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Punjab Engineering College Campus To Be Vehicle-Free

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The process, to be completed in three phases, will begin from January 14 next year

Chandigarh: Punjab Engineering College (PEC) has decided to make the campus vehicle-free.

The decision was taken in a meeting attended by officials of the college.

The decision will be implemented in three phases, with phase one starting on January 14 next year.

In this phase, a few zones will be made vehicle-free and temporary parking areas will be provided between 7 AM and 5.30 PM.

The vehicle-free zone will include the road from PEC market covering Verka Block, metallurgical parking, student cafe to the Sehaj Safai Kendra and the road in front of the auditorium.

Parking areas will also be restricted to prevent chaos. Students will be required to park their two-wheelers in the area parallel to the outer boundary wall inside the institute football ground.

Gujarat Plans Database of Teachers’ Fingerprints

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The move is aimed at curbing the practice of one teacher offering services in multiple technical  colleges to hide staff crunches

Ahmadabad: Gujarat will soon create a database of fingerprints of all lecturers and senior professors in engineering, pharmacy, and other technical colleges in the state.

The move is planned to curb the practice of one teacher offering services in multiple colleges to hide staff crunches.

Advisor to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) M K Hada said engineering and technical colleges across India are facing severe staff shortages. There is a requirement of six lakh teachers in technical colleges, while only three-and-a-half lakh teachers are available.

“Because of this, we have routinely come across complaints that college managements make do with one teacher teaching in different colleges,” Hada said.

A staff crunch of 40 per cent plagues 550 technical colleges in the state. There have been reports of one lecturer teaching in a degree engineering college also taking classes for pharmacy and MBA courses.

“The system has to be mandatorily implemented in all technical colleges of Gujarat by 2013. It is being implemented in colleges all across India,” Hada said.

Vedanta Hindustan Zinc Adopts Rajasthan Schools

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The company will adopt schools in Chittorgarh and Bhilwara Districts of the state in phases

 

Bhilwara: Hindustan Zinc, a Vedanta’s group company, has signed an MoU with the Rajasthan Government to adopt 92 government schools.

The company will adopt schools in Chittorgarh and Bhilwara District of the state in phases.

Hindustan Zinc aims to adopt total 92 schools, 72 Government schools in Bhilwara for 5 years and 20 schools in Chittorgarh for 3 years, a company official said.

Approximate spending  on this project would be about Rs 3.35 Crore.

The project would provide basic infrastructure facilities like construction of class rooms, boundary walls of the school, installation of hand pumps, ceiling fans, coolers, construction of toilets, playgrounds, furniture for the children etc.

It will also provide scholarships to meritorious students.

The company also plans to encourage plantation drive to develop green belt in schools.

To monitor the success of the project, a committee of 5 members has been formed which would have 2 members from Vedanta Hindustan Zinc, 2 from school and 1 member nominated by District Magistrate.

Based on the need of the school authority and assigned budget, the project will be executed by Vedanta Hindustan Zinc.

Earlier Vedanta Hindustan Zinc had provided 1000 computers to 200 government schools in rural areas and e-subject software support to about 500 schools.

The company is also providing daily mid-day meal to over 80,000 students in 2000 government schools in Rajasthan to ensure nutrition support to students from poor families.

 

Asia’s Biggest Design Institute to Come Up in Delhi

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The institute is proposed to be set up on the lines of National Institute of Design (NID) but it will be much bigger resource wise

 

New Delhi: Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in Delhi will soon set up an Institute of Design in the east campus of the university located in Surajmal Vihar in east Delhi.

To be built at an estimated cost of Rs 200 crore, it will be the biggest design institute in Asia, Delhi’s Higher Education Minister AK Valia claimed here on Monday.

“The institute of Design will be Asia’s biggest centre,” Walia said adding that the blueprint of the institute has been sent to the chief Minister for clearance.

The institute is proposed to be set up on the lines of National Institute of Design (NID) but it will be much bigger resource wise, a University official said.

Set up in 1961, the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad is internationally acclaimed as one of the finest educational and research institutions for Industrial, Communication, Textile and IT Integrated Design.

Besides, the IP University has also decided to shift School of Architecture and Planning, located in the varsity’s Kashmere Gate campus to the East Campus. “The completion of the project is expected in two years,” the officer said.

The university is also planning to start three new centres of studies – Centre of Study of Indigenous Literature, Centre for Film and Culture Studies and Centre for Development and Planning.

Premier Schools Exhibition in Mizoram

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The exhibition will be held on December 11 and 12 at the Aijal Club in Aizawl

 

Aizawl: Afairs Exhibitions & Media Pvt Ltd, the largest organiser of education exhibition in Asia will organise its 9th Premier Schools Exhibition at the Aijal Club here.

The exhibition will be held on Dec 11 and 12.

More than 20 premier schools of India will participate in the exhibition. These selected premier schools will offer consultation free of cost during the exhibition to help parents choose out of the participated premier schools for their children aged between 6-18 years. Schools will also allow spot admission in addition to free consultation.

“What the parents are most concerned with is in which good schools to admit their children? Let them come to our exhibition where they will find many good schools, which will relieve their headache, as they can have free consultation with us,” Ritesh Jaisawal, Education Expert Affairs said.

Afairs has organized such exhibitions in 13 different places across India since September 2012. It plans to organize exhibitions across Asia in countries like South Korea, Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan and UAE, till March next year.

Afairs Exhibitions & Media Pvt Ltd was established in 2004 in partnership with University of Cambridge International Examination, UK (CIE). It’s main objective is to provide opportunity for the children to enter into premier schools and providing a free and face to face consultation for parents.

Punjab Engineering College Develops Security Software for Banks

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Chandigarh: Punjab Engineering College (PEC) University of Technology, based in Chandigarh is working on a software that will ensure data security for banks. The software will provide data security as prescribed in guidelines issued by the RBI.

The project is being funded by IBM India and the PEC University is working on the technology development for the project.

“The project is aimed at protecting information related to risk assessment before any bank decides on internal policies,” Divya Bansal, associate coordinator of Cyber Security Research Centre at PEC University said.

She said the project would take lessons from information security posture experienced by the banks and prepare a “risk priority number”.

“It will be a simplified interface for banks to protect information on risk assessment and suggest solutions. The software will be developed following the guidelines stipulated by the RBI,” Bansal added.

IBM and PEC University will jointly organise a conclave for the Indian banking industry in December.

“The conclave will create a platform for the bankers to share their views on the particular subject with the researchers. It will help us know the internal problems faced by the bankers while calculating risks,” she said.

The researchers expected to have the software ready in a year’s time.

No More New Engineering Colleges in AP

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Hyderabad: On the backdrop of shutting down around 180 engineering colleges due to lack of students, Andhra Pradesh state cabinet has decided not to grant permission to new engineering colleges in the state. The number of students in existing colleges will also be capped to 420 per college.

This will freeze the number of engineering colleges in the state to the current 717.

For accredited colleges, the number of new admissions per college has been capped at 540 students.

There will be some exemptions to the decision. Few engineering colleges in the backward districts of Srikakulam, Mahbubnagar, Adilabad and Anantapur would be allowed set up, provided that the required standards are maintained.

The cabinet decision has been taken on the basis of the recommendations made by a high-powered expert committee headed by former bureaucrat K Lakshminarayana. The committee was appointed in 2010 to suggest modalities and remedial measures for strengthening un-aided (private) professional institutions.

The 717 engineering colleges in the state at present have an intake of 3,44,986, up from an intake of 82,225 students studying in 238 colleges in 2004-05.

In 2010-11, approximately 30% of the engineering seats remained vacant while in the current academic year, nearly 50% seats were not filled.

The increased number of engineering colleges has put enormous strain on the availability of qualified teaching manpower, thus affecting the quality of education and employability.

As a result, the state government requested the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) not to sanction second shift of sections in the existing engineering colleges. Also, the state government decided to recommend to AICTE imposition of ceiling on the number of seats in under-graduate engineering, MBA and MCA courses, as per the recommendations of the expert committee.

Welcoming the move, Vidya Samasthala Parirakshana Samithi, a body representing engineering college managements, stated that they have been repeatedly asking AICTE to put a cap on the seat allotment in the existing engineering colleges.

“We have been asking AICTE since the past three years to not approve proposals for new colleges as the existing seats are not getting filled. Currently, 3.2 lakh engineering seats are available in 717 engineering colleges and over 40% of them have no takers. Under these circumstances, the cabinet decision is welcome,” said K V K Rao, president of the managements’ association.

ISB Mohali Campus Inaugurated

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The Mohali campus of the Indian School of Business (ISB) was formally inaugurated today by the Union Minister of Finance, Mr. P Chidambaram, in the presence of the Chief Minister of Punjab, Sardar Parkash Singh Badal. The event was also attended by Chairman of the ISB, Adi Godrej and founding board members of the Mohali campus, Analjit Singh, Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Sunil Kant Munjal and Atul Punj, other members of the ISB Executive Board, senior government officials, business leaders, faculty and representatives from the ISB’s Associate Schools, students, alumni and staff.

Endorsing the Board’s support, Adi Godrej, Chairman, ISB, said, “Our expansion into Mohali, allowing for a greater geographic outreach apart, has given us an opportunity to foray into important new areas – Manufacturing, Healthcare, Infrastructure and Public Policy – through the specific institutes set-up for the purpose. This, we believe will provide a significant fillip to nurturing talent and research in areas critical to India’s development.”
Speaking at the occasion Ajit Rangnekar, Dean, ISB said, “The inauguration of our Mohali campus is an important milestone in the ISB’s eleven year successful history of setting benchmarks in the field of management education.  As we embark on our next phase of growth, we aim to strengthen our academic outreach, focus more on research and work closely with the government and industry to make a larger impact on industry, policy and the society we live in.”

WishTel Launches Linux-based PrithV at $50

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WishTel, a Mumbai based technology and Electronic Manufacturing Company announced the launch of the world’s cheapest Linux based PC ‘PrithV’. Priced at USD 50 it is entirely designed and manufactured in India.

PrithV will offer Linux based educational Platform on tablets and net book PC. It will support 85 global languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Urdu, Zulu and 23 Indian languages. PrithV has been developed in Association with Gnowledge lab, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education under guidance of Prof Nagarjuna. PrithV comes loaded with Educational Suite to offer Self Learning software’s for Pre-Primary, Tertiary, Higher Education for Languages, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, Geography, Algebra, Calculus, Geometry, Medicine, Computing etc.

Announcing the launch of the Mr. Milind Shah, Chief Executive Officer, Wishtel added, “Our objective as a technology and manufacturing company is to create affordable range of products that can contribute to Society by extending Education for free and without boundaries.  We also want to take advanced technology to such parts of world where every stratum of the society can access our products at an affordable price.   We intend to offer our solutions to Universities and Schools worldwide and empower every student with a PC enabling them to learn and educate themselves beyond textbooks, access and create their own knowledge.”

Since the introduction of the Wishtel ‘IRA’ tablet PCs early this year, Wishtel has shipped over 250,000 devices and expects to reach monthly volumes of 100 thousand per month. To meet this growing demand, Wishtel is expanding the capacity of its manufacturing facilities in Maharashtra , while at the same time increasing investment in R&D to further enhance its hardware design and software engineering capabilities to meet the diverse needs of both domestic and overseas customers.


IGNOU launches online course on sustainability

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The short-term Appreciation Programmes on Sustainability Science for the 2013 session will have 50 seats

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has launched two short-term online programmes on Sustainability Science and Wetlands Management respectively for the 2013 session.

‘Appreciation Programmes on Sustainability Science (APSS)’ and ‘Appreciation on Sustainable Management of Wetlands (APSMW)’ have 50 seats each. The last date to apply is December 15, a statement said.

“The major objective of APSS is to build the capacity of policy makers, administrators, scientists and educators as well as the general public in the science and art of environmentally, economically and socially sustainable development,” IGNOU said in a statement.

“APSMW will enhance awareness on the role of wetlands on social, cultural and livelihood dimensions of the dependent communities,” it added.

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