Click To Submit PhD Thesis As DU Makes Process Online

Click To Submit PhD Thesis As DU Makes Process Online

Faculty To Give List Of Examiners Before Or On Submission Day

Shinjini.Ghosh@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:22.09.2021

To smoothen the PhD thesis submission and the evaluation process that follows, Delhi University aims to go fully online. The online portal, which is likely to be launched within the next two months, will contain details of each student enrolled for doctorate courses, including the six-month progress reports of each scholar.

DU has also amended an existing ordinance by which faculty members or supervisors will be required to submit the list of viva-voce examiners before or on the day of the thesis submission. According to senior university officials, this change will come into effect from next week.

Under current norms, the examiners’ list for the viva process can be submitted within a month of the thesis submission. In several instances, this has led to delays and increased pendency of the results, DU officials said. D S Rawat, DU’s dean of examination, told TOI, “While the viva examiners’ list is expected to be submitted within a month of students submitting their thesis, what often happens is that the lists are not sent to the examination branch. The process of getting the examiners’ list cleared is also a lengthy one. If the names are not sent in time, then it becomes difficult to follow up the long-pending cases and students are left in a lurch about when their vivas will be conducted.”

Rawat added, “The new PhD thesis submission form will have space for the examiners’ list and it means that the examination branch will be able to forward the thesis as soon as it is submitted because the examiners’ list will have to be submitted at the same time. Once the online portal is launched, the scholars will also be able to track the progressive stages of their course work.”

Officials also pointed out that the entire exercise would be made paperless, which would greatly reduce the cost incurred by students for printing copies of their thesis at the time of submission. Providing an estimate of the volume of printing that is involved, Garvit Rai of Daljeet Photocopy Service in North Campus revealed for TOI, “For each student, we usually print eight or nine copies of their thesis. Each copy has a minimum of 300 pages and sometimes even 500 pages.”

Once the online portal is implemented, progress reports and recommendations given by the advisory committees to students will also be available on the platform. “Everything will be automated and human intervention will come down,” claimed Rawat. “Once the final examiners’ list is approved by the vice-chancellor, the panel will receive emails, to which they have to respond within nine days, failing which new mails will be sent to the standby examiners.”

THE GREEN WAY: Thesis submission will also be paperless, greatly reducing the cost incurred by students for printing its copies

0 9  COPIES OF THESIS PRINTED FOR EACH STUDENT