Taking the thread of deliberations and dialogues on NEP-2020 on virtual platforms ahead University School of Open Learning is organized a virtual Panel Discussion titled: NEP-2020- State holders speak up, today .
Ever since the announcement of NEP it had not only been in news in every media it is also being avidly discussed in academic circles. The rich policy documents needs to be decoded to thread base details so as to visualize multiple roadmaps of its implementations.
Today’s event was special as it brings together stakeholders drown from different academic domains. Eminent panelists include Professor Viney Kapoor Mehra, V.C., DR B.R. Ambedkar National Law University, Sonipat, Professor R.C. Sharma from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi and Professor Latika Sharma, Department of Education, Panjab University, Professor Kuldip Puri form USOL will moderate the discussion.
Professor Madhurima Verma, Chairperson, USOL maintains that today’s event offered a good platform to eminent panelists to speak up their understanding of NEP, raise their concern and share their takeaways for their respective domains. USOL, will continue to hold more on the theme in the coming weeks, she added.
Panjab University Chandigarh Alumnus Ayushmann Khurrana, from School of Communications Studies, PU has been featured in the Time Magazine list of 100 most powerful persons in the world along with several global Icons, Leaders and Titans who have had the most impact this year. He is one of the 5 Indians and the only Bollywood Actor to be part of the list.
Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University extended his heartiest felicitations for this achievement of a PU Alumnus. It is a matter of great pride for PU to witness the commendable journey from PU to this level. He added that he has always been a bright student of Panjab University.
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A two days National Seminar on the theme ‘Transition from School to Higher Education in the context of National Education Policy 2020’ was organised from September 21-22,2020 by Centre for Academic Leadership & Education Management (CALEM) Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh under the aegis of PMMMNMTT, MHRD (GOI) in collaboration with Institute of Education and Vocational Education, and SWAYAM Cell Panjab University, Chandigarh through Online mode. This seminar is under the Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) of the Government of India. Around 400 participants from various Universities and Colleges around the country are attending the seminar.
The programme started with the welcome address by Prof. Raj Kumari Gupta, Senior most Professor in the Dept. of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh Professor Jatinder Grover, Dean faculty of Education and Coordinator CALEM, Panjab University, Chandigarh. He shared the setting-up of CALEM Centre in Panjab University, as one of the four centres selected for Academic Leadership and Education Management in India. While introducing the theme of the seminar ‘Transition from School to Higher Education in the context of National Education Policy 2020’ which was conceived to have a discourse among the academic intelligentsia on the recommendations of National Education Policy-2020 about school education and teacher education. This two days’ national seminar will deliberate on the following themes covering various aspects of School and Teacher Education as per recommendations of NEP 2020.
Professor Raj Kumar,Vice-Chancellor Panjab University inaugurated the seminar. He focused on the need of the National Education Policy 2020 in the present changing society which will act as a bridge to cover the gaps of the earlier policies.
Dr. Vishal Sharma introduced the Chief Guest Padamshree Prof. J.S. Rajput, former Chairperson NCTE, Former Director NCERT, Educational Advisor to the Government of India. He shared his views on the NEP 2020.He referred to the United Nations Delors Report “Learning: The Treasure Within” where it had stated what the new policy has projected. The policies should be based on whom to teach, what to teach, and who will teach, and what curriculum will be taught. He quoted Mahatma Gandhi’s on basic education where importance was given to the Hand, the Head, and the Heart. He ended his address by saying that what impedes the progress of man is when s/he is not given the power of ideas, imagination, curiosity, and creativity. This policy will try to cover up these gaps.
Dr.Kanwalpreet Kaur introduced the keynote speaker Prof. Saroj Sharma from Guru Gobind Singh Inderprastha University, New Delhi focused on five issues as of paramount importance in NEP 2020, these being Value Based education, Skill development, Self-dependency, and India Centric. She focused on community participation in the education system, internship and mentoring of the students by the skilled workers as agriculturalists, etc. She emphasised on the training of anganwadi workers as well as the parents for bringing quality education starting from the grassroots.
Prof. Kirandeep Singh proposed Vote of Thanks. The inaugural session was conducted by Prof. NavleenKaur .P
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A webinar on “Design for Life” A Creative Kaleidoscopic Process, organised by Dr. Prabhdip Brar, Chairperson, University Institute of Fashion Technology and Vocational Development (UIFT&VD), Panjab University on Friday, Sep 18, 2020, was presented by Siddhartha Bansal, a fashion Designer. It was attended by nearly 70 students, research scholars and faculty members of Fashion Technology.
The inspiration for the designers’ collections has been ” Golden bird” i.e. India, with an aim to present the rich Craft and Culture to the world. His collections provide a traditional experience through clothes with feminine cuts, fusing them with fresh colour combinations and intricate detailed motifs. Kaleidoscopic prints mainly inspired from Indian mythological characters is the label’s USP. His Autumn/Winter 2015, Lakme Fashion Week collection was based on a ‘Kamdhenu Cow’ which is a mythical wish granting cows. Intricate motifs from Persian era on doors and pillars were taken as an inspiration for prints in his Spring Summer LFW’16 collection ‘THE DOOR’. Mughal motifs, desert cacti, peacock, blooming lotuses were seen and celebrated.
The designer keeps playing with innovative intangible themes for his collections. ‘GAMECHANGER’ A/W’16, the collection addressed the dilemma one is being unable to choose between money or his soul. Snakes and eye motifs were incorporated in prints. Similarly, his A/W LFW’17 collection, portrayed a story of a traveller wandering from west to east and is awestruck by India’s beauty. Metamorphosis was the successful theme for his S/S’18 collection. Kaleidoscopic butterfly prints, Pastel colours and 80’s fashion trends were high points of the garments.
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The joint research by Prof. Tapas Mukhopadhyay, Professor& Director (Retd.),National Centre for Human Genome Studies & Research, Panjab University
and his team including Dr. Nilambra Dogra CSIR-Senior Research Associate, Centre for Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, Panjab University and Dr. Ashok Kumar Chairperson, Centre for Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, Panjab University for finding an effective and safe anti-cancer option from the repertoire of available tested drugs was published in the journal Scientific Reports and featured at #11 amongst the top 100 oncology papers. The paper has attracted widespread attention and is in the top 5% of ~15,873,280 research outputs tracked across all sources so far by Altmetric (a measure of attention a scientific paper has received).
The process of developing new cancer treatments from scratch and bringing them to the market is a time consuming and expensive process. An alternative time saving, inexpensive and safe approach is to explore already available approved drugs for ailments other than cancer which may display significant anticancer properties. This approach with the potential to provide economically beneficial, safer and effective options in a short period of time has been termed as ‘drug repurposing’ and through this strategy the team has identified Fenbendazole (FZ) – a veterinary deworming drug – as a safe, inexpensive and effective anti-cancer agent. Thanks to decades of motivated research, more people than ever before are surviving cancer. However, the task is still far from accomplished. The disease continues to claim many lives, and by and large ‘cancer’ still remains a dreaded word.Gaps remain to be traversed and challenges to be overcome before we can lay a final claim on victory over cancer. A vast majority of cancer therapies suffer from the two most common issues encountered in cancer treatment – toxicity and drug resistance. Finding a way to overcome these hurdles remains a challenge for cancer researchers.
Laboratory grown cancer cells originating from various tissues (lung, prostate, colon, breast etc.) could be killed by exposing them to different doses of fenbendazole. Importantly, their results showed that FZ was non-toxic to normal cells at doses at which it killed cancer cells. To evaluate the efficacy of the drug better, the results were confirmed in a mouse model bearing tumor of human origin. Mice fed with FZ showed a considerable decrease in tumor size. Through their experiments, the researchers demonstrated that FZ acted by targeting multiple cellular pathways including microtubules, enhancing p53 levels, hampering glucose uptake and glycolysis as well as inhibiting the proteasomal pathway of protein degradation.
Cancer progression involves a number of factors affecting multiple components of the cell.Thus, drugs against single targets often show limited efficacy, and furthermore, they may eventually lead to drug resistance, since cancer cells are clever and resourceful enough to rely on other pathways for growth and survival when one pathway is blocked. Drugs targeting several cellular components simultaneously are expected to be more effective besides being able to evade the likelihood of developing resistance. This work proposes FZ as a multitargeting effective inexpensive repurposed drug for cancer treatment.
Since the publication of this research, the authors have been contacted by people who shared how they had benefitted from this work on FZ. Even though this drug has not been through clinical trials for cancer and cannot yet be prescribed for cancer treatment, some terminally ill patients have self-administered FZ in the absence of other alternatives and shared their success stories with the authors. An American patient with lung cancer metastasized throughout his body who had dismal chances of survival started taking FZ on advice of his veterinarian friend. His oncologist was amazed to find that his subsequent scans came all clear. He’s still alive, healthy and cancer-free more than three years after he was told he’d soon die. He has written a blog about his experience with FZ to spread the word (https://www.mycancerstory.rocks) and has also shared many other success stories of patients suffering from triple negative breast cancer, prostate, colorectal, pancreatic and other types of cancer.
Through their work, the researchers hope that even though FZ is an off-patent drug, it will be taken to clinical trials so that it can be approved for use in cancer and doesn’t remain yet another promising drug which could have saved lives but never reached patients.
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The Department of Chemistry and Centre of Advanced Studies in Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh organized a webinar on “New Education Policy 2020: A Roadmap to Higher Education”, today.
Dr. (Mrs.) Geeta Bhatt, Director Non Collegiate Women’s Education Board (NCWEB), University of Delhi was the keynote speaker and in her address, mentioned that NEP-2020 focusses on promoting value-based education and development of scientific temperament. She briefed everyone on the innovative reforms such as Right to education, Vocational skill development, education in mother tongue, interdisciplinary education system, progress-based evaluation system, multiple entries and exit points in higher education for all age sectors. She opined that the awareness of reforms of NEP-2020 at grass-root level would ensure access of opportunities to everyone. She mentioned the famous examples of Prof. Ruchi Ram Sahni and Prof. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar and their adaptive and modernized educational policies for better development of intellectual minds. She concluded her lecture by answering the questions from the audience and thanked everyone for such an engrossing and interactive session.
The initiative was hailed by Prof. Raj Kumar as one of the most important and relevant topics in the current trends of the educational infrastructure to work upon Atma-Nirbhar Bharat. He laid emphasis on the successful implementation of the NEP-2020 and its awareness among the masses. New Education Policy-2020 was recently approved by the Govt. of India for the transformation of our education system. It is not only focused on the school and college level teaching but is also designed to educate the professionals and lifelong learners, to uphold the Indian languages and culture at global levels, to extract best of Indian technologies and to expand the horizons of classroom teaching from black-board to e-learning. It will give an autonomous system for education. Our Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji very well said that there are two types of thoughts for acquiring autonomy; one says“freedom for working independently” and other says“lack of Government supervision”. The NEP will construct a road passing through the two perspectives to provide quality education to the Indians. So, irrespective of the people’s perspective, NEP has a broad vision to improve the standard of education and to educate every learner.
PU VC added that the NEP-2020 will prune the unwanted branches of the plant of the higher education system and will fertilize it for its re-growth in a healthy and fruitful plant. It will cover the lacunae of the 34-years old system by developing multidisciplinary universities and colleges across India, by developing student-friendly approaches, by re-establishing the integrity of the faculty, and by skill enhancement to make the independent individuals. He opined that NEP-2020 has come with special benefits to the women who have a special role in shaping society. The New education policy will provide ‘Gender-Inclusion Fund’ to educate the girls and assisting the females
Earlier,Prof. K.N. Singh, Convenor and Chairperson, gave a welcome address to 175 attendees from different backgrounds. He introduced and welcomed the speaker of the event. Further, Dr. Bhatt was formally introduced by Prof. S.K. Mehta from the Department of Chemistry. Prof. Mehta accentuated the importance of NEP-2020 in revisiting and amending the educational policies for better development of the students and the faculty members.
The webinar ended with a vote of thanks from Dr. Ramesh Kataria, Coordinator.
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Dr. SSBUICET, Panjab University, Chandigarh, in collaboration with DUIET, Assam organized a 6day Faculty Development Program under TEQIP-III (MHRD, Govt. of India) on an online platform which commenced today.. The title of the program is Effective Online Teaching and Learning and will have a panel discussion on New Education policy 2020 on the concluding day. This program is being organized in accordance with the UGC guidelines. The FDP has more than 450 registered participants from all over India. The objective of the program is to equip the faculty members with maximum skills to help them conduct the online classes without any issues. This will surely make the online teaching highly effective and interactive. Many resource persons who possess expertise in the field of teaching resources have been invited. Some of the sessions include lectures on using Google suite, Google Classroon,Online Assessment, Open Source Learning through SWAYAM etc. The coordinator of this program is Prof. Ritu Gupta and Dr. Sanjeev Gautam.
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The Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh organised a webinar on Academic Writing and Qualitative Research: Steps and Strategies. Dr Bhaskar Mukherjee, Professor, DLIS, Banaras Hindu University (U.P.) was the resource person.
Professor Preeti Mahajan, Chairperson of the department welcomed the speaker and the participants. She also introduced the theme of the webinar.
Prof. Mukherjee emphasised on steps of writing a research paper. He also talked about the impact factor, peer review process, plagiarism and visibility of academic publications to enhance the citations. At the end, he discussed the predatory journals and suggested some key points for selecting high quality journals for academic publications.
The session was followed by a question and answer session and vote of thanks.
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Women Hostel No. 6 (Mother Teresa Hall), Panjab University organized an online Creative Writing Competition to celebrate the ‘Hindi Diwas’. A number of hostel residents participated in the competition and submitted their creative work through online mode.
In this competition, Ms. Shilpa got the 1st position, 2nd position is bagged by Ms. Garima Batra and 3rd Position is achieved by Ms. Sonali. Consolation prizes were given to Ms. Deepika and Manpreet Kaur Bhullar.
Dr. Manisha Sharma, Warden of the hostel distributed e-certificates to the winners of the competition. She congratulated the winners and motivated them to participate more in this kind of activities and informed that the best poem will be published in the reputed newspaper.
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As India Embarks on a new journey of “Atmanirbhar Bharat” Entrepreneurs and Corporate Relations Cell of University Institute of Applied Management Sciences, Panjab University, Chandigarh under the advice and guidance of Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, took this peculiar initiative of organizing the webinar “Agenda @ Atmanirbhar Bharat”. The webinar was organized to enable students understand the whole narrative of it by roping in eminent and distinguished personalities who are at zenith of their careers including Mr. Rahul Narvekar, serial entrepreneur, Mr. KS Bhatia, CEO and Founder Pumpkart and Figgital and Mr. Ravi Kumar, SP (HQ) Jalandhar.
Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University in his inaugural address highlighted that the global pandemic has shown us the benefits of ‘Be Indian and Buy Indian’. We have now become critically aware of our own supply chain. We know that relying on other countries for critical items will ultimately put you at their mercy. To avoid such adversity for ourselves, it is more important than ever that we become self-reliant and reduce our dependence on other countries. The pandemic has taught the importance of local manufacturing, local market and local supply chain. Emphasis of ‘vocal for local’ asserts that it is all about ‘made in India’ and is to increase to push Indian products to become large enough to become international brands.The NEP 2020 has gone in for a significant overhaul of the education system—from terminologies and institutional framework to functionality—when it comes to transforming the governance, delivery, and financing of education. NEP will be the harbinger of movement towards Atmanirbhar and Swabhiman Bharat. Further he talked about promoting multidisciplinary approach, scouting for partners from numerous fields like industry, academicians, researchers and focus on technology and promote collaboration with national and international institutions and these tie ups should be in the right direction to create synergies. This will help India become ATMANIRBHAR and students becoming job providers not job seekers only.
Mr. Ravi Kumar an IPS officer and currently serving as SP (Superintendent of Police) Cyber Cell Jalandhar provided valuable insights in the field of data security and its vulnerabilities. He began by explaining how pivotal data is in the functioning of any enterprise and startups where 68% of business leaders feel their cyber security risks are increasing and only 5 % of company’s folders are properly protected. With help of various live examples, he talked about various vulnerabilities like unsecured websites, improper cookie policy, SQL injection attacks, Brute force attacks and others and also suggested remedies like stronger IT Act, IPR protection for startup, Data Protection Law, increasing manpower training and more security experts. In the time of Covid 19, these cyber attacks have been increased 3 times. So, we all must be very aware of Data Security.
Mr. K. S. Bhatia founder and C.E.O of B2C platform Pumpkart.com is also launching another startup Figgital (non essential hyper local platform) at the end of this month appreciated Prime Minister for launching initiatives like Atmanirbhar Bharat, Startup India, Digital India, Skill India, Made in India and told how Startups are the key to success of Atmanirbhar Bharat. He advised students to work on innovation and also laid emphasis on the importance of parents encouraging students to go for startups. He is also starting IAS (Indian Association of Startups) with the aim to encourage more startups’ and build more unicorns in India. He also appealed to everyone to celebrate PM Narendra Modi 70th birthday on 17th September as World Startup Day.
Mr. Rahul Narvedkar, Social Entrepreneur, Speaker, Investor and Mentor, and founder and CEO of various ventures including Startup Studio India, Sun and Sands Advisors, Japan, The India Network, NDTV Indian Roots and FashionandYou.com told us about his own story. How at one time, he did not have money to pay salaries and later sold Indian Roots ecommerce platform for such a high valuation. He achieved it by not following the rules of book and he went on to say that if you have the right approach and idea money is not a constraint.After that he started India Networks to provide mentorship for kids in small town so that language and geography do not remain a constraint intertwined with the aim of 1 Million startups from rural India in next 3 tears. He also had Indian Angel Fund which has so far done 3 investments all in women led startups. He in his speech laid emphasis on creating an ecosystem which can lead to innovation. He motivated the students by saying that we need to understand and celebrate our failures like an event and not label people as failures. We have to invest in people and create role models. By doing this, we can create an Atmanirbhar Bharat.
Prof. Upasna Joshi Sethi extended a formal welcome to the guests and said that a self-reliant India will develop with focus on five pillars viz economy, which brings in quantum jump and not incremental change; infrastructure, which should become the identity of India; technology-driven system; vibrant demography; and nascent demand, especially in the rural hinterland.
All the queries of the students were successfully taken up by the eminent guests and concomitantly they were answered too which made this event an eye opener for the students. Dr. Monika Aggarwal. Associate Professor, UIAMS moderated questions and answers session and proposed vote of thanks. Efforts of ECRC Cell of UIAMS including BarkhaRawat, KartikayNikhanj and Deeksha were also appreciated.
