Nine more private nursing colleges raided in Jodhpur

Jodhpur: Cracking the whip on private nursing colleges running in violation of norms across the state, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) today raided nine more colleges in the city. 

Out of the nine colleges raided today, six were either non-existent or lacking basic infrastructural facilities as prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council, ACB Pratap Singh said. 

"We went to the addresses, these colleges had given to the state government and surprisingly, two of them not even had any building at the mentioned address," he said. Other four colleges had incomplete infrastructure and were lacking in either equipments, laboratories, rooms or other amenities. "We have seized their records and are investigating them," he said. 

The ACB has collected registration and other documents from all 200 nursing colleges in the state to find out if they had committed any irregularities. The ACB had raided over 50 nursing colleges in the state recently. 

The Rajasthan Private Nursing College Federation had condemned the step and had called a one-day bandh of nursing colleges across the state on March 17.

Students upset over postponement of exams

Jodhpur: Resentment prevails among a section of engineering students in Jai Narayan Vyas University here following its decision to postpone examinations in view of a youth festival.

"We had prepared according to the original time table but now, since examinations have been postponed, we will have to bear the examination stress for an extended period and that too for the sake of a youth festival," said an affected student.

The University has postponed the semester examinations of III year engineering students to February 11 after some NSUI student leaders appealed to the vice chancellor to accommodate the youth festival which was clashing with exams, Dean (Engineering Faculty), DGM Purohit said.

"These examinations were schedule to start from February 2, but were postponed following the directions of the vice chancellor, who was approached by the student union leaders," he said.