Media persons are at liberty in Puducherry even when they come late to any official function to request the Chief Minister and authorities to repeat any of the final programmes that would have been completed.
This happened the other day when media persons were kept out of the closed door meeting Chief Minister N. Rangasamy had with representatives of private medical colleges to finalise the number of seats under the government quota. The meeting lasted for more than an hour.
The waiting lensmen and reporters surged forward after the Chief Minister came out of the meeting and asked him to again sit for a while in the meeting room as they could not take any photographs.
Mr. Rangasamy immediately obliged and walked back into the room and posed as if he was simulating the meeting for the benefit of the lensmen.
Left hand doesn't know what right does
The adage of ‘Left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing’ apparently applies well to the Bharatiya Janata Party, Puducherry unit.
Media persons have been many a time caught unawares, or at best notified belatedly, about developments in the national party’s unit in Puducherry.
Recently, national Joint General Secretary (Organisation) of the party B.L. Santhosh held a brainstorming session with leaders and cadres of the BJP unit.
On hearing about the event, reporters and photographers rushed to the spot to cover the event. On reaching there the media was told that it was a closed-door meeting. Perplexingly, at the fag end of the meeting, Mr. Santhosh said the meeting was open to all.
Capping an issue
Discussions have been on among the nurses and administration at Jipmer for around two years apparently. The debate has been about the cap that the nurses wear. Taking the cue from changes in nurses’ uniform at AIIMS New Delhi, PGIMER Chandigarh, Nimhans Bengaluru and CMC Vellore in recent times, a decision was finally taken to do away with the caps at Jipmer, said one of the nurses. While staff nurses will not have to wear the caps anymore, in-charge nurses and assistant nursing superintendents and deputy nursing superintendents will continue to don the cap.
S. Prasad, R. Sivaraman and Annie Philip
