IIT-B students work for a green campus
As part of IIT Bombay’s green campus initiative (GCI), an energy general championship will be held between all the IIT hostels. Overall electricity bills will be compared from September 1-November 30, and the hostel with the maximum decline in per capita consumption will be the winner.
IIT is trying to create a self-sustainable model by relying on resources generated within its 550-acre campus. As part of GCI, a vermi-culture facility was recently started, which will cater to 24 families and convert their wet garbage into usable manure. It will use deep burrowing indigenous worms that are easier to maintain and do not emit a foul odour.
IIT-B alumni pledge 1% of salary to alma mater
IIT-Bombay seems to be reviving the old tradition of "gurudakshina". More than 735 students of the batch passing out in 2010 pledged to donate 1% of their salaries to their alma mater. The money would be used to develop the infrastructure and facilities at the institute. It would also be used for the IIT-B society.
Christened "Go IIT-B: Give One for IIT Bombay", this fund-raising is in association with the IIT Bombay Heritage Fund. Their motto: Pledge now and pay later.
Participants can start donating within a year after they begin to earn. At the convocation held on August 6, more than 70% of the batch pledged to donate 1% of their salaries for life. In fact, the batch has already started collecting funds.
IIT-B awards 179 PhD degrees
The country’s image of being backward in research got a face-lift on Friday when the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, awarded 179 doctorate degrees, a 100% increase in a span of eight years.
Engineering a policing revolution
President's Medal winner Additional Commissioner of Police (Admin) Sanjeev Kumar Singhal talks to Kaumudi Gurjar about what drives him and his unique policing methods
For an engineer with an MTech degree from IIT (Delhi), fulfilling the great Indian dream of flying abroad and earning a fat salary would have been a cakewalk. But Sanjeev Kumar Singhal chose a completely different career path from the usual and joined the Indian Police Service in 1992 in the Mahrashtra cadre.
Singhal, who is additional commissioner of police (administration) in the city, was recently awarded the President's Medal for his distinguished career.
His unique methods have brought about a policing revolution wherever he has been posted.
X PRIZE Foundation, the Government of India and IIT Delhi Announce Partnership to Create Global Competition to Develop Clean-Burning Cookstoves
Initiative Would Combat the Serious Problem of Indoor Air Pollution, Which Kills More Than One Million People Each Year
PLAYA VISTA, CA - (Marketwire - 30 August 2010) - The X PRIZE Foundation, an educational non-profit that designs and administers competitions with prizes of up to $30 million, the Government of India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi have formed a partnership to create a global competition to develop and deploy clean and efficient cookstoves. The competition will focus on the development of affordable and clean-burning cookstove technologies (and possibly delivery models) and is a part of the MNRE's National Biomass Cookstoves Initiative, which was launched in December 2009. Details of the competition, including the announcement of the launch date, prize purse and competition guidelines are forthcoming.
Delhi entrepreneurs wait for green signal for expansion plans
Entrepreneurs in Delhi and the NCR region have to put on hold their expansion plans in the critically-polluted industrial clusters till October 31 with the Centre refusing to lift its ban on such activities in the absence of action plans for the sites.
Nazafgarh drain basin in Delhi as also 43 sites across various states, including 22 in Ghaziabad, six in Noida in Uttar Pradesh, have been identified as critically-polluted industrial clusters by the Central Pollution Control Board where no construction is allowed unless they have remediation plan.
The states were supposed to submit the remediation plan by August 31 to the CPCB. But after they failed to so, the Environment Ministry has given them two more months to submit the plan while extending ban on construction till then.
PEC gets more entangled in PhD entrance test mess
The problem pertaining to PhD entrance test at PEC University of Technology is getting worse. Apart from the issues in the question paper of PhD entrance test for Civil Engineering, which resulted in boycott by candidates, the authorities are now also being blamed for rising stress levels in students.
Candidates complain of irregularities, boycott PhD entrance examination at PEC
The PEC University of Technology conducted a PhD entrance test on Monday at 10 am. Of the nine candidates present for the test in the Civil Engineering Department, five of them boycotted the entrance test. They rued that the syllabus and scheme of examination was not made available to them and questions of the test were not from the relevant field of doctoral studies of interest.
Delhi University goes to poll Friday amidst tight security
Fifty-one colleges of both the north and south campuses of Delhi University (DU) will go to polls Friday amidst elaborate security arrangements. The students of morning colleges would be voting between 8.30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. while the students of the evening colleges will vote from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The major parties contesting the polls are: Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), National Students' Union of India (NSUI), All India Students Association (AISA) and Students Federation of India (SFI).
The one issue that is common to all the major parties is the semester system, which is expected to be introduced in DU in the coming days.
DU semesters worry teachers, not students
Though teachers in Delhi University are fighting tooth and nail against the implementation of semesters in 13 undergraduate science courses, students who will be directly affected by the change seem largely indifferent. First-year students insist that with no experience in the annual mode, they could have started out with semesters without any trouble. Many senior students also say teachers should give up on their recurring strikes, however justified they may be, to save on some teaching time.
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