Blood donation camp organised in Kaithal's RKSD College

Kaithal: A blood donation camp was organised by the NSS unit of RKSD College in Kaithal in collaboration with the Noble Blood Centre headed by their programme officers Prof Jaibir Dhariwal, Prof Pooja Gupta and Prof SP Verma. Blood donation camp was inaugurated by Additional Deputy Commissioner Satvir Singh Kundu. He said from time to time, programmes were organised by the NSS during Covid times as part of disaster management.

Webinar on education policy

Rohtak: A national webinar on the new education policy was organised by the internal quality assurance cell (IQAC) at Government Post-Graduate College for Women, Rohtak. Dr Markanday Ahuja, the vice-chancellor of Gurugram University, was the main speaker, while Poonam Bhanwala, the principal of the host college, presided over the event. The IQAC convener, Savita Paruthi, who conducted the online event, said the experts laid emphasis on the significance of academic and technical expertise to ensure qualitative changes in the institutions of higher learning in accordance with the new education policy.

Students' Council constituted

Faridabad: To give representation to students in various activities for institutional development and student welfare, JC Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, has constituted a new Students' Council for 2020-21. Describing students and their welfare as his first priority, Vice Chancellor Prof Dinesh Kumar urged the students' council to perform jointly and collectively for the welfare of students' community. Dean Student Welfare Prof Lakhwinder Singh informed that Chirag Goyal, a student of BTech (electrical engineering) has been selected as president, while Parveen Goyal from BSc (maths) got nominated as vice-president. The post of secretary went to Tanushree from BTech (IT) as Ankur Tripathi from BJMC and Latakshi Sharma from BSc (chemistry) got selected as joint secretaries.

Faculty development programme

Kurukshetra: A seven-days faculty development programme on 'Advanced panel data analysis' was started by the FDC and Department of Economics of Kurukshetra University. Prof Manjula Chaudhary, KU Dean Academic Affairs, said researchers and teachers to improve their research level. Project coordinator of the programme, Prof Tejinder Sharma informed about the various activities undertaken by the centre and told that the centre was committed towards promoting learning of research techniques.

Students' induction programme

Mahendragarh: Central University of Haryana (CUH) organised a 'students induction programme' wherein Prof Markanday Ahuja, Vice-Chancellor, Gurugram University, as special guest described the induction programme as very important for the students. He highlighted the guru-shishya tradition and said education continued throughout life.

Talk on traffic awareness

Ambala: DAV public School, Ambala Cantt, organised a talk on traffic awareness for students of the senior secondary classes. SHO Ajaib Singh, speaker, along with SI Ravi Kumar spread awareness about various sections and punishments under the Traffic Act. The initiative was taken by the members of the Rotary club industrial area. Online

International conference held

Kurukshetra: Professor MM Goel, Adviser, 6th State Finance Commission, Haryana, in the inaugural function of an online international conference at Geeta Engineering College, Naultha (Panipat), spoke on Gita-based needonomics for sustainable development of business in the post pandemic era.

Compassionate recruitment sought

Rohtak: Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) non-teaching employees' association has demanded job on compassionate ground to the next kin of those university employees who die before attaining the age of 54. The demand was raised at a meeting of the association chaired by its president Randhir Kataria at the association's office. The meeting also resolved to extend financial assistance of Rs 50,000 to kin of a sanitary worker Joginder who died recently.