Raipur, December 14, 2010
Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (RSU) is ready to conduct its first PhD entrance examination on Wednesday. “We are prepared to organise the exam for which all the arrangements have been done beforehand,” informed the examination convenor Professor SK Singh.
The seating arrangement of the candidates would be in the varsity’s 30 classrooms for which all the departments have already been informed. About 80 invigilators would be engaged for the exam. The control unit for the exam would be in the hall of Psychological department.
“We have done planning for each classroom to avoid any confusion among the invigilators. Apart from this, candidates can fetch information pertaining to their seating arrangements from the notice board below the statue of Pt Ravishankar Shukla in the varsity campus,” Singh said.
Regarding issuance of admit cards, Singh said, “We had made arrangements to provide duplicate admit cards on December 13 and 14 for those candidates who could not receive their cards. Those who have missed the chance can obtain the duplicate admit cards on Wednesday from 8:15 am to 9:30 am. However, the candidates would have to mandatorily producing their two passport size photographs to get the cards,” said Singh.
The PhD entrance exam would be conducted for 35 subjects 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 Wednesday.
Last day of discount in property tax today
Raipur, December 14, 2010
The municipal corporation’s 6.25 percent discount offer on property tax will be till Wednesday evening. Both Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak and civic commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary have appealed to the citizens to take the benefit of the discount at large number. The discount offer will be strictly for the current financial year and if the taxpayers wish to clear their property taxes of previous fiscals then they would have to pay it according to the municipal norms along with fine if any. Choudhary has further asked the municipal’s Revenue department to attach the properties of the major defaulters who have not paid their property taxes for the past several years. The municipal is incurring huge revenue loss due to these defaulters, said the Revenue officials.
Army HQ dispatches Vijayanta tank for display in city
Raipur, December 14, 2010
Finally, the Vijayanta tank will arrive in the city for display in a week’s time. The Army headquarters at New Delhi dispatched the tank in a truck trailer on Tuesday. The weight of the tank is 40 MT and it is 28 feet long, 10 feet wide and 8 feet tall. The tank would be placed in front of Anupam garden at the vacant space.
RSU’s 5-day Inspire camp II from today
19 lectures to be delivered in ten sessions
Raipur, December 14, 2010
Pt Ravishankar Shukla University’s (RSU) five-day Inspire Internship Winter Camp II will begin at 10 am in the varsity auditorium from Wednesday. There will be nine subject experts from different renowned institutes and universities across the country besides some of the RSU’s own faculty members who would shed light on different aspects of science. There will be total 19 lecture programmes in the ten sessions from December 15-19.
The camp will commence with the address of vice chancellor Professor SK Pandey followed by information on camp by the convenor Professor AK Pati, HoD School of studies in Life Sciences from RSU.
About 173 students from more than 25 schools will take part in the camp. “We have uploaded the names of the participants in the varsity’s official website for the convenience of the students and the respective schools. The remaining students who have applied for the camp would get opportunity in Inspire Internship Summer Camp I 2011,” informed the co-convenor of the camp Professor BK Sharma, HoD School of Studies in Mathematics.
On the first day, Professor BN Singh from Banaras Hindu University will deliver lecture on – Mendel’s experiments with Pisum sativum and principals of inheritance’ and Professor KVR Murthy from Sayajirao University of Baroda Gujarat will speak on – ‘Luminescence day to day life and light emitting diodes and applications role of nano phosphorous’.
On the December 16, Professor BN Singh will speak on – ‘Mechanism of evolution: Darwin’s theory of natural selection’ and Professor Nitin Chattopadhyay from Jhadhavpur University Kolkata will deliver lecture on – ‘Learning: A reversible process’.
On December 17, Professor VS Sunder from Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai will speak on – ‘Catalan numbers’ and ‘When is a knot not the unknot’, Professor Nitin Chattopadhyay on – ‘Chemistry for you’ and Professor Kalobaran Maiti from TIFR Mumbai on – ‘Wonderful world of magnetism’.
On December 18, Professor SG Dani from TIFR Mumbai will deliver lecture on – ‘Numbers, shapes and civilizations – I & II’ and Professor T Pal from IIT Kharagpur on – ‘Metal and metal oxide particles in nanometer length scale – I.
On the final day, i.e. on December 19, Professor T Pal will speak on – ‘Metal and metal oxide particles in nanometer length scale – II.
Deepmala RSU’s first PhD student to receive Inspire scholarship
Raipur, December 14, 2010
The indefatigable approach of the talented students of Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (RSU) has once again imparted the varsity a new dimension as its student Deepmala Rai who is pursuing her PhD under Professor HK Pathak from School of Studies in Mathematics had won the scholarship programme of Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (Inspire) this year.
Rai will get Rs 15000-20000 per months for five years under the scholarship programme. “We are proud to have such brilliant lot in our varsity,” said jubilant Professor BK Sharma, HoD School of Studies in Mathematics while talking to Central Chronicle on Tuesday.
“Inspire is an innovative program sponsored and managed by the Department of Science & Technology for attraction of talent to science. Its basic objective is to communicate to the youth the excitements of creative pursuit of science, attract talent to the study of science at an early stage and thus build the required critical human resource pool for strengthening and expanding the science and technology system and R&D base,” Professor Sharma said.
“A striking feature of the program is that it does not believe in conducting competitive exams for identification of talent at any level and rather relies on the efficacy of the existing educational structure for identification of talent,” he added.
Rai will get the scholarship under Inspire’s Assured Opportunity for Research Careers (AORC) component.
“The AORC aims to attract, attach, retain and nourish talented young scientific human resource for strengthening the R&D foundation and base by offering doctoral Inspire fellowship in the age group 22-27 years, in the both basic and applied sciences (including engineering and medicine). It also aims to assure opportunities for post-doctoral researchers through a scheme through contractual and tenure track positions for five years in both basic and applied sciences areas through an Inspire faculty scheme,” informed Professor Sharma.
In fact, the Inspire has three components: Scheme for Early Attraction of Talent (SEATS), Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) and Assured Opportunity for Research Careers (AORC).
On SEATS, he said, “It aims to attract talented youth to study science by providing Inspire award, to experience the joy of innovations, of Rs 5000 to ten lakh young learners in the age group 10-15 years. There shall be annual summer and winter camps for about 50,000 youth in more than 100 locations, for toppers in Class X board examinations for exposure with global leaders in science, through Inspire internship.
On SHE, Professor Sharma said, “The SHE aims to attract talented youth into undertaking higher education in science intensive programmes, by providing scholarships and mentoring through summer attachment to performing researchers. The scheme offers 10,000 scholarships every year @ Rs 80000 per year to talented youth in the age group 17-22 years, for undertaking Bachelor and Masters level education in natural and basic sciences. The main feature of the scheme is mentorship support being planned for every scholar through Inspire scholarship.”
He informed that the students are shortlisted from about 80000 students across the nation for scholarship under SHE component.
WLED to become household item from next decade
Remote tribal hamlets to get cheapest option in future
Raipur, December 14, 2010
By 2021, the CFL bulbs and other advanced lightening systems would be replaced by the white LED (light emitting diode) technology which is highly expensive at present. These WLEDs would be much cheaper and their life span would be about one lakh hour. To bring this sea change in the human life, about ten research and development teams in India alone are engaged in advance experiments day and night apart from several similar groups in the other parts of the globe.
The Secretary of Luminescence Society of India (LSI) and faculty from Sayajirao University of Baroda Gujarat Professor KVR Murthy informed that with the improvement of white LED technology, the use of LEDs for general illumination applications will become more prevalent in the domestic as well as commercial sectors.
“When light from all parts of the visible spectrum overlap one another, the additive mixture of colors appears white. However, the eye does not require a mixture of all the colors of the spectrum to perceive white light. Primary colors from the upper, middle, and lower parts of the spectrum (red, green, and blue), when combined, appear white,” he said.
“You can see the WLED bulbs in Audi cars running in your city. The specification of each WLED bulb in these cars is 2500 lumens per watt and cost above Rs 5000. All the scientists are aiming to bring down this cost through improved technology,” he added.
The tribal-populated states like Chhattisgarh can make optimum use of WLEDs by making such economical bulbs available to the impoverished section,” he said.
The applications of WLEDs can be in medical instrumentation, bar code readers, color & money sensors, encoders, optical switches, mobile phones, digital cameras, laptops, general backlighting, full color video, monochrome message boards, traffic, transportation passenger information, automobiles, rail, aviation, tower lights, runway lights, architectural lighting, machine vision, retail displays, emergency lighting, neon replacement, bulb replacements, flashlights and pathway & marker lights.
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