Yogesh Avasthi

Education dept’s directive means admission to 540 seats in Nirma varsity, PDPU and DA-IICT reserved for state students can be secured by filling in single form Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Friday, January 25, 2013 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2013012520130125022127784fd1da990/Govt-panel-to-handle-state-quota-in-premier-engineering-colleges.html ) There have been complaints of some institutes flouting guidelines on admission to students from Gujarat Students seeking entry into some premier engineering colleges in the state can breathe easy following a higher education department directive that admission to seats reserved for those from Gujarat be handled by Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC). The decision means admission to as many as 540 seats in Nirma University’s Institute of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University and Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology along with other engineering colleges in the state ca...

Technical education dept is seeking to fill vacancies for 303 instructors, 290 lab assistants, 133 junior clerks, 43 storekeepers and 21 librarians at engg institutes Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Sunday, January 20, 2013 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/201301202013012001401214442edf8c4/Govt-begins-process-to-recruit-nonteaching-staff.html ) As many as 616 posts in government engineering institutes that had been lying vacant for years will be filled up soon. The Directorate of Technical Education has started seeking applications for the posts in polytechnics and government degree engineering colleges across the state. The department is seeking candidates for 303 instructors, 290 lab assistants, 133 junior clerks, 43 storekeepers and 21 librarians. Sources in higher education department said, “Several posts in Class III category fell vacant over 15-20 years. Due to this, the quality of education has suffered. There was no one to take practical classes for students. Colleges have ...

Education department pulls up its socks to improve education in government-run colleges; will install CCTV cameras in every classroom to monitor lectures so that teachers do not skip classes citing poor attendance Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/201301082013010803090094164e3f640/Esurveillance-for-govt-colleges.html ) The CCTV cameras will be configured with a suitable IP address. The goings-on in the classrooms can be monitored by college principals and education dept officials Having done enough introspection after government engineering colleges affiliated to GTU posted a pass percentage lower than the average 27 per cent of 97 colleges last year, the education department has decided to put its ideas into action. As a first step, the department will install CCTV cameras in the classrooms and laboratories of not only government-run polytechnic and engineering institutes but also arts, science and commerce colleges. Th...

The official will have a tenure of three years and will take up complaints of the students or parents if they remain unresolved by grievance redressal cell Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Friday, January 04, 2013 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/2013010420130104021852628cdc139e2/Ombudsman-for-GTU-students%E2%80%99-issues.html Gujarat Technological University as asked all institutes affiliated to it to constitute grievance redressal cell on its campus. The varsity has also set in motion the process to appoint an ombudsman who would take up the issues that remain unresolved by the cell. GTU has constituted a search committee which will propose a panel of three names one of which will be selected as the ombudsman. The committee is chaired by Dr Nidat Hart, dean of faculty of education, Saurashtra University. Other members of the committee are Indian Institute of Teachers Education Vice Chancellor K P Joshipura, MS University Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh, Calorx Teacher’s University Vi...

Bootleggers have a free run on trains on Ahmedabad-Himmatnagar metre gauge route; in the absence of the police they pull chain at will to ferry hooch into city Yogesh Avasthi, Vijay Zala Posted On Saturday, January 05, 2013 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/20130105201301050253445818484e90b/Hooch-trains-chug-without-hindrance.html Ideally, a train chugging on the only metre gauge section in Ahmedabad Division of Western Railway should be fun, but for about 15 loco pilots and guards it is nothing less than a ‘terror train’. These correspondents boarded the Ahmedabad- Nandol Dehgam train twice and found that threatened, humiliated and deprived of security cover, these railway employees have been soft targets for bootleggers and peddlers for a year now. Trains coming from Himmatnagar to Ahmedabad after 3 pm are targeted by bootleggers and peddlers to load and unload hooch. Such is the terror of bootleggers that the loco drivers who take the train on this route regularly are afra...

Rafique Moiz and Suyash Joshi, law students of Nirma University, were returning from Jantar Mantar protests on Saturday when they saw a hapless 16-year-old girl weeping after being molested by a drunk bus conductor Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2013010220130102030425331b015924/City-boys-get-cops-to-nab-molester-in-Delhi.html Rafique Moiz and Suyash Joshi It was the timely intervention of two Amdavadi boys that ensured the arrest of a bus conductor who molested a 16-year-old in Delhi on Saturday night, the day the death of a 23-year-old gang-rape victim sparked widespread protests nationwide. Rafique Moiz and Suyash Joshi, eighth semester law students of Nirma University, were returning from Jantar Mantar protests when they saw the hapless victim near Mandi House picket. The boys were in Delhi last month for their academic internship and had decided to join the protests to demand death penalty for the accused of Dec...