'MS. TITIKSHA SAHAI' TO BE THE 'ETHICS & DESIGNING' HEAD

TITIKSHA SAHAI
ETHICS & DESIGNING HEAD
'AVIPRA GROUP'

We take immense pleasure in informing you that as a part of its core team 'AVIPRA' announce its first portfolio of  'ETHICS & DESIGNING'  to be headed by Ms. Titiksha Sahai. According to the current information now she has to decide her team within a week or later for which the members are being suggested by the 'AVIPRA GROUP' to her. The detail of the team will be publish on the blog as soon as she decides and finalize the list. 

Mean while the other important portfolios are being decided by the organisation and hope that it will be on the blog soon. 

We wish Ms. Titiksha Sahai a very bright future ahead. 

'AVIPRA' to announce its core team soon

New Delhi: The India’s youngest growing youth organization AVIPRA GROUP likely to announce its core team soon for its future operations and diversification, stated by an official. The AVIPRA GROUP is planning to announce the core team through its own blog website www.avipratimes.blogspot.com. So many young names are there in the guess for the desired portfolios like Chief Editor, CMD (Corporate Relations), CMD (Finance & Accounts), CMD (IT), CMD (HR) etc.  Some young names which are in the spotlight are -Mr. Ujjwal Sahni, Mr. Vipin Vijay Nair, Mr. Shivam Mishra, Mr. Prashant Sharan Srivastava, Ms. Shruti Rana, Ms. Shreya Sinha, Ms. Vaishnavi Sinha, Ms. Disha Tanwar, etc.

Mr.Pratyush Prakash & Mr. Avichal Sahai,
Chairperson - 'AVIPRA GROUP'

‘We are also planning to diversify our field of business in the long run’- said by Mr. Avichal Sahai, Chairman ‘AVIPRA GROUP’ in the board meeting.  

It was expected that AVIPRA’S portfolios will be filled up by June and can start its full fleshed operations in the starting of August.

‘We are regularly trying to deliver out our best to the society and always try to come up with the services needed by our society….’added by Mr. Pratyush Prakash, Chairperson, ‘AVIPRA GROUP’…focusing light on the services which AVIPRA is going to launch in the near future. He also added that- 'soon we have our own website and an official page on facebook to connect AVIPRA with the mass.

DU starts admission drill today

NEW DELHI: Delhi University will start giving out its prospectus for admission to undergraduate courses from Saturday. The first Open Day as well as the registration of SC/ST and differently abled candidates will also begin on the same day. 

From this year, there will be no pre-admission forms for applying to colleges for the general and OBC categories except for the courses which require an entrance exam. 

The university will admit at least 54,000 students across 60 colleges. Aspirants can meet the faculty and current students at the 12 Open Day sessions to be held from Saturday to June 8. The first Open Day will be organized at the Conference Centre on North Campus where DU officials and students will give presentations on courses and colleges, eligibility criteria and admission process. They will also take questions and offer counseling. 

The university has also started e-open days and web chat to guide students during the admission process. Besides the helpdesk set up at the office of the dean of students' welfare (DSW), the university has also created an email ID - - for students to mail their grievances and suggestions to the vice-chancellor directly. DU will also launch a Facebook page on Saturday. 

The registration for differently abled students will be held at the DSW office near the vice-chancellor's office on North Campus. DU's equal opportunity cell (EOC) will provide a free pick-up service to aspirants with special needs from Vishvavidyalya Metro station to the DSW office. The buses will ply every half an hour from 9am. For SC/ST registration, aspirants need to go to the faculty of arts. 

Saturday is also the last day for the sale and submission of forms for the Combined Admission Test for English (CATE). This year, 21 colleges will admit students to BA (honours) English through CATE.

Mumbai University may introduce robotics in engineering courses

The University of Mumbai (MU) is working on an ambitious project to introduce robotics as a subject in engineering courses. The project, called ‘E Yantra’, is being developed with the help of experts from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.

The university administration has called a meeting of principals from top 15 engineering colleges and faculty from the computer science department on May 13 to discuss how the project can be implemented in colleges. Experts from IIT will also be present.

The MU project aims to create a robotic revolution in the educational domain by conducting workshops, hosting competitions, deploying homegrown low-cost educational robotic platform hardware at colleges with the aim of creating quality content for teaching robotics. The idea of the project is to reach the faculty at engineering colleges through a series of workshops.

Dr Rajpal Hande, director, Board of College and University Development at MU, said: “In modern times, there is a need to use robotic tools in the educational field. Most of the developed countries have already started using robotics in teaching. Through the E Yantra project, we will also lay down a plan to use robotics for teaching in our engineering colleges. The intention is to create a hub-and-spoke model for the delivery pf content and expertise to college. We will first train faculty of the hub institutes in the use of our robots and our content.” The robotics course will be for students who have graduated in mechanical, electrical, instrumentation or computer engineering with an interest in robotics and artificial intelligence.

According to sources, candidates with a masters degree in robotics will be able to work in space research organisations and in companies that manufacture microchips. Job opportunities also exist in IIT for conducting extensive research in artificial intelligence.

Delhi University have set out to make life easy for freshers

Ready for a new start!!

NEW DELHI: Six old and existing students of Delhi University have set out to make life easy for freshers through 'jugaad'. This group of "practising jugaadus" can get you anything from an accommodation and academic information to a heavy discount in an eatery and even a maid's number. They address issues and solve queries through their web portal called dujugaad.in and a special 'Jugaad Club' that offers amazing discounts to students at a variety of places, be it the roadside omellete-wala or a high-end salon in Kamala Nagar. 

They are now gearing up for the admission season when the newcomers look for a good college, while the parents of many of them scout around for a suitable accommodation. "I was once sitting with friends. They were discussing how students who were new to Delhi had to face many problems. They had no clue about the right place to stay, flat rents, popular haunts, etc. That's when I thought there should be a facility that can tell students about everything that made sense on the campus," said Kumar Ashish from Bokaro Steel City who studies mathematics in Kirori Mal College. 

The portal was Ashish's brainchild. But it took shape only in June last year when five others - who were friends and friends of friends - came together with ideas and enthusiasm. So while Ashish and old student Sanjeev Kumar are responsible for the technical developments, Miranda House alumnus Smiti Rastogi and Sidhant Ghai, who graduated from Rajdhani College last year, take care of the marketing of 'jugaad'. Hindu College student Surabhi Sehgal and Gautam Bisht, English literature student from Hans Raj College, provide the content. "We named our initiative 'jugaad' because it means finding a way out. We often saw that new students were exploited and charged more many a time. We want to stop that by getting them discounts. We tell the PG owners, shopkeepers and eatery-owners to promise us discounts and we will get them a strong customer-base," said Surabhi. 

No wonder, a student taking up an accommodation through their portal can get up to Rs 500 off every month in the rent. Members of their club can also avail themselves of a discount of 10% to as much as 50%. "Seats in the college hostels are not enough and the PGs outside have hiked the rent. But we have enlisted around 22 PGs on the portal which should be suitable for the freshers. We visited each one of them to check their quality and standard. We chatted with the students already living there and also talked to the owners about discounts. Many of them agreed," said Surabhi. She added that for the club, students just have to pay Rs 200 for an entire year and they get a photo-identity card in return. "Students can just flash this card to get discounts. As for us, we only recover the operational costs." 

Many volunteers also work with the group to make networks, develop contacts and feel the pulse of the campus in return for a free lunch or dinner and even a movie at times. "They are all friends who want to be a part of this idea. We need their help because we need to gather details as minute as which bank branch in which college has an ATM. They also get us numbers of the maids and cooks," said Ashish. The group spends at least three to four hours every day fine-tuning and updating portal. A more user-friendly version of the portal with added features was launched last week. These 'jugaadus' now also plan to start the facility of auctioning goods. Surabhi said, "Many students who graduate and leave find it difficult to dispose of their furniture or TV and fridge. We will find a jugaad for them too." 

After Delhi University, online admissions in Mumbai University

Scorching heat, running from one counter to other, serpentine queues to submit applications, loss of documents, bouncing cheques are only some of the problems students face during admission time.

However, students can now heave a sigh of relief, with the Mumbai University in collaboration with the Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited planning to conduct online admissions. The project, which is still in its preliminary stage, shall be first applied to the Institute of Distance Learning Department of the university for the academic year 2011- 2012.

A panel of authorities from the Mumbai University visited the MKCL officials in Pune last week to discuss the project and its application. Explaining the design of the project Harichandran, Director of IDOL said, " Two months back we received a proposal from the MKCL regarding online admission procedures on which a meeting was held between university officials and officials from MKCL. Authorities of MKCL gave us a detailed presentation on the functioning of the online admission procedure. We shall now submit a detailed report to the advisory committee in two weeks after which it will be placed before the management council for a final approval." He further stated that, " Online admission is applicable in a place where there are numerous students studying different subjects.

The introduction of online admission will help in speedy administration procedures thereby saving maximum time." Approximately 80,000 students' currently study through the medium of distance education. Since, manual admission procedures are lax and time consuming; the introduction of online admission has surely acted as a ray of hope for students. Currently, officials are planning on partially going online and partially seeking documents through post.

A separate office shall be framed within IDOL. After the form passes through each step students shall receive messages as well as emails regarding the progress of their form. Withholding of admission because of documentation shall also be reported to students.

DU admission schedule for 2011-12 announced

NEW DELHI: The admission process of the undergraduate courses for 2011-12 at Delhi University (DU) will start from June 15 with the notification of the first cut-off list. The admission schedule for the academic session 2011-12 has been approved by the advisory committee for admission on Thursday. The admission window for general candidate will be of 39 days with the last date for admission and payment of fees being July 23, excluding the admission with condonation by the vice chancellor. 

What will be unique to the admission process this year is that there will be no pre-admission registration of any kind, barring for those courses whose admissions will be based on entrance tests and interviews. Moreover, the registration for admission in sports and extra curricular activities (ECA) categories will commence only after the declaration of the second cut-off lists. Moreover, the university is yet to decide whether to continue with the centralized admission mode introduced last year for the sports quota. 

Unlike in the past, DU will announce five cut-off lists this year starting with the first on June 15 followed by June 21, June 27, July 2 and July 8 respectively. Also the aspirants will get four days for admission and payment of fees between two cut-off lists. 

As per the admission policy of 2011-12, out of the total number of 54,000 seats, reservation of seats will be 27% for OBC candidates, 15% for SC candidates, 7.5% for ST candidates and the remaining for general category. Colleges will simultaneously bring out a separate cut-off for the OBC category and the differential merit between the general category and OBC cut-offs shall not be more than 10%. Colleges have to declare the vacant OBC seats by July 15 and these will be filled up by other eligible candidates by July 23.