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3. CS and ACS meeting Wish all the Readers a Prosperous and Happy New Year 2017 For successful conduct of semester examination of technical courses, the CS/ACS and Observers’ meeting 1. Parchments Awards to Foreign Gentleman was held at the University on 11th December 2016 . Cadets Various aspects for successful and timely conduct of Indian Military Academy (IMA) is a Premier Military examinations were discussed. Training Institute imparting pre-commissioning training to Gentlemen Cadets of more than 14 friendly foreign 4. Panel Discussion countries. 41 Foreign Gentleman Cadets from five Vice Chancellor, Prof. P.K Garg on 19th December countries were awarded with the UTU Diploma/ 2016 inaugurated the Panel Discussions on Changing Certificate course in Defense Management & Studies Role of Pharmacy Profession in Present Global for autumn term 2016 by Honorable Vice Chancellor, Scenario, organized by Centre of Excellence in Prof. P.K Garg in a ceremonial function on 7th December 2016, at Khetrapal Auditorium, IMA Pharmacy, at Dev Bhoomi Group of Institutions, Dehradun Dehradun. Various Panelists from Academics and Industry were present on the occasion. 2. Visit to U-SERC Vice Chancellor, Prof. P.K Garg, visited U-SERC in 5. AIU meeting of North Zone Vice connection with the ongoing activities there and Chancellors possibility of collaborative work on networking of the The AIU meeting of North Zone Vice Chancellor’s was nd Institutions. held at Amity University Noida Campus on 22 and rd 23 December 2016.

Prof Garg had a detailed discussions with Dr Durgesh Pant Director, U SERC who took keen interest and Various useful presentations were made about the showed various facilities, including studio for recording higher education with specific reference to University e-lectures and networking facilities. Prof Garg also saw system. The Vice Chancellor, Prof. P.K Garg also various educational websites developed by U SERC for attended the meeting. students, and appreciated their efforts.

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6. Research Methodology Course for Ph.D. R&D activities, and issues that might benefit from Scholars faculty intervention. The University organized the course work on Research

Methodology for Ph.D. Research Scholars from th th 8. Madan Mohan Malaviya 155 Birth December, 23rd to 30 , 2016. There is a compulsory Anniversary requirement for PhD scholars to pass this course. Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861–1946) was an Indian educationist and politician notable for his role in the The course work was designed to impart knowledge on Indian independence movement and as remained four Research Methodology in the context of qualitative and times president of Indian National Congress. He was quantitative research along with training in statistical respectfully addressed as Pandit Madan Mohan packages and other software across various fields. It Malaviya and also as 'Mahamana' also highlighted various guidelines of UTU to write thesis. Experts from various fields were invited to deliver the contents. Prof Garg also delivered a talk to the scholars. 252 Ph.D research scholars participated on Research Methodology course.

7. Surprise Visits to Institutions during Examinations On December, 27th and 28th 2016 regarding external surprise inspection of end semester examinations, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. P.K Garg visited SIMT, Kashipur, Amrapali Group of Institutions, and Surajmal Laxmidevi Sawarthia Educational Trust, Sirolly, Kichha, Mahadevi Institute of Engg., , OMIT, Rishikesh and other institutes in the On his 155th birth anniversary, Mahamna Seva region. Sansthan, organized a Prize distribution program for the eminent academicians and social workers. Vice Chancellor, Prof. P.K Garg, was awarded with Mahamana Malviya Award for his contributions to technical education.

9. Exam Reform Committee meet

To reform the various procedure of examination system, the examination reform committee meeting was held in December 2016, the following members were present : Prof. J.P Saini, Director, Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology for Handicapped, Dr. K.S Vaisla, Controller of Examination, Mr. Arun Sharma, Asst. Controller of Examination and Dr. Vimlesh Dimri, Examination Department, UTU.

10. Maternity Leave Govt. Order Govt. of Uttarakhand, vide Govt. order no. Prof. Garg also had a meeting with the faculty members 250/XXVII(7)/2009 and XXVII(7) 34(1)/2009, dated of the Surajmal Laxmidevi Engg Institute, to discuss 12th September 2016, issued an order for maternity the faculty responsibilities, solve any facility-related leave for female employee. The Govt. Order is issues that affect the learning environment, starting available on Uttarakhand Govt. and University websites.

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Register through: 11. Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam Institute of https://EducationusaIndia.formstack.com/forms/alumnif Technology airedusa17

Govt. of Uttarakhand vide order no. 1671/XLI-1/2016- SIHMCT & AN, 37/2012 TC1 dated 28th November 2016, renamed the Institute of Technology, Tanakpur as Dr. A.P.J Abdul 1. Odd Semester University External Examinations Kalam Institute of Technology, Tanakpur with The 1st year students had their first exam on 14th immediate effect. December which will end on 26th December 2016. The 2nd year students began their exams from 15th December which will last till 27th December 2016. After the main exams, back papers will start for the students. The centre of the examination was selected as SIHMCT & AN, New Tehri itself. All the necessary and mandatory requirements for the examination centre were installed with the most importantly the provisions of CCTV cameras in the examination hall and other important places of the institute.

Prof P K Garg visited Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam Institute of Technology, Tanakpur on Dec 29, 2016. He met with the students and faculty and discussed various issues related with further development and providing better facilities. Prof Garg also inspected the various facilities of the Institute which are under construction.

Ph.D Viva Voce held 2. Inauguration of New Building of SIHMCT

& An, New Tehri The University recently conducted seven Ph.D viva- The inauguration of SIHMCT & AN, New Building voce exams in Applied Science, Chemistry, Computer New Tehri was done by Hon’ble Tourism Minister, Science and Engineering, Management and Pharmacy Govt of Uttarakhand, Shri Dinesh Dhanai on 18th December 2016. The viva voce exams Mohd. Amin December 2016 with an estimated cost of Rs. 1148.70 Mir, Swati Raina, Monika Dahiya, Kadambari Agarwal, lakhs. Poonam Tripathi, Shilpa Srivastava and Amit Kumar Uniyal, were successfully completed by the University.

(Hearty Congratulations to all candidates for successful completion of their PhD program).

USIEF-Education USA Alumni Fair 2017

This event is a unique opportunity for the prospective students to meet with current students and alumni of various U.S. colleges and universities. It is an opportunity to seek an objective and experiential The minister said that the Institute would help the opinion about their institutions. Learn how they students from far flung areas of Uttarakhand to have prepared their applications and their experiences of quality education of hospitality management which being on campuses. Join these Alums at this event free would help them to get better prospects and of cost. Saturday, January 14, 2017 from 12:00 to opportunities related to the Hospitality sector. The 3:00 pm at USIEF, 12 Hailey Road, New Delhi minister also added that the first phase of the Institute

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3. Equipment Received at SIHMCT & AN, New Tehri

SIHMCT & AN received its Kitchen equipments and classroom equipments, which were supervised and Activity Details: - Learning Outcome:- inspected by Director Dr. Yashpal Negi and Academic  The student will be able to independently In-charge Mr. Pradeep Negi. The equipment received handle real time situations after successfully were in good quality and condition for QTK (Quantity doing the role plays . training kitchen), QTK pantry, Bakery and  Critical Analysis was portrayed to each confectionary and BTK (Basic training kitchen) member of participating team by the judges classroom furniture for its four classrooms. committee,

Amrapali Group of Institutes 3. Christmas and New Year Event by Students Continuing on trend of the festive season celebration, a 1. Hand book of Bar and Beverages and students team took the responsibility for the decoration Training Manual for F&B Services of the lobby of Hotel Management department. Shri Mahendra Singh Negi, Asst. Professor - F&B

Services, Faculty of Hospitality Management, Amrapali Group of Institutes authored two books titled Hand book of Bar and Beverages and Training Manual for F&B Services for hotel management students this year. It covers all the MHM and BHMCT syllabus of UTU.

This activity has basically the objectives that a practical learning exposure has to be carried out pertaining to

special decoration. A fantastic Christmas and New Year 2. Check in Competition decoration was done by students where they got a The front office department with the help of Club for chance to platform their skills and ideas on an open Change initiated to enhance and empower the technical platform. Along with the festival celebration, the skills & soft skills through various activities. The students wanted to give the message to the society that activity was held on 3rd December 2016 at the front God is one even if you address him with different office lab. Large number of students participated in the names. Another objective behind this event was to give competition. The students performed different Role a message as to why Christmas is celebrated. With Plays of Check-in Procedures of VIP’s, Role Play of Christmas comes the new year and this event has the GIT, Role Play of FIT & SPATT. The students took glimpses of year going and welcoming the New Year. initiative to tailor made the front office lab according to requisite role plays.

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J.B. Institute of Technology 4. Anti Drugs Campaign organized by Uttarakhand Police 1. Best Paper Award An awareness program was organized at the Institute by Mr. Sandeep Kumar Chaudhary, Assistant Professor, Police Department to make awareness among the Deptt. of Mathematics and Dr. Rakesh Prakash Tripathi students for avoidance of drugs. A detailed presentation received the best paper award at International was made by police officers where students were urged Conference at Greater Noida Campus of IIT to help the police in anti drugs campaigns. during December 2 to 4, 2016, for their paper entitled Establishment of inventory model with Weibull distribution deterioration, inventory level demand and shortages.

Joint Director and Dean (Academics) Mr. Pankaj Chaudhary thanked to the police officers for providing such a nice awareness opportunities to the students.

Chairman- Mr. L. D. Singhal, Vice Chairman Mr 2. Students Participated in Dehradun Marathan- Sandeep Singhal, Secretary Mr. Rajat Singhal, Director 2016 organized by Uttarakhand Police Dr. Amit Bansal, Dr. M. S. Kaurav Joint Director A group of students from the Institute participated in (Admin) and all HODs were present during the event. Dehradun-Marathan-2016 organized by Uttarakhand Police on Dec. 11. Mr. Saurabh Sharma HOD-BBA 3. Educational visit organized at UCOST-Regional overall coordinated the team. Marathon was organized Science Center, Dehradun to make awareness against drugs and corruption. Mr. An educational trip was organized for the selected first Harish Rawat- Chief Minister, Govt. of Uttarakhand year students at Regional Science Center, Dehradun. was the Chief Guest of the event. Students were educated after viewing and participating in live projects, models and science experiments.

Joint Director and Dean (Academic) Mr. Pankaj Chaudhary thanked to the authorities of UCOST and urged to students to emphasize more on practical Mr. Dinesh Agarwal, Sports Minister, Govt. of applications of science to contribute at their level in the Uttrakhand, Sweeti Aggarwal, SSP, Dehradun were vision of Make in . other delegates present in the Marathan. 4. Expert Talk Organized in association with

Computer Society of India

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Students and faculty members of Department of A well-known IT Giant – “GENPACT, Noida”- Computer Science & Engineering organized one day hosted its open pool campus drive at JB Institute of Workshop cum seminar on “Recent Trends & Technology, Dehradun on Dec. 19. Development in Computer Science Education: Challenges and Opportunities”.

822 students from 19 different colleges of Uttarakhand Chief Guest of the event Mr Vinod Kumar Taneja- appeared in the campus placement drive with full Director (Technical), National Informatics Center, enthusiasm. After several rounds of selection Dehradun shared his thoughts and experiences in procedures, a total of 60 students from different development of computing in last two decades. He also colleges were selected. 11 students were selected from emphasized the need of technological knowledge JB Institute of Technology, Dehradun. upgradation with time.

Dr. Ashutosh Bhatt, State Co-ordinator Uttarakhand Joint Director and Dean (Academics) Mr. Pankaj Science Education and Research, explained technical Chaudhary thanked to the delegates for providing the details of cloud computing and security measures opportunities to Dehradun students again and again in required in cloud based networks. such emerging IT Sectors. Chairman Mr. L.D. Singhal, Vice Chairman Mr Sandeep Singhal, Secretary Mr. Rajat Singhal, Director Dr. Amit Bansal, Mr. Manoj Chaudhary Head-T&P Cell and HODs were present during the pool campus placement drive.

6. Open Pool Campus drive by Maintec Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Noida Reputed Cloud Infrastructure Based IT Company – “Maintec Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Noida” hosted its

open pool campus drive at JB Institute of Technology, Director Dr. Amit Bansal appreciated the use of Dehradun on December 21. computer technologies in day to day life of common masses. Joint Director & Dean (Academics) Mr. Pankaj Chaudhary give his presentation on various emerging potential job sectors in computer science that will prevail in coming years. Chairman Mr. L. D. Singhal, Vice Chairman Mr Sandeep Singhal, Secretary Mr. Rajat Singhal and faculty members and students of CSE were present during the seminar.

5. “GENPACT, Noida” in Pool Campus

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322 students from 11 different colleges of Uttarakhand such emerging IT Sectors. Chairman Mr. L. D. Singhal, appeared in the campus placement drive with full Vice Chairman Mr Sandeep Singhal, Secretary Mr. enthusiasm. After several rounds of selection Rajat Singhal, Director Dr. Amit Bansal, Mr. Manoj procedures, a total 24 students from different colleges Chaudhary Head-T&P Cell and HODs were present were selected. 6 students were selected from JB during the pool campus placement drive. Institute of Technology, Dehradun. Swami Darshnanand Institute of Management & Technology

1. Fresher Party 2016 On 8th Dec, senior students (MBA, BBA and BCA) of SDIMT organized a Party to welcome Freshers of the Institute. Programme was started with ‘Saraswati Vandana’ and ‘Deep Prajwallan’ by Pradhan of the Institution Prof. Rasa Singh Rawat ji, Yogendra Singh Chauhan ji, Mantri, Hari Gopal Shastri ji, Vice Chancellor, Radhey Shyam Kaushik ji, Uppradhan, Joint Director and Dean (Academics) Mr. Pankaj Yogendra Singh Chauhan ji, Mahesh Pratap Rana ji, Chaudhary thanked to the delegates for providing the Member, Anil Goyal ji, MD, A.C.Ohri ji, Rajesh Goel opportunities to Dehradun students again and again in ji, Ankush Ohri ji, managing Committee and Prof S.C. such emerging IT Sectors. Chairman- Mr. L. D. Dhamija, Director General. Singhal, Vice Chairman Mr Sandeep Singhal, Secretary Mr. Rajat Singhal, Director Dr. Amit Bansal, Mr. Manoj Chaudhary Head-T&P Cell and HODs were present during the pool campus placement drive.

7. Pool Campus “eClerx Services Pvt. Ltd, Chandigarh” Reputed Chandigarh based IT multinational company – “eClerx Services Pvt. Ltd, Noida” hosted its open pool campus drive at JB Institute of Technology, Dehradun on Dec. 23. 559 students from 31 different colleges of Uttarakhand appeared in the campus Everyone welcomed and showered their blessings to placement drive with full enthusiasm. After several new students for their better future. Students also rounds of selection procedures, a total 116 students showed their performance in various cultural programs. from different colleges were selected. 17 students were Mr. Prabhjot from MBA was declared as Mr. Fresher, selected from JB Institute of Technology, Dehradun. Ms. Shivani from BCA as Ms. Fresher, Mr. Ajay Rana was declared as Mr. Eve and Ms. Akansha as Ms. Eve.

2. Blood donation Camp Swami Darshnanand Institute of Management & Technology with Sanatan Seva Misson organised a Blood Donation Camp, which started with ‘Deep Prajawallan’ by Chief Guest Shri Harbans Singh Chugh, District Magistrate, Haridwar, Shri Madan Kaushik, MLA UK, Dr. Hari Goplal Shastri, Kulpati Gurukul Mahavidyalaya, Sh. Yogendra Chauhan, Mahamantri Gukul Mahavidyalaya, Shri Sanjay Punjwani, Sanrakshak Sanatan Seva Mission, Shri Joint Director and Dean (Academics) Mr. Pankaj Purshottam Sharma, OSD CM UK, Ms. Monika Jain, Chaudhary thanked to the delegates for providing the Mahila Morcha Jila Adhyaksh, Mr. Anil Goyal, MD opportunities to Dehradun students again and again in

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SDIMT, Mr. Rajesh Goyal, Mr. A.C. Ohri, Mr Ankush College of Engineering Roorkee Ohri, from Managing Committee and Prof S.C. Dhamija, Director General SDIMT. 1. 18th Foundation Day

College of Engineering Roorkee organized a day program to commemorate the 18th Foundation Day Celebrations of COER on Saturday, December 3, 2016 in Vardhman Auditorium.

Program proceeded with Saraswati Vandana by Ms. Jyoti and Ms. Anjali, students of BBA, and prize distribution to the students for the Best Slogan Writing on ‘Blood Donation’ and ‘Clean Ganga’.

The Chief Guest for the function, Sh. Govind Singh Kunjwal, Speaker, Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, Guests of Honour, Shri. U. C. Jain, Chairman, the Vardhman Developers, Shri. Pramod Jain, CMD, Vardhman Electrical Appliances and the other dignitaries inaugurated the celebration by lighting the ceremonial lamp. Many officials from different Sh Harbans Singh Chugh ji, DM Haridwar addressed organizations were also present during the the audience and motivateed the students and told them commemoration of the 18th Foundation Day the importance of blood donation. He said that blood Celebration of COER. After Deep Prajwalan, Shri. J. donation on one side saves others life, and on the other C. Jain, Chairman, COER welcomed all the dignitaries hand it removes the disparities among different and guests. He explained how and why the COER has religions, castes and creeds. been established in Roorkee. Moreover, he highlighted the importance of technical education in the present era Prof S.C. Dhamija, Director SDIMT told about the and how COER can contribute to improve the education importance of ‘Angdaan’. Sh Madan Kaushik, BJP scenario of the country. Vidhayak addressed the students and inspired them for Maj Gen A.K. Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM (Retd) blood donation. He said that everybody if medically fit Director General, COER shared the achievements and should donate blood atleast twice a year. Ms Anjali future projection of the institution in the education from Sanatan Seva Trust told about the working of the sector. Chief Guest Sh. Govind Singh Kunjwal, trust, how it is serving for the welfare of children by Speaker, Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, while providing free evening classes to rural children at their addressing the august gathering on this auspicious place. Mr. Purushottam, OSD CM also participated in occasion expressed his vast experiences how education blood donation. All the students and staff members can contribute in the progress of the nation as a whole participated in blood donation with the great zeal. and state of Uttarakhand in particular. He expressed that more and more intra-research and collaborative researches with other institutions and universities should be carried out at COER. He praised the achievements of COERians by distributing Proficiency

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Engineering & Technology Pilani, Rajasthan, The students got certificate of participation and medals (October 15-16, 2016). in 21 Km. Category. Vikram Rawat, Dr. Mohit Gupta, Ather Aziz Rana “Numerical Solution of Transient Multi-server Queuing Model” a poster presentation in “ National Conference on Computational Mathematics & Operation Research (CMOR-16)”, B.K. Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology, Pilani, Rajasthan (October 15-16, 2016).

4. Monthly Activities 1. Mr. Dhaneshwar and Mr. Mohit Mittal from CS/IT department attended 3 days workshop on Phython in

Infosys from 14th to 16th December, 2016. rd 2. Student from 3 year, IT branch was selected by IFI 3. Demonetisation and Importance of Plastic Technology for internship. Money 3. Disha’ the Technical Committee CAT-COER aptitude test was conducted by DISHA, the It was indeed a matter of pride when the teachers, technical committee. The event’s objective was to students and staff of Maya Group of Colleges visited prepare 1st and 2nd year student for qualifying any the local markets of Selaqui and inspired people to examination or getting a good job in future. A mock participate in cashless economy revolution. exam was also conducted for 3rd and 4th year students before the CAT (Common Aptitude Test) exams.

4. Internal Faculty Development Program

Internal Faculty Development Program known as foundation program was scheduled from 20th to 28th December. They were trained in C and Java. Six experts from CS/IT will train these faculties.

Maya Group of Colleges They made them aware of various cashless projects. This campaign was motivated and appreciated by the 1. De-addiction Workshop at Maya Group of Vice Chairman Dr. Ashish Semwal, the M.D. Smt. Colleges Tripti Juyal and Secretary Mr. Saurabh Juyal. De-addiction workshop was organised by Uttarakhand Police at Maya Group of Colleges. The motive of this Roorkee Institute of Technology workshop was to make students aware of the effects of 1. Final Cricket Match drug addiction. On this occasion, students presented a A final cricket match under the aegis of District Cricket suit and conveyed a message to say ‘NO’ to Drugs. The Association was played between DCA (Gray) and Chairman Shri M.L. Juyal inspired the students and DCA (Blue) at Roorkee Institute of Technology staffs to initiate campaign against De-addiction. Vice Puhana, Roorkee on 29 Dec. The match was found to Chairman, Dr. Aashish Semwal, M.D. Smt. Tripti Juyal be very interesting. and Secretary Mr. Saurabh Juyal, students and staff DCA (Gray) won the toss and decided for batting. The members participated in the program. batting was not so good. The whole team was out in

165 run in 30 overs. The highest score 47 run made by 2. Uttarakhand Police Marathon Mr Kush Bhatt, while Mr Aman Singh grabbed three Students of Maya Group of Colleges participated in the wickets. Mr Aviral, Mr Yash Walia and Mr Kush got Uttarakhand Police Marathon which was organised at one wicket each. After the betting of DCA Blue, the Police line on Dec. 11. team of DCA Grey came in field for batting the highest score 97/50 was made by Mr Gyandeep. Finally, the match was won by DCA Grey by 7 wickets.

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Mr. Mohd Salman, M. Pharm. (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) 3rd semester student has been awarded for the 2nd prize on the basis of research entitled “Anticancer drug design”, Pragya Chaudhary, B. Pharm. 3rd year has been awarded 1st prize for the best poster presentation on “Why heart is rarely affected by cancer?” whereas Vijay Singh and Vipin Kumar, B. Pharm. 3rd year students jointly presented a crucial poster based on “H. pylori quorum sensing inhibition” nd and has been awarded 2 prize. Their supervisor The medals & trophies were given to the winner and Associate Professor Dr. Sisir Nandi guided them and he runner up team by Management Trustee Mr. Naman also presented a plenary lecture on Bansal and Mr. Yash Agarwal, Prof A. K. Mathur, “Pharmacoinformatics: Applications in Drug Design”. Director General, Dr. Parag Jain Director and Dr. Amit Honorable chairman of the Institute Dr. A.K. Saxena, Tanwar, Dean Academic & other faculty members were Emeritus Scientist CDRI was pleased and motivated present on this occasion . young students, researchers and faculties.

Grievances Institutes and students can send their Grievances at [email protected]

Please send the information about activities of your college/institute, latest by 25th of every month, to [email protected] for inclusion in this newsletter. Global Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Note: The University is not responsible for the Very recently students of Global Institute of correctness of information given by the constituent and Pharmaceutical Education and Research (GIPER), affiliated institutes for their activities in the newsletter. Kashipur participated and presented their research work in International Conference on Research Advances in Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences (RAPCS-2016) on 24-25 December, 2016, in Modinagar, Delhi NCR, India.

It was a big competition amongst participant. Honorable evaluators screened excellent presentation for GIPER students based on their incredible research.

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