RSU’s first PhD entrance examination on Dec 15

Raipur, December 09, 2010

Pt Ravishankar Shukla University’s (RSU) will conduct its first PhD entrance examination on December 15, 2010. ‘We have already sent admit cards to the candidates who are appearing in the exams. However, those who have not received their admit cards can get the duplicates ones by producing two passport size photographs at Statistical department from 12 pm to 5 pm till December 13 and 14,” informed the examination coordinator SK Singh.
The exams will be conducted in two shifts. The first shift will be conducted from 10 am to 12 pm for 1393 candidates of regional studies and science that will comprise of anthropology, biochemistry, bioscience, biotechnology, botany, chemistry, computer science, defence studies, electronics, geology, maths, microbiology, pharmacy, physics, statistics and zoology subjects.
The second shift will be organised from 2 pm to 4 pm for 1147 candidates of home science, ancient history, commerce, economics, education, English, geography, Hindi, history, law, library and information science, linguistics, management, philosophy, physical education, political science, psychology, Sanskrit, social work and sociology subjects.
Singh informed that the students can directly contact varsity administration if they have any query pertaining entrance exam.
The question paper will be of 100 marks and contain 38 questions - both objective (60 marks) and subjective (40 marks). There will be 30 objective questions with two marks each. 
Similarly, there will be eight subjective questions, i.e. short answer type questions with five marks each. The candidates would have to answer each of the subjective questions within 150 words. The minimum passing mark in the exam will be 50.
Considering the bulk of candidates appearing in the entrance exams, the varsity administration has announced holiday on December 15.


Tribute programme tomorrow

Raipur, December 09, 2010

The municipal corporation will pay floral tribute to the martyr Veer Narayan Singh on the occasion of his death anniversary on December 10, 2010. The municipal’s Culture department will organise the tribute programme in front of Veer Narayan Singh’s statue near Raj Bhawan at 10 am. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak has urged to the RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava, leader of BJP corporators Subhash Tiwari, MiC members, zone presidents, corporators and municipal employees and citizens to attend the tribute programme of martyr Veer Narayan Singh at large number.


RMC seals 35 illegal mobile towers

Raipur, December 09, 2010

The municipal corporation on Thursday sealed about 35 illegal mobile towers erected in the residential and commercial parts of the capital. The sealing of towers began after the apparent directives of the civic Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary who said that the RMC would take stern action against those telecom operators who have installed such structures in the residential and commercial areas without obtaining No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the municipal corporation.
In this regard, the zonal commissioners instantly prepared list of illegal mobile towers of their respective regions and submitted to Choudhary on Thursday. In the first phase, the RMC has commenced sealing of the illegal structures at zonal level with the help of Chhattisgarh State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (CSPDCL).
The RMC zonal squads have switched off the power connections of the mobile towers. In the second phase, the CSPDCL will disconnect the power connections of the mobile towers and in the third and the last phase the municipal’s demolition squad will remove the structures if the telecom operators would not remove them voluntarily within the given timeframe.
The civic officials informed that the erection of mobile towers is strictly prohibited in gardens, parks and reserved lands for open space and roads. To install towers in the residential and commercial areas, the telecom companies are supposed to first produce the reports of structure stability test of the particular building before the municipal.
The test should be conducted by the chartered engineer authorised by the municipal corporation. The telecom companies are fully responsibility of any loss in terms of properties and life if any mishap occurs due to damage in building because of towers, said officials.
But the telecom companies are not following any norm and have installed structures for every 5000 population instead of 10000.
The residents have lodged complaints to their local corporators several times pertaining to mobile towers installed and demanded their removal pointing their ill affects due to emission of harmful radiation that causes cancer and other dangerous diseases, but none of the public representative raised the issue to the top civic authorities in the past.
There are 127 illegal mobile towers in the eight zones. The highest number of illegal structures is in zone 6 where the telecom companies have installed about 30 towers. In zone 8, there are 22 illegal towers while zones 4 and 2 have 19 and 16 structures respectively. There are 13 illegal towers zones 1 and 5 each while seven each in zones 3 and 7.
The maximum illegal towers were sealed in zone 5 and 8. The zone 5 commissioner Lokesh Chandravanshi and his subordinates sealed nine structures in their region while eight towers were sealed in zone 8 by the team led by zonal town planner Yogendra Verma.
In Zone 1, the team led by zone commissioner BR Agrawal sealed six illegal towers. In zone 2, three structures were sealed by zone commissioner Vinod Pandey and his team.
The zone 3 commissioner Manoranjan Sarkar carried out operation near CM house where two towers were sealed.
Similarly, four towers were sealed in zone 4 & 7 by joint action taken by zone commissioners Rajesh Rathore (zone 4) and P Rajesh Naidu (zone 7).


Pt RSU’s inspire camp II from December 15

Nine subject experts across the country to deliver lecture during prog

Varsity receives about 450 applications from school students

Raipur, December 09, 2010

After successfully organising five-day Inspire Internship Winter Camp 1 from December 2-6, 2010, Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (RSU) will conduct the second phase of the camp from December 15-19 at its auditorium. The highlight of the camp II would also be lecture programmes of subject experts from different renowned institutes and universities across the country.
“Nine subject experts have confirmed that they would arrive here to deliver lecture,” informed the coordinator of the camp - Professor AK Pati, HoD School of studies in Life Sciences from RSU on Thursday.
When asked whether the varsity would make any change in the camp II, Professor Pati said, “We would try to overcome the shortcomings of the camp 1.  Language was the major barrier for the students during lecture programmes as majority of the students were from Hindi medium background. Considering this problem, we had promptly used moderator (translator) who simplified the language of the experts in the camp I. This provision would be continued from the day-one in camp II.”
 Professor Pati further informed that the varsity had planned to curtail the span of the lectures and make them more comprehensive and example oriented. “We will utilise the curtailed time On the other hand, we will prolong the period of student-professor interactions.”
The varsity’s faculty members too have been asked to avoid speaking at length on their research and development works and prominently speak on inspirational inventions, discoveries and creativities of the scientists. 
When asked what did the students liked most in the camp I, Professor Pati said, “They took more interest in laboratory visits as they found the practical works appealing.”
He informed that about fifty percent of the applications in the camp I and II arrived via e-mail. “This shows that the school students are fast becoming net savvy as they are inclined towards Information Communication and Technology (ICT),” Professor Pati said.
 The professors who have confirmed for inspire camp II are - Professor Durga P Dewangan – Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad, Professor LS Shashidhar – IITSER, Pune, Professor SG Dani – TIFR Mumbai, Professor K Maiti - TIFR Mumbai, Professor T Pal – IIT Kharagpur, Professor KS Krishnan – NCBS Bangalore, Professor VS Sunder – Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, Professor Nitin Chattopadhyay – Jhadhavpur University Kolkata and Professor BN Singh – Banaras Hindu University.


5 in fray for Birgaon Municipal Council chairman seat

26 aspirants withdraw their nominations on the last date of withdrawal

Raipur, December 09, 2010

Five candidates will in fray for coveted seat of Birgaon Municipal Council chairman as the remaining four have withdrawn their nomination papers on the last date of withdrawal on Thursday. Among 187 corporator candidates for 35 wards of the council, 21 withdrew their nomination papers leaving 166 in the contest.
The chairman candidates who would be in fray are – Dr Omprakash Dewangan from Congress, Patiram Sahu from BJP and three independent candidates Aivaj Dewangan, Firanta and Shatrughan Sahu.
According to equations in Birgaon, there will be a triangular fight for the seat of chairman between – Dr Omprakash, Patiram and Aivaj. Firanta is a rebel from BJP and he is expected to cause harm to his own party in terms of votes while Shatrughan would hardly pose threat to the BJP and Congress candidates.
Among the chairman aspirants who withdrew are – Horilal Dewangan, Jabbar Dagli Nisha Dewangan and Chabilal Dheevar. Another candidate Sunita Jalan’s nomination papers were rejected earlier as she was found to be the resident of Gudhiyari.
Both Horilal and Dagli are BJP workers. Dagli withdrew earlier but Horilal decided not to contest the polls on Thursday after he was persuaded by BJP vice president Sachchidanand Upasne and Raipur Rural MLA Nandkumar Sahu to support Patiram.
While, the independent candidates Nisha Dewangan and Chabilal Dheevar withdrew in support of Dr Omprakash.