, lifebuoys, etc.

The special Commu-nity Interaction at Guptaparain Port Blair was conductedin coordination with FisheriesDepartment on 07 Nov 14.

During the Commu-nity interaction, fisher folkwere sensitised about the

Coast Guard distributeslifebuoys to fishers

NGGOA urges ANIIDCO tore-start Vegetable Business

Port Blair, Nov 09: TheNon-Gazetted Govt. Offic-ers’ Association, Andamanand Nicobar Islands has de-manded that ANIIDCOshould re-start the vegetablebusiness at Port Blair bybringing vegetables, fruits,etc. from mainland so thatthe sky-rocketing prices ofthese items can be con-trolled to some extent whichwill be of great relief to thepeople in general and gov-ernment employees andworkers in particular.

In a letter sent to theChief Secretary, Andamanand Nicobar Administration,Shri D. Ayyappan, GeneralSecretary of the Associationsaid that vegetables andfruits which are brought frommainland are sold at exorbi-tant rates in these islandswithout any control. Themonopoly vegetable businessby one or two businessmen/firms has led to the uncon-trolled price of vegetableitems including onion andpotato brought from main-land. It is regretted to saythat the vegetable businessstarted by the ANIIDCOLtd during 1990s as a mea-sure of market interventionto control exploitation of the

people by monopoly busi-nessmen, was closed downduring 2010, he said. Thesale of vegetables and fruitsbrought from mainlandthrough the out lets ofANIIDCO and through mo-bile shops was a great reliefto the people particularlygovernment employees andworkers who are alreadyreeling under the burden ofsky-rocketing prices.

The Association toldthe Chief Secretary that theANIIDCO Ltd. is runningliquor shops, petrol pumps,steel, etc. which are fetch-ing high profit and as suchit has a social commitmentto undertake some kind ofother activities also whichare not so profitable, forthe welfare of the people.

Bringing vegetablesand fruits from mainland andsale of the same through itsoutlets in the islands will beone of such activities whichthe ANIIDCO should under-take. The Association, there-fore, requested the ChiefSecretary to direct theANIIDCO Ltd. to re-startthe vegetable business atPort Blair by bringing veg-etables, fruits, etc. frommainland.

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forthcoming Coastal Security Exer-cise scheduled from 10-12 Nov 14.

The fishermen were advisedto be vigilant, report all suspiciousmovements of ships and boats atsea to Indian Coast Guard and be‘Eyes and Ears’ for securityagencies.Special emphasis was alsogiven to educate the fishermen onsafety at sea. The use of safetyequipment such as life jacket, lifebuoy, Distress Alert Transponders

etc, were demonstrated to them andthey were advised to proceed forfishing in groups and carry validdocuments in boats. The IndianCoast Guard in keeping with itsMotto Vayam Rakshamah means“We Protect” had distributed lifebuoys to the fishermen ofGuptapara, Port Blair free of costas a good will gesture to protecttheir lives and ensure safety at seain rough weather.

Coast Guard.... (From page 3)

Maha Procession by Hindu Community onthe Centenary of Balashahab Deshpanday

Mayabunder, Nov 09: AVanvasiKalyan Ashram,Mayabunder organized a BirthCentenary Celebration ofVanyogi BalashahabDeshpanday today at ZillaParishad Community Hall,Mayabunder. More than1000 of people attended theprocession, which startedfrom Danapur junction toGovt. Guest House,Mayabunder and finally endedat Zilla Parishad CommunityHall, Mayabunder.

Dr. Srivastav, Assis-tant Professor, Mayabunderwas the Chief Guest and de-

livered a speech about the welfare and otheractivities being carried out by VanyogiBalashahad Deshpanday during his lifespan.

He also expressed his gratitude tothe organizers for gathering a good numberof people and requested the organizers toconduct such function in future too.

A new languageHaving swept aside au-to c ra t ic r egimes inEgypt and Tunisia, bro-ken Colonel MuammarGa dda f i’s ho ld ove rLibya and increasinglyheaped pressure on theincumbent regimes inYemen and Syria , thepro-democracy revolu-tion of the Arab Springhas marked a politicalwatershed in the Arabworld.

No longer is theArab street willing to ac-cept a social contractwith governments thatdoes not factor in aspi-rations for democraticfreedom.

As they take theirfirst steps, an unprec-edented debate is un-derway to define the na-ture and contours of thenew d emocrac ie s , a swell as the role that re-ligion will play in them.

If 2001 set off ade cade tha t b roughtradical Islam and globalj ihad to the fore , theArab Spring of 2011 hasgiven rise to a post-Is-lamis t d is course tha tseeks to reinterpret po-litical Islam within theframework of moderndemocra t ic c ons t i tu-tionalism.

An inspira t ionalmodel here is Turkey’sJus t ic e and Deve lop-men t Pa r ty (AKP ) ,which accommoda te sre ligion in the publicsphere but is a far cryfrom the p recep t s o fpuritanical Wahhabi Is-lam as represented bySa ud i Arab ia o r t heTaliban.

In fact, the futureo f Ara b po l i t ic s ispoised to be defined bythe s t ruggle be tweentraditionalists and mod-ernis t s within the Is -lamic body politic.

I f t he d eba te ist ransplanted to South

Asia, similar forces areat play. Bangladesh hasseen moderate forces re-verse the Islamist trendin recent years. In Af-ghan is t an t he Ta l ibanhad won, been defeatedand is now staging some-thing of a comeback, en-couraged by war-weari-ness in the US.Afghani s t an ’s s oul issplit between moderateand Talibanist tendencies- hence the importanceof the just signed India-Afghani s t an s t r a t eg icpa rtne rs hip tha t ’s de -signed to shore up mod-erate forces . Pakistan,however, is behind thecurve.

The inc rea s ingrad ica l is a t ion o f d is -course emana t ingfromIslamabad - including thepropensity to play victimwhile disowning respon-sibility for nurturing ter-ror groups - shows thehangover of the past de-cade still continues.

In India, the Mus-lim community is widelyrecognised as moderatewit h a few e xt remis tgroups representing thefringes. In fact, IndianIs lam - and India as awho le - c an as p ire top lay a ro le in currentArab debates similar tothat of the Turkish AKP.

Unl ike c la s s i ca lwestern secularism Indiadoesn’t abolish religionfrom the political space,but is nevertheless a con-s titut ional, democra ticorder. But influences canalso flow in the reversedirection.

The BJ P, for ex-ample, needs to learn apost-Hindutva politics -that stresses democracyand development insteadof majoritarianism - if itwants to rejuvenate itselfin the c onte xt o f anaspirational and youthfulIndia.

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WHO reassures on health impact of mobile phonesNew Delhi: The World HealthOrganisation (WHO) has againsought to reassure billions ofmobile phone subscribers glo-bally that no adverse effect hasbeen found till date on anindividual's health by its use.

"A large number ofstudies have been performedover the last two decades toassess whether mobile phonespose a potential health risk," thepremier body on health in theUnited Nations system has saidin its latest fact sheet.

"To date, no adverse

health effects have been estab-lished as being caused by mo-bile phone use," theorganisation said, seeking toallay fears in several countriesover the ill effects of mobilephone usage on health, includ-ing the triggering of cancer.

The fact sheet speaksof both short-term and long-term impact of mobile phoneuse. As per latest data, thereare some 6.9 billion mobilephone subscriptions the worldover.

In the short-term as-

sessment, it says, even as tis-sue heating is the primary con-cern of exposure to the humanbody, the frequencies of mo-bile are so low that they resultin negligible temperature risein the brain or other organs.

It also said a numberof studies that used volunteersto probe the effects of radiowaves on a brain's electricalactivity, function, sleep, heartrate and blood pressure did notfind any consistent evidence ofadverse health effects.

"Further, research hasnot been ableto providesupport forcausal rela-tionship be-tween expo-sure to elec-tromagneticfields andself-reportedsymptoms, orelectromag-netic hyper-sensitivity."As regards

long-term af-fects, the glo-bal body saidepidemiologi-cal researchhas mostlylooked for alink betweenbrain tumoursand mobilephone. It alsosaid such can-cers take

many years to detect, and thatmobile phones were not in usewidely before 1990s.

"However, results ofanimal studies consistentlyshow no increased cancerrisk for long-term exposure toradio frequency fields."

According to WHO,several large multinational epi-demiological studies havebeen completed or are ongo-ing, including case-controlstudies and prospective cohortstudies examining a numberof health endpoints in adults.

The largest retro-spective case-control study todate, led by the InternationalAgency for Research on Can-cer (IARC), was designed todetermine whether there arelinks between use of mobilephones and head and neckcancers in adults.It said whilethe analysis of data from 13participating countries found

no increased risk of glioma ormeningioma with mobile phoneuse of more than 10 years,some indications came fromthe highest 10 percent cumu-lative hours of mobile phoneuse.

"The researchers con-cluded that biases and errorslimit the strength of these con-clusions," it added.

Speaking about itsown response to the issue asexpressed by the public andgovernments, WHO said it hadestablished the InternationalElectromagnetic Fields Projectin 1996 to assess the matterscientifically."WHO will con-duct a formal risk assessmentof all studied health outcomesfrom radio frequency fields ex-posure by 2016," it said, add-ing it will also promote researchand exchanges among its agen-cies, scientists, governments,industry and the public.

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Is Earth the only technologically-intensivecivilization in Universe?

Washington: A new study hasrevealed that the combinationof earth-based science ofsustainability and the space-oriented field of astrobiologycan shed light on the futureof technological civilization onEarth and is the planet firstand only technologically-in-tensive culture in Universe.

Human-caused cli-mate change, ocean acidifi-cation and species extinctionsmay eventually threaten thecollapse of civilization, ac-cording to some scientists,while other people argue thatfor political or economic rea-sons industrial developmentshould be allowed withoutrestrictions.In the paper, twoastrophysicists argue that

these questions may soon beresolvable scientifically,thanks to new data about theEarth and about other plan-ets in our galaxy, and by com-bining the earth-based sci-ence of sustainability with thespace-oriented field of astro-biology .

As t r o p h y s i c i s t sAdam Frank and WoodruffSullivan call for creation of anew research program to an-swer questions abouthumanity's future in thebroadest astronomical con-text.

The authors ex-plained that the point wouldbe to see that Earth's currentsituation might, in some sense,be natural or at least a natu-

ral and generic consequenceof certain evolutionary path-ways.

The researchers alsoshowed that how habitabilitystudies of exoplanets hold im-portant lessons for sustainingthe civilization we have de-veloped on Earth.

According to the re-sults, studying past extinctionevents and using theoreticaltools to model the future evo-lutionary trajectory of human-kind and of still unknown butplausible alien civilizationscould inform decisions thatwould lead to a sustainablefuture.

The study is pub-lished in the journalAnthropocene.

India air pollution ‘cuttingcrop yields by almost half’

Agriculture hit by both urbanand rural pollution as wheatand rice yield decrease sig-nificantly, study finds.

Air pollution in Indiahas become so severe thatyields of crops are being cutby almost half, scientists havefound.

R e s e a r c h e r sanalysed yields for wheat andrice alongside pollution data,and concluded significant de-creases in yield could be at-tributed to two air pollutants,black carbon and ground levelozone. The finding has impli-cations for global food secu-

rity as India is a major riceexporter.

Black carbon ismostly caused by ruralcookstoves, and ozone formsas a result of motor vehicleexhaust, industrial emissions,and chemical solvents react-ing in the atmosphere in thepresence of sunlight. Both are“short-lived climate pollut-ants” that exist locally in theatmosphere for weeks tomonths, with ozone damagingplants’ leaves and black car-bon reducing the amount ofsunlight they receive.

The study looked at

both the effects of climatechange and the two pollutantson crop yields.“Whiletemperature’s gone up in thelast three decades, the levelsof smog and pollution havechanged much more dra-matically,” says JenniferBurney, an environmental sci-entist at University of Califor-nia, San Diego, and co-authorofthe paper, published in thejournal PNAS. “But this wasthe first time anyone lookedat historical data to show thatthese pollutants are havingtremendous impacts oncrops.”

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Government alone....may be you come up withmore Medical colleges butMedical Colleges may not beall solution. We have to pro-vide services. Most of the ba-sic services are providedthrough PHCs, which is thehealth care fabric of this coun-try.

Andaman Nicobarhas 22 Primary Health Ser-vices. I have interacted withthese doctors in PHCs, theyare so committed and dedi-cated that I am really im-pressed. We need doctorswho do good, we are not in-terested in big doctors whocan’t do good. These Doctorsare very compassionate andthey have total devotion.

I think the services inAndaman and Nicobar Is-lands are very good and I alsounderstand that everything isavailable when it comes tomedication and facilities, ev-ery drug, even if it is an ex-pensive drug it is freely avail-able. Services are good but weshould also keep in mind thatthese Islands have a largearea and density of popula-tion could be very small incertain area so we have tomake sure how to provide theservices.

Andaman Sheekha:About the proposed MedicalCollege of Andaman, Do youthink government shouldrun it or it should be run inPrivate Public Partnership(PPP) mode?

Dr. Naresh Gupta : Ithink when it comes to run-ning a medical college gov-ernment alone should runmedical college here. The Firstmedical college here must berun by government; I will giveyou many reasons for this.There is a need for medicalcollege I don’t deny that.

Creation of a MedicalCollege, is not just providingthem with facilities for heartattack or diabetes or hyper-tension, creating a medicalcollege is creating a wholenew hub of infrastructure likeServices, activities , employ-ment, socials services, em-powerment of public.

There are larger is-sues, many of them are socialissues, no profit issues, thoseare linked with medical col-lege.

In our country as oftoday there are over 400 medi-cal colleges, more than half ofthem are private. We are pro-ducing more than 50,000Doctors every year now. Mostof the bulk has been added byprivate colleges and whenyou had a college like that youdon’t look at the social needs.You know in Union Territoryof Pondicherry there are morethan one dozen medical col-leges. You can’t even get pa-

tients. Why somebody wantsto open so many Medical col-lege. They have a benefit, it isa profitable business that’swhy it is private.

In this place it is onlygovernment doctors, who goto far flung PHCs and nevercomplain. Nobody cuts cor-ners in government colleges.The private colleges, with somany coming up and makingprofit, have neverinspire confidence.

In Delhi, capital city,imagine there are no privatemedical colleges, we don’t al-low. And the reason is that wefind larger benefit to the popu-lation, to the person whoneeds it, can come only comefrom government medical col-leges. It is very easy to com-plain and say that govern-ment is not doing this or that.The private hospital do notallow patients to enter certaindoors, in government evenyou can enter inside ICU, youdo even know what is hap-pening there inside privatemedical colleges. I have notseen social charity in PrivateMedical Colleges.

When you look at thePPP, then you must look atthese aspects. And if you lookat the way these private col-leges have come up half of thePrivate College are in onlyfour states of India, TamilNadu, Andhra Pradesh,Karnataka, Maharashtra. Ihave given example,Pondicherry you have adozen, you can’t get patient,how do you run it? Obviouslythey have to become institu-tion for churning out degrees.If you want to generate aplace, where the number ofdegrees will increase after fewyears, then private are thebest. They are the best print-ing press. But if you thinkthese persons, who havecome out, they stay on andthey do good then we needdoctors with commitment,otherwise these persons willget just degree and move on.In Private colleges you goaround you will find that theyhave issues with faculty, withtraining because their pri-mary interest is profit.

When you have amedical college coming up,every country has a system ofcare. In our country, you havea sub centre, then PHC, thenCHC and you have DistrictHealth Centre, then you go toG B Pant or Medical College.This is a referral system andintegrated system. Somebodyhas been doing the basic ser-vices for many many years inthese Islands. PHCs havebeen done, CHCs have beendone they know the problemthey also know about practi-cal problems and when you

have a medical college it hasto be linked in with the sys-tem.

Now, PPP has comein a big way in last 15 yearsand PPP has made somegood success but what ourexperience has been, in thehealth field is that in healthfield PPP has been a failure,at medical college level andat super specialty level.

In Delhi we have twosuper specialty hospitals ,High end fully equipped allstructure provided by thegovernment. The Governmentsaid we have been running formany years let us run it in PPPmodel. So lets us give it andgive a good competition.The Infrastructures werethere, OTs were there, equip-ments were there and all ma-chines were there, they wereasked to run it. More than onedecade they were not able torun it even they fail to acceptthe challenge. Infact we wentto the extent that ok we willprovide you the staffs also.

They have come andbacked out, come and backedout eventually the Govern-ment accepted that they won’tbe able to run it because theyhave delayed it for more thana decade and it has given backto our own specialists. Thisis what happening in Delhi,think about Andamans, whywould they?

All these doctorsfrom where do they comefrom, they come from govern-ment intuitions. All doctors inDelhi, who are the high end,whether they are cardiac sur-geon, they come from govern-ment institutions.

Lakshadweep hadsimilar problem and therealso they gave the transportof these patients fromLakshadweep to nearby stateto a private institution inKochi, I would not like you togive the name, for severallakhs, obviously it did not in-spire too much confidence.

Who will not exploita person, it is only the gov-ernment of India. We haveseen in North East that run-ning this is best when youengage local community. Ithink regarding medical col-lege in Andaman, we shouldnot have two thought goingto government in a set up likethis.

Andaman Sheekha:Many demand that these Is-lands should have a PG Col-lege (Specialty) College firstand not MBBS college, whatdo you think regarding thisdemand.

Dr. Naresh Gupta :Have you ever seen a childwhom we say you don’t walkyou start running first. Youwalk first and then you be-

come good runner.Medical Council of

India has now said that un-less you have Medical college,which teach under graduatesin the medical school, youshall not have any specialty.The PGI in Chandighar, whowere allowed these specialtycourses long time back, arenow exception.

What are you talkingabout American Concept. InIndia we spent 1.2 percent ofour GDP on health it used tounder 1 percent in previous 5years plan. America is spend-ing close to 20 percent 1/5 oftheir money is going onhealth. They have only Spe-cialists who practice every-where. They don’t have somany specialists theyneed.They take MBBS doctorsfrom India and train them.They can afford that high end,because they are spending 20percent money of GDP .

We want to train ourdoctors in a manner which isgood for our country. For pri-mary health centre do youneed specialists, No. We havea fabric of PHCs which needs

MBBS Doctors.Presently, we are pro-

ducing more specialist thanwe can accommodate. Weneed only given number ofspecialists and we are al-ready having specialists. Iask this guys (Private Medi-cal College) nobody is stop-ping you from running a pri-vate Specialty Hospital herewhy you want to grab thismedical college.

Super Specialty,there is a Conundrum, in ourthinking in our practice.

But once you have acollege running here, MedicalCouncil of India will comeand inspect and take it fromme, automatically your spe-cialist will be coming becausethe specialist required forCHCs are Internal Medicine,General Surgery, Gynecology/ obstetrics and pediatrics. Sotake it from me, it is a stan-dard thing which we haveseen, these four specialistswill come in no time. Thesefour are the basic crux, whereyou look for 99 percent ofneed. You can never be a run-ner without become a walker.

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alcohol to Port Blair.The protester re-

quested the Assistant Com-missioner to intervene intothis matter and in view of thesituation the Assistant Com-missioner, Campbell Bay af-ter having consultation with

the higher authorities di-rected the authorities con-cerned to return back thewhole consignment of IMFLto Port Blair.

The protest started at10.00 am and ended at 1.30pm.

Major Protest... (From page 1)

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Andaman’s Movie: What happens 6 to 6' by month endStaff CorrespondentPort Blair, Nov 09: What hap-pens 6 to 6, a movie shot inAndaman and Nicobar Is-lands, is all set to release bythe end of November. Venkyand Lakshmi, a talented ac-tress from Andaman, acted asthe lead pair in a romanticthriller titled, “What happens

6 to 6”. Janardhana Rao is thedirector of this film.

The film has com-pleted all the formalities and isreleasing at the end of thismonth. Producer Lakshmi said,“I acted as the heroine in thisfilm. This is a very differentfilm and we have shot the filmin Andaman. Our director has

made the film very lavishly.Elendar gave superb tunes.

We will release the movie atthe end of this month”. Krishna

Tej, ChittiBabu, Avinashetcacted in this film.

No dialogue with Pakistanif ceasefire violations continue,

Arun Jaitley saysNEW DELHI: In a stern warn-ing to Pakistan, India on Sun-day said there cannot be a dia-logue with Islamabad ifceasefire violations continue.

"If repeated ceasefireviolations take place then envi-ronment for dialogue itself suf-fers," defence minister ArunJaitley, who also holds the port-folio of finance ministry, said atthe India Global Forum meet-ing.

"Yes, there should bea dialogue. We will welcome it

but then the environment for dia-logue has to be created by bothcountries. One of them cannotupset the environment and thensay why dialogue is not takingplace," Jaitley said.

The dialogue processwas derailed after Pakistan en-voy met Kashmiri separatistsjust a day before the foreign sec-retary-level talks in August.

"When we further thediscussions (after swearing-ininvitation) it was through foreignsecretary dialogue, this was re-

sponded to by an immediate in-vite to the separatists particu-larly keeping in mind electionsin J&K at the doorsteps. Nowthis we found completely unac-ceptable," he said.

Noting that there areissues in Kashmir, Jaitley saidbut the valley has been by andlarge peaceful. "We are expect-ing a peaceful elections in thevalley notwithstanding efforts todisturb the environment."

He also praised thearmed forces for showing ex-emplary courage in rescue andrelief operations during the re-cent floods in the state.

With regard to the bor-der issue in the eastern region,Jaitley said India is keen for ex-pediting the process to resolvethe matter.

"As far as China isconcerned, our economic rela-tionship continues to grow, thereare a lot of mutual investmentsin both countries and there arehuge trade between two coun-tries," he said."But then we havea pending issue of settlement ofboundary itself and the commis-sion appointed in 2003 for thatpurpose; we do hope it func-tions now expeditiously. We(will) continue to have a mean-ingful dialogue with them," headded.