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30 May 2009, 2138 hrs IST, TNN
VARANASI: The newly installed 132/33 KV power sub-station at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) was inaugurated by the vice-chancellor Prof DP Singh on Saturday.
The power sub-station has been established costing Rs 11 crore with the help of the Power Grid Corporation of India. During the inaugural function the university engineer Prof SP Singh made a presentation to show the features and utility of the sub-station. He said that the work was started in 2006 by the electric and water supply department of the university. The UP Power Corporation would look after its operation and maintenance.
He said that with the beginning of the sub-station the BHU would get uninterrupted power supply. The university has a sanctioned load of 10 MW electricity. "The capacity of internal network on BHU could be expanded to 20 MW without any additional cost," he said.
Besides the BHU personnel the function was also attended by superintending engineer of electricity department AK Chaturvedi, executive engineer GP Verma and others.
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(Report forwarded by Dr. Padmini Rangnathan. Email: padmini2710@gmail.com)
The BHU Alumni Cell has been reconstituted as follows:
Post Name Faculty/ position
1) Chairman Prof. DP Singh Professor Emeritus, Department of Mining Engineering. Institute of Technology
2) Coordinator Prof. RS Dubey Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science
3) Member Dr. (Mrs.) Padmini Ravindra Nath Reader, Economics in Mahila Mahavidyalaya (Women's College)
4) Member Dr SP Singh Reader, department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science
This team under the guidance of Prof. DP Singh is already in place.
About BHU alumni cell
http://210.212.61.250/alumni/index.html
The Alumni Cell BHU was first constituted by the orders of the Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor of BHU in February 2006. Any appointments in the Alumni Cell, BHU are on the orders of the Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor and the cell functions under his supervision.
Our activities have included the following:
(i) Publication of works connected with Mahamana.
(We have published a selection of Mahamana's writings entitled "Mahamana Ke Vichar Ek Chayan" during the IBAM 2007. In addition at the time of IBAM 2007 the "History of the Banaras Hindu University" was published and during NBAM 2009 the biography of Mahamana entitled "Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya Ka Jivan Charit" was published with the cooperation of the Press, Publication and Publicity Cell, BHU)
(ii) Organization of university level meets
The 3rd International BHU Alumni Meet (IBAM 2007) was organized by the Alumni Cell on January 06-07, 2007. The regional Meet of our alumni i.e. BHU Alumni Meet 2008 took place on March 09, 2008. The three year cycle of Meets was concluded with the National BHU Alumni Meet (NBAM 2009) held on January 29-30, 2009. The Alumni Cell is now working towards the organizing of the 4th International BHU Alumni Meet (IBAM 2009) to be held on December 25-27, 2009 on the BHU Campus)
(iii) Preparation and updating of Alumni database
(We now have a database of more than 12,000 alumni. However we realize this is only a beginning. We would like to request our alumni through the pages of the Chronicle to please send us their details and that of alumni know to them so that we can reach out to the maximum number of our alumni)
(iv) Publication of BHU Alumni Newsletter
(This biannual, bilingual newsletter is envisaged as a link with all our alumni and well wishers. It contains news about our alumni associations in India and abroad, university level Meets, news about alumni activities in the departments, achievements of our alumni, significant landmark news of the university etc)
In addition to this the Alumni Cell takes up all those activities which will further cement Alumni- Alma Mater interactions.
(d) Our contact details are as follows:
Alumni Cell
Central Office
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi-221 005 (India)
Tel: +91-542-2369 359
Email: alumni_vco@bhu.ac.in and padmini2710@gmail.com
Website: www.bhu.ac.in (at Alumni Cell).
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About Prof. D. P. Singh
(Prof. D. P. Singh)
Professor D.P. Singh was born on September 03, 1938 in Jaunpur District of Uttar Pradesh.
Professor Singh graduated in Mining Engineering from Banaras Hindu University in 1960. He went on to complete his Masters in Engineering Science and Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in the years 1968 and 1971 respectively.
Professor Singh joined Banaras Hindu University as a faculty in 1962. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Mining Engineering. He was also the Coordinator of the Centre of Advanced Study in Rock Mechanics and Ground Control.
Professor Singh has over 45 years of experience in Teaching and Research. He has published more that 200 papers in different national and international journals as well as proceedings of the seminars and symposia. Nineteen students have received their doctoral degrees (Ph.D.) under his guidance. Professor Singh has delivered many invited Lectures and attended several seminars and symposia in India and abroad. He has completed 10 sponsored research projects and 22 consultancy projects.
Professor Singh has visited a number of countries including Australia in 1967, Thailand and Singapore in 1971, Germany and U.K. in 1976, USA and UK in 1980, Sweden and UK in 1983, Poland in 1984, Israel and China in 1986, France and UK in 1989, Australia in 1992 and 1996, and Germany in 1996 and 1998, USA, UK, Canada, Sri Lanka, Egypt in 2003 and Japan in 2004 in connection with higher studies and for participation in various academic programs.
Professor Singh was the Vice-Chancellor of the Awadhesh Pratap Singh University, Rewa (MP) during 1991-1993, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lucknow, Lucknow during 1999-2002 and Vice-Chancellor of the U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University, Allahabad, during 2002-2005.
In addition Professor Singh has held the prestigious positions of
* Director, Uranium Corporation of India
* Assessor, Court of Enquiry for New Kenda Colliery, Government of India
* Chairperson, Research Council Central Mining Research Institute (CSIR)
* Co-Chairperson, Research Recruitment and Assessment Board (CSIR)
* Guest Professor, Technical University, Clausthal, Germany
* Emeritus Fellow, AICTE
* Professor Emeritus, Banaras Hindu University
* Honorary Colonel Commandant, NCC
Professor Singh has been the member of several premier academic and decision making bodies like:
* Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
* Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
* Governing Body, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi
* Governing Body and General Body of the National Institute of Rocks Mechanics (Govt. of India)
* Council of Nuclear Science Centre, Delhi
* Council of Mining, Geological and Metallurgical Institute of India
*General Council, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
* National Committee of World Mining Congress
* National Committee on Tunnelling (Government of India)
* Indian Institute of Management Society, Lucknow
* U.P. State Higher Education Council, Lucknow
* U.P. Science and Technology Council
* Academic Council. Assam University, Silchar
* Academic Council, University of Roorkee
* Academic Council, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
* Senate, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Professor Singh received the coveted National Mineral Award from the Government of India for the year 1996 in recognition of his significant contribution in the field of mining technology. In addition he was conferred numerous prestigious medals and fellowships like the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Memorial Medal of Institute of Engineers (India) in 2000 and the Honorary Fellowship of Indian Society for Rock Mechanics and Tunneling Technology (ISRMTT) in 2002.
Professor Singh has devoted his life to exploring the frontier areas of knowledge and research in the field of Rock Mechanics.
Email: dp_singh[AT]live.com
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The 4th Internal BHU Alumni Meet is planned on Dec. 25-27, 2009 on BHU campus.
The meet will be called 4th International BHU Alumni Meet (IBAM 2009). This Meet will be held in association with the Mahamana Malaviya Mission.
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The official website of Banaras Hindu University (www.bhu.ac.in) is now redesigned and more user-friendly form. It has changed appearance with new pleasant green background color, and all links are easier to view and access.
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Wed, May 6 03:05 PM
A group of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) students will embark on a mission to climb Mount Everest in 2010. “The fifteenth expedition of BHU’s Mountaineering Centre is the Mount Everest expedition, which will take place during the next academic session”, Professor in-charge of centre, R.G. Singh said.
“As many as 10 to 12 students will be selected for the expedition. Prior to it, two pre-Mount Everest expeditions will also be carried out by the centre to acclimatise the mountaineers with the tough conditions for climbing the final frontier successfully”, Singh added.
The first pre-Mount Everest expedition will commence in June. But the exact date is yet to be fixed. The pre-Mount Everest expedition will be held at Leh because this area did not report much rain.
“Students will get training in ice-climbing, step-cutting, glissading, rappelling and other techniques to cope up the challenges they will have to face during the expedition”, he said.
“The second pre-Mount expedition will take place in September-October”, he said.
Simultaneously, girls would be trained at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports in Manali. This training will be held from June 1-26.
“Boys will also attend training camp at the same institute from July 1-26”, he said.
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Additional links:
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali, Himachal Pradesh
http://www.adventurehimalaya.org/aboutwhmi.asp
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6 May 2009, 2057 hrs IST, Binay Singh, TNN
VARANASI: When the space scientists from across the world are waiting eagerly for the total solar eclipse, the scientists of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) are also all set to study the celestial phenomena occurring on July 22 with it being visible in Varanasi and Allahabad in the state.
"Along with other places, Varanasi and Allahabad also fall in the path of total solar eclipse and we are ready to conduct study and observation of this celestial happening," said Dr Abhay Kumar Singh of the Atmospheric Research Laboratory, department of Physics, BHU. He, along with his co-investigator Rajesh Singh of the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai, and other members of the group will conduct solar eclipse time ionospheric/ magnetospheric studies using very low frequency (VLF), very high frequency (VHF) and ultra-high frequency (UHF) waves. The solar eclipse campaign from July 19 to 25 is being coordinated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), he said.
"The occurrence of total solar eclipse provides a unique opportunity to investigate the effects of this phenomenon on the electrodynamics of the ionosphere and magnetosphere," he said while talking to TOI on Wednesday. He says the occurrence of total solar eclipse provides conditions existing in the ionosphere when the incident solar radiation suddenly gets blocked resembling the nighttime conditions. These conditions provide the generation of plasma instabilities to operate. It also provides a rare opportunity to study the physical and chemical processes, which determine the behaviour of electro-dynamic processes in the D-region of the ionosphere and magnetosphere.
They had sent a proposal to the ISRO for coordinated experiments for the forthcoming solar eclipses on July 22 this year and January 15, 2010. "We got a financial support of Rs 2 lakh to conduct the experiments in this region," he said, adding that several other groups had also been engaged in other parts of the country in this campaign. The ISRO is coordinating this campaign and the data from different places will be assembled and analysed.
According to him, the objectives of solar eclipse campaign are to study the effects of solar eclipse on the electrodynamics of low latitude ionosphere and magnetosphere, study the effects of solar eclipse on the D-region ionospheric variability using VLF transmitter signals, study the generation and characteristics of eclipse period ionospheric irregularities. "Since solar eclipse creates nighttime conditions during daytime, an attempt will also be made to record naturally occurring magnetospheric VLF emissions. Such eclipse time emissions will provide opportunity to study the complex VLF emissions generation and propagation mechanism involved in low latitude region," he said.
Three VLF receivers from Stanford University, US, has already been installed and run by Indian Institute of Geomagnetism successfully at Allahabad, and in collaboration with BHU at Varanasi and Nainital. "We have planned to analyse data simultaneously recorded at Varanasi, Allahabad and Nainital to study the variability of D-region during solar eclipse period," he said. "Since our experiments are based on radio waves, there would no problem in conducting the study even if there are clouds in the sky during solar eclipse period," he said.
Facilities available at BHU
* VHF Receiver
* VLF Receiver
* GPS Receiver
* L Band Receiver
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5 May 2009, 2134 hrs IST, Binay Singh, TNN
VARANASI: The availability of safe drinking water has been a major concern for both the government authorities and the people. It is because of seriousness of issue that the UN has declared the decade (2005-2015) as the Water for Life Decade, to highlight the magnitude of the problem and bring all stakeholders together to apply solutions.
The problem of water contamination can be solved to a great extent by applying nano technology, said prof ON Srivastava, coordinator of Nanoscience and Technology Centre BHU. The scientists of BHU have devised a method to produce carbon nanotube (CNT) filters that efficiently remove micro-to nano-scale contaminants from water and heavy hydrocarbons from petroleum. Made of carbon nanotubes, the filters are easily manufactured using a novel method for controlling the cylindrical geometry of the structure. If used properly, the CNT filters can help in reducing the burden on drinking water missions leading to the availability of safe drinking water that will result in minimising the water borne diseases.
The CNT filters could be used for various purposes like desalination of sea water and removing bacterial as well as heavy metal contamination from water, Srivastava told TOI on Tuesday. These filters could remove polio viruses from water as well as pathogens like E. coli, added Srivastava. He said the application of nanotube filters in desalination of sea water could provide fresh water in coastal areas.
The paper, on development of carbon nanotube filters, of BHU scientists was published in Nature (materials) magazine. This tube was used for filtration of E-coli bacteria and polio virus from polluted water along with filtering heavy hydrocarbons. This tube can also be used for other filtration may be in filtering HIV virus. According to studies, a common pollutant of drinking water is the faecal bacterium Escherichia coli that is responsible for many water borne diseases. The nanotube filters could be used successfully to obtain bacteria-free water for human consumption. A major advantage of using the nanotube filters is that they can be cleaned repeatedly after each filtration process to regain their full filtering efficiency. Though the basic work was done by Dr Anchal Srivastava in his PhD thesis, some of the supplementary work was done by Dr PM Ajayan, former student of Metallurgy department of BHU, and his group.
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29 May 2009, 2149 hrs IST, Binay Singh, TNN
VARANASI: While the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) came into existence in 2005 with an objective to enhance livelihood security in rural areas, the Centre for Integrated Rural Development of BHU founded in 1980 in response to the National Programme of Integrated Rural Development already set a model of rural development in this region.
The IRD centre of BHU was started in 1980 as extension wing of the university
, in order to promote social work and training opportunities for the university students, the project office Dr SK Tripathi told TOI. The centre runs both academic and field activities with the objective of improving the quality of life of the rural people and prevent uncontrolled drift to urban areas. It also aims at capacity building for the rural poor, especially women and children.
At that time we proved our worth by making Bhisampur village in Chakia block as an ideal village with initiatives like solar energy, fishery, plantation, gobar gas plant, khadi activities and cheap houses, said Tripathi. The centre had adopted four development blocks around Varanasi including Kashi Vidyapeeth, Chairaigaon, Chakia and Chahania as the focus of its activities. The basis of selection was to give priority to the most disadvantaged areas.
Though the government schemes and programmes changed with the time, the BHUs centre is still working in this field with its aims and objectives. In academic area we run a one-year post-graduate diploma in Integrated Rural Development and Management (IRDM), he said. A student to be eligible for admission to the IRDM course should have a bachelor degree or its equivalent or a higher degree in any discipline from any UGC accredited institute in India or abroad.
Besides, we provide one-year training to rural health practitioners in traditional system of medicine for primary health care in rural areas, he said. The IRDP provides opportunities for practical experience and training for university students in preparation for careers in rural development and social work.
In addition, intensive and extensive training for persons employed in government and non-governmental organizations are offered. The centre also organizes seminar and workshops from time to time for the rural people. The centre disseminates the findings of its action - research programmes through publications and workshops, and through interaction between different sectors including government officers, development workers, activists and scholars.
Aims of the centre:
# To identify needs, and plan and support, in conjunction with local people, development programmes.
# To support and orient the development of non-government organizations which work towards the same goals through sharing of information and strategies for collective action.
# To establish the importance of building and sustaining strong village organizations.
# To study and assess the efficacy of alternative approaches to integrated rural development.
# To prepare and train university students for social work and rural development programmes.
# To disseminate knowledge through publications and workshops.
# To develop the theory, concepts and practice of integrated rural development as an academic and professional discipline.
Box-II
Activities:
# Development of indigenous package for rural health by utilizing locally available resources of medicinal herbs and its traditional knowledge.
# Promotion of reproductive health and child care through comprehensive information dissemination.
# Assessment of drug abuse in and around Varanasi,
# Study of the rural artisans, the nature of their work, identifications of problems and remedies, to improve their economic condition.
# Women's development programme like tailoring, knitting and fruit preservation.
# Cottage industries for unemployed youth -training of more than 500 youth in skills such as making of soap, candles and chalk.
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Remarkable features:
# The centre has developed a unique educational package of rural health for providing an opportunity to the rural health practitioners, and also make them self-reliant and better equipped with the curative technique for promoting positive health through medicinal herbs.
# Yearly training is being provided to the rural women for increasing the income of their family since inception of the centre.
# The centre in collaboration with civil engineering department of BHU evolved a model of cheap house for rural poor during 1990- 1993.
(Source: IRD Centre, BHU)
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By Phil Berardelli
ScienceNOW Daily News
28 May 2009
Millions of people around the world are prone to dangerous blood clots. Now researchers have had early success with a new way to prevent them--and the strokes, heart attacks, and pulmonary embolisms they cause. Nano-sized particles of silver can stop sticky blood cells called platelets from clinging together in laboratory strains of mice, the team reports.
Unstickers. Nano-sized grains of silver (black dots) can keep blood platelet cells from bonding together.
Credit: S. Shrivastava et al., ACS Nano
Platelets help the body stop bleeding. But if they clump together too much, they can also form clots within the bloodstream. A deep-vein thrombosis, for example, can form in the lower leg and block blood flow. If the clot is not broken up quickly using injections of powerful anticoagulants, it can break loose and cut blood supply to the heart or brain, with fatal consequences. As a result, the nearly 500 million sufferers worldwide of clotting-related disorders--including this reporter--must take daily doses of anticoagulants, which carry dangers of their own, such as spontaneous and uncontrollable internal bleeding.
The key, then, is to find an agent that prevents platelets from sticking together too much without impeding their ability to shunt a bleed. Recent research on silver nanoparticles--tiny grains of the metal less than 1/50,000th the width of a human hair--indicated that they might do the trick. So a biomedical team from Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, began exploring their potential, in cooperation with materials science colleagues at the university and at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials in Balapur, India.
The researchers injected mice with blood genetically engineered to be prone to clotting and then administered the nano-silver. As the team reports online in ACS Nano, the nano-silver particles inhibit the ability of the sticky platelet surface proteins to bind these cells together into aggregates, much like adding sand to adhesive tape reduces its ability to stick. "This helps the nano-silver to keep platelets in an inactive state," says biochemist and co-author Debabrata Dash of Banaras. The nanoparticles were "far more effective" than current therapies, he adds. At the same time, the nanoparticles don't interfere with the other proteins in the blood that help form clots, as do conventional anticoagulants, so the danger of uncontrolled bleeding is reduced.
Dash notes that the nanoparticles appear "to be fairly safe to human beings," but like any other new medical technique, they will have to be studied for potential toxic effects.
Cellular biologist Jonathan Gibbins of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom agrees that caution is warranted. "The work is at a relatively early stage, with key questions such as potential toxicity and mechanisms of action remaining to be addressed," he says. "But this certainly is a new and unexpected dimension to platelet research." Likewise, biochemist Stan Heptinstall of the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom cautions that the research is "at the very beginning." The key issue, he says, is whether the nano-silver will compromise the body's important blood-clotting functions in humans.
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JEE-2009 Results - Press Note
The results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-2009) for admissions to undergraduate courses in the fifteen IITs, IT-BHU and ISMU Dhanbad have been declared. A total of 384977 candidates appeared in JEE-2009 which was conducted by seven of the IITs on April 12, 2009. Out of them 10035 candidates have been declared qualified to seek admission for 8295 seats in the IITs at Bhubaneswar, Bombay, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Mandi (H.P.), Patna, Punjab, Rajasthan and Roorkee, IT-BHU Varanasi and ISMU Dhanbad. The number of candidates who appeared in JEE-2009 is nearly 24% more than that in the previous year. Nitin Jain (Reg. No. 2076372) who appeared in JEE from IIT Delhi Zone topped this year’s All India list of successful candidates. The result of all zones in terms of number of candidates appeared and qualified, and the name, registration no. and the AIR of zonal topper is given under.
Zone-wise : Numbers Qualified and Toppers
Zone | Appeared | Qualified | Topper Name | Regn. No. | AIR |
IIT BOMBAY | 80501 | 3379 | Shubham Tulsiani | 1156155 | 2 |
IIT DELHI | 60852 | 1524 | Nitin Jain | 2076372 | 1 |
IIT GUWAHATI | 30180 | 263 | Avradeep Bhowmik | 3014122 | 34 |
IIT KANPUR | 47592 | 603 | Kritika Singh | 4060357 | 56 |
IIT KHARAGPUR | 52176 | 928 | Gaurav Lulu | 5016127 | 87 |
IIT MADRAS | 64829 | 2426 | Gopi Sivakanth | 6004088 | 3 |
IIT ROORKEE | 48850 | 912 | Deepak Vasisht | 7031183 | 33 |
TOTAL | 384977 | 10035 | | | |
This year 98,028 girls attempted JEE and 1048 of them qualified. Kritika Singh (Reg. No. 4060357) who appeared in JEE in IIT Kanpur zone with an All India Rank (AIR) 56 topped the list of girl candidates. Also 7 candidates out of 176 candidates who wrote JEE examination from the only overseas centre Dubai have qualified.
All Institutes having admissions through JEE, admit OBC/SC/ST students with relaxed criteria. This year, out of 104045 OBC candidates who wrote JEE, 1930 have qualified. Similarly, out of 36117 SC candidates 967 have qualified, out of 12484 ST candidates 208 have qualified. Gopi Sivakanth (Regn. No. 6004088) with AIR 3 in the common merit list, Mukul Singh (Regn. No. 1128302), AIR 220 in the common merit list and Kirtesh Meena (1168033), AIR 281 in the common merit list are the toppers of the OBC, SC and ST candidates, respectively. Candidates with physical disabilities (PD) will be granted admission through JEE-2009 with same relaxed norms as they are for SC/ST candidates. This year, 138 PD candidates have qualified under these norms.
Counselling for admissions will be made to all these candidates during 9th June to 16th June, 2009. Course allocations to the successful candidates will be declared on Wednesday, the 24th June, 2009.
All IITs, IT-BHU Varanasi and ISMU Dhanbad will also conduct a one-year Preparatory Course for SC/ST/PD students who do not make it to the common or reserved category merit lists. This year, 473 SC candidates, 641 ST candidates and 170 PD candidates have qualified for the Preparatory Course.
The result of JEE-2009 may be accessed from all IIT websites, and through Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) and Short Message Service (SMS) specially set up for this purpose. The zonal results are displayed in the respective IITs.
An extended merit list, category-wise, has also been drawn to facilitate admissions to other Govt. of India Institutions and the same has been displayed on websites. Students on this list may be counselled by the Indian Institute of Space-Science Technology (IIST), Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), Rajeev Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) and Indian Institute of Maritime Studies (formerly DG Shipping).
Guwahati
May 25, 2009
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Press Trust Of India
Published on Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:31, Updated on Mon, May 25, 2009 at 14:09 in India section
New Delhi: Over 10,000 students have qualified in the 2009 Indian Institue of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination with Nitin Jain, a student from Delhi zone, topping the list.
A total of 10,035 students, including 1,048 girls, have succeeded in this year's IIT-JEE, results of which were announced on Monday.
The students, who cracked the test, will get admission into 15 IITs, IT-BHU and ISM Dhanbad, which will offer over 8,500 seats this year.
"There will be more seats in the IITs this year as the institutes will implement OBC quota. Besides, two new IITs, one in Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and another in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, will start functioning," IIT Guwahati Director Prof Gautam Baruah said.
The total number of seats in the IITs for this year will be 8,295, against 6,332 seats offered by 13 IITs last year, he said.
The highest number of 2,831 students have qualified from Mumbai zone.
The counselling for admission will start from June nine, Baruah said.
Nearly four lakh students had appeared in the test held across the country on April 13. The number of questions came down to 120 this year compared to 132 last year.
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27 May 2009, 0004 hrs IST, TNN
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday announced the names of directors of six new IITs five months after TOI first reported the matter.
While U B Desai will be director of IIT, Hyderabad, M K Surappa will head the one in Ropar. Sudhir Kumar Jain will head the one in Gandhinagar, Madhusudan Chakraborty in Bhubaneswar and Anil Bhowmick in Patna. Prem Kumar Kalra will be the director of the IIT located in Rajasthan.
HRD ministry sources said that the Cabinet clearance has been secured and the new directors have been given the appointment letters. The IIT Council had cleared their appointment in January but they could not be appointed without cabinet approval.
Two new IITs - in Mandi (Himachal Pradesh) and in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) - will also start functioning this year.
The government has also decided that except the IIT in Rajasthan, the IITs will start functioning from their own temporary campus from this academic session. The new IITs are being mentored by the old IITs whereby students of new institutes were also accommodated by old ones. Directors of the IITs were made acting directors of the new ones.
IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Punjab, which are functioning at their mentoring IITs in Kharagpur and Delhi at present, will be shifted to their own campuses from the coming academic session. Three others - IIT Hyderabad, IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Patna - are already functioning from temporary campuses. However, IIT Kanpur will have to continue to mentor IIT Rajasthan as the state government has not yet finalized the town where it will be located.
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Bangalore: Monday, May 25, 2009, 12:00 [IST]
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has welcomed the Union Minister Veerappa Moily’s declaration that Bangalore will get an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the next six months.
“It will be good for us if the IIT comes up in Bangalore in the next six months,” the CM said while talking to reporters after inspecting the ongoing renovation works at the Town Hall.
He said he would forward the memorandum to the Union Government to approve some of the projects for state’s development. In this regard he would meet S M Krishna and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The CM said there will be a two-day exhibition from May 30 at the Town Hall to display the developmental activities carried out by the state. Such exhibition would be held in all the four divisions, the CM said.
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24 May 2009, 0207 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia, TNN
MUMBAI: For years, meritorious students who cracked IIT-JEE filled their preference forms — listing their choices of institutes and disciplines — based on their ranks. Then, IIT officials pored through millions of these preferences and allotted every student a stream in one of the IITs. This, for 58 years, was the final word.
But no longer — this time round, the premier tech colleges have altered the admission drill. With the IITs deciding to hold a second round of admissions, students who are allotted a seat on the basis of their preferences in the first round but are not happy will get another chance.
Based on those who do not take up the seat allotted to them, a second round of admissions will be conducted. Also, before the second round kicks in, students admitted in the first round would be allowed to select better streams, albeit in the same institution.
Assume a total of 100 students crack the JEE and are invited for counselling. They fill in their preferences (there is no cap on the preferences one can give) and each is allotted a seat in an institute and a stream based on his/her rank and the choices punched in.
Then, suppose some students, say ranks 29, 33, 48, 56, 77 and rank 86, are not happy with the allotted choice and don't join. Everyone from rank (after 29) 30 would be given a chance to select a better stream (if a seat is available) in the institute s/he has taken admission to.
Explaining this, a JEE-2009 chairman said, "Reshuffling of streams will take place at individual institute level. If a civil engineering seat falls vacant, say in IIT Kanpur, students below that rank in the same institute will be allowed to select a preference higher than has been allotted to them. But no student can change the institute they want to join at this level."
Following that, the second round of offer letters will go out, depending on the total vacancies. Last year, this newspaper had written about seats going vacant. Sources in the ministry stated that some seats had gone abegging and this year's new admission method will try and check this wastage.
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http://www.livemint.com/2009/05/20222329/IIT-students-to-work-on-indust.html
IIT Kanpur has taken steps to allow students to take on real-world projects from companies, work on them through the duration of their course and secure academic credits after they complete their programme
Jacob P. Koshy
New Delhi: Students at some Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) may soon be able to undertake industry projects and earn academic credits, marking a shift in the way engineering education is structured in the country.
“This is part of a larger plan to get students acquainted with real-world research,” said D. Muralidhar, dean, research and development, IIT Kanpur.
He said the move could also encourage engineering graduates to pursue doctoral programmes. “Companies are yet to begin outsourcing their research, but we expect this to get popular in the future, and hopefully, this should motivate students to pursue Phds,” he added.
IIT Kanpur has taken steps to allow students to take on real-world projects from companies, work on them through the duration of their course that typically lasts four to five years, and secure academic credits after they complete their programme.
A professor at IIT Delhi, who didn’t want to be identified, said similar plans are afoot at IIT Delhi, too.
Though these initiatives are still preliminary, they are significant considering warnings by academicians and industry that a big chunk of engineering graduates do not pursue research, opting instead for well-paying jobs in information technology.
“This has been one of the flip sides of the IT industry. Not only have we lost potential scientists... but even bright engineers who graduate from the IITs no longer go on to do research,” said T. Ramasami, a scientist and secretary of department of science and technology (DST).
On their part, students at IIT Kanpur have formed an association to approach the industry for projects. The government also plans to support such initiatives. “We are set to launch a website called the open innovation network where companies post their unsolved research problems for anyone to solve,” said A.S. Rao, who heads the entrepreneurship division at DST. Mint had reported on the launch of such a website on 24 April. “The students could use this avenue, too.”
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a) Look-ahead call for IIT Guwahati - 11th convocation highlights achievements
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090530/jsp/northeast/story_11037207.jsp
b) IIT-Bhubaneswar to begin classes on home campus
c) Punjab’s IIT set to shift base to Ropar
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Punjab-s-IIT-set-to-shift-base-to-Ropar/467725
d) MP approves allotment of 433 acres land, to IIT Indore
e) It may take us two years to get a permanent location of our own (IIT-Gandhinagar)
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/it-may-take-us-two-years-to-getpermanent-locationour-own/359688/
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