Yogesh Avasthi

Engg student Hitesh Chauhan was released after Singh left city on Saturday evening Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Monday, March 28, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News - City&sectid=3&contentid=2011032820110328032344524dbffe635) Hitesh Chauhan, the engineering student who hurled shoe at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his visit to the city in 2009, had to spent a night at Bapunagar the police station after cops detained him as a preventive measure on Friday. The prime minister was on a day-long visit of the city on Saturday. Twenty-three-year-old Chauhan is more famously known for hurling a shoe at Singh during his visit on April 26, 2009. The young student wanted to raise his voice against corruption in the government and unemployment in the country. Chauhan was been arrested and released after the prime minister pardoned him. About seven months ago, he had written a letter to him, seeking an appointment during his next visit t...

Trained by Nirmal Foundation, three youths have been hired to work in a pharma firm in Tashkent; one home manager has been employed as ayah by a family in California Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News - Latest&sectid=2&contentid=20110322201103220211036195abbd6b6) Foreign shores beckon home managers — a new breed of English-speaking domestic helpers trained by Nirmal Foundation. Of the 28 students in the first batch, four of them have been hired to work in Uzbekistan and the US. The NGO, through its programme Nirmal Umeed, coaches domestic helpers to cook, clean, drop children at school, run errands, look after infants and the elderly and if required to, even type an e-mail for you. The idea is to bring servants and maids into the organised sector. The effort bore fruit when a pharmaceutical firm hired three youths to man their office in Tashkent even as a family from California employ...

All arts, commerce, science, education and law colleges in state will be linked to Commissionerate of Higher Education to bring in accountability, transparency and a paperless administration Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Saturday, March 19, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News - Latest&sectid=2&contentid=201103192011031902091667454a6070e) In what can be termed as its most ambitious educational project, the state government has embarked on a plan to link all its universities, colleges, students, lecturers and administrative staff through a portal. Their aim: to bring in accountability, transparency and move towards a paperless administration. Crores of rupees spent on travel, paperwork and postage, besides time, will be saved once the systems go online — the office automation system will become operational on April 1, while the linking of colleges, universities with the portal will be completed in June. All arts, commerce, science, ed...

Beginning April 9, the weekly phone-in programme on DD Girnar will be broadcast from 8 pm-9 pm. It will be telecast in 36 countries Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Sunday, March 13, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News - Latest&sectid=2&contentid=20110313201103130152526634b742feb) Fed up with saas-bahu serials that dominate the prime time? Here’s some relief for those of you who are academically inclined. Gujarat University will now come up with a lecture series on a wide array of topics for DD Girnar (Gujarati) viewers in 36 countries. The university has been granted the 8 pm to 9 pm slot for the live phone-in programme that will benefit lakhs of students. To begin on April 9, the programme will be screened every Saturday and re-telecast on Sunday morning. Two GU professors will speak on a particular topic every week. The programme will also incorporate audiovisual clips and animated short films. To make the show interactive, viewers ...

As part of Balashali Project, they will visit 25 colleges on March 15-19; their mission is to form Gujarat regiment in the armed forces Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Thursday, March 10, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News - City&sectid=3&contentid=201103102011031003281949629a2c9d2) Four students of Indus Engineering College in Ahmedabad have  received the Balashali Project to encourage Gujarati students to join the defence forces. The four engineering students — Sumeet Tembe, Adi Jain, Maharshi Oza and Dhaval Joshi — claim that their mission is to have a Gujarat Regiment in the armed forces. As part of the project, the students will visit 25 colleges across the state between March 15 and 19 and encourage students to take up defence as a career. They will be screening the film Self Defence and Terrorism and also aim to interact with as many as 20,000 students from the 25 colleges. They will also involve students of Gujarat Techn...

Mirror reporters spent two hours on Gujarat University campus, asking girl students where the Women’s Development Cell (WDC) was. But none knew what WDC was, forget where it was located. In such a situation, how does GU expect a student to lodge a harassment complaint with the cell? Yogesh Avasthi and Dhwani Pathak Dave Posted On Thursday, March 10, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News - City&sectid=3&contentid=2011031020110310031535698dfd7bb75) If Gujarat University ever organised a treasure-hunt event, the Women’s Development Cell (WDC) would be an ideal place to hide the treasure. No one can easily find this place out. Not even the girl students for whose benefit it was set up. A Mirror test drive on Wednesday found out that girls on GU campus have no clue where WDC is located. Forget the location, they don’t even know what WDC is. But one really cannot blame them. WDC was first set up in 2005 in Bhasha Bhavan to look into co...

Panel finds Parimal Trivedi guilty of shutting down university press and awarding printing of answer sheets worth Rs 1.5 cr to a particular firm Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Monday, March 07, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20Latest&sectid=2&contentid=2011030720110307020921484c38b07a ) A vigilance panel set up by the government to investigate irregularities in awarding tender for printing examination answer sheets to a private printer and shutting down of the university printing press has prima facie found the Gujarat University vice chancellor guilty of flouting the norms. According to the panel’s findings, the ‘favoured’ printer himself had framed the terms and conditions for the bid, which were incorporated by Vice Chancellor Parimal Trivedi before the tenders were floated. Pradeep Prajapati, former dean of arts faculty at the university, had sent letters on April 3, 2010, highlighting the irregularities to the chancellor...

VC sets up panel for selection process; directs affiliated diploma and degree engineering colleges to hire Class III employees to fill vacancies in 6 months Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Friday, March 04, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20Latest&sectid=2&contentid=2011030420110304031028592d2bc0489 ) They are perfect in theory but when it comes to practicals, students of diploma and degree engineering colleges in the state flounder badly. This should come as no surprise as more than 90 per cent posts for instructors and lab assistants in these colleges lie empty. Taking note of this, Gujarat Technological University has directed its affiliated colleges to hire Class III employees to fill up the vacancies within six months. “All-India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) only checks whether the facilities are up-to-date, not whether there are enough people to impart knowledge to students. Due to this, colleges do not bother hi...

As the first step, GTU will hold entrance tests in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Thursday, March 03, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20City&sectid=3&contentid=20110303201103030308139758cf47ba3 ) Students gave the GCET online for the first time in Ahmedbad in 2009 Concerned over the decreasing number of takers for the MBA and MCA seats in the state and colleges fighting for survival, Gujarat Technological University has decided to throw open its seats to students across the country. Around 3,200 seats were left unfilled in 2010. GTU VC said the university is shaking up the Gujarat Common Entrance Test (GCET) to bring in the changes. Earlier, with fewer colleges the question of state students being left out of the admission process arose, but the setting up of more MBA and MCA colleges has affected even reputed colleges that have failed to get their seats filled. GTU officials say the supply has far out...