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All members of GU commerce admissions committee resign

All members of GU commerce admissions committee resign

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:  21.07.2020

All members of the Gujarat University admissions committee for commerce courses put in their papers on Monday, even as admissions to five courses are on in full swing.

As many as 40,000 students whose admissions are pending have now been left in the lurch.

Three days ago, the committee members wrote to the varsity vice-chancellor, asking him to address the issue the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), which is holding demonstrations in protest against the selection of the committee and outsourcing of part of the admissions work to a private agency.

“The committee wrote to the authorities after ABVP members began targeting them. A few days ago, ABVP workers had locked up the admission committee members,” sources in GU said.

The nine members, including the convener of the committee resigned on Monday after the GU authorities turned a blind eye to their concerns, sources said.

A security guard was beaten up a few days ago and the GU authorities did not report the matter to the police, sources said.

Mop-up round for empty PG dental seats

Mop-up round for empty PG dental seats

Ahamedabad  21.07.2020

The admission committee for postgraduate medical courses has decided to conduct the mop-up round by way of video conferencing for the vacant dental seats on July 21. The Admission Committee for Professional Post-Graduate Medical Education Courses has recently conducted the third round of admission in which 1,540 seats were allotted for MD/MS courses and 220 were allotted for PG dental courses. In the case of PG medical, 30 seats remained vacant while 53 went empty for PG dental programmes. “For the PG medical seats that are empty, there are no applicants while in the case of PG dental there are 220 applicants,” said an official close to the development. TNN

GU to hold theory exams in two phases

GU to hold theory exams in two phases

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:  21.07.2020

Gujarat University will conduct theory exams for undergraduate and postgraduate students in two phases, beginning August 21 and August 31.

As many as 52 exams for students in various semesters such as MA (fourth semester), MCom (fourth semester), MSc (fourth semester) and LLB (second and fourth semester) will be held from August 21. The BA (sixth semester), BBA (sixth semester), BCom (sixth semester), BCA (sixth semester), BSc (sixth semester) exams will be held from August 31.

The duration of each exam will be of two hours. For students who cannot participate in this pen and paper exam or for students who are from other states or overseas, the varsity will conduct special online exams in multiple-choice questions (MCQ) format. The dates for the special exam will be announced later.

According to the GU directives, the exams will be conducted with proper sanitization methods and social distancing at exam centres. Decisions on keeping exam centres at the district level and halving the number of students per classroom from 30 to15 have been taken in the past.

Students in intermediate semesters will be evaluated on internal assessments. The annual exams for colleges were deferred this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In May, the state government had announced that terminal examinations for all varsities in Gujarat would be held from June 25. The government had to reverse this after many varsities called off the examinations due to protests by students.

Many students look to seek admissions in pvt universities

Many students look to seek admissions in pvt universities

Cancellation Of Exams A Reason Behind Move

Nirupa.Vatyam@timesgroup.com

Hyderabad:  21.07.2020

As uncertainty prevails over EAMCET and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), majority of students from the city and elsewhere in the state are seeking admissions in deemed or private universities. Though the exams are scheduled to be held in September, many think that they may be delayed further.

With several private universities such as SRM Institute, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) among others cancelling their entrance examinations coupled with the fact that many parents are not inclined towards their wards appearing for examinations during the pandemic, is driving students to choose deemed universities. “After the announcement of the cancellation of the entrance examination, we received 10,000 applications in a day,” said GV Selvam, vice-president, VIT University.

He said that every year they receive over 2 lakh applications and added that the number of applications may go up significantly as quite a few students are cancelling their plans to go abroad. “Based on Class 12 marks, JEE or SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) we are going to release a rank list in August,” he added.

Likewise, sources from one of the well-known deemed universities said that admissions have gone up this year as many students are preferring local varsities. Lovely Professional University, which many students from Telangana and AP join every year, has also seen a 25% increase in the number of applications received. “This might be because of the way we handled things during the pandemic,” said Aman Mittal, additional director, Lovely Professional University.

Citing reasons for opting for these institutes, parents said they don’t want to wait till September or October to secure a seat. “I have sent my son’s applications to almost all private and deemed universities in Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka and even received provisional admission from a couple of them. I want him to secure a seat in computer science engineering in one of the institutes so there is no pressure on him to appear for entrance examinations,” said B Sanjana, a parent.

B’luru firm develops app for medical students

Hyderabad:

Amidst the pandemic, undergraduate and postgraduate medical students of Telangana will have access to curriculum-based medical education content with 3D animations on a learning application MediMagic developed by a Bengaluru-based firm.

According to a circular issued by the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), Warangal, the app, developed by Vinformax, encompasses 3D animated content for pre-clinical and paraclinical lessons mapped to the Medical Council of India prescribed curriculum. “The app is free for medical students of KNRUHS till October 31. The app can be used by the students for self-learning while reading textbooks. Concepts and images in the textbooks can be visualized from the videos in the app,” read the circular. TNN

IndiGo to cut staff by 10%, pilots safe

IndiGo to cut staff by 10%, pilots safe

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:  21.07.2020

The massive impact of coronavirus on the aviation sector has led IndiGo to decide that it will reduce its employee count by 10%.

This is the first time India’s only cash-rich airline has decided to take such a step to survive the downturn.

IndiGo has about 24,000 employees. Its employee cost in 2019-20 was Rs 4,395 crore. IndiGo will not be laying off any of its over 3,000 pilots.

“It is impossible for our company to fly through this economic storm without making some sacrifices, in order to sustain our business operations. Therefore, after carefully assessing and reviewing all possible scenarios, it is clear that we will need to bid a painful adieu to 10% of our workforce,” a note from Indi-Go CEO Ronojoy Dutta said.

E-pass, stopcorona top list of most-visited govt portals

E-pass, stopcorona top list of most-visited govt portals

Yogesh.Kabirdoss@timesgroup.com

Chennai: 21.07.2020

E-pass and an exclusive website on coronavirus topped the list of most sought-after state government portals during the lockdown as desperate people wanted to travel to their hometowns besides seeking official updates on the pandemic.

The e-Sevai website that facilitates accessing various documents at a click of a button came a distant third as public did not want to visit common service centre due to the pandemic. Tangedco and Greater Chennai Corporation are other portals that made to the list of top five official websites accessed by the public in the past three months amid the lockdown.

This also helped in promoting contactless public services particularly accessing revenue department certificates avoiding the hassles of going to government offices or the common service centre for the purpose.

Data sourced by TOI states that 70,000 applications were received to avail e-passes a day. The pass is mandatory for commuting within the state. While about 55 lakh e-pass applications were filed by the public in a span of 80 days since May, one-third of the requests were accepted and the rest rejected.

The 'stopcorna' website of the state government that offers all information pertaining to coronavirus including daily bulletin, hospital contacts and health advisory recorded an average of 45,000 hits a day.

Both the portals were launched in May in view of the pandemic. Similarly, the 'e-Sevai' website is witnessing 16,000 hits daily. “A chunk of applications was pertaining to nativity, community and first-generation graduate certificates as it is admission season. In fact, this year, the portal went completely online allowing people to receive all the documents online without coming to the common service centre for the purpose,” an official said.

Portals of Tangedco for paying power bills and Greater Chennai Corporation also had a good number of hits. state commissioner of e-Governance Santosh K Misra said videos explaining the process of online applications were created and posted on YouTube for convenience of the public. “Steps would be taken to make government websites mobile userfriendly,” he added.