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The Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has assured regularization of 3115 English medium schools in the State including 1300 schools in Vidarbha. The Founders’ Association of English Medium Schools had met Chavan in this connection. The Association charged the State and District-level Inspection Committee with backtracking on their assurance that these schools would be regularized but in fact derecognized them.
The Nagpur Division member of the Association Krishna Yerawar said that 3115 English medium schools submitted applications in accordance with the May 28, 2010 Maharashtra Government Resolution. The schools were inspected by the District and State-level Committees. The schools were forced to wait for recognition for two and half years. Finally, the schools were derecognized and applications were invited for new schools. The Association’s State Secretary Dr Anant Biradar and President Sudarshana Trigunait submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister urging him to regularize the schools. The Chief Minister assured to regularize the 3115 English medium schools in the State.
The fate of 35,000 teachers and 7 lakh students in the 3115 English medium schools in State is hanging in balance out of which 10,000-15,000 teachers and about 3 lakh students belong to Vidarbha.

CM assures to regularize 3115 English medium schools out of which 1300 belong to Vidarbha

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Deputy Secretary of Higher & Technical Education Department (Govt. of Maharashtra) Dr Abhay Wagh said that Patents which cannot be commercially viable or is not commercialized is of no use. When we as Technocrats are deliberating on various issues, we should also make sure that the patents that we make should be commercially viable and in-turn will contribute to the economy of the country and thereby the Gross Domestic Produce (GDP).

Abhay Wagh was speaking as the Guest of Honour at the ICETET-13:  6^thIntemational Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology which was inaugurated on December 16, 2013 at Hotel Sun-n-Sand Nagpur.

ICETET-13 is organized by G H Raisoni College of Engineering & (G H R Labs & Research Center under TEQIP-11.

The General Chairs of the conference are Director of GHRCE Dr.Preeti Bajaj and Dr. Koji Murai from Kobe University, Japan.

The conference was inaugurated by Vice-Chancellor of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University Dr.V S.Sapkal, Deputy Secretary, Department of Higher & Technical Education, Government of Maharashtra Dr. Abhay Wagh, Director of Directorate of Technical Education Government of Maharashtra Dr.S.K.Mahajan, Dr.Valentina Balas of University of Arad-Romania. Dr L C Jain from University of South Australia, Dean of Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj, Nagpur University Dr.R.V.Kshirsagar, Executive Director of Raisoni Group of Institutions Dr K K Dhote, Director of GHRE & General Chair ICETET-I3 Dr.Preeti Bajaj were also present during the inaugural ceremony.

Dr.Preeti Bajaj while making the introductory remarks said that IEEE is the World’s Apex Technical Society. It is having the largest membership strength. SMCS is Systems. Man and Cybernetics Society is the technical committee of IEEE which aims at development of systems engineering technology including problem definition methods, modeling, and simulation, methods of system experimentation, human factors engineering, data and methods, systems design techniques and test and evaluation methods. Worldwide various Universities, Technical Institute are organizing Conferences, Seminars, Workshop and other activities under IEEE SMCS. Very few Indian Institutes have organized the International Conference which is technically sponsored by IEEE SMCS. In her inaugural address, General Chair ICETET-I3 Dr Preeti Bajaj summarized the journey of ICETET.

ICETET-13 has provided a platform for the young academicians to exhibit their research work and conveyed to august gathering about having pleasure to host the veteran researchers from all over the globe. She further quoted that ICETET has become an International brand. She also quoted that research should not have any boundaries of Institute, state and nation. She also briefed regarding the Ph.D Colloquia which is scheduled alongwith ICETET-I 3.

Vice-Chancellor of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University Dr.V S.Sapkal lauded the Institute for the achievements. He said that Institute is successful in running Autonomy, he congratulated the Institute regarding the Patents of the Institute and for achieving the objectives of Higher Education. He also talked about the globalization in education, technological developments for common man, a need for research, University’s efforts for raising the quality of technical education etc.

Dr. Abhay Wagh highlighted the initiatives of the Government of Maharashtra, Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme. He also commented on the economy development, Industrial Service and Agricultural Sector. He said that, more exchange of International thoughts should be carried out and more patents should be commercialized if India wants to be super power in 2020 it can be done through Knowledge Based Economy. More joint research project should be undertaken and he appealed the authors to undertake live research problems. He added that there is a strong need for us to strengthen industrial sector. He also stressed on the need to strengthen Teachers. He said that their department has hiked the retirement age to 62 for teachers and 65 for Principals. However he also said that the colleges, teachers and the varsity should be student centric in their approach. He also added that Maharashtra is the first state to take out a GR making it vital for a Vice-Chancellor to have requisite qualifications before appointing him as VC.

Dr. Valentina Balas congratulated the Institute for the achievements. Dr.Valentina Balas delivered the Pre Conference Tutorial on Fuzzy Systems at GHRCE. She also delivered the Plenary talk on Advanced Computational Intelligence-Based Research. The Innovation Gallery was inaugurated at the hands of Dr. Valentina Balas. Arad University, Romania. The Innovation Gallery is a unique gallery depicting all the innovative projects which were filed for patent under GHR Labs and Research Centre.

After the inauguration of Innovation Gallery Plenary Session was also conducted by Dr. Valentina Balas. She has shown a concept of mouse which is the latest invention in the Fuzzy Area and the concept was also highlighted.

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The government seems tensed due to the degrading standard of higher education in State. During the State’s best teacher award ceremony held on Monday, State Governor and chancellor, chief minister,deputy chief minister and minister for higher and technical education expressed the need to take stringent actions to improve the standard of State’s higher education.

Organised by the State’s higher and technical education department, 26 teachers from all over the State were felicitated. RTMNU’s Mathematics teacher Dr K C Deshmukh, Amravati University’s teacher Dr Kishore Aadao and Gondwana University’s Dr Sunil Saakure and Dr Anjali Rahatgaonkar of Forensic Science Institute received awards during the function.

During his presidential speech, Governor and chancellor K Sankarnarayanan said that not a single university of the State comes in the top 200 list of universities or educational institutions of the world. He added that the need of the hour is to implement improvement techniques in the field of higher education. Highlighting the role of an ideal teacher, he added that teachers should motivate students to do research work.

Endorsing his views, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan pointed out that 40 per cent engineering seats and 60 per cent MBA seats remain vacant in the State. He said that special attention needs to be paid towards the quality of higher education and added that the government will be changing the Maharashtra University Act 1994.

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Nagpur Today: Apathetic attitude towards the students residing in the Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) hostel was apparent as Nagpur Today conducted a survey on various basic amenities. Turning a blind eye towards the degrading condition of the water tanks, leaking wall rooms and the toilets.

The basic amenities at the upper P.G.D.T Boys Hostel situated at Amravati Road, near Guru Nanak Bhavan is so pathetic, because of the negligent and callous attitude of the administration.  There are around 200 students residing in the 4 wings of this hostel. The water consumed by the inmates here is very dirty and not potable at all. The water used for other ablutions is also polluted and dirty. It was seen that the water tanks have not been cleaned since many years.

The water tanks are also not covered exposing the students to various health hazards. It means the number of students who fell sick or caught dangerous diseases is because of the lack concern by the administration.

The condition of bathrooms and toilets are no different and are in a state of even worst condition. There are no lights there and the bathrooms and toilets are very dirty and filthy. 50 to 60 people have to share 4 bathrooms and the condition of these bathrooms and toilets are in so pitiable state that there is a foul smell emanating till the corridors.

The rooms in the hostel too are not in good shape. The walls are leaking and during monsoon the students have to face the brunt of moist walls and fungus growing on it. The condition of the mess is no different. Students complained about the quality of food.

The corridors of the hostel premises is covered with filth everywhere. According to information the cleaner who does this work has visited from last three months.

Now the interesting thing that is happening here is that, the administration seems to be more concerned towards renovation of the common hall here. Of no use new flooring of the hall is being done removing the old tiles which are in good condition. Also Outer wall is being constructed in the premises.

The students residing in the hostel are mostly from rural areas, and fear to raise their voice against the authorities, and continue to stay without proper basic amenities.

Woes of the Hostelites

“we are exposed to very bad living conditions here. It is impossible to sleep in night when it rains due to water leakage. Moreover since 3 months the premises have not been cleaned which is affecting the health conditions of the student residing here.”   

… Charles Salve

RTMNU hostels in pathetic state: Students suffer in silence

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Nagpur News: Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur with an aim 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 is organises ‘The Global Entrepreneurship Summit’. With an Pan-India initiative to spread entrepreneurship in cities.

The Entreprenuership cell of IIT Kharagpur invites the students of Nagpur to  Global Entrepreneurship Summit (scheduled from 10th-12th January, 2014), the annual flagship event of the Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kharagpur, is 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.

Over the course of this year, Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Kharagpur has already undertaken various activities, including the Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive, a pan-India initiative to spread entrepreneurship in cities across India in 20 cities and had visited Nagpur and conducted a seminar at RCOEM on October 17.

Following on the successful culmination of the Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive, which saw close to 20000 participants in total, personalities such as PhanindraSama CEO of Redbus.in, Arjun Malhotra Co-founder of HCL Technologies, Sandip Tarkas President and CEO of Future Group,Varun Agarwal CEO of Alma Mater, Anshu Gupta founder of Goonj, were a notable few among the speakers and coverage in most of the important news houses of India, and E-Cell is now moving on to its flagship event, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

The major draw of GES is the quality and variety of speakers that it has seen over the years.

The 2014 edition of GES is no exception, and following in the trend of previous years, will witness Guest Lectures by various eminent personalities! Workshops, focused on building the entrepreneurial acumen of participants are also in the pipeline. Earlier workshops include those by Deloitte on Mind to Market, by Franklin Covey on 4 Disciplines of Execution, the Intel Ideation camp,by Microsoft, Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Novell and Wipro.

Another event of mention is the Start-up Camp, which will involve interaction of Entrepreneurs and students and aims to help Start-ups to recruit the finest talent amongst GES participants for internships/jobs while giving them an opportunity to meet the biggest VC and Angel Investors in India present on campus.30 start-up from various sectors ranging from social ventures to healthcare to technology, from across India participated in GES 2013.

The Global Entrepreneurship Summit, with its varied content and participation, will prove to be the ultimate stage for propagating this cause. Participants can register at www.ges.ecell-iitkgp.org for the event. The accommodation of students attending for the three days of GES will be taken care of by IIT Kharagpur for which they will be charged nominally. For any further queries, please contact.

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Department of Hotel Management and Catering Technology:

The department of hotel management has one again organized its annual bakery festival-‘Pastel de Fiesta’. The cake festival is a part of the curriculum of 3^rd year students of Bachelor of Hotel Management of Catering Technology course. It gives the students an opportunity to exhibit their entrepreneur skills. The students handle various aspects of event like production, budgeting, publicity, sales, etc.

The cake preparation

The Bakery Festival

The students have offered a Bakery Bonanza from the hot oven amidst the ongoing Christmas season on 19^th and 20^th Dec, 2013 at LAD & SMT RP College for women, seminary hills, Nagpur from 10 am to 4 pm. The students will create an ambience of Christmas. A variety of mouth watering, sweet creamy delicacies would be provided namely pastries, brownies, rum balls and other savory like garlic loaf, Banana bread pizzas, Puffs and many more.

The guest on its first day was Jagdish Patil. The event is being organized by the third year students working in the following capacities:

General Manager                           : Shreevidya Vardhan

Asst Gen Manager                         : Pooja Kasture

Sales and Marketing Manager   : Milli Keshwai

Finance Manager                           : Surabhi Biniwale

Production Incharge                     : Madhulika Verma

F&B Manager                                  : Anuja Bhasme

Housekeeping Incharge               : Shweta Vertak

The event was carried out under the able guidance of HOD Jyotsna Patil, Bakery Chef Uday Naseri, Ameeta Jharia, Charuta Gajbhiye, Vishaha Shahane and Nandita Sapra. The students are also thankful to the management and the principal for giving them this opportunity.

Bakery festival ‘Pastel De Fiesta’-2013 commence at LAD & SMT RP College for women, seminary hills Nagpur

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Nagpur News: The charismatic former President of India, Bharat Ratna Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, just by his presence inspired the students dream big, and his scholarly words left the students ecstatic and ambitious.

The Father of Indian Missile Programme, Dr Kalam said, “Students should have mission, vision and innovation that would help in Nation building and that way they can contribute to the society as well.  Practical approach in studies is the need of the hour. Engineering colleges should focus more on field practicals. Employability can emerge out of students’ capacity to system design, system integration, system management and system development, said Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam while interacting with engineering students of  Yashwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (YCCE) on Thursday (December 19).

The ace scientist was in the Second Capital City of Nagpur as special guest at “Avishkar 2013” programme, organized by Meghe Group of Education at its Hingna Road-based YCCE Campus.

The ace scientist Dr Kalam asked the colleges to promote innovation in students and build knowledge society. The engineering students, through practical approach, can empower  the nation  in facing the economic challenges . Citing an example, Kalam explained what he meant by practical approach. “Do a survey of 10 villages near  your region. Build 10 teams consisting 10 members in each team from various branches. Include teachers for core competence. After the study and survey come in realization target a product. Open up entrepreneurship. Intensive programmes for development of the rural India is required. Challenges will be faced on the aspect of reducing rural and urban divide,” Dr Kalam said.

The winner of nation’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, Dr Kalam highlighted five areas, which if scanned in a professional way, can lead to food and economic protection, are agro, education, health, Information Technology and solar & conventional power. Dr Kalam, while concluding his interaction with the students, conveyed a message that by sharing what he learned from his three dream missions — Space Programme, Agni Missile Programme and Urbanization in Rural India. Dr Kalam stressed that the leaders must have a vision and passion to push the nation ahead in all spheres.

“Exploration, managing successes and failures, courage to take firm decisions, transparency, and working with integrity can make knowledge society,” asserted Dr Kalam in his unique style with each word creating a world of inspiration for the students.

Teachers’ life itself should be a message to students:

The former President Dr APJ Kalam said, “The  relations of teachers  with their students must befull of kindness, like mother, father, sister and brother. A teacher’s life itself should be a message of a Guru, for his or her disciples with Guru-Shishya Parampara, a special bod. With moral leadership, teachers can set an example for others,” stated Bharat Ratna Dr. Kalam on Thursday at the valedictory function  of ‘Principals Educational Conference’ (PEC) at Chitnavis Centre, Civil lines in Nagpur.

Dr Kalam, while addressing the Principals present in the function, mesmerized them with the words of wisdom. “Teachers play the role of igniting the minds of students and other teachers. Teachers were responsible for injecting creativity  in me. Nation building with moral leadership should be the mission of the teachers.”

“The quality of a teacher in imparting education could be judged how a teacher allows the children to generate questions. Put your students few decades ahead. Teachers can lift the average to the best performance, spirit of curiosity nurtures creativity in students.

Dr Kalam particularly asked teachers to focus on students when they are in primary school.  Righteousness in teachers and a good spiritual environment makes the students very good citizens of the future.  “ Students should be transformed from ‘what you can do for me to what I can do for you .’ Teachers should not support differentiation in religion, community and language,” said Dr Kalam.

Earlier in the day, the  Mayor of  Nagpur  Anil Sole and convenor of the programme (PEC)Mrunalini Dasture welcomed Bharat Ratna Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam in the conference. Teachers’ Choir Group of  South Point School presented a welcome song. 20 Principals were felicitated with Nachiketa Awards at the hands of Dr. Kalam.

The introductory remarks, followed by conference highlights, were presentated by The Hitavada Editor Vijay Phanshikar. Vote of thanks was proposed by Rasika Dasture. The programme concluded with singing of National Anthem.

Vision, mission and innovation keywords for Nation building : Kalam

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CM inaugurates International Conference on Advanced Trends and Applications of Electronics Technology at Priyadarshini College Of Engineering.

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Semiconductor industries should be started in India to make the country economically sound as compared to other countries. Emphasizing on various points such as the evolution in microprocessor technology starting from 4 bit processor till the existing technology of quad core processors. He stressed upon teamwork and gave example of giant companies such as Apple, Google, Face book, said Chief Minister of Maharashtra Prithiviraj Chavan while inaugurating the  International Conference on “Advanced Trends and Applications of Electronics Technology at Priyadarshini College Of Engineering, Nagpur  in presence of  Minister of Cooperation & Parliamentary Affairs Harshwardhan Patil, Minister of Employment Guarantee Scheme & Water Conservation Dr. Nitin Raut, Minister of State for Finance , Energy Rajendra Mulak.   Chairman of Lokmanya Tilak Jankalyan Shikshan Santha Dr. Satish Chaturvedi. Member of Management Council RTMNU Dr. Babanrao Taywade, and Dean of Faculty of Engineering & Technology RTMNU Dr. R.V. Kshirsagar.

In his inaugural address of  Chief Minister Prithiviraj Chavan emphasized on a broad spectrum of issues related to the engineers and technologists of India that they should adopt the spirit of technological innovations so as to make India absolutely self reliant in the development of Indian products being made popular world over.

Unique ID number is the one of the largest scheme in the world for the identification of an individual. This was implemented only in India through Adhar card based on technique such as Bio Metric processing like Finger Prints and Iris recognition. He also stated that only completing the bachelors or PG courses to get as job of  9 to 5 working hours is not sufficient but education should be a continuous process and one should always be eager to gain knowledge and always be a student.

Dr. Satish Chaturvedi,Chairman, LTJSS said that  more than 24000 students are taking education in various institutions run by LTJSS and more than 800 alumni are working over and abroad in multinational companies.

Chief Minister released the Proceedings of the conference and declared that the conference is inaugurated. Dr. Satish Chaturvedi , Chairman ,LTJSS and president of the function felicitated the chief minister by offering shawl, shrifal and memento.

This Conference is sponsored by AICTE, New Delhi is being organized in association with International Journal of Computer Applications, New York, USA for 3 days  from 19^th  to 21^st  December 2013. The other dignitaries present at the occasion were Abha Chaturvedi, Secretary, LTJSS, Shri. Dushyant Chaturvedi, Director (Governing Board), LTJSS , Praful Guddhe Patil, Avinash Menani. Dr.O.S.Bihade, Executive Director, LTJSS. Dr. M.P.Singh Principal, Dr. N.K. Choudhari, Dr. C.G. Dethe, Dr. V.M. Nanoti,  Prof. Habib Khan, Dr. A. Shende , Prof. Sarang Gurjar, Dr.J.P. Modak, Dr. S.W.Varade and Dr. S.S.Shriramwar. Faculty members of Electronics& Telecommunication Engineering in particular and the faculty members of other departments were present in large number.

At Priyadarshini College; CM says Semiconductor industries should be started in India

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The autonomous educational institutes have started to oppose the likely closing of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) course run by these institutes since the past decades as the technical and management education have come under the authority of University Grants Commission.

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Since the technical and management education will now be dwelt by the UGC, those autonomous educational institutes which are running the PGDM may lose control over the course, admission fees and examinations. The net outcome of this aspect will be ominous effect on quality and placements. It may be recalled, the association of management institutes Educational Promotion Society for India (EPSI) representatives met the Human Resource Minister Pallam Raju in this connection.

UGC BESTOWED WITH POWERS:

The technical and management education has come under the UGC authority in place of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in accordance with the Supreme Court order in April this year. The change of authority has been welcomed by most of universities and engineering colleges but PGDM institutes have been vehemently opposing the change.

TIME TESTED SUBJECT:

The autonomous institutes run the PGDM course which is on the lines of MBA. The institutes bring changes in the PGDM course from time to time according to the demands of industries. The PGDM course is time tested by the market requirements in comparison with MBA course. The MBA course is run by the University-affiliated colleges but the autonomous institutes run the PGDM in place of MBA.

PGDM course faces closure as technical, management courses come under UGC

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The students have been facing the nagging problems. Neither the admissions take place on time nor the examinations held as per schedule. Moreover, the students have to visit allopathic hospitals for internship. There is no independent hospital.

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The students across Vidarbha, studying Ayurvedic medicine, have strongly demanded setting up of Ayurved  University in the region as the education in the high-profile medicine branch has itself become a problem and has put them in the dock. The students have been facing the nagging problems. Neither the admissions take place on time nor the examinations held as per schedule. Moreover, the students have to visit allopathic hospitals for internship. Therefore, the demand for Ayurved University in Vidarbha itself for resolving their enormous problems.

LONG DISTANCE:

At present, the Ayurved University in Maharashtra is situated in Nashik which controls all Ayurvedic Colleges in the State. The long distance for colleges in Vidarbha also distances resolution of the problems faced by students within the timeframe. And they have to hop to Nashik for every contentious issue. There are a total of 16 Ayurvedic Colleges in Vidarbha with the strength of students standing at about 15,000 studying for Graduation, Post-Graduation and PhD.

NO STIPENDS:

The students said, “The Nagpur’s Ayurved students visit Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and Mayo Hospital for internship. There is no independent hospital for us. Moreover, the students studying in private Ayurvedic Colleges are not being paid stipends. On the contrary, the private colleges recover Rs 2,500 from the students in the name of stipend itself. Exams are not held on time and answer papers contain several flaws even after checking by the concerned teachers,” lamented the students.

DIVERTING TO OTHER COURSES:

Another disappointing aspect faced by the students is that they are forced to run for other courses with no choice as the admission process never starts on time. This year, the BAMS admissions were completed in November instead of September itself and thus leaving many seats vacant in the private Ayurvedic Colleges. And more frustratingly, the Ayurved education is getting costlier day by day.

NEW ASSOCIATION:

The Vidarbha students have been included in the Maharashtra Ayurved Students’ Association. The Vidarbha members now want their separate Vidarbha Ayurved Students’ Association and taking measures for registration of their new Association. The aim is timely and proper justice for students of Vidarbha.

Dr Hemant Rahangdale, President of Vidarbha Unit of Maharashtra Ayurved Students’ Association, also supported the demand for Vidarbha Ayurved University. “The Maharashtra Government should hammer out solutions for Vidarbha students who are facing financial problems and mental harassment as well. The students will get the justice only when an Ayurved University is set up in Vidarbha,” Dr Rahangdale asserted.

Ayurved students, battered and bruised, for Ayurvedic University in Vidarbha for justice

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The Vidvat Parishad of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU), in a major decision, has extended four semester relief to students and thus regularizing the problematic “jumping” facility issue. Now, students have to pass the time-tested ATKT rules and get admissions directly to the next semester. The Vidvat Parishad meeting held on Sunday, in a way, presented a New Year gift to the students.

The Engineering Faculty Dean Ravindra Kshirsagar had raised the “jumping” facility issue in Vidvat Parishad. The Vidvat Parishad amended the Ordinance 6, 2010 and subsequently the “jumping” facility is regularized. Now, in future, the students will not face any problem in getting admissions from First Semester to Fifth Semester and from Third Semester to Seventh Semester. Dr Babarao Taywade had also raised the issue in the last meeting of Vidvat Parishad that has now been fully recognized.

It may be recalled that the RTMNU has brought Graduation and Post-Graduation courses under semester system. The students encountered hurdles in getting admissions to the next semester due to delayed declaration of revaluation results and “jumping” facility. The engineering students had resorted to uproar and intense slogan shouting in front of RTMNU in this connection. However, now, if the students come in accordance with the stringent ATKT rules, it will not be difficult for them to take admissions to the next class.

The Engineering Faculty has been brought under Vidvat Parishad according to the rules of Council of Architecture. The PhD will not be necessary for appointing teachers in engineering. Now, the posts of Professor, Associate Professor and Principal could be filled up without PhD. The appointments of teachers in Amravati, Mumbai and Pune are done in accordance with the same rule.

RTMNU’s New Year gift to students, provides 4 semester relief, ‘jumping’ facility no hurdle

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The Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU), now-a-days on the map of the country for its blind eyed state of affairs and thus resulting in dozens of controversies, one of them being the affiliation to colleges. The RTMNU went on granting affiliation spree even to the colleges that openly violated rules and regulations laid down for getting affiliated to RTMNU. However, the RTMNU has now opened its eyes and initiated damage control exercise.

The Vidvat Parishad, in a meeting held on Monday, has decided to send a proposal to Deans Committee for changing format of the Local Enquiry Committee (LEC). The RTMNU grants affiliation to a college on the basis of LEC report. The LEC visits colleges for inspection purpose. The LEC prepares its report after inspecting equipments and facilities in the colleges. The report is then submitted to Management Council and after permission from the Management Council, the affiliation is granted by RTMNU. The University has taken the step towards changing format of LEC after long years. Now, the Deans Committee will go through the every aspect and then decide stringent criteria for granting affiliations to colleges.

COMMITTEE SET FOR ADMISSIONS:

However, in the past, the RTMNU was granting affiliations to such colleges which did not have a single regular teacher. The colleges then were blacklisted and barred from admissions for First Year just 6-7 months ago. Many colleges did not have 50 per cent students on their rolls and these colleges were also blacklisted. Recently, 29 colleges were deleted from the list of blacklisted colleges. Now, a Committee has been set up under the chairmanship of Dr Babanrao Taywade to decide the capacity of the colleges for the First Year admissions. The Committee will consider every aspect in this connection. Even the Joint Director of Higher Education Department has sent a letter to RTMNU to review the admission capacity of the colleges. The Committee also consists Deans of all Faculties. The Committee will prepare its report after studying the issue in details.

RTMNU SILENT ON LOSSES TO ENGINEERING STUDENTS:

A Vidvat Parishad member raised the issue of losses to students of engineering colleges in the meeting. The engineering students had demanded in November that the exams be stalled on the grounds that the results of revaluations were not declared. Even some students had not received Xerox copies of answer papers. The RTMNU had assured the engineering students that if their problems are not resolved before beginning of the exams, the special exams would be held for them. Subsequently, the RTMNU resolved the revaluation issues speedily but before the results of revaluations could be declared, the exams had started. It means, the students who had passed after revaluations, were forced to appear for the exam. The students were put at losses this way due to careless attitude of the RTMNU. The Administration had no answer to this question but to maintain silence.

RTMNU resorts to damage control exercise on granting of affiliations to flawed colleges

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NEERI’s Chief Scientist Nitin Labhsetwar said, “The gigantic increase in diesel-run vehicles, massive use of diesel in generators and mobile towers emitting tons and tons of hazardous gases containing deadly combination of carbon dioxide and carbon mono oxide.”

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The National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) and Qushu Industrial University, Japan, have signed “Common Research Agreement” for reducing poisonous emission caused by thousands of vehicles and other equipments run by diesel. The emission contains harmful particles of carbon dioxide and carbon mono oxide, poisonous gases which damage the environment balance and takes heavy toll of human beings and animals as well. The “Common Research Agreement” signed by NEERI and Qushu University will jointly work for Government of India in reducing the diesel emission, said NEERI’s Chief Scientist Nitin Labhsetwar at a press conference held on Monday.

The NEERI Scientist further said, “The gigantic increase in diesel-run vehicles, massive use of diesel in generators and mobile towers is emitting tons and tons of hazardous gases containing deadly combination of carbon dioxide and carbon mono oxide. The emission of hazardous gases have been damaging the delicate environment and creating havoc for mankind by way of fatal diseases related to the environment. The research is going on the technology which would stop emission at the very source and absorb the gases. The Professor and Scientist  of Japan’s Qushu Industrial University Dr Yasutaki Teraoka is leading the team that will work with NEERI on the project,” Nitin Labhsetwar said.

Dr Teraoka said, “The hi-tech technology has to be developed for India at lesser cost. The Agreement will give the necessary momentum for developing the technology. India’s students are of curious nature and the Agreement would provide the scientists of NEERI and Qushu University, students an opportunity to work together,” the Japanese scientist stated.

NEERI, Japan’s University to work on reducing harmful emission by diesel run-vehicles, tools

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Nagpur News: HSC examination will be conducted by Board frm February 20 while SSC exam will be coducted from March 3.

Practicals and viva-voce for Class XII wil be held from Feb 6 to 18 which for Class X practicals and viva-voce will be held from Feb 17 to 28.

Student can check time table on www.msbhse.ac.in
CBSE Class X, XII exams from March 1

In a statement, the Central Board of Examination said the examinations will begin in March 1 ,2014 as is usually done every year.

HSC exam from Feb 20, SSC from mar 3: CBSE exams from March 1

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to include Archery, Gymnastics, Rifle Shooting and Wushu from academic year 2014-15. These sports would be directly included in the national-level sports competitions.The CBSE will recover Rs 10,000 each as sports charges from its schools for organizing annual sports events. The money will be used in holding cluster, zone and national level sports competitions.

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According to information, the CBSE’s Joint Director of Sports Pushkar Vohra has directed all the schools to deposit Rs 10,000 in their local offices along with the number of participants. The decision to recover money has been taken after considering the rising prices and change in formats of sports gor organizing the competitions. The money taken from schools would be divided in four parts including Grant for Organizing the Competition, Equipment, Medals and Certificates and Scholarship Under Chacha Nehru Sports Award categories.

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The organization of Inter-School Sports and Games Competition is done under self-funded scheme and for organization of the contests, sports charges are taken from the schools. The schools will have to deposit Rs 10,000 from this year itself. At present, CBSE organizes 20 sports events in which around 1.50 lakh students take part every year.

Similarly, the CBSE also organizes Physical Education Teachers’ Awards. This year, the Principals and Organizing Secretary of the schools which would be holding various sports contests at different levels.

CBSE includes Archery, Gymnastics, Wushu, Rifle Shooting for national-level competitions

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Right from demonstration of method to clean up oil spills from oceans to anatomy of snakes, the middle level students of various schools displayed their scientific best at the the Science Fair that opened at Raman Science Center on December 26.

Prathamesh Gulhare, a class eight student from Rajendra High school presented a wonderful project that involved the process of cleaning up oil spills from oceans with the use of fire-fluid and magnetized oil.

Speaking with Nagpur Today, Prathamesh explained through his project how ferro-fluid  can be used to make the spilled oil magnetic and then strong magnets  could be used to separate the magnetized oil. It specified that helicopters could be used to spread ferrofluid  over vast stretch of ocean waters and the ships equipped with magnetic belt could be used to attract the magnetized oil. He said it will be cost efficient and would not be harmful to marine life. Moreover the process is easier to implement on vast areas.

The visitors at the exhibition got to see very unusual and interesting ideas displayed there. The projects on display were far beyond what could be expected from the school level science exhibitions.

13 years old Ritik Mahule displayed collection of insects and anatomy snake. The skeleton of Russell viper snake, scorpion, Tiger spider, fire ants and butterflies prompted students to touch and see the remains of these creature. Ritik has been collecting the skeletons of these creatures for the last 4 years and wanted to display it at the exhibition to increase the knowledge of students on wildlife. His father is a professional Sarp Mitra.

Around 180 participants from various schools in the city are participating in this 3 day  science exhibition. ‘Meet the Scientist’ and writing competition on water co-operation was held for the students on Monday. 20 school teachers also presented their models. Some of the models of teacher included Magic Ink by Archana Galewar explaining  chemical dissociation using potassium, iodide and starch. One of the teachers displayed ‘wheat grass’ benefits and how it can be grown at home and used for several ailments.

An interactive session was also held during the exhibition, in which the students threw some interesting questions before the scientists from Babha Atomic research center.

As the theme of the exhibition was water conservation, the students had prepared many projects on this aspect. To prevent water wastage, clean water many interesting models like water treatment project, water alarm system, water level indicator, solar distillation plant and many other interesting models are up on display at the exhibition.

The exhibition would continue till December 28.

Students put their creative best at Science Fair

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has extended the last date of applications to JEE-Mains by 10 days. The students can now submit applications till January 5. Earlier, the last date was December 26. The Maharashtra Government delayed the decision over starting JEE-Mains based admissions in Government and private schools in the State ending PET-based admissions. The delayed decision witnessed less number of students applying for JEE-Mains.

Last date for applications to JEE-Mains is Jan 5

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Now onwards, the candidates who pass the National Eligibility Test (NET) with very good marks would be appointed in Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), too. Earlier, the NET passers were eligible only for teachership. The NET has been conducted by the University Grants Commission (UGC). Previously, the facility for appointments in PSUs was provided only to Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) passed candidates.

The UGC is completing the formalities for granting permission to PSU companies for appointments of NET passed candidates with good marks. Till now, the successful NET candidates were eligible only for Junior Research Fellowship and Lecturer. According to information, the UGC has given permission to just one or two companies and is likely to grant permission to other PSU companies also for appointing NET passers. The UGC decision will prove beneficial to those NET passed candidates who would like to serve in PSU companies rather Junior Research Fellowship or Lecturer. The UGC move is likely to draw more and more candidates for NET with the hope of serving in PSU companies.

The GATE passed candidates are being appointed in the PSU companies like NTPC, BHEL, NALCO, Power Grid, and others.

Now, NET passers also will get jobs in PSUs

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Nagpur News: The Departments of Statistics & Mathematics of Institute of Science, Nagpur are organizing a two-day National Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and their Applications (COSMA) on January 3 and 4, 2014 at the Institute of Science, Nagpur to celebrate the International Year of  Statistics. The Conference is being co-sponsored by the  International Indian Statistical Association, USA and the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM), DAE.

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Mathematics and Statistics have become an integral part of almost every area of life including agriculture, engineering, medicine, management, as well as in the physical, chemical, biological and social sciences. The goal of this conference is to provide a common platform to leading academicians researchers and professionals working in the field of mathematics and statistics to share their knowledge about various aspects of these two important branches of science.

Dr. M.T. Bharambe, Director of Institute of Science, speaking to media, said the conference will provide an opportunity for technical discussions , reflections and exchange of ideas and perspectives in both theoretical and applied fields of mathematics besides exploring the potential of their applications in various interdisciplinary  areas.

Around 250 researchers, scientists and students belonging to statistics and mathematics are expected to participate in the two-day deliberations. Participants from the fields of science, engineering, agriculture, NEERI, Kuwait are expected to participate.

The Convenor  of the Conference Prof. K.S. Bhanu, Head of the Department of Statistics, informed that a special session called  ‘Catch them Young’ has been arranged for the young students to increase the awareness of  the power and impact of statistics on all aspects of society and nurture statistics as a profession where invited speakers will interact and guide the students about career and research opportunities in Statistics and Mathematics.

The conference will be inaugurated on January 3, 2014 at 9.45 a.m.  Dr. R.M. Welukar, Vice Chancellor, University of Mumbai, will be the Chief Guest  while Dr. Vilas Sapkal, Vice Chancellor, RTMNU will preside over the function.  The guests of honour include Dr. Subrata Kundu, George Washington University, USA, Dr. K.C. Deshmukh, Dean, Science and Mathematics.

The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. T.E Raghunathan of University of Michigan, USA. He will speak on ‘ Mathematics to Mathematical Statistics to Biostatistics. This would be followed by an interesting talk on “Cricket Analytics” by Dr. Srinivas Bhogle , Director  of  TEOCO Software, Banglore.

Prof. K.S Bhanu H.O.D is the Convener of the Conference while Dr. G.L Waghmare is the Organizing Secretary.

Institute of Science to hold Conference on Statistics, Mathematics on Jan 3, 4 in city

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Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University’s Management Council (MC) meeting on Friday was shadowed by the issues of Convocation Ceremony and the 250 colleges. The Convocation Ceremony could be held in February and the 39 colleges that have completed the process of appointments of regular teachers could be deleted from the list of blacklisted colleges. The meetings of BoE and MC could be called on these issues soon, most likely on January 3.

The Management Council meeting started with the Call Attention Motion on Convocation Ceremony brought by Mahesh Nimbarte. Adv D K Agrawal and other members also supported the Call Attention Motion. The members were stressing upon fixing of Convocation Ceremony date and resolving the issue of illegal degrees on which the questions were raised. Although Sanjay Khadatkar has prepared report on Convocation Ceremony, the copies of the report were not distributed to the members triggering an exchange of hot words. The members were arguing that the reasons for cancellation of Convocation Ceremony were not clear and thus should be cleared properly. In this situation, the report should be submitted to Board of Examination (BoE) as soon as possible and thereafter to the Management Council. However, during discussion, the MC members concurred on Convocation Ceremony in February and inviting the President Pranab Mukherjee again.

The members forcefully demanded removal of 39 colleges that have completed the process of appointing the regular teachers from the list of 250 colleges. According to the High Court, the issue falls under RTMNU Administration. The RTMNU can delete the names of those colleges that have appointed one or several regular teachers from the list of 250 colleges. Now, the University will place the issue in the Vidvat Parishad and then the 39 colleges could be removed from the list.

‘Vision Document’ gets approved 

The Vision Document prepared for the progress and development of the Nagpur University got approved in the Management Council meeting on Friday. A committee, under the chairmanship of Dr. Sanjay Khadatkar, and experts from NEERI and other prestigious institutes has prepared the Vision Document. Students, teachers, journalists and People’s Representatives were also consulted. After taking all the aspects, opinions and study into consideration, the Vision Document was prepared.

The Vision Document formulates the action plan for the next ten years, and will play a very important role in the progress of the Nagpur University.  The report will be sent to Government soon.

Convocation Ceremony likely in February, 39 colleges could be removed from list of 250