Free CLAT coaching
Jalandhar: The management of St Soldier Group of Institutions has announced to give free online coaching to Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)-2021 aspirants. Disclosing this, chairman Anil Chopra said the coaching would be online and all areas of the test viz. logical reasoning, English, GK and current affairs, legal reasoning and quantitative techniques would be covered as per the current pattern. He said St Soldier Law College Director Dr Subhash Sharma would be the in charge of the coaching. He will impart the coaching and associate other suitable faculty for the purpose, said Chopra adding that the candidate will have to get himself registered by sending his name, father’s name, address, school from where he/she cleared or is appearing for Class XII exams, date of birth, mobile number, email ID on the college e-mail stsoldierlawclat@gmail.com with his/her photograph along with Rs1,000 as registration fee to be deposited/transferred in the Law College account. Dr Subhash said students would get quality coaching. “The date of test is June 13 but that may be postponed due to the pandemic. The classes will begin from May 3 and registration would go up to May 2,” he said.
e-Session on Intellectual Property
The Innovation Council of HMV organised a virtual session on ‘Why Intellectual Property is important in Academia?’ under the guidance of Principal Prof Ajay Sareen and Dr Anjana Bhatia, in charge, IIC. Dr Abhay Jere from the Ministry of Education, Innovation Cell, and Dr Mohit Gambhir, Director, Innovations, shared his views on the role of intellectual property in the academics. Best approaches to determine invention and novelty by prior searching and provided guidance in using the electronic patent databases were discussed. A unique practical approach for assessing the monetary value of ideas and invention ownership was presented. The session provided practical advice on patent writing, filing and prosecution, using copyrighted material, protecting material with copyrights, crucial IP legislation, business models, and new trends and changes to pave an easy way to the journey through the IP process. The Principal stressed upon the importance of IP for academic members to gain greater awareness and knowledge of various issues involved with IP resulting from their research and inventions. Dr Anjana also motivated the members to keep abreast with the changing situation and keep themselves updated.
Contest on women empowerment
The Department of Hindi and Punjabi of Kamla Nehru College for Women, Phagwara, conducted an inter-college e-contest on the topic ‘Women empowerment’. The e-contest was held for female lecturers from various colleges, in which they had to send their videos of story narration, poetry recitation and folk songs in Punjabi and Hindi. More than 20 lecturers from various colleges participated in this contest. In poetry recitation first, second and third prizes were bagged by Dr Jaspreet Kaur (Swami Premanand Mahavidyalaya, Mukerian), Dr Aman Deep (Sant Darbara Singh College of Education, Lopon) and Suman Johiya (Kamla Nehru College of Education, Phagwara) respectively. In folk song singing first and second prizes were awarded to Harminder Kaur (Government College, Hoshiarpur) and Anuradha (SPM College, Mukerian) respectively, whereas, the third prize was shared by Meenu Mohan (GNNCW, Nakodar) and Bhupinder Seth (St Soldier College, Phagwara). In story narration, first and second prizes were awarded to Mandeep Kaur (Ramgarhia Girls College, Ludhiana) and Dr Monika Dawar (DD Jain Memorial College, Ludhiana). Dr Savinder Pal, Principal, discussed the importance of education as powerful tool for women empowerment. She further appreciated the members of the organising committee: Dr Asha Sharma, Dr Ruminder Kaur and Dr Sudha Mani Sood and congratulated the winners.
Student-friendly reforms
Kanya Maha Vidyalaya has introduced many academic reforms especially during the ongoing pandemic. In a major initiative, KMV has introduced a provision of special test for the candidates who had missed any of their end-semester examination due to the Covid situation. Principal Dr Atima Sharma Dwivedi averred that autonomy had provided KMV a clear field for various reforms in education and the initiative of special test is also one of the important steps taken in that direction. Apart from adding new progressive programmes, KMV has also introduced a number of examination reforms for the students. The reforms have been introduced for transparent and fast assessment. In addition to this, KMV has also introduced international credit system in all vocational programmes, internal assessment has also been introduced for final exam results and timely declaration of results is one of the most important examination reform done under the autonomy. Dr Dwivedi said the reforms would also prove to be student-friendly in order to relieve them from any kind of mental anxiety.
Campus placement drives
The CT Group of Institutions is assisting its students in fetching their dream jobs and internships via campus drives during the pandemic era. The group has unmatched record of best placements in top companies like Jaro Education, LIDO Learning, Toppr Technologies, Catalyst One Solutions Pvt Ltd, Decathlon Sports Pvt Ltd, Hero Cycles, IDFC, BYJU’S (Think & Learn Pvt Ltd), Nagarro, Ceasefire, Pukhraj Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Health Biotech Pvt Ltd, IDS Infotech, Hike Education, Coca Cola, ICICI, JBM Group, Jindal Electric, J& K Bank, ChicMic, New Eastern Engineers, Cargill India Pvt Ltd, John Deere and many more for students of engineering, management and other fields. Around 1,267 students were selected for jobs as well as internships in all sectors, including management, IT, engineering, agriculture, architecture, pharmaceuticals. The selected candidates were offered packages starting from Rs1.8 lakh to 10 lakh per annum after passing through rigorous selection rounds comprising of online aptitude test, written test, group discussion, technical interview and HR interview.
GNA varsity students get job
Phagwara: GNA University students have grabbed top positions in various engineering hubs across India. Student of BTech Mechanical and Automation Engineering P Jaya Ram has proved his acumen by getting placed in Geecy Apave Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, as a Trainee Engineer. Gurcharan Singh and Aditya Rattan got placement in MAK Architecture (Division of Om India Stainless Tube Limited), as Design Engineer, and Manpreet Singh carved his niche by getting placed in Deinde Engineering as Design Engineer for CLAAS India Ltd. The companies’ officials appreciated the management, faculty and students for their organisation and full dedication in grabbing the position. CR Tripathy, Dean Faculty of Engineering Design and Automation, congratulated the faculty members, students and their parents for this achievement. TNS
