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The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad ( IIIT-A ) initiates week long vigilance awareness programme from October 28. It is an attempt for instilling an environment of transparency and confidence within the system. With this regard a webpage has also been created. The same was inaugurated by the IIIT-A Director MD Tiwari.
Several measures has been taken in pursuant to the instruction of the Central Vigilance Commission as said by the the Chief vigilance officer Anurika Vaish. During this vigilance awareness week several competitive and non-competitive activities would be conducted and also some activities are being organized to create awareness about corruption in the public.
The institute is also conducting various competitions like essay, quiz and debate on this occasion . In this context the institute had displayed banners and posters at prime locations as a result to mark the occasion to create awareness among the people.
The teachers of Jamia Milia Islamia have written a letter to the President of India requesting appointment of a person of high repute and academician to the post of the Vice Chancellor of the university.
A team of at least 322 teachers of Jamia signed the letter putting forward their requirement to the president which states that the next Vice Chancellor to be appointed should have minimum 10 years of experience as a professor in the university system or in the field of reputed research and academic organizations.
According to media reports, the executive council of the university has suggested the names of Justice Aftab Alam and Professor G N Qazi, current vice-chancellor of Jamia Hamdard as nominees to the three-member committee.
The HRD ministry takes a unique method of fast track appointment of Vice Chancellors across 12 Central universities. These appointed Vice Chancellors will take over the office in March 2014 before the assembly polls that are a few months away. The Ministry has decided to go back to the old ways of appointing VCs through a common advertisement which was done in 2009 to elect 15 VCs of the created central universities. The advertisement as a method was abandoned when VC’s of reputed universities like Delhi university, JNU etc were elected.
According to ministry officials, the advertisement for the same will appear in a few days time which will ask candidates to apply online and give their preference of universities. This process will help the ministry to shorten the process.
The Vice chancellors of Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Punjab, Rajasthan and Srinagar will be appointed. Three state universities which were upgraded to central universities in 2009, Hari Singh Gour University, Madhya Pradesh; Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Uttarakhand and Guru Ghasidas University, Chhattisgarh will also get their new VCs.
The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi has taken up a project of illuminating the slums of Munirka of South Delhi, through a solar lighting project in collaboration with My Sister Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO).
The project which is titled as “Liter of Light” is a very simple way of generating electricity with mere plastic bottles filled with water and suspended from the roof with the concept of refraction of light from denser to rarer medium. Electricity is generated from the light of the sun.
Three households in the slums has already been provided 55 W of electricity which was done by the students but since the procedure is a simple one, so it has been explained to the community member who can themselves work on completing the project.
In the dark and dim streets of the slums of Munirka, this project of IIT Delhi, has not only lightened the streets and houses of the slums, but has also kindled a ray of hope in the hearts of the people.
The Ranchi University has taken an important step of promoting the tribal languages for which they have planned to introduced nine tribal language department as part of the Tribal Regional Language (TRL). The proposal has already been approved by the Ranchi University authorities in the month of August this year. To ensure its implementation, a nine member high level committee has been formed chaired by Shivshankar Oraon.
The committee has planned improve the infrastructure to create different departments for these nine languages which will also help to generated new posts for the teaching and non-teaching staff in all departments.
Though introduction of these nine tribal languages are not new, but were taught in one TRL department which becomes difficult to manage all the students in one department for all the languages. So this decision of making different departments for the nine tribal languages have been taken .
The nine tribal languages include five tribal languages which are Kudukh, Ho, Mundari, Khadia and Santhali, while other 4 languages are the regional languages which are Nagpuri, Panchpargania , Kortha and Kurmali.
The decision taken by the Ranchi University authority is highly appreciated as it will encourage the tribals of Jharkhand to promote their language and give them an identity.
The higher education department of West Bengal has constituted an education commission for preparing a roadmap to improvise the education sector of the state over the next two decades. The education commission is a 12 member panel which comprises of eminent teachers and scientists. It is headed by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research director general Samir K Brahmachari and the panel includes river expert Kalyan Rudra, Amitava Bose, former director, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and Shantanu Maharaj of the Ramakrishna Mission. The commission aims to highlight the areas which needs improvement and to provide appropriate solution to it.
This commission is formed keeping Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee’s “vision 2020 and 2030” education road map to “take the state towards education glory” in view.
The panel will cover elementary, secondary, higher secondary, higher education, mass education, technical and vocational education, non-formal education and madrassa education of the state as well. The commission was launched on October 1 and will start to function once the festive season ends.
Panjab University has made its position high among the other IITs by carving a place for itself in 226- 250 rank list of The Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2012-13 announced in London. Other Indian Institutes like IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur as well IIT Roorkee have been placed in the 351 – 400 segment, which once represented India in the global academic rankings.
Although not in the top 200 but, India has five IITs in the top 400 ranking. The lesser known Panjab University has made its position in the top list among the other IITs. Panjab Universityhas scored well for citation impact thus indicating the fact that the research produced by the academics are widely used and valued by the academic community around the world.
Panjab University is India’s fourth oldest university and has produced well known scholars in the past. The rankings have been done on a vast spectrum of excellence wherein the university has proved itself well.
The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) have decided not to enforce dress code and restrict the use of mobile phones in the engineering colleges of the country.
AICTE has also proposed to introduce self- defense training for female students across engineering and technical institutes. The council will soon finalise on the decision of introducing the training programme.
According to recent media report, AICTE was planning to curtail the usage of mobile phones in college campus and introduce dress code and ask the engineering and technical institutes to install CCTV in the common areas to ensure the safety and security of the female students.
However, there is no such rule with regard to mandatory installation of CCTV cameras in engineering and technical institutes approved by AICTE. Some colleges in the country have installed cameras in common areas to ensure the safety and security of the students in the campus at their own will.
Higher secondary schools under the District Panchayat of Kozhikode have implemented an interesting system of class level councils. As a part of the smart campus scheme, a class leader is playing the role of the Chief Minister and six to eight students from each class are being elected as ministers to look after issues like health, hygiene, sports, education among others.
The students of the higher secondary schools are being trained on the parliamentary system. Over 150 students have already been trained and the training of the leaders are in process.
Under the smart campus project, class councils have already been formed in 130 schools in the district. Efforts are been made by District Panchayat officials to encourage more students to participate in the council.
This council system is an effort to teach the students the basics of democratic system including the ability to elect representatives, the power to raise issues and participate in school activities, which in a way is helpful for the students to understand the ruling system of the country from the grass root level.
