Payyanur Local News

Kannur: CPM abstained from the all party meeting convened to discuss the issues related to the present strike by the medicos demanding immediate government action to get the IMC recogntition for the college. CPM has promised to attend the meeting earlier but decided to abstain from the meeting at the last moment due to unknown reason.

Kochi: Sri. TP Bhaskara Poduval has been nominated to the six-member executive committee of the Kerala Sangeeta Nataka Academy.

Youth Festival: St Mary's GHS Champions

Payyanur: St Mary's GHS Kokkanisseri became champions in the Payyanur Sub Dist School Youth Festial by securing 106 points. AV Smaraka GHS Karivellur reached the second position . In the UP section St Marys GHS and Annur UPS secured first and second position respectively. Smt PK Sreemathi MLA inaugurated the closing ceremony and Sri KP Noorudhin presided over the function.

MVR Visited Pariyaram Medical College

Pariyaram: Sri.MV Raghavan, the minister for co-operation visited Pariyaram Medical College yesterday. It his maiden visit after swearing in as the minister in the present ministry. College Principal and other officials gave a warm reception to the minister.

Payyanur: The Congress-led UDF government will bring up a Bill in the state assembly on November 22, to hand over the affairs of the Pariyaram Medical College back to the cooperative society, Cooperation Minister M V Raghavan said on Friday.

“The government is not in a position to financially assist the college to help attain the much-awaited Medical Council of India (MCI) recognition and, therefore, it proposes to bring up a Bill to hand over the college affairs back to the cooperative society," he said.

Earlier, Raghavan spoke to students and house surgeons, protesting for the past one week, seeking the support of the government and concerned authorities for setting right certain deficiencies pointed by a MCI team that inspected the college recently.

"A sum of Rs 24 crore is required immediately to meet the deficiencies already pointed out by the MCI team, which will make another inspection at the college on December 14," he said.

Efforts were being made to bail out the college from the present financial crunch through an aid of Rs 10 crore from the cooperative sector. However, he said, it would not be disclosed now from which source the money was being raised as "certain elements were bent upon blocking it."

Agitation to Continue till Approval is Secured: JAC

Payyanur: The week-long agitation by the Pariyaram Medical College students and house surgeons, urging the government and concerned authorities to take steps towards getting Medical Council of India (MCI) recognition for the college, would continue till the approval was secured, JAC representatives said.

The Joint Action Council representatives told that although the cooperation Minister M V Raghavan spoke to the agitators on Friday morning and had assured of all possible help to gain the approval, it had been decided to go ahead with the agitation till approval was secured.

MVR Visits Striking Pariyaram Medicos

Payyanur: Cooperation Minister M V Raghavan, who called on the agitating medicos of Pariyaram Medical College (PMC) at the Satyagraha pandal set up at the Stadium Corner, Kannur this morning, assured the students that the State Government would take necessary steps to obtain permanent recognition of Indian Medical Council (IMC) to the courses offered by the college. The Government will move a Bill in the State Assembly on November 22 in order to facilitate the handing over of the Medical College to cooperative sector, he said.

A new management under cooperative sector would give a facelift to the Medical College and would ensure recognition of IMC, he added.

“The UDF Government is committed to rescue the Medical College from crisis. The proposed administrative body will take steps to cut short the number of staff working in the college to save it from financial crisis,” he said. Raghavan later also held talks with staff members.

Payyanur: Sri. M.V.Raghavan, the minister for co-operation and ports , visited the Jyothisha Chakravarthy VPK Poduval, at his residence "Jyothisadanam" at Payyanur today.

Payyanur: Sri. M.V.Raghavan, the minister for co-operation inagurated the newly established Payyanur Co-operative Urban Bank at Payyanur. Sri. P.Balan Master, president of the bank presided over the function. Sri. Muraleedharan Nambiar, the Co-op Joint Registrar distributed the share certificates. M.Narayanan Kutty, CA Ajeer, PP Karunakaran,CK Chandrasekharan, KN Kannoth, T.Narayanan Nair, KP Balakrishna Poduval, V.Davood Haji, P.Rajan addressed the function.The new bank is located on the Hospital Road opposite to Payyanur Police Station.

Sabrimala: Sri. Shambhu Vadhyar Namboothiri, the Sabrimala Melsanthi completed his one year term today. Today evening (15-11-2001) he opened the Sabrimala Nada at 5:30 pm marking the beginning of the Mandala Pooja of this year. The new melsanthi took charge at 7 pm today. Shambhu Namboothiri is the first person to reach this position from Payyanur area. He hais from Kunnaru near Ramanthali.

Prof. K. Pradeep Kumar inaugurated the Payyanur College Physics Association. The meeting was presided over by Principal Shri K. Ravindran. A farewell party to Shri Chirukandan, retired Lab Assistant, was also arranged.

Street Lights not Working:

The Villagers of Karivellur-Peralam Panchayat urged that the Street Lights from Peralam to Swami Mukku are not working and should be made operational.

Honesty of Rikshaw Driver:

Shri T.V. Govindan of Kankol, a Rikshaw Driver at Payyanur proved his honesty by returning Rs. 9,850/- which was left out in his Rikshaw by the Mahila Pradhan Agent Smt. P.K. Kamalakshi of Annur.

Kannur: The students and the house surgeons of Pariyaram Medical College started indefenite hunger strike demanding immediate governement action to get permanent recognition for the college. Freedom fighter Sri. Malliseri Karunakaran inaugurated the hunger strike at the Stadium Corner, Kannur.

Payyanur: Gramam Prathibha gave a warm reception to the newly appointed members of various cultural academies from Payyanur.Dr. MV Vishnu Namboothiri (Chairman, Folklore Academy), Sri. TP Bhaskara Poduval (Member, Sangeeta Nataka Academy), Satheesh Babu Payyanur (member, Chalchitra Academy) and Sri. A.Prabhakaran (member, Balasahitya Academy) were felicitated at the function. Sri. HL Harihara Iyer (Dy Chief Engr KSEB) presided over the function.

Payyanur: The Aradhana Festival of the Payyanur Sri Subrahmanya Swami Temple will be celebrated from 16th to 30th November.Various cultural programs are arranged as part of the celebrations. The total estimated expenses for this years celebrations is Rs.2,15,000 according to the festival committee.

Payyanur: The Joint Action Council (JAC) of Pariyaram medical college students, house surgeons, former students and their parents, has launched an indefinite agitation to get the much-awaited Medical Council of India (MCI) recognition for the College. While the house surgeons began their protest on Friday, the students went on an indefinite stir from Saturday, including boycotting all academic activities, urging the authorities to meet their demands for getting recognition for the college, as per the union chairman, Shri T.V. Murali.

Shri Murali said the JAC, comprising the College House Surgeons' Association, Alumni Association, and Parents Representatives, besides the College Union, would go ahead with the agitation till the demands were met. The protest, however, would be peaceful and the normal hospital functioning would not be disrupted by the agitators.

A sum of Rs. 24 crores was required immediately to set right the deficiencies pointed out by a two-member MCI team, which recently inspected the College; adding that the College had been facing various problems, including acute staff shortage, since it started functioning in 1995. “The State Government should take a serious view of the situation and cannot allow the issue to remain so anymore,'' said Shri Murali.

The JAC representative said the College Students and House Surgeons did not believe in political pressure yielding results as the issue remained the same even after a new Government had come to power. Legal battles apart, the Students and House Surgeons had gone on protest on earlier occasions too and all assurances towards finding a solution had been elusive. Shri Murali said the MCI team, which recently conducted a thorough inspection of the college to find out if the infrastructure deserved MCI recognition, had pointed out, among other things, staff shortage, shifting of operation theatre to the main complex, setting up of a power laundry and the need for a Centralised Sterilisation unit. ``As it is, no concrete steps have been taken to meet these deficiencies,'' he said.

“The first batch of students who have passed out have no recognition and the next batch continues to suffer the same fate now,'' he said, adding that the protest activities would include a Secretariat Dharna and indefinite fast to urge the authorities to initiate prompt action.

The council activists took out a procession at Kannur on Saturday to proclaim their resolve to go on indefinite stir.

Olyambadi: Since the investigation in the murder case of Quarry Owner, Shri Adukkadan Balakrishnan (35) could not book the culprit, the villagers and relatives of Shri Balakrishnan are planning for an agitation. Shri Balakrishnan was found killed on 19th January, 2001 on his quarry near to his house.

Shri Balakrishnan’s mother has already started the agitation at Kannur Collectorate.

Pedestrian Got Injured in Road Accident:

Payyanur: Shri Kunhappa (47) of Peralam was hit by an over speeding Motor Bike near Vellur and got injured seriously. He is admitted to a Private Hospital at Payyanur.

Payyanur: A combined agitation plan with the participation of all students union is planned to complete the work of Payyanur College Auditorium. The auditorium project was started 5 years ago and could not complete it due to the utter negligence from the management side.