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Police detain four students before any violence, damage to property. The detention of four students triggered a rush of about 150 students to the Sitabuldi Police Station. The students were later taken to office of Commissioner of Police.

Nagpur News: “Once beaten, twice shy.” The saying was followed by RTMNU authorities word to word. The Sunday was almost repeated on Monday as a mob of students started to gather in front of the University. The RTMNU had witnessed the volcanic mood and subsequent violence and damage to property by the students of some of the blacklisted colleges. Today, as soon as the students started to gather in groups, the varsity officials closed the big doors and called the Sitabuldi police immediately. The police, in a swift action, detained four students before any untoward incident. The detention of four students triggered a rush of about 150 students to the Sitabuldi Police Station. The students were later taken to office of Commissioner of Police.

RELEASED AT 7 PM:

According to reports, hundreds of students, led by National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), reached RTMNU on Monday again. The increasing number of students left RTMNU authorities trembling and they immediately summoned police in order to avert the Sunday. Police immediately detained some students at about 2 pm but released them at 7 pm.

It may be recalled, hundreds of students had mobbed RTMNU 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 NSUI’s State Vice President Ajit Singh, Ashish Manpe, Bhushan Maraskolhe, Amir Noori, Abhishek and others were arrested.

THE REASON:

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. On Sunday, the students reached the RTMNU for justice as they are on the verge of losing an academic year.

RTMNU averts violent Sunday on Monday as hundreds of students again mob University

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The students of class 12th studying in CBSE schools, particularly those preparing for Joint Engineering Examinations (JEE) online, are in for a pleasant surprise after the CBSE come flexible on the students and allowed them to decide the exam slots of their wish, in view of their examination dates clashing with the JEE online exam.

The dates of JEE Main are reportedly clashing with CBSE class 12th examination. Keeping this in mind, the Central Board of Secondary Education has now given full freedom to the candidates to change their exam slots if the exams dates appear to be coinciding.

The JEE online examination is scheduled to take place on 9th April, 11th April, 12th April and 19th April between 9.30 am to 12.30 pm.

However, Mala Chembath, Principal of Narayana Vidyalayam at Chinch Bhuvan informed though the dates of CBSE examinations are clashing with the JEE online examinations, these dates do not include the students from science or math streams. “11^th and 12^th April are the two dates of CBSE examinations coinciding with the JEE Main online examination but there is no paper of the students from science or math streams on these dates. On 11^th April, students of Home Science and Kannada will have their examinations whereas on 12^th April, examinations will be held for Philosophy and other subjects. So there is no question of applying for the change in slots as the science students will remain unaffected on these dates,” she told Nagpur Today.

Meanwhile, upon receiving some requests from the candidates regarding clash of dates of Board’s examination with the dates of Computer Based Examination of JEE (Main) 2014, the CBSE has asked the affected candidates to send a copy of their Class 12 admit card by e-mail on jeemain@nic.in latest by 15th March. In addition, the candidates must not forget to mention their application number of JEE (Main) 2014.

JEE Main 2014 examination will be conducted on 6th April by CBSE. JEE Main is the qualifying entrance examination for admission to engineering / technology courses across the country in NITs, CFTIs and SFTIs.

CBSE allows 12th students to change exam slots for dates clashing with JEE

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Nagpur News : Infuriated with the negligent attitude of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) administration, the members of Students Organisation of Nagpur University (STON) protested in front of RTMNU’s administrative building situated at Maharajbagh on Wednesday.

More than 200 students took part in the agitation and put forward various demands including conduction of special exam, reduction in exam fees, timely declaration of results and many more issues concerning the welfare of students. “When we went on hunger strike, the varsity officials assured us that they will take serious cognisance of our demands. However, even after three months, none of our demands were considered by the officials,” lamented the students.
When the students met RTMNUs pro-vice chancellor, he assured them that the special examination will be conducted during the summer 2014 examinations. The students threatened to intensify their protest if RTMNU officials fail to keep their words.

No date fixed for academic council meeting yet: The varsity is yet to fix a date for the academic council meeting which was delayed due to the protests held on Sunday. The members had turned aggressive over the issue of appointment of a permanent teacher stating that one lecturer will not be sufficient. Sources said that a decision can only be taken when senior RTMNU officials conduct a meeting.

STON stage protest, demands Special Exam to be conducted

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The Department of commerce of Dr. Ambedkar College, Deeksha Bhoomi, Nagpur has organized a National Level conference sponsored by University Grants Commission, on January 25.  The conference titled ‘Social commerce – emerging trends and issues’ will have the participation of universities & teachers from affiliated colleges, junior colleges, industrialists in addition to the research & post graduate students.  The conference is organized by the Department of commerce at Ambedkar College.

Addressing the press conference, Principal Malti Reddy, said ‘Social commerce’  is a subset of electronic commerce that involves use of social media, online media that supports social interaction, and user contributions to assist in the online buying and selling of products and services. Briefly, social commerce is the use of social networks in the context of e-commerce transactions. She added that today the area of social commerce has been expanded to include the range of social media tools and content used in the context of e-commerce.

Over 250 delegates from different colleges all over India will participate in the conference.  There will be two sessions during the day. In the first session Shailendra Jaiswal, senior professor, National Academy of Indian Railways, will speak on ‘Financial
inclusion- Role of information Technology ’ .
In the second session, Dr. Pravin Kuhikar, Deputy Manager, Retail Sales BPCL, will speak on ‘Facebook commerce’, informed Vice Principal A.P. Joshi.  Shireesh Vakil, CEO, Bizsense Solutions will be the chief guest at the conference. Dr. Malti Reddy (Principal) is the chairperson, Dr.V.M. Chopde Vice Principal (Commerce Dept)  organizing  secretary of the conference.
Details of the conference can be obtained from the members of the organizing committee on 09822574740.

Conference on ‘Social commerce- Emerging Trends and issues’ at Dr. Ambedkar college on Jan 25

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The University Administration repeatedly fumbled and hassled in implementing decisions of Management Council and Academic Council triggering the protest by the members.

Nagpur News: The frequent indecision, fumbles, and hassles by RTMNU Administration over decisions taken Management Council (MC) and Academic Council (AC) triggered a walkout by the outraged members in the Management Council meeting on Friday.

The meeting was adjourned without discussions on the major issues confronted by the varsity. Many important issues remained pending as the MC members, expressing their displeasure over the style of functioning by the RTMNU Administration, staged a walkout in the meeting. The members who walked out of the meeting include Dr. Baban Taywade, D.K. Agrawal, K.C. Deshmukh, Kirti Dixit, Archana Nerkar, Dr. Vinayak Deshpande and others.

All Management Council members were present in the meeting which started in the afternoon. Pro-Vice Chancellor Dr Mahesh Yenkie chaired the meeting in the absence of Vice Chancellor Dr. Vilas Sapkal.

The enraged Management Council members questioned very capability of the University Administration for not implementing the decisions of MC and AC decisions. The members were of the view that the RTMNU Administration has not been serious in implementing the governing body’s decision. They were very annoyed by this attitude of the Varsity authorities.

Important issues could not be discussed:

The bone of contention for annoyance of the members was the issue of 250 banned colleges. When the Academic Council has taken the decision on this issue, why the varsity is not implementing it, opined the members.  Many important issues now remained pending because of the adjournment of the meeting.

Enraged members walkout from MC meeting over frequent indecision by RTMNU officials

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“Education has a varied infinitely in time and places. Today, it tries to make of the individual an autonomous personality. In Athens, they sought to form cultivated souls, informed, subtle, full of measure and harmony, capable of enjoying the beauty and the joys of pure speculation; in Rome, they wanted above all for children to become man of action, devoted to military glory, indifferent to letters and the arts”. (Durkheim 1956)

Introduction

In an increasingly knowledge-dependent economy, colleges and universities take on more central role in society’s institutional fabric, and their performance has definite repercussions throughout the society. As a result family, entrepreneurs, voluntary organization and corporate ventures take a stronger role in the governance of education and the institutional landscape changes from monistic to a pluralistic world.

These new institutional realities present a challenge to control institutional theories in education. A college/ university, for example can be handful of students sitting in a class and trying to unlearn what they have learned, a group of youngsters learning how to write project report, or a group of adolescents in computer lab busy on surfing web pages or spending time in chatting. The purpose of this paper is to tell why out of this stupendous variety of feasible form-this or that particularly one is selected and whose interest might be best served by that selected arrangement.

On the other hand what corporate needs, is to understand the trade-offs involved in using one form of institution to the exclusion of other possible ones, according to their needs educational institutes shall know what best alternatives a society shall have and policy makers for educational institutes shall know them. Which social group might be favored or advantaged by this particular framework.

Perspective of educational institute as a company

The natural question that may arise is that why we should construct a framework which forms an isomorphism between educational institute and a company. Following are some reasons to do so.

1. To increase practical knowledge in respective interest area for students and their teachers
2. On the basis of outstanding higher skill level of teachers to reach the state when college/university will be natural expert authority for respective interest area sought out the firms in any problems with improving of skills for their staff.
3. To create natural space for student´s involvement to managed practice in firms and future employers
4. To create space for future short-terms stages of college/university teachers in firms and companies.
5. Creation of specialized study materials for short terms educational activities (one or two days typically) according to firm´s requirements oriented to practical training and evaluate their efficiency in educational process.
6. To match the corporate needs and implanting those in educational institutes
7. To concretize the commercial aspect that is prevalent in the educational sector.
8. To have a stronger outlook towards industry-institute relationship

Business Education Alliance

To run education as a business the first step may be to form an alliance between business and education. There should must exist a strong alliance between business firms/ corporate and education institutes to facilitate a mutually beneficial partnership between business and education to prepare productive citizens. Following determinants shall be taken care of while making this kind of alliance

1. To facilitate an alliance between business and education, that will create trust and understanding, educate and promote dialogue, and identify mutual benefits between the two partner groups.
2. To prepare citizens to become part of an effective workforce by identifying principle skills, attitudes, and values required to ensure successful employment for all students.
3. To share new and existing resources with area educators promoting the college-to-work principles and expediting communication between faculties-students and employer.
4. To promote lifelong learning to and throughout the entire community in order to help our population compete for employment in the 21st century’s competitive global economy.
5. To create a trust in the mind of common citizen that the alliance is not for commercial aspect but to enhance job opportunities to prospective eligible students.
6. To remove the third parties those are involved in various aspects of education.
7. Selection of students must be made with utmost care so that the basic objective of the industry can be achieved.

Business-Education model : C3PF Model

Now a day’s many for-profit corporations are targeting the higher education market. Analyzing their strategies helps reveal possible effects of these entrants on the incumbent colleges’ and universities’ business models. It is difficult to be precise about strategies of the new entrants. There are several possible ways to categorize the entry strategies for the new players. This analysis focuses on five elements that seem to have the most repercussions for traditional colleges and universities: the courses entrants offer, their target customer group, where their content originates, the pedagogy they employ, and their pricing.

Course: Many of the companies are focused on the area such as management, information technologies, applied sciences and many others. The employees from these areas are focusing on continuing education for their profession, but many universities/colleges offer a fulltime bachelors/masters degree which may not be suitable for them for many different reasons, may be the content are not useful for their knowledge up gradation, it is irrelevant for their use or doest match with the industry needs.

Hence the course should contain designed by the industry/business related material or shall have entrepreneurial development skills or should be focused on great employability skills but with consistent review and up gradation

Client: Consistent with the predominance of business courses, the major clients are corporate employees. If the course is suitable for the corporate employees they will be occupying the big size of entire higher education market and will grow rapidly

Hence if the course is designed to contain all relevant contents that are suitable for the industry persons then they will definitely opt for it for their knowledge up gradation and for general students it will be an opportunity to learn industry skills with a perfect blend of practical knowledge.

Content: Course material can be generated in three primary ways. First, they can hire their own staffs to develop new materials. Second, they can license existing courses from colleges and universities. Third, they can contract directly with individual research scholars or other subject experts for material and courses. How contents are developed is of vital importance to colleges /universities and businesses, whose interests lie in keeping the third source of content to a minimum. Indeed, several major players appear to be pursuing all three options. While deals at the university level are attractive, thus far they have been

quite expensive; the long-term trend will probably be for entrants to source material directly from faculty

Pedagogy: As per the source of the content the pedagogical approach should be broad and diverse. Since there will be variety of clients for these type of course, according to their suitability the pedagogy shall be designed. Asynchronous technologies shall be used instead of traditional technologies. A major breakthrough is in the use of technology for education that will come with the widespread adoption of broadband that allows streaming, realistic, two-way video into the home.

Fees: Fees structure design has the greatest potential to disturb education’s current environment. Use of above mentioned teaching pedagogy which uses great advantage of new technology will allow very low fees course since the marginal cost of delivering the course is very negligible. Finally, education is an experience good—the purchase decision involves perceptions and interpretations of signals about quality. Thus, the powerful implication for colleges and universities is that extensive price competition is unlikely to occur immediately.

Conclusion

Who will win in the long run—entrants exploiting the corporate market and then moving into the traditional university market via distance learning, or institutions have already begun. It depends principally on the relative attractiveness of the two markets. The corporate market is the fastest growing and the most profitable. Additionally, and perhaps most important, the demands of the corporate market force quicker development along a steeper technological trajectory, where colleges/universities and businesses develop new pedagogies and build the capabilities needed to succeed when they enter the traditional university market. Two important conclusions can be drawn from this analysis. The first is that the direct competitive threat to most of the traditional core offerings of colleges and universities will be delayed. Instead, alliance of college/universities and business are largely focused on the corporate market and graduate level training, and at only slightly lower prices. That is the good news. The bad news is that well funded competitors, often backed by brand name institutions through alliances, will be hard to beat once they are established. First mover advantages that they can exploit, particularly the more rapid development of the skills needed to harness the new technologies and develop new pedagogies will put them in good stead as they gradually transition to compete more directly in the traditional higher education market.

:: Rahul Mohare, S. Subramaniam, Aniriddha Akarte ( Autor can be contacted at Datta Meghe Institute of Management Studies or email to : mohare.rahul@gmail.com , subramaniamdmims@yahoo.com , aniruddha_akarte@yahoo.com)

Strategic Alliance of Educational Institute with Corporate

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“I will not buckle under any presser. The issue of the colleges having no regular teachers, and subsequently blacklisted, has been under the hammer of the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court. The Management Council had once arrived at a decision on the issue. The RTMNU Administration will decide the issue of such colleges in accordance with the High Court and the Ordinance. The Administration will not bow down to any pressure tactics, and if the need arises, the Management Council will be kicked out. I can use the special powers I am armed with,” Dr Vilas Sapkal asserted.

File Pic: Dr Vilas Sapkal

Nagpur News: The battered and bruised Vice Chancellor of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) Dr Vilas Sapkal has finally put his foot down and warned that the “game playing” Management Council (MC) would be fired if the need arises.

“I will not buckle under any presser. The issue of the colleges having no regular teachers, and subsequently blacklisted, has been under the hammer of the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court. The Management Council had once arrived at a decision on the issue. The RTMNU Administration will decide the issue of such colleges in accordance with the High Court and the Ordinance. The Administration will not bow down to any pressure tactics, and if the need arises, the Management Council will be kicked out. I can use the special powers I am armed with,” the red-faced Vice Chancellor told media in a press conference held on Monday.

MISLEADING BEING INDULGED:

Dr Sapkal said, despite negativity, the Administration has been making all out efforts for development of the RTMNU. The work on answer papers with barcode has been in the final stage. The RTMNU Administration is focused and serious on Convocation Ceremony and it would be organized as soon as possible. But the Management Council members have been putting hurdles in the Administration’s efforts and thus deliberately delaying the Convocation Ceremony and indulging in misleading the people. “The meeting of Board of Examination (BoE) has already been taken in this connection and now the final decision on Convocation Ceremony lies with the Management Council. Some MC members had demanded Point of Information on some specific issues which the RTMNU Administration had provided, the Vice Chancellor Dr Vilas Sapkal said.

Dr Sapkal further said that the Law College has four regular teachers. All the departments of the University have NET-CET qualified teachers. The process for PhD guide will be made easier one. The investigation process regarding recognition of 18 BEd Colleges has been going on, the Vice Chancellor said.

WAR OF WORDS:

The hard-hitting statements by the Vice Chancellor Dr Sapkal against the Management Council members triggered a war of words with the MC members raising questions over the VC’s decision-making capability. The members directly targeted Dr Sapkal and even demanded his resignation. The fighting between the VC and various Councils is resulting in no fixing of date for the Convocation Ceremony. And the students are becoming the victims of the fighting and taking the maximum brunt regarding various crucial issues.

MEETING ADJOURNED:

The members of the Management Council, in a meeting held on Monday, vociferously demanded removal of those colleges that have completed the process of appointing regular teachers from the blacklisted list and regularization of the admission process. The uproar by members started when the Vice Chancellor frequently informed them that the issue has been under consideration of the Court. Dr Sapkal’s bone of contention was that there is no specification whether the appointment of regular teachers should be one or more in the blacklisted colleges. In this situation, no final decision could be taken in this connection. The meeting, which started at 1 pm, was adjourned at 2.30 pm without any tangible decision.

STRONG DEMAND ON VC’S RESIGNATION:

After the meeting was adjourned, the Management Council members held a separate press conference attended prominently by Dr Baban Taywade, Adv Abhijit Wanjari, Mahendra Nimbarte, Adv D K Agrawal, and Dr K C Deshmukh. The members demanded removal of 40 colleges that have appointed regular teachers from the list of flawed colleges. The members also demanded withdrawal of FIR filed against the students saying they opposed such RTMNU move. The Vice Chancellor could be forced to resign. “We are very serious and concerned over organization of the Convocation Ceremony but the University Administration is not coming forward with a positive attitude. On the contrary, the Vice Chancellor has been blaming the MC members for delaying the Convocation Ceremony,” the members said.

THE ONLY ISSUE SINCE PAST 8 MONTHS:

It may be recalled, the issue of the colleges having no regular teachers had been raised in umpteen meetings but the meetings were adjourned without any concrete decision. Then the meetings may be of Management Council, Vidvat Parishad or Senate. The meeting starts with only one issue and ends on the same issue. The owners/directors of such colleges time and again resorted to chaos at RTMNU over the issue. The college managements raise questions over style of RTMNU working, and the University Administration stress upon appointing regular teachers. This fighting on only one issue has been going on since the past 8 months.

Red-faced RTMNU VC finally puts foot down, warns of firing “nasty” Management Council

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Nagpur Today:

Much awaited National Student Parliament inaugurated by the hands of Mr. Nitin Gadkari, Ex-President BJP, in presence of  Ajay Sancheti, MP, Vice Chancellor V.S. Sapkal, Author Chetan Bhagat, Former Miss Universe Diana Hayden, Chairman of RGI Sunil Raisoni & Senate Member  Shobha Raisoni. The prominent personalities on the dias shared their knowledge & experience in order to boost the participating youths to put in their best for the country. They appealed to be the change & bring about a revolution to make India a Super Power.

In all there were about 1000 participants from all across Vidarbha.

Nitin Gadkari while addressing the crowd!

A grand opening for the unique first ever National Students Parliament commenced. While addressing the students of Raisoni Group of Educational Institutions former chief of BJP party Nitin Gadkari said, “Though this is not a platform for political motivation, yet I would like to appeal that you can join BJP, or you can even join Congress or even Aam Admi Party (when the students shouted in one voice AAP).

The Indians have an opportunistic thought pattern. Our country’s attitude is narrowing towards zero. We are a rich nation with poor population because of wrong policies of the Government. He said that one need not succeed only because he has acquired specific qualifications in one particular field. Where there is a will there is way. All that is required is daring, successful leadership, dynamism, conviction by the leadership. Focus on positive attitude. Self Confidence is what is required of the youth today. The world bows down to those who can make the people bow down. Intelligent people don’t want to enter politics. He explained how he was successful in making various structures especially the flyovers in Pune and sea link in Mumbai. He said that if will power is present then a flyover can be made and completed in 2.5 years.”

The first session – ‘What young India wants?’ was chaired by vice chancellor Sapkal. The prominent speakers in session I were Chetan Bhagat, Durgojoy Dutta & Diana Hayden who motivated the youth to bring a positive change and be able to achieve what they dream of.

After the inauguration Chairman of Raisoni Group of Educational Institutions Sunil Raisoni introduced the guests. He spoke how the institution aims to create an opportunity for all the students to realize their true potential by actively participating in various social procedures to become dynamic, empathetic and effective leaders of our country.

MP Rajya Sabha, Ajay Sancheti spoke and said that starting this Student Parliament in Nagpur is a historic beginning and the results of this programme will be seen in future. He opined that the physical presence of the youth in politics, Vidhan Sabha and other relevant places need to be improved a lot. The state and direction of the country today needs to change substantially and only the youth can do that. There are going to sessions on many socially relevant issues like India in 2020, Social Media, Education and Indian Politics.

I have nearly 2.5 years experience in the parliament and there many discussions are held, deliberations over the issues are held and after that laws are passed.” He appealed to the students to pay attention and listen to everything the experts have to say carefully, understand them and after that discuss the issues and express your views. This will help in getting the entire process of what goes on in the National level and how what you can do be relevant. He also said that all the resolutions passed after each session will be sent to the leaders sitting in parliament so that the opinions of the student will also be heard there. Instead of dwelling in who said what, what is required today is the students tell this is what we want and this is our contribution towards that. He said that where there is will there is a way. Criticism is the easiest thing any can do but youth has immense power. If you think positive, then sky is the limit. Join active politics and play a constructive role in the development of India.

Chetan Bhagat

While addressing the students of Raisoni Group of Educational Institutions, Chetan Bhagat talked about the importance of culture, power and youth. He explained of what is wrong with India. According to him, China and India were the same in income earlier. He added that according to Indian politics, religion, class and caste. Chetan Bhagat made a comparative study of the Congress party and BJP party. He said that Congress has had 60 years in power of the total of 67 years of Independence. We have the 4th generation of Gandhi family in power. He explained how vote bank politics play an important role; how Congress encashes on Muslim, and minority votes. On the other side the BJP has always had the middle class, Hindu majority and recently is catching up. However consequence of this rule has brought about monumental scams, poverty and poor governance.

However he agreed that the times have changed. He added that social network is playing a vital role in politics. He said that the media power is rising and so is the frustration of the masses. Many movements especially the anti-corruption movement has been brought about, yet there has been no change. This is because the government, as well as the citizens is weak. Everyone is here because of personal motives. Everyone wants to know what they’ll get, if he comes to power or if someone else who is of a particular religion, race, regional affiliation comes to power. According to him we have Freebie policies. (You will get this free with the purchase of that)

He expounded on the great Indian Psychotherapy. He talked about our servility, Numbness to injustice and divisiveness. He concluded with how long the common man will remain common. Shouldn’t he become special? (Kabhi toh Aam admi ko bhi khas admi bhi bannana hai)

Diana Hayden while addressing the Students of Raisoni Group of Educational Institutions started her talk by asking the entire audience to get up, stretch their hands up, move the head to the right and left and in a small exercise made sure everybody is relaxed after a long session of many speaker. She said that she claimed that she has struggled to reach where she is today. She saqid that when she came to Mumbai, she just had Rs 250 in her pocket. She explained how after two nights she was helped by a Pakistani lady who took her in and she worked as a telephone operator and how she was promoted to a receptionist position only because she gave her 100 percent in whatever she did. She asked the audience if they believed that she was an 8th class drop out? She said she does not advocate dropout attitude but explained how educational qualification helps in making listen to you. She appealed to the students to excell in the proffession that they have chosen and how they should strive hard which alone can help in achieving the desired result. She said that if the students want the leadership of the nation to listen to them, they should prove their worth in education and involve actively in political matters. She said that the students should definitely vote to make their presence felt by the government.

The dignitaries and speakers

With an aim to provide and share a common platform to the young leaders who are dynamic, vibrant and change agents so that they can rise above the present system and strive for bringing about a change, this Mega National Student Parliament was organized.

The 2-day programme will be on the themes 1. What Young India wants, 2. India at 20-20, 3. Fighting crime against women, 4. Social Media Boon or Bane, 5. Indian Education System & 6. Indian Politics Scams & Corruption.

The Delegates, students, professionals and Academicians. The speakers for the 2 day sessions are : Dr. Vilas Sapkal, Durjay Dutta, Chetan Bhagat, Diana Hyden, Dr.Rajan Welukar, Shekhar Suman, Jaya Row, Sanjay Nahar, CA.Jaydeep Shah, Dr. Uma Vaidya, Prabhu Chawala, Nishigandha Wad, Supriya Sule, Anup Soni,Dr ADN Bajpai, Hemant Jain, Sorav Jain, Sunil Barve,Nikhil Wagle, Dr. Pankaj Chande, Dr. B L Sharma, Dr. D N Johar, Jayanti Ravi, Sarita Kaushik, Dr.Ved Prakash Mishra, Sudhir Mugatiwar, Ashish Jaiswal, Hansraj Aher and Manish Awasthi.

Students while listening to the speeches!

National Student Parliament inaugurated at Raisoni: Cast your vote sensibly, Gadkari to students

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“Sustained self efforts towards achieving excellence in whatever we do are the need of the hour. This significant aspect alone can bring us into the global scenario. By 2020, the world youth ratio will be 70 per cent and the way we are growing, the percentage of our youth in higher education will be a sparse 12 or even less. We will have to strive hard to bridge this percentage (58 per cent) gap by focusing on education,” the MLA said on the concluding day of the National Students’ Parliament, organized by the Raisoni Group of Institutions.

Nagpur News: President of Maharashtra BJP, Devendra Fadnavis, speaking on second day of the National Students’ Parliament, organized by the Raisoni Group of Institutions at their campus at Hingna Road, was at his charismatic best. Devendra Fadnavis, the South West Nagpur MLA, as is renowned for, talked with fact and figures on the topic that he is passionate about and thus drawing an instant applause from the distinguished audience consisting of lecturers, professors, officials and, of course, the students.

Fadnavis said, “Sustained self efforts towards achieving excellence in whatever we do is the need of the hour. This significant aspect alone can bring us into the global scenario. By 2020, the world youth ratio will be 70 per cent and the way we are growing, the percentage of our youth in higher education will be a sparse 12 or even less. We will have to strive hard to bridge this percentage (58 per cent) gap by focusing on education,” the MLA said.

The State BJP chief exhorted the students to acquire higher and higher education and to be ready to avail of the demographic dividend by 2020. However, he added that there is a need to have a more practical approach in studies. Instead of understanding the theory alone, practical applications of theoretical knowledge need to be looked into. He also asked the students to go for more and more educational qualifications, acquire varied skills, expertise and proficiency for the best employment opportunities.

The Chief of Maharashtra BJP, Devendra Fadnavis, came out with a lot of crucial data in order to enhance awareness amongst the students and equip themselves accordingly to meet the challenges of 2020. He requested the Vice Chancellors of all the universities to create regulatory bodies for framing rules and regulations to deal with education system in general and fees structure of colleges in particular.

There were in all 3 sessions of the National Students’ Parliament on Wednesday.

1)      Social Media Boon or Bane.

2)      Indian Education System — Time to Change.

3)      Indian Politics– Scams & Corruption

The BJP leader Sudhir Mungatiwar, who, in his dynamic style of delivering address, captured the hearts of the youth with his pointed narrations and anecdotes.  He asked the youth to introspect and appealed for a resolution to ignite the power within them.  “Think what I can do and not what others should do. People perceive politics as corruption. Yes, corruption is there and no law can curb the corruption. Corruption can only be rooted out with self introspection and joint efforts of all the people,” Mungantiwar asserted.

Another BJP leader and MP Hansraj Ahir, recipient of the Best Member of Parliament Award, who was instrumental in exposing the coal block distribution scam, appealed the youth to change the system by being a part of the democracy by playing the proactive role in bringing about the change.  He said there are lots of hopes from the young generation as they are the pole bearers or the foundation on which the structure of Super Power India by 2020 would be built. Ahir gave an insight in the functioning of the Government-Administration. The administration always gave wrong statistics whenever the situation warranted. He added that not all politicians are corrupt.

Shiv Sena MLA from Ramtek, Ashish Jaiswal,  let the momentum going set by Mungantiwar.  He said that today’s youth have great power to stop corruption by being a part of the revolution.

All the speakers in their unique styles captured the hearts of the youth and appealed them to be the “Change Agents”.

The National Students’ Parliament was on Social Media: Boon or Bane. Dr. ADN Bajpai, Vice Chancellor, Himachal Pradesh University set the tone with his opening remarks. He pointed out that social media was a plural of various mediums of communication. Since it was a medium it had no will of its own. It was for user to decide how best to use it.

Saurav Jain, thinker-in-chief, Echoveme.com, put forth his views with the help of ‘PPTS’ on how best social media could be used to enrich one’s life. How social media was beyond Facebook and Twitter alone.

Hemant Jain, Vice-President, Hungama Digital Marketing, in his elaborate presentation, took the audience through the nature and scope of social media and how it could be utilized to make one’s life the successful.

The third speaker of the session, Marathi stage Actor, Sunil Barve, said that use of social media was immediate and inevitable. It could not be escaped. Hence one should see how it could be used to supplement virtual message. Physical acts and action should complement the virtual action and  messaging.

Dr. ADN Bajpai, in his concluding remarks, once again reiterated that one should not get addicted to the use of social media and one should be able to differentiate between real and virtual.

Dr. P.T. Chande, the former Vice Chancellor, Kavikulguru Kalidas Sanskrit University, emphasized on raising the standards of education to great heights, so that students will be able to meet the global challenges. “The students today should inbuilt such qualities in themselves that will take them to great heights. The system is good but it is the students who have to create capacity to receive and retain the knowledge that come to the students.”

Dr. D. N. Jauhar, Honorary Dean of Faculty of Law, Guru Nanak Dev University, Chandigarh, suggested enhancement of quality of education. He focused on the aspect of upgradation of syllabus in the present education system.

Dr. K. B. Powar, presently Advisor to Chancellor of D. Y. Patil Institute, Pune, made the audience walk on the historical journey of education system from ancient, medieval to modern. Taking his journey from categories of education, changing scenario of education, distant education, purpose of higher education etc. he emphasized that privatization of education is to be encouraged but not the commercialization.

The last speaker of the session, Dr. AND Bajpai, Vice Chancellor of Himachal Pradesh University, asked the authorities to balance the present education system, which according to him, is lop sided education system which enrolls more in professional courses and social sciences suffers for want of students. He believes development through education can achieve great heights if students carry their nation’s culture with them, research and knowledge impartment remains the base of our education system.

Sumedh Kadam and Rahul Kishnani, the student leaders of the session, expressed their views on the present education system. Sunil Raisoni was prominently present in the sessions.

The student representatives Neha Singh and Ashwin Sorte also expressed their views and the views of their fellow youth mates which were very positive.

The National Students’ Parliament emerged a huge success with positive feedback from the audience and ignited the fire within the youth to bring about a revolution for a better future and their responsibility in making India a Super Power by 2020, a dream envisaged by former President of India and Father of Indian Missile Programme Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

The vote of thanks was proposed by Director Dr. Ravindra Aher.

The programme concluded  with the National Anthem.

Today’s youths hold key to meet challenges of 2020, make India a Super Power: Fadnavis

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The Board has made it mandatory for the students of Class IX to secure minimum of 25 percent marks in their Summative Assessments (SA), failing which they will not to be promoted to the next upper class.

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has introduced new guidelines for students of Class IX and Class X making it mandatory for the students of Class IX to secure minimum of 25 percent marks in their Summative Assessments (SA), failing which the students will not to be promoted to the next upper class.

The Nagpur Today, in an effort to seek comments from Principals of different CBSE schools in the city, contacted the Principal, BVM, Civil Lines, Anju Bhutani. She said all the Principals and teachers would welcome this format. It will bring in comprehensive evaluation of the students. Summative Assessments contain bigger portion. Students will be able to learn and improve their minimum qualifying marks in order to get promoted to the next upper class. This will truly help in enhancing students’ academic caliber, the Principal Anju Bhutani said.

The CBSE had introduced the change last year only but the students will be facing the effects from now on as only a month has been left for the SA.

Previously, the students’ mark sheet used to contain the cumulative scores in the two SAs and four Formative Assessments for each subject but after this revision, they will have to score a minimum of 15 marks out of 60 in each of SAs to get promoted. This year, the rule will not be applicable for the Class X students but from the next year, the Board students will also have to face the challenge.

Last year, CBSE had notified that the students were not only have to score at least 25 percent marks  in the Summative Assessments all together, but their attendance in both of the assessments must be above the threshold. For an untoward situation like illness, the students will have to re-appear for the exam within a given time.

The Prinicipal, Modern School, Neeru Kapai, told Nagpur Today that it is reasonably okay. “This new format will be applicable for Class IX students from this year and, from the next year onwards, the Class X students would be covered for this format.  The students must be capable to achieve the minimum performance. Every student will be treated at par,” said Neeru Kapai.

If the students are participating in sports events at National/International level organized by recognized federations, CBSE, SGFI in the same month of the conduct of SA, the students would be exempted from one of the SAs but only after taking approval from the Board prior the SA. In that case, SA1 marks will be indicated for the SA2 by the Board.

The Principal, Centre Point School, Sumati Venugopalan, said it is a good initiative. Now, the students will take all the SA exams seriously. Normally, there is a tendency that students only take the final exams seriously. Students feel that the teachers will give them high marks in the SA exams. This new format has been welcomed by the teachers, Venugopalan said.

Now, CBSE Class IX, X students must get 25% marks in SA to get promoted to the next class

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Nagpur News: The results of Integrated Professional Competence Course (IPCC) of Chartered Accountancy (CA) were declared on Friday. Arpit Agrawal topped the examination and stood first by scoring 526 marks out of 700. Monica Hemrajani bagged the second slot with 516 marks and the third rank went to Ankit Agrawal who secured 497 marks.

The Chairman of Nagpur Branch of WIRC of ICAI Swapnil Agrawal said a total of 265 successful students have been selected for Articleship. 2197 students from Nagpur appeared for IPCC. 52 students passed out of 652 from both the groups. In the first group, 265 candidates out of 1437 passed while in the second group, 284 examinees emerged successful out of 1412 students.

Arpit Agrawal tops IPCC of CA in city

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National Conference of Public Service Commissions of various States was organized at Ravi Bhavan on Friday.

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The crucial National Conference of Public Service Commissions (PSCs) of various States was organized at Ravi Bhavan on Friday that thoroughly discussed the changes in the examination formats taking place every now and then and the enormous problems associated with them.

The Chairman of Bihar Public Service Commission K P Sinha said the number of candidates appearing for PSC examinations has been increasing in a big way. “Questions are being raised regularly over changes in formats of the PSC examinations. The examinations, several times, create uproar. The candidates, unhappy with the results, knock doors of courts and thus denting the credibility of the examinations themselves. Moreover, since the process of filling up of forms and declaring results have gone online, any technical snag crops up difficulties in mountainous proportions. Hence the National Conference was organized to discuss the problems in this connection and hammer out possible solutions. The Conference also discussed different examination formats of the States and problems associated with them,” Sinha said.

The National Conference was attended by Chairman of Maharashtra Public Service Commission Sudhir Thakre, Chairman of Rajasthan Public Service Commission Dr Habib Khan Gouran, Chairman of Karnataka Public Service Commission Dr B S Krushnaprasad, Chairman of Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission Chirantan Biswal, Chairman of Haryana Public Service Commission Dr Manveer Singh, Chairman of Sikkim Public Service Commission Dr H K Karaki, Members of Maharashtra Public Service Commission Dr Abdul Wahid, Dr Prakash Thosre, and Secretary Rajendra Mangrulkar.

Frequent changes in PSC examination formats hitting credibility hard, creating many problems

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(From Left) Co-Convenor P G Charkha, Advisory Body Member and Executive Director of RGI Dr K K Dhote, Principal of GH Raisoni Academy of Engineering & Technology & Convenor Dr S R Vaishnav and Director of RGI Preeti Bajaj adressing the press meet.

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The Department of Mechanical Engineering of G. H. Raisoni Academy of Engineering & Technology, Nagpur is organizing a National Level Technical / Research Paper Competition for Students in the area of Mechanical Engineering (RGI-TRPCS 2014) on February 7 & 8, 2014.

This National Level Competition aims to impart and share knowledge of research & development work in the area of mechanical engineering. This competition will provide national level platform for curious, creative minds of students and also for young researchers to exhibit their innovations in domain of Mechanical Engineering. This National level Competition has been categorized into two category i. e. for students from Raisoni Group of Institution and also from other engineering institute/ colleges. There will be two categories for the competition which will be conducted at three different levels as follows;

Level 1: Students from 2^nd and 3^rd Year Engineering, Level 2: Students from Final Year Engineering, Level 3: Students of PG and Doctoral Research of Mechanical Engineering. Cash Prizes of Rs. 5000, Rs. 3000 & Rs 1500 for 1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd position for each level will be given to students from Raisoni Group as well as other that Raisoni Group separately. Two Consolation prizes of Rs. 750 will be given at each level and category.

Delegates from engineering colleges/ institutes of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh have already contributed and are going to participate in this conference.

Director of G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering Dr. Preeti R. Bajaj said that already around 200 students from 3 states have already registered for this competition. The management expects at least 500 more students to participate in this competition. According to her, unlike many other colleges, At Raisoni, every student is encouraged to do research and work on the presentation part too for efficient results. She claimed that they already have 35 patents for various research projects that were done by the students under her own and other professor guides of her college.

The broad areas and potential topics to be addressed in this paper presentation competition include Group I Thermal Engineering, Group II Design and Analysis, Group III Manufacturing Engineering, Group IV Industrial Engineering.

The Registration fee for RGI students free and non-RGI Rs 200 per participant. Fees can be paid in cash or DD drawn in favour of GH Raisoni Academy of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur, Payable at Nagpur.

The National level competition will be inaugurated on February 7, 2014 at 10am by Member of Management Council, RTMNU, Nagpur Dr. D. K. Agarwal. The

Chief Patron for this event is Chairman of RGI, Sunil Raisoni and Patrons to this event are MD, RGI Shobha Raisoni and Executive Director-RGI Dr. K. K. Dhote.

The Executive Director RGI Dr. K. K. Dhote, Director of G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering Dr. Preeti R. Bajaj, Principal G H Raisoni Academy of Engineering & Technology & Convener Dr. S. R. Vaishnav, Head of the Department for Mechanical Engg. & Co-Convener Prof. Pranav G. Charkha were prominently present for press meet held at Shradha House on February 1, 2014.

Prof. Tejpal Parshiwanikar is the Co-Convener and organizing committee members Prof. Siraj Sheikh, Prof. Prashant Awachat and PRO, RGI Mr. Amit Gandhare are taking efforts to coordinate this event.

National Level RGI- Technical/ Research Paper Competition 2014 for Students of Mechanical Engineering on Feb 7 and 8

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Yash Heda, a student of Central Academy of Professional Studies (CAPS), Nagpur has secured 3^rd All India rank in CA, Intermediate.  He has really made Nagpur proud by his outstanding performance in this tough professional examination.

Yash, son of Nirmala and Sanjay Heda, Amravati, got 3^rd All India Rank in CA IPC (Intermediate) Examination. This is a matter of honour for Vidarbha region, as it requires lot of hard work to even pass  the examination.

Yash Heda

Where the overall pass percentage in this professional examination for both groups was just 8.12%, Yash Heda created history by securing the place in top ranks ever for this level of CA exam from the region. He has secured a score of 95 marks in Advanced Accounting subject.

Yash has been a brilliant student throughout. He was one of the regional toppers at all levels: Std. X with 100% marks, Std. XII with 90% marks, and CA-CPT with 175 marks out of 200 in Dec, 2012.

Yash is very enthusiastic boy, who had a well planned approach towards studies, and also managed time for learning guitar simultaneously, so much is his interest in music. He says that ‘multiple revisions’ during preparation leave is the key to success. His role model is his cousin, CA. Pawan Sarda, who had secured 2^nd Rank in CA Final Exam, earlier in 2012.

He wants to give the credit of his success to his parents, family members, teachers and friends. He owes his success to Central Academy of Professional Studies (CAPS), Nagpur where he had joined classes for all subjects, right from CPT level. He will be going to Mumbai for his articleship training.

Yash Heda secures 3rd All India rank in CA Intermediate

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The examinations of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) starting in the month of April will have answer-papers with Bar Code. The final decision in this regard was taken by the University’s Sub-Committee. Interestingly, RTMNU’s examinations are commencing from March 5. The old answer-papers would be used for these examinations and the answer-papers with Bar Code would be available only for examinations starting in April.

FOUR LAKH NEW ANSWER-PAPERS:

According to information, around 11 lakh answer-papers are required for RTMNU’s examinations. There is stock of about 7 lakh answer-papers printed on old pattern. It means, 4 lakh answer-papers with Bar Code would be printed containing 32 pages. The space on the last page of the Bar Code answer-papers has been left for revaluation.

THE PROBLEM:

It may be recalled, the proposal on Bar Code answer-papers was pending on the table of Vice Chancellor Dr Vilas Sapkal for three months. Finally, the Board of Examinations (BoE), in its meeting held in October 2013, sanctioned the proposal and a tender was floated. Thereafter, a Sub-Committee was constituted to find any technical shortcomings in the answer-papers. The Sub-Committee comprised of Controller of Examinations Dr Vilas Ramteke, member of Management Council Mahendra Nimbarte, and RTMNU Printing Unit’s Kharad. However, questions were raised over other two members’ technical knowledge.

Bar Code answer-papers for exams of April in RTMNU

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The Director of State Higher Education B R Gaekwad had earlier also probed the appointment of Dr Ramteke as CoE of RTMNU. However, the RTMNU Administration had upheld the appointment of Dr Ramteke as correct and valid. The University’s stand forced re-investigation by the Director.

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The Director of State Higher Education, in his re-investigation, has again found the appointment Dr Vilas Ramteke as Controller of Examinations (CoE) of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) invalid. He will submit his report to State Government in this connection soon.

The Director of State Higher Education B R Gaekwad had earlier also probed the appointment of Dr Ramteke as CoE of RTMNU. However, the RTMNU Administration had upheld the appointment of Dr Ramteke as correct and valid. The University’s stand forced re-investigation by the Director Gaekwad, who again found the appointment invalid. Now, the probe report would be submitted to the State Government. A letter on this aspect has already been sent to RTMNU’s Registrar. Earlier, the University had stood behind the CoE and had stated Dr Ramteke’s appointment as correct and valid. The varsity had sent a letter to the office of Director of State Higher Education and sought a reply regarding the rules and regulations on which the appointment of Dr Ramteke should be cancelled.

LACK OF TEACHING AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

The Higher Education Director through Divisional Joint Director had ruled Dr Ramteke’s appointment as null and void. The issue of Dr Ramteke’s appointment as CoE was raised by social worker Prakash Bansod by stating that Dr Ramteke lacked teaching and educational experience for the post. It may be mentioned that for appointment of CoE, teaching and educational experience is required apart from administrative acumen. However, according to the University officials, the RTMNU is an autonomous institute and its all rights and powers are reserved and safeguarded. Other authorities have no rights to interfere in its affairs. Even then, questions are being raised over the appointment of RTMNU’s CoE. The questions themselves are questionable, the varsity officials said.

The Registrar of RTMNU Dr Ashok Gomase said, “We will seek legal advice from an advocate and then only present our position.”

Appointment of Dr Ramteke as NU CoE again found invalid by the Higher Education Director

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The newly elected office bearers of  the Student council of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) will take oath of duty on Thursday February 6 at Buty Hall in Ramdaspeth.

Student council President Rahul Kishnani and Secretary Amoghvarsh  Rathod  along with other 15 elected members will swear in at the inaugural function of the student council body at 10.30 am.

A workshop for the newly elected general secretaries of all the colleges under  RTMNU will also be conducted during the day. Vice Chancellor Dr.Vilas Sapkal will preside over the ceremony. National Secretary, ABVP, Ashish Chauhan and State Vice President, NCP youth congress will be the chief guests at the programme.

The election results for the RTMNU Student Council was declared last year on October 22, 2013. The ABVP- NCP coalition had swept the elections nixing  the dominance of Sangram Parishad for the last 3 years.

Varsity’s new ‘Student Council’ to take oath on Feb 6

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It is for the first time in the history of RTMNU, 100 percent members skipped the Academic Council meeting over the agenda that mentioned no discussion would be held at all on the crucial issues of blacklisted colleges and the minimum number of regular teachers required in these colleges.

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The Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) has written a dubious chapter in its history when the 100 members out of 100 boycotted Academic Council meeting held on Wednesday (February 5). The 100 percent boycott could certainly be called as one more Black Day in the history of RTMNU in real sense of the word.

According to information, the agenda of the Academic Council meeting triggered the drastic step of boycott on the part of the 100 members. The agenda mentioned no discussion would be held at all on the crucial issues of blacklisted colleges and the minimum number of regular teachers required in these colleges. Such agenda infuriated the members who decided to skip the meeting collectively and unitedly.

The Wednesday morning witnessed the entire university premises under the cover of tight security. There was no entry in the University offices to anyone except the RTMNU officials. Directives were issued banning entry to Directors of the educational institutes in the university premises.  In the last meeting of the Management Council, activists of  NSUI and Directors of blacklisted colleges had created ruckus and disrupted the meeting.

Last three meetings of the Academic Council were adjourned over the issue of banned colleges. The issue of banned colleges overshadowed all the meetings for the past 8 months. The issue of fixing date for the Convocation Ceremony is also pending. The Convocation Ceremony was to be held on November 16 and President of India Pranab Mukherjee was supposed to grace the function. But the President cancelled the visit to city at the last moment. Since then the date for the Convocation Ceremony has not been fixed.

The Vice Chancellor of RTMNU Dr Vilas Sapkal, while reacting on boycott of today’s Academic Council meeting by all the members, said that discussion on blacklisted colleges and Convocation Ceremony was certainly to be held in the meeting. It seems that the Council members are not interested in discussing the issues. Now, the decision on the same will be taken in accordance with the rules and regulations. Action will also be taken against the University members who were absent  in the meeting, added Sapkal.

The Academic Council members, on the contrary, opined that the lackadaisical attitude of the Vice Chancellor on various issues and indecision on his part prompted them to boycott the meeting.

Black Day: 100 members out of 100 boycott Academic Council meeting on agenda issue

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The practical exams of Class XII of  Maharashtra State Secondary & Higher Secondary Education began on Thursday (February 6). Many high schools of Nagpur got their admission cards on time. But there were many junior colleges that had to change their practical exam dates as they did not get their admission cards.

According to the rules, the students should get their admission cards during the practical exam itself to facilitate mention their roll numbers on the answer sheet. But the Board, it appears, fumbled this time resulting many junior colleges receiving their admission cards on Wednesday and Thursday.

The delay in the issuance of admission cards led to many junior colleges changing their practical exam dates. Some of the colleges conducted practical exams with the list of roll numbers given by the Board.

Junior college teachers call off their strike:

The Junior college teachers, who were on the strike for the past few days, called off their strike and joined their duties their respective colleges. The State Government agreed to many of their demands. The teachers now fully co -operated in the practical exams today.

Separate examination centers for old course students for written examination:

This year, Class XII Board written examination will have a total of 463 centers. The new course syllabus will have 378 centers and old course syllabus 75 centers. In the new course, 1,42,493 students will appear for their exam and 22029 student will appear for the written examination in old course this year.

Board Class XII practical exams begin, many junior colleges get no admission cards on time

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Over the course of this year, Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Kharagpur has undertaken various activities, including the Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive, a pan-India initiative to spread entrepreneurship in cities across India in 20 cities. The Global Entrepreneurship Summit (scheduled from 10th-12th January, 2014), the annual flagship event of the Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kharagpur, was one of the biggest entrepreneurial platforms for academicians, new-age entrepreneurs, eminent business personalities, venture capitalists and the students to gather at one place and share their entrepreneurial endeavours and experiences, and to pledge to take entrepreneurship in India to greater scales.

Sharad Gupta, Founder and CEO of Title Sponsor of GES’14, 10kya.com shared his views about this international extravaganza.

“10kya.com is delighted to be the title sponsor of Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2014, by Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur.
10kya.com is a young e-commerce enterprise. Our brand attributes, inspired by all famous 10′s of the world (like Tendulkar, Maradona, Nadia Comaneci, etc) – namely pursuit of perfection, flexibility, global outlook, passion and innovation – are exactly what the youth of today pursue at our world-class seats of learning like IIT, Kharagpur.

Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur, who have done a creditable job in incubating entrepreneurship and innovation, is our natural choice of association. I wish the participants an enriching experience and the GES-2014 a resounding success.”

The major draw of GES is the quality and variety of speakers that it has seen over the years. This edition of GES has witnessed stalwarts such as Sam Pitroda(Webinar),  Avinash Vashishtha (CMD of Accenture India), Rajat Sharma(Chairman, India TV), MN Srinivasu ( Founder of BillDesk), Ira Trivedi( Novelist & Entrepreneur), Devita Saraf(Founder, VU Technologies), Varun Agarwal ( CEO Alma Mater ) and many more eminent entrepreneurs. Many workshops focused on building the entrepreneurial acumen of participants were also organised. GES 2014 had a series of workshops by IBM on Cloud Computing, BSE on Capital Market, Flipkart on Supply Chain Management, Amazon Web Services on Lean Startup Implementation on AWS, Infosys on Product Architecture, TechMahindra on Ideation, Your Start Up Solutions on Legal Aspects for Startups and Taxmantra on Taxation for Startups.

The Global business plan competition, Empresario and Envision, the product design competition saw entries from around the country, at the close of the preliminary round in November. The finals of the competitions were a part of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which acts as a finale of sorts to the year-long activities of E-Cell. The winners of Empresario were BetaGlide, Spartans and Energy Unified, while those of Envision were Intuigine and Live Braille. Out of these winners, Betaglide, Intuigine and Energy Unified are startups from IIT Kharagpur only. Empresario winners are given prizes worth 1.5 lacs and funding opportunity upto 1 crore while Envision winners get PRISM funding upto 45lacs.

The other events of GES 2014 include Global Conference on Entrepreneurship (Promotion of entrepreneurship was discussed with a global perspective), Start-up Camp ( An opportunity to recruit the finest talent amongst GES participants for internships/job), Connect the Dots (A discussion amongst the Entrepreneurship Cells in India about the Indian scenario and how best to go about promoting entrepreneurship in their respective campuses), Elevator pitch ( An opportunity to pitch before a panel of Venture Capitalists and investors ), Panel Discussion ( An opportunity for start-ups to interact with Top Notch Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors discuss and get enlightened on hot topics in Venture Capital and funding in start-ups ), Innovation Exhibition (A platform to showcase the innovation in front of enthusiastic spectators from different places in India, Venture Capitalists, and many prominent Entrepreneurs ), Co-Founder’s Meet (A platform for both the start-ups who require Co-founders and others interested to join a start-up), Hackathon (An Android Application Development Competition organised by Datawind)

Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur aims to educate every member of India’s collegiate fraternity on entrepreneurship as a possible way of life, and to provide support to all those who choose this path. The Global Entrepreneurship Summit, with its varied content and participation, proved to be the ultimate stage for propagating this cause.

Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2014,annual event of the Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kharagpur held