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Targeting the 100 crore middle class population, best way to be successful, was the opinion of chief guest Managing Director of Global Logic Company Shashikant Chaudhary at the opening ceremony of the Consortium 2014, the annual entrepreneurship conference, held at VNIT campus and organized by the Entrepreneurship Cell on January 10, 2014.

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The Consortium 2014, the annual entrepreneurship conference, was held at VNIT campus organized by the Entrepreneurship Cell on January 10, 2014.

The Chief Guest, Managing Director of Global Logic Company Shashikant Chaudhary opined that If anyone wants to start up and eventually become a successful entrepreneur, he or she should concentrate on first identifying the problems that exist in the society today in various spheres of life or various professions. If one can find the solution to the identified problem and can create it or mass produce it and market it properly, one can certainly become a successful entrepreneur, stressed Shashikant Chaudhary.

“This entire exercise would also involve a certain essential ingredient in one’s psyche or attitude. One should be passionate in achieving the dream of the particular field of expertise and in turn a successful entrepreneur,” he said.

Chaudhary stressed on one very vital marketing strategy which one should envision when one starts off an entrepreneurship. The bulk of middle class population which numbers almost 100 crore offers a very good target for purchasing or utilizing what the entrepreneur creates. He also added that this is a very favorable time for the startup of any entrepreneurship. The socio-economic conditions are favorable as never before and would continue to be so for the next 10 years. What one can encash now can never be done in future, Chaudhary asserted.

Earlier in the programme, the chief guest Shashikant Choudhary, Director (VNIT), Dr. Narendra Chaudhary, Prof Peshwe, G.P. Singh, Vijay Patil and students of core committee lit the traditional lamp to mark opening of the Consortium 2014.

Dr. Narendra Chaudhary elaborated on what type of skills should be imparted to students to inculcate entrepreneurship in them. He asked the students to not run after jobs instead  create entrepreneurship culture in colleges.

Prof. Yerpude, speaking on the occasion, echoed the similar views and informed students that the future will be of entrepreneurs. Students should focus on self employment and should focus on setting up of small scale industry for start up.

E-Summit, a highlight event of Consortium ’14, the entrepreneurship conference, is a great platform for the students to interact with esteemed academics and experienced entrepreneurs. This year, the theme of E-summit is ‘Promoting Technical Startups’. The panel discussions will aim to edify students on the working of startups and many challenges faced by startups in the current Indian ecosystem. Aim to inculcate entrepreneurial thinking among students so that they come up with successful startups from their innovations.

The E-Summit comprises of panel discussions on the theme “Why engineers should be entrepreneurs”, interactive session and dinner with guests. The interactive sessions will be held on Saturday, January 11, 2014.

An exhibition of technical innovations that have created successful business models in several fields, mainly technical entrepreneurship will be held. The exhibition promises to be an inspiration to technical undergraduates to create sustainable businesses using their understanding of technology and a preliminary understanding of social problems. The businesses for this fair will be identified through the associations in several entrepreneurial and angel investor networks.

The conference is scheduled for 3 days from January 10-12 at VNIT Campus. The Entreprenuership Cell and the core-committee comprising of Pulkit Namjoshi, Aanchal Kanodia, Ojita, Darpan, Amod and Parikshit Shastri are working hard for the success of the event.

Cracking problems through ideas, innovations can make entrepreneurs successful in big way

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Enraged over allowing admission despite ban, a group of around 30-40 students lodged a police complaint against the management of Mahalakshmi Jagdamba college being run at Jhansi Rani Square. These students were given admission in the first year course of Master in Fashion Design (MFD) despite the ban on admissions imposed on this college by Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU).

The students alleged that the college authorities did not provide the admission cards for the first semester of MFD, despite charging examination fees and even late fees in most of the cases. They were not supplied with any receipt for the fees. Earlier the college had also collected full tuition fees from these students.

When the college authorities refused to budge despite several attempts to approach them, the students moved Sitabuldi police station and charged the college of committing financial fraud. The students under the aegis’ action committee’ members Yogesh Dinekar, Dhananjay Nagrikar and sachin Bise filed the complaint against college management.

They are demanding that their fees be returned to them.  In response to this, when the students met the RTMNU officials, they pointed out that college management forgets that matter is subjudice. The police said that they would look into the matter and investigate the complaint of the students.

Students move Sitabuldi police station against Jagdamba college; alleges financial fraud

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Plenary talk, Tutorial, Oral, Poster Presentation and valedictory function marked concluding day of ICESC 2014. The Third day of International Conference on Electronic Systems Signal Processing and Computing Technologies [ICESC - 2014] started with plenary session on   Lossless Image and Video Compression methods and challenges by Dr. Anil Tiwari, IIT, Jodhpur. Giving overview of various image compression methods, Dr. Tiwari discussed issues like performance comparison & error modeling ,also appealed  delegates to work on latest techniques and come up with innovative methods of compression with their research.

Second plenary talk was delivered by” Dr.Paul Cotae, UDC, Washington on Non Data Aided Time Phase Recovery Methods for Underwater Communications. Prof. Paul Coate started the session with a brief introduction about underwater communication and current underwater sensor network limitations. He motivated the participants for research in this field.

An interactive session was with Dr.Paul Cotae was oraganised for IEEE-RCOEM student branch.The session was raised to a higher and interesting level by the question asked by the student members. The topic of the question asked by the student members varied from scope of research,his association with IEEE to recent trends in technology.
Dr. Paul Cotae answered all questions with lot of patience and in details

Also further talk on CMOS-MEMS integration monolithically integrated micro resonators for oscillator applications. Was delivered by Mr. Vinayak Pachkawade research engineer in Department of Electrical Engineering at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) Taiwan.

On the concluding day 31 research papers and 5 posters were presented in four different tracks Micro / Nano Electronic Systems, intelligent & Knowledge based systems and Multimedia Systems & Signal Processing.

Valedictory function was graced by chief guest Dr. Narendra Choudhari, Director,Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology ,Nagpur & Guest of honor Dr.Kanti Prasad. RCOEM General Secretary Shri Govindlal Agrawal, Principal Dr. V.S. Deshpande, ICESC General Chair Dr. Rajesh Pande, ICESC General Chair Dr.Manoj Chandak & ICESC conference chair Dr. (Mrs.) A. A. Khurshid were prominently present on dais.

In her concluding speech, conference chair Dr. (Mrs.) A. A. Khurshid summed up various events, sessions & presentations conducted during ICESC 2014. She also thanked eminent speakers and delegates who had come from all across the globe to share their experience & wisdom in this three day global meet. She appreciated efforts taken by her ICESC team for successful organization of the event.

Addressing the gathering Principal Dr. V. S. Deshpande said such a International Conference is small contribution to the technological society and stressed that deliberations in the conference will be a useful to the students, researchers and everyone associated with technology.

Dr. Kanti Prasad in his address urged the learned gathering to integrate research into curriculum and until this is done it wouldn’t benefit the academia. He appreciated efforts of Shri Ramdeoababa College of Engineering & Management for organizing ICESC-2014.

In his address Chief Guest Dr. Narendra Choudhari congratulated team and stated that it has not only given a platform for sharing technical expertise and knowledge but also human values. Scientist investigate what it is, Engineer creates what never had been. He gave advice to researchers to publish their research work in internationally reputed journals.

In his presidential address Shri Govindlal Agrawal applauded efforts of ICESC team for organizing a true international conference.  He appeals all faculty members, research scholars and students to take maximum benefit out of discussions held in three day summit as well as during pre- conference workshops and tutorial.

Prof. Jayu Kalambe conducted Proceedings of Valedictory function .ICESC General Chair Dr. Rajesh Pande announced best paper awards in each track and proposed vote of thanks.The awardees in each track are as follows

Prof. Vishnu Wardhan, Prof. Deepak Dahigaonkar, Prof. Vivek Khetade, Prof. Apurva Khanzode, Prof. Prachi Rane, Prof. Shubhangi Tirpude, Prof. Dipika Sagne, Prof. Prof. Raman Bondre, Prof. Archana Tiwari, Prof.Vinita Virgandham, Prof. Vaibhav Dubey Prof. Deepak Khushlani, Prof. Shital Ukunde, Prof. P. Khandar, Prof Meenakshi Wanjari, Prof Puja Agrawal ,Prof. Vipul Lande, Prof. Divya Shrivastav, Dr. Rajiv Khaire, Prof. Rajesh Khobragade, Prof. Bhalchandra Hardas, Prof. Gouri Morankar and supporting staff of RCOEM work hard for the success of conference.

ICESC Student Volunteers Ms. Nikita Prasad, Ms. Prajkta Munshi, Mr. Tushar Thapar, Mr. Pratik Gupta, Mr. Sahil Agrawal, Mr. Shubham Khandelwal ,Mr. Sahil Dalvi ,Mr.Ajinkya Ambatkar, Mr. Arnab Sarkar worked tirelessly & have been appreciated for their dedicated work.

Global Meet ICESC-2014 Concluded at RCOEM

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College admin fleeces students by demanding hefty fees even though college is not RTMNU registered.

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On Monday, December 13, the aggrieved students of the banned Mahalaksmi Jagdamba college, being run at Jhansi Rani square  met with the Registrar Dr. Ashok Gomase of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj University (RTMNU)  demanding action from the NU administration against the erring college Management.

The students of first year Master of Fashion Design (MFD) under the aegis of Maharastra Navnirman Sena(MNS) gheraod the Registrar’s Chamber’s in the afternoon. The students explained their situation and alleged that the college authorities did not provide the admission cards for the first semester exam of MFD, despite charging examination fees and even late fee.

Registrar Ashok Gomase informed them that the students don’t have admission in university. They are not enrolled with the university, and nothing can be done as the matter of the banned college is subjudice.

Vice Chancellor Dr. Vilas Sapkal was not present at the University, when the students came with their appeal.

The college run by NCP leader Uday Tekade admitted over 200 students by charging fees from Rs 5000 to Rs 15000 for its various courses, despite being banned by NU on June 7 last year.

A Police complaint has been filed against the college management on January 10.

Irked students demand RTMNU authorities take action against Mahalaksmi Jagdamba college college

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The practical exam for HSSC will be conducted from February 6 to 18 and the written exam from February 20 to March 29. The practical examination for SSC will be organized from February 17 to 28 and the written examination will be held fromMarch 3 to 27.

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The Maharashtra State Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board has announced the dates of 19th and 12th practical and written examinations for the academic session 2013-14. The practical examination of Class 12th will be held from February 6 while for 10th, the practical examination will be held from February 17. The written exam for 12th will begin from February 20 and the 10th from March 3.

THE CLASS XII TIME TABLE:

The practical exam for HSSC will be conducted from February 6 to 18 and the written exam from February 20 to March 29. The practical exam will be held again on April 1 and 2 for those students who, for any reason, could not appear for the exam. A total of 1,64,204 Class XII students will appear for the examination this session out of which 1,41,868 students would be regular and 22,336 students will appear for supplementary examination.

THE CLASS X TIME TABLE:

The practical examination for SSC will be organized from February 17 to 28 and the written examination will be held fromMarch 3 to 27. The practical and written examinations for those students falling under blind, deaf and dumb, handicapped, multi-weeklong, learning inability categories will be held from March 28 to April 24. The practical exam will be held again from March 28 to April 1 for those students who, for any reason, could not appear for the exam. Around 2 lakh students are likely to appear for Class X examination of the Maharashtra Board.

Maharashtra Board announces dates for 10th, 12th practical, written examinations for 2013-14

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The teachers in Vidarbha have again decided to boycott examinations of Maharashtra State Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board. The teachers, under the banner of Vidarbha Junior College Teachers’ Association (VIJUCTA), will boycott Class XII examination from February 3. However, before that, the teachers, led by the General Secretary of VIJUCTAAshok Gavhankar, will take out a morcha from Yeshwant Stadium to the office of Divisional Education Deputy Director on January 20. The representatives of the Association Dr Yugal Rayalu, Prof Namdevrao Gholse and Prof Vinayak Bhujade will be prominently present.

It may be recalled, the VIJUCTA had boycotted checking of Class XII examination answer papers last year. However, the boycott was lifted after the Government’s assurance of meeting the teachers’ demands within three months and in the interest of students. However, the VIJUCTA has lamented that even after nine months, the demands of teachers have not been honoured by the Government. The VIJUCTA has warned the Government of intensifying the agitation if their demands are not accepted. The agitation would be run in stages, the VIJUCTA has said.

TEACHERS’ DEMANDS:

• Implementation of upgraded three-stage pay scales of January 1, 1996.

• Cancellation of without grant-in-aid and making granted permanently

• Implementation of old pension to teachers of contact basis and partially granted   schools/colleges before November 1, 2005.

• Salary of holidays during the 42-day agitation undertaken last year.

• Independent Administration for junior colleges.

Teachers to boycott Class 12th Board exam

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It is good news for the JEE Mains and CET aspirants as CBSE has started a Special Help-Line which will be operational from 9am to 5 pm every day.

Often students of CBSE who aspire to attempt JEE Mains and CET competitive examinations find themselves landed in strange positions with doubts and queries. The schools where they study often are not available for clearing doubts and other examination related difficulties.

Realizing this difficulty of students and candidates, the CBSE Board which always endeavors and strives to achieve the best in the field of Education, has started this  Special Help-Line.

Important phone numbers

General Enquiry: 91-11-22509256/59

JEE (Mains) Enquiry: 8506061071/78

CBSE Helpline Number: 1800-11-8002

CBSE’s Free Help-Line for JEE and CET aspirants

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The results of the Common Admission Test (CAT) examination which the candidates appear for entering into 13 Indian Institute of Management’s and several other management institutes, were declared on January 14, 2014.

The results of the CAT can be accessed until December 31, 2014 on the CAT website. However, the candidates are advised to retain a printed copy of their score card. The CAT 2013 was conducted in 76 test centres across 40 cities over a 20-day testing window from October 16 to Nov 11, 2013.

The candidates need to submit few important details including Registration Number, Registered e-Mail ID over the official website to get the CAT 2013 Results. 

8 male engineers score 100 in CAT examinations, of this 3 hail from Mumbai.

4 toppers from AP and three from Mumbai

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All the eight toppers of Common Admission Test 2013 (CAT) who scored 100 percentile are all male and engineers. While four of them hail from Andhra Pradesh, three are from Mumbai and one from Delhi. IIM-Indore has declared the results today at 9 am. According to CAT officials, two of the perfect scorers have a master’s degree in engineering, the others have a bachelor’s degree. Three have a work experience of 12-24 months in automobile, banking services and information technology sectors. Of the 10 candidates who have scored 99.99 percentile, only one is a woman. A total of 1,73,738 candidates had taken the test which was coordinated by IIM-Indore. The online test qualifying which gives entry to best business schools in India, was conducted from October 16 to November 11 across 40 cities. While top CAT scorers would get admission in IIMs where over 3,335 seats are available, several other top management schools use CAT score for admission.

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Results of CAT 2013 announced: Available on website

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), in an excellent gesture, will give an opportunity to correct the wrong to those candidates who might have bungled the filling up of forms for All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT). The confused and fumbled applicants could get a chance to rectify the errors committed while registering for AIPMT 2014 examination, courtesy the CBSE.

The candidates have to just go to the click of the mouse and re-login the official website to correct any folly in particulars. However, the correction or rectification in the fields such as City of Centre / State Code of Eligibility / Question Paper Medium / Nationality are not allowed. After the correction, candidates may print correction slip and retain the slip for future reference and record.

Candidates are advised not to make any correspondence regarding corrections with the CBSE.

Due to correction in Category, if extra fee is payable, the same shall be remitted through DD drawn in favour of “Secretary, CBSE”, which should be payable at Delhi and sent along with copy of correction slip to the below mentioned address.

“The Assistant Secretary (Exam),

All India Pre-Medical / Pre-Dental Entrance Test Unit,

 Central Board of Secondary Education,

Shiksha Kendra, 2,

Community Centre,

Preet Vihar,

Delhi – 110092”

Status of receipt of Confirmation Page of Applications in the CBSE can also be viewed on the website.

It is advisable for the candidates to regularly visit the AIPMT official website for any further updates.

The AIPMT 2014 Exam will be conducted on April 6 across the country. The last date to apply for the same is January 31, 2014along with paying Rs. 1000 extra as late fee charge.

CBSE’s fine gesture to candidates to correct the wrong if bungled filling up of AIPMT form

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The Orange City chartered the path to glory and pride when the city’s very own Gaurav Shrawagi topped the All India Chartered Accountancy (CA) Final. Results of both CA Final and CA Entrance Examination were announced on Wednesday.

A total of 1794 students had appeared for CA Entrance Exam – Common Proficiency Test (CPT) from Nagpur out of which 647 students qualified. The percentage stood at 36 from Nagpur.

The city boy Gaurav Shrawagi topped the CA Final Result Chart with Rank 1 by bagging 534 marks out of 800.

Nagpur Result:

• CPT 647 qualified out of 1794 appeared.

• CA Final Both Group 18 qualified out of 409 appeared.

• CA Final Group-I 33 qualified out of 669 appeared

• CA Final Group-II 63 qualified out of 690 appeared

The Chairman of Nagpur Branch CA, Swapnil Agrawal said that around 50-60 students would become CA out of total 937 appeared from Nagpur Centre. This time, the number has declined as compared to the previous attempt. But in the overall percentage at All India Level, Nagpur has given a better performance.

The statistics:

The CA Swapnil Agrawal has expressed his happiness over the performance of Nagpur Centre in the CA exams. He congratulated the successful candidates and wished them best of luck for their bright future ahead.

City’s Gaurav Shrawagi tops All India CA Final

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), in its venture of providing a slew of New Year gifts to students, has decided to issue Admit Cards for Class 10th and Class 12th exams online this year. However, at present only schools have been authorized to download the Admit Cards so that any flaws in the Cards could be corrected at school-level itself.

The CBSE has given the link on its website to the recognized schools. The schools have to send the data of Class 10th and Class 12th students on this link till January 20. The CBSE, on the basis of school data, will issue the Admit Cards in February.

The schools can take out the print of the Admit Cards by login the CHSE website once it starts issuing the same. But the schools have to mention the School Code and Recognition Code for taking out the print out of the Admit Cards.

The schools have been authorized to correct any wrong information on the Admit Cards issued by the CBSE, if there is any. But the schools have to notify the CBSE office about the corrections.

Till now, the CBSE used to issue printed Admit Cards to the students. And if the Admit Cards contained any wrong information, the corrective process used to take a considerable time and thus making the students uneasy unnecessarily till the corrections. The schools were first making the corrections and then the Admit Cards were to be sent to the CBSE office and after final corrections by the CBSE, the Admit Cards were to be sent again to the concerned schools. Hence the CBSE decision to issue Admit Cards to Class 10th and Class 12^th students online.

Admit Cards to CBSE 10th, 12th students online

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Or face the allotment of dates and slot randomly subject to availability of the same, notwithstanding whether the candidates are interested or not.

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The candidates, appearing for JEE Main 2014 computer based test on JEE main website, better take care and avail the option of selecting the date and slot for the computer exam before January 17. Or face the allotment of dates and slot randomly subject to availability of the same, notwithstanding whether the candidates were interested or not.

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Students must log into JEE Mains 2014 official website, where they will be asked to enter their JEE Main 2014 application number and password. The available exam dates for the computer based examination are 9th April, 11th April, 12th April and 19th April. Students have to select two time slots as the examination will take place in two shifts: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm.

CBSE officials have stated that the candidates, who don’t make any selection of the JEE Main 2014 computer exam dates, will be allotted dates and slot randomly subject to availability of the same. If a candidate does not make any selection, he or she shall be randomly assigned a slot/date as per the availability of the same as per Page No. 11 of Information Bulletin.

Details of the session and slot will be given in the student’s Admit Card which can be downloaded from 1st March, 2014. Also, JEE Main 2014 computer exam question paper will be mailed to each and every student who has registered and appeared for the test after the exam is completed.

A total of 13.56 lakh students have registered for the JEE Mains 2014 exam across the country out of which only 1.71 lakh students have registered for the computer based test.

Candidates better take care & select date, slot for JEE Mains computer based exam by Jan 17

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Nagpur News: The much-awaited results of Common Aptitude Test (CAT) were declared on Tuesday.  Dr Gauri Joshi, a practicing dentist, emerged as the city topper this year with 99. 94 percentile.

The second topper from the city is Anubhav Mittal, a government employee, with 99. 72 percentile while the third city topper is Saurabh Dichwalkar, a final year student of VNIT, with a percentile of 99.61

Nagpur Today caught up with Dr. Gauri Joshi today, here is the what she has to say about her success and how she achieved it:

Nagpur Today ::  Was it your first attempt?
Dr Joshi :: No, I had attempted CAT last year but without preparation. That attempt however made me realize that with proper preparation I can get a good percentile::

Nagpur Today ::  You are a practicing Dentist? Why did you switch to management?
Dr Joshi :: I did practice sometime back but since May last year I have mostly focused on CAT preparation::

Nagpur Today:: were you always a bright student?
Dr Joshi :: Yes I have been reasonably good at academics from the start::

Nagpur Today ::  What was your study plan? When did you start preparing for CAT?
Dr Josh :: I usually studied for 4-5 hours a day and appeared for a good number of Mock CATs. I started preparation from May 2013.

Nagpur Today ::  Did you join any coaching classes. Did it help ?
Dr Joshi  ::  I had Joined TIME classes in Nagpur. They were immensely helpful.

Nagpur Today ::  Any tips for future CAT aspirants ?
Dr Joshi  ::  I think it very important to initially focus on basics and then build on it.  Also one should not be discouraged with bad scores in Mock tests.

Nagpur Today ::  Which management institute do you plan to apply for ?
Dr Joshi  :: I have applied for all the IIMs, SP Jain, NMIMS, MDI and FMS

Nagpur Today ::  In management any specialization ,you looking forward to ?
Dr Joshi :: I would like to do MBA in General Management at one of the IIMs or Marketing from any of the other institutes.

As told to Charles Salve

Focus on basics says CAT Topper from Nagpur Dr Gauri Joshi

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Nagpur News:  The Department of Chemistry  of Dr. Ambedkar   College is holding an International Conference on ‘ Applications of Advanced Materials for Sustainable Development’ at a  Hotel Tuli Imperial, Nagpur  on January 17-18 to mark its  ‘Golden Jubilee Year’.

While speaking with the media, Vice Principal, Dr A.P. Joshi, informed the conference shall deal with several important topics closely related with materials in particular such as Optical and Electronic Materials, Bio-Nano Materials, Constructional Materials, Oil 86 Petroleum Materials, Polymer Composite Materials, Functional Bio Materials, Renewable Energy Technology and Intelligent Energy, Bio Mathematics, etc. These themes form the core of the conference deliberation along with sustainable aspect integrally connected to it. Each topic shall have its consideration given to the strong and featured basis of ‘sustainable development’

The Inaugural ceremony is on January 17. The President of the inaugural function is  Sadanand Fulzele, Secretary, P.P. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Smarak Samiti, Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur. The Chief Guest of the function is  Dr. G. D. Yadav, Director, Institute of Chemical Technology. The Guests of Honour will be  Dr. Krishnakumar, Vice-Chancellor, YCMOU, Nasik; Dr, Maheshkumar Yenki, Pro-VC RTMNU, Nagpur; Dr. D. B. Patil, Joint Director, Higher Education, Nagpur Division 85, Dr. K. C. Deshmukh, Dean, Faculty of Science, RTMNU, Nagpur, informed Principal of the college ,Dr. Malti Reddy.

There will be three technical sessions of which the first shall be keynote addresses. The second and third technical session is to be on Chemical Sciences (includes invited talks and oral presentations) and a parallel session on Material Sciences (includes invited talks and oral presentations) respectively.

The conference is to present three awards, namely: Young Scientist Award, Award for Best Paper Presentation and Outstanding Poster Presentation in the category of Material Sciences, Chemistry, Physics and Life Sciences. 320 delegates will be attending the conference and 217 research papers will be presented.

The keynote speakers are  Prof.  Hideki Abe, NIMS, Japan; Prof. Ajayan Vinu, AIBN, Australia; Prof. S. B. Jonnalgadda, South Africa; Prof. S. B. Dassappa, IISc, Bangalore. The invited speakers for various technical sessions shall be Prof. M. Eswaramurthy; Prof. Vivek Polshettiwar, TIFR, Mumbai; Prof. Roy Johnson; Prof. R. B. Jotania, Ahmedabad; Prof. P. Shingwelkar, VDCT, Amravati; Prof. Dilip Peshwe; Dr. Nitin Labheshwar and C. S. Kashikar, DGM, R 86 D, BGPPL.

The valedictory function will be held on January 18 at 4.00 pm.  Dr. Vilas Sapkal, Vice Chancellor, RTMNU, will  be the President of the function. V. M. Motghare, Joint Director, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, Mumbai will be the Chief Guest. The Guests of Honour will be C.S. Kashikar, DGM, BGPPL, Ballarpur; Dr. Satish Wate, Director, CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur; Dr. Ashok Gomashe, Registrar, RTMNU, Nagpur; Prof, S. B. Jannalgadda, South Africa; Prof. S. Dassappa, IISC, Bangalore; Prof. Hideki Abe, NIITS, Japan and Prof. Ajayan Vinu, AIBN, Auaralia.

Dr.. K.M. Reddy,  Principal; Dr.  . D.M. Borikar, Organizing Secretary and Prof. S.M. Shende, Head, Deptt. of Chemistry can be contacted for further details.

Dr. Ambedkar College to hold International Conference on Chemistry on January 17,18

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Nagpur News: As various problems faced by students of various faculty is taking a toll, a delegation of students lead by Nidhi Kamdar,Vice-President,BJYM,Maharashtra and Jitendra Singh Thakur, General Secretary, BJYM, Nagpur met Pro-VC of RTMNU Yenkie.

Nidhi Kamdar, Jitendra Thakur and others of BJYM with Pro VC

As series of problems continue to play with the future of the students due to the tussle between the College Administration and University and procedural flaws, Thousands of students’ careers are at stake.

For a 2 year Post Gradute Course,the M.Tech students of the Abha Giakwad Patil college and Raisoni engineering college have already spent a span of 2 and 1/2yr now and still are left clueless about their degrees as no Project assessment exam is being conducted as the College failed to have Approved teacher.
The situation is so worst that even if they conduct the examination on immediate basis, by the time these students get their result, it would show that they took 3 years to complete a 2 year course and they would face lot of questions at the time of their job placements. Moreover, it is a sheer mental harassment and they have already lost on so much of time and hardwork and to add to it the College authorities too have been rude with them.

As all this is affecting their lives and disturbing their morality, BJYM requested the Pro-VC to take immediate possible action/steps to save their career from getting devastated.

Secondly, similar demand of quick action for students of 18 B.Ed colleges was made, who have a similar problem and for 1 year course, it is almost 1 and half year and for no fault of students, they are became victimized.

BJYM under Nidhi Kamdar meets Pro-VC RTMNU

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The colleges have already been blacklisted for having not a single regular teacher and have been barred the First Year admissions. This information was shared by the Vice Chancellor Dr Vilas Sapkal with the media at a press conference after inspecting documents of the colleges on Thursday.

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The Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) has decided to crack the whip against those blacklisted colleges that are misguiding the students and are illegally carrying out admissions in the First Year. Such colleges would now be permanently derecognized and their affiliation cancelled. The colleges have already been blacklisted for having not a single regular teacher and have been barred the First Year admissions. This information was shared by the Vice Chancellor Dr Vilas Sapkal with the media at a press conference after inspecting documents of the colleges on Thursday.

Dr Sapkal has termed misleading of students and then giving them admissions by blacklisted colleges totally illegal and deserve derecognition. “The RTMNU had uploaded the names those colleges on its website barring admissions to the First Year. Even then the colleges misguiding the students and giving admissions could be derecognized and their affiliations cancelled under Section 91 of the Maharashtra Universities Act, 1994,” the Vice Chancellor asserted.

It may be recalled, the RTMNU had banned admissions of the First Year for academic year 2013-14 in such colleges that were found having no regular teachers. However, many of such colleges, not only admitted students for the First Year, but also filled up examination forms from them. Recently, the students of Sitabuldi-based Mahalaxmi Jagdamba (M J College) had filed FIRs against the College for “cheating” the students. The issue of illegal admissions from then onwards started getting murkier.

Interestingly, the M J College had got recognition of RTMNU for starting the college in Koradi. However, the owner of the College, Uday Tekade started the Mahalaxmi Jagadamba College from Bhagini Mandal in Sitabuldi in Nagpur. This college, too, was in the list of blacklisted colleges. Despite this fact, Uday Tekade admitted students for courses such as Master of Fashion Design (MFD), Bachelor of Fashion Design (BFD), Bachelor of Textiles (BTS) by misleading the students of having RTMNU recognition and giving them the First Year admissions. Moreover, the college also recovered course fees and examination charges. However, the students were shocked when they learnt the illegal affairs of the college after reaching the examination centre as they had not received the admission cards for the examination.

Many blacklisted colleges to face derecognition for admitting students to First Year illegally

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Nagpur News: The Nagpur University (NU) will be conducting the summer examinations in five phases. In the first phase beginning on March 5, students of 33 certificate courses, including foreign languages like French, German and Russian along with Pali Prakrit, English, Telugu, Urdu and Bengali, will be appearing for their exams.

Major of NU students would appear in the second phase of exams starting from March 15, wherein first and final year papers of BA, BCom, BCCA, BSc, BBA, BCA, BSc (IT and Home Science), BSW, BFD, BID, BJD, BPE, BEd, BFD, BTS and BHMCT, would be conducted.

The third phase would begin from April 15. Papers of second year BA, BCom, BCCA, BSc, BBA, BCA, BSc (IT and Home Science), BFD, BID, BHMCT, BPE, BARS, BSW and pharmacy (BPharm and MPharm) would be held in this phase. Exams of LLB, BFA, BALLB and BPEd would begin simultaneously. Exams for MA, MCom, MSc, MSW, MIRPM, MCM, MPEd, MLS, MLISc, MHRDEF, MFA, BJ and MA (Mass Communication) would be also conducted in the same phase. The all important engineering and technology exams would start from April 25 for first to tenth semesters of all (BE/BTech/BArch) branches.

In the last phase from May 5, MBA, MCA, March, MTech, ME, MTD, MFD, MHTM, LLM, MPhil, and MSc (IT, molecular biology and genetic engineering, and Biotech) students would be appearing for exams along with PGDCCA and BSc (Forensic Science) students. Dates for practical exams will be declared later.

Nagpur University summer exams from March 5, BE start April 25

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Hundreds of students of some of 250 blacklisted colleges shouted high-pitched slogans demanding they be allowed to appear for examinations. Since the issue is in the High Court, the RTMNU did not accept the examination forms of the students who had taken admissions in such colleges and thereby disallowed them to appear in the examinations.

Nagpur News: Sunday the January 19 turned the Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) premises a battlefield with hundreds of students demanding they be allowed to appear for examinations. At the same time, RTMNU’s Vidvat Parishad was holding its crucial meeting in the afternoon. The gathered students started shouting high-pitched slogans thereby raising their demands. However, the premises took the shape of a war-zone in the evening when the mob of students, outraged by no communication at all by the concerned RTMNU officials with them, resorted to violence and started damaging the property during the ongoing Vidvat Parishad meeting. The students were led by the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI).

The RTMNU authorities, after witnessing the volcanic mood of the students, deployed police in large number in order to control the students and the damage to property as well.

The red faces of hundreds of students, being deprived of appearance in the examinations, were clearly visible as the situation was getting hotter and hotter with every passing minute. In the afternoon, seven delegations of the students were separately called to put up their demands before the RTMNU authorities. But till evening, no discussions were at all held with the delegations. The owners/directors of the colleges were also present at the RTMNU during the demonstration by the students.Police were also deployed by the RTMNU authorities.

It may be recalled, the RTMNU had blacklisted 250 colleges having not a single regular teacher as a fall out of a petition filed in the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court against these colleges. The University then issued the list of such colleges and subsequently barred the First Year admissions for the academic year 2013-14 in these colleges. However, some colleges admitted students despite the ban believing the ban would be lifted after some time. But the issue is in the High Court for its consideration.  

Since the issue is in Court, the RTMNU did not accept the examination forms of the students who had taken admissions in such colleges and thereby disallowed them to appear in the examinations. The frustrated students first raised their voice against their respective colleges for misguiding them and recovering fees. Today, hundreds of students reached the RTMNU for justice as they are on the verge of losing an academic year. And the mishandling of the situation on the part of RTMNU authorities resulted in violence and damage to property of the University. The Sitabuldi police were called for controlling the situation.

RTMNU turns battlefield as mob of students, goes volcanic, resort to damaging property

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VC holds the admissions barred college managements responsible for violence by students and stresses filing of an FIR against them and the 39 college managements that have appointed regular teachers threatened to file an FIR against the Vice Chancellor for not providing relief to them despite completing the formalities.

Nagpur News: After the battle waged by hundreds of students of admission barred colleges over denial of appearance in the examinations by RTMNU and the resultant violence and damage to property by the students in the evening of Sunday (January 19), now war on FIRs has broken out between the Vice Chancellor and managements of blacklisted colleges.

On one hand, the Vice Chancellor Dr Vilas Sapkal, expressing his displeasure over actions of the students, has stressed upon filing of an FIR against the admissions barred college managements by holding them responsible for violence. On the other hand, managements of those colleges that have appointed regular teachers threatened to file an FIR against the Vice Chancellor for not providing relief to them despite completing the formalities. A total of 39 colleges have appointed regular teachers as ordered by the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court.

The meeting of Vidvat Parishad  of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University was adjourned for 15 minutes at 6 pm following uproar by the students but remained adjourned for one and half hour. The meeting started at 7.30 pm again but was adjourned indefinitely. The Vidvat Parishad neither took any decision on the issue of students nor any discussion held on the demand of students for holding special examination. Meanwhile, the member of Vidvat Parishad Dr Baban Taywade assured the college managements that a concrete decision on the colleges would be taken in two days to resolve the issue.

A report prepared by Taywade Committee on the number of students could only be submitted in the Vidvat Parishad meeting. The report mentioned fifth part of total students in urban areas, sixth part of total students in rural areas and seventh part of students in Adivasi areas to facilitate running of courses on regular basis. However, no final decision could be arrived in the meeting. The members demanded running of the courses by the colleges with one regular teacher in the first year and remaining contributory teachers. But the Vice Chancellor Dr Sapkal stressed upon more regular teachers in accordance with the High Court order. The discussion went on over the number of regular teachers. No decision was taken even on this issue in the meeting.

Face off between VC Sapkal, blacklisted college managements on filing FIRs

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“Potential of Applied Maths has been hidden since the past long time,” says Helmurt Jurgensen (Canada), an expert of Mathematics at the “International  Conference on Recent Adavnces in Mathematics” being organized by the Department of Mathematics , Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur university.

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“Most of us, except a few who find mathematics easy and interesting, scorn mathematics as it is a hard, difficult and problematic subject. At least, that is how we perceive mathematics in our childhood, giving equal importance to applied mathematics as necessary as it is to pure mathematics, both play a vital role in their field of expertise,” said Prof Jayanta Bhattacharya from Harishchandra institute, Allahabad at the “International  Conference on Recent Advances in Mathematics”  held at Gurunanak  Bhavan on January 20, 2014. The Conference is being organized by the Department of Mathematics , Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur university (RTMNU).

Delegates including professors of Maths and Mathematicians from across India and abroad are attending the 3-day Conference to be held from January 20 to 23. The conference schedule includes plenary talks, invited talks on current areas of research followed by a large number of paper and poster presentations. The conference aims to promote, encourage, discuss the latest developments and research in the field of Mathematics and its applications and bring together researchers in the different fields .

The chief guest of the inaugural function  Helmurt Jurgensen (Canada), said “Potential of Applied Maths has been hidden since the past long time. Fundamental research is very necessary in Maths, it is an investment for the long term success.”

Speaking at the conference, Dr Vilas Sapkal, Vice Chancellor, RTMNU, said, “Maths has made it possible to express huge knowledge and data in smallest possible equation.  The Conference will encourage and inspire the students and the teachers to undertake advanced learning and enlighten the faculty to accelerate their efforts in achieving the desired quality in higher education,” the Vice Chancellor said.

Mayor Anil Sole, addressing the gathering said, “Maths is the King of all subjects. Scope of Maths has been very widely spread and it is a universal language.”

Fundamental research must in Maths as it is investment for long term success: Jurgensen