Shimla's Govt Dental College 7th in survey

Himachal Pradesh Government Dental College, Shimla, has figured at the seventh position in the ‘most-economical colleges’ category in the country as per the survey conducted by a magazine. Principal Ashu Gupta congratulated the students and teachers for the achievement and informed that the college was ranked 27th overall. The parameters for assessment included quality intake and governance, academic performance, infrastructure and atmosphere, leadership and personality and placements.

Academic activities held

Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (DBT) of Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, organised several academic events during the pandemic. Apart from the first batch of MSc bio-technology programme, which began last year, a new postgraduate programme, MSc Microbiology, will begin this year. The department, in collaboration with HIMCOSTE, imparted training to two batches of undergraduate science students under the DBT Skill Vigyan Programme. Two patents were also granted in the lockdown and 89 per cent placement of its final year students was achieved. Five students from the department received PhD degrees in the fields of bio-technology and bio-informatics with many students getting selected for Masters and PhD programmes in the US and European universities.

ABVP forms new unit

The ABVP created a new unit, Vivekananda Nagar (Summerhill), and has named the elected office-bearers. Dr Sunita Dogra and Gaurav were elected president and secretary of the unit. President of the Himachal Pradesh University campus Vikas Saklani said the new unit was very important in the sense that ABVP was the biggest student organisation in the world. During the pandemic, volunteers of the ABVP had put in best efforts to help the infected people. We will continue with our endeavours to make sure that everyone gets through the pandemic.