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The Madras High Court on Tuesday expressed extreme concern over the high-satisfactory quality of training imparted in authorities colleges and discovered that scholars from marginalized sections and rural college students reading in Government colleges need to be furnished with high-satisfactory training on par with college students reading in non-public colleges.

The Bench of Justice N. Kirubakaran and Justice T. V. Thamilselvi turned into presiding over a writ appeal filed about the provider situations for purchasing promoted as headmasters of Govt. number one colleges. But, the Court referred to that for the reason that relies upon pertains to Primary School HeadMasters, it’s far suitable to check out the situations of the college pupil who’re reading withinside the Government Schools mainly in rural areas. “Lack of infrastructures withinside the Government Schools and terrible high-satisfactory of training being furnished to the Government School college students are the motives for much less admission of college students in Government colleges,” delivered the Court.

The Court discovered that although the Government School Teachers are paid good-looking revenue while in comparison to Private School Teachers who get very much less revenue and painting extra hours, training is given to Government School college students can not be in comparison with Private School Students. The Court referred to that many instances have arisen earlier than this Court, regarding Government School teachers, who’ve now no longer attended Schools for days together, thereby affecting the training of the college students. “Though there are very many devoted teachers, who’ve to be favored and applauded for his or her honest dedicated coaching, are running in Government Schools, the range of erring teachers, who aren’t devoted to the coaching are increasing,” the Court delivered.

Because of the above position, this Court was hoping that a committee could be constituted with specialists and academicians to check out the motives for terrible high-satisfactory of training in Government Schools and recommend corrective measures or the Government on its very own taken some other corrective measures to decorate the high-satisfactory of college training in Government colleges. Therefore, the Court directed the Government to invite the industries to undertake one or Government Schools so that infrastructures and the same old training could be improved.

-Report by Manaswa Sharma

A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking equality in the treatment of authorized journalists and unauthorized journalists for the needs of compensation and other benefits granted by the Central and state governments amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A few state governments have declared journalists as frontline workers; however, the Central government has still not proclaimed the thought. The intervention application (IA) assails the special drive under the Central government’s Journalist Welfare Scheme (JWS) because it doesn’t cover “non-accredited journalists”. Thus, it violates the right to equality under Article 14 of the Constitution of India.

The plea cited figures of journalists who gave up the ghost within the line of duty during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between April 1, 2020, and May 19, 2021, there are 253 verified deaths of journalists thanks to COVID-19 and 93 unverified deaths. The Centre had launched a special drive under the JWS to assist the immediate families of these media journalists who died due to Covid-19. According to the rules under the scheme, accreditation details of the journalist need to be provided. Point 3(ii) (a) and (b) of the guidelines state that “media personnel” will not include people who are at a managerial level or in a supervisory capacity. This leaves an outsized number of persons including unaccredited journalists, technical, managerial, and supervisory staff employed with media organizations alongside unaccredited freelance journalists and stringers who are bereft of any relief or benefits under the scheme.

As per Rule 6.1 of the rules, the eligibility conditions for correspondents/camera persons to avail of the scheme are “minimum 15 years professional experience as a full-time working journalist”. This leaves out an outsized number of journalists who are going to not tend to any benefits after dying within the line of duty due to COVID-19. The mere non-accreditation which is merely a recognition provided by the govt for purposes of access to sources of data, won’t be covered under the scheme. Thus, it’s no parity and is violative of Article-14 of the Constitution of India. The applicant stated that she surveyed 70 journalists/media persons who died of COVID-19 and located out that only 6 percent of them were accredited to the Press Information Bureau. 37 percent were accredited to the government and 57 percent were without accreditation. The difference between the authorized and unauthorized journalists/media person by both the central and therefore the state governments are violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India. The plea was settled by Senior Advocate Salman Khurshid and filed through advocate Lubna Naaz.

Report By- Sana Sheikh

The High Court has observed that all satellite TV channels telecast advertisements that contain nudity for promoting condom sales that are ruining young mind. Such advertisements are intentionally breaking the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994 and the Cable Television Network Act, 1995. The HC said that such content affects younger minds. The court had ordered to remove the “vulgar” teaser of movie ‘Irandam Kuththu’ from all the social media platforms.

High Court has observed that some condom advertisements, telecast by satellite TV channels, look like porn films that is spoiling younger minds. The court said such advertisements portray women in a manner that violates norms of decency established by various laws.

The court made this decision after hearing a PIL, filed by KS Sagadevaraja seeking directions to the Centre and the state government to take action against cable operators and TV channels for airing “vulgar” and “obscene” content.

‘Vulgar’ ads violate laws

After 10 pm almost all TV satellite channels, telecast some ads which contain nudity for promoting the sale of condoms for the profit.

The court temporary order to restrain the satellite channels to telecast content with vulgarity and obscenity, and sough response on programmes’ censorship as prescribed under the Cinematography Act, 1952.

HC ordered removal of ‘Irandam Kuththu’ teaser 

The court had ordered to remove the teaser of film ‘Irandam Kuththu’ from social media platforms on November 11. The court had observed that the teaser exhibited obscenity that would corrupt the minds of youngsters, which, in turn, would result in an increase of crimes against women and minors. 

Reported By:-Pankaj Sharma