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Thursday, Oct 21, 2004

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NOC for 14 self-financing dental colleges

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCT. 20. The Cabinet on Wednesday decided to issue no-objection certificates for starting 14 new self-financing dental colleges in the State.

It also gave the green signal for D. Pharm. courses in three institutions which have the approval of the All India Council for Technical Education for starting the courses.

New courses will be started in four more government colleges.

Briefing presspersons on the Cabinet decisions, the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, recalled that the Government had sanctioned new courses in 16 government colleges earlier. The courses proposed now could be started this year or in next academic year.

`Pak. citizens'

The Chief Minister said he would again take up with the Centre the issue of `Pak. citizens' of Kerala origin.

Mr. Chandy noted that it was a humanitarian issue. (It involves a few hundred old persons, holding passports from Pakistan, living in Kerala and who are being forced to return to Pakistan, leaving their families behind.) Their Pakistan citizenship is only technical.

PDP leader

The Chief Minister said the State Government would intervene to ensure that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Abdul Nasir Maudany, who is in Coimbatore Central Jail now, received proper medical treatment. The Cabinet has entrusted him to take appropriate action in this regard.

He said that Mr. Maudany was languishing in jail without trial for years now. There were demands from various quarters that the State Government intervene to get him good medical treatment. The Government considers it a humanitarian issue that needs to be taken up though the matter directly concerned Tamil Nadu.

Police postings

He said that the Government had decided to promote five Deputy Inspector Generals of Police as Inspector Generals of Police. Of them, V. S. Mohammed Yasin would be posted as Managing Director of State Construction Corporation and N. Sankar Reddy as Inspector General of Police (Vigilance). P. Vijayanand will be posted as Inspector General of Police (Vigilance).

Venugopal K. Nair will be posted as Inspector General of Police (Protection of Civil Rights) and Revatha Chandrasekhar as Deputy Inspector General of Police (Thrissur Range). M. R. Ajithkumar will be posted as Commandant of Kerala Armed Police-Second battalion. T. J. Jose will be posted as Superintendent of Police of Special Branch CID in Thiruvananthapuram.

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