Karnal's Mount Litera Zee School organises webinar on third wave of Covid
Karnal: Mount Litera Zee School, Karnal, organised a webinar on the third wave of Covid for parents of pre-primary and primary. Dr Poonam Sodhi, a physician, spoke on the ‘Third wave of Covid’. School principal Deep Bedi along with faculty members and pre-primary and primary parents participated in the webinar. Dr Sodhi shared the current scenario of the Covid pandemic and how Covid wave-1 and 2 affected the humans globally. She also highlighted that healthcare and preventive measures could be taken. The main objective of the session was to spread awareness about the Third wave of Covid’ and how the children could be kept safe from the virus asit would impact them the most.
Workshop on ‘Art of happy living’
Karnal:Pratap Public School, Jarnailly Colony, Karnal, started its “Summer bonanza” for students with the purpose of engaging them in fun-filled and enriching activities during the summer break to help them remain positive, mentally fit and healthy. A workshop on ‘Art of happy living’ was also conducted by Rakshita Kharbanda, Assistant Professor, DAV PG. College, Karnal. In her interaction with children, the speaker discussed the need to bear a positive attitude in life and how happiness could be gathered from small routine things. The workshop was attended by the director principal, faculty and students of Classes VII to X.
MDU online exams from June 16
Rohtak: Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) will conduct online examinations of various programmes–Ph.D course work, MPhil (first and second semester), MA/MSc/MCom (Ist semester), etc., and all such examinations, which were earlier scheduled to be held online from May 1, from June 16. MDU controller of examinations (CoE) Dr BS Sindhu said the online examinations of left out eligible students of all courses for which the offline examinations were held in March 2021, will also be conducted from June 16 through the online mode. The CoE said the online theory examinations of all programmes would be of 3-hour duration as per the respective scheme of the examinations. The students will be required to attempt any five questions and all questions will be carrying equal marks. The students will have to follow the standard operating procedures of Covid prescribed by the university, details of which are available on the MDU website.
GJUST to waive fee on reserved seats
Hisar: Seats reserved by the Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar in the UGC-approved courses for dependents of those who lost their lives due to the Covid pandemic will continue for the session 2021-.22 also. Along with this, the fees will also be waived from half to full of the students taking admission in these seats this year. GJUST is aware of the ill-effects of the pandemic and will carry out its social responsibilities. In the session 2020-21, the university had reserved one additional seat in the UGC courses for the dependents. Prof Tankeshwar Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of the university said due to Covid, many families lost their family members and were suffering mentally and economically. The university decided to waive half or full fees of those students on the basis of their economic conditions.
Plantation campaign at varsity
Faridabad :To promote regular plantation activities among students, staff and society, JC Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, on the occasion of World Environment Day, launched a campaign ‘ek paudha -ek sankalp’. This year, the theme for World Environment Day 2021 is ‘Ecosystem restoration’. The campaign was inaugurated by Vice-Chancellor Prof Dinesh Kumar. Registrar Dr SK Garg, chairperson of various departments and officials also participated in the plantation activities by planting sapling and took the resolution of taking care of plant till it grows into a tree.
