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The news ever since the question was framed has changed to “It is not true that CM Yogi Adityanath has issued any circular banning the use of cellphones in colleges & universities”.Baat khatam.They tried to test if the pie was done by poking a finger into it. Finger got burnt. Pie got a hole. They hid the burnt finger, shut the oven door & just looked all around as though nothing had happened.Maybe they'll try next year to see if people are domesticated enough to accept such diktats.For now, the story is that a Dr. Vinod Kumar Singh of some university had passed an order that students must keep their phone on silent or switched off mode during classes. Because disturbance. Duh.An education department official said an order was issued by Kanpur’s Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj University on Wednesday that directed all heads of departments at the university and principals of affiliated colleges to ensure that students do not use cellphones in classrooms.Dr Vinod Kumar Singh, the university registrar, said this order restricted use of phones in classrooms at institutions affiliated to the university.An order issued by Dr Singh, accessed by Hindustan Times, said: “Use of mobile phone is strictly prohibited in classes. The students are expected to not speak over phone or engage themselves in WhatsApp or social media during class. Those flouting the order will be treated as act of indiscipline and may face action. It is essential to maintain the sanctity of classroom (sic)”.[1]With the official stand of Yogi Adityanath's government being:The Yogi Adityanath government has not issued any order to ban use of mobile phones by students in the state’s university and degree colleges, deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma said on Friday, refuting a report by news agency IANS.“Yes, the students are expected to keep their phones on silent or switch off mode during classes so that teaching is not disturbed… That order already exists,” he said.In its report, the news agency had claimed that the Directorate of Higher Education in Uttar Pradesh has issued orders to prohibit students and teachers from entering universities and colleges with a mobile phone.Like I said, Baat khatm!Never forget that we are the frogs in the well who don't realize the temperature is rising ever so slowly until it shall be too late.[2]Those who have watched “The man in the High Castle” will know where we might be headed.Edit:To those who are asking whether this answer implies that a circular had been issued by Yogi Adityanath's government to the effect that cellphones would not be allowed in campus.Yes. Issued and thereafter rescinded after the huge backlash.Despite some esteemed Quorans batting for cellphone bans in colleges saying the students will cheat (as if cellphones were ever allowed in during exams!), I think the Up government flirted with dangerous form of censorship but hastily withdrew seeing the backlash.In a move that is surely going to get brickbats, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has banned the use of mobile phones in colleges and universities in the state. A circular to this effect has been issued by the Directorate of Higher Education in Uttar Pradesh. The circular mentions a blanket ban on the use of mobile phones inside universities and colleges.Students will no longer be allowed to take or use mobile phones inside universities and colleges. The ban is also applicable to teachers across all universities and colleges in the state.The ban on the use of mobile phones is also applicable to teaching faculty of all UP universities and colleges. The Directorate of Higher Education issued the circular to ensure a 'better teaching environment for students across all colleges and universities in the state'.The government observed that a large number of students and teachers were spending their valuable time on mobile phones during the college hours. It may be noted that Yogi Adityanath has already banned the use of mobile phones during his official meetings, including Cabinet meetings.The decision was taken after some ministers and officers were found to be busy reading messages on WhatsApp during important meetings.[3]Footnotes[1] Yogi govt hasn’t issued any order to ban mobile phones in universities, colleges: Deputy CM[2] Boiling frog - Wikipedia[3] CM Yogi Adityanath Bans Mobile Phone In UP Colleges, Universities; Not Even Teachers Can Use It

How and where do I complain about late Rguhs mbbs results?Hearty congratulations for being this ‘daring’ to come forward and write this strongly worded question which everybody wanted to write/ask on a public platform but never dared to do so.Well, every student of RGUHS wish to ask the same question from the top of their voice but because of unknown (read ‘fear’) reasons never dare to ask. All are scared of what if messing with the university will put us in their black books. They all want to go to the press/media/local news channel to complain the same but then on second thought, feels mercy on the university and decides to give it another day to live.Every single day there is a new message from different sources with new dates and convincing assurances but at the end of the day it turns out to be another hyperinflated rumour. Again at this point, we all students feel so angry at the university for being so cruel and merciless that we decide to call/walk-in to the university either to confirm the latest rumour or to get yet another ‘update’.Most of the time, the university’s phone is either engaged (half the world is calling these numbers) or nobody care to answer them. If you are lucky, whoever picks your call doesn't even have the idea of what you are asking and but they will surly ‘figure out’ some date (within a fraction of nanoseconds) for you and then hang up.From the past few years, many RGUHS FB pages have mushroomed only to apply salt on our never healing psychological wounds.Even before you come in terms with what just happened between you and the university phone call, you come across messages/screenshots which looks so ‘genuine’ as they appear as if they are genuinely taken from the university’s official website (see below), but eventually you realize the date mentioned in so-called ‘official’ circular and or ‘genuine’ website screenshot has already gone and our results are nowhere in the sight. There are these bunch of pranksters who find the sadistic pleasure in asking their language/coding tech-savvy friends to write a code to create a webpage which looks so authentic that even university Registrar thinks of hiring the coder.So coming to your question How I can complain about late Rguhs mbbs results?Just like all of us, by whining, creating memes, visiting RGUHS result page and writing answers on Quora like me without giving the actual answer until you turn into a living skeleton!Where do I complain about late Rguhs mbbs results?You can complain to your medico/ non-medico friends, parents, relatives, college professors, unauthorized RGUHS FB pages, traffic police, building security, roadside vendors and everybody and anybody ‘insignificant’ others.Wait! Didn't I answer your question? Oops!Sorry for pulling your leg, nothing personal. If you are really interested to know why university takes this long to declare results, please read my another write-up (a serious one) here:Suresh Parmar's answer to How does RGUHS do the digital evaluation of answer scripts in university exams?Image source: Google

Deconstructing an ObituaryThe e-mail was unsolicited and unwelcome. Not spam but a message from a university to its alumni. It wasn’t my alma-mater, rather one of several from which I hold postgraduate diplomas. It announced the death of an emeritus professor, whose name once filled me with despair.I could have thought ‘good riddance’, but then, it was a shame really, that he was no longer around to appreciate the irony: On the one occasion we met, he blocked the funding for my PhD, fulminating that I had neither the background nor the attributes to deserve even the chance to earn a postgraduate diploma.So I read the obituary with morbid fascination, but I could not hear the words in my mind as I read. They were drowned out by flashbacks, to the 20 minutes that knocked my life sideways and left me with an enduring hatred of those who pursue the status of Academia only to abuse its authority.It was the most crucial interview of my career, for a respected research fellowship, originally created by its founder so doctors in training could find funding independent of capricious pharmaceutical sponsorship. Alas, in every decent Camelot the founding King Arthur figure is replaced, sooner or later, by a Mordred…2014: “With deep regret, we report the death of Professor…”1988: “Good morning Doctor, or should I say Mister…?”Uh-oh – sarcasm alert. The interview has gone round 14 interviewers so far, all very benignly. The learned professor is the 15th. And hostile.2014: “Was born in…. Graduated from…1988: “I’ve been reading your CV. You’ve done some bloody awful jobs. You really need this fellowship, don’t you?”Ah, the “have you stopped beating your wife” question. Say Yes and it condemns my CV; say No and it’s game over. I try to steer a middle way:“I didn’t create the situation Sir; the freeze on consultant posts did. We all need an advantage now.”“And that’s’ precisely why you don’t deserve it. In this city we don’t back losers.”2014: …A keen sportsman … represented his university… a talented musician, always giving his utmost in competitions...1988: “In a good CV we look for indicators of strength, competitiveness, team-loyalty and eye-hand dexterity. We expect to see sporting achievement, military experience or musical ability, or at least the confidence that comes from a high achieving family. There’s no mention of any of that here.”“My family were indeed military, and we all have individual talents, sporting, musical or linguistic. Mine was as the scientist of the family. That’s surely more relevant to operating a flow cytometer than sport. It needs a computer, and with those I’m very good indeed.”“To be a winner you need the awareness of the hunter and the killer instinct of the wolf. An introvert who spends his time tapping away on a computer won’t have either of those qualities.”‘Killer instinct’? I didn’t go into medicine to kill. Bloody Hell.2014: “Served with the RAMC in…” [corner of the British Empire where the natives could be treated with contempt]1988: “The generation you see before you on this committee have worked resolutely, to the highest standards of perfectionism to have this city internationally acknowledged as the highest authority in every field of medicine, so we rightly attract the highest calibre applicants for our training posts. The danger is that we also attract buffoons hoping to cover their inadequacy by clothing themselves in our reputation. We cannot and will not tolerate such… parasites.2014: As Research Fellow he enhanced his diagnostic skills and developed scientific research interests… studying biological mechanisms at cell and molecular level.”1988: “So, now, coming to your proposal, I must say I’m totally sceptical. I know nothing about flow-cytometry or the tertiary structure of DNA, but I don’t need to. All I need ask myself is ‘can this project prove its hypothesis?’ and I don’t believe it can. We don’t back losers here”.“Yes Sir, it can, Flow-cytometric nucleoid analysis has already been used to grade breast cancers; it’s almost certainly true for bladder cancer too, but it would be just as scientifically valid if we DIS-prove the hypothesis regarding bladder cancer.”2014: “Appointed consultant physician in… Building up his unit he insisted on the highest standards of clinical acumen and scientific logic from his staff…. Carried out programmes of scientific and clinical research…”1988: “Rubbish. No one here would ever lose face by proving their own idea wrong. In this city, Boy, we don’t do research to find things out, we’re the ultimate authority, we already know. Here we do research to prove to the world that we’re right, always have been, always will be. Tell me, why did you choose Urology in the first place?”“It’s a relatively new specialty not burdened by a heritage of traditional procedures never tested in trials. All urology’s techniques are new and research-based.”“I don’t accept that it’s research-based. It’s primitive.”“Then surely Sir, if it’s in its infancy, research is obviously needed. You will note in my CV my own paper on a trial of optical urethrotomy.”“That’s wasn’t research, that was just fiddling.2014: “For his impressive record in clinical medicine and research he was appointed Professor… head of department… postgraduate dean.”1988: “In my opinion anyone wanting to be a urologist has already admitted to himself that he’s not good enough to be a general surgeon. In this city we don’t back losers.”Ah, the triple repetition beloved of the political speechmaker.I look for support from the project’s supervisor, a consultant urologist, sat to the side of me; - it’s supposed to be joint presentation after all. His entire specialty is being insulted to his face yet he remains silent, stone-faced, withdrawn.I think, Oh God, this interview is a set up. He’s been ordered by someone high up not to challenge a pre-determined verdict, probably on pain of funding cuts if he breaks rank. It’s Orwellian. In ‘1984’ they don’t kill you straight away, they cure you first and then you get the bullet. That’s why the other interviewers were so benign, because the executioner was being left until last. I must answer back, because my supporter won’t.“Well Sir, to make the point of this project, at present all in-situ bladder cancers are treated by radiotherapy, but in half of patients it recurs and they need total cystectomy. We just don’t know which half, and by the time we find out it’s often too late. This project will enable us to identify that half with radio-resistant tumours who need surgery alone. I’d call that research and worthwhile research at that.“Huh. It will be a sad day when we let urologists of all people prove a barbaric operation superior to a medical treatment.”He doesn’t want Urology to improve through research. He wants to reserve the academic kudos for his own specialty, and keep Urology where he can continue to despise it.2014: “He never left anybody in doubt about his opinions, and served on a very large number of committees… reflecting the value held for his plain speaking.”1988: He’s not even addressing me anymore, but the rest of the committee“Every one of us on this committee has held this fellowship and built our careers and reputations on it. It is a club for winners and we have a responsibility to guard its prestige. Everyone knows we were chosen because we’re winners, and are winners because we were chosen. If we start letting losers into our midst people won’t know that anymore and we will all be diminished….”2014: “Loyalty to his junior staff made posts in his unit highly sought after…”Yes, because the only safe place to be was in his tent pissing out.1988: “…Opportunities for achievement should go to those whose background and personality are worthy of the respect that goes with it. I find it offensive, therefore, that this application was ever made in first place, but what concerns me most is that the candidate clearly has no insight into HOW he’s given offence. It’s not simply that he isn’t good enough to join this fellowship, it’s the disrespect for all of us implicit in imagining he ever could be.”And thus he alienates me from the whole committee, but this research really needs doing. Patients are dying from getting the wrong treatment, but he doesn’t care. That’s not what matters to a professor who was once a scientist, but is now a politician. His priority is to ensure that prestigious research is carried out, not for the sake of science, but as a conveyor-belt for promoting the “right” people. Like the lifeboats on the Titanic, chances to prove oneself go only the right people.“I shall veto this application and any other by this candidate.”The committee votes to appoint me, by 14 votes to 1, but the terms of the bequest that funds the fellowship require a unanimous vote. One against trumps all those in favour.2014: “He retired to enjoy a life of golf, cameras and motoring with his wife and family…”…”Epilogue.The award went to a medical registrar researching an obscure thyroid hormone receptor. In all the years since it has not even slightly influenced the treatment of hypothyroidism, but the candidate got his senior lecturer’s post out of it, and became CEO of the local hospital, in which he distinguished himself by mediocrity.My supervisor took the begging bowl round the cancer charities seeking alternative funding. He found it eventually but I told him where to stuff it. Five years of hospital politics had left a bad taste, and that interview ominously foretold future battles over senior registrar posts even with a PhD. Shortly after that even the new professor of surgery was ousted by a palace revolution among the academic elite and I saw the writing on the wall: If a professor with an international reputation couldn’t withstand the withering blast of teaching hospital politics, what chance did a mere registrar stand, without the upper crust background or sporty extrovert male bonding to attract powerful sponsors?In contrast to the happy family life enjoyed by the good professor, my first marriage was destroyed by that interview. Already doomed, by brutal on-call hours, broken faith in my capacity as a breadwinner gave it the coup de grace.A GP friend had a trainee post vacant, and offered it to me. I took it like a shot, hoping to retrieve the marriage, or, failing that, to survive the split better for leaving the politics behind. The move to GP land proved too late to avoid divorce, but did make starting over possible, and if I was persona-non-grata in the teaching hospital then it was a different story in the sticks. I had the goodwill there to find a small but lucrative practice amid a population of friendly patients, and marry the most beautiful nurse in the local DGH.The bladder cancer project was completed eventually, but not by me. The consultant phoned me later, amazed that I’d given all my literature searches to my replacement. Why on Earth would I help a competitor? Immersed in the world of cynical academic rivalry, he just didn’t get it: We were supposed to be on the same side. All of us.