GURUGRAM : Students are getting ready for first semester tests in Gurgaon University (GU), an important milestone reached slightly four months after the town were given its own state-run higher-education institute. “We have surely come some distance,” vice-chancellor Markanday Ahuja says.
Back in March, Ahuja, then newly appointed as V-C, used to be finding it tricky to control, compelled as he used to be to borrow chairs from Rao Tularam College of Science and Commerce. GU continues to function from this Sector 51 campus but a minimum of, now, there’s a complete administrative block, greater than 10 study rooms and a library to cater to its first batch of scholars. The V-C has his own air-conditioned cabin too.
GU, which received a sanction of Rs 20 crore in 2018 as initial funding, at the moment has 630 scholars. Still, assessing the success of a college which is not even six months previous is an exercise each unreasonable and futile.
Professor Tankeshwar Kumar, vice-chancellor of Guru Jambheshwar University (Hisar), believes GU wishes a minimum of five years sooner than it can be when put next with every other state university. “The infrastructure will have to be on a par with the most productive universities in the country,” says Kumar. “It has received the required grant however it wishes to hire the suitable school, and not simply every other body of workers, to draw scholars.”
Most importantly, the syllabus needs to be tailored for the times, in order that graduates can depart GU with some assurance of a solid occupation ahead of them. “We wish to note that what they are instructing is on a par with different universities in the state. Only if lecturers hired by way of them are excellent will they pose a challenge to others,” says Rajbir Singh, deputy registrar at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. The aim is not to begin another institute of upper education but to supply a high quality centre of studying the place younger women and men line up to enrol every year, a spot that prepares them for an often-uncertain activity marketplace, he provides.
Quality, not quantity, will have to be the concern, has the same opinion Dr (professor) R B Solanki, vice-chancellor, Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University (Jind). “Next yr, scholars will best come to GU if this institute delivers on its guarantees and gives what it said in its prospectus,” Solanki says.
Besides offering a grant, the Haryana government has helped recruit 28 teachers to GU. Ahuja is pleased with what he has been in a position to achieve this yr, and has his attractions set on 2019. “We have recently signed an MoU with Medhavi College, Nepal, which can facilitate educational, medical, cultural and academic exchanges between our institutions. We are moving in the suitable direction,” he says.
With GU’s own campus in Sector 85 still underneath development, it's going to take another 3 years, and round Rs 700 crore, for it to grow to be fully useful. Ahuja, who presided over the expansion of Baba Mastnath University in Rohtak, wants to set the bar top for GU. “I need to work laborious and make people work laborious in the same method I converted Baba Mastnath – which started with just one course (ayurveda) – from one room in 1989 to a number one university nowadays.”
But besides development bodily area, another take a look at is to build personality in scholars, one thing Ahuja feels is lacking in nowadays’s generation. “I’ll be certain that GU offers a minimum of one optional paper on personality development.” That, even though, is for the future. The subsequent target is to conduct examinations quite and competently, in April, and, then, to get able for the second one yr.
But for Gurgaon University to search out its own area of interest, it's going to have to do issues its own method. Shyam Menon, founding vice-chancellor of Ambedkar University, Delhi, says each and every establishment must have its own benchmark of success. “The university will have to be very rooted in the atmosphere the place it is positioned,” Menon had instructed TOI in a conversation earlier in 2018, including, “We can build buildings but we won’t be able to breathe life into a college except we compile competent and devoted school.”
Back in March, Ahuja, then newly appointed as V-C, used to be finding it tricky to control, compelled as he used to be to borrow chairs from Rao Tularam College of Science and Commerce. GU continues to function from this Sector 51 campus but a minimum of, now, there’s a complete administrative block, greater than 10 study rooms and a library to cater to its first batch of scholars. The V-C has his own air-conditioned cabin too.
GU, which received a sanction of Rs 20 crore in 2018 as initial funding, at the moment has 630 scholars. Still, assessing the success of a college which is not even six months previous is an exercise each unreasonable and futile.
Professor Tankeshwar Kumar, vice-chancellor of Guru Jambheshwar University (Hisar), believes GU wishes a minimum of five years sooner than it can be when put next with every other state university. “The infrastructure will have to be on a par with the most productive universities in the country,” says Kumar. “It has received the required grant however it wishes to hire the suitable school, and not simply every other body of workers, to draw scholars.”
Most importantly, the syllabus needs to be tailored for the times, in order that graduates can depart GU with some assurance of a solid occupation ahead of them. “We wish to note that what they are instructing is on a par with different universities in the state. Only if lecturers hired by way of them are excellent will they pose a challenge to others,” says Rajbir Singh, deputy registrar at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. The aim is not to begin another institute of upper education but to supply a high quality centre of studying the place younger women and men line up to enrol every year, a spot that prepares them for an often-uncertain activity marketplace, he provides.
Quality, not quantity, will have to be the concern, has the same opinion Dr (professor) R B Solanki, vice-chancellor, Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University (Jind). “Next yr, scholars will best come to GU if this institute delivers on its guarantees and gives what it said in its prospectus,” Solanki says.
Besides offering a grant, the Haryana government has helped recruit 28 teachers to GU. Ahuja is pleased with what he has been in a position to achieve this yr, and has his attractions set on 2019. “We have recently signed an MoU with Medhavi College, Nepal, which can facilitate educational, medical, cultural and academic exchanges between our institutions. We are moving in the suitable direction,” he says.
With GU’s own campus in Sector 85 still underneath development, it's going to take another 3 years, and round Rs 700 crore, for it to grow to be fully useful. Ahuja, who presided over the expansion of Baba Mastnath University in Rohtak, wants to set the bar top for GU. “I need to work laborious and make people work laborious in the same method I converted Baba Mastnath – which started with just one course (ayurveda) – from one room in 1989 to a number one university nowadays.”
But besides development bodily area, another take a look at is to build personality in scholars, one thing Ahuja feels is lacking in nowadays’s generation. “I’ll be certain that GU offers a minimum of one optional paper on personality development.” That, even though, is for the future. The subsequent target is to conduct examinations quite and competently, in April, and, then, to get able for the second one yr.
But for Gurgaon University to search out its own area of interest, it's going to have to do issues its own method. Shyam Menon, founding vice-chancellor of Ambedkar University, Delhi, says each and every establishment must have its own benchmark of success. “The university will have to be very rooted in the atmosphere the place it is positioned,” Menon had instructed TOI in a conversation earlier in 2018, including, “We can build buildings but we won’t be able to breathe life into a college except we compile competent and devoted school.”
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