Campus Watch
State Govt. throws a bait, anything but HPU students to fall prey
Life in the Himachal Pradesh University does not seem coming on track anytime in the near future, courtesy the political gimmick played by the State government, 144 in the campus and threats being received by student leaders.
The formation of Fee Review Committee – and the one month period it has been allotted to evaluate fee structure in the University, is nothing more than an eyewash. It is a ploy to win time, a pacifier for questioning media representatives, and halt to the student movement in a lingering political maneuver.
The unification of two prominent student unions (SFI and ABVP) that called for a Shiksha band (a complete ban on studies in colleges across the State), until September 25, has got chairs shaking in the political corridors. Students’ agitation, which began as a silent movement in HPU, has now spread like wildfire (after the police brutality in the varsity) to all parts of the State. HW has learnt of numerous arrests from different parts of HP and learns that the Shiksha band is being successfully marshalled pan Himachal.
Behind the cloud of fee hike, another more vivid student issue had taken a backseat, until today, when a trick turned on its head for the University management (a political backed move).
The merit-holders selected as new office bearer in the SCA immediately choose to resign from their positions within hours of their ‘forged selection’. The new selected President, General Secretory and Joint Secretory have filled their resignations – HW has scanned copies of the resignations (picture below), and we learn the other selected members will be resigning soon.
Now, I come back to the forged selection referred to in the previous paragraph. From their resignation letters, HW learns that students selected for the SCA were not informed before their selections and no confirmation from them was sought for the same by the University management. We further learn that the nomination forms of these students were not signed by the students themselves – then a question arises, who forged their signatures?
Why is the State Government and the University management taking haste decisions? Why is there so much unrest and so many errors? Is there even a little motive to make some sense of the monstrous fee hike? Guess, it’s no way close!
Today, into the third day of the Shiksha band, students enrolled in various courses in the University were seen in the campus.
Since, these students stand firmly in support for the Shiksha band – they were seen using the library or sitting in the open outside the classrooms. These students believe their University will soon have functional classrooms – but sadly the Fee Committee tactic has surly pushed this back by a month.
With Photos and Inputs from Kritika Sehgal
Solan: Naincy Sagar, an alumna of Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni has bagged a fellowship for pursuing PhD from France. Nancy has reached France and will be pursuing PhD in Forest Genetics from the University of Orléans under INRAE fellowship. INRAE is France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment.
Naincy has completed her BSc Forestry from College of Horticulture and Forestry (COH&F), Neri in 2018 and MSc Forest Biology and Tree Improvement and Genetic Resources from UAS, Dharwad, under ICAR’s National Talent Scheme. Before leaving for France last week, Naincy was working as a Junior Research Fellow in a research project at COH&F, Neri.
She had applied for a PhD with a scholarship in Forest Genetics which was advertised by INRAE. Naincy was successful in the interview and was awarded a fellowship for three years for pursuing PhD at the University of Orléans. During the course of the PhD, she will receive a total scholarship of around Rs 70 lakh along with medical reimbursement. Naincy will be working on forest tree larch species in the Project titled ‘Vigour at what cost? ‘Trade-off’ of hybrid vigour in Larch-Phenological, morphological and physiological determinants of hybrid superiority in Larix X eurolepis’ with a team of 20 scientists of Joint Integrated Biology Research Unit having expertise in genetics, genomics and physiology for the enhancement of tree and forest diversity
Dr. Parvinder Kaushal, Vice-Chancellor of the university spoke to Naincy via web conferencing and congratulated her. Dr. Kaushal, who has also done his doctorate from France, shared some tips and suggestions. He asked Naincy to explore this opportunity to learn about new cultures along with doing research that could help to enhance and conserve forest wealth in the future.
Naincy expressed gratitude towards her father Satya Prakash Sagar (Retd. SDO BSNL) and mother Monika Sagar, who is working as SDO in BSNL for their continuous support for higher studies. She also thanked Vice-Chancellor Dr. Parvinder Kaushal, Dean Dr. Kamal Sharma and Dr. Dushyant Sharma, Project Investigator and all the university staff for their support and guidance. The university administration, Dean of COH&F Neri congratulated Naincy and wished her success.
Shimla-Dates for admissions to undergraduate courses for the session 2021-22 in colleges affiliated to Himachal Pradesh University has been extended, which has come as a relief to not only those students who were seeking fresh enrollments in the first year but also to the students of the second and third year.
The varsity informed that the decision was taken after considering requests received from various students regarding the same.
Now, willing students can apply for enrollment in both government and private colleges till 5 PM, October 25, 2021.
This extension of date would benefit students who recently passed supplementary exams or those students of the second and third-year who had missed admission due to delay in declaration of their previous results.
Solan– Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni, has extended the last date for applying to various Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral programmes in Horticulture, Forestry, Biotechnology, Agribusiness and Business Management. Applicants can submit their complete online application on the university’s admission portal till 18th October.
The normal seats of BSc (Hons) Horticulture, BSc (Hons) Forestry and B Tech Biotechnology will be filled on the basis of scorecard of ICAR-AIEEA (UG) 2021.
Admissions to MSc, MBA (Agribusiness) and PhD (for normal and self-financing seats) will also be conducted on the scorecard of ICAR AIEEA (PG) and AICE-JRF/SRF respectively. Students who have appeared in the ICAR-AIEEA 2021 for UG and PG, or AICE-JRF/SRF examination and are interested in seeking admission, such students must fill the university online application form before 18th October. Undergraduate aspirants who have not appeared in the ICAR test can however apply for the self-financing seats for B Sc and B Tech Biotechnology programmes run by the university by filling the online application on the university website.
The university has also advised the registered candidates to submit complete online application forms along with online payment acknowledgement slip before the due date. The schedule for online counselling will be announced by the University on the website after the declaration of the ICAR examination result. Application forms other than online mode will not be accepted.
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