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HP University gets “A” Grade from NAAC – A surprise for all
SHIMLA- Himachal Pradesh University administration is patting its own back after the institute was granted “A” grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). A 13-member team had visited the varsity for inspection in October and assessed the varsity from all aspects for four days from 3 to October 6.
The Vice-Chancellor, AND Bajpai, in a statement, claimed that although he was expecting A+, but is still contented with A. The varsity has received 3.21 out of 4 points, claimed the VC. The chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor are the first to exchange greetings on this triumph. Rest, a lot of boasting about improvement in academic environment and hard work of teaching-non teaching staff is expected to follow. “A” grade will help the varsity to fetch more funds which would is supposed to help in boosting infrastructural development and quality education.
However, like recent declaration that Himachal Pradesh has become India’s first open defecation free Big State, “A” grade is a surprise considering the inadequate facilities, inadequate infrastructure, poor administration, politically charged varsity environment, shortage of teaching staff, indulgence of teachers in student politics, regular violence between student organization, overwhelmingly high fees, and disastrous consequences of poor RUSA implementation.
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Importantly, the varsity has implemented RUSA but has not fulfilled requirements like additional infrastructure as well as recruitment of additional 1,500 employees. The students are still troubled by delay in results and half-hazard and incomplete awareness provided to students and teachers by authorities regarding the functioning of RUSA system. It is unknown how the varsity justified this position to the NAAC team.
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The biggest joke was played a couple of months ago when the varsity manipulated the passing percentage defined under the system to enhance the result of first semester of third batch under RUSA. It is a mockery of academic standards that administration is running the varsity like a ‘halwai’ (sweet-vendor, arbitrarily changing rules after post announcement of results.
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Prior to that, the friction between student bodies and the administration has led to chaos. One of the student organizations were on a chain-hunger strike for over 150 days for their demands including scrapping of RUSA.
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Moreover, armed violence had erupted in varsity ahead of the NAAC visit and continued after its arrival. Teachers were caught carrying weapons in their cars into varsity campus to assist students in assaults and counter-assaults.
There is a long list of such issues that threatened reputation and standards of the varsity. However, the NAAC team found everything satisfactory and considered the varsity worth Grade “A”.
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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